I have no idea WTF your jelly belly thread has to do with SCO -- but i to HATE those jellybeans (and got damn do I like jellybeans). A girl I was seeing used to joke about how terrible they were, so one day we went to the candy shop and got a couple pounds of them (very expensive!) and set them out in a nice big jelly belly candy jar in the entryway:) Friends and family would come over and go "OHHH!!!! JELLYBEANS!" and eat them -- invariably we'd have the pleasure of watching them squint and squirm and choke as they tried to swallow those little toxic beans. It became a joke with my friends and whenever they came over with someone new, they'd all grab a handful, and pretend to eat them in an attempt to make a non-verbal suggestion to the new person. Eventually my mother who had impared tastebuds due to a medical condition ate them all.
The problem with that statement is its unqualified, when you see statements that say "more then..." someone is trying to manipulate you.
Here's why -- UUNET is a *HUGE* ISP they have more spammers then anyone else because they're bigger then anyone else. What you need to know is if they have a higher spammer/customer or spammer/site ratio than usual.
You always hear this same stuff about crime statistics. I just heard on the news that crime in california is down 50% and they were credting the 3 strikes law. Of course it means nothing, because if you look at population statistics you'll find out that theres a dramatic drop in population of young people who statistically are most likely to commit crimes. So crime is occuring LESS (total number), but the crime rate is more or less the same.
Weird thought -- some small itx boards have card slots... I have a via c3 board here that does (I realize thats a bit different), could you get card modems?
Actually they did things LIKE that in florida -- in counties with electronic voting machines. In black neigborhoods (democratic) voting machines were configured to accept an invalid ballot and throw it away without telling the voter. In republican districts, the machines notified the voter and allowed them to correct their mistakes.
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Yea remember when outpost.com had -- free air shipping? I used to order shit from them like a pack of CD-R's, they were rediculously cheap (14$ for a 50 pack), no tax, and they'd arrive the next morning. It was cheaper/easier then driving 9 miles out of my way to the closest best buy.
14$ is STILL a pretty good price for 50cdrs, and this is three years later.
You mentioned artwork: well, fear not- the stuff you can do with the right tools is shocking. You can grab a copy of Blender, and after a few weeks of beating it up you will be turning out 3d models that are better than what you figured you could have made at the beginning. The GIMP is perfectly good for texturing models, and has just about all you'll need for the task (while the GIMP isn't professional photo editing software, it's great for making textures and web graphics.)
Lemme ask you a question then -- where i get stuck in the 3d world is modeling anything somewhat complex:). I used to be a whiz with POVRAY +MORAY and can model just about any building or space ship, but how does one model say a character?
Game development has become so complex that there really is no hope for a small team or a startup to make a decent game.
I remember when I was 13 writing ASM code code aspiring to write something like Monkey Island -- that was a very attainable goal. I had a friend who was a very good artist, he would whip up a some cells in autodesk animator, I had written a little converter, and we could walk our little guy around the screen against a background. Now truth be told I had NO idea how a game engine worked at 13 years old, but we did end up writing a few neat demos and bbs loaders (I was a weird kid).
Now the level of art work and technical knowledge required to make something that looks half professional is off the scale. I have a great game idea that I don't think I'll ever be able to realize. Thats the loss I mourn... kids wont ever have the fun I had trying to make a game, and we might never be exposed to some new ideas these kids might have.
Exactly what section of the Constitution prohibits states and municipalities from making traffic laws and enforcing them with fines?
ok, thats a fair question -- the mechanics of tickets is what I believe is unconstitutional. This is how it works legally: when an officer gives you a ticket and you sign it, you agree to plead guilty and pay the ammount of the ticket (I believe legally you are agreeing to pay your own bail, but Im not sure) OR appear in court in lieu of being arrested. Infact, if you do not sign the ticket which is your right, they will take you to jail until your court date (although you'd be stupid to do it). It is my belief that this system is legal smoke and mirrors and violates your due process rights.
As for the second argument of conflict of interest, that one is rock solid, I admit the constitutional thing is just my opinion. Of course government has the right to levy taxes, but not at will. Essentially what is happening is, a policeman pulls you over, and assigns you *extra* taxes, taxes which in most cases funds his employment -- a conflict of interest. If we are going to have tickets the money should be donated to charity or used to fund government activities that have no impact on law enforcement to remove the conflict of interest.
Imagine discovering that you've gotten a speeding ticket and your insurance rates went up before you even finished driving home.
And that of course is what would happen. I believe speeding tickets are unconstitutional and someday I hope to have enough monet/time to file a lawsuit to have them declared as such.
Even if they aren't -- there is still a *HUGE* conflict of interest with police forces funding their own operations and municipalities with revenues from law enforcement. If said institutions need more funding they should be required to seek it through legitimate means.
why the hell do they release security patches then
That of course is the fallicy. You think some Fortune 500 Company calls up MS and says "Hey just wanted to tell you, everything is fine!" And then out of the blue MS happens to find a securtiy bug and issues a patch?
Or does said company call up MS and say "HOLY SHIT WE'RE 03N3D!!!!!" And a team of MS engineers works for days or weeks to find that bug?:)
Is that what the problem is with 2004? I've seen it hose several machines, one so bad it needed a re-install, but the rest just uninstall, reinstall 2003. Fourtanately I'm a linux twerp so I dont need it at home:) I do think its been downhill since NAV 2002 -- when 2003 added the "Norton Fucked Up Recycle Bin" which hoses your system performance to save every temp file your system generates -- it was clear they didnt know what they were doing:) I long for the days of NAV2002 which came as a single 23 meg binary:)
Zonealarm and mcafee are shit (I've seen alot of viruses slip by mcafee), but Symantec really knows their business and I have nothing but respect for them. I trust them far more then MS.
A story too strange to make up -- a friend of mines grandfather came home screaming about a new invention that JUST CAME OUT! "IT'S A MACHINE YOU STICK YOUR CARD INTO AND IT GIVES YOU MONEY! YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO GO INTO THE BANK!" This was about 1998.
You really can't do that even now. IIRC, writes to code segments aren't allowed for the following reason -- when paging to disk, the OS doesn't write out code segments to disk, it just clears the segment, uses it, and when it needs to reload the code segment itand re-reads them from the executable on the HD, it saves alot of time but has the side-effect that anything that was modified in the code segment is clobbered.
I think some architectures even disallow writing to code segments altogether -- the l1 or l2 caches wont maintain coherency (this is again an optimization as writing to a code segment is rare).
True, it's insignificant, but still he could be charged with theft.
Man who did your brainwash job? I've got some supermodels that need a similar degree of manipulation:) Whatever sucking up EM fields is, it sure isn't theft, no matter what the french say:)
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you're setting yourself up for a joke with the number 51 in it ;)
I have no idea WTF your jelly belly thread has to do with SCO -- but i to HATE those jellybeans (and got damn do I like jellybeans). A girl I was seeing used to joke about how terrible they were, so one day we went to the candy shop and got a couple pounds of them (very expensive!) and set them out in a nice big jelly belly candy jar in the entryway :) Friends and family would come over and go "OHHH!!!! JELLYBEANS!" and eat them -- invariably we'd have the pleasure of watching them squint and squirm and choke as they tried to swallow those little toxic beans. It became a joke with my friends and whenever they came over with someone new, they'd all grab a handful, and pretend to eat them in an attempt to make a non-verbal suggestion to the new person. Eventually my mother who had impared tastebuds due to a medical condition ate them all.
Here's why -- UUNET is a *HUGE* ISP they have more spammers then anyone else because they're bigger then anyone else. What you need to know is if they have a higher spammer/customer or spammer/site ratio than usual.
You always hear this same stuff about crime statistics. I just heard on the news that crime in california is down 50% and they were credting the 3 strikes law. Of course it means nothing, because if you look at population statistics you'll find out that theres a dramatic drop in population of young people who statistically are most likely to commit crimes. So crime is occuring LESS (total number), but the crime rate is more or less the same.
Agreed, midnight club ... it ... wasn't even a game. It was a series of events that seemed to involve cars somehow.
eleventythousand -- Boards of Canada fan? :)
Weird thought -- some small itx boards have card slots ... I have a via c3 board here that does (I realize thats a bit different), could you get card modems?
Actually they did things LIKE that in florida -- in counties with electronic voting machines. In black neigborhoods (democratic) voting machines were configured to accept an invalid ballot and throw it away without telling the voter. In republican districts, the machines notified the voter and allowed them to correct their mistakes.
14$ is STILL a pretty good price for 50cdrs, and this is three years later.
Lemme ask you a question then -- where i get stuck in the 3d world is modeling anything somewhat complex :). I used to be a whiz with POVRAY +MORAY and can model just about any building or space ship, but how does one model say a character?
I remember when I was 13 writing ASM code code aspiring to write something like Monkey Island -- that was a very attainable goal. I had a friend who was a very good artist, he would whip up a some cells in autodesk animator, I had written a little converter, and we could walk our little guy around the screen against a background. Now truth be told I had NO idea how a game engine worked at 13 years old, but we did end up writing a few neat demos and bbs loaders (I was a weird kid).
Now the level of art work and technical knowledge required to make something that looks half professional is off the scale. I have a great game idea that I don't think I'll ever be able to realize. Thats the loss I mourn... kids wont ever have the fun I had trying to make a game, and we might never be exposed to some new ideas these kids might have.
I don't have any mod points, but you just earned a friend :)
Yea I didn't really intend the comment to be "funny" but I think people liked it and didn't know where to put it :) Kudos on the duck hunt score :)
Aye, but some of us don't need to emulate as we still have them :)
Plead guilty and pay the fine
OR appear in court.
ok, thats a fair question -- the mechanics of tickets is what I believe is unconstitutional. This is how it works legally: when an officer gives you a ticket and you sign it, you agree to plead guilty and pay the ammount of the ticket (I believe legally you are agreeing to pay your own bail, but Im not sure) OR appear in court in lieu of being arrested. Infact, if you do not sign the ticket which is your right, they will take you to jail until your court date (although you'd be stupid to do it). It is my belief that this system is legal smoke and mirrors and violates your due process rights.
As for the second argument of conflict of interest, that one is rock solid, I admit the constitutional thing is just my opinion. Of course government has the right to levy taxes, but not at will. Essentially what is happening is, a policeman pulls you over, and assigns you *extra* taxes, taxes which in most cases funds his employment -- a conflict of interest. If we are going to have tickets the money should be donated to charity or used to fund government activities that have no impact on law enforcement to remove the conflict of interest.
And that of course is what would happen. I believe speeding tickets are unconstitutional and someday I hope to have enough monet/time to file a lawsuit to have them declared as such.
Even if they aren't -- there is still a *HUGE* conflict of interest with police forces funding their own operations and municipalities with revenues from law enforcement. If said institutions need more funding they should be required to seek it through legitimate means.
That of course is the fallicy. You think some Fortune 500 Company calls up MS and says "Hey just wanted to tell you, everything is fine!" And then out of the blue MS happens to find a securtiy bug and issues a patch?
Or does said company call up MS and say "HOLY SHIT WE'RE 03N3D!!!!!" And a team of MS engineers works for days or weeks to find that bug? :)
Is that what the problem is with 2004? I've seen it hose several machines, one so bad it needed a re-install, but the rest just uninstall, reinstall 2003. Fourtanately I'm a linux twerp so I dont need it at home :) I do think its been downhill since NAV 2002 -- when 2003 added the "Norton Fucked Up Recycle Bin" which hoses your system performance to save every temp file your system generates -- it was clear they didnt know what they were doing :) I long for the days of NAV2002 which came as a single 23 meg binary :)
Zonealarm and mcafee are shit (I've seen alot of viruses slip by mcafee), but Symantec really knows their business and I have nothing but respect for them. I trust them far more then MS.
"Everything" as in "Everything made by motorolla and TI" ? :)
A story too strange to make up -- a friend of mines grandfather came home screaming about a new invention that JUST CAME OUT! "IT'S A MACHINE YOU STICK YOUR CARD INTO AND IT GIVES YOU MONEY! YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO GO INTO THE BANK!" This was about 1998.
I think some architectures even disallow writing to code segments altogether -- the l1 or l2 caches wont maintain coherency (this is again an optimization as writing to a code segment is rare).
So which part of huge corporations buying influence and candidates doesn't violate MY rights?
If having an inductor under a power line is theft -- what isn't?
Man who did your brainwash job? I've got some supermodels that need a similar degree of manipulation :) Whatever sucking up EM fields is, it sure isn't theft, no matter what the french say :)