Our ONLY evolutionary advantage is not big brains or stereoscopic vision or opposable thumbs. It's aggression. It's our unquenchable lust to be the last one standing, dripping with someone else's blood.
Ahhhh!!! So that explains why bears, lions, sharks, feral cats, and the ugly thugs running around my crappy little town are higher on the food chain then the rest of us. Riiiight.
Where orifice did you pull *THAT* theory out of and who the hell modded you up for it?
I hate to break it to you, but through the begining of our history we were scavangers. It wur intelligence, stereoscopic vision, and opposable thumbs that made the transition to preditor possible. It's greed, not bloodlust, that makes us want to control and conquer everything else.
Hatred and anger are primal tools for dealing with envy, fear and injury...
You come off as a kid who's been bullied his whole life and hates everyone... Please try to relax.
I'd love to see it! Imagine a world where employers were forced to evaluate employees based on actual ability rather than a little piece of paper! Hey... I might even be able to compete in the job market again.
Get a grip. The skills you developed through shool should give you an advantage over someone who purchased a metiphorical diploma-in-a-box(tm.) If you really didn't learn anything from those years then you probably don't deserve the preferental treatment.
UO is a game, and I personally applaud this decision... Others have already said why.
...myself, I can testify to the complete accuracy of your statements.
It took one bad relationship for me to realise that lust really was a world apart from love, and 5 more "interesting" relationships to get anywhere close to having understanding and control over my feelings.
Yes, AotC had tacky romantic dialog... Yes, we all cringed... No, it was not crappy romance, or bad writing; it was 100% accurate material from someone who remembers being 19 and "In Love."
Geeze, I remember telling a girl I was interested in that running around flashing Loscon in a pair of speedos just wouldn't be the same without her. How many of you have said equally wierd things..? : )
(Out of curiosity, I wonder how many people here will suddenly respond... "Oh, so *you're* the one who..!"
A couple of years ago at the height of the.com economy I was working as a "Sales Support Technician."
Our sales force had been touring the country with a windows based pre-alpha product that had a footprint too large to effectivly work on any of the laptops at the time... Our sales force started carting around a normal desktop. Imagine their chagrin when they realised that desktops weren't meant to travel regularly and they had to talk their way out of demoing the product...
Well, that's the reason for that neat-o title. Part of my job included carting around the two 19" monitor boxes containing a mid tower case, keyboard, mouse, monitor, speakers, etc... I would have *loved* a design like this (and a flat panel display) doing all that traveling.
...Sadly, all the money for cool toys went into paying the salary for a certain pair of other IT workers who's sole purpose seemed to be making everyone else's life hell. Ah ve.
Regardless, these days laptops like the Dell Insperion's negate the need for complete desktop systems, but I can see cases where a proper desktop would be useful (Demoing a PCI/AGP device anyone? How about a particularly nasty piece of bloatware.)
It's a nice tradeoff between flexibility and size.
...Would be trying to avoid venereal disease by dumping condoms all over the place hoping that one of them will land on your penis....Or mabie not. I don't think STDs and wireless networking can be directly compared... -_-
So hard, that'd I'd challenge any "real" dancer to do a 9-footer, and get at least a B in under 20 tries.
Uh... Dude... DDR is an arcade game. Most dancers actually dance; They don't have a lot of skill at mashing buttons.
With that said, while people may be losing weight playing DDR, doing so is not going to get them into awesome shape (this is me speaking as a bodybuilder.) If they don't change their diet and they don't continue to excercise after the DDR craze has warn down on them, the benifits of the game aren't going to last.
I'll stick to diet, weightlifting, and real life arobics (such as swimming, skating, and "real" dancing,) thank you. : )
Oooh... Side note: contrary to popular belief, dieting doesn't mean sarving one's self. ^_^
The line gets blured. I agree it's not really a FPS.
On the other hand, while I don't know about you, I made heavy use of the first person perspective for all those headshots with the dart gun.
...but realize that you're looking at ports of various FPS from the computer to a console.
Consider games such as Turok and Golden Eye for the Nintendo 64, or Metal Gear Solid (2) for the PlayStation (2.) All are prime examples of FPS that worked well on the console, because they were *designed* for a console.
The gamplay in all 3 are different from that of computer games to compensate for the little console joysticks and lack of control flexibility.
You'll find that many console games make shitty PC ports for exactly these reasons.
If I was configuring a new system as a dual boot Windows/Linux machine, I sure as hell would use Windows 2K rather than XP, as would most of the people here.
If anyone is making a flawed comparason, it's you. Very few people have a reason to use RH 6, while plenty of us prefer 2000 to XP.
Easy answer: most x86 PC users don't feel threatened by other platforms and/or manufacturers and thusly don't feel the need to become corporate patriots.
I'm a 19 year old web developer and Jr. Syadmin. I care about the MPPA, RIAA, Freedom... About computing issues. I'll even argue VI over Emacs.
By most accounts I am a geek.
I also happen to be a bodybuilder, and was plesantly surprised about an article regarding health concerns.
Not every geek in the world wants to die when a 5lb blob of lard finally hits their heart. Not all of us are fat lazy pigs either.
Mabie a number of geeks don't have time to get up and work out... That doesn't mean they don't care about health.
I'd like to dispell this idea that geeks are ugly, overweight, sloppy, and socially inept... Mabie then I could call myself one in public without feeling like I'm insulting myself.
And, thanks. I got the tagline out of a trivia database and thought it was kind of appropriate to Slashdot. Didn't bother verafying it though. See what lazyness got me? : )
On the farm lived a chicken and a horse, who loved to play together.
One day, the two were playing, when the horse fell into a bog and began to sink. Scared for his life, the horse whinnied for the chicken to get the farmer for help.
Off the chicken ran, back to the farm.
Arriving, he searched and searched for the farmer, but to no avail, for he had gone to town with the only tractor.
Running around, the chicken spied the farmer's new Z3 series BMW.
Finding the keys inside, the chicken sped off with a length of rope, hoping he had time to save his friends's life.
Back at the bog, the horse was surprised, but happy to see the chicken arrive in the shiny beemer, and managed to get a hold of the loop of rope the chicken tossed to him.
After tying the other end to the rear bumper of the farmer's car, the chicken then drove slowly forward, and with the aid of the powerful car, rescued the horse!
The friendship between the two animals was cemented - best buddies, best pals.
A few weeks later, the chicken fell into a mud pit, and soon, he too, began to sink and cried out to the horse to save his life!
The horse thought a moment, walked over, and straddled the large puddle.
Looking underneath, he told the chicken to grab his "thingie" and he would then lift him out of the pit. The chicken got a good grip, and the horse pulled him out, saving his life.
Moral: When you're hung like a horse, you don't need a BMW to pick up chicks.
you can control whether or not it is read or read/write by a hardware toggle.
I'm not so sure this is true. According to a number of my friends, while there is a hardware R/RW selection switch, the functionality is still controlled by software.
That means that a kernel could be hacked in such a way that your keys could be modified.
The above was demonstrated by the ability of several viruses to infect write protected floppes inserted into an already infected system.
The word 'noticed' sends me to an admin page, and the phrase ATI sends me back to the home page. Please fix.
Why do I get the feeling that the moderation of this comment up to +4 informitive is a horrible horrible sign that no one even tries to read the articles anymore..?
Young SWM seeking solution to ponogrophy archival issues? : )
Still, there's enough room on a 1GB DAT for a weekly incremental.
Thanks for the spelling correction, by the way. Me inglish not soo good, which is sad because I'm actually a native english speaker. -_-;
I blame fatigue, and cheating on all the spelling assignments in grade school.
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...you're the kind of guy who would get a kick out of (or is a fan of) Beaterz. : )
And I agree, the modification community is way over the top. Spend that $25K on a used viper rather than a tricked out 02 civic.
Our ONLY evolutionary advantage is not big brains or stereoscopic vision or opposable thumbs. It's aggression. It's our unquenchable lust to be the last one standing, dripping with someone else's blood.
Ahhhh!!! So that explains why bears, lions, sharks, feral cats, and the ugly thugs running around my crappy little town are higher on the food chain then the rest of us. Riiiight.
Where orifice did you pull *THAT* theory out of and who the hell modded you up for it?
I hate to break it to you, but through the begining of our history we were scavangers. It wur intelligence, stereoscopic vision, and opposable thumbs that made the transition to preditor possible. It's greed, not bloodlust, that makes us want to control and conquer everything else.
Hatred and anger are primal tools for dealing with envy, fear and injury...
You come off as a kid who's been bullied his whole life and hates everyone... Please try to relax.
I'd love to see it! Imagine a world where employers were forced to evaluate employees based on actual ability rather than a little piece of paper! Hey... I might even be able to compete in the job market again.
Get a grip. The skills you developed through shool should give you an advantage over someone who purchased a metiphorical diploma-in-a-box(tm.) If you really didn't learn anything from those years then you probably don't deserve the preferental treatment.
UO is a game, and I personally applaud this decision... Others have already said why.
...myself, I can testify to the complete accuracy of your statements.
It took one bad relationship for me to realise that lust really was a world apart from love, and 5 more "interesting" relationships to get anywhere close to having understanding and control over my feelings.
Yes, AotC had tacky romantic dialog... Yes, we all cringed... No, it was not crappy romance, or bad writing; it was 100% accurate material from someone who remembers being 19 and "In Love."
Geeze, I remember telling a girl I was interested in that running around flashing Loscon in a pair of speedos just wouldn't be the same without her. How many of you have said equally wierd things..? : )
(Out of curiosity, I wonder how many people here will suddenly respond... "Oh, so *you're* the one who..!"
Remember that any clone must start out as a infant. Imagine the jail time, dude. : )
Yes, I know you're a troll. With that said...
I'm a weightlifter and hit the gym 5 days a week. It still isn't fun dragging around a pair of huge ass boxes, you fucking creten.
A couple of years ago at the height of the .com economy I was working as a "Sales Support Technician."
...Sadly, all the money for cool toys went into paying the salary for a certain pair of other IT workers who's sole purpose seemed to be making everyone else's life hell. Ah ve.
Our sales force had been touring the country with a windows based pre-alpha product that had a footprint too large to effectivly work on any of the laptops at the time... Our sales force started carting around a normal desktop. Imagine their chagrin when they realised that desktops weren't meant to travel regularly and they had to talk their way out of demoing the product...
Well, that's the reason for that neat-o title. Part of my job included carting around the two 19" monitor boxes containing a mid tower case, keyboard, mouse, monitor, speakers, etc... I would have *loved* a design like this (and a flat panel display) doing all that traveling.
Regardless, these days laptops like the Dell Insperion's negate the need for complete desktop systems, but I can see cases where a proper desktop would be useful (Demoing a PCI/AGP device anyone? How about a particularly nasty piece of bloatware.)
It's a nice tradeoff between flexibility and size.
...Would be trying to avoid venereal disease by dumping condoms all over the place hoping that one of them will land on your penis. ...Or mabie not. I don't think STDs and wireless networking can be directly compared... -_-
So hard, that'd I'd challenge any "real" dancer to do a 9-footer, and get at least a B in under 20 tries.
Uh... Dude... DDR is an arcade game. Most dancers actually dance; They don't have a lot of skill at mashing buttons.
With that said, while people may be losing weight playing DDR, doing so is not going to get them into awesome shape (this is me speaking as a bodybuilder.) If they don't change their diet and they don't continue to excercise after the DDR craze has warn down on them, the benifits of the game aren't going to last.
I'll stick to diet, weightlifting, and real life arobics (such as swimming, skating, and "real" dancing,) thank you. : )
Oooh... Side note: contrary to popular belief, dieting doesn't mean sarving one's self. ^_^
The line gets blured. I agree it's not really a FPS. On the other hand, while I don't know about you, I made heavy use of the first person perspective for all those headshots with the dart gun.
...but realize that you're looking at ports of various FPS from the computer to a console.
Consider games such as Turok and Golden Eye for the Nintendo 64, or Metal Gear Solid (2) for the PlayStation (2.) All are prime examples of FPS that worked well on the console, because they were *designed* for a console.
The gamplay in all 3 are different from that of computer games to compensate for the little console joysticks and lack of control flexibility.
You'll find that many console games make shitty PC ports for exactly these reasons.
If I was configuring a new system as a dual boot Windows/Linux machine, I sure as hell would use Windows 2K rather than XP, as would most of the people here.
If anyone is making a flawed comparason, it's you. Very few people have a reason to use RH 6, while plenty of us prefer 2000 to XP.
Easy answer: most x86 PC users don't feel threatened by other platforms and/or manufacturers and thusly don't feel the need to become corporate patriots.
I've also heard that if you cut open a sharks abdomin during a feeding frenzy, it will eat it's own orgins.
I'm sorry, Geek Unfriendly?
I'm a 19 year old web developer and Jr. Syadmin. I care about the MPPA, RIAA, Freedom... About computing issues. I'll even argue VI over Emacs.
By most accounts I am a geek.
I also happen to be a bodybuilder, and was plesantly surprised about an article regarding health concerns.
Not every geek in the world wants to die when a 5lb blob of lard finally hits their heart. Not all of us are fat lazy pigs either.
Mabie a number of geeks don't have time to get up and work out... That doesn't mean they don't care about health.
I'd like to dispell this idea that geeks are ugly, overweight, sloppy, and socially inept... Mabie then I could call myself one in public without feeling like I'm insulting myself.
Good luck copyrighting Dermatoglyphics. ; )
And, thanks. I got the tagline out of a trivia database and thought it was kind of appropriate to Slashdot. Didn't bother verafying it though. See what lazyness got me? : )
The previous comment reminded me of this joke:
On the farm lived a chicken and a horse, who loved to play together.
One day, the two were playing, when the horse fell into a bog and began to sink. Scared for his life, the horse whinnied for the chicken to get the farmer for help.
Off the chicken ran, back to the farm.
Arriving, he searched and searched for the farmer, but to no avail, for he had gone to town with the only tractor.
Running around, the chicken spied the farmer's new Z3 series BMW.
Finding the keys inside, the chicken sped off with a length of rope, hoping he had time to save his friends's life.
Back at the bog, the horse was surprised, but happy to see the chicken arrive in the shiny beemer, and managed to get a hold of the loop of rope the chicken tossed to him.
After tying the other end to the rear bumper of the farmer's car, the chicken then drove slowly forward, and with the aid of the powerful car, rescued the horse!
The friendship between the two animals was cemented - best buddies, best pals.
A few weeks later, the chicken fell into a mud pit, and soon, he too, began to sink and cried out to the horse to save his life!
The horse thought a moment, walked over, and straddled the large puddle.
Looking underneath, he told the chicken to grab his "thingie" and he would then lift him out of the pit. The chicken got a good grip, and the horse pulled him out, saving his life.
Moral: When you're hung like a horse, you don't need a BMW to pick up chicks.
you can control whether or not it is read or read/write by a hardware toggle.
I'm not so sure this is true. According to a number of my friends, while there is a hardware R/RW selection switch, the functionality is still controlled by software.
That means that a kernel could be hacked in such a way that your keys could be modified.
The above was demonstrated by the ability of several viruses to infect write protected floppes inserted into an already infected system.
God damn. This is the first time in more than a year that I wish I had moderation points to throw at someone. : )
You make a lot of assumptions for someone who has absolutly no idea who I am, and appearently no ability to catch a rather critical form of humor.
Perhaps you should take a long look in a mirror, and re-evaluate who the 'dumbass' in need of a 'clue' actually is, here.
The word 'noticed' sends me to an admin page, and the phrase ATI sends me back to the home page. Please fix.
Why do I get the feeling that the moderation of this comment up to +4 informitive is a horrible horrible sign that no one even tries to read the articles anymore..?
Funny that you cite the atomic bomb in your example...
Tell me, when was the last time 2 world powers took up arms against each other?
Seems to me there hasn't been any massive loss of life (say, even close to a world war) since we droped the bomb on Japan.
...does it make coffee and fries? : p
Best feature of my StarTac: It doesn't play music. ^_^
Young SWM seeking solution to ponogrophy archival issues? : )
Still, there's enough room on a 1GB DAT for a weekly incremental.
Thanks for the spelling correction, by the way. Me inglish not soo good, which is sad because I'm actually a native english speaker. -_-; I blame fatigue, and cheating on all the spelling assignments in grade school.