I think it was something to do with Gods living on Mt. Olympus, and the sun was some kind of chariot.
Before we had a lot of civilization, we followed more of a Food? / Yikes! mode of thought; we didn't have a lot of spare time to look up and wonder, "Hmm, what's it all about..."
I had problems with running a video card correctly in Ubuntu. It's an Radeon 9200, hardly a rare card. The help I got was along the lines of "lol get a new card" or "it runs at 800 x 600. That should be good enough for email."
Riiiight. That's why I reinstalled Win2k. (The problem was resolved in 8.10, which I'm now using at home.)
It is the Linux crowd's fault, and it's the Works on My Machine problem. The people I've seen may be able to program, but their are horrible at fixing problems or relating to the public.
The new thing is Flash. It's slow on Ubuntu. Guess whose problem it is...
Yep, it's Adobe's fault for making a bad version of Flash.
Actually, Shampoo, if anything you had written been patentable, then you would have made them all unpatentable. You can't divulge any information about something you're working on to people who aren't working on it; not your friends, your neighbours, strangers on the internet, etc. Once it's made public, then you've released it and you can never be granted a patent. Some countries give you a 1-year grace period, but the US and Canada do not.
Of course, this is/. where everyone is a patent attorney. I'm just an EE who knows the difference between copyright, patent, trademarks, trade secrets, and industrial designs.
Thanks, voop. Over the years I've lost a lot of weight. I used to weigh 250, and now I'm at about 170. Up to 185 will be stable - that's been off for about 10 years. Now my neck seal doesn't fit very well, but that's a small price to pay.
The problem I've found with the Wii Fit is that it's not a Wii game.
The whole point of the console is to be a family-friendly, group-based platform. Friends hang out and party around the machine. Kids can play it too, and my daughter bought Disney Princess with her own money.
The Wii Fit is a solo only game, with a very awkward interface. It seems unfinished, under-tested, and under-done - like a tech demo more than a $100+ game with a custom controller. Some of the exercises now require perfect scores or you simply don't get on the board. If they'd done a graph over time (like the weight charts) then others could play the games without feeling like also-rans.
That said, I've played it every day since I got it, except for two weekends when I was out of town.
For strength, you use just your body's mass. I can do more than 100 jackknives (i.e. situps) and easliy do 30 pushup / sideplanks. There are lunges, side lifts, and others.
I've got a full-time job, a wife, and two kids. I scuba dive, play in a concert band, and play DnD once a week.
When, exactly, would I go out and join a soccer team? During naptime for the toddlers? In the evenings, when it's one of the rare days when neither my wife nor I are going out so we can spend some time together? Sure, I can bike to work, but I'm the one who drops the kids off at daycare. That means either using a trailer (sunny and warm days only) or biking when daycare's not in session.
Bring the Wii Fit into the equation, and I'm down 15 pounds. I can get a good set of cardio and strength work while the kids are napping or asleep.
Seriously, some people simply can't go outside some days.
The attacks on 9/11 were not a military action, and that's where the US went wrong. There wasn't a country that was behind them. It was a bunch of guys who just wanted to destroy the US for whatever reason.
(You can say it was because they hated our freedom; they wanted us out of the Holy Lands; they didn't like blah blah blah. They're madmen, and I don't try to relate to them in any rational context, since by definition it's impossible. I don't try to figure out why McVeigh or LaPine did what they did. I can't understand because my brain doesn't work like that.)
It was homicide (albeit on a grand scale) but it was never a military action. It should have resulted in a civilian arrest and a civilian trial.
What would have been awe-inspiring was that if bush had said something like this:
"Oh, I'm sorry. You misunderstood. We're the most powerful nation the world has ever known. This was your best strike against us, and it is has left just a small scar. We spend more money going to the opening of a new movie than your organization spends in a year - in a lifetime.
So we will rebuilt our towers, and we move on. We could show our strength by destroying your home, and it would be as easy as drinking a cup of coffee, but instead we'll show you our strength by rebuilding these towers. Not in ten years time; not in a year. By the end of 2001, these towers will be back. All your work will be for nothing. We won't forget this, when you ask us for help or when you ask your neighbours where all that aid came from. But we move on.
You do not frighten us. We will still welcome your poor, your tired, your huddles masses yearning to be free. The world is and always will be welcome in America. You are as children trying to frighten adults with a Halloween costume. We see through you for the scared, wretched, punks you are. A lot of people are scared today. It's a scary thing to see your country attacked, civilians murdered, all by surprise. But, my fellow Americans, that was it. The worst is over. If we give in to fear, they win. The tools of terrorists are not legion. They have one weapon. Fear. If we say, as one, 'we are not afraid', then they cannot hurt us.
And we are not afraid, for we are the most powerful nation in the history of this planet."
Instead, we got "OH FUCK!! THE BOGEYMAN IS EVERYWHERE!!"
I thought I had some kind of colour-blindness that prevented me from seeing why Macs are so cool. I couldn't figure out why people were spending 2-3 times for a product that does less just because it has a little apple silkscreened on the side.
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I think it was something to do with Gods living on Mt. Olympus, and the sun was some kind of chariot.
Before we had a lot of civilization, we followed more of a Food? / Yikes! mode of thought; we didn't have a lot of spare time to look up and wonder, "Hmm, what's it all about..."
Moryath, I agree with you completely.
I had problems with running a video card correctly in Ubuntu. It's an Radeon 9200, hardly a rare card. The help I got was along the lines of "lol get a new card" or "it runs at 800 x 600. That should be good enough for email."
Riiiight. That's why I reinstalled Win2k. (The problem was resolved in 8.10, which I'm now using at home.)
It is the Linux crowd's fault, and it's the Works on My Machine problem. The people I've seen may be able to program, but their are horrible at fixing problems or relating to the public.
The new thing is Flash. It's slow on Ubuntu. Guess whose problem it is...
Yep, it's Adobe's fault for making a bad version of Flash.
You could get the books from a library or download the PDF from a torrent.
Er, yeah, whoops. Long week.
Long, shitty week.
I'll just go back and edit my post.
I've got the fark and /. feeds to come up on my homepage.
I was going to say something about numbers, but damn; 3 digits. Is your fark account that low too?
I'm an Electrical Engineer, and I'd make 3x more as an Electrician.
Actually, Shampoo, if anything you had written been patentable, then you would have made them all unpatentable. You can't divulge any information about something you're working on to people who aren't working on it; not your friends, your neighbours, strangers on the internet, etc. Once it's made public, then you've released it and you can never be granted a patent. Some countries give you a 1-year grace period, but the US and Canada do not.
Of course, this is /. where everyone is a patent attorney. I'm just an EE who knows the difference between copyright, patent, trademarks, trade secrets, and industrial designs.
I got about 1/4 of the way, then I felt like I had to wash my hair.
there's tons of PDF-creating software on Windows as well.
PDFCreator from sourceforge:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
It's a Windows printer that prints out your documents as PDFs.
It's that easy.
Flash.
Hardly anyone uses Flash, do they?
You could, uh, run to the gym?
Again, that's not always possible. If I'm going to hire a babysitter, I'm going to go out on a date with my wife, not run out to the gym.
I get to exercise while the kids are napping or sleeping; other times just aren't possible.
Thanks, voop. Over the years I've lost a lot of weight. I used to weigh 250, and now I'm at about 170. Up to 185 will be stable - that's been off for about 10 years. Now my neck seal doesn't fit very well, but that's a small price to pay.
The problem I've found with the Wii Fit is that it's not a Wii game.
The whole point of the console is to be a family-friendly, group-based platform. Friends hang out and party around the machine. Kids can play it too, and my daughter bought Disney Princess with her own money.
The Wii Fit is a solo only game, with a very awkward interface. It seems unfinished, under-tested, and under-done - like a tech demo more than a $100+ game with a custom controller. Some of the exercises now require perfect scores or you simply don't get on the board. If they'd done a graph over time (like the weight charts) then others could play the games without feeling like also-rans.
That said, I've played it every day since I got it, except for two weekends when I was out of town.
The Wii Fit has more than a dozen yoga exercises.
For strength, you use just your body's mass. I can do more than 100 jackknives (i.e. situps) and easliy do 30 pushup / sideplanks. There are lunges, side lifts, and others.
You can certainly get stronger with a Wii Fit.
That's a super idea, Hojima.
I've got a full-time job, a wife, and two kids. I scuba dive, play in a concert band, and play DnD once a week.
When, exactly, would I go out and join a soccer team? During naptime for the toddlers? In the evenings, when it's one of the rare days when neither my wife nor I are going out so we can spend some time together? Sure, I can bike to work, but I'm the one who drops the kids off at daycare. That means either using a trailer (sunny and warm days only) or biking when daycare's not in session.
Bring the Wii Fit into the equation, and I'm down 15 pounds. I can get a good set of cardio and strength work while the kids are napping or asleep.
Seriously, some people simply can't go outside some days.
I'm pretty sure that Echelon has a far worse bark than bite.
I haven't changed my sig (which is also my email sig) since 1998.
It's not gravity; it's Intelligent Falling. Science can try to explain, but if science is real, then why is there no fossil record for gravity?
See, you've got no answer for that, so therefore I win.
It just means they don't like the Stones, that's all.
Kids with mod points. What is the metaverse coming to?
The attacks on 9/11 were not a military action, and that's where the US went wrong. There wasn't a country that was behind them. It was a bunch of guys who just wanted to destroy the US for whatever reason.
(You can say it was because they hated our freedom; they wanted us out of the Holy Lands; they didn't like blah blah blah. They're madmen, and I don't try to relate to them in any rational context, since by definition it's impossible. I don't try to figure out why McVeigh or LaPine did what they did. I can't understand because my brain doesn't work like that.)
It was homicide (albeit on a grand scale) but it was never a military action. It should have resulted in a civilian arrest and a civilian trial.
What would have been awe-inspiring was that if bush had said something like this:
"Oh, I'm sorry. You misunderstood. We're the most powerful nation the world has ever known. This was your best strike against us, and it is has left just a small scar. We spend more money going to the opening of a new movie than your organization spends in a year - in a lifetime.
So we will rebuilt our towers, and we move on. We could show our strength by destroying your home, and it would be as easy as drinking a cup of coffee, but instead we'll show you our strength by rebuilding these towers. Not in ten years time; not in a year. By the end of 2001, these towers will be back. All your work will be for nothing. We won't forget this, when you ask us for help or when you ask your neighbours where all that aid came from. But we move on.
You do not frighten us. We will still welcome your poor, your tired, your huddles masses yearning to be free. The world is and always will be welcome in America. You are as children trying to frighten adults with a Halloween costume. We see through you for the scared, wretched, punks you are. A lot of people are scared today. It's a scary thing to see your country attacked, civilians murdered, all by surprise. But, my fellow Americans, that was it. The worst is over. If we give in to fear, they win. The tools of terrorists are not legion. They have one weapon. Fear. If we say, as one, 'we are not afraid', then they cannot hurt us.
And we are not afraid, for we are the most powerful nation in the history of this planet."
Instead, we got "OH FUCK!! THE BOGEYMAN IS EVERYWHERE!!"
Finally.
I thought I had some kind of colour-blindness that prevented me from seeing why Macs are so cool. I couldn't figure out why people were spending 2-3 times for a product that does less just because it has a little apple silkscreened on the side.
Thank you.
Nice Steve Jobs sig, by the way, Mr. Mac Hater. ;)
You can put your apples in the fridge and eat them later.
Obviously the /real/ money is, as always, in .porn
. . . microsoft.porn on the other hand - not so much.
"Porn for Windows" = licence to print money.
Yep, I'm almost - almost - tempted to get a loan to buy up .xxx or .sex
Actually, the real money is in .corn
Would you like to download the new google.corn toolbar? Get your updates from microsoft.corn?
It looks like you're trying to modify a post. Would you like help with that?
See if you can guess when I learned that you can middle-click to open a link in a new tab. ;)
Thanks for the tip; that'll save me a fair bit of time and clicking during the day.