"What is with the puritan viewpoint that you have to suffer to earn the rewards? It's a twisted and sick view that everyone should undergo hardship if they wish to have a better life.... As for the aliens- bring 'em on. No one in their right mind would turn down advances like those - and neither would you."
ok... think of it this way instead.
What if we went back 1,000 years and gave everyone electricity, plastic pipes for plumbing, light bulbs, concrete for buildings, steel, automobiles... along with the knowledge of automatic weapons and the atom bomb.
Would any of us still be alive today?
alright so giving a kid a computer isnt the same as giving a knight a M16 but you get my point. Like spiderman said "with great power comes great responsibility" and i think you have to earn the right to that responsibility by working your ass off to develop it, not just have it handed to you.
Having it handed to you sounds a lot like the lottery, just pay $1 and win $100,000,000! It's easy! Dont work hard for a living, just have someone else give it to you instantly.
"I think if you look, there is actually no difference between the ~1Gb install and the ~3Gb install. What it probably is, is the pagefile."
wow, you mean there's XP systems where the entire windows folder is only 1gB? On my home system my Windows folder is 2.8gB, with 938mB system32 folder and 531mB service pack folder making up the top two largest folders in there.
How'd you guys get only 1gB, by not using your PCs? I suppose if I only installed a few programs and never installed anything else it'd be much smaller, but I'm constantly installing/uninstalling junk and use my PC on a daily basis.
doubt it'll help, he didnt even install linux, all he had to do is read the frickin' message on the screen to understand what was going on. He didnt even understand it was a OS, he really needs something like PC's for dummies.
if u looked at her profile it's a comment a friend made on her page and it has her full name lised also.
she can, at any time, delete any or all comments left on her own myspace page by going to her profile page and clicking "View/Edit All Comments" above the comments section.
it's still there, indicating she wants the entire world to see she's a pothead.
she prolly is a pothead otherwise she could figure this out herself and stop whining about it.
"How many people think a background check includes a search on MySpace? I would guess zero."
ummmmmmmmm... if I was a employer I would look at myspace, prolly the best way to get to know someone really.
People control their own myspace page, so if you have pictures of yourself looking high on marijuana on your myspace page then it's your own fault for leaving it up there.
You can delete any comments people make about you on your own page, so if i saw someone's page and it had comments about them getting high I would assume they want the entire world to know they're a pothead.
"When we want to help others, we should. I believe it is required of all people to help those less fortunate."
What do you consider "less fortunate"? Because they dont have computers? I think a lot of us survived without computers and we turned out just fine and I'm sure there's plenty of people in the US that still dont have a PC and they're surviving without.
Seems we're giving computers to people that would be happier with running water and fresh food. I think they'll play with the computer for a minute, see that it doesnt dispense food or water and it'll end up in the corner or sold somewhere.
What if some advanced alien race found us and said
"Awwww... those poor poor humans, they dont have food replicators, teleportors or antigravity tractor beams! OMG look how many die in auto accidents, and look how hard the work just to produce food or move large objects around, we must help the less fortunate and give them technology!"
i'm shocked anyone was stupid enough to send thousands of dollars for items they've never seen in person.
I bought a car on ebay once. No money was sent until I actually flew there and had the seller pick me up from the airport in the car. I checked it out that nite and it was fine, and i drove it home the following day.
30,000 miles later and the car's still great, hasnt needed any repairs.
I say "Caveat emptor", I'm tired of people and the courts defending stupid people who do stupid things.
I love the quotes from some of these people!
""You get lulled into a false sense of security with the name eBay, then get scammed in a big way," she said. "If it wasn't eBay, I wouldn't have gone ahead with it.""
" "I told him the first thing he did wrong was buy a computer," Mr. Krug said."
"It uses a 1.9L VW TDi (Turbo Direct Injection) diesel (200hp) engine as its main power source driving the rear wheels, and has a 200hp electric motor attached to the front wheels."
"...and schedules can easily end up with 6 hours of classes with no time to charge. "
most modern laptops offer hi-capacity double run time batteries that'll last 6+ hours on a charge. Here's a good example. They claim 7+ hours with the 12-cell battery which is double the capacity of the 6-cell battery that comes with the laptop.
Also you might not need the laptop for the entire duration of every class, and when I was in college I rarely had a class schedule that spanned more than a 4-hour time frame anyway, usually I had at least one hour throughout the day to take a break before the next class.
yeah but that's because iTunes play on Apple iPods, the greatest thing to happen to portable music since... um, ever. Unless Apple gets into the HD-DVD player market I agree with parent, sales will suck.
I mean how many HD-DVD players do you have now? Zero. How many billions of DVD players are there in the world? They're in everything from your car to your PC to portable hand-held DVD players.
And there's no "oh wow!" feature to the HD-DVD that's needed for people to adopt a new standard, not like CDs to cassettes or DVD to VHS.
CDs allowed skipping directly to certain tracks and the sound quality is much better, two "oh wow!" features that killed cassettes.
DVDs allowed bonus features, much better video quality, additional languages, various audio features, more portable players, and PC compatibility over VHS cassettes.
HD-DVD offers.... what? What are the great new features HD-DVD overs over regular DVDs? It's not compatible with my current DVD player so I have to buy a new one AND if I plug it into my current DVD the improved video is chopped to a quarter resolution so it's not much better than DVD then, so remind me again why I should buy a HD-DVD?
Not like DVDs are going anywhere, with billions of DVD players in the world, many difficult or impossible to upgrade like DVD players in vehicles, offering any movie on any format but DVD would insure poor sales.
I remember subscribing to Nintendo Power back in the late 80s/early 90s and they had a section where it listed the most popular nintendo games. It was in the top 5 games for hundreds of weeks.
" While I don't think the library is quite the place, it's good to know that some people are keeping an eye on the government..."
while i agree with you this has got to be the most confusing article i've ever read on/.
according to the article not only are you allowed to watch porn at a library, but they claim the constitution is the reason why!
Ok so apparently I can watch porn at a public library full of kids doing book reports but I can't watch porn in my car?
are there any other public places I can watch porns at? Schools are public, can I bring my laptop there and watch porns? For some reason I think i'd be arrested and the judge when have a good laugh when i tried to explain that the US Constitution protects the right to watch porns in libraries.
Please explain this to me because this makes very little sense.
how in the hell did i get modded "redundant" when this was one of the first posts (despite being pushed down to nearly the bottom) AND this is the only post I saw that even mentioned that 1 mile is far from 62,000 miles???
someone needs to look up what the word "redundant" means before running around labeling posts as redundant...
"managed to get their platform and climbing robot to the mile-high mark.... eventually stretching some 62,000 miles from earth to space."
great, 1 mile down, 62,000 miles to go.
Hey I'm at the $1,000 mark now, does that mean I'm closing in on $62,000,000??
sorry guess i'm just a pessismist today, but going 1/62000th of the total distance doesnt exactly sound like "continued success" to me, maybe "progress" but not success...
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FTFA: "I remember when I first discovered MP3 files back in the early 1990s..."
I call BS. From wikipedia:
--"July 7, 1994 the Fraunhofer Society released the first software MP3 encoder called l3enc."
--"In the first half of 1995 through the late 1990s, MP3 files began flourishing on the Internet.
so basically before mid-1994 there were no mp3s. There were other things (like mp2?) but mp3s really didnt exist since, duh, u kinda needed a encoder in order for mp3s to be created.
ok so this is minor and really has nothing to do with the article but i just hate it when you show someone some cool neat thing you found and they're all like "ya i discovered that back in forever ago" especially when it didnt even exist yet .
actually i think ur getting weaker and ur manly equipment is getting really weak, u should have a 18 yr old girl try to bend it and see what happens...
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duh: that god hates studies.
Isn't April 1st still a few hours away?? All these posts still say March 31 to me....
ok... think of it this way instead.
What if we went back 1,000 years and gave everyone electricity, plastic pipes for plumbing, light bulbs, concrete for buildings, steel, automobiles... along with the knowledge of automatic weapons and the atom bomb.
Would any of us still be alive today?
alright so giving a kid a computer isnt the same as giving a knight a M16 but you get my point. Like spiderman said "with great power comes great responsibility" and i think you have to earn the right to that responsibility by working your ass off to develop it, not just have it handed to you.
Having it handed to you sounds a lot like the lottery, just pay $1 and win $100,000,000! It's easy! Dont work hard for a living, just have someone else give it to you instantly.
wow, you mean there's XP systems where the entire windows folder is only 1gB? On my home system my Windows folder is 2.8gB, with 938mB system32 folder and 531mB service pack folder making up the top two largest folders in there.
How'd you guys get only 1gB, by not using your PCs? I suppose if I only installed a few programs and never installed anything else it'd be much smaller, but I'm constantly installing/uninstalling junk and use my PC on a daily basis.
doubt it'll help, he didnt even install linux, all he had to do is read the frickin' message on the screen to understand what was going on. He didnt even understand it was a OS, he really needs something like PC's for dummies.
It's $5 cheaper too.
she can, at any time, delete any or all comments left on her own myspace page by going to her profile page and clicking "View/Edit All Comments" above the comments section.
it's still there, indicating she wants the entire world to see she's a pothead.
she prolly is a pothead otherwise she could figure this out herself and stop whining about it.
ummmmmmmmm... if I was a employer I would look at myspace, prolly the best way to get to know someone really.
People control their own myspace page, so if you have pictures of yourself looking high on marijuana on your myspace page then it's your own fault for leaving it up there.
You can delete any comments people make about you on your own page, so if i saw someone's page and it had comments about them getting high I would assume they want the entire world to know they're a pothead.
What do you consider "less fortunate"? Because they dont have computers? I think a lot of us survived without computers and we turned out just fine and I'm sure there's plenty of people in the US that still dont have a PC and they're surviving without.
Seems we're giving computers to people that would be happier with running water and fresh food. I think they'll play with the computer for a minute, see that it doesnt dispense food or water and it'll end up in the corner or sold somewhere.
What if some advanced alien race found us and said
"Awwww... those poor poor humans, they dont have food replicators, teleportors or antigravity tractor beams! OMG look how many die in auto accidents, and look how hard the work just to produce food or move large objects around, we must help the less fortunate and give them technology!"
Is that what you'd want? Handouts?
i'm shocked anyone was stupid enough to send thousands of dollars for items they've never seen in person.
I bought a car on ebay once. No money was sent until I actually flew there and had the seller pick me up from the airport in the car. I checked it out that nite and it was fine, and i drove it home the following day.
30,000 miles later and the car's still great, hasnt needed any repairs.
I say "Caveat emptor", I'm tired of people and the courts defending stupid people who do stupid things.
I love the quotes from some of these people!
""You get lulled into a false sense of security with the name eBay, then get scammed in a big way," she said. "If it wasn't eBay, I wouldn't have gone ahead with it.""
" "I told him the first thing he did wrong was buy a computer," Mr. Krug said."
LOL! yes, it's the computer's fault!!
if my math is correct you'd need 10,666 ounces of shit to make one gallon, so that's 666 lbs... 666 lbs of shit? thinking this aint a good idea...
Interesting.... sounds a lot like this vehicle by San Diego State University Department of Mechanical Engineering HEV (hybrid electric vehicle) Team.
It also uses a AC Propulsions electric motor (200hp) (which is what the kids used) and a Volkswagon turbo-charged direct-injection diesel engine.
The SDSU site goes into great detail about other engine considerations and why they decided on what they chose based on scientific data and research.
The Internet Archive shows the site has been http://www.engineering.sdsu.edu/~hev/index.htm">ma inly unchanged since 2000, long before the kids started their project in 2003.
Did the kids give any credit to San Diego State University for pretty much stealing their entire concept?
most modern laptops offer hi-capacity double run time batteries that'll last 6+ hours on a charge. Here's a good example. They claim 7+ hours with the 12-cell battery which is double the capacity of the 6-cell battery that comes with the laptop.
Those laptops start at $629, easily affordable.
Also you might not need the laptop for the entire duration of every class, and when I was in college I rarely had a class schedule that spanned more than a 4-hour time frame anyway, usually I had at least one hour throughout the day to take a break before the next class.
yeah but that's because iTunes play on Apple iPods, the greatest thing to happen to portable music since... um, ever. Unless Apple gets into the HD-DVD player market I agree with parent, sales will suck.
I mean how many HD-DVD players do you have now? Zero. How many billions of DVD players are there in the world? They're in everything from your car to your PC to portable hand-held DVD players.
And there's no "oh wow!" feature to the HD-DVD that's needed for people to adopt a new standard, not like CDs to cassettes or DVD to VHS.
CDs allowed skipping directly to certain tracks and the sound quality is much better, two "oh wow!" features that killed cassettes.
DVDs allowed bonus features, much better video quality, additional languages, various audio features, more portable players, and PC compatibility over VHS cassettes.
HD-DVD offers.... what? What are the great new features HD-DVD overs over regular DVDs? It's not compatible with my current DVD player so I have to buy a new one AND if I plug it into my current DVD the improved video is chopped to a quarter resolution so it's not much better than DVD then, so remind me again why I should buy a HD-DVD?
Not like DVDs are going anywhere, with billions of DVD players in the world, many difficult or impossible to upgrade like DVD players in vehicles, offering any movie on any format but DVD would insure poor sales.
ahhh... good times
while i agree with you this has got to be the most confusing article i've ever read on /.
according to the article not only are you allowed to watch porn at a library, but they claim the constitution is the reason why!
Ok so apparently I can watch porn at a public library full of kids doing book reports but I can't watch porn in my car?
are there any other public places I can watch porns at? Schools are public, can I bring my laptop there and watch porns? For some reason I think i'd be arrested and the judge when have a good laugh when i tried to explain that the US Constitution protects the right to watch porns in libraries.
Please explain this to me because this makes very little sense.
someone needs to look up what the word "redundant" means before running around labeling posts as redundant...
great, 1 mile down, 62,000 miles to go.
Hey I'm at the $1,000 mark now, does that mean I'm closing in on $62,000,000??
sorry guess i'm just a pessismist today, but going 1/62000th of the total distance doesnt exactly sound like "continued success" to me, maybe "progress" but not success...
so basically if it had everything that the parent post asked for it would be what he was looking for to begin with?
huh, thanks for the info.... :-/
would that make him look smarter? :-/
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FTFA:
"I remember when I first discovered MP3 files back in the early 1990s..."
I call BS. From wikipedia:
--"July 7, 1994 the Fraunhofer Society released the first software MP3 encoder called l3enc."
--"In the first half of 1995 through the late 1990s, MP3 files began flourishing on the Internet.
so basically before mid-1994 there were no mp3s. There were other things (like mp2?) but mp3s really didnt exist since, duh, u kinda needed a encoder in order for mp3s to be created.
ok so this is minor and really has nothing to do with the article but i just hate it when you show someone some cool neat thing you found and they're all like "ya i discovered that back in forever ago" especially when it didnt even exist yet .
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so it runs pentium 2s?
what game would that be? the shitting-in-diapers game?
actually i think ur getting weaker and ur manly equipment is getting really weak, u should have a 18 yr old girl try to bend it and see what happens...
sounds like the war on drugs....