I remember going to a friend's house and getting bittorrent to work on her Macintosh in 10 minutes because Macintosh had an "internet settings" page.
It was the nicest experience I've had on a Mac in 20 years. After that, we tried to figure out why her desktop icons were disappearing. LOL. Reboot, retry, good luck.
"Hey Mike, what do I do when my downloaded files disappear?"
"It shouldn't happen. Reboot, retry, good luck."
Windows gives me a lot of problems, but things don't just disappear. That's what I expect from a system that's written by *cough* twenty people.
>mutations of the MECP2 gene are also believed to be the cause of 'classic' autism, and a number of other neurological disorders.
Classic autism aside, I think a lot of people are suffering from a sociological autism that will *not* be improved by gene therapy. What is autism exactly, is there a definition? I can imagine one, but I'm not sure everyone is on the same page with this relatively new disease.
In other words, I don't think gene therapy will get my dad to shop at designer clothing stores, get his car tuned, or hire contractors to improve his house.
CD's came down to about $12 when there was still such a thing as a small music chain. Other than that, they never really came down. I was waiting for CD's to break $10 but it never happened.
It's funny, but if you talk to anyone who used to collect vinyl, the number one reason to quit was cost. I wonder how CD collectors feel? In comparison, $10 for 4 songs (vinyl) you can listen to in the store seems like a good deal.
Most of you will never know the joys of going to a music store and listening to whatever you want.
It's more than Pluto being tiny. Pluto has a highly elliptical, out-of-plane orbit that crosses over Neptune's orbit, AND its orbit is 3/2 in phase with Neptune, suggesting that it was captured by Neptune's gravity.
Is a "planet" something that was created with the solar system, or is a "planet" simply something that has a moon? Right now, we're using the latter definition.
If you want to see another example of scientific retrenchment, check out Phylocode. For years biologists have been classifying species on a Linnaean 2D grid, inheritance and time, as if God somehow keeps all his evolutions in perfect lockstep. Phylocode, tree-based, uses the inheritance dimension only.
>We have two major players of 9/11 in custody, the guys who planned and finaced it..
Yep. Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.
>Khalid Shaikh Mohammedand and Abu Zubaydah,, who are they ?
Nobody.
Oh wait, you think passports and red bandanas survive an explosion but the plane itself vaporizes? That's a laugh. You're about as close to the truth on this issue as Michael Moore.
That's because SUV's don't cost any money. Seriously, who would pay for a huge, ugly vehicle with poor handling? Free however, and you'll never spend as much on gas as you would have on the car itself, no matter how inefficient it is.
Well, Loose Change 2 is nearly 100% accurate. The real question is whether Dylan will cough up and admit that no Boeing widebody jets were used on September 11, or whether he will realize that 40% of PNAC members are zionists, and most of the other 60% are Israel supporters.
Those are the sticking points. And we're working on it.
It is now widely suspected in the 9/11 research community that Moore is a CIA asset. If he acted independently, then it's unlikely that Fahrenheit 9/11 would be so laden with misdirection. Let's see whether the upcoming "Fahrenheit 9/11 1/2" gets the story straight.
As another example, Bowling for Columbine makes no mention of the 4 other students that drove weapons to the school, nor does it try to figure out how high school kids got their hands on such an arsenal. It just says, Guns are Bad, which is an untenable position to take on the 2nd Amendment.
>We're getting to the point that whomever has the best specific effects budget (or Blair Witchs-style cinema verite) wins minds.
Speaking of winning minds with special effects, you should look into September 11. And you may have no idea how literally I mean it.
Reporter, watching the nose of the aircraft stick out the other side of the building, "That looks like a bad Hollywood special effect! I've watched this video eight, nine times and I still have no idea what I'm supposed to be seeing."
Dan Rather, watching the plane miss the point of impact by about 10 floors too low, "Uh, I guess that was it."
Good Day New York team watching the explosion, "Woah!", completely oblivious to the fact that the whole screen just went DARK, allowing a seamless transition from a digital feed back to the real one.
Reporter on the ground, as his team watches the plane in the newsroom, "I did not see a plane go in - that just exploded."
Walter Cronkite (?) on PBS, narrating a video where the plane fades-in to existence, "And then a mysterious shape appeared on the horizon."
Larry Silverstein on PBS, speaking about WTC7 collapse, "I said, 'We've had such a terrible loss of life already, why don't we just pull it?'"
Start watching. I guarantee you won't see the same thing twice.
>Eliminating consumption of fossil fuels is not a realistic answer. When GW fans provide realistic, workable alternatives to fossil fuels, the world will listen.
Dude, my parents' house doesn't even have insulation. And by extension, every tract-house built on this block.
Good point. Wasn't South Park the original extreme right-wing "let's pretend we're grassroots" show? Right down to the fact that they use rendering software to simulate cardboard animation.
>When I fell upon this post I remembered why I stopped visiting this website in the first place.
My problem is that Slashdot editors have little to no political awareness. Today: Are YouTube videos fake? Are news photos doctored? Friday: Are laser printers affordable? Wednesday: Is Silicon Valley expensive?
Like 15, 16? Those are the ages of the people who use Myspace when they come over my house.
I had a friend in his early 20's who met a girl on Myspace, and that turned out to be a disaster. I stopped talking to both of them. And from the fact that they met on the computer, I saw it coming from the very beginning.
These people are all officially the loser nerds I was when I was a kid, except back then, I was the only one.
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I remember a friend of mine in college watching my games of Magic Carpet religiously even though he never played himself.
Can video games be a spectator sport? Absolutely. Will they draw enough audience to justify advertising costs? Who knows?
I remember going to a friend's house and getting bittorrent to work on her Macintosh in 10 minutes because Macintosh had an "internet settings" page.
It was the nicest experience I've had on a Mac in 20 years. After that, we tried to figure out why her desktop icons were disappearing. LOL. Reboot, retry, good luck.
"Hey Mike, what do I do when my downloaded files disappear?"
"It shouldn't happen. Reboot, retry, good luck."
Windows gives me a lot of problems, but things don't just disappear. That's what I expect from a system that's written by *cough* twenty people.
>mutations of the MECP2 gene are also believed to be the cause of 'classic' autism, and a number of other neurological disorders.
Classic autism aside, I think a lot of people are suffering from a sociological autism that will *not* be improved by gene therapy. What is autism exactly, is there a definition? I can imagine one, but I'm not sure everyone is on the same page with this relatively new disease.
In other words, I don't think gene therapy will get my dad to shop at designer clothing stores, get his car tuned, or hire contractors to improve his house.
CD's came down to about $12 when there was still such a thing as a small music chain. Other than that, they never really came down. I was waiting for CD's to break $10 but it never happened.
It's funny, but if you talk to anyone who used to collect vinyl, the number one reason to quit was cost. I wonder how CD collectors feel? In comparison, $10 for 4 songs (vinyl) you can listen to in the store seems like a good deal.
Most of you will never know the joys of going to a music store and listening to whatever you want.
So vinyl won, is what you're saying? I have to agree, I won't spend $20 on something I can make myself in about 5 minutes.
The RIAA is in its death throes here, but be careful, I said the same thing about FOXNews before 9/11.
Dylan knows what I think.
How's the weather in Langley?
It's more than Pluto being tiny. Pluto has a highly elliptical, out-of-plane orbit that crosses over Neptune's orbit, AND its orbit is 3/2 in phase with Neptune, suggesting that it was captured by Neptune's gravity.
Is a "planet" something that was created with the solar system, or is a "planet" simply something that has a moon? Right now, we're using the latter definition.
If you want to see another example of scientific retrenchment, check out Phylocode. For years biologists have been classifying species on a Linnaean 2D grid, inheritance and time, as if God somehow keeps all his evolutions in perfect lockstep. Phylocode, tree-based, uses the inheritance dimension only.
>We have two major players of 9/11 in custody, the guys who planned and finaced it..
,, who are they ?
Yep. Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.
>Khalid Shaikh Mohammedand and Abu Zubaydah
Nobody.
Oh wait, you think passports and red bandanas survive an explosion but the plane itself vaporizes? That's a laugh. You're about as close to the truth on this issue as Michael Moore.
>We drive unnecessarily huge, inefficient cars.
That's because SUV's don't cost any money. Seriously, who would pay for a huge, ugly vehicle with poor handling? Free however, and you'll never spend as much on gas as you would have on the car itself, no matter how inefficient it is.
Well, Loose Change 2 is nearly 100% accurate. The real question is whether Dylan will cough up and admit that no Boeing widebody jets were used on September 11, or whether he will realize that 40% of PNAC members are zionists, and most of the other 60% are Israel supporters.
Those are the sticking points. And we're working on it.
>For example, Michael Moore acts independently.
It is now widely suspected in the 9/11 research community that Moore is a CIA asset. If he acted independently, then it's unlikely that Fahrenheit 9/11 would be so laden with misdirection. Let's see whether the upcoming "Fahrenheit 9/11 1/2" gets the story straight.
As another example, Bowling for Columbine makes no mention of the 4 other students that drove weapons to the school, nor does it try to figure out how high school kids got their hands on such an arsenal. It just says, Guns are Bad, which is an untenable position to take on the 2nd Amendment.
I already replied to this guy contrar1an for posting a non-existent wiki quote.
Here's a tip to get you up to speed on Slashdot. Name "contrar1an" + uid 970k = troll account.
>We're getting to the point that whomever has the best specific effects budget (or Blair Witchs-style cinema verite) wins minds.
Speaking of winning minds with special effects, you should look into September 11. And you may have no idea how literally I mean it.
Reporter, watching the nose of the aircraft stick out the other side of the building, "That looks like a bad Hollywood special effect! I've watched this video eight, nine times and I still have no idea what I'm supposed to be seeing."
Dan Rather, watching the plane miss the point of impact by about 10 floors too low, "Uh, I guess that was it."
Good Day New York team watching the explosion, "Woah!", completely oblivious to the fact that the whole screen just went DARK, allowing a seamless transition from a digital feed back to the real one.
Reporter on the ground, as his team watches the plane in the newsroom, "I did not see a plane go in - that just exploded."
Walter Cronkite (?) on PBS, narrating a video where the plane fades-in to existence, "And then a mysterious shape appeared on the horizon."
Larry Silverstein on PBS, speaking about WTC7 collapse, "I said, 'We've had such a terrible loss of life already, why don't we just pull it?'"
Start watching. I guarantee you won't see the same thing twice.
That's a new one...spoofing a Wiki article. Kinda ironic for this thread huh?
>True, it's called the ice ages (incidentally, it's not yet considered settled that the cause of them is the variability of the sun).
No kidding. I've never even heard solar variability and ice age in the same sentence before.
>Eliminating consumption of fossil fuels is not a realistic answer. When GW fans provide realistic, workable alternatives to fossil fuels, the world will listen.
Dude, my parents' house doesn't even have insulation. And by extension, every tract-house built on this block.
>I trust Cheney to be smart enough to not use blatant lies in an open presentation.
Now who's being naive?
"I trust Hitler to use sources."
Good point. Wasn't South Park the original extreme right-wing "let's pretend we're grassroots" show? Right down to the fact that they use rendering software to simulate cardboard animation.
>When I fell upon this post I remembered why I stopped visiting this website in the first place.
My problem is that Slashdot editors have little to no political awareness. Today: Are YouTube videos fake? Are news photos doctored? Friday: Are laser printers affordable? Wednesday: Is Silicon Valley expensive?
Duh, duh, duh, and duh.
Like 15, 16? Those are the ages of the people who use Myspace when they come over my house.
I had a friend in his early 20's who met a girl on Myspace, and that turned out to be a disaster. I stopped talking to both of them. And from the fact that they met on the computer, I saw it coming from the very beginning.
These people are all officially the loser nerds I was when I was a kid, except back then, I was the only one.
Ew. EWW!!
Yes, I know there are hot girls on Myspace. I still have standards though.
That's gay. No more trading games?
Nintendo is, without a doubt, the Microsoft of the gaming industry.
It's gotta have something, some kind of storage. People do take their game consoles into hotel rooms, RV's, and cabins in the woods.
Since gaming is supposed to be enjoyable, they don't get to jerk you around as much as with their crap-laden TV's and audio products.
MD players actually had a brief revival (~2000) before ipods hit the scene. But at what, $400? I passed.
>I keep all my old consoles hooked up at all times
You must have one hell of a multiswitch.
>I've never seen backwards compatibility as a positive.
If Nintendo had done it, GameCube might have been successful. I played GameCube once, horrified.