Yes! Thank you! I, for one, find signing up for free things exceedingly annoying. If it's free, WHO CARES WHO I AM? And even if it's not free? Oh, well. Thanks!
I think it's about time that a company has a long-term, high-capacity data solution that is suitable for the average home user. Tapes are still much too much. The technology is there, and given the premise that it is somewhat affordable, the demand will certainly be there, especially with the increase in TV-top gizmos for recording TV or video digitally.
I really hope this, or something like it, does actually come to fruition in the near future. (My mp3 collection is screaming for it, too! 8)
Definitely agreed, I've never gotten excited about anything to do with Linux and gaming, even though I'm an avid fan of both, until now. This actually might go somewhere indeed!
Actually, around here, lots of cars go off during thunderstorms, and they have to shut off by themselves because their owners never do it for them! Very annoying.
Hahaha!! This is my favorite response yet! So, you are wasting your valuable time responding to me...by your logic, twisted as it is, an indicator that you are not a thinking person!
My thoughts exactly. This reminds me of those stories I've read about random people stopping to help someone in need of medical attention (or whatever) and then getting sued for "negligence" or some such bull.
I know this unhelpful attitude is pervasive in large cities especially. I watched a special on TLC I believe recently, where as a sociological experiment, they had people in very busy urban areas fall down, apparently stricken by something, and then lay there as if dead. It took an average of about 10 minutes before anyone stopped to check on them.
What I also found interesting is that the "herd" mentality is partly to blame there...once someone actually stopped to help the person, several people all at once appeared to assist them.
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Hmm, you're right, the bear didn't die. It didn't walk away, though, either, it recuperated at a local animal hospital.
Apparently neither of us read the story!
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I've read Seanbaby numerous times, and I have to admit that the Superfriends bios were fsckin' hilarious. Then, one day, I clicked on the little picture of a bear cub on the front page and found lots of descriptive words and photos about how this little cub, confused and frightened in the city, scrambled up a telephone pole, where it made contact with some wires that it shouldn't have, and was electrocuted and burned to death. Just exactly what is funny and refreshing about that? I was actually rather horrified to see it in such graphic detail.
Humor: the suffering and death of innocent animals?
I'm sorry, and call me whatever you want, (I really don't care!) but I anyone who considers that kind of thing to be funny has something very wrong with them.
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Jimbo: "Don't Sue People" Panda? [the bar patrons are present]
Skeeter: [stands up] Hey! We don't take kindly to folks that don't sue people 'round here!
Barkeep: Nuhow, Skeeter, he ain't hurtin' nobody.
Petey: Listen to me: when you sue somebody, it hurts everyone. You sue for money, but where do you think that money comes from? From the schools, from taxes, from the state. From you. [The courtroom is silent, listening] There's no such thing as free money. When you sue somebody, you take money away from parks and schools and charities, and put it in your own pocket. And that makes me a sa-a-a-a-ad panda. [reactions are seen in the faces of various people in the courtroom, even in Gerald's face.]
Bearded man: I'm a sad panda, too.
Man 1: I'm a really sad panda. I didn't know we were doing all that damage. This is all that damn lawyer's fault! [people get angry at Gerald]
Man 2: [rises] Yeah! Let's sue the lawyer!
All: [rising] Yeah!
Gerald: [approaches Petey and the boys] No! Don't you see? Th-the panda's right. Boy, what a great message he has! When you sue people, you just end up causing a lot of problems for society. Uhwell, I've really learned something today. All I could see was the millions of dollars coming to me and I didn't care about where the money came from. Well, I'm no longer doing sexual harassment lawsuits in schools! They're too vague and two easily corruptible. Thank you, Sexual Harassment Panda!
Petey: "Don't Sue People" Panda.
Gerald: Yeah, well, whatever, sooo let's... not... sue anyone again. Okay, come on, guys. Let's go get some ice cream!
Petey and the boys: Hooray!
As was mentioned a bit earlier, I use http://www.oth.net to find sites with relatively obscure artists, and then see about getting myself an account there. Ratios don't bother me, in fact at some of the sites I'm on, it's kind of fun to see who can upload the best albums before anyone else does.
Also, on some of the more organized sites, there are message boards for the users to discuss imcomplete/badly ripped uploads, and searchable online archives. Top it off with a group of account holders who are dedicated to quality music and quality encodings, and you have a very nice setup indeed.
Actually, I still use FTP exclusively, and find it to be far superior to any type of peer-to-peer program that has been written thus far. If nothing else, the FTP sites archive the files for later retrieval with just a quick e-mail to the siteop, not to mention the control over the users with accounts, the users selection of music, etc. etc.
And, possibly the strongest point of FTP...it's not going away. You can't make a protocol with tis much longevity just vanish off the face of the Net by a legislation or two.
It seems that a study of cable and DSL speeds just in Kansas City would be warranted. I have RR cable through Time Warner, which is the leading cable service provider in town, and I get an avg. of 2.2mbps down, 384k up. Max download is about 2.6mbps, slowest I've seen is around 1.7mbps. My girlfriend has RR, too, in another part of town and gets around 1.1mbps down on avg., slowest downstream speed being about 800kbps and max of about 1.4mbps. I have another friend who lives a block and a half from her who gets up to 4.5mbps down, always 384k up, (no matter where you are it seems).
DSL downstream also varies widely, but only due to distance from CO factors, of course...regardless, residential DSL customers in town have seen 2mbps downloads, always with the 128kbps upstream.
LAN parties usually consist of the following:
A gracious host who hopefully has the place covered with CAT 5 drops or has a hub
A bunch of gaming freaks
Computers/monitors that are either already at the gracious hosts' party place or brought by said gaming freaks
Games that you can play on a LAN
Fun
See, it's kind of like playing games online, but you can talk to/see the people you're playing against.
8)
Man pages are essential for people like me, admins trying to make their way in the world without having to rely on someone constantly for answers to things. This sort of behavior doesn't help one learn to be resourceful, and instead increases the reliance on easy answers, not to mention doesn't allow you to learn the full array of options for any given command. When I first started using *NIX, I found the man pages a bit confusing, but now I find them invaluable. Man pages are the equivalent of the dictionary for whatever OS you're using or trying to become familiar with. You're not ever going to learn anything without your dictionary...
Shadowrun is the best RPG of all time. I eventually stopped playing because my friends did, but I had a troll street samurai that had been on many, many runs and which I was this close to retiring anyway because of all the fudging the game master was having to do on the bad guys' stats and rolls just to make them a challenge. Mostly what I liked about it though is the amount of well thought-out background information. The sourcebooks themselves were as fun to read as any novels.
Even though it has some of the worst networking code I've ever seen (if not THE worst) I think it's pretty much the best game ever. Realism is cool, not to mention all the stuff you can mod in the game.
Oh, man. There's no way SF channel has enough funds to make that even remotely cool. It would take MILLIONS, and not just in special effects; I'm talking writers, mostly.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, that must be why the Slashdot crew asks us at the top of the page every time we log in if we've metamoderated today... Guess we/I should do it.
Yes! Thank you! I, for one, find signing up for free things exceedingly annoying. If it's free, WHO CARES WHO I AM? And even if it's not free? Oh, well. Thanks!
I think it's about time that a company has a long-term, high-capacity data solution that is suitable for the average home user. Tapes are still much too much. The technology is there, and given the premise that it is somewhat affordable, the demand will certainly be there, especially with the increase in TV-top gizmos for recording TV or video digitally.
I really hope this, or something like it, does actually come to fruition in the near future. (My mp3 collection is screaming for it, too! 8)
I thought BeOS stood for "Be Open Source!"
Definitely agreed, I've never gotten excited about anything to do with Linux and gaming, even though I'm an avid fan of both, until now. This actually might go somewhere indeed!
Actually, around here, lots of cars go off during thunderstorms, and they have to shut off by themselves because their owners never do it for them! Very annoying.
Hehe. I wondered if anyone here would ever notice.
It's from an older episode of Saturday Night Live; it's a sketch about a Japanese version of an American sitcom.
Someday maybe http://snltranscript.jt.org will have the script for it, and I hope so, because I've yet to find anything about it online.
"For wacky American people!"
Hahaha!! This is my favorite response yet! So, you are wasting your valuable time responding to me...by your logic, twisted as it is, an indicator that you are not a thinking person!
So, um, I guess I should feel dumb for not knowing who 90% of those people were either?
I mean, I'm not l33t or anything, I'm just someone who knows how to fix computers...and would it help me or affect my everyday life if I knew?
//The blob was found to be a cluster of stars 13.6 billion light years away, seen when the age of the universe was less than a billion years old.//
Did we find out the exact age of the universe while I was on vacation or something? Why didn't someone tell me?
I sure hope that when someone discovers the meaning of life, or the existence of an afterlife that I'm not out of the loop on that one, too.
Heil!
I definitely have to agree. I can only take so much, although at the same time I want to keep abreast. Interesting phenomenon.
My thoughts exactly. This reminds me of those stories I've read about random people stopping to help someone in need of medical attention (or whatever) and then getting sued for "negligence" or some such bull.
I know this unhelpful attitude is pervasive in large cities especially. I watched a special on TLC I believe recently, where as a sociological experiment, they had people in very busy urban areas fall down, apparently stricken by something, and then lay there as if dead. It took an average of about 10 minutes before anyone stopped to check on them.
What I also found interesting is that the "herd" mentality is partly to blame there...once someone actually stopped to help the person, several people all at once appeared to assist them.
Hmm, you're right, the bear didn't die. It didn't walk away, though, either, it recuperated at a local animal hospital.
Apparently neither of us read the story!
I've read Seanbaby numerous times, and I have to admit that the Superfriends bios were fsckin' hilarious. Then, one day, I clicked on the little picture of a bear cub on the front page and found lots of descriptive words and photos about how this little cub, confused and frightened in the city, scrambled up a telephone pole, where it made contact with some wires that it shouldn't have, and was electrocuted and burned to death. Just exactly what is funny and refreshing about that? I was actually rather horrified to see it in such graphic detail. Humor: the suffering and death of innocent animals? I'm sorry, and call me whatever you want, (I really don't care!) but I anyone who considers that kind of thing to be funny has something very wrong with them.
Jimbo: "Don't Sue People" Panda? [the bar patrons are present]
Skeeter: [stands up] Hey! We don't take kindly to folks that don't sue people 'round here!
Barkeep: Nuhow, Skeeter, he ain't hurtin' nobody.
Petey: Listen to me: when you sue somebody, it hurts everyone. You sue for money, but where do you think that money comes from? From the schools, from taxes, from the state. From you. [The courtroom is silent, listening] There's no such thing as free money. When you sue somebody, you take money away from parks and schools and charities, and put it in your own pocket. And that makes me a sa-a-a-a-ad panda. [reactions are seen in the faces of various people in the courtroom, even in Gerald's face.]
Bearded man: I'm a sad panda, too.
Man 1: I'm a really sad panda. I didn't know we were doing all that damage. This is all that damn lawyer's fault! [people get angry at Gerald]
Man 2: [rises] Yeah! Let's sue the lawyer!
All: [rising] Yeah!
Gerald: [approaches Petey and the boys] No! Don't you see? Th-the panda's right. Boy, what a great message he has! When you sue people, you just end up causing a lot of problems for society. Uhwell, I've really learned something today. All I could see was the millions of dollars coming to me and I didn't care about where the money came from. Well, I'm no longer doing sexual harassment lawsuits in schools! They're too vague and two easily corruptible. Thank you, Sexual Harassment Panda!
Petey: "Don't Sue People" Panda.
Gerald: Yeah, well, whatever, sooo let's... not... sue anyone again. Okay, come on, guys. Let's go get some ice cream!
Petey and the boys: Hooray!
As was mentioned a bit earlier, I use http://www.oth.net to find sites with relatively obscure artists, and then see about getting myself an account there. Ratios don't bother me, in fact at some of the sites I'm on, it's kind of fun to see who can upload the best albums before anyone else does. Also, on some of the more organized sites, there are message boards for the users to discuss imcomplete/badly ripped uploads, and searchable online archives. Top it off with a group of account holders who are dedicated to quality music and quality encodings, and you have a very nice setup indeed.
Actually, I still use FTP exclusively, and find it to be far superior to any type of peer-to-peer program that has been written thus far. If nothing else, the FTP sites archive the files for later retrieval with just a quick e-mail to the siteop, not to mention the control over the users with accounts, the users selection of music, etc. etc. And, possibly the strongest point of FTP...it's not going away. You can't make a protocol with tis much longevity just vanish off the face of the Net by a legislation or two.
Man, I'd love to be able to internally generate Nitrous Oxide. Haha! Wheeeee!
It seems that a study of cable and DSL speeds just in Kansas City would be warranted. I have RR cable through Time Warner, which is the leading cable service provider in town, and I get an avg. of 2.2mbps down, 384k up. Max download is about 2.6mbps, slowest I've seen is around 1.7mbps. My girlfriend has RR, too, in another part of town and gets around 1.1mbps down on avg., slowest downstream speed being about 800kbps and max of about 1.4mbps. I have another friend who lives a block and a half from her who gets up to 4.5mbps down, always 384k up, (no matter where you are it seems). DSL downstream also varies widely, but only due to distance from CO factors, of course...regardless, residential DSL customers in town have seen 2mbps downloads, always with the 128kbps upstream.
LAN parties usually consist of the following: A gracious host who hopefully has the place covered with CAT 5 drops or has a hub A bunch of gaming freaks Computers/monitors that are either already at the gracious hosts' party place or brought by said gaming freaks Games that you can play on a LAN Fun See, it's kind of like playing games online, but you can talk to/see the people you're playing against. 8)
Man pages are essential for people like me, admins trying to make their way in the world without having to rely on someone constantly for answers to things. This sort of behavior doesn't help one learn to be resourceful, and instead increases the reliance on easy answers, not to mention doesn't allow you to learn the full array of options for any given command. When I first started using *NIX, I found the man pages a bit confusing, but now I find them invaluable. Man pages are the equivalent of the dictionary for whatever OS you're using or trying to become familiar with. You're not ever going to learn anything without your dictionary...
Shadowrun is the best RPG of all time. I eventually stopped playing because my friends did, but I had a troll street samurai that had been on many, many runs and which I was this close to retiring anyway because of all the fudging the game master was having to do on the bad guys' stats and rolls just to make them a challenge. Mostly what I liked about it though is the amount of well thought-out background information. The sourcebooks themselves were as fun to read as any novels.
Even though it has some of the worst networking code I've ever seen (if not THE worst) I think it's pretty much the best game ever. Realism is cool, not to mention all the stuff you can mod in the game.
Oh, man. There's no way SF channel has enough funds to make that even remotely cool. It would take MILLIONS, and not just in special effects; I'm talking writers, mostly.