My answer to "is life predetermined" isn't "you're a total pussy" it's "since you can never possibly know or do anything about it, don't bother with it unless you're sitting around some melbourne cafe sipping late wearing a skivvy and trying to impress your skivvy wearing late drinking mates"
I understood the matrix reloaded. It made me think for about 30 seconds. It was crap. The fights were crap, neo is a total pussy, the cg was ordinary, and the fisher-price "My first philosphy lesson TM" pseudo sci-fi was simply an insult to the viewers.
Saying that anybody who didn't like it doesn't make you seem smart, it makes you seem like a dick.
nuh-uh, i've seen one! And given it was somewhere between canberra and coffs harbour it was a massive suprise.... i've driven past a million porsches, a few dozen ferraris, a few diablos and countachs, but only one delorean! And one giocattolo (sp?) and unfortunately it wasn't the judge (poors out a little).
the wayback machine knows all of course it's ie only (hey it was 98, NS sucked balls), and the images are long dead as net-effect has been out of business for years.... but there my trumpet is blown:-)
Don't get pissed and then drop some acid. I know it's hard to turn down a nice tab when you're already drunk, but the results aren't pretty. Although you'll have to be told just how not pretty they are, since you'll forget it all:(
Now, myself, I was thinking "DR WHO!!!! DR FUCKING WHO!!!" Not to mention red dwarf, etc... things that people are paying for now, so don't expect them to actually be put up.
Then I read this:
All the cricket Test matches they used to broadcast!!
Oh man... Imagine it.... Warney's early matches... Boonie... Tubby taylor, AB... A coupla cases of XXXX.... I'd be in heaven!
Hartman: How tall are you private SCOwboy? McBride: SIR 5 FOOT 9 SIR! Hartman: 5 foot 9? I didn't know they stacked shit that high! - you tryin' to squeeze an inch in on me?
See, I would tend to disagree. being a long time Mac user, I've struggled to figure out why the MacOS, which I consider to be clearly superior to Windows, hasn't done better. I finally realised: people are lazy and unlikely to vary from what they're used to.
Well we won't get into the fact that between windows NT and OSX the mac was clearly very far behind in terms of operating systems, and instead concentrate on why joe sixpack doesn't buy a mac. Joe sixpack needs word, a browser, and a few games and some porn. He can do it on a pc, or he can do it on a mac for twice the price. What do you think he'll pick?
This just in... The film "short circuit" does not show scientific reality.
In other news, scientists believe that killer time-travelling machines probably could not run on 6502 processors running command-line enhancement software typed in from an old copy of "Nibble".
Finally, do you really think that there is a 'wrong button' out there that will dl large numbers of images on to your machine? If so, imo, you're some kind of fool.
You're an idiot. I've downloaded tons of kiddie pr0n by accident because some fucker mislabels his posts, or posts to newsgroups meant strictly for over 18 models. You never know what it is till you download it these days. Not to mention the dickheads on P2P networks who get their jollies by mislabeling anything from trojans to viruses to child / animal porno as something somebody would actually download.
I believe, what we are seeing is the beginnings of the fall of the capitalist empire (god i sound like a muslim i know). The way things are it's a zero-sum game, and unsustainable. Eventually, when things get really bad, there will be no revolt, like the people here like to think. It will simply fall apart. By the time the people have had enough of it to fight back, their means of fighting will have long ago been taken. So they will simply leave. People will "drop off the grid" so to speak, some of them will simply become criminals, some of them will go native. It'll take a while tho, so I suppose it's still escapable, although that's not likely.
A lot of techies pirate tech books. Like a few hours on Kazaa can get you a lot of knowledge. And of course most techies would prefer to have the book printed out so they can read it in bed / on the shitter, so they'll buy the good ones. I know I plan to buy several books based on having seen their contents already on kazaa.
You guys never considered simply batting with the other hand did you? I imagine it's a lot easier than reaching across the desk to use the mouse with your wrong hand.
The short answer is, people are already coughing up a fairly sizable amount for their internet. Well they are in australia at least. If the content has to be paid for as well, who's going to cough up $40+ a month just for the priviledge of being able to pay for content? I can already pay for content, and I get to hold it in my hand / read it on the shitter / look at a shiny disc that i know won't be taken off me when sony goes bankrupt (bad example I know).
No, the second amendment is meant for the establishment of a machiavellian government sponsored militia that acts in the percieved interests of the state, Basically the US army, but they own their weapons. This is simply due to the fact that hiring mercanaries and not having a standing army basically led various parts of 15th century italy to cop it balls-deep from ambitious neighbours.
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2 x 32-bit equals 1 x 64-bit, right?
Only if you work for atari.
It's no worse than the system we have here in the west where the candidate/party with the biggest advertising budget wins.
My answer to "is life predetermined" isn't "you're a total pussy" it's "since you can never possibly know or do anything about it, don't bother with it unless you're sitting around some melbourne cafe sipping late wearing a skivvy and trying to impress your skivvy wearing late drinking mates"
Boo.
I understood the matrix reloaded. It made me think for about 30 seconds. It was crap. The fights were crap, neo is a total pussy, the cg was ordinary, and the fisher-price "My first philosphy lesson TM" pseudo sci-fi was simply an insult to the viewers.
Saying that anybody who didn't like it doesn't make you seem smart, it makes you seem like a dick.
nuh-uh, i've seen one! And given it was somewhere between canberra and coffs harbour it was a massive suprise.... i've driven past a million porsches, a few dozen ferraris, a few diablos and countachs, but only one delorean! And one giocattolo (sp?) and unfortunately it wasn't the judge (poors out a little).
Gah... I had dhtml copper bars in 1998 :)
:-)
the wayback machine knows all of course it's ie only (hey it was 98, NS sucked balls), and the images are long dead as net-effect has been out of business for years.... but there my trumpet is blown
Gfunk's tip-o-the-nanosecond:
:(
Don't get pissed and then drop some acid. I know it's hard to turn down a nice tab when you're already drunk, but the results aren't pretty. Although you'll have to be told just how not pretty they are, since you'll forget it all
True, you can always tell the import ads from the US, since they always look like ass :)
Now, myself, I was thinking "DR WHO!!!! DR FUCKING WHO!!!" Not to mention red dwarf, etc... things that people are paying for now, so don't expect them to actually be put up.
Then I read this:
All the cricket Test matches they used to broadcast!!
Oh man... Imagine it.... Warney's early matches... Boonie... Tubby taylor, AB... A coupla cases of XXXX.... I'd be in heaven!
No, no no...
Hartman: How tall are you private SCOwboy?
McBride: SIR 5 FOOT 9 SIR!
Hartman: 5 foot 9? I didn't know they stacked shit that high! - you tryin' to squeeze an inch in on me?
I believe (too lazy to read the low score posts) he meant to say "hosed" not hosted.
Please, go on, tell us what kind of "nasty effects" wind and solar power have in store . . .
Apart from the horrid chemicals involved in solar panel production?
Imagine the fucked up effects wind power would have on the weather if we had enough generators to actually be useful?
The short answer is, unless there's a MASSIVE breakthrough in solar technology, nuclear power (fusion or fission) is the only long term answer.
Just imagine if something went wrong like chernobyl. Except this time it's 30 miles in the air where it can travel around the globe quite nicely.
Except that nuclear material tends to be rather heavy.
See, I would tend to disagree. being a long time Mac user, I've struggled to figure out why the MacOS, which I consider to be clearly superior to Windows, hasn't done better. I finally realised: people are lazy and unlikely to vary from what they're used to.
Well we won't get into the fact that between windows NT and OSX the mac was clearly very far behind in terms of operating systems, and instead concentrate on why joe sixpack doesn't buy a mac. Joe sixpack needs word, a browser, and a few games and some porn. He can do it on a pc, or he can do it on a mac for twice the price. What do you think he'll pick?
NO! GET OUT!
This just in... The film "short circuit" does not show scientific reality.
In other news, scientists believe that killer time-travelling machines probably could not run on 6502 processors running command-line enhancement software typed in from an old copy of "Nibble".
Finally, do you really think that there is a 'wrong button' out there that will dl large numbers of images on to your machine? If so, imo, you're some kind of fool.
You're an idiot. I've downloaded tons of kiddie pr0n by accident because some fucker mislabels his posts, or posts to newsgroups meant strictly for over 18 models. You never know what it is till you download it these days. Not to mention the dickheads on P2P networks who get their jollies by mislabeling anything from trojans to viruses to child / animal porno as something somebody would actually download.
"Hold it bob, we can see your watch"
I believe, what we are seeing is the beginnings of the fall of the capitalist empire (god i sound like a muslim i know). The way things are it's a zero-sum game, and unsustainable. Eventually, when things get really bad, there will be no revolt, like the people here like to think. It will simply fall apart. By the time the people have had enough of it to fight back, their means of fighting will have long ago been taken. So they will simply leave. People will "drop off the grid" so to speak, some of them will simply become criminals, some of them will go native. It'll take a while tho, so I suppose it's still escapable, although that's not likely.
A lot of techies pirate tech books. Like a few hours on Kazaa can get you a lot of knowledge. And of course most techies would prefer to have the book printed out so they can read it in bed / on the shitter, so they'll buy the good ones. I know I plan to buy several books based on having seen their contents already on kazaa.
Just because unlike the XBOX small children can lift it, doesn't mean the GC is aimed at them.
Geeks...
You guys never considered simply batting with the other hand did you? I imagine it's a lot easier than reaching across the desk to use the mouse with your wrong hand.
The short answer is, people are already coughing up a fairly sizable amount for their internet. Well they are in australia at least. If the content has to be paid for as well, who's going to cough up $40+ a month just for the priviledge of being able to pay for content? I can already pay for content, and I get to hold it in my hand / read it on the shitter / look at a shiny disc that i know won't be taken off me when sony goes bankrupt (bad example I know).
More importantly, do we have -
A flock of birds
A pod of whales
A murder of crowes
And a beowulf of computers?
No, the second amendment is meant for the establishment of a machiavellian government sponsored militia that acts in the percieved interests of the state, Basically the US army, but they own their weapons. This is simply due to the fact that hiring mercanaries and not having a standing army basically led various parts of 15th century italy to cop it balls-deep from ambitious neighbours.
The speakers are each rated for 3W RMS
In other news, the CPU runs at a rip-snorting 12.3 Mhz, and the Hard disk has an impressive 10Mb storage capacity