While an LCD monitor has much to recommend it on the grounds of space saving and visual clarity, I find one arena where it is left in the dust by a CRT: game playing. When rushing around in a FPS, the picture on an LCD monitor turns into a blurry, muddy mess; on a CRT, by contrast, it remains crisp.
In an unrelated but related point (think "tea and no tea"), I find that optical mice are great for day-to-day work, but fall down during FPS play: when you figure that someone is filling your back with lead, and you need to do an instant 180 degree turn, an optical mouse simply can't handle the rate of movement. A traditional ball mouse is the only choice; however, you have to make sure its clean so that the ball doesn't jam when being rolled at high speed. A good tip to keeping your balls clean is to rest your beer on a different table to your
I call you a troll. Anyways, I hope you always end up on the opposing team when I play $my_fave_FPS because I'm sure that YOUR mechanical mouse will be a huge advantage... for MY team, hehe..:P
Dear god, someone think of the sanity of the users. I mean, every once in a while someone's accidently falls for a forged email by sheer bad luck and a bad situation. ( forged subject line containing something you are interested in and a faked sender with a name you recognize... ) Now, last time I saw a spam mail it contained some nice pictures of 7 men... "enjoying" eachother's company on a Monday morning. Nothing too bad really. Now, imagine waking up one Monday morning, logging on and instead of 7 men yanking eachother's crank and/or enjoying a ride up the rectal railroad, you get hit with a Britney Spears MP3.:(
Think of the kids as well and how we are to explain it all! I can explain why men like other men. I can NOT explain why Britney Spears is famous and rich.
In a typical 0.3-millimetre layer, there will be enough calcium carbonate to last five years in a heavily polluted city, says Robert McIntyre of the British company Millennium Chemicals, based in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, which developed the paint. When the carbonate has been exhausted, the titanium dioxide will continue to break down NOx, but the acid this produces will discolour the paint,
If you read the article you'll see a nice and practically useless image where it shows that NOx is broken down to harmless stuff like water and oxygen. Don't ask me HOW exactly. Anyways, once the calcium carbonate runs out, the nitric acid will not be nuetralized. ( good read up on a chem textbook regarding bases ( like calcium carbonate ) and acids, especially how they affect eachother ) Having a whole load of acid building up inside your paint isnt a good thing but according to the article it will just discolour the paint. While the Titanium Oxide will happily continue to absorb more NOx and thus create more acid.
So basically, nowadays you have to paint once every 5 years because the smog attacks the paint. Now you have to paint once every 5 years because the paint attacks the smog.
Remove spyware which log stuff for other businesses while installing your own. Business-wise very good move, granted you have no ethics and are morally bankrupt. Kind of like McAfee AV marking Symantec products are virusses and then installing trail versions of it's own competeting software.
I don't like Linux going mainstream. I don't like the idea of a hundred thousand clueless users trying to install Debian despite warning stickers one acre large reading "NOT FOR NEW USERS". I don't like companies trying to ride along on the success of Linux. I don't like companies who will inevitably write half-arsed apps with closed file formats for Linux. I don't like people asking me 24/7 how to add nameservers for DNS resolving and said people then getting pissed at me when I refer them to google.
MSN search works lovely with Mozilla 1.5. In fact, the results it comes up with are quite good to; no more anti-linux pages first and even less common search terms yield useful results.
Which reminds me of a few weeks ago, when I was still an intern at a small computer store. It was... just before Christmasif I recall correctly. One of our customers ordered something; something specific. I don't know what anymore but that's not very important. Anyways, my colleage and I we're in the store that day when the daily shipment of goods arrived with packages from Ingram Micro, Tech Data, McDos and various other wholesale suppliers.
Then I noticed my colleage standing still all of the sudden with a packaging slip in his hands before he burst out laughing. Turns out that along with the normal goods there was the specific order for the customer... From "Skynet Computers".
Yes, but that doesn't change a damned thing if you got laid of and still have a wife, two kids and a little Jack Russel called "Bono" to take care of.*
NOTE:
* = Does not apply to me. But I would feel pretty fcked if it did.
12-08-2008: MSIE 7.2 released, capable of using MusicXML
13-08-2008: MSIE 7.2.1 released, includes patch in MusicXML rendering engine that fixes a crash when looking at Celine Dion sheet music. Both fans of Celine Dion are relieved.
18-09-2008: First remote admin exploit found in MSIE's implementation of MusicXML. Involves Shania Twain music.
26-03-2009: MSIE 7.2.2 released, fixes issue due to Shania Twain music by refusing to show Shania Twain music. Shania Twain herself inprisoned under the DMCA for exploiting MSIE and never heard from again. World peace becomes a reality.
03-04-2009: MSIE 7.2.3 released, includes patch in DRM module of MusicXML rendering engine so that you can only look at sheet music of songs you paid an additional $ 24,95 for.
08-06-2009: RIAA claims enermous losses due to MusicXML.
12-09-2009: RIAA sues twelve year old girl using illegal MusicXML printouts to learn to play piano.
13-11-2009: MSIE 7.2.4 released, includes patch in MusicXML rendering engine that fixes a crash when showing a specific chord.
12-01-2010: Duke Nukem Forever released simultaneously with HL4, Doom6 and The Sims expansion set nr 834.
Attempt to enter some code into some random OSS project that DoSes www.kernel.org or www.gnu.org or something like that then make a big media spectable out of it. Reveal 'hints' that point to some SCO fanatic inserting the code. On that note, I think SCO is capable of writing a virus to DoS their own site just to get some good PR ammo.
My dad owns one and considering here in the NL we do not have the proud tradition of getting a third mortage to give your kid a better car then the neighbohr's kid, I'm carless and occasionally forced to drive that... thing. It tops out at about 140 km/h ( normal gasoline engine ) and during sidewinds the damnable thing feels like it's about to topple over. Not only that, at 120 km/h it starts making funny noises and it starts to rattle. The damn thing is so high on it's wheel you have to actually STEP UP INTO THE SEAT, after which my knees are firmly locked between the floor and the steering wheel. ( granted, being 6'5" might have something to do with that ) The gas pedal has two settings: Stall and TOO DAMN MUCH. The gear pedal is calibrated just as nicely. The damnable thing was advertised with ample room for driver and passanger. Even when NOT driving that coffin on wheels I regulary find my kneecaps embedded into my throath. Enough head space though!
The rear seat are too damned small: If I could even get a girl in there without her laughing herself to death at the mere sight of the car, I'd be impossible unless we try something very exotic from the Kama Sutra. The only person with enough space for that lady would be Mr. Jackson, but I digress. And it's small. Not compact, because a compact car is short in length, width and height. This atrocity to engineering is VERY small in width, very small in length and about 5'10 high. If I'd take a piss against it it would most likely fall over. And it is.. neon blue.
I hate that car. I hate that series. And I hate Suzuki from now on. I want a Peugot or Renault or ( if financially capable ) a hummer. ( damn my awkward taste! )
The recommendation that he receive the honour was made by the Chancellor, Gordon Brown. Buckingham Palace is expected to announce it tomorrow, when Mr Gates will speak at a conference on "Advancing Enterprise" organised by Mr Brown.
Clearly, Mr Brown never used a PC in his lifetime and possibly has a Mac, making this whole thing very "tongue in cheek".
Engineer 1: Ho-hum.. Little bit of... whatever it is, 'ere... Hand me that thingamajig, will you? Engineer 2: Yah, sure... Hey, remember that employee last month who got laid of within a week? Engineer 1: Who? Vincent? Engineer 2: Yeah, Vinnie... With the Italian accent? Engineer 1: Yeah, him. What about the guy? Engineer 2: Well, he has this offer on cheap RAM we just CAN'T resist! Engineer 1: Really now? But- Engineer 2: Look, our budget is already comparable to social welfare. We need to save some loot. Engineer 1: Fair enough, buy the crap and hand me the other twisty-turny thingy over there? I need to screw on this name tag reading... "Spirit"? Engineer 2: Look, it's either that or my wife's name.
Now if only GNU software would stop forcing that damnable alternative "info" ( which makes about as much sense as women ) down everyone's throath, things would be nice and happy.
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I call you a troll. Anyways, I hope you always end up on the opposing team when I play $my_fave_FPS because I'm sure that YOUR mechanical mouse will be a huge advantage... for MY team, hehe.. :P
It has pictures, name and locations.
Now the sysadmins have someone to beat up and the legal department can take some potshots at them for paying damages caused by virusses.
Dear god, someone think of the sanity of the users. I mean, every once in a while someone's accidently falls for a forged email by sheer bad luck and a bad situation. ( forged subject line containing something you are interested in and a faked sender with a name you recognize... ) Now, last time I saw a spam mail it contained some nice pictures of 7 men ... "enjoying" eachother's company on a Monday morning. Nothing too bad really. Now, imagine waking up one Monday morning, logging on and instead of 7 men yanking eachother's crank and/or enjoying a ride up the rectal railroad, you get hit with a Britney Spears MP3. :(
Think of the kids as well and how we are to explain it all! I can explain why men like other men. I can NOT explain why Britney Spears is famous and rich.
If you read the article you'll see a nice and practically useless image where it shows that NOx is broken down to harmless stuff like water and oxygen. Don't ask me HOW exactly. Anyways, once the calcium carbonate runs out, the nitric acid will not be nuetralized. ( good read up on a chem textbook regarding bases ( like calcium carbonate ) and acids, especially how they affect eachother ) Having a whole load of acid building up inside your paint isnt a good thing but according to the article it will just discolour the paint. While the Titanium Oxide will happily continue to absorb more NOx and thus create more acid.
So basically, nowadays you have to paint once every 5 years because the smog attacks the paint. Now you have to paint once every 5 years because the paint attacks the smog.
Worst. Soviet Russia. Joke. Ever.
Remove spyware which log stuff for other businesses while installing your own. Business-wise very good move, granted you have no ethics and are morally bankrupt. Kind of like McAfee AV marking Symantec products are virusses and then installing trail versions of it's own competeting software.
When you own a Mac?
I don't like Linux going mainstream. I don't like the idea of a hundred thousand clueless users trying to install Debian despite warning stickers one acre large reading "NOT FOR NEW USERS". I don't like companies trying to ride along on the success of Linux. I don't like companies who will inevitably write half-arsed apps with closed file formats for Linux. I don't like people asking me 24/7 how to add nameservers for DNS resolving and said people then getting pissed at me when I refer them to google.
I like this niche market.
I call bollocks on you!
MSN search works lovely with Mozilla 1.5. In fact, the results it comes up with are quite good to; no more anti-linux pages first and even less common search terms yield useful results.
mmmmmmmmmm, women in duct tape....
I'd like one roll of duct tape and one Slashchick, please!
Which reminds me of a few weeks ago, when I was still an intern at a small computer store. It was... just before Christmasif I recall correctly. One of our customers ordered something; something specific. I don't know what anymore but that's not very important. Anyways, my colleage and I we're in the store that day when the daily shipment of goods arrived with packages from Ingram Micro, Tech Data, McDos and various other wholesale suppliers.
Then I noticed my colleage standing still all of the sudden with a packaging slip in his hands before he burst out laughing. Turns out that along with the normal goods there was the specific order for the customer... From "Skynet Computers".
... After which they started their own porn site.
I did it. Happy now?
You use MSIE, WinXP with Playmobile theme, ZoneAlarm and you post on Slashdot?
You, sir, are a man of many a contradiction!
Yes, but that doesn't change a damned thing if you got laid of and still have a wife, two kids and a little Jack Russel called "Bono" to take care of.*
NOTE:
* = Does not apply to me. But I would feel pretty fcked if it did.
Now I don't have to keep a newpaper around anymore to smack flies!
You're so right. I suggest we nuke Utah.
Attempt to enter some code into some random OSS project that DoSes www.kernel.org or www.gnu.org or something like that then make a big media spectable out of it. Reveal 'hints' that point to some SCO fanatic inserting the code. On that note, I think SCO is capable of writing a virus to DoS their own site just to get some good PR ammo.
My dad owns one and considering here in the NL we do not have the proud tradition of getting a third mortage to give your kid a better car then the neighbohr's kid, I'm carless and occasionally forced to drive that... thing. It tops out at about 140 km/h ( normal gasoline engine ) and during sidewinds the damnable thing feels like it's about to topple over. Not only that, at 120 km/h it starts making funny noises and it starts to rattle. The damn thing is so high on it's wheel you have to actually STEP UP INTO THE SEAT, after which my knees are firmly locked between the floor and the steering wheel. ( granted, being 6'5" might have something to do with that ) The gas pedal has two settings: Stall and TOO DAMN MUCH. The gear pedal is calibrated just as nicely. The damnable thing was advertised with ample room for driver and passanger. Even when NOT driving that coffin on wheels I regulary find my kneecaps embedded into my throath. Enough head space though!
The rear seat are too damned small: If I could even get a girl in there without her laughing herself to death at the mere sight of the car, I'd be impossible unless we try something very exotic from the Kama Sutra. The only person with enough space for that lady would be Mr. Jackson, but I digress. And it's small. Not compact, because a compact car is short in length, width and height. This atrocity to engineering is VERY small in width, very small in length and about 5'10 high. If I'd take a piss against it it would most likely fall over. And it is.. neon blue.
I hate that car. I hate that series. And I hate Suzuki from now on. I want a Peugot or Renault or ( if financially capable ) a hummer. ( damn my awkward taste! )
Who the hell is Wendy and why is she hiring people? Is she the village bus? 3 quid a ride?
That a rover with or without buggy software?
Clearly, Mr Brown never used a PC in his lifetime and possibly has a Mac, making this whole thing very "tongue in cheek".
Engineer 1: Ho-hum.. Little bit of ... whatever it is, 'ere... Hand me that thingamajig, will you?
Engineer 2: Yah, sure... Hey, remember that employee last month who got laid of within a week?
Engineer 1: Who? Vincent?
Engineer 2: Yeah, Vinnie... With the Italian accent?
Engineer 1: Yeah, him. What about the guy?
Engineer 2: Well, he has this offer on cheap RAM we just CAN'T resist!
Engineer 1: Really now? But-
Engineer 2: Look, our budget is already comparable to social welfare. We need to save some loot.
Engineer 1: Fair enough, buy the crap and hand me the other twisty-turny thingy over there? I need to screw on this name tag reading... "Spirit"?
Engineer 2: Look, it's either that or my wife's name.
Now if only GNU software would stop forcing that damnable alternative "info" ( which makes about as much sense as women ) down everyone's throath, things would be nice and happy.