first off the film is incredible. the theatre here showing it was selling out every showing, including the matinees, something ive never seen. at the end the audience gave some nice loud applause.
its always odd as an "outsider" to watch americans. anyone that speaks out about the government is branded a radical, an extremist. round here in canada this is absolutely normal, the evening news has all sorts of people saying all sorts of critiques about the government and its not odd for people to talk about it on the street. and its not a group of people that do, EVERYONE does. no one looks at you funny, no one says you are anti-canadian. a term that is not used at all, either is unpatriotic. this is a states thing, its used to shut you up, make you feel bad. its wrong. moore isnt an extremist, he is a hero. exposing truths is patriotic. dont listen to the shills that call you names. the amount of brainwashing you poor people get is also astounding. i dont claim to live in some perfect society but its night and day with some things and i hope this movie wakes up many people to reality.
"It's funny, many people scream about the massive retraining required switching workers to Open Source... It's not real."
just because linux is open source and people have problems with linux, does NOT mean that people have problems with all open source apps. theres plenty of open source apps for windows that are just as good, and easy as closed source ones.
was it? the mr fusion thingy was added after it came back from the future, and the car at that time had a MAJOR overhaul. or do you not remember it could FLY at that point?
"'You know what, if we agree to keep our prices at $2.00 per burger, we both will make more money.' At that point it's illegal."
ah but this is exactly what happens in those moviehouses. several food places and ALL of them have the same 2 to 3 dollar cokes. how is this legal? anyone?
guys. doom and doom 2 used for most, if not all of their sounds, samples from a standard sound fx collection. thats why you hear them everywhere, they arent from doom, they are from a collection thats been around much longer than doom. perhaps someone here can even name the collection? i forget the name.
myHTPC http://myhtpc.net/ is a great frontend as well. ive been using it for a few months now and love it. and altho the system i built may have cost double what a tivo costs, the tivo functions are only a SMALL PART of what i do with this box. i stream movies and other content from the other pcs in my house. the box is actually my internet router. and most importantly, its also a videogame system. the radeon all in wonder 9600 is not only wonderful for tv apps, its a very powerful 3d card. you can go play with your tivos, ill sit back with my joystick and play the simpsons hit and run on my bigscreen tv.
is it really a huge jump? i dont think you are thinking in the right terms here. these guys have been selling chips in a range of speeds that the low end to high end is double the speed or more for a long long time. remember 33mhz and 66mhz cpus at the same time? yep. thats double the speed. and scale that up to 1.5ghz to 3ghz we see nowadays. thats double too. double of 4ghz is 8 ghz. to 4 to 10 is NOT a huge jump. its a little over double the speed.
the linux bimbos bra has many complicated hooks which need hard to find manuals.. or you could ask people.. and then they make fun of you... etc.. etc..
"Are benchmarks meaningful in any way? No. Do benchmarks have any credibility whatsoever? No."
are you insane? are the people that modded you up insane?
so a company that does 3d design needs new cards for their systems.. what do you suggest they do? buy the most expensive card on the market and hope its the best? buy the most expensive one they can afford? buy an assortment of cards and try every one themselves then decide which is best then try to return the other cards?
or be sane and read a review of various cards that TEST them, with something thats called BENCHMARKING. is benchmarking a perfect science? no. will it ever be? no. but they are of use like it or not.
oh ya, those bigger, rounded titlebars in xp must have really confused you.. you are obviously lying. the UI is almost exactly the same, its just a simple theme. that you can also turn off..
if someone HONESTLY has a "hard" time (your words) going from win2k to xp, they wouldnt have a chance in hell with any linux.
well i guess it works like an optical mouse. and unlike a mouse i guess if you lift it up and put it down again, it can reorient itself by rerolling it over a part thats already printed. (of course it needs to know what it has already printed). maybe it remembers the entire surface that youve moved the unit over. youd think it would need quite a bit of memory for that though. anyone here know the sampling resolution of an optical mouse? as in pixels per inch and bit depth?
"My whole company (50+ employees) uses Messenger - it's much less intrusive than walking into someone's office and saying "Hey, got a minute?" "
is this really a good idea? you do know every message with msn messenger goes through a microsoft server right? probably getting backed up onto tape somewhere. makes you wonder how many company secrets are stored at microsoft and how many companies go to microsoft to try to get some of these secrets by paying them off. note that not all messengers messages go through a server. like icq for instance. (as long as send through server is off..)
"Mame currently supports games like King of Fighters 2001 (60mb), Area 51 (which has a 300mb HDD image file) and several other more modern games."
very true but your numbers are a little off. kof2001 is 75 megs, and interestingly, the older kof2000 is 78 megs and kof99 is 100 megs!
also the area51 disk image is 534 megs. but theres now an area51mx hd img thats 1.66GB!!
so ya it takes up a lot of space. my roms folder which is zipped using every possible zip program i could find to get every last byte out of the compression is 9.64GB
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this may be the case for a lot of people, but not me. i agree that adhd is WAY over diagnosed. but there is some people with real, tough problems. i was diagnosed 20 years ago. if you are being diagnosed some time in college, guess what? you dont have much of a problem. if its bad enough to need treatment youd notice a very big problem a lot earlier. its frustrating for people like me reading about all of these people, because their "problems" seem like nothing. as you say they seem to get a little bored at stuff. who cares? but for me its EVERYTHING i do. i have no hobbys i keep. i have no fun stuff that stays fun. everything i try FOR FUN, gets boring. everything. so please do not think that this is just some lazy thing. it hurts me very badly that im like this and i try to change, ive tried dozens of medicines and other alternative therapies and nothing has helped me. i constantly struggle to find reasons to live because of this. so dont lump me in this same group as you talk about. there is some of us with a real problem.
im in my early 30s, canadian, and my experience seems to differ from everyone elses here? where i live we used cursive for everything in school all the way up until highschool graduation! printing stuff would get you looked at funny. anyone else? is this a canadian thing?
sounds like you got into the scene late. i was trading mp2 files before mp3 came out. they were pretty damn good too. mp3 is maybe only 50% better or something.
believe it or not, tf2 was started in 1997. as a quake 2 addon. shortly after that valve had interest in the team and picked them up and i remember seeing a demo of it at a quake event far before half life was even out! yes its that old.
do you think that footage of the tank running over the saddam poster was a photographer just capturing the route of a tank to its destination? or do you think the whole thing was a planned propaganda incident where they actually formed the idea, got the cameras there, then started up the tank. i think you can guess which seems more reasonable.
and the footage you see of the iraqis welcoming the soldiers. do you think maybe if the cameraman turned around you might see a truck full of much needed food and water? nah.. that would never happen.
the INBEDed media is there for propaganda, first and foremost.
i know ill get modded down for this quicker than anyone ever before, which is sad. but al jazeera actually shows whats happening to the palestinians by the israelis. and with people tuning in looking for iraq info, you dont want them stumbling in and seeing whats really happening. i think you can guess who may be doing this.
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first off the film is incredible. the theatre here showing it was selling out every showing, including the matinees, something ive never seen. at the end the audience gave some nice loud applause.
its always odd as an "outsider" to watch americans. anyone that speaks out about the government is branded a radical, an extremist. round here in canada this is absolutely normal, the evening news has all sorts of people saying all sorts of critiques about the government and its not odd for people to talk about it on the street. and its not a group of people that do, EVERYONE does. no one looks at you funny, no one says you are anti-canadian. a term that is not used at all, either is unpatriotic. this is a states thing, its used to shut you up, make you feel bad. its wrong. moore isnt an extremist, he is a hero. exposing truths is patriotic. dont listen to the shills that call you names. the amount of brainwashing you poor people get is also astounding. i dont claim to live in some perfect society but its night and day with some things and i hope this movie wakes up many people to reality.
"It's funny, many people scream about the massive retraining required switching workers to Open Source... It's not real."
just because linux is open source and people have problems with linux, does NOT mean that people have problems with all open source apps. theres plenty of open source apps for windows that are just as good, and easy as closed source ones.
was it? the mr fusion thingy was added after it came back from the future, and the car at that time had a MAJOR overhaul. or do you not remember it could FLY at that point?
"'You know what, if we agree to keep our prices at $2.00 per burger, we both will make more money.' At that point it's illegal."
ah but this is exactly what happens in those moviehouses. several food places and ALL of them have the same 2 to 3 dollar cokes. how is this legal? anyone?
shaw is definately canadian, but comcast and att are certainly not.
guys. doom and doom 2 used for most, if not all of their sounds, samples from a standard sound fx collection. thats why you hear them everywhere, they arent from doom, they are from a collection thats been around much longer than doom. perhaps someone here can even name the collection? i forget the name.
myHTPC http://myhtpc.net/ is a great frontend as well. ive been using it for a few months now and love it. and altho the system i built may have cost double what a tivo costs, the tivo functions are only a SMALL PART of what i do with this box. i stream movies and other content from the other pcs in my house. the box is actually my internet router. and most importantly, its also a videogame system. the radeon all in wonder 9600 is not only wonderful for tv apps, its a very powerful 3d card. you can go play with your tivos, ill sit back with my joystick and play the simpsons hit and run on my bigscreen tv.
is it really a huge jump? i dont think you are thinking in the right terms here. these guys have been selling chips in a range of speeds that the low end to high end is double the speed or more for a long long time. remember 33mhz and 66mhz cpus at the same time? yep. thats double the speed. and scale that up to 1.5ghz to 3ghz we see nowadays. thats double too. double of 4ghz is 8 ghz. to 4 to 10 is NOT a huge jump. its a little over double the speed.
"These countries have concentrated areas of high population density."
insightful?? did you read the article? did you notice who #3 was? canada. one of the least dense countrys on the frickin planet.
only the windows bimbo's bra comes off with ease.
the linux bimbos bra has many complicated hooks which need hard to find manuals.. or you could ask people.. and then they make fun of you... etc.. etc..
"Are benchmarks meaningful in any way? No.
Do benchmarks have any credibility whatsoever? No."
are you insane? are the people that modded you up insane?
so a company that does 3d design needs new cards for their systems.. what do you suggest they do? buy the most expensive card on the market and hope its the best? buy the most expensive one they can afford? buy an assortment of cards and try every one themselves then decide which is best then try to return the other cards?
or be sane and read a review of various cards that TEST them, with something thats called BENCHMARKING.
is benchmarking a perfect science? no. will it ever be? no. but they are of use like it or not.
oh ya, those bigger, rounded titlebars in xp must have really confused you.. you are obviously lying. the UI is almost exactly the same, its just a simple theme. that you can also turn off..
if someone HONESTLY has a "hard" time (your words) going from win2k to xp, they wouldnt have a chance in hell with any linux.
1. "probably" could not
2. they did know about it and didnt even check it out.
stunning resolution*S*?
sorry charly. stunning resolution (singular)
ive seen plenty of lcds, and when they dont use the 1:1 pixel ratio of the screen they look like CRAP.
well i guess it works like an optical mouse. and unlike a mouse i guess if you lift it up and put it down again, it can reorient itself by rerolling it over a part thats already printed. (of course it needs to know what it has already printed). maybe it remembers the entire surface that youve moved the unit over. youd think it would need quite a bit of memory for that though. anyone here know the sampling resolution of an optical mouse? as in pixels per inch and bit depth?
"My whole company (50+ employees) uses Messenger - it's much less intrusive than walking into someone's office and saying "Hey, got a minute?" "
is this really a good idea? you do know every message with msn messenger goes through a microsoft server right? probably getting backed up onto tape somewhere. makes you wonder how many company secrets are stored at microsoft and how many companies go to microsoft to try to get some of these secrets by paying them off. note that not all messengers messages go through a server. like icq for instance. (as long as send through server is off..)
"Mame currently supports games like King of Fighters 2001 (60mb), Area 51 (which has a 300mb HDD image file) and several other more modern games."
very true but your numbers are a little off. kof2001 is 75 megs, and interestingly, the older kof2000 is 78 megs and kof99 is 100 megs!
also the area51 disk image is 534 megs. but theres now an area51mx hd img thats 1.66GB!!
so ya it takes up a lot of space. my roms folder which is zipped using every possible zip program i could find to get every last byte out of the compression is 9.64GB
this may be the case for a lot of people, but not me. i agree that adhd is WAY over diagnosed. but there is some people with real, tough problems. i was diagnosed 20 years ago. if you are being diagnosed some time in college, guess what? you dont have much of a problem. if its bad enough to need treatment youd notice a very big problem a lot earlier. its frustrating for people like me reading about all of these people, because their "problems" seem like nothing. as you say they seem to get a little bored at stuff. who cares? but for me its EVERYTHING i do. i have no hobbys i keep. i have no fun stuff that stays fun. everything i try FOR FUN, gets boring. everything. so please do not think that this is just some lazy thing. it hurts me very badly that im like this and i try to change, ive tried dozens of medicines and other alternative therapies and nothing has helped me. i constantly struggle to find reasons to live because of this. so dont lump me in this same group as you talk about. there is some of us with a real problem.
"When I first signed up to ICQ, I had a four- or five-digit number."
are you trying to sound cool or something? cause it failed. the numbers started with 6 digits when icq was first released.
please tell me an analog way of recording that has zero loss.
you cant.
im in my early 30s, canadian, and my experience seems to differ from everyone elses here? where i live we used cursive for everything in school all the way up until highschool graduation! printing stuff would get you looked at funny. anyone else? is this a canadian thing?
sounds like you got into the scene late. i was trading mp2 files before mp3 came out. they were pretty damn good too. mp3 is maybe only 50% better or something.
believe it or not, tf2 was started in 1997. as a quake 2 addon. shortly after that valve had interest in the team and picked them up and i remember seeing a demo of it at a quake event far before half life was even out! yes its that old.
posing will get you fired?
do you think that footage of the tank running over the saddam poster was a photographer just capturing the route of a tank to its destination? or do you think the whole thing was a planned propaganda incident where they actually formed the idea, got the cameras there, then started up the tank. i think you can guess which seems more reasonable.
and the footage you see of the iraqis welcoming the soldiers. do you think maybe if the cameraman turned around you might see a truck full of much needed food and water? nah.. that would never happen.
the INBEDed media is there for propaganda, first and foremost.
i know ill get modded down for this quicker than anyone ever before, which is sad.
but al jazeera actually shows whats happening to the palestinians by the israelis. and with people tuning in looking for iraq info, you dont want them stumbling in and seeing whats really happening. i think you can guess who may be doing this.