So what do we get now? Star Trek: Law & Order (plots ripped STRAIGHT FROM TODAY'S HEADLINES!!!)
LMAO this is so true. I never thought of it that way. I personally can't stand to watch any of the 20 lawyer shows on television because they all so thoroughly offend me, especially Law and Order.
I don't think this trend with hollywood is necessarily volitional, its a symptom of a greater societal problem. True creativity rests on the ability AND motivation to see the world as it could be and to create it.
Look around, despite the endless criticism of the past are we any better off than we were 50 or 100 years ago? Not if you really look at the real tangible results of our civilization. Everything built in the post war world is crap. We don't build any great new public works projects, design any great cities. Our houses are made of pine wood and plywood, they will barely last a half century let alone hundreds of years. Everything produced by our people is so thoroughly sterile and devoid of humanity it is shocking.
Even our technological progress has slowed, but the great feats of yesteryear still propel us forward. Look at how excited people get over a probe landing on Mars! The first probe landed on mars 8 years before I was even born and I am nearly 26.
In short there is no vision for the future, our only goal as a people is to provide the greatest number of useless material goods to the majority of the population. If everyone is fed, they have a house to live in, and a TV to watch... then all is good.
People are tired of the endless criticisms of the past and present. We cannot survive on revolution despite what our leaders wish. Artists need to realize it is the idealistic vision which is the driving force behind all great works.
MMMhmmm, perhaps you should take a look at that nearly 50 year long case of penile envy we so fondly called the cold war and then tell us about matriarchy vs patriarchy.
That is actually the ideal state of control women wish to impart upon men. It is the ILLUSION of war which they most love. Women love a man in uniform, a man who is strong, agile, a warrior. They hate war. Yet they appreciate how war can motivate men.
Perhaps you haven't read any Homer in a long while, so I will remind you of the story of the Sirens... who could control a man merely with their voices. Women have evolved specifically to control men through their appearence and voice. Ever wonder why so many girls look like they could be 12? Ever wonder why so many men find that sexually desirable?
Men evolved first to strongly desire to protect children, and later women took on those attributes to receive the same treatment.
Girls learn from a very young age how to use their divine gifts to control daddy, and are at a huge advantage when the game begins in the teenage years. Most men are not aware of this form of psychological warfare until it is too late.
Men have evolved to be both creators and protectors, warriors and artists.
The cold war is a prime example of how the heart of every man was exploited as a tool of social control, but in a way that pleases women. You have the benefits of a war, men sacrifice more and more to serve their females.. but you don't have the real benefits and detriments of war. There is no blood, there is no death, no glory, no suffering.
It ends up being empty, just as our society today is thoroughly devoid of humanity.
Would the souless corporate world in which we live have been possible WITHOUT the cold war? What if all those men did not feel compelled to be a part of that society, for their very survival?
Real war, masculine war ended in 1945. Everything since then has been the refinement of WWII technology and the illusion of war.
Capitalism and Communism are both two corrupt systems based in the Female concept of value, the MATERIALISTIC concept... that the most shit for the most people is the standard of value. The only way to get men to accept such inhuman life is to manipulate them.
Now the game is up. 5% of the male population is imprisoned at some point in their lives. Violent video games are the norm. Gangs are still growing strong despite the lack of media coverage. There is nothing left to keep men organized in this society except for fear.
Anyway, you're a pretty impressive troll. Does it take you long to come up with this stuff, or is it natural talent?
I am just a man who feels great concern for his lost brothers, whose lives are tormented in endless slavery for a master they have been trained to believe doesn't exist. They are raised by their mothers, 95% of teachers are female, 70% of university professors are females. The majority of managers are females. The average man who graduates from high school, goes to college, and gets a nice white collar job almost always is under the authority of a female.
It is the eyes of said men I am trying to open, so I suppose it comes naturally.
However, how many great artists were inspired by women, or had women in their lives and still went on to create great things?
You men besides the pathetic whining of 50 years of rock music? I would say none. Do you think Mozart was truly inspired by a woman? Beethoven? Michaelangelo? Da Vinci?
Women are not Muses. Muses are Muses. To confuse one with the other is to mistake the Devouring Void for the Seminal Light. Earthly Women and the Muses are ancient, sworn enemies. The battlefield is the Creative Male. On the one side is the encampment of Discordia, of Diana, of Venus located in his Heart and in his Groin. On the other is the Bastion of Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia and Urania, in his Brain and in his Mind. The Muses are tolerant and understanding of border raids, skirmishes, and harassing maneuvers. Throughout the history of the Male Light, there have been few painters, few writers, who have not had a She Who Must Be Accommodated. For some it was their mothers. For many their wives, their mistresses, their girlfriends. For many it was their daughters, a favourite waitress, a stripper, a whore. To the Muses, they are all one. Mother, whore, wife, daughter, stripper, waitress, mistress, girlfriend.
Women inspire men to do great works And then distract us from carrying them out
Oscar Wilde
It is up to each individual Male in whom the creative fire burns, in the words of Pater, "as a hard, gem-like flame" to decide whether to maintain that radiance, whether to settle for a wavery, uncertain light, or whether to extinguish it altogether. The individual Male decides for himself which side in the ancient battle is the better armed, who gets the best reinforcements, the most effective weapons, whose barricades are solid and well-fortified, and whose are makeshift and ramshackle. John Lennon maintained through his House-Husband years of baking bread and minding the baby that he had "lost his Muse". Untruer words were never spoken. He drove his Muse from him. The forces within his Groin and his Heart, armed to the teeth, legion upon legion upon legion, surrounded those forces in his Brain and in his Mind, and the battle was lost. John Lennon was a triumph for the malignant forces of Discordia, of Diana, of Venus.
Mater is a common indoeuropean term which means mother in latin, but means woman in other languages which cannot be expressed with the roman alphabet. Most accept that it likely meant woman in more ancient latin, and is used that way some poems as a play on words.
What is the root word of materialis? hmmm??? can you answer that?
No, because your nice english dictionary doesn't tell you the etymology of latin words... only english ones.
The real root word of materialis is "matter", and amongst ancient people it was believed all things were created in a sexual fashion. The entire world was thought to have been born from some great pussy.
Haven't you ever read fucking Homer? The Iliad and the Odyssey are entirely about this concept! Who starts the war? Women. Who keeps getting in the way? Women. The entire theme throughout Homer's stories is women prevent men from living the life they want to live. It is a guide on how to deal with the parasites we call women!
The reality is you are a pussy whipped slave, who looks forward to a life of always preserving the vaginal bottom line. You won't be a great artist. You won't experience the enthralling obsession of painting a great picture, or sculpting a great statue... You will never experience the glory of battle, the thrill of victory, or the rage of defeat.
You will live your life in service of your master, catering to her every whim until the day you die.
When you are an old man, and you look at how many decades you have wasted, you will think of this post. You will think of what could have been. Your last moments will be spent dreaming of the adventures upon which you never embarked. You will die with nothing but regret in your heart.
By the way, its spelled misogyny. You couldn't take the time to look up that word on dictionary.com huh?
This is probably that issue about there being no 2 gig sticks of ram at the moment. It has 8 DIMM slots, but you can only get 1 gig sticks realistically. Maybe in the future they will have larger sizes, but until then...
Its not sexist, you have just been indoctrinated in our politically correct matriarchy. The reality is women spend the vast majority of all money in this country, and virtually all advertising is oriented towards them.
Women are the driving force behind the materialistic consumer society currently thrust upon us. They are the ones who are addicted to fashion, susceptible to the influences of advertising, and unable to understand the importance of frugality in an increasing uncertain world.
This shouldn't be surprising.
The root word of "materialism" is mater, or woman in latin. It has been known for thousands of years that women have an unusual predisposition to the acquisition of useless crap.
So what if CompUSA isn't so inviting to chicks. We build gigantic 500,000 square foot shopping malls that cater to this female vice of materialism. They are temple's to the feminized society we have become.
Most men are also sick of the insulting advertisements we have to constantly endure EVERYWHERE. You cannot watch the goddamn news without seeing yet ANOTHER ad that depicts the guy as being a stupid idiot, and woman being the clever and intelligent one. They are tired of a world increasingly hostile to their innate tendencies and vices (aggression) yet elevates female vices to obscene levels.
The only sexism in this country is directed towards men, and it has been a relentless advance since late victorian times and the prohibition movement. Men are drunks. Men are perverts. Men always want to violate the viriginal women's purity. Men are irresponsible. Men are violent and warlike. Men can't parent. Men are insensitive.
You see, the issue with computers and technology in general is that it is something that is completely outside the mental comprehension of females. Women can be code monkeys, but they lack the vision and drive to create something completely original. They aren't fascinated by technology, for them it is a job or for superficial status.
What you are seeing on this board is just the tip of the iceberg. It is in a small way, another rejection of the matriarchy in which we now live. Our happy, feel good, productive society of mothers and babies, peaceful living, Dr. Mom, healed boo-boos, catalogs, herbal shampoos, make- up, fruity lotion, high heels, Pria bars, television, yoga, vegetarianism, wonder bras, boy bands, hair spray, fashion slaves, pacifism, seduction...
In the heart of every man is REVERSION to these female tendencies. It is the rage of masculinity, the desire to surmount the hideous emptiness of life. We are driven to fight and to create, to paint beautiful paintings, write powerful music, engineer complex tools, and die in glorious battle. Despite these powerful abilities men have also evolved great tolerance just like a beast of burden.
They work at jobs they hate to get women shit they don't need. They tolerate our corrupt society to keep a smile on her face. They justify pathetic wars to satisfy her various materialistic wants. They are meekly give her what she wants to stop her whining.
Some day, the rage will destroy our culture, but not today. What you see instead is minor rebellion. A few men eschew women all together and become homosexuals, finally freeing themselves from the vaginal leeches. Most just let their contempt come out in casual instances like this board.
I suggest you relax with the occasional expressive posting. When anarchy finally falls upon us, as it has in every culture that idolizes feminine virtue and condemns masculine virtue, you will have far more to worry about.
The pendulum has swung to far in favor of females, and balance will soon be restored.
Out of the fortune 500, who needs a 64 or 112 processor system? Nobody.
This seriously has to be the stupidest post I have seen in a long time. Who do you think DOES need that kind of equipment? Just Industrial Light and Magic? Universities?
Fortune 500 companies have tens of thousands of employees and have custom designed statistical software processing data on every conceivable aspect of business.
Modern financial corporations are BUILT upon statistics. Investment firms will be analyzing millions of financial transactions all over the world every single day. Insurance companies also have very complex risk analysis tools with huge data sets.
Those are just two examples. The other fortune 500 companies are going to be companies like GM. Do you honestly think that a company like GM does not use the most sophisticated simulation software imaginable? They have been using
What do you think the entire IT industry is about? just simplifying data entry? The real benefit is the analysis of the data which aids in management decisions.
Every pentium laptop I have had fails after about 2-3 years.
I still have my old Compaq Elte 4/50CX. Its a 486 DX/2 50mhz with 16 megs of ram. Got it the late 1994. over 9 years ago. Still works perfectly, but the battery has been dead for years.
Either you're hopelessly mysoginistic, or you really need to stop hanging out with barnyard animals.
Actually, I hang out with a lot of party girls that would rather party and have sex than fuck around with some geek toy. In fact, I hope I am wrong about TIVO. Maybe it will take off. I hate having some stupid TV show interfere with my desire to get laid.
You would also be surprised how much of that technology was developed in Germany and was merely confiscated by the US after the war.
The entire Apollo program was directed by ex-Nazis.
The reason we haven't seen anything in the last 10 years is also why we couldn't develop anything without German engineering. Necessity is the mother of invention, and the people of Germany were organized and motivated to survive.
The reality is outside of these fun computers we are typing on, the world isn't that much differen today as it was in 1940.
Oh yeah, the entire cache is flushed every time you switch processes.
What was I thinking?
The secondary cache is intended to prevent misses to the primary cache, that is going to be more likely the more processes you are running concurrently. SETI may be a great way for you to feel good about yourself, but that is NOT the kind of work 99% of servers out there are doing.
Further, SETI is an example of something that WON'T at all benefit from a cache. Why? The data is unique! There is nothing to cache! Now, of course some of the analysis routines will be cached, but not the SETI data chunks themselves.
You are right about the purpose of cache, but you are wrong about how it goes about decreasing the number of requests to main memory.
Anyway, why I am responding to some fucking idiotic child with a warez site in his profile. He can't even write a sentence without ridiculous amounts of emphasis.
Their website has drivers for every card they have ever made. I use a 6 year old Rage Pro in my firewall box, and an original Radeon DDR in my secondary machine I use for ripping DVD's and other time consuming activities. I installed the regular Catalyst drivers for the original Radeon I got in early 2001 that I installed on my 9700 Pro.
So in the Rage 128 days ATI had poor drivers, but that was years ago and that was not due to abandonment of a product. The company had a little trouble transitioning to 3D graphics cards, but so did lots of other companies. They eventually got their act together.
I am always amazed by these trollish fanboys. ATI used to be the only reliable company for drivers (1990-1998), and their image quality is and always has been top notch. Since the original Radeon came out, I think their support has been great.
Well, what exactly is your concern? One of the reasons people have been spending time long term in the ISS and Mir stations has been to determine the long term effects of living in space. It seems we have that down.
It seems the only benefit of what you propose is a lower higher margin of error than the ISS, but not as great as Mars. Is that supposed to frighten engineers into producing higher quality components and procedures? Are they going to think to themselves, "Well, we can't have them get into the escape pod and return to earth in an hour... the moon is 3 days away! We better get this right!"
If that is your reason, its an interim step that I think is unnecessary. In the event of an emergency, the moon and mars are far enough away there isn't much anyone could do. Thus if something DOES go wrong, the only real difference is the crew could die a billion miles from home instead of a million (whatever the distance).
A better justification is simply that its closer, and presumably cheaper, to go to the moon first.
Problem I had with GTA 3 was that it followed too religiously some pointers from San Fran... flat intersection between downhill spurts of street.
This may come as a shock to you, but San Francisco isn't the only major urban city built on hills.
GTA 3 was modelled on New York, not San Francisco. When you first begin the game, the area you are in resembles the Bronx. The terrain there is quite elevated. There are MANY buildings where the front entrence could be on the sixth floor, and the rear entrence on the first floor for instance.
A big hint should have been the sprawling elevated trains. Do they have those in SF???
In any event, the Bronx was entirely laid out in the days when urban planning meant something, so intersections are flat.
as a free man, I believe I should be able to live in whichever place I want. Be it France, or any other country, you aren't going to tell me where I'm allowed to go, and
There is no freedom, only struggle. What you perceive as freedom is a luxury created by complex societies. It is ultimately an illusion to control you. You are free to post on slashdot, free to choose where you want to live... But are you free to build a great monument? Establish a new society? Build a great city? Are you going to be rememberd as someone who did anything besides consume and/ore reproduce?
You freedom is in fact very limited, and that is because your choices are dictated by powers greater than yourself. What you perceive as freedom hardly matters in the grand scheme of existence.
On a more relavent note, what about the freedom of the French people to further their own culture? What about their freedom to live in peace, and not in fear of the foreign invaders who occupy Paris?
You are thinking of the concept of freedom in a very self centered way, not considering how your actions impact others.
some people come to France precisely because they are not free in their home coutry. Yeah that's smart, let's send back those chinese dissident to their country, they'll know what to do...
You mean the same France that imprisons people for discussing the very ideas I am discussing right now? The same France that imprisons people for saying 1 million Jews died in during WWII instead of 6 million? The same France that just recently banned the wearing of muslim face masks (or whatever) in public?
France is hardly free. They in fact have some of the most strict censorship in the western world. The difference is they are Free in that they allow behavior and ideas of which you approve, and disallow behavior and ideas of which you disapprove. France tries to maintain the same ideological purity as any nation, you just happen to agree with it.
Damn, stupidest post I've read today, by long and large.
Of course it is, because you disagree with the ideas presented. You don't have any real argument as to WHY you believe we should have no countries with distinct cultures and people. You just believe it, and anyone who doesn't is "stupid".
You are stuck in the world of bourgeoisie manufactured reality. You think you are free, but you are captive of an ideology you don't understand but to which you have sworn your allegience. All the while you are being sold down the river to support International Finance, a slave of global capital... Think about that next you go to that ethnic restaurant. If people like you win, in the future thats all that will be left of the great tapestry of human existence.
No, you're not. You just postulate that races are inherently inequal, and then cheerlead for the whites a bit. You never actually come out and specifically say that whites are superior to everyone else, despite your incessant hinting at it. So you're really like some kind of modern-day Martin Luther King Jr., I guess.
The incredible diversity of the world's cultures and peoples is what makes life interesting, if everyone was the same we would lose something very precious. The homogenized world so desired by egalitarians is to me, absolutely sickening.
I am more like Louis Farrakhan, not MLK. Farrakhan understands the importantance of black unity and freeing them from their minority status. Blacks will never be free as long as they live amongst whites. They are today nothing more than pawns in political games.
Ethnic nationalism is not at all unique to white people.
Oh, and we're so grateful for those low-end jobs. Thank you, massa! You want fries with that?
Like I said, I believe that exploitation of minority groups is wrong. At the same time, I recognize it has happened in every country where different ethnicities coexist. The best way to prevent racial or ethnic exploitation is insure those groups do not coexist.
I don't know, 5.5 was pretty common. It was preferred for years after Photoshop 6 came out because it was so much faster. Photoshop 6 is still one of the most bloated versions. most people I know totally skipped it and went straight to 7.0
I think for the best arguments regarding the importance of "homelands" you should ask some Jews. Their arguments are quite persuasive.
You have simply been subject to decades of propaganda. Ask yourself what your anscestors were fighting for. You clearly feel no love or loyalty to those who sacrificed so much for you, but do you seriously believe they were fools?
You have a right to your opinion, but what I can tell you is the Netherlands has some of the most successful nationalist organizations in the world. Further, due to their history of preserving the right of free speech, openly nationalist leaders have been elected most famously Pim Fortuyn, who was assassinated 1.5 years ago.
His Leefbaar Rotterdam party became the majority party in Rotterdam not too long ago.
I believe that the unique culture of the Netherlands should be preserved, but that isn't important. What is important is you are apparently ignorant if the wishes of many of your countrymen, as well as the political history of these recent years.
So, who is talking out of his arse? How is it you are apparently unaware of these political developments in your own extremely small country? Things are a changing in your country, whether you acknowledge it or not.
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F-Zero GX is a great game, as is Soul Calibur II, although the GC controller makes a few moves nearly impossible.
I have the new Zelda as well and I think it sucks, but hey.
the cube was only $99 so no big loss.
So what do we get now? Star Trek: Law & Order (plots ripped STRAIGHT FROM TODAY'S HEADLINES!!!)
LMAO this is so true. I never thought of it that way. I personally can't stand to watch any of the 20 lawyer shows on television because they all so thoroughly offend me, especially Law and Order.
I don't think this trend with hollywood is necessarily volitional, its a symptom of a greater societal problem. True creativity rests on the ability AND motivation to see the world as it could be and to create it.
Look around, despite the endless criticism of the past are we any better off than we were 50 or 100 years ago? Not if you really look at the real tangible results of our civilization. Everything built in the post war world is crap. We don't build any great new public works projects, design any great cities. Our houses are made of pine wood and plywood, they will barely last a half century let alone hundreds of years. Everything produced by our people is so thoroughly sterile and devoid of humanity it is shocking.
Even our technological progress has slowed, but the great feats of yesteryear still propel us forward. Look at how excited people get over a probe landing on Mars! The first probe landed on mars 8 years before I was even born and I am nearly 26.
In short there is no vision for the future, our only goal as a people is to provide the greatest number of useless material goods to the majority of the population. If everyone is fed, they have a house to live in, and a TV to watch... then all is good.
People are tired of the endless criticisms of the past and present. We cannot survive on revolution despite what our leaders wish. Artists need to realize it is the idealistic vision which is the driving force behind all great works.
MMMhmmm, perhaps you should take a look at that nearly 50 year long case of penile envy we so fondly called the cold war and then tell us about matriarchy vs patriarchy.
That is actually the ideal state of control women wish to impart upon men. It is the ILLUSION of war which they most love. Women love a man in uniform, a man who is strong, agile, a warrior. They hate war. Yet they appreciate how war can motivate men.
Perhaps you haven't read any Homer in a long while, so I will remind you of the story of the Sirens... who could control a man merely with their voices. Women have evolved specifically to control men through their appearence and voice. Ever wonder why so many girls look like they could be 12? Ever wonder why so many men find that sexually desirable?
Men evolved first to strongly desire to protect children, and later women took on those attributes to receive the same treatment.
Girls learn from a very young age how to use their divine gifts to control daddy, and are at a huge advantage when the game begins in the teenage years. Most men are not aware of this form of psychological warfare until it is too late.
Men have evolved to be both creators and protectors, warriors and artists.
The cold war is a prime example of how the heart of every man was exploited as a tool of social control, but in a way that pleases women. You have the benefits of a war, men sacrifice more and more to serve their females.. but you don't have the real benefits and detriments of war. There is no blood, there is no death, no glory, no suffering.
It ends up being empty, just as our society today is thoroughly devoid of humanity.
Would the souless corporate world in which we live have been possible WITHOUT the cold war? What if all those men did not feel compelled to be a part of that society, for their very survival?
Real war, masculine war ended in 1945. Everything since then has been the refinement of WWII technology and the illusion of war.
Capitalism and Communism are both two corrupt systems based in the Female concept of value, the MATERIALISTIC concept... that the most shit for the most people is the standard of value. The only way to get men to accept such inhuman life is to manipulate them.
Now the game is up. 5% of the male population is imprisoned at some point in their lives. Violent video games are the norm. Gangs are still growing strong despite the lack of media coverage. There is nothing left to keep men organized in this society except for fear.
Anyway, you're a pretty impressive troll. Does it take you long to come up with this stuff, or is it natural talent?
I am just a man who feels great concern for his lost brothers, whose lives are tormented in endless slavery for a master they have been trained to believe doesn't exist. They are raised by their mothers, 95% of teachers are female, 70% of university professors are females. The majority of managers are females. The average man who graduates from high school, goes to college, and gets a nice white collar job almost always is under the authority of a female.
It is the eyes of said men I am trying to open, so I suppose it comes naturally.
However, how many great artists were inspired by women, or had women in their lives and still went on to create great things?
You men besides the pathetic whining of 50 years of rock music? I would say none. Do you think Mozart was truly inspired by a woman? Beethoven? Michaelangelo? Da Vinci?
Women are not Muses. Muses are Muses. To confuse one with the other is to mistake the Devouring Void for the Seminal Light. Earthly Women and the Muses are ancient, sworn enemies. The battlefield is the Creative Male. On the one side is the encampment of Discordia, of Diana, of Venus located in his Heart and in his Groin. On the other is the Bastion of Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia and Urania, in his Brain and in his Mind. The Muses are tolerant and understanding of border raids, skirmishes, and harassing maneuvers. Throughout the history of the Male Light, there have been few painters, few writers, who have not had a She Who Must Be Accommodated. For some it was their mothers. For many their wives, their mistresses, their girlfriends. For many it was their daughters, a favourite waitress, a stripper, a whore. To the Muses, they are all one. Mother, whore, wife, daughter, stripper, waitress, mistress, girlfriend.
Women inspire men to do great works
And then distract us from carrying them out
Oscar Wilde
It is up to each individual Male in whom the creative fire burns, in the words of Pater, "as a hard, gem-like flame" to decide whether to maintain that radiance, whether to settle for a wavery, uncertain light, or whether to extinguish it altogether. The individual Male decides for himself which side in the ancient battle is the better armed, who gets the best reinforcements, the most effective weapons, whose barricades are solid and well-fortified, and whose are makeshift and ramshackle. John Lennon maintained through his House-Husband years of baking bread and minding the baby that he had "lost his Muse". Untruer words were never spoken. He drove his Muse from him. The forces within his Groin and his Heart, armed to the teeth, legion upon legion upon legion, surrounded those forces in his Brain and in his Mind, and the battle was lost. John Lennon was a triumph for the malignant forces of Discordia, of Diana, of Venus.
Mater is a common indoeuropean term which means mother in latin, but means woman in other languages which cannot be expressed with the roman alphabet. Most accept that it likely meant woman in more ancient latin, and is used that way some poems as a play on words.
What is the root word of materialis? hmmm??? can you answer that?
No, because your nice english dictionary doesn't tell you the etymology of latin words... only english ones.
The real root word of materialis is "matter", and amongst ancient people it was believed all things were created in a sexual fashion. The entire world was thought to have been born from some great pussy.
Haven't you ever read fucking Homer? The Iliad and the Odyssey are entirely about this concept! Who starts the war? Women. Who keeps getting in the way? Women. The entire theme throughout Homer's stories is women prevent men from living the life they want to live. It is a guide on how to deal with the parasites we call women!
The reality is you are a pussy whipped slave, who looks forward to a life of always preserving the vaginal bottom line. You won't be a great artist. You won't experience the enthralling obsession of painting a great picture, or sculpting a great statue... You will never experience the glory of battle, the thrill of victory, or the rage of defeat.
You will live your life in service of your master, catering to her every whim until the day you die.
When you are an old man, and you look at how many decades you have wasted, you will think of this post. You will think of what could have been. Your last moments will be spent dreaming of the adventures upon which you never embarked. You will die with nothing but regret in your heart.
By the way, its spelled misogyny. You couldn't take the time to look up that word on dictionary.com huh?
This is probably that issue about there being no 2 gig sticks of ram at the moment. It has 8 DIMM slots, but you can only get 1 gig sticks realistically. Maybe in the future they will have larger sizes, but until then...
The main issue with a synth is sample size.
A high quality sample of just a grand piano can be 128 megs right there. That is a single note.
Having a 64-bit processor means you can have several gigs of samples and not have to swap them to disk. They can all be in memory.
Its not sexist, you have just been indoctrinated in our politically correct matriarchy. The reality is women spend the vast majority of all money in this country, and virtually all advertising is oriented towards them.
Women are the driving force behind the materialistic consumer society currently thrust upon us. They are the ones who are addicted to fashion, susceptible to the influences of advertising, and unable to understand the importance of frugality in an increasing uncertain world.
This shouldn't be surprising.
The root word of "materialism" is mater, or woman in latin. It has been known for thousands of years that women have an unusual predisposition to the acquisition of useless crap.
So what if CompUSA isn't so inviting to chicks. We build gigantic 500,000 square foot shopping malls that cater to this female vice of materialism. They are temple's to the feminized society we have become.
Most men are also sick of the insulting advertisements we have to constantly endure EVERYWHERE. You cannot watch the goddamn news without seeing yet ANOTHER ad that depicts the guy as being a stupid idiot, and woman being the clever and intelligent one. They are tired of a world increasingly hostile to their innate tendencies and vices (aggression) yet elevates female vices to obscene levels.
The only sexism in this country is directed towards men, and it has been a relentless advance since late victorian times and the prohibition movement. Men are drunks. Men are perverts. Men always want to violate the viriginal women's purity. Men are irresponsible. Men are violent and warlike. Men can't parent. Men are insensitive.
You see, the issue with computers and technology in general is that it is something that is completely outside the mental comprehension of females. Women can be code monkeys, but they lack the vision and drive to create something completely original. They aren't fascinated by technology, for them it is a job or for superficial status.
What you are seeing on this board is just the tip of the iceberg. It is in a small way, another rejection of the matriarchy in which we now live. Our happy, feel good, productive society of mothers and babies, peaceful living, Dr. Mom, healed boo-boos, catalogs, herbal shampoos, make- up, fruity lotion, high heels, Pria bars, television, yoga, vegetarianism, wonder bras, boy bands, hair spray, fashion slaves, pacifism, seduction...
In the heart of every man is REVERSION to these female tendencies. It is the rage of masculinity, the desire to surmount the hideous emptiness of life. We are driven to fight and to create, to paint beautiful paintings, write powerful music, engineer complex tools, and die in glorious battle. Despite these powerful abilities men have also evolved great tolerance just like a beast of burden.
They work at jobs they hate to get women shit they don't need. They tolerate our corrupt society to keep a smile on her face. They justify pathetic wars to satisfy her various materialistic wants. They are meekly give her what she wants to stop her whining.
Some day, the rage will destroy our culture, but not today. What you see instead is minor rebellion. A few men eschew women all together and become homosexuals, finally freeing themselves from the vaginal leeches. Most just let their contempt come out in casual instances like this board.
I suggest you relax with the occasional expressive posting. When anarchy finally falls upon us, as it has in every culture that idolizes feminine virtue and condemns masculine virtue, you will have far more to worry about.
The pendulum has swung to far in favor of females, and balance will soon be restored.
Out of the fortune 500, who needs a 64 or 112 processor system? Nobody.
This seriously has to be the stupidest post I have seen in a long time. Who do you think DOES need that kind of equipment? Just Industrial Light and Magic? Universities?
Fortune 500 companies have tens of thousands of employees and have custom designed statistical software processing data on every conceivable aspect of business.
Modern financial corporations are BUILT upon statistics. Investment firms will be analyzing millions of financial transactions all over the world every single day. Insurance companies also have very complex risk analysis tools with huge data sets.
Those are just two examples. The other fortune 500 companies are going to be companies like GM. Do you honestly think that a company like GM does not use the most sophisticated simulation software imaginable? They have been using
What do you think the entire IT industry is about? just simplifying data entry? The real benefit is the analysis of the data which aids in management decisions.
I have experienced this as well.
Every pentium laptop I have had fails after about 2-3 years.
I still have my old Compaq Elte 4/50CX. Its a 486 DX/2 50mhz with 16 megs of ram. Got it the late 1994. over 9 years ago. Still works perfectly, but the battery has been dead for years.
Either you're hopelessly mysoginistic, or you really need to stop hanging out with barnyard animals.
Actually, I hang out with a lot of party girls that would rather party and have sex than fuck around with some geek toy. In fact, I hope I am wrong about TIVO. Maybe it will take off. I hate having some stupid TV show interfere with my desire to get laid.
By the way, the word is spelled misogynistic.
This is a problem I have noticed with chicks more than guys. The girls I know would never be able to work a TIVO, guaranteed.
You would also be surprised how much of that technology was developed in Germany and was merely confiscated by the US after the war.
The entire Apollo program was directed by ex-Nazis.
The reason we haven't seen anything in the last 10 years is also why we couldn't develop anything without German engineering. Necessity is the mother of invention, and the people of Germany were organized and motivated to survive.
The reality is outside of these fun computers we are typing on, the world isn't that much differen today as it was in 1940.
This is very true, not merely funny.
I can't count how many times I have tried to call a friend and been told to call after show X is finished.
Or people who don't want to go to the bar because they need to see Show Y.
People really do plan their lives around TV, it is very sad.
Oh yeah, the entire cache is flushed every time you switch processes.
What was I thinking?
The secondary cache is intended to prevent misses to the primary cache, that is going to be more likely the more processes you are running concurrently. SETI may be a great way for you to feel good about yourself, but that is NOT the kind of work 99% of servers out there are doing.
Further, SETI is an example of something that WON'T at all benefit from a cache. Why? The data is unique! There is nothing to cache! Now, of course some of the analysis routines will be cached, but not the SETI data chunks themselves.
You are right about the purpose of cache, but you are wrong about how it goes about decreasing the number of requests to main memory.
Anyway, why I am responding to some fucking idiotic child with a warez site in his profile. He can't even write a sentence without ridiculous amounts of emphasis.
I scanned a nice brand new $20 bill at 4800dpi, and printed it to my laser printer without difficulty.
I also tried printing it to the acrobat distiller, that worked fine too.
Does whatever protection exist only work when you are printing to a color printer or something?
more cache only matters when multitasking, not when running a single process. This is why Intel has always put larger caches on their Xeon line.
I think the poster is referring to all new computers sold in 2006 will be 64-bit, and that is correct.
Many offices were using 286 and 8086 machines well into the early to mid 90's. That doesn't mean those machines were actually sold in 1994.
Their website has drivers for every card they have ever made. I use a 6 year old Rage Pro in my firewall box, and an original Radeon DDR in my secondary machine I use for ripping DVD's and other time consuming activities. I installed the regular Catalyst drivers for the original Radeon I got in early 2001 that I installed on my 9700 Pro.
So in the Rage 128 days ATI had poor drivers, but that was years ago and that was not due to abandonment of a product. The company had a little trouble transitioning to 3D graphics cards, but so did lots of other companies. They eventually got their act together.
I am always amazed by these trollish fanboys. ATI used to be the only reliable company for drivers (1990-1998), and their image quality is and always has been top notch. Since the original Radeon came out, I think their support has been great.
Well, what exactly is your concern? One of the reasons people have been spending time long term in the ISS and Mir stations has been to determine the long term effects of living in space. It seems we have that down.
It seems the only benefit of what you propose is a lower higher margin of error than the ISS, but not as great as Mars. Is that supposed to frighten engineers into producing higher quality components and procedures? Are they going to think to themselves, "Well, we can't have them get into the escape pod and return to earth in an hour... the moon is 3 days away! We better get this right!"
If that is your reason, its an interim step that I think is unnecessary. In the event of an emergency, the moon and mars are far enough away there isn't much anyone could do. Thus if something DOES go wrong, the only real difference is the crew could die a billion miles from home instead of a million (whatever the distance).
A better justification is simply that its closer, and presumably cheaper, to go to the moon first.
Problem I had with GTA 3 was that it followed too religiously some pointers from San Fran... flat intersection between downhill spurts of street.
This may come as a shock to you, but San Francisco isn't the only major urban city built on hills.
GTA 3 was modelled on New York, not San Francisco. When you first begin the game, the area you are in resembles the Bronx. The terrain there is quite elevated. There are MANY buildings where the front entrence could be on the sixth floor, and the rear entrence on the first floor for instance.
A big hint should have been the sprawling elevated trains. Do they have those in SF???
In any event, the Bronx was entirely laid out in the days when urban planning meant something, so intersections are flat.
as a free man, I believe I should be able to live in whichever place I want. Be it France, or any other country, you aren't going to tell me where I'm allowed to go, and
There is no freedom, only struggle. What you perceive as freedom is a luxury created by complex societies. It is ultimately an illusion to control you. You are free to post on slashdot, free to choose where you want to live... But are you free to build a great monument? Establish a new society? Build a great city? Are you going to be rememberd as someone who did anything besides consume and/ore reproduce?
You freedom is in fact very limited, and that is because your choices are dictated by powers greater than yourself. What you perceive as freedom hardly matters in the grand scheme of existence.
On a more relavent note, what about the freedom of the French people to further their own culture? What about their freedom to live in peace, and not in fear of the foreign invaders who occupy Paris?
You are thinking of the concept of freedom in a very self centered way, not considering how your actions impact others.
some people come to France precisely because they are not free in their home coutry. Yeah that's smart, let's send back those chinese dissident to their country, they'll know what to do...
You mean the same France that imprisons people for discussing the very ideas I am discussing right now? The same France that imprisons people for saying 1 million Jews died in during WWII instead of 6 million? The same France that just recently banned the wearing of muslim face masks (or whatever) in public?
France is hardly free. They in fact have some of the most strict censorship in the western world. The difference is they are Free in that they allow behavior and ideas of which you approve, and disallow behavior and ideas of which you disapprove. France tries to maintain the same ideological purity as any nation, you just happen to agree with it.
Damn, stupidest post I've read today, by long and large.
Of course it is, because you disagree with the ideas presented. You don't have any real argument as to WHY you believe we should have no countries with distinct cultures and people. You just believe it, and anyone who doesn't is "stupid".
You are stuck in the world of bourgeoisie manufactured reality. You think you are free, but you are captive of an ideology you don't understand but to which you have sworn your allegience. All the while you are being sold down the river to support International Finance, a slave of global capital... Think about that next you go to that ethnic restaurant. If people like you win, in the future thats all that will be left of the great tapestry of human existence.
No, you're not. You just postulate that races are inherently inequal, and then cheerlead for the whites a bit. You never actually come out and specifically say that whites are superior to everyone else, despite your incessant hinting at it. So you're really like some kind of modern-day Martin Luther King Jr., I guess.
The incredible diversity of the world's cultures and peoples is what makes life interesting, if everyone was the same we would lose something very precious. The homogenized world so desired by egalitarians is to me, absolutely sickening.
I am more like Louis Farrakhan, not MLK. Farrakhan understands the importantance of black unity and freeing them from their minority status. Blacks will never be free as long as they live amongst whites. They are today nothing more than pawns in political games.
Ethnic nationalism is not at all unique to white people.
Oh, and we're so grateful for those low-end jobs. Thank you, massa! You want fries with that?
Like I said, I believe that exploitation of minority groups is wrong. At the same time, I recognize it has happened in every country where different ethnicities coexist. The best way to prevent racial or ethnic exploitation is insure those groups do not coexist.
I don't know, 5.5 was pretty common. It was preferred for years after Photoshop 6 came out because it was so much faster. Photoshop 6 is still one of the most bloated versions. most people I know totally skipped it and went straight to 7.0
I think for the best arguments regarding the importance of "homelands" you should ask some Jews. Their arguments are quite persuasive.
You have simply been subject to decades of propaganda. Ask yourself what your anscestors were fighting for. You clearly feel no love or loyalty to those who sacrificed so much for you, but do you seriously believe they were fools?
You have a right to your opinion, but what I can tell you is the Netherlands has some of the most successful nationalist organizations in the world. Further, due to their history of preserving the right of free speech, openly nationalist leaders have been elected most famously Pim Fortuyn, who was assassinated 1.5 years ago.
His Leefbaar Rotterdam party became the majority party in Rotterdam not too long ago.
I believe that the unique culture of the Netherlands should be preserved, but that isn't important. What is important is you are apparently ignorant if the wishes of many of your countrymen, as well as the political history of these recent years.
So, who is talking out of his arse? How is it you are apparently unaware of these political developments in your own extremely small country? Things are a changing in your country, whether you acknowledge it or not.