I always thought that the idea of listening to the audio from DVDs (well, back in the day, I imagined it as from VHS's, but it works the same way) would be nice way of travelling.
On a trip to school, a several years ago, I caught a television broadcast signal on my radio (like, they were transmitting the tv sounds onto the radio), and they were playing the sounds to Casper -- that one with the fat ghost and the smelly ghost and stuff.
Anyway, since I'd already seen the movie, I knew enough to be able to understand what was going on, while still watching the road.
I work on other stuff while "watching" movies at home anyway, and since I don't look at the screen too much when I do that anyway, it's about the same.
Luke
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Tired of answering tons of basic computer questions for friends and family? Send them to ChristianNerds.com instead!
I generally look for any kind of talk radio that I can find. Instead of doing music or what have you on a CD or mp3 player, I look for talk radio, and try to learn stuff.
Can't stand the sports talk, but every once in a while, you'll stumble upon a real gem, listening to talk radio in places you've never been to before.
One time, I was driving through the appalations and found a radio equivalent of tech TV. It was fun!
Besides, music puts me to sleep.
Luke
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Tired of answering tons of basic computer questions for friends and family? Send them to ChristianNerds.com instead!
Sadly, for those of us who constantly change the operating systems on our "hobby" computer, we'll probably get marked that we've pirated their operating systems, even though we're just using it on one system at a time, and bought it legitimately, and have a valid key and everything.
*sigh* as well
Luke
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Tired of answering tons of basic computer questions for friends and family? Send them to ChristianNerds.com instead!
Microsoft chairman, Bill Gates, has announced yet a new version of the Windows Operating system. Trying to take advantage of the obvious new market of supercomputers, the computer giant is ready to release Windows SC. The new operating system, designed to beat the Japanese domination in computing power, as well as the Russians in spam-distribution, will link all computers running the operating system into one giant spam^H^H^H^Hcommercial marketing distribution center.
Luke
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Tired of answering tons of basic computer questions for friends and family? Send them to ChristianNerds.com instead!
Actually, the AOL MUDs were my first ones. Gemstone, I think it was called, was the first time that I learned about Role Playing (even though I never got farther than delivering tons of packages to people), and I've been hooked ever since.
With a mud, at least the ones that I play, you may not have numbers anywhere as high as in a MMORPG, but it's generally alot easier to make an influence on the surrounding world. I'd say that there are alot more MUDs that, when big things happen, the world is actually changed.
MMORPGs might be huge, but at least with MUDs, they generally at least have the RP that the so-called RPGs ascribe to.
When you have a game that features things that the majority of people have always wanted to do at some time or another, but didn't want to go to jail for it or they just didn't want to hurt people in real life, it doesn't matter what the rating it, it'll always sell like crazy.
Oh, and if you can jump out of a car, and let it keep going and run over gangstas and drug lords.
It won't hurt it.
Might even raise the sales of it, truth be told.
Luke
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Like computers, but are frustrated about explaining things hundreds of times over? Send them to ChristianNerds.com
It's a game called Grand Theft Auto, and they're surprized when it's not a pure, nice, and clean game? It's a game about doing illegal things anyway. If you can pick up the cart and read on it that it's about Theft, don't be surprized when you steal cars and do less-than-righteous stuff. man.
It's too bad that search engine results are so full of all-advertising sites that good sites tend to fall though the cracks. I've seen a number of pretty-decent websites that didn't show up until the tenth page of a google search just because they weren't "Optimized for search engine traffic". It's annoying.
I read an article a while back that says that anyone who does anything purely for the purposes of making their websites show up higher on search engine results than they should are scammers. I believe it. No matter how whitehat you are, if you're trying to beat the system, you're a scammer. period.
From the Article, ""IT decision-makers polled believe that employees are spending an average of 5.9 hours per week surfing the internet for non work-related reasons." There's who's the ones claiming it. Just decision-makers. Like, pointy-headed bosses. They don't know; they just guess, and then websense extrapolates it under the assumption that they are right. Wow. What a way to make a scientific study.
Luke
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Send your pointy-headed boss to ChristianNerds.com. Teach him (or her) computer stuff.
Just looking at my website statistics from people coming to my website via slashdot.org, I actually have a large number at the beginning of the workday, and towards the end, but during the day, it looks like most people stay pretty productive...
Or just that they do their slashdotting in the morning and other non-productive surfing later:-)
Exept for people that run websites for a business. Those people are gaining quite a bit from it. But sadly, when you're ADD like me, and you try to run a website, you tend to wander around the net, when you're supposed to be staying focused on working on your website.
But I don't mind, since I don't make any significant amount of money from my site.
Nobody knows anything, so let's write an article about it, because it'll generate hits on our website!
Marketing:
If you know it, write about it
If you don't know it, speculate.
If you hear someone else write about it, it must be important, so link to them and make something up.
Gotta love web reporting.
Luke
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Sure, those of us with our webpages in our sigs do the same thing:-P
I'm completely for VoIP. I'd love to be able to call friends across the world for hardly anything, but I'm also not for providers who don't do their hardest to make sure that their customers (who they're trying to convince to drop their landline) are receiving the same emergency service as they would have had.
I'm betting that the FCC tries to make the commercial providers illegal or at least severely restricted, but that's just a gut reaction against them because of their recent antics. But aside from that, I think that the 911 thing is a Good Thing(TM).
Luke
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Sure, you know everything on ChristianNerds.com (An Computer Encyclopedia for computer beginners), but your boss doesn't.
We just got within range of broadband internet within the last year. Even if they do bring some places up to those high speeds, I think they'll need to get the current areas more saturated to the point that enough people would be willing to pay for those speeds before the companies could afford to bring those technologies to the common household.
I've been told by numerous people, including my college roomate who went to court about a traffic ticket, that most of the time, just because someone is willing to go to the court about getting a ticket, they almost always win. Like, just being willing to spend the time to go is enough for reasonable doubt in a lot of situations.
Luke
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Help your boss understand what computers are before making decisions: ChristianNerds.com
Although the "average user" won't be using the various plugins, Microsoft will still point to this as one more reason to say that FireFox isn't secure. Sure, FireFox has it's bugs. We need to get fixing them.
I'm not saying that FireFox is perfect. Obviously, it's not, and this article is a case in point. It's still the browser I use. For me, this is a warning to fix things or wait for them to stable up (oh yeah -- that mindset shown, I am a Debian user). But just like we use any little IE thing to say "See, IE is junk," this'll get used too.
*sigh* The joys of conflict.
Luke
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Smarten up your stupider-than-you coworkers, send them to ChristianNerds.com
It's probably because almost all of the research is funded by corporations that make themselves sound good. I mean, I'd rather trust someone who I didn't know, but I considered a *regular guy* instead of a paid researcher who told what to find. I mean, word of mouth advertising versus reading magazine advertisements. I'd believe word of mouth more.
Luke
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Don't let your family be ignorant any more, send them to ChristianNerds.com (The Free Online Computer Encyclopedia)
The best thing about the iPod is that you don't have to look at it. Well, that and it plays music. Remember all of the people having to get different headphones so their iPod's wouldn't get stolen? You could stick the iPod in your pocket and get on with life, while it happily lulled you into comfort with its background music or drowned out your uncomfortable surroundings with distracting foreground music.
Now, you have to look at it.
It's like they're trying to get into a small chunk of the PDA market, and a bit of the video game handheld market, but without the majority of their bonus features.
Luke
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Teach Aunt Martha about the computer the eay way: Send her to ChristianNerds.com, the Free Online Computer Encyclopedia (written in normal-people-speak)
You know how we've all grown to hate when we're in public places and people are sitting there, talking loudly on their cellphones?
Now, we're going to get to the point where we're sitting in public places and see all these little video screens, playing video that we can barely make out enough to know what it is, but just enough to have a shiney spot in the corner of our eye that's distracting and making it so that we can't concentrate. Marvelous.
Luke
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Help your boss understand what you're talking about: Send them to ChristianNerds.com . We teach computers in a form so basic, even your boss will understand.
Slashdot Mirror
I always thought that the idea of listening to the audio from DVDs (well, back in the day, I imagined it as from VHS's, but it works the same way) would be nice way of travelling.
On a trip to school, a several years ago, I caught a television broadcast signal on my radio (like, they were transmitting the tv sounds onto the radio), and they were playing the sounds to Casper -- that one with the fat ghost and the smelly ghost and stuff.
Anyway, since I'd already seen the movie, I knew enough to be able to understand what was going on, while still watching the road.
I work on other stuff while "watching" movies at home anyway, and since I don't look at the screen too much when I do that anyway, it's about the same.
Luke
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Tired of answering tons of basic computer questions for friends and family? Send them to ChristianNerds.com instead!
I generally look for any kind of talk radio that I can find. Instead of doing music or what have you on a CD or mp3 player, I look for talk radio, and try to learn stuff.
Can't stand the sports talk, but every once in a while, you'll stumble upon a real gem, listening to talk radio in places you've never been to before.
One time, I was driving through the appalations and found a radio equivalent of tech TV. It was fun!
Besides, music puts me to sleep.
Luke
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Tired of answering tons of basic computer questions for friends and family? Send them to ChristianNerds.com instead!
Man, they've all been like that. It's an entire series of games all about doing illegal stuff, and shooting cops, "making use of" prostitutes, etc.
It's been there since the first one, but nobody even lifted a finger -- government wise -- until now. It's been like three or four years.
Wow.
Luke
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Tired of answering tons of basic computer questions for friends and family? Send them to ChristianNerds.com instead!
Sadly, for those of us who constantly change the operating systems on our "hobby" computer, we'll probably get marked that we've pirated their operating systems, even though we're just using it on one system at a time, and bought it legitimately, and have a valid key and everything.
*sigh* as well
Luke
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Tired of answering tons of basic computer questions for friends and family? Send them to ChristianNerds.com instead!
The top news story of the hour:
Microsoft chairman, Bill Gates, has announced yet a new version of the Windows Operating system. Trying to take advantage of the obvious new market of supercomputers, the computer giant is ready to release Windows SC. The new operating system, designed to beat the Japanese domination in computing power, as well as the Russians in spam-distribution, will link all computers running the operating system into one giant spam^H^H^H^Hcommercial marketing distribution center.
Luke
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It's just like the "first to space" race, but without a concrete final goal.
Let's see who can get furthur into space!
Luke
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Tired of answering tons of basic computer questions for friends and family? Send them to ChristianNerds.com instead!
Actually, the AOL MUDs were my first ones. Gemstone, I think it was called, was the first time that I learned about Role Playing (even though I never got farther than delivering tons of packages to people), and I've been hooked ever since.
Luke
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Do you like ketchup? I just found the most hilarious stand-up monologue all about ketchup. Go read it!
With a mud, at least the ones that I play, you may not have numbers anywhere as high as in a MMORPG, but it's generally alot easier to make an influence on the surrounding world. I'd say that there are alot more MUDs that, when big things happen, the world is actually changed.
MMORPGs might be huge, but at least with MUDs, they generally at least have the RP that the so-called RPGs ascribe to.
Luke
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Do you like ketchup? I just found the most hilarious stand-up monologue all about ketchup. Go read it!
So, when you're on almost all of the PCs, and there's more PCs bought, you actually make more money?
/.
When in doubt, report the obvious! Then, at least it's good ol' cynicism feed for
Luke
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Do you like ketchup? I just found the most hilarious stand-up monologue all about ketchup. Go read it!
When you have a game that features things that the majority of people have always wanted to do at some time or another, but didn't want to go to jail for it or they just didn't want to hurt people in real life, it doesn't matter what the rating it, it'll always sell like crazy.
Oh, and if you can jump out of a car, and let it keep going and run over gangstas and drug lords.
It won't hurt it.
Might even raise the sales of it, truth be told.
Luke
----
Like computers, but are frustrated about explaining things hundreds of times over? Send them to ChristianNerds.com
It's a game called Grand Theft Auto, and they're surprized when it's not a pure, nice, and clean game? It's a game about doing illegal things anyway. If you can pick up the cart and read on it that it's about Theft, don't be surprized when you steal cars and do less-than-righteous stuff. man.
Luke
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If you also have a website that's geared for computer newbies, get a hold of me. Maybe we can partner up or something.
It's too bad that search engine results are so full of all-advertising sites that good sites tend to fall though the cracks. I've seen a number of pretty-decent websites that didn't show up until the tenth page of a google search just because they weren't "Optimized for search engine traffic". It's annoying.
I read an article a while back that says that anyone who does anything purely for the purposes of making their websites show up higher on search engine results than they should are scammers. I believe it. No matter how whitehat you are, if you're trying to beat the system, you're a scammer. period.
Dumb ol' no-good-content-advertiser-based-websites.
Luke
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This may be a shameless plug for my website, but at least it's got content.
From the Article, ""IT decision-makers polled believe that employees are spending an average of 5.9 hours per week surfing the internet for non work-related reasons." There's who's the ones claiming it. Just decision-makers. Like, pointy-headed bosses. They don't know; they just guess, and then websense extrapolates it under the assumption that they are right. Wow. What a way to make a scientific study.
Luke
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Send your pointy-headed boss to ChristianNerds.com. Teach him (or her) computer stuff.
Just looking at my website statistics from people coming to my website via slashdot.org, I actually have a large number at the beginning of the workday, and towards the end, but during the day, it looks like most people stay pretty productive...
:-)
Or just that they do their slashdotting in the morning and other non-productive surfing later
Luke
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If you also have a website that's geared for computer newbies, get a hold of me. Maybe we can partner up or something.
Exept for people that run websites for a business. Those people are gaining quite a bit from it. But sadly, when you're ADD like me, and you try to run a website, you tend to wander around the net, when you're supposed to be staying focused on working on your website.
But I don't mind, since I don't make any significant amount of money from my site.
Luke
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If you also have a website that's geared for computer newbies, get a hold of me. Maybe we can partner up or something.
Nobody knows anything, so let's write an article about it, because it'll generate hits on our website!
:-P
Marketing:
If you know it, write about it
If you don't know it, speculate.
If you hear someone else write about it, it must be important, so link to them and make something up.
Gotta love web reporting.
Luke
----
Sure, those of us with our webpages in our sigs do the same thing
I'm completely for VoIP. I'd love to be able to call friends across the world for hardly anything, but I'm also not for providers who don't do their hardest to make sure that their customers (who they're trying to convince to drop their landline) are receiving the same emergency service as they would have had.
I'm betting that the FCC tries to make the commercial providers illegal or at least severely restricted, but that's just a gut reaction against them because of their recent antics. But aside from that, I think that the 911 thing is a Good Thing(TM).
Luke
----
Sure, you know everything on ChristianNerds.com (An Computer Encyclopedia for computer beginners), but your boss doesn't.
We just got within range of broadband internet within the last year. Even if they do bring some places up to those high speeds, I think they'll need to get the current areas more saturated to the point that enough people would be willing to pay for those speeds before the companies could afford to bring those technologies to the common household.
Luke
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Teach your Aunt Susie about technology: ChristianNerds.com
I've been told by numerous people, including my college roomate who went to court about a traffic ticket, that most of the time, just because someone is willing to go to the court about getting a ticket, they almost always win. Like, just being willing to spend the time to go is enough for reasonable doubt in a lot of situations.
Luke
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Help your boss understand what computers are before making decisions: ChristianNerds.com
"Quoth" is infinately funnier in this situation.
Luke
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Help your boss understand you. Send them to ChristianNerds.com
Although the "average user" won't be using the various plugins, Microsoft will still point to this as one more reason to say that FireFox isn't secure. Sure, FireFox has it's bugs. We need to get fixing them.
I'm not saying that FireFox is perfect. Obviously, it's not, and this article is a case in point. It's still the browser I use. For me, this is a warning to fix things or wait for them to stable up (oh yeah -- that mindset shown, I am a Debian user). But just like we use any little IE thing to say "See, IE is junk," this'll get used too.
*sigh* The joys of conflict.
Luke
----
Smarten up your stupider-than-you coworkers, send them to ChristianNerds.com
Just more ammo for the mega-powers to say, "See, when it becomes mainstream, it becomes more insecure. Come back to windows."
Marvelous.
Luke
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Be smart. Teach others. ChristianNerds.com
It's probably because almost all of the research is funded by corporations that make themselves sound good. I mean, I'd rather trust someone who I didn't know, but I considered a *regular guy* instead of a paid researcher who told what to find. I mean, word of mouth advertising versus reading magazine advertisements. I'd believe word of mouth more.
Luke
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Don't let your family be ignorant any more, send them to ChristianNerds.com (The Free Online Computer Encyclopedia)
The best thing about the iPod is that you don't have to look at it. Well, that and it plays music. Remember all of the people having to get different headphones so their iPod's wouldn't get stolen? You could stick the iPod in your pocket and get on with life, while it happily lulled you into comfort with its background music or drowned out your uncomfortable surroundings with distracting foreground music.
Now, you have to look at it.
It's like they're trying to get into a small chunk of the PDA market, and a bit of the video game handheld market, but without the majority of their bonus features.
Luke
----
Teach Aunt Martha about the computer the eay way: Send her to ChristianNerds.com, the Free Online Computer Encyclopedia (written in normal-people-speak)
You know how we've all grown to hate when we're in public places and people are sitting there, talking loudly on their cellphones?
Now, we're going to get to the point where we're sitting in public places and see all these little video screens, playing video that we can barely make out enough to know what it is, but just enough to have a shiney spot in the corner of our eye that's distracting and making it so that we can't concentrate. Marvelous.
Luke
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Help your boss understand what you're talking about: Send them to ChristianNerds.com . We teach computers in a form so basic, even your boss will understand.