...I would make it a point to rout out and publicly humiliate any Bzzers I discover.
Word of mouth advertising brings advertising back to its original purpose: to inform you of the existance of a product you might want. Not to tell you it's needed to get laid, or that you NEED it, etc etc etc.
If the folks are simply doing this because they like what they bought, why do you need to humiliate them? I've convinced several of my friends to buy PowerBooks. I did so because I thought they'd enjoy it as much as I have mine, and it seems they are doing just that.
Believe me, I hate it just as much when someone I know pushes some crap on me and I find out there's some incentive for them. No, I don't want a free iPod. However, when someone simply says "Hey you should get an iPod. I got one and I use it every day." -- where's the distrust?
Robotic instead of holographic sex, but you get the point:
Mother: Billy, do you want to walk your dog?
Billy: No thanks, mom, I'd rather make out with my Monroebot.
Father: Billy, do you to get a paper out and make some extra cash?
Billy: No thanks, dad, I'd rather make out with my Monroebot.
Girl: Billy, do you want to come over tonight, we could make out together.
Billy: Gee, Mavis, your house is across the street. It's an awfully long way to go for making out.
well, im sure someone will figure out how to tunnel a game through the 'net. that would make a pretty nifty service, sit at home with your DS and play someone on the 'net who's doin the same thing...
Anyone out there with anecdotes on YellowDog vs OS X?
I stopped running linux on my macs at work for one simple reason. Make a list of the activities you plan to do under linux, that you couldn't do under OS X. Now, make a list of things you can do under OS X and can't do under linux. Chances are, you'll end up sacrificing a bunch of features so you can simply say "I'm running linux". There's no motive.
Hell, if you're a X11 purist you can even make it so you can toggle your OS X install between Aqua and XDarwin as your default environment....but once again, there's not much reason to do this as you mostly just lose functionality. Mac's have the advantage of being able to use OS X, why not do it?
People are buying SUVs to be a bit safer than the average car in a crash. So now everybody's gotta get one to stay safe.
What's great is, SUV's aren't safer. These things are always rolling over and killing the passangers, losing control in rainy weather, etc. It's true that colliding with an SUV is bad news, but it doesn't mean that driving an SUV makes you safer.
i have a tivo-like device (computer with capture device & software) so either way, i'm not watching commercials. but sometimes, 2 shows air at the same time, or i forget to record one, or something. in those cases, i just download the show from BT. i guess what im saying is, i don't download an entire season of a show. however, i often download the latest episode of something i missed (the simpsons, for example).
Now, when the hazard comes from regular use of the item, like... talking on your cell phone, well if said phone can explode, or "vent superheated gases" on me, I think I would like to know.
Anything with a battery, yes, ANYTHING WITH A BATTERY can explode and do the same. I've seen a gameboy in use for hours on end have its alkaline AA's explode. There's been recalls on laptops where batteries explode / overheat. It's not very common, but it happens. It definately sucks for the consumer, and if it happened to me I would definately pressure my provider into getting me expensive phone for free or something, but not burden the legal system with such petty bullshit.
I'm a synaesthete myself, which is why I never tried any of the hallucinogenics
LUCKY! I'm a normal dude, so that's exactly why I did a lot of acid in high school. I got visual feedback for sense of touch, very strange. Good times though.
Hey great rant, but be realistic. Valve can do whatever they want, because they have the most anticipated game in years. Raise a fuss, tell your friends, maybe even walk around with a "BOYCOTT VALVE" sign. It won't make a dent in the sales. Most people who want to play the game will just shut up, jump through the hoop, and start playing. Those with rigid opinions on software licensing are not the target audience of the game.
BTW, how exactly is modifiying the program to bypass copy protection routines NOT a derivative work?
These HIDs are indeed obnoxious as hell, and probably dangerous too:
- They are more focused than ordinary lights. As such, when a car that is equipped with them follows you on an uneven road, the lamps annoyingly blink and even change color in your retrovisor.
Ooooh, BLINKING. I can TASTE the danger!! Seriously though, more focused beams are less likely to throw light into eyes of the other drivers (say, in an oncoming lane).
...I hate the off-white color too.
Actually they hit closer to white than halogen (which are yellow tint). I do agree that the real high color temperature ones (the purple and blue) are dumb, not only because of the color of the light but the fact that they produce less light.
I don't buy into their ability to provide better illumination.
It's not like this is magnet therapy, there's a measurable difference: HID lamps give more lumens at the light source, and are therefore brighter. Brighter lights help you see oncoming road contitions further ahead, giving you more time to react.
The only thing dangerous is you driving around with a dirty windsheild and blaming every light that shines on it at night.
i agree with you, but there's some perks to the GBA version, mainly the quality of the sound you can produce. as far as a synth goes, for the capability/portability/price/coolness, it's tough to beat (no pun intended). get yourself 2 GBA's, 2 carts and a mixer, and you can throw a party!:-P
i think the "enterprise" buzzword translates to "large projects". java's pretty easy to maintain stuff like that. java also offers run-time optimizations which would be helpful for something that gets a lot of traffic. i guess it scales better? (or at least that's the hype, i'm no expert)
with that said, php/apache is truly a joy and is my preferred web-deployment platform. java is my preferred platform for regular old applications.
the 4-prong thing always results in the same experience for me: i can't get it unplugged easily, so i pull harder and harder and harder. when it finally breaks free, my hand usually smashes into some card or other peripheral, usually breaking the skin on my hand. i know this sounds retarded but there's really no way around it. WHY ON EARTH havent they changed that connector since the 1980's?
i think gentoo is sort of an investment. even for someone who knows the system well, doing the install is a pain in the ass. however, once everything's set up, i find it very easy to maintain. it really is just like no effort to keep it all up to date and such. emerge --sync && emerge -u world && etc-update and come back later to finish things up. do this maybe once a week and you're chill.
portage has roughly a gajillion packages which is also good for lazy people (emerge CoolProgram beats going in search of CoolProgram, downloading and compiling it)
This system though is a rip of BSD's ports system (they did a good job though).
Ripped, but slightly improved. Portage features USE flags which let you choose what you do and don't want to compile -in support for. If you only want KDE/Qt programs running, you can disable gtk/gnome support in your USE flags. I may be wrong but I think this is absent in ports?
Long story short: if you know your way around linux, gentoo's a delight to use. If you don't know your way around linux, avoid gentoo until you become more familiar with how the typical linux system works.
I really would actually prefer to have a nice G4 with tons of space and so on. I just don't have enough money to put towards such an awesome computer.
You could get a powerbook g4 on ebay with a broken screen, and just put the guts in customized desktop case (outta wood or something). Small and cheap...
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...I would make it a point to rout out and publicly humiliate any Bzzers I discover.
Word of mouth advertising brings advertising back to its original purpose: to inform you of the existance of a product you might want. Not to tell you it's needed to get laid, or that you NEED it, etc etc etc.
If the folks are simply doing this because they like what they bought, why do you need to humiliate them? I've convinced several of my friends to buy PowerBooks. I did so because I thought they'd enjoy it as much as I have mine, and it seems they are doing just that.
Believe me, I hate it just as much when someone I know pushes some crap on me and I find out there's some incentive for them. No, I don't want a free iPod. However, when someone simply says "Hey you should get an iPod. I got one and I use it every day." -- where's the distrust?
some great NYC traffic footage in this wonderful film.
Robotic instead of holographic sex, but you get the point:
Mother: Billy, do you want to walk your dog?
Billy: No thanks, mom, I'd rather make out with my Monroebot.
Father: Billy, do you to get a paper out and make some extra cash?
Billy: No thanks, dad, I'd rather make out with my Monroebot.
Girl: Billy, do you want to come over tonight, we could make out together.
Billy: Gee, Mavis, your house is across the street. It's an awfully long way to go for making out.
check out Fink.
well, im sure someone will figure out how to tunnel a game through the 'net. that would make a pretty nifty service, sit at home with your DS and play someone on the 'net who's doin the same thing...
Anyone out there with anecdotes on YellowDog vs OS X?
...but once again, there's not much reason to do this as you mostly just lose functionality. Mac's have the advantage of being able to use OS X, why not do it?
I stopped running linux on my macs at work for one simple reason. Make a list of the activities you plan to do under linux, that you couldn't do under OS X. Now, make a list of things you can do under OS X and can't do under linux. Chances are, you'll end up sacrificing a bunch of features so you can simply say "I'm running linux". There's no motive.
Hell, if you're a X11 purist you can even make it so you can toggle your OS X install between Aqua and XDarwin as your default environment.
People are buying SUVs to be a bit safer than the average car in a crash. So now everybody's gotta get one to stay safe.
What's great is, SUV's aren't safer. These things are always rolling over and killing the passangers, losing control in rainy weather, etc. It's true that colliding with an SUV is bad news, but it doesn't mean that driving an SUV makes you safer.
i have a tivo-like device (computer with capture device & software) so either way, i'm not watching commercials. but sometimes, 2 shows air at the same time, or i forget to record one, or something. in those cases, i just download the show from BT. i guess what im saying is, i don't download an entire season of a show. however, i often download the latest episode of something i missed (the simpsons, for example).
Now, when the hazard comes from regular use of the item, like... talking on your cell phone, well if said phone can explode, or "vent superheated gases" on me, I think I would like to know.
Anything with a battery, yes, ANYTHING WITH A BATTERY can explode and do the same. I've seen a gameboy in use for hours on end have its alkaline AA's explode. There's been recalls on laptops where batteries explode / overheat. It's not very common, but it happens. It definately sucks for the consumer, and if it happened to me I would definately pressure my provider into getting me expensive phone for free or something, but not burden the legal system with such petty bullshit.
eMachines is the Mercedes-Benz of computers.
I'm a synaesthete myself, which is why I never tried any of the hallucinogenics
LUCKY! I'm a normal dude, so that's exactly why I did a lot of acid in high school. I got visual feedback for sense of touch, very strange. Good times though.
Hey great rant, but be realistic. Valve can do whatever they want, because they have the most anticipated game in years. Raise a fuss, tell your friends, maybe even walk around with a "BOYCOTT VALVE" sign. It won't make a dent in the sales. Most people who want to play the game will just shut up, jump through the hoop, and start playing. Those with rigid opinions on software licensing are not the target audience of the game.
BTW, how exactly is modifiying the program to bypass copy protection routines NOT a derivative work?
These HIDs are indeed obnoxious as hell, and probably dangerous too:
...I hate the off-white color too.
- They are more focused than ordinary lights. As such, when a car that is equipped with them follows you on an uneven road, the lamps annoyingly blink and even change color in your retrovisor.
Ooooh, BLINKING. I can TASTE the danger!! Seriously though, more focused beams are less likely to throw light into eyes of the other drivers (say, in an oncoming lane).
Actually they hit closer to white than halogen (which are yellow tint). I do agree that the real high color temperature ones (the purple and blue) are dumb, not only because of the color of the light but the fact that they produce less light.
I don't buy into their ability to provide better illumination.
It's not like this is magnet therapy, there's a measurable difference: HID lamps give more lumens at the light source, and are therefore brighter. Brighter lights help you see oncoming road contitions further ahead, giving you more time to react.
The only thing dangerous is you driving around with a dirty windsheild and blaming every light that shines on it at night.
I didn't fully understand the article when I read it...
...when you what now?
well, actually i just liked the used of the phrase "Ty-D-Bol blue"
i agree with you, but there's some perks to the GBA version, mainly the quality of the sound you can produce. as far as a synth goes, for the capability/portability/price/coolness, it's tough to beat (no pun intended). get yourself 2 GBA's, 2 carts and a mixer, and you can throw a party! :-P
...do they need to add CO2 to keep the breathing reflexes working right?
:-)
As long as all the nitrogen doesn't freeze out of the air, I think they're OK.
i think the "enterprise" buzzword translates to "large projects". java's pretty easy to maintain stuff like that. java also offers run-time optimizations which would be helpful for something that gets a lot of traffic. i guess it scales better? (or at least that's the hype, i'm no expert)
with that said, php/apache is truly a joy and is my preferred web-deployment platform. java is my preferred platform for regular old applications.
the 4-prong thing always results in the same experience for me: i can't get it unplugged easily, so i pull harder and harder and harder. when it finally breaks free, my hand usually smashes into some card or other peripheral, usually breaking the skin on my hand. i know this sounds retarded but there's really no way around it. WHY ON EARTH havent they changed that connector since the 1980's?
they just decided ads on billboards, tv, radio, web, magazines, newspapers, e-mail, snail-mail, telephone, SMS, instant messaging, sporting events, busses, wasn't enough.
i think gentoo is sort of an investment. even for someone who knows the system well, doing the install is a pain in the ass. however, once everything's set up, i find it very easy to maintain. it really is just like no effort to keep it all up to date and such. emerge --sync && emerge -u world && etc-update and come back later to finish things up. do this maybe once a week and you're chill.
portage has roughly a gajillion packages which is also good for lazy people (emerge CoolProgram beats going in search of CoolProgram, downloading and compiling it)
This system though is a rip of BSD's ports system (they did a good job though).
Ripped, but slightly improved. Portage features USE flags which let you choose what you do and don't want to compile -in support for. If you only want KDE/Qt programs running, you can disable gtk/gnome support in your USE flags. I may be wrong but I think this is absent in ports?
Long story short: if you know your way around linux, gentoo's a delight to use. If you don't know your way around linux, avoid gentoo until you become more familiar with how the typical linux system works.
I really would actually prefer to have a nice G4 with tons of space and so on. I just don't have enough money to put towards such an awesome computer.
You could get a powerbook g4 on ebay with a broken screen, and just put the guts in customized desktop case (outta wood or something). Small and cheap...
I would love to get microsoft completely out of my house but it is not possible yet again.
Get a mac. They're great for audio.
actually i thought arpanet.