My DSL is free! I split the cost among the other 3 people in my apartment who are sharing the connection. Since I'm the techie who keeps everything running and set it up in the first place, I 'pay' by setting everything up, and just charge the rest of em $13 a month.
3 doesn't matter for us "smart people". But it matters for the everyday goobers who just know that "quicktime doesn't work, and windows file formats do". MS is trying to kill off Quicktime the same way they tried to kill off mp3s. By providing built-in support for their own file formats, and fucking up support for competing products. WMA vs mp3s anyone?
I would clarify "Physical Defect" to mean "No Fingers". I would consider an RSI as something separate from this. It's not a clear-cut case, because she got her injury because of her job. It's like being a hot dog vendor for 25 years, then finding out hot dogs emit toxic gases that will render you unable to serve hot dogs anymore, and being fired because of this.
I don't believe it was common knowledge 20 years ago that constant typing in a non-ergonomic position would cause you to permanently lose your ability to type. I don't think her condition is serious enough to be labeled as a "disability", as she is still able to carry out day-to-day functions 100%, but because she could not perform her job eventually because of conditions at her job, it definately deserved to have some kind of judicial precedence set.
And how many stupid people take Physics to begin with? My high school physics class was made up of 11 seniors and 9 Juniors. These people were pretty near the top of our class. Considering 2 semesters per year, and a graduating class of 200, this means about 40 out of 200 people would have taken physics, or 20%.
Smart people take physics and usually already understand the basics behind what they're learning. Stupid people take Wood Shop, Weightlifting, and Parenting classes. And how many stupid people, considering they actually took physics, would apply it to a microwave anyways? Again, their mental process is "food goes in cold, comes out hot."
Why stop there? Why not sue gun makers cause they make something that is only good for killing people? Oh wait, a bunch of idiots already tried to pull that shit and lost.
Agreed. How many people do you actually see getting killed in Episode 1? Uhh... there's a whole bunch of droids getting chopped up. And some Gungans getting hit with lasers at the end, but who gives a shit about gungans? At least Ewoks were cute and fuzzy and made you sad when they died. Who can forget the scene where one ewok gets blasted with a laser, and another other one tries to shake him, thinking he's just sleeping or something... so sad... =(
I had visited cookdandbombd.com, and then chilled.cream.org, trying to download the Brasseye episodes, but every time they were down from either being overloaded, or from their mirrors being down for some reason. I check slashdot today and see this story. FUCK! I have just lost any chance I once had at getting a copy of this episode from that website. Now they're down due to "legal reasons." Way to beat another site with bandwidth problems into the ground Slashdot. The editors' lack of judgement and respect at linking to pages continues to surprise and repulse me on a daily basis. Can't they spend 5 minutes checking whether the site they're linking to doesn't mind it, and doesn't already have bandwidth/cpu issues on their webserver.
Buy separate parts for a personal computer? Fuck yes. For a workstation that is gonna be pushed out for a secretary to use (of which many of us techies process each day)? Fuck no. Corporations & universities purchase from Dell & Gateway almost exclusively, because you get easy warranty support (a floppy drive breaks? I get a new one shipped overnight after a 10 minute phone call & can return the broken one the next day. Try doing this with parts bought from www.greatpcdeals.com). And because you can simply ghost a hard drive image once you have a stable working build, and spend 30 minutes configuring a computer, rather than spending hours assembling parts & configuring shit. Optiplex Gx110's 4 life =P
Actually it's been possible to change the color of your "BSOD" in systems since Win 3.1. Just a small line added to your Win.ini I believe. Back in them old days when I still ran Win98, I'd set it to Red text on a Black background... spoooooky
Oh you're autistic huh? You sure seem remarkably able to figure out the nuances of emotion and meaning in this post very well. Riiiight...
And he said the PLOT was the same as many other anime. SETTING was different. No shit it didn't take place in medieval Japan. Same generic plot though.
Isn't 39 of that 40 hours spent fighting the same monsters over and over again in repetitive battles to level up? Or in the case of the newer FF games for PlayStation, spending those 39 hours watching the same 2-minute long junction attack animation over and over again?
True, but the humans in Shrek were still fairly cartoony acting. They did all sorts of wacky stunts and shit. Final Fantasy makes their actors adhere to normal human actions, aside from all the new-age sci-fi futuristic stuff, but that's included in live-action sci-fi too.
The "books in digital format" in question would seem to be residing on a private network. I assume that means each $30k machine would eventually come with a service plan to download books on demand from a private centralized server, and then cached locally I assume. I suppose someone could front the $30k to just download, convert, & distribute as many books in digital format to the wArEz scene, but you'd have to pay a royalty for each one you download I assume, part of the service plan. Doesn't seem really worthwhile, at least from what I gathered from the article.
How often do they plan on launching rockets? One thing this made me think of was how often NASA launches from Cape Canaverel. I can't imagine they have the budget to launch more than once a month, also taking into account launch windows. Perhaps Christmas Island being a more ideal launch location due to it's geographic location will have wider launch windows, allowing spacecraft to take off more often, or maybe Australia just wants to invest more into its space program, and launch more often. I guess commercial projects such as communication sattelites will be wanting to use this place as well possibly.
Guess the disruption for the locals will mostly depend on how often stuff is taking off. If it's more than once a week I can see it becoming a big nuisance, but if it's more like 2 or 3 times a month, I would see of it as more of a perk to be able to witness space launches =)
My God what a horrible and repulsive site. I guess all the pretty colors are good for attracting the 'tards and high school dropouts though. How many 'tards and stupid high school dropouts have computer access anyways.
Sounds like the pilot (I think) episode of Lone Gunmen on Fox involving a CPU with a built-in modem to report secret stuff back to the eeeevil hardware corporation. Before you know it they'll have ethernet adapters built into the video cards and wireless adapters built into hard drives, so they can track your every activity. Time to cover the computer with tin foil now too (you should see my cat...)
Then each little southern country probably would have begun attacking each other out of petty differences. After 5 or 10 years of this, the Unified North could just step in and claim control again, with minimal loss of life on their part.
They will get a crappy dubbed version of FF to counter all the crappy dubbed versions of Jackie Chan movies that we get.
The original poster didn't even mention any country names. So he might have indeed been talking about Hong Kong instead of Japan, did you even think of that? Plus it was just intended to be funny, and it was, while you just seem to have a stick up your ass. (note: I would pay money to see you with a stick up your ass)
He also encourages people to spam clickthrough links to the immortality ring page in exchange for "credits" which can be turned in for stuff like free rings or other stuff.
Slashdot Mirror
Or "Ahab the Arab"
My DSL is free! I split the cost among the other 3 people in my apartment who are sharing the connection. Since I'm the techie who keeps everything running and set it up in the first place, I 'pay' by setting everything up, and just charge the rest of em $13 a month.
3 doesn't matter for us "smart people". But it matters for the everyday goobers who just know that "quicktime doesn't work, and windows file formats do". MS is trying to kill off Quicktime the same way they tried to kill off mp3s. By providing built-in support for their own file formats, and fucking up support for competing products. WMA vs mp3s anyone?
Does it come with windows-only software? If it does, lose that zero and get yoself a hero, honey!
I would clarify "Physical Defect" to mean "No Fingers". I would consider an RSI as something separate from this. It's not a clear-cut case, because she got her injury because of her job. It's like being a hot dog vendor for 25 years, then finding out hot dogs emit toxic gases that will render you unable to serve hot dogs anymore, and being fired because of this.
I don't believe it was common knowledge 20 years ago that constant typing in a non-ergonomic position would cause you to permanently lose your ability to type. I don't think her condition is serious enough to be labeled as a "disability", as she is still able to carry out day-to-day functions 100%, but because she could not perform her job eventually because of conditions at her job, it definately deserved to have some kind of judicial precedence set.
And how many stupid people take Physics to begin with? My high school physics class was made up of 11 seniors and 9 Juniors. These people were pretty near the top of our class. Considering 2 semesters per year, and a graduating class of 200, this means about 40 out of 200 people would have taken physics, or 20%.
Smart people take physics and usually already understand the basics behind what they're learning. Stupid people take Wood Shop, Weightlifting, and Parenting classes. And how many stupid people, considering they actually took physics, would apply it to a microwave anyways? Again, their mental process is "food goes in cold, comes out hot."
Why stop there? Why not sue gun makers cause they make something that is only good for killing people? Oh wait, a bunch of idiots already tried to pull that shit and lost.
Agreed. How many people do you actually see getting killed in Episode 1? Uhh... there's a whole bunch of droids getting chopped up. And some Gungans getting hit with lasers at the end, but who gives a shit about gungans? At least Ewoks were cute and fuzzy and made you sad when they died. Who can forget the scene where one ewok gets blasted with a laser, and another other one tries to shake him, thinking he's just sleeping or something... so sad... =(
I had visited cookdandbombd.com, and then chilled.cream.org, trying to download the Brasseye episodes, but every time they were down from either being overloaded, or from their mirrors being down for some reason. I check slashdot today and see this story. FUCK! I have just lost any chance I once had at getting a copy of this episode from that website. Now they're down due to "legal reasons." Way to beat another site with bandwidth problems into the ground Slashdot. The editors' lack of judgement and respect at linking to pages continues to surprise and repulse me on a daily basis. Can't they spend 5 minutes checking whether the site they're linking to doesn't mind it, and doesn't already have bandwidth/cpu issues on their webserver.
Buy separate parts for a personal computer? Fuck yes. For a workstation that is gonna be pushed out for a secretary to use (of which many of us techies process each day)? Fuck no. Corporations & universities purchase from Dell & Gateway almost exclusively, because you get easy warranty support (a floppy drive breaks? I get a new one shipped overnight after a 10 minute phone call & can return the broken one the next day. Try doing this with parts bought from www.greatpcdeals.com). And because you can simply ghost a hard drive image once you have a stable working build, and spend 30 minutes configuring a computer, rather than spending hours assembling parts & configuring shit. Optiplex Gx110's 4 life =P
Or, just buy yourself some goddamn Alex Chiu Eternal Life Rings you fool! Magnets = live forever, everyone knows that.
Actually it's been possible to change the color of your "BSOD" in systems since Win 3.1. Just a small line added to your Win.ini I believe. Back in them old days when I still ran Win98, I'd set it to Red text on a Black background... spoooooky
I'm fairly positive there's no such thing as Base 9.5, just base 9 and base 10 (for example) so I don't think Base (pi) would work either.
Oh you're autistic huh? You sure seem remarkably able to figure out the nuances of emotion and meaning in this post very well. Riiiight...
And he said the PLOT was the same as many other anime. SETTING was different. No shit it didn't take place in medieval Japan. Same generic plot though.
Isn't 39 of that 40 hours spent fighting the same monsters over and over again in repetitive battles to level up? Or in the case of the newer FF games for PlayStation, spending those 39 hours watching the same 2-minute long junction attack animation over and over again?
True, but the humans in Shrek were still fairly cartoony acting. They did all sorts of wacky stunts and shit. Final Fantasy makes their actors adhere to normal human actions, aside from all the new-age sci-fi futuristic stuff, but that's included in live-action sci-fi too.
The "books in digital format" in question would seem to be residing on a private network. I assume that means each $30k machine would eventually come with a service plan to download books on demand from a private centralized server, and then cached locally I assume. I suppose someone could front the $30k to just download, convert, & distribute as many books in digital format to the wArEz scene, but you'd have to pay a royalty for each one you download I assume, part of the service plan. Doesn't seem really worthwhile, at least from what I gathered from the article.
Ahahahah that's funny cause windows BLUE SCREENS ALL THE TIME! ahahahahha.
i've had win2k blue screen on me once in 6 months.
How often do they plan on launching rockets? One thing this made me think of was how often NASA launches from Cape Canaverel. I can't imagine they have the budget to launch more than once a month, also taking into account launch windows. Perhaps Christmas Island being a more ideal launch location due to it's geographic location will have wider launch windows, allowing spacecraft to take off more often, or maybe Australia just wants to invest more into its space program, and launch more often. I guess commercial projects such as communication sattelites will be wanting to use this place as well possibly.
Guess the disruption for the locals will mostly depend on how often stuff is taking off. If it's more than once a week I can see it becoming a big nuisance, but if it's more like 2 or 3 times a month, I would see of it as more of a perk to be able to witness space launches =)
My God what a horrible and repulsive site. I guess all the pretty colors are good for attracting the 'tards and high school dropouts though. How many 'tards and stupid high school dropouts have computer access anyways.
Sounds like the pilot (I think) episode of Lone Gunmen on Fox involving a CPU with a built-in modem to report secret stuff back to the eeeevil hardware corporation. Before you know it they'll have ethernet adapters built into the video cards and wireless adapters built into hard drives, so they can track your every activity. Time to cover the computer with tin foil now too (you should see my cat...)
Then each little southern country probably would have begun attacking each other out of petty differences. After 5 or 10 years of this, the Unified North could just step in and claim control again, with minimal loss of life on their part.
Immortality devices won't help you if someone murders you in your sleep for going against the will of the Illuminati.
They will get a crappy dubbed version of FF to counter all the crappy dubbed versions of Jackie Chan movies that we get.
The original poster didn't even mention any country names. So he might have indeed been talking about Hong Kong instead of Japan, did you even think of that? Plus it was just intended to be funny, and it was, while you just seem to have a stick up your ass. (note: I would pay money to see you with a stick up your ass)
He also encourages people to spam clickthrough links to the immortality ring page in exchange for "credits" which can be turned in for stuff like free rings or other stuff.