I kinda liked Cabin Fever, it had that nifty B-Movie aura to it... Though I STILL can't figure out if it was MEANT to be funny, or just turned out that way. Think of it as an epidemiological Evil Dead.
That and the guy was gonna drink a case of Arrogant Bastard Ale...
But then again I think that classics such as Gone With the Wind, and Citizen Kane are drivel... No accounting for taste, eh?
Yeah, my first thoughts on 9/11 was the US would learn a lesson and adopt a sane policy with Israel, and the rest of the world. But instead we just got more "Great Satan"-esque, engendering more ill will, and raising a whole new generation of terrorists who (rightfully in their eyes) hate us. This was impart made real by the idiot governer of NY turning down money from Jordon, just because they said our support of a genocidal illegitimate regime was a partial cause of the attacks.
One of my freinds almost got kicked out of a poli-sci course, because she wrote a paper after 9/11 that said that the terrorists had some legitimate greivances, and weren't just raving mad-men who blew up some buildings because the don't like american boobies. I've gotten screamed at because I think that we are a partial cause, and can understand the terrorist POV. We're too big and powerful to fight a conventional war with, their too small and disjointed to organize one. We should realize that our globalistic aims, cultural imperialism, and support for nasty governments should stop, or terrorism will always be an increasing issue.
Now, mind, I'm not supporting them, killing civilians is never justified, or acceptable, no matter what your cause is. Murdering innocents is always a reprehensible act, and there is no rational justification for that.
the first one was the best though. I just didn't like the graphics on the following Genesis versions. They seemed more... er... blocky and interpolated.
Then came sonic adventures... The game that made we wish I could switch to methamphetamines instead of just coffee... I never could get very far in that, even being a twitch gamer.
It's really sad that a C64 reading a floppy is okay, and booting a modern computer (roughly 20 seconds on mine) isn't.
I know you were supposed to be humorous, but this is a valid issue. I've noticed that my old computers are untolerably(sp) slow, even though at the time I though they were speedy little buggers. This is very depression, what is waiting a FULL minute for a boot, who cares... It's a minute, I should be capable of waiting that long. I'm sure when the next-gen is out, this 20 second boot delay will also seem intolerable.
Who waits for their computer to power down? I usually sit there suffering from cathode withdrawl.
Actually, it still is blue. They just changed the font into some hideous yellow serifed font. And changed their wording. It doesn't look as... er.. "professional"... I think all of/. should right microsoft, and ask them for their nice fixedsys/system BSOD font back. Or at least an option.
Seriously though, I've been running XP Pro for about a year and a half and have seen maybe 4 BSODs, 2 of them this week (and completely my fault, messing with the boot files, and deleting a system file that I shouldn't have). XP has never done the spontanious reboot on me either. All it ever does is the explorer restart thing, which isn't bad since it doesn't close apps, and no data is lost.
Actually getting it for anything but the articles is a waste of time... It really doesn't have much in the way of porn (or pr0n, for the speach disabled). There might be 3 neked chicks, stylistically posed, and covered in enough air-brushing that they no longer resemble humans.
The articles are good though, shallow, but good. Much better than Maxim, which is only Cosmo for men.
Here here! Granted that I'm not the typical user (expected, being that I'm at/. and all), I still have gripes about using *nix. I think I install it once a year (and have lilo screw up), and uninstall it once a year, about a month later. It isn't so much the lack of a decent GUI (I still dream DOS commands), its just Windows isn't as broke as/. wants it to be. There really is no reason to switch, as of yet (get back to me after Longhorn, though).
Windows does 99% of what I want it to do, and most of what I want it to do isn't really linux friendly (games, photoshop). And XP (pro at least) is the most stable OS I've run (excluding DOS), I've got about 4 months of uptime, and it would have been more if it wasn't for moving. I've only had one BSOD, and that was my fault for deleting some system file. With a proper config I never get spyware or viruses. Not using IE or Outlook, with a decent firewall makes it about as secure as anything else out there.
When linux can give me the functionality of Windows, I'll use it instead. right now its not worth learning new tricks.
I'll grant some of your points... Except the app menu one... Just because its in a design text doesn't make it right. I personally am much more comfortable with app menus, just because I can have several apps open, and just quickly click on their menu, *poof* highlighted opened, and ready to find your option... This, of course, might be because I've been using windows since the release of 3.0, so am quite used to the interface.
As with tweaking windows; first I did not only mean tweaking the UI, but also configs (and thus performance). There is nothing wrong with obligitory tweaking, people are different, they want different styles. Also (with configs), people use their computers for different things (I hack mine down to a bare minimum for gaming), some people hack theirs for stability, security (ha!), or user freindlyness. Macs don't allow the degree of hacking as windows did/does... Unless I missed something.
Why aren't 4 button mac mice a common thing? None of my freinds macs have more than that silly clear plastic plug.
Erm... there is a difference between ease of use, and the pretty factor. Sometimes their mutually exclusive even. Granted, win 95/98/NT were kind of clunky, they were quite easy to use... Thats why I never bought a Mac at that time, the single button mouse, the lack of context menus, the silly universal top menu bar. Windows, though, has customizable tool bars, a movable, resizable, task bar. The start menu was wonderously simple to use. And for me, I could get under the hood and tweak to my hearts content (well, in a limited way).
Sure, OSX is still prettier than XP, but XP still has more functionality as an OS. The neat little slider/tasker bar is pretty, but I find it cumbersome, I still don't like the little Mac top menu, where I ALWAYS have to move my mouse to the top the the screen (waste of arm movement, IMHO), still the damned one button mouse.
I'm not a microsoft freak, BTW, my next OS (after XP pro) will probably be some Mac release (when Longhorn comes out... ech), unless Linux gets with the program, or I can get some sort of 32bit DOS that runs Windows apps.
Your comparison, BTW, is like me saying that Mother Theresa was a better person than Bush, and you replying that Bush is prettier. It doesn't answer anything, it doesn't mean anything, its just packaging.
Just built a new game box, didn't cost quite that much... You forget that most gamers have an previous box which they can scrounge parts from.
Kept my DVD/CD burners, one HD, my case and all of its fans, cooling gizmos, lights, bells whistles. Kept my old IBM keyboard (yeah, its old!), kept my mouse, kept my monitor...
Basically 250 for a mobo, 300 for the AMD, and 300 for the 9800. or 850, all total. Granted I still need a new sound card.
imagine a beowulf cluster of bad/. beowulf cluster jokes...
Gr... I've already done one, I feel dirty...
Seriously though (and offtopic, but more intelligent), anyone ever noticed that only geeks have this bad penchant for inside jokes? BAD inside jokes. REALLY bad... etc... Why is this, are us geeks to preocupied to come up with new jokes? And the sad thing is that everyonce in awhile I still giggle at them, even if I can see the "In soviet russia, a beowulf clusters you (with hot grits and natalie portman!)" joke coming. WHY?!
I got out of my social/group psych class with a thesis on/.ers and MUDers, and still I'm as confused as ever.
which makes local environmental lobbyists pissed, but where I live (Southern California), it makes sense because we have a perfectly good desert nearby and placing a solar panel farm out there is simple
I call NIMBY! Would people in forested regions care if we leveled a couple acres to put up solar panels (or those folk in Nanntuket with the wind farm)? I'm sure they would. Now why would paving over a perfectly good desert with them be any different?
I've lived my whole life in the desert (South/Central AZ), and find the desert a nicer place than forests, and lush grass. Here in the desert we also have the problem of idiots placing big ugly nasties (Southern AZ and NM, and the Rez)to supply power to other places (*cough* california *cough*). Let sprawling urban areas desacrate themselves for their power needs. Solar panels and wind turbines on the tops of sky scrapers, perhaps coal, oil, and gas plants in the middle of the city.
That rant out of the way, I think that these panels are a great idea. Plaster all the building in your sprawling metropolis of choice with these, cover the top with conventional solar panels, hook a wind mill or two on top. Reduce the need for destroying perfectly good enviroment for our power needs. Too bad, as someone already said, that they are still so unefficent. Perhaps given time and money...
I have been using either Moz suite or FF for years (and netscape before that), but recently reformatted for a new HD/XP install... I was forced to use IE to redownload FF, and browsed around while it was d/ling, and to my suprise I got 40 items of spyware! In 10 mintues. A couple of them ad-aware wouldn't pick up, something called WebRebates.exe...
Never again... Its bad enough my browsing efficiency is much reduced on IE now (damn mouse gestures!), and my system resources take a decent hit... But I spent 3 hours killing spy/malware.
Since that brief experience I've forced my best friend to install FF, and my Mom and Dad... I decided that that was the ethical thing to do.
From my experience with every UT game, is that they run very well, even with less than minimum hardware requirements.
It should run great. With my poor little 2000+(ish) box, with 512ddr, and a Radeon 7500, I could run it one high graphics at highest resolution. You should be fine.
I'm still just gonna stick with 9.1... For my purposes it ain't broke (quite), so I'm not gonna fix it. I figure I'm download about 50 installs of firefox now, which is a wee bit too many in my book. Though on the bright side, at this rate their going to be forced to come out with the whole number version, they're rapidily running out of decimals.:)
I am a poor schoe with a 56k, and the wiring in my apartment is so that I can't have DSL, and my 56k connects at 28k (if I'm lucky)... Firefox is 2 hours of my life then...:(
Funny thing I've noticed, when I start to type something, I peck, and once I get engrossed in my work I pretty much adopt a touch-typing style, with some caveats(my homerow is qsc[spc]-'[enter]ojn )
I also have the geek-posture, hunched protectivly over the keyboard like a gargoyle...
Introductory typing classes should hire me as a what-not-to-do model...
In high school I flunked my touch typing class, even if I was typing at 55wpm, with near 100% accuracy. I flunked because I don't use the the touch typing "method", I hunt and peck VERY fast. Actually I don't hunt, I peck. My teacher decided that that wasn't good enough, I had to touch type... Fleh...
I was the fasted typer in the class, thanks to IRC and BBSing, and the fact that I've had my fingers on a keyboard since I was 8. (on a bbs I would be in the 100s of wpm, thanks to silly abbreviations...)
The scary thing is, one of my freinds moms taught herself to type, and could type FASTER than you or I could talk, its kinda spooky seeing everything you say turn to text as you say it.
I got the real thing, I have a C64 in my closet, with tape drive and 300bp cradle modem. Sadly I lost the patience to wait 5 minutes for it to load anything...
The running joke among BBSers in my area when Doom I and II came out was; "Only one person has actually ever purchased a copy of this game!"... Every decent board had a copy of Doom(x), it took me until Ultimate Doom ('bout the time local BBSing turned to corporate MBBSs) for my to buy a copy.
Doom is synonomous with piracy. If someone tallied the most pirated game, it would be DoomI.
Speaking of, can't someone set up a poll or tally of the amount of people who use piracy as "try-before-buy"? When someone posts "I pirated it to see if it sucked", 10,000 people tell them that their the only one. This annoys me, I think it is a common practice, especially in games where the rumors say that God would have a hard time comeing up with a system to play it.
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I kinda liked Cabin Fever, it had that nifty B-Movie aura to it... Though I STILL can't figure out if it was MEANT to be funny, or just turned out that way. Think of it as an epidemiological Evil Dead.
That and the guy was gonna drink a case of Arrogant Bastard Ale...
But then again I think that classics such as Gone With the Wind, and Citizen Kane are drivel... No accounting for taste, eh?
Yeah, my first thoughts on 9/11 was the US would learn a lesson and adopt a sane policy with Israel, and the rest of the world. But instead we just got more "Great Satan"-esque, engendering more ill will, and raising a whole new generation of terrorists who (rightfully in their eyes) hate us. This was impart made real by the idiot governer of NY turning down money from Jordon, just because they said our support of a genocidal illegitimate regime was a partial cause of the attacks.
One of my freinds almost got kicked out of a poli-sci course, because she wrote a paper after 9/11 that said that the terrorists had some legitimate greivances, and weren't just raving mad-men who blew up some buildings because the don't like american boobies. I've gotten screamed at because I think that we are a partial cause, and can understand the terrorist POV. We're too big and powerful to fight a conventional war with, their too small and disjointed to organize one. We should realize that our globalistic aims, cultural imperialism, and support for nasty governments should stop, or terrorism will always be an increasing issue.
Now, mind, I'm not supporting them, killing civilians is never justified, or acceptable, no matter what your cause is. Murdering innocents is always a reprehensible act, and there is no rational justification for that.
the first one was the best though. I just didn't like the graphics on the following Genesis versions. They seemed more... er... blocky and interpolated.
Then came sonic adventures... The game that made we wish I could switch to methamphetamines instead of just coffee... I never could get very far in that, even being a twitch gamer.
Erm... the solution, DON'T TURN IT OFF.
It's really sad that a C64 reading a floppy is okay, and booting a modern computer (roughly 20 seconds on mine) isn't.
I know you were supposed to be humorous, but this is a valid issue. I've noticed that my old computers are untolerably(sp) slow, even though at the time I though they were speedy little buggers. This is very depression, what is waiting a FULL minute for a boot, who cares... It's a minute, I should be capable of waiting that long. I'm sure when the next-gen is out, this 20 second boot delay will also seem intolerable.
Who waits for their computer to power down? I usually sit there suffering from cathode withdrawl.
Actually, it still is blue. They just changed the font into some hideous yellow serifed font. And changed their wording. It doesn't look as... er.. "professional"... I think all of /. should right microsoft, and ask them for their nice fixedsys/system BSOD font back. Or at least an option.
Seriously though, I've been running XP Pro for about a year and a half and have seen maybe 4 BSODs, 2 of them this week (and completely my fault, messing with the boot files, and deleting a system file that I shouldn't have). XP has never done the spontanious reboot on me either. All it ever does is the explorer restart thing, which isn't bad since it doesn't close apps, and no data is lost.
Actually getting it for anything but the articles is a waste of time... It really doesn't have much in the way of porn (or pr0n, for the speach disabled). There might be 3 neked chicks, stylistically posed, and covered in enough air-brushing that they no longer resemble humans.
The articles are good though, shallow, but good. Much better than Maxim, which is only Cosmo for men.
Here here! Granted that I'm not the typical user (expected, being that I'm at /. and all), I still have gripes about using *nix. I think I install it once a year (and have lilo screw up), and uninstall it once a year, about a month later. It isn't so much the lack of a decent GUI (I still dream DOS commands), its just Windows isn't as broke as /. wants it to be. There really is no reason to switch, as of yet (get back to me after Longhorn, though).
Windows does 99% of what I want it to do, and most of what I want it to do isn't really linux friendly (games, photoshop). And XP (pro at least) is the most stable OS I've run (excluding DOS), I've got about 4 months of uptime, and it would have been more if it wasn't for moving. I've only had one BSOD, and that was my fault for deleting some system file. With a proper config I never get spyware or viruses. Not using IE or Outlook, with a decent firewall makes it about as secure as anything else out there.
When linux can give me the functionality of Windows, I'll use it instead. right now its not worth learning new tricks.
I'll grant some of your points... Except the app menu one... Just because its in a design text doesn't make it right. I personally am much more comfortable with app menus, just because I can have several apps open, and just quickly click on their menu, *poof* highlighted opened, and ready to find your option... This, of course, might be because I've been using windows since the release of 3.0, so am quite used to the interface.
As with tweaking windows; first I did not only mean tweaking the UI, but also configs (and thus performance). There is nothing wrong with obligitory tweaking, people are different, they want different styles. Also (with configs), people use their computers for different things (I hack mine down to a bare minimum for gaming), some people hack theirs for stability, security (ha!), or user freindlyness. Macs don't allow the degree of hacking as windows did/does... Unless I missed something.
Why aren't 4 button mac mice a common thing? None of my freinds macs have more than that silly clear plastic plug.
Perhaps you forget the lefties out there, eh?
For us southpaws its all about arrowkeys, ctrl numpad-ins, del, end, such...
Now... If only some egghead would start selling a decent left-handed trackball with a wheel... Cheaply...
Erm... there is a difference between ease of use, and the pretty factor. Sometimes their mutually exclusive even. Granted, win 95/98/NT were kind of clunky, they were quite easy to use... Thats why I never bought a Mac at that time, the single button mouse, the lack of context menus, the silly universal top menu bar. Windows, though, has customizable tool bars, a movable, resizable, task bar. The start menu was wonderously simple to use. And for me, I could get under the hood and tweak to my hearts content (well, in a limited way).
Sure, OSX is still prettier than XP, but XP still has more functionality as an OS. The neat little slider/tasker bar is pretty, but I find it cumbersome, I still don't like the little Mac top menu, where I ALWAYS have to move my mouse to the top the the screen (waste of arm movement, IMHO), still the damned one button mouse.
I'm not a microsoft freak, BTW, my next OS (after XP pro) will probably be some Mac release (when Longhorn comes out... ech), unless Linux gets with the program, or I can get some sort of 32bit DOS that runs Windows apps.
Your comparison, BTW, is like me saying that Mother Theresa was a better person than Bush, and you replying that Bush is prettier. It doesn't answer anything, it doesn't mean anything, its just packaging.
all yo' momma are belong to us
with natalie portman and hot grits...
in soviet russia all of us are belong to yo' momma!
I'm really quite done.
really.
Just built a new game box, didn't cost quite that much... You forget that most gamers have an previous box which they can scrounge parts from.
Kept my DVD/CD burners, one HD, my case and all of its fans, cooling gizmos, lights, bells whistles. Kept my old IBM keyboard (yeah, its old!), kept my mouse, kept my monitor...
Basically 250 for a mobo, 300 for the AMD, and 300 for the 9800. or 850, all total. Granted I still need a new sound card.
Yay! You *smell* like a *happy camper*!
Don't forget the *sauce*!
imagine a beowulf cluster of bad /. beowulf cluster jokes...
/.ers and MUDers, and still I'm as confused as ever.
Gr... I've already done one, I feel dirty...
Seriously though (and offtopic, but more intelligent), anyone ever noticed that only geeks have this bad penchant for inside jokes? BAD inside jokes. REALLY bad... etc... Why is this, are us geeks to preocupied to come up with new jokes? And the sad thing is that everyonce in awhile I still giggle at them, even if I can see the "In soviet russia, a beowulf clusters you (with hot grits and natalie portman!)" joke coming. WHY?!
I got out of my social/group psych class with a thesis on
Imagine a beowolf cluster of x
Couldn't resist.
Next up the 10th aniversary of the
1. xxx
2. ?
3. PROFIT!
model of buisness.
err... I meant northern AZ and NM...
WHY CAN'T I EDIT MY POSTS! My life is too fast and.. er... I'm too lazy to preview...
which makes local environmental lobbyists pissed, but where I live (Southern California), it makes sense because we have a perfectly good desert nearby and placing a solar panel farm out there is simple
I call NIMBY! Would people in forested regions care if we leveled a couple acres to put up solar panels (or those folk in Nanntuket with the wind farm)? I'm sure they would. Now why would paving over a perfectly good desert with them be any different?
I've lived my whole life in the desert (South/Central AZ), and find the desert a nicer place than forests, and lush grass. Here in the desert we also have the problem of idiots placing big ugly nasties (Southern AZ and NM, and the Rez)to supply power to other places (*cough* california *cough*). Let sprawling urban areas desacrate themselves for their power needs. Solar panels and wind turbines on the tops of sky scrapers, perhaps coal, oil, and gas plants in the middle of the city.
That rant out of the way, I think that these panels are a great idea. Plaster all the building in your sprawling metropolis of choice with these, cover the top with conventional solar panels, hook a wind mill or two on top. Reduce the need for destroying perfectly good enviroment for our power needs. Too bad, as someone already said, that they are still so unefficent. Perhaps given time and money...
I have been using either Moz suite or FF for years (and netscape before that), but recently reformatted for a new HD/XP install... I was forced to use IE to redownload FF, and browsed around while it was d/ling, and to my suprise I got 40 items of spyware! In 10 mintues. A couple of them ad-aware wouldn't pick up, something called WebRebates.exe...
Never again... Its bad enough my browsing efficiency is much reduced on IE now (damn mouse gestures!), and my system resources take a decent hit... But I spent 3 hours killing spy/malware.
Since that brief experience I've forced my best friend to install FF, and my Mom and Dad... I decided that that was the ethical thing to do.
From my experience with every UT game, is that they run very well, even with less than minimum hardware requirements.
It should run great. With my poor little 2000+(ish) box, with 512ddr, and a Radeon 7500, I could run it one high graphics at highest resolution. You should be fine.
I download it, it actually took about 35-40 minutes...
Sometimes I exagerate...
I'm used to a T1, so this is SLOOOWWWWW....
I'm still just gonna stick with 9.1... For my purposes it ain't broke (quite), so I'm not gonna fix it. I figure I'm download about 50 installs of firefox now, which is a wee bit too many in my book. Though on the bright side, at this rate their going to be forced to come out with the whole number version, they're rapidily running out of decimals. :)
:(
I am a poor schoe with a 56k, and the wiring in my apartment is so that I can't have DSL, and my 56k connects at 28k (if I'm lucky)... Firefox is 2 hours of my life then...
Funny thing I've noticed, when I start to type something, I peck, and once I get engrossed in my work I pretty much adopt a touch-typing style, with some caveats(my homerow is qsc[spc]-'[enter]ojn )
I also have the geek-posture, hunched protectivly over the keyboard like a gargoyle...
Introductory typing classes should hire me as a what-not-to-do model...
In high school I flunked my touch typing class, even if I was typing at 55wpm, with near 100% accuracy. I flunked because I don't use the the touch typing "method", I hunt and peck VERY fast. Actually I don't hunt, I peck. My teacher decided that that wasn't good enough, I had to touch type... Fleh...
I was the fasted typer in the class, thanks to IRC and BBSing, and the fact that I've had my fingers on a keyboard since I was 8. (on a bbs I would be in the 100s of wpm, thanks to silly abbreviations...)
The scary thing is, one of my freinds moms taught herself to type, and could type FASTER than you or I could talk, its kinda spooky seeing everything you say turn to text as you say it.
I got the real thing, I have a C64 in my closet, with tape drive and 300bp cradle modem. Sadly I lost the patience to wait 5 minutes for it to load anything...
load "qix", 8,1
run
The running joke among BBSers in my area when Doom I and II came out was; "Only one person has actually ever purchased a copy of this game!"... Every decent board had a copy of Doom(x), it took me until Ultimate Doom ('bout the time local BBSing turned to corporate MBBSs) for my to buy a copy.
Doom is synonomous with piracy. If someone tallied the most pirated game, it would be DoomI.
Speaking of, can't someone set up a poll or tally of the amount of people who use piracy as "try-before-buy"? When someone posts "I pirated it to see if it sucked", 10,000 people tell them that their the only one. This annoys me, I think it is a common practice, especially in games where the rumors say that God would have a hard time comeing up with a system to play it.