I would argue that functionality is also in the eye of the beholder. Our brains work differently, which is why we all have preferences in art, music, etc... including functionality. Certain sites, designed by very well paid people make absolutely no sense to me, I for one hate Amazon's interface, but that's me. Obviously they spent a lot of money and research time to develop a site that works for most people, to my eyes it pretty much sucks.
Information wants to be free, that is Wikipedias problem. While they may have noble intentions for censoring the articles in question that does not negate the fact that the information is out there and is trivial to find. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, a collection of knowledge and should not be subject to censor for two reasons. The first is that censorship only acts to deepen the interest and controversy of the item in question, I'll bet zeitgeist shows that searches for the topics that were censored skyrocket for at least a time after the censoring. The second reason is that since the information is out there Wikipedia should include it on principal, they are a collection of knowledge and should by definition include all knowledge that they can on all topics. Deleting articles because of personal bias only tarnishes the reliability of the site as a whole. What else has been deleted? Why? Who deleted it? Those questions are natural for all topics once you realize that some topics have been censored.
Information wants to be free, and it will be free, we all need to embrace that reality.
Is a software or flashable hardware based Dolby Digital/DTS/SDDS/Whatever the digital audio format of the day is decoder card with 9-13 preamp outputs that I can throw into my PC. Then I want a switching video input card, with say 4 - HDMI inputs, 4 - BNC component inputs, a DVI input or 2, a couple of s-video inputs for good measure. Now that would make a wicked Media PC. No need for a DVD player, a Receiver/Decoder or a DVR. While I'm thinking about it a FTA decoder card would be nice too, you could even throw a CableCard slot in somewhere. One box that records and stores all of my media and is responsible for sending everything audio and video out to where it needs to go. Yeah right, maybe in 25 years or so. Oh yeah, Linux drivers for the lot.:)
Sorry, I have to chime in here. When is the last time you've ever heard of anyone deleting their/usr and/dev directories?? WTF would possess someone to do this? The whole it's easier eff your system up in Linux than it is in Winders is such complete bull shite it makes me sick. Windows is a security nightmare plain and simple, IE is a steaming turd pile. People are realizing it and switching. "Hey my computer doesn't suck ass now that I have Firefox installed, wow that's pretty cool!" Bill Gates has nightmares about those words because he knows whats coming next s/Firefox/OpenOffice s/Firefox/KDE or Gnome s/Firefox/Linux or Mac OS X x86 The list is as long as Microsofts product list.
WTF, 10%? How many explorers died discovering this planet? I'll go, strap some roman candles to my arse, and I'll wave bye bye. At least I could say that I died doing something instead of hand wringing about how "dangerous" it is.
In the immortal words of Proximo Ultimately, we're all dead men. Sadly, we cannot choose how but, what we can decide is how we meet that end, in order that we are remembered, as men.
Three words for you boss, computer fair and Internet. I used to shop at Fry's all the time, and grew to hate it just like you. Now if I need anything I'll hit the local computer fair, there is one at the Orange County fairgrounds here in SoCal every other week it seems, and there is a huge one in Pamona every few weeks. Check your local papers, there has to be one in the Seattle area.
Just a bunch of vendors trying to undercut the other guy, if you know how to wheel and deal a little bit you can beat the crap mainstream stores like Fry's and BestBuy any day of the week, even if you were to get your rebate money.
As for the Internet if you can hold your horses for even a day you can find killer deals on the internet, a lot of places have free shipping. Plus if you order from the right places you dont have to pay geschtap^H^H^H^H^Hsales tax.
Phuck Fry's, BestBuy, CompUSA et al. The one last thing I would recommend is your local corner computer shop, those guys are just geeks trying to make a buck, they may not have everything but they'll have most of what you need, plus they can order stuff. Plus he's the guy at the computer fair selling stuff as well, so give him some love, you just might make a friend who can hook you up later on.
However, the collision fireball has been smaller and shorter-lived than expected, according to two RHIC collaborations (STAR and PHENIX) of pions (the lightest form of quark-antiquark pairs)
One question, are pions sub-atomic particles or the poor schmucks that have to go into the collider and look at the fireballs first hand?
Haha, so true, I've actually driven in Houston so I kind of know what you're talking about. I can't imagine the complete chaos that SoCal would be if we ever got snow.
A light drizzle here brings the freeways to a crawl. When it rains here most people, especially the natives, turn into one of two types of drivers. The first type, the freaked out Irvineite driving their H2 with all of the hazards on in the middle lane of the freeway at 7 MPH. The second type, the psycho crazed ABC (american born Chineese) driving his "pimped" out Integra with Z rated tires at about 95 MPH in the slow lane thinking that it's fun to hydroplane until they smash into the dividers, or into the back of a freaked out Irvineite.
I am a very good driver, having grown up in eastern Washington I am used to all types of weather conditions. Being a passionate driver since I was 14, I have actually practiced several driving techniques. I used to go to parking lots in the middle of the night while it was raining or snowing to practice police turnarounds, slalom, skid control, regaining control, hydroplaning, etc.
Having said that the scariest place I have ever driven, right above Boston, was Philidelphia. The people there are out to kill you! Several times I was driving on the freeway and someone would swerve right into my lane, not cutting me off, trying to occupy the same space at the same time.
I am all for a more structured driver license system where people are allowed certain privileges based on a level of completion. If you can regain control of a spinning car at 60 MPH within a certain distance you are allowed to drive at 80+ MPH, if you can you can only drive 65+. Something like that. Code peoples driver licenses to indicate what certification they are. There are some people that do not belong on the road, and our current system basically treats our ability to drive a car as a right not a priviledge, which it should be.
I drive drunk while talking on a cell phone. That probably makes me the equivalent of a blind, amputated 3 toed sloth behind the wheel. Which is IMHO above average for Southern California.
The Yugo GT exploded into a ball of flames near the end of the 3 lap of the race while the Ferrari was only knocked into sluggishness by the excessive heat of the day. (Car performance is a complex thing, of course -- more complicated that what engine is in the cars)
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
Footnotes: a. Genesis 1:2 Or possibly became
From Here , the New International Version translation
The key to this passsage is the word was or became, God created the earth some time ago, which is completely unknown to us. I personally believe it is the standardly accepted 4.something billion years ago. The already created earth became formless and empty. The Bible shows us that God does not create waste, why would he create a formless and empty earth?
We do have a fairly clear timeline, roughly 6,000 years from Genesis 1:2, when God created man. Me thinks 5,200 years could be about the time of the flood. Which IMHO is a major climatic event.
I'm curious about both this post and the GP. What's exactly wrong with wanting Linux drivers for something? If Gigabyte wants me to buy this card I want Linux drivers, period. I run Windows as well, not to mention OpenBSD, FreeBSD, OS X, whatever works. I will not purchase a graphics card without at least a comitment from the company that they will provide Linux drivers, case in point, I purchased a Centrino based laptop even though Centrino was not supported on Linux by Intel. Intel, however, had a nice little page that said that they were working with the OSS community to create drivers, good enough for me.
What is wrong with Firefox? It's fast, 99.99% of the sites I visit render beautifully in it. It's a remarkable development platform (XUL/XBL), a testament to the Open Source community and free to boot. If you like IE so much run it, don't bitch because there is an alternative. Firefox is one more nail in the coffin of commercial comodity software.
Ogg Vorbis? Again, what's the problem with a free open codec? Would you be singing the same song if you were the person/company that Karlheinz Brandenburg decided to charge for using MP3? Ogg Vorbis is a response along with all of the other software you mention to greedy corporations trying to force consumers to behave a certain way.
I for one do not welcome our new WalMart overlords. I prefer to do things my own way, I am not a Zealot, although I do install Firefox on every computer I meet, simply because I don't like dealing with fixing my friends and families spyware infested computers. I understand the turn off the a zealot poses, but don't knock it till you've tried it brotha.
As to your other items, IMHO Bill Gates is a thief and a liar. I wouldn't stop to piss on him if he was on fire. But that's just me.
Star Wars was cool, eps 4-6 rocked. Some of the games rocked, Lucas, however, is two steps lower on my people to hang out with in my lifetime list than Gates is.
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I would argue that functionality is also in the eye of the beholder. Our brains work differently, which is why we all have preferences in art, music, etc... including functionality. Certain sites, designed by very well paid people make absolutely no sense to me, I for one hate Amazon's interface, but that's me. Obviously they spent a lot of money and research time to develop a site that works for most people, to my eyes it pretty much sucks.
Blue Security should switch their users over to a "alternative" operating system :)
BS: Ohh so you're gonna send viruses? Flame on!!!!
SPAM: DA!!!! Heresky Comesky Virusky
BS: Cha! That's all you got bitch
SPAM: Whatsky The Fucksky?!?!?!?
BS, along with 99% of the FOSS community lauch counter attack on Mother Russian Spammers.
Step 3: Profit
Information wants to be free, that is Wikipedias problem. While they may have noble intentions for censoring the articles in question that does not negate the fact that the information is out there and is trivial to find. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, a collection of knowledge and should not be subject to censor for two reasons. The first is that censorship only acts to deepen the interest and controversy of the item in question, I'll bet zeitgeist shows that searches for the topics that were censored skyrocket for at least a time after the censoring. The second reason is that since the information is out there Wikipedia should include it on principal, they are a collection of knowledge and should by definition include all knowledge that they can on all topics. Deleting articles because of personal bias only tarnishes the reliability of the site as a whole. What else has been deleted? Why? Who deleted it? Those questions are natural for all topics once you realize that some topics have been censored.
Information wants to be free, and it will be free, we all need to embrace that reality.
Is a software or flashable hardware based Dolby Digital/DTS/SDDS/Whatever the digital audio format of the day is decoder card with 9-13 preamp outputs that I can throw into my PC. Then I want a switching video input card, with say 4 - HDMI inputs, 4 - BNC component inputs, a DVI input or 2, a couple of s-video inputs for good measure. Now that would make a wicked Media PC. No need for a DVD player, a Receiver/Decoder or a DVR. While I'm thinking about it a FTA decoder card would be nice too, you could even throw a CableCard slot in somewhere. One box that records and stores all of my media and is responsible for sending everything audio and video out to where it needs to go. Yeah right, maybe in 25 years or so. Oh yeah, Linux drivers for the lot. :)
Sorry, I have to chime in here. When is the last time you've ever heard of anyone deleting their /usr and /dev directories?? WTF would possess someone to do this? The whole it's easier eff your system up in Linux than it is in Winders is such complete bull shite it makes me sick. Windows is a security nightmare plain and simple, IE is a steaming turd pile. People are realizing it and switching. "Hey my computer doesn't suck ass now that I have Firefox installed, wow that's pretty cool!" Bill Gates has nightmares about those words because he knows whats coming next
s/Firefox/OpenOffice
s/Firefox/KDE or Gnome
s/Firefox/Linux or Mac OS X x86
The list is as long as Microsofts product list.
Where is that short haired lesbo workout chick when you need her?
Why wget instead of LWP?
The pussification of America
WTF, 10%? How many explorers died discovering this planet? I'll go, strap some roman candles to my arse, and I'll wave bye bye. At least I could say that I died doing something instead of hand wringing about how "dangerous" it is.
In the immortal words of Proximo Ultimately, we're all dead men. Sadly, we cannot choose how but, what we can decide is how we meet that end, in order that we are remembered, as men.
Um, in the case of Windows I would compare it to a "vintage" 6 month old bottle of Night Train
Three words for you boss, computer fair and Internet. I used to shop at Fry's all the time, and grew to hate it just like you. Now if I need anything I'll hit the local computer fair, there is one at the Orange County fairgrounds here in SoCal every other week it seems, and there is a huge one in Pamona every few weeks. Check your local papers, there has to be one in the Seattle area.
Just a bunch of vendors trying to undercut the other guy, if you know how to wheel and deal a little bit you can beat the crap mainstream stores like Fry's and BestBuy any day of the week, even if you were to get your rebate money.
As for the Internet if you can hold your horses for even a day you can find killer deals on the internet, a lot of places have free shipping. Plus if you order from the right places you dont have to pay geschtap^H^H^H^H^Hsales tax.
Phuck Fry's, BestBuy, CompUSA et al. The one last thing I would recommend is your local corner computer shop, those guys are just geeks trying to make a buck, they may not have everything but they'll have most of what you need, plus they can order stuff. Plus he's the guy at the computer fair selling stuff as well, so give him some love, you just might make a friend who can hook you up later on.
I like these icons better, the nicest FF and TBird icons I've seen. Kudos to whomever did them!
However, the collision fireball has been smaller and shorter-lived than expected, according to two RHIC collaborations (STAR and PHENIX) of pions (the lightest form of quark-antiquark pairs)
One question, are pions sub-atomic particles or the poor schmucks that have to go into the collider and look at the fireballs first hand?
Heh, mine is in dec :P
Hey there are a lot of blokes that don't know that Washington is a state as well as a city, so STFU. Blame the teachers.
Haha, so true, I've actually driven in Houston so I kind of know what you're talking about. I can't imagine the complete chaos that SoCal would be if we ever got snow.
A light drizzle here brings the freeways to a crawl. When it rains here most people, especially the natives, turn into one of two types of drivers. The first type, the freaked out Irvineite driving their H2 with all of the hazards on in the middle lane of the freeway at 7 MPH. The second type, the psycho crazed ABC (american born Chineese) driving his "pimped" out Integra with Z rated tires at about 95 MPH in the slow lane thinking that it's fun to hydroplane until they smash into the dividers, or into the back of a freaked out Irvineite.
I am a very good driver, having grown up in eastern Washington I am used to all types of weather conditions. Being a passionate driver since I was 14, I have actually practiced several driving techniques. I used to go to parking lots in the middle of the night while it was raining or snowing to practice police turnarounds, slalom, skid control, regaining control, hydroplaning, etc.
Having said that the scariest place I have ever driven, right above Boston, was Philidelphia. The people there are out to kill you! Several times I was driving on the freeway and someone would swerve right into my lane, not cutting me off, trying to occupy the same space at the same time.
I am all for a more structured driver license system where people are allowed certain privileges based on a level of completion. If you can regain control of a spinning car at 60 MPH within a certain distance you are allowed to drive at 80+ MPH, if you can you can only drive 65+. Something like that. Code peoples driver licenses to indicate what certification they are. There are some people that do not belong on the road, and our current system basically treats our ability to drive a car as a right not a priviledge, which it should be.
I drive drunk while talking on a cell phone. That probably makes me the equivalent of a blind, amputated 3 toed sloth behind the wheel. Which is IMHO above average for Southern California.
I tried telling that to a Panasonic VP in Tokyo once, he was not impressed. :)
The Yugo GT exploded into a ball of flames near the end of the 3 lap of the race while the Ferrari was only knocked into sluggishness by the excessive heat of the day. (Car performance is a complex thing, of course -- more complicated that what engine is in the cars)
You pee in your eye?
The key to this passsage is the word was or became, God created the earth some time ago, which is completely unknown to us. I personally believe it is the standardly accepted 4.something billion years ago. The already created earth became formless and empty. The Bible shows us that God does not create waste, why would he create a formless and empty earth?
We do have a fairly clear timeline, roughly 6,000 years from Genesis 1:2, when God created man. Me thinks 5,200 years could be about the time of the flood. Which IMHO is a major climatic event.
I'm curious about both this post and the GP. What's exactly wrong with wanting Linux drivers for something? If Gigabyte wants me to buy this card I want Linux drivers, period. I run Windows as well, not to mention OpenBSD, FreeBSD, OS X, whatever works. I will not purchase a graphics card without at least a comitment from the company that they will provide Linux drivers, case in point, I purchased a Centrino based laptop even though Centrino was not supported on Linux by Intel. Intel, however, had a nice little page that said that they were working with the OSS community to create drivers, good enough for me.
What is wrong with Firefox? It's fast, 99.99% of the sites I visit render beautifully in it. It's a remarkable development platform (XUL/XBL), a testament to the Open Source community and free to boot. If you like IE so much run it, don't bitch because there is an alternative. Firefox is one more nail in the coffin of commercial comodity software.
Ogg Vorbis? Again, what's the problem with a free open codec? Would you be singing the same song if you were the person/company that Karlheinz Brandenburg decided to charge for using MP3? Ogg Vorbis is a response along with all of the other software you mention to greedy corporations trying to force consumers to behave a certain way.
I for one do not welcome our new WalMart overlords. I prefer to do things my own way, I am not a Zealot, although I do install Firefox on every computer I meet, simply because I don't like dealing with fixing my friends and families spyware infested computers. I understand the turn off the a zealot poses, but don't knock it till you've tried it brotha.
As to your other items, IMHO Bill Gates is a thief and a liar. I wouldn't stop to piss on him if he was on fire. But that's just me.
Star Wars was cool, eps 4-6 rocked. Some of the games rocked, Lucas, however, is two steps lower on my people to hang out with in my lifetime list than Gates is.
Install Linux on it? Someone will surely try.
Porn? Yes, most certainly.