It's the 'leave it up to the states, we're not touching it' Federal Government stance on the issue, which is actually a good idea. Back in the olden times it made sense, when very young people would marry each other or an older man would take a younger wife to help out on the farm. It was a more practical mindset. It's just that these days, it really doesn't make much sense, particularly because there is no practical angle. A young girl has just as much inherent value to a man as a woman in his own age group, and in most cases, substantially less value.
I've pondered it from time to time (18 year olds) and I keep coming back with the same conclusion. At the ripe old age of 31, I can't imagine dealing with the drama and energy level of an 18 year old girl. It'd drive me fucking insane. It nearly did back when I was 18, and to think of how I would handle a girl that young now...forget it. I'll take an aged wine over a glass of grape juice any day.
Personally I think this is a wonderful idea and a great way for the DHS to spend a few million.
Seriously! I mean, everyone knows terrorists put every attack plan in their local papers. This will go a long way towards letting us in on a public secret in Durkistan or Iraqabad. If we had only had a copy of page D-6 from the Afghanistan Daily Bugle, we would have been able to prevent 9-11. There it was in bold typeface..."Best Terrorist Plot Ever To Blow Up Twin Towers in NYC Starts Tomorrow" along with "Florida Flight School Voted #1 Choice By Hijackers".
This is basically fuckin' stupid. I can't believe our government even entertains the idea that this might help.
Oh man, I got modded down for flamebait because I made a joke. I feel like I'm on Digg all of a sudden.
Anyway, yeah Dawn of the Dead had a cool soundtrack. There was some irony in the initial elevator scene with the music but I don't specifically remember what song it was playing.
Yeah it seems like the processor wars are really heating up. The days when every PC had PC100 or PC133 ram are way over, but those days lasted *years*. It was 'good enough' for a very long time. PC3200 had a good run but DDR2 is just beginning to replace it, and next year we'll be dealing with DDR3.
I guess there's not alot to complain about. At least it's not more-valuable-than-platinum-per-ounce Rambus.
Yeah, OSX has bragging rights with hardware compatibility.
"Our OS will run on every single supported platform. All 5 of them!";)
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Then you probably loved the Metal Gear series. It was alot of playing and alot of watching with good voice acting and an interesting story.
Once in awhile I caught my wife getting interested in the story aspects. She'd say 'hurry up and beat the boss so I can see what happens next!'. This coming from a woman that won't touch video games.
Oh, you mean a game like Dead Rising? Where you have to be at location X by Y time or you're guaranteed to lose?
Yeah, I hate carrot and stick games too. What's the point of letting the main character wander around if he has to be at the bus stop at 10 sharp or the game ends?
Well, it helps to have the phone box with a battery backup in case your home electricity goes out. If cable is still working in that event, then you still have telephone service. I can't count the number of tornadoes I've lived through and had no power for hours while the telephones continued to work. Then again there were times when both went out.
Basically, shit happens, and the more the service providers can do remotely and locally to ensure that service interruptions are kept to a minimum, the better. Cable companies are very serious about rolling out telephony (due to FCC and state regulations regarding telephony) and generally have a very high uptime in the areas they offer the service.
Battery backup is not on the modem in this case, it's in the digital phone box on the side of your house. Generally they like to install these on a garage wall near a power outlet on the inside wall. The battery backup is inside the box itself but it draws power from that inside outlet.
Yeah, I think you're right. It's not 9 9's but it's close to an SLA that you'd get from an ISP for a T1 or other commercial line. A little googling netted 3 9's which is extremely far off from what I originally posted.:)
What? I didn't think Manuel was still in Mexico this late in the century. He's probably already living in Tejas or California or pretty much anywhere there's a Tyson Food plant nearby, feeding his wife and 6 children, blaring oompa loompa music from his big truck with tiny tires as he rolls down the street in his barrio.
You will know Manuel when you spot him driving. He'll have a chrome sticker of the city he lives in's skyline on the back window along with his last name in giant gothic letters. Rodriguez! Espinoza! Nike symbol!
Actually the cable company provides battery backup boxes for their phone service to satisfy telco laws. They must have 9 9's uptime on the phone service due to 911 requirements. Even the cable techs (who despise the phone boxes) are extremely careful when adding or removing services on homes with digital phone lines. They must never, ever disconnect the line at the pedestal/pole during service calls due to the phone boxes. All of the filters and other things they need to access are all in the digital phone box, so really there's no reason to climb a pole or open a catbox anyway. But due to the poor design, wrestling around inside of the boxes is less than simple and easy and usually takes both hands with a tool in each.
Yeah, I would have tried harder if I needed it, but we have a stout ESX server up here that does the heavy lifting. I just gave it a test drive, and based on my initial impressions, it was an old horse in need of a shotgun-wielding farmer.
Yeah, I tried MS Virtual Server once...it was a worthless piece of crap with lots of services and pieces strewn about like a really, really bad project. It doesn't run in a nice container like VMWare does, it can't replace the host OS with its own optimized OS and run virtual machines beneath it (like VMWare ESX does), and it's a bitch to understand, install, configure, and put to work.
I'd call it alpha at best, but that's an insult to alpha projects that are twice as polished and usable as MSVS.
Give it four or five years and it may approach VMWare, but by then VMWare will be so much more advanced..sheesh I can't even begin to understand why Microsoft even tried on this one.
Not really, considering how many people have parents that have junior install Windows XP over ME so they can actually use the computer, only junior uses a hacked copy of XP with a keygen. It's alot more common than you think.
Damn straight, it took the mplayer devs years to get to 1.0 and a year after 1.07prexx they release 1.08. The mythtv devs are even more conservative, they've been doing mythtv for what, 3 or so years and are just now hitting.20.
But like they say, let an engineer build an engine and it'll never be finished. Perfectionists, the lot of them.
A cheaper console does not a winner make. Just take a look at the last 2 flops from Nintendo. The N64 was outsold by the PS1, the Gamecube came in a stale 3rd behind the regular Xbox and PS2...there's just no escaping the facts. Nintendo knows they can't have an HD-capable, hardcore system like everyone else because nobody would pay the premium for it. They're really better off in a market with no competition, which is why their handhelds have owned since the original B&W Gameboy.
As far as HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray goes, well, Universal has Frankenstein and Dracula, but honestly, HD-DVD just doesn't have much studio support. From the wikipedia entry on HD-DVD: HD DVD is currently *exclusively* backed by Universal Studios and The Weinstein Company (through Genius Products) and is *non-exclusively* backed by Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., New Line, HBO, DreamWorks, Image Entertainment, Magnolia Pictures, Brentwood Home Video, Warner Music Group, Ryko, Goldhil Entertainment, and Studio Canal.
So, you have a few heavy hitters and alot of little studios. Now for the Blu-Ray studio support: Paramount, Warner, Universal and New Line have *non-exclusive* arrangements, while Fox, Disney/Buena Vista, Lion's Gate, MGM, and Sony/Columbia have exclusive rights. I'm sure there are more, but the Wiki is poorly organized compaared to the HD-DVD wiki entry.
At any rate, when you have a split format, a studio would be foolish to choose only one, unless they have a vested interest in it.
The silence of the 360 fanboys is nearly deafening. Yeah, nobody ever mentions the high price of the non-core Xbox360, or the extra money you have to spend for the HD drive and HD cables. However, since HD-DVD is going to be such a flop (lack of major studio support) maybe it's a given that nobody wants to buy it.
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It's the 'leave it up to the states, we're not touching it' Federal Government stance on the issue, which is actually a good idea. Back in the olden times it made sense, when very young people would marry each other or an older man would take a younger wife to help out on the farm. It was a more practical mindset. It's just that these days, it really doesn't make much sense, particularly because there is no practical angle. A young girl has just as much inherent value to a man as a woman in his own age group, and in most cases, substantially less value.
I've pondered it from time to time (18 year olds) and I keep coming back with the same conclusion. At the ripe old age of 31, I can't imagine dealing with the drama and energy level of an 18 year old girl. It'd drive me fucking insane. It nearly did back when I was 18, and to think of how I would handle a girl that young now...forget it. I'll take an aged wine over a glass of grape juice any day.
You're actually a few days behind...RC2 is out in the wild as we speak. The official release date is Friday but of course there are torrents.
Personally I think this is a wonderful idea and a great way for the DHS to spend a few million.
Seriously! I mean, everyone knows terrorists put every attack plan in their local papers. This will go a long way towards letting us in on a public secret in Durkistan or Iraqabad. If we had only had a copy of page D-6 from the Afghanistan Daily Bugle, we would have been able to prevent 9-11. There it was in bold typeface..."Best Terrorist Plot Ever To Blow Up Twin Towers in NYC Starts Tomorrow" along with "Florida Flight School Voted #1 Choice By Hijackers".
This is basically fuckin' stupid. I can't believe our government even entertains the idea that this might help.
Oh man, I got modded down for flamebait because I made a joke. I feel like I'm on Digg all of a sudden.
Anyway, yeah Dawn of the Dead had a cool soundtrack. There was some irony in the initial elevator scene with the music but I don't specifically remember what song it was playing.
Yeah it seems like the processor wars are really heating up. The days when every PC had PC100 or PC133 ram are way over, but those days lasted *years*. It was 'good enough' for a very long time. PC3200 had a good run but DDR2 is just beginning to replace it, and next year we'll be dealing with DDR3.
I guess there's not alot to complain about. At least it's not more-valuable-than-platinum-per-ounce Rambus.
Bah, the only reason you're familiar with the Disturbed song is because you frequent titty bars.
Wait, how do I know that? *whistles and backs away quickly*
Yeah, OSX has bragging rights with hardware compatibility.
;)
"Our OS will run on every single supported platform. All 5 of them!"
Then you probably loved the Metal Gear series. It was alot of playing and alot of watching with good voice acting and an interesting story.
Once in awhile I caught my wife getting interested in the story aspects. She'd say 'hurry up and beat the boss so I can see what happens next!'. This coming from a woman that won't touch video games.
Oh, you mean a game like Dead Rising? Where you have to be at location X by Y time or you're guaranteed to lose?
Yeah, I hate carrot and stick games too. What's the point of letting the main character wander around if he has to be at the bus stop at 10 sharp or the game ends?
Bah, that was just another late Burning Man stunt.
Well, it helps to have the phone box with a battery backup in case your home electricity goes out. If cable is still working in that event, then you still have telephone service. I can't count the number of tornadoes I've lived through and had no power for hours while the telephones continued to work. Then again there were times when both went out.
Basically, shit happens, and the more the service providers can do remotely and locally to ensure that service interruptions are kept to a minimum, the better. Cable companies are very serious about rolling out telephony (due to FCC and state regulations regarding telephony) and generally have a very high uptime in the areas they offer the service.
Battery backup is not on the modem in this case, it's in the digital phone box on the side of your house. Generally they like to install these on a garage wall near a power outlet on the inside wall. The battery backup is inside the box itself but it draws power from that inside outlet.
Yeah, I think you're right. It's not 9 9's but it's close to an SLA that you'd get from an ISP for a T1 or other commercial line. A little googling netted 3 9's which is extremely far off from what I originally posted. :)
What? I didn't think Manuel was still in Mexico this late in the century. He's probably already living in Tejas or California or pretty much anywhere there's a Tyson Food plant nearby, feeding his wife and 6 children, blaring oompa loompa music from his big truck with tiny tires as he rolls down the street in his barrio.
You will know Manuel when you spot him driving. He'll have a chrome sticker of the city he lives in's skyline on the back window along with his last name in giant gothic letters. Rodriguez! Espinoza! Nike symbol!
Actually the cable company provides battery backup boxes for their phone service to satisfy telco laws. They must have 9 9's uptime on the phone service due to 911 requirements. Even the cable techs (who despise the phone boxes) are extremely careful when adding or removing services on homes with digital phone lines. They must never, ever disconnect the line at the pedestal/pole during service calls due to the phone boxes. All of the filters and other things they need to access are all in the digital phone box, so really there's no reason to climb a pole or open a catbox anyway. But due to the poor design, wrestling around inside of the boxes is less than simple and easy and usually takes both hands with a tool in each.
And behind the scenes, we can see how Myspace's Technical Group performs its wizardry.
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cat $error_message from $webserver >>
Yes, I know it won't work, it's for humor only.
Yeah, I would have tried harder if I needed it, but we have a stout ESX server up here that does the heavy lifting. I just gave it a test drive, and based on my initial impressions, it was an old horse in need of a shotgun-wielding farmer.
Yeah, I tried MS Virtual Server once...it was a worthless piece of crap with lots of services and pieces strewn about like a really, really bad project. It doesn't run in a nice container like VMWare does, it can't replace the host OS with its own optimized OS and run virtual machines beneath it (like VMWare ESX does), and it's a bitch to understand, install, configure, and put to work.
I'd call it alpha at best, but that's an insult to alpha projects that are twice as polished and usable as MSVS.
Give it four or five years and it may approach VMWare, but by then VMWare will be so much more advanced..sheesh I can't even begin to understand why Microsoft even tried on this one.
Not really, considering how many people have parents that have junior install Windows XP over ME so they can actually use the computer, only junior uses a hacked copy of XP with a keygen. It's alot more common than you think.
Best. Synopsis. Ever. Sir, I salute you.
Damn straight, it took the mplayer devs years to get to 1.0 and a year after 1.07prexx they release 1.08. The mythtv devs are even more conservative, they've been doing mythtv for what, 3 or so years and are just now hitting .20.
But like they say, let an engineer build an engine and it'll never be finished. Perfectionists, the lot of them.
So he has a great track record. *rolleyes*
A cheaper console does not a winner make. Just take a look at the last 2 flops from Nintendo. The N64 was outsold by the PS1, the Gamecube came in a stale 3rd behind the regular Xbox and PS2...there's just no escaping the facts. Nintendo knows they can't have an HD-capable, hardcore system like everyone else because nobody would pay the premium for it. They're really better off in a market with no competition, which is why their handhelds have owned since the original B&W Gameboy.
As far as HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray goes, well, Universal has Frankenstein and Dracula, but honestly, HD-DVD just doesn't have much studio support. From the wikipedia entry on HD-DVD: HD DVD is currently *exclusively* backed by Universal Studios and The Weinstein Company (through Genius Products) and is
*non-exclusively* backed by Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., New Line, HBO, DreamWorks, Image Entertainment, Magnolia Pictures, Brentwood Home Video, Warner Music Group, Ryko, Goldhil Entertainment, and Studio Canal.
So, you have a few heavy hitters and alot of little studios. Now for the Blu-Ray studio support: Paramount, Warner, Universal and New Line have *non-exclusive* arrangements, while Fox, Disney/Buena Vista, Lion's Gate, MGM, and Sony/Columbia have exclusive rights. I'm sure there are more, but the Wiki is poorly organized compaared to the HD-DVD wiki entry.
At any rate, when you have a split format, a studio would be foolish to choose only one, unless they have a vested interest in it.
The silence of the 360 fanboys is nearly deafening. Yeah, nobody ever mentions the high price of the non-core Xbox360, or the extra money you have to spend for the HD drive and HD cables. However, since HD-DVD is going to be such a flop (lack of major studio support) maybe it's a given that nobody wants to buy it.
"It's all speculation Ted DiBiase."
Looks like you guys are closing the gap on the US exchange rate with prices like that. Is it a bumper year for the maple crop?