If you're using photoshop to feed your family, you're going to buy it.
If you're blurring out your AIM window to submit a screenshot to 1337p30p13.com, Photoshop is not valuable to you and hence you pirate it.
Teenagers pirate games because they _have no income_. Therefore they can't afford $50 for a game. They can, however, use their parents' DSL to get it for free. So they do.
P2P networks aren't the problem. People are. P2P networks don't kill profit... people kill profit:)
Yup I've played CS about 3 times (because I've used Linux on PPC forever, I've had to use other people's computer, and they usually don't want to give it up for more than a second...). Anyway, I completely agree with you. It's basically what CS "1337" would call a n00b-f3s7 (or something like that). It's a bunch of 10-year-olds that learned new words like "fuck" and "camper" and want to try them out online:)
Also, what is with that -- "d00d camper unfair!!!1111"? Umm if I kill you, it's a kill. I didn't cheat, so it sounds fair to me. What's with "you're a n00b 'cause you used an AUP!!!"? I killed you with a legal weapon. That's how you play the fucking game.
ANYWAY, yeah I don't really like CS. I don't like "realistic" games, so I play UT2004. When was the last time you went on a Bombing Run with a Flak Cannon in real life? Never? That's the point. It's using the computer to experience something you could not experience in real life. I like that:) Plus it's fun to shred people with flak when you get mad. Anyway.
What was the point of this post again? Right. I haven't played CS much but I don't really plan to. The terrorist/counter-terrorist scenerio is boring (read the newspaper for that) and the weapons aren't that exciting.
Yes. Dr. Zumdahl at UIUC does this. Now his wife is a co-author so the book is almost twice as expensive. All for a subject that hasn't changed since 1950*./me hopes he doesn't have to use that god-forsaken book at UIC...
* Yeah, yeah. Some things have changed. But not $200 worth of things:)
I have an interesting laptop screen breakage story.
I have two friends, who we'll call Mikin and Jered (because that's what their names are:). One day, Jered had the brilliant idea of putting a PVC rod inside a cardboard tube an hitting it. It launched out at VERY HIGH SPEED into Mikin's laptop.
It's funny because the laptop kept working fine, except the liquid crystals were draining out through the cracked screen. So a little black hole in the screen got bigger and bigger until he had to buy a new laptop. Ouch:)
I've killed that same keyboard numerous times myself. One time I poured an entire pot of tea into it. I was chatting with my roommate and pouring myself a cup of tea... except I missed the cup. Sadly, when I noticed that I was watering my keyboard I dumbly just kept pouring. It took my roommate saying "Uh Jon... your keyboard... Jon... keyboard!" to get me to stop.
Moral of the story? DON'T DO ANYTHING UNTIL YOU HAVE HAD CAFFEINE. You might hurt something or someone you love otherwise:)
It worked after an hour or so of drying on the heater BTW. I know I've spilled other stuff on this thing too, but it still works. I'm typing on it right now!
Run anything disk or IO intensive on XP and your system is dead. That's just the way it works. Note that swapping (which XP does a lot of, for no good reason*) is disk intensive. Notice how that background takes a second to redraw when you switch to it? That's IO slowdown in action. Ain't XP fucking great...
* It caches EVERY disk access to main memory, evicting apps to swap. Most other OSes do this, but seem to be better at it. I have a gig of ram on my Linux box and the "cache everything" idea works great. But my family's XP box just dies with "only" 512M of RAM. Again, XP isn't that great of an operating system.
> It's too bad that C-band is heavily regulated against by housing associations and zoning boards.
They say you can't have it, but they are wrong. According to the FCC, no law or rule against placing a dish on your own property can be written. Yes, that's right. You can have a satellite dish and tell the homeowners to fuck themselves. Federal law beats neighoborhood law:)
Use gnucash then? I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned but I really like it. It's a harder system to learn (as most OSS software is...invest time at the beginning rather than every time you use it), but it helps a lot.
It's nice to know where all my money goes (categories show that a lot better than a check register).
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I use fuck@fuck.com myself. I guess that's the most irritating one that I can think of :)
There's no address on the passport. Or SSN for that matter.
Please "don't" try to start a newsgroup by posting those codes as a reply.
:)
Actually, please go right ahead
Yes. PLEASE seek some professional help!
And you paid for them. Hence his point.
:)
If you're using photoshop to feed your family, you're going to buy it.
If you're blurring out your AIM window to submit a screenshot to 1337p30p13.com, Photoshop is not valuable to you and hence you pirate it.
Teenagers pirate games because they _have no income_. Therefore they can't afford $50 for a game. They can, however, use their parents' DSL to get it for free. So they do.
P2P networks aren't the problem. People are. P2P networks don't kill profit... people kill profit
Yup I've played CS about 3 times (because I've used Linux on PPC forever, I've had to use other people's computer, and they usually don't want to give it up for more than a second...). Anyway, I completely agree with you. It's basically what CS "1337" would call a n00b-f3s7 (or something like that). It's a bunch of 10-year-olds that learned new words like "fuck" and "camper" and want to try them out online :)
:) Plus it's fun to shred people with flak when you get mad. Anyway.
Also, what is with that -- "d00d camper unfair!!!1111"? Umm if I kill you, it's a kill. I didn't cheat, so it sounds fair to me. What's with "you're a n00b 'cause you used an AUP!!!"? I killed you with a legal weapon. That's how you play the fucking game.
ANYWAY, yeah I don't really like CS. I don't like "realistic" games, so I play UT2004. When was the last time you went on a Bombing Run with a Flak Cannon in real life? Never? That's the point. It's using the computer to experience something you could not experience in real life. I like that
What was the point of this post again? Right. I haven't played CS much but I don't really plan to. The terrorist/counter-terrorist scenerio is boring (read the newspaper for that) and the weapons aren't that exciting.
Yes. Dr. Zumdahl at UIUC does this. Now his wife is a co-author so the book is almost twice as expensive. All for a subject that hasn't changed since 1950*. /me hopes he doesn't have to use that god-forsaken book at UIC...
:)
* Yeah, yeah. Some things have changed. But not $200 worth of things
Yup, and BestBuy is the only place to work. There aren't competitors or other no-skill-required jobs.
:)
Oh wait. You can vote with your wallet too. Instead of quitting just stop showing up. Or even better, just do a shitty job until they fire you
I've never had to do this because I have a good employeer but I would gladly do it to WorstBuy or CircuitShitty.
Psh I did that yesterday with my metric boatload of unobtainium!
note to parent: it wasn't haha-funny
note to mods: fuck you
note to self: kill yourself now
> I bet you also think 2+2=3
For small values of 2, it does!
Well the first version of TeX was 3.
...
Then there was 3.1
then 3.14
then 3.141
now it's 3.14159
And don't even ask about Metafont...
I have an interesting laptop screen breakage story.
:). One day, Jered had the brilliant idea of putting a PVC rod inside a cardboard tube an hitting it. It launched out at VERY HIGH SPEED into Mikin's laptop.
:)
I have two friends, who we'll call Mikin and Jered (because that's what their names are
It's funny because the laptop kept working fine, except the liquid crystals were draining out through the cracked screen. So a little black hole in the screen got bigger and bigger until he had to buy a new laptop. Ouch
I've killed that same keyboard numerous times myself. One time I poured an entire pot of tea into it. I was chatting with my roommate and pouring myself a cup of tea... except I missed the cup. Sadly, when I noticed that I was watering my keyboard I dumbly just kept pouring. It took my roommate saying "Uh Jon... your keyboard... Jon... keyboard!" to get me to stop.
:)
Moral of the story? DON'T DO ANYTHING UNTIL YOU HAVE HAD CAFFEINE. You might hurt something or someone you love otherwise
It worked after an hour or so of drying on the heater BTW. I know I've spilled other stuff on this thing too, but it still works. I'm typing on it right now!
Lay off the poor guy. He learned his lesson. Everyone makes mistakes; this guy was bold enough to admit it. Cut him some slack.
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I was just about to post this story. That's the only time I've ever had to reformat / reinstall :)
Run anything disk or IO intensive on XP and your system is dead. That's just the way it works. Note that swapping (which XP does a lot of, for no good reason*) is disk intensive. Notice how that background takes a second to redraw when you switch to it? That's IO slowdown in action. Ain't XP fucking great...
* It caches EVERY disk access to main memory, evicting apps to swap. Most other OSes do this, but seem to be better at it. I have a gig of ram on my Linux box and the "cache everything" idea works great. But my family's XP box just dies with "only" 512M of RAM. Again, XP isn't that great of an operating system.
Yeah d00d, the overclockers.com people are legal experts.
Oh wait no. They don't even know anything about computers.
"Upon attaching the waterblock to my penis, I began to notice that I know nothing about computers."
> It's too bad that C-band is heavily regulated against by housing associations and zoning boards.
:)
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They say you can't have it, but they are wrong. According to the FCC, no law or rule against placing a dish on your own property can be written. Yes, that's right. You can have a satellite dish and tell the homeowners to fuck themselves. Federal law beats neighoborhood law
Link: http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/consumerdish
If you want to fsck all day, just install Windows.
Use gnucash then? I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned but I really like it. It's a harder system to learn (as most OSS software is...invest time at the beginning rather than every time you use it), but it helps a lot.
It's nice to know where all my money goes (categories show that a lot better than a check register).
I know. I'm not sure what I was thinking when I wrote the comment. I was in a bad mood, I guess :)
No, it means Linux, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD.
My calculations reveal that it can be done in 42 bits. Interesting, eh.
26 letters + 10 numbers = 36.
36 letters ^ 8 spaces = ~2.8211e+12 passwords
log(# passwords) / log(2) = 41.359
Therefore it's only a 42 bit problem.
Yes. 42. I know, I know.