...I never really thought of my apartment as small. But here I am going "I don't see what the big deal is, my computer's 7.1 speakers already fill my whole place with music..."
j/k j/k I know the difference.:P I think this sounds like a neat solution, though I don't care about iTunes at all.
Being a regular fixture of the anime community that most of the *chan boards spawned from, I've had a fair amount of exposure to all things Anonymous and/b/tard. I know enough about Scientology to know I don't like it, not one bit, and I know they like to do anything to get their way. But I can tell you this; I am 100% sure that the anon kiddies did this. It's wanton internet hate machine bullshit as usual. I'm surprised they didn't surround the offending images with 'UR BRAIN IS CLOSED' or something equally witty.
I honestly can't wait to see what happens next though. Like most things of late, this is heading into cyberpunk territory... Roving tribes of anarchistic internet terrorists... I mean, seriously. wtf? It also amuses me to no end to see Anon going after the CoS... It's like a win-win situation. Less scientology, or less/b/tards. I'll take either. (Granted, less/b/tards would have a more immediate positive impact on my existence...since the CoS has never caused me any trouble.)
Oh for the love of-- Whenever I read what is basically this same story, time and time again, it makes me wish I had a man-portable microwave emitter. I go to this place and find the crazy goddamn technophobes responsible, and show them what a 'Health Hazard' really is! But then, they'd probably use it as proof of their maniacal rantings about how free wireless internet will cook the human brain in its own juices. In rebuttal I ask them this; what the fuck are _you_ worried about then?
I made this image yesterday as a response to something similarly stupid, but it works just as well for this.
I never really liked Winny anyway. Perfect Dark and Share are much better, and hopefully they'll be populated with even more quality piratables after this info gets out.
Yes. I went there. Unabashed declaration of intention to steal shit.
Yeah, they could also encase all the computers in cement and only those students able to master the force can access the internet by manipulating the molecular structure of the cement... My point is, there's nothing anyone is likely to actually DO that can counter it. Smartass.:P Futzing with the BIOS is the closest you get to a reasonable solution... But it would slow the process of servicing the machines... And if there was just one password for all the machines...or even one for each lab or something... Someone ALWAYS finds out those kinds of passwords eventually.:P
It really is less trouble to just acknowledge the futility of it all.
Right. I remember back when the computer labs were almost the only places on campus you could get net access... The stories I could tell you about how easy it was to compromise all internet access... Oh boy. (All the logins for quality porn sites alone were worth it!)
There's really nothing to stop someone from putting in a Linux live-cd, and doing whatever they damn well please if they don't feel like picking apart ITS's favorite windows security suite and just doing what they want in windows. What are they going to do? Have ITS and campus security go around tasering people who they find to be 'misusing' the lab computers?
I say don't bother. Anyone with half a brain or even the vaguest notion of how to google something is going to find a way around any security. All you do by making them jump through the hoops is make them feel ENTITLED. Good job there. Real crackerjack work.
If we weren't supposed to download it, it wouldn't be on the internet!
I don't know why they did it either. I've been an AMD fanboy basically forever. As soon as the K6 procs were out, I was all over it... After the wonkiness of the K6-3 chips, I kinda took a step back... But they won me back after a short time with intel because of the benchmarks of the early Athlon processors in areas wholly relevant to my interests. (Computer animation)
Sort of the same thing with ATI. I was really big on ATI, and after several years, I finally went over to nVidia because it seemed like they finally got their sh*t together and started playing nice...and their SLI solution blew ATI's solution away. The main reason I went back to ATI for my new machine, was because the only decent Phenom motherboards are ATI/AMD Crossfire platforms and not nVidia.
I feel like AMD sort of shot themselves in the foot with that (In the short-term), because nVidia has become the real enthusiast videocards for gaming and stuff, while at the same time, AMD processors are the preferred CPUs... That, and AMD motherboard chipsets don't have as many features as the nVidia chipsets...
From what I've seen with my new rig, it looks like ATI has really been shaping up... CrossfireX, the new ATI SLI standard that involves internal bridges like the latest nVidia SLI seems to be a better solution than nVidia's current offerings, with a lot of benefits...so I feel that's at least one big point in their favor right now... But they need to make the drivers better. (Though, I have yet to have my system self destruct while gaming like my nVidia-based rig would occasionally) And better linux support would be nice, but as I think we've established, I'm not a huge linux user. (Digital content creation and gaming, ya know? Not that it's impossible in linux, it's just...different. So please don't kill me.)
So anyway, as things stand, I have no godly idea why they bought ATI (Unless they approached nVidia first, and were told to go screw?) but it looks like it might be to help ATI in the right direction and become the dominant videocard maker so they can start to offer a unified solution that is by any standard the obvious choice.
(For instance, reading up on ATI's new SLI method is what really sold me on the ASUS quad-SLI Phenom-ready motherboard I had my eyes on.)
With all this crap lately, I'm about ready to jump ship. I'd threaten to move to Canada, but Airsoft (One of the few activities I can legally enjoy in this godforsaken country) is already basically illegal up there, like we're working on here. Ban free wifi, no funding for manned Mars missions, sit up straight, chew your food, don't talk with your mouth full.
I think we need to come up with a new term to describe this level of government overreaching. I'm a clever guy, but for the life of me I can't think of anything better than to call the bulk of the idiotic bills that are trying to be passed and BEING passed, than to call it definitively retarded.
Loopholes described in TFA aside, are we trying to give Mars to China or something? I guess this would explain why everyone in the 'verse speaks English and Mandarin.
All the derision about it being 'cute but pointless' aside, I think it is a really novel approach, and a step in the right direction for portable device UI development. It really seeks to take advantage of the way our brains process everyday physical stimuli and apply it to processing simple bits of information from our phones.
I can vouch for this. I used to love bicycling when I was a kid, but when my family moved here to Vermont things got...different. In the summer in downtown Middlebury, they have police on bicycles, and they'll ticket you for riding on the sidewalks...despite the fact that riding in the street makes people honk at and try to kill you. (Also despite the fact that the bicycle cops are usually riding on the sidewalks. Hell, I wouldn't mind having to ride in the street if I had a Glock strapped to my hip.)
The first from last day of my sophomore year in High School, I was coming down the winding hill from the school towards downtown (At high speed), when some mouthbreather in the back of a pickup coming the opposite way decided it'd be funny if he yelled "Hey, catch!" and threw a water balloon at me. It hit me as I was leaning into the turn, and one of my pedals caught the asphalt sending me crashing to the ground, sliding a ways, then cartwheeling once or twice. No one saw a goddamn thing, of course. My hands and knees were torn up, my nose was bleeding, and I was like a quarter mile from home... I could have easily been killed if it weren't for my helmet. My face got close enough to the road surface that it ripped my sunglasses off. And my bike (Which I had just recently bought) was totaled. I haven't ridden a bike since. Though, it's mostly because I'm too cheap to buy a new one, or replace 60% of the moving bits on my old one...which I still have, like ten years later.
Known fact: Americans are sons of bitches, and we're probably all better off dead or something.
That I've got no problem saying that should be an indication of the fact there is no civilization here.
Tell me about it. After playing missions like 'Charlie Don't Surf' and 'War Pig' on Veteran difficulty, it took several hours for me to stop hearing the sound of bouncing hand grenades occasionally.
Expectations? Obliterated, along with my shorts.
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Though the game suffers somewhat from overly-familiar gameplay in the single-player component, you'll probably be too busy gawking at the scenery to care.
Translation: In single-player, you still shoot things.
What were you expecting? An in-depth diplomacy simulation? This is a shooter. And it happens to be the best modern combat shooter ever made. And I'm not just saying that because it's pretty as hell. I'm saying it because, having fired the game up fresh and unprepared, by the end of the cargo ship mission, I was clutching my laser mouse white-knuckled, and had to take a break for several minutes to let it all sink in.
On the Hardened difficulty level that I played through the game on the first time, it managed to deliver the same rush I get doing shit like that for real. I don't think anything more than that needs to be said. (Though I'm going to say more, of course) It also has the best multiplayer experience in a modern shooter to-date.
I have never played an FPS with a single-player experience that I never get bored playing through. I can do it again and again like watching my favorite episodes of a show, or one of my favorite movies.
The character animations and reactions make everything seem so alive. (Until it's not.) Enemy deaths are very dynamic, and while obviously limited to a series of preset animations augmented by ragdoll physics, it always feels unique. Not to mention the fact that an enemy isn't always dead when you drop them, and if you aren't careful, you can end up shot in the back before they bleed out. Headshots with a sniper rifle often yield effects like an enemy's helmet or beret flying off. This is stuff I've never seen in a game. I suppose SoF II came close back in the day with its damage system, but you really can't compare the two.
Enemies and AI allies running to scoop up a grenade and throw it back, making a running slide into cover, or blindfiring over the top of cover... It all adds to the atmosphere. Realistic animations blended together perfectly to create realistic performances. It doesn't feel like any other game. It feels more real than anything that has ever come before.
Material penetration is one of the things that really does it for me. To find yourself in a situation where what you thought was cover is being perforated by enemy fire all around you and tracers are flying past your head, or to step into a doorway to find the next room full of enemies then take a dive to empty your magazine into the room through the wall... Again, like nothing that's ever come before.
Even when the pacing slows down a little, it's tense as hell. The flashback missions in Russia? Wow. Lying in the middle of a field in my ghillie suit hoping not to be discovered by countless enemy troops, or run over by an IFV, was one of the most tense moments I've ever experienced in a game. (And there's several good stealth segments)
The AC-130 mission was incredible. Compare footage of that to any AC-130 TV operator footage you can find out there... It's dead-on. (In fact, there's a particular video on youtube that is so obviously the inspiration for that mission, right down to the things the crew says.)
Even the flexibility of control schemes is like nothing I've ever seen. The ability to assign separate buttons for toggling and/or holding crouch, prone positions, or aiming down the sights... The ability to split up almost any multi-function binding to different keys. Man. When I started, the stance toggle threw me off, I'm used to having to hold the crouch button and stuff. But now, I'm considering also having an additional button for toggling, in situations where I need to maintain a lower profile.
How can a game that so fundamentally shakes the landscape both in terms of combat and storytelling, be considered 'overly-familiar'? This is one game I hope they release a dozen expansion packs for and literally beat it to DEATH. Because I don't think I'll ever get enough.
I'd swear they already did this when introducing CS3. Now, at any given time, you can have open only the palettes you need at any given time. Re-opening others with just a single click as needed, instead of having to go through a menu or two to open them again. I actually prefer the new docked palettes. It strikes a balance between a clean interface, and maintaining usability.
It's not like Photoshop can EVER have the kind of minimalist interface you see in say... Alias Sketchbook. With the exception of pushing all the tools and palettes to another monitor, I think the Photoshop UI is as clean as it can be while staying usable. I hope they don't screw everything up, considering what we're paying for the software to begin with. <__<
Blazing fast usenet access and alt.binaries.hdtv movie downloads are killing netflix!
I used to rent movies all the time... Now? Not so much. It started years ago with DVD rips... Then it progressed to just downloading whole DVD ISO images... Now? Next-gen DVD rips or HDTV rips of stuff in HD.
The only problem now, is that unlike before, I can't go out and BUY a movie I like enough to keep, because HD-DVD and Blu-Ray players are still stupidly expensive.
MPAA: That's my real name, bitches. Come and get me, since you seem hell-bent on destroying all movie sales once and for all.
Things are fine the way they are. It's not like Apple really needs a cut of what Adobe brings in, and Adobe is doing fine on their own... I think Apple acquiring Adobe can only lead to problems...and I'm not saying this just because I'm a graphic designer who uses windows... ^^;
Seems the people most affected by the upgrade are graphic artists. I've heard off and on reports about Adobe Creative Suite being all buggered under leopard, and definite reports of things like Celsys' ComicStudio software (And the localized English version, MangaStudio) being completely unable to run under leopard. Of course, ComicStudio doesn't run under Vista at the moment either...
I've never been so glad to have become completely inflexible and opposed to change in my old age...
Whole damn country's coming apart at the seams. California is burning, New Orleans is sinking...again... I spent Monday night in a Red Cross shelter, and I live on the EAST coast. (Story if anyone's interested.)
I seldom say anything nice, or anything one would repeat in polite company, but my heart goes out to the folks in California. (And not just my numerous friends and acquaintances who live in Socal) Worrying about my apartment being destroyed in a massive explosion and/or fire while I was two miles away with little more than the clothes on my back was one of the most painful and trying experience I have ever had, I can't begin to imagine the plight of those who have lost their homes.
Almost all of the news coverage we saw on the TV in the shelter was on California... Some of what I saw indeed looked like hell on Earth.
I'm perfectly willing to share with the government my phone conversations with telemarketers and my mother for the low low price of $1k. They'll probably get a kick out of me and the telemarketers.:3 When you get the same recorded message three times a day telling you the warranty on your non-existent car is about to expire...you get creative with what you say before hanging up.;)
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Someone ought to tell this guy that no one actually pays for warez. ;o
...I never really thought of my apartment as small. But here I am going "I don't see what the big deal is, my computer's 7.1 speakers already fill my whole place with music..."
:P I think this sounds like a neat solution, though I don't care about iTunes at all.
j/k j/k I know the difference.
Being a regular fixture of the anime community that most of the *chan boards spawned from, I've had a fair amount of exposure to all things Anonymous and /b/tard. I know enough about Scientology to know I don't like it, not one bit, and I know they like to do anything to get their way. But I can tell you this; I am 100% sure that the anon kiddies did this. It's wanton internet hate machine bullshit as usual. I'm surprised they didn't surround the offending images with 'UR BRAIN IS CLOSED' or something equally witty.
/b/tards. I'll take either. (Granted, less /b/tards would have a more immediate positive impact on my existence...since the CoS has never caused me any trouble.)
I honestly can't wait to see what happens next though. Like most things of late, this is heading into cyberpunk territory... Roving tribes of anarchistic internet terrorists... I mean, seriously. wtf? It also amuses me to no end to see Anon going after the CoS... It's like a win-win situation. Less scientology, or less
Oh for the love of-- Whenever I read what is basically this same story, time and time again, it makes me wish I had a man-portable microwave emitter. I go to this place and find the crazy goddamn technophobes responsible, and show them what a 'Health Hazard' really is! But then, they'd probably use it as proof of their maniacal rantings about how free wireless internet will cook the human brain in its own juices. In rebuttal I ask them this; what the fuck are _you_ worried about then?
I made this image yesterday as a response to something similarly stupid, but it works just as well for this.
I never really liked Winny anyway. Perfect Dark and Share are much better, and hopefully they'll be populated with even more quality piratables after this info gets out.
Yes. I went there. Unabashed declaration of intention to steal shit.
Yeah, they could also encase all the computers in cement and only those students able to master the force can access the internet by manipulating the molecular structure of the cement... My point is, there's nothing anyone is likely to actually DO that can counter it. Smartass. :P Futzing with the BIOS is the closest you get to a reasonable solution... But it would slow the process of servicing the machines... And if there was just one password for all the machines...or even one for each lab or something... Someone ALWAYS finds out those kinds of passwords eventually. :P
It really is less trouble to just acknowledge the futility of it all.
Right. I remember back when the computer labs were almost the only places on campus you could get net access... The stories I could tell you about how easy it was to compromise all internet access... Oh boy. (All the logins for quality porn sites alone were worth it!)
There's really nothing to stop someone from putting in a Linux live-cd, and doing whatever they damn well please if they don't feel like picking apart ITS's favorite windows security suite and just doing what they want in windows. What are they going to do? Have ITS and campus security go around tasering people who they find to be 'misusing' the lab computers?
I say don't bother. Anyone with half a brain or even the vaguest notion of how to google something is going to find a way around any security. All you do by making them jump through the hoops is make them feel ENTITLED. Good job there. Real crackerjack work.
If we weren't supposed to download it, it wouldn't be on the internet!
I don't know why they did it either. I've been an AMD fanboy basically forever. As soon as the K6 procs were out, I was all over it... After the wonkiness of the K6-3 chips, I kinda took a step back... But they won me back after a short time with intel because of the benchmarks of the early Athlon processors in areas wholly relevant to my interests. (Computer animation)
Sort of the same thing with ATI. I was really big on ATI, and after several years, I finally went over to nVidia because it seemed like they finally got their sh*t together and started playing nice...and their SLI solution blew ATI's solution away. The main reason I went back to ATI for my new machine, was because the only decent Phenom motherboards are ATI/AMD Crossfire platforms and not nVidia.
I feel like AMD sort of shot themselves in the foot with that (In the short-term), because nVidia has become the real enthusiast videocards for gaming and stuff, while at the same time, AMD processors are the preferred CPUs... That, and AMD motherboard chipsets don't have as many features as the nVidia chipsets...
From what I've seen with my new rig, it looks like ATI has really been shaping up... CrossfireX, the new ATI SLI standard that involves internal bridges like the latest nVidia SLI seems to be a better solution than nVidia's current offerings, with a lot of benefits...so I feel that's at least one big point in their favor right now... But they need to make the drivers better. (Though, I have yet to have my system self destruct while gaming like my nVidia-based rig would occasionally) And better linux support would be nice, but as I think we've established, I'm not a huge linux user. (Digital content creation and gaming, ya know? Not that it's impossible in linux, it's just...different. So please don't kill me.)
So anyway, as things stand, I have no godly idea why they bought ATI (Unless they approached nVidia first, and were told to go screw?) but it looks like it might be to help ATI in the right direction and become the dominant videocard maker so they can start to offer a unified solution that is by any standard the obvious choice.
(For instance, reading up on ATI's new SLI method is what really sold me on the ASUS quad-SLI Phenom-ready motherboard I had my eyes on.)
But what if your ISP starts filtering traffic to that website?
Funny that I should read this headline RIGHT NEXT to an Adobe Acrobat ad being run on /.
With all this crap lately, I'm about ready to jump ship. I'd threaten to move to Canada, but Airsoft (One of the few activities I can legally enjoy in this godforsaken country) is already basically illegal up there, like we're working on here. Ban free wifi, no funding for manned Mars missions, sit up straight, chew your food, don't talk with your mouth full.
I think we need to come up with a new term to describe this level of government overreaching. I'm a clever guy, but for the life of me I can't think of anything better than to call the bulk of the idiotic bills that are trying to be passed and BEING passed, than to call it definitively retarded.
Loopholes described in TFA aside, are we trying to give Mars to China or something? I guess this would explain why everyone in the 'verse speaks English and Mandarin.
(You had to see that coming. Don't lie.)
All the derision about it being 'cute but pointless' aside, I think it is a really novel approach, and a step in the right direction for portable device UI development. It really seeks to take advantage of the way our brains process everyday physical stimuli and apply it to processing simple bits of information from our phones.
I, for one, welcome our new recorded-stimuli-porn overlords.
I can vouch for this. I used to love bicycling when I was a kid, but when my family moved here to Vermont things got...different. In the summer in downtown Middlebury, they have police on bicycles, and they'll ticket you for riding on the sidewalks...despite the fact that riding in the street makes people honk at and try to kill you. (Also despite the fact that the bicycle cops are usually riding on the sidewalks. Hell, I wouldn't mind having to ride in the street if I had a Glock strapped to my hip.)
The first from last day of my sophomore year in High School, I was coming down the winding hill from the school towards downtown (At high speed), when some mouthbreather in the back of a pickup coming the opposite way decided it'd be funny if he yelled "Hey, catch!" and threw a water balloon at me. It hit me as I was leaning into the turn, and one of my pedals caught the asphalt sending me crashing to the ground, sliding a ways, then cartwheeling once or twice. No one saw a goddamn thing, of course. My hands and knees were torn up, my nose was bleeding, and I was like a quarter mile from home... I could have easily been killed if it weren't for my helmet. My face got close enough to the road surface that it ripped my sunglasses off. And my bike (Which I had just recently bought) was totaled. I haven't ridden a bike since. Though, it's mostly because I'm too cheap to buy a new one, or replace 60% of the moving bits on my old one...which I still have, like ten years later.
Known fact: Americans are sons of bitches, and we're probably all better off dead or something.
That I've got no problem saying that should be an indication of the fact there is no civilization here.
Tell me about it. After playing missions like 'Charlie Don't Surf' and 'War Pig' on Veteran difficulty, it took several hours for me to stop hearing the sound of bouncing hand grenades occasionally.
Translation: In single-player, you still shoot things.
What were you expecting? An in-depth diplomacy simulation? This is a shooter. And it happens to be the best modern combat shooter ever made. And I'm not just saying that because it's pretty as hell. I'm saying it because, having fired the game up fresh and unprepared, by the end of the cargo ship mission, I was clutching my laser mouse white-knuckled, and had to take a break for several minutes to let it all sink in.
On the Hardened difficulty level that I played through the game on the first time, it managed to deliver the same rush I get doing shit like that for real. I don't think anything more than that needs to be said. (Though I'm going to say more, of course) It also has the best multiplayer experience in a modern shooter to-date.
I have never played an FPS with a single-player experience that I never get bored playing through. I can do it again and again like watching my favorite episodes of a show, or one of my favorite movies.
The character animations and reactions make everything seem so alive. (Until it's not.) Enemy deaths are very dynamic, and while obviously limited to a series of preset animations augmented by ragdoll physics, it always feels unique. Not to mention the fact that an enemy isn't always dead when you drop them, and if you aren't careful, you can end up shot in the back before they bleed out. Headshots with a sniper rifle often yield effects like an enemy's helmet or beret flying off. This is stuff I've never seen in a game. I suppose SoF II came close back in the day with its damage system, but you really can't compare the two.
Enemies and AI allies running to scoop up a grenade and throw it back, making a running slide into cover, or blindfiring over the top of cover... It all adds to the atmosphere. Realistic animations blended together perfectly to create realistic performances. It doesn't feel like any other game. It feels more real than anything that has ever come before.
Material penetration is one of the things that really does it for me. To find yourself in a situation where what you thought was cover is being perforated by enemy fire all around you and tracers are flying past your head, or to step into a doorway to find the next room full of enemies then take a dive to empty your magazine into the room through the wall... Again, like nothing that's ever come before.
Even when the pacing slows down a little, it's tense as hell. The flashback missions in Russia? Wow. Lying in the middle of a field in my ghillie suit hoping not to be discovered by countless enemy troops, or run over by an IFV, was one of the most tense moments I've ever experienced in a game. (And there's several good stealth segments)
The AC-130 mission was incredible. Compare footage of that to any AC-130 TV operator footage you can find out there... It's dead-on. (In fact, there's a particular video on youtube that is so obviously the inspiration for that mission, right down to the things the crew says.)
Even the flexibility of control schemes is like nothing I've ever seen. The ability to assign separate buttons for toggling and/or holding crouch, prone positions, or aiming down the sights... The ability to split up almost any multi-function binding to different keys. Man. When I started, the stance toggle threw me off, I'm used to having to hold the crouch button and stuff. But now, I'm considering also having an additional button for toggling, in situations where I need to maintain a lower profile.
How can a game that so fundamentally shakes the landscape both in terms of combat and storytelling, be considered 'overly-familiar'? This is one game I hope they release a dozen expansion packs for and literally beat it to DEATH. Because I don't think I'll ever get enough.
I'd swear they already did this when introducing CS3. Now, at any given time, you can have open only the palettes you need at any given time. Re-opening others with just a single click as needed, instead of having to go through a menu or two to open them again. I actually prefer the new docked palettes. It strikes a balance between a clean interface, and maintaining usability.
It's not like Photoshop can EVER have the kind of minimalist interface you see in say... Alias Sketchbook. With the exception of pushing all the tools and palettes to another monitor, I think the Photoshop UI is as clean as it can be while staying usable. I hope they don't screw everything up, considering what we're paying for the software to begin with. <__<
When I want people to argue with me, I just go on IRC. Am I missing something?
Blazing fast usenet access and alt.binaries.hdtv movie downloads are killing netflix!
I used to rent movies all the time... Now? Not so much. It started years ago with DVD rips... Then it progressed to just downloading whole DVD ISO images... Now? Next-gen DVD rips or HDTV rips of stuff in HD.
The only problem now, is that unlike before, I can't go out and BUY a movie I like enough to keep, because HD-DVD and Blu-Ray players are still stupidly expensive.
MPAA: That's my real name, bitches. Come and get me, since you seem hell-bent on destroying all movie sales once and for all.
Things are fine the way they are. It's not like Apple really needs a cut of what Adobe brings in, and Adobe is doing fine on their own... I think Apple acquiring Adobe can only lead to problems...and I'm not saying this just because I'm a graphic designer who uses windows... ^^;
Seems the people most affected by the upgrade are graphic artists. I've heard off and on reports about Adobe Creative Suite being all buggered under leopard, and definite reports of things like Celsys' ComicStudio software (And the localized English version, MangaStudio) being completely unable to run under leopard. Of course, ComicStudio doesn't run under Vista at the moment either...
I've never been so glad to have become completely inflexible and opposed to change in my old age...
...the reality is that this story should probably be tagged 'security through never-being-able-to-access-your-stuff-again'
Whole damn country's coming apart at the seams. California is burning, New Orleans is sinking...again... I spent Monday night in a Red Cross shelter, and I live on the EAST coast. (Story if anyone's interested.)
I seldom say anything nice, or anything one would repeat in polite company, but my heart goes out to the folks in California. (And not just my numerous friends and acquaintances who live in Socal) Worrying about my apartment being destroyed in a massive explosion and/or fire while I was two miles away with little more than the clothes on my back was one of the most painful and trying experience I have ever had, I can't begin to imagine the plight of those who have lost their homes.
Almost all of the news coverage we saw on the TV in the shelter was on California... Some of what I saw indeed looked like hell on Earth.
I'm perfectly willing to share with the government my phone conversations with telemarketers and my mother for the low low price of $1k. They'll probably get a kick out of me and the telemarketers. :3 When you get the same recorded message three times a day telling you the warranty on your non-existent car is about to expire...you get creative with what you say before hanging up. ;)
;P
Ugh, I can't believe I typo'd my subject