LMAO, well duh, he was driving faster than the rest of the traffic on the road. The video would have been quite boring if all we saw the whole time was the back end of some 18-wheeler.
It's not like there were long stretches where the right lane was unused. When there WERE such stretches, he did move over. I'd say he drove about the same as I do when I'm driving a relatively long distance with somewhat crowded highways.
To expand on that, the Japanese have had PC and PS2 version for quiet a while. The English PC version came out last fall, and the PS2 was just released recently.
I have been playing on PC for several months now, and the influx of PS2ers is big news in the game. Things are going well however. Most of the PS2 noobs have broadband, and while there is some difference between the two groups, they are getting along just fine.
The PS2 folk are finding out they need spend a bit of extra cash on a USB keyboard in order to properly communicate with the rest of us, so when all is said and done, FFXI is probably the most expensive PS2 game ever! ($100 game+hard disk; $40 USB keybard, $whatever for network interface, plus $13+/month for access to the servers, plus $$ for internet connection).
sorry, but you characterise burning man poorly. I imagine you to be up-tight, not willing to take risks or think outside the morality taught to you when you were younger.
back in '98, burning man changed the way i see life. the art and beauty and non-commercial nature of the event made me believe that someday humans can make a peaceful and beautiful society.
perhaps you went in more recent years, when you have more people (like yourself, perhaps) that are up-tight and didn't get into the spirit of the event. perhaps a BM regular can tell me if more recent years have gotten more "pretentious" as some people are saying...
You have to realize when technology has made your business model obsolete. I don't understand these companies that think past profits mandate their future existance.
I had the same thing happening... here is what fixed it for me.
I realized that each of the diagonals has a sub-menu associated with it. You drag THROUGH the diagonal (holding down the button) and let the sub-(pie?)-menu pop up, then you (still holding the button) move over the item you want. (If you get confused, hold the mouse still for ~1 second and the text descriptions will pop up.)
Up, down, left, and right just work by right-clicking, dragging into the pie-icon, then letting go.
I absolutely love it. It took about 30 minutes to really get used to... now I consider it a must-have feature.
I run a web server through speakeasy... no problem here. Of course, I'm using Linux/Apache, not the shitty, unreliable and insecure Windows/IIS as my web server.
(BTW, speakeasy is great, I pay more for it -- $80/month --- but it's worth every penny)
I get a few dozen hits a week from family/friends checking out my personal web page (hosted on my Linux box at home). I see no reason why I should have to pay hundreds of dollars a month for a commercial line, since I'm not doing anything commercial on it.
That is because simply looking from outside the house is not invasive. Likewise, examining a house from the outside with thermal imaging gear is not invasive in the sense of a true search, and should not require a warrant.
So following that logic, should the cops also be able to use a very sensitive recording device to record your private conversations? After all, the sound waves emitted by your voice do carry through the walls and can be examed "from the outside".
I have telocity here in Milwaukee. I'm about half a mile from our switching station and I consistently get a good connection ~650-800 kbps down, 200-300 up. (It was billed as 768/384)
Generally, I've been rather impressed with my telocity service. They had one system-wide hiccup when I first got it (nov or dec last 2000) and I didn't have service for a day or two, but other than that Telocity has been rock solid.
Offtopic: I also just finally got a debian box working with it. I have a pentium 100 with ipchains running. It works wonderfully for both my desktop and my laptop computer.
SQL is a series of codes used to database interaction.
SELECT Age, Height, Name FROM MyAddressBook WHERE Age<18
The above statement will return the fields Age, Height, and Name from the table "MyAddressBook" and limit the values to only those whose age is less than 18.
There is also ways using SQL to insert data, create tables, and lots and lots of other stuff.
I was using FreeAV for a while, and the service worked quite well.
Then on a whim I tried K-Mart's free service, (Blue Light, blue tooth, somethin?) and it seems to be the same or better. The banner ad nicely docks itself to the bottom of the screen. Also, as a Yahoo mail user, it kicks ass because it set's my default home to my.yahoo.com (which is what I used anyway).
I'm in Milwaukee... I have speakeasy also, and their service is very customizable, and the prices are up-front and decent. Installation was totally trouble-free.
The Speakeasy contract specifically allowed me to set up a web server, but has a few exceptions (porn, warez, stuff like that).
Also, Speakeasy has a provision in their contract that if the price of the service ever comes down, I automatically get the better price (but the price cannot go up (until my year contract is up)).
Oh... and their service works perfectly (and was VERY easily configured) with both my Linux and WinNT machines.
...that the FCC can make a decision like this with virtually NO input from the general public or elected officials. It seems something this important should require a vote or something.
Too much power with no accountability. I didn't realize that the FCC was owned by the corporations. I always thought they were a part of our government which in turn is owned/controled by it's citizens.
I love IMing. I have family and friends that have moved out of state. While email works okay for communication, it's much nicer to use IM and carry on a conversation in real-time. IM names seem to change a lot less than email addresses, too.
(Note: I use Yahoo-- they keep a list of my friends/buddys on their server so I don't have to set up a bunch of crap every time I change clients. My whole family is on Yahoo now and it's great!)
Sure, K-Mart carding to buy games is a good first step, but we need to take more definative action.
Start by enacting legislation that prevents minors from purchasing these games ANYWHERE. Force online purchases to FAX their IDs in order to order these games.
Next, we must make laws forbidding adults from purchasing these games for minors. Our society will not be safe until we can BE SURE that noone under 17 will get access to these horrible games.
Finally, hold parents criminally responsible if their children get access to these games. Don't allow games with sufficient ratings to even be installed in homes that have children. The purity of our kids will then be fully enforced and crime will become non-existant.
What better path to utopia than this? Call your congressman today and demand they DO SOMETHING!
I know that I needed some college because my high school computer training was so pitiful. Out of HS, I had no idea what a pointer was and little idea of complex algorithms (ie bubble sort, linked lists, etc). They taught basic. You programmed in basic. That's all there was.
So anyway, my time in college was valuable for me to learn those higher level languages. I remember *compiling* my first program in pascal and thinking "wow...this is weird" because HS taught me none of that.
However, I now see high schoolers having tools available that were not available to me. I think many of these kids right out of HS have the necessary skills to perform sufficiently out in the job market.
If I had had linux and my own pentium computer as a kid, I would certainly have taught myself how to use C, C++, java, perl, and whatever other programming languages I found interesting. As it was, all I had was a Vic 20 and later upgraded to C64.
Of course, there is the issue of wether these youngins can handle other aspects of a job right out of HS. But that totally depends on the individual.
Anyway, some (skillful) 17 year olds can handle a full time programming job, some (skillful) 30 year olds cannot. But I don't believe college is necessary for everyone.
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"Who needs n amount of space?"
I'm sick of that question. Your post is the perfect answer.
LMAO, well duh, he was driving faster than the rest of the traffic on the road. The video would have been quite boring if all we saw the whole time was the back end of some 18-wheeler.
It's not like there were long stretches where the right lane was unused. When there WERE such stretches, he did move over. I'd say he drove about the same as I do when I'm driving a relatively long distance with somewhat crowded highways.
I'm amazed how many of them are out today. Is it a beginning-of-the-month thing or what?
Where is the source code?
To expand on that, the Japanese have had PC and PS2 version for quiet a while. The English PC version came out last fall, and the PS2 was just released recently.
I have been playing on PC for several months now, and the influx of PS2ers is big news in the game. Things are going well however. Most of the PS2 noobs have broadband, and while there is some difference between the two groups, they are getting along just fine.
The PS2 folk are finding out they need spend a bit of extra cash on a USB keyboard in order to properly communicate with the rest of us, so when all is said and done, FFXI is probably the most expensive PS2 game ever! ($100 game+hard disk; $40 USB keybard, $whatever for network interface, plus $13+/month for access to the servers, plus $$ for internet connection).
DVD burners will be commonplace and cheep by x-mas 2004. (ie less than $150 for the recorder, media cheaper than blank VHS tapes)
I had just taken a class where we (once again) learned the prefixes: kilo-, mega-, giga-, etc.
In our computer lab, we had the "huge" 20MB hard drives which sparked up this conversation with the computer teacher.
Me: How long do you think before we have GIGAbyte hard drives?
Teacher: We will never have such a thing. It's totally impossible.
And he left it at that. I think he was trying to make me feel stupid in front of my other nerd friends. Even at that young age I knew he was wrong.
BTW, this was 1985 I believe. They probably already had gigabyte arrays of some sort back then.
All 3 Matrix Movies: AWESOME
I'm getting sick of the Matrix bashing going on. Finally went and saw Revolutions this last weekend and guess what?
It rocked.
And just to stay on topic (regardless of the story poster troll), ROTK will be awesome too. I'm sure of it. Can't wait.
Or better yet, why not READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE.
Linus is given credit, but he never takes it willingly and certainly not "on the backs of others".
What, did every anti-linux troll on the planet come out for this article?
sorry, but you characterise burning man poorly. I imagine you to be up-tight, not willing to take risks or think outside the morality taught to you when you were younger.
back in '98, burning man changed the way i see life. the art and beauty and non-commercial nature of the event made me believe that someday humans can make a peaceful and beautiful society.
perhaps you went in more recent years, when you have more people (like yourself, perhaps) that are up-tight and didn't get into the spirit of the event. perhaps a BM regular can tell me if more recent years have gotten more "pretentious" as some people are saying...
....you are terribly confused by relational databases, aren't you?
You have to realize when technology has made your business model obsolete. I don't understand these companies that think past profits mandate their future existance.
Consumers have rights too you know.
I had the same thing happening... here is what fixed it for me.
I realized that each of the diagonals has a sub-menu associated with it. You drag THROUGH the diagonal (holding down the button) and let the sub-(pie?)-menu pop up, then you (still holding the button) move over the item you want. (If you get confused, hold the mouse still for ~1 second and the text descriptions will pop up.)
Up, down, left, and right just work by right-clicking, dragging into the pie-icon, then letting go.
I absolutely love it. It took about 30 minutes to really get used to... now I consider it a must-have feature.
The press is going MUCH easier on Microsoft than they ever were on Firestone.
I run a web server through speakeasy... no problem here. Of course, I'm using Linux/Apache, not the shitty, unreliable and insecure Windows/IIS as my web server.
(BTW, speakeasy is great, I pay more for it -- $80/month --- but it's worth every penny)
"Create and serve content"
I get a few dozen hits a week from family/friends checking out my personal web page (hosted on my Linux box at home). I see no reason why I should have to pay hundreds of dollars a month for a commercial line, since I'm not doing anything commercial on it.
So following that logic, should the cops also be able to use a very sensitive recording device to record your private conversations? After all, the sound waves emitted by your voice do carry through the walls and can be examed "from the outside".
I have telocity here in Milwaukee. I'm about half a mile from our switching station and I consistently get a good connection ~650-800 kbps down, 200-300 up. (It was billed as 768/384)
Generally, I've been rather impressed with my telocity service. They had one system-wide hiccup when I first got it (nov or dec last 2000) and I didn't have service for a day or two, but other than that Telocity has been rock solid.
Offtopic: I also just finally got a debian box working with it. I have a pentium 100 with ipchains running. It works wonderfully for both my desktop and my laptop computer.
SQL is a series of codes used to database interaction.
SELECT Age, Height, Name FROM MyAddressBook WHERE Age<18
The above statement will return the fields Age, Height, and Name from the table "MyAddressBook" and limit the values to only those whose age is less than 18.
There is also ways using SQL to insert data, create tables, and lots and lots of other stuff.
I was using FreeAV for a while, and the service worked quite well.
Then on a whim I tried K-Mart's free service, (Blue Light, blue tooth, somethin?) and it seems to be the same or better. The banner ad nicely docks itself to the bottom of the screen. Also, as a Yahoo mail user, it kicks ass because it set's my default home to my.yahoo.com (which is what I used anyway).
The Speakeasy contract specifically allowed me to set up a web server, but has a few exceptions (porn, warez, stuff like that).
Also, Speakeasy has a provision in their contract that if the price of the service ever comes down, I automatically get the better price (but the price cannot go up (until my year contract is up)).
Oh... and their service works perfectly (and was VERY easily configured) with both my Linux and WinNT machines.
Too much power with no accountability. I didn't realize that the FCC was owned by the corporations. I always thought they were a part of our government which in turn is owned/controled by it's citizens.
This shit just disgusts me....
(Note: I use Yahoo-- they keep a list of my friends/buddys on their server so I don't have to set up a bunch of crap every time I change clients. My whole family is on Yahoo now and it's great!)
Start by enacting legislation that prevents minors from purchasing these games ANYWHERE. Force online purchases to FAX their IDs in order to order these games.
Next, we must make laws forbidding adults from purchasing these games for minors. Our society will not be safe until we can BE SURE that noone under 17 will get access to these horrible games.
Finally, hold parents criminally responsible if their children get access to these games. Don't allow games with sufficient ratings to even be installed in homes that have children. The purity of our kids will then be fully enforced and crime will become non-existant.
What better path to utopia than this? Call your congressman today and demand they DO SOMETHING!
So anyway, my time in college was valuable for me to learn those higher level languages. I remember *compiling* my first program in pascal and thinking "wow...this is weird" because HS taught me none of that.
However, I now see high schoolers having tools available that were not available to me. I think many of these kids right out of HS have the necessary skills to perform sufficiently out in the job market.
If I had had linux and my own pentium computer as a kid, I would certainly have taught myself how to use C, C++, java, perl, and whatever other programming languages I found interesting. As it was, all I had was a Vic 20 and later upgraded to C64.
Of course, there is the issue of wether these youngins can handle other aspects of a job right out of HS. But that totally depends on the individual.
Anyway, some (skillful) 17 year olds can handle a full time programming job, some (skillful) 30 year olds cannot. But I don't believe college is necessary for everyone.