They looked at the record of Bush's first term and said 'Yes. This is what we want from our Presidents.
I think we were watching different elections. 2004 seemed largely a referendum on whether gays should be allowed to marry, based on the exit polls they showed on TV.
I think it's a far more damning indictment of (51% of) Americans that they think stopping gays from marrying is more important than:
- preserving their constitution - ending an endless, pointless, bankrupting war - halting a perpetual state of terror
"Yup, our country's broke, the world hates us - especially them arabs, we no longer have any civil rights, but hey! At least them filthy homersexuals can't be married!"
That is how it looked sitting up here in Canada.
Then again, I suppose those voting against gay marriage have made it pretty clear they don't want civil rights to exist, anyway...
To get my dual-booting laptop on my wireless network, I bought a wireless card that I knew had at least half-decent Linux support. It was some low-end SMC model, with a Prism 2 chipset.
I started with Windows. Following the CD install to the letter, I ended up having to install/re-install/reboots about 5 times just to get the card recognized. Then, the stupid software that came with the card would never find any WAPs, even though Netstumbler did. Windows sometimes found the WAP sitting 2 feet next to the laptop, sometimes it didn't. Eventually I managed to guess the right settings to use (entirely different than the manual said, incidentally) and 3 hours later my laptop was on my wireless network.
My basic Knoppix-to-hard drive install of Linux, on the same laptop: I plugged in the wireless card and heard the system speaker make a little 'beep'. I fired up a browser and was surfing the web within 10 seconds. Looking into logs, the card was recognized, the Prism2 driver was loaded, and the wireless interface was brought up, all automatically.
Needless to say, this laptop spends most of its time in Linux when I want to go wireless. IT JUST WORKS.
Oh, and "I can't find a way to change the default OS on the boot-selector thingy"? You'll have to learn how, if you want a multi-boot machine. There's just no way around this. It isn't a Windows problem, it isn't a Linux problem, and it certainly isn't something that Apple can help you out with. It's just part of a multi-OS booting system. It's pretty straightforward, incidentally - just find a FAQ on Grub or LILO, depending on which one you've got.
I mean the satellite option is neat and all... About the only thing that they do better than, say Yahoo maps is the panning and zooming control of their maps.
Those, good sir/madam, are the very things that bring the love of Google maps.
As to the speed of the satellite view - all I can say is, you must have a very slow Internet connection, or slow browser, or something. I can pan and zoom around in satellite (or even better, hybrid!) view with hardly any lag in the tile drawing at all - this with a piddly 1 Mbit DSL line and 3 year old PC.
It's news when the mimmicking is done on the SERVER end.
Think about it. It's like having your A/V software wipe your browser cache clear when you bring up a webpage with the word "klez" or "zobot" in the page.
Way back when I was a bio geek we did a tour of the local research hospital. One of our guides was showing us various culture dishes, opening some up so we could see the pretty colonies growing, etc. The guide opened up one dish, waved it 12 inches in front of my face, and said "this is what killed Jim Henson". Not an airborne germ, so it was safe, but it was kinda creepy.
A few months later, the news was filled with stories of so-called "flesh-eating" bacteria. Rumor was, this was what killed Henson. Turns out he died from a much less media-worthy strep infection (pneumonia, IIRC), but I'll always remember that lab tech waving potentially lethal bacteria in my face.
Made me realize just how needlessly paranoid people are about bacteria.
Not long after, we actually got to work with flesh-eating strep in the lab. It was fun. I got out of that sort of work before the level 4 facility was built in my city though - that would have been a cool place to work!
Maybe fear of repercursions kept them from doing that offline before, and forced them to act as if they're someone else. But in the end, it's not that going online made them develop a second personality. It just allowed them to drop the mask and act their real personality.
Personally, I've always thought the same about alcohol.
If we REALLY wanted to protect children from abuse, sexual or otherwise, we'd take them away from their families. Statistically, this "predator" nonsense is practically a non-issue. The vast majority of abuse comes from a parent, relative, or trusted friend. No Internet needed for that to happen, either.
Your links consisted of 2 CD spindles, each of which end up costing $60/200 blank CDs. Which is what the parent said:a current Future Shop deal of 200 blank CD-Rs from HP, which retails for $59.99.
The levy is here, it's real, and it's by far the biggest cost of blank CDs in Canada.
Tired of your tax dollars going towards facilities that most often are never used again
Can't argue with the rest of your rant, but rest assured that Olympics facilities very often are used again - at least in places that care.
Calgary's '88 winter Olys left us with some amazing facilities, which have directly lead to Canada doing better each time since. We're looking at a record haul, much of which can be attributed to having a world-class speed skating oval here. Canadian athletes used to have to go overseas to train for a lot of winter events.
Last time I visited Lake Placid, the facilities there were in continual use, as a touist destination and training facility.
You show me one movie, book, song, software that WASN'T made for fear of piracy then we can talk about it.
To be fair, that's much like trying to prove a negative. Possible, but tricky. And in this case, trivially easy:
I was going to release an album full of my own music, but decided not to because of piracy.
Go ahead, prove me wrong:)
I think what we need to see is a CREATOR who's stood up and said "ok, fuck this, I'm stopping writing books/music/films because of piracy". Which, of course, we haven't, because piracy rarely hurts creators; instead, it hurts distributors.
Thanks for mentioning what was explicitly stated in TFA:
Many people have pointed out that May 7 is a Sunday, but nearly every other Nintendo title is always released on a Tuesday. What gives? Can't help but notice that Sunday is the preferred day for hardware launches, and May 7 -- just before E3 -- might be an opportune time to have the DS Lite take its bow.
Now if only we could get some copies of Animal Crossing to stay on shelves for more than 2 hours, I might finally buy myself a DS!
It's hardcore because systems are lucky to sell games at a 10:1 ratio.
You seriously think most people have 30+ games for their game consoles?
You assume people buy games throughout the life of a console (most don't after the first year or 2), that they buy games on a regular basis (most people buy a game or 2 a year TOPS after the first year), and that "a game every other month" is normal purchasing.
"Hardcore" refers to those gamers who buy excessive games in comparison to the general public. Like more than 3 times the avergae number of games. That's how it's hardcore.
We had a similar debate in an ethics class I took a few years ago, when discussing surveillance cameras in general - and the Panopticon effect. One of our female classmates insisted that cameras in public places were a good idea, because they "made her feel safer". I pointed out that most violence occurs at home, so why not put a camera in your bedroom? She didn't really understand my point.
In fact, the "think of the children!" crowd really need this to be driven home: most child abuse/abductions occur because of actions taken by the PARENTS (and to a lesser degree, relatives). Really, if we actually were interested in curbing violence, we'd put cameras in our homes.
However, we do have a right to privacy. Personally, I'm of the opinion that this should trump all other issues.
Back when I was young and naive (ie: barely legal age) I visited my brother who had just moved to Montreal. We both came from Winnipeg originally, which to you Americans is roughly equivalent to Kansas in lewdness. Montreal is like Vegas, with fewer laws.
So one night we're wandering around the downtown rather inebriated at 2am, checking out the scenery, that sort of thing - the usual thing to do in a city that never sleeps. We see a few racy places, look like more than just the average strip club, etc. One place has "peep shows!!!" in neon. Here I am thinking of peep shows from the 1920s, where a dancer was behind a curtain or something. Remember, alcohol + brain == slow thinking. We go in, and the sign points into the basement. In the basement are rows and rows of these small booths (probably a hundred in total). Being in the mental state I was in, I figure what the hell, you only live once. So I go in one, and it's got a small bench in it. I sit down and close the door, and there's a TV screen on the door with a coinbox next to it. Thankfully my arcade training still worked, so I immediately popped in a quarter.
Well.
Suddenly some of the raunchiest porn I've seen (then or since) shows up on the screen. Now, normally I'd catch on, but in my mental state it took a good 30 seconds to realize just what this was. When I did, I jumped up and almost ran out of the booth. My brother had gone into a neighbouring one and figured it out at the same time, and we nearly collided in the hallway. Nervous laugh, and we start to leave the place.
On the way out, we notice a guy sitting on a stool at the bottom of the stairs. He's just sitting there, watching the booths. In his hands is a huge, filthy-looking rag.
Slashdot Mirror
They looked at the record of Bush's first term and said 'Yes. This is what we want from our Presidents.
I think we were watching different elections. 2004 seemed largely a referendum on whether gays should be allowed to marry, based on the exit polls they showed on TV.
I think it's a far more damning indictment of (51% of) Americans that they think stopping gays from marrying is more important than:
- preserving their constitution
- ending an endless, pointless, bankrupting war
- halting a perpetual state of terror
"Yup, our country's broke, the world hates us - especially them arabs, we no longer have any civil rights, but hey! At least them filthy homersexuals can't be married!"
That is how it looked sitting up here in Canada.
Then again, I suppose those voting against gay marriage have made it pretty clear they don't want civil rights to exist, anyway...
The Playstation sitting next to it?
To get my dual-booting laptop on my wireless network, I bought a wireless card that I knew had at least half-decent Linux support. It was some low-end SMC model, with a Prism 2 chipset.
I started with Windows. Following the CD install to the letter, I ended up having to install/re-install/reboots about 5 times just to get the card recognized. Then, the stupid software that came with the card would never find any WAPs, even though Netstumbler did. Windows sometimes found the WAP sitting 2 feet next to the laptop, sometimes it didn't. Eventually I managed to guess the right settings to use (entirely different than the manual said, incidentally) and 3 hours later my laptop was on my wireless network.
My basic Knoppix-to-hard drive install of Linux, on the same laptop: I plugged in the wireless card and heard the system speaker make a little 'beep'. I fired up a browser and was surfing the web within 10 seconds. Looking into logs, the card was recognized, the Prism2 driver was loaded, and the wireless interface was brought up, all automatically.
Needless to say, this laptop spends most of its time in Linux when I want to go wireless. IT JUST WORKS.
Oh, and "I can't find a way to change the default OS on the boot-selector thingy"? You'll have to learn how, if you want a multi-boot machine. There's just no way around this. It isn't a Windows problem, it isn't a Linux problem, and it certainly isn't something that Apple can help you out with. It's just part of a multi-OS booting system. It's pretty straightforward, incidentally - just find a FAQ on Grub or LILO, depending on which one you've got.
Meh. I don't get the love of google maps.
I mean the satellite option is neat and all... About the only thing that they do better than, say Yahoo maps is the panning and zooming control of their maps.
Those, good sir/madam, are the very things that bring the love of Google maps.
As to the speed of the satellite view - all I can say is, you must have a very slow Internet connection, or slow browser, or something. I can pan and zoom around in satellite (or even better, hybrid!) view with hardly any lag in the tile drawing at all - this with a piddly 1 Mbit DSL line and 3 year old PC.
Wow, it's just like reading LiveJournal!
Quick, go ask your mom for $20 so you can buy the latest Jimmy Eat World album!
Why do you think we have laws then?
Mostly, because people don't trust other people.
So in other words, it's EXACTLY like a subscription.
As opposed to the bullshit newspeak definition of "subscription" we've been hearing lately.
I just switched to Linux. Not a single piece of pirated software on my systems anymore.
Similar effects can be obtained by strictly using freeware in the Windows world, although YMMV.
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learn to hyperlink, Mr. 700,000 UID.
Somehow I'm reminded of schoolchildren:
"I'm not 6, I'm 7! I'm a big boy now!"
It's news when the mimmicking is done on the SERVER end.
Think about it. It's like having your A/V software wipe your browser cache clear when you bring up a webpage with the word "klez" or "zobot" in the page.
Way back when I was a bio geek we did a tour of the local research hospital. One of our guides was showing us various culture dishes, opening some up so we could see the pretty colonies growing, etc. The guide opened up one dish, waved it 12 inches in front of my face, and said "this is what killed Jim Henson". Not an airborne germ, so it was safe, but it was kinda creepy.
A few months later, the news was filled with stories of so-called "flesh-eating" bacteria. Rumor was, this was what killed Henson. Turns out he died from a much less media-worthy strep infection (pneumonia, IIRC), but I'll always remember that lab tech waving potentially lethal bacteria in my face.
Made me realize just how needlessly paranoid people are about bacteria.
Not long after, we actually got to work with flesh-eating strep in the lab. It was fun. I got out of that sort of work before the level 4 facility was built in my city though - that would have been a cool place to work!
Maybe fear of repercursions kept them from doing that offline before, and forced them to act as if they're someone else. But in the end, it's not that going online made them develop a second personality. It just allowed them to drop the mask and act their real personality.
Personally, I've always thought the same about alcohol.
And as a result, Sony has invented the world's most effective DRM.
25 goldenrod, 25 canary, 25 saffron, and 25 paella.
Ok, 100 yellow.
Once again, let's be clear about something:
If we REALLY wanted to protect children from abuse, sexual or otherwise, we'd take them away from their families. Statistically, this "predator" nonsense is practically a non-issue. The vast majority of abuse comes from a parent, relative, or trusted friend. No Internet needed for that to happen, either.
Your links consisted of 2 CD spindles, each of which end up costing $60/200 blank CDs. Which is what the parent said: a current Future Shop deal of 200 blank CD-Rs from HP, which retails for $59.99.
The levy is here, it's real, and it's by far the biggest cost of blank CDs in Canada.
It's also a load.
Tired of your tax dollars going towards facilities that most often are never used again
Can't argue with the rest of your rant, but rest assured that Olympics facilities very often are used again - at least in places that care.
Calgary's '88 winter Olys left us with some amazing facilities, which have directly lead to Canada doing better each time since. We're looking at a record haul, much of which can be attributed to having a world-class speed skating oval here. Canadian athletes used to have to go overseas to train for a lot of winter events.
Last time I visited Lake Placid, the facilities there were in continual use, as a touist destination and training facility.
Hicks and red necks shoot off more ammunition for the purpose of killing innocent bottles and deer ... ... and lawyers.
But calling Cheney a hick is kind of insulting to the hicks.
You show me one movie, book, song, software that WASN'T made for fear of piracy then we can talk about it.
:)
To be fair, that's much like trying to prove a negative. Possible, but tricky. And in this case, trivially easy:
I was going to release an album full of my own music, but decided not to because of piracy.
Go ahead, prove me wrong
I think what we need to see is a CREATOR who's stood up and said "ok, fuck this, I'm stopping writing books/music/films because of piracy". Which, of course, we haven't, because piracy rarely hurts creators; instead, it hurts distributors.
Good thing Slashdot is not a court of law that actually affects people's lives.
Thanks for mentioning what was explicitly stated in TFA:
Many people have pointed out that May 7 is a Sunday, but nearly every other Nintendo title is always released on a Tuesday. What gives? Can't help but notice that Sunday is the preferred day for hardware launches, and May 7 -- just before E3 -- might be an opportune time to have the DS Lite take its bow.
Now if only we could get some copies of Animal Crossing to stay on shelves for more than 2 hours, I might finally buy myself a DS!
It's hardcore because systems are lucky to sell games at a 10:1 ratio.
You seriously think most people have 30+ games for their game consoles?
You assume people buy games throughout the life of a console (most don't after the first year or 2), that they buy games on a regular basis (most people buy a game or 2 a year TOPS after the first year), and that "a game every other month" is normal purchasing.
"Hardcore" refers to those gamers who buy excessive games in comparison to the general public. Like more than 3 times the avergae number of games. That's how it's hardcore.
On Slashdot?
I feel confidant in answering "yes".
We had a similar debate in an ethics class I took a few years ago, when discussing surveillance cameras in general - and the Panopticon effect. One of our female classmates insisted that cameras in public places were a good idea, because they "made her feel safer". I pointed out that most violence occurs at home, so why not put a camera in your bedroom? She didn't really understand my point.
In fact, the "think of the children!" crowd really need this to be driven home: most child abuse/abductions occur because of actions taken by the PARENTS (and to a lesser degree, relatives). Really, if we actually were interested in curbing violence, we'd put cameras in our homes.
However, we do have a right to privacy. Personally, I'm of the opinion that this should trump all other issues.
Back when I was young and naive (ie: barely legal age) I visited my brother who had just moved to Montreal. We both came from Winnipeg originally, which to you Americans is roughly equivalent to Kansas in lewdness. Montreal is like Vegas, with fewer laws.
So one night we're wandering around the downtown rather inebriated at 2am, checking out the scenery, that sort of thing - the usual thing to do in a city that never sleeps. We see a few racy places, look like more than just the average strip club, etc. One place has "peep shows!!!" in neon. Here I am thinking of peep shows from the 1920s, where a dancer was behind a curtain or something. Remember, alcohol + brain == slow thinking. We go in, and the sign points into the basement. In the basement are rows and rows of these small booths (probably a hundred in total). Being in the mental state I was in, I figure what the hell, you only live once. So I go in one, and it's got a small bench in it. I sit down and close the door, and there's a TV screen on the door with a coinbox next to it. Thankfully my arcade training still worked, so I immediately popped in a quarter.
Well.
Suddenly some of the raunchiest porn I've seen (then or since) shows up on the screen. Now, normally I'd catch on, but in my mental state it took a good 30 seconds to realize just what this was. When I did, I jumped up and almost ran out of the booth. My brother had gone into a neighbouring one and figured it out at the same time, and we nearly collided in the hallway. Nervous laugh, and we start to leave the place.
On the way out, we notice a guy sitting on a stool at the bottom of the stairs. He's just sitting there, watching the booths. In his hands is a huge, filthy-looking rag.
THAT, my friend, is a job you do not want.