Brownouts? What do they do, generate their own electricity?
Reminds me of Michigan State. They generate their own electricity.
And what's the easiest way to generate the steam to drive the turbines? Coal? Oil? Nope.
They heat the water using electricity from the commercial utility.
They've done nothing other than waste energy and provide a doubly complex system that can have a major failure at two points, not just one. And one which does so 2-3 times a year on average.
> Oh, and those 2 hours you spent hunting? You'll be spending most of the rest > of the day cooking that food.
Idiot!
Yesterday, I spent over 8 hours hunting with my Ravager for Horde, but I only spent about 1 minute cooking some Goblin Deviled Clams, and most of that was waiting for Create All to finish.
You don't know what you're talking about, do you?!?!?
Newly rescued concentration camp victims, and people living in the middle of an African desert during a war, though terrible, are hardly typical examples of humans in poverty in the West.
In the US, the fattest segement of society, statistically, are the poor.
Ok, Bertha. We're gonna cut off your food. You should be dead in less than 24...months.
> This is a false distiction. Modern corporations - with the exception of those that we have > foolishly allowed to become monopolies - have to be efficient at pleasing the customer
Some examples of non-monopolistic corporations that please the customers:
- Microsoft (complex, feature-rich operating system for a relatively cheap price historically)
- Wal-Mart (low cost products saving the US consumer an estimated $200 billion per year, vastly dwarfing a number of anti-poverty programs by the government)
- Oil companies, providing gasoline with the mandated ethanol in it, at prices far cheaper than our European counterparts
- Blizzard, providing a wonderful form of online entertainment greater than all its competition combined
Some are "evil". Some are beloved. What was the original question again?
Oh yeah. "Monopolies". There's only one coercive monopoly in the US I know of, of which we cannot choose a competitor's product under penalty of violence and jail.
> He should have restricted himself to grunts and spit really.
Grunts and spit? You young whippersnappers. In my day, we deedn't have no grunts and spit. In my day, we encountered one of our own, we slid the pad of our cephalopods together, sliming and undulating our bellies together, then bent our right eyestalks over and blew a load, impregnating each other. And we liked it!
> 'espionage indicators': Unexplained affluence, failing to report overseas travel, > showing unusual interest in information outside the job scope, keeping unusual > work hours, unreported contacts with foreign nationals, unreported contact with > foreign government, military, or intelligence officials, attempting to gain new > accesses without the need to know, and unexplained absences are all considered > potential espionage indicators."
Too bad they didn't apply this to a certain individual in the late '60's and early '70's.
> It is meeting with scorn from the American Electronics Association.
It's also meeting with scorn from the British Electronics Association for Social Tranquility and the American National Taskforce Institute for Caring Handouts of Radio ID Subcutaneous Tags.
It's the early stages of transcendence, you buffoons! The virtualization of your life, and, eventually, entire body and actual mind.
Now be some good little doctors and invent some more Healthy Pills so our sedentary, fat bodies can live longer and more comfortably, and collect, deservedly, billions of dollars for that invention, thxbie.
Hmmm, assuming a typical security underestimation of speed, you can multiply it by about 1.6 to get the real top speed of roughly...Mach 10.
Fascinating.
Oh wait, I reverse-engineered based on historical records and applied it to currently classified information vs. admitted information.
Sorry! I'm sure no one else figured out how to do this, like that woman from the article two weeks ago about how large the secret organization budgets are.
Except that game subscriptions are usually much cheaper than monthly phone bills, to say nothing of extended calls running up per-minute charges, which does not have a real parallel in online subscription games.
And if politicians threaten to add a phone-like tax to every minute you spend voice chatting in online games, please ask them, loudly, why they want to take away your games? "Why take away our games we love, Mr. Wants To Get Re-elected In Seven Months?" Always remember to analyze politics in terms of getting elected. It is to politics what the moment of copulation/impregnation is to evolution.
I play on RP WoW servers (RP-PVP to be precise.) The PvP is loaded with people named Istabu (who's actually a very good WSG player) and Iganku-types.
Quite frankly, the last serious, regular rolepolaying I ever saw was way back in the original Quake before the first expansion pack, where everybody who played an Ogre seemed to roleplay. This was fairly easy, as it was just dumbspeak when you typed.
"Me needs fud"
"Ok. We go city now."
etc.
That was back when the original body styles for Ogres and Trolls existed as the one and only option. The "fatties" were cool, to be replaced later by "more realistic" bodies as a default, that lacked any coolness whatsoever, but probably pleased some idiot incorrectly in charge at Sony/Verant.
Ever since Quake II introduced female body styles, I've been playing solid females (with emphasis on the solid -- luv that butt slider on City of Heroes! "Little in the middle and ya got much back!")
Why? Got sick of the idiocy of playing a "brutish tough guy" with a gun. There's a reason it's called The Great Equalizer.
Every time someone questions me about it, I just reply, wondering why they enjoy running around behind a wiggling man's ass for hours a day.
Hence, everyone, from Quake II to III to CoH and WoW and everyone in-between has been female. For example, it's a little known fact, but did you know both Darth Revan and The Exile were both chicks? Hot chicks? Who 2-shotted the dead guy at the end? Hot chick.
The two level 1 characters who pushed in a beachhead and secured the city in Icewind Dale II on Heart of Fury mode, no imported money or items? Hot chicks.
The fighter who solo'd Baldur's Gate II? Hot chick.
Ehh, that Blood Elf is cute, got up to level 20 as a mage, let's try the cow people. Holy crap! I ain't seen bootie like that since City of Heroes.
Yeah, go run around behind some dudes, "Mr. not gay guy".
> "Recently I logged into World of Warcraft and I wound up questing alongside a mage and two > dwarf warriors. I was the lowest-level newbie in the group, and the mage was the de-facto > leader. He coached me on the details of each new quest, took the point position in dangerous > fights and suggested tactics. He seemed like your classic virtual-world group leader: Confident, > bold and streetsmart. But after a few hours he said he was getting tired of using text chat -- and > asked me to switch over to Ventrilo, an app that lets gamers chat using microphones and voice. > I downloaded Ventrilo, logged in, dialed him up and... realized he was an 11-year-old boy."
And now, the punch line.
Wait for it...
Waaaaaaiiiiiit.....
Well, at least you weren't playing World of Cybersex With Obama Girl.
Isn't this the OS with a recommended RAM of 2 freakin' gigabytes? And a minimum of 1?
And we just bought a Toshiba laptop with Vista on it, including dual core processors, but it's slow as shit because it's always kerchunking the hard drive because Toshiba thought it'd be a good idea to sell it with just 500mb of RAM?
Actually it had more like 440 given 64MB was set aside for video RAM. Can't even play Second Life on it since the video driver is a POS.
> 'about a boy who finds himself in the middle of a war between two equally > powerful forces, who joins a super-team consisting of versions of himself > from different alternate realities'
I hope he isn't like the average Slashdotter!
Slashdotter from First Reality: I've brought you all here today to help me stop this war. You, there! What's your special ability?
Slashdotter from Another Reality: Uhhh, I can surf for porn?
Slashdotter from First Reality: Yeah, ok. How about you then?
Third Slashdotter: I can surf for porn, too. Really well!
Slashdotter from First Reality: Uhhhh. Great. And you?
Fourth Slashdotter: If you have to ask...!
Slashdotter from First Reality: No, I suppose not. Ok, then. Is there anyone here who can do anything besides surf for porn really well?
Eighty-Third Slashdotter: I know how to hire a prostitute.
Slashdotter from First Reality: Uhhh, well...
One Hundred Twenty Third Slashdotter: I can surf for porn really well!
Slashdotter from First Reality: We have enuf of that already!
One Hundred Twenty Third Slashdotter: Not this kind of porn...
Slashdotter from First Reality: (In Peter Griffen voice) Uhhh, yeah?
One Hundred Twenty Third Slashdotter: It involves a mother and her adult daughter and some four legged animals.
Slashdotter from First Reality: Really! I did not know that! Where is it?
One Hundred Twenty Third Slashdotter: What's it worth to you?
Seventy Seventh Slashdotter: I'll trade ya a link to some porn starring Sandra Bullock, who, in your reality, evidently became a big movie star.
Slashdotter from First Reality: No, wait...
One Hundred Twenty Third Slashdotter: Done deal! What else's anybody got to offer?
Twelfth Slashdotter: Your Alyssa Milano, a dog, and your Jessica Alba, but with a third mutant arm?
One Hundred Twenty Third Slashdotter: You're on!
Nine Hundred Seventeenth Slashdotter: The girl who played Mimi in Drew Carey Show...
One Hundred Twenty Third Slashdotter: (In Quagmire voice) Oh god, no!
Nine Hundred Seventeenth Slashdotter: No, wait, in my reality, we have an anti-obesity pill she started taking as a child. She's a 5'10" gorgeous redhead.
One Hundred Twenty Third Slashdotter: Bring it on! Bring the pills, too, could ya?
Nine Hundred Seventeenth Slashdotter: You got it!
Fifty Seventh Slashdotter: I don't have any porn or pills of interest, but I do have a force field we can use to keep out the other losers and only let in copies with something to offer.
One Hundred Twenty Third Slashdotter: Right this way, sir! (Turns on force field, blocking out most of the copies.)
Slashdotter from First Reality: No, wait! We have this war to stop!
One Hundred Twenty Third Slashdotter: That's your problem. And no, you can't come in. We don't need "Obama Girl" Youtube videos, thxbie.
IBM is owed that money. They don't have to "pay it back".
In any case, I'm not surprised 1993 computers aren't around, even in a store room anymore. After they became obsolete, dumping them at a garage sale for 50 cents each, or sending them to a landfill was probably one of the few fiscally responsible things the school district did. It could indeed have been worse, with, say, some official deciding it would be a good idea to put them in storage for $400,000 a year for the last eleven years.
Look at yourself in the mirror, and say to yourself, "a school official might have thought it a good idea to put obsolete computers in storage for $400,000 a year" and try to laugh. You cannot, because you know it's something some idiot might actually do.
Slashdot Mirror
Brownouts? What do they do, generate their own electricity?
Reminds me of Michigan State. They generate their own electricity.
And what's the easiest way to generate the steam to drive the turbines? Coal? Oil? Nope.
They heat the water using electricity from the commercial utility.
They've done nothing other than waste energy and provide a doubly complex system that can have a major failure at two points, not just one. And one which does so 2-3 times a year on average.
> Oh, and those 2 hours you spent hunting? You'll be spending most of the rest
> of the day cooking that food.
Idiot!
Yesterday, I spent over 8 hours hunting with my Ravager for Horde, but I only spent about 1 minute cooking some Goblin Deviled Clams, and most of that was waiting for Create All to finish.
You don't know what you're talking about, do you?!?!?
Newly rescued concentration camp victims, and people living in the middle of an African desert during a war, though terrible, are hardly typical examples of humans in poverty in the West.
In the US, the fattest segement of society, statistically, are the poor.
Ok, Bertha. We're gonna cut off your food. You should be dead in less than 24...months.
> This is a false distiction. Modern corporations - with the exception of those that we have
> foolishly allowed to become monopolies - have to be efficient at pleasing the customer
Some examples of non-monopolistic corporations that please the customers:
- Microsoft (complex, feature-rich operating system for a relatively cheap price historically)
- Wal-Mart (low cost products saving the US consumer an estimated $200 billion per year, vastly dwarfing a number of anti-poverty programs by the government)
- Oil companies, providing gasoline with the mandated ethanol in it, at prices far cheaper than our European counterparts
- Blizzard, providing a wonderful form of online entertainment greater than all its competition combined
Some are "evil". Some are beloved. What was the original question again?
Oh yeah. "Monopolies". There's only one coercive monopoly in the US I know of, of which we cannot choose a competitor's product under penalty of violence and jail.
> He should have restricted himself to grunts and spit really.
Grunts and spit? You young whippersnappers. In my day, we deedn't have no grunts and spit. In my day, we encountered one of our own, we slid the pad of our cephalopods together, sliming and undulating our bellies together, then bent our right eyestalks over and blew a load, impregnating each other. And we liked it!
Grunts and spit? Sheesh.
Don't sweat it.
You'll be dead by a needle in the neck from a remotely operated unmanned arial robotic dragonfly long before then, anyway.
That's Evil Mirror Universe Kirk, not Evil Split In Transporter Kirk, or Evil Pretending To Be A 1930s Mob Guy So You Can Stare Down Vic Tayback Kirk.
> Star Trek's gadgets
1. Holodeck. Specifically, some of Quark's programs, but custom tailored to two of my high school English teachers
2. Harry Mudd's androids. Same basic plan
3. Evil Kirk's disintegration-enabled remote viewer. How handy would that be?
4. A few tons of that "gold, worthless worthless gold."
5. Mental abilities to force people to do things they didn't want. Or better yet, to alter their wants so they did want to.
6. Medical tech to live to 180 years of age.
Yeah, that's about it this side of Q or the transcendent V-ger.
> No matter how realistically a replicant could look or act, it would never - ever - really be human.
Come on, a Darryl Hannah or Sean Young wouldn't be a vast, many-league improvement to the already disturbingly adequate pr0n + Rosie?
Puh and leeze.
> 'espionage indicators': Unexplained affluence, failing to report overseas travel,
> showing unusual interest in information outside the job scope, keeping unusual
> work hours, unreported contacts with foreign nationals, unreported contact with
> foreign government, military, or intelligence officials, attempting to gain new
> accesses without the need to know, and unexplained absences are all considered
> potential espionage indicators."
Too bad they didn't apply this to a certain individual in the late '60's and early '70's.
> It is meeting with scorn from the American Electronics Association.
It's also meeting with scorn from the British Electronics Association for Social Tranquility and the American National Taskforce Institute for Caring Handouts of Radio ID Subcutaneous Tags.
It's the early stages of transcendence, you buffoons! The virtualization of your life, and, eventually, entire body and actual mind.
Now be some good little doctors and invent some more Healthy Pills so our sedentary, fat bodies can live longer and more comfortably, and collect, deservedly, billions of dollars for that invention, thxbie.
Mach 6.
Hmmm, assuming a typical security underestimation of speed, you can multiply it by about 1.6 to get the real top speed of roughly...Mach 10.
Fascinating.
Oh wait, I reverse-engineered based on historical records and applied it to currently classified information vs. admitted information.
Sorry! I'm sure no one else figured out how to do this, like that woman from the article two weeks ago about how large the secret organization budgets are.
> My interest in the plug-in matrix type game is to visit the billions of places I'll never...be able to go.
Like a vagina?
Oh come on. You wish you thought of this.
> the Tomb Raider: Anniversary title will be released to the Xbox 360 in two chunks of content.
I can imagine what those two chunks look like.
Except that game subscriptions are usually much cheaper than monthly phone bills, to say nothing of extended calls running up per-minute charges, which does not have a real parallel in online subscription games.
And if politicians threaten to add a phone-like tax to every minute you spend voice chatting in online games, please ask them, loudly, why they want to take away your games? "Why take away our games we love, Mr. Wants To Get Re-elected In Seven Months?" Always remember to analyze politics in terms of getting elected. It is to politics what the moment of copulation/impregnation is to evolution.
Original EverQuest! Sorry.
"If you made a mistake, well, you should have programmed an edit button like modern BBS systems have."
I play on RP WoW servers (RP-PVP to be precise.) The PvP is loaded with people named Istabu (who's actually a very good WSG player) and Iganku-types.
Quite frankly, the last serious, regular rolepolaying I ever saw was way back in the original Quake before the first expansion pack, where everybody who played an Ogre seemed to roleplay. This was fairly easy, as it was just dumbspeak when you typed.
"Me needs fud"
"Ok. We go city now."
etc.
That was back when the original body styles for Ogres and Trolls existed as the one and only option. The "fatties" were cool, to be replaced later by "more realistic" bodies as a default, that lacked any coolness whatsoever, but probably pleased some idiot incorrectly in charge at Sony/Verant.
Ever since Quake II introduced female body styles, I've been playing solid females (with emphasis on the solid -- luv that butt slider on City of Heroes! "Little in the middle and ya got much back!")
Why? Got sick of the idiocy of playing a "brutish tough guy" with a gun. There's a reason it's called The Great Equalizer.
Every time someone questions me about it, I just reply, wondering why they enjoy running around behind a wiggling man's ass for hours a day.
Hence, everyone, from Quake II to III to CoH and WoW and everyone in-between has been female. For example, it's a little known fact, but did you know both Darth Revan and The Exile were both chicks? Hot chicks? Who 2-shotted the dead guy at the end? Hot chick.
The two level 1 characters who pushed in a beachhead and secured the city in Icewind Dale II on Heart of Fury mode, no imported money or items? Hot chicks.
The fighter who solo'd Baldur's Gate II? Hot chick.
Ehh, that Blood Elf is cute, got up to level 20 as a mage, let's try the cow people. Holy crap! I ain't seen bootie like that since City of Heroes.
Yeah, go run around behind some dudes, "Mr. not gay guy".
> "Recently I logged into World of Warcraft and I wound up questing alongside a mage and two ... realized he was an 11-year-old boy."
> dwarf warriors. I was the lowest-level newbie in the group, and the mage was the de-facto
> leader. He coached me on the details of each new quest, took the point position in dangerous
> fights and suggested tactics. He seemed like your classic virtual-world group leader: Confident,
> bold and streetsmart. But after a few hours he said he was getting tired of using text chat -- and
> asked me to switch over to Ventrilo, an app that lets gamers chat using microphones and voice.
> I downloaded Ventrilo, logged in, dialed him up and
And now, the punch line.
Wait for it...
Waaaaaaiiiiiit.....
Well, at least you weren't playing World of Cybersex With Obama Girl.
Isn't this the OS with a recommended RAM of 2 freakin' gigabytes? And a minimum of 1?
And we just bought a Toshiba laptop with Vista on it, including dual core processors, but it's slow as shit because it's always kerchunking the hard drive because Toshiba thought it'd be a good idea to sell it with just 500mb of RAM?
Actually it had more like 440 given 64MB was set aside for video RAM. Can't even play Second Life on it since the video driver is a POS.
> 'about a boy who finds himself in the middle of a war between two equally
> powerful forces, who joins a super-team consisting of versions of himself
> from different alternate realities'
I hope he isn't like the average Slashdotter!
Slashdotter from First Reality: I've brought you all here today to help me stop this war. You, there! What's your special ability?
Slashdotter from Another Reality: Uhhh, I can surf for porn?
Slashdotter from First Reality: Yeah, ok. How about you then?
Third Slashdotter: I can surf for porn, too. Really well!
Slashdotter from First Reality: Uhhhh. Great. And you?
Fourth Slashdotter: If you have to ask...!
Slashdotter from First Reality: No, I suppose not. Ok, then. Is there anyone here who can do anything besides surf for porn really well?
Eighty-Third Slashdotter: I know how to hire a prostitute.
Slashdotter from First Reality: Uhhh, well...
One Hundred Twenty Third Slashdotter: I can surf for porn really well!
Slashdotter from First Reality: We have enuf of that already!
One Hundred Twenty Third Slashdotter: Not this kind of porn...
Slashdotter from First Reality: (In Peter Griffen voice) Uhhh, yeah?
One Hundred Twenty Third Slashdotter: It involves a mother and her adult daughter and some four legged animals.
Slashdotter from First Reality: Really! I did not know that! Where is it?
One Hundred Twenty Third Slashdotter: What's it worth to you?
Seventy Seventh Slashdotter: I'll trade ya a link to some porn starring Sandra Bullock, who, in your reality, evidently became a big movie star.
Slashdotter from First Reality: No, wait...
One Hundred Twenty Third Slashdotter: Done deal! What else's anybody got to offer?
Twelfth Slashdotter: Your Alyssa Milano, a dog, and your Jessica Alba, but with a third mutant arm?
One Hundred Twenty Third Slashdotter: You're on!
Nine Hundred Seventeenth Slashdotter: The girl who played Mimi in Drew Carey Show...
One Hundred Twenty Third Slashdotter: (In Quagmire voice) Oh god, no!
Nine Hundred Seventeenth Slashdotter: No, wait, in my reality, we have an anti-obesity pill she started taking as a child. She's a 5'10" gorgeous redhead.
One Hundred Twenty Third Slashdotter: Bring it on! Bring the pills, too, could ya?
Nine Hundred Seventeenth Slashdotter: You got it!
Fifty Seventh Slashdotter: I don't have any porn or pills of interest, but I do have a force field we can use to keep out the other losers and only let in copies with something to offer.
One Hundred Twenty Third Slashdotter: Right this way, sir! (Turns on force field, blocking out most of the copies.)
Slashdotter from First Reality: No, wait! We have this war to stop!
One Hundred Twenty Third Slashdotter: That's your problem. And no, you can't come in. We don't need "Obama Girl" Youtube videos, thxbie.
Some chemical you never heard of that is not a drug and gives you a boner but hasn't been tested to prove it, unlike Viagra and Cialis?
I find it hard to believe someone would make that up just to earn a quick buck.
Unfortunately, nobody will notice this your little comment.
IBM was nice enough to wait for the district to repay the state first. Why couldn't the state forgive some of the lone they made?
And the district's used to repaying money on a regular basis for earlier, idiotic loans. Five more years isn't gonna hurt all that much.
IBM is owed that money. They don't have to "pay it back".
In any case, I'm not surprised 1993 computers aren't around, even in a store room anymore. After they became obsolete, dumping them at a garage sale for 50 cents each, or sending them to a landfill was probably one of the few fiscally responsible things the school district did. It could indeed have been worse, with, say, some official deciding it would be a good idea to put them in storage for $400,000 a year for the last eleven years.
Look at yourself in the mirror, and say to yourself, "a school official might have thought it a good idea to put obsolete computers in storage for $400,000 a year" and try to laugh. You cannot, because you know it's something some idiot might actually do.