I just spent a year in england doing study abroad [...] Tempature is in celsius I suppose.
So, one year and you never once checked the weather? No one complained about how cold/hot it was? In fact, they had a very long deadly heat wave last summer...no one mentioned anything huh?
based on questionable measurements of an arbitrary planet, [...] There is nothing "fundamental" about the basis of the metric system.
The meter is not the basis of the international units system, the number 10 is. And the planet is not arbitrary, it was choosen because its the one that all human beings have been born on, lived on. Its the one thing that all of humanity has in common, and the point of an international unit is to be international.
The questionnable measurements, yeah, but how accurate was that measurement of that guy's foot? That's why they've been refining the definition over time, in order to have something more reliable.
sanitizing the game of all 'disturbing' violence and instead using video game influence to teach you that nobody can be hurt?
Very well put! They allready succeeded in doing it to cartoons, and I'm convinced it is doing infinatly more harm by brainwashing kids into a "no consequences" worldview.
Just out of curiosity, how is what I just posted a troll?
I ask myself that question very often.
When I'm feeling paranoid, I think there is a cabal of moderators who have it in for me. Other times I think its drunken moderation. Alcohol is fun, in moderation;-)
Then there's the possibility that moderators, trying to scroll down, are changing their choosen moderation inadvertently and hitting "moderate" without noticing that their choice had changed.
There's also the possibility that people get their greedy little karma-whoring hands on mod points without even knowing what a troll is...
It's not insightful at all, meanspirited, and contributes nothing usefull.
It reaffirms my point that construction of a PVR is a time-consumming endevaour.
Meanspiritted? Oh, because calling someone an idiot is perfectly allright but telling him that its not is unacceptable?
I contribute by making a fine point about time, and by pointing out that a flaimebaiting troll had been modded up by spewing nonsense: He claimed that only idiocy prevented people from building their own PVR in response to a post that mentioned time-constraints as a major factor inhibitting such endeavours. Like I said above, I replied by pointing out that he himself had stated in his very inflammatory post that you need many days of free time to accomplish what he claims to have done.
As for the how far up should things be moderated, well, that's a mystery to me. My funny post and that one were the most often modderated I have ever made. It seems that the person who replied with his insults is a very efficient troll, able to pass off his attacks as insightfull and resulting in many wasted moderations. Go see his last 24 posted comments if you don't believe me.
As for you, why do you post off-topic whinings about moderations?
In any event, you might want to remove that sand from your vagina.
Reaaaaaaaal mature
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For fuck's sake.
Anyway, back on PVR's.
I use mythtv. I have a pinnacle pctv pro and a DVD player in my box. I splurged and bought a $45 sb live! card. It took me a day of compiling and configuring on gentoo, and things were running fine. A few more days of tinkering and I have a n64/snes console/pvr/dvd player/mp3 player that shares my windows mp3 collection.
Not hard, but then I'm not an idiot.
Do *you* have to be?
I said "I don't have the time". You say it took you days to compile, configure and tinker.
You may not be an idiot, but you sure are an asshole.
Don't tell the hippies; then what will they eat and wear? Who wants to see a bunch of filthy, scrawny, naked hippies running about telling everyone to eat dirt.
Maybe we've finally found a way to make the vegans starve themselves to death...
Tell me, are you the same troll that ask that same question in every single biology-related science thread? Or is there a beowulf clusters of you?
It would be extremely unlikely that bees and flowers would have mutated perfectly at the percise exact time in order to make this happen correctly
Why would they mutate at the same time, or perfectly?
Proto-bees used plants as food source, wich had the side effect of helping those very plants reproduce by bringing sexual material from plant to plant. Plants that mutated in ways that made this less likely did not benefit from it and were replaced by plants that mutated in ways that helped it (by making them easier to find, say by having bright colors). Rinse, repeat, you get plants that have evolved to use bees as sexual carriers.
While this is going on, bees that mutated in a way that reduced pollination had smaller food sources than the bees that mutated in a way that helped it (hairy legs that carry more pollen). The hairy-legged bees had more food-giving plants around their hives, and so on.
Now its your turn. Tell me: if there is only one god and he created all life at once and then wiped it all off except what Noah could fit in his floating barn. Why weren't there any wallabies in mesopotamia? How did they all get back to the other side of the world after the flood without anyone ever noticing them along the way? And how did they get from oceania to mesopotamia in the first place? If your god could teleport of fly them from one continent to the other, why would he need an ark at all? He could just levitate them during the flood, or create a flood-free bubble around them, or give them all gills for 2 months, being omnipotent and all...why even bother with an ark?
Is it just me that perceives that MS Xbox operations is constantly bleeding executives?
/me mumbles something about rats and sinking ships.
Although, I'm very pleased with this sentence: "Bachus, with nearly 20 years of experience in the game development industry, has assumed the role of president and chief operating officer." It makes the whole thing seem blessed by the gods...
my god....all we have to do is find a cheap or easier way to produce...not like those carbon nanofibers people want to use to create space elevators...
Carbon nanotubes ARE "real and now" AND all we have to do is find a "cheap or easier" way of producing them.
Why is aerogel any different? Its a material with amazing propreties that costs a fortune to produce. Same damn thing.
Personally I would keep my phone, calmly walk in the buisness and politely yell my discontent as loudly as I can.
HELLO! I GOT A CELL SPAM FROM YOUR PLACE! WHAT? WHY YES, I KNOW I'M DISTURBING YOUR CLIENTS...
And keep calmly discussion the situation AS LOUDLY AS I CAN, politely awnsering their questions and voicing my dislike of spam. They'll get the picture.
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SCO and their Redmond Muppet-masters
Well, at least Darl & co have hand up their asses.
AND Bill's getting his hand dirty!
See, think positive...
the plant is infertile, so it won't spread into unwanted areas.
;-)
You haven't seen Jurassic Park huh?
It is over-priced
You're confusing "overpriced" with "expensive".
Like all Mac products, it is indeed expensive, but you get what you paid for.
I just spent a year in england doing study abroad [...] Tempature is in celsius I suppose.
So, one year and you never once checked the weather? No one complained about how cold/hot it was? In fact, they had a very long deadly heat wave last summer...no one mentioned anything huh?
- england isn't really any better than the US.
Well, can't argue with that...
based on questionable measurements of an arbitrary planet, [...] There is nothing "fundamental" about the basis of the metric system.
The meter is not the basis of the international units system, the number 10 is. And the planet is not arbitrary, it was choosen because its the one that all human beings have been born on, lived on. Its the one thing that all of humanity has in common, and the point of an international unit is to be international.
The questionnable measurements, yeah, but how accurate was that measurement of that guy's foot? That's why they've been refining the definition over time, in order to have something more reliable.
sanitizing the game of all 'disturbing' violence and instead using video game influence to teach you that nobody can be hurt?
Very well put!
They allready succeeded in doing it to cartoons, and I'm convinced it is doing infinatly more harm by brainwashing kids into a "no consequences" worldview.
Just out of curiosity, how is what I just posted a troll?
;-)
I ask myself that question very often.
When I'm feeling paranoid, I think there is a cabal of moderators who have it in for me.
Other times I think its drunken moderation. Alcohol is fun, in moderation
Then there's the possibility that moderators, trying to scroll down, are changing their choosen moderation inadvertently and hitting "moderate" without noticing that their choice had changed.
There's also the possibility that people get their greedy little karma-whoring hands on mod points without even knowing what a troll is...
It's not insightful at all, meanspirited, and contributes nothing usefull.
As for the how far up should things be moderated, well, that's a mystery to me. My funny post and that one were the most often modderated I have ever made. It seems that the person who replied with his insults is a very efficient troll, able to pass off his attacks as insightfull and resulting in many wasted moderations. Go see his last 24 posted comments if you don't believe me.
As for you, why do you post off-topic whinings about moderations?
damaging the English language [...] rather than damaging most of humanity
Most of humanity doesn't speak english...
Well...maybe, if the first one's free...
In any event, you might want to remove that sand from your vagina.
Reaaaaaaaal mature
For fuck's sake.
Anyway, back on PVR's.
I use mythtv. I have a pinnacle pctv pro and a DVD player in my box. I splurged and bought a $45 sb live! card. It took me a day of compiling and configuring on gentoo, and things were running fine. A few more days of tinkering and I have a n64/snes console/pvr/dvd player/mp3 player that shares my windows mp3 collection.
Not hard, but then I'm not an idiot.
Do *you* have to be?
I said "I don't have the time".
You say it took you days to compile, configure and tinker.
You may not be an idiot, but you sure are an asshole.
Build Your Own PVR
I don't have the time! Stop pressuring me!
Don't tell the hippies; then what will they eat and wear? Who wants to see a bunch of filthy, scrawny, naked hippies running about telling everyone to eat dirt.
Maybe we've finally found a way to make the vegans starve themselves to death...
Oh wait, logic has no hold over them, dang!
Tell me, are you the same troll that ask that same question in every single biology-related science thread? Or is there a beowulf clusters of you?
It would be extremely unlikely that bees and flowers would have mutated perfectly at the percise exact time in order to make this happen correctly
Why would they mutate at the same time, or perfectly?
Proto-bees used plants as food source, wich had the side effect of helping those very plants reproduce by bringing sexual material from plant to plant. Plants that mutated in ways that made this less likely did not benefit from it and were replaced by plants that mutated in ways that helped it (by making them easier to find, say by having bright colors). Rinse, repeat, you get plants that have evolved to use bees as sexual carriers.
While this is going on, bees that mutated in a way that reduced pollination had smaller food sources than the bees that mutated in a way that helped it (hairy legs that carry more pollen). The hairy-legged bees had more food-giving plants around their hives, and so on.
Now its your turn.
Tell me: if there is only one god and he created all life at once and then wiped it all off except what Noah could fit in his floating barn. Why weren't there any wallabies in mesopotamia? How did they all get back to the other side of the world after the flood without anyone ever noticing them along the way?
And how did they get from oceania to mesopotamia in the first place?
If your god could teleport of fly them from one continent to the other, why would he need an ark at all? He could just levitate them during the flood, or create a flood-free bubble around them, or give them all gills for 2 months, being omnipotent and all...why even bother with an ark?
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of trees...
I'm trying to picture it in my mind, but I can't see it, for all the trees...
Although, I'm very pleased with this sentence: "Bachus, with nearly 20 years of experience in the game development industry, has assumed the role of president and chief operating officer."
It makes the whole thing seem blessed by the gods...
my god....all we have to do is find a cheap or easier way to produce ...not like those carbon nanofibers people want to use to create space elevators...
Carbon nanotubes ARE "real and now" AND all we have to do is find a "cheap or easier" way of producing them.
Why is aerogel any different? Its a material with amazing propreties that costs a fortune to produce. Same damn thing.
Do I look fat in this?
No, that dress doesn't make you look fat.
(sotto voce: your fat ass does).
Did you like the meal I made?
Nobody cooks like you do honey.
(most people know what they're doing).
I say the best years were TNG season 3, 4 and 5.
I also say DS9 and VOY sucked.
Advance the technology for intrusive advertising, but hand 100% detailed control to the user.
So, was it a nice rock you've been living under these past few...hundred years?
Personally I would keep my phone, calmly walk in the buisness and politely yell my discontent as loudly as I can.
HELLO! I GOT A CELL SPAM FROM YOUR PLACE! WHAT? WHY YES, I KNOW I'M DISTURBING YOUR CLIENTS...
And keep calmly discussion the situation AS LOUDLY AS I CAN, politely awnsering their questions and voicing my dislike of spam. They'll get the picture.
For another, most of the clothing that features prominent labels does so as a result of consumer demand. What? Yes
2 words: Created demand.
You do know that concept art never looks like the actor they haven't cast yet? : )
Redundent?
Random moderations confuse me.