Not to mention that plenty of people overdose and DIE from all kinds of drugs. Guess what - they don't admit those people to the hospital. And people who are on some drugs like LSD may do crazy things and end up getting arrested, hurt, or killed - technically not directly attributed to the drug but what they did because of the drug.
I was on IG for about a year and a half, and it was my only form of social media. One day I just realized one day how corrosive it is. I felt like a chicken, always peck peck pecking at my phone, trying to keep up with my feed. I was mainly involved with motorcycle builder, buying/selling parts, etc. People would visciously gang up on others, and do all kinds of nasty things if they didn't like you, or you wouldn't sell parts as cheap as they wanted. I had real-life friends that would get fired up and angry over things that happened on IG. I know people who stopped being friends because of some things that happened in the comments of IG.
I just walked away from it when I woke up to this. Having been around the internet since 1990, I've seen all this stuff before. But with things like IG it has a very low entry point, meaning anyone can join the fray. It's not just for the technically inclined, and quite honestly I think it shows off the worst parts of society. It can do the opposite, but it seems as in life, the ones who make the most noise and are most aggressive ruin it for the rest.
What I don't understand is why Trump is worried about this investigation into Russia. If you look at the facts, the investigation is whether or not Russia sought to influence the election, and that certainly seemed to be titled in favor of Trump. But that does not mean that Trump was involved in any way. It could simply mean that Putin didn't want Clinton to win. If that were true, it would tarnish Trump's win of course, but what's done is done. I really don't know what would happen, and it would surely be a disaster.
But the way Trump keeps saying that the investigation is into HIM, and that he never colluded with Russia, is disturbing. It all seems irrelevant to the question about if Russia tried to influence the election. He's making it about HIM, instead of about Russia. I find that strange. But I find a lot of what he says to be strange. His obsession with himself is quite nauseating - whether he's president or not.
So the press is evil, but let's have daily press briefings. (?!) I try to ignore it, but people at work keep putting it on the TV in the break room. I just get this sick sense that this is just an extension of the instant-gratification of today's media. I say let them do their investigation into Russia, and report on their findings. But instead, there is a constant barrage of micro-updates on things. So much so that it's really rather disheartening. I can't even read THIS site without hearing these kinds of updates. I read the BBC, but they even keep re-running the same story, with just a few little updates and a title change. Everyone has lost their damn minds.
It was $99 on Amazon, because it sports their ads on the lock screen. The ad-free version was $50 more. I bought my BLU Life One X a year ago for $150. Moto's new phones may be cheap, but not news-worthy cheap.
Ever read the EULA? There is no real warranty. If you don't agree to it, then don't install it. Microsoft is smarter than to actually say that though.
Just curious, what do people with hacked versions of Windows do? Can they install these updates? I really don't know... my wife has a valid copy of Win7 on her laptop, and I run Linux.
I switched to Pale Moon for browsing several months ago, and couldn't be happier. It's what Firefox should be (and used to be).
I used Thunderbird for about a year back in the mid-2000s, but it just seemed too heavyweight for me. I am not saying it is a bad email client at all. I just got tired of it and how slow it seemed. I switched back to what I used to use, and have been using it ever since. pine. Yes, you read that right. I run fetchmail to pull in several email accounts to my local one, and I use pine (alpine) to read them. It's fast fast fast. Sometimes it can be tricky to sift through some emails that are image/html heavy, but thankfully a lot have "view in your browser" link if I need it. And quite honestly, I don't have to worry about images/colors/etc. I can open all attachments easily, but that only really works if I am local. From work I ssh into my machine to check email, and it's all stored there so it's not cached on my work machine. In and out, fast.
It seems archaic to most, but it works and works well for me. Except for my brief stint using Tbird, I've run pine since the late 90s. On my phone I use K-9 for mail, and it does a great job. But it's my backup, I try not to email that much from my phone.
If Thunderbird would look to update, they should do so without redesigning to keep current clients happy. The worst thing you can do is think you know better than your users about what they want.
Just to summarize... There is a story, that has made "the news", where a cartoon frog has been "killed off". This frog was an obscure image that was picked up by people on the internet as a way to make on line jokes. It was one of many many images used for this purpose. As making and sharing these memes became more popular, it was used more and more to incite a reaction in other people. This actually found its way into the presidential election process. Now people are sitting around on a message board debating and visciously arguing about the topic.
I really want to ask if we can get much lower on the importance scale. But I already know that answer.
Seriously. I mean, if we're talking about games that have truly had an impact, you cannot deny it. I don't really get it, but my kids do, and I can certainly appreciate it for what it is and how popular it has become.
Personally... I have been gaming since gaming began really, although I don't do a lot of it. Some of the games that have made the Hall of Fame I have never played, but recognize them for being important in the world of gaming. I would have rather seen Quake or Half-Life on the list. I spent many many hours playing Quake Mega-TF before 2000, we had a server at the company I worked at. It never got old, and I even made some maps for us to play. It really is the basis for me when it come to multi player FPS. Half-Life is just such a juggernaut when it comes to raising the bar on not only gameplay, but visually.
I just can't get into console gaming anymore, for me the real platform is the PC, and am surprised that Halo made the list.
I cook all the time. Here are some off the top of my head.
I don't eat breakfast, just black coffee. If I do on weekends, it's some form of eggs/bacon/sausage.
Lunch - mixed greens salad, (arugula, kale, romaine, chard, etc), homemade dressing (5 parts olive oil, 1 part balsamic, or 6 parts olive oil, 1 part lemon juice), parmesan cheese... some turkey/ham/salami slices, cheese. 2 hard boiled eggs. (put them in water, bring to a boil, boil for 4 min, put on lid and take off heat, let sit for 10 min). Maybe some large curd cottage cheese sometimes. Dill pickles.
Had one of my favorites last night for dinner Cook up some italian sausage. When it's done, remove the sausage and any excess grease, add some mushrooms and olive oil on med-high heat, when they are about half-cooked, throw in some garlic. After it is good and warmed up, pour in some half-n-half (or heavy cream)... let that bubble and cook, then add in a handful of raw spinach leaves and toss them a little until they start to wilt. Add in parmesan cheese to thicken some. Add the sausage back in and mix it up. Spoon onto plate. I like to serve it with some tomatoes, and zucchini (cut in half lenthwise, pour olive oil over them, salt, pepper, and parmesan and cook @ 425 until just past firm). Glass of red wine.
Other mains... omelettes/frittata/quiche (no crust) for dinner is always a fave. Seasoned and grilled chicken wings. Chicken thighs (crock pot) with green salsa, cheese, sour cream, lime, cilantro, avacodo, tomato served in a bowl. Burgers, sausage, fish, mealoaf (I use parmesan instead of breadcrumbs). Meatballs and homemade tomato sauce over zucchini sliced ribbon thin and dropped in boiling water for about 30 seconds. Tuna (can use regular mayo, or they have avocado mayo) served in romaine lettuce leaves. We order pizza - and just eat the toppings. If you go out, some places will serve burgers/sandwiches in lettuce wraps.
Sides: Kale (sauteed in olive oil and garlic, pour in chicken broth, lid, and let cook on med-low for about 15 minutes, salt/pepper), mashed sweet potatoes (not often) in butter and cream. zucchini, salad greens, carrots, peas and green beans on occasion, cauliflower, broccoli. Whatever veggies you like really, as long as they aren't really starchy.
Nope, doesn't have diabetes, he quit drinking 15 years ago, and isn't overweight.
The biggest hurdle is the mental one, where they feel they are being deprived of something. (They ARE - bad stuff) And there really is a physical addiction too. I know people who are trying too, and they are "cutting back". I found that I had to attack it 100% for the first month, and after that it was very easy.
Sorry, this is such a shitty concept it must die. Games in 80s, 90s and early 00s were released as complete final products and rarely if ever received any patches or DLCs. Now with the advent of a high speed Internet connection, even operating systems are offered as beta products (I'm looking at Windows 10). This is all done to save money on QA/QC and to increase the profits of game publishers (not, not developers) - the companies which basically do nothing, except clever often misleading marketing.
DLC is the name of the game. My sons are pre-teen, and they play various free games. They are amazed that they are free, cause they are sooo cool. (they suck) They see these youtubers (my least favorite word) prattling on about these games, and sit and watch them play them, and talk incessantly while doing so. But those games become popular, and if you get people hooked on it, you can sell them things. Upgrades/costumes/other levels, etc. It doesn't work on my kids, because I don't let it. This isn't a new concept, it's the razor/razor blade thing. But if they can get a subscription, then I am 100% sure there will be product tie-ins, commercials, and more things they can buy. It's like a pre-teen casino.
Not picking on pre-teens, but I think the rest of us can see right through it. I asked my son the other day if he plays any of the new versions of Minecraft, and he said "No, all the new versions are weird and aren't fun since Microsoft bought them. I just play the older versions." I honestly don't think MS can do what Netflix did, and that's have a vision. They built their userbase and then came out guns blazing by daring to create original programming. I think it was the smartest thing they could do, and they didn't do it half-assed. MS will approach this game thing with kid-gloves and it will fail. By the time they have anything worth showing, the market will have moved on.
THIS is why science is important. The whole "eat less" or "eat less fat" or "exercise more" or "" needs to stop. There is actual science behind our bodies and how they work, but so many people are just looking for the quick answer. Empty your cup, forget what you know, and look at what the science tells you. That include doctors as well, they need to get back to science and rely less on what they were taught in medical school 50 years ago.
My father just had two stents put into one artery - it was 99 percent blocked and 50 percent blocked in another area. He is in his 70s, and has always been in pretty good health. I asked him to find out what his cholesterol levels were from the tests, and they were exactly what I expected - they were great. Just as they had been his whole life.
For four years now I have been following a paleo/primal diet. I have never felt better! I lost some weight and haven't even had to think about it since. That wasn't my goal, as I was about 173 at the time, I am right at 160 now, and have dipped to 155. I have learned so much about cholesterol, fat, and diet even though I thought I knew a lot before. I've read books by Mark Sisson, Gary Taubes, and some others, as well as articles/talks by Dr. Peter Attia. Attia had some really in-depth blog posts on cholesterol that were very enlightening, and his vimeo video on the limits of scientific evidence is really great. The other thing to be aware of around artery "hardening" is with oxidation. It's not really cholesterol clogging your arteries, it's is more like your arterial walls thickening, oxidizing and lesioning, and your body repairing them. So not clogging, more like spackling.:)
My diet has essentially been no calorie restrictions at all, but no grains (included corn) or grain based products (including oils, and beer), extremely low sugar, low carb, no legumes or legume products (soybean/peanuts), and high saturated fat. The only thing in my bloodwork that didn't improve drastically was my cholesterol. It is still high. However, what I've learned is that isn't a bad thing! My father has always had low cholesterol, and my mother's is high. After his near miss this year, my mother got a battery of tests too - she has no significant blockages, with her cholesterol nearing and sometimes over 300! They've tried to put her on meds, but they make her ill.
A couple of years ago I tracked what I ate for a week. Daily I was 2258 calories, 54 grams carbs (18 were sugars), and 186 grams of fat. I have wanted to write down all of my experiences with this over the last few years. I know that this is all heresay and circumstantial, but to ME it's relevant and real. Here are some of the benefits I had: - no nagging joint pain (less inflammation) - skin was better (same) - no bloating or tired feeling after eating - EVER - no craving for sweets or that "blood sugar" high - my teeth are better - I still brush and floss, but my semi-annual cleaning takes about 10 minutes. - better lung capacity
-- there is a story here that I still find hard to believe. At the time I started this, we had a swimming pool (I lived in AZ). Every year when I first got in the pool in the spring, I would attempt to swim down and back under water. I could usually do it, but sometimes not. I started this diet in November, and when it got to May/June it was time to go swimming again. I went down, and back... and wasn't even wanting for air, so I went DOWN again. So 50% better than I had ever done before. And when I came up, I wasn't gasping either. I was baffled, and still am quite frankly. I think it has to do with less inflammation, and that my body overall is just more efficient because it's fighting less and less against what grains/carbs do you our bodies.
It's really about health. I had to break my body's physical addiction to the blood sugar roller coaster. Once that was done (about 3 weeks) it's effortless, and I am healthier for it. I am in my upper 40s, and have a 32" waist. I didn't consider myself unhealthy before, but I can feel a difference and it's all better.
I am a long time GIMP user, but sometimes I just want to do quick things with photos - tweak the colors, crop, add an arrow or note, or make a quick collage. There are lots of android apps that make things like this quick and easy. I have G'MIC but that gives you all the settings, which I do use. But sometimes it's nice to just have presets. And sometimes you just gotta make a meme out of a pic to send to friends.:)
OK, ok, hang on. Only when I have to use it. I work at a software company and we are a MS shop. I run Linux at home, and have since around '99. If I need to log into my work machine, I can launch my container that connects to the work vpn and does an RDP into my machine in about 10 seconds. Linux just works for me, even with MS (most of the time).
But I refuse to sync my phone with Outlook, for two reasons. 1. I don't want to check work email all the time, and have that expectation that I am always available. My time is my time. 2. I don't like like corporate policy, and I don't want their hooks into my phone.
That's how I use Office365 - if I need to check an email, my calendar, or look at a document on onedrive and I am not on the vpn. But that's it. It's a backup way of doing my job. It's slow but somewhat usable, but it is nowhere near ready to use all-day every-day especially in the corporate world. The fact that Excel/Outlook/Onedrive has to sync in the background has caused issues as well when "something goes wrong". And it does, often. Onedrive works most of the time, but when it doesn't sync it's a real PITA.
Prior to the election, there was information and allegations about potential tampering of the election. That was nothing new, that always comes up before an election.
Then during his campaign, Trump repeatedly said the election was rigged.
Then after the election, there were allegations that Russia was involved, and Trump back-pedaled and said there was no tampering with the election, Hilary lost fair and square.
All of these things cannot be true at the same time.
Many moons ago I switched from Mandrake to Kubuntu, then to Xubuntu, then to MintXFCE where I have been for the last several years. XFCE fits my needs, and I don't object to change unless it really causes me pain. I really don't care for systemd, and since I have run it I have noticed some insane shudown times and other weirdness since it installed. But for the mostly transparent to me.
I haven't had to hand-edit any X config files for a very long time, so I am happy with how it works. As long as Wayland is mostly e transparent, I am fine. But from what I understand, XFCE will not work with Wayland as it is. Not sure if the other Mint DEs will either (like Mate or Cinnamon). If they don't then they may not support Wayland, and the direction that Mint takes could be interesting.
as long as we allow bullshit laws that won't let anyone other than Chinese own most things ( including companies) in china and not consider that racist, we'll be screwed.
There is nothing racist about that. It's nationalist and protectionist but it is not racist. This is not to say that they are not racist. I would assume they are since most people seem to be, but that's not the same as confirmation. Trade policies that require partnering with a national business make a lot of sense if your goal is to protect jobs, and/or prevent foreign interests from dominating your economy.
Right. It is nationalist, which is what I was getting at. There may be good reasons to say "made in China is junk" because many things they make (at the behest of US corps) is junk. But they are also capable of making high-quality things. But made-in-china is approaching or has surpassed the acceptance level of "communism". It loses its context when 'communist' or 'commie bastard' becomes just a general insult. Same way 'Nazi' or 'Hitler' is used.
I think the real danger we are all facing is that China HAS become a superpower when it comes to manufacturing. We rely on them exclusively for a lot of things, important and not, in our daily lives. Any time that happens, there is risk. People who think we don't rely on them have their heads in the sand. I am all for lessening our reliance on China for things, not so much because of quality but because it carries such a high price.
I recently wore out an angle grinder in my garage, and decided to buy a good one. There are some well known high-quality brands. Some used to be made in the USA, but others were made in Germany, and Japan. Brands like Fein, Milwaukee, Festool, Metabo, and Makita. I started researching, and every single one of them are made in China now. Even if some of their higher-end models are made in the country of origin, their lower end models (still rather expensive) are made in China. Now it could be that those companies still make them 'at home' and only make them in China for export, but I have no evidence of that.
As the parent pointed out, all made-in-China parts are not equal. A Makita angle grinder (the one I got) is absolutely not the same quality as one from Harbor Freight. "Made in China" doesn't mean junk, just like "Made in USA" doesn't mean quality.
I think as long as we continue to have this mindset we will be at a disadvantage because we aren't living in reality. Just like we thought American-made cars were the best and Japanese cars were junk - and we got our asses handed to us. The same thing can and probably will happen with technology and other areas unless we wake up to reality and get off our high horse.
I worked for a big bank, and after a few internal shuffles, most of my team wasn't located where I lived, even though I lived where there was an office. I traveled once a month or so to the E. Coast where my teams were, and it was pretty good. In fact, I was able to move across the country to another state without much interruption at all to my job. In fact it helped because I was closer to the E. Coast so travel time was reduced as well as being a timezone closer for morning meetings!
I was usually working from 7 AM to 4:30 PM, with no real time for lunch because of overlapping meetings. Lots of meetings.
I have since left there, thankfully, and am at a much smaller company. I like the people I work with, and I do feel less isolated than before. I like coming into the office. But I wouldn't mind working from home again some day. You just need to have the right tools in place, a good work ethic, and it helps if everyone "gets" working with remote people.
Funny story - I joined one quarterly all-hands call via phone. It was apparently being held in a very large auditorium, several hundred in attendance. Typical big-company meeting of this type, some high-level talk from the exec, then he handed it off to others to give their spiels. One guy got speaking in person got on the mic, fumbled a bit with his introduction... then FROZE. Complete stage fright in front of 1000+ people in-person and on the phone. This was a pretty high-ranking guy in the company too who was no stranger to giving presentations. Then he collected himself, apologized, and said "I usually work from home, so I normally don't get to actually SEE this many people". Everyone laughed, then he laughed. That broke the tension, and he was fine after that and gave a pretty good presentation.
I know I have personally led calls of 100+ people, and behind a phone I am sure it is easier than in person.
A politician's constituents are the people who donated the most to their campaign.
I think that their constituents are those who are waving money in front of their face at any given point in time. They don't limit themselves to whoever contributed to their campaign.
The WAY that information was leaked about Hilary was somewhat timely, and metered out. There wasn't a dump of it.
So, here's what i don't understand. Trump kept saying the election was rigged - right up until the point where he won, then he suddenly claims it wasn't. Why wouldn't the Trump administration WANT to expose some kind of hack on the election? That would prove him right, and if Russia hacked her email server, then it would also prove his point about how much her email was a security threat for the nation. Then he could "put her in jail" as he promised.
And if Russia did influence our election, it was likely because Putin didn't want Hilary in office - not necessarily because Trump was involved in it. I never understood why Trump never took this stance. Instead, he did an about-face on it and pretends like they weren't involved to the point of defending them.
I'm amazed that a modern country bothers to spend money maintaining (or rather, pretending to maintain) a system that achieves... well, nothing.
"Large hail"? Really? Though I'm sure it can be quite damaging and painful, it's not a large-scale emergency, especially if you have no way of knowing what the fuck is going on.
OK, so from the rest of your comment it's obvious you don't understand. I am not in Texas, but where I live we do have these warning sirens. They are absolutely real, and for good reason. They are mainly used for tornadoes, which are absolutely fucking deadly. If the tornado siren goes off in the middle of the night, I would immediately get my family into our basement. That would absolutely save lives in a real emergency. I don't know where the hell you live, but you seem to be unaware of things in the US like dangerous weather, so a basement is an underground portion of a house that is poured concrete. It's the safest place to be if a tornado comes through.
And to your comment about hail, it can be pretty dangerous. When I was 18 we had a hailstorm where they were the size of softballs... that's bigger than a baseball/tennis ball... again, don't know where you're from. It broke out windshields of cars. I had to drive in it to get my brother from school, and it was scary. My dad sold insurance, and he had pictures of one guy's house where a FOOTBALL (American) sized chunk of hail went through his room and landed in his living room!
They test those sirens once a month where I live, and if you hear one outside of that scheduled test, you'd better pay attention. Severe weather can be deadly, and I hope whoever pulled this 'prank' pays a price for it. There was probably a safer way to make a point.
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Not to mention that plenty of people overdose and DIE from all kinds of drugs. Guess what - they don't admit those people to the hospital.
And people who are on some drugs like LSD may do crazy things and end up getting arrested, hurt, or killed - technically not directly attributed to the drug but what they did because of the drug.
This story is kind of silly.
I was on IG for about a year and a half, and it was my only form of social media. One day I just realized one day how corrosive it is. I felt like a chicken, always peck peck pecking at my phone, trying to keep up with my feed. I was mainly involved with motorcycle builder, buying/selling parts, etc. People would visciously gang up on others, and do all kinds of nasty things if they didn't like you, or you wouldn't sell parts as cheap as they wanted. I had real-life friends that would get fired up and angry over things that happened on IG. I know people who stopped being friends because of some things that happened in the comments of IG.
I just walked away from it when I woke up to this. Having been around the internet since 1990, I've seen all this stuff before. But with things like IG it has a very low entry point, meaning anyone can join the fray. It's not just for the technically inclined, and quite honestly I think it shows off the worst parts of society. It can do the opposite, but it seems as in life, the ones who make the most noise and are most aggressive ruin it for the rest.
What I don't understand is why Trump is worried about this investigation into Russia.
If you look at the facts, the investigation is whether or not Russia sought to influence the election, and that certainly seemed to be titled in favor of Trump. But that does not mean that Trump was involved in any way. It could simply mean that Putin didn't want Clinton to win. If that were true, it would tarnish Trump's win of course, but what's done is done. I really don't know what would happen, and it would surely be a disaster.
But the way Trump keeps saying that the investigation is into HIM, and that he never colluded with Russia, is disturbing. It all seems irrelevant to the question about if Russia tried to influence the election. He's making it about HIM, instead of about Russia. I find that strange. But I find a lot of what he says to be strange. His obsession with himself is quite nauseating - whether he's president or not.
So the press is evil, but let's have daily press briefings. (?!) I try to ignore it, but people at work keep putting it on the TV in the break room. I just get this sick sense that this is just an extension of the instant-gratification of today's media. I say let them do their investigation into Russia, and report on their findings. But instead, there is a constant barrage of micro-updates on things. So much so that it's really rather disheartening. I can't even read THIS site without hearing these kinds of updates. I read the BBC, but they even keep re-running the same story, with just a few little updates and a title change. Everyone has lost their damn minds.
It makes me just want to ignore it all.
Display. 5.00-inch.
Processor. 1.2GHz quad-core.
Front Camera. 5-megapixel.
Resolution. 720x1280 pixels.
RAM. 2GB.
OS. Android 6.0.1.
Storage. 16GB.
Rear Camera. 8-megapixel
It was $99 on Amazon, because it sports their ads on the lock screen. The ad-free version was $50 more.
I bought my BLU Life One X a year ago for $150. Moto's new phones may be cheap, but not news-worthy cheap.
Ever read the EULA? There is no real warranty. If you don't agree to it, then don't install it.
Microsoft is smarter than to actually say that though.
Just curious, what do people with hacked versions of Windows do? Can they install these updates?
I really don't know... my wife has a valid copy of Win7 on her laptop, and I run Linux.
I switched to Pale Moon for browsing several months ago, and couldn't be happier. It's what Firefox should be (and used to be).
I used Thunderbird for about a year back in the mid-2000s, but it just seemed too heavyweight for me. I am not saying it is a bad email client at all. I just got tired of it and how slow it seemed. I switched back to what I used to use, and have been using it ever since. pine. Yes, you read that right. I run fetchmail to pull in several email accounts to my local one, and I use pine (alpine) to read them. It's fast fast fast. Sometimes it can be tricky to sift through some emails that are image/html heavy, but thankfully a lot have "view in your browser" link if I need it. And quite honestly, I don't have to worry about images/colors/etc. I can open all attachments easily, but that only really works if I am local. From work I ssh into my machine to check email, and it's all stored there so it's not cached on my work machine. In and out, fast.
It seems archaic to most, but it works and works well for me. Except for my brief stint using Tbird, I've run pine since the late 90s.
On my phone I use K-9 for mail, and it does a great job. But it's my backup, I try not to email that much from my phone.
If Thunderbird would look to update, they should do so without redesigning to keep current clients happy. The worst thing you can do is think you know better than your users about what they want.
Just to summarize...
There is a story, that has made "the news", where a cartoon frog has been "killed off". This frog was an obscure image that was picked up by people on the internet as a way to make on line jokes. It was one of many many images used for this purpose. As making and sharing these memes became more popular, it was used more and more to incite a reaction in other people. This actually found its way into the presidential election process. Now people are sitting around on a message board debating and visciously arguing about the topic.
I really want to ask if we can get much lower on the importance scale. But I already know that answer.
Seriously. I mean, if we're talking about games that have truly had an impact, you cannot deny it. I don't really get it, but my kids do, and I can certainly appreciate it for what it is and how popular it has become.
Personally... I have been gaming since gaming began really, although I don't do a lot of it. Some of the games that have made the Hall of Fame I have never played, but recognize them for being important in the world of gaming. I would have rather seen Quake or Half-Life on the list. I spent many many hours playing Quake Mega-TF before 2000, we had a server at the company I worked at. It never got old, and I even made some maps for us to play. It really is the basis for me when it come to multi player FPS. Half-Life is just such a juggernaut when it comes to raising the bar on not only gameplay, but visually.
I just can't get into console gaming anymore, for me the real platform is the PC, and am surprised that Halo made the list.
Does anyone under 40 know what SMS is?
This was the headline there:
Lawsuit: Fox News group hacked, surveilled, and stalked ex-host Andrea Tantaros
And the headline for the story right next to it:
Ars Technica Live: Why it’s important to defend hackers, even the not nice ones
I cook all the time. Here are some off the top of my head.
I don't eat breakfast, just black coffee. If I do on weekends, it's some form of eggs/bacon/sausage.
Lunch - mixed greens salad, (arugula, kale, romaine, chard, etc), homemade dressing (5 parts olive oil, 1 part balsamic, or 6 parts olive oil, 1 part lemon juice), parmesan cheese... some turkey/ham/salami slices, cheese. 2 hard boiled eggs. (put them in water, bring to a boil, boil for 4 min, put on lid and take off heat, let sit for 10 min). Maybe some large curd cottage cheese sometimes. Dill pickles.
Had one of my favorites last night for dinner
Cook up some italian sausage. When it's done, remove the sausage and any excess grease, add some mushrooms and olive oil on med-high heat, when they are about half-cooked, throw in some garlic. After it is good and warmed up, pour in some half-n-half (or heavy cream)... let that bubble and cook, then add in a handful of raw spinach leaves and toss them a little until they start to wilt. Add in parmesan cheese to thicken some. Add the sausage back in and mix it up. Spoon onto plate. I like to serve it with some tomatoes, and zucchini (cut in half lenthwise, pour olive oil over them, salt, pepper, and parmesan and cook @ 425 until just past firm). Glass of red wine.
Other mains... omelettes/frittata/quiche (no crust) for dinner is always a fave. Seasoned and grilled chicken wings. Chicken thighs (crock pot) with green salsa, cheese, sour cream, lime, cilantro, avacodo, tomato served in a bowl. Burgers, sausage, fish, mealoaf (I use parmesan instead of breadcrumbs). Meatballs and homemade tomato sauce over zucchini sliced ribbon thin and dropped in boiling water for about 30 seconds. Tuna (can use regular mayo, or they have avocado mayo) served in romaine lettuce leaves. We order pizza - and just eat the toppings. If you go out, some places will serve burgers/sandwiches in lettuce wraps.
Sides: Kale (sauteed in olive oil and garlic, pour in chicken broth, lid, and let cook on med-low for about 15 minutes, salt/pepper), mashed sweet potatoes (not often) in butter and cream. zucchini, salad greens, carrots, peas and green beans on occasion, cauliflower, broccoli. Whatever veggies you like really, as long as they aren't really starchy.
Nope, doesn't have diabetes, he quit drinking 15 years ago, and isn't overweight.
The biggest hurdle is the mental one, where they feel they are being deprived of something. (They ARE - bad stuff) And there really is a physical addiction too. I know people who are trying too, and they are "cutting back". I found that I had to attack it 100% for the first month, and after that it was very easy.
Sorry, this is such a shitty concept it must die. Games in 80s, 90s and early 00s were released as complete final products and rarely if ever received any patches or DLCs. Now with the advent of a high speed Internet connection, even operating systems are offered as beta products (I'm looking at Windows 10). This is all done to save money on QA/QC and to increase the profits of game publishers (not, not developers) - the companies which basically do nothing, except clever often misleading marketing.
DLC is the name of the game.
My sons are pre-teen, and they play various free games. They are amazed that they are free, cause they are sooo cool. (they suck) They see these youtubers (my least favorite word) prattling on about these games, and sit and watch them play them, and talk incessantly while doing so. But those games become popular, and if you get people hooked on it, you can sell them things. Upgrades/costumes/other levels, etc. It doesn't work on my kids, because I don't let it.
This isn't a new concept, it's the razor/razor blade thing. But if they can get a subscription, then I am 100% sure there will be product tie-ins, commercials, and more things they can buy. It's like a pre-teen casino.
Not picking on pre-teens, but I think the rest of us can see right through it. I asked my son the other day if he plays any of the new versions of Minecraft, and he said "No, all the new versions are weird and aren't fun since Microsoft bought them. I just play the older versions." I honestly don't think MS can do what Netflix did, and that's have a vision. They built their userbase and then came out guns blazing by daring to create original programming. I think it was the smartest thing they could do, and they didn't do it half-assed. MS will approach this game thing with kid-gloves and it will fail. By the time they have anything worth showing, the market will have moved on.
THIS is why science is important. The whole "eat less" or "eat less fat" or "exercise more" or "" needs to stop. There is actual science behind our bodies and how they work, but so many people are just looking for the quick answer. Empty your cup, forget what you know, and look at what the science tells you. That include doctors as well, they need to get back to science and rely less on what they were taught in medical school 50 years ago.
My father just had two stents put into one artery - it was 99 percent blocked and 50 percent blocked in another area. He is in his 70s, and has always been in pretty good health. I asked him to find out what his cholesterol levels were from the tests, and they were exactly what I expected - they were great. Just as they had been his whole life.
For four years now I have been following a paleo/primal diet. I have never felt better! I lost some weight and haven't even had to think about it since. That wasn't my goal, as I was about 173 at the time, I am right at 160 now, and have dipped to 155. I have learned so much about cholesterol, fat, and diet even though I thought I knew a lot before. I've read books by Mark Sisson, Gary Taubes, and some others, as well as articles/talks by Dr. Peter Attia. Attia had some really in-depth blog posts on cholesterol that were very enlightening, and his vimeo video on the limits of scientific evidence is really great. The other thing to be aware of around artery "hardening" is with oxidation. It's not really cholesterol clogging your arteries, it's is more like your arterial walls thickening, oxidizing and lesioning, and your body repairing them. So not clogging, more like spackling. :)
My diet has essentially been no calorie restrictions at all, but no grains (included corn) or grain based products (including oils, and beer), extremely low sugar, low carb, no legumes or legume products (soybean/peanuts), and high saturated fat. The only thing in my bloodwork that didn't improve drastically was my cholesterol. It is still high. However, what I've learned is that isn't a bad thing! My father has always had low cholesterol, and my mother's is high. After his near miss this year, my mother got a battery of tests too - she has no significant blockages, with her cholesterol nearing and sometimes over 300! They've tried to put her on meds, but they make her ill.
A couple of years ago I tracked what I ate for a week. Daily I was 2258 calories, 54 grams carbs (18 were sugars), and 186 grams of fat.
I have wanted to write down all of my experiences with this over the last few years. I know that this is all heresay and circumstantial, but to ME it's relevant and real. Here are some of the benefits I had:
- no nagging joint pain (less inflammation)
- skin was better (same)
- no bloating or tired feeling after eating - EVER
- no craving for sweets or that "blood sugar" high
- my teeth are better - I still brush and floss, but my semi-annual cleaning takes about 10 minutes.
- better lung capacity
-- there is a story here that I still find hard to believe. At the time I started this, we had a swimming pool (I lived in AZ). Every year when I first got in the pool in the spring, I would attempt to swim down and back under water. I could usually do it, but sometimes not. I started this diet in November, and when it got to May/June it was time to go swimming again. I went down, and back... and wasn't even wanting for air, so I went DOWN again. So 50% better than I had ever done before. And when I came up, I wasn't gasping either. I was baffled, and still am quite frankly. I think it has to do with less inflammation, and that my body overall is just more efficient because it's fighting less and less against what grains/carbs do you our bodies.
It's really about health. I had to break my body's physical addiction to the blood sugar roller coaster. Once that was done (about 3 weeks) it's effortless, and I am healthier for it. I am in my upper 40s, and have a 32" waist. I didn't consider myself unhealthy before, but I can feel a difference and it's all better.
I am a long time GIMP user, but sometimes I just want to do quick things with photos - tweak the colors, crop, add an arrow or note, or make a quick collage. There are lots of android apps that make things like this quick and easy. I have G'MIC but that gives you all the settings, which I do use. But sometimes it's nice to just have presets. And sometimes you just gotta make a meme out of a pic to send to friends. :)
OK, ok, hang on. Only when I have to use it.
I work at a software company and we are a MS shop. I run Linux at home, and have since around '99. If I need to log into my work machine, I can launch my container that connects to the work vpn and does an RDP into my machine in about 10 seconds. Linux just works for me, even with MS (most of the time).
But I refuse to sync my phone with Outlook, for two reasons.
1. I don't want to check work email all the time, and have that expectation that I am always available. My time is my time.
2. I don't like like corporate policy, and I don't want their hooks into my phone.
That's how I use Office365 - if I need to check an email, my calendar, or look at a document on onedrive and I am not on the vpn. But that's it. It's a backup way of doing my job. It's slow but somewhat usable, but it is nowhere near ready to use all-day every-day especially in the corporate world. The fact that Excel/Outlook/Onedrive has to sync in the background has caused issues as well when "something goes wrong". And it does, often. Onedrive works most of the time, but when it doesn't sync it's a real PITA.
Prior to the election, there was information and allegations about potential tampering of the election. That was nothing new, that always comes up before an election.
Then during his campaign, Trump repeatedly said the election was rigged.
Then after the election, there were allegations that Russia was involved, and Trump back-pedaled and said there was no tampering with the election, Hilary lost fair and square.
All of these things cannot be true at the same time.
Many moons ago I switched from Mandrake to Kubuntu, then to Xubuntu, then to MintXFCE where I have been for the last several years. XFCE fits my needs, and I don't object to change unless it really causes me pain. I really don't care for systemd, and since I have run it I have noticed some insane shudown times and other weirdness since it installed. But for the mostly transparent to me.
I haven't had to hand-edit any X config files for a very long time, so I am happy with how it works. As long as Wayland is mostly e transparent, I am fine. But from what I understand, XFCE will not work with Wayland as it is. Not sure if the other Mint DEs will either (like Mate or Cinnamon). If they don't then they may not support Wayland, and the direction that Mint takes could be interesting.
along with Tremors, Terminator/Terminator2, and Back to the Future. All great ones in my book!
as long as we allow bullshit laws that won't let anyone other than Chinese own most things ( including companies) in china and not consider that racist, we'll be screwed.
There is nothing racist about that. It's nationalist and protectionist but it is not racist. This is not to say that they are not racist. I would assume they are since most people seem to be, but that's not the same as confirmation. Trade policies that require partnering with a national business make a lot of sense if your goal is to protect jobs, and/or prevent foreign interests from dominating your economy.
Right. It is nationalist, which is what I was getting at. There may be good reasons to say "made in China is junk" because many things they make (at the behest of US corps) is junk. But they are also capable of making high-quality things. But made-in-china is approaching or has surpassed the acceptance level of "communism". It loses its context when 'communist' or 'commie bastard' becomes just a general insult. Same way 'Nazi' or 'Hitler' is used.
I think the real danger we are all facing is that China HAS become a superpower when it comes to manufacturing. We rely on them exclusively for a lot of things, important and not, in our daily lives. Any time that happens, there is risk. People who think we don't rely on them have their heads in the sand. I am all for lessening our reliance on China for things, not so much because of quality but because it carries such a high price.
I recently wore out an angle grinder in my garage, and decided to buy a good one. There are some well known high-quality brands. Some used to be made in the USA, but others were made in Germany, and Japan. Brands like Fein, Milwaukee, Festool, Metabo, and Makita. I started researching, and every single one of them are made in China now. Even if some of their higher-end models are made in the country of origin, their lower end models (still rather expensive) are made in China. Now it could be that those companies still make them 'at home' and only make them in China for export, but I have no evidence of that.
As the parent pointed out, all made-in-China parts are not equal. A Makita angle grinder (the one I got) is absolutely not the same quality as one from Harbor Freight. "Made in China" doesn't mean junk, just like "Made in USA" doesn't mean quality.
I think as long as we continue to have this mindset we will be at a disadvantage because we aren't living in reality. Just like we thought American-made cars were the best and Japanese cars were junk - and we got our asses handed to us. The same thing can and probably will happen with technology and other areas unless we wake up to reality and get off our high horse.
I worked for a big bank, and after a few internal shuffles, most of my team wasn't located where I lived, even though I lived where there was an office. I traveled once a month or so to the E. Coast where my teams were, and it was pretty good. In fact, I was able to move across the country to another state without much interruption at all to my job. In fact it helped because I was closer to the E. Coast so travel time was reduced as well as being a timezone closer for morning meetings!
I was usually working from 7 AM to 4:30 PM, with no real time for lunch because of overlapping meetings. Lots of meetings.
I have since left there, thankfully, and am at a much smaller company. I like the people I work with, and I do feel less isolated than before. I like coming into the office. But I wouldn't mind working from home again some day. You just need to have the right tools in place, a good work ethic, and it helps if everyone "gets" working with remote people.
Funny story - I joined one quarterly all-hands call via phone. It was apparently being held in a very large auditorium, several hundred in attendance. Typical big-company meeting of this type, some high-level talk from the exec, then he handed it off to others to give their spiels. One guy got speaking in person got on the mic, fumbled a bit with his introduction... then FROZE. Complete stage fright in front of 1000+ people in-person and on the phone. This was a pretty high-ranking guy in the company too who was no stranger to giving presentations. Then he collected himself, apologized, and said "I usually work from home, so I normally don't get to actually SEE this many people". Everyone laughed, then he laughed. That broke the tension, and he was fine after that and gave a pretty good presentation.
I know I have personally led calls of 100+ people, and behind a phone I am sure it is easier than in person.
A politician's constituents are the people who donated the most to their campaign.
I think that their constituents are those who are waving money in front of their face at any given point in time.
They don't limit themselves to whoever contributed to their campaign.
The WAY that information was leaked about Hilary was somewhat timely, and metered out. There wasn't a dump of it.
So, here's what i don't understand. Trump kept saying the election was rigged - right up until the point where he won, then he suddenly claims it wasn't. Why wouldn't the Trump administration WANT to expose some kind of hack on the election? That would prove him right, and if Russia hacked her email server, then it would also prove his point about how much her email was a security threat for the nation. Then he could "put her in jail" as he promised.
And if Russia did influence our election, it was likely because Putin didn't want Hilary in office - not necessarily because Trump was involved in it. I never understood why Trump never took this stance. Instead, he did an about-face on it and pretends like they weren't involved to the point of defending them.
These things are all perplexing to me.
I'm amazed that a modern country bothers to spend money maintaining (or rather, pretending to maintain) a system that achieves... well, nothing.
"Large hail"? Really? Though I'm sure it can be quite damaging and painful, it's not a large-scale emergency, especially if you have no way of knowing what the fuck is going on.
OK, so from the rest of your comment it's obvious you don't understand. I am not in Texas, but where I live we do have these warning sirens. They are absolutely real, and for good reason. They are mainly used for tornadoes, which are absolutely fucking deadly. If the tornado siren goes off in the middle of the night, I would immediately get my family into our basement. That would absolutely save lives in a real emergency. I don't know where the hell you live, but you seem to be unaware of things in the US like dangerous weather, so a basement is an underground portion of a house that is poured concrete. It's the safest place to be if a tornado comes through.
And to your comment about hail, it can be pretty dangerous. When I was 18 we had a hailstorm where they were the size of softballs... that's bigger than a baseball/tennis ball... again, don't know where you're from. It broke out windshields of cars. I had to drive in it to get my brother from school, and it was scary. My dad sold insurance, and he had pictures of one guy's house where a FOOTBALL (American) sized chunk of hail went through his room and landed in his living room!
They test those sirens once a month where I live, and if you hear one outside of that scheduled test, you'd better pay attention. Severe weather can be deadly, and I hope whoever pulled this 'prank' pays a price for it. There was probably a safer way to make a point.