considering that the reason species propagate is a sexual attraction to the opposite sex, instilled by biology and thus DNA, it is not a wide leap at all to consider that sometimes the DNA would have a different effect. Like people who have two eyes that are different colors.
It's a unix shell account with the ACM organization at my school (Virginia Tech Computer Science Class of 1997). It's $20/year. I also get UNLIMITED webspace, which I use...:D
Please elaborate. My transmitter has a 2-mile range, when properly amped (Which it is not; I actually can only get mono signal across the other side of my house; must buy better antenna), and can be set to whatever frequency I want - including an even-decimal frequency (unlike all radio stations, which use odd-decimal frequency).
I actually have problems with the card not working all the time due to IRQ conflict, but I live within the D.C. beltway in a populated area off of a main road and have never had any interference whatsoever.
What I have had, strangely enough, is CB-radio interference ON MY STEREO SPEAKERS. Mind you, the stereo is set to an OPTICAL DIGITAL connection to my computer. No FM antenna is attached to the receiver, which receives 0 radio stations when I try to tune into the the local stations. No antenna exists in my house. Yet, every now and then, I hear truckers coming out of my speakers. It's weird as fuck.
But not quite as weird as the time I picked up radio cuba by hooking my guitar to the microphone jack of my old stereo, and cranking the stereo volume up while keeping the guitar pickups turned off. THAT one REALLY confused me.
But it's not my problem. The SpamAssassin pre-filtering on my unix account, prior to replication of email to gmail, happens (as I just asid) at my shell account. I don't pay any bandwidth fees or any additional fees, it's not my machine, and it's not my problem. What goes to gmail includes about 100 messages that hit my spam filter, but only about 5 a day (tops) that hits my inbox.
Really, I should waste REAL LIFE TIME chasing down ways to save a tiny bit of bandwidth, which only wastes A COMPUTER'S time? I should just valiantly fight for a utopia that can and will never exist instead of getting on with my life?
I've had the same email address for 14 years, and I get fewer than 5 spams in my inbox daily. It's all over usenet and has been googleable since, well.. since before google:) GP is paranoid and has too much free time to devote.
and she just got a nice external keyboard for it, and a triple-life (15 hrs?) battery. I joke that it's the world's largest laptop. It's actually the smallest keyboard I've ever seen, but still the width of it is 5X that of the Dell Axim X5:)
Seriously? I mean, i know it's impossible to retro-fix existing society; but it just seems that when building new homes, it makes sense to take advantage of the natural rainfall.
>Erm, you use both hands when brushing teeth? This must look funny.
Okay, fine... I don't want to mess with a faucet when I have toothpaste on my hand. I just don't want to mess around with it at all while I'm already messing around with my mouth, really. I don't want to have to turn it off and on a bunch of times. I can pay for as much water as I want, and I do. If there is a water shortage, prices will go up and that behavior may become cost-prohbitive in the future.
>Actually, the hot-cold single faucets I know do exactly that: maintain the temperature between turning off and on, at least while the hot water in the tube doesn't cool down significantly (which only happens fater 10 min.). The old style two-handle faucets actually are the ones which suck here.
Mine doesn't. Come try it if you don't believe me. It's very precise to find the comfort point, which is an angle. You have to push it straight down to turn the water off, which is not quite the same angle as the comfort point. The angle invariably gets corrupted slightly (it pushes down in a curve; it's old), and pushing the faucet back up causes me to have to recalibrate. And I'm not buying a new faucet. They're damn expensive and I wouldn't be able to install it myself, either. (I know my limits.)
> As someone who shaves electric this just makes me shudder thinking of the waste.
I actually only shave non-electric for special occasions. Parties. Going out. NOT work. I just do an electric then.
Also, as I said before -- there's no reason some of this water can't simply be rainwater. As long as you don't drink it, rainwater is fine.
I LIKE to keep the water running when I am doing these things. I don't want to mess with a faucet while I have toothpaste on my hands, or re-calibrate (very difficult with a shared hot-cold single faucet) the hot-cold balance each time I turn it on and off. That would be utterly ridiculous.
I don't know why people like you complain about that.
The obvious solution is to have two sets of plumbing. One for drinking water, and one for waste. The water in my toilet may as well be rainwater; it doesn't have to be freshwater. The hot water that I run the entire time I am shaving to keep the washcloth and blades warm could also be rainwater. I could wash my face with rainwater, as long as I have soap.
As long as we are using drinking-quality water to shit in, we are wasting. Asking a few people to turn off their faucets while they shave will never, ever, ever, ever, ever make up for this grand design defect in our municipalities.
You should look into JPSoft's 4NT. It's amazing. I've basically been using this product for about 20 years. I have cygwin, I know unix somewhat (but have alwyas primarily been a DOS/Windows man), but would much rather write scripts for 4NT than for bash. At least, on a windows machine this is true.
I've been using this command-line since 1988, back when it was NDOS.COM, and was much better than COMMAND.COM. Later, they broke off from Norton and became JPSoft. When 2K came out, they changed the shell's name from 4DOS to 4NT.
So, I've been using NDOS/4NT for almost 20 years now. Why would I bother to learn PowerShell when I already have a shell? And I already have cygwin, so I can use unix tools at the command-line just fine?
It's sad that more people aren't using this great tool.
Basic cable provided on campus via VIRGINIA TECH CAMPUS CABLE. No separate company. They did internet once. You don't have an option for cable modems. You don't' even have the option for dial up; the ROLMphones don't "modem" with normal phones due to their digital nature. Thus, to dial in, you had to pay $14/mo (in addition to your own ISP, if you had one) to access the modem pool. And dialing out was not possible without a special device engineer students could cobble together. There was 1 in existence, and you can imagine what ran through it. Anyway, I ran a BBS and this was the only way (besides telnet) that people could get in.
So -- paint it simple, but you're just spouting unrealistically. Why would the university, which runs the phones AND the cable, pay to implement the internet twice? Hell, until 1999 or so they only had one pipe (spring) into all of VT anyway! I warned them this was stupid. They didn't listen until a campus-wide 24-hour outage. But I digress...
Be that as it may... the seeming proliferation of social games is really just the technology catching up. Even back in the Atari 2600 days, two of the most popular games were Combat and Warlords, and playing videogames against your friends was the main appeal. Hell, it came with Combat which pretty much requires two people to play. People have always wanted to game together; that's why sports are more popular than videogames (for now). But it hasn't always been possible in every situation. PC's had clunky input device issues. But I hear ya... I did grow up playing single-player games most of the time, simply because I was usually alone back then. But now, I'm one of those freaks who LIKES being around my wife, and it's simply not worth it to play [m]any single player games.
and I actually don't see the point of single-player games. It's like masturbation. If a game doesn't come with a multiplayer mode, it simply means I am being anti-social. Rather than having a shared experience with my wife and/or friends, I can be antisocial and go masturbate in the corner. F that. I only get 2- and 4-player games. There are few exceptions (I got 12% through Vice City). Games should bring people together, not pull them apart. It's a way for a group of people to... GASP.... PLAY A GAME without having to find a card table, choose a board game, learn rules, roll dice, manually count pieces, etc., etc. If you can't see that, you are just a different kind of person.. but surprise - not everyone is like you. Use some imagination.
in Virginia traffic school, which I had to attend at age 16 over half my life ago. They said you do not have any obligation to move or go faster than the speed-limit whatsoever. This was from the county-enforced state-approved course taught AT the courthouse. Honestly, I think your type are assholes. But I'm too tired for a flame war right now so I will probably ignore your response.
And I haven't seen it documented or published anywhere. Not denying, just saying the info doesn't seem to be as easy to find as you make it out to be. It's certainly believable.
I know how it was *socially* possible -- rule-breaking, like you said. But how was it *technically* possible, when there are all these articles about all the extra hardware they have to install in airplanes in order to provide cell service?
You made the right choice in not voting democrat or republican. A vote is always worth one vote. Voting for the party that wins, or might win, does not increase or decrease the value of your vote. It is always one vote. You can and should vote your conscience, and you did. Kudos.
My windows install runs 24/7, is almost 4 years old, has 260 programs (NOT an exaggeration; I recently counted) installed, and runs damn fine. Considering all it does (24/7 music including lyric fetching and song data posting, all video I watch is on this computer as well, plus other various junk; it is my primary media machine.) The only thing broken is that the process manager can't kill processes; but I prefer killing them at the command line via the 'kill' command from cygwin anyway.
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considering that the reason species propagate is a sexual attraction to the opposite sex, instilled by biology and thus DNA, it is not a wide leap at all to consider that sometimes the DNA would have a different effect. Like people who have two eyes that are different colors.
It's a unix shell account with the ACM organization at my school (Virginia Tech Computer Science Class of 1997). It's $20/year. I also get UNLIMITED webspace, which I use... :D
I actually have problems with the card not working all the time due to IRQ conflict, but I live within the D.C. beltway in a populated area off of a main road and have never had any interference whatsoever.
What I have had, strangely enough, is CB-radio interference ON MY STEREO SPEAKERS. Mind you, the stereo is set to an OPTICAL DIGITAL connection to my computer. No FM antenna is attached to the receiver, which receives 0 radio stations when I try to tune into the the local stations. No antenna exists in my house. Yet, every now and then, I hear truckers coming out of my speakers. It's weird as fuck.
But not quite as weird as the time I picked up radio cuba by hooking my guitar to the microphone jack of my old stereo, and cranking the stereo volume up while keeping the guitar pickups turned off. THAT one REALLY confused me.
PCI fm transmitter. $5 stereo at a yardsale. Central music for your whole house. Google "PCI-MAX 2005".
Really, I should waste REAL LIFE TIME chasing down ways to save a tiny bit of bandwidth, which only wastes A COMPUTER'S time? I should just valiantly fight for a utopia that can and will never exist instead of getting on with my life?
I've had the same email address for 14 years, and I get fewer than 5 spams in my inbox daily. It's all over usenet and has been googleable since, well.. since before google :) GP is paranoid and has too much free time to devote.
And i just don't see how Palm is better.
P.S. Some of us need personal email and have relied on it heavily for 15 years.
I've had the same email since 1993 and it is publically posted in 1000s of places..... I still get less than 50 spams a day.
We have energy. We have dark energy.
Where's the anti-energy? And why isn't there anti-dark matter? Or anti-dark energy for that matter (pun intended)?
Seriously? I mean, i know it's impossible to retro-fix existing society; but it just seems that when building new homes, it makes sense to take advantage of the natural rainfall.
Okay, fine... I don't want to mess with a faucet when I have toothpaste on my hand. I just don't want to mess around with it at all while I'm already messing around with my mouth, really. I don't want to have to turn it off and on a bunch of times. I can pay for as much water as I want, and I do. If there is a water shortage, prices will go up and that behavior may become cost-prohbitive in the future.
>Actually, the hot-cold single faucets I know do exactly that: maintain the temperature between turning off and on, at least while the hot water in the tube doesn't cool down significantly (which only happens fater 10 min.). The old style two-handle faucets actually are the ones which suck here.
Mine doesn't. Come try it if you don't believe me. It's very precise to find the comfort point, which is an angle. You have to push it straight down to turn the water off, which is not quite the same angle as the comfort point. The angle invariably gets corrupted slightly (it pushes down in a curve; it's old), and pushing the faucet back up causes me to have to recalibrate. And I'm not buying a new faucet. They're damn expensive and I wouldn't be able to install it myself, either. (I know my limits.)
> As someone who shaves electric this just makes me shudder thinking of the waste.
I actually only shave non-electric for special occasions. Parties. Going out. NOT work. I just do an electric then.
Also, as I said before -- there's no reason some of this water can't simply be rainwater. As long as you don't drink it, rainwater is fine.
I don't know why people like you complain about that.
The obvious solution is to have two sets of plumbing. One for drinking water, and one for waste. The water in my toilet may as well be rainwater; it doesn't have to be freshwater. The hot water that I run the entire time I am shaving to keep the washcloth and blades warm could also be rainwater. I could wash my face with rainwater, as long as I have soap.
As long as we are using drinking-quality water to shit in, we are wasting. Asking a few people to turn off their faucets while they shave will never, ever, ever, ever, ever make up for this grand design defect in our municipalities.
"He had fucking POT. He could have come in and KILLED US ALL!"
You should look into JPSoft's 4NT. It's amazing. I've basically been using this product for about 20 years. I have cygwin, I know unix somewhat (but have alwyas primarily been a DOS/Windows man), but would much rather write scripts for 4NT than for bash. At least, on a windows machine this is true.
So, I've been using NDOS/4NT for almost 20 years now. Why would I bother to learn PowerShell when I already have a shell? And I already have cygwin, so I can use unix tools at the command-line just fine?
It's sad that more people aren't using this great tool.
So -- paint it simple, but you're just spouting unrealistically. Why would the university, which runs the phones AND the cable, pay to implement the internet twice? Hell, until 1999 or so they only had one pipe (spring) into all of VT anyway! I warned them this was stupid. They didn't listen until a campus-wide 24-hour outage. But I digress...
Be that as it may... the seeming proliferation of social games is really just the technology catching up. Even back in the Atari 2600 days, two of the most popular games were Combat and Warlords, and playing videogames against your friends was the main appeal. Hell, it came with Combat which pretty much requires two people to play. People have always wanted to game together; that's why sports are more popular than videogames (for now). But it hasn't always been possible in every situation. PC's had clunky input device issues. But I hear ya... I did grow up playing single-player games most of the time, simply because I was usually alone back then. But now, I'm one of those freaks who LIKES being around my wife, and it's simply not worth it to play [m]any single player games.
and I actually don't see the point of single-player games. It's like masturbation. If a game doesn't come with a multiplayer mode, it simply means I am being anti-social. Rather than having a shared experience with my wife and/or friends, I can be antisocial and go masturbate in the corner. F that. I only get 2- and 4-player games. There are few exceptions (I got 12% through Vice City). Games should bring people together, not pull them apart. It's a way for a group of people to... GASP.... PLAY A GAME without having to find a card table, choose a board game, learn rules, roll dice, manually count pieces, etc., etc. If you can't see that, you are just a different kind of person.. but surprise - not everyone is like you. Use some imagination.
in Virginia traffic school, which I had to attend at age 16 over half my life ago. They said you do not have any obligation to move or go faster than the speed-limit whatsoever. This was from the county-enforced state-approved course taught AT the courthouse. Honestly, I think your type are assholes. But I'm too tired for a flame war right now so I will probably ignore your response.
And I haven't seen it documented or published anywhere. Not denying, just saying the info doesn't seem to be as easy to find as you make it out to be. It's certainly believable.
I know how it was *socially* possible -- rule-breaking, like you said. But how was it *technically* possible, when there are all these articles about all the extra hardware they have to install in airplanes in order to provide cell service?
So how did the people on 911 use their cell phones again?
You made the right choice in not voting democrat or republican. A vote is always worth one vote. Voting for the party that wins, or might win, does not increase or decrease the value of your vote. It is always one vote. You can and should vote your conscience, and you did. Kudos.
My windows install runs 24/7, is almost 4 years old, has 260 programs (NOT an exaggeration; I recently counted) installed, and runs damn fine. Considering all it does (24/7 music including lyric fetching and song data posting, all video I watch is on this computer as well, plus other various junk; it is my primary media machine.) The only thing broken is that the process manager can't kill processes; but I prefer killing them at the command line via the 'kill' command from cygwin anyway.