Back when AltaVista was big, I used it primarily, but probably no more than 70% of the time. The rest of the time I'd use Yahoo, Lycos, or one of several others (if I'm getting my mental timeline right, at least:P).
However, I've not used a search engine aside from google for years except for experimental purposes. Even my 80-year-old, AOL-using grandmother uses Google, for fuck's sake.
Yep, I was aware of stuff like this. It makes me wonder if Cheney did infact get himself a new heart instead of simply getting his ailing one fixed. It would explain why the ol' guy has so much energy.
Another thing that will happen: your campus technology will become, in essence, a propaganda field for software. Any course that is somewhat technologically related will be catered to by vendors, and instead of using the best tool for the job (ie, learning), you'll start using the newest (and usually cheapest, meaning probably Microsoft) wiz-bang technology available on the market.
And what of the significant portion of the student body that already owns a computer or three, as necessitated by their chosen major? They'll invariably have to buy an additional machine, probably at a drastically inflated price.
Of course, the school doesn't care. All they care is that they get their own personal cut; that is, they just want the students to buy the school's provided laptops.
Well, for starters, here's a list. I won't expound upon any of the ideas unless asked, as they're pretty self-explanatory, and I could go on all day about how much this kind of policy pisses me off.
- It creates a substantial greater financial cost for the student at little to no educational benefit (contrast a - say - $100 tech fee to a $400 tech fee per quarter - for a $1200 laptop! oh, and no you don't get a new laptop every 9 months...) - for IT/CS majors, it is a bane due to the strict policy changes prohibiting personal laptops on the network at all - Wireless is hell, whether it's simply getting the damn cards working, or getting them working in a building with several hundred other students all trying to use the same APs, crosstalk, etc. You simply can't get around this while still using Windows. Intels' chipsets are particularly bad. - Your network will need to have damn good reliability, as if the students are required to have them, and are required to pay for them, they damn well better be getting the service. - There will be huge issues with the policy put in place. "You mean to tell me I am personally responsible for this laptop, yet have no stake in its ownership? And I can't put any 3rd-party software on it, while you monitor all that I do on it?" - You will probably drive off a large number technically adept students with such a policy. Tech schools need to not instigate this policy, as the only ones that will be attracted to it will be idiots that think making web pages means being an "IT professional"... Yes, in 2006.
Is it just me, or is anyone else thinking, "The way the industry is going towards Orwellian dystopian dreams, I might just want to get out of computing"?
Bah, that's nothing! In the original Baldur's Gate, I'd played a total of over 200 game days. Even excluding the time required to switch disks and load the next map section and the parts of the game that were replayed because I died, time paused during combat, etc. that's over 400 hours of game play. I'd guess it's closer to 600 hours when you consider everything else.
All the more startling when you consider that such a number of game hours were completed in a single semester of college, and that the total game hours represents a full 25 days of gaming (provided I didn't eat, sleep, take baths, or anything other than BG). Considering I did do all those things, plus go to class, I pretty much spent every damn spare minute on that cursed but delightful game...
Which isn't to say I'm more hardcore than you are, by any means.:P
Oh, or they (GTA whores) could defend themselves with lethal force. They're prostitutes, likely on drugs... what's going to prevent them from carrying a firearm illegally? You hit a prostitute with a baseball bat and she whips out a knife and cuts you, bitch! Or maybe she puts down and pulls a GLOCK from her cleavage and blows your shit away.
not entirely fair to the M16. BlanKs have an inherent difference from live-fire! blanks have lower pressure due to the lack of a bullet. it is not common for blanks to cause a misfire as a result of the gas system being e Per art on this pressure.
Well, there are some experiences in life which are possible to experience and retain a lot of the same elements of "fight, flight or freeze" as experienced in the military - even if at a lesser degree. Some aren't quite "legal" or possible in states like NY or CA, but to many citizens they're still viable. I'm 23, and I've done the following so far in my life:
- Being waken in the middle of the night by two agressive drunk people knocking down your door, and instead of fleeing or freezing, you stand your ground (ie, there's no time to do anything else but fight) and state your intentions forcefully - having a drive-by shooting perpetrated against yourself and acting defensively/counter-offensively instead of simply standing there (ie, took cover and prepared to return fire) - being stalked by a predatory animal in the wild and scaring the thing off by acting offensively
In my (not-trained-by-the-military) mind, it's simply a matter of self-conditioning. Some people need experience to do this, but it would appear as if some people have a natural capability for it, or simply pick it up through a series of life-or-death situations. I'm not presumptuous enough to presume that I'd be Rambo in a combat situation, but I'm fairly certain I'd do a fairly good job keeping my head about me - at least compared to most others of untrained nature. Yes, I'd probably have a couple of time sequences black out on me due to the surge of adrennaline (did I fire five times or six?), and I don't doubt my bowel contents would depart rapidly, but I've always been good under life-or-death stress.
Uh... I can't speak for anything much larger than.30-06 fired semi-automatically and hot.357 magnum loads out of a short-barreled revolver (ooh, pretty fireball!), but let's just put it this way: you will quickly and permanently lose your hearing by shooting such things without ear protection. It will physically hurt your ears and you will feel a distinct pressure difference. (Though, I have experienced some fairly large explosions, but that's something different...)
The big guns like M2s, artillery, and explosive devices are more in lines with a large clap of thunder. Maybe a little louder. You know those massive claps of thunder which cause your entire house to shake, reverberating for a couple seconds after the boom? Yeah. Think of that as a sustained blast.
I've had lightning hit my house, and I imagine mounted.50s and various other things would be similar.
What makes you think there has to be some sort of distinction between a company or coroporation, and a modern government?
What's the difference, really? A government is a corporation of a sort: there to make money and power while giving the perception (as much as possible) of viable services. If the shit hits the fan on a global or national scale, there will be many corporations with resources which the government doesn't have. Really, the main distinction is that the government has guns - and there are many corporations which have quite a few of those.
no, it's completely true. I've experienced it first-hand (as well as reversal towards better natural vision through 'therapy') and long before lasik was even remotely common.
Try this 'experiment': if you need glasses to view distances crisply, go to the drug store and pick up a pair of normal reading glasses. Wear them whenever you're doing close work if your perscription is weak enough, or simply get a weaker perscription of your nearsighted glasses.
You will find that your eyes adapt back to a better, less visually stressful perscription by doing this.
Why are we fucking around with trying to kill viruses, again? So they'll mutate? This is a benign virus, it only infects those that inflict themselves with poor decisions.
It's finds like this which make me wonder: are there still what we consider to be "dinosaurs" - and what were considered "dragons" prior to 1850 or so - roaming the remote places of the earth? There seems to be quite a few first-hand accounts of such sightings, but no hard evidence.
Er, no. "Useability" is not an issue with Linux. The main technical issue with linux is application compatibility. MS has a mindshare monopoly on "productivity" software (Access, Project, Excel, Word), and there's little chance of that changing anytime soon.
You realize, don't you, that as a Mac user your current system might not be vulnerable to these hypothetical attacks, but given several months they will be, right? Apple is going to start using PC hardware sooner than later, bringing with them all the same headaches PCs now experience at the hardware level.
Don't mind him. He'd be bitching that Alito doesn't make judgements based on law but on his own opinions if that were the case instead of saying it should be more that way. The key point here is that this person doesn't like how Alito votes, simply because this person doesn't like the Constitution in its current form, with all its liberties and freedoms for everyone other than himself.
This is the E-Ink product based (partially) on the (linux-based) gumstix project which many people have long been waiting for.
Two things to consider when considering to buy this device: - Other companies will likely be releasing similar e-ink readers within the year (at a lower price, as they're not first-to-market, and they're not Sony) - If it has DRM, it's a no-go. If it has no DRM, it might be a turn-around for sony: it'd be one way to tell sony, "hey, this is what we want"!
If you're getting nearsighted, wear farsighted glasses; just the cheap $15 reading glasses that you can get at a drug store will do; if your vision is good, pick up some with +1 or +2 lenses.
If your vision isn't good enough to do that (ie, you wear nearsighted glasses), either don't wear your glasses or get a pair with a weaker perscription.
THe reasoning behind this is to help your eyes naturally compensate. with nearsighted glasses, they perscribe them for distance work - as evidenced by the wall eye chart they have you look at 30 feet away. with a strong nearsighted perscription, your eyes will 'adapt' to that strength at the distance they're perscribed to, potentially meaning you'd need a new perscription in a couple years. meanwhile, they're overstrength for close-up work. If you're doing close work, it really stresses your eyes. optomitrists never tell you this because they want your repeat patronage.
The same concept is behidn wearing the farsighted/reading glasses: in essence, they make the closer objects strain your eyes less as they are being compensated by the lenses to make your eyes think the objects are further way.
also, just spend more time outdoors. It's good for you. Exercise, go boating, camping - anything that will make your eyes focus on further objects. I personally prefer shooting - both long range rifle and pistol. Though, with something like shooting where you mainly use one eye, you've got to be careful you don't cause one eye to become over dominant.
(I've had long-running issues resulting from over-perscribed eyeglasses, and I've been trying to get my eyesight back to 'acceptable' through the above methods. My perscription is now 40/20 (give or take) in each eye; it was 210/20 in each eye (give or take) 10 years ago.
You forget: doing so would conflict with their current financial interests in AOL. Don't they own some sort of IM client platform similar to what GAIM works on?:P
I've always thought it would be a great idea to have such a sleeping arrangement available in airports here in the United States, particularly O'Hare in CHicago. Even if you charged $30/person, it would be cheaper and more preferable (in my opinion) to getting a shuttle to a $100+ hotel room at 2am after they've just fucked up the last flight of the day, forcing you to wait until the next flight at 6am.
I'd think it would be pretty easy to do. Keep them inside the airport terminals so that people wouldn't have to entirely leave the airport and then go through the headache of security and check-in again in the "morning". Make them like "lego" blocks, stackable with fasteners to hold them together. Make them so that they can easily be put onto a custom trailer and brought up to the various concourses and set out with an attendant to man them.
It wouldn't have to be much, just a simple 3x4x7 foot rectangular box with sound dampening materials, a door with a small latch on the inside, and a single light so you can see what you're doing inside: just big enough to rest your head in relative security and marginal comfort for 4 or 5 hours until your next flight.
I'd say Regan's personal character was well portrayed through many of the things he said; he was the exception during the second half of the 20th century.
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.' Ronald Reagan
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away. - Ronald Reagan
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. Ronald Reagan
Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. Ronald Reagan
How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin. Ronald Reagan
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. Ronald Reagan, Address to the Nation, Jan 16, 1984
I'm not a fanboy of the guy, but I do think he was the best President since Theo Roosevelt.
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Eh, not really.
:P).
Back when AltaVista was big, I used it primarily, but probably no more than 70% of the time. The rest of the time I'd use Yahoo, Lycos, or one of several others (if I'm getting my mental timeline right, at least
However, I've not used a search engine aside from google for years except for experimental purposes. Even my 80-year-old, AOL-using grandmother uses Google, for fuck's sake.
Yep, I was aware of stuff like this. It makes me wonder if Cheney did infact get himself a new heart instead of simply getting his ailing one fixed. It would explain why the ol' guy has so much energy.
Another thing that will happen: your campus technology will become, in essence, a propaganda field for software. Any course that is somewhat technologically related will be catered to by vendors, and instead of using the best tool for the job (ie, learning), you'll start using the newest (and usually cheapest, meaning probably Microsoft) wiz-bang technology available on the market.
And what of the significant portion of the student body that already owns a computer or three, as necessitated by their chosen major? They'll invariably have to buy an additional machine, probably at a drastically inflated price.
Of course, the school doesn't care. All they care is that they get their own personal cut; that is, they just want the students to buy the school's provided laptops.
Well, for starters, here's a list. I won't expound upon any of the ideas unless asked, as they're pretty self-explanatory, and I could go on all day about how much this kind of policy pisses me off.
- It creates a substantial greater financial cost for the student at little to no educational benefit (contrast a - say - $100 tech fee to a $400 tech fee per quarter - for a $1200 laptop! oh, and no you don't get a new laptop every 9 months...)
- for IT/CS majors, it is a bane due to the strict policy changes prohibiting personal laptops on the network at all
- Wireless is hell, whether it's simply getting the damn cards working, or getting them working in a building with several hundred other students all trying to use the same APs, crosstalk, etc. You simply can't get around this while still using Windows. Intels' chipsets are particularly bad.
- Your network will need to have damn good reliability, as if the students are required to have them, and are required to pay for them, they damn well better be getting the service.
- There will be huge issues with the policy put in place. "You mean to tell me I am personally responsible for this laptop, yet have no stake in its ownership? And I can't put any 3rd-party software on it, while you monitor all that I do on it?"
- You will probably drive off a large number technically adept students with such a policy. Tech schools need to not instigate this policy, as the only ones that will be attracted to it will be idiots that think making web pages means being an "IT professional"... Yes, in 2006.
Is it just me, or is anyone else thinking, "The way the industry is going towards Orwellian dystopian dreams, I might just want to get out of computing"?
Bah, that's nothing! In the original Baldur's Gate, I'd played a total of over 200 game days. Even excluding the time required to switch disks and load the next map section and the parts of the game that were replayed because I died, time paused during combat, etc. that's over 400 hours of game play. I'd guess it's closer to 600 hours when you consider everything else.
:P
All the more startling when you consider that such a number of game hours were completed in a single semester of college, and that the total game hours represents a full 25 days of gaming (provided I didn't eat, sleep, take baths, or anything other than BG). Considering I did do all those things, plus go to class, I pretty much spent every damn spare minute on that cursed but delightful game...
Which isn't to say I'm more hardcore than you are, by any means.
I believe it would be a deontic modality fallacy, but I'm tired and not yet working right, so no bets.
Oh, or they (GTA whores) could defend themselves with lethal force. They're prostitutes, likely on drugs... what's going to prevent them from carrying a firearm illegally? You hit a prostitute with a baseball bat and she whips out a knife and cuts you, bitch! Or maybe she puts down and pulls a GLOCK from her cleavage and blows your shit away.
not entirely fair to the M16. BlanKs have an inherent difference from live-fire! blanks have lower pressure due to the lack of a bullet. it is not common for blanks to cause a misfire as a result of the gas system being e Per art on this pressure.
Well, there are some experiences in life which are possible to experience and retain a lot of the same elements of "fight, flight or freeze" as experienced in the military - even if at a lesser degree. Some aren't quite "legal" or possible in states like NY or CA, but to many citizens they're still viable. I'm 23, and I've done the following so far in my life:
- Being waken in the middle of the night by two agressive drunk people knocking down your door, and instead of fleeing or freezing, you stand your ground (ie, there's no time to do anything else but fight) and state your intentions forcefully
- having a drive-by shooting perpetrated against yourself and acting defensively/counter-offensively instead of simply standing there (ie, took cover and prepared to return fire)
- being stalked by a predatory animal in the wild and scaring the thing off by acting offensively
In my (not-trained-by-the-military) mind, it's simply a matter of self-conditioning. Some people need experience to do this, but it would appear as if some people have a natural capability for it, or simply pick it up through a series of life-or-death situations. I'm not presumptuous enough to presume that I'd be Rambo in a combat situation, but I'm fairly certain I'd do a fairly good job keeping my head about me - at least compared to most others of untrained nature. Yes, I'd probably have a couple of time sequences black out on me due to the surge of adrennaline (did I fire five times or six?), and I don't doubt my bowel contents would depart rapidly, but I've always been good under life-or-death stress.
Uh... I can't speak for anything much larger than .30-06 fired semi-automatically and hot .357 magnum loads out of a short-barreled revolver (ooh, pretty fireball!), but let's just put it this way: you will quickly and permanently lose your hearing by shooting such things without ear protection. It will physically hurt your ears and you will feel a distinct pressure difference. (Though, I have experienced some fairly large explosions, but that's something different...)
.50s and various other things would be similar.
The big guns like M2s, artillery, and explosive devices are more in lines with a large clap of thunder. Maybe a little louder. You know those massive claps of thunder which cause your entire house to shake, reverberating for a couple seconds after the boom? Yeah. Think of that as a sustained blast.
I've had lightning hit my house, and I imagine mounted
What makes you think there has to be some sort of distinction between a company or coroporation, and a modern government?
What's the difference, really? A government is a corporation of a sort: there to make money and power while giving the perception (as much as possible) of viable services. If the shit hits the fan on a global or national scale, there will be many corporations with resources which the government doesn't have. Really, the main distinction is that the government has guns - and there are many corporations which have quite a few of those.
Yeah. I've been sitting here thinking, "Bicep? That's a muscle, isn't it?"
no, it's completely true. I've experienced it first-hand (as well as reversal towards better natural vision through 'therapy') and long before lasik was even remotely common.
Try this 'experiment': if you need glasses to view distances crisply, go to the drug store and pick up a pair of normal reading glasses. Wear them whenever you're doing close work if your perscription is weak enough, or simply get a weaker perscription of your nearsighted glasses.
You will find that your eyes adapt back to a better, less visually stressful perscription by doing this.
Why are we fucking around with trying to kill viruses, again? So they'll mutate? This is a benign virus, it only infects those that inflict themselves with poor decisions.
Just stop fucking - how difficult can it be!
It's finds like this which make me wonder: are there still what we consider to be "dinosaurs" - and what were considered "dragons" prior to 1850 or so - roaming the remote places of the earth? There seems to be quite a few first-hand accounts of such sightings, but no hard evidence.
Er, no. "Useability" is not an issue with Linux. The main technical issue with linux is application compatibility. MS has a mindshare monopoly on "productivity" software (Access, Project, Excel, Word), and there's little chance of that changing anytime soon.
You realize, don't you, that as a Mac user your current system might not be vulnerable to these hypothetical attacks, but given several months they will be, right? Apple is going to start using PC hardware sooner than later, bringing with them all the same headaches PCs now experience at the hardware level.
Don't mind him. He'd be bitching that Alito doesn't make judgements based on law but on his own opinions if that were the case instead of saying it should be more that way. The key point here is that this person doesn't like how Alito votes, simply because this person doesn't like the Constitution in its current form, with all its liberties and freedoms for everyone other than himself.
This is the E-Ink product based (partially) on the (linux-based) gumstix project which many people have long been waiting for.
Two things to consider when considering to buy this device:
- Other companies will likely be releasing similar e-ink readers within the year (at a lower price, as they're not first-to-market, and they're not Sony)
- If it has DRM, it's a no-go. If it has no DRM, it might be a turn-around for sony: it'd be one way to tell sony, "hey, this is what we want"!
If you're getting nearsighted, wear farsighted glasses; just the cheap $15 reading glasses that you can get at a drug store will do; if your vision is good, pick up some with +1 or +2 lenses.
If your vision isn't good enough to do that (ie, you wear nearsighted glasses), either don't wear your glasses or get a pair with a weaker perscription.
THe reasoning behind this is to help your eyes naturally compensate. with nearsighted glasses, they perscribe them for distance work - as evidenced by the wall eye chart they have you look at 30 feet away. with a strong nearsighted perscription, your eyes will 'adapt' to that strength at the distance they're perscribed to, potentially meaning you'd need a new perscription in a couple years. meanwhile, they're overstrength for close-up work. If you're doing close work, it really stresses your eyes. optomitrists never tell you this because they want your repeat patronage.
The same concept is behidn wearing the farsighted/reading glasses: in essence, they make the closer objects strain your eyes less as they are being compensated by the lenses to make your eyes think the objects are further way.
also, just spend more time outdoors. It's good for you. Exercise, go boating, camping - anything that will make your eyes focus on further objects. I personally prefer shooting - both long range rifle and pistol. Though, with something like shooting where you mainly use one eye, you've got to be careful you don't cause one eye to become over dominant.
(I've had long-running issues resulting from over-perscribed eyeglasses, and I've been trying to get my eyesight back to 'acceptable' through the above methods. My perscription is now 40/20 (give or take) in each eye; it was 210/20 in each eye (give or take) 10 years ago.
You forget: doing so would conflict with their current financial interests in AOL. Don't they own some sort of IM client platform similar to what GAIM works on? :P
I've always thought it would be a great idea to have such a sleeping arrangement available in airports here in the United States, particularly O'Hare in CHicago. Even if you charged $30/person, it would be cheaper and more preferable (in my opinion) to getting a shuttle to a $100+ hotel room at 2am after they've just fucked up the last flight of the day, forcing you to wait until the next flight at 6am.
I'd think it would be pretty easy to do. Keep them inside the airport terminals so that people wouldn't have to entirely leave the airport and then go through the headache of security and check-in again in the "morning". Make them like "lego" blocks, stackable with fasteners to hold them together. Make them so that they can easily be put onto a custom trailer and brought up to the various concourses and set out with an attendant to man them.
It wouldn't have to be much, just a simple 3x4x7 foot rectangular box with sound dampening materials, a door with a small latch on the inside, and a single light so you can see what you're doing inside: just big enough to rest your head in relative security and marginal comfort for 4 or 5 hours until your next flight.
I'd say Regan's personal character was well portrayed through many of the things he said; he was the exception during the second half of the 20th century.
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.' Ronald Reagan
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away. - Ronald Reagan
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. Ronald Reagan
Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. Ronald Reagan
How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin. Ronald Reagan
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. Ronald Reagan, Address to the Nation, Jan 16, 1984
I'm not a fanboy of the guy, but I do think he was the best President since Theo Roosevelt.