You must not see many movies, buy many products, or utilize many services, then. Tell me, what is life like 'off of the grid'?
Seriously, how do you propose we escape the 'soulles leeches' that are marketing professionals? Boycotting products isn't going to work, they'll just shift over to another ad agency...I suppose we could petition for the demise of the industry, but in its stead would likely rise a newer, sleeker, more agile, and more full of bitter assholes industry designed to invade your every waking moment. In fact, they're already working on that...commercials that *go with you*. Someone on NPR's On The Media was espousing the virtues of this altogether unholy technology. You watch a show, but leave during the commercials, and magically, the commercials show up in other places where you happen to be...radio, random televisions, etc. I refuse to look up a link for it, given that it is pure evil, but it is being worked on.
Given the choice, I'd rather deal with 'soulless leeches' and 'viral marketing' than whatever it is they've got planned for the future...
Trillin Basic, as my understanding goes, isn't able to utilize this plugin...only those who shelled out 29.95 USD for Trillian Pro get to connect to Jabber services. I do wish that they made it available to the basic users as well, seeing as how having a Pro account is no longer worth it (no new skins for 3.x, no really decent plugins, etc)...oh well.
A punk rock website beat you to this news...punk...rock. This is a tech website...a tech site that lost to a dinky (by/. standards, at least) site ostensibly dedicated to a style of music that has historically eschewed the use of such techie devices (not strictly, mind, but by and large). I have actually lost most of the respect I had remaining for good ol' slashdot...
Hell, down the street from my apartment, you can apparently sit in the parking lot of Kwik Lube and enjoy the benefits of their open wireless network. Not a bad deal, really...assuming you've got a laptop and a need to get things done while waiting on them to flush your systems and such. That doesn't make you man, though...because real man change their own oil, transmission fluid and all that jazz.
Damn you Rockstar!! Your game isn't even out yet, and it's already corrupting the precious commodity that is our children! When, oh when will the madness stop?
You know, I was going to say something smarmy about your post...but then I watched the ad. I'd probably say that it would've benefitted for the 'Uwe Boll crawl' treatment.
Not that I'd expect there to be too many Friends fans around here, but I really liked Chandlers approach to advertising..."Socks. They go on your feet" or "Pants. They're like shorts, but longer." Would it hurt people to be that obvious sometimes?
Rap isn't the only refuge of nerds...nor is it the first choice. Punk rock has been home to some of musics more learned individuals for quite some time. Here are some prime examples:
Adam Goren//Atom & His Package - Goren holds a Masters in Education and is certified to teach various sciences; notable songs include '(Lord It's Hard to Be Happy When You're Not) Using the Metric System' and It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Lib Greg Graffin//Bad Religion - Graffin holds a Masters in Geology and a PhD in Zoology, many find they often need a dictionary to fully grasp the meaning of some of the lyrics penned by Graffin. Milo Aukerman//The Descendents - Aukerman has a PhD in Biochemistry and is so involved in his day to day job that The Descendents hadn't recorded an album from 1996 to 2004...they still haven't properly toured, owing to Aukerman's schedule.
There are others in the community who hold masters and doctorates, but I've just been slammed at work and need to divert my attention toward getting paid...good for Nerdcore rap finally getting some respect, but don't forget to toss a little to those who've been doing it longer in a different genre.
Just fired up my laptop and loaded firefox...the personalized homepage (with changed news item amounts, added sections and Gmail) seems to be working fine.
My FF version is 1.0.6 and I have the following extensions: FlashGot (0.5.9.7), Adblock (0.5.2.039), NoScript (1.0.9), ForecastFox (0.8.1.1), Tabbrowser (1.2.7.1), Gmail Notifier (0.4.3), StumbleUpon (2.02), ImageZoom (0.1.7.1), Download Tweak (0.6.6), FoxyTunes (1.1.1), fireFTP (0.88.3), ShowIP (0.7.10), SessionSaver2, Flashblock (1.2.9), DictionarySearch (0.9.2), MediaPlayerConnect (0.3.10) and MapIt! (0.7.1).
So I don't think it is any of those (or a combination thereof) that is causing the problem...
I'm pretty sure it wasn't the CPU that failed, but more likely it was the HDD (in the case of repair) and the mainboard (in the case of replacement)...but it's not as though this is an isolated incident. Just about every Intel box I've owned or used has been mired with problems (don't even get me started on the last one I built...last AMD I built had similar hardware and worked fine).
My last few computers (desktop and laptop alike) have been AMD powered, and I've been very impressed with the reliability and performance that they have brought to me. For example, my Athlon64 3000+ laptop has been running like a champ for the past 3 months...my new P4 work box is two months old and has already needed to be replaced once and repaired twice.
I'm never switching back, never, never, never. I need to get my hands on a PPC PowerBook soon, because the Intel jump at Apple concerns me...
Orientals are rugs and vases...Asians are a people, but even then you'd be well served to not lump them all together.
And as far as differences in the languages go, and the people who speak them, you could've just summed it up by saying that English is a phonetic language, and that most Eastern languages (both near and far) are tonal in nature...one reason most of America can't really pick up Eastern languages (and why the CIA/FBI/Military is at a need for people) isn't because we can't *learn* the language, it's because of the years and years of spent speaking *only* in phonetics makes it exceedingly difficult for 'Mericans to form the tones and phrasing.
To add some context - as well as dissuade any thoughts that I'm blowing smoke up collective asses, here - I studied Japanese for 5/6 years (exact amount of time, I can't remember, it was Junior High and High School, both), and was advised to drop it because I couldn't seem to get my mouth around forming conversational sentences. Further, my roommate is a practicing Speech Pathologist and often works with children from both tonal and phonetic backgrounds.
I still plan on proving Oga-sensei wrong and get a degree in Nihongo so that I can move over to the Land of the Rising Sun and work as a translator in the publishing industry...maybe I'll look her up when I get there. hehe.
Personally, this whole HotCoffee row has bred in me a renewed interest in playing GTA:SA, as well as GTA:VC and GTAIII. You know what my favorite part is? Having sex with the hookers...and then killing them. (ps - not trolling, being dead on serious here)
This was my solution to the problem back when I was playing FFXI on the PS2. Now that I no longer play FFXI (I'm a CoH man, myself), the 'controller' gets little/no use and stands as a reminder to myself (along with the damnable PS2/HDD) that not everything Square does is a good thing...
Thanks, I was trying to figure out how to be 'true punx'...I'm glad that you've shown me the path. I guess I'll need to liquidate my collection of 7s and throw out all of the shirts and junk that I bought at legitimate shows...anyone wanna buy 200 something 7s and about 70 concert shirts (assorted colors, all ranging from Youth Large to Adult Medium)? Best offer gets to help me buy a boombox and Britney Spears albums.
It's funny that you mention that they run well in cars, because I was just perusing MP3car.com before I hopped over to/. to start my morning off proper.
I just bought a new car, and had been seriously looking into building a box to house in my car (just imagine the drive to work with a pr0n slideshow rolling). By the looks of things, they primarily deal in the VIA Epia boards over there...hrm *ponders*
Welcome to the goddamn party, man...I've been through this with my music (punk) and my hobbies (skateboarding and tagging) before, and it's no fun at all.
But see, heres the rub...with all of these things - games, punk, thrashing, etc - we've been there before, and we'll go there again in a few years time. Games garnered favor in the 80s, and then faded into obscurity, only to be resurrected again every now and then (granted, certainly not the multi-billion dollar industry that it is now), only to be banished to toil in the dank basements of the geek elite when the kids lost interest. Punk? Same. Skating? Same. The only two 'underground scenes' that ever went public and haven't looked back since are hip-hop/rap culture and the internet (I would've included rock, but I couldn't con myself into it).
Does it suck to have thousands upon thousands of 'newbies' suckling at the same teet that you and yours had clung to so secretly, delicately for so long? Yeah. Is the end of the world? Probably not. For every Offspring, theres an Against Me!...for every Madden 200X, theres a Katamari Damacy...for every Bam Margera, theres a Rodney Mullen. Daaaananana life goes on.
"Now the cops got tanks cuz the kids got guns / shrinks pushin pills on everyone / cancer from the ocean, cancer from the sun / straight to hell we go."
Ahhh, The Descendents...proving that even biochemists can be mildly insightful.
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You must not see many movies, buy many products, or utilize many services, then. Tell me, what is life like 'off of the grid'?
Seriously, how do you propose we escape the 'soulles leeches' that are marketing professionals? Boycotting products isn't going to work, they'll just shift over to another ad agency...I suppose we could petition for the demise of the industry, but in its stead would likely rise a newer, sleeker, more agile, and more full of bitter assholes industry designed to invade your every waking moment. In fact, they're already working on that...commercials that *go with you*. Someone on NPR's On The Media was espousing the virtues of this altogether unholy technology. You watch a show, but leave during the commercials, and magically, the commercials show up in other places where you happen to be...radio, random televisions, etc. I refuse to look up a link for it, given that it is pure evil, but it is being worked on.
Given the choice, I'd rather deal with 'soulless leeches' and 'viral marketing' than whatever it is they've got planned for the future...
Trillin Basic, as my understanding goes, isn't able to utilize this plugin...only those who shelled out 29.95 USD for Trillian Pro get to connect to Jabber services. I do wish that they made it available to the basic users as well, seeing as how having a Pro account is no longer worth it (no new skins for 3.x, no really decent plugins, etc)...oh well.
A punk rock website beat you to this news...punk...rock. This is a tech website...a tech site that lost to a dinky (by /. standards, at least) site ostensibly dedicated to a style of music that has historically eschewed the use of such techie devices (not strictly, mind, but by and large). I have actually lost most of the respect I had remaining for good ol' slashdot...
come now, are you really that lacking in resourcefulness?
Hell, down the street from my apartment, you can apparently sit in the parking lot of Kwik Lube and enjoy the benefits of their open wireless network. Not a bad deal, really...assuming you've got a laptop and a need to get things done while waiting on them to flush your systems and such. That doesn't make you man, though...because real man change their own oil, transmission fluid and all that jazz.
I'm not a real man, sadly.
Damn you Rockstar!! Your game isn't even out yet, and it's already corrupting the precious commodity that is our children! When, oh when will the madness stop?
So DefCon is an event of firsts in more ways than one? Good times!
You know, I was going to say something smarmy about your post...but then I watched the ad. I'd probably say that it would've benefitted for the 'Uwe Boll crawl' treatment.
Not that I'd expect there to be too many Friends fans around here, but I really liked Chandlers approach to advertising..."Socks. They go on your feet" or "Pants. They're like shorts, but longer." Would it hurt people to be that obvious sometimes?
Rap isn't the only refuge of nerds...nor is it the first choice. Punk rock has been home to some of musics more learned individuals for quite some time. Here are some prime examples:
Adam Goren//Atom & His Package - Goren holds a Masters in Education and is certified to teach various sciences; notable songs include '(Lord It's Hard to Be Happy When You're Not) Using the Metric System' and It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Lib
Greg Graffin//Bad Religion - Graffin holds a Masters in Geology and a PhD in Zoology, many find they often need a dictionary to fully grasp the meaning of some of the lyrics penned by Graffin.
Milo Aukerman//The Descendents - Aukerman has a PhD in Biochemistry and is so involved in his day to day job that The Descendents hadn't recorded an album from 1996 to 2004...they still haven't properly toured, owing to Aukerman's schedule.
There are others in the community who hold masters and doctorates, but I've just been slammed at work and need to divert my attention toward getting paid...good for Nerdcore rap finally getting some respect, but don't forget to toss a little to those who've been doing it longer in a different genre.
I bow to you, sir. Your joke was far superior to mine...granted, I did provide the set up.
Seems to me a huge liberal, Hilary Clinton, got this ball rolling in NY state.
Now let's be fair...Hilary isn't anywhere near as big as was Monica. Oh...erm...you weren't talking about her physical size, were you?
Just fired up my laptop and loaded firefox...the personalized homepage (with changed news item amounts, added sections and Gmail) seems to be working fine.
My FF version is 1.0.6 and I have the following extensions: FlashGot (0.5.9.7), Adblock (0.5.2.039), NoScript (1.0.9), ForecastFox (0.8.1.1), Tabbrowser (1.2.7.1), Gmail Notifier (0.4.3), StumbleUpon (2.02), ImageZoom (0.1.7.1), Download Tweak (0.6.6), FoxyTunes (1.1.1), fireFTP (0.88.3), ShowIP (0.7.10), SessionSaver2, Flashblock (1.2.9), DictionarySearch (0.9.2), MediaPlayerConnect (0.3.10) and MapIt! (0.7.1).
So I don't think it is any of those (or a combination thereof) that is causing the problem...
I'm pretty sure it wasn't the CPU that failed, but more likely it was the HDD (in the case of repair) and the mainboard (in the case of replacement)...but it's not as though this is an isolated incident. Just about every Intel box I've owned or used has been mired with problems (don't even get me started on the last one I built...last AMD I built had similar hardware and worked fine).
It's also lagging quite a bit behind the RSS feed, I suspect...the 'top story' on the Google Portal Page is a little old.
note: the current story is this one right here.
My last few computers (desktop and laptop alike) have been AMD powered, and I've been very impressed with the reliability and performance that they have brought to me. For example, my Athlon64 3000+ laptop has been running like a champ for the past 3 months...my new P4 work box is two months old and has already needed to be replaced once and repaired twice.
I'm never switching back, never, never, never. I need to get my hands on a PPC PowerBook soon, because the Intel jump at Apple concerns me...
Orientals are rugs and vases...Asians are a people, but even then you'd be well served to not lump them all together.
And as far as differences in the languages go, and the people who speak them, you could've just summed it up by saying that English is a phonetic language, and that most Eastern languages (both near and far) are tonal in nature...one reason most of America can't really pick up Eastern languages (and why the CIA/FBI/Military is at a need for people) isn't because we can't *learn* the language, it's because of the years and years of spent speaking *only* in phonetics makes it exceedingly difficult for 'Mericans to form the tones and phrasing.
To add some context - as well as dissuade any thoughts that I'm blowing smoke up collective asses, here - I studied Japanese for 5/6 years (exact amount of time, I can't remember, it was Junior High and High School, both), and was advised to drop it because I couldn't seem to get my mouth around forming conversational sentences. Further, my roommate is a practicing Speech Pathologist and often works with children from both tonal and phonetic backgrounds.
I still plan on proving Oga-sensei wrong and get a degree in Nihongo so that I can move over to the Land of the Rising Sun and work as a translator in the publishing industry...maybe I'll look her up when I get there. hehe.
Thank you, kind sir...I pride myself on my oddly sociopathic gaming traits. ;)
Personally, this whole HotCoffee row has bred in me a renewed interest in playing GTA:SA, as well as GTA:VC and GTAIII. You know what my favorite part is? Having sex with the hookers...and then killing them. (ps - not trolling, being dead on serious here)
And I'd say that The Register is pretty spot on, too.
This was my solution to the problem back when I was playing FFXI on the PS2. Now that I no longer play FFXI (I'm a CoH man, myself), the 'controller' gets little/no use and stands as a reminder to myself (along with the damnable PS2/HDD) that not everything Square does is a good thing...
Thanks, I was trying to figure out how to be 'true punx'...I'm glad that you've shown me the path. I guess I'll need to liquidate my collection of 7s and throw out all of the shirts and junk that I bought at legitimate shows...anyone wanna buy 200 something 7s and about 70 concert shirts (assorted colors, all ranging from Youth Large to Adult Medium)? Best offer gets to help me buy a boombox and Britney Spears albums.
It's funny that you mention that they run well in cars, because I was just perusing MP3car.com before I hopped over to /. to start my morning off proper.
I just bought a new car, and had been seriously looking into building a box to house in my car (just imagine the drive to work with a pr0n slideshow rolling). By the looks of things, they primarily deal in the VIA Epia boards over there...hrm *ponders*
You don't want them all pointed IN...I get it now. No wonder my last box went kaput, it was simply too damn hot.
Welcome to the goddamn party, man...I've been through this with my music (punk) and my hobbies (skateboarding and tagging) before, and it's no fun at all.
But see, heres the rub...with all of these things - games, punk, thrashing, etc - we've been there before, and we'll go there again in a few years time. Games garnered favor in the 80s, and then faded into obscurity, only to be resurrected again every now and then (granted, certainly not the multi-billion dollar industry that it is now), only to be banished to toil in the dank basements of the geek elite when the kids lost interest. Punk? Same. Skating? Same. The only two 'underground scenes' that ever went public and haven't looked back since are hip-hop/rap culture and the internet (I would've included rock, but I couldn't con myself into it).
Does it suck to have thousands upon thousands of 'newbies' suckling at the same teet that you and yours had clung to so secretly, delicately for so long? Yeah. Is the end of the world? Probably not. For every Offspring, theres an Against Me!...for every Madden 200X, theres a Katamari Damacy...for every Bam Margera, theres a Rodney Mullen. Daaaananana life goes on.
"Now the cops got tanks cuz the kids got guns / shrinks pushin pills on everyone / cancer from the ocean, cancer from the sun / straight to hell we go."
Ahhh, The Descendents...proving that even biochemists can be mildly insightful.