The Discovery Channel show Mythbusters did a segment on the myth that keeping your wet toothbrush near your toilet would infect it with fecal bacteria floating in the air. The Mythbusters set up a buch of toothbrushes in a bathroom at various distances from the toilet, and brushed their teeth with them for a month. They used distilled water rather than regular tap water. They also kept a control toothbrush in an office in a glass jar.
At the end of the test, ALL the toothbrushes tested positive for fecal coliform bacteria, including the control toothbrush in the office.
Weren't GTA3 and VC big sellers on the PC? Until the consoles get some equilavent of "mouselook", I have zero interest in playing games like GTA on a console.
If the server is in the UK and contains "illegal" material as defined by UK law, then why shouldn't UK authorities be able to shut it down? Shouldn't be any different than a book or magazine.
If the server isn't in the UK then what are we debating? They can't do anything about it (yet.)
Put up a site with warez, MP3s and porn. Post the URL on USENET, message boards, places like that. Then just sit back and watch the number of connections and upload rates soar.
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Who do you think will establish more long-term relationships at a high-end clothier- the salesperson with this palm thingy who does the in-person version of "let me pull up your records", or the salesperson who turns around, recognizes an important customer, and says, "Ah, Mr. Jones! Good to see you again. How did the alterations work on your dinner jacket?"
They'll eventually have androids to do that. C3PO was amusing in the SW movies, but I bet he would get annoying fast.
The easiest way not to lose your music is stick to non-DRM music.
Let's look at a few facts.
1. There are bootleg MP3s of any popular song you want on the Internet. 2. Record companies will not give you MP3s.
Therefore, people download bootleg MP3s. Why can't the record companies just supply MP3s? Songs are going to be bootlegged no matter what they do, so why not let me buy the songs in MP3 format? I would do it. Just look at all the people downloading DRM music, there would be even more people downloading DRMless music.
People will do the right thing if it's not too much of a hassle. Record companies think every single song is pure gold but they're just not.
We have a bit of diliema with Google. On one hand, we get high Google rankings for search terms relevant to products we carry. On the other hand, Google does a complete index of our 4,000+ page site every week, and it takes several days.
We're on a wireless Internet connection due to severe lack of affordable Internet out here in the country, and they want to limit us to 30GB per month. I hate to complain to Google because we do get a lot of new customers from Google searches.
A few years back somebody had completely re-bodied a car to look like a Star Wars Land speeder, and it was for sale on Ebay for like $15,000. This is the best pic I could find:
http://www.enorgis.com/Images/tn_starwarscar.jpg
I remember from the other pictures it was kinda crappy up close but I suppose the Star Wars prop was too.
What they blanked was the words "heroin" and "coke" (as in cocaine.) I always thought it said "she used to love her habit", not "heroin." Now we can see the Wal-Mart music service is educational!
Wouldn't you love to be a bad word blanker for Wal-Mart? Sitting there all day cutting up songs?
Good price, more competition for other services, but no MP3s. And I couldn't find anything that wasn't censored. Listening to My Michelle by Guns n' Roses, they were blanking bad words I didn't even know were there after listening to the album hundreds of times. At least they didn't blank the word "porno.":\
If you want to see massive boob bouncage, try Dead or Alive for the PS1. Behold the giant perky braless wonders on the redhead chick. They bounce probably twice as long as they should when she stops moving. Kinda weird in a facsinating way.:)
The boss started buying them at work because they were like $500 after rebates. I was skeptical but they ran just fine for years. Over the years they've gotten cheaper and better. My mom wound up buying 2 for her job, and at my office we've got at least half a dozen now. The most recent ones were 2.4 Ghz, 256 MB RAM, 80 GB HD, CDRW drive, a NIC, and WinXp Home, for ~$450 with no rebates to mess with. All ready to go, no muss, no fuss.
When you think about it, you can pay $2500 for a PC or $400 for a PC, but it's the same damn Windows and the same damn CPUs, and probably a lot of the other components too.
The servers had just been taken down to prepare for the huge influx of players for the speech Lord British and Lord Blackthorne were giving throughout Britannia. When the servers came back up, I strolled through Britain with Helios, my fellow guild member. We headed to Blackthorne's castle where the first speech was being given. LB, Blackthorne, and their jesters were up on a bridge orating to the masses. Unfortunately I wasn't playing my mage character, so casting spells from a spellbook was out of the question. Luckily my character was a good thief who had high "stealing" skill. I desperately searched the backpacks of those around me and eventually came upon a fire field scroll. After that it was pretty simple, I just cast the scroll on the bridge and waited to see what would happen. Either LB or Blackthorne made the comment "hehe nice try", can't recall exactly who. It was a humorous sight and I expected to be struck down by lightning or have some other evil fate befall me. Instead I heard a loud death grunt as British slumped to his death. After that it was just pure mayhem, Blackthorne or another force summoned 4 daemons into the castle and people were dying left and right.
This sort of stuff is the beginning of the end for general PC gaming. If MS succeeds in getting many people to pay for minor addons, why wouldn't *every* game developer A: Switch to console-only development (something I'm seeing already) and B: Fragment the origonal game into pay-to-play modules. Want more multiplayer maps? They're only $2.99 each. Play with the AWP? $0.99.
I keep seeing more and more games come out for console only. Games that would be great on the PC, like Midtown Madness 2 and True Crime: Streets of LA.
At this rate stores will stop taking cash at some point: "You want me to take this peice of paper? It might be forged. I'd have to make change. You'll have to go to the cash-only register. This is such a hassle!"
I have as much desire to put a RFID chip in my arm as I do giving Radio Shack my phone number or getting one of those supermarket discount cards....
A team of 5 interesting, friendly people will ALWAYS outperform a lone social outcast barricaded in his single office.
I think that sort of depends on the project. The "interesting, friendly people" probably stand around at the coffee machine half the day talking about the weather or Michael Jackson.
A friend of mine used to be in charge of a bunch of programmers. His best programmer was very hard for most people to get along with, even on the phone. My friend decided to keep him as an employee but limit his interaction with others. He put him at an out of the way desk with no phone and got great work out of him.
For the 11 and 12 year old, I would restrict their browsing to a "whitelist" set of URLS. For the 15 year old, unless they're really immature, they're probably old enough to browse what they want with the rules you already have in place.
Let them be kids while they can, they learn enough crap at school. They'll grow up soon enough, and let's hope it's without seeing goatse.cx
There's another choice: get a browser that will only connect to the sites you allow. Then you don't have to be staring over their shoulder every second to make sure they don't accidently type dick.com instead of nick.com
1) Favorites - in Win2K or XP, why can't it just use my IE favorites? It isn't like they are hidden... they are there in plain sight in their own folder under %USERPROFILE%\%USERNAME%\FAVORITES.
I agree, I think this is a big deal. I recently migrated a user to Firebird and I had to drag and drop her bookmarks one by one out of the "Imported IE Favorites" folder to the main folder. And how about letting me SORT the freaking bookmarks like IE does, with the folders first? That is a constant annoyance.
The "look and feel" of Firebird doesn't bother me, I think your average Win9x user will hardly notice the difference. The security and lack of pop-ups should be a strong reason to switch, I've moved our entire office to Firebird and everyone's happy.
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The Discovery Channel show Mythbusters did a segment on the myth that keeping your wet toothbrush near your toilet would infect it with fecal bacteria floating in the air. The Mythbusters set up a buch of toothbrushes in a bathroom at various distances from the toilet, and brushed their teeth with them for a month. They used distilled water rather than regular tap water. They also kept a control toothbrush in an office in a glass jar.
At the end of the test, ALL the toothbrushes tested positive for fecal coliform bacteria, including the control toothbrush in the office.
So my friends, the world really is full of shit!
Weren't GTA3 and VC big sellers on the PC? Until the consoles get some equilavent of "mouselook", I have zero interest in playing games like GTA on a console.
If the server is in the UK and contains "illegal" material as defined by UK law, then why shouldn't UK authorities be able to shut it down? Shouldn't be any different than a book or magazine.
If the server isn't in the UK then what are we debating? They can't do anything about it (yet.)
This must be an example of a politician showing that he's trying to address a problem with an extreme reaction.
Maybe after the furor over this stupid idea dies down, they'll get a less evil idea though more easily.
Put up a site with warez, MP3s and porn. Post the URL on USENET, message boards, places like that. Then just sit back and watch the number of connections and upload rates soar.
They'll eventually have androids to do that. C3PO was amusing in the SW movies, but I bet he would get annoying fast.
The easiest way not to lose your music is stick to non-DRM music.
Let's look at a few facts.
1. There are bootleg MP3s of any popular song you want on the Internet.
2. Record companies will not give you MP3s.
Therefore, people download bootleg MP3s. Why can't the record companies just supply MP3s? Songs are going to be bootlegged no matter what they do, so why not let me buy the songs in MP3 format? I would do it. Just look at all the people downloading DRM music, there would be even more people downloading DRMless music.
People will do the right thing if it's not too much of a hassle. Record companies think every single song is pure gold but they're just not.
We don't really have anything we don't want Google to have, we just don't want them to completely crawl our site every week.
We have a bit of diliema with Google. On one hand, we get high Google rankings for search terms relevant to products we carry. On the other hand, Google does a complete index of our 4,000+ page site every week, and it takes several days.
We're on a wireless Internet connection due to severe lack of affordable Internet out here in the country, and they want to limit us to 30GB per month. I hate to complain to Google because we do get a lot of new customers from Google searches.
I thought $19.95 was the magic number! ;)
I'd take 2 at that price!
A few years back somebody had completely re-bodied a car to look like a Star Wars Land speeder, and it was for sale on Ebay for like $15,000. This is the best pic I could find:
http://www.enorgis.com/Images/tn_starwarscar.jp
I remember from the other pictures it was kinda crappy up close but I suppose the Star Wars prop was too.
What they blanked was the words "heroin" and "coke" (as in cocaine.) I always thought it said "she used to love her habit", not "heroin." Now we can see the Wal-Mart music service is educational!
Wouldn't you love to be a bad word blanker for Wal-Mart? Sitting there all day cutting up songs?
Good price, more competition for other services, but no MP3s. And I couldn't find anything that wasn't censored. Listening to My Michelle by Guns n' Roses, they were blanking bad words I didn't even know were there after listening to the album hundreds of times. At least they didn't blank the word "porno."
If you want to see massive boob bouncage, try Dead or Alive for the PS1. Behold the giant perky braless wonders on the redhead chick. They bounce probably twice as long as they should when she stops moving. Kinda weird in a facsinating way.
The boss started buying them at work because they were like $500 after rebates. I was skeptical but they ran just fine for years. Over the years they've gotten cheaper and better. My mom wound up buying 2 for her job, and at my office we've got at least half a dozen now. The most recent ones were 2.4 Ghz, 256 MB RAM, 80 GB HD, CDRW drive, a NIC, and WinXp Home, for ~$450 with no rebates to mess with. All ready to go, no muss, no fuss.
When you think about it, you can pay $2500 for a PC or $400 for a PC, but it's the same damn Windows and the same damn CPUs, and probably a lot of the other components too.
They're up to $52 a month. It's a great connection but how high will the price go?
This is the account I like, from Rainz:
The servers had just been taken down to prepare for the huge influx of players for the speech Lord British and Lord Blackthorne were giving throughout Britannia. When the servers came back up, I strolled through Britain with Helios, my fellow guild member. We headed to Blackthorne's castle where the first speech was being given. LB, Blackthorne, and their jesters were up on a bridge orating to the masses. Unfortunately I wasn't playing my mage character, so casting spells from a spellbook was out of the question. Luckily my character was a good thief who had high "stealing" skill. I desperately searched the backpacks of those around me and eventually came upon a fire field scroll. After that it was pretty simple, I just cast the scroll on the bridge and waited to see what would happen. Either LB or Blackthorne made the comment "hehe nice try", can't recall exactly who. It was a humorous sight and I expected to be struck down by lightning or have some other evil fate befall me. Instead I heard a loud death grunt as British slumped to his death. After that it was just pure mayhem, Blackthorne or another force summoned 4 daemons into the castle and people were dying left and right.
This sort of stuff is the beginning of the end for general PC gaming. If MS succeeds in getting many people to pay for minor addons, why wouldn't *every* game developer A: Switch to console-only development (something I'm seeing already) and B: Fragment the origonal game into pay-to-play modules. Want more multiplayer maps? They're only $2.99 each. Play with the AWP? $0.99.
I keep seeing more and more games come out for console only. Games that would be great on the PC, like Midtown Madness 2 and True Crime: Streets of LA.
At this rate stores will stop taking cash at some point: "You want me to take this peice of paper? It might be forged. I'd have to make change. You'll have to go to the cash-only register. This is such a hassle!"
I have as much desire to put a RFID chip in my arm as I do giving Radio Shack my phone number or getting one of those supermarket discount cards....
OPT ME OUT.
I think that sort of depends on the project. The "interesting, friendly people" probably stand around at the coffee machine half the day talking about the weather or Michael Jackson.
A friend of mine used to be in charge of a bunch of programmers. His best programmer was very hard for most people to get along with, even on the phone. My friend decided to keep him as an employee but limit his interaction with others. He put him at an out of the way desk with no phone and got great work out of him.
If anybody is evil, Saddam is. Hello, mass graves, children's prisons, mass murder of Kurds?
Things like this: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,101689,00.htm
I don't know why the Bush administration doesn't play stuff like this up more, I think they'd get less criticism.
For the 11 and 12 year old, I would restrict their browsing to a "whitelist" set of URLS. For the 15 year old, unless they're really immature, they're probably old enough to browse what they want with the rules you already have in place.
Let them be kids while they can, they learn enough crap at school. They'll grow up soon enough, and let's hope it's without seeing goatse.cx
There's another choice: get a browser that will only connect to the sites you allow. Then you don't have to be staring over their shoulder every second to make sure they don't accidently type dick.com instead of nick.com
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1) Favorites - in Win2K or XP, why can't it just use my IE favorites? It isn't like they are hidden... they are there in plain sight in their own folder under %USERPROFILE%\%USERNAME%\FAVORITES.
I agree, I think this is a big deal. I recently migrated a user to Firebird and I had to drag and drop her bookmarks one by one out of the "Imported IE Favorites" folder to the main folder. And how about letting me SORT the freaking bookmarks like IE does, with the folders first? That is a constant annoyance.
The "look and feel" of Firebird doesn't bother me, I think your average Win9x user will hardly notice the difference. The security and lack of pop-ups should be a strong reason to switch, I've moved our entire office to Firebird and everyone's happy.