This is scary. I have over a dozen domains on GoDaddy. After reading how they treat their employees, I'm not eager to stay there. I think I'll start exploring other options... and if they give me any shit about transferring my domains, they'll wish they had never heard of me.
The box under the monitor that you put the CD in is not the hard drive, it's the MODEM!
My father in law actually thought that. He called me up one day and asked if I could help him to "delete the porn from the modem so the wife won't find it."
This is why I don't tell users what the problem is. "The server will be down tomorrow from 8 to 10am for routine maintenance. I apologize for any inconvenience."
Or, for the train: "We apologize for the delay. We will be underway shortly."
You make an excellent point. My logic was that something I built (software or some physical item) would have substance and value to it. Playing Starcraft was more fun but I have nothing to show for those countless hours of time spent.
On the other hand, I do have memories that I share with my wife and our friends. Those have value, so maybe it wasn't really wasted time after all.
The first widespread use of 3D gaming I can recall was the SNES with games like Starfox
That was pretty crappy 3D. The N64 really launched Nintendo's 3D gaming. I wouldn't put the Genesis or SNES into the same classification as the N64/PS1. We've got:
1. Early stand-alone units like Pong. 2. "Real" interchangable gaming systems, such as Atari. 3. 8 bit graphics revolution: Nintendo, Sega Master Systems 4. 16 bit graphics revolution: SNES, Genesis 5. "True" 3D consoles: N64, PS1 6. Today's systems: PS2, XBOX, Gamecube.
Today's systems really didn't add anything major to gaming. Before, each iteration of the "gaming life cycle" added huge capabilities. Nobody would argue the vast differences between Atari and NES systems. However, the Gamecube isn't really revolutionary compared to the N64, or the PS2 compared to the PS1, etc. You get some better graphics, faster processing, but it's nothing like the huge leaps console upgrades made back in the eighties and nineties.
Something major has to change, or gaming will become stagnant. "More realistic graphics" doesn't matter much at this point, as graphics are pretty darn good right now. If the next generation console is just going to give me different games with some minor hardware enhancements, what's the point? Unless there are some "must have" titles, I'll keep what I've got. I've no idea what the next major change could be - I hope we some day make the leap to holographic projections - but we need somethingk, and soon.
Looking back at it now, I just can't believe I wasted as much time as I did.
Agreed. I haven't been big into gaming since Starcraft. The wife and I filled our living room with computers when that came out and spent the large bulk of our time gaming with friends. Looking back, we spent 2-4 hours on almost a nightly basis. Fridays would start by 6:00pm and continue until 1:00am or later; we played until our wrists just couldn't move the mouse any more.
Sure, we had fun, but what a waste of time. I could have been developing some cool piece of software, or building something, really anything but sitting on my butt doing what amounts to nothing.
So here I am surfing Slashdot instead. Hmmm... maybe I shouldn't submit this. Oh well.
True that. The estrogen surge during the horse-mounting scene was unbelievable. You could feel it building through most of the movie and when he did that little one handed flip up onto the horse they all went right over the top.
What the hell?
I can't believe there are two of you here having the same delusional fantesy. Theaters full of women climaxing all around you? And you actually believe this happened?
And if we're serious about curbing that behavior, then push forward a law that it will be illegal for the operator of a gas pump to re-enter the vehicle for any reason while the pump is in connection with the vehicle.
I just don't see it as a problem. I get back into my vehicle all the time, especially when I'm filling the SUV. I sit there and watch the gas pump, and I don't really bother to touch some ground before I go back to the fill nozzle. Sometimes I even talk on my cellphone while doing the above. Perhaps I will eventually die in a freak static-electricity accident, but I doubt it.
One could still use the catch to make the nozzle spray gas without inserting it into the tank, drive off, and use a sparking device on a remote trigger to ignite it.
Right - and considering that this happens all the time, it's a good thing these gas stations are removing their hold latches.
Really, can you recall one instance where this has happened? Neither can I. If someone wants to blow up a gas station, not having that catch won't deter them. Terrorists have access to high tech equipment - rubber bands, velcro, lengths of yarn - that can get around these "no latch" pumps.
But the other poster was more clever: they forgot to make the dummy *answer* the phone.
That's not clever, it's stupid. When the phone is ringing - hell, even when it's just sitting idle - it's in communication with the tower, sending data back and forth just as if you were talking on it. Pressing "talk" isn't going to cause the phone to do anything it isn't already doing.
You're insane. $3 a month for downloads? That's so cheap you'd be crazy not to pay.
If I could pay $10-$15 a month right now for unlimited (or some high limit, like 100+ per month) downloads of legal MP3s - pure, no DRM - I'd sign up in a heartbeat. And that's just for 128kbit cheapies. I'd pay more for higher quality.
The students will pay for this. It's too cheap to say no.
Target shooting is just training on how to use a gun.
Target shooting is mostly for sport. Sure, you're getting training while you do it, but most people do it for fun.
And if your coworker was 7 feet tall and 300 pounds of muscle, that would be quite a task. A gun would be so much easier.
Absolutely, I agree with you.
How do you know who the bad guys are until they do something bad. So they would be considered good guys with guns until something happens.
That's some scary thinking. We can't keep someone without a criminal record from having a gun because he might do something bad with it. We have to assume everyone is good until they prove otherwise.
I don't agree with this statement. I would also say that our system does a bad job of keeping the guns away from the bad guys illegally.
I said legally. Almost all gun crime is committed by people who are not legally allowed to have that gun. There just aren't a lot of problems with people legally buying a weapon and then committing a crime with it. In other words, the government is doing a fine job when it comes to deciding who can and can't have a gun.
The problem, of course, is that criminals don't obey laws. It is extremely difficult, if not completely impossible, to keep guns out of the hands of criminals. When you buy a gun you have to go through a waiting period & background check, which helps, but criminals will just buy guns from underground dealers who are criminals themselves and therefore don't do the background checks.
If everyone carried a gun all the time, just the number of accidental deaths would rise.
I agree, I don't think everyone should carry a gun all the time. However, I do think that anyone who hasn't been in trouble with the law, and can demonstrate proper training in handling firearms, should be allowed to carry a gun all the time if he so chooses. In most states this is legal and works great. The only problem we have is the training - we run background checks when somebody wants a concealed carry permit, but we don't force them to demonstrate the ability to properly handle a weapon. That should change.
Also, all of what you have listed is used for other things besides killing.
Right, and guns are most often used for target shooting. Things besides killing.
As for explosives, I'm not sure how easy they are to come by.
You're kidding, right? You can buy gasoline anywhere. That's an explosive. Back in middle school a buddy and I used to make little bombs with his Dad's black powder and blow up GI-Joe men. I can walk into just about any sporting goods store and buy a bunch of black powder right now.
My point is that you usually don't have available these things all the time.
Yes you do. We all do. Anyone who wants to kill somebody on a whim can do so. I have a pen sitting on my desk right now, if I wanted to kill a coworker by jamming it in his throat I could.
I am simply trying to explain to you that your fear of guns is crazy. A gun doesn't give "the ability to kill 24/7" where said ability did not previous exist. It's just a method. If some whacko wants to kill somebody there are millions of tools available besides guns, many of which are within reach all of the time. For crying out loud, everyone drives a car. Why aren't you afraid of that? Cars give the ability to kill 24/7 yet you don't seem concerned with them.
The really funny thing here is that most gun murders are not by people who are legally allowed to carry a gun. Our system does a pretty good job about keeping bad people from legally carrying a gun. So here you're worried about law abiding citizens carrying guns, but they aren't the ones you should fear.
whole thing regarding blogs and journals is ruined by boring people forcing their dull lives down our throats
LOL... I love you people. Forcing it down your throat? You're telling me somebody is holding a gun to your head, forcing you to read other people's blogs?
You know what: I've never read a blog. I don't care, so I don't read. You do have that choice, you know...
I'm very nervous with a society where most people have the ability to take someone's life 24/7.
Then you should be dead from a nervous breakdown by now. Anyone can take anyone's life 24/7. Guns don't change that. Even if they could all be made to disappear (they can't), anyone who wants to kill can use:
- A sharp weapon (knife, sword, box-cutter to the throat) - A blunt weapon (baseball bat, hammer) - Their bare hands (beating, choking) - A piece of wire or string (choking, hanging) - Poison - Explosives - Fire
The list goes on and on.
What's this have to do with iris scanners, anyway?
I can imagine how much better life would be for US citizens if the US government spent as much on the health, welfare and education of its own people as it has on war in the past 60 years or so
We'd all be speaking German because Hitler and crew would have rolled over us by now. You'd be dead or never have existed unless both you and your parents fit the perfect Aryan profile.
Yeah. Damn our government for spending money on war to protect us. Those bastards.
When was that last time you could get more then five hundred feet from your access point.
When I used a coat hanger, pringles can, home-made drive circuit and powered by a 12v deep cycle marine battery. I can't/wait/ to bring that on the plane! "Haha, you wussies, I've got a clear signal from the plane all the way back here at the security checkpoint! Yeah, I rock, you all.. hey, wait a minute. No no, let me go! GAH! MY LAPTOP! NO NO DON'T PUT THE LATEX GLOVES ON AGAIN!! HEEELLPPP!!!"
Only on/. can two people named "Penguinshit" and "drinkypoo" have a meaningful, intelligent conversation about the flight characteristics of aircraft, air turbulance and subsequent problems associated with navigating a larger craft's slipstream.
Absolutely, your credit card company (bank) is on your side. You are their customer. Call them up and explain the situation. They'll tell you how to go about filing the chargeback and getting your money back.
It's bad public relations and turns people away. eBay DOES NOT collect ANY fees from an auction that you state you were not paid for.
Before 2004, however, eBay never refunded listing fees. I once tried to sell a nice laptop, starting price $500. I had to sell it FOUR TIMES. The first three times, the bidders never paid. Each time I paid $5-$10 in listing fees, which were not refunded.
eBay will now refund your listing fee only if you re-list the item. This is fair, in my opinion, but it's a very recent policy change.
I state in my auctions that warranties are "refund or replacement at my discretion." I've had people try to return items that I know work perfectly, where I was positive the buyer was lying to get a refund because he changed his mind. When I tell them, "Sure, no problem. Mail it back to me and I'll send you one that works", they go away.
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This is scary. I have over a dozen domains on GoDaddy. After reading how they treat their employees, I'm not eager to stay there. I think I'll start exploring other options... and if they give me any shit about transferring my domains, they'll wish they had never heard of me.
The box under the monitor that you put the CD in is not the hard drive, it's the MODEM!
My father in law actually thought that. He called me up one day and asked if I could help him to "delete the porn from the modem so the wife won't find it."
This is why I don't tell users what the problem is. "The server will be down tomorrow from 8 to 10am for routine maintenance. I apologize for any inconvenience."
Or, for the train: "We apologize for the delay. We will be underway shortly."
You make an excellent point. My logic was that something I built (software or some physical item) would have substance and value to it. Playing Starcraft was more fun but I have nothing to show for those countless hours of time spent.
On the other hand, I do have memories that I share with my wife and our friends. Those have value, so maybe it wasn't really wasted time after all.
The first widespread use of 3D gaming I can recall was the SNES with games like Starfox
That was pretty crappy 3D. The N64 really launched Nintendo's 3D gaming. I wouldn't put the Genesis or SNES into the same classification as the N64/PS1. We've got:
1. Early stand-alone units like Pong.
2. "Real" interchangable gaming systems, such as Atari.
3. 8 bit graphics revolution: Nintendo, Sega Master Systems
4. 16 bit graphics revolution: SNES, Genesis
5. "True" 3D consoles: N64, PS1
6. Today's systems: PS2, XBOX, Gamecube.
Today's systems really didn't add anything major to gaming. Before, each iteration of the "gaming life cycle" added huge capabilities. Nobody would argue the vast differences between Atari and NES systems. However, the Gamecube isn't really revolutionary compared to the N64, or the PS2 compared to the PS1, etc. You get some better graphics, faster processing, but it's nothing like the huge leaps console upgrades made back in the eighties and nineties.
Something major has to change, or gaming will become stagnant. "More realistic graphics" doesn't matter much at this point, as graphics are pretty darn good right now. If the next generation console is just going to give me different games with some minor hardware enhancements, what's the point? Unless there are some "must have" titles, I'll keep what I've got. I've no idea what the next major change could be - I hope we some day make the leap to holographic projections - but we need somethingk, and soon.
But the kids who bashed Tetris? They deserve to die.
;)
Ouch. Isn't that a little harsh? I mean, come on. Death? Over Tetris?
Looking back at it now, I just can't believe I wasted as much time as I did.
Agreed. I haven't been big into gaming since Starcraft. The wife and I filled our living room with computers when that came out and spent the large bulk of our time gaming with friends. Looking back, we spent 2-4 hours on almost a nightly basis. Fridays would start by 6:00pm and continue until 1:00am or later; we played until our wrists just couldn't move the mouse any more.
Sure, we had fun, but what a waste of time. I could have been developing some cool piece of software, or building something, really anything but sitting on my butt doing what amounts to nothing.
So here I am surfing Slashdot instead. Hmmm... maybe I shouldn't submit this. Oh well.
True that. The estrogen surge during the horse-mounting scene was unbelievable. You could feel it building through most of the movie and when he did that little one handed flip up onto the horse they all went right over the top.
What the hell?
I can't believe there are two of you here having the same delusional fantesy. Theaters full of women climaxing all around you? And you actually believe this happened?
Pathetic.
And if we're serious about curbing that behavior, then push forward a law that it will be illegal for the operator of a gas pump to re-enter the vehicle for any reason while the pump is in connection with the vehicle.
I just don't see it as a problem. I get back into my vehicle all the time, especially when I'm filling the SUV. I sit there and watch the gas pump, and I don't really bother to touch some ground before I go back to the fill nozzle. Sometimes I even talk on my cellphone while doing the above. Perhaps I will eventually die in a freak static-electricity accident, but I doubt it.
One could still use the catch to make the nozzle spray gas without inserting it into the tank, drive off, and use a sparking device on a remote trigger to ignite it.
Right - and considering that this happens all the time, it's a good thing these gas stations are removing their hold latches.
Really, can you recall one instance where this has happened? Neither can I. If someone wants to blow up a gas station, not having that catch won't deter them. Terrorists have access to high tech equipment - rubber bands, velcro, lengths of yarn - that can get around these "no latch" pumps.
What about those new battery powered battery pack chargers.
Not even worth mentioning compared to the several-hundred amp battery sitting under the hood of every car, pumping out power...
But the other poster was more clever: they forgot to make the dummy *answer* the phone.
That's not clever, it's stupid. When the phone is ringing - hell, even when it's just sitting idle - it's in communication with the tower, sending data back and forth just as if you were talking on it. Pressing "talk" isn't going to cause the phone to do anything it isn't already doing.
You're insane. $3 a month for downloads? That's so cheap you'd be crazy not to pay.
If I could pay $10-$15 a month right now for unlimited (or some high limit, like 100+ per month) downloads of legal MP3s - pure, no DRM - I'd sign up in a heartbeat. And that's just for 128kbit cheapies. I'd pay more for higher quality.
The students will pay for this. It's too cheap to say no.
Target shooting is just training on how to use a gun.
Target shooting is mostly for sport. Sure, you're getting training while you do it, but most people do it for fun.
And if your coworker was 7 feet tall and 300 pounds of muscle, that would be quite a task. A gun would be so much easier.
Absolutely, I agree with you.
How do you know who the bad guys are until they do something bad. So they would be considered good guys with guns until something happens.
That's some scary thinking. We can't keep someone without a criminal record from having a gun because he might do something bad with it. We have to assume everyone is good until they prove otherwise.
I don't agree with this statement. I would also say that our system does a bad job of keeping the guns away from the bad guys illegally.
I said legally. Almost all gun crime is committed by people who are not legally allowed to have that gun. There just aren't a lot of problems with people legally buying a weapon and then committing a crime with it. In other words, the government is doing a fine job when it comes to deciding who can and can't have a gun.
The problem, of course, is that criminals don't obey laws. It is extremely difficult, if not completely impossible, to keep guns out of the hands of criminals. When you buy a gun you have to go through a waiting period & background check, which helps, but criminals will just buy guns from underground dealers who are criminals themselves and therefore don't do the background checks.
If everyone carried a gun all the time, just the number of accidental deaths would rise.
I agree, I don't think everyone should carry a gun all the time. However, I do think that anyone who hasn't been in trouble with the law, and can demonstrate proper training in handling firearms, should be allowed to carry a gun all the time if he so chooses. In most states this is legal and works great. The only problem we have is the training - we run background checks when somebody wants a concealed carry permit, but we don't force them to demonstrate the ability to properly handle a weapon. That should change.
Also, all of what you have listed is used for other things besides killing.
Right, and guns are most often used for target shooting. Things besides killing.
As for explosives, I'm not sure how easy they are to come by.
You're kidding, right? You can buy gasoline anywhere. That's an explosive. Back in middle school a buddy and I used to make little bombs with his Dad's black powder and blow up GI-Joe men. I can walk into just about any sporting goods store and buy a bunch of black powder right now.
My point is that you usually don't have available these things all the time.
Yes you do. We all do. Anyone who wants to kill somebody on a whim can do so. I have a pen sitting on my desk right now, if I wanted to kill a coworker by jamming it in his throat I could.
I am simply trying to explain to you that your fear of guns is crazy. A gun doesn't give "the ability to kill 24/7" where said ability did not previous exist. It's just a method. If some whacko wants to kill somebody there are millions of tools available besides guns, many of which are within reach all of the time. For crying out loud, everyone drives a car. Why aren't you afraid of that? Cars give the ability to kill 24/7 yet you don't seem concerned with them.
The really funny thing here is that most gun murders are not by people who are legally allowed to carry a gun. Our system does a pretty good job about keeping bad people from legally carrying a gun. So here you're worried about law abiding citizens carrying guns, but they aren't the ones you should fear.
whole thing regarding blogs and journals is ruined by boring people forcing their dull lives down our throats
LOL... I love you people. Forcing it down your throat? You're telling me somebody is holding a gun to your head, forcing you to read other people's blogs?
You know what: I've never read a blog. I don't care, so I don't read. You do have that choice, you know...
I'm very nervous with a society where most people have the ability to take someone's life 24/7.
Then you should be dead from a nervous breakdown by now. Anyone can take anyone's life 24/7. Guns don't change that. Even if they could all be made to disappear (they can't), anyone who wants to kill can use:
- A sharp weapon (knife, sword, box-cutter to the throat)
- A blunt weapon (baseball bat, hammer)
- Their bare hands (beating, choking)
- A piece of wire or string (choking, hanging)
- Poison
- Explosives
- Fire
The list goes on and on.
What's this have to do with iris scanners, anyway?
I can imagine how much better life would be for US citizens if the US government spent as much on the health, welfare and education of its own people as it has on war in the past 60 years or so
We'd all be speaking German because Hitler and crew would have rolled over us by now. You'd be dead or never have existed unless both you and your parents fit the perfect Aryan profile.
Yeah. Damn our government for spending money on war to protect us. Those bastards.
This wouldn't have been modded "troll" if you'd only said, "I don't have eyes, you insensitive clod!"
When was that last time you could get more then five hundred feet from your access point.
/wait/ to bring that on the plane! "Haha, you wussies, I've got a clear signal from the plane all the way back here at the security checkpoint! Yeah, I rock, you all.. hey, wait a minute. No no, let me go! GAH! MY LAPTOP! NO NO DON'T PUT THE LATEX GLOVES ON AGAIN!! HEEELLPPP!!!"
When I used a coat hanger, pringles can, home-made drive circuit and powered by a 12v deep cycle marine battery. I can't
Only on /. can two people named "Penguinshit" and "drinkypoo" have a meaningful, intelligent conversation about the flight characteristics of aircraft, air turbulance and subsequent problems associated with navigating a larger craft's slipstream.
My company won't pay for minibar usage or in-room movies
Funny stuff, my last company wouldn't pay for in-room movies, but if we actually went out to a movie it was covered. Never did figure that one out.
Absolutely, your credit card company (bank) is on your side. You are their customer. Call them up and explain the situation. They'll tell you how to go about filing the chargeback and getting your money back.
It's bad public relations and turns people away. eBay DOES NOT collect ANY fees from an auction that you state you were not paid for.
Before 2004, however, eBay never refunded listing fees. I once tried to sell a nice laptop, starting price $500. I had to sell it FOUR TIMES. The first three times, the bidders never paid. Each time I paid $5-$10 in listing fees, which were not refunded.
eBay will now refund your listing fee only if you re-list the item. This is fair, in my opinion, but it's a very recent policy change.
I state in my auctions that warranties are "refund or replacement at my discretion." I've had people try to return items that I know work perfectly, where I was positive the buyer was lying to get a refund because he changed his mind. When I tell them, "Sure, no problem. Mail it back to me and I'll send you one that works", they go away.