are you sure those migraines are induced by your monitor? I have migraines after stressful periods or when a stressful period lasts for too long. I noticed this after logging my migraines in a small scrap book.
I'd ask the question and the best ones I got were:
"What kind of versioning system do you use?" 10/10 "How are my chances? Think I'll get the job?" 0/10 "Do you guys have lots of girls in the departement?" 0/10 "Which Linux do you use for desktop?" 10/10
I have to say it's funny what they'll ask you sometimes.:-)
This xmas I'm switching to desktop. I've ordered parts and will be building a very nice rig for gaming. The reasons?
- more power
- less neck sores (adjustable height monitor)
- bigger monitor
- cheaper than getting something equivalent in laptop form
The only downside is that I love laptop keyboards. If anyone knew of a place where I could buy a plugable USB keyboard the size and shape similar to what you would find on a laptop it would make me really happy for xmas.
"Iraq's aggressive attempts to obtain proscribed high-strength aluminum tubes are of significant concern. All intelligence experts agree that Iraq is seeking nuclear weapons and that these tubes could be used in a centrifuge enrichment program. Most intelligence specialists assess this to be the intended use, but some believe that these tubes are probably intended for conventional top secret macro photography programs."
Hussein's lawyers claim they were to be used to create macro lenses but apparently the grand jury feels his story just wouldn't wash.
And I can understand French. The French article this is based on though is cryptic.
It seems *they* are trying to lobby parliament to have some control over p2p programs. They want to have some form of control over all p2p programs (checking who downloads what, who makes what available) and would like to make it so that p2p programs cannot be open sourced so as to circumvent methods of stopping IP theft.
1) their source code is a bloody mess.
2) patching costs money.
3) Vista will fix lots of problems and patching XP/2000 means less people will move to Vista to get security.
4) They have a monopoly... money is rolling in and don't care about their customers.
Here are the topics discussed:
- splash screens mean you are doing something wrong. Application should appear instantly
- splash screens are nice they tell you something is loading on slower computers
- oh woot a contest. I should submit my entry.
- frist psot!!!
- In soviet russia the gimp submits you.
Have a nice day;-)
You can blame many people for the English tradition (yes English tradition, not American) but Americans are only part of the reason why Halloween appeared in France.
According to this link: http://french.about.com/library/bl-halloweeninfran ce.htm France Télécom has about as much to do with the tradition spanning to France as American television did. The first I saw of Halloween was in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon in 1990. I hear from friends in Bretagne that in Rennes locals are resisting the tradition.
The first I heard about Halloween in mainland France was when Orange (France Telecom partnership with the English operator) decided to put thousands of pumpkins around the trocadero to sell their new phone. http://www.humanite.fr/journal/1999-10-30/1999-10- 30-298586 I was in Canada at the time but could tell that France was going through some deep changes from the looks of it.
I'm not sure Halloween should be something to "blame" on the USA on and actually come to think of it France should concentrate on American cultural memes which disfavor some of France's finest achievements. I'd be more scared of the commercial beers, process cheese and fast food crap that does inroads on the French market. All of these things replace to some extent the fine wines, liquors and ciders, outsanding cheeses and excellent restaurants that are unequaled world wide (IMHO).
If anything France should adapt with Halloween and use it to market their nougats, papillotes, guenots and other local candies. I believe 99% of what French people ingest is of better quality than what crap we eat here in North America. Chocolate bars in France don't have wax in them, MSG is illegal in restaurants, etc...
France still has a lot of fronts to defend their qualities on. Not having Halloween isn't imho a quality.
France does not hate America and doesn't really care about the anglicization of the French language. Only a few really vocal conservatives care about anglicization and they go "shopping" and "park" their cars next to the "building".
Also your comment about a French version of Windows being poorly translated is false. It is very easy to have a completely French computer if all you install is French versions of the software you want. Mix and match your software and you could see Korean and Elbonian on your computer.
Please stop with that fallacy about France hating America. The only thing France hates about America is now at record lows in approval ratings. Seems you have more in common with the French than you might expect.
IANAG (geneticist).
I don't think he has proof but he does have a point. From history we see lots of diseases come on very strongly until it then reaches its "apogée" (influenza, common cold in North America ~1600, syphillis post columbus, etc...).
Wether it be that humans are adapting (like chimps have to SIV) or that the disease is simply softening up to be better at spreading is unclear. His hypothesis does make sense though.
the pvp rank system doesn't work in such a way as normal RPGs do. It sets the mantra of RPGs that whenever you do something good with your char it gets some benefit. Here the rank system is capped and it doesn't matter if you play for 12 years @ 2 hours a day. If someone can play 3 hours a day he'll keep your rank lower because you don't have as much honor as he does.
It is a horrible system and it's pissing people off.
Check this thread (might only work if you have a wow account):
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=w ow-pvp&t=333822&p=1&tmp=1#post333822
in RPGs your character level and his gear determine a huge amount of your chance to beat challenges. In PVP (player vs player) someone with rank 12 gear does better than someone with rank 6 gear 99% of the time.
Unless the rank 12's keyboard batteries die on him at the same time the pizza arrives and the mother tells him he needs to wash.
If you play against higher level players you get a bit more honor. In the grand scale of things the added bonus you get gives you next to nothing if you don't have the 16 hours required a day to get anywhere.
Playing just for fun works but losing consistently because you have crappy gear becomes old. It's like racing a car with a bicycle. Sure the ride might be fun but the result will always be the same.
Too many games give huge benefits to people who can play longer hours instead of rewarding skills.
Take world of warcraft pvp ranks for example. It's the worst bloody time sink ever. Everyone is up in arms about how little skill it takes to get to high warlord except that jobless-27-year-old-live-at-home-in-parents-baseme nt types. Only people with 16 hours a day have a chance to reach rank 14 and even skill less people have been able to do so just by having more time on their hands.
As a married man with a job and a social life I'd love it if I could play with skills and get rewarded. Instead may games reward time spent.
If we were limited to 2 hours a day of gameplay (or at least no advantage whatsoever to play more than 3 hours in a day) the pvp ranking system would be way less skewed in favor of people with more time.
"If the target server is running one of the vulnerable scripts at specific URLs and is configured to permit external shell commands and remote file download in the PHP/CGI environment, a copy of the worm could be downloaded and executed."
I'm thinking this is funny as hell. How many people configure apache this way?
I'm very glad they finally did this. It's about time IMO.
The Catholic Church shouldn't continue to fight losing battles. Now please let women get ordained and priests get married.
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It's called foreplay!!!
:-D
I jest!!
Working at Kinkos, even in a canned Virtual world can be a serious upgrade to someone's real life.
Is that they block emails coming from Gmail especially those invititations to use the service.
Does Mac install all users as administrators by default? Does Windows?
are you sure those migraines are induced by your monitor? I have migraines after stressful periods or when a stressful period lasts for too long. I noticed this after logging my migraines in a small scrap book.
I'd ask the question and the best ones I got were:
:-)
"What kind of versioning system do you use?" 10/10
"How are my chances? Think I'll get the job?" 0/10
"Do you guys have lots of girls in the departement?" 0/10
"Which Linux do you use for desktop?" 10/10
I have to say it's funny what they'll ask you sometimes.
- more power
- less neck sores (adjustable height monitor)
- bigger monitor
- cheaper than getting something equivalent in laptop form
The only downside is that I love laptop keyboards. If anyone knew of a place where I could buy a plugable USB keyboard the size and shape similar to what you would find on a laptop it would make me really happy for xmas.
Hussein's lawyers claim they were to be used to create macro lenses but apparently the grand jury feels his story just wouldn't wash.
More to come...
I did. The woman on the phone told me she was paid to ask the questions on the form.
"Do you have service pack 2 installed?" no
"Did you enable windows firewall?" no
"Is your computer protected by an anti-virus program?" no
I own a Mac as well as several linux machines.
I think there are too many lawyers in the world.
And I can understand French. The French article this is based on though is cryptic. It seems *they* are trying to lobby parliament to have some control over p2p programs. They want to have some form of control over all p2p programs (checking who downloads what, who makes what available) and would like to make it so that p2p programs cannot be open sourced so as to circumvent methods of stopping IP theft.
1) their source code is a bloody mess. 2) patching costs money. 3) Vista will fix lots of problems and patching XP/2000 means less people will move to Vista to get security. 4) They have a monopoly... money is rolling in and don't care about their customers.
I think not!
Here are the topics discussed: - splash screens mean you are doing something wrong. Application should appear instantly - splash screens are nice they tell you something is loading on slower computers - oh woot a contest. I should submit my entry. - frist psot!!! - In soviet russia the gimp submits you. Have a nice day ;-)
I use a French Canadian version at work. Some applications installed in English still have Ok-Annuler buttons instead of the Ok-Cancel ones.
You can blame many people for the English tradition (yes English tradition, not American) but Americans are only part of the reason why Halloween appeared in France.
n ce.htm France Télécom has about as much to do with the tradition spanning to France as American television did. The first I saw of Halloween was in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon in 1990. I hear from friends in Bretagne that in Rennes locals are resisting the tradition.
- 30-298586 I was in Canada at the time but could tell that France was going through some deep changes from the looks of it.
According to this link: http://french.about.com/library/bl-halloweeninfra
The first I heard about Halloween in mainland France was when Orange (France Telecom partnership with the English operator) decided to put thousands of pumpkins around the trocadero to sell their new phone. http://www.humanite.fr/journal/1999-10-30/1999-10
I'm not sure Halloween should be something to "blame" on the USA on and actually come to think of it France should concentrate on American cultural memes which disfavor some of France's finest achievements. I'd be more scared of the commercial beers, process cheese and fast food crap that does inroads on the French market. All of these things replace to some extent the fine wines, liquors and ciders, outsanding cheeses and excellent restaurants that are unequaled world wide (IMHO).
If anything France should adapt with Halloween and use it to market their nougats, papillotes, guenots and other local candies. I believe 99% of what French people ingest is of better quality than what crap we eat here in North America. Chocolate bars in France don't have wax in them, MSG is illegal in restaurants, etc...
France still has a lot of fronts to defend their qualities on. Not having Halloween isn't imho a quality.
How is that modded to insightful?
France does not hate America and doesn't really care about the anglicization of the French language. Only a few really vocal conservatives care about anglicization and they go "shopping" and "park" their cars next to the "building".
Also your comment about a French version of Windows being poorly translated is false. It is very easy to have a completely French computer if all you install is French versions of the software you want. Mix and match your software and you could see Korean and Elbonian on your computer.
Please stop with that fallacy about France hating America. The only thing France hates about America is now at record lows in approval ratings. Seems you have more in common with the French than you might expect.
stpo spaming ues AH noob lolz!!11 j/k
IANAG (geneticist). I don't think he has proof but he does have a point. From history we see lots of diseases come on very strongly until it then reaches its "apogée" (influenza, common cold in North America ~1600, syphillis post columbus, etc...). Wether it be that humans are adapting (like chimps have to SIV) or that the disease is simply softening up to be better at spreading is unclear. His hypothesis does make sense though.
the pvp rank system doesn't work in such a way as normal RPGs do. It sets the mantra of RPGs that whenever you do something good with your char it gets some benefit. Here the rank system is capped and it doesn't matter if you play for 12 years @ 2 hours a day. If someone can play 3 hours a day he'll keep your rank lower because you don't have as much honor as he does. It is a horrible system and it's pissing people off. Check this thread (might only work if you have a wow account): http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=w ow-pvp&t=333822&p=1&tmp=1#post333822
in RPGs your character level and his gear determine a huge amount of your chance to beat challenges. In PVP (player vs player) someone with rank 12 gear does better than someone with rank 6 gear 99% of the time. Unless the rank 12's keyboard batteries die on him at the same time the pizza arrives and the mother tells him he needs to wash. If you play against higher level players you get a bit more honor. In the grand scale of things the added bonus you get gives you next to nothing if you don't have the 16 hours required a day to get anywhere. Playing just for fun works but losing consistently because you have crappy gear becomes old. It's like racing a car with a bicycle. Sure the ride might be fun but the result will always be the same.
Too many games give huge benefits to people who can play longer hours instead of rewarding skills.
e nt types. Only people with 16 hours a day have a chance to reach rank 14 and even skill less people have been able to do so just by having more time on their hands.
Take world of warcraft pvp ranks for example. It's the worst bloody time sink ever. Everyone is up in arms about how little skill it takes to get to high warlord except that jobless-27-year-old-live-at-home-in-parents-basem
As a married man with a job and a social life I'd love it if I could play with skills and get rewarded. Instead may games reward time spent.
If we were limited to 2 hours a day of gameplay (or at least no advantage whatsoever to play more than 3 hours in a day) the pvp ranking system would be way less skewed in favor of people with more time.
"If the target server is running one of the vulnerable scripts at specific URLs and is configured to permit external shell commands and remote file download in the PHP/CGI environment, a copy of the worm could be downloaded and executed." I'm thinking this is funny as hell. How many people configure apache this way?
I'm very glad they finally did this. It's about time IMO. The Catholic Church shouldn't continue to fight losing battles. Now please let women get ordained and priests get married.