My ASUS glasses work nicely with pretty much any openGL game... that I've tried. My current system is old enough that much past Quake 2 and it won't run worth beans. Looks nice in Q2 though, but a little headache-inducing.
I'd agree 100% with you, except I've been around perhaps a bit longer:
I can remember well when the first gen Pentiums came out, and the exact same argument was used: 'the average consumer has no need for anything more than a mid-grade 486'. Except for high-end rendering packages and games. Putting that spiffy new P75 in your machine added hundreds to the cost over a 486-66, with no noticable speed increase, unless you were a power user.
And here we are in 2002, arguing that no one needs more than 600Mhz. Know what? You're entirely correct - for now. 7 years from now, your statement will look pretty silly, just as my claiming a 486 can handle your every need would look silly today.
Intel doesn't introduce new chips for mass market consumption the very next day; they know full well that only the diehards buy that early, and the chips are priced accordingly - ie: their business model runs around this very assumption. The idea is to hit the early-adopters first, and in time the demand will rise.
Of course, maybe I'm just a bit too cynical. I've seen this issue on an almost monthly basis ever since I was told '64k? who needs that much RAM? my games run just fine on my Vic20'.
You weren't an ISP either, so.net isn't any more appropriate than.com would have been. The TLD naming guidelines haven't been enforced in years anyway, so who cares? Or, if you prefer, there IS no individual TLD, so by the old rules NO individual can register a domain.
Either way, using this as criteria to settle court cases is absurd.
Oh yeah, one more point - the article here has SFA to do with domain names. And if you were referring to the Nissan case, Uzi Nissan uses his domain to sell computers, so.com is perfectly appropriate.
A lot of young people growing up today in Canada are looking at the prospect of spending the majority of their income supporting the boomer generation, who, thanks to Liberal overspending, has almost bankrupted this country.
I'd say that's cause enough to want to think conservatively.
I guess you've never taken apart a hard drive before:)
The magnets in them (at least in any model I've ever opened up) are some of the strongest permanent magnets I've ever seen. And yes, they're located on the pivot of the drive head arm.
Also, the platters make way nicer decoration than boring cd-roms.
If you hated the love scenes as much as I did, go check out the IMAX version of AOTC. This isn't just a 35mm print on an IMAX screen, they've digitally whizz-banged it up to cover all 7(8) stories!
Cut were several love scenes, most of Jar-Jar's dialog, and Jimmy Smits' entire role, save for a cameo at the very end of the movie. It's almost like Lucas did a Phantom Edit all by his lonesome, although we really know it was to fit into IMAX's scheduling.
Just to add to the other response, CFC's were banned from use in aerosol cans almost 30 years ago. It still amazes me how many people won't buy aerosol products to this day, because of some non-existant threat to the Ozone Layer.
And during the 40's, many Eurpoean countries wanted to be free from democracy - imagine, free from having to make those horrible choices about how to live your life! Free from having to think for yourself!
I'd like to be free from Britney Spears, but I don't think it's justifiable to shoot her at her next concert to achieve this.
Ok, ok, that came off a lot more flaming than I'd intended;)
You just have to love laws like this. It's impossible to even question them - any website which argues against them is just further hate literature. After all, who wouldn't want this type of speech banned, unless they were going to be doing it themselves?
Sometimes, at the end of the day, I still think that at least the US has it sort of right - free speech is free speech. No ifs, ands, or buts. (I realize in practice that this isn't always the case).
The business planning was simply this: can we sell more than we have? Just like dial-up ISPs used to have 10x the customers to phone lines. My cable ISP, much as I love the service, gave me grief about 'excessive use' recently. I sent off a very nicely worded e-mail stating that on all of their advertising, they say their service is 'unlimited'. Here's part of the response:
"Unlimited access" in an Internet account context refers only to time
duration limits. Traditional Internet providers often include weekly, daily, or monthly time limits on usage and are not designed for 24 hour "on-demand" usage. The Shaw High-Speed Internet service places no such time limits on usage, and a user of our service is free to connect their computer to the Internet 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Activities that use large amounts of the bandwidth can negatively impact the speed of your connection.
I don't know just who they think they're kidding, but I haven't had an ISP in the past 6 years who limited me in terms of duration. Neither does their real competition (DSL). Picking some $4.95/month 10 hours local ISP as the standard to compare against is NOT logical - but this is how they weasal out of their 'unlimited access' lie.
They've way oversold their product and they continue to lie about the service - unfortunately it's not like there's much else in the way of competition:(
Is it just me or does that figure seem a little high?
Not really. Astronomical brightness measurements are logarithmic, and they have to be in order for us to notice any difference. A small bright point in the sky that's twice as bright as another one.. the human brain/eyes sees them both the same brightness (for the most part).
To really notice a difference, you need something on the range of 10X (or more) brighter. 85X from its usual appearance isn't THAT different, it'll just make Mars (normally a small red dot) look a bit brighter than Jupiter (a slightly larger red dot). If you've never watched Mars over the seasons, you may not be aware that it does this every coupla years, just not to this extent - the last time it got really bright was in the mid 80's - when Mars was almost as close (to within 2 million miles) as it will be this time around.
It's happened before, it's been measured, and yes, it really DOES get a lot brighter.
Decoding glitches are generally caused by satellite transmissions gone awry, at least here they are - I've only ever had analog TV, yet I see digital artifacts all the time on TV broadcasts (especially during storms).
Don't forget the.1% who always go out of their way to post about how every other post is worthless, and therefore there's no reason to read any comments.
No, really, I want to know what the problem is when an entity attempts to defend rights which were granted to it by law.
I'm pretty sure the problem lies in the fact that entities with ginormous amounts of money can effectively purchase laws to suit their own business practices.
Just because something is legal doesn't mean it's right.
I've been seeing rougly 150-200 netbios probes a day since the end of September. I used to get a consistent 10 or 20. And I've never been to QDI's webstie.
I suspect this *may* be due to that wonderful new bug, Opaserv, which Norton seems unable to clean out successfully, even though they know full well about it. Basically, it's a worm that looks for open C: shares, and brute-forces the password, one character at a time (or if there's no password, it infects). You get a couple of files in C:\windows (depending on variant), and some entries into your registry and/or win.ini (again depenting on variant).
I spend a few hours looking into this when one of our work machines refused to clean itself (frightening how many windows machines have accessible shares in my University:). Do any sort of search on 'Opaserv' or 'brasil.pif'.
This thing started showing up roughly a month ago, and it's the only thing I can connect with these insane netbios probes. It's also consistent with my observation that entire (or most of a) class C's seem to be infected and probing me - that's one of the fun parts of this worm - it basically scans anyone with a similar IP until it's infected everyone it can. Clean it off your system, and don't protect yourself, and within an hour you'll be infected again.
And once again, it all comes down to: don't run your file sharing over tcp/ip and firewall your netbios ports. Microsoft apparently has a patch for the password cracking issue, but so far no one has done much else to combat this thing.
George Romero's 'Dead' trilogy also hinged on this - iirc they even mentioned in the original Night of the Living Dead that it was some spaceborne virus.
My parents swear that not wearing a scarf and mittens when you go outside will cause me to be infected with viruses.
My parents swear that not washing my hands after I pee will also cause me to become infected (with what, I'm not quite sure) - even though urine is one of the most sterile fluids in nature.
My parents swear that I am the most intelligent, attractive, popular person of my age they've ever known.
etc, etc, etc...
Parental perceptions aren't exactly the most reliable scientific evidence. As another poster has already mentioned, Gluten intolerance often displays symptoms resembling autism (amongst other things). Take away the Gluten, wow! little Billy's cured! There must be a conspiracy going on to supress the truth!
most people get pretty lonely if they don't hook up with someone of the opposite sex, and this nearly always seems to lead to kids (usually because the woman wants them--you'll have to ask them about why)
Frightening, but true. I'll be the first to admit it - being single just doesn't work for me.
The best thing ever to have happened to me was when I started talking to my current s.o. She has zero interest in kids, marriage, or anything else along those lines. I, on the other hand, spent years in a low paying, miserable job, putting the previous s.o. through school. The idea was that eventually we might have enough together to get the whole house, kids, picket fence, you name it.
Once I realized none of that was really important to ME, I quit my job, ended the previous relationship, begged my folks for a place to live, and went back to school. This is why at 28 I'm enrolled in an undergraduate comp. sci. degree program, riding the bus every day, and broke.
And for the first time in more years than I care to count, I'm HAPPY. I'd go so far as to say happier than I've been in my entire short adult life up till now. Following your own dreams, and not someone else's (and definitely not society's) is just about the most satisfying way to live.
But definitely aim for working on a family by the time you reach early 30s. It's only fair to your children.
I think his whole point is, there's no reason a person NEEDS to plan their life around having children.. in fact, no reason a person needs to have children at all.
Far too many people spend too much of their energy ensuring they find a mate, get married, have kids.. as if this is the inevitable progression of life. Here's a new concept: maybe the marriage and kids thing could be done AFTER you meet someone you really want to do this with - and if that never happens, no big whoop. There's no law that says you need to do everything your friends do.
Passing yourself on to the next generation is the only way to achieve immortality.
I'd say someone like Einstein, Newton, or Plato is far more 'immortal' than my parents will be just because of my existence. Being remembered for doing something difficult is a hell of a lot more rewarding (not like it matters, as you're dead anyway) than simply doing what 95% of the population can do. Breeding isn't exactly hard (my apologies to the infertile folks out there).
If passing on your genes is that vital, you can do it a lot more efficiently, and volumnously, by donating to a sperm bank.
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My ASUS glasses work nicely with pretty much any openGL game ... that I've tried. My current system is old enough that much past Quake 2 and it won't run worth beans. Looks nice in Q2 though, but a little headache-inducing.
But there are only 4 names below this.. maybe that explains why I'm not a millionaire yet :(
I'd agree 100% with you, except I've been around perhaps a bit longer:
I can remember well when the first gen Pentiums came out, and the exact same argument was used: 'the average consumer has no need for anything more than a mid-grade 486'. Except for high-end rendering packages and games. Putting that spiffy new P75 in your machine added hundreds to the cost over a 486-66, with no noticable speed increase, unless you were a power user.
And here we are in 2002, arguing that no one needs more than 600Mhz. Know what? You're entirely correct - for now. 7 years from now, your statement will look pretty silly, just as my claiming a 486 can handle your every need would look silly today.
Intel doesn't introduce new chips for mass market consumption the very next day; they know full well that only the diehards buy that early, and the chips are priced accordingly - ie: their business model runs around this very assumption. The idea is to hit the early-adopters first, and in time the demand will rise.
Of course, maybe I'm just a bit too cynical. I've seen this issue on an almost monthly basis ever since I was told '64k? who needs that much RAM? my games run just fine on my Vic20'.
You weren't an ISP either, so .net isn't any more appropriate than .com would have been. The TLD naming guidelines haven't been enforced in years anyway, so who cares? Or, if you prefer, there IS no individual TLD, so by the old rules NO individual can register a domain.
.com is perfectly appropriate.
Either way, using this as criteria to settle court cases is absurd.
Oh yeah, one more point - the article here has SFA to do with domain names. And if you were referring to the Nissan case, Uzi Nissan uses his domain to sell computers, so
(All from a Canadian perspective)
A lot of young people growing up today in Canada are looking at the prospect of spending the majority of their income supporting the boomer generation, who, thanks to Liberal overspending, has almost bankrupted this country.
I'd say that's cause enough to want to think conservatively.
I guess you've never taken apart a hard drive before :)
The magnets in them (at least in any model I've ever opened up) are some of the strongest permanent magnets I've ever seen. And yes, they're located on the pivot of the drive head arm.
Also, the platters make way nicer decoration than boring cd-roms.
What's cool is, Mimas hadn't ever been seen at the time Star Wars was filmed (well, other than as a tiny dot).
Legend has it that as the Voyager pictures of Mimas came into JPL, the staff commented to the effect of "holy shit, we've discovered the Death Star!"
If you hated the love scenes as much as I did, go check out the IMAX version of AOTC. This isn't just a 35mm print on an IMAX screen, they've digitally whizz-banged it up to cover all 7(8) stories!
Cut were several love scenes, most of Jar-Jar's dialog, and Jimmy Smits' entire role, save for a cameo at the very end of the movie. It's almost like Lucas did a Phantom Edit all by his lonesome, although we really know it was to fit into IMAX's scheduling.
Just to add to the other response, CFC's were banned from use in aerosol cans almost 30 years ago. It still amazes me how many people won't buy aerosol products to this day, because of some non-existant threat to the Ozone Layer.
And during the 40's, many Eurpoean countries wanted to be free from democracy - imagine, free from having to make those horrible choices about how to live your life! Free from having to think for yourself!
;)
I'd like to be free from Britney Spears, but I don't think it's justifiable to shoot her at her next concert to achieve this.
Ok, ok, that came off a lot more flaming than I'd intended
You just have to love laws like this. It's impossible to even question them - any website which argues against them is just further hate literature. After all, who wouldn't want this type of speech banned, unless they were going to be doing it themselves?
Sometimes, at the end of the day, I still think that at least the US has it sort of right - free speech is free speech. No ifs, ands, or buts. (I realize in practice that this isn't always the case).
I don't know just who they think they're kidding, but I haven't had an ISP in the past 6 years who limited me in terms of duration. Neither does their real competition (DSL). Picking some $4.95/month 10 hours local ISP as the standard to compare against is NOT logical - but this is how they weasal out of their 'unlimited access' lie.
They've way oversold their product and they continue to lie about the service - unfortunately it's not like there's much else in the way of competition
Is it just me or does that figure seem a little high?
Not really. Astronomical brightness measurements are logarithmic, and they have to be in order for us to notice any difference. A small bright point in the sky that's twice as bright as another one.. the human brain/eyes sees them both the same brightness (for the most part).
To really notice a difference, you need something on the range of 10X (or more) brighter. 85X from its usual appearance isn't THAT different, it'll just make Mars (normally a small red dot) look a bit brighter than Jupiter (a slightly larger red dot). If you've never watched Mars over the seasons, you may not be aware that it does this every coupla years, just not to this extent - the last time it got really bright was in the mid 80's - when Mars was almost as close (to within 2 million miles) as it will be this time around.
It's happened before, it's been measured, and yes, it really DOES get a lot brighter.
Decoding glitches are generally caused by satellite transmissions gone awry, at least here they are - I've only ever had analog TV, yet I see digital artifacts all the time on TV broadcasts (especially during storms).
I dunno, here in Winnipeg we're still making $12,000 a year and liking it!
Don't forget the .1% who always go out of their way to post about how every other post is worthless, and therefore there's no reason to read any comments.
No, really, I want to know what the problem is when an entity attempts to defend rights which were granted to it by law.
I'm pretty sure the problem lies in the fact that entities with ginormous amounts of money can effectively purchase laws to suit their own business practices.
Just because something is legal doesn't mean it's right.
I've been seeing rougly 150-200 netbios probes a day since the end of September. I used to get a consistent 10 or 20. And I've never been to QDI's webstie.
:). Do any sort of search on 'Opaserv' or 'brasil.pif'.
I suspect this *may* be due to that wonderful new bug, Opaserv, which Norton seems unable to clean out successfully, even though they know full well about it. Basically, it's a worm that looks for open C: shares, and brute-forces the password, one character at a time (or if there's no password, it infects). You get a couple of files in C:\windows (depending on variant), and some entries into your registry and/or win.ini (again depenting on variant).
I spend a few hours looking into this when one of our work machines refused to clean itself (frightening how many windows machines have accessible shares in my University
This thing started showing up roughly a month ago, and it's the only thing I can connect with these insane netbios probes. It's also consistent with my observation that entire (or most of a) class C's seem to be infected and probing me - that's one of the fun parts of this worm - it basically scans anyone with a similar IP until it's infected everyone it can. Clean it off your system, and don't protect yourself, and within an hour you'll be infected again.
And once again, it all comes down to: don't run your file sharing over tcp/ip and firewall your netbios ports. Microsoft apparently has a patch for the password cracking issue, but so far no one has done much else to combat this thing.
George Romero's 'Dead' trilogy also hinged on this - iirc they even mentioned in the original Night of the Living Dead that it was some spaceborne virus.
http://www.monroeworld.com/pchelp/xptweaks.php
:)
I've done most of these tweaks on a group of brand new 1.2Ghz machines, and I'd say it easily makes XP perform twice as fast.
And an added bonus, you no longer have AOLdows on your desktop
My parents swear that not wearing a scarf and mittens when you go outside will cause me to be infected with viruses.
My parents swear that not washing my hands after I pee will also cause me to become infected (with what, I'm not quite sure) - even though urine is one of the most sterile fluids in nature.
My parents swear that I am the most intelligent, attractive, popular person of my age they've ever known.
etc, etc, etc...
Parental perceptions aren't exactly the most reliable scientific evidence. As another poster has already mentioned, Gluten intolerance often displays symptoms resembling autism (amongst other things). Take away the Gluten, wow! little Billy's cured! There must be a conspiracy going on to supress the truth!
I use the ones I get from AOL to store SegaCD games in. Seems fitting, somehow...
most people get pretty lonely if they don't hook up with someone of the opposite sex, and this nearly always seems to lead to kids (usually because the woman wants them--you'll have to ask them about why)
Frightening, but true. I'll be the first to admit it - being single just doesn't work for me.
The best thing ever to have happened to me was when I started talking to my current s.o. She has zero interest in kids, marriage, or anything else along those lines. I, on the other hand, spent years in a low paying, miserable job, putting the previous s.o. through school. The idea was that eventually we might have enough together to get the whole house, kids, picket fence, you name it.
Once I realized none of that was really important to ME, I quit my job, ended the previous relationship, begged my folks for a place to live, and went back to school. This is why at 28 I'm enrolled in an undergraduate comp. sci. degree program, riding the bus every day, and broke.
And for the first time in more years than I care to count, I'm HAPPY. I'd go so far as to say happier than I've been in my entire short adult life up till now. Following your own dreams, and not someone else's (and definitely not society's) is just about the most satisfying way to live.
But definitely aim for working on a family by the time you reach early 30s. It's only fair to your children.
I think his whole point is, there's no reason a person NEEDS to plan their life around having children.. in fact, no reason a person needs to have children at all.
Far too many people spend too much of their energy ensuring they find a mate, get married, have kids.. as if this is the inevitable progression of life. Here's a new concept: maybe the marriage and kids thing could be done AFTER you meet someone you really want to do this with - and if that never happens, no big whoop. There's no law that says you need to do everything your friends do.
Passing yourself on to the next generation is the only way to achieve immortality.
I'd say someone like Einstein, Newton, or Plato is far more 'immortal' than my parents will be just because of my existence. Being remembered for doing something difficult is a hell of a lot more rewarding (not like it matters, as you're dead anyway) than simply doing what 95% of the population can do. Breeding isn't exactly hard (my apologies to the infertile folks out there).
If passing on your genes is that vital, you can do it a lot more efficiently, and volumnously, by donating to a sperm bank.