the bust was bound to happen. what goes up must come down, and the faster it goes up, the faster it seems to come down. but at the same time, there was no danger of the technology disapearing. its not like i'm typing away on a typewriter, or a pen and paper, or a rock and chizel. the bust was just economical evolution, shaking off the weak and wasteful companies that wouldnt have made it very far. fp
yes, since there are so many people concerned with reading the lips of birds, especially since they don't have lips, or talk. yeah, consider this my karma burn for the evening.
No, this is the era of ventriliquisum (sp?), as the ventriliquistes will rise up against those who mocked them, their plans for unholy vengance will go unnoticed, as our only safety net collapses.
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i doubt it would help. The way i see it, the image would have to be clear, and the person can't be moving to much, and they have to be annunciating their english. after all, i hardly move my lips while speaking, so it couldnt read mine
not a matter of back bone, it's a matter of finances. There just isn't a way for them to afford a prolonged legal battle. After all, AM GREET is a HUGE corp, and the $20 donations they'll be getting just isn't enough.
jesus man, no reason to get so touchy about it. I didn't mean private sellers, becuase most houses are sold through banks and companies that are gov't certified. I mean, seriously, what crawled up your ass and died.
you make so many excellent points, that I would hate to nit-pick, but I will anyway. It is illegal to not sell property because of race, this goes back to the 60's when the federal govt was trying to enforce desegregation laws and had to end the pratice of red-lining, a form of faux de-facto segregation where-in people could keep people of various ethnicities out of public schools by refusing to sell to them. Other than that, you made some excellent points.
lets not try diplomatic pressure at all? lets try true diplomacy. let's try to see their problems, express our own problems, and then have an intelligent negotiation with compromises that leave people satisfied. Course, we'd have to assume that politicians are socially-conscious and intelligent persons capable of actually caring that the world is a better place for everyone. Course, they dont, which is why we have the other three options. sad.
it's their service, it's 100% free, and something tells me they covered there ass in the EULA. Is it nice? is it moral? probably not. But it is their company, and their service. Is this smart of them to do? Probably not, bad publicity could spell disaster for them. If you don't agree with me, then discuss your view point, don't just mod me down cuz you disagree with me. FP.
In my most biased of opinions, the athlon is by FAR the better purchase. The celeron, however, isn't aimed at consumers like me, who look at every benchmark, calculate the pcmarkpoint:dollar ratio, and calcuate in the expense of the other gear (MB, RAM). No, it is aimed at the lackluster $700 dell buyer, who sees the word "Intel" and sees the numbers "2.2Ghz" and is thus satisfied, not quite realizing what they are really getting.
most PSUs these days are p4 compliant. COurse, i'd rather just buy an athlon, seeing as how the price is about the same for the speed, but the performance is SO much greater. Especially when you run Floating-point loving apps (adobe after effects and such). Course, i'm a bit biased, cuz i love my comp so much ^^
"Way back in 1966, when GIMP was first released, it had alot of groundbreaking functionality..."
Now for lies, or at least half-truths.
"GIMP can read and write the following graphic format files:... GIF - Compuserve Graphics Interchange Format..." Fails to mention that use of GIF is illegal on GIMP. he also fails to mention that using TIFF is illegal. He also claims that GIMP stands for General Image Manipulator Program, when we all know that it is named GNU Image Manipulation Program.
on a side note, how would it feel to have paid that $10, thinking you got a good deal, only to find out that you could have had it for FREE.
Guess what I just found out! It ends up there is lots of water on earth, and it's not even protected by rocks. No need to blow the place up to get it! ^^
okay, anyway, the only purpose for looking for water is to find life on the moon. By using missiles to release the water, we blow up any life we may have found, just a thought....
oh, you mean the patheic attempt that mozilla doesnt handle right. for some odd reason, it will display the dialogue box telling you to stop, but the rght-clck menu will stay open. this horrible bug is the bane of my existance.....
now, to veer a tad. It's great that companies are releasing titles for Linux, it really is, but I want more and more of the brand-spankin-new games to run natively on Linux. Sure, I know, there are more and more FPSs coming out for Linux, but I want more than that. OTOH, It probably wouldn't kill anyone to keep a 10gig partition on their machine for running the latest and greatest (as well as all the old) games. I understand that you don't want to pay the MS tax, but that's what emule is for (not that I'm suggesting you dl a copy of win2k or winxp [wink, wink]). Now, I'd be interested if a big player in the game industry said something to the effect of "all future titles will be released under linux." Now that would be news for nerds.
never will i give up that tick-click sound that issues forth from my keyboard. I was once working on a friends keyboard, and the thing was totaly silent. You would not believe how empty you would feel without the auditory stimulus from your beloved keyboard; it's like a really annoying and loud child, you want it silent right now or you'll go INSANE!, but soon after you've killed the kid, you'll realize just how much you missed their skreetching at the top of their little lungs.... or maybe that is the guilt settling in, doesnt matter. I'll NEVER give up my beloved clicks. They make me FEEL like i'm working, if nothing else.
that is the first thing I thought as well, it's comparing apples to oranges, right? But there is some merit, the wheel (as is your reference) is still a constantly evolving peice of hardware (after how many eons?). Every year, the tire companies roll out with some new advancements (pun left in on purpose) and the evolution of the wheel continues. Now, I am quite used to my QWERTY board, and am not apt to change it soon. But have you tried the vertical board, its actually quite comfortable. Now, that mouse they showed, though more erogronomical, doesn't work out all that well in practice. The mouse currently relies on very precise side-to-side movement of your wrists, something that is much more difficult to do with the sideways mouse.
as ammusing as that would be, I rather like the vertical keyboard design (yes, i have actually used one). By allowing your wrists to rest in a more natural position, this keyboard is suprising comfortable, and the learning curve isnt too bad. But it loses its merit when it comes to apps other than office apps. Using Maya is quite a chore (I run maya like I run a mac, one hand exclusively on the keyboard and the other exclusively on the mouse), as are most media production apps (if you're a power user anyway). Of course, it was designed for typing, and that it does well.
i dont know why the hell it was modded troll. of course, i metamod trolls as +2 anyway, for just such reasons. And, yes, i would pay top dollar that 90% of the sales were after the firsts 5 months. Simply because it has been out for YEARS now. its not fair to compare months to years.
no, valve owes all sales AFTER the initial 5 months to the CS team. Lotsa people bought HL for HL, and then CS was a kick ass bonus. Of course, lotsa people like you never yeard of HL till after CS became THE game. So, the prolonged success is due to CS, the game can stand on its own merits though.
Weening off of windows is always a good thing, but would it really hurt to leave a 10gig partition to play windows only games? And even if HL2 doesnt support it natively, i'm sure that the gaming version of wine will be able to pick it up within a month or two.
I was looking forward to Unreal2, but it just didn't live up to the expectations. That is really too bad, I know a lot of people who were looking forward to it.... sigh.
But hey, I think Doom]|[ will be released before this year is over:) , so that makes two cool games with totally pimped out graphics. Hopefully, the gameplay wont be sacrificed in HL2, cuz its the gameplay more than the graphics that made HL what it is.
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i'm begginning to wonder if a microphone might be the simpler solution. too bad mics don't have that Gee-Whiz factor we love so much
the bust was bound to happen. what goes up must come down, and the faster it goes up, the faster it seems to come down. but at the same time, there was no danger of the technology disapearing. its not like i'm typing away on a typewriter, or a pen and paper, or a rock and chizel. the bust was just economical evolution, shaking off the weak and wasteful companies that wouldnt have made it very far. fp
yes, since there are so many people concerned with reading the lips of birds, especially since they don't have lips, or talk. yeah, consider this my karma burn for the evening.
No, this is the era of ventriliquisum (sp?), as the ventriliquistes will rise up against those who mocked them, their plans for unholy vengance will go unnoticed, as our only safety net collapses.
i doubt it would help. The way i see it, the image would have to be clear, and the person can't be moving to much, and they have to be annunciating their english. after all, i hardly move my lips while speaking, so it couldnt read mine
not a matter of back bone, it's a matter of finances. There just isn't a way for them to afford a prolonged legal battle. After all, AM GREET is a HUGE corp, and the $20 donations they'll be getting just isn't enough.
jesus man, no reason to get so touchy about it. I didn't mean private sellers, becuase most houses are sold through banks and companies that are gov't certified. I mean, seriously, what crawled up your ass and died.
you make so many excellent points, that I would hate to nit-pick, but I will anyway. It is illegal to not sell property because of race, this goes back to the 60's when the federal govt was trying to enforce desegregation laws and had to end the pratice of red-lining, a form of faux de-facto segregation where-in people could keep people of various ethnicities out of public schools by refusing to sell to them. Other than that, you made some excellent points.
lol, you've earned yourself a fan!
lets not try diplomatic pressure at all? lets try true diplomacy. let's try to see their problems, express our own problems, and then have an intelligent negotiation with compromises that leave people satisfied. Course, we'd have to assume that politicians are socially-conscious and intelligent persons capable of actually caring that the world is a better place for everyone. Course, they dont, which is why we have the other three options. sad.
it's their service, it's 100% free, and something tells me they covered there ass in the EULA. Is it nice? is it moral? probably not. But it is their company, and their service. Is this smart of them to do? Probably not, bad publicity could spell disaster for them.
If you don't agree with me, then discuss your view point, don't just mod me down cuz you disagree with me. FP.
In my most biased of opinions, the athlon is by FAR the better purchase. The celeron, however, isn't aimed at consumers like me, who look at every benchmark, calculate the pcmarkpoint:dollar ratio, and calcuate in the expense of the other gear (MB, RAM). No, it is aimed at the lackluster $700 dell buyer, who sees the word "Intel" and sees the numbers "2.2Ghz" and is thus satisfied, not quite realizing what they are really getting.
most PSUs these days are p4 compliant. COurse, i'd rather just buy an athlon, seeing as how the price is about the same for the speed, but the performance is SO much greater. Especially when you run Floating-point loving apps (adobe after effects and such). Course, i'm a bit biased, cuz i love my comp so much ^^
Now for a silly line from the links..
... GIF - Compuserve Graphics Interchange Format ..." Fails to mention that use of GIF is illegal on GIMP. he also fails to mention that using TIFF is illegal.
"Way back in 1966, when GIMP was first released, it had alot of groundbreaking functionality..."
Now for lies, or at least half-truths.
"GIMP can read and write the following graphic format files:
He also claims that GIMP stands for General Image Manipulator Program, when we all know that it is named GNU Image Manipulation Program.
on a side note, how would it feel to have paid that $10, thinking you got a good deal, only to find out that you could have had it for FREE.
Guess what I just found out! It ends up there is lots of water on earth, and it's not even protected by rocks. No need to blow the place up to get it! ^^
okay, anyway, the only purpose for looking for water is to find life on the moon. By using missiles to release the water, we blow up any life we may have found, just a thought....
oh, you mean the patheic attempt that mozilla doesnt handle right. for some odd reason, it will display the dialogue box telling you to stop, but the rght-clck menu will stay open. this horrible bug is the bane of my existance.....
just a bit outdated ^^.
now, to veer a tad. It's great that companies are releasing titles for Linux, it really is, but I want more and more of the brand-spankin-new games to run natively on Linux. Sure, I know, there are more and more FPSs coming out for Linux, but I want more than that. OTOH, It probably wouldn't kill anyone to keep a 10gig partition on their machine for running the latest and greatest (as well as all the old) games. I understand that you don't want to pay the MS tax, but that's what emule is for (not that I'm suggesting you dl a copy of win2k or winxp [wink, wink]).
Now, I'd be interested if a big player in the game industry said something to the effect of "all future titles will be released under linux." Now that would be news for nerds.
never will i give up that tick-click sound that issues forth from my keyboard. I was once working on a friends keyboard, and the thing was totaly silent. You would not believe how empty you would feel without the auditory stimulus from your beloved keyboard; it's like a really annoying and loud child, you want it silent right now or you'll go INSANE!, but soon after you've killed the kid, you'll realize just how much you missed their skreetching at the top of their little lungs. ... or maybe that is the guilt settling in, doesnt matter. I'll NEVER give up my beloved clicks. They make me FEEL like i'm working, if nothing else.
that is the first thing I thought as well, it's comparing apples to oranges, right? But there is some merit, the wheel (as is your reference) is still a constantly evolving peice of hardware (after how many eons?). Every year, the tire companies roll out with some new advancements (pun left in on purpose) and the evolution of the wheel continues. Now, I am quite used to my QWERTY board, and am not apt to change it soon. But have you tried the vertical board, its actually quite comfortable.
Now, that mouse they showed, though more erogronomical, doesn't work out all that well in practice. The mouse currently relies on very precise side-to-side movement of your wrists, something that is much more difficult to do with the sideways mouse.
as ammusing as that would be, I rather like the vertical keyboard design (yes, i have actually used one). By allowing your wrists to rest in a more natural position, this keyboard is suprising comfortable, and the learning curve isnt too bad. But it loses its merit when it comes to apps other than office apps. Using Maya is quite a chore (I run maya like I run a mac, one hand exclusively on the keyboard and the other exclusively on the mouse), as are most media production apps (if you're a power user anyway). Of course, it was designed for typing, and that it does well.
i dont know why the hell it was modded troll. of course, i metamod trolls as +2 anyway, for just such reasons. And, yes, i would pay top dollar that 90% of the sales were after the firsts 5 months. Simply because it has been out for YEARS now. its not fair to compare months to years.
no, valve owes all sales AFTER the initial 5 months to the CS team. Lotsa people bought HL for HL, and then CS was a kick ass bonus. Of course, lotsa people like you never yeard of HL till after CS became THE game. So, the prolonged success is due to CS, the game can stand on its own merits though.
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Weening off of windows is always a good thing, but would it really hurt to leave a 10gig partition to play windows only games? And even if HL2 doesnt support it natively, i'm sure that the gaming version of wine will be able to pick it up within a month or two.
I was looking forward to Unreal2, but it just didn't live up to the expectations. That is really too bad, I know a lot of people who were looking forward to it .... sigh.
:) , so that makes two cool games with totally pimped out graphics. Hopefully, the gameplay wont be sacrificed in HL2, cuz its the gameplay more than the graphics that made HL what it is.
But hey, I think Doom]|[ will be released before this year is over