It surprised me too. I think the analogy I saw was one where you have one person holding a basketball, which respresents Earth, and another, a tennis ball, which represents the moon; the two people have to stand about 25 feet (7.69 meters) apart to scale the distance. I would've thought maybe 10 to 12 feet.
Hell yeah. They're a lot tougher than they look. My sister-in-law gave me her Galaxy S when she switched providers (it's a Fascinate - Verizon); she had apparently dropped it hard, many times, as the edges - especially the top left where the USB port is- are not just scratched, they're chipped up.
The thing runs like a champ though, the display is almost perfect (it's fine from the falls it took, but she burnt the screen in having the brightness all the way up too long )-: ), and all ports are good.
I'll probably stick with this for a while, it does what I need, and hey, it was free ('cept for the data plan of course) and runs most apps fine. That said, I'd love to have a Galaxy Note.. that size is appealing. I wonder when they'll release a Note II?
They're the only ones I can think of in that vein, offhand, and even then, with Joe Satriani on guitar, they've got a somewhat hard edge at times- though for me, I like that.
Hmmm.. see what you mean. Have you given Chickenfoot a listen? They're sorta old school, actually. I really like their first CD. One or two tunes seem reminiscent of ZZ top.. but with faster guitar chops.
But pretty much everything I've bought...I listen to OVER and over again...and have for decades.
I never get tired of hearing Dark Side of the Moon, or The Wall....and I usually play those in their entirety, from beginning to end since to me..they are whole pieces of music...the whole album is.
I never get tired of Brown Sugar....or the plethora of other Stones songs.
You sound like most people my age (around 50), who often post on Facebook, digging up some song from their teen years. But I don't understand my peers. I got so sick and tired of hearing Zeppelin, The Who, and Pink Floyd, as if they were the only bands on the planet sometimes -depending on the radio station you listened to in the '70s and '80s- that I could happily live my life without hearing a song from those bands again.. ever. Even a lot of the other bands I liked back then (Rush, Van Halen, Boston, Deep Purple, Journey) I really don't want to listen to anymore - I burnt out on them.
OTOH, I've often said a good song is very different from a good movie. I never used to understand people who could watch a movie 6 times or more, but a good song you can listen to over and over again. Weell.. to a point, I found out. I discovered I have a limit even there.
Unfortunately, I think a lot of today's radio based music sucks eggs, so I have to really dig to find new stuff I consider good, refreshing, melodic, catchy, but with a little technical dazzle. The irony is, I've done it to myself now by playing Lacuna Coil and Type O Negative to death.. in a year's time, I'll never want to hear them again either, lol..but eventually I'll find something new I like.
So, I wonder, is it really the songs you like, or is it maybe that they trigger pleasant memories of youth? There are certain "old" songs that instantly transport me back to a sunny summer afternoon in my youth. For whatever reason, those moments in time became snapshots in my memory and are triggered by hearing songs that were playing at the time.
Most people use their phone after unlocking it though, which adds more smears to the screen, obliterating the pattern . Depending. If they only unlock to see if they have messages or emails though, and there are none, and they lock it again, then yeah, it's a dead giveaway.
I think the GP's point was that the Facebook teens of today would look at having to enter an arcane string like AT&D1&C2S95=55 followed by ATDT1235551212, and say, "screw that". It ain't point and click.
There was LOT more to DOS than loading ansi.sys,.
Between the the config.sys and autoexec.bat files, you had to load mscdex.exe, and you had to worry about trying to load as many things above 640K as you could ("load high") to allow for more memory for apps, and if you wanted your soundblaster sound card to work, there was yet more work; and though the driver install should automatically insert those lines, we all know they had to frequently be tweaked due to IRQ conflicts, another thing of the past.
It was more like:
@echo off
DEVICE=C:\Windows\HIMEM.SYS
DOS=HIGH,UMB
DEVICE=C:\Windows\EMM386.EXE NOEMS
for your config sys file, and
@echo off
SET SOUND=C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\CTSND
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 E620 T6
SET PATH=C:\Windows;C:\
LH C:\Windows\COMMAND\MSCDEX.EXE/D:123
for your autoexec.bat.
Oddly enough.. there are times when I miss those days. I guess the novelty hadn't worn off yet.
Boy this nails it. I didn't really get full swing into IT until the mid '90s, about a year before Win95 came out. I was doing electronic repair before that. Terms like "multimedia" were still the hot buzzwords, CompuServe and AOL were the hot tickets online, Packard Bells were popular and the Pentium was just coming out. I was riding the crest of the wave, home computers and the 'net were about to become prolific.
For me, actually, Quake - on PC, of course- helped me get interested in IT. I liked that the game was "hackable" by design, that it's console allowed a player to input command line changes; I gave up totally on console games and was drawn to the PC. It just sort of grew from there, like a deformed, three-headed monster.
Of course, once you really get settled into a career in IT, it's generally nowhere near as cool as you imagined it'd be- it's still work. OTOH, could be worse.
Well, here's my experience with a home schooling experiment, for what it's worth.
When my son turned 5, I expected him to go to Kindergarten like any other kid. It turned out my wife had different idea, she decided to home school him. I didn't have an issue with this initially because of his education, as she was in fact an elementary school teacher for years, but was now a stay-at-home mom. My initial objection was because by then I'd expected her to return to the work force because we needed the money. But she was dead set against the public school, she had teaching experience, and a lot of the materials, so I capitulated.
3 years later, it turned out I should've been concerned for the first reason. While his reading level and comprehension were clearly advanced for a child his age, and I have to give credit where it's due there, his math and science skills sucked, because basically my wife was not good with that stuff. (And it turns out he was only spending maybe 5-10 hours on "home schooling" over the course of the whole week, because she was also babysitting neighbor's children during the day). I tried to step in and help, and even bought up all those "Harry Potter" science kits on eBay thinking that would grab his interest, but working fulltime there was no way I could devote enough hours to him... and those kits were kinda lame anyway.
I finally put my foot down 2 years ago, we had a major blowout over it that nearly ended our marriage, but she conceded to send him to school. At first we tried a charter school, but they were definitely too advanced for him, so after all this, he finally settled into our local public school, where he's doing pretty good, actually. Honor roll a couple of times, "Star Student" award.. that kind of thing. Even more funny, my wife is now the official recorder for the school, so she's getting involved with the system she once hated. We still have issues with their curriculum from time to time, with certain teachers, and the way they push often push too hard and teach to tests, but at least he's better educated now and up to speed with his peers.
This isn't to say home-schooling is necessarily a bad thing for everyone, it just didn't work out in our case. If parents are going to commit to it, they need to really, truly, fully, commit to it.
..and then there's the interviews the Howard Stern show did in Harlem during the 2008 election year.
They took McCain's policies, values, and viewpoints and attributed them to Obama, and asked random people there if they'd support that view; they even went so far as to ask several if they had any problem with Obama picking Sarah Palin as his running mate... and everyone asked on the tape replied they had no issue with her, or better! lol
All the people in the bit blindly went along with whatever "view" Obama supposedly had. They had NO idea what his actual viewpoints or values were, nor even who his running mate was.
Then again, those people could have been cherry picked for a laugh, but still, there were a number of them.. for those people, it reveals the truth of their vote, and that racism can cut both ways.
Not to wear the tinfoil hat, but I wouldn't be absolutely shocked if MS was actually in on part of the thing. They've been accused of creating backdoors for the NSA and such, historically. So, they could conceivably issue their "fix" while working with "gub'mnt" for a different tactic or workaround.
The one thing I hope they included was the ability to assign a keyword to a bookmark when you make it. I love the keyword feature, but you have to create the bookmark first, then go hunt it down, open it's properties, and then assign the keyword. There used to be an extension for that but it hasn't been compatible in like, forever.
I don't doubt it's actually more about the cyberbullying than anything else, (though I wouldn't discount those other things) but from a typical political perspective, I doubt that they really care if it works or not. They just want to be seen as doing something, anything, or at least trying, because it looks good on their record. What do legislators do? Write laws. What do laws do? Restrict behavior (ostensibly anyway). Everything is, by default, legal until a law says otherwise. That's all these guys can do- try to restrict societies' behavior. But they always want to be seen as doing something about the issues (for better or worse) so that they can wave their banner around come the next election and loudly proclaim, "Hey, I did something about this! I took action, check out my record, vote for me!".
Well, big whoop for them. And as pointed out earlier, without enforcement, legislation is meaningless.
Please give the evil "white male" thing a break already. Discrimination exists from all directions, it's typical of human nature, not just white males. Besides, wasn't this kid a gay white male?
I almost bought the DVD set.. but first I wanted to be sure I'd really like the series, so I did the next best thing.
I went through my BluRay player to the amazon store and ordered the first episode for $2.99 (man I love that thing). The next Saturday night, I bought and streamed ep2... and last weekend, ep3.
If I keep doing this, yah, it'll be more expensive maybe than buying the set, but still it's been a great, cheap, and legal way to watch the show, until I'm sure what I want to do. In any case, it's cheaper than buying a special cable package to get HBO.
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It surprised me too. I think the analogy I saw was one where you have one person holding a basketball, which respresents Earth, and another, a tennis ball, which represents the moon; the two people have to stand about 25 feet (7.69 meters) apart to scale the distance. I would've thought maybe 10 to 12 feet.
I know, let's ask Rebecca Black!
Hell yeah. They're a lot tougher than they look. My sister-in-law gave me her Galaxy S when she switched providers (it's a Fascinate - Verizon); she had apparently dropped it hard, many times, as the edges - especially the top left where the USB port is- are not just scratched, they're chipped up.
The thing runs like a champ though, the display is almost perfect (it's fine from the falls it took, but she burnt the screen in having the brightness all the way up too long )-: ), and all ports are good.
I'll probably stick with this for a while, it does what I need, and hey, it was free ('cept for the data plan of course) and runs most apps fine. That said, I'd love to have a Galaxy Note.. that size is appealing. I wonder when they'll release a Note II?
They're the only ones I can think of in that vein, offhand, and even then, with Joe Satriani on guitar, they've got a somewhat hard edge at times- though for me, I like that.
Hmmm.. see what you mean. Have you given Chickenfoot a listen? They're sorta old school, actually. I really like their first CD. One or two tunes seem reminiscent of ZZ top.. but with faster guitar chops.
Meant to add, I'm not taking a dig at you, if you like the songs, more power to you. I'm just curious.
But pretty much everything I've bought...I listen to OVER and over again...and have for decades.
I never get tired of hearing Dark Side of the Moon, or The Wall....and I usually play those in their entirety, from beginning to end since to me..they are whole pieces of music...the whole album is.
I never get tired of Brown Sugar....or the plethora of other Stones songs.
You sound like most people my age (around 50), who often post on Facebook, digging up some song from their teen years. But I don't understand my peers. I got so sick and tired of hearing Zeppelin, The Who, and Pink Floyd, as if they were the only bands on the planet sometimes -depending on the radio station you listened to in the '70s and '80s- that I could happily live my life without hearing a song from those bands again.. ever.
..but eventually I'll find something new I like.
Even a lot of the other bands I liked back then (Rush, Van Halen, Boston, Deep Purple, Journey) I really don't want to listen to anymore - I burnt out on them.
OTOH, I've often said a good song is very different from a good movie. I never used to understand people who could watch a movie 6 times or more, but a good song you can listen to over and over again. Weell.. to a point, I found out. I discovered I have a limit even there. Unfortunately, I think a lot of today's radio based music sucks eggs, so I have to really dig to find new stuff I consider good, refreshing, melodic, catchy, but with a little technical dazzle. The irony is, I've done it to myself now by playing Lacuna Coil and Type O Negative to death.. in a year's time, I'll never want to hear them again either, lol
So, I wonder, is it really the songs you like, or is it maybe that they trigger pleasant memories of youth? There are certain "old" songs that instantly transport me back to a sunny summer afternoon in my youth. For whatever reason, those moments in time became snapshots in my memory and are triggered by hearing songs that were playing at the time.
Most people use their phone after unlocking it though, which adds more smears to the screen, obliterating the pattern . Depending. If they only unlock to see if they have messages or emails though, and there are none, and they lock it again, then yeah, it's a dead giveaway.
This is the second (if not more) article on /. complaining about the high framerate in this movie.
Yes, we should have lower FPS! Let's render it with a Riva TNT card!
Holy crap, I hadn't heard a mention of one of those things in eons.. thanks for making me feel old(er) ..
Here ya go ...
http://www.kleargear.com/1334.html
There was LOT more to DOS than loading ansi.sys,.
Between the the config.sys and autoexec.bat files, you had to load mscdex.exe, and you had to worry about trying to load as many things above 640K as you could ("load high") to allow for more memory for apps, and if you wanted your soundblaster sound card to work, there was yet more work; and though the driver install should automatically insert those lines, we all know they had to frequently be tweaked due to IRQ conflicts, another thing of the past.
It was more like:
@echo off
DEVICE=C:\Windows\HIMEM.SYS
DOS=HIGH,UMB
DEVICE=C:\Windows\EMM386.EXE NOEMS
for your config sys file, and
@echo off /D:123
SET SOUND=C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\CTSND
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 E620 T6
SET PATH=C:\Windows;C:\
LH C:\Windows\COMMAND\MSCDEX.EXE
for your autoexec.bat.
Oddly enough.. there are times when I miss those days. I guess the novelty hadn't worn off yet.
Boy this nails it. I didn't really get full swing into IT until the mid '90s, about a year before Win95 came out. I was doing electronic repair before that. Terms like "multimedia" were still the hot buzzwords, CompuServe and AOL were the hot tickets online, Packard Bells were popular and the Pentium was just coming out. I was riding the crest of the wave, home computers and the 'net were about to become prolific.
For me, actually, Quake - on PC, of course- helped me get interested in IT. I liked that the game was "hackable" by design, that it's console allowed a player to input command line changes; I gave up totally on console games and was drawn to the PC. It just sort of grew from there, like a deformed, three-headed monster.
Of course, once you really get settled into a career in IT, it's generally nowhere near as cool as you imagined it'd be- it's still work. OTOH, could be worse.
Well, here's my experience with a home schooling experiment, for what it's worth.
When my son turned 5, I expected him to go to Kindergarten like any other kid. It turned out my wife had different idea, she decided to home school him. I didn't have an issue with this initially because of his education, as she was in fact an elementary school teacher for years, but was now a stay-at-home mom. My initial objection was because by then I'd expected her to return to the work force because we needed the money. But she was dead set against the public school, she had teaching experience, and a lot of the materials, so I capitulated.
3 years later, it turned out I should've been concerned for the first reason. While his reading level and comprehension were clearly advanced for a child his age, and I have to give credit where it's due there, his math and science skills sucked, because basically my wife was not good with that stuff. (And it turns out he was only spending maybe 5-10 hours on "home schooling" over the course of the whole week, because she was also babysitting neighbor's children during the day). I tried to step in and help, and even bought up all those "Harry Potter" science kits on eBay thinking that would grab his interest, but working fulltime there was no way I could devote enough hours to him... and those kits were kinda lame anyway.
I finally put my foot down 2 years ago, we had a major blowout over it that nearly ended our marriage, but she conceded to send him to school. At first we tried a charter school, but they were definitely too advanced for him, so after all this, he finally settled into our local public school, where he's doing pretty good, actually. Honor roll a couple of times, "Star Student" award.. that kind of thing. Even more funny, my wife is now the official recorder for the school, so she's getting involved with the system she once hated. We still have issues with their curriculum from time to time, with certain teachers, and the way they push often push too hard and teach to tests, but at least he's better educated now and up to speed with his peers.
This isn't to say home-schooling is necessarily a bad thing for everyone, it just didn't work out in our case. If parents are going to commit to it, they need to really, truly, fully, commit to it.
..and then there's the interviews the Howard Stern show did in Harlem during the 2008 election year.
They took McCain's policies, values, and viewpoints and attributed them to Obama, and asked random people there if they'd support that view; they even went so far as to ask several if they had any problem with Obama picking Sarah Palin as his running mate... and everyone asked on the tape replied they had no issue with her, or better! lol
All the people in the bit blindly went along with whatever "view" Obama supposedly had. They had NO idea what his actual viewpoints or values were, nor even who his running mate was.
Then again, those people could have been cherry picked for a laugh, but still, there were a number of them.. for those people, it reveals the truth of their vote, and that racism can cut both ways.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybR8inTl3pE (audio only)
Reminds me of the people who say, "I'll sleep when I'm dead". Yes, yes you will.. and probably sooner than you think.
Dunno about the Perdue thing, but the Nova story is a myth.
http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp
That's pretty cool, thanks! What if I just wanted to go to the home page though -no search.. just the "s"?
Not to wear the tinfoil hat, but I wouldn't be absolutely shocked if MS was actually in on part of the thing. They've been accused of creating backdoors for the NSA and such, historically. So, they could conceivably issue their "fix" while working with "gub'mnt" for a different tactic or workaround.
The one thing I hope they included was the ability to assign a keyword to a bookmark when you make it. I love the keyword feature, but you have to create the bookmark first, then go hunt it down, open it's properties, and then assign the keyword. There used to be an extension for that but it hasn't been compatible in like, forever.
I don't doubt it's actually more about the cyberbullying than anything else, (though I wouldn't discount those other things) but from a typical political perspective, I doubt that they really care if it works or not. They just want to be seen as doing something, anything, or at least trying, because it looks good on their record. What do legislators do? Write laws. What do laws do? Restrict behavior (ostensibly anyway). Everything is, by default, legal until a law says otherwise. That's all these guys can do- try to restrict societies' behavior. But they always want to be seen as doing something about the issues (for better or worse) so that they can wave their banner around come the next election and loudly proclaim, "Hey, I did something about this! I took action, check out my record, vote for me!".
Well, big whoop for them. And as pointed out earlier, without enforcement, legislation is meaningless.
Please give the evil "white male" thing a break already. Discrimination exists from all directions, it's typical of human nature, not just white males. Besides, wasn't this kid a gay white male?
I almost bought the DVD set.. but first I wanted to be sure I'd really like the series, so I did the next best thing.
I went through my BluRay player to the amazon store and ordered the first episode for $2.99 (man I love that thing). The next Saturday night, I bought and streamed ep2... and last weekend, ep3.
If I keep doing this, yah, it'll be more expensive maybe than buying the set, but still it's been a great, cheap, and legal way to watch the show, until I'm sure what I want to do. In any case, it's cheaper than buying a special cable package to get HBO.
Not just zombies.. electric zombies!
You'd have to spell them MIDIchlorians, technically.. and I'm still thinking how to work "bleach" into this
I like your universe, is there room for one more person in there?