I see no proof that pornography or sex is defacto an 'addiction'. I am sure it might be argued it *can* be, and if such is the case I prefer that the pedophiles will find an outlet on Freenet instead of on a child.
You may not be able to prove it's an addiction, but it's certainly a natural instinct, which can appear to be the same thing in certain situations. There are some people who can't go a day without an orgasm. This isn't necessarily because of a classic 'addiction', but because their physiology makes it so.
Now consider that if the sexual urge is built in to most people, and certain people can't relieve those urges in the standard way, collecting pornography (illegal or otherwise) may be seen as a way of meeting that urge.. so may actually appear to be an 'addiction' based off of their natural urges.
I don't know if it's true, but a parent post mentioned that many murderers are also 'porn addicts'.. and I'd guess that the reason for this is that most murderers find it hard to connect with people, and require pornography to meet their sexual urge/addiction. Nothing more sinister than that, not everyone can get laid the regular way in this life.
I used to, but now I always tend to use 10001 (downtown New York City)! I figure it looks, uh, less fake. I imagine all the ELO fans in the house would use 10538 (also in New York state).
It develops a culture of "The Loudest One Wins". Selecting your engineering leaders based on loudness is an entirely different from selecting them based on being smart. I have seen firsthand companies killed because of this mistake.
I disagree. Replace the word 'loud' with 'passion'. If someone isn't passionate enough about their ideas to hammer them into the bosses' head, is it really a great idea? There are people out there who are willing to put everything on the line for their ideas, and those are the people who usually end up great.
Most people at the top of most large companies are assholes, that's their job. Jobs is widely regarded as an asshole with his 'reality distortion field', but he gets stuff done, and brings the revenues in (we all know what dire straits Apple were in when he wasn't there).
"If I had billions of dollars, I'd give it all away except a couple of million to live on." Everyone SAYS that. I suspect it's much harder than it sounds. I might be way off the mark here, but if you are a working geek, chances are you have disposable income. What are you doing with it? It's a fair question because if it really is just about relative wealth and disposable income, some dirt farmer or kid going through the garbage in a third world country could justifiably look at you and say, "Wow! If I had that guy's cash, I'd be giving it away like mad!" And then he would wonder, unless I miss my guess, why you aren't.
Because there is a certain floor level of money with which it's possible to live 'comfortably' (not over extravagantly) in the West. A billionaire can give away 95% of his wealth and still live comfortably. A guy on $20k per year couldn't give away $19k and live on $1k a year, it's just not possible. Your whole argument falls flat on this principle.
He's helping people via money he gets by maintaining a monopoly.
True, but this still makes him better than the "Government" which maintains an unearned monopoly on country governance and only helps people who've been pushed into the gutter by the government's own actions.
This is a good management technique, and one that's also used by Steve Jobs. If, as a member of staff, you are not prepared to fight for your ideas and principles against management, then your ideas are not worth pursuing. Only people who think they're putting their job on the line for an idea have the balls to be listened to. Admittedly, this means a lot of ideas from the very smart but timid geeks get skipped over, which is a problem, but that doesn't mean the technique is bad.
Ha, having that 'pulse in the ear' has to rank as one of the most annoying factors of sleeping for me. Even worse is when you lie on your left side, and your heartbeat amplifies through the matress. I'm all for this non-pulsing heart doo-wickey:-)
I used to be notorious for spilling stuff on my keyboard. Five years ago I went 'over' to natural keyboards, and bought Microsoft's one for about $65 (they aren't that much cheaper here even now - UK). Within a few weeks I'd dropped something in it and it busted so I went out and bought another one. A few weeks later, I spilled some coke in there.
Sick of dropping $65 a go, I decided to try and fix it. Turns out Microsoft keyboards are dead easy to fix. Just wash down all the plastic sheets inside, dry them off, and throw it back together.
I've now had this keyboard over four years, and have repaired it about six times, it's had pints of coke, water, orange juice, and all sorts gone through it.. and it still keeps on marching. The space bar isn't as perfect as it was, and I removed the caps lock/num lock lights, but otherwise it's great. I've been looking for a new one, but my favourite retailer doesn't do them in USB form, except for a wireless version (which I don't want).
Best games for busy people are multiplayer games with short rounds.
Typically, yes, but 'open' games like Grand Theft Auto are really good too. Back when GTA3 was out, I didn't have much time for games, but I could easily jump into GTA3, drive around, pull off some stunts, get chased by some cops, and then turn it off.
being lost is not fun
Again, this doesn't relate to GTA3.. being lost in GTA3 and working your way out of somewhere is most of the fun.
Uh, there are plenty of indies who are in the RIAA. Most of the big indies are. Indie effectively refers to any company not in the top 5/10/20 of record labels. RIAA has at least a hundred member record companies last time I checked, which cover nearly all commercially released albums. Sure, the band of 14 year olds that lives in your town and has never toured out of county might not be involved with the RIAA, but the situation is not encouraging.
In the video some guy says 'every gamer' is desperate to get their hands on Doom 3. This may generally be true of PC gamers, but I have some pretty savvy non-PC friends who get all the latest Xbox and PS2 games who've never heard of Doom (or, at least, may have screwed with Doom on the PCs back at school, but have no idea there's a number 3 due out). I think we tend to overrate ourselves here in the PC sphere..
I know, this is shocking, I (and everyone I know) have always said ID as two separate letters. Always a shock when you learn the 'real' pronunciation for something. Just like when I found out 'jif' was the official pronounciation for GIF.. which really makes no bloody sense.
He's an ugly mean person who took advantage of his birthright.
Birthright? His father was a laywer and the family were decidedly middle class. It's not like his parents were software barons from the 1960's who handed down the software business to their son as a graduation present or something. Gates (almost) started with nothing and worked his own ass to where he is now. Whether that involved illegal methods or not is immaterial to whether he got it by 'birthright', as he didn't.
Not an insightful comment at all, infact.. quite the opposite!
There are many unseen uses for future technology. Consider the situation in 1990. Very few of us imagined that within 15 years it'd be possible for people to be editing (on HOME equipment) high fidelity video recorded by devices smaller than the average 1980's alarm clock. Very few of us thought the Internet would turn into a mass medium used for advertising wireless video cameras the size of golfballs.
Stick your head in the sand all you want, but constantly improving hardware will open up new markets and new inventions. Just because current software won't tax that super CPU doesn't mean programs next year will not.. this is how it has always worked.
1) Number of stars in galaxy (~100billion) 2) Fraction with planets (at least ~20%) 3) Planets per star that can spawn intelligent life that can communicate (???) 4) CONTACT!!
This is because The Smashing Pumpkins are cool and Billy Corgan isn't a tool who's all about the money but actually loves the music, and.. U2 are a bunch of money grabbing whores who pretend to be all about peace and love but couldn't really give a shit.
Sorry to pick holes in you twice in a day, but Franklin was born in Boston. Even though the area may have been under British rule, this wouldn't have made him any more British than an Indian before 1947 could have been called British. However, you may be able to say he was a British subject. If you know better, however, enlighten me, as I may have this all wrong.
the already-hot temperatures emitted by my Duron @2.3 GHz.
You mean you pay out the ass for the latest video card and heatsinks, but you buy the cheapest CPU out there and push it to the very limits? That just sounds odd.
Clearly not, as the interviewer asked if nVidia would be introducing any retail cards for the Mac. nVidia doesn't make cards, but GPUs, as Mr. Dull-ai explained.
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I see no proof that pornography or sex is defacto an 'addiction'. I am sure it might be argued it *can* be, and if such is the case I prefer that the pedophiles will find an outlet on Freenet instead of on a child.
You may not be able to prove it's an addiction, but it's certainly a natural instinct, which can appear to be the same thing in certain situations. There are some people who can't go a day without an orgasm. This isn't necessarily because of a classic 'addiction', but because their physiology makes it so.
Now consider that if the sexual urge is built in to most people, and certain people can't relieve those urges in the standard way, collecting pornography (illegal or otherwise) may be seen as a way of meeting that urge.. so may actually appear to be an 'addiction' based off of their natural urges.
I don't know if it's true, but a parent post mentioned that many murderers are also 'porn addicts'.. and I'd guess that the reason for this is that most murderers find it hard to connect with people, and require pornography to meet their sexual urge/addiction. Nothing more sinister than that, not everyone can get laid the regular way in this life.
I'm not putting my name as Jenny!
I used to, but now I always tend to use 10001 (downtown New York City)! I figure it looks, uh, less fake. I imagine all the ELO fans in the house would use 10538 (also in New York state).
It develops a culture of "The Loudest One Wins". Selecting your engineering leaders based on loudness is an entirely different from selecting them based on being smart. I have seen firsthand companies killed because of this mistake.
I disagree. Replace the word 'loud' with 'passion'. If someone isn't passionate enough about their ideas to hammer them into the bosses' head, is it really a great idea? There are people out there who are willing to put everything on the line for their ideas, and those are the people who usually end up great.
Most people at the top of most large companies are assholes, that's their job. Jobs is widely regarded as an asshole with his 'reality distortion field', but he gets stuff done, and brings the revenues in (we all know what dire straits Apple were in when he wasn't there).
"If I had billions of dollars, I'd give it all away except a couple of million to live on." Everyone SAYS that. I suspect it's much harder than it sounds. I might be way off the mark here, but if you are a working geek, chances are you have disposable income. What are you doing with it? It's a fair question because if it really is just about relative wealth and disposable income, some dirt farmer or kid going through the garbage in a third world country could justifiably look at you and say, "Wow! If I had that guy's cash, I'd be giving it away like mad!" And then he would wonder, unless I miss my guess, why you aren't.
Because there is a certain floor level of money with which it's possible to live 'comfortably' (not over extravagantly) in the West. A billionaire can give away 95% of his wealth and still live comfortably. A guy on $20k per year couldn't give away $19k and live on $1k a year, it's just not possible. Your whole argument falls flat on this principle.
He's helping people via money he gets by maintaining a monopoly.
True, but this still makes him better than the "Government" which maintains an unearned monopoly on country governance and only helps people who've been pushed into the gutter by the government's own actions.
(This was before his pie in the face attack in Belgium, but after Bill Joy (?) abduction).
Bill Joy was abducted?
This is a good management technique, and one that's also used by Steve Jobs. If, as a member of staff, you are not prepared to fight for your ideas and principles against management, then your ideas are not worth pursuing. Only people who think they're putting their job on the line for an idea have the balls to be listened to. Admittedly, this means a lot of ideas from the very smart but timid geeks get skipped over, which is a problem, but that doesn't mean the technique is bad.
Ha, having that 'pulse in the ear' has to rank as one of the most annoying factors of sleeping for me. Even worse is when you lie on your left side, and your heartbeat amplifies through the matress. I'm all for this non-pulsing heart doo-wickey :-)
I used to be notorious for spilling stuff on my keyboard. Five years ago I went 'over' to natural keyboards, and bought Microsoft's one for about $65 (they aren't that much cheaper here even now - UK). Within a few weeks I'd dropped something in it and it busted so I went out and bought another one. A few weeks later, I spilled some coke in there.
Sick of dropping $65 a go, I decided to try and fix it. Turns out Microsoft keyboards are dead easy to fix. Just wash down all the plastic sheets inside, dry them off, and throw it back together.
I've now had this keyboard over four years, and have repaired it about six times, it's had pints of coke, water, orange juice, and all sorts gone through it.. and it still keeps on marching. The space bar isn't as perfect as it was, and I removed the caps lock/num lock lights, but otherwise it's great. I've been looking for a new one, but my favourite retailer doesn't do them in USB form, except for a wireless version (which I don't want).
Best games for busy people are multiplayer games with short rounds.
:-)
Typically, yes, but 'open' games like Grand Theft Auto are really good too. Back when GTA3 was out, I didn't have much time for games, but I could easily jump into GTA3, drive around, pull off some stunts, get chased by some cops, and then turn it off.
being lost is not fun
Again, this doesn't relate to GTA3.. being lost in GTA3 and working your way out of somewhere is most of the fun.
Crap, now I want to go and install GTA again..
It doesn't look nearly depressing enough. I loved the Marvin from the original series :-)
Uh, there are plenty of indies who are in the RIAA. Most of the big indies are. Indie effectively refers to any company not in the top 5/10/20 of record labels. RIAA has at least a hundred member record companies last time I checked, which cover nearly all commercially released albums. Sure, the band of 14 year olds that lives in your town and has never toured out of county might not be involved with the RIAA, but the situation is not encouraging.
In the video some guy says 'every gamer' is desperate to get their hands on Doom 3. This may generally be true of PC gamers, but I have some pretty savvy non-PC friends who get all the latest Xbox and PS2 games who've never heard of Doom (or, at least, may have screwed with Doom on the PCs back at school, but have no idea there's a number 3 due out). I think we tend to overrate ourselves here in the PC sphere..
I know, this is shocking, I (and everyone I know) have always said ID as two separate letters. Always a shock when you learn the 'real' pronunciation for something. Just like when I found out 'jif' was the official pronounciation for GIF.. which really makes no bloody sense.
He's an ugly mean person who took advantage of his birthright.
Birthright? His father was a laywer and the family were decidedly middle class. It's not like his parents were software barons from the 1960's who handed down the software business to their son as a graduation present or something. Gates (almost) started with nothing and worked his own ass to where he is now. Whether that involved illegal methods or not is immaterial to whether he got it by 'birthright', as he didn't.
Not an insightful comment at all, infact.. quite the opposite!
There are many unseen uses for future technology. Consider the situation in 1990. Very few of us imagined that within 15 years it'd be possible for people to be editing (on HOME equipment) high fidelity video recorded by devices smaller than the average 1980's alarm clock. Very few of us thought the Internet would turn into a mass medium used for advertising wireless video cameras the size of golfballs.
Stick your head in the sand all you want, but constantly improving hardware will open up new markets and new inventions. Just because current software won't tax that super CPU doesn't mean programs next year will not.. this is how it has always worked.
Surely you mean..
1) Number of stars in galaxy (~100billion)
2) Fraction with planets (at least ~20%)
3) Planets per star that can spawn intelligent life that can communicate (???)
4) CONTACT!!
This is because The Smashing Pumpkins are cool and Billy Corgan isn't a tool who's all about the money but actually loves the music, and.. U2 are a bunch of money grabbing whores who pretend to be all about peace and love but couldn't really give a shit.
Sorry to pick holes in you twice in a day, but Franklin was born in Boston. Even though the area may have been under British rule, this wouldn't have made him any more British than an Indian before 1947 could have been called British. However, you may be able to say he was a British subject. If you know better, however, enlighten me, as I may have this all wrong.
Chat is a verb and a noun, although its verb form makes more sense in terms of iChat. Tunes and Photo are nouns, as you imply.
You can watch a movie of the gameplay.. it totally rules :-)
the already-hot temperatures emitted by my Duron @2.3 GHz.
You mean you pay out the ass for the latest video card and heatsinks, but you buy the cheapest CPU out there and push it to the very limits? That just sounds odd.
Clearly not, as the interviewer asked if nVidia would be introducing any retail cards for the Mac. nVidia doesn't make cards, but GPUs, as Mr. Dull-ai explained.