Oh no we aren't! We're dicks! We're reckless, arrogant, stupid dicks! And the Film Actors' Guild!.. are pussies. And Darl McBride.. is an asshole. Pussies don't like dicks!.. because puusies get fucked by dicks.
But dicks also fuck assholes. Assholes who just want to shit on everything. Pussies may think they can deal with assholes their way, but the only thing that can fuck an asshole... is a dick... with some balls. The problem with dicks is that sometimes they fuck too much, or fuck when it isn't apporoporate, and it takes a pussy to show 'em that. But sometimes pussies get so full of shit that they become assholes themselves. Because pussies are only an inch and a half away from assholes.
I don't know much in this... crazy, crazy world, but I do know that if you don't let us fuck this asshole, we are gonna have our dicks and our pussies!... all covered in shit.
The fit is terrible, if you had to jam it in, or if it pops out by itself, it is likely a fake. Also, if your MaxiMiser battery meter varies wildly, it may be fake.
They do work, & even have more amp-hours than the original, however, the probability of incidents is higher than with factory batteries, & it will be difficult to get warranty repair.
After the fifth time Jar Jar said "How Wude!" it became apparent Lucas had completely given up on any semblance of craftsmanship. Not only was a lot of dialog recycled, but even R2D2's beeps and whistles simplified, he might have had a vocabulary of 3 or 4 responses (compare R2D2's "speech" in ep 4 vs. ep 5).
Other things were extremely annoying, such as using an off-the shelf SR-71 Blackbird plastic testors model as the Nubian - even the same suggests the original - NO IMAGINATION AT ALL. Don't blame me just because I happen to recognize a Lockheed aircraft that I am annoyed. The paper-thin plot depth & Teletubbies-level conversation tells us who the movies were aimed at - it wasn't adults.
Certainly an empty-headed child can find "childlike wonder" in any Star Wars episode, but the same child can be fascinated & play for hours with an empty cardboard box, I was hoping for a little more depth from a "science fiction" movie.
Sure they all have Photoshop but how many actually need it? How many would have actually paid even the student license if that were the only way to get it?
I remember 20 years ago when Apple II was still king on campus & started taking antipiracy steps. Microsoft was being rampantly pirated & that is how they got critical mass & took over.
I agree completely, but note that we are being pushed off the reservation. More and more apps are XP/Vista only. Now apps written in the most recent.net will not run on 2000 (or XPSP1 for that matter)
That really puts it in perspective. There in the upper left on my desktop, there's an icon that says "My Computer," I changed it to say "His Computer" cause it all really belongs to Bill Gates.
The AV could just take the middle ground with a generic description like "Suspicious Program: E-card Viewer", it is unlikely it will display as "W.32CIPAV j00 R SO FEDERALLY PWNED"
He's assuming 90 % transmission efficiency between power plant and vehicle. He provided no source for that almost perfect efficiency, the losses are actually at least 50%. You have 5 or 6 conversions - voltage is transformed up for wire transmission. There is resistance in those wires, the longer the wires, the more power lost. There are three more down conversions, power is lost as heat each time. There is power lost in the vehicle's wall charger. The battery itself is inefficient, and if the vehicle is not used immediately, the battery loses charge. As the batteries age, they get more and more unable to hold a charge.
I would not be surprised if the figure is reversed, i.e a 10% efficiency should be assumed.
I believe the first F-117 Stealth (invisible to all high tech anti-air defenses) was brought down over Serbia by an AK-47. The Pentagon story is it was brought down with an SA-3 with a hacked radar, but either way a primitive tool brought it down.
I know... I know... I did rip it down to the mainboard (any 12 year old can) but the traces for the rear USB are like 5 microns wide. There was no way I could do it, plus I didn't have the right replacement jack.
I'll add my story to that guy's, however mine involves 2000.
My four-year-old R40 was dying or so I thought, USB ports falling out & so I figured it was finally time to dive headfirst into the brave new world of WGA Activation and DRM. Also wanted to try out some sexy new.NET 3.0 apps (MS has locked out XP SP1 & below for its new VB language).
I *scored* a new R60 Core 2 Duo T5500 for less than $500, had XP Pro and Office 2003 preinstalled.
Well to make a long story short, XP Pro broke half our legacy apps. More broke after Windows Update. The finale straw was that XP Pro on a core 2 Duo is no faster than 2000 on a Centrino. What's the point of upgrading, except to shovel money at the manufacturers & software upgraders.
In the end I returned the R60, spent $250 to get the USB ports soldered back on & decided I'm getting off this upgrade train at the next stop. If I have to write / buy new apps might as well be for Ubuntu, which we have set up an old laptop and are experimenting on already.
The parallels between this & the PS3 are too many to ignore.
-Intense buzz -People laying out $600 without ever seen one -In order to make a killing on Ebay (for the first-in) -Massively advanced technology given to them by space aliens -Lack of software will lead to huge disappointment -Pushes a lame technology (EDGE)
Well let me tell you what happened when I tried to upgrade. Recently I attemptd to finally make the change from Win2K to XP. Not because I wanted to, but because the USB ports are falling out of my 4-year-old R40. So I bought a Core 2 Duo R60 with XP Pro. The experiment lasted exactly four days.
It broke half the legacy apps. I have these 10-year-old legacy apps that I'm not buying all over again, to do the exact same thing under XP or Vista. If I have to do that why shouldn't I buy them for Mac or Linux. I'm not interested in buying/learning/maintaining new software to do exactly what the proven stuff does. Interestingly, these legacy apps seem to run fine emulated in Ubuntu, but not directly on XP Pro SP2, even in win2k emulation mode. I dare not try Vista. XP Pro is not suitable for serious work. Why O Why does it take 1/2 hour to empty the Recycle Bin. For instance, on Win2K if I dump a CF with a couple gig of pictures onto the hard drive, then delete the folders off the card, *poof* they're gone. In XP you have to sit there for 4-5 minutes as it deletes each picture one by one. Then again when you empty the recycle bin.
XP throws balloon in your face, "You're not protected", "Click This Balloon to activate Automatic Updates" etc. Under Win2K we would suspect Malware but this sort of thing is now a paid part of the XP Experience, & I heard Vista is worse. This sort of handholding (if that's what it is) is not professional grade, they are instead aimed at the Least Common Denominator & just slows down serious work.
I noticed NO speed difference between the four-year-old R40 Centrino running 2000 and the Core 2 Duo running XP Pro. The Core Duo should KILL the Centrino, the old install wasn't even defragged. It had three times the RAM. What would it be like under Vista? OTOH, why upgrade the machine if the new software is going to make it crawl.
XP latches onto your external drives like a Rottweiler. I noticed the new machine has a tendency to eat USB-mounted hard drives which were originally formatted unter Win2K. One lost its FAT table but was easily recovered. Another corrupted upon attempting to eject hardware. I don't know if that's an XP issue or not but I'm not sticking around for more. I toyed for a minute with installing Ubuntu but in the end the R60 went back and the R40 'furbed.
I doubt Microsoft is "Begging" us to upgrade, more like "Strong-Arming." The.NET v.3.0 lockout of XPSP1 and earlier is positively sinister. But it might backfire, because if people running legacy OS are locked out of new apps, they won't get used to them and changing to something else is thus easier. Back when Win95 was rolling out and all the new apps would not run on 3.1, I switched to OS2 (which would run 3.1 16-bit apps) for a while before that died. I'm going to have to make this setup last as long as possible, and when the time to change finally irrevocably comes, I'm going to be leaning away from Microsoft.
I'm not sure how long till the shutdown, but they do respond in 2-3 days.
You're right about the other stuff, but they perform much better than just about every other freehost out there.
I'd dump YHOO for other reasons, specigfically their dumping Photos and especially Auctions. If they had spent some time and marketing effort on that we would have a real Ebay alternative, but nooooo... they had to waste years of buildup & recognition in ill-advised cost cutting.
There's plenty of half-ass sports shooters with $4500 Mark III's ($6000 with lens) who couldn;t shoot their wayout of a paper bag.
But as long as they keep buying, Canon and Nikon will keep improving. Right now $4500 buys 10fps / 10 megapixels and massively fast autofocus, four years ago it only got you 8fps / 4 megapixels with horrible battery efficiency.
So if your photojournalism student has any kind of eye, he will be shooting better with that four year old camera (now $500) than the riche poseur ever could. And he can thank him for major and speedy advances in equipment quality.
You just touched on the real reason why this is a blessing in disguise.
The human race is simply too immature to be spawning across the galaxy.
Our reptilian sub-brain has to be nullified somehow before this is permitted. Until the tendency to believe in superstition is bred out of the race, there is no chance that any such thing could possibly succeed. I'm not just talking about Scientology, but Islamic medievalism and the identically reactionary fundamentalist Christianity, which refuses to believe the most blindingly obvious facts.
Even if we got there, it would probably result in the irrevocable damage to the galaxy, similar to what has been done on Earth.
Even though you're totally wrong about statistics, it doesn't even matter because all that is is an attempt to draw attention away from the fact that this sales statement is an unaudited MS press release invoking a principle known as "The Bandwagon Fallacy" which is a type of red herring fallacy. It is a obvious and clumsy attempt to make an unpopular product look popular, on top of your ad-hominem attack on me, you are taking part in nothing more than a transparent attempt to artifically induce the sort of buzz that made the Ipod the best selling mp player to this point.
I don't own an Ipod because I think they're not particularly suitable for my use which involves a lot of traveling & I like to travel light - no bricks, chargers transformers docks etc. A flash player that runs on alkalines is best from my standpoint. I wouldn't buy a Zune even if you sold a billion of them already. People don't buy it because it is nothing more than a me-too Ipod without the cool, and the reason it's not cool is in part because of these lame press releases. NOBODY carries a Zune!, but give it features, fix the Zune and people will buy it. Turfing isn't going to do it, making a better product will.
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Could it be that, like it or not, people judge how well you are doing on what you are seen driving?
Oh no we aren't! We're dicks! We're reckless, arrogant, stupid dicks! And the Film Actors' Guild!.. are pussies. And Darl McBride.. is an asshole. Pussies don't like dicks!.. because puusies get fucked by dicks.
But dicks also fuck assholes. Assholes who just want to shit on everything. Pussies may think they can deal with assholes their way, but the only thing that can fuck an asshole... is a dick... with some balls. The problem with dicks is that sometimes they fuck too much, or fuck when it isn't apporoporate, and it takes a pussy to show 'em that. But sometimes pussies get so full of shit that they become assholes themselves. Because pussies are only an inch and a half away from assholes.
I don't know much in this... crazy, crazy world, but I do know that if you don't let us fuck this asshole, we are gonna have our dicks and our pussies!... all covered in shit.
The fit is terrible, if you had to jam it in, or if it pops out by itself, it is likely a fake. Also, if your MaxiMiser battery meter varies wildly, it may be fake.
They do work, & even have more amp-hours than the original, however, the probability of incidents is higher than with factory batteries, & it will be difficult to get warranty repair.
They look EXACTLY like the genuine article.
After the fifth time Jar Jar said "How Wude!" it became apparent Lucas had completely given up on any semblance of craftsmanship. Not only was a lot of dialog recycled, but even R2D2's beeps and whistles simplified, he might have had a vocabulary of 3 or 4 responses (compare R2D2's "speech" in ep 4 vs. ep 5).
Other things were extremely annoying, such as using an off-the shelf SR-71 Blackbird plastic testors model as the Nubian - even the same suggests the original - NO IMAGINATION AT ALL. Don't blame me just because I happen to recognize a Lockheed aircraft that I am annoyed. The paper-thin plot depth & Teletubbies-level conversation tells us who the movies were aimed at - it wasn't adults.
Certainly an empty-headed child can find "childlike wonder" in any Star Wars episode, but the same child can be fascinated & play for hours with an empty cardboard box, I was hoping for a little more depth from a "science fiction" movie.
No, it's to see how many people they can get wet
Sure they all have Photoshop but how many actually need it? How many would have actually paid even the student license if that were the only way to get it?
I remember 20 years ago when Apple II was still king on campus & started taking antipiracy steps. Microsoft was being rampantly pirated & that is how they got critical mass & took over.
I wish the article had links to the ranges so we could block this stuff.
Although I have to say over the last ~2 weeks it's been down quite a bit.
* BOB was still outselling ME as of 12/01/99
I agree completely, but note that we are being pushed off the reservation. More and more apps are XP/Vista only. Now apps written in the most recent .net will not run on 2000 (or
XPSP1 for that matter)
Note that it doesn't support Windows 2000 which is what I got & that is fusking lame. I would wager XPSP1 is also out due to .net
Just tried it. XP & VISTA or MAC OSX ONLY for Albums!!!
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You have selected to purchase:
GREATEST HITS by Elton John
(Amazon MP3 Purchases are limited to U.S. customers.)
You must install the Amazon MP3 Downloader to purchase albums. (learn more)
* It automatically adds your music downloads to iTunes or Windows Media Player
* It takes just a few clicks and less than 30 seconds to install
DOWNLOAD NOW -- WINDOWS XP & VISTA
I agree to the terms of use | Download Mac OS X version
That really puts it in perspective. There in the upper left on my desktop, there's an icon that says "My Computer," I changed it to say "His Computer" cause it all really belongs to Bill Gates.
The AV could just take the middle ground with a generic description like "Suspicious Program: E-card Viewer", it is unlikely it will display as "W.32CIPAV j00 R SO FEDERALLY PWNED"
He's assuming 90 % transmission efficiency between power plant and vehicle. He provided no source for that almost perfect efficiency, the losses are actually at least 50%. You have 5 or 6 conversions - voltage is transformed up for wire transmission. There is resistance in those wires, the longer the wires, the more power lost. There are three more down conversions, power is lost as heat each time. There is power lost in the vehicle's wall charger. The battery itself is inefficient, and if the vehicle is not used immediately, the battery loses charge. As the batteries age, they get more and more unable to hold a charge.
I would not be surprised if the figure is reversed, i.e a 10% efficiency should be assumed.
That is correct. The Wikipedia tagline is "The Encyclopedia That Anyone Can Edit."
If the policy has changed, it should be revised to: "The Encyclopedia That Anyone Except Intelligence Agents Can Edit."
I believe the first F-117 Stealth (invisible to all high tech anti-air defenses) was brought down over Serbia by an AK-47. The Pentagon story is it was brought down with an SA-3 with a hacked radar, but either way a primitive tool brought it down.
turn in your nerd card.
I know... I know... I did rip it down to the mainboard (any 12 year old can) but the traces for the rear USB are like 5 microns wide. There was no way I could do it, plus I didn't have the right replacement jack.
I'll add my story to that guy's, however mine involves 2000.
.NET 3.0 apps (MS has locked out XP SP1 & below for its new VB language).
My four-year-old R40 was dying or so I thought, USB ports falling out & so I figured it was finally time to dive headfirst into the brave new world of WGA Activation and DRM. Also wanted to try out some sexy new
I *scored* a new R60 Core 2 Duo T5500 for less than $500, had XP Pro and Office 2003 preinstalled.
Well to make a long story short, XP Pro broke half our legacy apps. More broke after Windows Update. The finale straw was that XP Pro on a core 2 Duo is no faster than 2000 on a Centrino. What's the point of upgrading, except to shovel money at the manufacturers & software upgraders.
In the end I returned the R60, spent $250 to get the USB ports soldered back on & decided I'm getting off this upgrade train at the next stop. If I have to write / buy new apps might as well be for Ubuntu, which we have set up an old laptop and are experimenting on already.
*cough* PS3 *cough*
O yeah.
The parallels between this & the PS3 are too many to ignore.
-Intense buzz
-People laying out $600 without ever seen one
-In order to make a killing on Ebay (for the first-in)
-Massively advanced technology given to them by space aliens
-Lack of software will lead to huge disappointment
-Pushes a lame technology (EDGE)
Well let me tell you what happened when I tried to upgrade. Recently I attemptd to finally make the change from Win2K to XP. Not because I wanted to, but because the USB ports are falling out of my 4-year-old R40. So I bought a Core 2 Duo R60 with XP Pro. The experiment lasted exactly four days.
.NET v.3.0 lockout of XPSP1 and earlier is positively sinister. But it might backfire, because if people running legacy OS are locked out of new apps, they won't get used to them and changing to something else is thus easier. Back when Win95 was rolling out and all the new apps would not run on 3.1, I switched to OS2 (which would run 3.1 16-bit apps) for a while before that died. I'm going to have to make this setup last as long as possible, and when the time to change finally irrevocably comes, I'm going to be leaning away from Microsoft.
It broke half the legacy apps. I have these 10-year-old legacy apps that I'm not buying all over again, to do the exact same thing under XP or Vista. If I have to do that why shouldn't I buy them for Mac or Linux. I'm not interested in buying/learning/maintaining new software to do exactly what the proven stuff does. Interestingly, these legacy apps seem to run fine emulated in Ubuntu, but not directly on XP Pro SP2, even in win2k emulation mode. I dare not try Vista. XP Pro is not suitable for serious work. Why O Why does it take 1/2 hour to empty the Recycle Bin. For instance, on Win2K if I dump a CF with a couple gig of pictures onto the hard drive, then delete the folders off the card, *poof* they're gone. In XP you have to sit there for 4-5 minutes as it deletes each picture one by one. Then again when you empty the recycle bin.
XP throws balloon in your face, "You're not protected", "Click This Balloon to activate Automatic Updates" etc. Under Win2K we would suspect Malware but this sort of thing is now a paid part of the XP Experience, & I heard Vista is worse. This sort of handholding (if that's what it is) is not professional grade, they are instead aimed at the Least Common Denominator & just slows down serious work.
I noticed NO speed difference between the four-year-old R40 Centrino running 2000 and the Core 2 Duo running XP Pro. The Core Duo should KILL the Centrino, the old install wasn't even defragged. It had three times the RAM. What would it be like under Vista? OTOH, why upgrade the machine if the new software is going to make it crawl.
XP latches onto your external drives like a Rottweiler. I noticed the new machine has a tendency to eat USB-mounted hard drives which were originally formatted unter Win2K. One lost its FAT table but was easily recovered. Another corrupted upon attempting to eject hardware. I don't know if that's an XP issue or not but I'm not sticking around for more. I toyed for a minute with installing Ubuntu but in the end the R60 went back and the R40 'furbed.
I doubt Microsoft is "Begging" us to upgrade, more like "Strong-Arming." The
I'm not sure how long till the shutdown, but they do respond in 2-3 days.
You're right about the other stuff, but they perform much better than just about every other freehost out there.
I'd dump YHOO for other reasons, specigfically their dumping Photos and especially Auctions. If they had spent some time and marketing effort on that we would have a real Ebay alternative, but nooooo... they had to waste years of buildup & recognition in ill-advised cost cutting.
I've actually had good luck with abuse@geocities shutting down spamvertized sites.
It does take them 2-3 days but they always reply back. Always include the headers even when it doesn't matter. They have to justify shutdowns.
There's plenty of half-ass sports shooters with $4500 Mark III's ($6000 with lens) who couldn;t shoot their wayout of a paper bag.
But as long as they keep buying, Canon and Nikon will keep improving. Right now $4500 buys 10fps / 10 megapixels and massively fast autofocus, four years ago it only got you 8fps / 4 megapixels with horrible battery efficiency.
So if your photojournalism student has any kind of eye, he will be shooting better with that four year old camera (now $500) than the riche poseur ever could. And he can thank him for major and speedy advances in equipment quality.
You just touched on the real reason why this is a blessing in disguise.
The human race is simply too immature to be spawning across the galaxy.
Our reptilian sub-brain has to be nullified somehow before this is permitted. Until the tendency to believe in superstition is bred out of the race, there is no chance that any such thing could possibly succeed. I'm not just talking about Scientology, but Islamic medievalism and the identically reactionary fundamentalist Christianity, which refuses to believe the most blindingly obvious facts.
Even if we got there, it would probably result in the irrevocable damage to the galaxy, similar to what has been done on Earth.
Even though you're totally wrong about statistics, it doesn't even matter because all that is is an attempt to draw attention away from the fact that this sales statement is an unaudited MS press release invoking a principle known as "The Bandwagon Fallacy" which is a type of red herring fallacy. It is a obvious and clumsy attempt to make an unpopular product look popular, on top of your ad-hominem attack on me, you are taking part in nothing more than a transparent attempt to artifically induce the sort of buzz that made the Ipod the best selling mp player to this point.
I don't own an Ipod because I think they're not particularly suitable for my use which involves a lot of traveling & I like to travel light - no bricks, chargers transformers docks etc. A flash player that runs on alkalines is best from my standpoint. I wouldn't buy a Zune even if you sold a billion of them already. People don't buy it because it is nothing more than a me-too Ipod without the cool, and the reason it's not cool is in part because of these lame press releases. NOBODY carries a Zune!, but give it features, fix the Zune and people will buy it. Turfing isn't going to do it, making a better product will.