My porn collection is more than that...I need all the storage i can get (Can't leave CDs of it laying around since they tend to get noticed by significant others)
It uses highly complex treadmill technology to keep you centered at all times. Because of their IDF (internal dampening field) technology, you don't feel the ground move 'backwards' when you move forwards. Good question.
Wow! Multiple Desktops. Now Windows will have what my Linux box has had since I started using linux (about 5 years ago). Way to stay ahead of the technology curve there, Bill.
And with your OS X sounds support, you can play a lot of great games. Like Warcraft III... and.... umm..... photoshop!
As bitchy as linux is to setup, the fact that there are better games out for it (since WINE works pretty well now) means that I get to use my sound for something besides iTunes.
This is apple we're talking about. Giving a Macintosh a high-end chip is like giving a caveman a zippo lighter. Sure, great things could come, but since the caveman has never seen the lighter before, he might just end up using it to pick his nose or something.
What about my rights to not have my inbox clogged up with offers for inkjets and penis enlargements. 10 spams a day is an annoyance, but my university account gets 50-60+ a day if i turn off the spam filters. So now not only do i have to configure my spam filters on my mail server and waste CPU time and disk space, (I know that they're small, but my mail server is a P/166 that i got for $30, so every bit counts) but I have to figure out which ones of the few that get through are legit and which ones aren't.
It wasn't so bad before, with spammers being blatent, but now that they are using more under-handed by disguising their addresses and subjects to look legit. Do you know how many times I've opened an e-mail that has a subject as just "hi" or "a quick question" and having some really disgusting porn pop up on my computer.
In short, a spammer does have a right to free speech, but that right ends where my right to not be harrassed begins. (yes, i know that the right to not be harrassed isn't a constitutionally protected right)
It was an antiquated CD-ROM drive that still required a disk caddie. Since this person had said that they were working with such an old computer, that's why it took me so long to realize that it was a CD-ROM and not a 5.25" floppy. This person had put the disk in the caddie, and put that in the CD-rOM. The horrible disk sound was caused by the clamps gripping the disk off center and tring to spin the whole thing around....like tring to turn a square peg in a square hole.
Nice try, though
what we call these....
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I interned with the IT department of a company over the summer, and whenever a user came to us with a problem that they obviously inflicted, we'd tell them to send it to the hardware guy with an error of either ID-ten-T or PEB-ChAK (Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard.
My personal favourite was a new member of the staff complaining that she was tring to access some old 5.25" disks, but the disk drive was making a horrible sound when she would put them in. It took me 5 minutes to figure out that she was putting it in a CD-ROM drive, not a 5.25" disk drive
I'm not going to the theatres....I'll go to the internet and download those movies that are coming out instead.
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Sorry, I couldn't let this go
Greedy fucks at Casino's. They rig the game against you so that you basically can't win (i.e., house has 90% advantage).
If you were to go to The Wizard of Odds You'll notice that the house edge in most games is not 90%. It's more like 2-3%. They know that people are not stupid, and while some games are horribly rigged (Slot machines for example) most of them will give out 97% of what they take in...that 3% they keep is what lets you get a luxury room for $20 / night.
Then, when a few smart people (maybe one out of 1000) come along who can count cards and actually break even or better, they bitch and whine.
Execpt that one person can literally bring down the whole casino if they have an edge. Pretend that you can win 52% of the time. It takes one minute to play one round of blackjack. If you're making $100 dollar bets, you'd be making $240 / hour off of the casino. And to think that they don't let you get away with it.
Its just a technique -- a legal one, as opposed to casino's illegal techniques of winning. Look in Hoyle's rule-books on cards. They won't mention anything about it being illegal to count cards. However, their rules for blackjack don't set it up so that the dealer has a 90% advantage.
I won't debate that card counting is legal, as long as you don't use a computer or calculator. And you're right, they don't set it up so that the dealer has a 90% advantage. The advantage is that the dealer wins should both the dealer and the player bust. There are other little differences as well, but it's not overwhelming.
By the way, does anyone here really think that the dealers don't count the cards? Bullshit. You know damn well they do.
Dealers play by a set of rules. Hit on 16 or lower. Stand on 17 or higher. That's it. Not much card counting.
Furthermore, casinos have a number of tactics to foil card-counting, such as cutting the deck, starting a new deck, or mixing in several decks.
You mean they try to randomize a game of chance? They MUST be cheating
Everyone knows there is a house advantage in the casinos. When you enter a casino, you're on private property, and thus have to play by their rules. If you don't like those rules, you can go to another casino whose rules you like. But good luck finding a casino that will let you cheat.
I remember when 3d studio max started to require a peice of hardware for their program to work. Sounds impossible? It was cracked before it came out of beta. Basically, if sony does something like this, it will take someone about an hour to write a simple DNS server that will re-route all requests to a certain server (or loopback devide) and to reply to the program how it wants to, so that for all the program knows, it's talking to the real server. Sure, they'll throw in encryption and such, but that will be breakable as well. What Sony will see as a huge investment, a lot of hackers / crackers will see as an exercise in server emulation.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm listening to the sound of my laptop connecting to slashdot. I hear these three patterns twice in quick succession. Any ideas?
better a git than an AC.
25 comments and it's already 404ing on me. I hope the computers on the monorail are more robust than this.
SNL.....It's just a show...i mean, you should get a life if you take it that seriously.
No, but at least the games you get with the Xbox are about as high quality as the ones on the atari (with the exception of Halo)
You can pay microsoft's legal bills with this one
If they want to get re-elected, yes. Assuming, of course, people actually like their rights.
My porn collection is more than that...I need all the storage i can get (Can't leave CDs of it laying around since they tend to get noticed by significant others)
does that mean that they have a bung-hole now?
huh-huh....he said bunghole..huh-huh
It uses highly complex treadmill technology to keep you centered at all times. Because of their IDF (internal dampening field) technology, you don't feel the ground move 'backwards' when you move forwards. Good question.
Weird....I have RedHat 8.0, and it runs perfectly out of the box. USB et al work perfectly.
Wow! Multiple Desktops. Now Windows will have what my Linux box has had since I started using linux (about 5 years ago). Way to stay ahead of the technology curve there, Bill.
As bitchy as linux is to setup, the fact that there are better games out for it (since WINE works pretty well now) means that I get to use my sound for something besides iTunes.
....Deja Vous!
are you sure he didn't mean Macintosh G4?
This is apple we're talking about. Giving a Macintosh a high-end chip is like giving a caveman a zippo lighter. Sure, great things could come, but since the caveman has never seen the lighter before, he might just end up using it to pick his nose or something.
It wasn't so bad before, with spammers being blatent, but now that they are using more under-handed by disguising their addresses and subjects to look legit. Do you know how many times I've opened an e-mail that has a subject as just "hi" or "a quick question" and having some really disgusting porn pop up on my computer.
In short, a spammer does have a right to free speech, but that right ends where my right to not be harrassed begins. (yes, i know that the right to not be harrassed isn't a constitutionally protected right)
and it worked soooo well on the titanic
I'd prefer it if they were to "Cry 'Havoc'! and let slip the dogs of war"
Nice try, though
My personal favourite was a new member of the staff complaining that she was tring to access some old 5.25" disks, but the disk drive was making a horrible sound when she would put them in. It took me 5 minutes to figure out that she was putting it in a CD-ROM drive, not a 5.25" disk drive
http://marsoweb.nas.nasa.gov/landingsites/:
Timeout on server
marsoweb.nas.nasa.gov
that means we're halfway there!
I'm not going to the theatres....I'll go to the internet and download those movies that are coming out instead.
Greedy fucks at Casino's. They rig the game against you so that you basically can't win (i.e., house has 90% advantage).
If you were to go to The Wizard of Odds You'll notice that the house edge in most games is not 90%. It's more like 2-3%. They know that people are not stupid, and while some games are horribly rigged (Slot machines for example) most of them will give out 97% of what they take in...that 3% they keep is what lets you get a luxury room for $20 / night.
Then, when a few smart people (maybe one out of 1000) come along who can count cards and actually break even or better, they bitch and whine.
Execpt that one person can literally bring down the whole casino if they have an edge. Pretend that you can win 52% of the time. It takes one minute to play one round of blackjack. If you're making $100 dollar bets, you'd be making $240 / hour off of the casino. And to think that they don't let you get away with it.
Its just a technique -- a legal one, as opposed to casino's illegal techniques of winning. Look in Hoyle's rule-books on cards. They won't mention anything about it being illegal to count cards. However, their rules for blackjack don't set it up so that the dealer has a 90% advantage.
I won't debate that card counting is legal, as long as you don't use a computer or calculator. And you're right, they don't set it up so that the dealer has a 90% advantage. The advantage is that the dealer wins should both the dealer and the player bust. There are other little differences as well, but it's not overwhelming.
By the way, does anyone here really think that the dealers don't count the cards? Bullshit. You know damn well they do.
Dealers play by a set of rules. Hit on 16 or lower. Stand on 17 or higher. That's it. Not much card counting.
Furthermore, casinos have a number of tactics to foil card-counting, such as cutting the deck, starting a new deck, or mixing in several decks.
You mean they try to randomize a game of chance? They MUST be cheating
Everyone knows there is a house advantage in the casinos. When you enter a casino, you're on private property, and thus have to play by their rules. If you don't like those rules, you can go to another casino whose rules you like. But good luck finding a casino that will let you cheat.
I remember when 3d studio max started to require a peice of hardware for their program to work. Sounds impossible? It was cracked before it came out of beta. Basically, if sony does something like this, it will take someone about an hour to write a simple DNS server that will re-route all requests to a certain server (or loopback devide) and to reply to the program how it wants to, so that for all the program knows, it's talking to the real server. Sure, they'll throw in encryption and such, but that will be breakable as well. What Sony will see as a huge investment, a lot of hackers / crackers will see as an exercise in server emulation.