Yeah, I see another poster kind of beat me to it, but the fundies are way off. If Christ is coming again, then why do they want to stop prophecy from being fulfilled? I guess they just aren't ready. "Lord, I am so close to getting that 40 ft yacht, and I want to make sure my kids have a sprawling family estate to inherit... that's it! In your holy wisdom, please hold off until I'm done being a greedy fundie bastard."
P.S. I have a few of these little bastards (chips) right here right now:) They're not so scary, actually. They're about the size of a big grain of rice.
Viewing internet porn, which I am as guilty of as the next geek, is not bad, it's awful... Answer this question: what impact does porn have? You might say "nothing, I just get off on it once in a while." Now, consider this: The lives of porn stars are fairly sad. They are practically all high-school dropouts, pimped by these internet porn peddlers. Yes, I know about Asia Cararra, the nerd of pr0n, but I am speaking of the general porn star population. In most pornographer-porn star relationships, the girls are taken advantage of, obviously. Supporting porn supports those relationships, and boils down to one thing: you don't care about them as human beings any more. If you met these people in real life, you would probably treat them with the respect and decency any person deserves. But instead, you sit at a desk, staring at their tits, with your pants around your ankles, jerking off. Personally, I am never happy when I go and hit up a porn site for some instant gratification. I always end up thinking about the people involved. Do they really enjoy what they're doing? Maybe... but more often than not, it's not a good situation.
I'm not terribly surprised that the first-generation hardware, designed solely to work with Macs, has some problems with the brand new software. What do you expect?
Well, that convenience will only cost you a few thousand dollars, considering you need a handheld battery-powered reader (which sure doesn't look conspicuous!) and software to do the killing. It's just not that simple, bud! And plus, if the tag gets killed at the checkout, don't be an asshole and go ruining the store for everyone else because you're freaking out about big brother finding out you have Levi's on from a max distance of about 8 inches (with 13.56 MHz tags).
What in the world is this person (posting the story) talking about? Why wouldn't you be able to play non-encrypted data on a machine? If it doesn't have a broadcast flag, so what? It won't require encryption and won't be subject to any special rules. I could be wrong... isn't it true that not having a broadcase flag means it's simply not flagged? I agree that the broadcast flag is a load of crap, but man, this story is weak.
News at 11.
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Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle - They open up some super-slick machine in the bad guy's super high tech computer room, and I noticed: "hey, that's a G4 tower with the case all hacked up." You could tell by the signature flip-down door with the ring handle on top.
Dag, yo! I did an UPGRADE on a 400Mhz iMac and got PHP up in a MINUTE or two. The little fella IS MY web server here.
- Both Safari and Explorere work fine
- Yeah, the little boxes are crap
I like people who SHOUT random WORDS! Do they really TALK like that?
Guess you never ran OS X on a modern Mac. I've got OS X 10.3 running on the Rev. B 12" Powerbook and it is as beautiful a sight as I've been treated to by computers. Very fast, very responsive Finder.
Running Linux on the same machine by contrast is an exercise in idiocy. You never stop configuring and tinkering with it. X11 crashes. Mozilla is slow. It's almost completely useless for getting real work done.
I know! I mean, this company is a flock of ravenous vultures... just forcing those people who just bought their brand new Power Macs only 6 f**king years ago to upgrade, just to run the latest OS! I mean, if Microsoft ever dropped support for my 90MHz Pentium in Longhorn, I'd be so ticked, I'd have to slit my own wrists and cry, on my bed, in the dark.
They have games that are still just plain FUN. It seems that the more popular American games (mostly for Xbox and PC), and the more popular PS2 games are darker, and focus on cool instead of fun. Nintendo doesn't seem to care about the latest fashion trends in games. They just keep making games that are simply fun. I just got F-Zero GX, and it's simply an incredibly fun experience. I just started playing Max Payne again, however, and it's not so much fun as it is "hey, bullet time, cool." Nobody complains about weak stories on Nintendo Games, because that's not their main focus. On the hardware end, that purple plastic cube and the grab-and-go controller both exude a "just-play-me" aura. The buttons are all unique on the Game Cube, "A" is a huge green one, "B" is a small red one, "X" is a horizontal bar, and "Y" is a vertical bar. The right analog stick is clearly, and typically programmed to be, a camera control. The left is obviously where your thumb goes. People hardly ever complains about controls in a Nintendo game!
Congratulations and best of luck to Nintendo, for being the last company to hold out and keep gaming as a fun pastime that everyone can enjoy.
Look under the hood next time you want to get to the engine. It's easier than taking the fenders and wheels off.
Harley Davidson of the computing industry
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They're a honest established American company. They're not doing so well because of cheap alternatives flooding the market. They still produce quality products, but because of the high appeal of lower-priced alternatives (though not of the same quality) their market share has dropped significantly. Does this sound like Harley Davidson or what? I think that the US of A could lend them a hand and help them get their production costs down and get Apple back in the running for decades to come.
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The problem is that old ATI cards do not support arbitrary texture sizes, and the windows in OS X, in case you haven't noticed, are NOT square.
getting to that FTP server before it gets slashdotted kinda reminds me of when Indiana Jones is diving under some massive stone door, which is about to shut him in the acient temple.
I know what Bill Gates is doing with 40 billion dollars hoarded up! He's gathering the funds to build his unholy army of cybernetic robo-nerds who will overthrow the US and turn it into Gatesekistan! All he needs now is the technology to prevent these cyber-warriors of doom from blue-screening every ten minutes!
Perhaps it would be more feasable to scale the GUI of applications to a more desireable or readable size? If changing resolutions is not practical for LCDs, perhaps we will see practical app zooming technology in new versions of all our favorire OSes (Or WMs). The one drawback is that everything would either be displayed as a vector, which would be a major step for anything besides TrueType fonts, and the bitmapped portions would need precious processor power to anti-alias...
And on the eighth day, God created plastic, and he saw that it was good, and he made little teeny-tiny blocks out of it to give geeks something very cool to play with.
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Yeah, I see another poster kind of beat me to it, but the fundies are way off. If Christ is coming again, then why do they want to stop prophecy from being fulfilled? I guess they just aren't ready. "Lord, I am so close to getting that 40 ft yacht, and I want to make sure my kids have a sprawling family estate to inherit... that's it! In your holy wisdom, please hold off until I'm done being a greedy fundie bastard." P.S. I have a few of these little bastards (chips) right here right now :) They're not so scary, actually. They're about the size of a big grain of rice.
Holy shnikes that's a lot of screen! How much was that again...?
Anyway, check out the Power Mac G5 page, and then tell me where that company got their design queues?
Viewing internet porn, which I am as guilty of as the next geek, is not bad, it's awful... Answer this question: what impact does porn have? You might say "nothing, I just get off on it once in a while." Now, consider this: The lives of porn stars are fairly sad. They are practically all high-school dropouts, pimped by these internet porn peddlers. Yes, I know about Asia Cararra, the nerd of pr0n, but I am speaking of the general porn star population. In most pornographer-porn star relationships, the girls are taken advantage of, obviously. Supporting porn supports those relationships, and boils down to one thing: you don't care about them as human beings any more. If you met these people in real life, you would probably treat them with the respect and decency any person deserves. But instead, you sit at a desk, staring at their tits, with your pants around your ankles, jerking off. Personally, I am never happy when I go and hit up a porn site for some instant gratification. I always end up thinking about the people involved. Do they really enjoy what they're doing? Maybe... but more often than not, it's not a good situation.
I'm not terribly surprised that the first-generation hardware, designed solely to work with Macs, has some problems with the brand new software. What do you expect?
Well, that convenience will only cost you a few thousand dollars, considering you need a handheld battery-powered reader (which sure doesn't look conspicuous!) and software to do the killing. It's just not that simple, bud! And plus, if the tag gets killed at the checkout, don't be an asshole and go ruining the store for everyone else because you're freaking out about big brother finding out you have Levi's on from a max distance of about 8 inches (with 13.56 MHz tags).
What in the world is this person (posting the story) talking about? Why wouldn't you be able to play non-encrypted data on a machine? If it doesn't have a broadcast flag, so what? It won't require encryption and won't be subject to any special rules. I could be wrong... isn't it true that not having a broadcase flag means it's simply not flagged? I agree that the broadcast flag is a load of crap, but man, this story is weak.
News at 11.
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle - They open up some super-slick machine in the bad guy's super high tech computer room, and I noticed: "hey, that's a G4 tower with the case all hacked up." You could tell by the signature flip-down door with the ring handle on top.
Dag, yo! I did an UPGRADE on a 400Mhz iMac and got PHP up in a MINUTE or two. The little fella IS MY web server here. - Both Safari and Explorere work fine - Yeah, the little boxes are crap I like people who SHOUT random WORDS! Do they really TALK like that?
Guess you never ran OS X on a modern Mac. I've got OS X 10.3 running on the Rev. B 12" Powerbook and it is as beautiful a sight as I've been treated to by computers. Very fast, very responsive Finder.
Running Linux on the same machine by contrast is an exercise in idiocy. You never stop configuring and tinkering with it. X11 crashes. Mozilla is slow. It's almost completely useless for getting real work done.
I know! I mean, this company is a flock of ravenous vultures... just forcing those people who just bought their brand new Power Macs only 6 f**king years ago to upgrade, just to run the latest OS! I mean, if Microsoft ever dropped support for my 90MHz Pentium in Longhorn, I'd be so ticked, I'd have to slit my own wrists and cry, on my bed, in the dark.
I do believe that you, sir, are a troll-and-a-half.
It is of note that Apple is getting 4x the bang, for 1/7 the buck, from which can easily be calculated 28 bangs per buck.
They have games that are still just plain FUN. It seems that the more popular American games (mostly for Xbox and PC), and the more popular PS2 games are darker, and focus on cool instead of fun. Nintendo doesn't seem to care about the latest fashion trends in games. They just keep making games that are simply fun. I just got F-Zero GX, and it's simply an incredibly fun experience. I just started playing Max Payne again, however, and it's not so much fun as it is "hey, bullet time, cool." Nobody complains about weak stories on Nintendo Games, because that's not their main focus. On the hardware end, that purple plastic cube and the grab-and-go controller both exude a "just-play-me" aura. The buttons are all unique on the Game Cube, "A" is a huge green one, "B" is a small red one, "X" is a horizontal bar, and "Y" is a vertical bar. The right analog stick is clearly, and typically programmed to be, a camera control. The left is obviously where your thumb goes. People hardly ever complains about controls in a Nintendo game!
Congratulations and best of luck to Nintendo, for being the last company to hold out and keep gaming as a fun pastime that everyone can enjoy.
Look under the hood next time you want to get to the engine. It's easier than taking the fenders and wheels off.
They're a honest established American company. They're not doing so well because of cheap alternatives flooding the market. They still produce quality products, but because of the high appeal of lower-priced alternatives (though not of the same quality) their market share has dropped significantly. Does this sound like Harley Davidson or what? I think that the US of A could lend them a hand and help them get their production costs down and get Apple back in the running for decades to come.
The problem is that old ATI cards do not support arbitrary texture sizes, and the windows in OS X, in case you haven't noticed, are NOT square.
Mac OS X plays DVDs, and runs Office V.X, of course. Am I feeding a troll???
Someone mod him up for being insightful: swearing at your computer like a ignorant teenager will make it work! This guy is a l33t hax0r for sure.
I am waiting until I can get a pager implanted in my penis, with standard vibration function.
Too bad they still get to sleep with your mom, or your sister, or your dog. I had enough of that with the Baldurs Gate 2 EULA. (read the forums)
getting to that FTP server before it gets slashdotted kinda reminds me of when Indiana Jones is diving under some massive stone door, which is about to shut him in the acient temple.
I know what Bill Gates is doing with 40 billion dollars hoarded up! He's gathering the funds to build his unholy army of cybernetic robo-nerds who will overthrow the US and turn it into Gatesekistan! All he needs now is the technology to prevent these cyber-warriors of doom from blue-screening every ten minutes!
Perhaps "serial killer" wasnt't the best example, now was it?
Perhaps it would be more feasable to scale the GUI of applications to a more desireable or readable size? If changing resolutions is not practical for LCDs, perhaps we will see practical app zooming technology in new versions of all our favorire OSes (Or WMs). The one drawback is that everything would either be displayed as a vector, which would be a major step for anything besides TrueType fonts, and the bitmapped portions would need precious processor power to anti-alias...
And on the eighth day, God created plastic, and he saw that it was good, and he made little teeny-tiny blocks out of it to give geeks something very cool to play with.
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