So he's got it strapped to a transdermal piercing? That is far, far from an implant. But you know that the art world technonoobs will eat it up as if it has some kind of brain interface or something. You would not believe the technological ignorance of curators and museum professionals.
I recently had a shocking meeting in the office of some folks from the Recreation and Parks Department, and was disturbed to see that the computers they were using not only were running Windows 95, but which had only 3.5" drives. The presence of several disks laying out on the desk of one employee and a disk storage unit on the desk were definite indications of daily use.
Oh, and the highly paid, union protected, pension equipped employee was an excellent multitasker. He was able to both play solitaire during the entire meeting and give his full attention to the important business of doing his job.
If you were wondering why one of the world's biggest cities is approaching total failure, there's a few reasons for you.
If you're going on a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity like this then why waste the time doing internet stuff that you can do for the rest of your life.
Use the opportunity wisely. Soak up the new experiences. DOn't be one of those fools that travel halfway around the world to sit in a McDonalds or an internet cafe.
Forget about the internet, email, wikipedia etc.They'll all still be there when you're done.
I couldn't agree more. This is an opportunity to use your time differently than you do outside the program. That experience is what you'll learn more about both yourself and the world from.
I've been using a T60p for about 8 months now, and the thing's a tank. I'm pretty sure it's available with a solid state hard drive now too. A bit overpowered for the traveler, but the perfect thing if you want to edit video or photos on the go, while equipped with a tank of a laptop with astounding battery time.
Issues about Chinese politics aside, I recently purchased my first Thinkpad, the T60p. With all the options, 3Gb of RAM (some models will take 4Gb, but the processor will only support 3.25 Gb, so that 4th Gb is money down the tubes) and the dedicated 256 Mb video card, it's a graphics powerhouse. Even though the card isn't optimized for gaming, it can handle anything you throw at it. I use mine for mainly photo editing, and it can't be beat. The only disappointment is that it wasn't available with a solid state hard drive when I bought it. Lenovo runs pretty good deals all the time, mine was 25% off when I bought it, and that definitely made buying a top of the line unit easier.
I'm running XP Pro on it, and it's treating me great. Even the built in "Thinkvantage" software is useful, making it really easy to synch with projectors and such for presentations, and it's really good at finding your networks if you're like me and you work in multiple places and on the road. The only software problem I had involved the security software, and that was a conflict of my own making. The biometric scanner works great - totally not frustrating or inconvenient.
The chassis is awesome. Nothing beats basic black for design, and it's built like a tank, but still very light, even when running with two batteries installed. The keyboard is natural and easy, almost as good as my Saitek gaming keyboard, and I get a lot less fatigue working on it than other laptops. The hinges seem to be indestructable, too.
Similar thing happened to me. I was getting 2 copies of the magazine each month (which I never paid for, somehow my Nintendo Fun Club membership carried over, and they never billed me, until it just stopped coming in the early-mid nineties), and I got sent 2 copies of Dragon Warrior. I kept one and sold the other, too.
My roommate's dad did this, on graph paper, and he still has the map. The wierd thing is his dad never really figured out how to use the controller. He would put it face up on a table and apparently type on it to play NES games.
This idea has been floating out there since before the first Combat Upgrade. Although SWG boasted a number of awesome and rubust features, it's combat system, and the PvP system were seemingly too complex to fix once their flaws were evident. Why not go back to the drawing board and capitalise on the strengths of SWG and eliminate the weaknesses, rather than try to patch your way out of them?
At least one chain of used video game dealers in Los Angeles is now paying a premium price for copies of the original game. Not bad for a game that's at least a year old at this point. Given how many copies of the original clean (that's clean of censorship) version there are out there, I imagine that no one will have trouble playing the game as it was intended to be played.
Back when they were still shoving games onto disks, and you had to uncompress everything to play (which could someitmes take 2 hours), I paid $70 for a copy of Wing Commander 2. Until the CD came out, and it looked like games were going to occupy even more disk space, many of us had resigned ourselves to paying $70 or more for games.
I grew up surrounded by disturbingly rich kids, so I probably have more light gun and R.O.B. experience than most. I think MS has much bigger plans for the HD in the XBOX 360 than NES ever had for those white elephants.
Although I a case could be made for a console without networking and HD capability, I bet MS is betting a lot of their ability to take customers away from Sony on their XBOX Live service and the added HD. Nintendo never linked their success to the popularity of the light gun or the R.O.B. (wow, that Robot was a worthless piece of junk, you didn't need it to play Gyromite, which was a good game, and was probably under appreciated because people thought they had to have the robot to play it.)
I'm more than willing to accept your crisisism of my post, but I'm sorry, I'm not a Microsoft basher. I'm actually one of those people that thinks Windows isn't a bad OS, and uses a number of MS programs on a daily basis.
I do think it's a mistake to sell the 360 without a HD. How is little Johnny going to save his game? I'd consider a gaming system without a built in save game solution to be a doorstop, at this point. I could care less about the wireless controller, and I think selling a platform without 2 controllers is a much more (and apparently industry standard) serious issue. And if I recall correctly, NES, SNES and Genesis all shipped with 2 controllers in the basic system.
I'd also consider it a misstep to ship a system without a game. How many million more NES's sold because of the popularity of Super Mario Brothers?
Confusing consumers with multiple hardwares hasn't worked well for other companies in the past. Especially since the $299 360 is basically a doorstop.
And if you say want a second controller and a game, you the functional version is gonna cost you $500 easy, on the first day.
As a fellow ex-Philosophy major, I agree that it has a place in Philosophy classes as an example of a bad or fallacious argument. But I think it has a place in Philosophy of Religion courses, as a legitimate religious belief.
I have almost no interest in playing a Shadowrun FPS, but I'd rather see Shadowrun licensed as a MMO or RPG more than any other license. Maybe if we are lucky they will do something like Neocron, only with much higher production values.
SOE does get two new properties to add to its Station Pass system, but can they handle 2 more properties. SOE's ability to deliver working, high quality product is already stretched very thin. I'd hate to see Sony screw up two more projects because they couldn't apply the resources needed to develop them.
I agree 100%. I have never understood the "this is what I do every day" flavour of blogs.
I read several blogs on a daily basis, mostly technical blogs on issues of interest, related to community issues I am directly involved in or relevant to my industry. I think they are great for allowing people with good ideas and insights to causally publish, and are often the genesis for good dialouges.
What do they do if the offending object can't be removed without damaging the functionality of the "organ" in which it's placed? I always presumed that the officer I mentioned got away with it largely due to the fact that any trans-uretral genital piercings, when removed, would be counterproductive to the funtionality of the organ.
So you're basically saying that a person can't both stand out from the pack by being a high performing, profssional type, and at the same time choosing to modify their body?
The military also tends to be pretty lenient regarding anything under the uniform. A piercer in my town has a client, a high ranking Air Force officer who's packing some large gauge serious metal in his johnson, and although his superiors are aware of it, as well as several other large body modifications, he has never had any problems or been disciplined in any way, and he started getting his work in his 40's, after years in service.
I'd rather not be anonymous at thge library. I'd rather have my reading list looked through than participate in a system meant to bypass the current political climate. By participating in an anonymous system, I would feel like I was legitimising the laws and practices that I feel are attacks at my personal liberty. By participating in a anonymous library card program, the situation that I find abhorrent might continue longer than it would under the current system
The premise could be that since they are already suckers for Apple's marketing, they will continue to take it in the ass, even after Apple admits that it has been fucking them in said ass.
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Because if not, it should be.
So he's got it strapped to a transdermal piercing? That is far, far from an implant. But you know that the art world technonoobs will eat it up as if it has some kind of brain interface or something. You would not believe the technological ignorance of curators and museum professionals.
Tell that to the art world. Right now as far as major museums are concerned, planting a garden in your yard is high art.
I recently had a shocking meeting in the office of some folks from the Recreation and Parks Department, and was disturbed to see that the computers they were using not only were running Windows 95, but which had only 3.5" drives. The presence of several disks laying out on the desk of one employee and a disk storage unit on the desk were definite indications of daily use. Oh, and the highly paid, union protected, pension equipped employee was an excellent multitasker. He was able to both play solitaire during the entire meeting and give his full attention to the important business of doing his job. If you were wondering why one of the world's biggest cities is approaching total failure, there's a few reasons for you.
If you're going on a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity like this then why waste the time doing internet stuff that you can do for the rest of your life.
Use the opportunity wisely. Soak up the new experiences. DOn't be one of those fools that travel halfway around the world to sit in a McDonalds or an internet cafe.
Forget about the internet, email, wikipedia etc.They'll all still be there when you're done.
I couldn't agree more. This is an opportunity to use your time differently than you do outside the program. That experience is what you'll learn more about both yourself and the world from.
I've been using a T60p for about 8 months now, and the thing's a tank. I'm pretty sure it's available with a solid state hard drive now too. A bit overpowered for the traveler, but the perfect thing if you want to edit video or photos on the go, while equipped with a tank of a laptop with astounding battery time.
Issues about Chinese politics aside, I recently purchased my first Thinkpad, the T60p. With all the options, 3Gb of RAM (some models will take 4Gb, but the processor will only support 3.25 Gb, so that 4th Gb is money down the tubes) and the dedicated 256 Mb video card, it's a graphics powerhouse. Even though the card isn't optimized for gaming, it can handle anything you throw at it. I use mine for mainly photo editing, and it can't be beat. The only disappointment is that it wasn't available with a solid state hard drive when I bought it. Lenovo runs pretty good deals all the time, mine was 25% off when I bought it, and that definitely made buying a top of the line unit easier. I'm running XP Pro on it, and it's treating me great. Even the built in "Thinkvantage" software is useful, making it really easy to synch with projectors and such for presentations, and it's really good at finding your networks if you're like me and you work in multiple places and on the road. The only software problem I had involved the security software, and that was a conflict of my own making. The biometric scanner works great - totally not frustrating or inconvenient. The chassis is awesome. Nothing beats basic black for design, and it's built like a tank, but still very light, even when running with two batteries installed. The keyboard is natural and easy, almost as good as my Saitek gaming keyboard, and I get a lot less fatigue working on it than other laptops. The hinges seem to be indestructable, too.
Similar thing happened to me. I was getting 2 copies of the magazine each month (which I never paid for, somehow my Nintendo Fun Club membership carried over, and they never billed me, until it just stopped coming in the early-mid nineties), and I got sent 2 copies of Dragon Warrior. I kept one and sold the other, too.
My roommate's dad did this, on graph paper, and he still has the map. The wierd thing is his dad never really figured out how to use the controller. He would put it face up on a table and apparently type on it to play NES games.
This idea has been floating out there since before the first Combat Upgrade. Although SWG boasted a number of awesome and rubust features, it's combat system, and the PvP system were seemingly too complex to fix once their flaws were evident. Why not go back to the drawing board and capitalise on the strengths of SWG and eliminate the weaknesses, rather than try to patch your way out of them?
At least one chain of used video game dealers in Los Angeles is now paying a premium price for copies of the original game. Not bad for a game that's at least a year old at this point. Given how many copies of the original clean (that's clean of censorship) version there are out there, I imagine that no one will have trouble playing the game as it was intended to be played.
Back when they were still shoving games onto disks, and you had to uncompress everything to play (which could someitmes take 2 hours), I paid $70 for a copy of Wing Commander 2. Until the CD came out, and it looked like games were going to occupy even more disk space, many of us had resigned ourselves to paying $70 or more for games.
I grew up surrounded by disturbingly rich kids, so I probably have more light gun and R.O.B. experience than most. I think MS has much bigger plans for the HD in the XBOX 360 than NES ever had for those white elephants.
Although I a case could be made for a console without networking and HD capability, I bet MS is betting a lot of their ability to take customers away from Sony on their XBOX Live service and the added HD. Nintendo never linked their success to the popularity of the light gun or the R.O.B. (wow, that Robot was a worthless piece of junk, you didn't need it to play Gyromite, which was a good game, and was probably under appreciated because people thought they had to have the robot to play it.)
Apples and oranges...
I'm more than willing to accept your crisisism of my post, but I'm sorry, I'm not a Microsoft basher. I'm actually one of those people that thinks Windows isn't a bad OS, and uses a number of MS programs on a daily basis.
I do think it's a mistake to sell the 360 without a HD. How is little Johnny going to save his game? I'd consider a gaming system without a built in save game solution to be a doorstop, at this point. I could care less about the wireless controller, and I think selling a platform without 2 controllers is a much more (and apparently industry standard) serious issue. And if I recall correctly, NES, SNES and Genesis all shipped with 2 controllers in the basic system.
I'd also consider it a misstep to ship a system without a game. How many million more NES's sold because of the popularity of Super Mario Brothers?
Confusing consumers with multiple hardwares hasn't worked well for other companies in the past. Especially since the $299 360 is basically a doorstop. And if you say want a second controller and a game, you the functional version is gonna cost you $500 easy, on the first day.
Volunteer to sell its violent and sexually explicit games in adult video stores only
If I could buy my porn and my video games in one quick trip, I'd save money on gas and have more time to play Bully when it comes out!
As a fellow ex-Philosophy major, I agree that it has a place in Philosophy classes as an example of a bad or fallacious argument. But I think it has a place in Philosophy of Religion courses, as a legitimate religious belief.
I have almost no interest in playing a Shadowrun FPS, but I'd rather see Shadowrun licensed as a MMO or RPG more than any other license. Maybe if we are lucky they will do something like Neocron, only with much higher production values.
SOE does get two new properties to add to its Station Pass system, but can they handle 2 more properties. SOE's ability to deliver working, high quality product is already stretched very thin. I'd hate to see Sony screw up two more projects because they couldn't apply the resources needed to develop them.
I read several blogs on a daily basis, mostly technical blogs on issues of interest, related to community issues I am directly involved in or relevant to my industry. I think they are great for allowing people with good ideas and insights to causally publish, and are often the genesis for good dialouges.
What do they do if the offending object can't be removed without damaging the functionality of the "organ" in which it's placed? I always presumed that the officer I mentioned got away with it largely due to the fact that any trans-uretral genital piercings, when removed, would be counterproductive to the funtionality of the organ.
So you're basically saying that a person can't both stand out from the pack by being a high performing, profssional type, and at the same time choosing to modify their body?
The military also tends to be pretty lenient regarding anything under the uniform. A piercer in my town has a client, a high ranking Air Force officer who's packing some large gauge serious metal in his johnson, and although his superiors are aware of it, as well as several other large body modifications, he has never had any problems or been disciplined in any way, and he started getting his work in his 40's, after years in service.
I'd rather not be anonymous at thge library. I'd rather have my reading list looked through than participate in a system meant to bypass the current political climate. By participating in an anonymous system, I would feel like I was legitimising the laws and practices that I feel are attacks at my personal liberty. By participating in a anonymous library card program, the situation that I find abhorrent might continue longer than it would under the current system
The premise could be that since they are already suckers for Apple's marketing, they will continue to take it in the ass, even after Apple admits that it has been fucking them in said ass.