I *never* went to gym class. It was horrible and humiliating and my friends and I decided we just weren't going to go (somehow this didn't bother anybody). We developed the "two day" rule -- we would go to gym (and many other classes) twice a week.
They would throw us in horrible units like Step Aerobics, square dancing, swimming (who wants to go swimming everyday??) and wrestling. Nothing was as bad as wrestling -- for those who dont know -- the starting position for wrestling pretty much looks like a gay buttfuck, one guy is on his knees, and the other guy is behind him also on his knees. This just isn't "a good thing" (tm) for your typical teenager. My best friend and I decided we would only wrestle with eachother because atleast we were comfortable with eachother...
Anyways, the reason for my ramble, if someone had told me we had a videogame instead of buttfuck wrestling in PE, I might have dropped by more often:) and anything that makes kids excercise is good:)
...The share holders suddenly realize that, wow, my $$ are going away because the corporate lawyer / managers are screwing up by doing illegal stuff...
I think you are *really* onto something here. Somehow MS is able to squiggle out of stuff -- lying in court -- corporate income taxes -- court settlements -- etc... And when you suggest otherwise, they get belligerent (sp?), start spreading FUD, and founding political organizations [meanwhile I can't squiggle out of a parking ticket].
You are right on the money when you say the courts need to damage the shareholders, because they are the only people that have leverage over MS. The legal system has been ineffective.
What do you mean dude? I *suspended my disbelief* that the movie wouldn't *suck* and went and saw it anyways:)
Also, it's well known in sci-fi that the characters/people/plot needs to follow the *rules* of the world, ie. must maintain self consistancy. The suspension of disbelief is that the rules of the world exist, not that the characters can break the rules of the world.
I have a smiliar problem with my studio equiptment... which consists of 4 computers, 3 keyboards, 12 synths/effect processors in a 36u rack, several mics, a handfull of converter boxes, a few monitors (speakers), a closet full of instruments (guitars, saxes, flutes, clarinets [and yes, they are plural for a reason:-D]), and a *buttload* of cables:)
The secret to managing the girlfriend is technique:
Sneak stuff in when possible, they dont *have* to know about it, and they dont pay close attention so they dont always know exactly what you have.
If they do figure out you got something new, tell them it was cheap:) Try to explain it in terms they will understand/appreciate, ie "That 300$ box [really cost 750$] and makes pretty piano sounds"... "That box makes your internet go faster" Infact, purposefully tweak her MTU settings to something awful, so when you get the new box you can set them normal and tell her it was responsible:)
Dont stress the finances too much and never let her see your credit card bills, "Honey, we're going to mcdonalds instead of Olive Garden (which incidently is really the mcdonalds of italian food:) *WON'T* impress her, and you better believe she *will* remember.
Upgrade things when possible. For my synths, I buy the upgrade cards... I've dumped 2000$ into upgrade cards this year, but It dosen't *look* like I've gotten any more equiptment:)
Remember if you hear the phrase "Oh god not another one" and you already know what she's talking about -- YOU are the problem not her:D
Lastly if she gives you too much shit, remember the divorce rate is 50%, but a synthesizer (or server in your case) will serve you forever [but it can't put out]:)
The big deal is hopefully they can fix the bugs that archos is unable / unwilling to fix.
And here is that bug: The damn think skips *all* the time... even when it's stationary. Sometimes with CBR mp3's, but all the time with VBR mp3s. They have some workarounds, but they dont work, I know its not my player because all my friends who have one complain about the same damn thing. Other then that one HUGE problem its really a great little device
that was my reaction:) I have some tube-amps in my guitar rig and I can't get them *NEAR* my computer because they pickup the volumes of EM noise that are currently makeing me sterile:)
If a radio station was to get permission from the holder of the copyright of the sound recording - they could broadcast it without being subject to the DMCA compulsory license. It would not be easy to do this, and would require a lot of paperwork
Fuck, you can play my music. If you're having trouble finding independant artist music to play, you ain't looking. I will *beg* you guys to play my tunes if you tell me whose ass to kiss.
Id should talk to visa to get a co-branded credit card going -- thats about the only way people are going to get to play their games -- charging videocards:)
on another note, is it just me or is Id and john carmack dangerously close to becoming the george lucas of the game industry? I find myself incapable of getting excited about DOOM 3.
Im going tu burn some karma here... I've hit the cap anyways. Fuck you punk, why is it everyone on the internet is an asshole?
I dont need your oponion on my career track. I've refused to work in groups and do other peoples work for them, and thats between me and my professors.
Second of all, I've refused to do plenty of shit my employers have asked me to do and its kept me out of jail atleast once.
So keep your *stupid* comments and oponions to yourself.
Noooo!!!! I don't know how many "groups" you've worked in at college level, but almost every group has one or two people that do the work and understand the material. The others don't have a clue or are freeloading.
The reason professors like to assign group projects is because its *less for them to grade.* Sometimes they are necessary if there is an expensive resource (software, hardware, etc0. But usually the prof/ta is just lazy. While doing my CS degree, I *refused* to work in groups several times.
A kind of an anti-arms race develops in group situations -- students who care the least about their grades wait for the students who care the most about their grades to do their work for them.
Some projects are also very difficult to break up into pieces a group can do...
my peg leg is bigger then yours, my parrot knows twice as many songs as yours (he learned them from mp3s), and *my* eye patch is jewel encrusted.
Please don't use the world pirate as a noun or a verb to describe copying bits. Seriously -- when you use this bullshit terminology -- "they" have already won the first battle.
In the last few years various entities have *really* learned to use the language against us, we drive "pre-owned cars", we "pirate" music, we get blown up by "suicide bombers" (although some news stations are now calling them "homicide bombers"). We don't goto war we have "operations"... I could think of a million others
When someone wants to call a thing something i'ts not -- they are trying to color your perception
Umm what happens when some virus blasts me into infinity, or some irc script kiddy DOS's me, do I get to pay for that?
That IIS worm slammed my DSL connection for *months*. I was getting on the order of 5 or 10 attacks per second. (im not even running a web server, they bounce off the firewall). Once again -- should i have to pay for that ?
They don't care about the ID #'s on legit cds/dvds (yet). They want all cd/dvd production *equiptment* to *automatically* add the ID of the machine that made it.
This way when they *find* a pirated CD, they can know what CD machine made it, "ahh, cd duplicator # 14652, we sold that to... ahh, the russian mafia".
This is how piracy works: BMG needs 100,000 of Britneys new cd... they call up factory X and they say yeah, we can produce 100,000 cds in two weeks. But the factory lied -- they can really make 200,000 cds in two weeks -- and they *DO*. BMG gets its 100,000 cds, and they've got 100,000 cds to sell. BMG pays 1$ a cd (max), but the "counterfit" ones are identical to the real ones and they can sell them to some shady characters for *alot* more.
And if it's not the same factory producing the pirated cds, its people using the factories machines at 2:00am in the morning. Russian mafia guy takes a janitorial or security job at factory X and when everyone goes home, he and his buddies run off cds to sell:)
I believe that CD pressing machines cost the order of 6 or 7 digits. Your street punks selling cds on the corner cant afford these machines. Right or wrong, the RIAA wants to find out where the cds are being made. Although Im sure they will use this ID in some sneaky way later
"...the RIAA works to protect intellectual property rights worldwide and the First Amendment rights of artists..."
Can we use this to our advantadge, say -> get emminem to do a cover of one of the decss songs on his next album? Id love to see the brain freeze at the RIAA ->
support "fist amendment rights of artists" (code word for: we wanna be able to say whatever obsenities kids will pay for -- remember kids, music isn't cool if it dosen't offend your parents)
OR
support draconian legislation that will benefit us in the long term.
Since its been proven the riaa cant think think more then about 30 seconds into the future, they're gonna go for option #1, and Id love to see the RIAA and the MPAA destroy eachother in a battle of the titans:D
Who marked this guy as insightfull? He sounds like a stock owner to me:D Companies like telco, gas, power, etc are called "natural monopolies". In exchange for the government allowing thim to have this natural monopoly, they are supposed to accept regulation and such...
Do you remember before long distance de-regulation paying 40c/min to call then next city over? I sure do. A call from Hemet, CA to Riverside, CA cost 40c a minute. In alot of cases it was cheaper for me to *drive* the 30 miles (2$ worth of gas round trip) round to talk then talk on the phone for 5 minutes. Now the calls cost like 7c... thats deregulation.
I already pay *50* bucks a month for the base DSL package from Verizon, the service is awfull, tech support is a joke, and half the time the thing dosen't work. Allowing them to be the only company offering DSL isn't gonna help.
At what banner adds cost right now, whats that likely to cost, like 30,000$?
How come I'm always getting screwed, and the laywers are always getting stuff?
Does anyone have any links to stories about deaths which have occured from riding roller coasters?
My x-g/f (total bitch, but thats a story for another topic:) witnessed a six flags employee basically get splatered on the wooden roller coaster at six flags california (I think its called "cyclone" but I dont remember). The breaks failed and the employee was standing on the tracks -- now thats a dumb thing to do to begin with, but the thing hit at full tilt and well, there wasn't much left.
Legislators are stupid... similiar situation: a couple years ago here in california, some school kid got himself darwined by running across the street and into the path of a car after getting off a bus.
Our legislators in their finite wisdom decided that to avoid this in the future, drivers would have to *stop* on *both lanes* of trafic anytime a school bus was unloading. The fine for not stoping ? 1500$.
I have nearly gotten in 5 accidents because of this -- people slam on their breaks when the buses flip on their stop sign because they're afraid of the amazing fine (and guess what -- cops are following the buses so they can *give* amazing fines). Then invariably a busy street or expressway comes to a halt with screaching tires. And yes ive narowly avoided some fantastic collisions only by luck.
If I ever meet the fucker who wrote that bill, I'm going to kill him for nearly getting *me* killed 5 times.
I work at a visual systems research lab, and we *had* planned to use them in research. They are on par with the cost of building our own robots (1500$ worth of parts + untold labor hours), or buying premade ones (2500 - 5000$). And its just damn cool. We ended up gettin a trilobot instead, but I think the aibo was actually more capable.
its the economy... Im in the same position, I have been a sysadmin for two years, and have just completed a BS in CS at a reputable university. I cant get a call back, none of my friends can get a call back. My friends who graduated *last* year still dont have jobs. This is just a real bad time to be in CS.
Contrast that to when I entered college (1997-98ish) and you can see we've slipped quite a bit -- companies were *soo* desperate for CS people that they would *pay your last year of college*. A buddy of mine graduated in 1997 as a CS/EE dbl and got picked up for 80k/yr by Sun to start. Now a *great* job is 45/yr.
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They would throw us in horrible units like Step Aerobics, square dancing, swimming (who wants to go swimming everyday??) and wrestling. Nothing was as bad as wrestling -- for those who dont know -- the starting position for wrestling pretty much looks like a gay buttfuck, one guy is on his knees, and the other guy is behind him also on his knees. This just isn't "a good thing" (tm) for your typical teenager. My best friend and I decided we would only wrestle with eachother because atleast we were comfortable with eachother ...
Anyways, the reason for my ramble, if someone had told me we had a videogame instead of buttfuck wrestling in PE, I might have dropped by more often :) and anything that makes kids excercise is good :)
...The share holders suddenly realize that, wow, my $$ are going away because the corporate lawyer / managers are screwing up by doing illegal stuff...
... And when you suggest otherwise, they get belligerent (sp?), start spreading FUD, and founding political organizations [meanwhile I can't squiggle out of a parking ticket].
I think you are *really* onto something here. Somehow MS is able to squiggle out of stuff -- lying in court -- corporate income taxes -- court settlements -- etc
You are right on the money when you say the courts need to damage the shareholders, because they are the only people that have leverage over MS. The legal system has been ineffective.
Also, it's well known in sci-fi that the characters/people/plot needs to follow the *rules* of the world, ie. must maintain self consistancy. The suspension of disbelief is that the rules of the world exist, not that the characters can break the rules of the world.
The secret to managing the girlfriend is technique:
Sneak stuff in when possible, they dont *have* to know about it, and they dont pay close attention so they dont always know exactly what you have.
If they do figure out you got something new, tell them it was cheap :) Try to explain it in terms they will understand/appreciate, ie "That 300$ box [really cost 750$] and makes pretty piano sounds" ... "That box makes your internet go faster" Infact, purposefully tweak her MTU settings to something awful, so when you get the new box you can set them normal and tell her it was responsible :)
Dont stress the finances too much and never let her see your credit card bills, "Honey, we're going to mcdonalds instead of Olive Garden (which incidently is really the mcdonalds of italian food :) *WON'T* impress her, and you better believe she *will* remember.
Upgrade things when possible. For my synths, I buy the upgrade cards ... I've dumped 2000$ into upgrade cards this year, but It dosen't *look* like I've gotten any more equiptment :)
Remember if you hear the phrase "Oh god not another one" and you already know what she's talking about -- YOU are the problem not her :D
Lastly if she gives you too much shit, remember the divorce rate is 50%, but a synthesizer (or server in your case) will serve you forever [but it can't put out] :)
The big deal is hopefully they can fix the bugs that archos is unable / unwilling to fix. And here is that bug: The damn think skips *all* the time ... even when it's stationary. Sometimes with CBR mp3's, but all the time with VBR mp3s. They have some workarounds, but they dont work, I know its not my player because all my friends who have one complain about the same damn thing. Other then that one HUGE problem its really a great little device
that was my reaction :) I have some tube-amps in my guitar rig and I can't get them *NEAR* my computer because they pickup the volumes of EM noise that are currently makeing me sterile :)
Who does that leave?
Fuck, you can play my music. If you're having trouble finding independant artist music to play, you ain't looking. I will *beg* you guys to play my tunes if you tell me whose ass to kiss.
on another note, is it just me or is Id and john carmack dangerously close to becoming the george lucas of the game industry? I find myself incapable of getting excited about DOOM 3.
I dont need your oponion on my career track. I've refused to work in groups and do other peoples work for them, and thats between me and my professors.
Second of all, I've refused to do plenty of shit my employers have asked me to do and its kept me out of jail atleast once.
So keep your *stupid* comments and oponions to yourself.
The reason professors like to assign group projects is because its *less for them to grade.* Sometimes they are necessary if there is an expensive resource (software, hardware, etc0. But usually the prof/ta is just lazy. While doing my CS degree, I *refused* to work in groups several times.
A kind of an anti-arms race develops in group situations -- students who care the least about their grades wait for the students who care the most about their grades to do their work for them.
Some projects are also very difficult to break up into pieces a group can do ...
Please don't use the world pirate as a noun or a verb to describe copying bits. Seriously -- when you use this bullshit terminology -- "they" have already won the first battle.
In the last few years various entities have *really* learned to use the language against us, we drive "pre-owned cars", we "pirate" music, we get blown up by "suicide bombers" (although some news stations are now calling them "homicide bombers"). We don't goto war we have "operations" ... I could think of a million others
When someone wants to call a thing something i'ts not -- they are trying to color your perception
I run my studio on AMD processors and have never been happier. My XP 1700 machine has bluescreened once in its life. What OS are you running?
That IIS worm slammed my DSL connection for *months*. I was getting on the order of 5 or 10 attacks per second. (im not even running a web server, they bounce off the firewall). Once again -- should i have to pay for that ?
This way when they *find* a pirated CD, they can know what CD machine made it, "ahh, cd duplicator # 14652, we sold that to ... ahh, the russian mafia".
This is how piracy works: BMG needs 100,000 of Britneys new cd ... they call up factory X and they say yeah, we can produce 100,000 cds in two weeks. But the factory lied -- they can really make 200,000 cds in two weeks -- and they *DO*. BMG gets its 100,000 cds, and they've got 100,000 cds to sell. BMG pays 1$ a cd (max), but the "counterfit" ones are identical to the real ones and they can sell them to some shady characters for *alot* more.
And if it's not the same factory producing the pirated cds, its people using the factories machines at 2:00am in the morning. Russian mafia guy takes a janitorial or security job at factory X and when everyone goes home, he and his buddies run off cds to sell :)
I believe that CD pressing machines cost the order of 6 or 7 digits. Your street punks selling cds on the corner cant afford these machines. Right or wrong, the RIAA wants to find out where the cds are being made. Although Im sure they will use this ID in some sneaky way later
Can we use this to our advantadge, say -> get emminem to do a cover of one of the decss songs on his next album? Id love to see the brain freeze at the RIAA ->
support "fist amendment rights of artists" (code word for: we wanna be able to say whatever obsenities kids will pay for -- remember kids, music isn't cool if it dosen't offend your parents)
OR
support draconian legislation that will benefit us in the long term.
Since its been proven the riaa cant think think more then about 30 seconds into the future, they're gonna go for option #1, and Id love to see the RIAA and the MPAA destroy eachother in a battle of the titans:D
Do you remember before long distance de-regulation paying 40c/min to call then next city over? I sure do. A call from Hemet, CA to Riverside, CA cost 40c a minute. In alot of cases it was cheaper for me to *drive* the 30 miles (2$ worth of gas round trip) round to talk then talk on the phone for 5 minutes. Now the calls cost like 7c ... thats deregulation.
I already pay *50* bucks a month for the base DSL package from Verizon, the service is awfull, tech support is a joke, and half the time the thing dosen't work. Allowing them to be the only company offering DSL isn't gonna help.
At what banner adds cost right now, whats that likely to cost, like 30,000$? How come I'm always getting screwed, and the laywers are always getting stuff?
My god my buddy and I did the *exact* same thing. I think doom prevented me from getting into a decent college :)
your name isn't matt is it? :D
I am 100% and completley serious ... this is a real law in california. its funny because its trajic
Does anyone have any links to stories about deaths which have occured from riding roller coasters? My x-g/f (total bitch, but thats a story for another topic:) witnessed a six flags employee basically get splatered on the wooden roller coaster at six flags california (I think its called "cyclone" but I dont remember). The breaks failed and the employee was standing on the tracks -- now thats a dumb thing to do to begin with, but the thing hit at full tilt and well, there wasn't much left.
Our legislators in their finite wisdom decided that to avoid this in the future, drivers would have to *stop* on *both lanes* of trafic anytime a school bus was unloading. The fine for not stoping ? 1500$.
I have nearly gotten in 5 accidents because of this -- people slam on their breaks when the buses flip on their stop sign because they're afraid of the amazing fine (and guess what -- cops are following the buses so they can *give* amazing fines). Then invariably a busy street or expressway comes to a halt with screaching tires. And yes ive narowly avoided some fantastic collisions only by luck.
If I ever meet the fucker who wrote that bill, I'm going to kill him for nearly getting *me* killed 5 times.
you hit the nail on the head dude. The longs drugs/payless's around here start pharmacists at 80/yr.
I work at a visual systems research lab, and we *had* planned to use them in research. They are on par with the cost of building our own robots (1500$ worth of parts + untold labor hours), or buying premade ones (2500 - 5000$). And its just damn cool. We ended up gettin a trilobot instead, but I think the aibo was actually more capable.
Contrast that to when I entered college (1997-98ish) and you can see we've slipped quite a bit -- companies were *soo* desperate for CS people that they would *pay your last year of college*. A buddy of mine graduated in 1997 as a CS/EE dbl and got picked up for 80k/yr by Sun to start. Now a *great* job is 45/yr.
The good news is it will pick up soon enuf.