One morning I woke up and noticed my computer was off. I never turn my computer off. So I did what came natural, I turned the fucker back on. The powersupply blew the fuck up! I mean Boom! There was smoke billowing out the side and flame shooting out the fan port. The fucking fan in the power suppy was on fire! It was cool as fucking hell!
Fried everything in the damn computer but the CPU, memory, and graphics card. Harddrives, cdroms, tapedrive, ethernet/sound card, MB.. Gone. The only thing I can think of is it fried everything on the +5/+12V connection and since the surviving parts where 3V they lived. That is the best I can come up with.
Soul is an abstract concept. It might or it might not exist so there for it could be priceless or worth nothing. Now my left nut on the other hand, well I'm kind of attached to that.
Oh yeah, make sure of that. I've quoted some people offensive prices on some shit only to have them not even bat an eye and accept it. Found out what is worth to them then triple it. Then tack on another 500% just even thinking about it +20% just because you might have to do something.
The Discworld series tends to be the exception rather than the rule that an author can continue to write books in a series and the series be good. Most of the time they just start getting repetitive and boring. Come on, lets see a show of hands if you actually gave a shit about Skeeve and Ozz after book 8 or so.
Holy Shit! Someone feels almost the same way as I do about the same books. I read all the Dune books right up to God Emperor. I got halfway through it and put it down. I didn't hate it, I just didn't like it.
Rendezvous with Rama is on my all time favorite reading lists. Anything after Rama in that series I wouldn't give the honor of lining my bird cage with. The three squeals to have the honor of being the only books that I've ever went out of my way to destroy. Problem I see with some of these old time authors is they just stop giving a shit after so long. If someone wants to write a piece of crap and stamp their name on it they have no problem as long as they get some $$$ off of it.
I don't know what OSC is smoking but he should have stopped Speaker for the Dead. Michael Crichton, I can take him or leave him. Jurassic Park I liked. Didn't care for the sequel. His other books I can read but don't feel I miss anything if I don't finish them.
I gave up on SFBC a long time ago. I thought their books where cheaply made and just didn't stand up. I had more than one totally fall apart in my hands as I was reading it. The glue just wasn't holding it together.
Yes, they where. I've gotten wind of a 4th book called the Sagan Diary but I haven't followed it up yet. I'm reading The Outstretched Shadow, part of the Obsidian Trilogy by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory. Most Excellent Read if I do say so. But I'm going to sniff out the Sagan Diary when I get finished with this one.
I think I'm going to have to disagree with you on this. The quality of some authors has declined as they got older. If I see one more Ender book I think I'll barf. I'll give you that the quality of Star Trek and Star Wars books has gone down in the last few years. There are some really good authors out there that don't have name recognition though. I just finished John Scalzi Old Man's War and found it to be great. Never heard of him before.
Now here is a strange place to find book recommendations but I Wikipedia. If you type in a few key words you can usually find a list of books and subjects that you are interested in. Then you can look them up on Amazon. Strange but it works for me.
Take the SSE3 instruction set, for example, which exists on modern Pentium 4 but not AMD processors.
Spoken like someone who truly doesn't know what the hell he is talking about. I just loaded new amd quad core into box and not only does it have sse3 it has sse4+. The single core that I replace it with had sse3 on it.
You need to read up before you bash something you have no clue about.
Quick question here. Am I the only fucker that wants one of those big ass dishes in his yard? I can tell people I'm trying to talk to mars. Hell, point the fucker straight up, put some plastic flamingos in and call it art. The worlds largest birdbath.
Why are you looking at me like that? I've seen people with worse in their yard. The old coot down the road has two toilets filed with flowers beside his mailbox. Surely a 20 foot birdbath won't cause any problems.
And that is the way it should be. When I lived in the city I could get my internet anyway I wanted it. Cable, DSL, ISND, anchovies. Now I live so far out int he styx that its ether 28Kbps dial up over lines installed in 1945 or satellite and hot pizza delivery is just a dream. I chose satellite but on the bright side, I have a 140 acre back yard.
BACK ON POINT: Dialup works just fine for surfing the net.
Yeah, if your using lynx as your browser. Say that once you hit one of these java / flash infested crap fests that seem to be popular these days. We won't talk about youtube or internet radio.
His miracle birth coupled with his sinless life, puts him in a very special pedestal that not even Mohammed (the prophet of said religion) can claim.
I would really like to see you stand on a corner in Iran and clam that. Or how about someplace in Syria? You know we can drop those places. How about standing outside a mosque in, say England, and say that. Best case you would get your ass kicked. Worse, they would simply shoot you.
Don't take this personally but you remind me of so many muslim apologizes that I hear so much about. The level of ignorance they have of the true nature of islam is mind boggling. mohammed is their christ. They KILL people for saying shit about him.
I don't know how Islam got so protected and the Muslims so protective. It would almost seem like lack of self-confidence.
It is simple. When you spoof Christians or Jews you don't have a rabid bunch of stone age character threatening your life. That is how islam deals with any form of criticism. Satanic Verses author had a death threat issued by a national leader. The Danish cartoonist who drew them pictures of muhammad is still under a death threat, over a fucking bunch of cartoons!
People are afraid to stand up to the muslims and it's that pure and simple. You try it and you get shit like subway bombings in Britain, 9/11 here in the states, and hundreds of school children murdered in Beslan.
Islam is with out a doubt the greatest threat to western way of life there is.
Yeah, I think my boss would shit himself if he knew I was hauling a whole fucking library into stall three at work. I got a 1 GB SD card for the palm. I've had hundreds of books on it with still room for hundreds more.
Just try to take your laptop into the bathroom them.
Okay, I won't tell you about me taking my laptop to the can but how about my pda? That is one of the perks I've found out about carrying ebooks on my T5. At work when I get up and to take a dump I just shove my T5 in my pocket. No one even bats an eye because every time I get up I put my T5 in my pocket. People might get nosy if I shove a copy of war and peace in my pocket when I got up to go take a dump.
It's a safe bet that those paper books will last far longer than any hard drive that you store files on
But your not going to leave them on the same harddrive are you? When new / fatter ones become available your going to move them.
Case in point. I have issue of phrack magazine that are ancient. When I first started reading them they rested on a 40 MB Amiga 500 HD. Now a billion years later they are on a 1.2 TB array. Come this time next year they will be sitting on a 3.7 TB array. So it's a pretty good bet that all my ebooks will out live the HD they are stored on.
Remember now matter how you slice it, 500 GB of ebooks will always take up less than the same amount in dead tree format. And you will still have room for a back up.
That is so incorrect my friend. True the Amiga 1000 did need a kickstart disk but so did the early 3000's. Mine was one of the earlies 3000s. The main advantage was that kickstart image could be written to the HD instead of needing the floppy every time.
I could have gotten 3.1 on a ROM chip but I never did. Booting off of the HD didn't add any real time to the load.
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One morning I woke up and noticed my computer was off. I never turn my computer off. So I did what came natural, I turned the fucker back on. The powersupply blew the fuck up! I mean Boom! There was smoke billowing out the side and flame shooting out the fan port. The fucking fan in the power suppy was on fire! It was cool as fucking hell!
Fried everything in the damn computer but the CPU, memory, and graphics card. Harddrives, cdroms, tapedrive, ethernet/sound card, MB.. Gone. The only thing I can think of is it fried everything on the +5/+12V connection and since the surviving parts where 3V they lived. That is the best I can come up with.
Soul is an abstract concept. It might or it might not exist so there for it could be priceless or worth nothing. Now my left nut on the other hand, well I'm kind of attached to that.
If it didn't cost your soul and left nut it might have been a nice ebook reader. No thanks. I'll keep my nokia, T5, and nikon for all that it does.
Oh yeah, make sure of that. I've quoted some people offensive prices on some shit only to have them not even bat an eye and accept it. Found out what is worth to them then triple it. Then tack on another 500% just even thinking about it +20% just because you might have to do something.
I'm against just saying "no." I'm more in favor of not saying no but just quoting them a price that no one in their right mind would pay.
The Discworld series tends to be the exception rather than the rule that an author can continue to write books in a series and the series be good. Most of the time they just start getting repetitive and boring. Come on, lets see a show of hands if you actually gave a shit about Skeeve and Ozz after book 8 or so.
Holy Shit! Someone feels almost the same way as I do about the same books. I read all the Dune books right up to God Emperor. I got halfway through it and put it down. I didn't hate it, I just didn't like it.
Rendezvous with Rama is on my all time favorite reading lists. Anything after Rama in that series I wouldn't give the honor of lining my bird cage with. The three squeals to have the honor of being the only books that I've ever went out of my way to destroy. Problem I see with some of these old time authors is they just stop giving a shit after so long. If someone wants to write a piece of crap and stamp their name on it they have no problem as long as they get some $$$ off of it.
I don't know what OSC is smoking but he should have stopped Speaker for the Dead. Michael Crichton, I can take him or leave him. Jurassic Park I liked. Didn't care for the sequel. His other books I can read but don't feel I miss anything if I don't finish them.
I gave up on SFBC a long time ago. I thought their books where cheaply made and just didn't stand up. I had more than one totally fall apart in my hands as I was reading it. The glue just wasn't holding it together.
Yes, they where. I've gotten wind of a 4th book called the Sagan Diary but I haven't followed it up yet. I'm reading The Outstretched Shadow, part of the Obsidian Trilogy by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory. Most Excellent Read if I do say so. But I'm going to sniff out the Sagan Diary when I get finished with this one.
I think I'm going to have to disagree with you on this. The quality of some authors has declined as they got older. If I see one more Ender book I think I'll barf. I'll give you that the quality of Star Trek and Star Wars books has gone down in the last few years. There are some really good authors out there that don't have name recognition though. I just finished John Scalzi Old Man's War and found it to be great. Never heard of him before.
Now here is a strange place to find book recommendations but I Wikipedia. If you type in a few key words you can usually find a list of books and subjects that you are interested in. Then you can look them up on Amazon. Strange but it works for me.
Spoken like someone who truly doesn't know what the hell he is talking about. I just loaded new amd quad core into box and not only does it have sse3 it has sse4+. The single core that I replace it with had sse3 on it.
You need to read up before you bash something you have no clue about.
I just installed it on a VM here. It promptly shit in my coffee and fucked my dog. But other than that no problems here.
Ahem. You wouldn't know where I could pick one of these up would? I have a little pest problem that I need to deal with.
Quick question here. Am I the only fucker that wants one of those big ass dishes in his yard? I can tell people I'm trying to talk to mars. Hell, point the fucker straight up, put some plastic flamingos in and call it art. The worlds largest birdbath.
Why are you looking at me like that? I've seen people with worse in their yard. The old coot down the road has two toilets filed with flowers beside his mailbox. Surely a 20 foot birdbath won't cause any problems.
Better option. Get a dish, put it where you want to, tell the people that bitch to go to hell.
And that is the way it should be. When I lived in the city I could get my internet anyway I wanted it. Cable, DSL, ISND, anchovies. Now I live so far out int he styx that its ether 28Kbps dial up over lines installed in 1945 or satellite and hot pizza delivery is just a dream. I chose satellite but on the bright side, I have a 140 acre back yard.
Yeah, if your using lynx as your browser. Say that once you hit one of these java / flash infested crap fests that seem to be popular these days. We won't talk about youtube or internet radio.
I would really like to see you stand on a corner in Iran and clam that. Or how about someplace in Syria? You know we can drop those places. How about standing outside a mosque in, say England, and say that. Best case you would get your ass kicked. Worse, they would simply shoot you.
Don't take this personally but you remind me of so many muslim apologizes that I hear so much about. The level of ignorance they have of the true nature of islam is mind boggling. mohammed is their christ. They KILL people for saying shit about him.
It is simple. When you spoof Christians or Jews you don't have a rabid bunch of stone age character threatening your life. That is how islam deals with any form of criticism. Satanic Verses author had a death threat issued by a national leader. The Danish cartoonist who drew them pictures of muhammad is still under a death threat, over a fucking bunch of cartoons!
People are afraid to stand up to the muslims and it's that pure and simple. You try it and you get shit like subway bombings in Britain, 9/11 here in the states, and hundreds of school children murdered in Beslan.
Islam is with out a doubt the greatest threat to western way of life there is.
Yeah, I think my boss would shit himself if he knew I was hauling a whole fucking library into stall three at work. I got a 1 GB SD card for the palm. I've had hundreds of books on it with still room for hundreds more.
Okay, I won't tell you about me taking my laptop to the can but how about my pda? That is one of the perks I've found out about carrying ebooks on my T5. At work when I get up and to take a dump I just shove my T5 in my pocket. No one even bats an eye because every time I get up I put my T5 in my pocket. People might get nosy if I shove a copy of war and peace in my pocket when I got up to go take a dump.
Dude.. My Amiga came over on the Mayflower. It was the first computer off the boat.
But your not going to leave them on the same harddrive are you? When new / fatter ones become available your going to move them.
Case in point. I have issue of phrack magazine that are ancient. When I first started reading them they rested on a 40 MB Amiga 500 HD. Now a billion years later they are on a 1.2 TB array. Come this time next year they will be sitting on a 3.7 TB array. So it's a pretty good bet that all my ebooks will out live the HD they are stored on.
Remember now matter how you slice it, 500 GB of ebooks will always take up less than the same amount in dead tree format. And you will still have room for a back up.
And.. I'm okay with that....
You are just now figuring that out? Hell we all have issues. My issues just get translated into +5 Insightful.
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That is so incorrect my friend. True the Amiga 1000 did need a kickstart disk but so did the early 3000's. Mine was one of the earlies 3000s. The main advantage was that kickstart image could be written to the HD instead of needing the floppy every time.
I could have gotten 3.1 on a ROM chip but I never did. Booting off of the HD didn't add any real time to the load.