It's not a race track, or a fucking casino. I don't care about stats or how my percentage is with using a certain weapon.
All I care about is having fun above all. Games shouldn't be about stress but how many times have a joined a server where I saw people yelling at their teammates or saying how their team is useless, simply because they're a stats whore.
Here are things that matter: - ping - staying connected - fun
An Open Source CAD / CAM solution would definitely be awesome. Giving technology into the hands of primary & secondary industry companies will inevitably end in cheaper consumer products.
Is that on my computer: P4 2.4Ghz 512MB DDR400 ram 80GB 7200rpm drive
starts up Firefox a lot slower than my gf's computer:
P3 733Mhz 256MB ram 20GB 7200rpm drive
which starts it up considerably fast. Not to mention my work computer (P2 400) starts it up just as fast as the P3 733. So I have no clue where the choking is, but something tells me it's not the processor.
One way that Wal-Mart makes more money on sales is they do this:
1) What you just described - be the only customer for a product maker.
2) Stop paying when they receive the product, only pay after a short time AFTER the product is sold!
3) During that time that the product is sold, that money goes into short term investments, and only then is it given back to the producers of the goods.
On another note, Wal-Mart also has one of the most advanced distribution methods and this is one of the major reasons their products are so cheap.
Please make your Windows (XP) Java run time environment download available on the FRONT PAGE or at the most 1 click away. Your latest website is very tricky to navigate and very annoying and what's the point of taking a Java class (which I'm currently doing) when the majority of Windows XP users don't even have the fucking run time installed by default (damn Microsoft!).
I mean look at this mess. It's 5 clicks to the.exe file! Who is Joe Schmoe going to know what the hell a "run time environment" is when they're NOT EVEN interested in Java, except in the software they want to install! (i.e. Azureus bittorrent client).
Please add a image button (so people see it, make it big and pink or red if you will) that says something like "Windows XP users DOWNLOAD to run your favourite Java applications!"
Thank you.
Yours Truly,
Typical-Family's-Free-College-Long-distance-Tech-S upport.
I go to Rainbow Cinemas here in Canada. Possibly the best thing that has stuck around is these cheap theatres in the 'burbs (usually inside malls). For example, this one's $4.25 CDN Tuesdays & matinees, and $7.50 any other time. Sometimes they even have free movies for the kiddies and their guardians around noon on weekends.
So, if it's a money issue, I spend - and this is including my girlfriend - $8.50. Parking is free at the mall, and I don't buy any of that crap (maybe sometimes sneak in some bulk-barn candy).
Do I go to the movies? Yes, to the cheap theatre which isn't all that different from the other ones. The screen might be a little smaller but who gives a rats ass. The only movies I would go and see at a very expensive theatre would be something along the lines of Lord of the Rings, or something that's very visually stimulating. But you don't want to have an IMAX experience with fucking Adam Sandler, no matter how funny he is.
I'd hate to be the guy who stole someone's wallet, and has 10 more, surrounded by angry protestors/flash mobsters. People tend to lose their inhibitions and I could easily see someone like that getting beaten to death and no justice would be served (in a court of law that is).
"WagerWeb was knocked offline for about a day, says Dan Johnson, senior VP and senior oddsmaker at the site. Rather than pay off the attackers, the company called on its technical forces to build a defense and enlisted the help of Internet security-services provider Prolexic Technologies Inc. The vendor's services, at about $100,000 a year, aren't cheap. But, "I'd rather pay the $100,000 than pay the extortionists," Johnson says. The gamble paid off. "As soon as we got the service running, the attack stopped," technology manager Burns says."
Where in Toronto is it playing? I've checked tribute.ca and after midnight last night all traces of it just dissappeared.
I would have went to the theatre to see this movie, no seriously, I would have. Unfortunately it's not playing in my area so I'm downloading the DVD rip from suprnova. Only 6 more hours to go so when I'm done work it'll be ready.
Seeing it in the theatre would be very nice but I guess that's not going to happen.:/
On another note, how is that other Ghost in the Shell movie, Stand Alone Complex?
Is he dying of cancer? They (read: the rich) tend to blow a few hundred million on things like this when they're getting older.
It'd be cool if they used some of that money to fund public research for cures or something that would benefit all of mankind. That I would definitely applaud.
This is an outrage! The RIAA is a great group of do-gooders and this company decides to sue them for patent infringement!? This patent system is getting out of ha...oh wait.
This reminds me of my celeron p2 333. In University my friend would decide to just send me a few movies at a time over icq. Since he was trusted I always put him on auto-accept. Unfortunately I only had a 4.3 GB hard drive back then and lo and behold that kind of transfer speed (on-campus) would bring my computer down to a grinding halt, sometimes crashing it, because the internet connection was just too damn fast.
Now it's faster but I couldn't possibly imagine moving 4-6GB in 4 seconds on any hard drive. Which makes me wonder, what were they writing to when they received that data (if they were at all)?
And some people don't even HAVE an administrator password on their computer - PERIOD. It wasn't set up in the first place.
I'll admit, I run as administrator on Win2000 all the time, because it truly is a hassle to log out (especially with "saving user settings" all the time). What Windows needs is an option where you can log in as root from the guest account, do what you have to do and then when you close the window it automatically logs you out.
It's actually mindaktiviti@yahoo.ca (note the.ca at the end)
I log in as "mindaktiviti@yahoo.com" and I barely use that email, so when I when I emailed myself from another account I realized "shit!".
Thank you very much for the gmail account!
Why don't we enact foreign policies that don't piss off the rest of the world?
Or is this virtually impossible? Are there any good reasons for we the west is hated so much, that are absolutely necessary to our survival, and to others' survival? How differently could we do these things?
This is very true, from a not-so-great-but-trying-to-get-better DM.
Whenever I play D&D with my friends nowadays it's all about getting more powerful, finding more magical items, and slaying the biggest monster. Sure D&D is about role playing epic lives that you'd never possibly live out on your own, but it does get tiring when it's the same shit over and over except the monsters are tougher and yourself are tougher.
I'm personally going to start an Eberron campaign but try really hard this time to promote Role-playing as opposed to Roll-playing. Hopefully it'll work this time.
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Well since IsNot is already patented, let me convert that to legal pseudo code:
Microsoft Windows = sux0r
Microsoft Inc = sux0r
MSN news = sux0r
Microsoft Hotmail = sux0r
Microsoft XBox = sux0r
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmar = pwn3d.
*sigh* :/
It's not a race track, or a fucking casino. I don't care about stats or how my percentage is with using a certain weapon.
All I care about is having fun above all. Games shouldn't be about stress but how many times have a joined a server where I saw people yelling at their teammates or saying how their team is useless, simply because they're a stats whore.
Here are things that matter:
- ping
- staying connected
- fun
That's it.
An Open Source CAD / CAM solution would definitely be awesome. Giving technology into the hands of primary & secondary industry companies will inevitably end in cheaper consumer products.
Is that on my computer:
P4 2.4Ghz
512MB DDR400 ram
80GB 7200rpm drive
starts up Firefox a lot slower than my gf's computer:
P3 733Mhz
256MB ram
20GB 7200rpm drive
which starts it up considerably fast. Not to mention my work computer (P2 400) starts it up just as fast as the P3 733. So I have no clue where the choking is, but something tells me it's not the processor.
Anyone know what it is?
People still use IE?
One way that Wal-Mart makes more money on sales is they do this: 1) What you just described - be the only customer for a product maker. 2) Stop paying when they receive the product, only pay after a short time AFTER the product is sold! 3) During that time that the product is sold, that money goes into short term investments, and only then is it given back to the producers of the goods. On another note, Wal-Mart also has one of the most advanced distribution methods and this is one of the major reasons their products are so cheap.
Like Deus Ex 2: Invisible War was butchered. It played WORSE on my computer than Doom 3 did! Yet, it came out around 6 months prior. Go figure. :/
Please make your Windows (XP) Java run time environment download available on the FRONT PAGE or at the most 1 click away. Your latest website is very tricky to navigate and very annoying and what's the point of taking a Java class (which I'm currently doing) when the majority of Windows XP users don't even have the fucking run time installed by default (damn Microsoft!). I mean look at this mess. It's 5 clicks to the .exe file! Who is Joe Schmoe going to know what the hell a "run time environment" is when they're NOT EVEN interested in Java, except in the software they want to install! (i.e. Azureus bittorrent client).
Please add a image button (so people see it, make it big and pink or red if you will) that says something like "Windows XP users DOWNLOAD to run your favourite Java applications!"
Thank you.
Yours Truly,
Typical-Family's-Free-College-Long-distance-Tech-S upport.
I go to Rainbow Cinemas here in Canada. Possibly the best thing that has stuck around is these cheap theatres in the 'burbs (usually inside malls). For example, this one's $4.25 CDN Tuesdays & matinees, and $7.50 any other time. Sometimes they even have free movies for the kiddies and their guardians around noon on weekends.
So, if it's a money issue, I spend - and this is including my girlfriend - $8.50. Parking is free at the mall, and I don't buy any of that crap (maybe sometimes sneak in some bulk-barn candy).
Do I go to the movies? Yes, to the cheap theatre which isn't all that different from the other ones. The screen might be a little smaller but who gives a rats ass. The only movies I would go and see at a very expensive theatre would be something along the lines of Lord of the Rings, or something that's very visually stimulating. But you don't want to have an IMAX experience with fucking Adam Sandler, no matter how funny he is.
I'd hate to be the guy who stole someone's wallet, and has 10 more, surrounded by angry protestors/flash mobsters. People tend to lose their inhibitions and I could easily see someone like that getting beaten to death and no justice would be served (in a court of law that is).
"WagerWeb was knocked offline for about a day, says Dan Johnson, senior VP and senior oddsmaker at the site. Rather than pay off the attackers, the company called on its technical forces to build a defense and enlisted the help of Internet security-services provider Prolexic Technologies Inc. The vendor's services, at about $100,000 a year, aren't cheap. But, "I'd rather pay the $100,000 than pay the extortionists," Johnson says. The gamble paid off. "As soon as we got the service running, the attack stopped," technology manager Burns says."
THAT is really freaky.
Thanks for the info! I'll be sure to start up those torrents, or maybe even just check it out on DVD because I have seen it at the video store.
Where in Toronto is it playing? I've checked tribute.ca and after midnight last night all traces of it just dissappeared. I would have went to the theatre to see this movie, no seriously, I would have. Unfortunately it's not playing in my area so I'm downloading the DVD rip from suprnova. Only 6 more hours to go so when I'm done work it'll be ready. Seeing it in the theatre would be very nice but I guess that's not going to happen. :/
On another note, how is that other Ghost in the Shell movie, Stand Alone Complex?
Okay, I applaud him then. :) Good for him.
Is he dying of cancer? They (read: the rich) tend to blow a few hundred million on things like this when they're getting older.
It'd be cool if they used some of that money to fund public research for cures or something that would benefit all of mankind. That I would definitely applaud.
Bad news for those annoying-as-hell drum n bass MCs who all sound the same. I'd imagine they'd get sued to hell by all of Jamaica.
I should know, I was a drum n bass DJ. :P
On another note, looks like half the jungle records I own are now in violation of this law, then again I live in Canada so it's not so bad.
This is an outrage! The RIAA is a great group of do-gooders and this company decides to sue them for patent infringement!? This patent system is getting out of ha...oh wait.
That's right! Progressive Conservative! And they're our equivalent to the Republican party here in Canada.
This reminds me of my celeron p2 333. In University my friend would decide to just send me a few movies at a time over icq. Since he was trusted I always put him on auto-accept. Unfortunately I only had a 4.3 GB hard drive back then and lo and behold that kind of transfer speed (on-campus) would bring my computer down to a grinding halt, sometimes crashing it, because the internet connection was just too damn fast. Now it's faster but I couldn't possibly imagine moving 4-6GB in 4 seconds on any hard drive. Which makes me wonder, what were they writing to when they received that data (if they were at all)?
And some people don't even HAVE an administrator password on their computer - PERIOD. It wasn't set up in the first place. I'll admit, I run as administrator on Win2000 all the time, because it truly is a hassle to log out (especially with "saving user settings" all the time). What Windows needs is an option where you can log in as root from the guest account, do what you have to do and then when you close the window it automatically logs you out.
It's actually mindaktiviti@yahoo.ca (note the .ca at the end)
I log in as "mindaktiviti@yahoo.com" and I barely use that email, so when I when I emailed myself from another account I realized "shit!".
Thank you very much for the gmail account!
mindaktiviti@yahoo.com It's worth a try. :B
Why don't we enact foreign policies that don't piss off the rest of the world?
Or is this virtually impossible? Are there any good reasons for we the west is hated so much, that are absolutely necessary to our survival, and to others' survival? How differently could we do these things?
This is very true, from a not-so-great-but-trying-to-get-better DM.
Whenever I play D&D with my friends nowadays it's all about getting more powerful, finding more magical items, and slaying the biggest monster. Sure D&D is about role playing epic lives that you'd never possibly live out on your own, but it does get tiring when it's the same shit over and over except the monsters are tougher and yourself are tougher.
I'm personally going to start an Eberron campaign but try really hard this time to promote Role-playing as opposed to Roll-playing. Hopefully it'll work this time.