I sure as hell don't. We got sports on TV the whole goddamn year, so why bother to have nothing else to look at every four years? I think the whole thing could be shot to outer space and only very few would bother.... I mean, it was more than ridiculous when those fat***es in the IOC decided to forbid the athletes to publish their diaries. That should have been a f***ing sign, don't ya think? All it shows it that the whole thing is FUBAR and there are better things to do than deport homeless people just to get the city nicer. For example for the money Atlanta spent on the games, they could have built a ****load of homeless shelters or even have created a programme to get them work. It's like the world faire (which was, BTW, a horrible miscalculated disaster...)
Thanks for reading the rant and please excuse all those ***'s...
Your modem/DSL/ISDN adapter is a tool for theft. Throw it out of your window immediately or I will sue your nuts off, bubba...;-)
This discussion is old and boring. Napster itself is a tool for exchanging music. It is, however, used to exchange "illegal" music(???).
EMusic is using a bot on thre service and therefore should be banned from the network as anyone caught running one. I don't want to hear someone cry "it's a good bot!" or stuff like that. EMusic violates Napster'
s TOS and even makes it public. There's no excuse for plain stupidity.
Or perhaps you just don't care enough to know what you really have... We do and perhaps that's why everyone thinks we were all right-wing sickos. We actually know and tell there's a problem.
Could it be that your personal evoultion finally came to a complete stop sometimes in the late 1940's? I wrote something like this before, and although I'm quite tired of it, let me resume some things:
Hitler was from Austria (well, it's off topic, but I think it's funny to note that - in the end - Austria was the origin of two World Wars)
Hitler's dead.
Germany != Deutsches Reich
Actually, we're even trying to get rid of some right-wing f(r)actions over here. If we did follow common US policy, we sure as hell wouldn't.
Another thing: the jewish (and christian), buddhistic, whatsoever belief isn't founded on brainwashing. Well, OK, perhaps it is a little, but it's not in the charter. CoS on the other hand is brainwashing and they constantly failed to prove there are any other aspects in their "belief".
A little advice for free: drink less coffee.
It also depends on whether it's Mach 1.5 IAS or TAS... with almost no atmosphere, sound is relatively slower than down here, by a factor of about... yeah, a lot.
... and that were just the first two discs of Debian 2.2. Well, at least I had a dedicated PC for this so the download didn't stop when some silly game crashed my main machine... *gg*
The visuals are SOOOOOO BAD!
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Noticed the black border around some objects, especially the fireballs those peksy mages cast at the attacking dragons near the end (why don't they use some spell which can't miss? They seem to be above level 5...)? The cityscape isn't great either.
Acting seems sub-par, only the thief manages to deliver his C/N alignment. The rest seems to be all either N/N ("who cares?") or C/E ("I'll just kill you, right?")
And WTF is an "internet keyword"?
I just can't wait to read the critics...
If such an act is passed, there's only one thing to say about it: it's fscking worthless. Let it be passed in europe, so what? Most of the sites are hosted in the US anyways. Pass it in the US, same thing vice versa. Pass it in both regios, see ya again in Japan (damn slow conns, though), Russia, Malaysia, Australia,...
After reading a whole bunch of the messages here (at least those scored 1 and above...), I came to the conclusion that most of the folks posting here got their mind stuck sometimes back in the early 1940's. It's embarassing to see such comments from a community of people I thought to be a little more open-minded. I hear you say "why should I care about the german's problems"... Well, it's not the germans fault that US agencys like the NSA (they exist. Just admit it!) went around the world and built a complex array of espionage electronics, both based on ground installations and a global sattelite network, under the false premise that it'd be used to "push back the red threat"... Whatever that should mean. It's well known that information is sold to the highest bidding party, and I'm not talking about military data but stuff like treatys worth a whole bunch of money.
Hey, I know a good use for all those leftover SSMs and ICBMs. Use those to get rid of some no longer needed legacy.
Kids, grow up and realize that it's the beginning of a new millenium in just 2.5 more months!
I agree that the introduction you describe, cutting from Doom to Columbine, was indeed designed to "tell us what to think". But in your very next paragraph you commit the same crime. By pointint out how the senator voted on these gun control issues, you have implied that voting against gun locks is as wrong-headed as censoring violent media.
Just a moment... I must reduce my blood pressure. WHERE ARE MY PILLS? *swallows* aaah. Better.
I have one question: How can someone be so stubborn to vote against gun locks? How, how, how? I admit I don't have to live with that government (thank god for that!) and I might not fully grasp the meaning of it, but there you go.
Two things.
Guns are made to kill people.
Violent media might make some of the more stupid folks do whatever they already tend to.
You see the difference? If not then please stop reading, play some doom and go on a rampage through the nearest grade school. However, I think anyone able to surf the net (except perhaps those pedophilic and/or right-wing nazi sickos...[1]) has enough of half a brain to separate the virtual world and reality.
That's all for now. If anyone wants to criticize, feel free to do so. If I hurt anyone's feelings, it's nothing personal as long as you don't belong to one of the special groups addressed before. I really am some nice person as long as no one says stuff like "ban videogames, they make our kids shoot each other". It's mostly stupid politics that makes our kids shoot each other.
[1] The inner workings of those are yet to be discovered although it might not be worth it. It's somewhat difficult to raise funds for the "Intelligence in $#1t Project" (I$P)
D: Are you region 5? Player thinks: could be one of the sneaky bastards i've heard of... Hey, I AM the hardware doing that 'intelligence' stuff here! P: Tell me what you want to hear! I'm using the force of the blue lightsaber! You can't possibly beat me! D:(wincing) I am coded for region 1, O you almighty player! P:(taking notes) OK, now that this is out of the way, we might start again. *RESET*
I think anyone can think what it's going like next time. Just wanted to clarify that a DVD can never ask for anything. It's just the player following stupid orders.
Some time ago, someone at Ars Technica posted a similar idea. I didn't find the artice anymore, but if you have some free time, try and find it as it was very interesting.
Wouldn't even a slightly increased nose temperature help? The engine exhaust could be expelled from a rim behind the nose, thus creating a "hull" of vapor around the ship/rocket/torpedo body and heat the nose.
... actually make developments available to a wider circle of possible developers. The fact that there's money involved is just a spin-off of that system. If patents were handled to do this, I'd agree. Then, they'd support the development of new technologies based on other ideas.
The way it currently is is somewhat unpleasant as patents are used only to press money out of others who want to use the system. In the case of Rambus, it is even used to force the spreading of a somewhat strange, half-mature technology.
Oh, and about "Open-Sourcing" standards like video compression: look what these standards are actually being used for. We can be glad that QuickTime was ported to Windows because apple uses it to promote their own systems. Indeo is somewhat different, but as it is an Intel development, I'd be surprised if it wasn't "optimized" for Intel systems (though, we can expect to have some more or less open port to Linux and Be form Intel themselves as they like the system *g*). The "best" of all standards however is - IMHO - DVD. It's locked to mainly two OSs, Windows and MacOS for some obscure reasons (OK, this is off topic...)
See something? Many "standards" are just set up to promote some proprietary system(s). Not what it was meant to do.
I'm a happy Athlon user with a non-standard system. All components are hand picked. The only problems I had were with stuff like a soundcard that behaved strangely on every other system. After removing that and installing one that's on the compatibility list, it worked fine. I recently installed Linux on a somewhat older Pentium system, and... 'lo and behold! On the bootup screen, it said 'Pentium with F0 0F bug detected.' What I want to say is, that Intel products aren't error free and that a dud configuration can screw a system up. I mean, for what reason did AMD put up that compatibility table?
The whole trend is going in the wrong direction, I think. Instead of packing less and less stuff into the shrink-wrapped cardboard boxes, some companies would do good to put a little more content into appropriately sized packages. And I'm not talking about those content-free manuals M$ used to ship (I don't know if it's still as bad, I haven't seen anything but these ridiculous OEM-manuals), but some informative paperwork which might actually help the user to use the product instead of a leaflet telling him to call a one-fortune-per-minute-we-take-life-insurances hotline. I'm sick and tiread of having to print 400 page manuals for some f\/(k1n6 expensive software.
By the time Vorbis "hits the streets", it'll spread faster than wildfire, much too slow for those sluggish bigass folks wanting it to disappear (you know who I'm talking about, aren't ya?). And it looks like it's going to get out soon enough.
It was a program that simulated cleaning the disk drive by making almost impossible noises with the drive... Sounded like a washing-machine.
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... like Germany, there's a frightening tendency: Almost all universities are moving from their old internet backbone to a new one with a new pricing model. The old one was kind of a "flatrate" while the new one uses a volume-dependent pricing model. Since the change is coming, all "private" users outside the university have to accept more or less regular portscans and other "measures" to "ensure" there are no servers running on their machines. Since i read a little about the pricing model, I more or less think that it's a big scam to get a legal backdoor to our computers.
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Thanks for reading the rant and please excuse all those ***'s...
This discussion is old and boring. Napster itself is a tool for exchanging music. It is, however, used to exchange "illegal" music(???).
EMusic is using a bot on thre service and therefore should be banned from the network as anyone caught running one. I don't want to hear someone cry "it's a good bot!" or stuff like that. EMusic violates Napster' s TOS and even makes it public. There's no excuse for plain stupidity.
Aaaah! My blood pressure's coming down again...
Or perhaps you just don't care enough to know what you really have... We do and perhaps that's why everyone thinks we were all right-wing sickos. We actually know and tell there's a problem.
- Hitler was from Austria (well, it's off topic, but I think it's funny to note that - in the end - Austria was the origin of two World Wars)
- Hitler's dead.
- Germany != Deutsches Reich
Actually, we're even trying to get rid of some right-wing f(r)actions over here. If we did follow common US policy, we sure as hell wouldn't.Another thing: the jewish (and christian), buddhistic, whatsoever belief isn't founded on brainwashing. Well, OK, perhaps it is a little, but it's not in the charter. CoS on the other hand is brainwashing and they constantly failed to prove there are any other aspects in their "belief".
A little advice for free: drink less coffee.
cat /dev/random > /proc/kmem
Store it in quantum memory. One "quantum bit" is enough, all you need is the damn right method to measure it!
It also depends on whether it's Mach 1.5 IAS or TAS... with almost no atmosphere, sound is relatively slower than down here, by a factor of about... yeah, a lot.
3?000...
...
??000...
00000...
00000...
what next?
`This is already enough... (0 marks yet unknown positions) 3?000... ??000... 00000... 00000... . . . So what?
... and that were just the first two discs of Debian 2.2. Well, at least I had a dedicated PC for this so the download didn't stop when some silly game crashed my main machine... *gg*
Noticed the black border around some objects, especially the fireballs those peksy mages cast at the attacking dragons near the end (why don't they use some spell which can't miss? They seem to be above level 5...)? The cityscape isn't great either.
Acting seems sub-par, only the thief manages to deliver his C/N alignment. The rest seems to be all either N/N ("who cares?") or C/E ("I'll just kill you, right?")
And WTF is an "internet keyword"?
I just can't wait to read the critics...
If such an act is passed, there's only one thing to say about it: it's fscking worthless. Let it be passed in europe, so what? Most of the sites are hosted in the US anyways. Pass it in the US, same thing vice versa. Pass it in both regios, see ya again in Japan (damn slow conns, though), Russia, Malaysia, Australia, ...
After reading a whole bunch of the messages here (at least those scored 1 and above...), I came to the conclusion that most of the folks posting here got their mind stuck sometimes back in the early 1940's. It's embarassing to see such comments from a community of people I thought to be a little more open-minded. I hear you say "why should I care about the german's problems"... Well, it's not the germans fault that US agencys like the NSA (they exist. Just admit it!) went around the world and built a complex array of espionage electronics, both based on ground installations and a global sattelite network, under the false premise that it'd be used to "push back the red threat"... Whatever that should mean. It's well known that information is sold to the highest bidding party, and I'm not talking about military data but stuff like treatys worth a whole bunch of money.
Hey, I know a good use for all those leftover SSMs and ICBMs. Use those to get rid of some no longer needed legacy.
Kids, grow up and realize that it's the beginning of a new millenium in just 2.5 more months!
I have one question: How can someone be so stubborn to vote against gun locks? How, how, how? I admit I don't have to live with that government (thank god for that!) and I might not fully grasp the meaning of it, but there you go.
Two things.
- Guns are made to kill people.
- Violent media might make some of the more stupid folks do whatever they already tend to.
You see the difference? If not then please stop reading, play some doom and go on a rampage through the nearest grade school. However, I think anyone able to surf the net (except perhaps those pedophilic and/or right-wing nazi sickos...[1]) has enough of half a brain to separate the virtual world and reality.That's all for now. If anyone wants to criticize, feel free to do so. If I hurt anyone's feelings, it's nothing personal as long as you don't belong to one of the special groups addressed before. I really am some nice person as long as no one says stuff like "ban videogames, they make our kids shoot each other". It's mostly stupid politics that makes our kids shoot each other.
[1] The inner workings of those are yet to be discovered although it might not be worth it. It's somewhat difficult to raise funds for the "Intelligence in $#1t Project" (I$P)
Description: So... always watch yer green!
Player thinks: could be one of the sneaky bastards i've heard of... Hey, I AM the hardware doing that 'intelligence' stuff here!
P: Tell me what you want to hear! I'm using the force of the blue lightsaber! You can't possibly beat me!
D: (wincing) I am coded for region 1, O you almighty player!
P: (taking notes) OK, now that this is out of the way, we might start again. *RESET*
I think anyone can think what it's going like next time. Just wanted to clarify that a DVD can never ask for anything. It's just the player following stupid orders.
Paranoids of the world, unite!
Paranoids of the world, unite!
The way it currently is is somewhat unpleasant as patents are used only to press money out of others who want to use the system. In the case of Rambus, it is even used to force the spreading of a somewhat strange, half-mature technology.
Oh, and about "Open-Sourcing" standards like video compression: look what these standards are actually being used for. We can be glad that QuickTime was ported to Windows because apple uses it to promote their own systems. Indeo is somewhat different, but as it is an Intel development, I'd be surprised if it wasn't "optimized" for Intel systems (though, we can expect to have some more or less open port to Linux and Be form Intel themselves as they like the system *g*). The "best" of all standards however is - IMHO - DVD. It's locked to mainly two OSs, Windows and MacOS for some obscure reasons (OK, this is off topic...)
See something? Many "standards" are just set up to promote some proprietary system(s). Not what it was meant to do.
Paranoids of the world, Unite!
I recently installed Linux on a somewhat older Pentium system, and... 'lo and behold! On the bootup screen, it said 'Pentium with F0 0F bug detected.'
What I want to say is, that Intel products aren't error free and that a dud configuration can screw a system up. I mean, for what reason did AMD put up that compatibility table?
Paranoids of the world, unite!
I'm sick and tiread of having to print 400 page manuals for some f\/(k1n6 expensive software.
Paranoids of the world unite!
Paranoids of the world, unite!
It was a program that simulated cleaning the disk drive by making almost impossible noises with the drive... Sounded like a washing-machine.
Almost all universities are moving from their old internet backbone to a new one with a new pricing model. The old one was kind of a "flatrate" while the new one uses a volume-dependent pricing model. Since the change is coming, all "private" users outside the university have to accept more or less regular portscans and other "measures" to "ensure" there are no servers running on their machines.
Since i read a little about the pricing model, I more or less think that it's a big scam to get a legal backdoor to our computers.
Paranoids everywhere, Unite!