Have to agree with this. If we wanted to find the city most likely to molest you as a child, craglist listings would work. Tech geekyness? Not so much.
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Or we could just pollute it to the point nobody else wants it. seems like thats what we're doing right now anyway.
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But these aliens may be illegal, or terrorists, or maybe even Iraqi!
I for one welcome our unidentified overlords...I think, Im not really sure who they are yet. Where'd I leave my foil hat...
The issue with bad bosses is that, the good ones get promoted and move on.
this is true of the business world in general. You continue to get promoted untill you're so far over your head you no longer do a very good job. If you're ultra-effective and get everything done ahead of schedual, they give you harder stuff to do. Its the idiot who's been with the company for 12 years and screams at everyone, that never gets promoted.
He's there because he knows everything about how your job works, but he's too stupid to figure out how everything works above him. Because if he did, he'd already be working at that level, or would be shortly.
Its kind of like a store owner who doesn't properly secure his shop at night. Is it his fault that thugs broke in and stole his stuff? Sure he could have done a better job and put up a metal door and bars on the windows, but that doesn't exhonerate the thieves. Try explaining such a concept to his insurance company.
Someone, please, correct me if im wrong, but isn't it just as likely that, in the process of removing said tumor, we cured him of his pedophileness? (that even a word?)
Yes, the tumor may have caused him to become a pedophile, but seems to me, he may have just been one anyway, and in the process of removing the tumor damaged that part of his brain, and ended up 'curing' him of it as a result.
If you're getting so sweaty you lose grip on a controler, by waving your arm around a little bit, I think you have more serious issues then a broken TV to worry about.
let's keep this in terms of heat for a second. in case you're wondering what uses more power -- your hair dryer or wireless router, you can do this simple test. put your hand on the hair dryer -- in just a few seconds, it will burn. perhaps a 1st degree burn.
For Your Information, it was a 2ed degree burn, you insensitive clod. Expect my doctor bill shortly.
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WHICH OPERATING SYSTEM DO YOU WANT PRE-INSTALLED
( ) Windows (add $99)
( ) ??????? (add $39)
( ) ??????? (add $39)
( ) PROFIT (add $599 US DOLLARS)
Im perfectly fine with buying a PC with an OS, even pre-installed. Im against the fact that you cant buy a PC without an OS, pre-installed.
To insist that you must have an OS to get use of the machine, is absurd, and an outright lie. What they're doing is saying "You can get it in any color you want, long as that color is black." when there are several other colors, that I like better, and already exsist on the market.
What if I already own windows? What if I just wanted to replace my machine, because the old one broke? You're telling me I have to just buy a new copy, of something I already own, because thats what most people would do? Where's the consumer advantage in that?
Nothing anywhere says a PC needs an OS to work. Granted, you cant do much with it, but guess what you can do? INSTALL AN OS, any OS that is compatable with the hardware (of which there are tons, granted some more then others)
That Ipod is built to do one very specific thing, and comes pre-loaded with software to do that one, very specific thing. A PC can do any number of things, hell people are inventing new things they can do all the time. Locking users into using a specific OS with their box, means you are instantly limiting what you're allowing the box to do.
If you want to buy a PC, and load an OS that turns the thing into an oven by overclocking the CPU and driving the heat in the box to 425 degrees for 25 mins to bake some bread, you can do that! Just be sure to read the End-User agreement that says you and only you are responsible when you burn the house to the ground.
I think the issue creationists have is evolution disproves something very fundimental to them.
God created man.
Evolution says man was a spawn from the tree with the chimps, and apes, who were themselves evolved from furry little mamals who were able to avoid extinction when the dinos kicked the bucket. God doesn't really fit well into that picture.
While I agree, if they wish to believe in god, they're more then welcome to. I disagree that they have the right to say they, and only they are right. Your right to swing your fist ends, where my nose begins. You're free to say im wrong, but im free to say im right.
Imagine, we could build an entire network of cellphones, specifically for the purpuse of them not working, so you cant use the service to trigger off bombs!
While we're at it, lets start an airline that never takes off, hard to slam a plane into a building when its still on the runway. HA! Eat that Terrorists!
Fairly alarming that a simple document meant to basically contain text, can launch code on an OS.
How long before someone turns this into an actual feature? Open an attachment in an Email, and launch an app to install something on the machine imbedded in the email itself? I could almost see this as usefull in a business atmosphere.
Just dont sign me up to work in their IT department. Oh god the horror that could (would) cause.
My current situation is much the same. We have a password to log into windows, to log into our member systems, our backend member system, our email system, our timecard system, our self-service HR system, our web mail system (seperate from our work mail system), our training systems (3 of those, all diffrent) etc, etc, etc.
The result? Everyone puts their passwords down on paper. Sticky Notes are all over the place, with passwords. Windows changes every 60 days, email every 90, timecard never changes, but our self service hr system every 30, training systems are 30, 60 or never, depending on which one you're logged into. Its a nightmare.
Gotta agree with this.
My brother and his friends have discovered Live Action Roleplay games, and have modified it quite a bit to be basically a "beat you with a padded baseball bat with rules" game. Its very, very physical, but nobody gets hurt (beyond a scrach here and there) unless they do something stupid (ducking as someone swings a bat at their chest...over and over again. yes Joel, im talking about you.)
The result of this, playing in parks where there is alot of space, is angry neibors to the parks upset over the noise they make, in a public park. Police are called, they come by, and break things up, or get involved themselves (once we show 'em what we're doing, one guy actually got his kids into it).
If you cant play in a damn park, where can you play?
I once had a computer shipped to me from a friend a few time-zones away. The shipper completly screwed up the package, and as a result some damage happened to the components. I was able to get everything working, installed windows, ect. Worked great, I was quite happy that I was wrong about there being damage done *particularly to the motherboard*.
So I put in a CD for a game to re-install, played a bit, computer crashed. I rebooted, and it failed to find an OS, or even a Hard Drive. Confused, I tried a few more times, then put in the windows xp CD to see what it had to say..and it booted into windows from the hard drive. I removed the CD-rom..rebooted...failed to find the hard drive.
For whatever reason, this computer would ONLY boot, and find the hard drive, if the windows xp cd was in the CD rom. I still cant explain this.
But why go on and on about how 'great' a deal it is, since its a blue-ray player for ONLY 400 pounds, when normally they're 600-800, when its a video game system, and THERE ARE NO BLUE-RAY DVD MOVIES OUT.
This is what I fail to understand. Hell Blue-Ray isn't even guarenteed to be the next gen of DVD. Who wants to buy this thing because its a blue-ray player? nobody, because nobody owns any blue-ray dvds.
Who wants to play it was a video game system? Everyone who's looking at it. How many of these people will pick it over the other systems that are MUCH cheaper? Im guessing a vast majority. This thing will sell out on its release in the US of several million units, easy. Problem is it wont go much beyond that unless blue-ray becomes the next big thing.
Scienmouse 1: Binky! Are you thinking what im thinking? Scienmouse 2: I think so brain! But where are we going to find 4000 square yards of Mylar? Scienmouse 1: No you idiot, to take...no I guess we need to save it first. Scienmouse 2: Narf!
Honestly how can you compare LOTR to AOTC?
At any rate:
While the movie industry does basically what the music industry is doing, coming out with more and more crap, to make a quick buck off the morons who'll watch anything, a few gems can and do stand out. Something the west has never really gotten 'into' is Anime. We see it here and there, but its never really done well or right in the West. Lets hope this is a step in the right direction.
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We tried to impeach a president for questionable moral and sexual acts in the oval office. Yet we do nothing with this kind of crap going on?
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The world is quickly becoming a place I dont want to bring a child into.
Then again, im posting on slashdot. I dout i'll get the chance.
I know right? I mean comeon, I have a huge drive and I cant store hundreds of these things..
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640GB ought to be enough for anybody.
Have to agree with this. If we wanted to find the city most likely to molest you as a child, craglist listings would work. Tech geekyness? Not so much.
Or we could just pollute it to the point nobody else wants it. seems like thats what we're doing right now anyway.
But these aliens may be illegal, or terrorists, or maybe even Iraqi!
I for one welcome our unidentified overlords...I think, Im not really sure who they are yet. Where'd I leave my foil hat...
There, now this story is geeky.
The issue with bad bosses is that, the good ones get promoted and move on.
this is true of the business world in general. You continue to get promoted untill you're so far over your head you no longer do a very good job. If you're ultra-effective and get everything done ahead of schedual, they give you harder stuff to do. Its the idiot who's been with the company for 12 years and screams at everyone, that never gets promoted.
He's there because he knows everything about how your job works, but he's too stupid to figure out how everything works above him. Because if he did, he'd already be working at that level, or would be shortly.
Someone, please, correct me if im wrong, but isn't it just as likely that, in the process of removing said tumor, we cured him of his pedophileness? (that even a word?)
Yes, the tumor may have caused him to become a pedophile, but seems to me, he may have just been one anyway, and in the process of removing the tumor damaged that part of his brain, and ended up 'curing' him of it as a result.
Thats one heck of a sig you have there, but where's the post?
If you're getting so sweaty you lose grip on a controler, by waving your arm around a little bit, I think you have more serious issues then a broken TV to worry about.
A heart atack, comes to mind.
For Your Information, it was a 2ed degree burn, you insensitive clod. Expect my doctor bill shortly.
More like: WHICH OPERATING SYSTEM DO YOU WANT PRE-INSTALLED ( ) Windows (add $99) ( ) ??????? (add $39) ( ) ??????? (add $39) ( ) PROFIT (add $599 US DOLLARS)
Im perfectly fine with buying a PC with an OS, even pre-installed. Im against the fact that you cant buy a PC without an OS, pre-installed.
To insist that you must have an OS to get use of the machine, is absurd, and an outright lie. What they're doing is saying "You can get it in any color you want, long as that color is black." when there are several other colors, that I like better, and already exsist on the market.
What if I already own windows? What if I just wanted to replace my machine, because the old one broke? You're telling me I have to just buy a new copy, of something I already own, because thats what most people would do? Where's the consumer advantage in that?
Nothing anywhere says a PC needs an OS to work. Granted, you cant do much with it, but guess what you can do? INSTALL AN OS, any OS that is compatable with the hardware (of which there are tons, granted some more then others)
That Ipod is built to do one very specific thing, and comes pre-loaded with software to do that one, very specific thing. A PC can do any number of things, hell people are inventing new things they can do all the time. Locking users into using a specific OS with their box, means you are instantly limiting what you're allowing the box to do.
If you want to buy a PC, and load an OS that turns the thing into an oven by overclocking the CPU and driving the heat in the box to 425 degrees for 25 mins to bake some bread, you can do that! Just be sure to read the End-User agreement that says you and only you are responsible when you burn the house to the ground.
I think the issue creationists have is evolution disproves something very fundimental to them.
God created man.
Evolution says man was a spawn from the tree with the chimps, and apes, who were themselves evolved from furry little mamals who were able to avoid extinction when the dinos kicked the bucket. God doesn't really fit well into that picture.
While I agree, if they wish to believe in god, they're more then welcome to. I disagree that they have the right to say they, and only they are right. Your right to swing your fist ends, where my nose begins. You're free to say im wrong, but im free to say im right.
Wow, you're so right. =D
Imagine, we could build an entire network of cellphones, specifically for the purpuse of them not working, so you cant use the service to trigger off bombs!
While we're at it, lets start an airline that never takes off, hard to slam a plane into a building when its still on the runway. HA! Eat that Terrorists!
Fairly alarming that a simple document meant to basically contain text, can launch code on an OS.
How long before someone turns this into an actual feature? Open an attachment in an Email, and launch an app to install something on the machine imbedded in the email itself? I could almost see this as usefull in a business atmosphere.
Just dont sign me up to work in their IT department. Oh god the horror that could (would) cause.
My current situation is much the same. We have a password to log into windows, to log into our member systems, our backend member system, our email system, our timecard system, our self-service HR system, our web mail system (seperate from our work mail system), our training systems (3 of those, all diffrent) etc, etc, etc.
The result? Everyone puts their passwords down on paper. Sticky Notes are all over the place, with passwords. Windows changes every 60 days, email every 90, timecard never changes, but our self service hr system every 30, training systems are 30, 60 or never, depending on which one you're logged into. Its a nightmare.
Gotta agree with this. My brother and his friends have discovered Live Action Roleplay games, and have modified it quite a bit to be basically a "beat you with a padded baseball bat with rules" game. Its very, very physical, but nobody gets hurt (beyond a scrach here and there) unless they do something stupid (ducking as someone swings a bat at their chest...over and over again. yes Joel, im talking about you.) The result of this, playing in parks where there is alot of space, is angry neibors to the parks upset over the noise they make, in a public park. Police are called, they come by, and break things up, or get involved themselves (once we show 'em what we're doing, one guy actually got his kids into it). If you cant play in a damn park, where can you play?
I once had a computer shipped to me from a friend a few time-zones away. The shipper completly screwed up the package, and as a result some damage happened to the components. I was able to get everything working, installed windows, ect. Worked great, I was quite happy that I was wrong about there being damage done *particularly to the motherboard*. So I put in a CD for a game to re-install, played a bit, computer crashed. I rebooted, and it failed to find an OS, or even a Hard Drive. Confused, I tried a few more times, then put in the windows xp CD to see what it had to say..and it booted into windows from the hard drive. I removed the CD-rom..rebooted...failed to find the hard drive. For whatever reason, this computer would ONLY boot, and find the hard drive, if the windows xp cd was in the CD rom. I still cant explain this.
But why go on and on about how 'great' a deal it is, since its a blue-ray player for ONLY 400 pounds, when normally they're 600-800, when its a video game system, and THERE ARE NO BLUE-RAY DVD MOVIES OUT. This is what I fail to understand. Hell Blue-Ray isn't even guarenteed to be the next gen of DVD. Who wants to buy this thing because its a blue-ray player? nobody, because nobody owns any blue-ray dvds. Who wants to play it was a video game system? Everyone who's looking at it. How many of these people will pick it over the other systems that are MUCH cheaper? Im guessing a vast majority. This thing will sell out on its release in the US of several million units, easy. Problem is it wont go much beyond that unless blue-ray becomes the next big thing.
Scienmouse 1: Binky! Are you thinking what im thinking?
Scienmouse 2: I think so brain! But where are we going to find 4000 square yards of Mylar?
Scienmouse 1: No you idiot, to take...no I guess we need to save it first.
Scienmouse 2: Narf!
I dout it, last I checked the Moon was not married.
Honestly how can you compare LOTR to AOTC? At any rate: While the movie industry does basically what the music industry is doing, coming out with more and more crap, to make a quick buck off the morons who'll watch anything, a few gems can and do stand out. Something the west has never really gotten 'into' is Anime. We see it here and there, but its never really done well or right in the West. Lets hope this is a step in the right direction.