Funny, I've had my PS2 since it was released 4 years ago, I use it almost daily, and it still works just fine. A few anecdotal stories about failing hardware do not make it a general rule, so please stop turning your unfortunate purchase of a faulty PS2 into a general estimation of all PS2 hardware.
Unfortunately E, by stimulating serotonin uptake receptors, and basically flushes serotonin from storage into the brain; that's the euphoria. Serotonin takes a long time to replenish, so using E over a period of days (or longer) will require steadily higher doses for diminishing effect. Whether or not the Oxidization stresses caused by empty serotonin receptors causes neurotoxicity, depleting your serotonin levels for long periods of time can lead to depression until these levels replenish - which can take months.
Basically, E once in a while is fine, but for it to truly be effective, you only want to really use it once a month. Anything more than that is risky, at least for your mental health.
On that note, I don't really understand making mind-altering substances illegal. I can ingest enough household cleaners to get high, or kill myself, and you can buy them anywhere.
Didn't you know? America is the only free country in the world. Hence, the leader of America is supposedly the leader of [what's left of] the free world.
Maybe I just don't understand this, being from a public school background, but how could everyone afford things like pressed pants, starched shirts, blazers, ties and what not, if they were from many different economic and social circumstances? I had a hard enough time keeping my 3-year old hand-me-downs clean, never mind pressed or starched. Did the school offer some magical laundering service, or something?
You know... it's days like this when I can't help but stop and realize the sheer disparity between now and ten years ago. Then: I'd just bought a new 486 with a 120MB hard drive - now: you can get a phone with over 10x the storage capacity, and probably more processing power.
Sometimes it may not seem like it, but we really have come a long way.
Great! Now I can slam into another car after swerving past four freaking lanes of traffic, back up and repeatedly smash into the other car until it erupts into flames and explodes, and as long as the other guy has an expired license, it's his fault! Awsome!
For what it's worth, I moved on the month my license would have expired. Since I was moving to another state, I didn't see why I'd want to renew my license for the final few days I'd be in my home state. In the US, you have to have a license for the state you live in, and your car has to be registered there. Yet, without proof of address in my new state (no mail yet!) I can't get a new license there either. So yeah, for a couple days, I drove with an expired license too. This is why they have things here called "grace periods". You know, those things that give you a period of a couple weeks to renew registration, license, etc. Here in Iowa and Illinois, that's about a month. So, even though my license was technically expired, I didn't have to renew it - so I could finish moving and then renew my paperwork.
But hey, maybe you have less annoying red-tape up in Canada, and moving across a river doesn't completely change your basic citizenship. Maybe you don't understand any of the whole "moving from one state to another" thing. I'm almost convinced that it's easier to switch countries in Europe than it is to switch states in the US...
Oh, you mean Sailor Bubba. He's been at the last 4 anime conventions I've attended, and some of the dealers in the dealer-room were even selling merchandise sporting his visage. Gotta love that.
You know what? This country has a quarter of a billion people. You can not tell me there isn't a single person better for the job than any of the families currently abusing it. Your argument is begging the question by asserting hypothetical situations without context, and is therefore invalid.
Having two people from one family, separated by a single generation, proves we currently have something that isn't supposed to occour in a properly mediated democracy: a monarchy. When the presidency of the United States starts getting passed down any family line, it's time to start over.
Actually it would be like someone bringing their wife and kids to *your house* and demanding that you not say "cock sandwich" or any other arbitrary phrase that vexes them. In this case, you're free to throw them out of your house, and they are free to leave.
Oh, and "cock sandwich".
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This isn't likely, but could she have possibly been trying to slip you her phone number on the sly?:p
Yeah, but how do you know it's factory sealed? In a lot of the bigger items, it's just a box closed with the equivalent of packing tape.
One time I brought home a new (or so I thought) Panasonic surround sound system and opened it to find something that had obviously been opened before. It even had a manual for an RCA TV (Wha?) stashed with all of the unbundled cables. To top it all off, the receiver wouldn't even power up. I took it back and Best Buy replaced it, but from what I could tell, I had brought home an unopened item.
Either one of the employees did a bait-and-switch, or someone tried sneaking a returned non-working item back onto the shelves. I have no idea which, but it's scary either way.
I mean, if he's going to die within the next two and a half months, downloading Doom 3 is the least of his worries. Though anyone waiting that long for a download may *wish* they were dead.
There is a reason video gamers have a stereotype of fat and lazy non-athletes. Once athletic skill is required for a game, don't expect that game to do well on the shelves.
As an avid player of DDR, who has managed to get quite a few of my other gamer friends addicted to DDR, as well as know others with similar stories, I call shenanigans. DDR is fun, requires (sometimes Herculean) effort, and has the addictive quality of trying to "beat it" by getting to higher levels. Once you get past the stigma of looking like a tard, you'd be surprised how active a formerly sedentary person will become.
Over here at Slashdot, there's this thing called the Slashdot effect, which means a site gets an unexpected flood of traffic (from Slashdot) that its server can't handle, making the site unreachable.
Now, being that Slashdot is named Slashdot and all, why are people always surprised when others don't read the article? This isn't rocket science, people.
It's not the damn money. I'm sick of this argument getting trotted out every fucking time this issue comes up. I for one, am tired of remembering 894752097835984375 different logins for every site I visit through the day, and I sure as hell am not going to bother with a site I'll visit maybe once to read an interesting tidbit.
You know what? Some other place will have the article, or something like it, without me having to remember antiquated login information that I haven't used for five months. With sixty billion sites on the net, you better have some amazing content or services to justify any type of login to be worth my time. Seriously.
That's great! Now, just port your "application logic" to your PHP web front end, your C++ back-end utilities, your Java graphing system, and Forms reporting. See, enterprise level applications often have many vectors of accessing the data, which means porting your application code to four different languages and platforms, or just put the damn data access and integrity logic in the database.
Or have video conferences with the grandkids they don't get to see very often. Remember that long-ago dream of video phones? Yeah, we could have that now if only we'd stop being such asses about broadband penetration.
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Funny, I've had my PS2 since it was released 4 years ago, I use it almost daily, and it still works just fine. A few anecdotal stories about failing hardware do not make it a general rule, so please stop turning your unfortunate purchase of a faulty PS2 into a general estimation of all PS2 hardware.
Unfortunately E, by stimulating serotonin uptake receptors, and basically flushes serotonin from storage into the brain; that's the euphoria. Serotonin takes a long time to replenish, so using E over a period of days (or longer) will require steadily higher doses for diminishing effect. Whether or not the Oxidization stresses caused by empty serotonin receptors causes neurotoxicity, depleting your serotonin levels for long periods of time can lead to depression until these levels replenish - which can take months.
Basically, E once in a while is fine, but for it to truly be effective, you only want to really use it once a month. Anything more than that is risky, at least for your mental health.
On that note, I don't really understand making mind-altering substances illegal. I can ingest enough household cleaners to get high, or kill myself, and you can buy them anywhere.
What I want to know is how they supposedly got sex in the beer...
Well, maybe not. ^_^
Didn't you know? America is the only free country in the world. Hence, the leader of America is supposedly the leader of [what's left of] the free world.
Got it now?
Point, and match. ^_^
Great! Now if only the US would make voting day a national holiday so people could actually get to the damn voting booths.
Maybe I just don't understand this, being from a public school background, but how could everyone afford things like pressed pants, starched shirts, blazers, ties and what not, if they were from many different economic and social circumstances? I had a hard enough time keeping my 3-year old hand-me-downs clean, never mind pressed or starched. Did the school offer some magical laundering service, or something?
You know... it's days like this when I can't help but stop and realize the sheer disparity between now and ten years ago. Then: I'd just bought a new 486 with a 120MB hard drive - now: you can get a phone with over 10x the storage capacity, and probably more processing power.
Sometimes it may not seem like it, but we really have come a long way.
Great! Now I can slam into another car after swerving past four freaking lanes of traffic, back up and repeatedly smash into the other car until it erupts into flames and explodes, and as long as the other guy has an expired license, it's his fault! Awsome!
For what it's worth, I moved on the month my license would have expired. Since I was moving to another state, I didn't see why I'd want to renew my license for the final few days I'd be in my home state. In the US, you have to have a license for the state you live in, and your car has to be registered there. Yet, without proof of address in my new state (no mail yet!) I can't get a new license there either. So yeah, for a couple days, I drove with an expired license too. This is why they have things here called "grace periods". You know, those things that give you a period of a couple weeks to renew registration, license, etc. Here in Iowa and Illinois, that's about a month. So, even though my license was technically expired, I didn't have to renew it - so I could finish moving and then renew my paperwork.
But hey, maybe you have less annoying red-tape up in Canada, and moving across a river doesn't completely change your basic citizenship. Maybe you don't understand any of the whole "moving from one state to another" thing. I'm almost convinced that it's easier to switch countries in Europe than it is to switch states in the US...
Oh, you mean Sailor Bubba. He's been at the last 4 anime conventions I've attended, and some of the dealers in the dealer-room were even selling merchandise sporting his visage. Gotta love that.
You know what? This country has a quarter of a billion people. You can not tell me there isn't a single person better for the job than any of the families currently abusing it. Your argument is begging the question by asserting hypothetical situations without context, and is therefore invalid.
Having two people from one family, separated by a single generation, proves we currently have something that isn't supposed to occour in a properly mediated democracy: a monarchy. When the presidency of the United States starts getting passed down any family line, it's time to start over.
Actually it would be like someone bringing their wife and kids to *your house* and demanding that you not say "cock sandwich" or any other arbitrary phrase that vexes them. In this case, you're free to throw them out of your house, and they are free to leave.
Oh, and "cock sandwich".
This isn't likely, but could she have possibly been trying to slip you her phone number on the sly? :p
Yeah, but how do you know it's factory sealed? In a lot of the bigger items, it's just a box closed with the equivalent of packing tape.
One time I brought home a new (or so I thought) Panasonic surround sound system and opened it to find something that had obviously been opened before. It even had a manual for an RCA TV (Wha?) stashed with all of the unbundled cables. To top it all off, the receiver wouldn't even power up. I took it back and Best Buy replaced it, but from what I could tell, I had brought home an unopened item.
Either one of the employees did a bait-and-switch, or someone tried sneaking a returned non-working item back onto the shelves. I have no idea which, but it's scary either way.
I'm sure they "lost" the watch right onto their wrist later that day. As for the Laptop, Who knows.
Yessa massa! Iffun yu flick yo wris' at the lef', dat whip dun work much betta!
Oh come on, it's not that bad. Doom 3 sits at around 1755MB, so let's do some math.
2400 baud ~ 300 bytes / second
1755MB = 1840250880 bytes
1840250880 / 300 = 6134170 seconds
6134170 seconds ~ 1704 hours
1704 hours = 71 days.
I mean, if he's going to die within the next two and a half months, downloading Doom 3 is the least of his worries. Though anyone waiting that long for a download may *wish* they were dead.
There is a reason video gamers have a stereotype of fat and lazy non-athletes. Once athletic skill is required for a game, don't expect that game to do well on the shelves.
As an avid player of DDR, who has managed to get quite a few of my other gamer friends addicted to DDR, as well as know others with similar stories, I call shenanigans. DDR is fun, requires (sometimes Herculean) effort, and has the addictive quality of trying to "beat it" by getting to higher levels. Once you get past the stigma of looking like a tard, you'd be surprised how active a formerly sedentary person will become.
Exercise while gaming? Yeah, it's called DDR. ^_^
Over here at Slashdot, there's this thing called the Slashdot effect, which means a site gets an unexpected flood of traffic (from Slashdot) that its server can't handle, making the site unreachable.
Now, being that Slashdot is named Slashdot and all, why are people always surprised when others don't read the article? This isn't rocket science, people.
Computers can't throw you in jail or take away your constitutional rights... yet.
It's not the damn money. I'm sick of this argument getting trotted out every fucking time this issue comes up. I for one, am tired of remembering 894752097835984375 different logins for every site I visit through the day, and I sure as hell am not going to bother with a site I'll visit maybe once to read an interesting tidbit.
You know what? Some other place will have the article, or something like it, without me having to remember antiquated login information that I haven't used for five months. With sixty billion sites on the net, you better have some amazing content or services to justify any type of login to be worth my time. Seriously.
And the burning question: can you run it on a 386 that was "converted" to a 486 with 386to486?
That's great! Now, just port your "application logic" to your PHP web front end, your C++ back-end utilities, your Java graphing system, and Forms reporting. See, enterprise level applications often have many vectors of accessing the data, which means porting your application code to four different languages and platforms, or just put the damn data access and integrity logic in the database.
Or have video conferences with the grandkids they don't get to see very often. Remember that long-ago dream of video phones? Yeah, we could have that now if only we'd stop being such asses about broadband penetration.