Regarding automatic updates... I'm not usually logged in as admin, and automatic updates aren't quite so automatic for me. I'm not even notified they're available until I log in with admin privileges, or perhaps "runas/user:administrator explorer" to get the an admin's Taskbar Notification Area(tm). Is that how it's supposed to be? I think it's kinda stupid...
Dieser Raum is voll bis unner de Deck mit de dollste elekdrische un vollelekdronische Anlaache.Staune und gugge derf jeder, awwer rummworschdele un Gnöbbsche drücke uff de Kombjuder dörffe nur mir,
You have a point. I think I often just parsed "solar" as an adjective to "Sol". That'd make a solar system a "system of celestial bodies arranged in a manner similar to the Sol System" - something like that.
Off topic; did Star Trek's Enterprise (the "Kirk" one) ever have a "Sol Drive" or "Sol Speed"? I seem to remember something like that. Been a while. Maybe our translators just couldn't make sense of "Warp" for a while.
Interactive fiction author Emily Short (under the guise of "Lord Lobur-Bytton") once published a clever little Z-Code multiple choice game that casts you as a writer juggling wild ideas. She doesn't seem overly proud of it, but I really enjoyed it. It was humbling, too - I find it quite easy to come up with cool sh*t, but terribly hard to turn it into stories. Available here (and here as part of the full LoTech comp package).
Don't worry, I was just kidding. Linux installers are often better in many ways and, unlike Windows, at least try to preserve "other" OS installations.
(Although I must say that those hundreds of applications can't quite compare to the ability to run the applications I need/want)
It found exactly nothing, just like Ad-Aware and Spybot S&D and Clam AV and AVG and whatever else I tried. Am I in violation of any natural laws here?
Except for that one time when I decided I'd go see what it's really like for those who always complain about random popups and slowdowns and stuff.
It was quite a hassle at first, but once you've disabled/enabled enough to get the malware to install, there's a rainbow-coloured nightmare wonderland of Studly Males Online Gambling Hello Kitty Porno Toolbar Screensavers waiting. It's a regular shadow internet. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe! Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die...
At least I discovered spyware scanners actually do something and will happily keep recommending them (as I keep recommending Macs. Maybe I should try those, too)
Okay, I wouldn't expect to see sky ads soon, but...
I could imagine it'll make the sky interesting for...some kinds of people. The ones who consider "That's just the way things are!" a bullet-proof argument. For a while it'll be a novelty - perhaps not as ubiquitous as TV/radio/billboards, but much more impressive. It'll make advertising majestic. You're much less likely to forget you've seen it than you are to forget some poster somewhere informing you that consuming lots of cheap liquor will make you popular with your intended copulation partners.
Some people will realise they hadn't really been looking at the sky for a long, long time; you never miss it till it's gone. Once it's as prevalent as other forms of advertising, we might as well just move underground.
It'll be like putting a ceiling on a maze - there're only so many spatial dimensions and the only one still "unoccupied" is the one we can't move in. But hey, there'll be exciting new forms of entertainment and most of the stars aren't visible anymore anyway.
It'll be the appropriate decoration too, once scientists unlock the gates of hell or something unoriginal like that.
With this new keyboard you are gong to have to reach all over the keyboard to do a simple cut, copy and paste.
Those are actually some of the most inconvenient key combos for me. I really prefer Shift-Delete, Ctrl-Insert and Shift-Insert; it's much less... cramped. Not that I know if that'd work on this funny little toyboard. Or on Macs (assuming that's why you mentioned a "cmd key").
My first own computer had the joystick produce keystrokes, and many games queried those instead of reading the joystick directly. Nice because joystick and tape I/O used to be the first thing to break. Not that you asked. I can't sleep.
Yah. I'm glad all this computer stuff used to be in English only "back then" - guess I was young enough to learn playfully (text adventures!). It made it more intriguing, not less. Now I feel strangely claustrophobic and on German websites - hence my ignorance of the word "Karpaltunnel":) - I'm just not sure if that goes for everyone. And German and English are rather similar languages anyway...
(although I don't see why Slashdot could be more appealing to geeks in the USA than to geeks elsewhere)
There're certainly more US-specific topics than Sweden-/Brasil-/Italy-/what-have-you-specific topics. I'm sure many of these are of interest to non-USAmericans, but they may be harder for them to make sense of since the "local perspective" is missing.
Also, don't underestimate the language barrier. I'm sure geeks tend to speak English rather well, on average, but with terms like "carpal tunnel", "tin foil hat", "consolidated resources" or "contenders" all over the place, slashdot might seem a little...obfuscated... at times.
Then again, that's not stopped me either, so what do I know....
I buy them when I notice there's a nice 'classic' on the cover DVD/CD. (Hard to figure out sometimes, what with all the fantasy-military equipment jostling for attention.) This is a great way for me to acquire some previously-expensive gem every now and then without resorting to pira... er, copyright infringement.
And that's all I ever buy magazines for. There might on occasion be something interesting or informative to read in between the grimacing macho caricatures, the assertions that 1.8GHz is "low end", the boobie-drooling, the frag-chick of the month and the garish ads for games with way too many colons and dashes in the title, but there's more of that found online and in conversations with friends.
Granted, I'm not much of a gamer (wonder why?), so they're probably right in focusing on folks who're too busy actually playing the games to take a step back and look at games in a larger cultural/artistic context. Maybe sometimes all it'd take to endear me to a magazine would be a reviewer differentiating more strongly between "visually appealing" and "expensive-looking"--I've not played Doom 3 yet (hm, don't I have a demo somewhere?), but from the screenshots I can tell it's not gonna impress me much. There simply doesn't seem to be much in it that I'd actually want to look at expect to test-drive my Athlon and Geforce. But then, I still think some C64 games are beautiful, so maybe I just don't get it in this new world.
Or maybe it'd just take a New Wave of original games to breathe some life back into it? Are they all on the consoles now? Eye-Toy, Rez, ICO, Katamari Damacy... (okay, Sims. Cool concept. But I'm already failing to have a life of my own; not sure I want to play one out with dolls right now.)
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Good thing I've always been too depressed to get a driver's license... *smirk*
Yeah, well, but what if they landed on the moon and left "evidence" just to shut up the conspiracy theorists? Sneaky, crafty bastards... probably filmed it all on their stage on Mars anyway.
No, it's about 1.5 times the size of Jupiter, and about 5 times as massive as Jupiter. And it's a brown dwarf, not a "brown giant". So isn't it more like a binary non-star system?
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( I imagine there is some other procedure to effectively (permenently) turn off this mis-feature; but, I haven't found it, yet.) ~ I don't know anything at all about MC, but there's a Security Center service here (on XP Pro) that I deactivated in services.msc; the Security Center itself is still available (control panel), it just doesn't nag anymore.
"Virgin birth"? That's interesting, actually. I'm assuming this refers to the scene in Ep 1 where Shmi says something along the lines of "There was no father. I can't explain it"*? With the troubled look on her face I was nigh-convinced that she had been raped and was unwilling to talk about it - Qui-Gonn refrained from asking further questions, which seemed "understanding" at the time. Now I realise this interpretation doesn't really fit the movie. Hm.
*I don't remember the exact words. Nor am I sure I know how to spell any of the names.
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I know your sig, but I'm not sure why. Front 242, right?
Regarding automatic updates... I'm not usually logged in as admin, and automatic updates aren't quite so automatic for me. I'm not even notified they're available until I log in with admin privileges, or perhaps "runas /user:administrator explorer" to get the an admin's Taskbar Notification Area(tm). Is that how it's supposed to be? I think it's kinda stupid...
ACHTUNG!
Kombjuder-Raum
Dieser Raum is voll bis unner de Deck mit de dollste elekdrische un vollelekdronische Anlaache.Staune und gugge derf jeder, awwer rummworschdele un Gnöbbsche drücke uff de Kombjuder dörffe nur mir,
die Exberde.
Off topic; did Star Trek's Enterprise (the "Kirk" one) ever have a "Sol Drive" or "Sol Speed"? I seem to remember something like that. Been a while. Maybe our translators just couldn't make sense of "Warp" for a while.
It's not so much "how bad it is" but that it's a kind of hack, right? (In the "clever prank" sense, not the "bad writing" sense)
Interactive fiction author Emily Short (under the guise of "Lord Lobur-Bytton") once published a clever little Z-Code multiple choice game that casts you as a writer juggling wild ideas. She doesn't seem overly proud of it, but I really enjoyed it. It was humbling, too - I find it quite easy to come up with cool sh*t, but terribly hard to turn it into stories. Available here (and here as part of the full LoTech comp package).
(Although I must say that those hundreds of applications can't quite compare to the ability to run the applications I need/want)
*runs*
Except for that one time when I decided I'd go see what it's really like for those who always complain about random popups and slowdowns and stuff.
It was quite a hassle at first, but once you've disabled/enabled enough to get the malware to install, there's a rainbow-coloured nightmare wonderland of Studly Males Online Gambling Hello Kitty Porno Toolbar Screensavers waiting. It's a regular shadow internet. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe! Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die...
At least I discovered spyware scanners actually do something and will happily keep recommending them (as I keep recommending Macs. Maybe I should try those, too)
..."and while you're lying on your back: www.pregnancy-test.com"
I could imagine it'll make the sky interesting for ...some kinds of people. The ones who consider "That's just the way things are!" a bullet-proof argument. For a while it'll be a novelty - perhaps not as ubiquitous as TV/radio/billboards, but much more impressive. It'll make advertising majestic. You're much less likely to forget you've seen it than you are to forget some poster somewhere informing you that consuming lots of cheap liquor will make you popular with your intended copulation partners.
Some people will realise they hadn't really been looking at the sky for a long, long time; you never miss it till it's gone. Once it's as prevalent as other forms of advertising, we might as well just move underground.
It'll be like putting a ceiling on a maze - there're only so many spatial dimensions and the only one still "unoccupied" is the one we can't move in. But hey, there'll be exciting new forms of entertainment and most of the stars aren't visible anymore anyway.
It'll be the appropriate decoration too, once scientists unlock the gates of hell or something unoriginal like that.
I've been wondering what they meant by that. Maybe it's like that in XP Home?
PS: Sorry, bad mood.
So prison is "mercy" if you're not raped by folks you can't escape from?
Those are actually some of the most inconvenient key combos for me. I really prefer Shift-Delete, Ctrl-Insert and Shift-Insert; it's much less... cramped. Not that I know if that'd work on this funny little toyboard. Or on Macs (assuming that's why you mentioned a "cmd key").
My first own computer had the joystick produce keystrokes, and many games queried those instead of reading the joystick directly. Nice because joystick and tape I/O used to be the first thing to break. Not that you asked. I can't sleep.
Strangely enough, I'm getting a "Punisher" poster displayed instead of my original image. Must be a glitch. Yes. Definitely...
"...claustrophobic and on..." - that might've made more sense without the "and", sorry.
Yah. I'm glad all this computer stuff used to be in English only "back then" - guess I was young enough to learn playfully (text adventures!). It made it more intriguing, not less. Now I feel strangely claustrophobic and on German websites - hence my ignorance of the word "Karpaltunnel" :) - I'm just not sure if that goes for everyone. And German and English are rather similar languages anyway...
There're certainly more US-specific topics than Sweden-/Brasil-/Italy-/what-have-you-specific topics. I'm sure many of these are of interest to non-USAmericans, but they may be harder for them to make sense of since the "local perspective" is missing.
Also, don't underestimate the language barrier. I'm sure geeks tend to speak English rather well, on average, but with terms like "carpal tunnel", "tin foil hat", "consolidated resources" or "contenders" all over the place, slashdot might seem a little ...obfuscated... at times.
Then again, that's not stopped me either, so what do I know. ...
And that's all I ever buy magazines for. There might on occasion be something interesting or informative to read in between the grimacing macho caricatures, the assertions that 1.8GHz is "low end", the boobie-drooling, the frag-chick of the month and the garish ads for games with way too many colons and dashes in the title, but there's more of that found online and in conversations with friends.
Granted, I'm not much of a gamer (wonder why?), so they're probably right in focusing on folks who're too busy actually playing the games to take a step back and look at games in a larger cultural/artistic context. Maybe sometimes all it'd take to endear me to a magazine would be a reviewer differentiating more strongly between "visually appealing" and "expensive-looking"--I've not played Doom 3 yet (hm, don't I have a demo somewhere?), but from the screenshots I can tell it's not gonna impress me much. There simply doesn't seem to be much in it that I'd actually want to look at expect to test-drive my Athlon and Geforce. But then, I still think some C64 games are beautiful, so maybe I just don't get it in this new world.
Or maybe it'd just take a New Wave of original games to breathe some life back into it? Are they all on the consoles now? Eye-Toy, Rez, ICO, Katamari Damacy... (okay, Sims. Cool concept. But I'm already failing to have a life of my own; not sure I want to play one out with dolls right now.)
Good thing I've always been too depressed to get a driver's license... *smirk*
Yeah, well, but what if they landed on the moon and left "evidence" just to shut up the conspiracy theorists? Sneaky, crafty bastards... probably filmed it all on their stage on Mars anyway.
No, it's about 1.5 times the size of Jupiter, and about 5 times as massive as Jupiter. And it's a brown dwarf, not a "brown giant". So isn't it more like a binary non-star system?
( I imagine there is some other procedure to effectively (permenently) turn off this mis-feature; but, I haven't found it, yet.) ~ I don't know anything at all about MC, but there's a Security Center service here (on XP Pro) that I deactivated in services.msc; the Security Center itself is still available (control panel), it just doesn't nag anymore.
*I don't remember the exact words. Nor am I sure I know how to spell any of the names.