Here are some bad things about Canada.
ok I'm ready..
1. It's full of Canadians.
See your 5 reasons Canada is good, ok now imagine Canada full of americans, oops where'd all the good points go? I won't even bother with the case of the british currently occupying Canada, the deaths at the border crossings alone rules out that..
2. It's gets really cold.
It's about 53F here right now, give it a few weeks and it'll be >60F, warm enough for me (what's it like in the dakotas or maine right now?).
3. Lots of French people in Canada.
Actually very few, but we have way too many french-canadians (the french would not like any association with them, as do most canadians). Of course w/o them there would be no poutine, and that would be a very sad day. Plus if there were no french-canadians we'd have to make fun of some minority group and that's racist.
Of course if you aren't a software engineer or you are a "pointy haired boss" then I'm not surprised you haven't read it and think throwing extra money and people at a project will make it faster.
Dell doesn't have a "no dead pixels" policy, but if you mention that you're going to return the monitor to their "LCD support center" (I.E. Some cheap warm bodies on the other end of a long phone line to india) they'll replace your display... Just don't be surprised if the one you get is worse. They consider up to 5 dead or stuck pixels "acceptable".
I recently had a Dell lcd with a unlit pixel right off center. It took me a month to get it replaced. It was part of a open box ofsale from dfs and I hadn't "taken delivery" yet since it takes a month for the paperwork to go through to change the warranty. If the end requesting to return the entire system for a refund and stating that the ISO standard for a 15" lcd is not 5 dead pixels but 2 or less depending on the location (side is deemed more acceptable and a lit red center is not acceptable iirc). Funny thing is that all reps I talked to stated upto 5 pixels were acceptable.. 5 pixels on a 15" monitor is way beyond accepable imho.
In my case I just didn't want a screen with a black spot in the middle (it was pretty bad when working on documents or images). From now on I am buying lcd's from local suppliers (bestbuy/futureshop) that allow no questions asked returns in the case I can't check out the monitor in store. Of course if a store allows nqa returns in the first month it's in their best interest to let you pick through their monitors so they don't get a return.
My question is if they have finally implemented full proper rendring of PNGs will they backport it to previous versions of IE?
If not we'll be stuck with binary transparencies since most online users will be running IE 6.
Excellent. That is basically forcing something positive about linux and admitting something where windows could "grow". We already know he will spout many wrong things about linux but lets here what he does think is good about it.
The official versiom of the game was played on THPS 2 on a friends dreamcast using bleem and drinking 151. Any version of the game will do and any form of booze. It's embarassingly simple.
-setup for 2 player rounds of graffity
-each player can choose a character (all characters must be of similar ability unless a handicap is agreed on).
-PLAY
-loser does a shot of booze and passes the controller. Winner stays for upto 3 rounds. (some varietions included making someone who won too much drink)
Pretty simple. The two minute rounds keep it interesting. Of course the more you lose the drunker you get and the more you lose and... If we played before the bar we rarely made it there:D.
Excellent point. I use my computer as a DAW and for some programming and web devel , a little photoediting now and then.. etc. I use my gamecube to play games.
I used to play counterstrike and the likes, but I now prefer console games (and I run an athlon64 with a decent video card).
Consoles are made specifically to play games, plus there's the group factor: my friends and I can drink heavily while we sit around playing wario inc or mario party (or THPS, we have a great drinking game for that).. consoles are for gaming and are compatible with groups, computers are for individuals and happen to play games (lan parties don't count as groups, it is still individuals sitting apart from each other not directly interacting, might as well be at home).
If you are alluding to Douglas Adams, mice already have superior brains (in the book), so why would you want them to have human brains? Now dolphins on the other hand...:D
Why not just call it a temp job?
I have two friends that work in the gaming industry (one does sound the other does character). Both have been laid off multiple times. Why? The major project they were on was done with and there were no new projects on the table, so they were laid off.
The first time for both (they worked together at first) it was a small company so that was understandable.. but from my limited knowledge this seems to be the norm.
I have finals this week and i'm study^H^H^H^H^H on slashdot. Of course my major is CSc so this counts as studying, or close enough to it.
Just like talking to girls is pretty much like dating them, and chatting online to girls is basically the same as talking to them, and chatting to a bot that emulates a female is basically the same as chatting to a real female.. ergo anyone can have a gf.
I just wish that more artists would realize the benefits of allowing the free distribution of their music.
Here, here. As a muscian I fully agree and have been directing every other musician I know to creativecommons.org.
If more people hear your music more people will buy your music, but that isn't understood by most musicians. The percentage of people that buy your music may be smaller, but that doesn't matter if you maximize the amount of people that hear your music your net will be larger.
If you are only getting radioplay locally and say 100,000 people hear your stuff and 2% buy it, you've sold to 2000 people. But lets say you reach 1 million people online through them downloading your music, to make the same sales only 0.2% that download need to buy.
I'm not sure what the numbers are (or if anyone knows for sure) how many people that download music actually buy it, but the numbers don't have to be big. Plus the exposure to further regions mean more oportunities to travel. Maybe your band is only slightly popular here, well it could be huge in japan or germany.. but if your music never gets there how will you know?
There are groups i would have never heard of if friends didn't send me mp3's (ie tarkan which a turkish friend sent to me). If I like it I pass it on to other friends etc. That way a band gets exponetially more listeners than local radio/video play. Alas some bands are dumb and do not understand this or think they are so huge and world renound they don't need such a distribution method (metalica).
Haha. Awesome that's the first game i thought of when i saw this. I still have faceball 2000, man was that a disapointing xmas gift (the single player mode wasn't entertaining for long).
exactly. However much MS would like to run down every joe schmoe with a pirated copy of windows (3.11 through 2003 server) they are more likely to be going after companies that sell computers with non-legit copies of winXP.
I wonder how many stores are selling computers with xp corp. and generated keys just so they can undercut the competition or make an extra buck?
As for the free software.. no one was going to buy it anyhow, so why not give it out as a perk? I think my parents might be getting some legitimate crappy photo software this week, for free.
Too bad i have no mod points today, that is insightful, sadly true, yet insightful.
Reminds me of when a recent employer asked why their computer was so slow. I took a look it. Pretty generic xp1400 running windows XP with 128MB ram. However the poor thing was diving into swap like an anorexic teen into a fruit smoothy. I added another 128mb and it ran great (well for a crummy computer running multiple insantces of bonzai buddy). For them though it was a night and day difference and they had no clue what the prolbem was.
Moral of the story: Anorexic teen girls love fruit smoothies. Especially "real" fruit smoothies. (and xp eats ram?)
The point isn't to make you want to buy the product, it's getting the brand in your head so it's the first thing you think of in that catergory. It's not to get you to buy the product, it's to get you to buy that brand if you are buying that type of product.(although some comercials are blatent you need this, such as infomercials)
quick name a brand of cola!
lemme guess, It was coke or pepsi, the most advertised brands, not RC, or jolt, or zeddy-brand zellars cola etc.
And my dad who has a PhD opened a virus attachment (at least it wasn't a pass coded one, i'd never let up on him). PhD != smart in all areas. It means excessive knowledge in a specific area. Now if he PhD thesis was on firewalls and internet security....
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Here are some bad things about Canada.
ok I'm ready..
1. It's full of Canadians.
See your 5 reasons Canada is good, ok now imagine Canada full of americans, oops where'd all the good points go? I won't even bother with the case of the british currently occupying Canada, the deaths at the border crossings alone rules out that..
2. It's gets really cold.
It's about 53F here right now, give it a few weeks and it'll be >60F, warm enough for me (what's it like in the dakotas or maine right now?).
3. Lots of French people in Canada.
Actually very few, but we have way too many french-canadians (the french would not like any association with them, as do most canadians). Of course w/o them there would be no poutine, and that would be a very sad day.
Plus if there were no french-canadians we'd have to make fun of some minority group and that's racist.
Apart from the fact I actually *like* the Gnome desktop better than OS X, I can still use the Mini to run all of my favorite Unix apps.
Umm, why don't you run yellow dog linux? Then you can run all your favorite linux apps with your favorite desktop environment.
Surely that would have brought down development times, and we could have it sooner?
Obviously you haven't read The mythical Man Month.
Of course if you aren't a software engineer or you are a "pointy haired boss" then I'm not surprised you haven't read it and think throwing extra money and people at a project will make it faster.
This is a server OS, it makes no sense to have it be insecure by default.
Theo is that you?
Dell doesn't have a "no dead pixels" policy, but if you mention that you're going to return the monitor to their "LCD support center" (I.E. Some cheap warm bodies on the other end of a long phone line to india) they'll replace your display... Just don't be surprised if the one you get is worse. They consider up to 5 dead or stuck pixels "acceptable".
I recently had a Dell lcd with a unlit pixel right off center. It took me a month to get it replaced. It was part of a open box ofsale from dfs and I hadn't "taken delivery" yet since it takes a month for the paperwork to go through to change the warranty. If the end requesting to return the entire system for a refund and stating that the ISO standard for a 15" lcd is not 5 dead pixels but 2 or less depending on the location (side is deemed more acceptable and a lit red center is not acceptable iirc). Funny thing is that all reps I talked to stated upto 5 pixels were acceptable.. 5 pixels on a 15" monitor is way beyond accepable imho.
In my case I just didn't want a screen with a black spot in the middle (it was pretty bad when working on documents or images). From now on I am buying lcd's from local suppliers (bestbuy/futureshop) that allow no questions asked returns in the case I can't check out the monitor in store. Of course if a store allows nqa returns in the first month it's in their best interest to let you pick through their monitors so they don't get a return.
I just read the pictures.
My question is if they have finally implemented full proper rendring of PNGs will they backport it to previous versions of IE? If not we'll be stuck with binary transparencies since most online users will be running IE 6.
Expect bad news for Lexmark on all fronts
when i first read that i thought it said fonts and man did I giggle.
What, you would prefer EMACSparkling Fedora?
Excellent. That is basically forcing something positive about linux and admitting something where windows could "grow". We already know he will spout many wrong things about linux but lets here what he does think is good about it.
The official versiom of the game was played on THPS 2 on a friends dreamcast using bleem and drinking 151. Any version of the game will do and any form of booze. It's embarassingly simple.
:D.
-setup for 2 player rounds of graffity
-each player can choose a character (all characters must be of similar ability unless a handicap is agreed on).
-PLAY
-loser does a shot of booze and passes the controller. Winner stays for upto 3 rounds. (some varietions included making someone who won too much drink)
Pretty simple. The two minute rounds keep it interesting. Of course the more you lose the drunker you get and the more you lose and... If we played before the bar we rarely made it there
Excellent point. I use my computer as a DAW and for some programming and web devel , a little photoediting now and then.. etc. I use my gamecube to play games. I used to play counterstrike and the likes, but I now prefer console games (and I run an athlon64 with a decent video card).
Consoles are made specifically to play games, plus there's the group factor: my friends and I can drink heavily while we sit around playing wario inc or mario party (or THPS, we have a great drinking game for that).. consoles are for gaming and are compatible with groups, computers are for individuals and happen to play games (lan parties don't count as groups, it is still individuals sitting apart from each other not directly interacting, might as well be at home).
If you are alluding to Douglas Adams, mice already have superior brains (in the book), so why would you want them to have human brains? Now dolphins on the other hand... :D
Why not just call it a temp job? I have two friends that work in the gaming industry (one does sound the other does character). Both have been laid off multiple times. Why? The major project they were on was done with and there were no new projects on the table, so they were laid off. The first time for both (they worked together at first) it was a small company so that was understandable.. but from my limited knowledge this seems to be the norm.
I have finals this week and i'm study^H^H^H^H^H on slashdot. Of course my major is CSc so this counts as studying, or close enough to it.
Just like talking to girls is pretty much like dating them, and chatting online to girls is basically the same as talking to them, and chatting to a bot that emulates a female is basically the same as chatting to a real female.. ergo anyone can have a gf.
good thing i'm not a philosophy(sp?) major.
I just wish that more artists would realize the benefits of allowing the free distribution of their music.
Here, here. As a muscian I fully agree and have been directing every other musician I know to creativecommons.org.
If more people hear your music more people will buy your music, but that isn't understood by most musicians. The percentage of people that buy your music may be smaller, but that doesn't matter if you maximize the amount of people that hear your music your net will be larger.
If you are only getting radioplay locally and say 100,000 people hear your stuff and 2% buy it, you've sold to 2000 people. But lets say you reach 1 million people online through them downloading your music, to make the same sales only 0.2% that download need to buy.
I'm not sure what the numbers are (or if anyone knows for sure) how many people that download music actually buy it, but the numbers don't have to be big. Plus the exposure to further regions mean more oportunities to travel. Maybe your band is only slightly popular here, well it could be huge in japan or germany.. but if your music never gets there how will you know?
There are groups i would have never heard of if friends didn't send me mp3's (ie tarkan which a turkish friend sent to me). If I like it I pass it on to other friends etc. That way a band gets exponetially more listeners than local radio/video play. Alas some bands are dumb and do not understand this or think they are so huge and world renound they don't need such a distribution method (metalica).
Haha. Awesome that's the first game i thought of when i saw this. I still have faceball 2000, man was that a disapointing xmas gift (the single player mode wasn't entertaining for long).
The Music rocked though. Here's a link
exactly. However much MS would like to run down every joe schmoe with a pirated copy of windows (3.11 through 2003 server) they are more likely to be going after companies that sell computers with non-legit copies of winXP.
I wonder how many stores are selling computers with xp corp. and generated keys just so they can undercut the competition or make an extra buck?
As for the free software.. no one was going to buy it anyhow, so why not give it out as a perk? I think my parents might be getting some legitimate crappy photo software this week, for free.
here
In other words, almost everyone buying computers.
Too bad i have no mod points today, that is insightful, sadly true, yet insightful.
Reminds me of when a recent employer asked why their computer was so slow. I took a look it. Pretty generic xp1400 running windows XP with 128MB ram. However the poor thing was diving into swap like an anorexic teen into a fruit smoothy. I added another 128mb and it ran great (well for a crummy computer running multiple insantces of bonzai buddy). For them though it was a night and day difference and they had no clue what the prolbem was.
Moral of the story: Anorexic teen girls love fruit smoothies. Especially "real" fruit smoothies.
(and xp eats ram?)
Catholic Computing
ah yes so that would be the purgatory processor ?
Not computing heaven and not quite computing hell.
I have the sudden urge to ask you if you "take paypal?". Too weird.
quick, think of a brand of tortilla chips!
The point isn't to make you want to buy the product, it's getting the brand in your head so it's the first thing you think of in that catergory. It's not to get you to buy the product, it's to get you to buy that brand if you are buying that type of product.(although some comercials are blatent you need this, such as infomercials)
quick name a brand of cola!
lemme guess, It was coke or pepsi, the most advertised brands, not RC, or jolt, or zeddy-brand zellars cola etc.
My mom, who has a PhD by the way
And my dad who has a PhD opened a virus attachment (at least it wasn't a pass coded one, i'd never let up on him). PhD != smart in all areas. It means excessive knowledge in a specific area. Now if he PhD thesis was on firewalls and internet security....