You can call some people sheep all of the time, and you can call all people sheep some of the time, but you can't call all people sheep all of the time (yes, even Republicans...).
I, my good people, am Nike-Free going on 8 years. They definitely have the largest range of nice sportswear, but their business practices turn my stomach and close my wallet. Just have to decide to do it.
Whenever I think I want to try Opera, I download it. And it always seems that it displays certain sites differently than IE and Firefox. I haven't tried it in years, I wonder if it's any better.
Can the elevator be built at the poles? There were issues with animals and insects making homes on the test cables in friendlier climes. I don't think the rotation of the Earth is what keeps the elevator up...
Well, sure. I don't believe that people who already realize their real-life responsibilities are going to get addicted. It's those that put off their responsibilities in the first place, and then find this game that have the problem. As a generalization, it is very possible that one could never be without something important to do. Most people just don't stop to think about what's important. Examples:
- Christmas Shopping - Writing letters to old friends - Tending to the house/yard/animals - Creating something, anything - Writing your congressperson - Writing documentation for all your spaghetti code
Completely agree. As long as the school attempts to keep the grounds safe from hazards (broken jungle gyms, overly muddy play areas to prevent twisted ankles, etc) that should be as good as it gets. As a kid on the playground I've been knocked unconscious in a pig pile, landed flat on my back from 5 feet in the air, been pile-driven and suplexed, played kill-the-guy with the football, caught baseballs with my face, been jumped on (accidentally) from 5 feet above me by some kid on the jungle gym....
I was a kid. We do things like that. Sure we get banged up, maybe broken. But we're kids. They don't generally let us do it as adults unless we're REALLY good at it.
The issue with online games is that you're actually dealing with other people. I managed to gather a group of strangers together for a dungeon crawl. The shaman's pet wolf drew aggro on a couple spiders at the wrong time and we had to all flee to the exit. I was the only one to make it out - some corpses were stuck at the bottom of the dungeon (this is Everquest, land of corpse runs). This was, unfortunately, the time my girlfriend and I were getting together for dinner. I told the group that I had to go.
Immediately, I get a tell from the shaman saying I can't just leave. It's a game, sure, but there are real people involved and you just can't leave them hanging.
So I actually stayed, ended up dying twice during corpse recovery, and came home to an irate girlfriend. That was about the time I stopped playing EQ. If I couldn't tell people that it IS a game and that I AM leaving when I want, then my time was no longer my own due to a game. Thanks but no thanks.
Newsflash: The schools aren't worried about the kids. Teachers have been around long enough to know that kids bounce when they fall and heal quickly if they get hurt. Schools are afraid of the parents and the great American lawsuit.
So yes the Core 2 Duos beat anything AMD has right now. But it was less than a year ago that Intel found itself in the "how are we going to compete?" position with AMDs Opterons doing so well in the server markets. There was talk of Intel's possible demise or buyout even though they are the world's largest chipmaker.
So sure AMD doesn't have the top chip right now. And yes they've always been on shakier ground than Intel for a variety of reasons (one of which is Intel's business practices but such is the way of the dollar). AMD won't fall here.
"Yes the things in motion do effect the citizens of the US (and others as well) but not yet to the point where it pops their little bubble of a happy world. Basically unless these violations of privacy come up and slap these people across the face HARD and knock them out of their daily grind onto their ass they're going to continue to be apathetic about it and ignore it."
And then it would be too late, wouldn't it. Even if you just make it known to your congressperson that you care about it, that's a start. You don't need to stand outside the White House and shout "Vive la France!" or anything. Just point out that you've noticed what's going on and that you want it another way.
Not a day goes by when I don't imagine what the past 5 years might have been like with another U.S. administration.
I'd just like to say that if you're a talented enough programmer to be invited to employment at both Google and Microsoft...and still manage a coherent paragraph of grammatically correct English...I humbly bow to my new overlord.
In my humble opinion, I'd recommend Thunderbird over Eudora any day. Eudora's GUI for IMAP folders (with the second inbox at the bottom??) is confusing at best. The way LDAP works in Eudora is lame (you have to open a particular part of your address book, type in the name, press Search, then use the address from there). It's always felt clunky, having to move windows out of the way, as EVERYTHING has its own window (filters, address book, etc).
One thing that IS superior in Eudora? Multiple signatures. You can select which signature you want on the fly.
I've always preferred the Netscape/Mozilla/Thunderbird client, mainly for the reasons listed above. Eudora, I think, started out as a mainly Mac program, and its interface hasn't improved in over 10 years.
If we attack NK, what would be our end goal where we could say, "Mission accomplished"? Regime change? A democratic vote? Those don't seem very winning ideas elsewhere.
I guess we won't be invading North Korea anytime soon. If this is true, Pyongyang might be a psychotic dictator leading his country into chaos (sounds oddly familiar, doesn't it?), but he's smart enough to know how to keep the U.S. of his back.
It's tough to be scared of your crazy neighbors when there's a crazy man in your own household.
You say that "if you take care of it" a computer can last you 7 years. You could say that about a car, perhaps, but if you want to stay current with software updates (not even upgrades), you'll need something more than a Pentium II 400 MHz computer. If you play modern games, it won't cut it. If you run Windows, the only OS that is remotely secure is Windows XP SP 2 fully patched, and I won't say that's secure without a 3rd party firewall. You can't run XP SP2 without 512 MB of RAM (it's *possible* put hardly efficient).
So if your 7 year old computer wasn't on the internet, or was running a fully patched linux install and you mostly just did text coding, then sure...7 years is fine.
Well, for military purposes, the suit doesn't really need to be small, or even fit through a standard door frame. Like a post above, Starship Troopers (the book not that...other thing) had a suit that made them over 7 feet tall and could carry all kinds of ordinance. Probably room for more than 30 minutes of battery life in a suit like that. Just need to build the motor with enough power to lift the giant duracells. (Possibly solar cells for desert runs?)
Seems to me that at the end of Secret Wars 2, the Beyonder decided to be reborn as a human with powers as opposed to an energy form of infinite power that could take a human shape. When he came out of his little machine, a newborn baby...the Molecule Man sniped him.
Moral: You can be smart. You can be powerful. It's best to be both.
The most stylish thing you can do with a computer is hide the bloody cables. Ask anyone's wife.
My idea (and if you steal it and can manufacture it with $300K, my wife will love me for it):
Wall-Mounted LCDs with built-in computer hardware, wireless keyboard/mouse. Hide the wires in the wall the same way you do with any wall-mounted TV. A bluetooth DVD-CD drive built into the keyboard for data transfer and installs and you're golden.
It's because Windows cares about your motherboard. Like when imaging your systems at work, if you put an image from, say, a Dell Optiplex 620 on a Dell Optiplex Gx280, the 280 will bluescreen because Windows has different chipset drivers loaded from the image. This is where there's Sysprep and a slew of other image-helping systems.
Sort of funny you took so long. Lots of the user reviews for that game toted it as "way too short" and "only wish there was more to it".
But everyone plays at their own pace. There was a section of Half Life (the original) that my friend was telling me would take a good two hours to get past. Fifteen minutes later, I was done with that area. I was a run & gun type...he was a sneaker, always looking for the best spot to shoot from, etc.
Wasn't the point of electronic voting to save time tallying the votes? Without a paper trail, of course, there can be no recount, so that certainly speeds things up. But if there WERE a paper trail, everyone would be clamoring for a manual recount anyway.
I suppose, like upgrading to Microsoft Office 2003, and thus requiring better computing hardware, we did it for the economy.
Thats for the DVR, the other $100 covers the programming...
Exactly. Obviously I'm not going to pay the bills for their commercials. But 30 million other people each shelling out $50 + $10 per DVR might be able to do more than scratch the surface. Cable is such a complete ripoff it hurts. And then they come up with this idea, DVR, and charge you 1/5th the cost of your current bill to have it. You actually think that extra $120/year is worth it and you've made a good decision. And then they decide that, hey, we need more money, we'll take away the reason you PAID for a DVR in the first place.
Jesus Humperdink Christ, can you GET any more greedy? They'll be selling milk bottles that clean themselves and you can refill at the store. Yay recycling! But they'll make you watch an advert while the bottle's refilling....
I pay an extra $10 a month to rent the DVR from Comcast. What do I have to do to not watch commercials? How much will it cost? Do I have to buy a 12-pack of Pepsi, 2 pairs of Levis, a Toyota Camry, and a pack of Charmin Toilet Tissue every month before the advertisers will leave me alone?
I'm paying money to not watch commercials. I'm not downloading pirated films or rogue recordings. What the hell is the deal?
We'd change to a decimal system for the same reason we changed the other units: it's simpler to do the math.
One day is 10000 seconds, 100 minutes, 10 hours. How long is your TV show? A deca. Or half-deca after commercials. How long's it take to run a marathon (if you're worth your salt)? An hour. Fly from LA to NYC? 2.5 hours, or 2 hours and 50 minutes. Time to run the 100 meter dash? 1.04 seconds. A snap of the fingers? millisecond.
But yes, all for naught if you can't find a natural way to calibrate it. Probably just use the old system's natural calibers and do the math.:-)
Give me gyroscopes and holograms! It doesn't matter if that Klingon bat'leth is UHD resolution...all you'll see is a low-res blur before your very high res intestines spill out before you!
(Of course, those aren't really your intestines, but this holodeck goes for intensity in imagery.)
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Consumers are sheep.
You can call some people sheep all of the time, and you can call all people sheep some of the time, but you can't call all people sheep all of the time (yes, even Republicans...).
I, my good people, am Nike-Free going on 8 years. They definitely have the largest range of nice sportswear, but their business practices turn my stomach and close my wallet. Just have to decide to do it.
Whenever I think I want to try Opera, I download it. And it always seems that it displays certain sites differently than IE and Firefox. I haven't tried it in years, I wonder if it's any better.
Can the elevator be built at the poles? There were issues with animals and insects making homes on the test cables in friendlier climes. I don't think the rotation of the Earth is what keeps the elevator up...
Well, sure. I don't believe that people who already realize their real-life responsibilities are going to get addicted. It's those that put off their responsibilities in the first place, and then find this game that have the problem. As a generalization, it is very possible that one could never be without something important to do. Most people just don't stop to think about what's important. Examples:
- Christmas Shopping
- Writing letters to old friends
- Tending to the house/yard/animals
- Creating something, anything
- Writing your congressperson
- Writing documentation for all your spaghetti code
Completely agree. As long as the school attempts to keep the grounds safe from hazards (broken jungle gyms, overly muddy play areas to prevent twisted ankles, etc) that should be as good as it gets. As a kid on the playground I've been knocked unconscious in a pig pile, landed flat on my back from 5 feet in the air, been pile-driven and suplexed, played kill-the-guy with the football, caught baseballs with my face, been jumped on (accidentally) from 5 feet above me by some kid on the jungle gym....
I was a kid. We do things like that. Sure we get banged up, maybe broken. But we're kids. They don't generally let us do it as adults unless we're REALLY good at it.
The issue with online games is that you're actually dealing with other people. I managed to gather a group of strangers together for a dungeon crawl. The shaman's pet wolf drew aggro on a couple spiders at the wrong time and we had to all flee to the exit. I was the only one to make it out - some corpses were stuck at the bottom of the dungeon (this is Everquest, land of corpse runs). This was, unfortunately, the time my girlfriend and I were getting together for dinner. I told the group that I had to go.
Immediately, I get a tell from the shaman saying I can't just leave. It's a game, sure, but there are real people involved and you just can't leave them hanging.
So I actually stayed, ended up dying twice during corpse recovery, and came home to an irate girlfriend. That was about the time I stopped playing EQ. If I couldn't tell people that it IS a game and that I AM leaving when I want, then my time was no longer my own due to a game. Thanks but no thanks.
Newsflash: The schools aren't worried about the kids. Teachers have been around long enough to know that kids bounce when they fall and heal quickly if they get hurt. Schools are afraid of the parents and the great American lawsuit.
So yes the Core 2 Duos beat anything AMD has right now. But it was less than a year ago that Intel found itself in the "how are we going to compete?" position with AMDs Opterons doing so well in the server markets. There was talk of Intel's possible demise or buyout even though they are the world's largest chipmaker.
So sure AMD doesn't have the top chip right now. And yes they've always been on shakier ground than Intel for a variety of reasons (one of which is Intel's business practices but such is the way of the dollar). AMD won't fall here.
"Yes the things in motion do effect the citizens of the US (and others as well) but not yet to the point where it pops their little bubble of a happy world. Basically unless these violations of privacy come up and slap these people across the face HARD and knock them out of their daily grind onto their ass they're going to continue to be apathetic about it and ignore it."
And then it would be too late, wouldn't it. Even if you just make it known to your congressperson that you care about it, that's a start. You don't need to stand outside the White House and shout "Vive la France!" or anything. Just point out that you've noticed what's going on and that you want it another way.
Not a day goes by when I don't imagine what the past 5 years might have been like with another U.S. administration.
I'd just like to say that if you're a talented enough programmer to be invited to employment at both Google and Microsoft...and still manage a coherent paragraph of grammatically correct English...I humbly bow to my new overlord.
In my humble opinion, I'd recommend Thunderbird over Eudora any day. Eudora's GUI for IMAP folders (with the second inbox at the bottom??) is confusing at best. The way LDAP works in Eudora is lame (you have to open a particular part of your address book, type in the name, press Search, then use the address from there). It's always felt clunky, having to move windows out of the way, as EVERYTHING has its own window (filters, address book, etc).
One thing that IS superior in Eudora? Multiple signatures. You can select which signature you want on the fly.
I've always preferred the Netscape/Mozilla/Thunderbird client, mainly for the reasons listed above. Eudora, I think, started out as a mainly Mac program, and its interface hasn't improved in over 10 years.
If we attack NK, what would be our end goal where we could say, "Mission accomplished"? Regime change? A democratic vote? Those don't seem very winning ideas elsewhere.
I guess we won't be invading North Korea anytime soon. If this is true, Pyongyang might be a psychotic dictator leading his country into chaos (sounds oddly familiar, doesn't it?), but he's smart enough to know how to keep the U.S. of his back.
It's tough to be scared of your crazy neighbors when there's a crazy man in your own household.
You say that "if you take care of it" a computer can last you 7 years. You could say that about a car, perhaps, but if you want to stay current with software updates (not even upgrades), you'll need something more than a Pentium II 400 MHz computer. If you play modern games, it won't cut it. If you run Windows, the only OS that is remotely secure is Windows XP SP 2 fully patched, and I won't say that's secure without a 3rd party firewall. You can't run XP SP2 without 512 MB of RAM (it's *possible* put hardly efficient).
So if your 7 year old computer wasn't on the internet, or was running a fully patched linux install and you mostly just did text coding, then sure...7 years is fine.
Well, for military purposes, the suit doesn't really need to be small, or even fit through a standard door frame. Like a post above, Starship Troopers (the book not that...other thing) had a suit that made them over 7 feet tall and could carry all kinds of ordinance. Probably room for more than 30 minutes of battery life in a suit like that. Just need to build the motor with enough power to lift the giant duracells. (Possibly solar cells for desert runs?)
Seems to me that at the end of Secret Wars 2, the Beyonder decided to be reborn as a human with powers as opposed to an energy form of infinite power that could take a human shape. When he came out of his little machine, a newborn baby...the Molecule Man sniped him.
Moral: You can be smart. You can be powerful. It's best to be both.
The most stylish thing you can do with a computer is hide the bloody cables. Ask anyone's wife.
My idea (and if you steal it and can manufacture it with $300K, my wife will love me for it):
Wall-Mounted LCDs with built-in computer hardware, wireless keyboard/mouse. Hide the wires in the wall the same way you do with any wall-mounted TV. A bluetooth DVD-CD drive built into the keyboard for data transfer and installs and you're golden.
It's because Windows cares about your motherboard. Like when imaging your systems at work, if you put an image from, say, a Dell Optiplex 620 on a Dell Optiplex Gx280, the 280 will bluescreen because Windows has different chipset drivers loaded from the image. This is where there's Sysprep and a slew of other image-helping systems.
ATI VGA Wonder ISA? I think on a time-scale, the bang is approaching zero faster than the buck...
Sort of funny you took so long. Lots of the user reviews for that game toted it as "way too short" and "only wish there was more to it".
But everyone plays at their own pace. There was a section of Half Life (the original) that my friend was telling me would take a good two hours to get past. Fifteen minutes later, I was done with that area. I was a run & gun type...he was a sneaker, always looking for the best spot to shoot from, etc.
Wasn't the point of electronic voting to save time tallying the votes? Without a paper trail, of course, there can be no recount, so that certainly speeds things up. But if there WERE a paper trail, everyone would be clamoring for a manual recount anyway.
I suppose, like upgrading to Microsoft Office 2003, and thus requiring better computing hardware, we did it for the economy.
Thats for the DVR, the other $100 covers the programming...
Exactly. Obviously I'm not going to pay the bills for their commercials. But 30 million other people each shelling out $50 + $10 per DVR might be able to do more than scratch the surface. Cable is such a complete ripoff it hurts. And then they come up with this idea, DVR, and charge you 1/5th the cost of your current bill to have it. You actually think that extra $120/year is worth it and you've made a good decision. And then they decide that, hey, we need more money, we'll take away the reason you PAID for a DVR in the first place.
Jesus Humperdink Christ, can you GET any more greedy? They'll be selling milk bottles that clean themselves and you can refill at the store. Yay recycling! But they'll make you watch an advert while the bottle's refilling....
I pay an extra $10 a month to rent the DVR from Comcast. What do I have to do to not watch commercials? How much will it cost? Do I have to buy a 12-pack of Pepsi, 2 pairs of Levis, a Toyota Camry, and a pack of Charmin Toilet Tissue every month before the advertisers will leave me alone?
I'm paying money to not watch commercials. I'm not downloading pirated films or rogue recordings. What the hell is the deal?
We'd change to a decimal system for the same reason we changed the other units: it's simpler to do the math.
:-)
One day is 10000 seconds, 100 minutes, 10 hours. How long is your TV show? A deca. Or half-deca after commercials. How long's it take to run a marathon (if you're worth your salt)? An hour. Fly from LA to NYC? 2.5 hours, or 2 hours and 50 minutes. Time to run the 100 meter dash? 1.04 seconds. A snap of the fingers? millisecond.
But yes, all for naught if you can't find a natural way to calibrate it. Probably just use the old system's natural calibers and do the math.
Say it with me: HOLODECK
Give me gyroscopes and holograms! It doesn't matter if that Klingon bat'leth is UHD resolution...all you'll see is a low-res blur before your very high res intestines spill out before you!
(Of course, those aren't really your intestines, but this holodeck goes for intensity in imagery.)