Sounds harsh, but what about the walkman? Imagine the situation if you had no contact with the outside world at all.
Technology these days is so pervasive that we take so many things for granted - such as walkmans (walkmen?), phones, even our toasters have chips in these days.
And how much use would the Army have been without electronic equipment to rely on?
I think complete electronic breakdown would affect most of us in a very fundamental way, and I doubt it would be the geeks who "pulled through". --
Try reading "The First $20 Million is Always The Hardest" by Po Bronson. It's not exactly what you're after, but it's close enough to amuse and the 'bad guys' are quite obviously Gates and M$... --
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I'm only browsing this, but I'm pretty sure the Windows Power Tools (Toys?) add on allows you to do this. I can right click on a folder on my desktop or whatever and there's a Command Prompt Here option. If I select it I get a dos window open in the folder in question.
I think you can download the power tools (toys?) from those people --
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It's news for Nerds, Stuff That Matters. Not News for Linux Lovers Only.
I stopped using Linux ages ago but I still come here to read interesting stories:
Your Rights Online: Juno and Privacy
Your Rights Online: The Unblinking Eye
Jef Raskin On OS X: "It's UNIX, It's backwards."
NASA Controls Jet With Nerve Signals
GeoWorks Patents Wireless Web Browsers
I could go on, but I don't think I need to, this site's not just about Linux, and if the guy tries to filter out linux stories but can't then he has a right to bitch about it.
If you don't like reading his complaints, then stop coming here. --
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The minus sign is defined on page 2 of the message. Also, in response to a post above (sazlo #34) the exponential system is described on page 3. --
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That took me back a few years... it's how to get out of the prison in the goblin's caves in the mountains.
I believe there's something to dig for in the prison first though (goblin cache?) --
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My copy of second edition is over 4 years old (September 1996 from the printing history) does this really count as recent? --
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I love the way the link "a controlled decent (sic) into the Pacific Ocean" actually points to http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/11/16/mir.ditch ed/index.htm l --
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I'd say that if he still didn't know by the time he got to the booth then "None of the above" was the right one to vote for. Unless he's had his head buried in the sand for the last month or more he must have formed some opinions of the candidates by now, and if those opinions didn't help him to make a decision then he expressed his feelings with this vote. --
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...about my Athlon TB 750 or the MSI 6330 motherboard I'm using. I've certainly never had any problems with USB. --
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Usual question: Did you actually look at the site? It lists hundreds of sites that offer help and advice to people affected by all aspects of suicide: survivors; bereaved relatives; those contemplating suicide; support groups; studies of suicides.
It seems to me that to take this list down would be denying many people of a useful source of information on all aspects of suicide. It's not just (even) a how-to.
Besides, censorship is censorship. You can't have just the freedom to talk about things you agree with. It's freedom of speech or no freedom of speech. No middle ground. --
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Firstly Europe's not a country, it's a continent and Secondly in this part of Europe (England) 15,000 means Fifteen Thousand and 15.000 means Fifteen (to three decimal places). I guess it's different in continental Europe? --
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No fair! You ruled out all the options. You say name a game that was sold with a goal other than making money. The only game that will fit into that category would be one that was sold at such a price so as to make no profit - ie. one which just covered the cost of materials - the CD. And then you take away that very option in your next sentence.
This is like saying "Name any letter in the alphabet before C, not including A or B".
If you don't want to get caught with a piss test, then you pretty much have to arrange it so you don't *take* a piss test.
I've seen guys walk into a piss test with a knotted condom of a clean friends urine safety pinned to the inside of their keks. You use the safety pin to prick the end of the condom and squirt it into the bottle
This worked fine until one guy put the pin right through the condom making a hole in either side. He told me he had to climb on the seat and wipe the piss off the ceiling... with the nurse sitting just outside the cubicle.
I just stuck with the drinking lots of water trick, even though I was doubtful as to it's usefullness ever since the nurse recommended it one time when I wasn't... erm... in the mood
Is this the actual product or just a rendition? Do they work on your trousers? How about a glass table top? What if your girlfriend shines a laser pointer at it? How well do they function on the side of exploding volcanoes? How come they have no buttons? Or are those shiny bits buttons? What do they do if you squeeze them? I think I'll stick with my plain old Kensington Mouse for now... What's that? Wrong thread you say?
I heard this morning on the UK Breakfast News that the penguins are being packed in cardboard boxes, flown X (can't remember) miles away then released. It's thought that by the time they get home (11 days) the island will be cleared up again. Pictures were shown of some penguins, about 4, in a cardboard box, then the camera panned out to reveal about 100 or so boxes all apparently full of penguins. I still can't make up my mind whether this is genius or idiocy... I had to check it wasn't April 1. Shame they didn't sign off the story with "P-P-P-P-P-Pick Up a Penguin".
I can just picture the scene if the clean-up plans don't go to schedule, all the penguins arrive home, absolutely knackered and just a little pissed off, no doubt, only to be repacked and flown away again...
One is that Jar-Jar is unconciously weilding the force, and is on his own path to becoming a Jedi. This rumor speaks about how Jar-Jar, although clumsy, still seems to win battles despite his clumsiness. This kind of story line could speak to the nature of the force, how it is far reaching, even to the meek.
Jar-Jar's not the only lucky one in TPM. It struck me that Anikin's destruction of the flying donut things was sheer luck... What does this button do? Oh, we take off... lucky I crept into the same fighter as R2D2. Now what does this button do? Oh, fires lasers or missiles or something... Bang, all the droids are dead, just in time. I found this a huge anti-climax: the whole shebang ended by a lucky kid.
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Sounds harsh, but what about the walkman? Imagine the situation if you had no contact with the outside world at all.
Technology these days is so pervasive that we take so many things for granted - such as walkmans (walkmen?), phones, even our toasters have chips in these days.
And how much use would the Army have been without electronic equipment to rely on?
I think complete electronic breakdown would affect most of us in a very fundamental way, and I doubt it would be the geeks who "pulled through".
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Just how many "catastrophic loss[es] of all electronic technology" have you experienced, Cliff?
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Try reading "The First $20 Million is Always The Hardest" by Po Bronson. It's not exactly what you're after, but it's close enough to amuse and the 'bad guys' are quite obviously Gates and M$...
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I'm only browsing this, but I'm pretty sure the Windows Power Tools (Toys?) add on allows you to do this. I can right click on a folder on my desktop or whatever and there's a Command Prompt Here option. If I select it I get a dos window open in the folder in question. I think you can download the power tools (toys?) from those people
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It's news for Nerds, Stuff That Matters. Not News for Linux Lovers Only.
I stopped using Linux ages ago but I still come here to read interesting stories:
Your Rights Online: Juno and Privacy
Your Rights Online: The Unblinking Eye
Jef Raskin On OS X: "It's UNIX, It's backwards."
NASA Controls Jet With Nerve Signals
GeoWorks Patents Wireless Web Browsers
I could go on, but I don't think I need to, this site's not just about Linux, and if the guy tries to filter out linux stories but can't then he has a right to bitch about it.
If you don't like reading his complaints, then stop coming here.
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Then it could also be institutionalisation...
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The minus sign is defined on page 2 of the message. Also, in response to a post above (sazlo #34) the exponential system is described on page 3.
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That took me back a few years... it's how to get out of the prison in the goblin's caves in the mountains.
I believe there's something to dig for in the prison first though (goblin cache?)
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Here's an interesting essay on the subject.
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My copy of second edition is over 4 years old (September 1996 from the printing history) does this really count as recent?
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... I had mod today and there was a Hysteria: -1 moderation option... I'd have burnt up my points in no time.
Talk about knee-jerk reactions...
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I love the way the link "a controlled decent (sic) into the Pacific Ocean" actually points toh ed/index.htm l
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/11/16/mir.ditc
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I'd say that if he still didn't know by the time he got to the booth then "None of the above" was the right one to vote for. Unless he's had his head buried in the sand for the last month or more he must have formed some opinions of the candidates by now, and if those opinions didn't help him to make a decision then he expressed his feelings with this vote.
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...about my Athlon TB 750 or the MSI 6330 motherboard I'm using. I've certainly never had any problems with USB.
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Usual question: Did you actually look at the site? It lists hundreds of sites that offer help and advice to people affected by all aspects of suicide: survivors; bereaved relatives; those contemplating suicide; support groups; studies of suicides.
It seems to me that to take this list down would be denying many people of a useful source of information on all aspects of suicide. It's not just (even) a how-to.
Besides, censorship is censorship. You can't have just the freedom to talk about things you agree with. It's freedom of speech or no freedom of speech. No middle ground.
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Surely a planette.
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Firstly Europe's not a country, it's a continent and Secondly in this part of Europe (England) 15,000 means Fifteen Thousand and 15.000 means Fifteen (to three decimal places). I guess it's different in continental Europe?
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No fair! You ruled out all the options. You say name a game that was sold with a goal other than making money. The only game that will fit into that category would be one that was sold at such a price so as to make no profit - ie. one which just covered the cost of materials - the CD. And then you take away that very option in your next sentence.
This is like saying "Name any letter in the alphabet before C, not including A or B".
What's your point?
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Okay, so I gotta hit refresh before I post a reply. Ten minutes...tut.
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Gibson? GIBSON?
Surely some mistake?
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I've seen guys walk into a piss test with a knotted condom of a clean friends urine safety pinned to the inside of their keks. You use the safety pin to prick the end of the condom and squirt it into the bottle
This worked fine until one guy put the pin right through the condom making a hole in either side. He told me he had to climb on the seat and wipe the piss off the ceiling... with the nurse sitting just outside the cubicle.
I just stuck with the drinking lots of water trick, even though I was doubtful as to it's usefullness ever since the nurse recommended it one time when I wasn't... erm... in the mood
Is this the actual product or just a rendition? Do they work on your trousers? How about a glass table top? What if your girlfriend shines a laser pointer at it? How well do they function on the side of exploding volcanoes? How come they have no buttons? Or are those shiny bits buttons? What do they do if you squeeze them? I think I'll stick with my plain old Kensington Mouse for now... What's that? Wrong thread you say?
Why would anyone want to have been born 8000BC ??
I can just picture the scene if the clean-up plans don't go to schedule, all the penguins arrive home, absolutely knackered and just a little pissed off, no doubt, only to be repacked and flown away again...
Jar-Jar's not the only lucky one in TPM. It struck me that Anikin's destruction of the flying donut things was sheer luck ... What does this button do? Oh, we take off... lucky I crept into the same fighter as R2D2. Now what does this button do? Oh, fires lasers or missiles or something... Bang, all the droids are dead, just in time. I found this a huge anti-climax: the whole shebang ended by a lucky kid.