Yes but if you watched all 6 gummi bear seasons in less than a month and a half, you are very very dedicated.:)
At least if you don't need it "NOW" then its fine. With sucky telkom ADSL (which I have because good gaming pings are what I'm after) they'll still port shape you into oblivion, only you'll be capped before you finish season one.
Get sentech, the 128k option is slow, but cheap (by our overly expensive South African standards anyway) and the movie/episode/mp3 will come down eventually.:P
Of course here in SA most of the TV series are so delayed that one would think piracy would be an even bigger problem. By the time it gets onto one of our local channels, its been downloadable for at least 6 months.
Depends on your point of view I guess. I personally thought the Bourne Identity (Director: Doug Liman) was a brilliant movie while the Bourne Supremacy only kept me mildly entertained.
So yea from my point of view seeing his name next to it doesn't fill me with hope.
I know a few web devs and they all test their web pages with IE and not much else. When told that this is bad, their answer is simply that 95% (some say 98%) of users use IE so there is no need to test the web pages with multiple browsers. I bet they use the same excuse to their PHB's.
Publish these reports enough, and the PHB's will hear about it. They will wander in an ask the web dev whether the company site works fine with firefox, and real soon you'll find those devs putting in the extra time to make sure the site works with browsers other than IE.
The more that firefox's growing market share is publicised, the more sites will begin to support it properly, not the other way around.
No idea. I run mine at the default levels which gives me a brighter picture than an LCD at about similar contrast. Really whatever is comfortable for you, the important thing is to have the refresh rate as high as the monitor will let you without sacrificing picture quality.
Can you remember what refresh rate these crt's ran at?
5 years ago 75 was considered the norm even with expencive crt's. I personally don't like to use a CRT unless its running at 100.
I'd assume the thin crt's have the same drawbacks as the old ones since they will still refresh in a similar way and thus have the flicker. Of course that is assuming the flicker is what causes the eye strain (AFAIK it is).
Also, I've been sitting in front of CRT monitors for far to many hours a day for the last 14 years and I still have 20/20 vision. At work I moved over to LCD last year, though I have noticed no difference in how my eyes feel at the end of the day, so its really only desk space that I gain.
I guess its one of those things that varies a lot from person to person.
Just to add to this. While the parent is correct, that a LCD is usually going to be better on your eye's, a good quality crt will also allow just as many hours of use with no eye strain.
I find with a cheaper CRT I get headaches after a couple of hours of work. However I purchased an Iiyama visionmaster pro 455 and I can literally spend days working on it with no noticable eye strain. It is also brighter and clearer than pretty much any LCD I've seen. So in the end, if you pay a decent amount for a monitor it should be fine.
All the same, unless you plan on playing games on the machine, I'd suggest going for an LCD.
Putting that way I am more inclined to agree with you. I still call it play when a cat toys with a mouse. All animals practice through play, if it wasn't fun they probably wouldn't do it unless they absolutely had to, at which point they'd be very bad at it due to lack of practice.;)
The hungry cat will toy with its play for a very short time because its caught it for a very specific purpose, the well fed cat will toy with the mouse until it dies, or until the cat gets bored (most times both). If you want to claim a cats "fun" and a humans "fun" are not comparable, then we can't really argue this. But I think you'd have to admit that both enjoy the hunt? And if both enjoy the hunt, is it not fun?
In the end, its not that we're the only ones who hunt for sport, I say most preditors hunt for "sport/play/practice" at some point. The difference is we have the intellect to say to ourselves we don't need to do this anymore. Despite the fact that it may be fun...
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Okay, well I lived on a farm where there were a number of feral cats. These were cats that hunted to survive, rats and birds and whatever else they could catch were their food. They DID NOT TOY WITH THEIR PREY, they killed it and ate it. That was hunting!
My cats (ex feral cats from my parents farm) no longer need to hunt for food and as of such the way they hunt changes dramatically. Now they toy with their prey, they play games, they specifically let it go so they can catch it again and again and again...
So please don't give me that they're not human so it is different crap. I don't hunt (anymore), I don't believe hunting is right, but when I was a kid I used to hunt (with an air rifle) and it is exilerating. That doesn't make it right or wrong, you can argue the morality of it all you want, the exileration is something inherent in our makeup, and its the same with you little cat. It (the cat) may not be able to think about the morality of it, and thus you can argue what it does is less wrong than us hunting, but it is the same genetic predisposition (our ancesters were HUNTER/gatherers after all).
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I suppose thats true in one way, they do not EAT mice for sport. Being a cat owner, I can tell you, THEY DO play with mice for fun(aka sport). When my cats are not hungry they catch and play with a mouse for hours, sometimes after it dies it doesn't even get eaten.
If I forget to feed them, the thing is dead and eaten within 30 minutes.
Now the question I got to ask, is what happens when some human wanders in front of the camera one day with this system, and the person on the other side figures, hey this is just on a computer, lets takea pot shot?
Just to clarify what I meant by brilliant idea. I think its a good idea for people wanting to legitimatly buy music. I somehow doubt its that good an idea as far as converting the pirates though.
Its brilliant business idea in the end. The music industry gets paid, but its other peoples bandwidth being used.
Imagine if iTunes only had to pay for the bandwidth to have a song downloaded once for every 100 sales. I think their accountants would be salivating at the thought.
From the perspective of someone downloading from a country with limited international bandwidth (here in South Africa our downloads from the US can be painfully slow even with DSL), this brings up the possibility of downloading from many sources nearer to you than the original shop.
I'm running a not so cutting edge AMD64 (2800+) and had until recently had few problems. This last weekend I rebooted the machine (since it was acting a little slow and hadn't been rebooted in weeks) and suddenly I can't even start up propely without a DEP happening. And it happens with windows explorer! As you can imagine this was not nice.
After having to boot into command prompt safe mode and editing the boot.ini file, I managed to get my machine functioning fine again. AntiVirus (trend pc-cillan) claims the machine is clean, I hope it is because it seems that I can now only work with DEP set to AlwaysOff.
Other than that I have had not real issues with SP2 other than the expected things where stuff was changed from "on by default" to "off by default"
The issue here is that it does require 3 CDs worth of downloading. It would be nice if they could provide a single CD install with the most common stuff an then the ability to download extra iso's of programs if you so wish.
While a lot of people won't care about it, those with lesser connections do.
I don't think the RIAA and similar organisations will spend that much money going after something like this purely because it is just friends sharing with each other. While they won't like it, this is much more like the old days where you'd copy an album onto a cassette tape from you friend and take it home.
I think what scares them shitless are those file sharing programs where you log on, type in a name and it just shows up. You don't need to know the guy who has it, all you need to know is the name of the song/movie. As long as those programs exist, services that let friends just share are most likely to be ignored.
Heh, this is probably more acurate and more levels than you think. As gaming has progressed it has more and more become about look and marketing rather than overall quality of the game.
Get "sweat shop" programming companies to slap together a game with nice graphics (done by more expensive companies) and then market it to death. Even if its bug ridden and/or won't be remembered in 1 years time, they make a ton of money...
So why don't we just make nuclear plants surrounded by solar panels. One sucks up the heat from the sun while the other pumps heat out into the environment.;)
Seriously though, in the end any electricity we make gets turned into heat somewhere by whatever device uses it.
A couple of my favourite bits from Zombies according to wikipedia. Doesn't take much to apply them to SCO or Darl.
A more skeptical take is that a zombie is a living person who has never died, but is under the influence of powerful drugs
While zombies do not usually appear in lawbooks and few laws exist to regulate them, in some places, such as Haiti, they are considered a public nuisance.
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The smart roadster, while still ugly in a way, definitely looks a lot better than the normal one.
We've had the Smart car in South Africa for about a year now. And yes I have to agree, I would not ride in one of those cars on a freeway.
That said, parking is not a problem in one of them.
Yes but if you watched all 6 gummi bear seasons in less than a month and a half, you are very very dedicated. :)
At least if you don't need it "NOW" then its fine. With sucky telkom ADSL (which I have because good gaming pings are what I'm after) they'll still port shape you into oblivion, only you'll be capped before you finish season one.
Get sentech, the 128k option is slow, but cheap (by our overly expensive South African standards anyway) and the movie/episode/mp3 will come down eventually. :P
Of course here in SA most of the TV series are so delayed that one would think piracy would be an even bigger problem. By the time it gets onto one of our local channels, its been downloadable for at least 6 months.
Depends on your point of view I guess. I personally thought the Bourne Identity (Director: Doug Liman) was a brilliant movie while the Bourne Supremacy only kept me mildly entertained.
So yea from my point of view seeing his name next to it doesn't fill me with hope.
I know a few web devs and they all test their web pages with IE and not much else. When told that this is bad, their answer is simply that 95% (some say 98%) of users use IE so there is no need to test the web pages with multiple browsers. I bet they use the same excuse to their PHB's.
Publish these reports enough, and the PHB's will hear about it. They will wander in an ask the web dev whether the company site works fine with firefox, and real soon you'll find those devs putting in the extra time to make sure the site works with browsers other than IE.
The more that firefox's growing market share is publicised, the more sites will begin to support it properly, not the other way around.
No idea. I run mine at the default levels which gives me a brighter picture than an LCD at about similar contrast. Really whatever is comfortable for you, the important thing is to have the refresh rate as high as the monitor will let you without sacrificing picture quality.
Can you remember what refresh rate these crt's ran at?
5 years ago 75 was considered the norm even with expencive crt's. I personally don't like to use a CRT unless its running at 100.
I'd assume the thin crt's have the same drawbacks as the old ones since they will still refresh in a similar way and thus have the flicker. Of course that is assuming the flicker is what causes the eye strain (AFAIK it is).
Also, I've been sitting in front of CRT monitors for far to many hours a day for the last 14 years and I still have 20/20 vision. At work I moved over to LCD last year, though I have noticed no difference in how my eyes feel at the end of the day, so its really only desk space that I gain.
I guess its one of those things that varies a lot from person to person.
Why do I see bridgestone using this in ads promoting their traction in the wet...
Just to add to this. While the parent is correct, that a LCD is usually going to be better on your eye's, a good quality crt will also allow just as many hours of use with no eye strain.
I find with a cheaper CRT I get headaches after a couple of hours of work. However I purchased an Iiyama visionmaster pro 455 and I can literally spend days working on it with no noticable eye strain. It is also brighter and clearer than pretty much any LCD I've seen. So in the end, if you pay a decent amount for a monitor it should be fine.
All the same, unless you plan on playing games on the machine, I'd suggest going for an LCD.
Putting that way I am more inclined to agree with you. I still call it play when a cat toys with a mouse. All animals practice through play, if it wasn't fun they probably wouldn't do it unless they absolutely had to, at which point they'd be very bad at it due to lack of practice. ;)
The hungry cat will toy with its play for a very short time because its caught it for a very specific purpose, the well fed cat will toy with the mouse until it dies, or until the cat gets bored (most times both). If you want to claim a cats "fun" and a humans "fun" are not comparable, then we can't really argue this. But I think you'd have to admit that both enjoy the hunt? And if both enjoy the hunt, is it not fun?
In the end, its not that we're the only ones who hunt for sport, I say most preditors hunt for "sport/play/practice" at some point. The difference is we have the intellect to say to ourselves we don't need to do this anymore. Despite the fact that it may be fun...
Okay, well I lived on a farm where there were a number of feral cats. These were cats that hunted to survive, rats and birds and whatever else they could catch were their food. They DID NOT TOY WITH THEIR PREY, they killed it and ate it. That was hunting!
My cats (ex feral cats from my parents farm) no longer need to hunt for food and as of such the way they hunt changes dramatically. Now they toy with their prey, they play games, they specifically let it go so they can catch it again and again and again...
So please don't give me that they're not human so it is different crap. I don't hunt (anymore), I don't believe hunting is right, but when I was a kid I used to hunt (with an air rifle) and it is exilerating. That doesn't make it right or wrong, you can argue the morality of it all you want, the exileration is something inherent in our makeup, and its the same with you little cat. It (the cat) may not be able to think about the morality of it, and thus you can argue what it does is less wrong than us hunting, but it is the same genetic predisposition (our ancesters were HUNTER/gatherers after all).
I suppose thats true in one way, they do not EAT mice for sport. Being a cat owner, I can tell you, THEY DO play with mice for fun(aka sport). When my cats are not hungry they catch and play with a mouse for hours, sometimes after it dies it doesn't even get eaten.
If I forget to feed them, the thing is dead and eaten within 30 minutes.
Now the question I got to ask, is what happens when some human wanders in front of the camera one day with this system, and the person on the other side figures, hey this is just on a computer, lets takea pot shot?
Just to clarify what I meant by brilliant idea. I think its a good idea for people wanting to legitimatly buy music. I somehow doubt its that good an idea as far as converting the pirates though.
Its brilliant business idea in the end. The music industry gets paid, but its other peoples bandwidth being used.
Imagine if iTunes only had to pay for the bandwidth to have a song downloaded once for every 100 sales. I think their accountants would be salivating at the thought.
From the perspective of someone downloading from a country with limited international bandwidth (here in South Africa our downloads from the US can be painfully slow even with DSL), this brings up the possibility of downloading from many sources nearer to you than the original shop.
I'm running a not so cutting edge AMD64 (2800+) and had until recently had few problems. This last weekend I rebooted the machine (since it was acting a little slow and hadn't been rebooted in weeks) and suddenly I can't even start up propely without a DEP happening. And it happens with windows explorer! As you can imagine this was not nice.
After having to boot into command prompt safe mode and editing the boot.ini file, I managed to get my machine functioning fine again. AntiVirus (trend pc-cillan) claims the machine is clean, I hope it is because it seems that I can now only work with DEP set to AlwaysOff.
Other than that I have had not real issues with SP2 other than the expected things where stuff was changed from "on by default" to "off by default"
Thanks, I feel better now. ;)
The problem with working at an IT company, is all the managers know HL2 just got released.
:)
Time to take some leave I think.
Shit shit shit shit!!!!
6 more hours at work before I can get home. This is going to be the slowest day ever...
The issue here is that it does require 3 CDs worth of downloading. It would be nice if they could provide a single CD install with the most common stuff an then the ability to download extra iso's of programs if you so wish.
While a lot of people won't care about it, those with lesser connections do.
I don't think the RIAA and similar organisations will spend that much money going after something like this purely because it is just friends sharing with each other. While they won't like it, this is much more like the old days where you'd copy an album onto a cassette tape from you friend and take it home.
I think what scares them shitless are those file sharing programs where you log on, type in a name and it just shows up. You don't need to know the guy who has it, all you need to know is the name of the song/movie. As long as those programs exist, services that let friends just share are most likely to be ignored.
Heh, this is probably more acurate and more levels than you think. As gaming has progressed it has more and more become about look and marketing rather than overall quality of the game.
Get "sweat shop" programming companies to slap together a game with nice graphics (done by more expensive companies) and then market it to death. Even if its bug ridden and/or won't be remembered in 1 years time, they make a ton of money...
Once you have deleted all the shortcuts, the average user isn't going to bother to find it as long as you make firefox use the big blue e as an icon.
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By the time the user knows where to find iexplore.exe, he probably has enough computer knowledge to prefer firefox.
So why don't we just make nuclear plants surrounded by solar panels. One sucks up the heat from the sun while the other pumps heat out into the environment. ;)
Seriously though, in the end any electricity we make gets turned into heat somewhere by whatever device uses it.
A more skeptical take is that a zombie is a living person who has never died, but is under the influence of powerful drugs
While zombies do not usually appear in lawbooks and few laws exist to regulate them, in some places, such as Haiti, they are considered a public nuisance.