or proof that students these days are a bit thick and don't really think ahead or about what they're saying?
I'm inclined to believe that. I'm happy to tell people about the only test I ever cheated on.
It was a 9th grade Algebra I test and there was substitute teacher that day giving us the test. The girl sitting in front of me passed me a sheet of paper and whispered "can you write the answers down?" She was cute, and I knew even then that it might be decades before I "discovered" women, so I did it - hey, she was cute.
Between periods, I was talking to my best friend and he quickly convinced me to give him the answers too. So I did.
The whole thing snowballed and was finally outed by one of my next door neighbors. Fortunately, I didn't get in trouble over it, nor did my best friend.
Perhaps the ironic moment was when another girl overheard a discussion I was having with someone about it and asked me if I was the one who wrote the "cheat sheet". "I didn't use it because I didn't know where it came from, but I should have!"
I got a 100% on the test, so the only person I "hurt" was myself. Whatever. I was bored.
Individual tests like that are kind of stupid. In a corporate environment, they're more than happy to throw big bucks at people who can give correct answers out to the rest of the company.
Colin Powell would have made a great vice-president for GWB in 2000
I was very disappointed that Cheney was chosen. Not only was it illegal (President and Vice President cannot come from the same state), papered over by residence games in the months leading up to the election, it was stupid in that there was no way that a man with a history of heart problems could ever be elected President. Come to think of it though, illegal and stupid pretty much sums up the Bush administration.
Before she soiled herself, I would have thought a perfect mid-term replacement for Cheney would have been Condaleeza Rice. But the GOP really blew it on that one.
So now, we have a choice between a man who craps his pants and a man who doesn't know how many states there are. I can't think of a single person who as a running mate would make me want to vote for either of those two clowns.
name changing in WOW is different since your characters go to level 70. People do not want to start over...
I wasn't "crying or whining" over name changes, but when I saw that it was available in the news screen, I stopped logging into the game and immediately changed the name of one of my characters who had a name I hated.
One thing you left out is that you also lose bind on pickup items and all the professional skills you had accumulated. I have a level 70 Hunter with epic flyer and who is a Master Jewel Crafter able to make epic gear and I'll never redo that. A few dollars for a name change works for me.
I don't have any real problems with how Blizzard has been conducting WoW. Money well-spent as far as entertainment value is concerned.
Yeah. I've got one of these things to access the corporate network via VPN. Each of the devices is different. There's a special procedure you have to go through to key it to a specific PIN. If you can't type the PIN in correctly, you don't get a password and the same password doesn't work twice.
Nice devices and I'll probably get one for WoW when they're available.
US$4000 for a WoW account? References please. I'm trying to imagine the target market and coming up empty. I know people buy accounts[1], I had the misfortune of teaming up with one a week or so ago, I didn't imagine that people would pay that much.
Well, Bush didn't seem to take much fallout after calling a reporter a "major league asshole" when he was the Republican presidential nominee.
"Yeah, big time."
Bush was referring to Adam Clymer of the New York Times and for those of us who were getting ready to vote for him, it was a *good* thing to say. Sadly, this was perhaps the last time I agreed with something Bush said or did.
The streets in Tokyo are clean, except on general garbage day when the crows go wild, but the air is always dirty and you only have to leave your windows open to notice this.
The WoW thing could be bad... depends on whether she's chatting/enjoying herself, or whether she's actually addicted. WoW is a social game and what is "Game experience may change during online play" supposed to mean any way? [1]
I know more husband/wife player-teams than I know WoW junkies. When my sons get older and if WoW is still around, they'll play with me and my wife.
With an active subscriber base as large as they have, there is plenty of room for any niche.
[1] We solve this problem by role playing. I play her in the game, she plays me.
That's the low inversion layer and no matter how little smog there is in LA, it will always look worse.
I lived in metro LA for almost two decades and the situation was improving over that whole period.
Tokyo, Kobe and Beijing to name three cities I either lived in or visited since have far, far worse problems. Beijing is the most polluted city I've ever had the misfortune of visiting.
Or maybe we should just get rid of the entire second tier of domain names altogether. Because the namespace really isn't flat. See someone's earlier posting on the difference between bt.dk and bt.co.uk for example.
Kibo's old posting about Happynet (everyone who knows they're a bozo gets a newsgroup named bozo.personal.* and everyone who doesn't think they're a bozo gets megabozo.personal.*) would work as well. See http://www.kibo.com/kibopost/happynet_98.html
That's a bad idea too. Because of people like the idiot who bought xemacs.com and sold it to a domain squatter instead of giving it to us as he had promised. emacs.com used to be a real company and it looks like they're in the same boat we're in.
In 2 64k bank switched pages. The M68k P-System had a pseudo multiprocessing mode where you could have multiple 64k sessions in memory at the same time.
Yes, and CP/M and p-system were more expensive, and thus DOS became the dominant system. That's not how it happened. They were released a half a year after IBM PCs were shipping. At first, you had a "choice" of O/S - PC DOS or ROM BASIC.
The headstart and the fact that 100% of PCs were running PC DOS by the time CP/M 86 and the UCSD P-System were released produced a natural result.
Of course, CP/M 86 was always a poor imitation of a 16 bit O/S pasted on top of an 8 bit system as was the UCSD P-System. So was PC-DOS, but it evolved over time. The UCSD P-System was limited to 64k even on m68k, so it never got over its limitations. Not that it matters. They never had a chance.
Disclaimer: I used to write UCSD P-System device drivers for pay.
When I was a kid, and I played baseball, I always played the field, and was always near the end of the batting lineup. Baseball is very much a team sport and there are good reasons to have the better hitters at the top of the order.
The worst baseball disaster I was in, in junior high school PE, was when our designated manager decided he would alternate good hitter/bad hitter throughout the order for "fairness". Combined with the fact that we played 2 out innings due to time constraints, I don't think we won a single game. You can't win in baseball if you can't score.
And to CastrTroy, I'm glad you weren't (too) bothered by it. You were still contributing and that's a Good Thing. For everyone involved.
Former Yomiuri Giants, now New York Yankees slugger MATSUI Hideki spammed all MLB general managers when he decided to leave Japanese pro baseball and look what that got him... Matsui is arguably the most successful spammer of all time, but don't try that at home kids.
Yes, but if you live in a rural village in a third world country, how much technology are you surrounded by? If there is electricity in the area, there will be televisions. There are likely to be cell phones too, if there's any cell coverage.
In the 3rd world rural village I lived in (in Eastern Mindanao), the nearest computer access was about 10 minutes down the road by bus, unless the electricity and the telephone line was down.
I'd love to see the kids there given OLPCs. None of the schools have any books to mention and lets face it, books rot quickly in the jungle.
My first thoughts where along the lines of something like:
Company 1 comes up with idea and puts a "patent hold" on it. No one else can find out about it.
Company 2 comes up with the same / similar idea and puts its own "patent hold" on it. Again, no one finds out.
Company 1 finishes its product and takes it to market. Company 2 is informed.
Companies 1 and 2 are given patents on the idea. No more companies may put a "hold" on the patent. And if in the meantime, Joe Hacker comes up with the same idea (after step 1) and publishes a program implementing it under the GPL before either steps 3 or 4?
The whole model we have now is broken, especially with respect to software. But figure this in too - there are more educated people alive today than have ever existed before. Some stuff may deserve to be patentable, but the bar must be very, very, very high.
So if they burnt down someone's business they should get the same punishment as if they burnt down an abandoned shack in the woods? That would depend on the locale. Burning something in the forest in California in the late summer can cause a vast amount of damage so actually I would expect someone setting fires in the forest to have a much bigger punishment.
I don't recall anyone being made an example of when all the businesses were burned in the Rodney King riots (Damian Williams was the bricker not an arsonist).
You make me sick.
Computer generated child porn is still child porn. Who was harmed?
Snuff movies are still snuff movies when nobody really dies. It's the idea of it, not the act. Well, better yet, don't watch it. If it's the idea of it, then all of Hollywood should be prosecuted.
But Hollywood is profit driven, so how about just not watching it? I've spent US$0 on US movies in the US in the last 10 years (and I'm not BitTorrenting stuff), and you?
I think society would be better served by putting people like you in jail than *anybody* else.
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or proof that students these days are a bit thick and don't really think ahead or about what they're saying?
I'm inclined to believe that. I'm happy to tell people about the only test I ever cheated on.
It was a 9th grade Algebra I test and there was substitute teacher that day giving us the test. The girl sitting in front of me passed me a sheet of paper and whispered "can you write the answers down?" She was cute, and I knew even then that it might be decades before I "discovered" women, so I did it - hey, she was cute.
Between periods, I was talking to my best friend and he quickly convinced me to give him the answers too. So I did.
The whole thing snowballed and was finally outed by one of my next door neighbors. Fortunately, I didn't get in trouble over it, nor did my best friend.
Perhaps the ironic moment was when another girl overheard a discussion I was having with someone about it and asked me if I was the one who wrote the "cheat sheet". "I didn't use it because I didn't know where it came from, but I should have!"
I got a 100% on the test, so the only person I "hurt" was myself. Whatever. I was bored.
Individual tests like that are kind of stupid. In a corporate environment, they're more than happy to throw big bucks at people who can give correct answers out to the rest of the company.
So it is a serious problem, and like peak oil,
When I was taking geology classes in college in the mid 80's they told us oil would run out in the late 1990's.
Now get off my lawn and take that peak oil nonsense with you!
Colin Powell would have made a great vice-president for GWB in 2000
I was very disappointed that Cheney was chosen. Not only was it illegal (President and Vice President cannot come from the same state), papered over by residence games in the months leading up to the election, it was stupid in that there was no way that a man with a history of heart problems could ever be elected President. Come to think of it though, illegal and stupid pretty much sums up the Bush administration.
Before she soiled herself, I would have thought a perfect mid-term replacement for Cheney would have been Condaleeza Rice. But the GOP really blew it on that one.
So now, we have a choice between a man who craps his pants and a man who doesn't know how many states there are. I can't think of a single person who as a running mate would make me want to vote for either of those two clowns.
name changing in WOW is different since your characters go to level 70. People do not want to start over ...
I wasn't "crying or whining" over name changes, but when I saw that it was available in the news screen, I stopped logging into the game and immediately changed the name of one of my characters who had a name I hated.
One thing you left out is that you also lose bind on pickup items and all the professional skills you had accumulated. I have a level 70 Hunter with epic flyer and who is a Master Jewel Crafter able to make epic gear and I'll never redo that. A few dollars for a name change works for me.
I don't have any real problems with how Blizzard has been conducting WoW. Money well-spent as far as entertainment value is concerned.
Yeah. I've got one of these things to access the corporate network via VPN. Each of the devices is different. There's a special procedure you have to go through to key it to a specific PIN. If you can't type the PIN in correctly, you don't get a password and the same password doesn't work twice.
Nice devices and I'll probably get one for WoW when they're available.
US$4000 for a WoW account? References please. I'm trying to imagine the target market and coming up empty. I know people buy accounts[1], I had the misfortune of teaming up with one a week or so ago, I didn't imagine that people would pay that much.
And yes, that's vast wealth in the 3rd world.
[1] In-game, they're called ebays.
Almost everyone I know who plays hardcore (30hrs/wk and +) have a job. Some have a family life.
That's my experience as well. I play with a number of husband/wife teams.
It's not different than watching TV for the same amount of time.
Oh, but it is different. I'd much rather have my kids playing WoW than spending the same amount of time in front of a television set.
Well, Bush didn't seem to take much fallout after calling a reporter a "major league asshole" when he was the Republican presidential nominee.
"Yeah, big time."
Bush was referring to Adam Clymer of the New York Times and for those of us who were getting ready to vote for him, it was a *good* thing to say. Sadly, this was perhaps the last time I agreed with something Bush said or did.
The streets in Tokyo are clean, except on general garbage day when the crows go wild, but the air is always dirty and you only have to leave your windows open to notice this.
I know more husband/wife player-teams than I know WoW junkies. When my sons get older and if WoW is still around, they'll play with me and my wife.
With an active subscriber base as large as they have, there is plenty of room for any niche.
[1] We solve this problem by role playing. I play her in the game, she plays me.
That's the low inversion layer and no matter how little smog there is in LA, it will always look worse.
I lived in metro LA for almost two decades and the situation was improving over that whole period.
Tokyo, Kobe and Beijing to name three cities I either lived in or visited since have far, far worse problems. Beijing is the most polluted city I've ever had the misfortune of visiting.
Kibo's old posting about Happynet (everyone who knows they're a bozo gets a newsgroup named bozo.personal.* and everyone who doesn't think they're a bozo gets megabozo.personal.*) would work as well. See http://www.kibo.com/kibopost/happynet_98.html
That's a bad idea too. Because of people like the idiot who bought xemacs.com and sold it to a domain squatter instead of giving it to us as he had promised. emacs.com used to be a real company and it looks like they're in the same boat we're in.
In 2 64k bank switched pages. The M68k P-System had a pseudo multiprocessing mode where you could have multiple 64k sessions in memory at the same time.
The headstart and the fact that 100% of PCs were running PC DOS by the time CP/M 86 and the UCSD P-System were released produced a natural result.
Of course, CP/M 86 was always a poor imitation of a 16 bit O/S pasted on top of an 8 bit system as was the UCSD P-System. So was PC-DOS, but it evolved over time. The UCSD P-System was limited to 64k even on m68k, so it never got over its limitations. Not that it matters. They never had a chance.
Disclaimer: I used to write UCSD P-System device drivers for pay.
The worst baseball disaster I was in, in junior high school PE, was when our designated manager decided he would alternate good hitter/bad hitter throughout the order for "fairness". Combined with the fact that we played 2 out innings due to time constraints, I don't think we won a single game. You can't win in baseball if you can't score.
And to CastrTroy, I'm glad you weren't (too) bothered by it. You were still contributing and that's a Good Thing. For everyone involved.
Former Yomiuri Giants, now New York Yankees slugger MATSUI Hideki spammed all MLB general managers when he decided to leave Japanese pro baseball and look what that got him ... Matsui is arguably the most successful spammer of all time, but don't try that at home kids.
In the 3rd world rural village I lived in (in Eastern Mindanao), the nearest computer access was about 10 minutes down the road by bus, unless the electricity and the telephone line was down.
I'd love to see the kids there given OLPCs. None of the schools have any books to mention and lets face it, books rot quickly in the jungle.
I'll settle for a kill switch on users who top post. Thank you so much, Microsoft, for innovating that ...
http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/Net_Resources
Company 1 comes up with idea and puts a "patent hold" on it. No one else can find out about it.
Company 2 comes up with the same / similar idea and puts its own "patent hold" on it. Again, no one finds out.
Company 1 finishes its product and takes it to market. Company 2 is informed.
Companies 1 and 2 are given patents on the idea. No more companies may put a "hold" on the patent. And if in the meantime, Joe Hacker comes up with the same idea (after step 1) and publishes a program implementing it under the GPL before either steps 3 or 4?
The whole model we have now is broken, especially with respect to software. But figure this in too - there are more educated people alive today than have ever existed before. Some stuff may deserve to be patentable, but the bar must be very, very, very high.
"I for one, welcome our helicopter driving overlords."
I don't recall anyone being made an example of when all the businesses were burned in the Rodney King riots (Damian Williams was the bricker not an arsonist).
But Hollywood is profit driven, so how about just not watching it? I've spent US$0 on US movies in the US in the last 10 years (and I'm not BitTorrenting stuff), and you?
I think society would be better served by putting people like you in jail than *anybody* else.