I don't understand how anime is as relevant to technology. If it is given it's category, then sports or the Simpsons or any other non-computer related topic should also recieve one. I think it's hypocritical that/. assumes that people like anime here, because I don't. I think if there is the allowance of anime stories being posted, then there should be stuff about Pedro Martinez or Ralph Nader. I'd like to see it, wouldn't you?
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-bongo
Finally, an excuse for pooring ice cold beer down my cd-rom without the messy haggle of getting drunk!
Friend: dude, were you drinking before you got here? you seem to be wasting all that good bacardi on your G4
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I remember a few years ago, back when I was just a wee warez pup and lame IRCer. The biggest challenge I ever faced was "well, iF Ur s0 31337, t3Ll me a unIx coomand!", and from that day forward I learned Unix command by command. You may say, you are so fucking lame, and I am, but it was a good building block for someone who was just knowledgable of the Mac OS. It launched me into the world of Linux and Unix, and if it wasn't for the days of script kidding and Unix challenging, I probably wouldn't be at the level of geekdom I am at today.
Yah, Netscape is so cross platform. It's great that it shares the universal trait of being able to crash in the first minute of use on a Mac, PC, or Linux!
Wasn't he one of the guys that fought Godzilla in those series of movies from Japan in the 50's and 60's? I think he was the giant turtle with the rockets under his shell.
I remember at the end of the Simpsons, the pilot goes "uh, we're having a little Godzilla related problem, but Gamera should be here soon to clear it up"
BTW, what exactly is "AOL content"? Is it all that child porn that gets sent in private chat rooms or instant messages from 41 year old men pretending to be 16 year old girls?
Not be cynical or bent on criticism, but what's the big deal about q3 getting onto a dreamcast? It seems like a logical step as a software company looking to capatalize on a most likely popular gaming system. In the interview, Carmack states that porting from the DreamCast to the PC and vise versa are very simple, and to me, it seems very logical, because the DreamCast is just a PC in a smaller box with a controller.
Personally, I don't understand why people believe that the Dreamcast and furthermore, any other console will cause the end of the PC as a viable gaming system. Can you seriously imagine playing multi-management games like Civilization, Myth 2, or StarCraft without a mouse and keyboard? Or a game that requires precise placement like Quake 3 being played with a controller? I had enough trouble playing Street Fighter 2 on my SNES, and any game more challenging will just cause blisters and frustration, not a genuine challenge. Both the PC and console markets have niche games that suit both systems, and I believe that the convergence two will promote creative game design, not hinder it.
I believe you mean under-sexed. But then again, you might be using it like Salinger did in Catcher in the Rye where Holden claimed he was over-sexed but he never got any and was pretty repulsed by the idea of his roomate giving the time to a girl he knew during his childhood.
BTW, as a computer user, and an avid fan of pussy and fellatio, I'm kind of discouraged by this stigmata of geeks being fat 20 somethings who spend their days on their comps and beating their shit to X-Men pr0n. And stupid Rob Malda keeps playing into it.
BTW, how come there isn't a story about athletes or business men or shows like Law & Order and how they reflect geeks? I know plenty of geeks who's knowledge range extends beyond just computers and cartoons, and I think it's insulting that/. keeps posting stories insisting on continuing this stereotype.
Calvin and Hobbes kick complete ass, as do Boondocks. What I love about Boondocks is the satire of black culture and also computers. How many comics can you see making fun of rap artists and Napster in one strip? werd!
I totally agree with you on Law and Order. A few nights ago on A&E, I saw a rather old episode where this mad rich and reputated scientist fucked over this recently graduated physicist who had to become a door man becuase he couldn't get a job to support his family. So guess what he does? He fucking bombs the shit out of the other one! It was great! Law and Order kicks ASS!
I dunno about Family GUy though, it seems to be along those lines of South Park "lets cuss until it becomes entertaining" kind of shit. I don't know about fucking you, but when I watch tv, I want some intimate shit that doesn't just hit you on one fucking level of humor, werd? I think Family Guy is defintly owned by the Simpsons, but far better then that PJ's or Futurama crap. As for the 70's show, well... I don't need to say anything =P
I just imagine the TV experience becoming even more commericla then it is now, even if you do cut out the commercials with a filter of some sort. For instance, what I invision is that during, lets say a simspons episode, Homer might suddenly get quite the craving for Dunkin Donuts chocolate eclairs. I think advertising will become more and more subliminal then it is now, where we will be presented ads and we don't even realize it. Shows won't have to use "Duff beer" or generic titles for various items: instead, they'll be paid to proudly display their love for a specific brand during the episode. Hell, it might even hit movies or god forbid... porn movies!
"oh mel, FUCK ME NOW!""wait a second Cindy, let me pull out some of my Durex Big Gun Ultra Thin condoms, because we both want ultimate feeling, right?"
I dunno, but a lot of my favorite seem to be going down due to poor ad revenue (most likely due to poor click through ratios). People seem to forget that people have to pay for bandwidth and servers, and unfortunately don't go out of their way to help the free services.
Whenever I'm at a free site I believe is done well, I always turn off WebFree for a second and click the banners to do my bit of support. I even might buy something from some of their banner ads and give the sites I visited from them moderate attention, instead of just clicking-and-closing. If people knew how much the webmasters do just to keep the server running and free, they'd probably be more open to clicking and whatnot. But unfortunately they don't, and so the free stuff on the web doesn't survive. *sigh* now we can just buy all these services from corporate ameri-co =\
"You mean I can no longer expect to enjoy a grossly overinflated market cap for my unprofitable, $200-million-in-debt Internet start-up? That's not fair!"
And you must also realize, at the same tim, you're a fucking idiot. No where in my post did I mention inventions. I didn't compare cultures, I compared races based on facts compiled by 2 legitimate sources. The thing is, many blacks, native americans, hispanics, whites, and orientals are a part of the same American culture, yet they all produce very dramatically different results on intelligence tests.
I love how lame PC thugs try to jump on someone when they haven't even read their post. And what is, may I ask, culture based on? rocks and timber? Actually, culture is based on intelligence: it's based on the development of art, music, linguistics, and science of a society, and I believe all of those have their root in INTELLIGENCE.
Actually, I think any well educated person becomes racist. For our entire LIVES we're told that we're different. And know what? We are.Our bone structures, brain mass, odors, shape, size are DIFFERENT for each race. For instance, a white person and an oriental have distinctively different bone structures, and the brain mass of an average African is 3/4's that of a caucasian European. It's unrational to think that we're only different with our skin colors. Do you believe that we all evolved in the same exact way and our skin colors are just freak occurences? Each race grew up in specific habitats that made them evolve to adapt to specific problems and settings in their habitats. Do you seriously believe that someone in the jungles of South America would evolve the same as someone in the Himilayas?
These issues were addressed in two excellent books: The Bell Curve (I don't know who it was written by, but it came out of Harvard) and Race By John Baker (a professeur at Oxford). The Bell Curve did an intricate study on the break up of IQ based on race, and the differences were quite substancial. Native Americans had an average of 75, blacks were averaged at about 85, caucasians at 110, and asians at 120. Baker on the other hand, concludes that skin color is only a minor difference between races compared to other, more fundamental biological differences. Baker reviews others' writings on race, including idealists who insist the races are equal (examples: St. Paul and Jean Jacques Rousseau) and realists who know races are not equal (examples: Count de Gobineau and Francis Galton). Four chapters center on what the earliest European explorers found in Africa. They uncovered a ghastly and pitiful state of humanity. Technology was very crude, no wheel of any kind could be found, and the plentiful stone was not used as a building material. No Negrid could count beyond three. They had no word for the number four or any higher number. To Baker, a biologist, it is patently obvious. Races differ.
And to me, it is also painfully obvious: races DIFFER. I know this might be labelled as flamebait, but it's what I think is true, and I believe any rational person would agree. I don't agree with other "racists" who believe that Jews and blacks should all be murdered because they're different, but I do have enough logic to conclude that we're all different. If you're teaching your kids that everyone's equal, well, you're making your kids as painfully ignorant as you are.
Yes, your name is Steve Richards, and you live in China. I'm sure.
It seems we have a new breed of human evolution now: the whink (the white chink for those who aren't very intelligent). And I thought we saw the end of cultural crossing with wiggers =|
Ok, I have to address this. I'm really getting fucking tired of people complaining about apple not having a 2 button mouse.
Ok, first off, APPLE ISN'T THE ONLY FUCKING COMPANY THAT MAKES MOUSES. MicroSoft makes a very good optical mouse with 5 BUTTONS. And guess what, it works with a MAC! Secondly, company likes MacAlly and Kensington sell 2+ button mouses with wheels that are completely customizable!
God dammit, if I hear one more idiot talk about "ApPle NEDZ mo0re then 1 mOuSE ClICkeR", I am going to fucking go nuts and shoot midgets. Then eat them. So fuck off and die.
I think it's painfully obvious to everyone here: we're just pseudo-intellectuals in clown suits and/or Bob Saget suits. As for myself, I'm nothing but a fucking idiot. And there's nothing i pride myself in being then a/. fucking idiot, r3pr3sent!
I know! I just about cried myself. But I dried myself up and found the will power to watch Full House and the comedy stylings of Bob Saget and John Stamos. And all was better. =)
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I can see the next development, the Linux operated Maxi Pad.
*You have now finished menstruating*
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Hey, you mind buying some booze and nitrous for an 18 year old in VA? =]
I'll swipe you some games if you want! hehe
What were they thinking in 1981 in alt.binaries.erotic.pictures.hampster.duck-tape?
I don't understand how anime is as relevant to technology. If it is given it's category, then sports or the Simpsons or any other non-computer related topic should also recieve one. I think it's hypocritical that /. assumes that people like anime here, because I don't. I think if there is the allowance of anime stories being posted, then there should be stuff about Pedro Martinez or Ralph Nader. I'd like to see it, wouldn't you?
br. -bongo
I wrote [moves mouse over textured picture of nude Carmen Electra][begins to vibrate] in 's before I said ooh baby too. Sorry for the confusion =)
Ohhhh baby!
;)
And I thought I had it good with porn stories written in brail
Finally, an excuse for pooring ice cold beer down my cd-rom without the messy haggle of getting drunk!
Friend: dude, were you drinking before you got here? you seem to be wasting all that good bacardi on your G4
I remember a few years ago, back when I was just a wee warez pup and lame IRCer. The biggest challenge I ever faced was "well, iF Ur s0 31337, t3Ll me a unIx coomand!", and from that day forward I learned Unix command by command. You may say, you are so fucking lame, and I am, but it was a good building block for someone who was just knowledgable of the Mac OS. It launched me into the world of Linux and Unix, and if it wasn't for the days of script kidding and Unix challenging, I probably wouldn't be at the level of geekdom I am at today.
Yah, Netscape is so cross platform. It's great that it shares the universal trait of being able to crash in the first minute of use on a Mac, PC, or Linux!
Wasn't he one of the guys that fought Godzilla in those series of movies from Japan in the 50's and 60's? I think he was the giant turtle with the rockets under his shell.
I remember at the end of the Simpsons, the pilot goes "uh, we're having a little Godzilla related problem, but Gamera should be here soon to clear it up"
BTW, what exactly is "AOL content"? Is it all that child porn that gets sent in private chat rooms or instant messages from 41 year old men pretending to be 16 year old girls?
There is always Bungie's disembodied soul to answer all our questions with beautifully grafted artifical intelligence.
Question: Are you better then Forum 2000's AI?
The soul says: Can we change the subject please.
Not be cynical or bent on criticism, but what's the big deal about q3 getting onto a dreamcast? It seems like a logical step as a software company looking to capatalize on a most likely popular gaming system. In the interview, Carmack states that porting from the DreamCast to the PC and vise versa are very simple, and to me, it seems very logical, because the DreamCast is just a PC in a smaller box with a controller.
Personally, I don't understand why people believe that the Dreamcast and furthermore, any other console will cause the end of the PC as a viable gaming system. Can you seriously imagine playing multi-management games like Civilization, Myth 2, or StarCraft without a mouse and keyboard? Or a game that requires precise placement like Quake 3 being played with a controller? I had enough trouble playing Street Fighter 2 on my SNES, and any game more challenging will just cause blisters and frustration, not a genuine challenge. Both the PC and console markets have niche games that suit both systems, and I believe that the convergence two will promote creative game design, not hinder it.
I believe you mean under-sexed. But then again, you might be using it like Salinger did in Catcher in the Rye where Holden claimed he was over-sexed but he never got any and was pretty repulsed by the idea of his roomate giving the time to a girl he knew during his childhood.
/. keeps posting stories insisting on continuing this stereotype.
BTW, as a computer user, and an avid fan of pussy and fellatio, I'm kind of discouraged by this stigmata of geeks being fat 20 somethings who spend their days on their comps and beating their shit to X-Men pr0n. And stupid Rob Malda keeps playing into it.
BTW, how come there isn't a story about athletes or business men or shows like Law & Order and how they reflect geeks? I know plenty of geeks who's knowledge range extends beyond just computers and cartoons, and I think it's insulting that
Calvin and Hobbes kick complete ass, as do Boondocks. What I love about Boondocks is the satire of black culture and also computers. How many comics can you see making fun of rap artists and Napster in one strip? werd!
I totally agree with you on Law and Order. A few nights ago on A&E, I saw a rather old episode where this mad rich and reputated scientist fucked over this recently graduated physicist who had to become a door man becuase he couldn't get a job to support his family. So guess what he does? He fucking bombs the shit out of the other one! It was great! Law and Order kicks ASS!
I dunno about Family GUy though, it seems to be along those lines of South Park "lets cuss until it becomes entertaining" kind of shit. I don't know about fucking you, but when I watch tv, I want some intimate shit that doesn't just hit you on one fucking level of humor, werd? I think Family Guy is defintly owned by the Simpsons, but far better then that PJ's or Futurama crap. As for the 70's show, well... I don't need to say anything =P
I just imagine the TV experience becoming even more commericla then it is now, even if you do cut out the commercials with a filter of some sort. For instance, what I invision is that during, lets say a simspons episode, Homer might suddenly get quite the craving for Dunkin Donuts chocolate eclairs. I think advertising will become more and more subliminal then it is now, where we will be presented ads and we don't even realize it. Shows won't have to use "Duff beer" or generic titles for various items: instead, they'll be paid to proudly display their love for a specific brand during the episode. Hell, it might even hit movies or god forbid... porn movies!
"oh mel, FUCK ME NOW!""wait a second Cindy, let me pull out some of my Durex Big Gun Ultra Thin condoms, because we both want ultimate feeling, right?"
I dunno, but a lot of my favorite seem to be going down due to poor ad revenue (most likely due to poor click through ratios). People seem to forget that people have to pay for bandwidth and servers, and unfortunately don't go out of their way to help the free services.
Whenever I'm at a free site I believe is done well, I always turn off WebFree for a second and click the banners to do my bit of support. I even might buy something from some of their banner ads and give the sites I visited from them moderate attention, instead of just clicking-and-closing. If people knew how much the webmasters do just to keep the server running and free, they'd probably be more open to clicking and whatnot. But unfortunately they don't, and so the free stuff on the web doesn't survive. *sigh* now we can just buy all these services from corporate ameri-co =\
"You mean I can no longer expect to enjoy a grossly overinflated market cap for my unprofitable, $200-million-in-debt Internet start-up? That's not fair!"
And you must also realize, at the same tim, you're a fucking idiot. No where in my post did I mention inventions. I didn't compare cultures, I compared races based on facts compiled by 2 legitimate sources. The thing is, many blacks, native americans, hispanics, whites, and orientals are a part of the same American culture, yet they all produce very dramatically different results on intelligence tests.
I love how lame PC thugs try to jump on someone when they haven't even read their post. And what is, may I ask, culture based on? rocks and timber? Actually, culture is based on intelligence: it's based on the development of art, music, linguistics, and science of a society, and I believe all of those have their root in INTELLIGENCE.
Actually, I think any well educated person becomes racist. For our entire LIVES we're told that we're different. And know what? We are.Our bone structures, brain mass, odors, shape, size are DIFFERENT for each race. For instance, a white person and an oriental have distinctively different bone structures, and the brain mass of an average African is 3/4's that of a caucasian European. It's unrational to think that we're only different with our skin colors. Do you believe that we all evolved in the same exact way and our skin colors are just freak occurences? Each race grew up in specific habitats that made them evolve to adapt to specific problems and settings in their habitats. Do you seriously believe that someone in the jungles of South America would evolve the same as someone in the Himilayas?
These issues were addressed in two excellent books: The Bell Curve (I don't know who it was written by, but it came out of Harvard) and Race By John Baker (a professeur at Oxford). The Bell Curve did an intricate study on the break up of IQ based on race, and the differences were quite substancial. Native Americans had an average of 75, blacks were averaged at about 85, caucasians at 110, and asians at 120. Baker on the other hand, concludes that skin color is only a minor difference between races compared to other, more fundamental biological differences. Baker reviews others' writings on race, including idealists who insist the races are equal (examples: St. Paul and Jean Jacques Rousseau) and realists who know races are not equal (examples: Count de Gobineau and Francis Galton). Four chapters center on what the earliest European explorers found in Africa. They uncovered a ghastly and pitiful state of humanity. Technology was very crude, no wheel of any kind could be found, and the plentiful stone was not used as a building material. No Negrid could count beyond three. They had no word for the number four or any higher number. To Baker, a biologist, it is patently obvious. Races differ.
And to me, it is also painfully obvious: races DIFFER. I know this might be labelled as flamebait, but it's what I think is true, and I believe any rational person would agree. I don't agree with other "racists" who believe that Jews and blacks should all be murdered because they're different, but I do have enough logic to conclude that we're all different. If you're teaching your kids that everyone's equal, well, you're making your kids as painfully ignorant as you are.
Yes, your name is Steve Richards, and you live in China. I'm sure.
It seems we have a new breed of human evolution now: the whink (the white chink for those who aren't very intelligent). And I thought we saw the end of cultural crossing with wiggers =|
"France is like a 9 year old: they always ask you to do the dirty work when they get picked on, and then whine until they get their own way"
Ok, I have to address this. I'm really getting fucking tired of people complaining about apple not having a 2 button mouse.
Ok, first off, APPLE ISN'T THE ONLY FUCKING COMPANY THAT MAKES MOUSES. MicroSoft makes a very good optical mouse with 5 BUTTONS. And guess what, it works with a MAC! Secondly, company likes MacAlly and Kensington sell 2+ button mouses with wheels that are completely customizable!
God dammit, if I hear one more idiot talk about "ApPle NEDZ mo0re then 1 mOuSE ClICkeR", I am going to fucking go nuts and shoot midgets. Then eat them. So fuck off and die.
I think it's painfully obvious to everyone here: we're just pseudo-intellectuals in clown suits and/or Bob Saget suits. As for myself, I'm nothing but a fucking idiot. And there's nothing i pride myself in being then a /. fucking idiot, r3pr3sent!
I know! I just about cried myself. But I dried myself up and found the will power to watch Full House and the comedy stylings of Bob Saget and John Stamos. And all was better. =)