Why keep government out of healthcare? We need it, they can give it to us. Nope, need that money to kill them Iraq peoples.
Retirement? That doesn't need reform? So you're ok with Social Security taken out of your check weekly that you'll never ever ever see again? I'm not looking for the Government to care for people and just hand out cash. I want them to give me back MY money!
Now, I know you're just trolling...but come on...gas does NOT have to be that high. And the reason it's so high in European countries is because they tax it beyond reach. I have to drive 60 miles a day...it's part of my job. I can't move closer to anything because the job itself is driving that 60 miles...and I live a block from where it starts. Gas prices are killing truckers and anything else that uses a vehicle to move. Commerce will suffer.
But you can just be selfish there Merlyn...and say "hey, it doesn't touch me, why should I care?" Well, guess what...it WILL touch you if gas keeps going up. Products will start going up in price to offset the cost of shipping them to stores etc etc. Do you really need me explaining this to you? You get this don't you? Also, don't start in on politics and things like that...these are real-world things that directly impact people...not this pie-in-the-sky crap on Capital Hill.
But please, if you're trying to troll, do a better job. Go to myg0t.com and learn from those guys on how to rage a forum. And stop listening to Sean Hannity.
Also, if you RTFM, you'll see that the 915n came in second overall and the only thing holding it back was because they were crying that it didn't have a DVI connector. That's it.
Yeah...um...where's my fucking healthcare and retirement programs? How about have a subcommittee on wrangling these gas prices in?
No no...steroids in baseball and making sure your MP3 player can play songs from iTunes...yep, that's MUCH more important. Oh, also there's this other idiot...oops, congressman, that wants people who violate on-air decency laws thrown in jail. Yes, actual jail time for saying "fuck" on TV or radio.
(starts looking through his brochures on moving to New Zealand)
There was a one day sale over at Newegg and I just picked it up.
I was coming from a CRT monitor...then I switched to this thing and WOAH. I'm in love.
The thing is bright, very very fast (8ms) and big (19").
Yes, it only comes with an analog connector...but to tell the truth, I doubt it could get clearer, sharper or brighter than it is now. This thing is great.
It's like looking through a window...a very clean and clear window.
I read a lot of review sites...which usually has a forum attached to it. I try to read as much as I can on a given product plus the forum replies plus other places on the net.
Through all the data that I read, my brain forms an opinion and I weed out the bullshit and the hyperbole to find the heart of the matter. It usually works most of the time too.
Your bullshit detector has to be in good shape and you have to know how to weed out the crap before you get down to the nitty-gritty.
But if you're naive about the net and you go online maybe once a month...then you're a raw piece of meat in a pool full of sharks.
If I have to see another movie directed by this hack with "the hero or villian walks in slow-motion toward the camera while bombs/explosions go off in the background" I will stop watching movies.
Gems from Pearl Harbor:
Rafe: Danny, you can't die. You can't die. You know why? 'Cause you're gonna be a father. You're gonna be a daddy. I wasn't supposed to tell you. You're gonna be a father. Danny: No, you are.
And:
Rafe: You are so beautiful it hurts. Evelyn: It's your nose that hurts. Rafe: I think it's my heart.
Plan 9 from Outer Space had better dialog! How this made millions at the box office I'll never know. My faith in my fellow man shrank that day.
Oh yeah? I'll pay a million dollars for a program that does that! then I'll win the Millennium prize of a million dollars and I'll earn like...a Million dollars...or like 50,000 or something after I pay you off...or around there...
I'm not talking about donating cash, but donating time/equipment.
I mean, Voyager is out there right, it's still sending data back no matter what. If NASA cancels the project, the data will still be coming back...I mean, they don't send a janitor out there to switch it off.
So is it so out of the question that people get together some dishes...probably cheap ones laying around that the small digital dishes put out to pasture...and grid them together to get the signal. THEN collect the data? Is that at all possible?
I'm on SBC here in Michigan and they don't require that you have a land line to use DSL.
DSL is a god-send for me, not to mention that I refuse to go back to Comcast...which does charge you more if you just want internet service without the cable TV.
It's almost a universal snobbery that inhabits the world...where people will always say "the book was better than the movie". Why can't the two artforms exist on an even keel?
There exist movies that are better as a visual form than any book. Movies that convey emotion and character that no book, no matter how eloquent the author, could never approach. Stanley Kubrick once said "If it can be written or thought; it can be filmed". This is true.
Yes, there are many many examples of books turned into movies that were disasters. But there are some that transend mere words. I of course could give you a list of films that I feel truly reach these hights, but it can often be personal. So I ask that you think for yourself if you've found a movie that exceeds the printed word. If not, that doesn't mean one doesn't exist, mearly that you haven't found it.
I couldn't agree more. I mean, what's next? Just have a map of the entire world and you can zoom in on and just click and insta-zone to that location. I mean, that's easier, right?
But I do actually miss the old days. Spending nights in the Rathe mountains chaising and being chaised by Hill Giants, raiding Kithicor at night, Lady Vox...which always seemed to be a total fiasco for me with half the raid jumping down the bear-pits because they didn't listen...the insane trains in Unrest. I miss all that. Now, all those zones are empty. Kinda sad really.
Well, maybe in about 10 years or so EQ will go shareware or something with people running their own (legal) servers that can choose their own timeline. But I won't hold my breath. It's gone forever really.
I'm sure EQ will continue on, but it certainly wasn't like it used to be.
I played it up until the "Planes of Power" being my last expansion I bought...but I really miss the "good old days" back before Luclin.
Yes, I liked it when it was a pain in the ass to get a port out of West Commonlands after auctioning in East Commonlands tunnel. I liked that the world seemed so much bigger. That if you Started in Qeynos or Halas it felt like a million miles aways since you had to run all the way to the Karanas to get a port (or head to Toxxulia). I liked that you had to take a boat and everything else.
You see, it seemed to be a PLACE. When you were in Kelethin you actually felt you were somewhere because pockets of people were there and in other cities because it wasn't so easy to get around. The cities were busy because people were coming and going to the bank etc etc. Now, Qeynos is all but dead...Freeport is a ghost-town...Neriak which used to be such a beautiful city, is empty.
Everyone just binds up at the Plane of Knowledge now and gets a port to whatever zone they need to go and and grind grind grind. The thrill is certainly gone.
Well, that's just me. I haven't played in a long time.
Let's say he get's both a Mac and a PC with Linux...now what? Care to answer his question now? Any software that meets his needs?
Maybe you need to look deeper into your limits here. You see a little line like "limited to Windows software" and you have to jump all over him! Talk about preconceived unneccesary limits...can't even just ask something without someone ripping apart the post itself to get in a little bashing.
If you know of some software, list it, otherwise STFU with your zealous paranoia.
Actually, she continued to be a very successful actress...she was in 82 movies all the way up till 1979...then she made guest stars on several TV series and of course she was in the Maxwell House Coffee commercials up till the day she died in 1985.
She was a talented actress and was up till she passed.
Ok, having checked out Legend of Mir via Google, I came across the official site that has of course a "screenshot" section. I randomly click on this one and notice that in the chat window people are complaining about LAG and other shots of people calling others NOOB. Now, this is in the screenshots area of the official site, that's suppose to make the game shine and look attractive.
Never heard of Legend of Mir 1 and 2...let alone 3. I thought everyone over there played Lineage. In fact, I thought it was a requirement for citizenship in Korea that you had to play it so they can keep the claim "most played MMORPG".
Hey, I like GTA. It was a cool game when I had it...I mean, like anything got bored with it after a while.
But no way is my 11 year old son going to play it.
And last I checked, there ARE ratings on these games, like on movies. We don't need anything more do we? More laws? WTF?
My son plays Mario and other games like that on his Gamecube. No, not the most exciting games in the world, but he likes them. We also don't have a TV other than the one that the Gamecube is hooked up on.
No cable or even over-the-air TV. Because I'm making a statement? Yeah, kinda...I don't feel like paying 60 bucks a month for basic cable here from Comcast. And no antena can really pull down a broadcast. So, we've been without TV now for almost a year in the new house and guess what, we don't miss it.
Sorry, got off on a tangent. This is common sense kind of stuff here folks, and Hillery is mainly just saying "hey, look at me...over here...yoo hoo...I've got something sort of controversal to say, yet not really". Yeah, I'm a little jaded.
I see the other guys at Slashdot coming in and yelling at Taco...saying that they told him that he shouldn't be on the computer...pulling his hands away and slapping them. Then sending him off to his room.
I mean, come on...when a dupe happens 9 times out of 10 it's Taco that posted it. Keep track from now on and see what I mean.
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Why keep government out of healthcare? We need it, they can give it to us. Nope, need that money to kill them Iraq peoples.
Retirement? That doesn't need reform? So you're ok with Social Security taken out of your check weekly that you'll never ever ever see again? I'm not looking for the Government to care for people and just hand out cash. I want them to give me back MY money!
Now, I know you're just trolling...but come on...gas does NOT have to be that high. And the reason it's so high in European countries is because they tax it beyond reach. I have to drive 60 miles a day...it's part of my job. I can't move closer to anything because the job itself is driving that 60 miles...and I live a block from where it starts. Gas prices are killing truckers and anything else that uses a vehicle to move. Commerce will suffer.
But you can just be selfish there Merlyn...and say "hey, it doesn't touch me, why should I care?" Well, guess what...it WILL touch you if gas keeps going up. Products will start going up in price to offset the cost of shipping them to stores etc etc. Do you really need me explaining this to you? You get this don't you? Also, don't start in on politics and things like that...these are real-world things that directly impact people...not this pie-in-the-sky crap on Capital Hill.
But please, if you're trying to troll, do a better job. Go to myg0t.com and learn from those guys on how to rage a forum. And stop listening to Sean Hannity.
Sharper...maybe...clearer? Nah.
Also, if you RTFM, you'll see that the 915n came in second overall and the only thing holding it back was because they were crying that it didn't have a DVI connector. That's it.
Yeah...um...where's my fucking healthcare and retirement programs? How about have a subcommittee on wrangling these gas prices in?
No no...steroids in baseball and making sure your MP3 player can play songs from iTunes...yep, that's MUCH more important. Oh, also there's this other idiot...oops, congressman, that wants people who violate on-air decency laws thrown in jail. Yes, actual jail time for saying "fuck" on TV or radio.
(starts looking through his brochures on moving to New Zealand)
There was a one day sale over at Newegg and I just picked it up.
I was coming from a CRT monitor...then I switched to this thing and WOAH. I'm in love.
The thing is bright, very very fast (8ms) and big (19").
Yes, it only comes with an analog connector...but to tell the truth, I doubt it could get clearer, sharper or brighter than it is now. This thing is great.
It's like looking through a window...a very clean and clear window.
Ars Technica is great
Hard OCP isn't bad.
Anandtech is good
sharkyextreme isn't bad, though not a ton of reviews
3dGameMan is good as he also does video reviews and he's not half bad.
systemcooling.com isn't bad either
PCStats.com is another good one
no, I sit through the damn things because my wife loves these things. The dialog brands itself into my brain when watching them.
Then a quick trip over to IMDB gets the quotes I need to illustrate my point.
I read a lot of review sites...which usually has a forum attached to it. I try to read as much as I can on a given product plus the forum replies plus other places on the net.
Through all the data that I read, my brain forms an opinion and I weed out the bullshit and the hyperbole to find the heart of the matter. It usually works most of the time too.
Your bullshit detector has to be in good shape and you have to know how to weed out the crap before you get down to the nitty-gritty.
But if you're naive about the net and you go online maybe once a month...then you're a raw piece of meat in a pool full of sharks.
If I have to see another movie directed by this hack with "the hero or villian walks in slow-motion toward the camera while bombs/explosions go off in the background" I will stop watching movies.
Gems from Pearl Harbor:
Rafe: Danny, you can't die. You can't die. You know why? 'Cause you're gonna be a father. You're gonna be a daddy. I wasn't supposed to tell you. You're gonna be a father.
Danny: No, you are.
And:
Rafe: You are so beautiful it hurts.
Evelyn: It's your nose that hurts.
Rafe: I think it's my heart.
Plan 9 from Outer Space had better dialog! How this made millions at the box office I'll never know. My faith in my fellow man shrank that day.
Oh yeah? I'll pay a million dollars for a program that does that! then I'll win the Millennium prize of a million dollars and I'll earn like...a Million dollars...or like 50,000 or something after I pay you off...or around there...
I'm not good a math...
I'm not talking about donating cash, but donating time/equipment.
I mean, Voyager is out there right, it's still sending data back no matter what. If NASA cancels the project, the data will still be coming back...I mean, they don't send a janitor out there to switch it off.
So is it so out of the question that people get together some dishes...probably cheap ones laying around that the small digital dishes put out to pasture...and grid them together to get the signal. THEN collect the data? Is that at all possible?
But they all ran when they saw the RIAA and MPAA moving in...even the IRS is afraid of them.
Tremble as they pass...stare in awe at their mighty power
I'm on SBC here in Michigan and they don't require that you have a land line to use DSL.
DSL is a god-send for me, not to mention that I refuse to go back to Comcast...which does charge you more if you just want internet service without the cable TV.
It's almost a universal snobbery that inhabits the world...where people will always say "the book was better than the movie". Why can't the two artforms exist on an even keel?
There exist movies that are better as a visual form than any book. Movies that convey emotion and character that no book, no matter how eloquent the author, could never approach. Stanley Kubrick once said "If it can be written or thought; it can be filmed". This is true.
Yes, there are many many examples of books turned into movies that were disasters. But there are some that transend mere words. I of course could give you a list of films that I feel truly reach these hights, but it can often be personal. So I ask that you think for yourself if you've found a movie that exceeds the printed word. If not, that doesn't mean one doesn't exist, mearly that you haven't found it.
I couldn't agree more. I mean, what's next? Just have a map of the entire world and you can zoom in on and just click and insta-zone to that location. I mean, that's easier, right?
But I do actually miss the old days. Spending nights in the Rathe mountains chaising and being chaised by Hill Giants, raiding Kithicor at night, Lady Vox...which always seemed to be a total fiasco for me with half the raid jumping down the bear-pits because they didn't listen...the insane trains in Unrest. I miss all that. Now, all those zones are empty. Kinda sad really.
Well, maybe in about 10 years or so EQ will go shareware or something with people running their own (legal) servers that can choose their own timeline. But I won't hold my breath. It's gone forever really.
They're still working on 1.0 though. Lots of bugs in the builds ending in 0.1968 and such.
From all the way back to...er...two and a half years ago?
Wow. Good thing we have that written down somewhere, are there even people still alive that remember that far back?
I'm sure EQ will continue on, but it certainly wasn't like it used to be.
I played it up until the "Planes of Power" being my last expansion I bought...but I really miss the "good old days" back before Luclin.
Yes, I liked it when it was a pain in the ass to get a port out of West Commonlands after auctioning in East Commonlands tunnel. I liked that the world seemed so much bigger. That if you Started in Qeynos or Halas it felt like a million miles aways since you had to run all the way to the Karanas to get a port (or head to Toxxulia). I liked that you had to take a boat and everything else.
You see, it seemed to be a PLACE. When you were in Kelethin you actually felt you were somewhere because pockets of people were there and in other cities because it wasn't so easy to get around. The cities were busy because people were coming and going to the bank etc etc. Now, Qeynos is all but dead...Freeport is a ghost-town...Neriak which used to be such a beautiful city, is empty.
Everyone just binds up at the Plane of Knowledge now and gets a port to whatever zone they need to go and and grind grind grind. The thrill is certainly gone.
Well, that's just me. I haven't played in a long time.
OK...this helps him....how?
Let's say he get's both a Mac and a PC with Linux...now what? Care to answer his question now? Any software that meets his needs?
Maybe you need to look deeper into your limits here. You see a little line like "limited to Windows software" and you have to jump all over him! Talk about preconceived unneccesary limits...can't even just ask something without someone ripping apart the post itself to get in a little bashing.
If you know of some software, list it, otherwise STFU with your zealous paranoia.
Actually, she continued to be a very successful actress...she was in 82 movies all the way up till 1979...then she made guest stars on several TV series and of course she was in the Maxwell House Coffee commercials up till the day she died in 1985.
She was a talented actress and was up till she passed.
Ok, having checked out Legend of Mir via Google, I came across the official site that has of course a "screenshot" section. I randomly click on this one and notice that in the chat window people are complaining about LAG and other shots of people calling others NOOB. Now, this is in the screenshots area of the official site, that's suppose to make the game shine and look attractive.
Looks like a winner...
Never heard of Legend of Mir 1 and 2...let alone 3. I thought everyone over there played Lineage. In fact, I thought it was a requirement for citizenship in Korea that you had to play it so they can keep the claim "most played MMORPG".
Huh, guess things are different in China.
Okay! Let me get a book on how to program and I'll be back...I'll show you all! You'll ALL be sorry! Mwhahahahahaha
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Is there a "no dupe" option I can click in my preferences that I missed? I mean, come on...this is getting ridiculous.
Hey, I like GTA. It was a cool game when I had it...I mean, like anything got bored with it after a while.
But no way is my 11 year old son going to play it.
And last I checked, there ARE ratings on these games, like on movies. We don't need anything more do we? More laws? WTF?
My son plays Mario and other games like that on his Gamecube. No, not the most exciting games in the world, but he likes them. We also don't have a TV other than the one that the Gamecube is hooked up on.
No cable or even over-the-air TV. Because I'm making a statement? Yeah, kinda...I don't feel like paying 60 bucks a month for basic cable here from Comcast. And no antena can really pull down a broadcast. So, we've been without TV now for almost a year in the new house and guess what, we don't miss it.
Sorry, got off on a tangent. This is common sense kind of stuff here folks, and Hillery is mainly just saying "hey, look at me...over here...yoo hoo...I've got something sort of controversal to say, yet not really". Yeah, I'm a little jaded.
I see the other guys at Slashdot coming in and yelling at Taco...saying that they told him that he shouldn't be on the computer...pulling his hands away and slapping them. Then sending him off to his room.
I mean, come on...when a dupe happens 9 times out of 10 it's Taco that posted it. Keep track from now on and see what I mean.