There was a man shipwrecked on an island with only his dog to keep him company. After weeks and weeks of being alone, he finally found some sheep grazing in a field. The man had once heard that if you fsck a sheep it sorta feels like a woman. Being desperate, he started towards the herd. His dog immediate runs up, barks, and they all run away. The man scolds the dog, and decides to try again the following day. Again, he finds the sheep, and as he approaches, his dog again barks and chases them all away. This time the man is really pissed, and kicks the stupid dog. The following day the man decides to try again, only this time when he gets to the field, there is a beautiful woman surrounded by a pack of wolves. Thinking quickly, the man grabs his dog by the tail and uses it as a club to beat off the wolves. Grateful, the woman offers to do anything he wants. Elated, the man replies "here, hold my dog"!
=)
(I have no idea where this joke came from)
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One of the scientists stated that the cloning process used to make Dolly might have been inefficient, and that sheep usually live 10-12 years.
I hope that the people opposed to cloing dont take her untimely death as a reason to stop further research into this field.
I for one cannot wait to see spaarti cylinders everywhere. (That was a Star Wars joke, FYI...)
Ubi sucks. They butchered Pools of Radiance 2, and they've apparently butchered Dragons Lair 2 also.
I havent bought an Ubi game since PoR, nor do I plan on ever buying another Ubi game again. Ubi is #1 on my personal shit list of game producing companies.
Look, the NYT isnt the end all of evils, and last time I checked, they are in the business of selling the news. Now, its nice of them to let us register for FREE, and read these articles without having to buy their newspaper. If you dont like that they want to register, DONT FRICKEN REGISTER AND FIND THE LINK YOURSELF!!! Everytime someone links to the NYT or similar sites, there is at least one idiot poster who bitches about "link to non registering site" or whatnot, and its fricken old.
Not everything is meant to be free people, enjoy the stuff that it is and stop being so damn paranoid, or be paranoid and enter crap into the registration info, or be paranoid and live in your parents basement eating cheesy poofs while wearing a tin foil hat and pretending the gov't is out to control you with mind altering radiation.
Heres a clue: NO ONE FUCKING CARES THAT MUCH ABOUT YOU!!!
... from telemarketers, usually from AT&T about long distance. Then I switched from the local crap service to MCI's neighborhood plan, and I get at most 1 a week, and then its usually from some charity organization like the local police or something, so I dont know if thats really considered telemarketing...
At any rate, thats how I fixed my problem... and free long distance rocks when playing vid games with people in other states!!:-)
I saw this posted like, an hour ago... I've never gotten first post... guess everyone is out cleaing their washing machine so as to brew their own, umm, brew like the holy man there....
Windows is the gamers platform of choice. When I buy a new game, i sure as heck dont want to spend 8 hours configuring WineX to run it at a 25%-50% loss of power (my friend tried StarCraft on WineX on a 500 mhz with 256 ram, and it ran like ass... on windows, perfectly fine). I want to play my game. If you want to configure your system so that it runs Windows games, by all means, but dont bitch because "linux gamers are left out".
Is it any worse than the employee who takes 15 10 minute smoke breaks a day? Not to mention the time they wander around the office looking confused, or the time they spend chatting with coworkers...
Is it really that much worse? No one seems to mind that, yet we surf for ten minutes and we're looked on as lazy thieves stealing corporate hours...
I seem to recall a certain Billy G, or B Gates if you prefer, say we only needed 640k of ram a few years back. Now if I told you i had 640k of ram in my box, you'd cackle at me like I proclaimed Win3.1 better than Red Hat 8.0. Today we probably DONT need fiber, but tomorrow, who knows? I know if I could double my bandwidth I'd jump at the chance (cable modem currently, DSL really isnt an option at the moment).
Maybe instead of stifling technology with idiotic "its fast enough" thoughts you should think before you type.
From todays SomethingAwful.com post... I take no credit, other than shameless cut and paste!
Operation: Winnuke
Operational Plan: One of the most vulnerable areas of Iraq is its weak technological infrastructure. Still largely in a state of disorder from the constant US and British bombing campaign against Iraqi communications centers, the Iraqi computer network is vulnerable to attack. One US plan calls for a multi-phase operation conducted largely within the framework of the recently unveiled International Community Messenger. This computer system allows world leaders to communicate one-on-one over the Internet. Phase one of the operation will involve a coordinated effort by George W. Bush to get all of the world leaders supporting a war against Iraq online at the same time. He will tell them all to start innocuous conversations with Iraq and that when they see the warning level of Iraq rising on their contact list they are to begin warning Iraq until the nation is logged out of the Messenger service. If executed properly phase one will prevent Iraq from rallying sympathetic nations to its cause after phase two has struck.
Phase two will begin with the United States beginning a conversation with Iraq over trivial things. At some point during the conversation the US will send Iraq a seemingly harmless video file that actually contains an annoying virus script that will deadlock the Iraqi computer system, making it both difficult and embarrassing to use. As mentioned, before Iraq can retaliate or request aid allies of the United States will warn Iraq until it is temporarily banned from the service. To help you better understand how this operation will go down we have modeled it using advanced computer technology called "Microsoft Notepad".
US_of_A[NATO] Hey d00d, what's up? _+Iraq[AoE]+_ not 2 much fag _+Iraq[AoE]+_ u got the UN resolution u want me to sign lol US_of_A[NATO] yeah man, check this out 1st, it's a krad video of this crazy Koreen kids dancing US_of_A[NATO] wants to send you the file Dance_Routine(Funny!).wmv.vbs. _+Iraq[AoE]+_ ok its downloadin US_of_A[NATO] cool when its done run it _+Iraq[AoE]+_ ok _+Iraq[AoE]+_ WTF its opening gay pron popups US_of_A[NATO] pwned You have warned the user US_of_A[NATO] You have been warned by the user US_of_A[NATO] Warning Level is 10% You have been warned by the user UK[NATO] Warning Level is 25% You have been warned by the user Spizzain[NATO] Warning Level is 50% You have been warned by the user iTaLy[NATO] Warning Level is 75% You have been warned by the user Canada[420TreesHitter][NATO] Warning Level is 100% ***You are being temporarily logged out of International Community Messenger***
After this Iraq's computer and communication infrastructure will be isolated from the world community and Iraq will be vulnerable to further offensive operations.
Possible Threats: North Korea is constantly online and attempting to send the United States viruses through ICM. Technical specialists are usually able to persuade to the president not to open "Sexyjapaneselass_Vs_Playboy.scr". However, President Bush has already infected some 400 government computers with various e-mail and ICM viruses, and if alone may do so again. In the right North Korean hands this could compromise the security of the entire operation.
Estimated Casualties: Pretty much everyone in Iraq's tech-sector is expected to be summarily executed by Saddam if this plan works. Other than that no casualties are expected.
... that ALOT of employers require this now? I have known of a few jobs where they have told me up front or on their applications (be it online or paper) that they require a credit check, and if you have a problem with that, seek employment elsewhere.
AFAIK the basis for this is that if you cant manage your own finances then you are more likely to be a not so hot employee, and more likely to steal to get yourself out of the hole than someone with less credit problems.
Note, I dont necessarily agree with that, nor do I know it for fact that that IS the reason, and now that I've been interrupted 10 times from writing this, its probably redundant...
When I was little (like, 4), we had a Commodore 64. All the software was on 5 inch floppy disks. So I thought they were floppy disks because they "flopped" if you shook them around. Later on we got an Amiga which used 3 inch floppies. Took me years to figure out that when people were saying "hard disks" they werent talking about them. (before you flame me for being an idiot, years was about when we got a 386 which actually HAD a hard disk drive, and I couldnt have been more than 10.)
By god, in those days we had BBS's on 2400 baud modems and we liked it! My mom and her friend actually had one of the top 100 in the country, per some magazine... sandcastle anyone? I think it still exists.
When the bad guy was cold and evil and had it in for the captain specifically I felt like I was watching The Wrath of Khan. When the Enterprise was damaged beyond belief I felt like I was watching The Wrath of Kahn. When Data downloaded his mind, I felt like I was watching The Wrath of Kahn. When Data died to save the Enterprise, I felt like I was watching the Wrath of Kahn.
So the next time I wanted to see Nemesis, I dusted off my VHS copy of The Wrath of Kahn and watched it instead. At least Spock comes back.
How dare they allude to this being the last episode of the next gen crew and have Data die.
Okay Mr Anon, apparently our views on the "computer experience" differ, which as I tried to convey in my post, is understandable. I am not forcing Windows down your throat, nor am I stating that my OS of choice is superior to yours. I am merely stating that for what I do with a computer, Linux quite frankly sucks. Does that mean I think that Linux is useless? Not at all. Just it doesnt do what I need it to do.
By the way, next time you flame, grow some balls and dont post anonymously...
And both times I went back to Windows. Windows has software that I want. Windows has my games. Some of you will say that "linux has WineX", which is true. But it wasnt worth the trouble, for me at least. So basically I decided that I had nothing to show for being on Linux, and went back to Windows, because it was easier, and it worked. When linux can run, out of the box, every new title (that the computers specification state it should anyway) without fuss, I might go back. And before you flame me, realize that I probably represent an absurd percentage of the windows crowd, who couldnt care less about their OS, they just want their stuff to run.
We already know that the Radeon 9700 pro and the GeForce FX will run Doom III, and they are both going to look good doing it.
My concern is what is it going to look like on, lets say, a G4Ti4200 w/64 megs of ram, or the G4Ti4600 w/128 megs of ram. Are those of us not willing to spend 400 bucks on a new vid card (or for those of us stuck with a 4x AGP board, that plus a new mobo) going to have to turn 90% of the features off to run it at a good looking frame rate?
Thanks goes out to Carmack, its nice that he takes the time to give us a run down of the two cards that are battling for supremecy, especially since I like many of you are thinking about D3 when I evaluate my system and its need for being upgraded.
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How long till someone gets a linux distro to run on it? oh wait...
they SELL windows liscenses??? Gee, and I thought the .txt file with the key in it was included with EVERY copy of windows...
who knew???
of coure, I better not let the BSA hear me say that, they might give me a merit badge in thievery!
There was a man shipwrecked on an island with only his dog to keep him company. After weeks and weeks of being alone, he finally found some sheep grazing in a field. The man had once heard that if you fsck a sheep it sorta feels like a woman. Being desperate, he started towards the herd. His dog immediate runs up, barks, and they all run away. The man scolds the dog, and decides to try again the following day. Again, he finds the sheep, and as he approaches, his dog again barks and chases them all away. This time the man is really pissed, and kicks the stupid dog. The following day the man decides to try again, only this time when he gets to the field, there is a beautiful woman surrounded by a pack of wolves. Thinking quickly, the man grabs his dog by the tail and uses it as a club to beat off the wolves. Grateful, the woman offers to do anything he wants. Elated, the man replies "here, hold my dog"!
=)
(I have no idea where this joke came from)
One of the scientists stated that the cloning process used to make Dolly might have been inefficient, and that sheep usually live 10-12 years.
I hope that the people opposed to cloing dont take her untimely death as a reason to stop further research into this field.
I for one cannot wait to see spaarti cylinders everywhere. (That was a Star Wars joke, FYI...)
I almost bought splinter cell, till I realized that it was an Ubi game. ubi gets no more of my money. ever.
besides, MGS2:S and SC:G will be plenty of covert ops if I so choose.
Ubi can suck it.
Ubi sucks. They butchered Pools of Radiance 2, and they've apparently butchered Dragons Lair 2 also.
I havent bought an Ubi game since PoR, nor do I plan on ever buying another Ubi game again. Ubi is #1 on my personal shit list of game producing companies.
Look, the NYT isnt the end all of evils, and last time I checked, they are in the business of selling the news. Now, its nice of them to let us register for FREE, and read these articles without having to buy their newspaper. If you dont like that they want to register, DONT FRICKEN REGISTER AND FIND THE LINK YOURSELF!!! Everytime someone links to the NYT or similar sites, there is at least one idiot poster who bitches about "link to non registering site" or whatnot, and its fricken old.
Not everything is meant to be free people, enjoy the stuff that it is and stop being so damn paranoid, or be paranoid and enter crap into the registration info, or be paranoid and live in your parents basement eating cheesy poofs while wearing a tin foil hat and pretending the gov't is out to control you with mind altering radiation.
Heres a clue: NO ONE FUCKING CARES THAT MUCH ABOUT YOU!!!
... from telemarketers, usually from AT&T about long distance. Then I switched from the local crap service to MCI's neighborhood plan, and I get at most 1 a week, and then its usually from some charity organization like the local police or something, so I dont know if thats really considered telemarketing...
:-)
At any rate, thats how I fixed my problem... and free long distance rocks when playing vid games with people in other states!!
why's it always got to be the "black box"? Huh??
I had a level 11 fighter with a Sun Blade once...
nothing like twirling the sword around yer head to blind/stun/destroy undead with Sun Rays...
Sheesh, how is this "news that matters"? Any second rate geek worth his 6 siders knows about Sun Blades...
I saw this posted like, an hour ago... I've never gotten first post... guess everyone is out cleaing their washing machine so as to brew their own, umm, brew like the holy man there....
Windows is the gamers platform of choice. When I buy a new game, i sure as heck dont want to spend 8 hours configuring WineX to run it at a 25%-50% loss of power (my friend tried StarCraft on WineX on a 500 mhz with 256 ram, and it ran like ass... on windows, perfectly fine). I want to play my game. If you want to configure your system so that it runs Windows games, by all means, but dont bitch because "linux gamers are left out".
Is it any worse than the employee who takes 15 10 minute smoke breaks a day? Not to mention the time they wander around the office looking confused, or the time they spend chatting with coworkers...
Is it really that much worse? No one seems to mind that, yet we surf for ten minutes and we're looked on as lazy thieves stealing corporate hours...
I seem to recall a certain Billy G, or B Gates if you prefer, say we only needed 640k of ram a few years back. Now if I told you i had 640k of ram in my box, you'd cackle at me like I proclaimed Win3.1 better than Red Hat 8.0. Today we probably DONT need fiber, but tomorrow, who knows? I know if I could double my bandwidth I'd jump at the chance (cable modem currently, DSL really isnt an option at the moment).
Maybe instead of stifling technology with idiotic "its fast enough" thoughts you should think before you type.
"Linux is not Unix"...
GNU isnt Unix.
From todays SomethingAwful.com post... I take no credit, other than shameless cut and paste!
Operation: Winnuke
Operational Plan: One of the most vulnerable areas of Iraq is its weak technological infrastructure. Still largely in a state of disorder from the constant US and British bombing campaign against Iraqi communications centers, the Iraqi computer network is vulnerable to attack. One US plan calls for a multi-phase operation conducted largely within the framework of the recently unveiled International Community Messenger. This computer system allows world leaders to communicate one-on-one over the Internet. Phase one of the operation will involve a coordinated effort by George W. Bush to get all of the world leaders supporting a war against Iraq online at the same time. He will tell them all to start innocuous conversations with Iraq and that when they see the warning level of Iraq rising on their contact list they are to begin warning Iraq until the nation is logged out of the Messenger service. If executed properly phase one will prevent Iraq from rallying sympathetic nations to its cause after phase two has struck.
Phase two will begin with the United States beginning a conversation with Iraq over trivial things. At some point during the conversation the US will send Iraq a seemingly harmless video file that actually contains an annoying virus script that will deadlock the Iraqi computer system, making it both difficult and embarrassing to use. As mentioned, before Iraq can retaliate or request aid allies of the United States will warn Iraq until it is temporarily banned from the service. To help you better understand how this operation will go down we have modeled it using advanced computer technology called "Microsoft Notepad".
US_of_A[NATO] Hey d00d, what's up?
_+Iraq[AoE]+_ not 2 much fag
_+Iraq[AoE]+_ u got the UN resolution u want me to sign lol
US_of_A[NATO] yeah man, check this out 1st, it's a krad video of this crazy Koreen kids dancing
US_of_A[NATO] wants to send you the file Dance_Routine(Funny!).wmv.vbs.
_+Iraq[AoE]+_ ok its downloadin
US_of_A[NATO] cool when its done run it
_+Iraq[AoE]+_ ok
_+Iraq[AoE]+_ WTF its opening gay pron popups
US_of_A[NATO] pwned
You have warned the user US_of_A[NATO]
You have been warned by the user US_of_A[NATO] Warning Level is 10%
You have been warned by the user UK[NATO] Warning Level is 25%
You have been warned by the user Spizzain[NATO] Warning Level is 50%
You have been warned by the user iTaLy[NATO] Warning Level is 75%
You have been warned by the user Canada[420TreesHitter][NATO] Warning Level is 100%
***You are being temporarily logged out of International Community Messenger***
After this Iraq's computer and communication infrastructure will be isolated from the world community and Iraq will be vulnerable to further offensive operations.
Possible Threats: North Korea is constantly online and attempting to send the United States viruses through ICM. Technical specialists are usually able to persuade to the president not to open "Sexyjapaneselass_Vs_Playboy.scr". However, President Bush has already infected some 400 government computers with various e-mail and ICM viruses, and if alone may do so again. In the right North Korean hands this could compromise the security of the entire operation.
Estimated Casualties: Pretty much everyone in Iraq's tech-sector is expected to be summarily executed by Saddam if this plan works. Other than that no casualties are expected.
... that ALOT of employers require this now? I have known of a few jobs where they have told me up front or on their applications (be it online or paper) that they require a credit check, and if you have a problem with that, seek employment elsewhere.
AFAIK the basis for this is that if you cant manage your own finances then you are more likely to be a not so hot employee, and more likely to steal to get yourself out of the hole than someone with less credit problems.
Note, I dont necessarily agree with that, nor do I know it for fact that that IS the reason, and now that I've been interrupted 10 times from writing this, its probably redundant...
ahh well..
Like a link to the "the askers' pr0n site"?!? huh? huh??
sheesh... =)
When I was little (like, 4), we had a Commodore 64. All the software was on 5 inch floppy disks. So I thought they were floppy disks because they "flopped" if you shook them around. Later on we got an Amiga which used 3 inch floppies. Took me years to figure out that when people were saying "hard disks" they werent talking about them. (before you flame me for being an idiot, years was about when we got a 386 which actually HAD a hard disk drive, and I couldnt have been more than 10.)
By god, in those days we had BBS's on 2400 baud modems and we liked it! My mom and her friend actually had one of the top 100 in the country, per some magazine... sandcastle anyone? I think it still exists.
Floppy, we shall miss thee.
When the bad guy was cold and evil and had it in for the captain specifically I felt like I was watching The Wrath of Khan. When the Enterprise was damaged beyond belief I felt like I was watching The Wrath of Kahn. When Data downloaded his mind, I felt like I was watching The Wrath of Kahn. When Data died to save the Enterprise, I felt like I was watching the Wrath of Kahn.
So the next time I wanted to see Nemesis, I dusted off my VHS copy of The Wrath of Kahn and watched it instead. At least Spock comes back.
How dare they allude to this being the last episode of the next gen crew and have Data die.
For shame.
Okay Mr Anon, apparently our views on the "computer experience" differ, which as I tried to convey in my post, is understandable. I am not forcing Windows down your throat, nor am I stating that my OS of choice is superior to yours. I am merely stating that for what I do with a computer, Linux quite frankly sucks. Does that mean I think that Linux is useless? Not at all. Just it doesnt do what I need it to do.
By the way, next time you flame, grow some balls and dont post anonymously...
And both times I went back to Windows. Windows has software that I want. Windows has my games. Some of you will say that "linux has WineX", which is true. But it wasnt worth the trouble, for me at least. So basically I decided that I had nothing to show for being on Linux, and went back to Windows, because it was easier, and it worked. When linux can run, out of the box, every new title (that the computers specification state it should anyway) without fuss, I might go back. And before you flame me, realize that I probably represent an absurd percentage of the windows crowd, who couldnt care less about their OS, they just want their stuff to run.
That is probably the best most insightful post I have ever read. Slashdot editors, make that a 6...
they call it Pepsi Blue.
We already know that the Radeon 9700 pro and the GeForce FX will run Doom III, and they are both going to look good doing it.
My concern is what is it going to look like on, lets say, a G4Ti4200 w/64 megs of ram, or the G4Ti4600 w/128 megs of ram. Are those of us not willing to spend 400 bucks on a new vid card (or for those of us stuck with a 4x AGP board, that plus a new mobo) going to have to turn 90% of the features off to run it at a good looking frame rate?
Thanks goes out to Carmack, its nice that he takes the time to give us a run down of the two cards that are battling for supremecy, especially since I like many of you are thinking about D3 when I evaluate my system and its need for being upgraded.