IANARO, but why can't we just drop a good big-block combustion engine in there and call it a day ? Drop a few if you like. If it can pull a fricking tractor across a mud strip with umpteen pounds up its ass, I don't see why it couldn't pull a train (with a properly adjusted transmission). And since these things practically idle their way from point A to B, you could tune it for low-torque high-economy once you've got the rig up to speed. Trains have a Hoek-load of momentum, well enough to keep this thing rolling for miles with just a trickle of horsepower to keep the speed up.
When my (previous) car would mess up, it would just stall or the steering would lock up and send me speeding toward a parked car.. but never did it even come close to going kaboom on me. Of course there was no giant flame-throwing jet engine on the back of my car.
Now if the whole thing is blowing up, that means that some overpaid schnick needs to rethink his giant flame-throwing jet engine design LONG AND HARD, because these things cost bazillions to build and they have to get it right the first time, every time, before something even worse happens like blowing up a moon-bus full of civilians. If they're having trouble sourcing 17mm o-rings and they think they can get away with 18mm o-rings, well that's the kind of engineering genius that leads to these ugly screwups. 96% success ratio just ain't good enough, look how the airlines are struggling, and they have hundreds of flights daily with only one or two accidents every couple of years.
I don't see this as being a good thing. We all hate to say/hear it, but M$ Office is easier, more 'logical' and much more stable than any version of Wordperfect suite (after 5.1/Dos of course). Even though it's Wordperfect that started out in the ice age, and was cloned in Word later on, it has become superbloated and superceded. Quattro Pro ? Where'd my functions go ? Corel Presentations, as a graphics engine, sucks ass and is probably the reason why everything else crashes. As a presentation (slideshow) designer, it feels like a windows _port_ of Harvard Graphics 3.0. Eeeyuck.
Really, my money is with M$ Office, and my heart is with StarOffice. Corel used to have a solid draw suite, but even that's gone to tatters as I've done the unthinkable and switched over to Adobe Illustrator.
They suck, their support sucks, and they're always trying to give away their apps for OEMs to try and gain market share, because very few people would actually pay for this second-rate fluff.
Well, now that I won't be receiving my Flash Advance Linker thanks to Numbtendo, I think I'll throw it back into the box with the 3-4 games I had bought, and ship it back to N.O.A. demanding a refund. I was looking forward to cobbling together my own games for the little bugger, but now I would be forced to order from some shady asian weeners who lack Lik-Sang's reputation and track record, and who might just take my money and not send anything back.
It's not like my mother was going to buy one of these to copy games off the net.. it was more of a hacking tool than anything else. Once again the big corporate entity makes an ass of itself and alienates the people with the most disposable income : nerds!
"Best Buy has stated it will sell a censored version of the game"
Now there's something just wrong with this. If I were making a game and I had spent months tuning it and making it just right, and some bigass retail chain comes along and tells me I have to change it, I'd stab that idiot rep with a stick of RAM! Acclaim is making the game, they've been making them for well over a decade, they know what they're doing. Sure, Best Buy has a lot of buying power, and they might think they have a word in this, but really it's not their product and its none of their business. If they don't want to sell sex and violence, then they can pull out just about every damn DVD from their shelves and stick with mind-numbing Disney titles. But to tell the GAME DEVELOPERS which way to develop THEIR game ? That's downright preposterous.
Well maybe I could strike it big with my talent and knowledge, but I just don't know where to knock. I'm like a V8 engine with no driver.. I can't lead, but give me a set task and I'll write the fastest, most elaborate code you've ever seen for that particular task (short of the linux kernel, of course:) And I'm lightning quick at it too.
I just need to find a project/partner so I can just do my thing behind the scenes. That's my biggest problem. I spend my nights working at a video, writing games in assembler to pass the time, but I have no "Big Thing(tm)" to really put my name out in the open.
I _almost_ worked on Government Online (GOL for short), and like anything in the government, it was delayed and redesigned and a half-assed solution was eventually released to shut up the ignorant screams of upper management. Around here, "Digital signature" and "PKI" are hip buzzwords that can land you a 75k$ project management job if you sing to the right people, but that's about all it's good for (for now).
Quit whining, the easy way to fix it is to block the port, no 'but's. The proper way would be to get rid of NetBIOS or whatever messaging device is being abused.
Well the K7S5A has its merits, but I can't get past the fact that it's always losing its cmos settings every couple of days and I find the kids' computer running at 1100mhz instead of 1466mhz. And they complain "Why do I have to press F1 all the time". I've tried replacing the battery, same result. Any hard crash causes the NVRAM to fuck itself good.
And the big idea of not putting a heatsink on the southbridge.. ohhh that's so stupid. I ended up sticking a Blue Orb to it, adding 15$ to the system. I might as well have bought the NForce board that was 15$ more expensive than the ECS:)
That isn't to say the ECS board aren't good.. heck for the money you're getting a crapload more than you deserve:) but it's still sub-par.
"I hate people who got into tech stuff just because they wanted to become rich"
Me too, that's why I'm jobless at 22 and don't know where to knock my head. All those "consultants" who put "I can double-click" on their resumes, I'd just pummel them into cat-chow because they pretty much ruined my career opportunities. I was writing code before I even knew how to tie my own shoe laces. How many 5 year olds do you know who'd ask for "an Assembler Editor cartridge" for christmas ? But today I'm just a rusted nerd looking for a new hobby.
Just last week as I contemplated the last days of my work contract, I had the "pleasure" of meeting my replacement, a dreaded consultant who expected my mouse-wheel to be assigned to double-click, and was wondering why her apps weren't loading up. That's it, their puzzle is complete, the last brain has left the building.
Some people do it for money, others do it by passion. The latter are always getting fscked by the former, in just about every field. It's hard to find someone that can appreciate the masochist genius of self-modifying multipass assembler code anymore. "Why bother with that ? Just get a faster computer/bigger hard drive!". Might as well be running 5 mpg engines in our case, why bother, just buy more gas.
So it is very easy to get pissed at people who earn absurd salaries, because very few of them have any actual talent in the field they're working. They do have an outstanding talent for lying their way out of real work and into even higher paying jobs that were probably created from one manager's competition-class bullshit.
The market crashed and threw out the dotcoms and other groundless businesses, but vapor-skills are still rampant in all industries and are the main reason why our taxes are so high and the things we buy are so crappy. It's not about designed obsolescence or "what we want the market to want", it's about incompetents running the show, unable to tell the difference between a brilliant interviewee with poor social skills, and a "Look at my suit" lying sack of shit. The sack of shit wins every time.
Preheat the oven to 475 degrees. Lead the Chick into a dark room, throw in the flash grenade, close the door and cover for 2 minutes. Remove the chick from the room and throw into oven until desired hotness is reached. Season to taste. Voila, hot blind chick.
"Interesting applications could include walk-thru advertisements on shops or malls"
Ok, so that's slightly disturbing. The last thing I need is to be physically involved in an advertising scheme. And of course you know every guy on the planet will want one just for kicks "I'm raping Natalie Portman! Hot Grits for me! Wooo!"
M$ isn't doing much to prevent modding/hacking. I think after 20 years in the biz, they know better than to alienate the guys who have the most volatile income for these toys. Think for a moment, they could:
a. Sue everything out of existence and have hordes of angry geeks not buying XBoxes, and telling their friends/relatives to buy a PS2 instead. And we all know that friends/relatives are always asking their fellow geeks for this stuff.
-or-
b. Let us do whatever we want, with some people even buying the XBox just for the sake of modding it, and later realizing that it can run games and blowing another 300$ on software. And we'll all keep telling our friends that it's the greatest thing since Kazaa pr0n.
If it were any asian corporation, things might be different because they tend to be brainwashed and out-of-touch, but this is M$, Bill fucking Gates, El Nerdo Grandé. Surely his minions have learned which way to rub our fur..
Bitches please! IE6 on Windows 2000 is rock solid. I don't know about XP as I don't run that one 14 hours/day on my overclocked athlon, but IE6/W2K can't be beat.
Is BannerBlinds really required to download the entire ad ? why not just send a GET for it and abort the transfer as soon as it starts ? That's enough to fool most webservers' logs. It's not like they pay attention to what's going down the pipe once the transfer's started.
I've just built a system around an NForce board and it is sweeeet. For about 120$ CDN, you get a damn speedy chipset with 'good-enough' 3d performance and very decent audio (no worse than SB Live, at any rate). Do the same with a cheaper board, say the ECS K7S5A, and you've got a flaky system that runs about 10-15% slower and costs you 100$ + 50$ sound card + 100$ video.. for half the price you get it all in one neat package.
Sure, I'll keep my own Geforce 4 128mb, but for my mother this system will keep her busy for years to come, and run all the non-FPS games moms love, like the Sims and Monkey Island. Now if your mom is into UT2003, she might frown upon 2-years-late 3d performance, but then you'd probably be too young to even afford your own underwear so it's a moot point.
What's the point of having a backup of my genes if there's no meatspace-burner available yet ? Adaptec Easy DNA Creator on a 8x TDK BioBurner, then I can sell warez copies of famous pornstars as mail-order-brides. I'm gonna be rich!
Dude, BMW's are a total scam. Any twit can drop a fat V8 into a 10-year-old body with fresh paint. On that note, has anyone else ever noticed that the body of a BMW tends to rust and fall apart REAL EARLY compared to the common man's automobile ? It seems that every Bimmer I see is either brand new off the lot, or lacking the crest and sagging to the left. But they still try to race me and change lanes at 110mph in the downtown area. Fags!
If you're setting up a single PC with lots of storage, then it's not a "storage area network", it's just a "plain old file server". The difference between the two is that SAN sounds more professional to PHB types, and it is generally seen as a turn-key solution for storage. You just plug in some Cat-5 and give it a password, TADA. I wouldn't be surprised to find out they're just linux boxen with custom software for storage management. That's the big Plus of SAN devices : easy to install and use. You don't need a linux admin to setup a Maxtor MaxAttach (sp?) rig, you just need any old NT/Novell twit who at least knows how many megs are in a gig.
These days, about half of all things XML are buzz, and half of the remaining half is just "This is XML. It is cool. You are besmitten with coolness" drudgery.
I, for one, still don't know exactly what is XML and why it is so cool. I know it's some sort of data description language, but now why should it be better than the zillions of other data formats we've been using for the past decades ? That's what I don't grok. Does anybody have some down-to-earth explanation that will tell me _why_ I should read this book and _why_ it matters at all ?
This is all nice and good, but what about the zillions of bots on there ? I could open up my own IRC server, spawn flood bots and wait for my box to run out of swap space.. then I'd surely bust the 100k connection cap.
Still, it's nice to know there are 98000 twelve-year olds littering that IRC network. I haven't irc'ed in years because of that social pollution.
The reason bad employers don't care about what you know, is because the diploma only proves to them that you endured years of steaming bullshit and even paid for it from your own pocket. If proves that you're malleable enough for their demonic desires.
I think it should be obvious to everyone here that 90% of job security comes from properly taking and giving bullshit, the other 10% is all that's allocated to actual competence.
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IANARO, but why can't we just drop a good big-block combustion engine in there and call it a day ? Drop a few if you like. If it can pull a fricking tractor across a mud strip with umpteen pounds up its ass, I don't see why it couldn't pull a train (with a properly adjusted transmission). And since these things practically idle their way from point A to B, you could tune it for low-torque high-economy once you've got the rig up to speed. Trains have a Hoek-load of momentum, well enough to keep this thing rolling for miles with just a trickle of horsepower to keep the speed up.
Why the hell do space rockets blow up ?
When my (previous) car would mess up, it would just stall or the steering would lock up and send me speeding toward a parked car.. but never did it even come close to going kaboom on me. Of course there was no giant flame-throwing jet engine on the back of my car.
Now if the whole thing is blowing up, that means that some overpaid schnick needs to rethink his giant flame-throwing jet engine design LONG AND HARD, because these things cost bazillions to build and they have to get it right the first time, every time, before something even worse happens like blowing up a moon-bus full of civilians. If they're having trouble sourcing 17mm o-rings and they think they can get away with 18mm o-rings, well that's the kind of engineering genius that leads to these ugly screwups. 96% success ratio just ain't good enough, look how the airlines are struggling, and they have hundreds of flights daily with only one or two accidents every couple of years.
I don't see this as being a good thing. We all hate to say/hear it, but M$ Office is easier, more 'logical' and much more stable than any version of Wordperfect suite (after 5.1/Dos of course). Even though it's Wordperfect that started out in the ice age, and was cloned in Word later on, it has become superbloated and superceded. Quattro Pro ? Where'd my functions go ? Corel Presentations, as a graphics engine, sucks ass and is probably the reason why everything else crashes. As a presentation (slideshow) designer, it feels like a windows _port_ of Harvard Graphics 3.0. Eeeyuck.
Really, my money is with M$ Office, and my heart is with StarOffice. Corel used to have a solid draw suite, but even that's gone to tatters as I've done the unthinkable and switched over to Adobe Illustrator.
They suck, their support sucks, and they're always trying to give away their apps for OEMs to try and gain market share, because very few people would actually pay for this second-rate fluff.
Well, now that I won't be receiving my Flash Advance Linker thanks to Numbtendo, I think I'll throw it back into the box with the 3-4 games I had bought, and ship it back to N.O.A. demanding a refund. I was looking forward to cobbling together my own games for the little bugger, but now I would be forced to order from some shady asian weeners who lack Lik-Sang's reputation and track record, and who might just take my money and not send anything back.
It's not like my mother was going to buy one of these to copy games off the net.. it was more of a hacking tool than anything else. Once again the big corporate entity makes an ass of itself and alienates the people with the most disposable income : nerds!
"Best Buy has stated it will sell a censored version of the game"
Now there's something just wrong with this. If I were making a game and I had spent months tuning it and making it just right, and some bigass retail chain comes along and tells me I have to change it, I'd stab that idiot rep with a stick of RAM! Acclaim is making the game, they've been making them for well over a decade, they know what they're doing. Sure, Best Buy has a lot of buying power, and they might think they have a word in this, but really it's not their product and its none of their business. If they don't want to sell sex and violence, then they can pull out just about every damn DVD from their shelves and stick with mind-numbing Disney titles. But to tell the GAME DEVELOPERS which way to develop THEIR game ? That's downright preposterous.
Well maybe I could strike it big with my talent and knowledge, but I just don't know where to knock. I'm like a V8 engine with no driver.. I can't lead, but give me a set task and I'll write the fastest, most elaborate code you've ever seen for that particular task (short of the linux kernel, of course :) And I'm lightning quick at it too.
I just need to find a project/partner so I can just do my thing behind the scenes. That's my biggest problem. I spend my nights working at a video, writing games in assembler to pass the time, but I have no "Big Thing(tm)" to really put my name out in the open.
I _almost_ worked on Government Online (GOL for short), and like anything in the government, it was delayed and redesigned and a half-assed solution was eventually released to shut up the ignorant screams of upper management. Around here, "Digital signature" and "PKI" are hip buzzwords that can land you a 75k$ project management job if you sing to the right people, but that's about all it's good for (for now).
Quick, get Spielberg on the line, we need to find a non-retarded 14-year-old who can ride a 1200cc Kawasaki for the lead part.
And for the love of cash, someone write in some boobs into this movie.. can't have blood without boobs!
Quit whining, the easy way to fix it is to block the port, no 'but's. The proper way would be to get rid of NetBIOS or whatever messaging device is being abused.
Well the K7S5A has its merits, but I can't get past the fact that it's always losing its cmos settings every couple of days and I find the kids' computer running at 1100mhz instead of 1466mhz. And they complain "Why do I have to press F1 all the time". I've tried replacing the battery, same result. Any hard crash causes the NVRAM to fuck itself good.
:)
:) but it's still sub-par.
And the big idea of not putting a heatsink on the southbridge.. ohhh that's so stupid. I ended up sticking a Blue Orb to it, adding 15$ to the system. I might as well have bought the NForce board that was 15$ more expensive than the ECS
That isn't to say the ECS board aren't good.. heck for the money you're getting a crapload more than you deserve
"I hate people who got into tech stuff just because they wanted to become rich"
Me too, that's why I'm jobless at 22 and don't know where to knock my head. All those "consultants" who put "I can double-click" on their resumes, I'd just pummel them into cat-chow because they pretty much ruined my career opportunities. I was writing code before I even knew how to tie my own shoe laces. How many 5 year olds do you know who'd ask for "an Assembler Editor cartridge" for christmas ? But today I'm just a rusted nerd looking for a new hobby.
Just last week as I contemplated the last days of my work contract, I had the "pleasure" of meeting my replacement, a dreaded consultant who expected my mouse-wheel to be assigned to double-click, and was wondering why her apps weren't loading up. That's it, their puzzle is complete, the last brain has left the building.
Some people do it for money, others do it by passion. The latter are always getting fscked by the former, in just about every field. It's hard to find someone that can appreciate the masochist genius of self-modifying multipass assembler code anymore. "Why bother with that ? Just get a faster computer/bigger hard drive!". Might as well be running 5 mpg engines in our case, why bother, just buy more gas.
So it is very easy to get pissed at people who earn absurd salaries, because very few of them have any actual talent in the field they're working. They do have an outstanding talent for lying their way out of real work and into even higher paying jobs that were probably created from one manager's competition-class bullshit.
The market crashed and threw out the dotcoms and other groundless businesses, but vapor-skills are still rampant in all industries and are the main reason why our taxes are so high and the things we buy are so crappy. It's not about designed obsolescence or "what we want the market to want", it's about incompetents running the show, unable to tell the difference between a brilliant interviewee with poor social skills, and a "Look at my suit" lying sack of shit. The sack of shit wins every time.
Bill's guide to making Hot Blind Chicks:
For each individual serving you will need
1 - Chick
1 - Flash grenade
1 - large oven
Preheat the oven to 475 degrees. Lead the Chick into a dark room, throw in the flash grenade, close the door and cover for 2 minutes. Remove the chick from the room and throw into oven until desired hotness is reached. Season to taste. Voila, hot blind chick.
"Interesting applications could include walk-thru advertisements on shops or malls"
Ok, so that's slightly disturbing. The last thing I need is to be physically involved in an advertising scheme. And of course you know every guy on the planet will want one just for kicks "I'm raping Natalie Portman! Hot Grits for me! Wooo!"
M$ isn't doing much to prevent modding/hacking. I think after 20 years in the biz, they know better than to alienate the guys who have the most volatile income for these toys. Think for a moment, they could:
a. Sue everything out of existence and have hordes of angry geeks not buying XBoxes, and telling their friends/relatives to buy a PS2 instead. And we all know that friends/relatives are always asking their fellow geeks for this stuff.
-or-
b. Let us do whatever we want, with some people even buying the XBox just for the sake of modding it, and later realizing that it can run games and blowing another 300$ on software. And we'll all keep telling our friends that it's the greatest thing since Kazaa pr0n.
If it were any asian corporation, things might be different because they tend to be brainwashed and out-of-touch, but this is M$, Bill fucking Gates, El Nerdo Grandé. Surely his minions have learned which way to rub our fur..
Bitches please! IE6 on Windows 2000 is rock solid. I don't know about XP as I don't run that one 14 hours/day on my overclocked athlon, but IE6/W2K can't be beat.
Is BannerBlinds really required to download the entire ad ? why not just send a GET for it and abort the transfer as soon as it starts ? That's enough to fool most webservers' logs. It's not like they pay attention to what's going down the pipe once the transfer's started.
I've just built a system around an NForce board and it is sweeeet. For about 120$ CDN, you get a damn speedy chipset with 'good-enough' 3d performance and very decent audio (no worse than SB Live, at any rate). Do the same with a cheaper board, say the ECS K7S5A, and you've got a flaky system that runs about 10-15% slower and costs you 100$ + 50$ sound card + 100$ video.. for half the price you get it all in one neat package.
Sure, I'll keep my own Geforce 4 128mb, but for my mother this system will keep her busy for years to come, and run all the non-FPS games moms love, like the Sims and Monkey Island. Now if your mom is into UT2003, she might frown upon 2-years-late 3d performance, but then you'd probably be too young to even afford your own underwear so it's a moot point.
What's the point of having a backup of my genes if there's no meatspace-burner available yet ? Adaptec Easy DNA Creator on a 8x TDK BioBurner, then I can sell warez copies of famous pornstars as mail-order-brides. I'm gonna be rich!
Well then, I think I'll stick with my banzai IDE Raid-0 for now :) And D-Link Quad-ethernet is good enough for me.
Dude, BMW's are a total scam. Any
twit can drop a fat V8 into a 10-year-old body with fresh paint. On that note, has anyone else ever noticed that the body of a BMW tends to rust and fall apart REAL EARLY compared to the common man's automobile ? It seems that every Bimmer I see is either brand new off the lot, or lacking the crest and sagging to the left. But they still try to race me and change lanes at 110mph in the downtown area. Fags!
If you're setting up a single PC with lots of storage, then it's not a "storage area network", it's just a "plain old file server". The difference between the two is that SAN sounds more professional to PHB types, and it is generally seen as a turn-key solution for storage. You just plug in some Cat-5 and give it a password, TADA. I wouldn't be surprised to find out they're just linux boxen with custom software for storage management. That's the big Plus of SAN devices : easy to install and use. You don't need a linux admin to setup a Maxtor MaxAttach (sp?) rig, you just need any old NT/Novell twit who at least knows how many megs are in a gig.
Third-Generation Time-phase Implementation Tools for Scalable Enterprise Solution-based Efficiency Leveraging Logistics.
These days, about half of all things XML are buzz, and half of the remaining half is just "This is XML. It is cool. You are besmitten with coolness" drudgery.
I, for one, still don't know exactly what is XML and why it is so cool. I know it's some sort of data description language, but now why should it be better than the zillions of other data formats we've been using for the past decades ? That's what I don't grok. Does anybody have some down-to-earth explanation that will tell me _why_ I should read this book and _why_ it matters at all ?
Mack Trucks launches compact car division.
Microsoft creates a portable XBox system.
Ron Jeremy goes limp.
wh00p
This is all nice and good, but what about the zillions of bots on there ? I could open up my own IRC server, spawn flood bots and wait for my box to run out of swap space.. then I'd surely bust the 100k connection cap.
Still, it's nice to know there are 98000 twelve-year olds littering that IRC network. I haven't irc'ed in years because of that social pollution.
The reason bad employers don't care about what you know, is because the diploma only proves to them that you endured years of steaming bullshit and even paid for it from your own pocket. If proves that you're malleable enough for their demonic desires.
I think it should be obvious to everyone here that 90% of job security comes from properly taking and giving bullshit, the other 10% is all that's allocated to actual competence.