I believe one of the statements from one of the "me too's" went something along the lines of "Unfortunately being an online forum it's going to be difficult to incorporate the Americans and a few others into these forums without conflict as they are to used to their version of freedom of speech"
That was one of the links I sent the guy who actually ran the board.
most Austrailians I've met in person have been pretty cool people, but there seems to be a large portion of their online population who are big on censorship. At one point I was a very active member on a Stargate message board, but ther was an Aussie admin who was constantly closing threads as "Asked and answered" "No longer relavent" and the best yet "Off Topic" the funny part about the off topic one was that it was in a section of the board specifically labeled as the Off Topic section. I got the board admin in on it (he wasn't usually watching what was going on) and got their over zealous modding slowed down, but I stood my ground. I wasn't going to post anymore unless they reopend some wrongly closed threads, they didn't.
I still have that Atari 2600 version. When I was a little kid my mom sent in some box tops (I think it was Alpha Bits, but I'm not sure) and a few bucks for the game. I remember her holding up the box to let me chose which one I wanted.
I was at a Game Stop a few years back, they had a sign up saying you could get a discount on the Spider Man 2 Playstation game when you brought in "The Original" Spider Man game. I was tempted to go home and get my Atari one and say "It can't get much more original than that". Unfortunately I didn't have a whole lot of time for that sort of thing at that time.
I recall a day when a mother board could come with just a little bit of cache onboard, and if you wanted more cache, you could buy chips and stick them into the available sockets..........Why don't we do this for long term storage now? Seriously, I would love to buy an SATA "Hard Card" (not to be confused with the old HDD on an ISA slot) that had sockets left open. Six months from now when even MORE dense memory comes out, I would love to just insert chips into those sockets and double my drive space. If made properly, with the obvious expectation of losing data, I wouldn't mind removing some originals for more dense storage. The idea of a USB Thumbdrive array has come to mind, that would be a nice desktop storage box where you send your old thumbdrives to pasture, but it doesn't make much sense on laptop, or even normal desktop scale. How hard would it really be to make upgradeable storage like this? Remember, GParted is your friend
95 for a modern buggy interface. What you left out was 95, 95a, 95b, and 95c, all different versions that should have been patches to the previous version. 95c was actually decent.
98 brought stability to the 9x branch, I tend to disagree, 95c was more stable than the original 98. 98SE did pass it up though, I'll grant you that.
NT4.0, do you know how much unstable crap I had out of NT4 before SP4 came out? Granted unlike the 9X line they didn't charge you a whole new OS for what should have been a free patch. I was generally so frustrated by NT BS I preferred 9x
Windows 2000 - To this day I call this the only decent version of Windows, I rather liked it, to the point, not overly cluttered, stable. I was dual booting Windows off and on since the 98 days, it was during this era I finally switched to Linux full time for my desktop.
XP - Clutter bomb! How many idiot boxes do I have to click OK on? Why did they have to take simple task for 2K and make them incredibly difficult (come on, having to reboot into safe mode to change the sharing/rights on a direcotry?)
Server 2003, 2000 with a face lift - I still say Active Directory is a bold faced rip off of Novells NDS
Vista - agreed, no reason to update, I left the Windows world back in the 2K days, and this reinforces my reasons. I only use Windows when I have to, at work or on someone else's computer.
I am happy to say I have never once bought a single thing from Amazon.com. Their patent bullshittery is the reason. Fine, eBay/Half.com isn't necessarily run by angels, but they aren't going ape-shit on patents either. I do reference Amazon quite a bit, if I could find a better place that has tech specs and info on nearly any product I would use it, but epinions doesn't quite reach that level, at least I don't send them money.
and passed up for other jobs as a result. Many companies are scared of techies who know more than the little box they expect them to fit in. They know they'll become unhappy fast, and an unhappy tech is a dangerous tech. It's scary when companies don't want people with to much skill.
First I thought the U.S. was becoming the ultimate pussy nanny-state (oh no, we can't see boobs!).
Now Australia did take their peoples guns away, now they're pulling a commercial we would probably allow in the U.S. Let the race to see who can be the biggest pussy begin! Hey! No running! Somebody might get hurt!
I see these translations all the time, the process is always running in my head. I can't listen to a commercial on the radio, see one on T.V. or let just about any marketer get past me. This sort of thing is marketing. I can instantly tell if something in the mail box is junk mail, even with the modern attempt at moving away from slick flamboyant envelopes to fonts that look hand written on plain envelopes. I usually open those anyways just to be sure, but my instincts on this matter haven't failed me in years. I think the constant bombardment of information that has a sole purpose of deceiving me or molding me desires has evolved a "flinch" circuit in my brain.
On that note, I still admire ads with half naked women and will allow ads that are well done, non insulting, or just plain funny to work. We need more trunk monkeys, more Budweiser type commercials and less see how many times we can repeat a single line or phone number in a 30 second stretch, injection of "phantom noises", and voice tone persuasion/intelligence questioning.
As for corporate letters this translates into using plain speech. If corporate zombies could drop the use of buzz words (especially the word "solution"), intelligence questioning phrases and tones (thus increasing consumer choice and driving commonality across devices).
I've never played the Dreamcast version, but I did the Gamecube version. I fought Ramirez for an hour and a half, and the attacks did land. His power would actually drop a little, but it looked like it slowly regenerated. To say the least I was pissed. I held on to my consumeables as best as I could for big battles, and I used a lot more than I intended on him. I probably could have fought him for another hour at least when I finally gave up and let him beat me. Yeah, destroyed immersion alright, if it weren't one of the coolest games I ever played otherwise I may have quit right there.
This level never fucking ends! I love this game, it's great, I've learned how to beat nearly every part of this act, but there's just to damn much of it. It's like running a marathon while being pelted with rocks and having people fresh and pumped mugging you every couple of feet. From the F.A.Q. "Frankly, way too many enemies" The F.A.Q. in no way sums up what you have to do to defeat this act. I bite it once I make it to mission 6, unfortunately you have to beat that to save progress. I've had it shelved for months, I'll resume it eventually, but I just got tired of fighting through the first five missions over and over to bite it on the 6th, mission 4 is an especial pain. No one part of this act is to hard to beat, it just never ends.
I can't find all my old rants, they're not all indexed.
I've done my best to avoid putting them into newer systems with one exception, when building a computer for someone else I used to put 5.25" drives from the junk pile in just to be a jerk. They would ask me if they needed that drive. I would say no. They asked if it was good for anything, I would say no. They would ask why I put it in their system. I would say because I have extras. They would ask if I would take it out. I would say no. Hey, if I'm building them a free computer they can take what I give them, if they pay me I'll leave crap like that out.
Even when I was a kid I was stonger, and heavier than those around me, even when I didn't look like it. I didn't/don't have the running type endurance, but I could/can do more repeated heavy lifts than normal. I could bike fast and far, but I've actually torn up more than on rear gear on a bike, I bike like a power lift, short bursts of power, but I have to coast, then do it again. Just weird, I've met a couple of others like me, my old roommate in Arizona was the same way, to a further extream. When I was 215 lbs he could pick me up one handed - arm extended and he didn't work at it. He was heavier and more compact than I was, with less exercise, and he was in constant pain because of it.
We're opposite extremes, but it does make my point. I've tried many different healthy approaches. I live a busy life style and do my best to eat healthy, and I occasionally adjust my diet when I find something quick and easy that's healthier with low calories. I live alone, so cooking doesn't seem like the best way to deal with things.
He's one of those freaky bouncing off the walls people, I like to be active, but nobody can keep up with that dude.
I on the other hand am perpetually 30 lbs heavier than I appear, seriously, I can confuse the hell out of a carnival guess your weight person. On a positive note, it's not body fat. I grew up in an area with incredibly high mineral content in the water, it was milky white out of the tap, I have higher bone density than most people. I have been through sedentary phases in the past, mostly due to extreamly long work days at a desk job. During those time I was freakishly strong in comparison to my activity level. I'm at least 30-50% stronger than people of identical activity levels, constantly, so I'm guessing I have a difference in muscle tissue as well. Sure was handy playing football when people misjudged me and bounced off:-)
Many of the sidewalks in Phoenix were wide enough to allow four bikers to ride side by side. I was a BMXer, not a multi speeder. The places that didn't have incredibly wide sidewalks had low enough traffic to where you didn't need to get out of the road.
I typically refer to the entire Metro as Houston, since many unicorporated towns of the past are now legally and technically part of Houston, but still retain their old unicorporated names, such as Clear Lake. The only real exception to the no sidewalk/bike path thing is Kingwood.
Houston is VERY industrial, pull up Google Maps near the ship channel, of course that counts as Pasadena and Deer Park. Houston is all those things and then some, it just doesn't focus on any one of them well.
I eat 1 burrito for breakfast, not huge, but small, low grease - chicken no beef, cheese and some garlic on a spinache tortilla.
For lunch I drink a bottle of mineral water and a V8.
For dinner I have a noodle bowl.
My weight is maintained and slowly losing. I walk quite a bit every day at work, and go out of my way to walk extra, lift weights and do some exercise. At this weight I'm stronger, more agile, and have better endurance than many of my coworkers who are obviously in a better height/weight ratio and close to my age. They all eat more than I do, less healthy food, and in all but a couple of cases do less exercise.
I have a coworker who's five years older than me. Weighs about 140 lbs, is four inches taller than me. He comes in eating onion rings, burgers and fries at the start of shift. Come lunch time he eats whatever he gets his hands on, often greasy. Through out the night (late shifters) he browses the building for cake, cookies, and whatever else may be left in the offices/work areas. He leaves and eats a couple of more meals, often greasy and sugary. On top of that he drinks at least a six pack in the morning after shift. I have one or two a week.
On your ration book setup he would starve, and I would gain massive amounts of weight if I took full advantage of it.
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they're just as good if not better than some of the ones used in my NASA-STD-8739.3 class. Of course that was a through hole class.....
You're so right
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I believe one of the statements from one of the "me too's" went something along the lines of "Unfortunately being an online forum it's going to be difficult to incorporate the Americans and a few others into these forums without conflict as they are to used to their version of freedom of speech"
That was one of the links I sent the guy who actually ran the board.
It wasn't just one. There was one main one and a couple of "me too's"
most Austrailians I've met in person have been pretty cool people, but there seems to be a large portion of their online population who are big on censorship. At one point I was a very active member on a Stargate message board, but ther was an Aussie admin who was constantly closing threads as "Asked and answered" "No longer relavent" and the best yet "Off Topic" the funny part about the off topic one was that it was in a section of the board specifically labeled as the Off Topic section. I got the board admin in on it (he wasn't usually watching what was going on) and got their over zealous modding slowed down, but I stood my ground. I wasn't going to post anymore unless they reopend some wrongly closed threads, they didn't.
I still have that Atari 2600 version. When I was a little kid my mom sent in some box tops (I think it was Alpha Bits, but I'm not sure) and a few bucks for the game. I remember her holding up the box to let me chose which one I wanted.
I was at a Game Stop a few years back, they had a sign up saying you could get a discount on the Spider Man 2 Playstation game when you brought in "The Original" Spider Man game. I was tempted to go home and get my Atari one and say "It can't get much more original than that". Unfortunately I didn't have a whole lot of time for that sort of thing at that time.
I here you, I have a few of those myself, some of the readers are more portable than the others, but I find them to be quite handy.
I recall a day when a mother board could come with just a little bit of cache onboard, and if you wanted more cache, you could buy chips and stick them into the available sockets..... .....Why don't we do this for long term storage now? Seriously, I would love to buy an SATA "Hard Card" (not to be confused with the old HDD on an ISA slot) that had sockets left open. Six months from now when even MORE dense memory comes out, I would love to just insert chips into those sockets and double my drive space. If made properly, with the obvious expectation of losing data, I wouldn't mind removing some originals for more dense storage. The idea of a USB Thumbdrive array has come to mind, that would be a nice desktop storage box where you send your old thumbdrives to pasture, but it doesn't make much sense on laptop, or even normal desktop scale. How hard would it really be to make upgradeable storage like this? Remember, GParted is your friend
So, let me get this straight:
95 for a modern buggy interface. What you left out was 95, 95a, 95b, and 95c, all different versions that should have been patches to the previous version. 95c was actually decent.
98 brought stability to the 9x branch, I tend to disagree, 95c was more stable than the original 98. 98SE did pass it up though, I'll grant you that.
NT4.0, do you know how much unstable crap I had out of NT4 before SP4 came out? Granted unlike the 9X line they didn't charge you a whole new OS for what should have been a free patch. I was generally so frustrated by NT BS I preferred 9x
Windows 2000 - To this day I call this the only decent version of Windows, I rather liked it, to the point, not overly cluttered, stable. I was dual booting Windows off and on since the 98 days, it was during this era I finally switched to Linux full time for my desktop.
XP - Clutter bomb! How many idiot boxes do I have to click OK on? Why did they have to take simple task for 2K and make them incredibly difficult (come on, having to reboot into safe mode to change the sharing/rights on a direcotry?)
Server 2003, 2000 with a face lift - I still say Active Directory is a bold faced rip off of Novells NDS
Vista - agreed, no reason to update, I left the Windows world back in the 2K days, and this reinforces my reasons. I only use Windows when I have to, at work or on someone else's computer.
I am happy to say I have never once bought a single thing from Amazon.com. Their patent bullshittery is the reason. Fine, eBay/Half.com isn't necessarily run by angels, but they aren't going ape-shit on patents either. I do reference Amazon quite a bit, if I could find a better place that has tech specs and info on nearly any product I would use it, but epinions doesn't quite reach that level, at least I don't send them money.
throw in Bonk, Pac-Man, and whoever Neo Geo had and call it good.
This sort of behaviour is mandantory at Exxon Mobile Chemical, how they manage to be so profitable is beyond me.
and passed up for other jobs as a result. Many companies are scared of techies who know more than the little box they expect them to fit in. They know they'll become unhappy fast, and an unhappy tech is a dangerous tech. It's scary when companies don't want people with to much skill.
First I thought the U.S. was becoming the ultimate pussy nanny-state (oh no, we can't see boobs!).
Now Australia did take their peoples guns away, now they're pulling a commercial we would probably allow in the U.S. Let the race to see who can be the biggest pussy begin! Hey! No running! Somebody might get hurt!
I see these translations all the time, the process is always running in my head. I can't listen to a commercial on the radio, see one on T.V. or let just about any marketer get past me. This sort of thing is marketing. I can instantly tell if something in the mail box is junk mail, even with the modern attempt at moving away from slick flamboyant envelopes to fonts that look hand written on plain envelopes. I usually open those anyways just to be sure, but my instincts on this matter haven't failed me in years. I think the constant bombardment of information that has a sole purpose of deceiving me or molding me desires has evolved a "flinch" circuit in my brain.
On that note, I still admire ads with half naked women and will allow ads that are well done, non insulting, or just plain funny to work. We need more trunk monkeys, more Budweiser type commercials and less see how many times we can repeat a single line or phone number in a 30 second stretch, injection of "phantom noises", and voice tone persuasion/intelligence questioning.
As for corporate letters this translates into using plain speech. If corporate zombies could drop the use of buzz words (especially the word "solution"), intelligence questioning phrases and tones (thus increasing consumer choice and driving commonality across devices).
Bah, I'm on my kick again
I've never played the Dreamcast version, but I did the Gamecube version. I fought Ramirez for an hour and a half, and the attacks did land. His power would actually drop a little, but it looked like it slowly regenerated. To say the least I was pissed. I held on to my consumeables as best as I could for big battles, and I used a lot more than I intended on him. I probably could have fought him for another hour at least when I finally gave up and let him beat me. Yeah, destroyed immersion alright, if it weren't one of the coolest games I ever played otherwise I may have quit right there.
You forget:
Texas = 269K Miles
Just a note for perspective from Texas and the 49 lesser states.
(I know Alaska is bigger, but we aren't talking about size son)
This level never fucking ends! I love this game, it's great, I've learned how to beat nearly every part of this act, but there's just to damn much of it. It's like running a marathon while being pelted with rocks and having people fresh and pumped mugging you every couple of feet. From the F.A.Q. "Frankly, way too many enemies" The F.A.Q. in no way sums up what you have to do to defeat this act. I bite it once I make it to mission 6, unfortunately you have to beat that to save progress. I've had it shelved for months, I'll resume it eventually, but I just got tired of fighting through the first five missions over and over to bite it on the 6th, mission 4 is an especial pain. No one part of this act is to hard to beat, it just never ends.
I'll share some of my past rants about floppies.
Here's one on Userfriendly.org.
A statement to be thankful it's going away.
I can't find all my old rants, they're not all indexed.
I've done my best to avoid putting them into newer systems with one exception, when building a computer for someone else I used to put 5.25" drives from the junk pile in just to be a jerk. They would ask me if they needed that drive. I would say no. They asked if it was good for anything, I would say no. They would ask why I put it in their system. I would say because I have extras. They would ask if I would take it out. I would say no. Hey, if I'm building them a free computer they can take what I give them, if they pay me I'll leave crap like that out.
we have round one.
When their subscriptions actually do dry up, or they change their business model to accomodate the movement, victory will be ours!
Even when I was a kid I was stonger, and heavier than those around me, even when I didn't look like it. I didn't/don't have the running type endurance, but I could/can do more repeated heavy lifts than normal. I could bike fast and far, but I've actually torn up more than on rear gear on a bike, I bike like a power lift, short bursts of power, but I have to coast, then do it again. Just weird, I've met a couple of others like me, my old roommate in Arizona was the same way, to a further extream. When I was 215 lbs he could pick me up one handed - arm extended and he didn't work at it. He was heavier and more compact than I was, with less exercise, and he was in constant pain because of it.
We're opposite extremes, but it does make my point. I've tried many different healthy approaches. I live a busy life style and do my best to eat healthy, and I occasionally adjust my diet when I find something quick and easy that's healthier with low calories. I live alone, so cooking doesn't seem like the best way to deal with things.
:-)
He's one of those freaky bouncing off the walls people, I like to be active, but nobody can keep up with that dude.
I on the other hand am perpetually 30 lbs heavier than I appear, seriously, I can confuse the hell out of a carnival guess your weight person. On a positive note, it's not body fat. I grew up in an area with incredibly high mineral content in the water, it was milky white out of the tap, I have higher bone density than most people. I have been through sedentary phases in the past, mostly due to extreamly long work days at a desk job. During those time I was freakishly strong in comparison to my activity level. I'm at least 30-50% stronger than people of identical activity levels, constantly, so I'm guessing I have a difference in muscle tissue as well. Sure was handy playing football when people misjudged me and bounced off
Many of the sidewalks in Phoenix were wide enough to allow four bikers to ride side by side. I was a BMXer, not a multi speeder. The places that didn't have incredibly wide sidewalks had low enough traffic to where you didn't need to get out of the road.
I typically refer to the entire Metro as Houston, since many unicorporated towns of the past are now legally and technically part of Houston, but still retain their old unicorporated names, such as Clear Lake. The only real exception to the no sidewalk/bike path thing is Kingwood.
Houston is VERY industrial, pull up Google Maps near the ship channel, of course that counts as Pasadena and Deer Park. Houston is all those things and then some, it just doesn't focus on any one of them well.
I'm 260 lbs
I eat 1 burrito for breakfast, not huge, but small, low grease - chicken no beef, cheese and some garlic on a spinache tortilla.
For lunch I drink a bottle of mineral water and a V8.
For dinner I have a noodle bowl.
My weight is maintained and slowly losing. I walk quite a bit every day at work, and go out of my way to walk extra, lift weights and do some exercise. At this weight I'm stronger, more agile, and have better endurance than many of my coworkers who are obviously in a better height/weight ratio and close to my age. They all eat more than I do, less healthy food, and in all but a couple of cases do less exercise.
I have a coworker who's five years older than me. Weighs about 140 lbs, is four inches taller than me. He comes in eating onion rings, burgers and fries at the start of shift. Come lunch time he eats whatever he gets his hands on, often greasy. Through out the night (late shifters) he browses the building for cake, cookies, and whatever else may be left in the offices/work areas. He leaves and eats a couple of more meals, often greasy and sugary. On top of that he drinks at least a six pack in the morning after shift. I have one or two a week.
On your ration book setup he would starve, and I would gain massive amounts of weight if I took full advantage of it.