These stinking capitalist pig companies only care about one thing. Profit.
It is obvious what the Obama crowd should do. Seize control of them and make these old school for profit companies work for the people. Any and all stock holders should be shot dead for not having the peoples interest at heart.
THere is no room for rigorous capitalism in the New Era - Hope and Change- America under
Obama and his Marxist (progressive) sidekicks.
Okay, maybe I'm ahead of the curve but only a fool doesn't see where we are going.
Laugh away , fools.
Your next.
Oh, Cheers.
Your future is to bow to your Chinese Overlords.
Signed, unhappy Texan that said 'I told you so' over a fraking decade ago. But did you listen? nooooooooooo.
Vent off.
I wasn't trying to support this crazed cell phone idea.
I was merely pointing out to you that there are people who can not detect odors, something you seem to lack knowledge of.
My odor detecting lackage is hopefully temporary but there are plenty of folk out there that can not detect odors to one degree or another who's issue is permanent.
As an aside I've since researched flammable gas detectors of the consumer sort and have concluded they are not worth pursuing due to false alarm issues. Oh well.
Tomhudson spewed forth:"You already have a fine detector for that - it's called your NOSE.
Also works wonders for all other sorts of poisonous gases. "
Well that is great ASSUMING the sense of smell is working for said nose holder. I"ve used mine in the past to detect natural gas perfume and then my fingers to dial up the local natural gas suppliers.
Two weeks ago, thanks to a conjunction of events involving anti-biotics and a case of hay fever (allergy for you furnish polishers) I totally lost my sense of smell and could not taste food at all.
I tested myself on all sorts of things I could smell in the past:
The chlorine in the water from my faucet. Nada. The perfume from the natural gas at the stove. Nada. The wonderful aroma from canned mackeral. Nada. That is the short list.
About the only thing I could sense was heat from pepper or a slight sensation from acids like vinegar.
So, your assumption is way off base. Luckily for me the effects are temporary and I blame the anti-biotic for most of my issues.
There are plenty out there walking around who are permanently or partially affected by the loss of smell and taste sensations.
Since my last episode I"m now in the market for a AFFORDABLE and effective natural gas detector alarm.
It would be a wonderful thing if these devices were available for all for household use.
Remove your rose colored glasses and smell the roses.
Great. I had a MRI this morning. Cost 650 American play dollars. I have a back problem we are looking into...
So I get home pop a couple tabs of hay fever med with pseudofedrin included. I had to sign for that..
THen I popped open a fresh bottle of brandy and started sipping that. Caught a nice buzz about the time I stumbled across Slashdot and saw this article.
It might explain the sudden urge I have to engage in slutty behavior.
MRI + psycho active drugs. Fuck ya, I'm going on a killing spree.
After I slut it up though.
Or, I may forgo the killing spree and just go on a forum troll run.
Fuck ya.
I got my excuse.
If I had points to mod I'd mod this plus 5 informative but Slashtwit dont' give me points to mod any more.
This is an important reason to NOT install said 'update'.
Relevent quote: " because if you're stopped at the top of a steep hill (see: San Francisco, city of) you need to use both brakes and accelerator even with an automatic transmission."
Note, this applies to flat landers as well. I live in SE Texas. Occasionally I've had to use above mentioned technique whilst on a steep ramp waiting on light change.
Just say 'no' to that improvement.
Course, I would had told any car purchasing typical drooler
driving dolt to just say "NO" to drive by wire' during a rant of mine over a decade ago. Did you people listen? No.
I watched the new version of Stargate with some trepidation on Friday.
It was good enough for a 3 out of 5 rating for me however that said.....
It was the ending that revealed to me this was a boring rehash of a premise from long ago..
Space 1999. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_1999 for you kids out there.
(Yah, verily, I'm old enough to have watched that series when it was 'new' and we LIKED it. Just like gramps in that SNL skit).
However this new rehashed SG-1 version has more 'scientific merit' which is a perk, plus better special effects.
That said, this rehash has lackluster actors and nothing to remotely resemble
Barbara Bain or Victor Bergman (that science adviser.)
So, by the end of the show when I fully realized the premise it dawned on me it would be painful to watch any further episodes.
I was up late last night and caught some episodes of 1000 Ways to Die, for the first time.
Harsh show to watch but it is rather educational.
Among the various ways people die was this:
A young male idiot was driving his vehicle around whilst texting his girlfriend who
was walking about someplace.
According to the story they were 'texting' where he was to meet her.
Eventually the primary idiot in the story arrived in some parking lot and continued to text his girly.
She was texting him back and was much to busy to be bothered with looking side to side while doing so.
Driving down one of the parking lot aisles primary idiot one runs right over his girly, apparently killing her quite dead.
He never saw her and she apparently didn't' ever see him.
Pretty sad huh? Hard to believe really but I can see it happening.
I can recall in my own experience seeing IDIOTS walking about parking lots yammering on their phones.
As a driver one always has to watch out for such. It appears from my observation of people they hardly ever turn their heads to watch for traffic whether talking on the hand set or texting.
Talking about pedestrians here.
It is a pity Darwin's law does not take these people out sooner and more thoroughly before they have a chance to breed.
This 53 year old grump would love to see harsher penalties for drivers doing such. Go Utah , Go.
Someone quoted someone and also blurbed:/quote
That's what happens when you continual elect democrats to office.
Roads go to shit but I'm sure there's no cuts in programs for illegal aliens.
Quite. Tax revenue is insufficient to pay for essential services - let's blame the Democrats who want to tax everyone to death.
Hang on.../endquote
I'll simply add another quote: "You ain't seen nothing yet."
By his High Progressiveness the High Lord Barack Hussein Obama to a bunch
of Hollywood types during some recent get together.
And you kids think we are going to return to the Moon and do all that other 'neat' stuff like Mars. Get ready for a decline that will take your breath away.
Larry blurbed:/quote larry bagina (561269) Alter Relationship on Saturday June 13, @03:25PM (#28322177) Journal
Stimulus? bwahaha. Earlier this week, Caterpillar (bulldozers and stuff) announced 66 more employees would be laid off, on top of the 400 or so in the last 9 months. This is noteworthy because they (and Barack Obama) had previously stated that the stimulus would prevent this from happening/endquote
BXZZXT> WRONG.
Despite the rest of your post being full of goodness and all the above 'fact' is a lie and distortion. It is true that the high lord of the progressive party, Barak Obama, asserted what you say. What is not true is that the head of Caterpillar thought the same way. After that speech where Barack sandbagged the CEO of Caterpillar, the CEO later said he was 'misled' by the Obama brown shirt pre team (brown shirts my interpretation) and said that is was HIGHLY LIKELY more layoffs were to be coming for Caterpillar. He said the stimulus would have LITTLE effect on what Caterpillar would have to do to survive the upcoming year.
Don't believe me? Look it up. THis was widely reported in the media unless your main source of news is CNN or ABC/NBC/CBS and the like.
No need to spread the lies of Obama progressives and stuff them into the mouths of people who never asserted such lies and no need to allow such lies to promulgate in public.
I'd add to your other good ideas it would have made more sense to give every American rich or poor a 70 percent tax break this year (or last year actually) and issue huge rebate checks.
And yes, GM and Chrysler should have been allowed to go Bankrupt along with BOA and the rest of the charlatans but 'they' do not listen to the likes of us.
That is the source of all true knowledge. If lord Wiki says thus, it is thus.
Anyway, on subject and despite being beat to the punch.
This blatant censorship is an outrage of the highest irony, considering India is the birth place of the Kama Sutra papers.
I smell a conspiracy of the deepest sort, perhaps one relating to the New World Order Revolutionary Army (TM Soros Group), to foment discontent and malfusion** among the masses and further their diabolical plans.
Newsflash to those of you trying to pin the fictional people to the wall for failing to do the 'right thing' and to those of you silly enough to try to equate what is going on in a shoddily written show to what the USA's government is doing or not doing is that all of the 'survivors' are Cylons already.
Yes, that is right. They are all fraking Cylons.
Cept maybe a few.
You see, it is a Cylon experiment to see if they can make themselves more human. The 'secret government ' within made it so.
The first season and a half was worth watching. The rest of it is shit.
People are claiming no need for this service or physical disks because their ISP will be delivering all this wonderful 20 to 50 gigabyte per episode HD content are missing one huge fact.
Today's ISP's, such as Comcast, are limiting typical household internet accounts to 250 gigabyte per month or else the offender gets spanked or a whipping.
Sure, you can get more bandwidth by upping the expenditure. My base cable (just for internet access ) with Comcast here in Houston runs 60 dollars a month now.
Comcast in Houston also has throttled the connection speed. The idea of downloading 50 gig HD content on this slow cable connection makes me laugh. It would take a day or more at the rate they throttle now. back when RoadRunner was running the show here the connection was MUCH faster.
If I tack on the HD package that other people are claiming is a way to the wonderful future the cost per month rises to 125 to 150 dollars and it can be even higher depending on what fancy package you select.
I don't know about the rich kids posting here on Slashdot that find this cost effective but the idea of blowing 1500.00 or more dollars a year on cable is absurd in my view. Yes, of course in my view most of what is on cable tv is not worth watching therefor I only pay for internet only services.
Oh, and I could afford to blow that much, easily, however I do not find value. If a movie is worth viewing I'll buy it and view multiple times, eventually that pays out. I spend far less per year on disks I'd find worthwhile then I'd blow on on HD cable costs with all the bells and whistles.
So to summarize the main factor working against the pie in the sky enthusiasts posting here is the fact ISP's are limiting download capacity per month. HD will chew up 250 gigs in a heartbeat.
The following is in regards to the common air cooled generator one buys, the typical sub 8KW models:
Whatever you do, and this is coming from a Texas Gulf coast resident , do NOT read the owners manual that comes with the generator. If you do this, you will be just like the majority of idiots that buy generators and fall into a wide demographic.
Such as, handy tips like:
Generator oil changed every 50 to 100 hours (depending on model/make).
That way you can insure disaster earlier rather than later, and keep generator sellers happy.
Oh, and ignore the other tips in the manual like proper grounding of said device and to NOT place it near any structures humans live in or near any overhangs that may trap that allegedly deadly carbon monoxide. Stupid stuff like not having any open windows nearby. You can safely ignore all that.
Oh, and by the way you will need about 10 gallons a day to run a 5kw generator 24 hours a day.
Also, you will also NOT read, if you were following my instructions, in the manual that the air cooled generator you bought was not intended for 24 hour non stop operation.
That said, I used mine pretty much non stop 24 hours a day, for a couple weeks here after IKE.
Change oil like one is supposed to, and give it a daily rest.
Idiots that do not read manuals are the ones that die, every year, to these devices. Try not to be another idiot, but if you are, cest la vie.
Sure, they could do the same thing that was done for Dune.
Yep, the epic potential of a horrid screen adaption is there. I'd say the potential is high.
Pity as Foundation series was classic science fiction at its best.
This string on Google 'Greek Goat Sex' vs Cuil results for the same string results in a dramatic revelation of the qualitative difference between the two.
Google is leaps and bounds ahead. Not trying to be funny but I'll be moderated as such I suppose.
Yes, Joseph Stalin and his happy crew of Communists knew that religion was a mental disease and did not fail to act.
Is that the path you want to go down?
I'm no religious nut and consider myself agnostic but I sure as hell respect the right of others to practice their faith until it abridges me in some significant manner. Your path sir, is the one leading to mass graves and pyres to toss the 'non 'believer' on that refuses to bow to the god of Atheism.
What amazes me is how you fervent and frankly rabid athiests refuse to admit is your 'belief' is nothing more than the same thing in mirror image.
I'll toss further flames into the fire. Why is it western homosexuals and atheist crusaders who so deride those of Christian faith do not take up the banner of rabid indignation against a far larger threat to their 'lifestyles, Islam.
Your fools if you do not see the larger threat to your comfey little lives.
We are all going to need rationality to rise to the front on all sides but at present I'm not seeing a lot of rationality around.
Watch your back, you may end up in one of the pyres. That day can come again.
LighershadeofBlack spurted with ignorance aplenty:
Yeah, killing thousands of people and destroying their country will help establish a peaceful democracy!
My response.
Jane, you ignorant slut. It worked in WWII and we killed millions between the Soviets and the other Allies.
Japan was gutted, Germany was totally trashed.
The only way to win a war is to totally destroy the enemy. All out war works if your not a coward and afraid to wield the dogs of war to full effect.
Is that the answer here? I can't say but I suspect, in the end, it will be.
Iran will force us to nuke that entire region into non existance because THAT IS WHAT THEY WANT.
ALl you need for proof is to listen to the leadership of that country that BELIEVES in the 'end times' and are doing all they can to bring about a global war.
Once they get the nuke, they will use it. Period.
Unlike the weak minded folk of the West these days, they will not hesitate to kill all that are not of their faith.
It is a shame more of us can't wake up to that fact and grow the balls of our forefathers and do what has to be done.
No, what we will do is wait until they hit us again with a nuke or three and then act. by then, it may be too late.
I'll prefer to die than live under a Muslim lead world. I'll die killing as many of them as I can before I bow to their idea of how I should live my life.
I'd rather reason with them but there comes a point you have to fight for what you believe is right.
Again, go back and read history. If your not willing to wipe out the opposition >>> YOUR SIDE LOOSES.
Granted. He is correct in asserting the game runs much smoother than at launch.
So what.
I've been playing Vanguard for the past 2 months or so after a long away period following that horrid launch.
I have had fun, and am with healthy sized guild too.
Bottom line is though , for style whores like me, the games armor / clothing is dull and vapid beyond belief. Example: Roll a caster. Get used to wearing the same smock for levels 10 thru cap level and learn to love it. Sure, they change the textures on the smocks but that is all the caster gets to pick from.
Nothing remotely 'sexy' or different in the least to choose from. God forbid any cleavage ever show.
People love to bash WoW but Blizzard did get one thing right. There is a fair variety of armor styles one can choose and if you dont' mind 'gimping' the character you can diverge from the set look. Yeah, true enough for the hardcore it is no option and everyone looks the same but for those that just enjoy the game without worrying about capping their leet char to the max there are options with the 'look'.
LOTRO, Lord of the Rings Online, recently added a great patch that introduced 'appearance armor'. Grand idea but they foolishly limited the amount of armor/dress up outfits one can pick from or find.
Both of which are leaps and bounds above the mind frakingly dull armor in Vanguard.
Sony also forces every user to use ADMIN mode to launch the damn game. SOny can shove it up their ass. I'm tired of that 'feature' and it is inexcusable practice.
It was fun but I'm glad to cancel the account there and Age of Conan has them beat all to hell in the artwork department in the landscape. As for the appearance of the toons themselves... yeah they are all human characters and there are no cat or dog people,etc. Oh well, can't have everything now can we? AOC armor appearance? Only time will tell. I will give them the time, unlike with Vanguard I expect people will stay and the money will roll in to Funcom.
If in six months time they have not filled in the missing holes like armor style variety, and other dits and dots then we can shelve it.
Age of Conan has everything going for it that Vanguard won't ever have . Not because it was impossible to do, but because SOny is running the game and has zero clue.
Slashdot Mirror
Hey, THMS.
I suspect you'd be as much fun at the movies as Chloe O'Brian from the series
24 would be.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloe_O'Brian
Dry.
Chill.
It's why I say listen to Ripley you dolts. (situational variance)
As she said, "Just nuke the site from orbit, just to be sure."
Problem furking solved. Move along now, nothing to see here SOON.
Use the maximum force possible to cover up errors.
Fuck all that sensible talk.
I say nuke the site from orbit, just to be sure.
Ripley was right.
These stinking capitalist pig companies only care about one thing. Profit.
It is obvious what the Obama crowd should do. Seize control of them and make these old school
for profit companies work for the people. Any and all stock holders should be shot dead for not
having the peoples interest at heart.
THere is no room for rigorous capitalism in the New Era - Hope and Change- America under
Obama and his Marxist (progressive) sidekicks.
Okay, maybe I'm ahead of the curve but only a fool doesn't see where we are going.
Laugh away , fools.
Your next.
Oh, Cheers.
Your future is to bow to your Chinese Overlords.
Signed, unhappy Texan that said 'I told you so' over a fraking decade ago. But did you listen? nooooooooooo.
Vent off.
Perhaps I should have been more clear.
I wasn't trying to support this crazed cell phone idea.
I was merely pointing out to you that there are people who can not detect odors, something you seem to lack
knowledge of.
My odor detecting lackage is hopefully temporary but there are plenty of folk out there that can not detect odors to one degree or another who's issue is permanent.
As an aside I've since researched flammable gas detectors of the consumer sort and have concluded they are not
worth pursuing due to false alarm issues. Oh well.
Thanks for snark, Clyde.
Tomhudson spewed forth :"You already have a fine detector for that - it's called your NOSE.
Also works wonders for all other sorts of poisonous gases. "
Well that is great ASSUMING the sense of smell is working for said nose holder.
I"ve used mine in the past to detect natural gas perfume and then my fingers to
dial up the local natural gas suppliers.
Two weeks ago, thanks to a conjunction of events involving anti-biotics and a case of hay fever (allergy for you
furnish polishers) I totally lost my sense of smell and could not taste food at all.
I tested myself on all sorts of things I could smell in the past:
The chlorine in the water from my faucet. Nada.
The perfume from the natural gas at the stove. Nada.
The wonderful aroma from canned mackeral. Nada.
That is the short list.
About the only thing I could sense was heat from pepper or a slight sensation from acids like vinegar.
So, your assumption is way off base. Luckily for me the effects are temporary and I blame the anti-biotic
for most of my issues.
There are plenty out there walking around who are permanently or partially affected by the loss of smell and taste sensations.
Since my last episode I"m now in the market for a AFFORDABLE and effective natural gas detector alarm.
It would be a wonderful thing if these devices were available for all for household use.
Remove your rose colored glasses and smell the roses.
Great. I had a MRI this morning. Cost 650 American
play dollars. I have a back problem we are looking into...
So I get home pop a couple tabs of hay fever med with ..
pseudofedrin included. I had to sign for that
THen I popped open a fresh bottle of brandy and started sipping
that. Caught a nice buzz about the time I stumbled across Slashdot
and saw this article.
It might explain the sudden urge I have to engage in slutty behavior.
MRI + psycho active drugs. Fuck ya, I'm going on a killing spree.
After I slut it up though.
Or, I may forgo the killing spree and just go on a forum troll run.
Fuck ya.
I got my excuse.
:"progressively less fun the more you play"
So, nothing to see here move along now?
This is old tech. They used to call it Everquest.
If I had points to mod I'd mod this plus 5 informative but
Slashtwit dont' give me points to mod any more.
This is an important reason to NOT install said 'update'.
Relevent quote: " because if you're stopped at the top of a steep hill (see: San Francisco, city of) you need to use both brakes and accelerator even with an automatic transmission."
Note, this applies to flat landers as well. I live in SE Texas. Occasionally I've had
to use above mentioned technique whilst on a steep ramp waiting on light change.
Just say 'no' to that improvement.
Course, I would had told any car purchasing typical drooler
driving dolt to just say "NO" to drive by wire'
during a rant of mine over a decade ago. Did you people listen? No.
Your's truly. Ex auto mechanic.
Dolts.
I'll probably reveal how old I am in this post.
I watched the new version of Stargate with some trepidation on Friday.
It was good enough for a 3 out of 5 rating for me however that said.....
It was the ending that revealed to me this was a boring rehash of a premise from long ago..
Space 1999. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_1999 for you kids out there.
(Yah, verily, I'm old enough to have watched that series when it was 'new' and we LIKED it. Just like
gramps in that SNL skit).
However this new rehashed SG-1 version has more 'scientific merit' which is a perk, plus better special effects.
That said, this rehash has lackluster actors and nothing to remotely resemble
Barbara Bain or Victor Bergman (that science adviser.)
So, by the end of the show when I fully realized the premise it dawned on me it would be
painful to watch any further episodes.
So, in summary. Yawn.
I was up late last night and caught some episodes of 1000 Ways to Die, for the first time.
Harsh show to watch but it is rather educational.
Among the various ways people die was this:
A young male idiot was driving his vehicle around whilst texting his girlfriend who
was walking about someplace.
According to the story they were 'texting' where he was to meet her.
Eventually the primary idiot in the story arrived in some parking lot and continued to text his
girly.
She was texting him back and was much to busy to be bothered with looking side to side while doing so.
Driving down one of the parking lot aisles primary idiot one runs right over his
girly, apparently killing her quite dead.
He never saw her and she apparently didn't' ever see him.
Pretty sad huh? Hard to believe really but I can see it happening.
I can recall in my own experience seeing IDIOTS walking about parking lots yammering on their phones.
As a driver one always has to watch out for such. It appears from my observation of people
they hardly ever turn their heads to watch for traffic whether talking on the hand set or texting.
Talking about pedestrians here.
It is a pity Darwin's law does not take these people out sooner and more thoroughly before they
have a chance to breed.
This 53 year old grump would love to see harsher penalties for drivers doing such. Go Utah , Go.
Lazy quoting to follow:
Someone quoted someone and also blurbed: /quote
That's what happens when you continual elect democrats to office.
Roads go to shit but I'm sure there's no cuts in programs for illegal aliens.
Quite. Tax revenue is insufficient to pay for essential services - let's blame the Democrats who want to tax everyone to death.
Hang on... /endquote
I'll simply add another quote: "You ain't seen nothing yet."
By his High Progressiveness the High Lord Barack Hussein Obama to a bunch
of Hollywood types during some recent get together.
And you kids think we are going to return to the Moon and do all that other 'neat' stuff like Mars. Get ready for a decline that will take your breath away.
Damn it to hell. I don't have a disk drive, you insensitive clod developer
person you.
I do have a Vic-20 with cassette tape though.
Can I get a copy on cassette tape? Or perhaps at the least the sheet music
so I can peek and poke the code in via keyboard?
Then I could hook up the old Vic-20 Commodore to my 46 inch Samsung big screen TeeVee
and leave my Twitter up 24/7.
Oh, this Twitter client better fit on 8k RAM. I got the big RAM expansion doohickey cartridge thing plugged in the back.
Larry blurbed: /quote larry bagina (561269) Alter Relationship on Saturday June 13, @03:25PM (#28322177) Journal
Stimulus? bwahaha. Earlier this week, Caterpillar (bulldozers and stuff) announced 66 more employees would be laid off, on top of the 400 or so in the last 9 months. This is noteworthy because they (and Barack Obama) had previously stated that the stimulus would prevent this from happening /endquote
BXZZXT> WRONG.
Despite the rest of your post being full of goodness and all the above 'fact' is a lie and distortion. It is true that the high lord of the progressive party, Barak Obama, asserted what
you say. What is not true is that the head of Caterpillar thought the same way. After that speech where Barack sandbagged the CEO of Caterpillar, the CEO later said he was 'misled' by the Obama brown shirt pre team (brown shirts my interpretation) and said that is was HIGHLY LIKELY more layoffs were to be coming for Caterpillar. He said the stimulus would have LITTLE effect on what
Caterpillar would have to do to survive the upcoming year.
Don't believe me? Look it up. THis was widely reported in the media unless your main source
of news is CNN or ABC/NBC/CBS and the like.
No need to spread the lies of Obama progressives and stuff them into the mouths of people who never asserted such lies and no need to allow such lies to promulgate in public.
I'd add to your other good ideas it would have made more sense to give every American rich or poor a 70 percent tax break this year (or last year actually) and issue huge rebate checks.
And yes, GM and Chrysler should have been allowed to go Bankrupt along with BOA and the rest of the charlatans but 'they' do not listen to the likes of us.
Bah , humbuggery.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama_sutra
That is the source of all true knowledge. If lord Wiki says thus, it is thus.
Anyway, on subject and despite being beat to the punch.
This blatant censorship is an outrage of the highest irony, considering India is the birth place
of the Kama Sutra papers.
I smell a conspiracy of the deepest sort, perhaps one relating to the New World Order Revolutionary Army (TM Soros Group), to foment discontent and malfusion** among the masses and further their diabolical plans.
(** TM The Colbert Group)
Newsflash to those of you trying to pin the fictional people to the wall for failing to do the 'right thing' and
to those of you silly enough to try to equate what is going on in a shoddily written show to what the USA's government
is doing or not doing is that all of the 'survivors' are Cylons already.
Yes, that is right. They are all fraking Cylons.
Cept maybe a few.
You see, it is a Cylon experiment to see if they can make themselves more human.
The 'secret government ' within made it so.
The first season and a half was worth watching. The rest of it is shit.
Thems the facts.
People are claiming no need for this service or physical disks because their ISP will be delivering
all this wonderful 20 to 50 gigabyte per episode HD content are missing one huge fact.
Today's ISP's, such as Comcast, are limiting typical household internet accounts to 250 gigabyte per month or
else the offender gets spanked or a whipping.
Sure, you can get more bandwidth by upping the expenditure. My base cable (just for internet access ) with Comcast here
in Houston runs 60 dollars a month now.
Comcast in Houston also has throttled the connection speed. The idea of downloading 50 gig HD content on this slow
cable connection makes me laugh. It would take a day or more at the rate they throttle now. back when RoadRunner was running the
show here the connection was MUCH faster.
If I tack on the HD package that other people are claiming is a way to the wonderful future the cost per month
rises to 125 to 150 dollars and it can be even higher depending on what fancy package you select.
I don't know about the rich kids posting here on Slashdot that find this cost effective but the idea of blowing 1500.00 or more
dollars a year on cable is absurd in my view. Yes, of course in my view most of what is on cable tv is not worth watching therefor
I only pay for internet only services.
Oh, and I could afford to blow that much, easily, however I do not find value. If a movie is worth viewing I'll buy it and view
multiple times, eventually that pays out. I spend far less per year on disks I'd find worthwhile then I'd blow on on HD cable costs
with all the bells and whistles.
So to summarize the main factor working against the pie in the sky enthusiasts posting here is the fact ISP's are limiting
download capacity per month. HD will chew up 250 gigs in a heartbeat.
The following is in regards to the common air cooled generator one buys, the typical sub 8KW models:
Whatever you do, and this is coming from a Texas Gulf coast resident , do NOT read the owners
manual that comes with the generator. If you do this, you will be just like the majority
of idiots that buy generators and fall into a wide demographic.
Such as, handy tips like:
Generator oil changed every 50 to 100 hours (depending on model/make).
That way you can insure disaster earlier rather than later, and keep generator sellers happy.
Oh, and ignore the other tips in the manual like proper grounding of said device and to NOT
place it near any structures humans live in or near any overhangs that may trap that allegedly deadly
carbon monoxide. Stupid stuff like not having any open windows nearby. You can safely ignore all that.
Oh, and by the way you will need about 10 gallons a day to run a 5kw generator 24 hours a day.
Also, you will also NOT read, if you were following my instructions, in the manual that the air
cooled generator you bought was not intended for 24 hour non stop operation.
That said, I used mine pretty much non stop 24 hours a day, for a couple weeks here after IKE.
Change oil like one is supposed to, and give it a daily rest.
Idiots that do not read manuals are the ones that die, every year, to these devices. Try not to be another idiot,
but if you are, cest la vie.
Sure, I can explain polarization this way:
See the post by fynqyrz http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1052969&cid=26008363
entitled Sure! up above. It's the first post can not miss it.
That is polarization and fynqyrz is the material doing the polarizing.
Science is fun.
Sure, they could do the same thing that was done for Dune. Yep, the epic potential of a horrid screen adaption is there. I'd say the potential is high. Pity as Foundation series was classic science fiction at its best.
This string on Google 'Greek Goat Sex' vs Cuil results for the same string
results in a dramatic revelation of the qualitative difference between the two.
Google is leaps and bounds ahead. Not trying to be funny but I'll be moderated
as such I suppose.
Didn't we read over the last year or so that there was a migration of the
vaunted Microsoft talent to the Google enterprise?
Could it be this is the sort of thing one would expect from such a talent pool
of ex Microsoft trained types?
Just saying.
I'll stick with Age of Conan for my avatar jollies.
Yes, Joseph Stalin and his happy crew of Communists knew that religion was a mental disease and did not fail to act.
Is that the path you want to go down?
I'm no religious nut and consider myself agnostic but I sure as hell respect the right of others to practice
their faith until it abridges me in some significant manner. Your path sir, is the one leading to mass graves and pyres to
toss the 'non 'believer' on that refuses to bow to the god of Atheism.
What amazes me is how you fervent and frankly rabid athiests refuse to admit is your 'belief' is nothing more than the same
thing in mirror image.
I'll toss further flames into the fire. Why is it western homosexuals and atheist crusaders who so deride those of Christian
faith do not take up the banner of rabid indignation against a far larger threat to their 'lifestyles, Islam.
Your fools if you do not see the larger threat to your comfey little lives.
We are all going to need rationality to rise to the front on all sides but at present I'm not seeing a lot of rationality around.
Watch your back, you may end up in one of the pyres. That day can come again.
Peace.
LighershadeofBlack spurted with ignorance aplenty:
Yeah, killing thousands of people and destroying their country will help establish a peaceful democracy!
My response.
Jane, you ignorant slut. It worked in WWII and we killed millions between the Soviets and the other Allies.
Japan was gutted, Germany was totally trashed.
The only way to win a war is to totally destroy the enemy. All out war works if your not a coward and afraid
to wield the dogs of war to full effect.
Is that the answer here? I can't say but I suspect, in the end, it will be.
Iran will force us to nuke that entire region into non existance because THAT IS WHAT THEY WANT.
ALl you need for proof is to listen to the leadership of that country that BELIEVES in the 'end times' and
are doing all they can to bring about a global war.
Once they get the nuke, they will use it. Period.
Unlike the weak minded folk of the West these days, they will not hesitate to kill all that are not of their faith.
It is a shame more of us can't wake up to that fact and grow the balls of our forefathers and
do what has to be done.
No, what we will do is wait until they hit us again with a nuke or three and then act. by then, it may be
too late.
I'll prefer to die than live under a Muslim lead world. I'll die killing as many of them as I can before
I bow to their idea of how I should live my life.
I'd rather reason with them but there comes a point you have to fight for what you believe is right.
Again, go back and read history. If your not willing to wipe out the opposition >>> YOUR SIDE LOOSES.
Idiots
Granted. He is correct in asserting the game runs much smoother than at launch.
So what.
I've been playing Vanguard for the past 2 months or so after a long away
period following that horrid launch.
I have had fun, and am with healthy sized guild too.
Bottom line is though , for style whores like me, the games armor / clothing
is dull and vapid beyond belief.
Example: Roll a caster. Get used to wearing the same smock for levels 10 thru cap level and
learn to love it. Sure, they change the textures on the smocks but that is all the caster gets
to pick from.
Nothing remotely 'sexy' or different in the least to choose from. God forbid any cleavage ever show.
People love to bash WoW but Blizzard did get one thing right. There is a fair variety of armor styles
one can choose and if you dont' mind 'gimping' the character you can diverge from the set look.
Yeah, true enough for the hardcore it is no option and everyone looks the same but for those that just
enjoy the game without worrying about capping their leet char to the max there are options with the 'look'.
LOTRO, Lord of the Rings Online, recently added a great patch that introduced 'appearance armor'. Grand idea
but they foolishly limited the amount of armor/dress up outfits one can pick from or find.
Both of which are leaps and bounds above the mind frakingly dull armor in Vanguard.
Sony also forces every user to use ADMIN mode to launch the damn game.
SOny can shove it up their ass. I'm tired of that 'feature' and it is inexcusable practice.
It was fun but I'm glad to cancel the account there and Age of Conan has them beat all to hell in the
artwork department in the landscape. As for the appearance of the toons themselves... yeah they are all
human characters and there are no cat or dog people,etc. Oh well, can't have everything now can we?
AOC armor appearance? Only time will tell. I will give them the time, unlike with Vanguard I expect
people will stay and the money will roll in to Funcom.
If in six months time they have not filled in the missing holes like armor style variety, and other dits
and dots then we can shelve it.
Age of Conan has everything going for it that Vanguard won't ever have .
Not because it was impossible to do,
but because SOny is running the game and has zero clue.