I read the topic title and thought it was about a cure for those shiny pathes on your non-living mouse that you get where your fingers and hand constantly rest. Then I thought, "I've never thought it a problem to have a shiny bit even though the rest of the mouse is matt plastic."
I and a couple of friends occasionally have LAN parties over the weekend, along with a few beers and a good ole laugh. But I am really really bad at games (partly because this is the only time I ever play them), and I always get my ass whooped. Then the day after I am always depressed about being a loser. We can play constantly for 3 days and I wont win a single game - not even Hearts! So it doesn't really surprise me that losing is an emotional downer and winning is an emotional high. It's just like playing sports the only difference being the game played. They could have just studdied chess players or tennis players to get the same results.
I'm sure I've seen "toys for girls" that look just like my MS wheel mouse. I'm sure it can't be that hard to plug in a vibrating motor and some batteries. If you make it a wireless one you could even use a caddy to charge it. And the best thing is that you don't have to worry about someone finding it in your desk draw. You just say it's an old broken mouse. Kill two bird with one stone. Hell you could do it and have it stay as a fully functioning mouse too.
Almost all competition is a good ting, if there weren't competition we wouldn't be sat here using computers that can do what they can do and in a world that is as advanced as it is.
A standard is a good standard if it does it's job well and fits in with business demands. Technical superiority isn't always the best predictor of a winner. May the best standard win (which is a no-lose statement btw;-)).
Normally vulnerability reports on slashdot wouldn't make it because there are so many
This might be unusual but it's really not that big a news. I suppose it shows that even the best are not infallible. Nice to see it's already been patched =).
The only catch with Fedora, however, is its initial install: none of the partitioning strangeness has been fixed. On certain machines, Fedora simply cannot coexist with Windows on the same hard drive. But, if someone is willing to ditch Windows altogether, or is trying it out on a new, exclusively linux box, the installation is nearly flawless.
Oh boy have I found that out today! A full 10 hours of messing about (trying to re-install XP 5 times take quite a while), reading "help" files and nearly totally screwing up my disks and I'm back where I was yesterday. Fedora free and using XP. I like Fedora too, it's nice, easy, fiendly, but that one bug is a killer.
I'm frankly amazed that they shipped with it. If I were in charge of that project I'd make sure that bug was a show stopper and that it didn't go anywhere until it was fixed.
[snip]So is this the image they're pushing to our men out there, now?
Everyone knows that the woman you are with doesn't want you for you -- It's really only the gift that matters -- and it's obviously only diamonds that we want! So forget those little, inexpensive but nice tokens of appreciation, forget going on walks in the city or countryside, and forget just plain conversation! Buy your woman a great big fat rock. Everyone wants a big shiny rock. Especially women. You are now a sex-god if you give your woman a shiny rock. Rocks good. Sex good. Rocks get sex. Buy rocks.
There is always this scene in one show or movie or other where the man takes his fiancee to pick out a ring. When she picks this diamond encrusted, platinum looped, gold finished, ruby studded abomination of metal and stone and the man refuses because he simply isn't willing to pay sixty grand for a ring, she freaks out at him.
Obviously the man sees it as a huge practical loss, sixty thou for a fucking circular band of metal that could fall down the toilet whilst his ugly wife is using her daily douche or whatever it is high-maintenance women do in the bathroom.
Either that or he has the horrendous statistic in his head, the 50% of marriages break up after year one... Or was it six months? Well, anyways, the man has the practicality of the situation at hand and tries to persuade his picky fiancee into a cheaper, more plain ring.
[snip]
Plus they also get a benifit of promoting their other services through their tie ins with MSN on the hotmail site. It's all about getting hits.
I don't understand who needs a gig or more for e-mail. If you really have that much e-mail you obviously rely on it for your livleyhood and thus wouldn't trust these services with it, well at least I wouldn't.
I didn't say stop all funding to science, I refered explicitly to the kind of research this thread talks about. It wont help us understand the universe any more than we already do, it's just a side note to say "moons can behave like this".
Perhaps I'm just odd, but if I were standing in front of dying people and someone said, "hey lets go do some crazy experiment", I would rather stay and try and help.
I'm very interested in what space can tell us about the universe and its rules etc. But I really see research into moons as being a waste of money that could have been better spent feeding and clothing the poorest in the world.
To me, it seems like the same thing as buying a trade magazine (say, Micro Mart in the UK). You are specifically *asking* for adverts on what you're looking at; in effect advertising yourself as a potential and interested buyer.
Same with almost all mass media. The big guys are big guys because they can subsidise the cost of unit production through selling advertising. Thus the massivly popular labour and union papers that used to be around were brought down explicitly because they didn't sell advertising space and thus couldn't compete on price. Unfortunatly, as soon as one person does it the rest are forced to follow. It's a shame really as I think it's destroyed the news media in the western world (I can't vouch for other parts of the world).
"Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation." (Chomsky)
Booby trapping the body armour in HL is always fun. It's just the shout of someone shouting "you smegging bastard!" from the other room that makes me giggle.
Sun and Open source Java are a lot like communism. They're a nice idea in principle but just don't / wont work. I don't think Sun is in the business of giving away it's biggest assets now matter how good this would be for everyone else.
I was using one of these when I worked for Sun last year. Unfortunatly our remote office had not been lavished with the luxaries of Sun Rays or more than a handful of Ultra 10's. They worked though and you could run a terminal off it and Mozilla from a remote 4P system =). In the end I ended up with an Ultra 1, even though it had half the processor speed, it also had 512MB memory and was actually faster than any Ultra 5 on site =).
To me this seems completly unjustifiable when you look at the state of health care in the US which relies on inequality and people affording their own care. How about more social security for the wost off or to move up from being 22nd on the list of industrialised nations giving foreign aid donations.
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I read the topic title and thought it was about a cure for those shiny pathes on your non-living mouse that you get where your fingers and hand constantly rest. Then I thought, "I've never thought it a problem to have a shiny bit even though the rest of the mouse is matt plastic."
Kill me now; before it's too late.
I and a couple of friends occasionally have LAN parties over the weekend, along with a few beers and a good ole laugh. But I am really really bad at games (partly because this is the only time I ever play them), and I always get my ass whooped. Then the day after I am always depressed about being a loser. We can play constantly for 3 days and I wont win a single game - not even Hearts! So it doesn't really surprise me that losing is an emotional downer and winning is an emotional high. It's just like playing sports the only difference being the game played. They could have just studdied chess players or tennis players to get the same results.
I still think this is a better business model
....
1) Collect Underpants
2)
3) Profit
I'm surprised more companies don't follow it.
I'm sure I've seen "toys for girls" that look just like my MS wheel mouse. I'm sure it can't be that hard to plug in a vibrating motor and some batteries. If you make it a wireless one you could even use a caddy to charge it. And the best thing is that you don't have to worry about someone finding it in your desk draw. You just say it's an old broken mouse. Kill two bird with one stone. Hell you could do it and have it stay as a fully functioning mouse too.
Almost all competition is a good ting, if there weren't competition we wouldn't be sat here using computers that can do what they can do and in a world that is as advanced as it is.
;-)).
A standard is a good standard if it does it's job well and fits in with business demands. Technical superiority isn't always the best predictor of a winner. May the best standard win (which is a no-lose statement btw
Normally vulnerability reports on slashdot wouldn't make it because there are so many
This might be unusual but it's really not that big a news. I suppose it shows that even the best are not infallible. Nice to see it's already been patched =).
The only catch with Fedora, however, is its initial install: none of the partitioning strangeness has been fixed. On certain machines, Fedora simply cannot coexist with Windows on the same hard drive. But, if someone is willing to ditch Windows altogether, or is trying it out on a new, exclusively linux box, the installation is nearly flawless.
Oh boy have I found that out today! A full 10 hours of messing about (trying to re-install XP 5 times take quite a while), reading "help" files and nearly totally screwing up my disks and I'm back where I was yesterday. Fedora free and using XP. I like Fedora too, it's nice, easy, fiendly, but that one bug is a killer.
I'm frankly amazed that they shipped with it. If I were in charge of that project I'd make sure that bug was a show stopper and that it didn't go anywhere until it was fixed.
I think this is very apt
[snip]So is this the image they're pushing to our men out there, now? Everyone knows that the woman you are with doesn't want you for you -- It's really only the gift that matters -- and it's obviously only diamonds that we want! So forget those little, inexpensive but nice tokens of appreciation, forget going on walks in the city or countryside, and forget just plain conversation! Buy your woman a great big fat rock. Everyone wants a big shiny rock. Especially women. You are now a sex-god if you give your woman a shiny rock. Rocks good. Sex good. Rocks get sex. Buy rocks.
There is always this scene in one show or movie or other where the man takes his fiancee to pick out a ring. When she picks this diamond encrusted, platinum looped, gold finished, ruby studded abomination of metal and stone and the man refuses because he simply isn't willing to pay sixty grand for a ring, she freaks out at him.
Obviously the man sees it as a huge practical loss, sixty thou for a fucking circular band of metal that could fall down the toilet whilst his ugly wife is using her daily douche or whatever it is high-maintenance women do in the bathroom.
Either that or he has the horrendous statistic in his head, the 50% of marriages break up after year one... Or was it six months? Well, anyways, the man has the practicality of the situation at hand and tries to persuade his picky fiancee into a cheaper, more plain ring. [snip]
Plus they also get a benifit of promoting their other services through their tie ins with MSN on the hotmail site. It's all about getting hits.
I don't understand who needs a gig or more for e-mail. If you really have that much e-mail you obviously rely on it for your livleyhood and thus wouldn't trust these services with it, well at least I wouldn't.
I didn't say stop all funding to science, I refered explicitly to the kind of research this thread talks about. It wont help us understand the universe any more than we already do, it's just a side note to say "moons can behave like this".
Perhaps I'm just odd, but if I were standing in front of dying people and someone said, "hey lets go do some crazy experiment", I would rather stay and try and help.
I'm very interested in what space can tell us about the universe and its rules etc. But I really see research into moons as being a waste of money that could have been better spent feeding and clothing the poorest in the world.
Same with almost all mass media. The big guys are big guys because they can subsidise the cost of unit production through selling advertising. Thus the massivly popular labour and union papers that used to be around were brought down explicitly because they didn't sell advertising space and thus couldn't compete on price. Unfortunatly, as soon as one person does it the rest are forced to follow. It's a shame really as I think it's destroyed the news media in the western world (I can't vouch for other parts of the world).
Then just park your car and have all the bandwidth you want!
I think you'd be arrested for masturbating in a public place and driving naked.
"Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation." (Chomsky)
Lives a little harder to come by.
I disagree, "I've wiped entire galaxies off my chest" (Bill Hicks)
Booby trapping the body armour in HL is always fun. It's just the shout of someone shouting "you smegging bastard!" from the other room that makes me giggle.
I tried to overclock my monitor by 2" once. I don't reccomend it!
Sun and Open source Java are a lot like communism. They're a nice idea in principle but just don't / wont work. I don't think Sun is in the business of giving away it's biggest assets now matter how good this would be for everyone else.
I was using one of these when I worked for Sun last year. Unfortunatly our remote office had not been lavished with the luxaries of Sun Rays or more than a handful of Ultra 10's. They worked though and you could run a terminal off it and Mozilla from a remote 4P system =). In the end I ended up with an Ultra 1, even though it had half the processor speed, it also had 512MB memory and was actually faster than any Ultra 5 on site =).
Security Flaw found in Windows! World Yawns.
Where's the sarcasm smilie when you need one :sarcasm: :P
Now that IS impressive!
The interesting value isn't the ammount it's the % of GDP that is important here.
And don't bring up irrelevent subjects like WWII it's just flaimbait.
Oh and just spotted this too:
The total budget request for discretionary spending was $767 billion, of which 51.6% was the military budget -- $396 billion.
The next two largest items, which were education and health, getting $52bn and $49bn dollars, (6.8% and 6.4% of discretionary budget) respectively.
From here again.
On the military in general, the USA spends more than the rest of the G7 countries combined
To me this seems completly unjustifiable when you look at the state of health care in the US which relies on inequality and people affording their own care. How about more social security for the wost off or to move up from being 22nd on the list of industrialised nations giving foreign aid donations.