Mod parent insightful instead of funny. I came to post pretty much the exact same reply.
This is the same crap I went through trying to get Fallout 3 to work in Wine under Ubuntu, and it was a colossal waste of time.
I was actually impressed with what Wine can run, but it's not going to work for the latest and greatest new games.
The correlation is theoretically because the people most likely to take advantage of legalized abortion are people who wouldn't be providing an ideal home environment if they kept the child, which is going to increase the child's chances of becoming a criminal.
The conclusion was so interesting because it's initially surprising, but makes sense when you think about it (which type of phenomena the book is about). They're not just making a "Kill everyone and there'll be no crime!" argument.
In Canada that sounds like a deal. I'm paying that for basic phone, basic internet (5/1 with a 20gb monthly cap and throttled p2p), and cable with a few extra channels. And that's after haggling with Rogers and threatening to disconnect in order to get the price cut by 20-30%. I thought American internet was weak until I moved to Canada. We're in the dark ages up here. If the FCC behaved like the CRTC does, techies in the states would riot.
It's not in America, but the 407 in Canada is privately operated by lease from the Ontario government and serves the GTA (Greater Toronto Area). It's very profitable, has no toll booths (it uses transponders for frequent users, or license plate recognition via cameras at on and off ramps and mails a bill directly to you), and serves its purpose well for people who want to avoid traffic on the QEW for a couple of dollars.
There's a chapter about this in "Freakonomics" by Dubner and Levitt, where they run the numbers and point out that legalizing abortion and putting more cops on the streets has done more to lower the crime rate than any number of executions per year ever will.
The link was marked as not for the faint hearted. Would you have still complained if the image had been violent, or perhaps a tasteful photo of naked breasts? What exactly did you expect to see that's not for the faint-hearted, but is simultaneously sterile and inoffensive enough for the workplace? Perhaps your complaint has more to do with you personally disagreeing with the content of the work.
At 320kbs MP3 at 44khz, you could listen to music for 8 hours a day nonstop for a month and not listen to 40 gigs of music. If you listened to the same MP3s 24 hours a day for 7 days, you wouldn't hit 25 gigs.
I think it'd do a lot of people some good to go through your mp3 collection and delete a bunch of shit you don't actually listen to. I recently trimmed about 15 gigs (around 2000 songs) out of my MP3 collection, and I don't miss them. I'm actually happier if for no other reason than listening to music on shuffle mode is more responsive to what I like, and I don't end up skipping 10 songs for every 1 I want to hear. No one gives a shit about epeen things like who has the biggest mp3 collection.
If you actually listen to all of your music and enjoy it, then more power to you, and just ignore me. I only respond because a lot of people who make statements like that just have Compulsive Hoarding, and cover it up by claiming they really do listen to all 180 gigabytes of MP3s they have, even if there's probably not enough time in a year for them to hear it all.
And it'll run a maximum of 10% of the processes your system can actually handle before giving you a friendly dialog box offering to let you upgrade to the full Windows XYZ experience by purchasing Windows XYZ Ultimate Edition.
It basically sounds like Scientology developed its own coding methodology. He was trying to do a sprint to burndown some backlog, but he got stuck in a process and got enturbulated, so he had to get the ScrumMaster to audit his code for engrams so he can make some big wins and move up the bridge. The best part is that under this system, you pay your boss to write code for him...
That's a slight misconception. Constantine never made Christianity the official religion of the empire. Legend has it that at the Battle of Milvian Bridge, during the revolt of Maxentius, Constantine had a vision of the cross in the sky, with the words "In Hoc Signo Vinces"-- In This Sign You Shall Conquer. He went on to defeat Maxentius's armies, despite being outnumbered 2:1. His mother was Christian, and it's true that he was the first emperor to be tolerant of Christians (compared to Nero or Diocletian), but Christianity would not be declared the official religion of the empire until the reign of Theodosius.
I majored in History and we were taught the basic milestones of Roman Christianity as follows: Diocletian was the last major state campaign of oppression against Christianity. Under Constantine Christianity became tolerated. His mother was Christian, but there is no evidence that he ever converted. Some people say he converted on his deathbed, but there are no primary sources who back that up. In the reign of Theodosius Nicene Christianity was made the official religion of the empire, but pagan religions were still tolerated. Finally, under Justinian after the fall of the Western Empire, Christianity was declared the ONLY state religion, and all other religions were persecuted.
An air gap means the network isn't connected to the public internet, or to unsecured networks. The "air gap" is the open air between the secure computers and the insecure computers. At present most networking gear has a hard time routing packets through open air, but I hear they're ginning up a new RFC to address that.
More and more jungle and drum'n'bass parties are turning up a bad crowd. I'd never fear for my safety at an old school trance/house/ambient/whatever rave, but I quit going to jungle and d'n'b shows the first time I went to one where someone got stabbed.
For reference, the engine is called id Tech 5, and it is being used for a game called Rage, amongst other things. The RAGE Engine is Rockstar's engine, which was used for GTA4, Midnight Club LA, and for the upcoming Max Payne sequel. Not replying to you specifically so much as all the people I've seen referring to id's "Rage Engine". It's going to get confusing...
You're complaining because you got to play a brand new game for 20 or 30 dollars? It's a question of supply and demand. There are obviously a lot of people out there willing to sell their games at these prices, because my local Gamestop is overflowing with used games. This actually would suggest from an economic standpoint that they're giving too much for used games.
Go back to Shell Beach. Dark City was was good, but it wasn't all that. The Matrix was a great movie. It really summed up the Zeitgeist of the fin de siecle. It came at the end of an era when everyone was looking for meaning, and things were about to change drastically. If you didn't walk out of the theater after seeing The Matrix for the first time wanting to break shit, completely pumped to see it again about 10 or 15 more times, there's something wrong with you. It's easy to hate on it in retrospect because the two sequels were lackluster (but, I would contend, not really bad), and because it's become trendy to hate on things that a lot of people think is good. It's like hating your favorite band once they become popular, just because they're not "yours" anymore.
It kind of makes me wish The Matrix had done worse at the box office, because it would now be more of a cult classic, like Fight Club, which had a disappointing box office take but thrived in DVD sales.
This sense of self-righteousness pretty much sums up your entire reply. I don't need your pity, and neither do my friends. I have very few close friends, but I am fiercely loyal to those few. I have friends that I would take a bullet for, but I could count them on one hand and not need my thumb or my pinkie. I'm happy that way, and I'd like to think those around me are too. They always know exactly where they stand, and so do I. Is honesty not the foundation of any healthy relationship?
The pinnacle of arrogance is not so much believing that you can never make a mistake in your own life or go down those roads, but that you will know when you are doing it. Sometimes it takes someone close to you to give you that swift kick in the jimmy to let you know you are doing something stupid.
And sometimes the crazy chance you take that all your friends warn you away from defines your life and tempers you into a better person. I like having friends who, in certain situations, might advise caution, but who know that when my mind is set on something there's nothing they can do. I have to make my own mistakes, and I've made a lot, but I learn from them. You can't coddle people and shield them from the world, no matter how much you love them.
Additionally, I think being one of your "friends" would be depressing.
Any of my acquaintances who feel that way are more than free to go their own way. If they keep holding on anyway, they're not looking for a friend, they're looking for a life raft. Which leads me to...
That kind of thing is typically what feeds directly into suicidal thoughts during the aftermath of some kind of traumatic event.
I'm not a counselor. I'm not a doctor. I don't try to be. I don't claim to be. I pride myself on being a good listener, and I take the giving of advice as a solemn responsibility. But if I give you advice and try to help you, and you just don't listen, then so be it. You are set on your path, you're a big boy, and I'm not your father. If someone close to me has a traumatic event I'm going to be there for them, but I can't do it all. If, god forbid, that person should commit suicide, you're saying that would be on me? Come on.
Your definition of friend seems to be pretty watered down. I call those people acquaintances, not friends. Friends are the people that WILL go to hell and back for you, and that you will go to hell and back for.
I guess I'm just not a big fuzzy teddybear who's anxious to brag about how many friends he has and how popular he is. I'm happy having one or two very close friends and just a lot of other people I hang out with. But frankly I just have too much going on in my own life to try to play shrink, priest, and confidant to every single person in the latter group who has a bad day and needs a hug. I care. I'm going to be kind and supportive. But don't violate the boundaries of our relationship by trying to use me as your flotation device.
I could go on and on, but it's just very clear that we have two very different views of the friend relationship, and it's clear that we're both happy where we are. The difference is that you don't see me telling you how sorry I am that you're not more like me, and how depressing that must be for your friends. Get over yourself.
People want friends, not projects; unless they're fucked up and compensating. Of course friendships and relationships involve a little convenience, but having to feel like it's your responsibility to rescue someone from themselves is more than a little inconvenience, and frankly I think most people can agree they don't hold all of their friends on a level where they would find that necessary. I have quite a few friends, but very very few I'd feel the need to march into hell to save from their own poor impulse control; and even those would probably wear out their welcome pretty quickly.
The biggest question mark for the itanium is whether it will be superceded by a superior technology before 64 bit becomes mainstream.
I think we'll see the market jump directly to 128 bit processing. In a few years we'll look back and laugh at the conceit that 18 exabytes of RAM ought to be enough for anybody. How else am I supposed to run Peeno, the cool new desktop theme on Windows 9? It support mouse cursor transparency!
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Mod parent insightful instead of funny. I came to post pretty much the exact same reply. This is the same crap I went through trying to get Fallout 3 to work in Wine under Ubuntu, and it was a colossal waste of time. I was actually impressed with what Wine can run, but it's not going to work for the latest and greatest new games.
The correlation is theoretically because the people most likely to take advantage of legalized abortion are people who wouldn't be providing an ideal home environment if they kept the child, which is going to increase the child's chances of becoming a criminal. The conclusion was so interesting because it's initially surprising, but makes sense when you think about it (which type of phenomena the book is about). They're not just making a "Kill everyone and there'll be no crime!" argument.
In Canada that sounds like a deal. I'm paying that for basic phone, basic internet (5/1 with a 20gb monthly cap and throttled p2p), and cable with a few extra channels. And that's after haggling with Rogers and threatening to disconnect in order to get the price cut by 20-30%. I thought American internet was weak until I moved to Canada. We're in the dark ages up here. If the FCC behaved like the CRTC does, techies in the states would riot.
It's not in America, but the 407 in Canada is privately operated by lease from the Ontario government and serves the GTA (Greater Toronto Area). It's very profitable, has no toll booths (it uses transponders for frequent users, or license plate recognition via cameras at on and off ramps and mails a bill directly to you), and serves its purpose well for people who want to avoid traffic on the QEW for a couple of dollars.
There's a chapter about this in "Freakonomics" by Dubner and Levitt, where they run the numbers and point out that legalizing abortion and putting more cops on the streets has done more to lower the crime rate than any number of executions per year ever will.
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One ironic thing about your post is that you know so much about Mapplethorpe, but cannot spell his name.
The link was marked as not for the faint hearted. Would you have still complained if the image had been violent, or perhaps a tasteful photo of naked breasts? What exactly did you expect to see that's not for the faint-hearted, but is simultaneously sterile and inoffensive enough for the workplace? Perhaps your complaint has more to do with you personally disagreeing with the content of the work.
Sure, but unless the thing he's calling an "mp3 player" is more accurately described as a "discman" or "FLAC player" your math doesn't work.
At 320kbs MP3 at 44khz, you could listen to music for 8 hours a day nonstop for a month and not listen to 40 gigs of music. If you listened to the same MP3s 24 hours a day for 7 days, you wouldn't hit 25 gigs.
I think it'd do a lot of people some good to go through your mp3 collection and delete a bunch of shit you don't actually listen to. I recently trimmed about 15 gigs (around 2000 songs) out of my MP3 collection, and I don't miss them. I'm actually happier if for no other reason than listening to music on shuffle mode is more responsive to what I like, and I don't end up skipping 10 songs for every 1 I want to hear. No one gives a shit about epeen things like who has the biggest mp3 collection.
If you actually listen to all of your music and enjoy it, then more power to you, and just ignore me. I only respond because a lot of people who make statements like that just have Compulsive Hoarding, and cover it up by claiming they really do listen to all 180 gigabytes of MP3s they have, even if there's probably not enough time in a year for them to hear it all.
And it'll run a maximum of 10% of the processes your system can actually handle before giving you a friendly dialog box offering to let you upgrade to the full Windows XYZ experience by purchasing Windows XYZ Ultimate Edition.
It basically sounds like Scientology developed its own coding methodology. He was trying to do a sprint to burndown some backlog, but he got stuck in a process and got enturbulated, so he had to get the ScrumMaster to audit his code for engrams so he can make some big wins and move up the bridge. The best part is that under this system, you pay your boss to write code for him...
That's a slight misconception. Constantine never made Christianity the official religion of the empire. Legend has it that at the Battle of Milvian Bridge, during the revolt of Maxentius, Constantine had a vision of the cross in the sky, with the words "In Hoc Signo Vinces"-- In This Sign You Shall Conquer. He went on to defeat Maxentius's armies, despite being outnumbered 2:1. His mother was Christian, and it's true that he was the first emperor to be tolerant of Christians (compared to Nero or Diocletian), but Christianity would not be declared the official religion of the empire until the reign of Theodosius.
I majored in History and we were taught the basic milestones of Roman Christianity as follows: Diocletian was the last major state campaign of oppression against Christianity. Under Constantine Christianity became tolerated. His mother was Christian, but there is no evidence that he ever converted. Some people say he converted on his deathbed, but there are no primary sources who back that up. In the reign of Theodosius Nicene Christianity was made the official religion of the empire, but pagan religions were still tolerated. Finally, under Justinian after the fall of the Western Empire, Christianity was declared the ONLY state religion, and all other religions were persecuted.
An air gap means the network isn't connected to the public internet, or to unsecured networks. The "air gap" is the open air between the secure computers and the insecure computers. At present most networking gear has a hard time routing packets through open air, but I hear they're ginning up a new RFC to address that.
More and more jungle and drum'n'bass parties are turning up a bad crowd. I'd never fear for my safety at an old school trance/house/ambient/whatever rave, but I quit going to jungle and d'n'b shows the first time I went to one where someone got stabbed.
For reference, the engine is called id Tech 5, and it is being used for a game called Rage, amongst other things. The RAGE Engine is Rockstar's engine, which was used for GTA4, Midnight Club LA, and for the upcoming Max Payne sequel. Not replying to you specifically so much as all the people I've seen referring to id's "Rage Engine". It's going to get confusing...
You're complaining because you got to play a brand new game for 20 or 30 dollars? It's a question of supply and demand. There are obviously a lot of people out there willing to sell their games at these prices, because my local Gamestop is overflowing with used games. This actually would suggest from an economic standpoint that they're giving too much for used games.
It's much worse than a 50/50 chance.
They don't realize that they have zero God to begin with...
Go back to Shell Beach. Dark City was was good, but it wasn't all that. The Matrix was a great movie. It really summed up the Zeitgeist of the fin de siecle. It came at the end of an era when everyone was looking for meaning, and things were about to change drastically. If you didn't walk out of the theater after seeing The Matrix for the first time wanting to break shit, completely pumped to see it again about 10 or 15 more times, there's something wrong with you. It's easy to hate on it in retrospect because the two sequels were lackluster (but, I would contend, not really bad), and because it's become trendy to hate on things that a lot of people think is good. It's like hating your favorite band once they become popular, just because they're not "yours" anymore.
It kind of makes me wish The Matrix had done worse at the box office, because it would now be more of a cult classic, like Fight Club, which had a disappointing box office take but thrived in DVD sales.
It's also the operative word in the post I was replying to, which was my point (along with making a funny post, and tweaking Jesus freaks a little).
I am sorry for you. I really am.
This sense of self-righteousness pretty much sums up your entire reply. I don't need your pity, and neither do my friends. I have very few close friends, but I am fiercely loyal to those few. I have friends that I would take a bullet for, but I could count them on one hand and not need my thumb or my pinkie. I'm happy that way, and I'd like to think those around me are too. They always know exactly where they stand, and so do I. Is honesty not the foundation of any healthy relationship?
The pinnacle of arrogance is not so much believing that you can never make a mistake in your own life or go down those roads, but that you will know when you are doing it. Sometimes it takes someone close to you to give you that swift kick in the jimmy to let you know you are doing something stupid.
And sometimes the crazy chance you take that all your friends warn you away from defines your life and tempers you into a better person. I like having friends who, in certain situations, might advise caution, but who know that when my mind is set on something there's nothing they can do. I have to make my own mistakes, and I've made a lot, but I learn from them. You can't coddle people and shield them from the world, no matter how much you love them.
Additionally, I think being one of your "friends" would be depressing.
Any of my acquaintances who feel that way are more than free to go their own way. If they keep holding on anyway, they're not looking for a friend, they're looking for a life raft. Which leads me to...
That kind of thing is typically what feeds directly into suicidal thoughts during the aftermath of some kind of traumatic event.
I'm not a counselor. I'm not a doctor. I don't try to be. I don't claim to be. I pride myself on being a good listener, and I take the giving of advice as a solemn responsibility. But if I give you advice and try to help you, and you just don't listen, then so be it. You are set on your path, you're a big boy, and I'm not your father. If someone close to me has a traumatic event I'm going to be there for them, but I can't do it all. If, god forbid, that person should commit suicide, you're saying that would be on me? Come on.
Your definition of friend seems to be pretty watered down. I call those people acquaintances, not friends. Friends are the people that WILL go to hell and back for you, and that you will go to hell and back for.
I guess I'm just not a big fuzzy teddybear who's anxious to brag about how many friends he has and how popular he is. I'm happy having one or two very close friends and just a lot of other people I hang out with. But frankly I just have too much going on in my own life to try to play shrink, priest, and confidant to every single person in the latter group who has a bad day and needs a hug. I care. I'm going to be kind and supportive. But don't violate the boundaries of our relationship by trying to use me as your flotation device.
I could go on and on, but it's just very clear that we have two very different views of the friend relationship, and it's clear that we're both happy where we are. The difference is that you don't see me telling you how sorry I am that you're not more like me, and how depressing that must be for your friends. Get over yourself.
It's kind of a coin toss about who's more annoying though: a friend who's blasted out of his mind, or a friend who won't shut up about Jesus. ;)
People want friends, not projects; unless they're fucked up and compensating. Of course friendships and relationships involve a little convenience, but having to feel like it's your responsibility to rescue someone from themselves is more than a little inconvenience, and frankly I think most people can agree they don't hold all of their friends on a level where they would find that necessary. I have quite a few friends, but very very few I'd feel the need to march into hell to save from their own poor impulse control; and even those would probably wear out their welcome pretty quickly.
Most of the drug addicts I've met seem happy, as long as they have drugs.
The biggest question mark for the itanium is whether it will be superceded by a superior technology before 64 bit becomes mainstream.
I think we'll see the market jump directly to 128 bit processing. In a few years we'll look back and laugh at the conceit that 18 exabytes of RAM ought to be enough for anybody. How else am I supposed to run Peeno, the cool new desktop theme on Windows 9? It support mouse cursor transparency!