I found a fan in a form-factor i didn't realize existed: the 5-inch cd drive. It's only an inch or two deep, but it fits right there in the 5-inch bay. If you have one at the VERY top, it's awesome. It has a knob so you can control your speed. Might be useful. Not because it's the best, but because it's a way to cram in another fan without taking up room otherwise.
during the process, definitely not. Afterwards, it depends on the person. (Me, sleep 24 hours and am fine. Wife? hurt 30 days)
Oral surgery, however, is different. It hurts when it happens, it hurts like hell afterwards, and Wendy's Frosties actually become medicinal by being the only thing you can eat to put any calories (even if they are empty) in you while at the same time being cold so you can leave it on the wound (with yummy results), causing 1 frosty to provide 30+ minutes of relief.
It looks pretty gnarly too. I took pictures. They're quite poplular:
Okay - now add Picasa to the list of things I was just talking about. One of the most popular photo management softwares used by the 'common man', especially for new internet users who never had the opportunity to use stuff that was out before.
Personally, I don't like it and use Photoshop and my own scripts to upload to flickr using the flickr API and a few thousand lines of code to transform my proprietary tagging system (that I invented before the word "tag" existed on the internet, in 2000ish) to the types of tags a common person would use ("thing-animal-cat" just doesn't look right when normal people would simply say "cat").
Anyway... These stories keep coming out. I wish I saved them as a collection, haha.
"Me, me, me, me. The personal computing experience is defined by "ClintJCL."
You seem to have forgotten what the word "personal" means.
I have a large house. In order to hear the music everywhere, you need speakers in every room. Wiring a whole a house is a very expensive job. An FM transmitter is much cheaper.
You are plainly someone with no imagination. Of *course* a mac is good enough for *you*. But my point remains: If you want to do some *personal* (as in, not some lowest-common-demoniator operation like "watch ameican idol on youtube" and "write my college paper") *computing* (as in, possibilities).
Computing is about possibilities, and doing things you didn't know you ever could have done with a computer 10 years earlier.
When I was online meeting people in 1988, modems were far more expensive for our Apple2 than for our IBM PC. And all the software on the BBSes -- one-hundred percent -- was PC software. Not apple software.
And when I first got online on the internet in 1990? It was on a PC, because Apple modems were more expensive. And I telneted to severs that ran unix, not apple servers.
And when the web finally came about? Guess what the first browsers were for? Unix, then PC. Mac came last. As usual
And when recording high quality video came along, and people started using their computers as personal video recorders, recording in 320x200 or 512x384 or even 640x480 tv resolution -- and released those files to IRC for distribution -- Guess which type of computer those people were all using? Mac's are famous for video, but from the corporate side, not from the people side.
And when the PCI transmitter came out, in 2003? Guess who still doesn't have drivers for it, 6 years later?
Yea. Mac. It's great if you want to do NON-PERSONAL, NON-COMPUTING. Writing a paper is only computing in the sense that you're doing a non-computer thing (writing a paper) using a computer. Surfing the net, similarly, is barley computing. Watching youtube videos is just watching TV, but now you're on a computer.
Real computing is using a computer to do things only a computer can do. I turn off my lights. I control the airwaves in my house, literally. I don't have a dvd player. I don't have a console. I have a 52-inch HDTV which is only hooked up to my computer. I watch movies, listen to music, and watch TV shows every day. I don't own an ipod, dvd player, vcr, or cable. There are ways to use a computer for more things than just doing your homework and watching a guy get kicked in his balls.
Do you remember the 70s at all? Remember how exciting pong was? Remember the first MUDs? The first time you could speak to another person online? (1988 for me). Or are you just another apple fanboy, with an emphasis on boy. How long have you been computing, anwyay? Do you have a computer science degree like me? Do you build your computers from scratch? What are your experiences, exactly? Corporate development?
I love how your argument is basically "I don't want hardware". Yea, if what you want is a crippled subset of what personal computing truly means -- then of course something substandard will be sufficient. Ambilight keeps me from falling asleep in a dark room without making me have to watch TV in a white-lit room, which sucks. And it's great for music visualizers, and lighting up the room in response to the music. There's only one PCI FM transmitter out, and they weren't making it 50 yrs ago. Lol. And yes, if you want to use a heavy-weight, CPU-intensive, shitty client -- by all means, use a Mac. But utorrent *is* the best.
Your argument has now been reduced to "people are stupid and don't do much with their computers, so Macs are fine". That's a great pro-people argument, but not great at saying Macs are the best personal computing have to offer.
They're not compatible. I challenge you to get either my ambilight system OR my PCI FM transmitter working on your mac. Both are niche cutting-edge devices, and neither manufacturer makes Mac drivers. SO yes, if you want to be on the cutting edge of the latest hardware and software, mac wont cut it. uTorrent, the most popular bittorrent client, wasn't even available on mac until this year. I've been using it 3 yrs. If you wanted uTorrent 3 yrs ago, you couldn't run it because.. gasp.. it's not compatible. (Virtualization doesn't count. Every good OS can emulate another and run it's programs THAT way.)
Same with windows. THe OS almost never locks up, it's the programs. I typically reboot because a program wont work correctly, not because the OS crashes. In 1 yr of XP, I've only had about 5 non-voluntary reboots (not counting power failures where my UPS ran out of batteries).
And yet I see tons of SubGenius stuff, and have been to several great events too. Meanwhile, I see nothing about discordianism anywhere, other than the occasional person who mentions it when CotS is mentioned. What do discordians *do*? do they exist? Where's their art mines? Where's their radio shows? Where's the website? How do you get ordained? Can you get legally set up to marry people by being a discordian, like you can be being a subgenius?
More black children are fatherless in america than white children. I guess being white makes people more likely to take care of children in their family, then?
Maybe secular people in Israel are discriminated against, since it's a religious state. You haven't really proven anything, you've just provided a correlation.
I don't consider Jesus the Christian God myself. I consider God the Christian God. (Where does Jews For Jesus fit in in your analysis tho - I sense the answer might be humorous.)
You sound pretty normal than! Now, if the afterlife is taken away, would you suddenly lose your willingness to stand in for your children or family? I'm going to venture that the answer is no.
The Church Of The Subgenius beats the pants off of Pastafarianism any day. FSM is fucking funny as hell, but it has no depth. Which is part of the point, but it works against it.
Would you mock a 1000 page book with a knock-knock joke, or another 1000 page book equally ridiculous? I'd prefer to mock something with some depth with something of equal depth. The Book Of The SubGenius, The Hour Of Slack Radio Show, real-life events with real-life weird people -- all things FSMism doesn't offer.
They worship the same damn god. While I think *all* religions are scummy and create murderers, you really need to blame Abraham for creating Judaism, which split off into Christianity, which split off into Islam (and later Mormonism).... All four are crackpots who worship the same god, Abraham's God. Renaming him Allah or Yahweh doesn't change this fact.
You're also pretty damn clueless about atheists. An atheist may be just as likely to sacrifice their life. If you're an atheist, and you don't believe in the afterlife, would you not trade your life for your family's, so that they can live? Afterlife or no afterlife, most parents are willing to put themselves in the place of their child regardless of consequence, and most family members will sacrifice themselves to save *the whole rest of their family* regardless of consequence too.
I think you don't understand altruism. Your post makes it sound like the only people willing to sacrifice their lives are those that think there is an afterlife. Those people are the *selfish* ones willing to sacrifice their lives, but there are *unselfish* people out there too - believe it or not.
I guess false advertising is okay as long as it's not in the contract, huh? BTW, when I sell my house... If you want to buy it, it comes with some free whores. I promise.;)
Speakeasy specifically told me in pre-sales chats that I could run my DSL line at 100% capacity 24/7, then later harassed me saying I was downloading too much, then after that said "100G per month or you're terminated", then after that terminated me. Then they threatened me with a $300 early termination fee if I didn't talk about it online (yeah right). Then it took a few months to get the money they DID owe me back.
Oh, you'd have to be insane to do business with people who blatantly lie to you before you buy their internet. Speakeasy specifically told me I could run my line at 100% capacity 24/7 if I wanted. I thought they might be lying, so I made screenshots of the chat, which I did under an assumed name so they wouldn't know it was me. Guess what happened? First they said I was downloading too much. Then they gave me specific numbers (200G/mo or 100G/mo, something like that). Then they terminated my service. Then they tried to threaten me with the early termination fee, saying they'd waive it if I didn't talk about what happened online (yeah right)... whole chat is here.
If crack was legalized tomorrow, you'd go out and smoke it? Most surveys I've seen in the past [*citation needed] indicate that most people WONT run out and do a drug just because it is legal.
Spoken like the Iraqi soldier who has "seen firsthand what muslims are like". Unfortunately, as long as fuckheads like you don't understand that your experience does not translate to the 7% of people in this country who smoke pot weekly, you're no different than a racist Iraqi veteran who thinks you know what all Muslims are like.
The world actually wont be better until people like *YOU* die.
And the violence is caused by Prohibition. You obviously didn't read the article. You obviously voted for McCain, too. Assholism is that easy to read in a slashdot comment.
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I found a fan in a form-factor i didn't realize existed: the 5-inch cd drive. It's only an inch or two deep, but it fits right there in the 5-inch bay. If you have one at the VERY top, it's awesome. It has a knob so you can control your speed. Might be useful. Not because it's the best, but because it's a way to cram in another fan without taking up room otherwise.
Oral surgery, however, is different. It hurts when it happens, it hurts like hell afterwards, and Wendy's Frosties actually become medicinal by being the only thing you can eat to put any calories (even if they are empty) in you while at the same time being cold so you can leave it on the wound (with yummy results), causing 1 frosty to provide 30+ minutes of relief.
It looks pretty gnarly too. I took pictures. They're quite poplular:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/clintjcl/tags/aftersurgery
Okay - now add Picasa to the list of things I was just talking about. One of the most popular photo management softwares used by the 'common man', especially for new internet users who never had the opportunity to use stuff that was out before.
Personally, I don't like it and use Photoshop and my own scripts to upload to flickr using the flickr API and a few thousand lines of code to transform my proprietary tagging system (that I invented before the word "tag" existed on the internet, in 2000ish) to the types of tags a common person would use ("thing-animal-cat" just doesn't look right when normal people would simply say "cat").
Anyway... These stories keep coming out. I wish I saved them as a collection, haha.
You seem to have forgotten what the word "personal" means.
I have a large house. In order to hear the music everywhere, you need speakers in every room. Wiring a whole a house is a very expensive job. An FM transmitter is much cheaper.
You are plainly someone with no imagination. Of *course* a mac is good enough for *you*. But my point remains: If you want to do some *personal* (as in, not some lowest-common-demoniator operation like "watch ameican idol on youtube" and "write my college paper") *computing* (as in, possibilities).
Computing is about possibilities, and doing things you didn't know you ever could have done with a computer 10 years earlier. When I was online meeting people in 1988, modems were far more expensive for our Apple2 than for our IBM PC. And all the software on the BBSes -- one-hundred percent -- was PC software. Not apple software.
And when I first got online on the internet in 1990? It was on a PC, because Apple modems were more expensive. And I telneted to severs that ran unix, not apple servers.
And when the web finally came about? Guess what the first browsers were for? Unix, then PC. Mac came last. As usual
And when recording high quality video came along, and people started using their computers as personal video recorders, recording in 320x200 or 512x384 or even 640x480 tv resolution -- and released those files to IRC for distribution -- Guess which type of computer those people were all using? Mac's are famous for video, but from the corporate side, not from the people side.
And when the PCI transmitter came out, in 2003? Guess who still doesn't have drivers for it, 6 years later?
Yea. Mac. It's great if you want to do NON-PERSONAL, NON-COMPUTING. Writing a paper is only computing in the sense that you're doing a non-computer thing (writing a paper) using a computer. Surfing the net, similarly, is barley computing. Watching youtube videos is just watching TV, but now you're on a computer.
Real computing is using a computer to do things only a computer can do. I turn off my lights. I control the airwaves in my house, literally. I don't have a dvd player. I don't have a console. I have a 52-inch HDTV which is only hooked up to my computer. I watch movies, listen to music, and watch TV shows every day. I don't own an ipod, dvd player, vcr, or cable. There are ways to use a computer for more things than just doing your homework and watching a guy get kicked in his balls.
Do you remember the 70s at all? Remember how exciting pong was? Remember the first MUDs? The first time you could speak to another person online? (1988 for me). Or are you just another apple fanboy, with an emphasis on boy. How long have you been computing, anwyay? Do you have a computer science degree like me? Do you build your computers from scratch? What are your experiences, exactly? Corporate development?
Your argument has now been reduced to "people are stupid and don't do much with their computers, so Macs are fine". That's a great pro-people argument, but not great at saying Macs are the best personal computing have to offer.
They're not compatible. I challenge you to get either my ambilight system OR my PCI FM transmitter working on your mac. Both are niche cutting-edge devices, and neither manufacturer makes Mac drivers. SO yes, if you want to be on the cutting edge of the latest hardware and software, mac wont cut it. uTorrent, the most popular bittorrent client, wasn't even available on mac until this year. I've been using it 3 yrs. If you wanted uTorrent 3 yrs ago, you couldn't run it because.. gasp.. it's not compatible. (Virtualization doesn't count. Every good OS can emulate another and run it's programs THAT way.)
Same with windows. THe OS almost never locks up, it's the programs. I typically reboot because a program wont work correctly, not because the OS crashes. In 1 yr of XP, I've only had about 5 non-voluntary reboots (not counting power failures where my UPS ran out of batteries).
And yet I see tons of SubGenius stuff, and have been to several great events too. Meanwhile, I see nothing about discordianism anywhere, other than the occasional person who mentions it when CotS is mentioned. What do discordians *do*? do they exist? Where's their art mines? Where's their radio shows? Where's the website? How do you get ordained? Can you get legally set up to marry people by being a discordian, like you can be being a subgenius?
Maybe secular people in Israel are discriminated against, since it's a religious state. You haven't really proven anything, you've just provided a correlation.
I don't consider Jesus the Christian God myself. I consider God the Christian God. (Where does Jews For Jesus fit in in your analysis tho - I sense the answer might be humorous.)
Honestly, I can't believe I made that mistake. Your onto something. (now i'm doing it on porpoise:))
You sound pretty normal than! Now, if the afterlife is taken away, would you suddenly lose your willingness to stand in for your children or family? I'm going to venture that the answer is no.
Would you mock a 1000 page book with a knock-knock joke, or another 1000 page book equally ridiculous? I'd prefer to mock something with some depth with something of equal depth. The Book Of The SubGenius, The Hour Of Slack Radio Show, real-life events with real-life weird people -- all things FSMism doesn't offer.
So let's start a parody-religion war!
You're also pretty damn clueless about atheists. An atheist may be just as likely to sacrifice their life. If you're an atheist, and you don't believe in the afterlife, would you not trade your life for your family's, so that they can live? Afterlife or no afterlife, most parents are willing to put themselves in the place of their child regardless of consequence, and most family members will sacrifice themselves to save *the whole rest of their family* regardless of consequence too.
I think you don't understand altruism. Your post makes it sound like the only people willing to sacrifice their lives are those that think there is an afterlife. Those people are the *selfish* ones willing to sacrifice their lives, but there are *unselfish* people out there too - believe it or not.
Thanks for that excellent comment. Sounds like a clear statement of the way things currently are. :)
damn.. are there any part slashdot articles about how blindly clicking a checkbox isn't legally binding? :D
I guess false advertising is okay as long as it's not in the contract, huh? BTW, when I sell my house... If you want to buy it, it comes with some free whores. I promise. ;)
I'm paying $70/mo now with 5 static IPs, which is a pretty good deal considering NOW i'm not getting harassed. . .
Besides, that's not what happened. Your devil's advocate is -1, Off-topic at best.
Speakeasy specifically told me in pre-sales chats that I could run my DSL line at 100% capacity 24/7, then later harassed me saying I was downloading too much, then after that said "100G per month or you're terminated", then after that terminated me. Then they threatened me with a $300 early termination fee if I didn't talk about it online (yeah right). Then it took a few months to get the money they DID owe me back.
Oh, you'd have to be insane to do business with people who blatantly lie to you before you buy their internet. Speakeasy specifically told me I could run my line at 100% capacity 24/7 if I wanted. I thought they might be lying, so I made screenshots of the chat, which I did under an assumed name so they wouldn't know it was me. Guess what happened? First they said I was downloading too much. Then they gave me specific numbers (200G/mo or 100G/mo, something like that). Then they terminated my service. Then they tried to threaten me with the early termination fee, saying they'd waive it if I didn't talk about what happened online (yeah right)... whole chat is here.
in my pricing experiences, which have been many -- naked costs $10 an extra per month regardless of provider.
If crack was legalized tomorrow, you'd go out and smoke it? Most surveys I've seen in the past [*citation needed] indicate that most people WONT run out and do a drug just because it is legal.
15 people is considered too small of a sample size by anyone into science. If I ran 15 people studies, I could fund conclusions that state anything.
The world actually wont be better until people like *YOU* die.
And the violence is caused by Prohibition. You obviously didn't read the article. You obviously voted for McCain, too. Assholism is that easy to read in a slashdot comment.