There are a lot of different types of success, many of which contribute to the overall picture and/or interact with each other.
Financial Success: For a lot of people, this means a settled life without debts. Or, in other circumstances, debts that are managable (loan for a house etc). This ties in very closely to one's job and income, but can also be more directly related to lifestyle. If you can make ends meet, and still have a little to save (or treat yourself) at the end of the month, you're really not doing that bad.
Family Life/Interralation: Not everyone wants marriage and kids, but it's a big factor for many. Such things often tie in to Financial Success... since kids cost money and significant others can either contribute or assist in the debt load. Meeting that "significant other" and keeping the sparks alive is a big point to many people's lives, as is raising children. For others, sometimes all they need is a few good friends, slashdot, and a poodle.
Social Life: While oftimes tying into your relationship, this aspect would cover the less intimate interactions in life. It's good to have some close friends whom you can invite over for dinner and coffee, or perhaps somebody to help you through the tough times, when your wife leaves you and takes the poodle...
Leisure Activities: This is a part of life a lot of people don't catch onto... getting out and actually doing something. If your job is burning you out, then take some time on your breaks to get out and do something enjoyable. If you're not drowning in debt, then chances are you can afford to got out for dinner, catch a movie, and maybe do some bowling every few weekends.Even cheap fun is better than no fun
Possession: Car, house, furniture, TV, an Athlon XP, the latest Radeon, and a copy of Doom3 when it comes out (warning, too much doom3 may conflict with all the above: wife, friends, and job)
This is all IMHO of course, and I'm sure somebody can add to this list
I think they're still kicking around. They don't really seem to be up on the superfast3dgamer market, but they make good cards for graphic editing, and the dual-head is nice with the multi-monitor suppose.
If I had the cash, I'd be playing my games on three monitors... which is supposed to work nicely on the matrox dual-head cards.
It senses my "mood" and decides to switch on a little adult entertainment. I'm thinking that this feature should, of course, have an off button.
Things could get a little upsetting if it suddenly picks up how I'm feeling at a given moment and decides to switch from the current movie DVD which I'm watching with friends to something from my private collection...
Somebody had to say it, you're just jealous that I beat you to it - phorm
Two wrongs, three wrongs?
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But three lefts make a right... and vise versa.
I guess 3 wrong turns would make a right also?:-)
Re:DOW didn't do anything wrong; however...
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Depends on how it was delivered I suppose. I don't think they were throwing at anyone... if they calmly handed it over in a radiation-sealed container it wouldn't be a huge deal (I'm hoping they didn't just carry the stuff bare handed over there).
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If someone showed up at my company's door with deadly chemicals, we'd have to shut the place down for security reasons, at a cost to the business.
However, Dow is dumping those same chemicals on somebody else's doorstep. They're just being nice enough to return them for analysis...
This would be a lot nicer once cellular/satellite web becomes more widespread. A lot of what I would like to listen to/hear about is news-type sites, including of course slashdot. A pre-downloaded site wouldn't be overly up-to-date, so for non-specific one would still be better off with the radio.
With a live connection to the internet for news downloads (news should be text only... not too much bandwidth needed), and a decent sounding voice agent, this would be a lot more interesting and useful.
If piped through the car speakers, it also wouldn't be much more distracting than having the radio on to the news, unless you're trying to claim a first-post on slashdot while driving.
Customer: You'd think they're raising the chicken from scratch
Waiter: Actually sir, with the current scientific methods, they do in fact engineer a whole chicken sandwitch in approximately 5.2 minutes, though the original specimen is no longer needed
Yeah... not sure if this would kill or enhance that old complaint.
I'm a Canadian (from BC), but mine worked fine. I remember that after playing it for about 5 hours, it could get a little hot - but it didn't start glitching out on me. The dust was probably a strong factor though, I've noticed that both consoles and PC's tend to heat faster when they've got a good coating of silt on top.
Any smokers in your house? Cigarette residue was the worst for poor little electronics.
Despite the thousands of known exploits and virii, most MS users aren't target of much harm
3 words... no shit sherlock. Despitesthe incredible stupidity of claims that klez is ineffective, I'd have to say the reason that thousands of different virii/exploits/etc aren't being used is because the existing ones work very well to nail a large range of people. If 2% of the exploits hit such a large audience of say 100000+ people, why bother trying to hack up new methods.
Once a given method begins to be less effective, then the hackers/etc can move onto something more effective.
It's like having a changeroom with 1000 peepholes. Why do you need 998 of them when the one or two in the corner are showing you all you need to see?
Wow, how long were you playing the game for, or was it just using a lot of NES CPU power? Nowadays there are probably a lot of solutions to overheating... but I guess nobody was using "liquid cooled" NES's.:-)
Of course, nowadays I wouldn't be surprised to hear of some vidiot trying to overclock a console like a PS2 or X-box either
I found this one pretty interesting. How many people were up until 1:00am playing through addiction just trying to get to the end of this game?
Better yet, can anyone else mention any games that were unbeatable due to programmer error, etc. Seems to me that some arcade machines were made to be close enough, just to keep poor fools pounding in the quarters. For example, fighting games where the computer suddenly starts getting away with things that are not really supposed to be possible... or when it conveniently ignores input or hits, etc.
That was my take on things too. I'm assuming they meant the information on the hard drives was lost, but the drive went with the PC. Unless of course the hard drives were rack-stored in a drive-bank - in which case individual drives could have been stolen (indicating that the thieves were after the data, not the hardware). Still, after dealing with tons of clients for computers who refer to the system (chassis/box, drives, etc) as a "hard drive", I'm guessing that you're right on that guess.
It's pretty hard to make an educated guess/decision on something with such sparse details, hopefully we'll hear more from this a little later - and find out that "hard drives"="full PC's."
Meanwhilst, I'll bet we have a bunch of thieves with brown stains in their pants after hearing the PC's they jacked contain military property...
My question would be, did the thieves know that the computers contained military data, or were they just hijacking computers?
It said that "hard drives" were stolen... what about the rest of the PC? If other electronic equipment was stolen, it could just be a simple theft.
Regardless of the target, I have a feeling the military will be doing a detailed investigation. If it's just common crooks, they could find themselves in a whole lotta trouble after messing with the military.
My sister got the grandparents a CD with "The Best of Elvis." It doesn't play on the home CD player... it spins up, and then the player skips to the next disc. I haven't verified it on another player, but I'd imagine that it may be DRM?
I didn't read it voluntarily, and there are a lot of *better* books out. In the schools around here though, the shoved Orwell down our throats and made us read it. Orwellians comparisons do tend to pop up on slashdot a fair bit too, especially "big brother" references... so it might help if the moderators knew what was being talked about before applying the big "-1 WTFareyoutalkingabout"
And yes... there should be a "-1 WTF???!" moderation for some of the comments that pop up here
of the bad things. You've been a good neighbour for 35 years, a husband for 40, etc etc. Very few care when it ends you up in court or something similar.
Think about it in terms of light paints.
White paint is nice, but it's easily covered over or marred with the slighest smear of dark. Black paint, on the other hand, may be covered with a lighter colour... but usually tends to show through.
And pleaaaaase, don't use my white/black colour comparison for racial meanings... I skew what I say enough myself without having help.
Becayse the amount of things you can be screwed in court over for is increasing. And as they increase, it's getting easier and easier to become the victim of a lawsuit, incidental criminal action, etc.
Remember, when the wrong person gets your number, bad things may happen. I've been a tightly law-abiding citizen my whole life. I've also had unavoidable/semi-unavoidable run-ins with the law on a few occasions.
a) Problem with ex-girlfriend. A "good samaritan" saw "a dispute", called it in, and I landed in court. Nobody believes when a woman is the one beats you down, even if you're the one with a black-eye and split lip.
Now, I'm sure there are other things they can dredge up to make me appear guilty. Police, at least around here, have also been known to be somewhat liberal with the "truth", especially when there's no evidence against any claims they make.
Luckily, all my various incidents worked out, and I have a good job. One should realize however, how easily it is to be screwed over by those in power, and how a thourough lambasting can make one fear for fear for ones security, employability etc. Nobody wants a rap sheet, especially one that's not deserved (semi-private or not).
I think the RIAA is more evil simply because of how much their product sucks, and they don't care. I may not like the MPAA, or a lot of what they do, but at least they can still give out a quality product (LOT2 is worth the money, for example)... whereas you may pay the RIAA for a CD full of crap just to get a little goodness. 2003 is looking like the movie companies are going to bring out a lot of goodness, to bad some people piss them off by not paying for it.
They're both evil though... but the sludge of the RIAA tends to float at a lower level...:-)
do you want:
-The current gov't party to know who b*tches about them the most, and exactly what they say, etc
-The intimate details of your life revealed. Should the gov't know about that mole in an odd place turning an odd colour... or your fetish for sailor moon action figures
-A giant repository of information on you, waiting to be hacked
-Anything that could be acquired to be used for information against you in legal issues. If you are ever accused of a crime you didn't commit... sometimes even the most innocent comment can come back to bite your ass if it's taken out of context.
Re:Soundthing sounds wrong? Resolution?
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Ahh yes. I believe that they do record at rather huge resolutions though, before they dump it down to something TV-friendly.
I was calculating as if the were using a (for example) big one like 10240x7680@32bit... but I forgot to multiply for the 30fps (rea..ly sl..ow ex..plo...sions that would be).
So, you could still get several (almost 15) hours of DVD (at 104.3gb/hour) on the actual presentation DVD. Less at a higher res - or for a large screen - but you should still be able to get more than 90.
I'm still wondering at what rate those cameras record though... at high res it would still have to get in the >=100MBps area. And for such resolution to be displayed at 100+MBps would be beyond the capabilities of modern players max speed. You'd have a virtual helicopter in your DVD-ROM otherwise... lots of power use too.
Nah, Wal-mart was sueing because the information was leaked and publishde without permission. Most people here already *know* the RIAA is evil, so it's not a secret... and they don't seem to be trying to keep it a secret that they're either.
Ummm... something sounds wrong here. A terabyte for 90 minutes of video?
Ummm, I'd have to ask - what resolution is that at, and what's the BPS rate for the encoded video?
At 10MBps it would imagine it looks pretty damn good, and 10x60x90=54,000MB (36GB). At 100Mbps it's 540Gb. It is roughly a rate of (a little less than) 200MBps, because that's what it would take to be able to use use 1 TB on 90 minutes of movie. That being considered... I know of nothing that plays movies at 200MBps. DVD-ROM's could not spin fast enough... and I think the processor/memory load would be astronomical.
Also, why would it be better in film when a lot of these movies are starting to be being RECORDED in digital? I'm guessing even the movie studios aren't using hundred-thousands of Terabytes of digital video. Going from a digital medium to an uncompressed digital medium... loss should be low if not null.
My calculations may be off... but something still sounds fishy about this
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This is all IMHO of course, and I'm sure somebody can add to this list
I think they're still kicking around. They don't really seem to be up on the superfast3dgamer market, but they make good cards for graphic editing, and the dual-head is nice with the multi-monitor suppose.
If I had the cash, I'd be playing my games on three monitors... which is supposed to work nicely on the matrox dual-head cards.
It senses my "mood" and decides to switch on a little adult entertainment. I'm thinking that this feature should, of course, have an off button.
Things could get a little upsetting if it suddenly picks up how I'm feeling at a given moment and decides to switch from the current movie DVD which I'm watching with friends to something from my private collection...
Somebody had to say it, you're just jealous that I beat you to it - phorm
But three lefts make a right... and vise versa. :-)
I guess 3 wrong turns would make a right also?
Depends on how it was delivered I suppose. I don't think they were throwing at anyone... if they calmly handed it over in a radiation-sealed container it wouldn't be a huge deal (I'm hoping they didn't just carry the stuff bare handed over there).
If someone showed up at my company's door with deadly chemicals, we'd have to shut the place down for security reasons, at a cost to the business.
However, Dow is dumping those same chemicals on somebody else's doorstep. They're just being nice enough to return them for analysis...
This would be a lot nicer once cellular/satellite web becomes more widespread. A lot of what I would like to listen to/hear about is news-type sites, including of course slashdot. A pre-downloaded site wouldn't be overly up-to-date, so for non-specific one would still be better off with the radio.
With a live connection to the internet for news downloads (news should be text only... not too much bandwidth needed), and a decent sounding voice agent, this would be a lot more interesting and useful.
If piped through the car speakers, it also wouldn't be much more distracting than having the radio on to the news, unless you're trying to claim a first-post on slashdot while driving.
Customer: You'd think they're raising the chicken from scratch
Waiter: Actually sir, with the current scientific methods, they do in fact engineer a whole chicken sandwitch in approximately 5.2 minutes, though the original specimen is no longer needed
Yeah... not sure if this would kill or enhance that old complaint.
I'm a Canadian (from BC), but mine worked fine. I remember that after playing it for about 5 hours, it could get a little hot - but it didn't start glitching out on me. The dust was probably a strong factor though, I've noticed that both consoles and PC's tend to heat faster when they've got a good coating of silt on top.
Any smokers in your house? Cigarette residue was the worst for poor little electronics.
Despite the thousands of known exploits and virii, most MS users aren't target of much harm
3 words... no shit sherlock. Despitesthe incredible stupidity of claims that klez is ineffective, I'd have to say the reason that thousands of different virii/exploits/etc aren't being used is because the existing ones work very well to nail a large range of people. If 2% of the exploits hit such a large audience of say 100000+ people, why bother trying to hack up new methods.
Once a given method begins to be less effective, then the hackers/etc can move onto something more effective.
It's like having a changeroom with 1000 peepholes. Why do you need 998 of them when the one or two in the corner are showing you all you need to see?
Wow, how long were you playing the game for, or was it just using a lot of NES CPU power? Nowadays there are probably a lot of solutions to overheating... but I guess nobody was using "liquid cooled" NES's. :-)
Of course, nowadays I wouldn't be surprised to hear of some vidiot trying to overclock a console like a PS2 or X-box either
I found this one pretty interesting. How many people were up until 1:00am playing through addiction just trying to get to the end of this game?
Better yet, can anyone else mention any games that were unbeatable due to programmer error, etc. Seems to me that some arcade machines were made to be close enough, just to keep poor fools pounding in the quarters. For example, fighting games where the computer suddenly starts getting away with things that are not really supposed to be possible... or when it conveniently ignores input or hits, etc.
That was my take on things too. I'm assuming they meant the information on the hard drives was lost, but the drive went with the PC. Unless of course the hard drives were rack-stored in a drive-bank - in which case individual drives could have been stolen (indicating that the thieves were after the data, not the hardware). Still, after dealing with tons of clients for computers who refer to the system (chassis/box, drives, etc) as a "hard drive", I'm guessing that you're right on that guess.
It's pretty hard to make an educated guess/decision on something with such sparse details, hopefully we'll hear more from this a little later - and find out that "hard drives"="full PC's."
Meanwhilst, I'll bet we have a bunch of thieves with brown stains in their pants after hearing the PC's they jacked contain military property...
My question would be, did the thieves know that the computers contained military data, or were they just hijacking computers?
It said that "hard drives" were stolen... what about the rest of the PC? If other electronic equipment was stolen, it could just be a simple theft.
Regardless of the target, I have a feeling the military will be doing a detailed investigation. If it's just common crooks, they could find themselves in a whole lotta trouble after messing with the military.
The player isn't very old though. It's a 3-disc system which is less than a year old, shouldn't have any problem as it plays 80-min burned CD's.
My sister got the grandparents a CD with "The Best of Elvis." It doesn't play on the home CD player... it spins up, and then the player skips to the next disc. I haven't verified it on another player, but I'd imagine that it may be DRM?
I didn't read it voluntarily, and there are a lot of *better* books out. In the schools around here though, the shoved Orwell down our throats and made us read it. Orwellians comparisons do tend to pop up on slashdot a fair bit too, especially "big brother" references... so it might help if the moderators knew what was being talked about before applying the big "-1 WTFareyoutalkingabout"
And yes... there should be a "-1 WTF???!" moderation for some of the comments that pop up here
of the bad things. You've been a good neighbour for 35 years, a husband for 40, etc etc. Very few care when it ends you up in court or something similar. Think about it in terms of light paints. White paint is nice, but it's easily covered over or marred with the slighest smear of dark. Black paint, on the other hand, may be covered with a lighter colour... but usually tends to show through.
And pleaaaaase, don't use my white/black colour comparison for racial meanings... I skew what I say enough myself without having help.
Becayse the amount of things you can be screwed in court over for is increasing. And as they increase, it's getting easier and easier to become the victim of a lawsuit, incidental criminal action, etc.
Remember, when the wrong person gets your number, bad things may happen. I've been a tightly law-abiding citizen my whole life. I've also had unavoidable/semi-unavoidable run-ins with the law on a few occasions.
a) Problem with ex-girlfriend. A "good samaritan" saw "a dispute", called it in, and I landed in court. Nobody believes when a woman is the one beats you down, even if you're the one with a black-eye and split lip.
Now, I'm sure there are other things they can dredge up to make me appear guilty. Police, at least around here, have also been known to be somewhat liberal with the "truth", especially when there's no evidence against any claims they make.
Luckily, all my various incidents worked out, and I have a good job. One should realize however, how easily it is to be screwed over by those in power, and how a thourough lambasting can make one fear for fear for ones security, employability etc. Nobody wants a rap sheet, especially one that's not deserved (semi-private or not).
They haven't read the book most likely. Took me a second but I got it.
For the record, it's talking about the "Ministry of Love", which was actually in charge of distributing hate, in the book 1984.
Heck, a lot of people probably don't even know that the reference "big brother" is from there as well
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I think the RIAA is more evil simply because of how much their product sucks, and they don't care. I may not like the MPAA, or a lot of what they do, but at least they can still give out a quality product (LOT2 is worth the money, for example)... whereas you may pay the RIAA for a CD full of crap just to get a little goodness. 2003 is looking like the movie companies are going to bring out a lot of goodness, to bad some people piss them off by not paying for it.
:-)
They're both evil though... but the sludge of the RIAA tends to float at a lower level...
A lot of problems are with security, and opinion
do you want:
-The current gov't party to know who b*tches about them the most, and exactly what they say, etc
-The intimate details of your life revealed. Should the gov't know about that mole in an odd place turning an odd colour... or your fetish for sailor moon action figures
-A giant repository of information on you, waiting to be hacked
-Anything that could be acquired to be used for information against you in legal issues. If you are ever accused of a crime you didn't commit... sometimes even the most innocent comment can come back to bite your ass if it's taken out of context.
Ahh yes. I believe that they do record at rather huge resolutions though, before they dump it down to something TV-friendly. I was calculating as if the were using a (for example) big one like 10240x7680@32bit... but I forgot to multiply for the 30fps (rea..ly sl..ow ex..plo...sions that would be).
So, you could still get several (almost 15) hours of DVD (at 104.3gb/hour) on the actual presentation DVD. Less at a higher res - or for a large screen - but you should still be able to get more than 90.
I'm still wondering at what rate those cameras record though... at high res it would still have to get in the >=100MBps area. And for such resolution to be displayed at 100+MBps would be beyond the capabilities of modern players max speed. You'd have a virtual helicopter in your DVD-ROM otherwise... lots of power use too.
Nah, Wal-mart was sueing because the information was leaked and publishde without permission. Most people here already *know* the RIAA is evil, so it's not a secret... and they don't seem to be trying to keep it a secret that they're either.
Ummm... something sounds wrong here. A terabyte for 90 minutes of video? Ummm, I'd have to ask - what resolution is that at, and what's the BPS rate for the encoded video? At 10MBps it would imagine it looks pretty damn good, and 10x60x90=54,000MB (36GB). At 100Mbps it's 540Gb. It is roughly a rate of (a little less than) 200MBps, because that's what it would take to be able to use use 1 TB on 90 minutes of movie. That being considered... I know of nothing that plays movies at 200MBps. DVD-ROM's could not spin fast enough... and I think the processor/memory load would be astronomical.
Also, why would it be better in film when a lot of these movies are starting to be being RECORDED in digital? I'm guessing even the movie studios aren't using hundred-thousands of Terabytes of digital video. Going from a digital medium to an uncompressed digital medium... loss should be low if not null.
My calculations may be off... but something still sounds fishy about this