I just haven't heard anything new I'd like to buy... how about you?
Spare me. I have heard thigns I would like to buy, I just can't really afford them. Contrary to what the underground hipster I-hate-everything generation would have you believe, there ARE bands and artists out there doing worthy things. It's not the record industry's fault that you USED to know how to find music you like, but now, conveniently, there's nothing "Good" out there.
New stuff worth listening to: White Stripes The Shins Jet Modest Mouse Rasputina
Go listen to some college radio, or have someone find you something to listen to.
I worked on one of the prototypes for this. One plan was to put a bottle of MD 20/20 at the end of a phone-booth sized room in the city, then the doors would shut on the homeless eprson in question, then someone sticks them with a prod, kind of like cattle.
The real news here is that a law enforcement agency failed to notify a family, and instead notified advertising. They should be punished for that.
This is just what free market economics gives you. More and more advertising. More stupid ads. More mail and email spam. More nuisance phone calls. I don't think we need to allow advertising to mix with law enforcement.
Not exactly. That company sub-contracted to the woman in florida, who either sub contracted to a guy in texas or PRETENDED to sub contract to a guy in texas, who then sub contracted to india.
The real lesson here is that maybe she shouldn't outsource at all. They lost control of the data and it came back to bite her on the ass.
Now, there is a very good free-market solution to this: Do nothing. If people care about their privacy, they will make sure to deal only with companies that put measures in place to protect it. If people do not care about their privacy (and it appears to be the case that they do not) then they won't. However, just because other people would rather save $5 than keep their privacy does not mean that you have to. Unfortunately, people can not be trusted to always look out for their privacy, just like an AOL user can't be expected to know how to protect themselves from viruses and spyware.
The main problem here is that there are PROTECTIONS in place in the US to protect privacy. There are not these protections in India, and it would be difficult/impossible to respond to a breach in this instance.
Now, I know what you are going to say "But the free market! UCSF is going to get flak for this breach of trust" and my response is that THERE SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN A BREACH IN THE FIRST PLACE; I don't care what the fallout for UCSF is going to be due to "free market economics"
RTFA, dumbass. Like I said, it wasn't about ultra spiffy graphics. I listed user mods as well, which consoles don't have. I have and enjoy games on consoles and PC, I'm just tired of people sounding the death knell of the PC gaming world, it just isn't happening.
I'm sorry you're such an asshole that you need to bring insults into this.
I have one of these. It is very configurable. You just assign keystrokes, toggles, or combinations to keys. I haven't actually used it for any work, but I don't do much work on my computer anymore anyway. It's great for games. Slight pain of setting it up for a new game when you get one, but after 10 minutes setting the configs to how you like it and you are set. It's better than losing your place on a keyboard.
I think they even came out with a new one. I have the older N50. The N52 looks like it has an extra row of keys and an additional thumb button, and some little switch thing under that. It doesn't say on the belkin site. Personally until I see it in action, I don't think the extra $15 is justified. 10 buttons is plenty to get to immediately, plus you have the toggle modes red, green and blue (think caps lock, but instead of capital letters it can remap or do whatever you set it to). 10 keys (plus the 4 on the dpad) is plenty for immediate access, you can even set a direction on the dpad to shift the 10 keys to stuff you don't have to get to as quickly, like team-say preset codes or whatever. The real important stuff like movement keys would be the default.
I happen to play lots of games on a duron 900 and GF2mx. Where are you getting your $900 figure from. Your first mistake was buying a more expensive, less capable Celeron. AMD rules the low end chips. I just went to an Athlon XP 2000+ for about $70 (cheaper if you buy online, I bought local).
Yeah, it's a gf2mx, so I can't play it with all the pretty effects, but that doesn't mean I can't be competitive and have some fun with a decent game.
So lets break it down. $200 to play a console that ONLY does console, or $500 to use a machine that I can modify to my liking, use for work and play, has better graphics (TV is still stuck at NTSC unless you're willing to shell out $$$ for HDTV, and that TOTALLY shifts things back in favor of the PC), and can play mods, which are arguably a better value than the game itself.
While not an OS, there was a nice GUI with the original 286 IBM PS/1. It was split into 4 quadrants, it took you to a file explorer (I think it was Dos 4.0's explorer), a configurable list of programs, and I can't remember what the other 2 did. It was in gorgeous 256 colors when everything was still EGA. King's Quest 5 came out shortly after I got it, and though it ran like ass on a 10mhz 286, it looked awesome at the time. The entire PS/1 gui was stored on drive D:, which was a small (1M) ROM drive.
God I'm so tired of these whiners. "Everything has been done! There's no innovation!"
Then STOP BUYING THE SAME GAME OVER AND OVER AGAIN. There are plenty of great games with great story lines out there. I am still playing games on older systems, even though I have a gamecube and a PS2. Maybe you are buying games for the wrong reason.
If you're so hip to what's up in gaming and what's wrong with it, why aren't you making something new?
And my point of view is completely the opposite. Massively multiplayer is a pit. It takes too much damn effort to play, there are SO many bugs, you have to pay to play per month most of the time. It's just a money pit.
Right out of the gate, too much time is required to play them, thus sucking time away from other worthy games. Gaming shouldn't be a 2nd job, like Evercrack is to some people. And if you can't play a game and be competitive and have fun, then the game is flawed. Evercrack is flawed in this way, and evercrack is probably the most successful MMO game to date.
Online FPS's are great. You get some interaction with humans online, but you aren't sucked in for hours, and it isn't a daily commitment.
In fact, if you agree with him so much, why are you all about the MMO games? They are probably the most repetitive thing out there, playing the same game week after week.
If anything, I should be offered lower cost because I am able to police my own setup. I incur lower charges on their network by not being part of the problem.
Yeah, I know everyone will want the lower cost becuase they are cheap/thrifty, but they should have to pass a test to see if they are elligible for the lower cost. problem solved.
One of my neat-ideas-I-never-got-around to was going to be a web site for cheap and easy instructions for good food. Cooking for college students. User submitted ideas.
Anything like this? I have cookbooks, but damn, that is some complicated shit. I want easy stuff. Like how to make ramen GOOD. What goes well with ramen besides the salt packet they give you? What about easy to make wraps or sandwiches?
Slightly offtopic, but if you are looking to deprive one of the other 5 senses, I have been to some caverns out in Arizona. You go down underground, and they shut off all the lights for a minute. You have never seen (not seen?) such darkness. It would probably be pretty quiet down there as weel, if it weren't for the tourists and perhaps the splatter of water on the stalactities/mites.
MMORPG's are really hot right now, and we are busy dumping money into SWG. Yeah, we know that there isn't a lot of room in the MMORPG market, not nearly as much room as in the traditional game market, but we have marketting droids to please. We are clueless and think cartoon games are out. Peace out, consumer slugs.
disclaimer: I didn't read the article. I have never played S&M (the video game anyway). Big fan of Monkey Island series though.
I'm sure they are mispronouncing knight, but it makes the reference more recognizable if you write it like they say it. Part of the humour is his insane accent.
You don't get the benefit of this if you can't see what face the coin started on. Coin toss win/lose ratio: still 50/50. Pick the right coin face.
Now if someone did some research about how many times a coin was pulled from someone's pocket coming up heads, now THAT's where the money (!) is. Sorry for the bad pun.
Just as annoying how? Clinton, with all of his faults, didn't even come close. Yeah, politicians are scum. All of them. That doesn't mean we REWARD the shittier one with a re-election.
No dream world. Go ahead and disprove me, coward. I got 2 replies, both cowards, and both didn't give ANY contrary evidence.
Lied about it. Lied about links between Al Quaeda and Iraq. Took more vacation time than any other president. Still hasn't proven where he was during Vietnam. Obviously had a shitload of friend deals and son-of-a-senator shit thrown his way, while the democrat front runner was actually in vietnam. Sent 500+ US soldiers to their deaths because of his right wing cabinet. Trying to totally discriminate against a group of individuals and get it put on the CONSTITUTION. Doesn't read the news. Definately doesn't read slashdot.
How many more reasons do we need to get rid of this freak?
That's a rather naive outlook. We will just survive for no good reason. Humans have had thousands of years to build up immunity to certain viruses like the flu and the common cold. Releasing a never-before seen superflu is much different. We survived the plague, but a LOT of people have to die, and as was said previously, we didn't have as much travel back then. A virus can spread a LOT quicker now. And wether or not we might POSSIBLY survive something has nothing to do with the fact that even if we DO survive, millions of people had to die.
You could work on W's inept staff with that naive attitude.
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Spare me. I have heard thigns I would like to buy, I just can't really afford them. Contrary to what the underground hipster I-hate-everything generation would have you believe, there ARE bands and artists out there doing worthy things. It's not the record industry's fault that you USED to know how to find music you like, but now, conveniently, there's nothing "Good" out there.
New stuff worth listening to:
White Stripes
The Shins
Jet
Modest Mouse
Rasputina
Go listen to some college radio, or have someone find you something to listen to.
While on the subject of badgers.
I worked on one of the prototypes for this. One plan was to put a bottle of MD 20/20 at the end of a phone-booth sized room in the city, then the doors would shut on the homeless eprson in question, then someone sticks them with a prod, kind of like cattle.
The real news here is that a law enforcement agency failed to notify a family, and instead notified advertising. They should be punished for that.
This is just what free market economics gives you. More and more advertising. More stupid ads. More mail and email spam. More nuisance phone calls. I don't think we need to allow advertising to mix with law enforcement.
are they pond life because they are lawyers, or because they cover drug cases?
1999? Do I get a free computer with it?
Not exactly. That company sub-contracted to the woman in florida, who either sub contracted to a guy in texas or PRETENDED to sub contract to a guy in texas, who then sub contracted to india.
The real lesson here is that maybe she shouldn't outsource at all. They lost control of the data and it came back to bite her on the ass.
Now, there is a very good free-market solution to this: Do nothing. If people care about their privacy, they will make sure to deal only with companies that put measures in place to protect it. If people do not care about their privacy (and it appears to be the case that they do not) then they won't. However, just because other people would rather save $5 than keep their privacy does not mean that you have to.
Unfortunately, people can not be trusted to always look out for their privacy, just like an AOL user can't be expected to know how to protect themselves from viruses and spyware.
The main problem here is that there are PROTECTIONS in place in the US to protect privacy. There are not these protections in India, and it would be difficult/impossible to respond to a breach in this instance.
Now, I know what you are going to say "But the free market! UCSF is going to get flak for this breach of trust" and my response is that THERE SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN A BREACH IN THE FIRST PLACE; I don't care what the fallout for UCSF is going to be due to "free market economics"
RTFA, dumbass. Like I said, it wasn't about ultra spiffy graphics. I listed user mods as well, which consoles don't have. I have and enjoy games on consoles and PC, I'm just tired of people sounding the death knell of the PC gaming world, it just isn't happening.
I'm sorry you're such an asshole that you need to bring insults into this.
I have one of these. It is very configurable. You just assign keystrokes, toggles, or combinations to keys. I haven't actually used it for any work, but I don't do much work on my computer anymore anyway. It's great for games. Slight pain of setting it up for a new game when you get one, but after 10 minutes setting the configs to how you like it and you are set. It's better than losing your place on a keyboard.
I think they even came out with a new one. I have the older N50. The N52 looks like it has an extra row of keys and an additional thumb button, and some little switch thing under that. It doesn't say on the belkin site. Personally until I see it in action, I don't think the extra $15 is justified. 10 buttons is plenty to get to immediately, plus you have the toggle modes red, green and blue (think caps lock, but instead of capital letters it can remap or do whatever you set it to). 10 keys (plus the 4 on the dpad) is plenty for immediate access, you can even set a direction on the dpad to shift the 10 keys to stuff you don't have to get to as quickly, like team-say preset codes or whatever. The real important stuff like movement keys would be the default.
It was worth the $30 I spent at Compusa.
I did and I beat it. What is your point, tool?
I happen to play lots of games on a duron 900 and GF2mx. Where are you getting your $900 figure from. Your first mistake was buying a more expensive, less capable Celeron. AMD rules the low end chips. I just went to an Athlon XP 2000+ for about $70 (cheaper if you buy online, I bought local).
Yeah, it's a gf2mx, so I can't play it with all the pretty effects, but that doesn't mean I can't be competitive and have some fun with a decent game.
So lets break it down. $200 to play a console that ONLY does console, or $500 to use a machine that I can modify to my liking, use for work and play, has better graphics (TV is still stuck at NTSC unless you're willing to shell out $$$ for HDTV, and that TOTALLY shifts things back in favor of the PC), and can play mods, which are arguably a better value than the game itself.
While not an OS, there was a nice GUI with the original 286 IBM PS/1. It was split into 4 quadrants, it took you to a file explorer (I think it was Dos 4.0's explorer), a configurable list of programs, and I can't remember what the other 2 did. It was in gorgeous 256 colors when everything was still EGA. King's Quest 5 came out shortly after I got it, and though it ran like ass on a 10mhz 286, it looked awesome at the time. The entire PS/1 gui was stored on drive D:, which was a small (1M) ROM drive.
God I'm so tired of these whiners. "Everything has been done! There's no innovation!"
Then STOP BUYING THE SAME GAME OVER AND OVER AGAIN. There are plenty of great games with great story lines out there. I am still playing games on older systems, even though I have a gamecube and a PS2. Maybe you are buying games for the wrong reason.
If you're so hip to what's up in gaming and what's wrong with it, why aren't you making something new?
And my point of view is completely the opposite. Massively multiplayer is a pit. It takes too much damn effort to play, there are SO many bugs, you have to pay to play per month most of the time. It's just a money pit.
Right out of the gate, too much time is required to play them, thus sucking time away from other worthy games. Gaming shouldn't be a 2nd job, like Evercrack is to some people. And if you can't play a game and be competitive and have fun, then the game is flawed. Evercrack is flawed in this way, and evercrack is probably the most successful MMO game to date.
Online FPS's are great. You get some interaction with humans online, but you aren't sucked in for hours, and it isn't a daily commitment.
In fact, if you agree with him so much, why are you all about the MMO games? They are probably the most repetitive thing out there, playing the same game week after week.
Would you be willing to pay more for ICMP?
If anything, I should be offered lower cost because I am able to police my own setup. I incur lower charges on their network by not being part of the problem.
Yeah, I know everyone will want the lower cost becuase they are cheap/thrifty, but they should have to pass a test to see if they are elligible for the lower cost. problem solved.
One of my neat-ideas-I-never-got-around to was going to be a web site for cheap and easy instructions for good food. Cooking for college students. User submitted ideas.
Anything like this? I have cookbooks, but damn, that is some complicated shit. I want easy stuff. Like how to make ramen GOOD. What goes well with ramen besides the salt packet they give you? What about easy to make wraps or sandwiches?
Slightly offtopic, but if you are looking to deprive one of the other 5 senses, I have been to some caverns out in Arizona. You go down underground, and they shut off all the lights for a minute. You have never seen (not seen?) such darkness. It would probably be pretty quiet down there as weel, if it weren't for the tourists and perhaps the splatter of water on the stalactities/mites.
MMORPG's are really hot right now, and we are busy dumping money into SWG. Yeah, we know that there isn't a lot of room in the MMORPG market, not nearly as much room as in the traditional game market, but we have marketting droids to please. We are clueless and think cartoon games are out. Peace out, consumer slugs.
disclaimer: I didn't read the article. I have never played S&M (the video game anyway). Big fan of Monkey Island series though.
I'm sure they are mispronouncing knight, but it makes the reference more recognizable if you write it like they say it. Part of the humour is his insane accent.
I shall taunt you a second time! You silly english KINNNIGIT!
You don't get the benefit of this if you can't see what face the coin started on. Coin toss win/lose ratio: still 50/50. Pick the right coin face.
Now if someone did some research about how many times a coin was pulled from someone's pocket coming up heads, now THAT's where the money (!) is. Sorry for the bad pun.
Oops! Watch out for that analog hole! There will always be players out there that support the old stuff.
Just as annoying how? Clinton, with all of his faults, didn't even come close. Yeah, politicians are scum. All of them. That doesn't mean we REWARD the shittier one with a re-election.
No dream world. Go ahead and disprove me, coward. I got 2 replies, both cowards, and both didn't give ANY contrary evidence.
Lied about it. Lied about links between Al Quaeda and Iraq. Took more vacation time than any other president. Still hasn't proven where he was during Vietnam. Obviously had a shitload of friend deals and son-of-a-senator shit thrown his way, while the democrat front runner was actually in vietnam. Sent 500+ US soldiers to their deaths because of his right wing cabinet. Trying to totally discriminate against a group of individuals and get it put on the CONSTITUTION. Doesn't read the news. Definately doesn't read slashdot.
How many more reasons do we need to get rid of this freak?
That's a rather naive outlook. We will just survive for no good reason. Humans have had thousands of years to build up immunity to certain viruses like the flu and the common cold. Releasing a never-before seen superflu is much different. We survived the plague, but a LOT of people have to die, and as was said previously, we didn't have as much travel back then. A virus can spread a LOT quicker now. And wether or not we might POSSIBLY survive something has nothing to do with the fact that even if we DO survive, millions of people had to die.
You could work on W's inept staff with that naive attitude.