The high-G force helps add to the notion of "few creature comforts.";-)
Actually, it's only 0.88g. Which is still a LOT for acceleration in a car, but nothing like the 6-10g that people can handle momentarily before they start to black out.
Good point. Thanks. But I think that at that g, I would fart a bit too easily.;-)
Some of the drawbacks aside, I am very jazzed about this.
1. I trust O'Reilly. 2. I definitely learn more by reading-and-doing than simply reading. 3. When I try to self-learn, I have trouble dreaming up interesting/challenging projects to complete. 4. I don't necessarily have the time to devote to on-campus learning. 5. I am not interested in attaining a "degree" or a "certificate." I just want to get my hands in technologies that will help me in my job. 6. I don't find the course prices out of line.
I sincerely hope it's successful and they start offering a larger range of the courses.
And let's not forget... Typos... The developer may think "Oh yes, well the odds of someone typing a key wrong that happens to match the ones that trigger deletion is incredibly small..." To which I point to the 6/49 style lottery. Chances of winning, 16 million to one. People still win it though. Regularly. I wonder how this developer is going to keep up with piracy? Certainly others will create more pirated codes. Will the developer offer numerous updates with new codes? (.0.0.4 - added more codes. fucking pirates.) What about codes "borrowed" between friends? If a person shares his code with 200 people, and the developer finds out about it, will the developer offer an update that targets a code retroactively, wiping out 200 homes? What if it's two people and not 200? And what's going to force anyone to update for more kill bits? Finally, what about versions of the program that the perform the basic job fine but don't offer the Scorched Home code? That's what I'd download.
Seems to me this developer just destroyed his own good will, kind of like the shopkeeper who, after a few thefts, frisks every shopper.
I have Sirius and one of the things that's always bugged me just a little bit is that I can get great NFL coverage on Sirius but zero MLB coverage. Sure, I could buy an XM subscription, but that requires two radios, two bills, and a whole lot of stuff in my car.
With the two merging, the combined service will have nearly all sports covered -- football (college and pro), hockey, Futbol (Soccer) domestic and international, NASCAR, Formula-1, NBA, etc. It will be really nice. No Curling, Underwater Basket Weaving, or Breast Bongos, alas.
BTW, I'm all for the new service to be called "S(e)XM"
I wonder if Mr. Gates gets a stiffy by a brutal demonstration of his powers, by crushing the life of a simple teacher.
Perhaps, but he _had to_ decline. And Gorbachev is the one to blame. Had he done it privately, perhaps MS would have done something. But in this public way, Gates can NOT accept. Yeah, it looks really, really shitty that he declined -- and I think it's really, really shitty -- but had Gates accepted, he would have looked soft on piracy at the very moment he's telling everyone he's not under any circumstances.
Blame MS all you want for our having to deal with this B.S. in the first place, but Gorbachev condemned this man, imho.
Ahhhmmm, excuse me. Gosh, I just hate to bodder you. But, ahm, you know what really confuses me? The ads are there! YouTube put them there. How about that? Ahhhh well, it's probably nothing. Sorry to have boddered you.
I've seen the Vista ads in which Microsoft compares Vista to the fall of the Berlin wall and the man-moon shot (ooookay) and in this end instead of an Intel logo, we get an AMD logo. Kinda interesting. But off-topic...
Saturday night in my basement Workin' for the FBI Chattin' in a nest of bad hax0rz Cans of Ensure piled up high
EFNet channel on a west server Fulla lamez0rz who were doing wrong Just about to email my G-G-Man When my browser showed a woman's thong
A pair of double-Ds made me open my eyes My temperature started to rise She was a big breasted woman with a web cam From an online porno mall I just forgot about those bad men 'Cause that big breasted woman had it all
Just a suggestion: If they reboot into the boot menu and choose "Safe Mode with Networking" then the telescope might be able to authenticate into the domain and we'd be able to RDP into the optics and pwn it.
Unbelievably, it appears that spammers are able to achieve a 5% gain on pumped stock before dumping it, along with a dramatic increase in transaction volume of the stock. Can someone explain this to me? Why would this be unbelievable? If spam is so wide-spread as we believe, then it's certainly going to hit those gambling-types who see the ad and think they can beat the odds and make a small bit of money getting in on the action. I find that quite believable.
People aren't returning Wiis because a) people like them, and b) you can sell them for more than the refund.
Confession: I'm a failed PS3 scalper. I thought I struck gold when the store I was in announced they had three in stock and I got one (Dec 20). Yesterday I was able to return it (the PlayAlbatross 3 as I call it) for a full refund after price on resell sites plummeted to the point where it wouldn't be worth it. You never wanted it? Did you even try it? Just curious...
Couldn't they just uh, like make a popup that says it is the person-behind-you's tutrn to play? Nintendo Gamecube kiosks already do this, too. Well, not exactly, but the demo is timed. The system resets and brings you back to the menu. Wiiii!
There are idiots on both sides of the aisle. Why would this moron's political alignment be relevant to anyone unless they felt the need to re-enforce their biased opinion of republicans?
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I am not necessarily a Republican and the title riled me up.
(I had one of the very original SONY Mini-disk recorders, and remember a passage of a Doobie Brothers track where some high pitched bells instead of sounding like high pitched bells sounded like someone sneezing... unacceptable... completely altered my experience of MD (along with numerous other things about SONY).)
Are you sure it wasn't a sneeze in the first place? Maybe it was a sneeze all along and it was Mini-Disc technology that finally unleashed the Doobie Brother's real creativity in that moment. After all, other classic songs had similar moments.
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Good point. Thanks. But I think that at that g, I would fart a bit too easily.Actually, it's only 0.88g. Which is still a LOT for acceleration in a
car, but nothing like the 6-10g that people can handle momentarily before
they start to black out.
Some of the drawbacks aside, I am very jazzed about this.
1. I trust O'Reilly.
2. I definitely learn more by reading-and-doing than simply reading.
3. When I try to self-learn, I have trouble dreaming up interesting/challenging projects to complete.
4. I don't necessarily have the time to devote to on-campus learning.
5. I am not interested in attaining a "degree" or a "certificate." I just want to get my hands in technologies that will help me in my job.
6. I don't find the course prices out of line.
I sincerely hope it's successful and they start offering a larger range of the courses.
Ok, I'm kidding, but...
If I were a DV Rebel, wouldn't I go all analog?
Where is Apple with their YouTube/DMCA/Copyright/Patent$/etc takedown notice?
Seriously.
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'It's funny but it's not a joke.'"
Then launch it on April 2. April 1 is a Sunday anyway, and some hax0rz actually do toil thee not on their Sabbath.
YOU PAY LATER!
Seems to me this developer just destroyed his own good will, kind of like the shopkeeper who, after a few thefts, frisks every shopper.
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I have Sirius and one of the things that's always bugged me just a little bit is that I can get great NFL coverage on Sirius but zero MLB coverage. Sure, I could buy an XM subscription, but that requires two radios, two bills, and a whole lot of stuff in my car.
With the two merging, the combined service will have nearly all sports covered -- football (college and pro), hockey, Futbol (Soccer) domestic and international, NASCAR, Formula-1, NBA, etc. It will be really nice. No Curling, Underwater Basket Weaving, or Breast Bongos, alas.
BTW, I'm all for the new service to be called "S(e)XM"
Oh, well. I read
In an astonishing move, Mr. Gates has rejected the proposal!
I wonder if Mr. Gates gets a stiffy by a brutal demonstration of his powers, by crushing the life of a simple teacher.
Perhaps, but he _had to_ decline. And Gorbachev is the one to blame. Had he done it privately, perhaps MS would have done something. But in this public way, Gates can NOT accept. Yeah, it looks really, really shitty that he declined -- and I think it's really, really shitty -- but had Gates accepted, he would have looked soft on piracy at the very moment he's telling everyone he's not under any circumstances.Blame MS all you want for our having to deal with this B.S. in the first place, but Gorbachev condemned this man, imho.
Ahhhmmm, excuse me. Gosh, I just hate to bodder you. But, ahm, you know what really confuses me? The ads are there! YouTube put them there. How about that? Ahhhh well, it's probably nothing. Sorry to have boddered you.
I've seen the Vista ads in which Microsoft compares Vista to the fall of the Berlin wall and the man-moon shot (ooookay) and in this end instead of an Intel logo, we get an AMD logo. Kinda interesting. But off-topic...
Saturday night in my basement
Workin' for the FBI
Chattin' in a nest of bad hax0rz
Cans of Ensure piled up high
EFNet channel on a west server
Fulla lamez0rz who were doing wrong
Just about to email my G-G-Man
When my browser showed a woman's thong
A pair of double-Ds made me open my eyes
My temperature started to rise
She was a big breasted woman with a web cam
From an online porno mall
I just forgot about those bad men
'Cause that big breasted woman had it all
Just a suggestion: If they reboot into the boot menu and choose "Safe Mode with Networking" then the telescope might be able to authenticate into the domain and we'd be able to RDP into the optics and pwn it.
Just a suggestion.
More like where no woman has gone before. What do you mean? There's a woman down there. See? Right under the floor-boards. "Hi there!" >
By the way, she puts the lotion in the basket.
Confession: I'm a failed PS3 scalper. I thought I struck gold when the store I was in announced they had three in stock and I got one (Dec 20). Yesterday I was able to return it (the PlayAlbatross 3 as I call it) for a full refund after price on resell sites plummeted to the point where it wouldn't be worth it. You never wanted it? Did you even try it? Just curious...
There are idiots on both sides of the aisle. Why would this moron's political alignment be relevant to anyone unless they felt the need to re-enforce their biased opinion of republicans?
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I am not necessarily a Republican and the title riled me up.
I propose Liberty String-in-a-Can, as a throw-back to the term "Liberty Cabbage" and others used during WWI.
By the way, Liberty has never before been so stringy.I propose Liberty String-in-a-Can, as a throw-back to the term "Liberty Cabbage" and others used during WWI.
Heh! Squirting your string helps bring democracy to a world in tyranny. Do your part! Buy Liberty String-In-A-Can today!"Silly String?"
Couldn't we at least change the name to Freedom String-In-A-Can?
(I had one of the very original SONY Mini-disk recorders, and remember a passage of a Doobie Brothers track where some high pitched bells instead of sounding like high pitched bells sounded like someone sneezing... unacceptable... completely altered my experience of MD (along with numerous other things about SONY).)
Are you sure it wasn't a sneeze in the first place? Maybe it was a sneeze all along and it was Mini-Disc technology that finally unleashed the Doobie Brother's real creativity in that moment. After all, other classic songs had similar moments.