Whatever it's called. I have to laugh every time I hear it because the first minute or so of the song has this 'hic' sound in the background that's almost exactly like blips in bad MP3s. I wonder how many people listened to the start and started re-downloading from another source. If I wanted that song, it would have driven me nuts. Good trick.
And there's other countries in this world that don't have Fry's, too (I've never heard of the place). But my original post was more corporate. I've worked at a few places (as I do now) that buy their PCs from the Big Guys (Dell, Compaq...). Just try and buy a desktop through the co. without MS on it, I dare you. Servers, fine, but desktops? No. And this is even when the company you're working for has an MS Select subscription with unlimited licenses for 98/NT/2k. I mean, come on!
This is great for tweaking, but I'm betting MS is still putting the squeeze on OEMs who want to make a "bare" PC available at lower cost. There was an article here a while back, ah, here it is. That's where the fight lies.
I saw it on the news just last week. Rick Mercer was asking a bunch of Americans if they'd help out when our polar ice cap splits in two due to the global warming. If it's on CBC, it's got to be true. And if Americans will loan us tug boats to push it back together, who cares if it's true or not.
OK, so they don't exactly "work well," but that aside, when they came out my friends and I were pretty impressed. Sexy, small and quiet. Finally someone took the ideal university girlfriend and extrapolated that into the realm of desktop computers.
First off it looks good. Who can argue with that? Certainly not the idiots encasing their PCs in plexiglass and lighting them up with neon. And the space and noise factors are important when living in a small room. Good job Apple, too bad it was DAMNED EXPENSIVE and kinda broke a lot.
It's funny how two countries so close together can be so different. Up here nudity and the usage of fuck was common on the CBC with Kids In The Hall (now on HBO I gather, but CBC is a public broadcast station, government funded), gay characters aren't just a fad this last year (KITH again), and songs that make sense. That Shaggy one was just funny. Something about aprons?
Anyway, if we weren't so overloaded with American culture it would be a lot better, but we still get the pre-edited for export versions of things from the US, which sucks ass. But we still laugh at you. Puritans, what a wacky bunch.
It takes a Canadian to find this funny I guess. I haven't laughed so hard at a post on/. in a LONG time. It's so funny when someone in the US makes fun of us, they just HAVE to be doing it in jest. It's too funny.
And if you are blessed with the CBC, tune in on Sunday at 9pm EST to see a one hour special of "Talking With Americans." You'll piss yourself.
Linux may not == free, but most people think so
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So when any company wants to start charging for what they're doing, they better think long and hard. Most people are of the mind that anything Linux better be free (it's a major selling point in any company I've worked in). There's enough trouble giving it away, let alone raising market capital for a company wanting to make money with it. Now is definately not the time. And I don't know if there ever will be one.
A rather addictive and advanced version of pong
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can be found on Telus/Clearnet's website. It's called Quong and requires flash, but it's quite fun. Check it out here.
"what gives someone else the _right_ to screw up my cell service with a jammer? They don't own the airwaves..." Put simply: Under Canadian law we do kind of. It's the same reason that unlike in the US I can listen to your analog cellphone calls on my uncrippled radio scanner. The EM airwaves are considered to be public/private, in that we all share them, unless it's on my property in which case I let you use them if I want to. Canada is different in that regards, get over it.
And despite the fact you're considerate, we have plenty of assholes up here who aren't. I can't wait until these get installed in the classrooms and lecture halls here. And mistakes happen, I've forgotten and left mine on once or twice. I wish something like this did exist to save me from constantly changing the ring setting on my phone.
I think the answer is something along the lines of the Reflector strategy being devloped here. A good idea, but not quite stable enough to keep up for extended periods (yet). Give it a read-thru and see if it doesn't address the issue quite well.
Just think of all the games that leave an impression in your mind and consider if it is memorable because it was well designed, or if it was the first to do something new. The ones I really remember are Wolfenstien (my first FPS), Doom (my first multiplayer game), Doom2 (my first multiplayer with more than 2 people, and it was the hack that made it extra fun), Quake (my first 3D FPS, but not really big until CTF came out), Warcraft (my first multiplayer realtime strategy game).
So basically it's not the overall game I base my appreciation on, it's the innovations they introduced that made them k-rad elite. This is why I've pretty much stopped playing them after Q2, everything's just more of the same but with insane hardware requirements. And when you think about it, it's not the stories that keep you interested (go play D&D if it is, or read a book) it's what's new and exciting. Now days all that's left is eye candy and complexity. But dammit, Doom on a 486 with no mouse was fun enough for me.
PS. if anyone knows a Q1 CTF league drop me a note. Once I get it to install under win2k I'm all over that...
I wondered what that plastic crap in the neck of the rum bottle my gf brought back from Mexico was. Kept blocking the flow! What the hell! So it's not that you can't drink down there, it's that you don't have the tools. I see.;)
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And how many people just looked at the buydomains.com ad? c'mon, admit it...
ripping off memepool. Oh well, at least I felt a little guilty even if I didn't credit my source either.
Now when it hit their Windows Update site, that was funny. Slow day?
Thanks, we have your resume on file if we need it ;)
Ya gotta get someone with a good sense of humor and who's up on the current (if overhyped) news in the game.
on this file I send you?
Whatever it's called. I have to laugh every time I hear it because the first minute or so of the song has this 'hic' sound in the background that's almost exactly like blips in bad MP3s. I wonder how many people listened to the start and started re-downloading from another source. If I wanted that song, it would have driven me nuts. Good trick.
And there's other countries in this world that don't have Fry's, too (I've never heard of the place). But my original post was more corporate. I've worked at a few places (as I do now) that buy their PCs from the Big Guys (Dell, Compaq...). Just try and buy a desktop through the co. without MS on it, I dare you. Servers, fine, but desktops? No. And this is even when the company you're working for has an MS Select subscription with unlimited licenses for 98/NT/2k. I mean, come on!
This is great for tweaking, but I'm betting MS is still putting the squeeze on OEMs who want to make a "bare" PC available at lower cost. There was an article here a while back, ah, here it is. That's where the fight lies.
Man, Tiny Elvis is the bomb! I've got to dig that out again... And win 3.0.
I saw it on the news just last week. Rick Mercer was asking a bunch of Americans if they'd help out when our polar ice cap splits in two due to the global warming. If it's on CBC, it's got to be true. And if Americans will loan us tug boats to push it back together, who cares if it's true or not.
Hey, don't outfunny my funny ;) that was good.
What, these guys were so smelly they just decided to lock the doors to keep them out?
Up here we know what to do with concrete. It's a great use of concrete engineering too. More info on the UW concrete toboggan team here
OK, so they don't exactly "work well," but that aside, when they came out my friends and I were pretty impressed. Sexy, small and quiet. Finally someone took the ideal university girlfriend and extrapolated that into the realm of desktop computers.
First off it looks good. Who can argue with that? Certainly not the idiots encasing their PCs in plexiglass and lighting them up with neon. And the space and noise factors are important when living in a small room. Good job Apple, too bad it was DAMNED EXPENSIVE and kinda broke a lot.
as this discussion came up before here.
It's funny how two countries so close together can be so different. Up here nudity and the usage of fuck was common on the CBC with Kids In The Hall (now on HBO I gather, but CBC is a public broadcast station, government funded), gay characters aren't just a fad this last year (KITH again), and songs that make sense. That Shaggy one was just funny. Something about aprons?
Anyway, if we weren't so overloaded with American culture it would be a lot better, but we still get the pre-edited for export versions of things from the US, which sucks ass. But we still laugh at you. Puritans, what a wacky bunch.
It takes a Canadian to find this funny I guess. I haven't laughed so hard at a post on /. in a LONG time. It's so funny when someone in the US makes fun of us, they just HAVE to be doing it in jest. It's too funny.
And if you are blessed with the CBC, tune in on Sunday at 9pm EST to see a one hour special of "Talking With Americans." You'll piss yourself.
So when any company wants to start charging for what they're doing, they better think long and hard. Most people are of the mind that anything Linux better be free (it's a major selling point in any company I've worked in). There's enough trouble giving it away, let alone raising market capital for a company wanting to make money with it. Now is definately not the time. And I don't know if there ever will be one.
can be found on Telus/Clearnet's website. It's called Quong and requires flash, but it's quite fun. Check it out here.
"what gives someone else the _right_ to screw up my cell service with a jammer? They don't own the airwaves..." Put simply: Under Canadian law we do kind of. It's the same reason that unlike in the US I can listen to your analog cellphone calls on my uncrippled radio scanner. The EM airwaves are considered to be public/private, in that we all share them, unless it's on my property in which case I let you use them if I want to. Canada is different in that regards, get over it.
And despite the fact you're considerate, we have plenty of assholes up here who aren't. I can't wait until these get installed in the classrooms and lecture halls here. And mistakes happen, I've forgotten and left mine on once or twice. I wish something like this did exist to save me from constantly changing the ring setting on my phone.
I think the answer is something along the lines of the Reflector strategy being devloped here. A good idea, but not quite stable enough to keep up for extended periods (yet). Give it a read-thru and see if it doesn't address the issue quite well.
Just think of all the games that leave an impression in your mind and consider if it is memorable because it was well designed, or if it was the first to do something new. The ones I really remember are Wolfenstien (my first FPS), Doom (my first multiplayer game), Doom2 (my first multiplayer with more than 2 people, and it was the hack that made it extra fun), Quake (my first 3D FPS, but not really big until CTF came out), Warcraft (my first multiplayer realtime strategy game).
So basically it's not the overall game I base my appreciation on, it's the innovations they introduced that made them k-rad elite. This is why I've pretty much stopped playing them after Q2, everything's just more of the same but with insane hardware requirements. And when you think about it, it's not the stories that keep you interested (go play D&D if it is, or read a book) it's what's new and exciting. Now days all that's left is eye candy and complexity. But dammit, Doom on a 486 with no mouse was fun enough for me.
PS. if anyone knows a Q1 CTF league drop me a note. Once I get it to install under win2k I'm all over that...
I wondered what that plastic crap in the neck of the rum bottle my gf brought back from Mexico was. Kept blocking the flow! What the hell! So it's not that you can't drink down there, it's that you don't have the tools. I see. ;)
Transmeta is about to ship a quasi-distro slash embedded development toolkit
And how does one develop under such a system? Post your programs and hope they get modded up to compile-threshold level?
Remember November 11th? I don't think /. did either.