Have you ever been to a good LAN party?
At LoliLAN 2k5, a 6-man+spectator(friends) LAN I went to last year, I was up for almost eighty hours before I stood up, felt lightheaded and then passed out.
Slept for two hours, got a ride home from my friend and then jumped on a pub for some BF2!
No, I wasn't high on methamphetamines. I can go longer than 80h with drugs. The sleep dep hallucinations start to get to me though.
During a gaming con at our uni, I had been up for days and then decided to stay up for the whole of the con. Started getting really paranoid on the last day, go outside for a smoke and I can see the monster sprites from Ultima on NES poking out from behind the trees.
That really sucked.
Actually 10.4 breathed new life into a friend of mine's G3/733.
I almost didn't want to upgrade it because I thought the new features would dog it down but it's noticably faster.
Yeah, you used to need a license and callsign but this practice was quickly and universally ignored during its height of popularity and AFAIK the FCC dropped the requirement.
Better still, use the truly secure Linux operating system. Six months after making the change, you will not use Windows again. The cost of Linux is also much less than the cost of upgrading Windows XP Home Edition to Windows XP Professional.
Hey, I:heart: linux as much as the next guy but it's still a bitch on laptops because either shit doesn't work or you need to hack for a week to get it to work. IBM has thrown quite a lot of support at linux and there are still problems running it on thinkpads. I have a T30 and even with 2.6 kernels, it's better to use APM than ACPI... even then, it doesn't work consistantly.
Also, I use my lappy for audio/midi tracking and recording live gigs for various local bands. Rosegarden isn't Cubase. Audacity isn't Soundforge. Yes, linux has come a long way (especially in support of audio interfaces). Yes, I'm excited to see where it is going. That doesn't mean it's a viable solution to me now.
When 2k-tan has finally outlived her usefulness, which may not be for quite some time, I'll be deciding between linux and osx/x86. I hate to say it but unless Steinberg ports Cubase to linux, I'll probably be sucking Steve's co...er... choosing Mac.
Indeed I agree the asspulling is great on the internets and especially great on *cough*"blog"*cough* sites.
However, everyone I know, in my town of ~17k, who isn't in the medical, law or religious fields is like this.
My mother was a senior CHHC, did mostly hospice and loved her job. Gods love anyone who can assist another being to the next plane... anywho, because of a buyout she was forced to take a cut in pay and do a housekeeping job. She worked 40 hours as a CHHC and works 50-60 hours in housekeeping. My father works 60-70 hours a week as a truck driver. When he's not on the road, he's working on his truck or other trucks for the company he contracts with (he's also a diesel mechanic).
I work between 20 and 60 hours a week, depending on my current emotional state/state of regression. I'm bipolar/HFA and a bit agoraphobic... I've taken to working when my store is closed and leaving before people arrive. I can't go on SSDI without an advocacy lawyer, that I can't afford. That's a post for another day though. Even with my job supplanting the household's income, we have troubles making ends meet sometimes. I have tried living alone and it didn't work out well, so I've moved in to the attic.
Our town is dead, there was industry that employed most of the town and it moved to mexico. Our school system is in shambles and about to lose its accreditation, the teen pregnancy rate is 3 times the state average, and morale is pretty low.
Um, well. I'm not sure where I was going with that. Turned into a My-Town-Sucks post. I think I was meaning to say that America is still very much a class society and it is very difficult for those not especially gifted to remove themselves from their borne lot.
I've been a quadraSID user since its release. I also own a HardSID card, which is excellent.
I wish they would release a USB HardSID, I would buy it in a second.
The refill is mostly to appease registered Mac users who were expecting Rebirth to be ported to OSX.
Rebirth itself has been released for free. Just register at the museum site and then go to downloads. There's a torrent, ffs, use that.
Even more importantly, they're giving away rebirth mods that were previously only availible to registered users.
Go get the SIDstation mod and start making some chiptunes!
You might get lucky, there are great OSX versions of Q1/QW/Q2 made by http://www.fruitz-of-dojo.de/
Those guys might not see the need to port it since there's already a version of it out there, but you never know.
"The situation is so bad, experts say, that bored script kiddies could soon be knocking out power stations as easily as they concoct viruses from toolkits available on the Web."
Is it any easier now then it has ever been? It always seemed pretty simple to me. Go down to your local, unmanned, power station and blow it up. Get your buddies and some trucks and knock down some high tension wires. wheeeeee.
Why do people get excited by this? It might be my misanthropic nihilism talking, but shit happens. Every day. Deal with it.
You might lose power, you might lose running water, you might get hit by a bus.
Even if you hole up in a shack to protect yourself from the script kiddies, psychopaths, terrorists and/or government... you're still gonna die!
I'm with you on 2k.. and the 'insta-easy-l33tb33t-ocity'(?) of FL now.
Under the hood though, it's still a horribly advanced prog. A testament to Delphi's greatness;)
*Anyway,* I mostly play windsynth, so my main gear is outboard MIDI stuff, too. I've been fooling around with Renoise a bit because I want to get back into trackers
I know, I know, trackers are the pits sometimes, but with a windsynth, I'm chucking a whole hell of a lot of CCs at my sequencer.
Cubase's midi is great, but it's a little bloated for what I'm doing. FL's midi is, er, getting there, but it's a little underpowered for what I'm doing.
I need to find a nice console/curses tracker that I can run on any random VintageTron 6000, yet isn't so horribly complex that I need a brain aug to understand it.
I mostly use Cubase and FLStudio under Win2k/sp2 and am quite pleased with the set up. Low latency drivers, no random crashes or unexpected headaches.
I use debian for servers at work and at home
My continued use of Microsoft products, at home, once win2k is left by the wayside is unlikely.
Hopefully, by then, linux will have more support for custom music hardware and a port of Cubase.
I want to get my linux boxen out of the closet and into the studio!
I don't have any suggestions for revamping the voting process itself
My only suggestion is a complete news blackout of election results until *all* ballots are counted, including absentee, military, etc.
I think this negatively effects elections, people will check to see how their candidate is doing and decide whether it's worth voting or not.
This is probably a double-edged sword though, it'd be easier to rig an election half-way through with no one paying attention.
Nope, he's correct.
The game gear is basically a portable Master System. There was an adaptor to allow playing of SMS tapes.
The nomad was an even worse flop than the GG, you look at the cartridge wrong and fucking thing crashes. Still a nice Sega artifact to have though;)
Bow down to your one and true Master, fellow nerds
The PC110 was, and until this M$ thingee comes out, is the smallest laptop ever made.
Now, they go for insane amounts of money on ebay. As a 486, she goes for more cash than the pentium Librettos do
I'm a huge palmtop fan (HPLX/Amity/Libretto/etc), and if this new thing is priced right, I'd be interested... but it'll probably suck:/
Yet more proof that anything anyone has ever done, IBM did first
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Portable computing has come full-circle. Desktop replacement laptops today are the lunchbox luggables of yesterday.
Have you ever been to a good LAN party? At LoliLAN 2k5, a 6-man+spectator(friends) LAN I went to last year, I was up for almost eighty hours before I stood up, felt lightheaded and then passed out. Slept for two hours, got a ride home from my friend and then jumped on a pub for some BF2! No, I wasn't high on methamphetamines. I can go longer than 80h with drugs. The sleep dep hallucinations start to get to me though. During a gaming con at our uni, I had been up for days and then decided to stay up for the whole of the con. Started getting really paranoid on the last day, go outside for a smoke and I can see the monster sprites from Ultima on NES poking out from behind the trees. That really sucked.
Most games aren't hard to the point of being unfair anymore, it's just the way shit is now. Hit the buzzer, win a cookie.
I'm the same way except that I'm even more productive, I skip out on working altogether!
Actually 10.4 breathed new life into a friend of mine's G3/733. I almost didn't want to upgrade it because I thought the new features would dog it down but it's noticably faster.
Indeed. Drug use does not necessarily lead to drug abuse.
A ham in my neighborhood!
Yeah, you used to need a license and callsign but this practice was quickly and universally ignored during its height of popularity and AFAIK the FCC dropped the requirement.
Hey, I :heart: linux as much as the next guy but it's still a bitch on laptops because either shit doesn't work or you need to hack for a week to get it to work. IBM has thrown quite a lot of support at linux and there are still problems running it on thinkpads. I have a T30 and even with 2.6 kernels, it's better to use APM than ACPI... even then, it doesn't work consistantly.
Also, I use my lappy for audio/midi tracking and recording live gigs for various local bands. Rosegarden isn't Cubase. Audacity isn't Soundforge. Yes, linux has come a long way (especially in support of audio interfaces). Yes, I'm excited to see where it is going. That doesn't mean it's a viable solution to me now.
When 2k-tan has finally outlived her usefulness, which may not be for quite some time, I'll be deciding between linux and osx/x86. I hate to say it but unless Steinberg ports Cubase to linux, I'll probably be sucking Steve's co...er... choosing Mac.
Our cable company advertises as 3Mb, I usually max out at about 400Kb. Lying pricks.
Indeed I agree the asspulling is great on the internets and especially great on *cough*"blog"*cough* sites.
However, everyone I know, in my town of ~17k, who isn't in the medical, law or religious fields is like this.
My mother was a senior CHHC, did mostly hospice and loved her job. Gods love anyone who can assist another being to the next plane... anywho, because of a buyout she was forced to take a cut in pay and do a housekeeping job. She worked 40 hours as a CHHC and works 50-60 hours in housekeeping. My father works 60-70 hours a week as a truck driver. When he's not on the road, he's working on his truck or other trucks for the company he contracts with (he's also a diesel mechanic).
I work between 20 and 60 hours a week, depending on my current emotional state/state of regression. I'm bipolar/HFA and a bit agoraphobic... I've taken to working when my store is closed and leaving before people arrive. I can't go on SSDI without an advocacy lawyer, that I can't afford. That's a post for another day though. Even with my job supplanting the household's income, we have troubles making ends meet sometimes. I have tried living alone and it didn't work out well, so I've moved in to the attic.
Our town is dead, there was industry that employed most of the town and it moved to mexico. Our school system is in shambles and about to lose its accreditation, the teen pregnancy rate is 3 times the state average, and morale is pretty low.
Um, well. I'm not sure where I was going with that. Turned into a My-Town-Sucks post. I think I was meaning to say that America is still very much a class society and it is very difficult for those not especially gifted to remove themselves from their borne lot.
...and out there, on the recesses of Mother Internet, there are entire pr0n sites dedicated to 4 (and more!) breasted women.
I've been a quadraSID user since its release. I also own a HardSID card, which is excellent.
I wish they would release a USB HardSID, I would buy it in a second.
The refill is mostly to appease registered Mac users who were expecting Rebirth to be ported to OSX.
Rebirth itself has been released for free. Just register at the museum site and then go to downloads. There's a torrent, ffs, use that.
Even more importantly, they're giving away rebirth mods that were previously only availible to registered users. Go get the SIDstation mod and start making some chiptunes!
You might get lucky, there are great OSX versions of Q1/QW/Q2 made by http://www.fruitz-of-dojo.de/ Those guys might not see the need to port it since there's already a version of it out there, but you never know.
Yeah, he was really great on health issues. I mean he kept the horrible tide of AIDS at bay. Oh wait...
Must be nice, ever consider adoption? ;D
If you were lucky enough to live near an Apple store.
I had to get my 10.1 update through slightly less legitimate venues.
"The situation is so bad, experts say, that bored script kiddies could soon be knocking out power stations as easily as they concoct viruses from toolkits available on the Web."
:)
Is it any easier now then it has ever been? It always seemed pretty simple to me. Go down to your local, unmanned, power station and blow it up. Get your buddies and some trucks and knock down some high tension wires. wheeeeee.
Why do people get excited by this? It might be my misanthropic nihilism talking, but shit happens. Every day. Deal with it.
You might lose power, you might lose running water, you might get hit by a bus.
Even if you hole up in a shack to protect yourself from the script kiddies, psychopaths, terrorists and/or government... you're still gonna die!
Have fun!
I'm with you on 2k.. and the 'insta-easy-l33tb33t-ocity'(?) of FL now. ;)
Under the hood though, it's still a horribly advanced prog. A testament to Delphi's greatness
*Anyway,* I mostly play windsynth, so my main gear is outboard MIDI stuff, too. I've been fooling around with Renoise a bit because I want to get back into trackers
I know, I know, trackers are the pits sometimes, but with a windsynth, I'm chucking a whole hell of a lot of CCs at my sequencer.
Cubase's midi is great, but it's a little bloated for what I'm doing. FL's midi is, er, getting there, but it's a little underpowered for what I'm doing.
I need to find a nice console/curses tracker that I can run on any random VintageTron 6000, yet isn't so horribly complex that I need a brain aug to understand it.
I mostly use Cubase and FLStudio under Win2k/sp2 and am quite pleased with the set up. Low latency drivers, no random crashes or unexpected headaches.
I use debian for servers at work and at home
My continued use of Microsoft products, at home, once win2k is left by the wayside is unlikely.
Hopefully, by then, linux will have more support for custom music hardware and a port of Cubase.
I want to get my linux boxen out of the closet and into the studio!
Damn right MO is the way to go
I tell this to everyone, but no one listens!
"ooo, it costs too much! oo, nobody uses it!"
Well, I'm the one laughing now! mwahahahahah hahahaha hahahh!
I don't have any suggestions for revamping the voting process itself
My only suggestion is a complete news blackout of election results until *all* ballots are counted, including absentee, military, etc.
I think this negatively effects elections, people will check to see how their candidate is doing and decide whether it's worth voting or not.
This is probably a double-edged sword though, it'd be easier to rig an election half-way through with no one paying attention.
Nope, he's correct. ;)
The game gear is basically a portable Master System. There was an adaptor to allow playing of SMS tapes.
The nomad was an even worse flop than the GG, you look at the cartridge wrong and fucking thing crashes. Still a nice Sega artifact to have though
Bow down to your one and true Master, fellow nerds :/
The PC110 was, and until this M$ thingee comes out, is the smallest laptop ever made.
Now, they go for insane amounts of money on ebay. As a 486, she goes for more cash than the pentium Librettos do
I'm a huge palmtop fan (HPLX/Amity/Libretto/etc), and if this new thing is priced right, I'd be interested... but it'll probably suck
Yet more proof that anything anyone has ever done, IBM did first