bah to all that. i hate going to the library for research. In fact, the worst part is running over all sorts of information i just plain dont *need* to get my work done.
Of course, i read alot in my spare time; so when a research paper came up, Id take a topic I already was rather familiar with, pick up the same books again and hit the parts i knew were relevant.
On the times i wasnt familiar with the material; i skimmed - quickly - and got the hell out.
wheni moved out and got married, i needed a pc desk...so i bought one - one that had a cabinet to put the pc tower in. great noise reduction; but the solid door, and the backing that covered too much of the back of the tower didnt allow any airflow; and for an overclocker i needed air.
solution? i borrowed a drill and a hole-saw; hole in front cabinet door, lower, lined up with a cheap and quiet intake fan; and a hole in the back panel so the psu could exhaust the hot air out of the cabinet.
cool, and quiet. im so glad i got the one with the cabinet.
skip 2 games and stop being a software pirate; theres no excuse in your case....youd rather spend your money on games instead of a legitimate copy of an operating system.
you wouldnt happen to be the kind of person who would prefer to buy say...a nice surround sound system or elevision instead of making a house payment would you?
oh..and im a gamer on a budget, and yes, i did pay for the OS, at the cost of a couple of games I wanted. Btw, you dont have to spend $150 on Windows...you can get it for just under $100; again, the price of a couple of new games. Dont justify you pirating software because you got your priorities wrong when you spent your money.
Dont buy toys and say "i cant make my house payment"; don't buy games and hardware and think "ohhhh windows is too expensive" is a justifiable reason to steal it.
How about, instead of encouraging someone to pirate software (nevermind what you think of windows and microsoft, nevermind the prices, encouraging theft is encouraging theft) we point him to some FREE games?
Like this list
Now, no more excuses. Pay for windowsAND play your games, or switch to a free OS (and still play free games) and stop making excuses for yourself.
this is why im slightly interested in Lineage 2. Once the game gets into swing after the retail release (currently, there is a free open beta, with no character wipe) the game creates Castles (6 or so on each server)
Clans join together, hopefull dozens, to a couple hundred of mates, and schedule a time to fight for the castle. If you win, you get to build defenses and control local shops (get taxes and such from them) until the next attack; which you schedule, so other clans can sign up to try to take over your castle
Its expected that this will be done every two weeks or so (im not familiar with all the restrictions and rules and such regarding castles) but should make it regularly interesting to have dozens, even hundreds of players all participating in one massive event at once.
i have my cell set to vibe and ring. so its in my pocket, vibrates, and i answer it...and unless im at home, its always in my pcoket. so my ringtone doesnt suck (i use a standard ringtone) and i always know that its *MY* phone ringing:)
the combat system needed alot of work to be fun, and before the expansions, there was *rarely* enough to combat as a low level character just running around.
the work taht went into it looks massive, all the characters and quests and such, too bad it wasnt dynamic, the characters got stale eventually. one could still easily get dozens and dozens of hours of play out of it though, and the graphics were pretty good.
is it legal if, for instance, an employee paid by the hour takes a lunch break without checking out, thus earning themselves an extra 30-60 minutes pay in the day?
What if the employee just plain forgot, told the manager, and the manager edits out the time the employee took as a break. surely thats acceptable? Or isnt it? It happens where i work too often, someone forgets to clock out being in a hurry, or someone was at the computer and they just *left* without waiting to clock out.
you could at least make up that fortran was cultural somehow...what kind of jerk would name their kid in l33t speak is beyond me, but it sounds like a guarantee of therapy down the road for a multitude of reasons.
Honestly, out of the 100 channels you get, how many do you spend more than a fraction of a second surfing past?
i watch, and would keep:
foodtv
history channel
comedy central
usa
fx
scifi
tlc
discovery
TBS(seinfeld reruns are a must have)
kids watch:
disney
nickelodeon
cartoon network
animal planet
i think that would do it. i dont watch the network stuff...because it sucks. weather channel is irrelevant since i have broadband, as are the news networks...i can get whatever news and weather i need online.
my cable company (cox) allows 3 tiers for your choices:
basic, 2-13 (notworthy channels: fox, abc, nbc, cbs, bah to them all)
expanded, 14-38 (disney, animal planet, golf, comedy, cnn, 20-31 are reserved for hbo and showtime, cinemax etc, then theres espn 1 and 2 and a couple shopping channels.)
select, 39-71 (all i want from this category is usa, fx, scifi, tlc, discovery, history and food)
ever since ive had cable ive wanted the ability to pick and choose my stations....god knows what it would do to my internet bill though
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if shift-clicking on the canvas with one of half a dozen tools isnt simple then youre mentally retarded. if you want a simpler way to draw a line use MSpaint or a pencil and a ruler.
But also, it does suggest that they are being really really really overly careful about saying that there was or is life on Mars. Almost like they are scared of it.
of course, imagine what would happen when the religions of the world that believed in life just on earth were shown proof that...it wasnt just on earth. Theyd freak, billions of people would freak out because suddenly an enourmous amount of what they believed was proven wrong....
People have enough trouble dealing with what they already know as it is. Wed be fucked for sure if you told most of the planet that what they knew was rather incorrect in a very specific way.
well if i knew the end was a few days away, id spurge and get an athlon64 system with a gig of ram, a huge SATA raid array and finally....a fucking radeon 9800XT
i bet theyd still take their pretty time getting doom3 out the door, no sneek peeks or anything, wait and see
except in windows when you download the drivers, you just have to double-click them, and click again 2 or 3 times without actually reading anyting to install them.
i linux, you have to boot into x so you can have a web browser to use to download the drivers (and dont give me any bs about lynx, typical ps users couldnt handle it); then you have to quit x (and i didnt even know how to do that at first, and found it was a pain in the ass to install drivers because of it) then you have to move to move to the right directory, run the driver program, enter the root password (assuming you started all this as a regular user) and restart x.
people! yes, we get rid of the people, so that doctors cant hurt anyone and lawyers wont have anyone to file a suit...no wait that leaves us with lawyers...
ok we get rid of lawyers and people and let the doctors run free!
i watch tons of foodnetwork, because i got tired of eating fast food garbage and frozen dinners.
www.foodnetwork.com has tousands of recipes you can browse as well. i watch the shows, when i see something i like, i hop online and get a list of what i need, and have it for dinner that week.
can someone comment on how these perform? im heavily considering putting linux back on my box, but ive gotta be able to game...are these new ATI drivers anywhere near as good as nVidias as far as performance is concerned in relation to the performance in windows?
if i showed linux to my grandmother shed freak, seriously, thats a terrible idea.
even my hippy-like musician relatively anti-social brother wouldnt try linux when i suggested it. with all his claimsof what he uses his pc for (making music, some gaming...) he actually just downloads phish shows and browses guitar sites.
and i cant get him to try linux. ever.
my mother wouldnt touch it, she bucked OpenOffice when i suggested she try it at church instead of spending hundreds on Office for the one Mac they have.
My wife wont touch it. Shes not "used to it" and it doesnt offer HER anything windows doesnt offer for her personal use.
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Of course, i read alot in my spare time; so when a research paper came up, Id take a topic I already was rather familiar with, pick up the same books again and hit the parts i knew were relevant.
On the times i wasnt familiar with the material; i skimmed - quickly - and got the hell out.
Why such a rush? Half-Life > Schoolwork, n00bs.
solution? i borrowed a drill and a hole-saw; hole in front cabinet door, lower, lined up with a cheap and quiet intake fan; and a hole in the back panel so the psu could exhaust the hot air out of the cabinet. cool, and quiet. im so glad i got the one with the cabinet.
you wouldnt happen to be the kind of person who would prefer to buy say...a nice surround sound system or elevision instead of making a house payment would you?
oh..and im a gamer on a budget, and yes, i did pay for the OS, at the cost of a couple of games I wanted. Btw, you dont have to spend $150 on Windows...you can get it for just under $100; again, the price of a couple of new games. Dont justify you pirating software because you got your priorities wrong when you spent your money.
Dont buy toys and say "i cant make my house payment"; don't buy games and hardware and think "ohhhh windows is too expensive" is a justifiable reason to steal it.
How about, instead of encouraging someone to pirate software (nevermind what you think of windows and microsoft, nevermind the prices, encouraging theft is encouraging theft) we point him to some FREE games?
Like this list Now, no more excuses. Pay for windowsAND play your games, or switch to a free OS (and still play free games) and stop making excuses for yourself.
Clans join together, hopefull dozens, to a couple hundred of mates, and schedule a time to fight for the castle. If you win, you get to build defenses and control local shops (get taxes and such from them) until the next attack; which you schedule, so other clans can sign up to try to take over your castle
Its expected that this will be done every two weeks or so (im not familiar with all the restrictions and rules and such regarding castles) but should make it regularly interesting to have dozens, even hundreds of players all participating in one massive event at once.
i have my cell set to vibe and ring. so its in my pocket, vibrates, and i answer it...and unless im at home, its always in my pcoket. so my ringtone doesnt suck (i use a standard ringtone) and i always know that its *MY* phone ringing :)
spawncamp them, then switch teams.
sudden my ass, it took 3 hours to set that up!
just wait til they dupe it on friday
the combat system needed alot of work to be fun, and before the expansions, there was *rarely* enough to combat as a low level character just running around.
the work taht went into it looks massive, all the characters and quests and such, too bad it wasnt dynamic, the characters got stale eventually. one could still easily get dozens and dozens of hours of play out of it though, and the graphics were pretty good.
and heres to wishful thinking...because you can probably bet he didnt, given the money hes made so far on shitty dialogue and tons of special effects.
is it legal if, for instance, an employee paid by the hour takes a lunch break without checking out, thus earning themselves an extra 30-60 minutes pay in the day? What if the employee just plain forgot, told the manager, and the manager edits out the time the employee took as a break. surely thats acceptable? Or isnt it? It happens where i work too often, someone forgets to clock out being in a hurry, or someone was at the computer and they just *left* without waiting to clock out.
you could at least make up that fortran was cultural somehow...what kind of jerk would name their kid in l33t speak is beyond me, but it sounds like a guarantee of therapy down the road for a multitude of reasons.
Honestly, out of the 100 channels you get, how many do you spend more than a fraction of a second surfing past? i watch, and would keep: foodtv history channel comedy central usa fx scifi tlc discovery TBS(seinfeld reruns are a must have) kids watch: disney nickelodeon cartoon network animal planet i think that would do it. i dont watch the network stuff...because it sucks. weather channel is irrelevant since i have broadband, as are the news networks...i can get whatever news and weather i need online. my cable company (cox) allows 3 tiers for your choices: basic, 2-13 (notworthy channels: fox, abc, nbc, cbs, bah to them all) expanded, 14-38 (disney, animal planet, golf, comedy, cnn, 20-31 are reserved for hbo and showtime, cinemax etc, then theres espn 1 and 2 and a couple shopping channels.) select, 39-71 (all i want from this category is usa, fx, scifi, tlc, discovery, history and food) ever since ive had cable ive wanted the ability to pick and choose my stations....god knows what it would do to my internet bill though
if shift-clicking on the canvas with one of half a dozen tools isnt simple then youre mentally retarded. if you want a simpler way to draw a line use MSpaint or a pencil and a ruler.
of course, imagine what would happen when the religions of the world that believed in life just on earth were shown proof that...it wasnt just on earth. Theyd freak, billions of people would freak out because suddenly an enourmous amount of what they believed was proven wrong....
People have enough trouble dealing with what they already know as it is. Wed be fucked for sure if you told most of the planet that what they knew was rather incorrect in a very specific way.
i bet theyd still take their pretty time getting doom3 out the door, no sneek peeks or anything, wait and see
i linux, you have to boot into x so you can have a web browser to use to download the drivers (and dont give me any bs about lynx, typical ps users couldnt handle it); then you have to quit x (and i didnt even know how to do that at first, and found it was a pain in the ass to install drivers because of it) then you have to move to move to the right directory, run the driver program, enter the root password (assuming you started all this as a regular user) and restart x.
windows: download, double click, click click click; reboot.
see? slightly different, and you should know better. its hard enough to get a windows user to do even that much with comprehension most of the time.
i never get why were in debt, and give money to other people. does someone give to us that i dont know about?
we get rid of doctors and lawyers, no wait...
people! yes, we get rid of the people, so that doctors cant hurt anyone and lawyers wont have anyone to file a suit...no wait that leaves us with lawyers...
ok we get rid of lawyers and people and let the doctors run free!
www.foodnetwork.com has tousands of recipes you can browse as well. i watch the shows, when i see something i like, i hop online and get a list of what i need, and have it for dinner that week.
thanks
can someone comment on how these perform? im heavily considering putting linux back on my box, but ive gotta be able to game...are these new ATI drivers anywhere near as good as nVidias as far as performance is concerned in relation to the performance in windows?
yes; Jesus died for OUR sins, mars is...obviously, fucked.
go outside
even my hippy-like musician relatively anti-social brother wouldnt try linux when i suggested it. with all his claimsof what he uses his pc for (making music, some gaming...) he actually just downloads phish shows and browses guitar sites.
and i cant get him to try linux. ever.
my mother wouldnt touch it, she bucked OpenOffice when i suggested she try it at church instead of spending hundreds on Office for the one Mac they have.
My wife wont touch it. Shes not "used to it" and it doesnt offer HER anything windows doesnt offer for her personal use.