You should look into the BAT Personal keyboard. They have different models for right and left hands. Fairly easy to use, I was able to type about 40WPM in less than a week on a MEDUSA workstation. I still prefer my Model M at home...
>Changing the source of pollution does not eliminate >the contaminants or remove our dependence on >foreign oil/non-renewable energy.
Actually, it does. If each and every vehicle is an oil-burning engine, you can't get good control over the emissions. If all the energy production is carried out at a smaller number of large institutions, such as electrical power plants, it's easier to monitor and correct the emissions.
It does not reduce the need for oil, though I'll allow that only about 2% of power generation plants are oil-fueled.
It will not produce the desired effect of cleaner emissions as you state. Sure, it makes logical sense: power plants are an ideal location to perform strict emissions controls and take corrective measures.
History, however, has shown that the corporations running power generation plants will drag their feet on any proposed regulatory change that will improve air and water quality. It's cheaper for these corporations to grease a few hundred palms in government to delay or sabotage legislation that would affect their bottom line than to retrofit their existing plants. It helps to have an administration with major ties to the energy market.
Bush wants to weaken the "Clean Air Act" with the "Clear Skies" proposal: I hope those folks downwind like the new Government Approved 200% increase in mercury vapor!
Let's not also forget that older coal power generation plants still don't have to comply with the CAA, and they produce 10 times the emissions of new coal-fired plants that are in compliance with the CAA. I seem to remember Bush and Cheney wanted to allow new coal plants to be exempt from the CAA regulations. I think they backpedaled on that idea and are trying to weaken existing regulations.
Coal-fired power generating plants make up some 55% (give or take a few percent) of the total market, cause greater than 90% of the total emissions of SO2, NOx, CO2 and almost 99% of mercury emissions. Their use for "clean" power generation in the form of hydrogen fuel cells must be discouraged to protect the public interest. Otherwise, your "clean" hydrogen car, really isn't.
From all your knee-jerk Bush bashing you've probably failed to notice that Bush has recently made some exceedingly smart decisions regarding science. Stem-cell research aside (which has grave and ambiguous moral problems), he has excelled by initiating a vast hydrogen fuel program
Does Dick Cheney have an interest in hydrogen fuel production? Seriously, hydrogen fuel is a boondoggle environmental issue unless legislation is enacted restricting the methods of generation. What good is hydrogen fuel cell technology if most of the energy used to produce it comes from oil- or coal-burning plants? Changing the source of pollution does not eliminate the contaminants or remove our dependence on foreign oil/non-renewable energy. The real future is fusion, solar, wind, tidal research and technology, which get virtually no funding. They're just not sexy, because they're not an immediate band-aid.
Too bad the average American is willing to talk the talk, but will not pay the price that many of those modifications require. Ford, like the other vehicle manufacturers, only sells what the people want. And at present, even those nice wonderful and green hybrid vehicles only make up a very small percentage of vehicle sales.
Hah, what a load of crap! Maybe if Ford gave up a part of that 40% profit they make off sales of every Explorer, they could introduce more affordable hybrids (or simply better gas mileage). All of the auto manufacturers make huge profits (30-50%) off their Selfish Urban-assault Vehicle sales and have no desire to introduce more expensive production costs to these lines, no matter what "the people want." It's really all about what they can make "the people" think they want with deceptive ads touting how "safe" they are and how "adventurous" you are.
I find a mostly bright yellow (#EAEA06) on black works best for me.
Ahh, I remember the good (bad?) ol' days of coding on an amber screen terminal. I almost never got eyestrain. Of course, I had reams of greenbar paper that needed to be referenced from time to time, so I wasn't just staring at the screen for eight hours a day.
Try orienting your screen so that you can glance out a window or down a corridor from time to time. I would try to alter my environment and work habits before putting plugs in my tear ducts (they won't prevent eyestrain, anyway).
I don't think one has to have attended an Ivy league school to get a good score test but I do think that one has to have attended a quality school with good professors.
Don't get me wrong; I think I got a decent education from the public school that I went to, as well. I would say that most people who pay enough attention in class at most any accredited college will learn enough to become decent professionals in the field of Computer Science.
However, to get into a Ph. D. program, you have to be better than decent, as you have noted in your post. You're going up against a tough crowd of people from some of the finest institutions in the world. The test isn't about doing well, it's about doing better than a substantial percentage of all the other people taking the test.
In a general Computer Science degree, you just won't be (in my opinion) exposed to the depth and breadth needed to really excel on the subject test. And that's what it's all about. If you can score in the 90th+ percentile, you will get in a Ph. D. program somewhere. If you can score in the 95th+ percentile, you'll probably have a free ride, too (stipend and tuition remission). Don't forget that the regular GRE is also important as it relates to getting teaching assistantships in some cases. The general GRE test is all about gaming the system, a trained moron could ace the test -- get the Princeton Review book and read it thoroughly.
Take all the important books from your undergraduate studies (you did keep them, right?) and spend six months reading everything that your professors glossed over. The important books would be from the classes for: compiler construction (preferably the "Dragon book"), computer architecture (preferably Tanenbaum's "Structured Computer Organization"), design and analysis of algorithms, fundamentals of programming languages, don't forget discrete mathematics (Gries' "A Logical Approach to Discrete Math" can't be beat), linear algebra, and The Holy Bible (there are currently many extremely bright people hoping to get into a Ph.D. program to weather the horrendous economy).
On the worst reviewed book: do not, under any circumstances, read any portion of it. Even now, there are dark corners of my mind where its evil influence still lurks, terrorizing otherwise productive neurons into inaction.
To be honest, and not to sound elitist, unless you attended an Ivy League school, or a quality private school (such as RPI), you're probably screwed. The best way to prepare is to get into a Master's program that doesn't require the subject test (most don't), then take the test right after that.
I know smart people who were blasted by the subject test, got their Master's, then went on and scored in the 95th - 99th percentile the second time around. It's just a matter of what you were exposed to in school. I know that without the programming languages course and compilers course, both electives that most people avoid at my school, I would have tanked the subject test.
Believe it or not, most people in the US see this as the class warfare tripe that it is, and most of them don't agree that rich people are "assholes". Why? Because most of those people are looking forward to the day when they too get to be "rich". And when they "arrive" ... [blah blah blah]
Well, your "most people" who think they're going to "arrive" are just deluding themselves. Do you make less than $300,000/year? You're NOT rich. You're not likely to become rich, either. Unless you're waiting for Uncle moneybags to die, waiting to get that $3 million/year contract from (insert sports team here), or have incriminating evidence on your boss/board of directors.
It's like when the Republicans were going around calling the inheritance tax, the (cue spooky music) "Death Tax." Lots of people were against it, naturally. Of course, unless they inherited a quarter million dollars, or more, they wouldn't get hit by it. People were fooled by the weasel words and/or by deluding themselves into thinking they were going to inherit a ton of money (that should rightly be taxed).
Meanwhile, you can restore playability to your CDs. Try automotive carnuba wax, Brasso, or peanut butter - whichever you happen to have handy.
I tried this and it didn't work. Maybe I shouldn't have bought the Skippy Extra Crunchy Peanut Butter, but it was on sale!
I've used Crest Whitening Toothpaste to polish micro scratches out of my eyeglasses, for lack of available cerium oxide or rouge. The "grit" is supposedly around 5 microns according to some ATMers. Should work just as well on a CD.
I would understand if this was a petition to have John Romero dipped in alcohol and dragged naked over broken glass until he agreed to personally apologize to everyone who purchased this game and send a sympathy card to people who played the demo. But a petition to do a sequel? Are these people masochists?
There are plenty of other things these guys can do with their time:
Buy some other $5 game in EB's bargain bin.
Play Daikatana to remember what it was really like.
I haven't seen it yet, or read any spoilers, so I'm wondering if there's going to be a Faith spin-off. Not that I'd be all that interested in watching it, I think the franchise is pretty much done with the whole Slayer-facing-ultimate-evil thing. Wonder how well Angel is going to fare without the Buffy tie-in. Assuming there is any more Angel.
It seems Gamespy has posted their top ten picks from the 1903 E3 convention.
Funny, I thought it was a typo at first. Then I actually RTFA! I liked #9, but was disappointed that there wasn't mention of John von Neumann. Okay, so he wasn't born til December 28th. Perhaps he was represented in the glint of the booth babe's eyes...
The original story said "Yay jingoism!" instead of "Yay America!" I guess simoniker realized what an asshole he was being and edited his post. Either that or he actually looked up the word jingoism and saw that it didn't mean what he thought it did, but I doubt he has that many brain cells.
No, I think either statement is appropriate. I read the "Yay America" in a more sarcastic light, perhaps that wasn't his intention.
it's up to you to deliver a knockout punch to America's enemies
This is a fair example of marketing meets jingoism. Though for a wonderful example of it, just turn on Fox News and wait a few minutes...
Would a game in which you fly 747's into American buildings be more to your liking?
You mean like Microsoft Flight Simulator? I assumed that was the whole point of the game. Cripes, after about 4 minutes of being bored flying around, you just get that urge to see how fast you can plow the jetliner into the ground.
I suppose if you're a real American, you'd want to crash planes into Iraqi buildings.
And don't forget, this title proclaims ".. whether rumbling through a sun-baked desert, steaming tropical jungle or frozen tundra, it's up to you to deliver a knockout punch to America's enemies." Yay America! Boo America's enemies!
Wow, glue a "Jingoism Inside" sticker on the box and ship that bad boy!
Oh, my bad. It's already shipping. Hence the patch. Still, should be entertaining for a few minutes, eh?
Tidbit from the website: The demo consists of one mission in Iraq and show's [sic] off many aspects of the full version.
I loved that game nearly as much as "real" D&D. Of course, there were those tedious moments (days), such as leveling up outside the NW tower, using my frost horn on the 4 groups of 99 mobs of Red Dragons or whatever they were, entering the tower and back out for repop. Mmmm. Good, clean fun. Doubt the remake will stand up to the memory... I'll probably buy it anyway.
Makes you think they didnt even finish the game properly, kind of reminds of a game called Ultima IX.
Put the crack pipe down, my friend! Ultima IX had been in development for years longer than this Matrix title. Why, part way through, they started over from scratch! That shows dedication.
They have finally patched all of the major bugs (less than a year or so after release!) Sure, if you patch over any saved games, you're pretty much screwed. But that's the majesty of the Ultima universe. The avatar never tires of fighting evil, and bugs and poor patches are evil, yes?
Hmm, this was supposed to be about the Matrix game, so, vaguely on topic... The game is virtually unplayable on the PC. The graphics are unremarkable, but I'm somewhat impressed by the way it can bring down XP Pro inside 5 minutes of gaming. Audio clips range from good fx to trash-can resonating dialog, that could be the crappy SB Live, though. And I didn't expect much based on the Infogrames label. (Still remembering the totally crappy Drakkhen game I got suckered into buying years ago).
Only an idiot would get all high and mighty, and call the police right away. He deserved to be fired.
Tell your boss and let the company deal with it. Don't embarrass yourself and your employer all in one go. Sheesh, this is worthy of a front page story?
"Hey, I saw my boss whack Chuck in the basement, I should go make an appointment with the VP so that we can resolve this internally!"
What a fucking coward you are! And who modded this moron up? "Wahh, I don't want to get involved. I'm a spineless craven without the ability to think for myself. I must go to my boss so he can tell me what to think and say!"
It's doormats like you that have made the world what it is today. Maybe if people stood up for what was right, rather than roll over for anything that might cause them any discomfort, there'd be less crime. But what can be expected from someone who just wants to download MP3s and watch porn all day?
Anyone know which is more environmentally sound to recycle: plastic or aluminum? I would have guessed the aluminum requires less energy and releases fewer gasses than plastic, but I'm not sure.
Aluminum. Virgin aluminum is a bitch on the environment (in terms of pollutants and land use), recycled is a hell of a lot better. Of course, recycled plastic is even better than that.
Fuck your planet, you hippie freak! If I thought I'd be alive to see the worst consequences of our collective actions, I might give a fuck. But Dictator for Life Bush is gonna bomb the world to all fuck and back, so why care?
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Interesting link, thanks. I have to admit, that IS a damn good question. Where did all the money go? Why was there so much misery around her?
There's no accounting where the money went. Undoubtedly, some of it went to build clinics in other locations and to pay for her medical bills. As for the misery, well, she set up shop for the dying poor in third world countries. The vast majority of them were terminally ill and would have died in misery even if they stayed home. With all that money, surely she could have eased their suffering a bit?
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Hmm, well, I can't view the site since I don't run flash or read Dutch for that matter.
It's tough to be critical of Mother Theresa, but Gandhi is overrated.
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Gandhi got lucky, because he was battling the british empire that had a basic morality. Gandhi's philosophy itself, however, was fundamentally immoral.
I agree to some extent with your view on Gandhi. But, do you really know anything about Mother Theresa? Where did all of the money (hundreds of millions of dollars) that was donated to her Order go? It certainly didn't go toward improving the conditions of the dying people that flocked to her "clinics." They lived and died in horrid, squalid conditions. Those who were dying painful deaths were not given any form of pain killers, after all, suffering is good for the soul. All they received was a good "Catholic death," which was the point of her clinics really. They were not there for the ill, just the dying. But did they have to die in pain and misery in squalid conditions?
While she checked into the best, most expensive hospitals to treat her medical conditions, those who (erroneously) travelled to her clinics in search of medical treatment were ignored or given no advice on where to seek treatment.
If you want to know more about Mother Theresa than what the media has spoonfed to you, check out The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice by Christopher Hitchens. Had to look it up, I read it a while ago, good to see it's still in print. Controversial, occassionally over the top, but worth the read.
Anyone who names their cars/computers and refers to them by the name, is a fucking loser.
Well, the story submitter wanted a name for a room. Personally, I'd choose "The Dorkroom," (keeping the lights low was standard at my old company). It's pretty normal to name computers in a work environment. After all, if a computer goes down, do you want to say, "hey, 192.168.115.32 is down," or would you rather say, "hey, Rainier is down!" Same goes for accessing them. Much easier to type in a remembered name than an IP.
First they came for the code exploiters. But I never exploited that eq duping bug, so I didn't speak up.
Then they came for the area re-pop campers. But I never liked those guys anyway, so I didn't speak up.
Then they came for the player killers. I really hated those guys, they summoned me to the draco-lich just before leveling, AND with me wearing all my leveling EQ, so I didn't speak up.
Then they came for the EQ hoarders. My 37 sweet storage chars brimming with every piece of EQ in the game, purged from the p-file to make room for 800 average user chars... And by that time, there was nobody left to speak for me.
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They laughed when I wore my tinfoil hat.
They tried to have me committed when I said the government was tracking me.
Now they all want to buy my sporty Faraday Cagewear (TM) line of geek clothing, made of fine woven nylon and copper wire.
Bwahahaha!
You should look into the BAT Personal keyboard. They have different models for right and left hands. Fairly easy to use, I was able to type about 40WPM in less than a week on a MEDUSA workstation. I still prefer my Model M at home...
>Changing the source of pollution does not eliminate >the contaminants or remove our dependence on >foreign oil/non-renewable energy.
Actually, it does. If each and every vehicle is an oil-burning engine, you can't get good control over the emissions. If all the energy production is carried out at a smaller number of large institutions, such as electrical power plants, it's easier to monitor and correct the emissions.
It does not reduce the need for oil, though I'll allow that only about 2% of power generation plants are oil-fueled.
It will not produce the desired effect of cleaner emissions as you state. Sure, it makes logical sense: power plants are an ideal location to perform strict emissions controls and take corrective measures.
History, however, has shown that the corporations running power generation plants will drag their feet on any proposed regulatory change that will improve air and water quality. It's cheaper for these corporations to grease a few hundred palms in government to delay or sabotage legislation that would affect their bottom line than to retrofit their existing plants. It helps to have an administration with major ties to the energy market.
Bush wants to weaken the "Clean Air Act" with the "Clear Skies" proposal: I hope those folks downwind like the new Government Approved 200% increase in mercury vapor!
Let's not also forget that older coal power generation plants still don't have to comply with the CAA, and they produce 10 times the emissions of new coal-fired plants that are in compliance with the CAA. I seem to remember Bush and Cheney wanted to allow new coal plants to be exempt from the CAA regulations. I think they backpedaled on that idea and are trying to weaken existing regulations.
Coal-fired power generating plants make up some 55% (give or take a few percent) of the total market, cause greater than 90% of the total emissions of SO2, NOx, CO2 and almost 99% of mercury emissions. Their use for "clean" power generation in the form of hydrogen fuel cells must be discouraged to protect the public interest. Otherwise, your "clean" hydrogen car, really isn't.
From all your knee-jerk Bush bashing you've probably failed to notice that Bush has recently made some exceedingly smart decisions regarding science. Stem-cell research aside (which has grave and ambiguous moral problems), he has excelled by initiating a vast hydrogen fuel program
Does Dick Cheney have an interest in hydrogen fuel production? Seriously, hydrogen fuel is a boondoggle environmental issue unless legislation is enacted restricting the methods of generation. What good is hydrogen fuel cell technology if most of the energy used to produce it comes from oil- or coal-burning plants? Changing the source of pollution does not eliminate the contaminants or remove our dependence on foreign oil/non-renewable energy. The real future is fusion, solar, wind, tidal research and technology, which get virtually no funding. They're just not sexy, because they're not an immediate band-aid.
Too bad the average American is willing to talk the talk, but will not pay the price that many of those modifications require. Ford, like the other vehicle manufacturers, only sells what the people want. And at present, even those nice wonderful and green hybrid vehicles only make up a very small percentage of vehicle sales.
Hah, what a load of crap! Maybe if Ford gave up a part of that 40% profit they make off sales of every Explorer, they could introduce more affordable hybrids (or simply better gas mileage). All of the auto manufacturers make huge profits (30-50%) off their Selfish Urban-assault Vehicle sales and have no desire to introduce more expensive production costs to these lines, no matter what "the people want." It's really all about what they can make "the people" think they want with deceptive ads touting how "safe" they are and how "adventurous" you are.
I find a mostly bright yellow (#EAEA06) on black works best for me.
Ahh, I remember the good (bad?) ol' days of coding on an amber screen terminal. I almost never got eyestrain. Of course, I had reams of greenbar paper that needed to be referenced from time to time, so I wasn't just staring at the screen for eight hours a day.
Try orienting your screen so that you can glance out a window or down a corridor from time to time. I would try to alter my environment and work habits before putting plugs in my tear ducts (they won't prevent eyestrain, anyway).
I don't think one has to have attended an Ivy league school to get a good score test but I do think that one has to have attended a quality school with good professors.
Don't get me wrong; I think I got a decent education from the public school that I went to, as well. I would say that most people who pay enough attention in class at most any accredited college will learn enough to become decent professionals in the field of Computer Science.
However, to get into a Ph. D. program, you have to be better than decent, as you have noted in your post. You're going up against a tough crowd of people from some of the finest institutions in the world. The test isn't about doing well, it's about doing better than a substantial percentage of all the other people taking the test.
In a general Computer Science degree, you just won't be (in my opinion) exposed to the depth and breadth needed to really excel on the subject test. And that's what it's all about. If you can score in the 90th+ percentile, you will get in a Ph. D. program somewhere. If you can score in the 95th+ percentile, you'll probably have a free ride, too (stipend and tuition remission). Don't forget that the regular GRE is also important as it relates to getting teaching assistantships in some cases. The general GRE test is all about gaming the system, a trained moron could ace the test -- get the Princeton Review book and read it thoroughly.
Take all the important books from your undergraduate studies (you did keep them, right?) and spend six months reading everything that your professors glossed over. The important books would be from the classes for: compiler construction (preferably the "Dragon book"), computer architecture (preferably Tanenbaum's "Structured Computer Organization"), design and analysis of algorithms, fundamentals of programming languages, don't forget discrete mathematics (Gries' "A Logical Approach to Discrete Math" can't be beat), linear algebra, and The Holy Bible (there are currently many extremely bright people hoping to get into a Ph.D. program to weather the horrendous economy).
On the worst reviewed book: do not, under any circumstances, read any portion of it. Even now, there are dark corners of my mind where its evil influence still lurks, terrorizing otherwise productive neurons into inaction.
To be honest, and not to sound elitist, unless you attended an Ivy League school, or a quality private school (such as RPI), you're probably screwed. The best way to prepare is to get into a Master's program that doesn't require the subject test (most don't), then take the test right after that.
I know smart people who were blasted by the subject test, got their Master's, then went on and scored in the 95th - 99th percentile the second time around. It's just a matter of what you were exposed to in school. I know that without the programming languages course and compilers course, both electives that most people avoid at my school, I would have tanked the subject test.
Believe it or not, most people in the US see this as the class warfare tripe that it is, and most of them don't agree that rich people are "assholes". Why? Because most of those people are looking forward to the day when they too get to be "rich". And when they "arrive" ... [blah blah blah]
Well, your "most people" who think they're going to "arrive" are just deluding themselves. Do you make less than $300,000/year? You're NOT rich. You're not likely to become rich, either. Unless you're waiting for Uncle moneybags to die, waiting to get that $3 million/year contract from (insert sports team here), or have incriminating evidence on your boss/board of directors.
It's like when the Republicans were going around calling the inheritance tax, the (cue spooky music) "Death Tax." Lots of people were against it, naturally. Of course, unless they inherited a quarter million dollars, or more, they wouldn't get hit by it. People were fooled by the weasel words and/or by deluding themselves into thinking they were going to inherit a ton of money (that should rightly be taxed).
Meanwhile, you can restore playability to your CDs. Try automotive carnuba wax, Brasso, or peanut butter - whichever you happen to have handy.
I tried this and it didn't work. Maybe I shouldn't have bought the Skippy Extra Crunchy Peanut Butter, but it was on sale!
I've used Crest Whitening Toothpaste to polish micro scratches out of my eyeglasses, for lack of available cerium oxide or rouge. The "grit" is supposedly around 5 microns according to some ATMers. Should work just as well on a CD.
There are plenty of other things these guys can do with their time:
SERIES not season finale......
Actually, it's both.
I haven't seen it yet, or read any spoilers, so I'm wondering if there's going to be a Faith spin-off. Not that I'd be all that interested in watching it, I think the franchise is pretty much done with the whole Slayer-facing-ultimate-evil thing. Wonder how well Angel is going to fare without the Buffy tie-in. Assuming there is any more Angel.
It seems Gamespy has posted their top ten picks from the 1903 E3 convention.
Funny, I thought it was a typo at first. Then I actually RTFA! I liked #9, but was disappointed that there wasn't mention of John von Neumann. Okay, so he wasn't born til December 28th. Perhaps he was represented in the glint of the booth babe's eyes...
The original story said "Yay jingoism!" instead of "Yay America!" I guess simoniker realized what an asshole he was being and edited his post. Either that or he actually looked up the word jingoism and saw that it didn't mean what he thought it did, but I doubt he has that many brain cells.
No, I think either statement is appropriate. I read the "Yay America" in a more sarcastic light, perhaps that wasn't his intention.
it's up to you to deliver a knockout punch to America's enemies
This is a fair example of marketing meets jingoism. Though for a wonderful example of it, just turn on Fox News and wait a few minutes...
Would a game in which you fly 747's into American buildings be more to your liking?
You mean like Microsoft Flight Simulator? I assumed that was the whole point of the game. Cripes, after about 4 minutes of being bored flying around, you just get that urge to see how fast you can plow the jetliner into the ground.
I suppose if you're a real American, you'd want to crash planes into Iraqi buildings.
And don't forget, this title proclaims ".. whether rumbling through a sun-baked desert, steaming tropical jungle or frozen tundra, it's up to you to deliver a knockout punch to America's enemies." Yay America! Boo America's enemies!
Wow, glue a "Jingoism Inside" sticker on the box and ship that bad boy!
Oh, my bad. It's already shipping. Hence the patch. Still, should be entertaining for a few minutes, eh?
Tidbit from the website: The demo consists of one mission in Iraq and show's [sic] off many aspects of the full version.
I loved that game nearly as much as "real" D&D. Of course, there were those tedious moments (days), such as leveling up outside the NW tower, using my frost horn on the 4 groups of 99 mobs of Red Dragons or whatever they were, entering the tower and back out for repop. Mmmm. Good, clean fun. Doubt the remake will stand up to the memory... I'll probably buy it anyway.
Makes you think they didnt even finish the game properly, kind of reminds of a game called Ultima IX.
Put the crack pipe down, my friend! Ultima IX had been in development for years longer than this Matrix title. Why, part way through, they started over from scratch! That shows dedication.
They have finally patched all of the major bugs (less than a year or so after release!) Sure, if you patch over any saved games, you're pretty much screwed. But that's the majesty of the Ultima universe. The avatar never tires of fighting evil, and bugs and poor patches are evil, yes?
Hmm, this was supposed to be about the Matrix game, so, vaguely on topic... The game is virtually unplayable on the PC. The graphics are unremarkable, but I'm somewhat impressed by the way it can bring down XP Pro inside 5 minutes of gaming. Audio clips range from good fx to trash-can resonating dialog, that could be the crappy SB Live, though. And I didn't expect much based on the Infogrames label. (Still remembering the totally crappy Drakkhen game I got suckered into buying years ago).
Remember, there is no bug.
Only an idiot would get all high and mighty, and call the police right away. He deserved to be fired.
Tell your boss and let the company deal with it. Don't embarrass yourself and your employer all in one go. Sheesh, this is worthy of a front page story?
"Hey, I saw my boss whack Chuck in the basement, I should go make an appointment with the VP so that we can resolve this internally!"
What a fucking coward you are! And who modded this moron up? "Wahh, I don't want to get involved. I'm a spineless craven without the ability to think for myself. I must go to my boss so he can tell me what to think and say!"
It's doormats like you that have made the world what it is today. Maybe if people stood up for what was right, rather than roll over for anything that might cause them any discomfort, there'd be less crime. But what can be expected from someone who just wants to download MP3s and watch porn all day?
Anyone know which is more environmentally sound to recycle: plastic or aluminum? I would have guessed the aluminum requires less energy and releases fewer gasses than plastic, but I'm not sure.
Aluminum. Virgin aluminum is a bitch on the environment (in terms of pollutants and land use), recycled is a hell of a lot better. Of course, recycled plastic is even better than that.
Fuck your planet, you hippie freak! If I thought I'd be alive to see the worst consequences of our collective actions, I might give a fuck. But Dictator for Life Bush is gonna bomb the world to all fuck and back, so why care?
Interesting link, thanks. I have to admit, that IS a damn good question. Where did all the money go? Why was there so much misery around her?
There's no accounting where the money went. Undoubtedly, some of it went to build clinics in other locations and to pay for her medical bills. As for the misery, well, she set up shop for the dying poor in third world countries. The vast majority of them were terminally ill and would have died in misery even if they stayed home. With all that money, surely she could have eased their suffering a bit?
It's tough to be critical of Mother Theresa, but Gandhi is overrated.
Gandhi got lucky, because he was battling the british empire that had a basic morality. Gandhi's philosophy itself, however, was fundamentally immoral.
I agree to some extent with your view on Gandhi. But, do you really know anything about Mother Theresa? Where did all of the money (hundreds of millions of dollars) that was donated to her Order go? It certainly didn't go toward improving the conditions of the dying people that flocked to her "clinics." They lived and died in horrid, squalid conditions. Those who were dying painful deaths were not given any form of pain killers, after all, suffering is good for the soul. All they received was a good "Catholic death," which was the point of her clinics really. They were not there for the ill, just the dying. But did they have to die in pain and misery in squalid conditions?
While she checked into the best, most expensive hospitals to treat her medical conditions, those who (erroneously) travelled to her clinics in search of medical treatment were ignored or given no advice on where to seek treatment.
If you want to know more about Mother Theresa than what the media has spoonfed to you, check out
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice by Christopher Hitchens. Had to look it up, I read it a while ago, good to see it's still in print. Controversial, occassionally over the top, but worth the read.
Anyone who names their cars/computers and refers to them by the name, is a fucking loser.
Well, the story submitter wanted a name for a room. Personally, I'd choose "The Dorkroom," (keeping the lights low was standard at my old company). It's pretty normal to name computers in a work environment. After all, if a computer goes down, do you want to say, "hey, 192.168.115.32 is down," or would you rather say, "hey, Rainier is down!" Same goes for accessing them. Much easier to type in a remembered name than an IP.
So... What did you get from your Company for Christmas?"
Laid off. Last year. Along with 75% of the rest of the company (they kept almost all of the managers and all 28 VPs). Merry Christmas.
Now I make almost 1/2 the pay, but I'm into the 1st year of a 3 year research grant. Job security at last!
First they came for the code exploiters.
But I never exploited that eq duping bug, so I didn't speak up.
Then they came for the area re-pop campers.
But I never liked those guys anyway, so I didn't speak up.
Then they came for the player killers.
I really hated those guys, they summoned me to the draco-lich just before leveling, AND with me wearing all my leveling EQ, so I didn't speak up.
Then they came for the EQ hoarders.
My 37 sweet storage chars brimming with every piece of EQ in the game, purged from the p-file to make room for 800 average user chars... And by that time, there was nobody left to speak for me.