You can argue for mass transit until the cows come home, but unless they run whenever I need it, I can't use it. A vast majority of the bus routes that make sense where I live don't run but weekdays, 7-6. Not acceptable even for going to work (I'd have to walk home every time. That's 7 miles. No.)
If push came to shove, I'd just drive using any number of slow altroutes. Ooh, it'd take me 20 minutes instead of 15 minutes.
They'll cheerfully ignore that the user has the ultimate say in at least two areas: 1) buying the damned thing; 2) powering it. Much to the Corporati's chagrin, they can't force people to consume whatever, whenever in this respect.
While you are right in the sense that the game includes the firmware needed to play the game (and the grandparent is not a victim per se), I have to wonder how valid the need to use a given revision of firmware is.
Traditionally, consoles have had fixed firmware and all games had to work with all revisions of the hardware. I don't see the reason why Game X won't run on my 1.50 (well, when it WAS 1.50) PSP other than possibly Sony MAKING the developer upgrade the firmware as a condition of being licensed. I doubt very much that there is new functionality that REQUIRES new firmware for a game, although Sony definitely are at liberty to add/subtract/multiply/divide functionality as they see fit.
Like the head of this thread indirectly related, mad props to Fanjita's eloader and devhook. I'm patiently waiting for the day when kernel mode is unlocked in 2.60 of the PSP firmware. Upgrading from 2.00 so I could play LCS and Daxter was a mistake for unlicensed software.
CLASSIFIED CPU's should be at least 3 feet from UNCLASSIFIED CPU's
IF the government is stupid enough to mix classified and unclas machines in the same vicinity, this might have to do with RFI, as an earlier post stated. Generally speaking, the classified computers and networks are physically separate from the unclas stuff (as in, separated by a vault or a bunker).
You most likely don't know your phone system well. There's NEVER a case where the phone company doesn't get your phone number and/or who called you. Billing would be sucktastic if the phone company ever didn't have the called and calling party numbers. They wouldn't know who to bill for the call!
You can explain and wax poetic about your expectations and preferences all you want, but it doesn't change one simple fact: my phone, my rules. When you call me, you are asking (OK, DEMANDING, in your specific case) to interrupt whatever I was doing. When I glance over at Caller ID and see it's a number I don't want to talk to right now, I just do nothing. It's a great service, I don't have to screen any calls, and those who leave voicemail usually are calling me for a reason these days.
Remember, whoever you call may actually feel they own the phone, as opposed to their phone owning them. It's their choice as to how they want to treat calls at any given time. I'm basically asking to intrude when I call someone, after all...
The same principles apply when dealing with people ringing my doorbell.
OK, family and kids (is that redundant? Maybe) are important to you. Why should I be so concerned about doing something that society almost expects, yet I don't want to do? Maybe you view it as a measure of someone's success. I view it as a choice with no wrong answer.
That wife and kids will cost much more than any video game or porn, and I'm not just talking in terms of cash. I just don't want to commit time and money to this.
And oh... I've been living on my own and supporting myself since I left after HS, which may very well be another minority around here.
The way I see it, "fired" and "laid off" are equivalent. They were involuntarily terminated for whatever reason the employer made up, and I'm sure the two terms are treated equally when future work is sought.
When public and private schools start actually educating students as opposed to teaching school (by which I mean "blind obedience"), then I'll consider sending any kid I have to those schools. As it stands now, the educational choices I'm faced with is only one reason why I'm intent on never having any kids.
I can second this. I had my SBC phone number ported to Vonage, and not only stopped getting calls from unknown numbers, but I save $40/mo (or more if I call LD).
What's good for my mother (or anyone else) is usually not what I consider to be best for me. I will forever be using a command line, a keyboard and application-centric GUIs. No one, and I mean NO ONE, is going to tell me that I don't need a command line, just like I can't tell anyone else they don't need a kitchen-sink media player.
I'd just continue being passive, using my Caller ID, not answering the phone unless I felt like it and generally not having to stress out about it. The phone is there for me; I'm not required to be a slave to it.
In extreme cases, I'd just hook an old external modem strapped to auto-answer on the first ring up to the line, and leave it there for a week.
4. Drive failure is inevitable -- so BACK UP YOUR DATA. Tape drives are cheaper than ever, as are DVD writers. Is there any excuse other than stupidity/laziness?:)
Yes, there is. Namely, one unit of backup media can't be used to back up all of the data. DVDs are slow to write and can't be written to like a hard drive, and top out at 8.5GB. High-capacity tape drives are expensive and not supported on most consumer systems.
I suggest using an external hard drive that's bigger, coupled with something like Acronis True Image (which can make incremental backups), and then power off and/or disconnect that drive until the next backup.
I don't know why people insist on nuking foods with cayenne or pouring texas pete on everything.
Because all the food that's good for you, but tastes like plants or styrofoam, needs all the help it can get. If I didn't put pepper on it, I probably couldn't stand to eat it. I mean, it's either spice it up or put butter/cheese on it (and sometimes it's mandatory to do both). And hey, I like my food to be spicy most of the time.
Cayenne is the best. Vinegar-based hot sauces are less than perfect.
You know what was worse for me? Back when no non-Sony-approved games worked with 1.50, I figured I was hosed, so upgraded to 1.51. So naturally, I've already upgraded to 2.0.
Then, as now, I figure the game of cat and mouse will still march on, and I'll be playing games from the memory stick soon enough. It's just a matter of time.
This isn't entirely true. One can call up the cheat console and type a few things at it to get Barbie-doll "nude" Sims without modifying anything. The censor grid can also be turned off.
Making "real" nude Sims requires new skins, so that counts as a modification of sorts.
I highly doubt the developers give two shits about the game's rating, and frankly hope it stays that way. Quality Assurance, on the other hand. . . that's where these issues should be raised.
You'll first need to remove the negative stigma associated with "Philosophy." Hell, just label the class "Critical Thinking and Analysis" and be done! I once thought "philosophy" was just another word for "bullshit."
You'll also have to emphasize that there are no right or wrong answers in such a class, and that this is not a bug in the class.
Critical thinking and analysis are banned in public schools because they interfere with the main goal of the usual public school: INDOCTRINATION. Primary and secondary schools teach school and value blind, unquestioning obedience over all else. Failure to conform is severely punished.
I have original Apple II disks that were duplicated in 1982 that have 0 bad sectors. I have floppies that were made in 1985 which I can format and happily read and write data to and from any of the disk][ devices I have, which are themselves 20yr old. I have 800k 3.5 media made in the late 1980s that works in any of the 6 Apple 3.5 drives I have.
I buy brand-new 1.44MB 3.5" disks and try saving stuff to them using modern USB floppy drives, and they randomly give errors! Or they'll write fine, but not read in another (and sometimes even the SAME) device. Today's floppies suck unwashed golf balls in comparison to the old stuff.
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You can argue for mass transit until the cows come home, but unless they run whenever I need it, I can't use it. A vast majority of the bus routes that make sense where I live don't run but weekdays, 7-6. Not acceptable even for going to work (I'd have to walk home every time. That's 7 miles. No.)
If push came to shove, I'd just drive using any number of slow altroutes. Ooh, it'd take me 20 minutes instead of 15 minutes.
The cost of moving closer most likely outweighs a toll. People will find other ways to deal with the toll.
Don't "pay for the road twice," then. Simply pull all state and federal funds and finance the ongoing maintenance and expansion via the tolls.
That'll be the day, though. Governments like money and won't give more back to the citizens than they absolutely must to stay in power.
If that's the case, may I never marry.
- Reinstitute christian or muslim moral values into the fabric of society.I probably have been trolled(tm), but if this ever happens, I'd rather die. I'll keep my poor opinion of religion to myself.
They'll cheerfully ignore that the user has the ultimate say in at least two areas: 1) buying the damned thing; 2) powering it. Much to the Corporati's chagrin, they can't force people to consume whatever, whenever in this respect.
While you are right in the sense that the game includes the firmware needed to play the game (and the grandparent is not a victim per se), I have to wonder how valid the need to use a given revision of firmware is.
Traditionally, consoles have had fixed firmware and all games had to work with all revisions of the hardware. I don't see the reason why Game X won't run on my 1.50 (well, when it WAS 1.50) PSP other than possibly Sony MAKING the developer upgrade the firmware as a condition of being licensed. I doubt very much that there is new functionality that REQUIRES new firmware for a game, although Sony definitely are at liberty to add/subtract/multiply/divide functionality as they see fit.
Like the head of this thread indirectly related, mad props to Fanjita's eloader and devhook. I'm patiently waiting for the day when kernel mode is unlocked in 2.60 of the PSP firmware. Upgrading from 2.00 so I could play LCS and Daxter was a mistake for unlicensed software.
[MS] was voted Britian's most trusted brand the other day.
Yeah... probably "according to a survey of 500 elderly people who don't use computers."
People are definitely fools on the whole, as well as being gullible.
IF the government is stupid enough to mix classified and unclas machines in the same vicinity, this might have to do with RFI, as an earlier post stated. Generally speaking, the classified computers and networks are physically separate from the unclas stuff (as in, separated by a vault or a bunker).
You most likely don't know your phone system well. There's NEVER a case where the phone company doesn't get your phone number and/or who called you. Billing would be sucktastic if the phone company ever didn't have the called and calling party numbers. They wouldn't know who to bill for the call!
You can explain and wax poetic about your expectations and preferences all you want, but it doesn't change one simple fact: my phone, my rules. When you call me, you are asking (OK, DEMANDING, in your specific case) to interrupt whatever I was doing. When I glance over at Caller ID and see it's a number I don't want to talk to right now, I just do nothing. It's a great service, I don't have to screen any calls, and those who leave voicemail usually are calling me for a reason these days.
Remember, whoever you call may actually feel they own the phone, as opposed to their phone owning them. It's their choice as to how they want to treat calls at any given time. I'm basically asking to intrude when I call someone, after all...
The same principles apply when dealing with people ringing my doorbell.
How about:
$ cd god
god: does not exist
OK, family and kids (is that redundant? Maybe) are important to you. Why should I be so concerned about doing something that society almost expects, yet I don't want to do? Maybe you view it as a measure of someone's success. I view it as a choice with no wrong answer.
That wife and kids will cost much more than any video game or porn, and I'm not just talking in terms of cash. I just don't want to commit time and money to this.
And oh... I've been living on my own and supporting myself since I left after HS, which may very well be another minority around here.
The way I see it, "fired" and "laid off" are equivalent. They were involuntarily terminated for whatever reason the employer made up, and I'm sure the two terms are treated equally when future work is sought.
When public and private schools start actually educating students as opposed to teaching school (by which I mean "blind obedience"), then I'll consider sending any kid I have to those schools. As it stands now, the educational choices I'm faced with is only one reason why I'm intent on never having any kids.
I can second this. I had my SBC phone number ported to Vonage, and not only stopped getting calls from unknown numbers, but I save $40/mo (or more if I call LD).
What's good for my mother (or anyone else) is usually not what I consider to be best for me. I will forever be using a command line, a keyboard and application-centric GUIs. No one, and I mean NO ONE, is going to tell me that I don't need a command line, just like I can't tell anyone else they don't need a kitchen-sink media player.
I'd just continue being passive, using my Caller ID, not answering the phone unless I felt like it and generally not having to stress out about it. The phone is there for me; I'm not required to be a slave to it.
In extreme cases, I'd just hook an old external modem strapped to auto-answer on the first ring up to the line, and leave it there for a week.
Yes, there is. Namely, one unit of backup media can't be used to back up all of the data. DVDs are slow to write and can't be written to like a hard drive, and top out at 8.5GB. High-capacity tape drives are expensive and not supported on most consumer systems.
I suggest using an external hard drive that's bigger, coupled with something like Acronis True Image (which can make incremental backups), and then power off and/or disconnect that drive until the next backup.
Because all the food that's good for you, but tastes like plants or styrofoam, needs all the help it can get. If I didn't put pepper on it, I probably couldn't stand to eat it. I mean, it's either spice it up or put butter/cheese on it (and sometimes it's mandatory to do both). And hey, I like my food to be spicy most of the time.
Cayenne is the best. Vinegar-based hot sauces are less than perfect.
You know what was worse for me? Back when no non-Sony-approved games worked with 1.50, I figured I was hosed, so upgraded to 1.51. So naturally, I've already upgraded to 2.0.
Then, as now, I figure the game of cat and mouse will still march on, and I'll be playing games from the memory stick soon enough. It's just a matter of time.
This isn't entirely true. One can call up the cheat console and type a few things at it to get Barbie-doll "nude" Sims without modifying anything. The censor grid can also be turned off.
Making "real" nude Sims requires new skins, so that counts as a modification of sorts.
I highly doubt the developers give two shits about the game's rating, and frankly hope it stays that way. Quality Assurance, on the other hand. . . that's where these issues should be raised.
You'll first need to remove the negative stigma associated with "Philosophy." Hell, just label the class "Critical Thinking and Analysis" and be done! I once thought "philosophy" was just another word for "bullshit."
You'll also have to emphasize that there are no right or wrong answers in such a class, and that this is not a bug in the class.
Critical thinking and analysis are banned in public schools because they interfere with the main goal of the usual public school: INDOCTRINATION. Primary and secondary schools teach school and value blind, unquestioning obedience over all else. Failure to conform is severely punished.
This is definitely my experience.
I have original Apple II disks that were duplicated in 1982 that have 0 bad sectors. I have floppies that were made in 1985 which I can format and happily read and write data to and from any of the disk][ devices I have, which are themselves 20yr old. I have 800k 3.5 media made in the late 1980s that works in any of the 6 Apple 3.5 drives I have.
I buy brand-new 1.44MB 3.5" disks and try saving stuff to them using modern USB floppy drives, and they randomly give errors! Or they'll write fine, but not read in another (and sometimes even the SAME) device. Today's floppies suck unwashed golf balls in comparison to the old stuff.