Odd Tood (the site this is hosted on has some of the funniest Flash animations I've ever seen. Esp. his first one "Laid Off"... but didn't he get busted because he made some damn good money in his "tip jar" and never reported it to the IRS?
Anyone have the skinny on this?
PS: watch the videos. You'll laugh. www.oddtodd.com.
Exactly!
You can't fight lack of education and desperation with guns and bombs, unless you plan on committing genocide.
Try education, understanding, communication. Those are the "weapons" in a ware against terrorism.
What scares me the most is my WHOLE LIFE I'll be dealing with backlash from the current administration, and my children will be suffering the damage done to education and world relations.
http://www.greasecar.com has been selling these conversion kits for a couple of years now, for less than $1,000 I think! They've driven across the US powered by grease!
You can read the write-up about their trip at sierra club:
http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200111/homefront_ printable.asp#Grease
I don't know... how do his findings prove the Everquest gamers aren't geeks (see snip below).
And did you see this guy's picture. You just have to look glance at him to know that he's a gamer geek. I can safely say this b/c I'm a computer/gaming geek with a goatee.
The gist of this article is "According to Dr Mark (who's a single guy that plays video games over 40 hours a week), all the single guys who play video games 40 hours a week weren't geeks."
I guess he figures he can get plenty of support on slashdot. Maybe a sort of revenge of the nerds type thing???
---snip--- Its key findings included: * Over 60% of players were older than 19. * About 85% of players were male. * Fifteen percent of people play for more than 50 hours a week. * A "significant minority" (15%) adopt a character gender opposite to their own.
Professor Griffiths said: "There is an image that people who play online games excessively are nerdy and geeky... This is not the case." ---/snip---
If you get on one of these things, you end up with this shit-eating grin that you just can't stop. It's amazingly intuitive.. even my grandparents could use it. Very cool and fun. It blows away any "scooter" on the market.. and honestly it's no bigger than a person standing. You can turn on a dime, because the wheels spin independantly. I watched some guy smack into another guy while going pretty fast, and they were both fine. It was sort of like someone was jogging and bumped into someone. Sure that can hurt, but unless someone gets tossed under the wheels of a car, no one will get killed.
I have a 400mhz Ti-Book with 256megs of RAM. I love how pretty OSX is, but it's DOG SLOW on my machine. Yesterday I was leaning over someone's desk in the office and I was amazed at how fast her machine was. Her machine is a 2nd generation (green) iMac. It's something like a 266mhz G3 with 128megs of RAM, and it was much faster than a G4 400mhz powerbook with twice as much ram!
It really hurts b/c I spent about a grand on software to make the move. When I get in in the morning I run Entourage, IE, Filemaker, Word and Excel, and every application is slower. I won't even talk about those few times I have to use Virtual PC.
Some of this is perceptive stuff, and some is clearly slow performance. For instance, when I hit save and an alert comes up... it does this silly little animation, which means it takes an extra half second to do ANYTHING. But other programs are just wrong. For instance Entourage I've done the following:
1) I hit "command-N" for a new message
2) type in christine (my wife) for name
3) tab four times (to subject... used to be twice in outlook)
4) type a subject like "what's up for diner tonight?"
5) tab again
6) type "hey honey, "
RESULT: I can be a whole sentence into the body of a message before the UI catches up, at which point I realize it never caught Christine as my wife.. so I have to mouse back up to the top of the email, delete the bogus email address and put in the new one.
I just reinstalled the system, and it appears to have helped.. but not much. I also got my hands on a firewire drive, and I'm going to try erasing the hard drive.. but if that doesn't help my next step is to try to get my mail out of Entourage and back into Outlook for OS9.
I LOVE how pretty OSX is, but it's just not up to using office on my machine.
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Odd Tood (the site this is hosted on has some of the funniest Flash animations I've ever seen. Esp. his first one "Laid Off"... but didn't he get busted because he made some damn good money in his "tip jar" and never reported it to the IRS? Anyone have the skinny on this? PS: watch the videos. You'll laugh. www.oddtodd.com.
Exactly! You can't fight lack of education and desperation with guns and bombs, unless you plan on committing genocide. Try education, understanding, communication. Those are the "weapons" in a ware against terrorism. What scares me the most is my WHOLE LIFE I'll be dealing with backlash from the current administration, and my children will be suffering the damage done to education and world relations.
http://www.greasecar.com has been selling these conversion kits for a couple of years now, for less than $1,000 I think! They've driven across the US powered by grease! You can read the write-up about their trip at sierra club: http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200111/homefront_ printable.asp#Grease
I don't know... how do his findings prove the Everquest gamers aren't geeks (see snip below).
And did you see this guy's picture. You just have to look glance at him to know that he's a gamer geek. I can safely say this b/c I'm a computer/gaming geek with a goatee.
The gist of this article is
"According to Dr Mark (who's a single guy that plays video games over 40 hours a week), all the single guys who play video games 40 hours a week weren't geeks."
I guess he figures he can get plenty of support on slashdot. Maybe a sort of revenge of the nerds type thing???
---snip---
Its key findings included:
* Over 60% of players were older than 19.
* About 85% of players were male.
* Fifteen percent of people play for more than 50 hours a week.
* A "significant minority" (15%) adopt a character gender opposite to their own.
Professor Griffiths said: "There is an image that people who play online games excessively are nerdy and geeky... This is not the case."
---/snip---
If you get on one of these things, you end up with this shit-eating grin that you just can't stop. It's amazingly intuitive.. even my grandparents could use it. Very cool and fun. It blows away any "scooter" on the market.. and honestly it's no bigger than a person standing. You can turn on a dime, because the wheels spin independantly. I watched some guy smack into another guy while going pretty fast, and they were both fine. It was sort of like someone was jogging and bumped into someone. Sure that can hurt, but unless someone gets tossed under the wheels of a car, no one will get killed.
I have a 400mhz Ti-Book with 256megs of RAM. I love how pretty OSX is, but it's DOG SLOW on my machine. Yesterday I was leaning over someone's desk in the office and I was amazed at how fast her machine was. Her machine is a 2nd generation (green) iMac. It's something like a 266mhz G3 with 128megs of RAM, and it was much faster than a G4 400mhz powerbook with twice as much ram! It really hurts b/c I spent about a grand on software to make the move. When I get in in the morning I run Entourage, IE, Filemaker, Word and Excel, and every application is slower. I won't even talk about those few times I have to use Virtual PC. Some of this is perceptive stuff, and some is clearly slow performance. For instance, when I hit save and an alert comes up... it does this silly little animation, which means it takes an extra half second to do ANYTHING. But other programs are just wrong. For instance Entourage I've done the following: 1) I hit "command-N" for a new message 2) type in christine (my wife) for name 3) tab four times (to subject... used to be twice in outlook) 4) type a subject like "what's up for diner tonight?" 5) tab again 6) type "hey honey, " RESULT: I can be a whole sentence into the body of a message before the UI catches up, at which point I realize it never caught Christine as my wife.. so I have to mouse back up to the top of the email, delete the bogus email address and put in the new one. I just reinstalled the system, and it appears to have helped.. but not much. I also got my hands on a firewire drive, and I'm going to try erasing the hard drive.. but if that doesn't help my next step is to try to get my mail out of Entourage and back into Outlook for OS9. I LOVE how pretty OSX is, but it's just not up to using office on my machine.