"making guns legal for everyone will not reduce casualties"
Guns for everyone is as silly as no guns for anyone. I can't help but wonder if at least one person was able to return fire how the situation would have changed from one where the victims were reduced to shielding each other with their own bodies. I think the body count may have been less. Also there have was an instance of a janitor shooting a cougar dragging off a schoolchild in Canada.
Also don't forget it was the liberals who invoked the "War Measures Act" which invoked military law to deal with the FLQ a French Canadian Separatist group accused of kidnaping a british diplomat in the 70's.
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-71-162-429-11/on_this _day/conflict_war/
Here's an "Im a Mac" type spoof that makes that point, fun vs technical specification. Wii " I'm cheap and fun." http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=54837616491 83364832&q=im+a+ps3 Although I'll probably get a PS3 because it has a cell processor and runs linux, and also allows gaming with a keyboard and mouse, and can play blue ray movies, thats fun too.
I think there is a vested interest in reducing the numbers of Alpha type males. Look at the image portrayed by television characters, as well as movies where the male characters are wimpy and the females are strong alpha types. This paves the way for marketing coups like selling SUVs to women. Also alpha males don't hang out at Macdonalds or by Honda civics. A normalized population is much easier to manage and control, sell things to, so lets make females more masculine and males fore feminine. Double your money sell the same products to males and females. Metrosexuals don't question the rules. How ever a real man knows when to say please and thank-you, hold the door open for the ladies etc. Look at how polite men where in renaissance days but if you insulted them they would challenge you to a duel and cut you to pieces in the street.
And buy all your DVD new release from Wal-Mart. You win they lose. Also ensure you buy nothing else ever from Wal-Mart. I dislike everything they represent, so if you feel like I do, buy all your new release DVD from Wal-Monster.
Jobs is using his connection with Disney to make all their movies available the same time as the dvd release. This includes Touchstone, Miramax, Hollywood, Disney, Disneytoon and Pixar.
You will be able to watch your purchased movie minutes after initiating the download, similar to the way the movie trailers work on the new Itunes 7 using FrontRow . Jobs said pre release would be $12, new release $14, and archive movies $9.99 I believe. I think if it's a go other studios will fall in when they smell money. You can watch the whole thing here.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/showtime06/
I found the gapless playback to be quite interesting, fixed my Catherine Wheel (David Byrne).
I learned basic from a tutorial on a Hewlett Packard 2000 with a paper terminal. But my first programming experience was the HP 34c calculator, I learned to program it cause my statistics course scared me an I wanted a weapon to use against it. Our math instructor did a demo of random distribution using an Apple II, after which I asked him if programming a computer like the Apple was different than the calculator, he said if I could do that I could program a computer. So I bugged him till he gave me an account on the HP 2000, we had no access to any pc or apples. I later taught myself forth on an apple II and actually wrote a program that controlled an exercise bike. Difficult to get a job as a forth programmer so I later started to teach myself c on a unix cluster at a college but some dick shut down my account. Any how what got me interested was a teacher demonstrating a simple program and it's relevance to the course material as a practical demonstration. There are lots of micro computers in schools now, there is no excuse for teachers to generate interest in programing. If young people discover this on their own they might be more interested.
You want to play a game to escape your every day hum drum. To forget about being stuck in traffic for hours on your way home. Who want's to go to a world of alley ways and city streets. You want to go any place else but an Urban world. Dungeons and Dragons, Outer Space, the Wild West, Knights in Armor evan World War II. Who needs SUVs and street punks you see them every day.
I have been using Osx the last few months so I lost interest in the nix on x86 for a while. A few weeks ago I decided to try some of the latest distros. I decided to avoid the rpm based ones. I also wanted to use system commander to boot select. Ubuntu was #1 at the time. It would not install automatically to my 3rd hard drive and the wireless usb didn't work and the boot loader wouldn't work with system commander. I tried PC-BSD and it installed automatically with minimal input from me. The wireless usb worked but it did time out once in a while. Xandros also installed and worked by itself and the wireless usb worked with the windows driver and ndis. I tried some others too but in a nutshell it's the installer that makes it different. PC-BSD and Xandros work with no muss no fuss and is compatible with system commander. I would say the thing that makes a disto shine is the installer and the package handler.
Too much plastic... that about sums it up. Some came with power supplies but I'm not sure the manufacture is trustworthy, I am not familiar with the ones included. Alternatively you could get an aluminum Lian Li http://www.lian-li.com/main.htmcase like I did five years ago, it still looks like the day I bought it. I won't have to get another case unless form factor changes radically. And the big knurled nuts and sliding modular construction makes installing hard drives, power supplies or motherboards a snap. They cost a little more but they last a long time and don't break.
I have seen this behavior first hand just several weeks ago. This guy actually came out of his office at a warehouse I visit sometimes and said he needed a place to stay because his condo was full of bugs. He was picking at his skin and saying they were hatching under there. He believed this so strongly that everyone believed him and backed off because they didn't want these bugs on them. I went into the other room to check on some equipment and it hit me that he probably had what we used to call the DTs. This was due to severe drinking usually, and people saw bugs on them. When I returned he was demonstrating some bugs he captured in a medicine bottle, when I looked I saw pocket lint some red some blue. I figured he was coming down from an alcohol / cocaine binge. The others in the office still believed him and proceeded to arrange exterminators for his condo and the general manager arranged a hotel room for him. He was ok several days later but had two more episodes. I still believe it was substance abuse, mostly because pocket lint is not insect and the wounds appeared self inflicted. If this is becoming a more common thing then is it a pressure of modern society or some weird new parasite. I think it might be a common social pressure or perhaps it is just increased frequency of drug usage. Probably both.
I recently tried some of the latest distros to see what has been happening. My system I have 2 sata drives 0 and 1, with 0 being my XP drive with system commander installed, and 1 being a fat32 media storage. A 40 gig ide which linux sees as hda1 and hda2 depending on how I partitioned it. An 80 gig ide on the promise controller. then I have a dvd rw and dvd rom on the second ide. Ubuntu would not successfully install and boot unless I made the ide drive the only one. Could not put the boot loader on the boot partition of hda1. If I did get Ubuntu up there was no way to easily get it to make and internet connection using the linksys wireless usb connection. PCBSD was able to set up and boot right away and was able too use the usb wirless but not %100, I believe the WUSB544G goes to sleep sometimes. Xandros was able to work immediately to install and boot. I was able to get the usb wireless working with the control panel and ndiswrapper which was in the menu. It also recognized and used my ati remote. Free Bsd, Slack, Ubuntu, none of them would recognize or use my ide drive on the promise controller. For an average using willing to get his hands dirty I found only Xandros and PCBSD to be usefull without making a career out of it. I ended up settling on Xandros. From my point of view the biggest problem was the boot loader, and poor usb / wireless support.
"I always wanted an SGI workstation though."
Hey, nows your chance, dig in. I got a couple in the basement. Perhaps I'll get be able to get one of these cheap http://www.sgi.com/products/workstations/tezro/
Tezro purdy enough for the living room.
I used Framework back in the day. I believe it was on of the few truly integrated software packages ever. The rest are mostly cut and paste. I liked the Outliner as the main glue that you could tie all the other modules together with. Once you learned the Fred language you could do very powerful things. Don't know what happened to the ownership of that one. But I would enjoy using that program again under linux with perhaps some graphical candy added.
"42 is small", depends on what it is compared to. Compared to front projectors its dinky. compared to the average monitor it's big. My screen is 92 inches and in the front projection world it's average. 42 " would be huge in a kitchen or bedroom but dinky in a home theater room.
I doubt OSX will ever be Open Source, though I could see them freeing up some of the tools used. Dvorak is just using the words Open Source and OSX in the same sentence because it's topical. As far as going against Linux, for the desktop there is no contest. I have not booted my Linux partition once since I got my Imac. However, for Servers I don't think OSX can compete against Linux for cost per benefits, flexibility, and scalability.
So that's why games suck lately. This is like what happened to the music industry where everybody uses the same consultants. Any thing creative gets squashed in order to be replaced by a borg cube model of what sold last time or what the latest survey statistics dictate should be the new flavor of the month.
I just purchased an Imac G5 around Christmas time and I have never been more happy with a computer. This is so feature rich that I learn more new things about the system every day. I played a game of chess using voice commands the other day. I have some games already for it such as Enemy Territory, Neverwinter Nights, GameTable, OpenRpg. Shadowbane, Pocket Tanks. Not many but some amusements. I bought it because I was tired of booting into Linux on my dual boot AMD64 box every-time I wanted to do banking or invoicing. Now work is much more painless, dictionary and thesaurus spell check as I type this, encyclopedia, all pre installed. I am a little disappointed in it's video support for hdtv (vga adapter or svga, no 1280 x 720) via Front Row software. So I may get a Mini for my HD projector system. It supports 480i, 720i, 1080i and has dvi output. Mini server for Itunes, Front Row, do slide shows, dvd, movies on hard drive, video podcasts as well. Now I can also boot windows and play football, or hockey big screen 91 inches big in my living room with my buddies. Plus it's a tidy little package goes just beside the projector. I can run it with a blue tooth keyboard and the little remote. It's not going to shred the latest bloated fps but should be fine for most things. The only thing bugging me is should I wait for an hd dvd or blu ray drive. Also, I have seen the new Duo Core boot OSX in about 20 seconds anybody out there know how long XP takes, not till the desktop, but when you can actually click on something.
Agreed, rebooting to play some games is a small price to pay, as it seems to be under 20 seconds on the new Macintel. Then back to work. The only thing left to desire would be hd dvd and a mini would be perfect for under the video projector.
I have been toying with the idea of getting back into the table top game as well. It is hard to get people together to do things, as todays hectic schedule makes matching up free time harder. I was wondering if anybody had experience with the online table top D&D interfaces or even tried using video chat to patch a game together. I could see perhaps sitting around using Ichat or somthing like that.
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"making guns legal for everyone will not reduce casualties"
Guns for everyone is as silly as no guns for anyone. I can't help but wonder if at least one person was able to return fire how the situation would have changed from one where the victims were reduced to shielding each other with their own bodies. I think the body count may have been less. Also there have was an instance of a janitor shooting a cougar dragging off a schoolchild in Canada.
Also don't forget it was the liberals who invoked the "War Measures Act" which invoked military law to deal with the FLQ a French Canadian Separatist group accused of kidnaping a british diplomat in the 70's. http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-71-162-429-11/on_this _day/conflict_war/
Here's an "Im a Mac" type spoof that makes that point, fun vs technical specification. Wii " I'm cheap and fun."1 83364832&q=im+a+ps3
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=5483761649
Although I'll probably get a PS3 because it has a cell processor and runs linux, and also allows gaming with a keyboard and mouse, and can play blue ray movies, thats fun too.
I think there is a vested interest in reducing the numbers of Alpha type males. Look at the image portrayed by television characters, as well as movies where the male characters are wimpy and the females are strong alpha types. This paves the way for marketing coups like selling SUVs to women. Also alpha males don't hang out at Macdonalds or by Honda civics. A normalized population is much easier to manage and control, sell things to, so lets make females more masculine and males fore feminine. Double your money sell the same products to males and females. Metrosexuals don't question the rules. How ever a real man knows when to say please and thank-you, hold the door open for the ladies etc. Look at how polite men where in renaissance days but if you insulted them they would challenge you to a duel and cut you to pieces in the street.
The new iMac 24" has a firewire 800 port as well as the 400. http://support.apple.com/specs/imac/iMac_Late_2006 .html
There is no bad publicity. It's all good for business.
And buy all your DVD new release from Wal-Mart. You win they lose. Also ensure you buy nothing else ever from Wal-Mart. I dislike everything they represent, so if you feel like I do, buy all your new release DVD from Wal-Monster.
Jobs is using his connection with Disney to make all their movies available the same time as the dvd release. This includes Touchstone, Miramax, Hollywood, Disney, Disneytoon and Pixar. You will be able to watch your purchased movie minutes after initiating the download, similar to the way the movie trailers work on the new Itunes 7 using FrontRow . Jobs said pre release would be $12, new release $14, and archive movies $9.99 I believe. I think if it's a go other studios will fall in when they smell money. You can watch the whole thing here. http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/showtime06/ I found the gapless playback to be quite interesting, fixed my Catherine Wheel (David Byrne).
Most audio shops have a used section in the basement you may find a turntable there. You can still get these most excellent turntables new: http://www.knekt.com/spec_sound/product_display.cf m?ProductID=6&activeNavBar=products&activeSubNavBa r=source&CFID=3838972&CFTOKEN=14334222
http://www.oracle-audio.com/products.html
Used Micro Seiki (now defunct), STD (like Linn but much cheaper, on the lower end a Thoerns http://www.thorens.com/de/thorens.index.php?id=de_ 210_0_1_12 or Dual may do the trick. It seems that the Scotsmen make really good turntables for some reason. But most European stuff is good with Micro Seiki (Japan) being the only exception.
I learned basic from a tutorial on a Hewlett Packard 2000 with a paper terminal. But my first programming experience was the HP 34c calculator, I learned to program it cause my statistics course scared me an I wanted a weapon to use against it. Our math instructor did a demo of random distribution using an Apple II, after which I asked him if programming a computer like the Apple was different than the calculator, he said if I could do that I could program a computer. So I bugged him till he gave me an account on the HP 2000, we had no access to any pc or apples. I later taught myself forth on an apple II and actually wrote a program that controlled an exercise bike. Difficult to get a job as a forth programmer so I later started to teach myself c on a unix cluster at a college but some dick shut down my account. Any how what got me interested was a teacher demonstrating a simple program and it's relevance to the course material as a practical demonstration. There are lots of micro computers in schools now, there is no excuse for teachers to generate interest in programing. If young people discover this on their own they might be more interested.
You want to play a game to escape your every day hum drum. To forget about being stuck in traffic for hours on your way home. Who want's to go to a world of alley ways and city streets. You want to go any place else but an Urban world. Dungeons and Dragons, Outer Space, the Wild West, Knights in Armor evan World War II. Who needs SUVs and street punks you see them every day.
I have been using Osx the last few months so I lost interest in the nix on x86 for a while. A few weeks ago I decided to try some of the latest distros. I decided to avoid the rpm based ones. I also wanted to use system commander to boot select. Ubuntu was #1 at the time. It would not install automatically to my 3rd hard drive and the wireless usb didn't work and the boot loader wouldn't work with system commander. I tried PC-BSD and it installed automatically with minimal input from me. The wireless usb worked but it did time out once in a while. Xandros also installed and worked by itself and the wireless usb worked with the windows driver and ndis. I tried some others too but in a nutshell it's the installer that makes it different. PC-BSD and Xandros work with no muss no fuss and is compatible with system commander. I would say the thing that makes a disto shine is the installer and the package handler.
Too much plastic ... that about sums it up. Some came with power supplies but I'm not sure the manufacture is trustworthy, I am not familiar with the ones included. Alternatively you could get an aluminum Lian Li http://www.lian-li.com/main.htmcase like I did five years ago, it still looks like the day I bought it. I won't have to get another case unless form factor changes radically. And the big knurled nuts and sliding modular construction makes installing hard drives, power supplies or motherboards a snap. They cost a little more but they last a long time and don't break.
I have seen this behavior first hand just several weeks ago. This guy actually came out of his office at a warehouse I visit sometimes and said he needed a place to stay because his condo was full of bugs. He was picking at his skin and saying they were hatching under there. He believed this so strongly that everyone believed him and backed off because they didn't want these bugs on them. I went into the other room to check on some equipment and it hit me that he probably had what we used to call the DTs. This was due to severe drinking usually, and people saw bugs on them. When I returned he was demonstrating some bugs he captured in a medicine bottle, when I looked I saw pocket lint some red some blue. I figured he was coming down from an alcohol / cocaine binge. The others in the office still believed him and proceeded to arrange exterminators for his condo and the general manager arranged a hotel room for him. He was ok several days later but had two more episodes. I still believe it was substance abuse, mostly because pocket lint is not insect and the wounds appeared self inflicted. If this is becoming a more common thing then is it a pressure of modern society or some weird new parasite. I think it might be a common social pressure or perhaps it is just increased frequency of drug usage. Probably both.
I recently tried some of the latest distros to see what has been happening. My system I have 2 sata drives 0 and 1, with 0 being my XP drive with system commander installed, and 1 being a fat32 media storage. A 40 gig ide which linux sees as hda1 and hda2 depending on how I partitioned it. An 80 gig ide on the promise controller. then I have a dvd rw and dvd rom on the second ide. Ubuntu would not successfully install and boot unless I made the ide drive the only one. Could not put the boot loader on the boot partition of hda1. If I did get Ubuntu up there was no way to easily get it to make and internet connection using the linksys wireless usb connection. PCBSD was able to set up and boot right away and was able too use the usb wirless but not %100, I believe the WUSB544G goes to sleep sometimes. Xandros was able to work immediately to install and boot. I was able to get the usb wireless working with the control panel and ndiswrapper which was in the menu. It also recognized and used my ati remote. Free Bsd, Slack, Ubuntu, none of them would recognize or use my ide drive on the promise controller. For an average using willing to get his hands dirty I found only Xandros and PCBSD to be usefull without making a career out of it. I ended up settling on Xandros. From my point of view the biggest problem was the boot loader, and poor usb / wireless support.
"I always wanted an SGI workstation though."
Hey, nows your chance, dig in. I got a couple in the basement. Perhaps I'll get be able to get one of these cheap http://www.sgi.com/products/workstations/tezro/
Tezro purdy enough for the living room.
iwi
I used Framework back in the day. I believe it was on of the few truly integrated software packages ever. The rest are mostly cut and paste. I liked the Outliner as the main glue that you could tie all the other modules together with. Once you learned the Fred language you could do very powerful things. Don't know what happened to the ownership of that one. But I would enjoy using that program again under linux with perhaps some graphical candy added.
"42 is small", depends on what it is compared to. Compared to front projectors its dinky. compared to the average monitor it's big. My screen is 92 inches and in the front projection world it's average. 42 " would be huge in a kitchen or bedroom but dinky in a home theater room.
I doubt OSX will ever be Open Source, though I could see them freeing up some of the tools used. Dvorak is just using the words Open Source and OSX in the same sentence because it's topical. As far as going against Linux, for the desktop there is no contest. I have not booted my Linux partition once since I got my Imac. However, for Servers I don't think OSX can compete against Linux for cost per benefits, flexibility, and scalability.
So that's why games suck lately. This is like what happened to the music industry where everybody uses the same consultants. Any thing creative gets squashed in order to be replaced by a borg cube model of what sold last time or what the latest survey statistics dictate should be the new flavor of the month.
I just purchased an Imac G5 around Christmas time and I have never been more happy with a computer. This is so feature rich that I learn more new things about the system every day. I played a game of chess using voice commands the other day. I have some games already for it such as Enemy Territory, Neverwinter Nights, GameTable, OpenRpg. Shadowbane, Pocket Tanks. Not many but some amusements. I bought it because I was tired of booting into Linux on my dual boot AMD64 box every-time I wanted to do banking or invoicing. Now work is much more painless, dictionary and thesaurus spell check as I type this, encyclopedia, all pre installed. I am a little disappointed in it's video support for hdtv (vga adapter or svga, no 1280 x 720) via Front Row software. So I may get a Mini for my HD projector system. It supports 480i, 720i, 1080i and has dvi output. Mini server for Itunes, Front Row, do slide shows, dvd, movies on hard drive, video podcasts as well. Now I can also boot windows and play football, or hockey big screen 91 inches big in my living room with my buddies. Plus it's a tidy little package goes just beside the projector. I can run it with a blue tooth keyboard and the little remote. It's not going to shred the latest bloated fps but should be fine for most things. The only thing bugging me is should I wait for an hd dvd or blu ray drive. Also, I have seen the new Duo Core boot OSX in about 20 seconds anybody out there know how long XP takes, not till the desktop, but when you can actually click on something.
Agreed, rebooting to play some games is a small price to pay, as it seems to be under 20 seconds on the new Macintel. Then back to work. The only thing left to desire would be hd dvd and a mini would be perfect for under the video projector.
I have been toying with the idea of getting back into the table top game as well. It is hard to get people together to do things, as todays hectic schedule makes matching up free time harder. I was wondering if anybody had experience with the online table top D&D interfaces or even tried using video chat to patch a game together. I could see perhaps sitting around using Ichat or somthing like that.