Meh... rant rant rant... Ubuntu utterly failed on my p3-450. After 4 installations, it finally only installed correctly when I nuked the entire harddrive first and let it reformat the ENTIRE harddrive.
Then, my network card wouldn't work. Oh, it asked me all my settings and took just as much time as if it worked. But the card was greyed out.
It was a waste of many hours of my life. Most of the waste was because, for the first time in my life, I had a disc that passed verification that was actually still corrupt! (New dvd burner hates old cd-rs, and i still have 600 left.)
But despite the disc problem, my network didn't work. I could search for a soulution but time and time again the past has taught me that finding a solution to a windows problem is ALWAYS quicker and easier because more people have had that problem. (Yes, that's quite a spin on things, but it's the truth.)
I try linux out about every 3 years (Slackware 1998, RedHat 6.2 2000, Ubuntu AND VectorLinux 200601). It will be 3 more years before I allow my time to be wasted like that again. I'm giving up much quicker this time because the past few times I allowed it to suck whole weeks out of my life. I got stuff to do. I can't afford sysadmin pauses in my production line.
It has taken me many years of playing and getting my ass handed to me, but I finally understand why trackballs are inferior to mice.
If my wife can beat me in Quake 3, there is a problem.
It took me awhile to believe that a mouse was better than keyboard, but ultimately it was plainly freaking obvoius. It's not quite as obvious with trackball vs mouse.
The problem is, you can only move the trackball as far as the ball can go, at which point you must take your finger off the ball, or spin it without touching it. It is a black art that can be developed, and in my prime I could pwn a server or two (if the people were sucky enough, haha).... But a mouse with a pad gives you far more room to move... In the same way that a car is easier to drive with a full steering wheel than with a ps2 controller. Can you imagine driving a real card with a ps2 controller?
I like that I can turn my wheel about 4 feet (circumference). It gives me many many many different millimeters of choice. The PS2 controller?? gives you about 10 millimeters of choice. It is a similar concept with mouse vs trackball.
Sadly, I mouse left-handed and use the arrow-pad right-handed. Trackballs tend to be asymmetrical (mine anyway) and sit in my lap which is very convenient considering i play in my recliner on my 36'' tv like I would any other game. Most mice are not asymmetrical.
Consequently, switching from mouse to trackball will now mean aiming with my right-hand instead of my life, moving with my left hand instead of my right, and moving with keys on the left side of the keyboard instead of the right. It is going to be a total mindfuck to switch and I am sure it will take me months to adjust.
But I have, finally, after 10 years, accepted the inferiority of the trackball just as I did the keyboard during the Doom2 days.
Curious: If you play Quake3, what is your \sensitivity and \cl_mouseaccell set to?
So an 18-year old having sex with a 17-year old is committing a "heinous crime"? A couple made a sex tape of themselves and were charged for child porn because the 18/17 split in ages. Now he will have to report himself as a sex offender the rest of his life.
Or the "heinous crime" of creating some 3-d models in Poseur, and making simulated child porn? Still illegal.
I don't care for the pricing myself. $2 an episode?? That's ridiculously high. I watch at least 2-4 shows a night. That's 60 to 120 shows a month. That's $120 to $240. Right now my cable is $50. And I even feel that that is a bit high, considering I download most of my shows already (grin). And I would want them to be in HDTV 5.1-audio XVID avis. Would the studios offer me what I want in the format I am arleady accustomed to?
I actually think it is a groupthink desire for individuality. When trying to do something unique, like watching a cartoon or listening to an obscure band, there is always a group of conformists-who-think-they-are-non-conformists who automatically doesn't like something once it reaches a certain level of popularity.
It seems to me to strictly be a function of those who watch a show during it's determined time. I think people who never saw the simpsons, and went back and watched all the episodes on dvd, are not going to find a discernable line where suddenly the episodes "sold out" and got bad. If anything, it's a very gradual decrease.
Simpsons was groundbreaking. But now there are tons of shows just as groundbreaking and good in various different ways. (Some examples: South Park, Futurama, SeaLab, Aqua Teen, Kevin Spencer, even Beavis & Butt-head, The Critic, Duckman, Drawn Together, Kid Notorious, even Gary The Rat, Stripperella.) It's not as unique so it's not as novel. I think people misinterpret this as bad.
Simpsons doesn't tickle the brain like it used to because it is not a unique kind of tickling. That's not synonymous with bad. I think if you were to watch episodes purely randomly, and rated how good they were on a 0-100 scale, that most of the episodes would still fall within 30 of each other.
And WHAT, exactly, is funnier anyway? Desparate Housewives? George Lopez? Where are all these hilarious shows that should be on instead of Simpsons? For ME, anyway, I need about 2 shows a night minimum. If simpsons is not good, please show me 14 other shows that are better (and preferably animated) that I can watch instead!
I hope Bart gets laid someday. -- She's hot, but in a weird way........... It's her cheekbones. She looks like Skeletor! -- Brought to you by Drool... You're tasting it now!
I was talking about the rose-tinted glasses of nostalgia. When referring to Dr. Who and nostalgia, I thought it was obvious I was referring to the old Dr. Who.:) Sorry for the confusion. My comment was intended to say absolutely nothing about the new Dr. Who.:) (And Tom Baker was cool, dammit. At least, I remember it like that.:)) -- A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. --Friedrich Nietzsche -- Karma: Negative (mostly from not giving a fuck)
And legality is not morality (see: slavery, interracial marriage, victimless crime laws). So pointing out precise legal arguments is moot in my book. I'm glad to see that you at least think it is bad and that you actually sort of seem to be on sort of the same page.:)
Picky people like you are precisely the reason Family Guy and Futurama were cancelled.
(Even if you specifically liked both shows, the fact that person X exists such that he likes Cartoon Y but not Cartoon Z, when both are on at the same time and essentially almost the same thing, is a nitpicking naysayingness found in enough people ot be repsonsible for the destruction of all the good cartoons.)
Family Guy > American Dad? American Dad > Family Guy? Depends on the episode. Sometimes King Of The Hill > Simpsons! It happens (unfortunately).
Interracial marriage was illegal too. Law does not equal morality was his point, not that this was somehow legal.
Life is not 0s and 1s.
What about that teacher who 'raped' her student? Now he is 18 and married to her. Should she still be in jail after he is age 18, if, as an adult, he can retroactively say he was not victimized?
Not that I want to defend pedophiles. I actually work at an organization which catches them.
The word "hoax" is not a 0-or-1 binary operator. It comes in shades of grey. Many people believe the numbers of deaths were greatly exaggerated.
Now, my grandmother was liberated from a Nazi Labor Camp by my grandfather, who was part of the 1st Infantry division and stormed Normandy on D-Day. I have no doubts that the Holocaust happened. I have no doubts that great evils were committed.
However, there are those who say it didn't happen at all, and there are those who say the numbers were greatly exaggerated, closer to 500K than 12M.
Now, in the same way that "White" doesn't mean "Aryan", "Jew" doesn't mean "Zionist". But there are still Aryans and Zionists out there, and all groups who purport their superiority are willing to use propaganda to leverage their interests. That a conspiracy to inflate the death toll may exist is really obvious: Just look at the difference in reported military deaths in ANY war. Take a look at Afghanistan or Iraq. We have 2 sides saying 2 different numbers.
Who is right? No one will ever know. But people who question currently-accepted fact should not be imprisoned for daring to do so. America has recently extradited people to Germany for the expicit purpose of their incarceration for daring to question what is commonly-accepted.
Questioning authority is good. Without it, we would still think the Sun orbits the Earth. Now don't get me started on September 11th -- suffice to say I hope people who question what happened on September 11th don't receive the same treatment as people who question the holocaust, or the truth will never come out.
PS2: DVD Avenue: $5.6-$7/slot, 2-8, 3=$6.66, 4=$6.25, 6=$5.80 PS2: RedOctane: $8.00/slot, 2-3 ($8/slot@5or3,$9/slot@2) THINK THEY SUCKED BEFORE PS2: Intelliflix.com: $8.33/slot, 3, + $5/rental for extra slots, DUE DATES but MORE CENTERS THAN NETFLIX PS2: RentZero: $9.33/slot, 2-3 ($10/slot@2) PS2: GameFly: $10.00/slot, 2-3 ($11/slot@2) PS2: RENTZERO.COM: $10.00/slot, 2-3, USA CO PS2: NUMBTHUMB.COM: $10.00/slot, 2 PS2: GetAnyGame: $10.00/slot, 2, can submit own games to be rented for $2/pop PS2: TriggerFingers: OUT OF BUSINESS! NO SITE! My previous favorite! 5@$30 PS2: AngelGamer: OUT OF BUSINESS! PS2: MyGreenMonster: NO SITE PS2: RentaGame: NO SITE PS2: VeeGeeZ: NO SITE PS2: Gplay/GoVoJo: BAD SERVICE!! NO GO[VOJO]!!
Then do you mind if I call them over to your place? After all, you've been listening to that rap and it seems suspicious. I hope your neighbors treat you the same afterwards. I hope none of them are your coworkers or church members. Especially if you work with children.
Let me guess. Everything bad that is happening is made up. All of it. They are all partisan attacks to make George Bush look bad. We are actually living in the freest paradise on the planet and nothing bad happens here....
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Then, my network card wouldn't work. Oh, it asked me all my settings and took just as much time as if it worked. But the card was greyed out.
It was a waste of many hours of my life. Most of the waste was because, for the first time in my life, I had a disc that passed verification that was actually still corrupt! (New dvd burner hates old cd-rs, and i still have 600 left.)
But despite the disc problem, my network didn't work. I could search for a soulution but time and time again the past has taught me that finding a solution to a windows problem is ALWAYS quicker and easier because more people have had that problem. (Yes, that's quite a spin on things, but it's the truth.)
I try linux out about every 3 years (Slackware 1998, RedHat 6.2 2000, Ubuntu AND VectorLinux 200601). It will be 3 more years before I allow my time to be wasted like that again. I'm giving up much quicker this time because the past few times I allowed it to suck whole weeks out of my life. I got stuff to do. I can't afford sysadmin pauses in my production line.
If my wife can beat me in Quake 3, there is a problem.
It took me awhile to believe that a mouse was better than keyboard, but ultimately it was plainly freaking obvoius. It's not quite as obvious with trackball vs mouse.
The problem is, you can only move the trackball as far as the ball can go, at which point you must take your finger off the ball, or spin it without touching it. It is a black art that can be developed, and in my prime I could pwn a server or two (if the people were sucky enough, haha).... But a mouse with a pad gives you far more room to move... In the same way that a car is easier to drive with a full steering wheel than with a ps2 controller. Can you imagine driving a real card with a ps2 controller?
I like that I can turn my wheel about 4 feet (circumference). It gives me many many many different millimeters of choice. The PS2 controller?? gives you about 10 millimeters of choice. It is a similar concept with mouse vs trackball.
Sadly, I mouse left-handed and use the arrow-pad right-handed. Trackballs tend to be asymmetrical (mine anyway) and sit in my lap which is very convenient considering i play in my recliner on my 36'' tv like I would any other game. Most mice are not asymmetrical.
Consequently, switching from mouse to trackball will now mean aiming with my right-hand instead of my life, moving with my left hand instead of my right, and moving with keys on the left side of the keyboard instead of the right. It is going to be a total mindfuck to switch and I am sure it will take me months to adjust.
But I have, finally, after 10 years, accepted the inferiority of the trackball just as I did the keyboard during the Doom2 days.
Curious: If you play Quake3, what is your \sensitivity and \cl_mouseaccell set to?
Or the "heinous crime" of creating some 3-d models in Poseur, and making simulated child porn? Still illegal.
Your point is technically wrong.
You should have your parent license revoked. Pathetic priorities.
Please stop. I still haven't mentally recovered from reading that post in its enterity several years ago.
I don't care for the pricing myself. $2 an episode?? That's ridiculously high. I watch at least 2-4 shows a night. That's 60 to 120 shows a month. That's $120 to $240. Right now my cable is $50. And I even feel that that is a bit high, considering I download most of my shows already (grin). And I would want them to be in HDTV 5.1-audio XVID avis. Would the studios offer me what I want in the format I am arleady accustomed to?
I can certainly see how you arrived at your conclusion. Makes sense.
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I forgot that one. And thanks. .......... It's her cheekbones. She looks like Skeletor!
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She's hot, but in a weird way.
It seems to me to strictly be a function of those who watch a show during it's determined time. I think people who never saw the simpsons, and went back and watched all the episodes on dvd, are not going to find a discernable line where suddenly the episodes "sold out" and got bad. If anything, it's a very gradual decrease.
Simpsons was groundbreaking. But now there are tons of shows just as groundbreaking and good in various different ways. (Some examples: South Park, Futurama, SeaLab, Aqua Teen, Kevin Spencer, even Beavis & Butt-head, The Critic, Duckman, Drawn Together, Kid Notorious, even Gary The Rat, Stripperella.) It's not as unique so it's not as novel. I think people misinterpret this as bad.
Simpsons doesn't tickle the brain like it used to because it is not a unique kind of tickling. That's not synonymous with bad. I think if you were to watch episodes purely randomly, and rated how good they were on a 0-100 scale, that most of the episodes would still fall within 30 of each other.
And WHAT, exactly, is funnier anyway? Desparate Housewives? George Lopez? Where are all these hilarious shows that should be on instead of Simpsons? For ME, anyway, I need about 2 shows a night minimum. If simpsons is not good, please show me 14 other shows that are better (and preferably animated) that I can watch instead!
I hope Bart gets laid someday. .......... It's her cheekbones. She looks like Skeletor!
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She's hot, but in a weird way.
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Brought to you by Drool... You're tasting it now!
I was talking about the rose-tinted glasses of nostalgia. When referring to Dr. Who and nostalgia, I thought it was obvious I was referring to the old Dr. Who. :) Sorry for the confusion. My comment was intended to say absolutely nothing about the new Dr. Who. :) (And Tom Baker was cool, dammit. At least, I remember it like that. :))
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A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. --Friedrich Nietzsche
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Karma: Negative (mostly from not giving a fuck)
"You people are fickle!"
-Mayor Quimby
You people are the same ones who killed Futurama and SeaLab.
New stuff isn't as bad as we think it is. In 5 years, you might grow to like the "new" album (which is now actually 4 years old).
And just think how cool Dr. Who used to be!
"You people are fickle!"
-Mayor Quimby
i can't possibly be the first post.
And legality is not morality (see: slavery, interracial marriage, victimless crime laws). So pointing out precise legal arguments is moot in my book. I'm glad to see that you at least think it is bad and that you actually sort of seem to be on sort of the same page. :)
Plus they receive federal funding anyway.
So are you implying there are laws against yelling out racial epithets at a public university?
(Even if you specifically liked both shows, the fact that person X exists such that he likes Cartoon Y but not Cartoon Z, when both are on at the same time and essentially almost the same thing, is a nitpicking naysayingness found in enough people ot be repsonsible for the destruction of all the good cartoons.)
Family Guy > American Dad? American Dad > Family Guy? Depends on the episode. Sometimes King Of The Hill > Simpsons! It happens (unfortunately).
Life is not 0s and 1s.
What about that teacher who 'raped' her student? Now he is 18 and married to her. Should she still be in jail after he is age 18, if, as an adult, he can retroactively say he was not victimized?
Not that I want to defend pedophiles. I actually work at an organization which catches them.
Now, my grandmother was liberated from a Nazi Labor Camp by my grandfather, who was part of the 1st Infantry division and stormed Normandy on D-Day. I have no doubts that the Holocaust happened. I have no doubts that great evils were committed.
However, there are those who say it didn't happen at all, and there are those who say the numbers were greatly exaggerated, closer to 500K than 12M.
Now, in the same way that "White" doesn't mean "Aryan", "Jew" doesn't mean "Zionist". But there are still Aryans and Zionists out there, and all groups who purport their superiority are willing to use propaganda to leverage their interests. That a conspiracy to inflate the death toll may exist is really obvious: Just look at the difference in reported military deaths in ANY war. Take a look at Afghanistan or Iraq. We have 2 sides saying 2 different numbers.
Who is right? No one will ever know. But people who question currently-accepted fact should not be imprisoned for daring to do so. America has recently extradited people to Germany for the expicit purpose of their incarceration for daring to question what is commonly-accepted.
Questioning authority is good. Without it, we would still think the Sun orbits the Earth. Now don't get me started on September 11th -- suffice to say I hope people who question what happened on September 11th don't receive the same treatment as people who question the holocaust, or the truth will never come out.
rename it from ".exe" to ".rename-to-exe". duh. People have been doing this on IRC for a good decade. Also, renaming ".zip" to ".zipppp".
You have a very interesting sense of logic. I do not view this as something worth responding to. Ooops, too late.
Then do you mind if I call them over to your place? After all, you've been listening to that rap and it seems suspicious. I hope your neighbors treat you the same afterwards. I hope none of them are your coworkers or church members. Especially if you work with children.
http://www.studentsfororwell.org/
of course, the secret service actually comes to the door of many kids...
here are 3 diff examples:r 28.html
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http://www.progressive.org/mag_mc100405
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/170992_prosse
http://www.warblogging.com/archives/000379.php
http://shockandblog.com/blog/modules.php?name=New
http://shockandblog.com/blog/modules.php?name=New
Let me guess. Everything bad that is happening is made up. All of it. They are all partisan attacks to make George Bush look bad. We are actually living in the freest paradise on the planet and nothing bad happens here. ...