Someones always gotta get all politically correct huh?
How about the closet homo watching gay porn while jerkin the gerkin and gabbin on the phone with "CandyCain" down the expressway when he missed his off ramp colliding with the blonde do to spontaneous self inflicted "Pearl Neckless"?
Its gotta really bad, i agree. I knew a guy that would smoke, eat and talk on a cell phone while driving his stick shift ford F150. He also had the worst driving record I have ever seen.
The problem I think is people are seeing driving as a right and not a priveldge. I mean Ray Charles could get a drivers license in California. Some things need to change in a big way.
That is almost the only real aplication i see for this. TV is cars is stupid not to mention dangerous. It's about time though that we had a good replacement for radio.
Please no. Cell phones are bad enough. All we need is some blonde in an SUV causing a 200 car pile up on I5 because she was watching Martha Stewart Living and talking on her cell phone while doing her make up at 80mph.
Its very buggy right now. My browser was far slower using that exact same fix. BTW it's not just a Chimera option, any Gecko based browser can use it.
I don't recommend it with Chimera, I was having lots of crashes and spinning beach balls. Unexplained rendering problems, some sites wouldn't render till the 3-4th try. You'll also notice lookup problems. All of this went away when I turned it off.
Well virii do eat us in a way, parasite or no. The fact they are the only bugger son the planet that constantly and consistently kill us is pretty degrading. Tru they wont survive if we don't, but they don't know that. What's to stop the process?
I didn't forget virii kill other species, mamals in particular. I just see it becoming more of an issue for our species than others, but that may have more to do with human intervention in curing animal disease, or at the least controlling it.
I don't see AIDS as a bad example considering 80% of the population in Africa is now infected. No one will ever commit genocide by killing off all the AIDS patients, we are far to politically correct these days and neuturing would have no effect on it. Say 100 years from now AIDS becomes air borne? Doubtful but who knows. Doesn't mean a new bugger wont come around either.
Anyway......... off to form some new conspiracy theories and doomsday predictions.
"And this will be offtopic, but I also believe there is life on this planet that probably came from others. So with that all said, I don't belive there will be much on this earth that hasn't had a similar clone way back in the past."
Great, now slashdot is being invaded by Raelians. Fuck this, I'm outta here.
I know that animals on this planet have a 40 million year shelf life with very few exceptions (crocs, cock roaches, turtles etc..).
After the last E.L.E. that killed off all the dinosaurs the animals that survived tended to shrink in size because of the lack of food. Cock roaches used to be quite large, something the size of say a football. Crocodiles were enormous and so were sea turtles. But since the larger animals require more food, evolution kicked in and the species naturally shrunk for survival.
Considering the abundance of life on this planet and likewise food. It seems reasonable that species will continue to grow larger, that is unless insects take over which is quite possible considering they out number us greatly and carry some really nasty diseases.
Humankinds downfall wont be global warming or nuclear war. We will be killed off by the only thing that is higher on the food chain than us, virii. We still can't cure virii, not even the common flu has a cure, and given it's yearly mutation (evolution) there is virtually no hope of curing viruses. We can postpone but not stop them i.e. AIDS. Biowarfare is happening today, but not from Iraq, mother nature has found our supierior.
We may develop the technology to fight off the bugs, but thats a long shot and could be worse than the buggers themselves. Time will only tell.
Aditionally, someone correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the moon supposed to leave our orbit in the next 60 thousand years? It's orbit is degenerating at a certain rate, meaning it will eventually leave us altogether. What impact will this have on life here? The moon is responsible for the tides correct?
Thats a tired example. Segway has nowhere near the range of a car, it's far inferior as a mode of transport. Sorry to burst your bubble but the segway is useless to 99.9% of the human population.
After a while and after you are in shape sweating is a non issue. You'll find your pace and have the energy to do it without signifi9cantly increasing your heart rate. If it's a hot day you are going to sweat, segway or not.
Considering distance isn't a factor on a bike, the better option is clear. People with Segways will be labeled lazy, it's just bound to happen.
Why? I could sell it on ebay and use that money to buy faster intel hardware. Without OSX and the iApps the mac hardware means nothing to me, no matter how pretty it is.
"you'll be able to continue using the free older versions of them for as long as you want. "
Wrong, they get EOL'd with every major upgrade to OSX.
As for bait and switch they baited me with a free product, then switched and started charging for that product. To me thats a bait and switch and I personally dont give a flying fuck what your definition of it is.
I have NEVER in 8 years been screwed over by MS in software. Never had to upgrade software because of an update, never had software stop working because of an update, and never been CHARGED for a fucking update.
You can question MS's business ethics, you can question product quality but you can't question their upgrade path.
So whats the point in staying with them? If the software is EOL'd every 6 months the hardware becomes useless. Apple ties all their new products together, for instance you can't use the new iCal with OSX.1, you HAVE to upgrade.
This trend will continue, only now it's going to cost even more. They used to provide point upgrades free, now they charge for EVERYTHING. There is ZERO insentive to stick with them.
.Mac has failed miserably with down time and horrible responses from customers. I know I'm a subscriber.
The only justification I have for telling people to buy a mac is the great software that comes free. If it's no longer free than you might as well buy a cheaper wintel system and by the wintel software equivalents.
If this is true Apple will have lost a customer in me on ethics alone. i don't respond well to bait and switch programs, especially not at the high prices Apple is known for.
I sprung for.Mac because they said their would be future updates and addons, here we are and the only add on is some cheap Nisquality game that costs like 10 bucks by itself.
Apple is blowing it. My next buy if this is true, will be a wintel machine. I don't give a shit how bad MS is, at least they have never pulled a bait and switch on me.
Just think, they didnt even have to make the engine, they bought it from DE/Epic.
This speaks volumes for guys like Carmack who not only design great games, but do so in a timely manner PLUS do it from scratch.
It's just pathetic these guys have taken so long when the single hardest and most complicated part i.e. the engine, was designed YEARS ago by another company.
I'm a Buddhist I don't believe in a god, and me taking an antibiotic has nothing to do with the global ecosystem and the possible effects it could have on billions of people, not to mention the other species on this planet.
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It's illegal to drive without a seat belt also but that doesnt stop 10,000 people a year from doing it.
Someones always gotta get all politically correct huh?
How about the closet homo watching gay porn while jerkin the gerkin and gabbin on the phone with "CandyCain" down the expressway when he missed his off ramp colliding with the blonde do to spontaneous self inflicted "Pearl Neckless"?
Any other minority groups we can put down?
-todd
Its gotta really bad, i agree. I knew a guy that would smoke, eat and talk on a cell phone while driving his stick shift ford F150. He also had the worst driving record I have ever seen.
The problem I think is people are seeing driving as a right and not a priveldge. I mean Ray Charles could get a drivers license in California. Some things need to change in a big way.
That is almost the only real aplication i see for this. TV is cars is stupid not to mention dangerous. It's about time though that we had a good replacement for radio.
Please no. Cell phones are bad enough. All we need is some blonde in an SUV causing a 200 car pile up on I5 because she was watching Martha Stewart Living and talking on her cell phone while doing her make up at 80mph.
Its very buggy right now. My browser was far slower using that exact same fix. BTW it's not just a Chimera option, any Gecko based browser can use it.
I don't recommend it with Chimera, I was having lots of crashes and spinning beach balls. Unexplained rendering problems, some sites wouldn't render till the 3-4th try. You'll also notice lookup problems. All of this went away when I turned it off.
Well virii do eat us in a way, parasite or no. The fact they are the only bugger son the planet that constantly and consistently kill us is pretty degrading. Tru they wont survive if we don't, but they don't know that. What's to stop the process?
I didn't forget virii kill other species, mamals in particular. I just see it becoming more of an issue for our species than others, but that may have more to do with human intervention in curing animal disease, or at the least controlling it.
I don't see AIDS as a bad example considering 80% of the population in Africa is now infected. No one will ever commit genocide by killing off all the AIDS patients, we are far to politically correct these days and neuturing would have no effect on it. Say 100 years from now AIDS becomes air borne? Doubtful but who knows. Doesn't mean a new bugger wont come around either.
Anyway......... off to form some new conspiracy theories and doomsday predictions.
"And this will be offtopic, but I also believe there is life on this planet that probably came from others. So with that all said, I don't belive there will be much on this earth that hasn't had a similar clone way back in the past."
Great, now slashdot is being invaded by Raelians. Fuck this, I'm outta here.
Doesn't matter how intelligent they are, if they don't have thumbs they won't be able to do anything. Unless of course they develop phsycic powers.
I know that animals on this planet have a 40 million year shelf life with very few exceptions (crocs, cock roaches, turtles etc..).
After the last E.L.E. that killed off all the dinosaurs the animals that survived tended to shrink in size because of the lack of food. Cock roaches used to be quite large, something the size of say a football. Crocodiles were enormous and so were sea turtles. But since the larger animals require more food, evolution kicked in and the species naturally shrunk for survival.
Considering the abundance of life on this planet and likewise food. It seems reasonable that species will continue to grow larger, that is unless insects take over which is quite possible considering they out number us greatly and carry some really nasty diseases.
Humankinds downfall wont be global warming or nuclear war. We will be killed off by the only thing that is higher on the food chain than us, virii. We still can't cure virii, not even the common flu has a cure, and given it's yearly mutation (evolution) there is virtually no hope of curing viruses. We can postpone but not stop them i.e. AIDS. Biowarfare is happening today, but not from Iraq, mother nature has found our supierior.
We may develop the technology to fight off the bugs, but thats a long shot and could be worse than the buggers themselves. Time will only tell.
Aditionally, someone correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the moon supposed to leave our orbit in the next 60 thousand years? It's orbit is degenerating at a certain rate, meaning it will eventually leave us altogether. What impact will this have on life here? The moon is responsible for the tides correct?
Thats a tired example. Segway has nowhere near the range of a car, it's far inferior as a mode of transport. Sorry to burst your bubble but the segway is useless to 99.9% of the human population.
After a while and after you are in shape sweating is a non issue. You'll find your pace and have the energy to do it without signifi9cantly increasing your heart rate. If it's a hot day you are going to sweat, segway or not.
Considering distance isn't a factor on a bike, the better option is clear. People with Segways will be labeled lazy, it's just bound to happen.
If you pay for it you can use it as a business address.
Why? I could sell it on ebay and use that money to buy faster intel hardware. Without OSX and the iApps the mac hardware means nothing to me, no matter how pretty it is.
"you'll be able to continue using the free older versions of them for as long as you want. "
Wrong, they get EOL'd with every major upgrade to OSX.
As for bait and switch they baited me with a free product, then switched and started charging for that product. To me thats a bait and switch and I personally dont give a flying fuck what your definition of it is.
I have NEVER in 8 years been screwed over by MS in software. Never had to upgrade software because of an update, never had software stop working because of an update, and never been CHARGED for a fucking update.
You can question MS's business ethics, you can question product quality but you can't question their upgrade path.
So whats the point in staying with them? If the software is EOL'd every 6 months the hardware becomes useless. Apple ties all their new products together, for instance you can't use the new iCal with OSX.1, you HAVE to upgrade.
This trend will continue, only now it's going to cost even more. They used to provide point upgrades free, now they charge for EVERYTHING. There is ZERO insentive to stick with them.
.Mac has failed miserably with down time and horrible responses from customers. I know I'm a subscriber.
.Mac because they said their would be future updates and addons, here we are and the only add on is some cheap Nisquality game that costs like 10 bucks by itself.
The only justification I have for telling people to buy a mac is the great software that comes free. If it's no longer free than you might as well buy a cheaper wintel system and by the wintel software equivalents.
If this is true Apple will have lost a customer in me on ethics alone. i don't respond well to bait and switch programs, especially not at the high prices Apple is known for.
I sprung for
Apple is blowing it. My next buy if this is true, will be a wintel machine. I don't give a shit how bad MS is, at least they have never pulled a bait and switch on me.
No they are using the Unreal engine, RTFA
For 3D Realms your argument doesnt apply, they didn't write the engine, someone else did ages ago.
There is no excuse for being this late.
Just think, they didnt even have to make the engine, they bought it from DE/Epic.
This speaks volumes for guys like Carmack who not only design great games, but do so in a timely manner PLUS do it from scratch.
It's just pathetic these guys have taken so long when the single hardest and most complicated part i.e. the engine, was designed YEARS ago by another company.
"Strangle rainfall to regions of Columbia and other growing areas."
Yeah lets strangle the water supply to the rainforests of the world. I'd give us about 5 years before we went extinct.
There is no proof global warming even exists, so proving whether this technology would counter it's effects is impossible.
I'm a Buddhist I don't believe in a god, and me taking an antibiotic has nothing to do with the global ecosystem and the possible effects it could have on billions of people, not to mention the other species on this planet.
Think about YOUR statement "Buddy".
Helping people with heart trouble doesn't effect the entire global eco system. Your argument is moot at best, ignorant at worst.