I know lots of people thought the Borg were far from the best *Trek baddies, but I think this article shows why they were pretty good. It shows what just might happen if we rely on technology a little too much, and what happens when we allow others to think for us.
Of course different flavors of Windows have different BSODs, but how the heck can you say 9x has no BSOD?!
1) It is a blue screen. 2) The blue screen means that something big has died.
I say these two things qualify a BSOD. (Dare I also say that the term "BSOD" gained its popularity through the frequency and annoyance of the Windows 9x blue error screens.) But let's examine your other points.
Unrecoverable? Sorta. Most 9x BSODs I've encountered do mean that a hard reboot is in order. However, I've had some that "recovered" back to Windows, sometimes even enough to save my work and restart normally.
As for not being useful for diagnosing a problem, this is also wrong, though the BSOD info isn't as verbose as the NT BSOD. If something specific is wrong (as opposed to general Windows9x cruft), you now have some idea as to what your Google search should be. I recently uncovered an ASPI layer fuckup that was causing the computer to crash upon attaching a digital camera via USB. (Damn you, Adaptec!)
(Have I just been trolled? This could be a first!)
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People have mentioned a few different experiences here, and I'd like to pull them apart some. For me, these are very different experiences, all of which might be called a "zone" of sorts.
First, there is what most of us mean by the "zone" as it pertains to video games. Everything just works. I destroy my friends at N64-Goldeneye (pistols, stacks, license to kill - the only way to play). They are screaming at me, hitting me, saying interesting things about my mother, and I just cap all their asses. My movements seem to be on a subconscious level.
Then I have creative "zone". By that I mean the (usually all night) zone of writing a paper you know is something you never could have written under normal circumstances. You read it the next day before you turn it in and say "Damn, this is good stuff, aside from the typos."
Music performance (I've played trombone since I was 10) is more like video games when you're just playing "straight" stuff - no improvisation. Improvised stuff is more like the creative zone.
Then, best of all, is the meditative/aesthetic experience. I hesitate to call it a zone. It can happen when meditating, listening to very moving music, or experiencing another profound art form. It's sort of a mental orgasm. Just like normal orgasms, they vary in intensity. I would say with very little hesitation that a really good mental experience like this is better than a mediocre physical orgasm - and yes, I really mean to say that!
I remember seeing some kind of Starcraft conversion to make it look like Warcraft... Since Starcraft is past its peak I can't seem to find it anymore. Some of the character & building conversions looked pretty sweet.
I know Mandrake (at least at 8.1) could install a reasonable amount of software from the first ISO. You tell the installer which ISOs you have and then it tells you what you're allowed to install.
The icq user interface peaked around v98a or v99a. Since then the program has become very bloated and "feature"-ridden.
Later versions automated the list-recovery process, and I think the current version stores your contact list online, not unlike current (official) AIM versions.
I haven't tried the "lite" version, as someone here has suggested, but most annoying features can be turned off. Of course, you have to go do advanced mode to get some of the preferences to turn off all this crap - go figure.
After all, outcasts are the keenest students of ''normal'' behavior -- since they're constantly trying, and failing, to achieve it themselves.
Wow. Besides the general theme of people being repetitive dumbasses, this part stood out the most.
Of course, I've always been approaching it from the evolution-driven genetic motivations of people to create the various stable equilibria we have called "cultures" or "societies". (Perhaps Wolfram was right - from simple (genetic) rules emerge complex structures.)
Did that part of the article really ring true for anybody else?
Hey! Someone else likes Snowblind! Stunning song but most of the world seems to focus on Paranoid, bit of a dirge IMO.
I must admit that I'm not as familiar with Sabbath as I would like to be. Before a few months ago I recognized about 4 Sabbath songs. A friend of mine loaned me his "Vol. 4" CD and I must say it is impressive. When I eventually dig up a bit of money, some investment in classic Sabbath is high on the list of priorities.
Has Smoke On The Water hit their credibility _that_ badly? (Hint - as with most bands' famous songs, it's nothing like their best)
Disclaimer: My comments are a collective reply to the thread.
In order to be a "greatest band" poll and have The Who be contenders, there ought to be some ground rules.
The band in question must, in some sense of the word, be "rockin'". (I think this disqualifies the Beach Boys, questions of talent aside.)
A rule of thumb: The members of the band in question should be old enough to have (reasonably) fathered Britney Spears. (I will, however, admit there should be certain exceptions to this rule)
The band in question, however talented, must have achieved some reasonable degree of "pop" stardom (no obscure bands) without being considered a "pop" act (ie, Jackson 5).
It is not sufficient for the band in question to merely rock and generally kick ass (ie, KISS), but must also have a sufficiently compelling musicality.
Now, my suggestions, in no particular order:
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
The Greatful Dead
The Who
Jimi Hendrix Experience
Pearl Jam - (a notable exception to the Britney rule)
Stevie Ray Vaughan / Double Trouble
Honorable mention:
Stevie Wonder
Janis Joplin
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Parliament/Funkadelic
Aerosmith
Black Sabbath ("Snowblind", mofos!)
Van Halen, the Roth era
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Tom Petty, with and without the Heartbreakers
Various bands with Eric Clapton (Cream, Derek and the Dominoes, etc.)
Aliyah - She could sing, was pretty hot, had some quite a bit of potential - minor celeb status.
Lisa Left Eye Lopez - Part of a popular group. Didn't like them personally, but she had celeb status... even if it was for burning down the house of her boyfriend.
Robin Crosby - Who?
Randy Castillo - WHO?! These people are not celebs!
Joey Ramone - The Ramones, though obnoxious, they were indeed (anti) celebs and did influence the music world.
Dee Dee Ramone - (see Joey Ramone)
Layne Staley - Who the frick are these people... Damn!
Scott Smith (Loverboy...ok THAT one was a stretch:-) - I don't think "stretch" covers it.
PJ didn't suffer greatly due to p2p or burners. When I entered college in 1997, PJ were already on the way out of the mainstream. At that point in time, I knew exactly 2 people who had cd burners. And P2P wasn't even a major issue yet.
Even if Moby is right about why his album isn't selling (and I have my doubts about that), it's still wrong to call this the Pearl Jam effect.
For streaming video, there needs to be a way (either from the server or the client end) to tell the 'puter which is more important to the currently playing file, the audio layer or the video layer.
For pr0n, I don't care how much the audio flakes out, I want the video as good as possible.
But if I'm watching a stream of Prez GWBush, the video is basically wasting my bandwidth and CPU cycles. I want the audio, damn it. The vid can take a back seat.
Second, that couldn't happen in the House because of rules about the germaneness of amendments. A Senate version could have all sorts of "Christmas tree ornaments" (as Bush-41 sometimes called them) because they have no rule about amendments being germane.
That's not funny. I rented Citizen Kane and was not really enjoying it (cuz it's a boring assed film by contemporary standards) but was still sorta into it when my mom comes in about halfway through... looks at the TV for 4 seconds... "Rosebud... that's the sled, isn't it?"
I feel your pain. As you can see, I was stupid enough to use my name for my hotmail login (circa 1997).
In addition to the mountains of spam (some "legitimately" my spam, much of it not), I have received personal email for about 6 (IIRC) distinct individuals. Three are military-affiliated. I got mil-school grades for one kid (who did not do very well...), casual remarks about... erm... let's say "adventures" in Columbia, and a (former?) military woman who signed up for some wedding site's list (among other lists).
The first time I realised people were mistakenly using the account I owned was when I signed up to download an MS-Office97 patch. I was told by the server that I already had signed up... would I like to have my password emailed to me? Why sure! So I signed in (pw was a woman's name), changed the pw, and got my download.
The worst quasi-spam was when some teenage girl gave "her" email out to all her friends, causing me to be put on what may have been the world's biggest forward list... and on the forward lists of other girls on the forward list... and so on...
No they don't. Pepsi split off their restaurant interests. Now a single company that is NOT owned by Pepsi owns Taco Bell, KFC, and Pizza Hut. The name eludes me at the moment, but I think it's like tri... something-or-other.
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I know lots of people thought the Borg were far from the best *Trek baddies, but I think this article shows why they were pretty good. It shows what just might happen if we rely on technology a little too much, and what happens when we allow others to think for us.
(U of R, 2001)
1) It is a blue screen.
2) The blue screen means that something big has died.
I say these two things qualify a BSOD. (Dare I also say that the term "BSOD" gained its popularity through the frequency and annoyance of the Windows 9x blue error screens.) But let's examine your other points.
Unrecoverable? Sorta. Most 9x BSODs I've encountered do mean that a hard reboot is in order. However, I've had some that "recovered" back to Windows, sometimes even enough to save my work and restart normally.
As for not being useful for diagnosing a problem, this is also wrong, though the BSOD info isn't as verbose as the NT BSOD. If something specific is wrong (as opposed to general Windows9x cruft), you now have some idea as to what your Google search should be. I recently uncovered an ASPI layer fuckup that was causing the computer to crash upon attaching a digital camera via USB. (Damn you, Adaptec!)
(Have I just been trolled? This could be a first!)
First, there is what most of us mean by the "zone" as it pertains to video games. Everything just works. I destroy my friends at N64-Goldeneye (pistols, stacks, license to kill - the only way to play). They are screaming at me, hitting me, saying interesting things about my mother, and I just cap all their asses. My movements seem to be on a subconscious level.
Then I have creative "zone". By that I mean the (usually all night) zone of writing a paper you know is something you never could have written under normal circumstances. You read it the next day before you turn it in and say "Damn, this is good stuff, aside from the typos."
Music performance (I've played trombone since I was 10) is more like video games when you're just playing "straight" stuff - no improvisation. Improvised stuff is more like the creative zone.
Then, best of all, is the meditative/aesthetic experience. I hesitate to call it a zone. It can happen when meditating, listening to very moving music, or experiencing another profound art form. It's sort of a mental orgasm. Just like normal orgasms, they vary in intensity. I would say with very little hesitation that a really good mental experience like this is better than a mediocre physical orgasm - and yes, I really mean to say that!
I remember seeing some kind of Starcraft conversion to make it look like Warcraft... Since Starcraft is past its peak I can't seem to find it anymore. Some of the character & building conversions looked pretty sweet.
I know Mandrake (at least at 8.1) could install a reasonable amount of software from the first ISO. You tell the installer which ISOs you have and then it tells you what you're allowed to install.
I know somebody on /. has the DVD. Will somebody please just put the closed captioning on and indulge us, please?
I always thought it was "married". Does anybody have a reference for this? Maybe a confirmation with the Captioning on the DVD?
Later versions automated the list-recovery process, and I think the current version stores your contact list online, not unlike current (official) AIM versions.
I haven't tried the "lite" version, as someone here has suggested, but most annoying features can be turned off. Of course, you have to go do advanced mode to get some of the preferences to turn off all this crap - go figure.
Well, he seems to be plenty motivated - and that's the biggest problem I see in most of the potheads I know. The weed probably has no real effect.
Wow. Besides the general theme of people being repetitive dumbasses, this part stood out the most.
Of course, I've always been approaching it from the evolution-driven genetic motivations of people to create the various stable equilibria we have called "cultures" or "societies". (Perhaps Wolfram was right - from simple (genetic) rules emerge complex structures.)
Did that part of the article really ring true for anybody else?
Bill probably wouldn't do it, but he might send Ballmer in his stead.
It's not so much that they need the $200k, but much more important that they take away the monetary incentive for production of Linux on XBox.
I must admit that I'm not as familiar with Sabbath as I would like to be. Before a few months ago I recognized about 4 Sabbath songs. A friend of mine loaned me his "Vol. 4" CD and I must say it is impressive. When I eventually dig up a bit of money, some investment in classic Sabbath is high on the list of priorities.
Has Smoke On The Water hit their credibility _that_ badly? (Hint - as with most bands' famous songs, it's nothing like their best)
In a word, yes.
In order to be a "greatest band" poll and have The Who be contenders, there ought to be some ground rules.
Now, my suggestions, in no particular order:
Honorable mention:
Lisa Left Eye Lopez - Part of a popular group. Didn't like them personally, but she had celeb status... even if it was for burning down the house of her boyfriend.
Robin Crosby - Who?
Randy Castillo - WHO?! These people are not celebs!
Joey Ramone - The Ramones, though obnoxious, they were indeed (anti) celebs and did influence the music world.
Dee Dee Ramone - (see Joey Ramone)
Layne Staley - Who the frick are these people... Damn!
Scott Smith (Loverboy...ok THAT one was a stretch :-) - I don't think "stretch" covers it.
and NOW John Entwistle.... - there ya go!
And, as others have pointed out, Harrison.
In the first instance he was just wrong.
In the second instance he is lying.
Even if Moby is right about why his album isn't selling (and I have my doubts about that), it's still wrong to call this the Pearl Jam effect.
For pr0n, I don't care how much the audio flakes out, I want the video as good as possible.
But if I'm watching a stream of Prez GWBush, the video is basically wasting my bandwidth and CPU cycles. I want the audio, damn it. The vid can take a back seat.
... Now clean out your cu- oh wait... Just get the hell out!
And they're calling it *craft??? WTF?
Second, that couldn't happen in the House because of rules about the germaneness of amendments. A Senate version could have all sorts of "Christmas tree ornaments" (as Bush-41 sometimes called them) because they have no rule about amendments being germane.
D'oh!!
In addition to the mountains of spam (some "legitimately" my spam, much of it not), I have received personal email for about 6 (IIRC) distinct individuals. Three are military-affiliated. I got mil-school grades for one kid (who did not do very well...), casual remarks about ... erm... let's say "adventures" in Columbia, and a (former?) military woman who signed up for some wedding site's list (among other lists).
The first time I realised people were mistakenly using the account I owned was when I signed up to download an MS-Office97 patch. I was told by the server that I already had signed up... would I like to have my password emailed to me? Why sure! So I signed in (pw was a woman's name), changed the pw, and got my download.
The worst quasi-spam was when some teenage girl gave "her" email out to all her friends, causing me to be put on what may have been the world's biggest forward list... and on the forward lists of other girls on the forward list... and so on...
No they don't. Pepsi split off their restaurant interests. Now a single company that is NOT owned by Pepsi owns Taco Bell, KFC, and Pizza Hut. The name eludes me at the moment, but I think it's like tri... something-or-other.