If you're referring to Saruman (he's the only Maia I remember being killed by Hobbits) then you'll remember that he was no longer powerful at that point. He'd been stripped off all his power once Gandalf returned and destroyed his staff. And if my memory serves correctly, Saruman was stabbed by Wormtongue, who was then shot with an arrow by a Hobbit.
The serpent told Eve, "you positively will not die." Eve died. So to cover the lie, the idea came about that you live on forever as a floaty soul thingy. Souls are a lie.
Wow, way to take that out of context. The serpent said she wouldn't die if she ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge. God told her she would. God of course was right. Sure, it wasn't an immediate death, but they could no longer live in God's grace. By sinning (eating the fruit) she separated herself and all of mankind from God. It would take Christ's sacrifice to bring mankind back to God. By dying for the sins of man, we are given the gift of everlasting life. "He who believes in me will not die". I'm sure that quote isn't quite right, but the gist of it is there. If you believe in God and Christ as your saviour, you will not die. Your physical body will stop functioning, but your soul will live on forever.
Had Eve not eaten of the fruit, mankind would have never left God's grace and she would have been immortal. Or maybe you'd rather believe the serpent (Satan) over the almighty God?
Alan Wake is coming exclusively to Windows Vista. Yeah, it's probably definitely a bad thing, since its release schedule will be almost entirely held to Microsoft's, but it's one exclusive game so far. I expect to see more and more once Vista comes out. Companies already don't want to code to DirectX and OpenGL, I don't think they'll be willing to code to DirectX 9 and 10.
Your points fall flat if the people pushing Blu-Ray continue to use mpeg2. Every single review has stated that they're using mpeg2 and HD-DVD is using VC-1, resulting in a far better picture. If they've got so much more space available, why the hell aren't they using it?
Sorry, but I just can't see a lot of people going out to buy a PS3 just to watch Blu-Ray movies. By the time it gets released, HD-DVD could easily have taken over the market, especially at the price point the players will be at.
I guess we'll both have to wait and see what happens when the PS3 comes out, but I just don't see it taking over the market of hi-def players.
When running windows inside Vmware under Linux this isn't a problem.
It seems to me that once the hotfix is applied, it isn't a problem under native Windows either. But maybe you're not "severely affected" by the problem.
Except the one asshole is never going to be anything like the guy that originally posted. If that one asshole isn't talking on his phone, he'll be talking through the movie, either to his other asshole friends or the screen itself.
The only way to avoid the real assholes is to either wait 6 months and rent the DVD like someone else suggested or go to midnight screenings where the asshole ratio is extremely low, mostly because everyone at those showtimes knows that if your phone goes off and you start talking, you are going to die.
There are devices in existence that allow the visually impaired to see the ballots perfectly. These devices can magnify text up to 14x (that's for the portables). The non portables can magnify up to 58x (19" LCD, probably a little smaller with a 17"), so those disabled folks can vote absentee.
I know these devices exist since I work for a company that makes them and I've seen them in action.
There is no need for electronic voting systems, period.
My sisters boyfriend has a setup similar to yours except that everytime someone picks up the phone, his signal is dropped completely. He use to be downstairs (the DSL line and switch are on the 2nd floor) and that would happen all the time. I offered to run a cable down to the room (there was already a cable in the room above him, which use to be my room), but my dad insisted that wireless would be fine and that he probably just needed a new wireless card (that part turned out to be true).
Fast forward a couple of years. He's now upstairs, in my old room, and my dad was still saying that he can just use the wireless. There's a cable, IN THE CLOSET, 15 feet from his computer, but "it won't look as good". Finally, last night, I took the cable and pushed it under the carpet and ran it to his computer. The only piece you can see is where it goes to his computer and where it comes out from the floor into the closet. I was going to run it down the wall and put in a real jack, but it gets hot in the attic (I won't run cable in the summer, that's how hot it gets).
Now he doesn't have to deal with anymore dropped connections since he has a wired connection now. The only place in the house that doesn't have those problems is the family room and kitchen. Of course, they're not in a direct line from the 2.4 GHz phone to the WAP, so that's probably why they work fine. The point is that a wireless connection doesn't work for everyone (I changed channels on the wireless card several times with no luck and it had to be set for "auto" wireless speed or it just wouldn't work). I recently bought a 5.8 GHz cordless phone for this exact reason.
Anywhere I can run cables, I do it, whether it's "convenient" or not.
Why in the hell do you have six ethernet lines running out of a single computer? What are you doing that requires more than 1 line from the server and 1 line from each computer going directly to a 10/100/1000 switch? Get some velcro cable ties and the "jumble of wires" practically goes away.
I don't know any gamer in their right mind who would choose wireless over wired.
Are you kidding? The first thing you see is "Boot Camp Public Beta" in large bold letters. Or would it have helped if they made it look clumsy like the OpenOffice.org guys do with their beta splashscreens? Don't get me wrong, I think those screens always looked funny, but this is Apple. I just can't see them making anything that doesn't look elegant.
Move to Hollywood CA (or near there). The Arclight theater. $15 a ticket. You choose your seat. The doors are closed once the movie starts. If you're late, to bad, you don't get in. You can order food from a menu and they bring it to you. No kids or cellphones allowed. I don't know about alcohol, but everything else is exactly as you've described.
Mind you I've never been there, so this may not be 100% accurate. I don't live close enough to justify spending that much, plus the drive time (I'm 30-45 mins away from Hollywood) to make it worth my while. If there was a theater like that in Orange County, I'd probably go to it all the time without a second thought. The only theater I've ever gone to on a consistent basis is Big Newport in Newport Beach for their midnight screenings. Of course, at a midnight screening, you don't usually have to worry about cell phones and crying kids since the people that go at midnight know better.
Except that 9 times out of 10 (in my experience anyway), the person you write a check to doesn't have an account at the same bank. Before, when that happened, it gave you 2 or 3 days to get the funds into the account because of the way banks worked. The only time I had it happen where it took just 1 day for the funds to be withdrawn was when I deposited a check at a different credit union then the one I have an account at. Credit Union to credit union transactions seem to take place faster than bank to credit union transactions.
Of course now, the funds are probably transferred instantly, even though the credit unions and banks will still tell you "there may be a delay of a few days before the funds are deposited" unless it's a rebate or payroll check. So it's really a one way street now. You deposit a third party check, you still have to wait a few days to get your money, even though the bank has it in their vault almost instantly.
Sony is many things. Music, movies, hardware (TV, DVD, VCR, consoles, etc), etc. One division getting hit harder (right now music) is not going to kill off the others.
ATI makes the chips and the cards. What else do they have to fall back on?
Then maybe it's time for those people to upgrade to FireFox. I've seen one instance where Netscape usage couldn't be changed to FireFox usage but it had to do with a stupid Java applet that simply has not been upgraded beyond Java 1.1, so it won't work in any other browser (No IE, FireFox or anything but Netscape).
I've worked in IT, and because I can calculate multi-dimensional state tables in my head I can sometimes out route a router. I've worked in sales, and because I have a firm grasp of sales psychology I can typically close sales (it took 3 other salesmen combining their sales to beat me once and they only beat me by a fraction of a percent). I've worked in retail, and because I can multitask like a well designed Unix Daemon, I could work multiple registers simultaneously (during Xmas season it's often quicker to do it yourself than explain to a temp worker for the nth time how to do something).
Well hello mister fancy pants. So instead of helping the temp worker to actually learn how to operate the cash register (and therefore increase their skillset), you do it for them. This doesn't help anybody and you make the temp look like a moron. Maybe they are stupid, maybe not. But doing that doesn't help them to learn how to do it. Hell, talking them through it would be better than just doing it for them. Or maybe you just like to do twice the work for no extra pay? I wonder how the boss felt about having a temp standing there doing nothing, and being paid, while his other worker did all the work. It only takes longer until the temp gets the hang of it. But I guess you were born knowing how to operate a cash register and never had to be trained yourself. Yeah, I didn't think so.
As for the sales thing, I won't even touch it. I hate sales people. I've never worked in sales specifically but I worked a few years in retail and they teach all about the psychology of store layout when you work in retail (candy goes near the checkout because it's an impulse buy item and most people won't buy it unless they're on their way out the door). When I was at Blockbuster, returns, and the video lookup system, were on the exact opposite side of the store from the entrance. Most people will come in and walk around the new release wall, probably grabbing a movie or two along the way, before they get to the returns stack. That's why that's done. Anyway, the point is that the psychology of retail sales is probably similar to the psychology of a sales person. The object is to get the person that walks through that door to buy something by the time they leave. It doesn't work on most of us because we probably went to that store for one specific item and we aren't likely to buy anything else except that item.
I saw an american black guy seeing me like a some kind of freak at the Home Depot because I did not RESPECTed him in his way. When he asked me if I need a help for finding Home Depot product, I said no with: I did not looked into his eye and I was somewhat being defensive when I'm saying No. And he gave me "....Ohhh Kay.... Ohhh Kay..." feeling. Oh god. I understand that feeling. You give me that feeling when you think I am a racist.
Or maybe it was because of your defensive response. Ever try just saying "No thanks" calmly and politely? I do that every time and I rarely make eye contact (mostly because I'm in the right area and I'm concentrating on finding what I need). If you look confused (and let's face it, anyone that's not looking directly at what they're going to buy looks confused to them), they're going to ask you that. Hell, sometimes they'll ask you that even if you're holding the product. It's part of their training. Ya know, that little thing called "customer service" that we're always bitching about. Anybody would likely have the same reaction that guy did. White, black, green, orange, it doesn't matter.
The only people I know of that want to be "respected" in a certain way are the gang members. But since they deserve no respect, they don't usually get any.
The majority of computer users know as much about their computer as they know about their car.
And for a lot of them, the company that made their computer isn't Intel or AMD, it's HP or Dell. Most of them couldn't tell you the CPU for a fact. "It's a Pentium?" It's almost easier to ask them when they bought it. Based on that you can usually figure out what type of CPU it has. Hell, most of them can't tell you anything beyond the brand. "It's an HP" "Do you know the model?" "Um, no"
The ones that are clueless exhibit zero brand loyalty. These are the type that are going to go to Best Buy and pick a computer based off the case design and price tag.
I buy myself an Xbox (200$), PS2 (180$), and a GameCube (120$). That costs me $500. A GeForce 6800 GT costs the same amount.
A 6800 GT might cost that at the extreme high end, but you can easily get one for well under $300 (just checked NewEgg). Hell, my dad picked up a 7800 GTX 256 MB for $500 just before Christmas, so there's no reason to spend that much on a 6800. I managed to get a 6800 for under $200 (though, it's not a GT, but it does play all the latest games with no problem).
Every other day there seems to be yet another suicide bombing in Iraq that kills as many people as the one in London two weeks ago. That attack is still getting saturation coverage on the US networks, but the bombings in Iraq rate, at most, a brief mention each.
What were the US soliers doing during the last homicide bombing? They were giving CANDY to Iraqi CHILDREN. How many children died in that bombing? I don't know the exact number, but it was a lot. It seems that now that some children have died, the Iraqi people are starting to open their eyes just a little. They're realizing that these homicide bombers don't care who they kill (they're not just after politicians and security forces, now children are fair game). It seems they're actually ready to start forming militias. Well, it's about damn time. But look what it took.
They (the terrorists) hate us because as long as we're there, the rest of the country stands a fighting chance of moving forward. They (the Iraqi people) don't hate us. Watch something besides Al Jazeera, the terrorist network, and you might learn that.
My God man, they were giving candy to children. But yeah, it's all our fault.
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If you're referring to Saruman (he's the only Maia I remember being killed by Hobbits) then you'll remember that he was no longer powerful at that point. He'd been stripped off all his power once Gandalf returned and destroyed his staff. And if my memory serves correctly, Saruman was stabbed by Wormtongue, who was then shot with an arrow by a Hobbit.
The serpent told Eve, "you positively will not die." Eve died. So to cover the lie, the idea came about that you live on forever as a floaty soul thingy. Souls are a lie.
Wow, way to take that out of context. The serpent said she wouldn't die if she ate the fruit of the tree of knowledge. God told her she would. God of course was right. Sure, it wasn't an immediate death, but they could no longer live in God's grace. By sinning (eating the fruit) she separated herself and all of mankind from God. It would take Christ's sacrifice to bring mankind back to God. By dying for the sins of man, we are given the gift of everlasting life. "He who believes in me will not die". I'm sure that quote isn't quite right, but the gist of it is there. If you believe in God and Christ as your saviour, you will not die. Your physical body will stop functioning, but your soul will live on forever.
Had Eve not eaten of the fruit, mankind would have never left God's grace and she would have been immortal. Or maybe you'd rather believe the serpent (Satan) over the almighty God?
Alan Wake is coming exclusively to Windows Vista. Yeah, it's probably definitely a bad thing, since its release schedule will be almost entirely held to Microsoft's, but it's one exclusive game so far. I expect to see more and more once Vista comes out. Companies already don't want to code to DirectX and OpenGL, I don't think they'll be willing to code to DirectX 9 and 10.
Your points fall flat if the people pushing Blu-Ray continue to use mpeg2. Every single review has stated that they're using mpeg2 and HD-DVD is using VC-1, resulting in a far better picture. If they've got so much more space available, why the hell aren't they using it?
Sorry, but I just can't see a lot of people going out to buy a PS3 just to watch Blu-Ray movies. By the time it gets released, HD-DVD could easily have taken over the market, especially at the price point the players will be at.
I guess we'll both have to wait and see what happens when the PS3 comes out, but I just don't see it taking over the market of hi-def players.
When running windows inside Vmware under Linux this isn't a problem.
It seems to me that once the hotfix is applied, it isn't a problem under native Windows either. But maybe you're not "severely affected" by the problem.
Except the one asshole is never going to be anything like the guy that originally posted. If that one asshole isn't talking on his phone, he'll be talking through the movie, either to his other asshole friends or the screen itself.
The only way to avoid the real assholes is to either wait 6 months and rent the DVD like someone else suggested or go to midnight screenings where the asshole ratio is extremely low, mostly because everyone at those showtimes knows that if your phone goes off and you start talking, you are going to die.
Yep, just gotta get root. Of course, at that point, you probably have more to worry about than someone redirecting your ssh session.
It refers to an absence of government censorship. "The Press" is free to censor things as much or as little as they want.
There are devices in existence that allow the visually impaired to see the ballots perfectly. These devices can magnify text up to 14x (that's for the portables). The non portables can magnify up to 58x (19" LCD, probably a little smaller with a 17"), so those disabled folks can vote absentee.
I know these devices exist since I work for a company that makes them and I've seen them in action.
There is no need for electronic voting systems, period.
My sisters boyfriend has a setup similar to yours except that everytime someone picks up the phone, his signal is dropped completely. He use to be downstairs (the DSL line and switch are on the 2nd floor) and that would happen all the time. I offered to run a cable down to the room (there was already a cable in the room above him, which use to be my room), but my dad insisted that wireless would be fine and that he probably just needed a new wireless card (that part turned out to be true).
Fast forward a couple of years. He's now upstairs, in my old room, and my dad was still saying that he can just use the wireless. There's a cable, IN THE CLOSET, 15 feet from his computer, but "it won't look as good". Finally, last night, I took the cable and pushed it under the carpet and ran it to his computer. The only piece you can see is where it goes to his computer and where it comes out from the floor into the closet. I was going to run it down the wall and put in a real jack, but it gets hot in the attic (I won't run cable in the summer, that's how hot it gets).
Now he doesn't have to deal with anymore dropped connections since he has a wired connection now. The only place in the house that doesn't have those problems is the family room and kitchen. Of course, they're not in a direct line from the 2.4 GHz phone to the WAP, so that's probably why they work fine. The point is that a wireless connection doesn't work for everyone (I changed channels on the wireless card several times with no luck and it had to be set for "auto" wireless speed or it just wouldn't work). I recently bought a 5.8 GHz cordless phone for this exact reason.
Anywhere I can run cables, I do it, whether it's "convenient" or not.
Why in the hell do you have six ethernet lines running out of a single computer? What are you doing that requires more than 1 line from the server and 1 line from each computer going directly to a 10/100/1000 switch? Get some velcro cable ties and the "jumble of wires" practically goes away.
I don't know any gamer in their right mind who would choose wireless over wired.
Are you kidding? The first thing you see is "Boot Camp Public Beta" in large bold letters. Or would it have helped if they made it look clumsy like the OpenOffice.org guys do with their beta splashscreens? Don't get me wrong, I think those screens always looked funny, but this is Apple. I just can't see them making anything that doesn't look elegant.
Move to Hollywood CA (or near there). The Arclight theater. $15 a ticket. You choose your seat. The doors are closed once the movie starts. If you're late, to bad, you don't get in. You can order food from a menu and they bring it to you. No kids or cellphones allowed. I don't know about alcohol, but everything else is exactly as you've described.
Mind you I've never been there, so this may not be 100% accurate. I don't live close enough to justify spending that much, plus the drive time (I'm 30-45 mins away from Hollywood) to make it worth my while. If there was a theater like that in Orange County, I'd probably go to it all the time without a second thought. The only theater I've ever gone to on a consistent basis is Big Newport in Newport Beach for their midnight screenings. Of course, at a midnight screening, you don't usually have to worry about cell phones and crying kids since the people that go at midnight know better.
Except that 9 times out of 10 (in my experience anyway), the person you write a check to doesn't have an account at the same bank. Before, when that happened, it gave you 2 or 3 days to get the funds into the account because of the way banks worked. The only time I had it happen where it took just 1 day for the funds to be withdrawn was when I deposited a check at a different credit union then the one I have an account at. Credit Union to credit union transactions seem to take place faster than bank to credit union transactions.
Of course now, the funds are probably transferred instantly, even though the credit unions and banks will still tell you "there may be a delay of a few days before the funds are deposited" unless it's a rebate or payroll check. So it's really a one way street now. You deposit a third party check, you still have to wait a few days to get your money, even though the bank has it in their vault almost instantly.
Sony is many things. Music, movies, hardware (TV, DVD, VCR, consoles, etc), etc. One division getting hit harder (right now music) is not going to kill off the others.
ATI makes the chips and the cards. What else do they have to fall back on?
Except that even Benjamin Franklin knew that sometimes you have to keep secrets from people:
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Then maybe it's time for those people to upgrade to FireFox. I've seen one instance where Netscape usage couldn't be changed to FireFox usage but it had to do with a stupid Java applet that simply has not been upgraded beyond Java 1.1, so it won't work in any other browser (No IE, FireFox or anything but Netscape).
I've worked in IT, and because I can calculate multi-dimensional state tables in my head I can sometimes out route a router.
I've worked in sales, and because I have a firm grasp of sales psychology I can typically close sales (it took 3 other salesmen combining their sales to beat me once and they only beat me by a fraction of a percent).
I've worked in retail, and because I can multitask like a well designed Unix Daemon, I could work multiple registers simultaneously (during Xmas season it's often quicker to do it yourself than explain to a temp worker for the nth time how to do something).
Well hello mister fancy pants. So instead of helping the temp worker to actually learn how to operate the cash register (and therefore increase their skillset), you do it for them. This doesn't help anybody and you make the temp look like a moron. Maybe they are stupid, maybe not. But doing that doesn't help them to learn how to do it. Hell, talking them through it would be better than just doing it for them. Or maybe you just like to do twice the work for no extra pay? I wonder how the boss felt about having a temp standing there doing nothing, and being paid, while his other worker did all the work. It only takes longer until the temp gets the hang of it. But I guess you were born knowing how to operate a cash register and never had to be trained yourself. Yeah, I didn't think so.
As for the sales thing, I won't even touch it. I hate sales people. I've never worked in sales specifically but I worked a few years in retail and they teach all about the psychology of store layout when you work in retail (candy goes near the checkout because it's an impulse buy item and most people won't buy it unless they're on their way out the door). When I was at Blockbuster, returns, and the video lookup system, were on the exact opposite side of the store from the entrance. Most people will come in and walk around the new release wall, probably grabbing a movie or two along the way, before they get to the returns stack. That's why that's done. Anyway, the point is that the psychology of retail sales is probably similar to the psychology of a sales person. The object is to get the person that walks through that door to buy something by the time they leave. It doesn't work on most of us because we probably went to that store for one specific item and we aren't likely to buy anything else except that item.
I saw an american black guy seeing me like a some kind of freak at the Home Depot because I did not RESPECTed him in his way. When he asked me if I need a help for finding Home Depot product, I said no with: I did not looked into his eye and I was somewhat being defensive when I'm saying No. And he gave me "....Ohhh Kay.... Ohhh Kay..." feeling. Oh god. I understand that feeling. You give me that feeling when you think I am a racist.
Or maybe it was because of your defensive response. Ever try just saying "No thanks" calmly and politely? I do that every time and I rarely make eye contact (mostly because I'm in the right area and I'm concentrating on finding what I need). If you look confused (and let's face it, anyone that's not looking directly at what they're going to buy looks confused to them), they're going to ask you that. Hell, sometimes they'll ask you that even if you're holding the product. It's part of their training. Ya know, that little thing called "customer service" that we're always bitching about. Anybody would likely have the same reaction that guy did. White, black, green, orange, it doesn't matter.
The only people I know of that want to be "respected" in a certain way are the gang members. But since they deserve no respect, they don't usually get any.
The majority of computer users know as much about their computer as they know about their car.
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And for a lot of them, the company that made their computer isn't Intel or AMD, it's HP or Dell. Most of them couldn't tell you the CPU for a fact. "It's a Pentium?" It's almost easier to ask them when they bought it. Based on that you can usually figure out what type of CPU it has. Hell, most of them can't tell you anything beyond the brand. "It's an HP" "Do you know the model?" "Um, no"
The ones that are clueless exhibit zero brand loyalty. These are the type that are going to go to Best Buy and pick a computer based off the case design and price tag.
This would be the majority where I work
I buy myself an Xbox (200$), PS2 (180$), and a GameCube (120$). That costs me $500. A GeForce 6800 GT costs the same amount.
A 6800 GT might cost that at the extreme high end, but you can easily get one for well under $300 (just checked NewEgg). Hell, my dad picked up a 7800 GTX 256 MB for $500 just before Christmas, so there's no reason to spend that much on a 6800. I managed to get a 6800 for under $200 (though, it's not a GT, but it does play all the latest games with no problem).
I could use an invite as well.
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Every other day there seems to be yet another suicide bombing in Iraq that kills as many people as the one in London two weeks ago. That attack is still getting saturation coverage on the US networks, but the bombings in Iraq rate, at most, a brief mention each.
What were the US soliers doing during the last homicide bombing? They were giving CANDY to Iraqi CHILDREN. How many children died in that bombing? I don't know the exact number, but it was a lot. It seems that now that some children have died, the Iraqi people are starting to open their eyes just a little. They're realizing that these homicide bombers don't care who they kill (they're not just after politicians and security forces, now children are fair game). It seems they're actually ready to start forming militias. Well, it's about damn time. But look what it took.
They (the terrorists) hate us because as long as we're there, the rest of the country stands a fighting chance of moving forward. They (the Iraqi people) don't hate us. Watch something besides Al Jazeera, the terrorist network, and you might learn that.
My God man, they were giving candy to children. But yeah, it's all our fault.
No, the Explorer shell will give you an error. The command shell (cmd.exe) will do it just fine (yes, I just tried it).
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And if that's your biggest gripe about XP, then I'm glad I'm not you