I want to know what the deal is with all the computer companies selling 64-bit machine with 32-bit versions of Windows. Shouldn't that be illegal? Like buying a Lamborghini, but only half the cylinders have spark plugs in them.
Have a Belkin USB wireless adapter. They don't offer a 64 bit driver. But RALink, the company that makes the chips in the thing, DO offer a 64-bit driver. But Belkin won't tell you that.
And 64-bit Flash (Not that I really want such a thing), why is that taking so long? Sick of the 'blip' noise with every page I hit with 64-bit IE wanting me to install flash to see some lame ad. And you click on it and "There's no 64-bit Flash, but you can run Flash on a 32-browser running on your 64-bit OS" And Why The Fuck would I want to do that?
Prices are high on gas because the cost of production is high? How do you back up that statement? Gas is high because of massive mismanagement, inadequate processing facilities, and large amounts of capacity being offline for either shoddy maintenance (Pipelines rusting out) or really sketchy reasons. (The big facility in Oklahoma explodes because of a lightning strike? These people never heard of lightning rods and proper grounding? If there's no oxygen supply in a big tank, then you can hit it with lightning all day long and nothing can ignite.)
This is all bullshit caused by the deregulation of the industry. Look how well deregulation of the energy market worked for California, rolling blackouts, raging high prices, etc. Required public services needed for the basic functionality of our society should NEVER be deregulated, cause all it does is let unethical traders get rich of scamming the whole system.
I know, all you "free market" clones will fry me for stating the obvious, but the free market doesn't exist without government regulation in the first place. Free market is just an euphemism for "quick buck", not a long term, stable solution.
Your point is well taken. What do we do to those children, unthinkingly, and how does it affect the long term future.
I find it similar to the article/essay written by Neal Peart of Rush about their new album, Snakes and Arrows. (Rush is currently #3 on the charts - I never thought I'd see that again! Makes me happy as a big Rush fan!)
"...how children are usually imprinted with a particular faith, along with their other early blessings and scars. People who actively choose their faith are vanishingly few; most simply receive it, with their mother's milk, language, and customs. Thinking also of people being shaped by early abuse of one kind or another, I felt a connection with friends who had adopted rescue dogs as puppies, and given them unlimited love, care, and security. If those puppies had been "damaged" by their earlier treatment--made nervous, timid, or worse--they would always remain that way, no matter how smooth the rest of their life might be. It seemed the same for children.
To express that notion, I came up with, "The snakes and arrows a child is heir to/ Are enough to leave a thousand cuts." I thought I was only combining Hamlet's "slings and arrows" with the childhood game "Snakes and Ladders," to make something less clichéd. And indeed, when we were discussing Snakes and Arrows as a possible album title, Geddy remarked, "I like it because it sounds familiar, but isn't."
They're still up to their bullshit. There are copyright laws, there are patent laws, there are trademark laws. There is no such thing as an Intellectual Property law. That's a big blanket that the megacorps want to pull over our eyes in order to gain more power. Taken individually, copyright, patent, and trademark laws have acceptable checks and balances built into them (Except the ones that have been stroked by Mickey Mouse). But what they're after is a true Intellectual Property law that has no balancing of Megacorp vs. Common Good. They want it to be all Theirs, and no Ours.
Be careful, whenever some politician blabbers on about "Intellectual Property", it really means they are in bed with the Megacorps and want to muddy the issue in order to set some bastardized legal precedent on the sheep-like public who won't notice a thing until the water boils.
OK, one DIM power light might be helpful. Then again, a Diagnostics button would be better in that case. Hit it, and if nothing lights up, then there might be a problem with the power.
But if the power goes out, you're probably going to know that anyway because this device is not the only device that is going belly up.
On the other hand, what's the usefulness of the power light anyway? Could be the wall power, could be the power cord, could be the transformer, could be the whole damn thing just let the magic smoke out. Doesn't tell you much.
For racked servers, not really a big deal to have lotsa lights. But for consumer electronics, the lights are fucking annoying. Sure, if you want the WayCool blinkenlights, then have then on, but also have a way to shut the damn things off when you're not trying to give your geek friend a big woody.
They are stupid. How about the reverse - "If this light is on, then something is broken. If all lights are off, then everything's fine."
Worse is the damn blue power light on my computer that is brighter than hell and blinks incessantly when in Standby mode. Right next to my bed. Made it worthless. I changed the operation of the sleep button to make it hibernate instead of stand by. Hibernate fully shuts off the dam blinkenlight.
System attachment? What kind of attachment are you going to connect to your system? Why a ratio? Like 1 Wii:2 Wiimotes? I have two wiimotes, two nunchucks, and two classic controllers. I'm not even sure how to describe such a ratio. 1:2:2:2?? Or would it be 1:2:1:1 since for each wiimote I have one nunchuk and one classic controller?
Who track such things? Why would this be important? How do we count wireless attachments? Multiplayer network games? Are those considered attachments too? What if they come out with Guitar Hero for the Wii? Would the guitar be counted as an attachment? (More importantly, will the Wiitar (With commercials done by Borat, saying "Oh, you are Wiitar?") support pointing the neck of the guitar at a random girl in the audience who will then pull up her top? Can you use the + and - buttons to zoom in on them?)
Why would the amount of attachments purchased "in an environment dominated by casual gamers" be any different from the amount of attachments purchased by hardcore gamers?
I just don't understand the point of your question. But I have much more fun when my girlfriend plays with my Wii that you will ever have with your PS3.
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Apparently this is the rage in Australia right now. Cat Poo Coffee:
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Bunch of Savages, I tell ya.
I want to know what the deal is with all the computer companies selling 64-bit machine with 32-bit versions of Windows. Shouldn't that be illegal? Like buying a Lamborghini, but only half the cylinders have spark plugs in them.
No doubt!
Have a Belkin USB wireless adapter. They don't offer a 64 bit driver. But RALink, the company that makes the chips in the thing, DO offer a 64-bit driver. But Belkin won't tell you that.
And 64-bit Flash (Not that I really want such a thing), why is that taking so long? Sick of the 'blip' noise with every page I hit with 64-bit IE wanting me to install flash to see some lame ad. And you click on it and "There's no 64-bit Flash, but you can run Flash on a 32-browser running on your 64-bit OS" And Why The Fuck would I want to do that?
No, I think he means all the older 32-bit machines that will be heading for the landfill.
Prices are high on gas because the cost of production is high? How do you back up that statement? Gas is high because of massive mismanagement, inadequate processing facilities, and large amounts of capacity being offline for either shoddy maintenance (Pipelines rusting out) or really sketchy reasons. (The big facility in Oklahoma explodes because of a lightning strike? These people never heard of lightning rods and proper grounding? If there's no oxygen supply in a big tank, then you can hit it with lightning all day long and nothing can ignite.)
This is all bullshit caused by the deregulation of the industry. Look how well deregulation of the energy market worked for California, rolling blackouts, raging high prices, etc. Required public services needed for the basic functionality of our society should NEVER be deregulated, cause all it does is let unethical traders get rich of scamming the whole system.
I know, all you "free market" clones will fry me for stating the obvious, but the free market doesn't exist without government regulation in the first place. Free market is just an euphemism for "quick buck", not a long term, stable solution.
Your point is well taken. What do we do to those children, unthinkingly, and how does it affect the long term future.
I find it similar to the article/essay written by Neal Peart of Rush about their new album, Snakes and Arrows. (Rush is currently #3 on the charts - I never thought I'd see that again! Makes me happy as a big Rush fan!)
Snippet from A Prize Every Time
"...how children are usually imprinted with a particular faith, along with their other early blessings and scars. People who actively choose their faith are vanishingly few; most simply receive it, with their mother's milk, language, and customs. Thinking also of people being shaped by early abuse of one kind or another, I felt a connection with friends who had adopted rescue dogs as puppies, and given them unlimited love, care, and security. If those puppies had been "damaged" by their earlier treatment--made nervous, timid, or worse--they would always remain that way, no matter how smooth the rest of their life might be. It seemed the same for children.
To express that notion, I came up with, "The snakes and arrows a child is heir to/ Are enough to leave a thousand cuts." I thought I was only combining Hamlet's "slings and arrows" with the childhood game "Snakes and Ladders," to make something less clichéd. And indeed, when we were discussing Snakes and Arrows as a possible album title, Geddy remarked, "I like it because it sounds familiar, but isn't."
What? :)
I'm not following the reference. I can't tell if you mean sitting on a brain, ass, or penis. (Or something else?)
Sorry, total inability to parse meaning from your sentence. I fail the Turing test I guess.
Uh, 2004 called, they want their SheepSpeak back...
Who The Fuck is Bill Hilf and why do we care what he says?
.NET developer by day and I've never heard this guys name until now.
Hell, I'm even an MSDN card carrying
Who cares...
Isn't a Bush toy like a vibrating dildo?
They're still up to their bullshit. There are copyright laws, there are patent laws, there are trademark laws. There is no such thing as an Intellectual Property law. That's a big blanket that the megacorps want to pull over our eyes in order to gain more power. Taken individually, copyright, patent, and trademark laws have acceptable checks and balances built into them (Except the ones that have been stroked by Mickey Mouse). But what they're after is a true Intellectual Property law that has no balancing of Megacorp vs. Common Good. They want it to be all Theirs, and no Ours.
Be careful, whenever some politician blabbers on about "Intellectual Property", it really means they are in bed with the Megacorps and want to muddy the issue in order to set some bastardized legal precedent on the sheep-like public who won't notice a thing until the water boils.
That guy still hasn't resigned? Hasn't he already done enough damage?
OK, one DIM power light might be helpful. Then again, a Diagnostics button would be better in that case. Hit it, and if nothing lights up, then there might be a problem with the power.
But if the power goes out, you're probably going to know that anyway because this device is not the only device that is going belly up.
On the other hand, what's the usefulness of the power light anyway? Could be the wall power, could be the power cord, could be the transformer, could be the whole damn thing just let the magic smoke out. Doesn't tell you much.
For racked servers, not really a big deal to have lotsa lights. But for consumer electronics, the lights are fucking annoying. Sure, if you want the WayCool blinkenlights, then have then on, but also have a way to shut the damn things off when you're not trying to give your geek friend a big woody.
Funny thing is, 30 years later, there's a LOT more people that like Led Zeppelin than the Bee Gees.
And for the record, the Times sucked... (Randal said it, but Kevin Smith wrote it, so who's record are we talking about?)
They are stupid. How about the reverse - "If this light is on, then something is broken. If all lights are off, then everything's fine."
Worse is the damn blue power light on my computer that is brighter than hell and blinks incessantly when in Standby mode. Right next to my bed. Made it worthless. I changed the operation of the sleep button to make it hibernate instead of stand by. Hibernate fully shuts off the dam blinkenlight.
Oh, you live in Nebraska too?
Good one! Much better than my lame attempt at humor. :)
Ignore this guy, he sounds like a paid astroturfer to me.
Oh shit, that was YOUR player? Sorry dude, Hornsby just don't do it for me... :)
So who works harder? Visa workers or Mastercard workers?
If you delete/edit posts by other people, then you lose your common carrier protection.
Wooosh!! Did you see the size of that chicken?
How many people first read this and thought they were going to put Dance Dance Revolution in a bunch of schools.?
System attachment? What kind of attachment are you going to connect to your system? Why a ratio? Like 1 Wii:2 Wiimotes? I have two wiimotes, two nunchucks, and two classic controllers. I'm not even sure how to describe such a ratio. 1:2:2:2?? Or would it be 1:2:1:1 since for each wiimote I have one nunchuk and one classic controller?
Who track such things? Why would this be important? How do we count wireless attachments? Multiplayer network games? Are those considered attachments too? What if they come out with Guitar Hero for the Wii? Would the guitar be counted as an attachment? (More importantly, will the Wiitar (With commercials done by Borat, saying "Oh, you are Wiitar?") support pointing the neck of the guitar at a random girl in the audience who will then pull up her top? Can you use the + and - buttons to zoom in on them?)
Why would the amount of attachments purchased "in an environment dominated by casual gamers" be any different from the amount of attachments purchased by hardcore gamers?
I just don't understand the point of your question. But I have much more fun when my girlfriend plays with my Wii that you will ever have with your PS3.