that was a very intriguing article. i want the uswest database of numbers being monitored by the police! actually, i wanted it 3 years ago when I was dealing. Now, it wouldnt be nearly as exciting.
I went to priceline.com to check out plane tickets earlier this year as I was planning a trip, and I was totally turned off by the way they wanted to conduct the transaction.
There was no way I was going to name my price, enter my credit card number and automatically buy the ticket before I even was saw what airline it was on. Priceline gave me no way to just shop around for prices - you name the intenerary, name a price and bam, you are charged and you have no choice about anything after that. So, I went to travelocity, where I could actually shop around a bit. I think this name your price thing is lame, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to fight over it. Especially since they are planning on extending the paradigm to commodities such as groceries - who wants to haggle over a can of soup? Or lose out becaue they were willing to pay more than the going rate, without ever knowing the going rate?
Anyway, this is another case where MS shines in lack of originality. Have they ever thought of anything for themselves? Good ideas or bad, I don't think they have.
I recently priced a series of papaerbacks for a gift for a friend, and shipping from any of the online bookstores would have been about 20% of the total price in the end, which wasn't okay at all. If any store in town had them, I would have gladly driven over, bought them the same day, and paid no shipping other than my own transportation.
'The National League of Junior Cotillions has named Bill Gates the "best-mannered" person of 1999, citing "his example of generosity and humility."' check out this blurb for a little more.
Whoever the National League of Junior Cotillions is.
For some reaon, in all my excitement about the little button, I stated Toshiba rather than the actual make of my new monitor, Samsung. Its a Samsung SyncMaster 900IFT, though this doesn't help you... sorry for the confusion. As far as laptop monitors, they are 'weird' aren't they? I don't know if they have a scan rate in the same way. Oh well.
my new spiffy toshiba has a button that you can press and it tells you the current frequency range and recommended timing, and you can look at the info for other resoulutions, all on a handy on screen display!
I was very impressed with sndconfig - it got my sound card working perfectly , instantly.
Why does the red hat installation not mention it at all? They could at least mention it, and say "it doesn't work for every card but would you like to try to configure your sound card now?"
I was fortunate enough to remember the sndconfig command from a slashdot forum discussion a long time ago. Otherwise, I wouldn't have known about it at all.
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my friend told me about this site in an email a REALLY LONG TIME AGO. It is humorous, and worth looking at, but um... I wish slashdot would go back to posting interesting stories.
The value of the information isn't in question. Mr. Carmack doesn't really need to explain why he wants the info, it seems pretty clear how this could be useful. The point is, as has been reiterated here quite a bit , they should ask permission. Thats all.
the/. moderation system is effective, and it is well conceived. I was only commenting on these two sigs, so feel free to use moderation for whatever you want... i'm not knocking that.
is refreshing compared to people like 'kitsune sushi', who puts such faith in moderation that his sig informs us all that 'If you have something intelligent to say, log in and get moderated up. Otherwise, you're wasting your time'. I told him the sig was lame and got 2 paragraphs of psychotic insults. Yours I find humorous becasue it is the exact opposite!
Walmart has the largest database in the world about consumers and their purchasing habits. So yes, the stores, some of them at least, are collecting info. One way to avoid this is to use cash, I suppose.
After 2 years of quake, and the crime against nature that was Q2, I am really disappointed that Id couldn't create anything inte4resting about the gameplay of Q3. Also, it everything is so large and cartoony, I just can't stand Q3, especially compard to UT. I think Id needs to try putting out something original... If they make aquake 4 that is still all about rockets, red armor, quad and railguns , I am going to go insane with disgust. Curved surfaces... um, wow, thats great. i think it's more like Quake 1.5. But besides comparisons with Quake 3, I really enjoy Unreal Tournament. I wish them the best.
I had to reply to this again becasue I am puzzled by the extent of the emotion and antagonism in your reply. i wrote one line, not intensely insulting, and you composed a whole paragraph and a half of insults. You seem to be , and i quote ' mindlessly attacking anyone who isn't ``cool'' to them like some sort of barbarian with an inadequacy'' complex." If anything should be tagged as flamebait, it is definitely your strange, paranoid overreaction. Perhaps your job as baker leaves you frustrated and angry, but please. Calm down.
Indeed, it is redundant and offtopic. but if you want to see the roots of this post, please direct your browser to this thread. it will be uninforming and unexciting, but you know, some people have a lot of time on their hands to read things like that.
Anyway, yes - the moderation system is far from perfect. Some good posts get marked down, some fabulous gems go ignored because they are buried in hundreds of comments. I do agree with what he is trying to say, sort of. He just chose a very rude way of phrasing the statement. People should login when they have something to say. I understand that he may be trying to say that he has a threshold of +1, but um... who cares.
hey! I think I might have already entered this into the realm of discussion, but just in case, I wasnted to point out that your sig is pretty lame (your other odious characteristics aside)
my, you sure did get worked up about that one. Perhaps sometime you will find something to channel your clearly profound energies toward besides this useless forum. Assuming I am not a boped is astrange assumption. Also, youe own attitude shows so many of the qualites you decry in my post, it is amazing you, with your astounding mental capacity, have not yet detected a small note of hypocrisy.
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that was a very intriguing article.
i want the uswest database of numbers being monitored by the police!
actually, i wanted it 3 years ago when I was dealing. Now, it wouldnt be nearly as exciting.
I went to priceline.com to check out plane tickets earlier this year as I was planning a trip, and I was totally turned off by the way they wanted to conduct the transaction.
There was no way I was going to name my price, enter my credit card number and automatically buy the ticket before I even was saw what airline it was on. Priceline gave me no way to just shop around for prices - you name the intenerary, name a price and bam, you are charged and you have no choice about anything after that. So, I went to travelocity, where I could actually shop around a bit.
I think this name your price thing is lame, and I can't imagine why anyone would want to fight over it. Especially since they are planning on extending the paradigm to commodities such as groceries - who wants to haggle over a can of soup? Or lose out becaue they were willing to pay more than the going rate, without ever knowing the going rate?
Anyway, this is another case where MS shines in lack of originality. Have they ever thought of anything for themselves? Good ideas or bad, I don't think they have.
I recently priced a series of papaerbacks for a gift for a friend, and shipping from any of the online bookstores would have been about 20% of the total price in the end, which wasn't okay at all. If any store in town had them, I would have gladly driven over, bought them the same day, and paid no shipping other than my own transportation.
'The National League of Junior Cotillions has named Bill Gates the "best-mannered" person of 1999, citing "his example of generosity and humility."'
check out this blurb for a little more.
Whoever the National League of Junior Cotillions is.
For some reaon, in all my excitement about the little button, I stated Toshiba rather than the actual make of my new monitor, Samsung. Its a Samsung SyncMaster 900IFT, though this doesn't help you... sorry for the confusion.
As far as laptop monitors, they are 'weird' aren't they? I don't know if they have a scan rate in the same way.
Oh well.
my new spiffy toshiba has a button that you can press and it tells you the current frequency range and recommended timing, and you can look at the info for other resoulutions, all on a handy on screen display!
The first few sentences seem like he's being facetious, but I think this person was just making an earnest statement.
I was very impressed with sndconfig - it got my sound card working perfectly , instantly.
Why does the red hat installation not mention it at all? They could at least mention it, and say "it doesn't work for every card but would you like to try to configure your sound card now?"
I was fortunate enough to remember the sndconfig command from a slashdot forum discussion a long time ago. Otherwise, I wouldn't have known about it at all.
my friend told me about this site in an email a REALLY LONG TIME AGO. It is humorous, and worth looking at, but um... I wish slashdot would go back to posting interesting stories.
my thresh hold prevented me from seeing the comment you were replying too... yours makes more sense now.
The value of the information isn't in question. Mr. Carmack doesn't really need to explain why he wants the info, it seems pretty clear how this could be useful. The point is, as has been reiterated here quite a bit , they should ask permission. Thats all.
the /. moderation system is effective, and it is well conceived. I was only commenting on these two sigs, so feel free to use moderation for whatever you want... i'm not knocking that.
is refreshing compared to people like 'kitsune sushi', who puts such faith in moderation that his sig informs us all that 'If you have something intelligent to say, log in and get moderated up. Otherwise, you're wasting your time'.
I told him the sig was lame and got 2 paragraphs of psychotic insults. Yours I find humorous becasue it is the exact opposite!
Walmart has the largest database in the world about consumers and their purchasing habits. So yes, the stores, some of them at least, are collecting info. One way to avoid this is to use cash, I suppose.
After 2 years of quake, and the crime against nature that was Q2, I am really disappointed that Id couldn't create anything inte4resting about the gameplay of Q3. Also, it everything is so large and cartoony, I just can't stand Q3, especially compard to UT. I think Id needs to try putting out something original... If they make aquake 4 that is still all about rockets, red armor, quad and railguns , I am going to go insane with disgust. Curved surfaces... um, wow, thats great. i think it's more like Quake 1.5. But besides comparisons with Quake 3, I really enjoy Unreal Tournament. I wish them the best.
I had to reply to this again becasue I am puzzled by the extent of the emotion and antagonism in your reply. i wrote one line, not intensely insulting, and you composed a whole paragraph and a half of insults. You seem to be , and i quote ' mindlessly attacking anyone who isn't ``cool'' to them like some sort of barbarian with an inadequacy'' complex." If anything should be tagged as flamebait, it is definitely your strange, paranoid overreaction. Perhaps your job as baker leaves you frustrated and angry, but please. Calm down.
By the way, your sig sucks.
Indeed, it is redundant and offtopic. but if you want to see the roots of this post, please direct your browser to this thread. it will be uninforming and unexciting, but you know, some people have a lot of time on their hands to read things like that.
Anyway, yes - the moderation system is far from perfect. Some good posts get marked down, some fabulous gems go ignored because they are buried in hundreds of comments. I do agree with what he is trying to say, sort of. He just chose a very rude way of phrasing the statement. People should login when they have something to say. I understand that he may be trying to say that he has a threshold of +1, but um... who cares.
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oh no... the sig wasnt there!! where did it go??
hey! I think I might have already entered this into the realm of discussion, but just in case, I wasnted to point out that your sig is pretty lame (your other odious characteristics aside)
my, you sure did get worked up about that one.
Perhaps sometime you will find something to channel your clearly profound energies toward besides this useless forum.
Assuming I am not a boped is astrange assumption.
Also, youe own attitude shows so many of the qualites you decry in my post, it is amazing you, with your astounding mental capacity, have not yet detected a small note of hypocrisy.
hey! i might have mentioned this, but your sig sucks!!!
hey! your sig sure is lame!
hey! your sig is really lame!
oh, I see, posting something is a waste of time unless you read it? Um... okay, ego boy.
can be found at attrition.org 's page. this is the IIS page tht had been put up on slackware's page.