For those of us who have to pay per-gb for our interweb traffic, we can't really leave our file sharing apps on all the time. True, it makes us leeches, but until I can find a better provider, there's not too much I can do.
What, people still use coins? Isn't that why god created credit cards?
Actually, I was in Guatemala a couple months ago haggling over the price of a hammok in a small shop. After the haggling was over, I noticed a visa sticker on the wall. I handed over my card and paid for my negociated price with a credit card. The whole experience was a bit surreal. It really is nearly everywhere I want to be.
I think instead of worrying about improving our current change system, we should go ahead and work on heading twards a completely cashless society. If small shops in Guatemala can accept my credic card, why won't the damn movie theatre?
I see a variant of this post most every time there is an article about technology in the third world. It is an a way correct; there are plenty of places in the third world that need food, drinking water, and other basic necessities. What you're overlooking is that technology creates jobs, and jobs create income, and income creats both personal and government wealth.
In most developing countries labour is extremely cheap. If software companies could hire experienced coders at third world salaries, I'm sure they would.
Off the top of my head the only example I can think of this happening is companies farming out their tech-support to India, but I'm sure the appropriate google keywords would find other examples.
Like the post implies, most of the fun of fighting games, especially DOA, comes from the human interaction element. It's wonderful to beat the crap, or have the crap beaten out of you, by the person sitting right next to you; slinging profanities back and fourth, etc... I don't think playing online with someone you can't see will be quite the same. That said, I can't think of any online fighting games to base my assumptions on, so perchance I'll be proven wrong.
Among the other mentioned uses, the dreamcast will work wonderfully as an interweb device. If you can find the keyboard and mouse attachments, or use one of the adaptors that Mad Catz sold for ps2 keyboards, it's very simple to set up the included web browsing software and have at it. All dreamcasts came with a built in modem, and if you can find one, the broadband adaptors work well also. If you don't want to shell out the money for the expensive and rare broadband adaptor, you can still connect your dreamcast to the internet through your PC's broadband connection using the guide here for windows and here for linux.
Stop kidding yourself. Does anybody very far from the nerd community know who Linus is? Does Linus have any sort of celebrity status in the rest of the world, in the rest of America?
While we all hate Microsoft, Bill Gates is a much better example of a nerd becoming powerful and well known.
The software project he started is now turning whole economies upside-down.
You make me laugh. Linux turing whole economies upside-down? Get a hold of yourself man. Come back to the real world.
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I'll get into ham radio as soon as I can play Counter-Strike on it.
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Often on college campuses with segragated dormitories, the females living on the higher stories don't feel the need to close their blinds.
Dude, it's the force. It brings them together. They all have the correct mydochlorian signature for maximum commercial gain or something. I'm sure it's in one of the books somewhere.
I'll assume you're new here. You'll soon learn that hackers should never be put in jail. It's our right to break into improperly secured systems. It's practically written into the constitution, or at least it would be if the DMCA and RIAA hadn't removed it. Hacking = Good. Arresting Hackers = Bad. Next time read the Slashdot Necessary Moral Stances For Successful Moderation FAQ before you post.
What, nobody is predicting that the announcement will be that Apple's decided to port OSX to x86 architecture? Crap. I guess I'll have to satisfy myself with these themes and programss for Windows XP until Apple decides to appease me.
With people out there who say they can hear the difference between a CD and an MP3, I wonder if people won't complain about this, even if they can't see it.
To really hear the difference between a CD and an MP3, try classical music, preferably something with plenty of cymbals and intertwining parts. Rip the song from your CD at 128 or so, then listen to the rip and the original CD back to back. I can listen to most music at mp3 quality, at 192 or 320 bitrates, without really noticing, but when it comes to classical there's a definite noticeable loss of quality.
There's also the psychological factor. I sometimes already am annoyed by the flicker at movies during action sequences, and if I'm watching a movie that was reported on slashdot to have this new intentional flicker technology implemented, I'm more likely to notice the flicker, weather I'm actually seeing the flicker that's already there or the result of this technology.
Maybe I'll see if I can filter out any future stories regarding this technique. Ignorance is bliss.
I've played and loved GTA 3, and a when they were new I played and liked Doom and Doom II. Doom and Doom II would make me jump in my chair and scream from time to time, when I could hear a daemon screaming but couldn't find it. Somehow I never left a Doom session to run around and shoot things.
I can however remember a real life incident resulting from playing GTA 3. I had been playing all afternoon, beating missions, and generally running from the police. I quit playing and got in my car to drive to Taco Bell. On the way I saw a police car, and instantaneously slammed down my accelerator. Thankfully I drive a not very powerful car and I realized what I was doing before I really accelerated; but for a moment, I was very confused and a bit frightened.
People who say video games don't affect the players are full of crap. Nevertheless I still play and love GTA 3. I think I'll be allright as long as I don't keep an uzi in my glove box or get a powerful car.
On the March 13 Diane Rehm show on NPR, I remember hearing the president of the American Library Association, Mitch Freedman, interviewed. He talked about many things, the woefully inadequate funding of our library system, his distaste for government mandated censorship of library internet connections, and his anger at the Patriot Act's impact on the library system. You can find the real audio stream of his interview at http://www.wamu.org/ram/2003/r2030313.ram
I never appreciated librarians like I should before hearing this interview.
Ahh my friend, you forget the simple most important factor. Microsoft has exclusive rights to Dead Or Alive 3. Never discount the power of large bouncing breasts.
In truth I've been holding out on getting one of the new consoles for a while, and though I would enjoy most of the games for the ps2 and GC better than anything for the Xbox, the mere fact that I can only play DOA3 on the Xbox is still holding great sway in my buying process.
Every time I see a post telling somebody to unplug their laptop and interact with people, smell the roses, and enjoy the scenery; I want to gag. While we all admire those poster's 1337 aestheticism, they need to realize that they're not quite so brillant and revolutionary as they might imagine. As though we didn't know that intense computer usage tends to make people antisocial.
That said; I have found some definite up-sides to being away from the computer. I've been living in Belize since September, and until Christmas I didn't have any real computer access. I was able to use an old 386 to send e-mail to my friends and family back in the states, but nothing else. During that time I realized that I simply thought more. With less access to other people's thoughts I found that I had to create my own. Since acquiring a laptop for Christmas I've found that while it's nice to have access to more information, I form weaker opinions and don't explore the limits of my mind as often as I did before.
I still gag every time I see another "smell the roses" post, but I do believe that there is something to be said for the occasional intentional separation from computers.
If it comes down to it, just lie. Say you're from Canada. Most places Canadians are much more hated than Americans. I'm lucky enough to have dual citizenship, and as soon as I'm out of the states I nearly always travel on my Canadian passport. Just try not to show any border authorities both passports, they can become intensely inquisitive as to why.
While I'm all for bananas, they're taisty, have any of you ever eaten a plantain? I'm living in Belize at the moment and most every day I get offered some form of fried or boiled plantains. They're so decietful. Disguiseing themselves as a harmless tasty banana, and then like Emeril, BAM, they tastes like chalky pulp.
Maybe the research could improve the banana and destroy the plantain?
Very true. What everyone snidely commenting about playing Quake 3 at 300fps being useless fails to realize is that ATI being on-top, having the fastest video card out there, does wonderful things for their image. For the last few year most hardcore gamers have wanted Nvidia cards simply because Nvidia always had the fastest card out; and so the subconcious assumption was often that all their cards must be better. Now ATI's changing that. Top of the line video cards don't need to be practical, they just need to give the company a good brand image.
Yeah, it is strange. I live in Washington, about 10 miles from the border with Oregon, and almost every time I get gas over there I forget, get out of the car to start pumping my own gas, and then have to look sheepish as the attndant hurries across the station to take over. I suppose it's illigal, but I've never recieved any stronger punishment than, "I'll do that for you sir."
Disclaimer: IANAD,BIBWIAH (I Am Not A Doctor, But I've Been Working In A Hospital)
For what it's worth, at the hospital I've been working at as a medical assistant whenever we get a patient with intestineal pain we take an x-ray. If the x-ray shows the source of the pain as being gas, the Doctor usually recommends the patient to eat less fatty food, meat, and sometimes cut back on the rice in their diet. (The hospital is in Belize, where the staple food is Rice and Beans) Strangely in contrast to all the fart/bean related jokes that were so hilarious growing up, he never says anything about cutting back on beans.
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I understand your aversion to vegetarian food; I grew up vegetarian and on the rare occasions that I taste meat, I can't stand it. Environmental conditioning and whatnot.
The interesting thing is that I just recently learned from personal experience that it's very possible to change your preferences. For the last four months I've been working in a hospital in Belize. I somehow assumed that being so close to Mexico Belize would have some wonderful mexican/spanish food. I was deeply dissapointed, when I first got there, I would describe Belize's culinary heratige as Crap. For the last four months I have been fantisizeing about the foods I would eat when I came home for Christmas. When I actually got home a few weeks ago and went out to eat the things I'd been craving all along, I was deeply dissapointed. The things I had loved so much before are nearly impallateible now. I find myself longing for the simple diet of rice, beans, and vegetables I was eating in Belize.
The moral is that if you really do feel bad about causing animal suffering by eating meat, you can likely learn to enjoy a vegetarian diet. Changing my tastes took around 3 months in my case, though I'd imagine it varies from person to person.
Perchance though if this meat growing works it will become a moot point, and I can learn to enjoy steak.
As a lifelong vegetarian I've sometimes explained my diet to uncomprehending waiters by using Paul Theroux's assertion, "I don't eat anything that had a mother." It typically explains my diet fairly well.
I didn't mean to say that Tolkien was directly inspired by the King Arthur stories, Artherian, (however it's spelled) simply means literature from that era in that style, in which Sir Gawain is included.
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For those of us who have to pay per-gb for our interweb traffic, we can't really leave our file sharing apps on all the time. True, it makes us leeches, but until I can find a better provider, there's not too much I can do.
What, people still use coins? Isn't that why god created credit cards?
Actually, I was in Guatemala a couple months ago haggling over the price of a hammok in a small shop. After the haggling was over, I noticed a visa sticker on the wall. I handed over my card and paid for my negociated price with a credit card. The whole experience was a bit surreal. It really is nearly everywhere I want to be.
I think instead of worrying about improving our current change system, we should go ahead and work on heading twards a completely cashless society. If small shops in Guatemala can accept my credic card, why won't the damn movie theatre?
I see a variant of this post most every time there is an article about technology in the third world. It is an a way correct; there are plenty of places in the third world that need food, drinking water, and other basic necessities. What you're overlooking is that technology creates jobs, and jobs create income, and income creats both personal and government wealth.
In most developing countries labour is extremely cheap. If software companies could hire experienced coders at third world salaries, I'm sure they would.
Off the top of my head the only example I can think of this happening is companies farming out their tech-support to India, but I'm sure the appropriate google keywords would find other examples.
Like the post implies, most of the fun of fighting games, especially DOA, comes from the human interaction element. It's wonderful to beat the crap, or have the crap beaten out of you, by the person sitting right next to you; slinging profanities back and fourth, etc... I don't think playing online with someone you can't see will be quite the same. That said, I can't think of any online fighting games to base my assumptions on, so perchance I'll be proven wrong.
Among the other mentioned uses, the dreamcast will work wonderfully as an interweb device. If you can find the keyboard and mouse attachments, or use one of the adaptors that Mad Catz sold for ps2 keyboards, it's very simple to set up the included web browsing software and have at it. All dreamcasts came with a built in modem, and if you can find one, the broadband adaptors work well also. If you don't want to shell out the money for the expensive and rare broadband adaptor, you can still connect your dreamcast to the internet through your PC's broadband connection using the guide here for windows and here for linux.
First they don't support us in Iraq, then they make paris a WiFi hotpot. What next?
I'm going to go eat some freedom fries in retaliation.
Stop kidding yourself. Does anybody very far from the nerd community know who Linus is? Does Linus have any sort of celebrity status in the rest of the world, in the rest of America?
While we all hate Microsoft, Bill Gates is a much better example of a nerd becoming powerful and well known.
The software project he started is now turning whole economies upside-down.
You make me laugh. Linux turing whole economies upside-down? Get a hold of yourself man. Come back to the real world.
I'll get into ham radio as soon as I can play Counter-Strike on it.
Often on college campuses with segragated dormitories, the females living on the higher stories don't feel the need to close their blinds.
Hur Hur.
Dude, it's the force. It brings them together. They all have the correct mydochlorian signature for maximum commercial gain or something. I'm sure it's in one of the books somewhere.
Geez, some people.
I'll assume you're new here. You'll soon learn that hackers should never be put in jail. It's our right to break into improperly secured systems. It's practically written into the constitution, or at least it would be if the DMCA and RIAA hadn't removed it. Hacking = Good. Arresting Hackers = Bad. Next time read the Slashdot Necessary Moral Stances For Successful Moderation FAQ before you post.
What, nobody is predicting that the announcement will be that Apple's decided to port OSX to x86 architecture? Crap. I guess I'll have to satisfy myself with these themes and programss for Windows XP until Apple decides to appease me.
With people out there who say they can hear the difference between a CD and an MP3, I wonder if people won't complain about this, even if they can't see it.
To really hear the difference between a CD and an MP3, try classical music, preferably something with plenty of cymbals and intertwining parts. Rip the song from your CD at 128 or so, then listen to the rip and the original CD back to back. I can listen to most music at mp3 quality, at 192 or 320 bitrates, without really noticing, but when it comes to classical there's a definite noticeable loss of quality.
There's also the psychological factor. I sometimes already am annoyed by the flicker at movies during action sequences, and if I'm watching a movie that was reported on slashdot to have this new intentional flicker technology implemented, I'm more likely to notice the flicker, weather I'm actually seeing the flicker that's already there or the result of this technology.
Maybe I'll see if I can filter out any future stories regarding this technique. Ignorance is bliss.
I've played and loved GTA 3, and a when they were new I played and liked Doom and Doom II. Doom and Doom II would make me jump in my chair and scream from time to time, when I could hear a daemon screaming but couldn't find it. Somehow I never left a Doom session to run around and shoot things.
I can however remember a real life incident resulting from playing GTA 3. I had been playing all afternoon, beating missions, and generally running from the police. I quit playing and got in my car to drive to Taco Bell. On the way I saw a police car, and instantaneously slammed down my accelerator. Thankfully I drive a not very powerful car and I realized what I was doing before I really accelerated; but for a moment, I was very confused and a bit frightened.
People who say video games don't affect the players are full of crap. Nevertheless I still play and love GTA 3. I think I'll be allright as long as I don't keep an uzi in my glove box or get a powerful car.
On the March 13 Diane Rehm show on NPR, I remember hearing the president of the American Library Association, Mitch Freedman, interviewed. He talked about many things, the woefully inadequate funding of our library system, his distaste for government mandated censorship of library internet connections, and his anger at the Patriot Act's impact on the library system.
You can find the real audio stream of his interview at http://www.wamu.org/ram/2003/r2030313.ram
I never appreciated librarians like I should before hearing this interview.
Ahh my friend, you forget the simple most important factor. Microsoft has exclusive rights to Dead Or Alive 3. Never discount the power of large bouncing breasts.
In truth I've been holding out on getting one of the new consoles for a while, and though I would enjoy most of the games for the ps2 and GC better than anything for the Xbox, the mere fact that I can only play DOA3 on the Xbox is still holding great sway in my buying process.
Every time I see a post telling somebody to unplug their laptop and interact with people, smell the roses, and enjoy the scenery; I want to gag. While we all admire those poster's 1337 aestheticism, they need to realize that they're not quite so brillant and revolutionary as they might imagine. As though we didn't know that intense computer usage tends to make people antisocial.
That said; I have found some definite up-sides to being away from the computer. I've been living in Belize since September, and until Christmas I didn't have any real computer access. I was able to use an old 386 to send e-mail to my friends and family back in the states, but nothing else. During that time I realized that I simply thought more. With less access to other people's thoughts I found that I had to create my own. Since acquiring a laptop for Christmas I've found that while it's nice to have access to more information, I form weaker opinions and don't explore the limits of my mind as often as I did before.
I still gag every time I see another "smell the roses" post, but I do believe that there is something to be said for the occasional intentional separation from computers.
If it comes down to it, just lie. Say you're from Canada. Most places Canadians are much more hated than Americans. I'm lucky enough to have dual citizenship, and as soon as I'm out of the states I nearly always travel on my Canadian passport. Just try not to show any border authorities both passports, they can become intensely inquisitive as to why.
While I'm all for bananas, they're taisty, have any of you ever eaten a plantain? I'm living in Belize at the moment and most every day I get offered some form of fried or boiled plantains. They're so decietful. Disguiseing themselves as a harmless tasty banana, and then like Emeril, BAM, they tastes like chalky pulp.
Maybe the research could improve the banana and destroy the plantain?
Very true. What everyone snidely commenting about playing Quake 3 at 300fps being useless fails to realize is that ATI being on-top, having the fastest video card out there, does wonderful things for their image. For the last few year most hardcore gamers have wanted Nvidia cards simply because Nvidia always had the fastest card out; and so the subconcious assumption was often that all their cards must be better. Now ATI's changing that. Top of the line video cards don't need to be practical, they just need to give the company a good brand image.
Yeah, it is strange. I live in Washington, about 10 miles from the border with Oregon, and almost every time I get gas over there I forget, get out of the car to start pumping my own gas, and then have to look sheepish as the attndant hurries across the station to take over. I suppose it's illigal, but I've never recieved any stronger punishment than, "I'll do that for you sir."
Disclaimer: IANAD,BIBWIAH (I Am Not A Doctor, But I've Been Working In A Hospital)
For what it's worth, at the hospital I've been working at as a medical assistant whenever we get a patient with intestineal pain we take an x-ray. If the x-ray shows the source of the pain as being gas, the Doctor usually recommends the patient to eat less fatty food, meat, and sometimes cut back on the rice in their diet. (The hospital is in Belize, where the staple food is Rice and Beans) Strangely in contrast to all the fart/bean related jokes that were so hilarious growing up, he never says anything about cutting back on beans.
I understand your aversion to vegetarian food; I grew up vegetarian and on the rare occasions that I taste meat, I can't stand it. Environmental conditioning and whatnot.
The interesting thing is that I just recently learned from personal experience that it's very possible to change your preferences. For the last four months I've been working in a hospital in Belize. I somehow assumed that being so close to Mexico Belize would have some wonderful mexican/spanish food. I was deeply dissapointed, when I first got there, I would describe Belize's culinary heratige as Crap. For the last four months I have been fantisizeing about the foods I would eat when I came home for Christmas. When I actually got home a few weeks ago and went out to eat the things I'd been craving all along, I was deeply dissapointed. The things I had loved so much before are nearly impallateible now. I find myself longing for the simple diet of rice, beans, and vegetables I was eating in Belize.
The moral is that if you really do feel bad about causing animal suffering by eating meat, you can likely learn to enjoy a vegetarian diet. Changing my tastes took around 3 months in my case, though I'd imagine it varies from person to person.
Perchance though if this meat growing works it will become a moot point, and I can learn to enjoy steak.
As a lifelong vegetarian I've sometimes explained my diet to uncomprehending waiters by using Paul Theroux's assertion, "I don't eat anything that had a mother." It typically explains my diet fairly well.
Now I'm confused.
I didn't mean to say that Tolkien was directly inspired by the King Arthur stories, Artherian, (however it's spelled) simply means literature from that era in that style, in which Sir Gawain is included.