Sadly, I don't have much of a choice for colleges over here. This one has two major advantages; it is still the best (least crap) of all colleges in this province and it's only a 2 minute walk away from me. That, and I'm not really expecting anything from it, I just need a shoddy piece of paper before I can continue my education into something more worthwhile.
Modems would be lovely, except there aren't really any free phone lines for us students to use. Perhaps a laptop with a fancy mobile phone would do the trick, but having a laptop would solve the whole mobility issue by itself, considering I could just use the laptop itself to ferry data around...
Yep, but I can't send email considering port 25 is blocked. Wee!
At college we still use diskettes to transfer data from college to home. Mainly because in this information age, my college network is completely shielded, proxied and protected up to a ridiculous level. (Though still pretty much ineffective) So we cant make outgoing FTP connections to upload stuff to our home computers (if anyone else is crazy enough to run a server at home to start with) and VPN from home to college is most likely out of the question as well since they still use Windows aNTique Server over there.
USB pendrives/keydrives/whatever are slowly becoming more common though; and for a good reason. More sturdy and shock-proof then diskettes, far larger capacity, faster then diskettes as well, doesn't require a burner or any software/drivers in a modern OS... Really neat things, also fastest way to transfer larger amount of data and those nifty little things have a novelty value...:)
More and more "book reviews" are becoming less and less review-like and more and more marketing. Wasn't there a book "review" some time ago that introduced the word marketectual? It was aimed at marketing software products or something and every piece of review on here was loaded with acronyms, buzzwords and various hi-tech sounding catchphrases.
Why not make a commodity video card with about 8MB video RAM (a Mattrox 8MB card out-performed a 32MB S3 hands down), and a stable open-source Linux driver? Will this lead to commoditisation of the video card and drive all other mfrs to imitate?
Well, the same reason as to why we don't have room-temp (or only requiring passive cooling) 500mhz processors for $25, silent single platter 10gb HDs for $25, 256mb 266mhz DDR RAM for $25. Flashy new stuff sells, innovation of older products doesn't. Hence why Intel and AMD are pushing up specs instead of improving and lowering the cost of older processors. The HD manufacturers thrive on selling larger and larger HDs instead of coole, more silent and cheaper ones. Hence why we have expensive 250Gb IDE blast furnaces instead of silent 5 to 10 Gb drives whic only cost about 25 bucks. Same thing for memory; pushing up the ammount of memory and speed sells while improving older technologies to be cooler, cheaper and more efficient... Doesn't sell.
Which is kind of stupid really; I'd imagine computers with lower specs but increased stability, efficiency (wasting less power on warming the office) and lower costs would be popular in the corporate scene. Then again, I bet those people are rather thick and convinced by marketing that Office '97 and Windows 98 really do require 200gb of disk space (well, almost) and a P4 3ghz with HT. Not to mention that 512mb of DDR400 and that Ati 9800 that makes Excel run smooth. Woo!
Excuse me, but those eternal "eh?" jokes are getting very tiring and annoting, as they've been around longer then the very planet itself. Why don't you people come up with something creative? Go find something else to bash. We don't complain about US accents all the time, do we? Okay, except about the way people speak in Arkansas, but no one cares about people from Arkensas. But do we make fun of the Texan accent? Do we make fun of the way people speak in Florida? Or Oregon? Hell, have they even invented verbal communication in Oregon yet?
Tell you what, those "eh?"s are a symbol of Canadian patriotism. The Americans express patriotism by invading third world countries and bossing them around, the French and Germans express patriotism by going into an economic recession and collectively bitch about the US and the Canadians express their patriotism by saying "Eh?" and eating BACON while watching a HOCKEY GAME. That and weed. I mean, that IS a weed leaf in the Canadian flag, right? It sure as hell would match up with all the stories I heard about something called "Vancouver"...
That, and I pissed off enough Cannucks with "eh?" jokes in the past. I think I'm wanted dead in the Toronto area...
It's called "Microsoft Passport"! I thought it sounded familiar but when I asked, they waved their hands at me and said "This project is new..." so it has to be! Can you imagine the advantages? Logging into hotmail automagically using MS Passport, using Passport as some sort of all-round login system... Heck, you can even use MS Passport as an instant messenging system! Wow!
Just run a game server at port 80? Or if it requires more ports, tunnel them all through port 80 or use other common ports? (21, 23, 25, etc) This either renders the "curfew" useless or generates one helluva fun spastic reaction from Thai officials as they accidently ban the web.
Prices in the US* are cheaper anyways. My goverment bends me over backwards financially so they can afford their crappy socialist/hippy economic model of wasting money on hopeless people by making hard-working people pay more.
1) The people working the front counters of the computer store hating their jobs due to arguing with customers about whether or not they tried overclocking their CPUs.
Speaking as someone who works in a computer store, it always goes like this when dealing with modded hardware:
1 : Did you ever or has anyone ever physically modified, altered or enhanced the hardware of your system?
Yes. --> You were or should have been aware of the risks. You don't go about messing with valve settings, piston settings or the fuel-mixture of your car, do you? Get lost, warrenty voided. No. --> Continue to next question.
2 : Did you ever or has anyone ever changed any settings in the BIOS, other then IDE or ACPI settings?
Yes. --> You ought to be aware of the risks of messing with voltages, multipliers and what have ye. Go to hell, warrenty voided. No. --> Blame Intel or AMD, try to sell an expensive, new CPU. What the hell is a BIOS? --> Compare BIOS with an STD so people fear it. Then try to sell an expensive, new CPU. Yes, but I am an overclocker and modder. --> Violently remove customer from store. We don't sell 300 Euro brand-name cases, 500 Euro brand-name PSUs or 750 Euro brand-name water-cooling rigs. Hence why we don't make money on them anyways. (That, and those "Look at my prefab case window mod and 750 Euro water cooling rig that uses an aluminium radiator, copper heatsink and common tapwater!" annoy me.)
Look at crappy videos from companies/people too stupid to use a decent codec.
* = Only if user is retarded enough to enter a real email adress.
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Actually, now that I'm done laughing at that part... The in game part is even more fun! Pool of Radiance/Secret of the Silver Blades style! I'm suddenly getting weird images in my mind of Secret of the Silver Blades in full 3D and Amiga flashbacks! Oh damn, that ice tea is some POTENT stuff!
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Apparently it did fuck up the Neverwinter Nights development... Dear god, has anyone seen that bit in the video? I'm starting to believe NWM is older then the bible...
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Ahhh, to be in college again, playing with all the latest gadgets...
Wait a sec, I'm still in college. I just forgot for a second because at my college they throw us all at several companies. Ah well, guess I've got to wait 'till I'm back in college to enjoy my lovely high-tech tools like Turbo Pascal, Windows NT 4.0 and trying to write SQL in Access '97. Wooo, I really miss my college! I'd quit my shitty college and work at my current intern job full time if it wasn't for the potential of something better paying after a few more years.
Okay, done ranting! Point of this story: Not all student enjoy playing with high-tech tools.
"Real men" either buy adult DVDs, or download high quality DivX rips from p2p (or get the real thing often enough not to need to burp their worm).
I'm sorry, but if I'd be willing to spend 79,95 on having the pleusure of enjoying some right-handed pleasure I'd rather spend the money on actually getting a girlfriend. Though the DVD still plays after a buy another one...
Actually, considering how business works and that they will only do PROFITABLE stuff, the most scary thing would be that spam ACTUALLY WORKS! It's hard to believe, but on this planet there are actually people who are willing to buy $1 viagra-knockoffs, have their mortages refinanced by an obscure company 2000+ miles away, are interested in teenage girls doing various uhm... procreational activities for "free" (amateur porn surfers; real men use http://www.thehun.com/ and http://www.sublimedirectory.com/ anyways) and have 300+ phds, degrees, titles, whatnot which aren't recognized ANYWHERE. The problem isn't the spammers that much, the problem is (as usual) stupid people.
I mean, who the FUCK would believe an email from a no-name company, adressing you by your email adress, containing 200+ typos to evade spam filters, uses all-capital text and can be grossly offensive? (Despite popular opinion, I'm not really interested or charmed by a jpg featuring two (or more) south-american guys in a homoerotic position featuring a nice close up of some anal penetration. Remember I'm talking about guys here.)
Netscape 7.1 features many improvements over 7.02 including even better CSS support, spam filters, find-as-you-type, automatic image resizing, more customization via about:config, Web development tools, Palm synchronization and more.
Just what I needed! Develop my website which doesn't exist or sync a palmtop which I don't have! Could someone hand me a dictionary and point out what the word "bloat" means?
He probably comes back from the future with a shiny, flying Delorean with a souped up blender on top of it and a SERIAL CONSOLE. (not embedded on said Delorean, duh)
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Sadly, I don't have much of a choice for colleges over here. This one has two major advantages; it is still the best (least crap) of all colleges in this province and it's only a 2 minute walk away from me. That, and I'm not really expecting anything from it, I just need a shoddy piece of paper before I can continue my education into something more worthwhile.
Modems would be lovely, except there aren't really any free phone lines for us students to use. Perhaps a laptop with a fancy mobile phone would do the trick, but having a laptop would solve the whole mobility issue by itself, considering I could just use the laptop itself to ferry data around...
Yep, but I can't send email considering port 25 is blocked. Wee!
At college we still use diskettes to transfer data from college to home. Mainly because in this information age, my college network is completely shielded, proxied and protected up to a ridiculous level. (Though still pretty much ineffective) So we cant make outgoing FTP connections to upload stuff to our home computers (if anyone else is crazy enough to run a server at home to start with) and VPN from home to college is most likely out of the question as well since they still use Windows aNTique Server over there.
USB pendrives/keydrives/whatever are slowly becoming more common though; and for a good reason. More sturdy and shock-proof then diskettes, far larger capacity, faster then diskettes as well, doesn't require a burner or any software/drivers in a modern OS... Really neat things, also fastest way to transfer larger amount of data and those nifty little things have a novelty value... :)
Or how about a guy in a monkey suit running around with a sign reading "Zap the monkey!"
If anything, that would cause a spike in the sales of cattle prods and tazers
More and more "book reviews" are becoming less and less review-like and more and more marketing. Wasn't there a book "review" some time ago that introduced the word marketectual? It was aimed at marketing software products or something and every piece of review on here was loaded with acronyms, buzzwords and various hi-tech sounding catchphrases.
Well, the same reason as to why we don't have room-temp (or only requiring passive cooling) 500mhz processors for $25, silent single platter 10gb HDs for $25, 256mb 266mhz DDR RAM for $25. Flashy new stuff sells, innovation of older products doesn't. Hence why Intel and AMD are pushing up specs instead of improving and lowering the cost of older processors. The HD manufacturers thrive on selling larger and larger HDs instead of coole, more silent and cheaper ones. Hence why we have expensive 250Gb IDE blast furnaces instead of silent 5 to 10 Gb drives whic only cost about 25 bucks. Same thing for memory; pushing up the ammount of memory and speed sells while improving older technologies to be cooler, cheaper and more efficient... Doesn't sell.
Which is kind of stupid really; I'd imagine computers with lower specs but increased stability, efficiency (wasting less power on warming the office) and lower costs would be popular in the corporate scene. Then again, I bet those people are rather thick and convinced by marketing that Office '97 and Windows 98 really do require 200gb of disk space (well, almost) and a P4 3ghz with HT. Not to mention that 512mb of DDR400 and that Ati 9800 that makes Excel run smooth. Woo!
Excuse me, but those eternal "eh?" jokes are getting very tiring and annoting, as they've been around longer then the very planet itself. Why don't you people come up with something creative? Go find something else to bash. We don't complain about US accents all the time, do we? Okay, except about the way people speak in Arkansas, but no one cares about people from Arkensas. But do we make fun of the Texan accent? Do we make fun of the way people speak in Florida? Or Oregon? Hell, have they even invented verbal communication in Oregon yet?
Tell you what, those "eh?"s are a symbol of Canadian patriotism. The Americans express patriotism by invading third world countries and bossing them around, the French and Germans express patriotism by going into an economic recession and collectively bitch about the US and the Canadians express their patriotism by saying "Eh?" and eating BACON while watching a HOCKEY GAME. That and weed. I mean, that IS a weed leaf in the Canadian flag, right? It sure as hell would match up with all the stories I heard about something called "Vancouver"...
That, and I pissed off enough Cannucks with "eh?" jokes in the past. I think I'm wanted dead in the Toronto area...
#include "kiwi.h"
class vote
{
unsigned long person1;
unsigned long person2;
public:
void cast( unsigned int identifier )
{
switch ( identifier )
case 1: person2++; break;
case 2: person2++; break;
default: break;
Thank god politician are technically handicapped and thus can't code...
It's called "Microsoft Passport"! I thought it sounded familiar but when I asked, they waved their hands at me and said "This project is new..." so it has to be! Can you imagine the advantages? Logging into hotmail automagically using MS Passport, using Passport as some sort of all-round login system... Heck, you can even use MS Passport as an instant messenging system! Wow!
Just run a game server at port 80? Or if it requires more ports, tunnel them all through port 80 or use other common ports? (21, 23, 25, etc) This either renders the "curfew" useless or generates one helluva fun spastic reaction from Thai officials as they accidently ban the web.
Prices in the US* are cheaper anyways. My goverment bends me over backwards financially so they can afford their crappy socialist/hippy economic model of wasting money on hopeless people by making hard-working people pay more.
* = Assuming you are from the US.
Speaking as someone who works in a computer store, it always goes like this when dealing with modded hardware:
1 : Did you ever or has anyone ever physically modified, altered or enhanced the hardware of your system?Yes. --> You were or should have been aware of the risks. You don't go about messing with valve settings, piston settings or the fuel-mixture of your car, do you? Get lost, warrenty voided.
No. --> Continue to next question.
2 : Did you ever or has anyone ever changed any settings in the BIOS, other then IDE or ACPI settings?
Yes. --> You ought to be aware of the risks of messing with voltages, multipliers and what have ye. Go to hell, warrenty voided.
No. --> Blame Intel or AMD, try to sell an expensive, new CPU.
What the hell is a BIOS? --> Compare BIOS with an STD so people fear it. Then try to sell an expensive, new CPU.
Yes, but I am an overclocker and modder. --> Violently remove customer from store. We don't sell 300 Euro brand-name cases, 500 Euro brand-name PSUs or 750 Euro brand-name water-cooling rigs. Hence why we don't make money on them anyways. (That, and those "Look at my prefab case window mod and 750 Euro water cooling rig that uses an aluminium radiator, copper heatsink and common tapwater!" annoy me.)
I hope he comes to visit me. Would be fun to read on the internet:
Dutch spammer forced to eat printouts of 3500 commercial emails.
* = Only if user is retarded enough to enter a real email adress.
Actually, now that I'm done laughing at that part... The in game part is even more fun! Pool of Radiance/Secret of the Silver Blades style! I'm suddenly getting weird images in my mind of Secret of the Silver Blades in full 3D and Amiga flashbacks! Oh damn, that ice tea is some POTENT stuff!
Apparently it did fuck up the Neverwinter Nights development... Dear god, has anyone seen that bit in the video? I'm starting to believe NWM is older then the bible...
Did anyone else read this instead?
No, and neither can allot of other people. It's a joke, don't overanalyze it please :P
Only terrorists use Lunix!
Ahhh, to be in college again, playing with all the latest gadgets...
Wait a sec, I'm still in college. I just forgot for a second because at my college they throw us all at several companies. Ah well, guess I've got to wait 'till I'm back in college to enjoy my lovely high-tech tools like Turbo Pascal, Windows NT 4.0 and trying to write SQL in Access '97. Wooo, I really miss my college! I'd quit my shitty college and work at my current intern job full time if it wasn't for the potential of something better paying after a few more years.
Okay, done ranting! Point of this story: Not all student enjoy playing with high-tech tools.
My laptop can NOT be hacked!
Mainly because it's powered down and not connected to my network...
I'm sorry, but if I'd be willing to spend 79,95 on having the pleusure of enjoying some right-handed pleasure I'd rather spend the money on actually getting a girlfriend. Though the DVD still plays after a buy another one...
Also, you mean good porn like this ?
Actually, considering how business works and that they will only do PROFITABLE stuff, the most scary thing would be that spam ACTUALLY WORKS! It's hard to believe, but on this planet there are actually people who are willing to buy $1 viagra-knockoffs, have their mortages refinanced by an obscure company 2000+ miles away, are interested in teenage girls doing various uhm... procreational activities for "free" (amateur porn surfers; real men use http://www.thehun.com/ and http://www.sublimedirectory.com/ anyways) and have 300+ phds, degrees, titles, whatnot which aren't recognized ANYWHERE. The problem isn't the spammers that much, the problem is (as usual) stupid people.
I mean, who the FUCK would believe an email from a no-name company, adressing you by your email adress, containing 200+ typos to evade spam filters, uses all-capital text and can be grossly offensive? (Despite popular opinion, I'm not really interested or charmed by a jpg featuring two (or more) south-american guys in a homoerotic position featuring a nice close up of some anal penetration. Remember I'm talking about guys here.)
Just what I needed! Develop my website which doesn't exist or sync a palmtop which I don't have! Could someone hand me a dictionary and point out what the word "bloat" means?
He probably comes back from the future with a shiny, flying Delorean with a souped up blender on top of it and a SERIAL CONSOLE. (not embedded on said Delorean, duh)
*looks at his own PHP scripts* ...
You might want to decide to take that back... PHP readability is simply horrid... :\