No, not really so much of an ego problem... it's closer to cracking under the anxiety of perceived extra-hightened expectations of me, and a paralyzing fear of letting those people down. (Yes, just one of the many complexes that decorate my psyche!)
Plus, being put in the gifted class in middle school, the training grounds for high school, is not exactly a ticket to social greatness.
So in other words, low morale = low motivation = low results.
The 407 ETR around here uses RF boxes velcroed to windshields to track drivers... but it also scans the licence plates of those without boxes, so it can mail bills to all drivers.
Since everyone that travels on it is in a database of sorts, I wonder what kind of restrictions the Ministry of Transportation has put on that data.
Yes, with Auto-DRM, the car industry will be able to regain lost profits from those horrible people sharing cars!
Only YOU will be able to drive your car, and if your friends or family want to drive it, they will have to purchase a seperate licence from the manufacturer!
WinXP is fairly stable, but I'd hate to imagine what would happen if in the middle of your first combat it asked you "Would you like to add your.Net Passport to this suit?"
Today I was in Times Square. Went into the MTV store, and I decided I'd buy an MTV shot glass so I can symbolically drink to the death of crap culture...
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No, not really so much of an ego problem... it's closer to cracking under the anxiety of perceived extra-hightened expectations of me, and a paralyzing fear of letting those people down. (Yes, just one of the many complexes that decorate my psyche!)
Plus, being put in the gifted class in middle school, the training grounds for high school, is not exactly a ticket to social greatness.
So in other words, low morale = low motivation = low results.
Is Windows XP worth $45? Microsoft obviously doesn't think so.
I'd buy it in an instant if it were that inexpensive, but they seem to be insitant on selling it to me for $250. (That's XP Pro, OEM, Canadian price.)
"I've found that as intelligence increases, happiness often decreases. Look, I even made a graph! ... I make a lot of graphs."
- Lisa Simpson
(Yes, I was diagnosed as "gifted" when I was a kid. They should have NEVER told me...)
I'm seeing those stupid messages... and I'm CANADIAN.
The war is being played out on all of Viacom's feeds, no matter which corner of the globe they go to.
Hey, sounds like that CanCon broadcasting rules here in Canada.
Hmm... if that applied to software, everyone would end up having to use CorelDRAW instead of Adobe Illustrator...
It's one of those incredibly unique things that are just a part of everyday life, and you never think of them.
Nah... just sounds like an average college student to me.
But you still have to worry about Bush's War on Tera!
I'm Canadian, but I'd say that in the dead of winter, stuck in boring-as-hell suburbia, wtaching tv is one of the few activiities I feel up to.
Hey, no worries about politically incorrect "master/slave" references anymore...
All the signage on the spacecraft Red Dwarf are in English and Esperanto.
The 407 ETR around here uses RF boxes velcroed to windshields to track drivers... but it also scans the licence plates of those without boxes, so it can mail bills to all drivers.
Since everyone that travels on it is in a database of sorts, I wonder what kind of restrictions the Ministry of Transportation has put on that data.
"I told them I'd burn the place down..."
Yes, with Auto-DRM, the car industry will be able to regain lost profits from those horrible people sharing cars!
Only YOU will be able to drive your car, and if your friends or family want to drive it, they will have to purchase a seperate licence from the manufacturer!
Yes, by the time Duke Nukem comes out, they probably WILL be grown up ;)
But honestly, once they wanna watch a movie trailer encoded in Quicktime, they're gonna be fretting.
We're under a massive blanket of clouds here in Toronto too.
It makes me sad, as I haven't seen a proper aurora since I was 7 years old...
My cable tv and cable internet have been up and down several times today, but that's more likely the fault of incompetance at my local cable company.
WinXP is fairly stable, but I'd hate to imagine what would happen if in the middle of your first combat it asked you "Would you like to add your .Net Passport to this suit?"
I'm a PC user, but one thing I've never been able to figure out about most PC users is this: WHY do so many people run all their apps full-screen?
It totally defeats the purpose of a windowed OS.
I see people with a 1280x960 screen running maximised browsers, and it just makes me CRINGE.
I want a PowerMack with a Pimpeon 5 processor.
The ladies wouldn't be able to resist!
I can't beleive you're saying Office and Windows, with their 80% profit margin, are sold "cheap".
Wow. They just did that here in Canada too.
But they included a tiny pinhole camera in the panel to record the PIN being typed in.
Now all the banks have installed shields around the keypads to prevent that sorta spying.
I dunno about you, but when I mouse, I rest the base of my palm on the mousepad and let my fingers move the mouse around.
I can usually cover the whole screen, with only an occasional repositioning of my hand.
Apple's "puck mouse" was designed around this idea, but the circular form was confusing since you couldn't blindly find the "sides".
Today I was in Times Square. Went into the MTV store, and I decided I'd buy an MTV shot glass so I can symbolically drink to the death of crap culture...
I don't think polishing your own rod counts.