oh it runs under wine sure. of course if you want fancy things like " 3d graphics " and " audio support " then you might not be as happy with it.
( please spare me from the 'wtfbbq it works for me stfu n00b rtfm' as it doesnt "just work" and if i have to go manually enter mode lines ever again i will kill myself ) Not to mention i seem to remember something about paying for the version of wine that actually runs it nice (cross over?). I could be wrong about that and im not sure, but that might be why i gave up on it.
"First and most obvious is the fact that links from the article are presented in the sidebar, orphaned from the story text. If your story says "You can find out more about slashdot here [slashdot.org]" then there will be a link "here [slashdot.org]" in the sidebar. This is pretty useless."
Well ive NEVER used a sidebar and just had to look to even see what you were talking about.
as to your second point, i wouldnt write "click here to go to slashdot" , but what commander taco is saying is that if i wrote ' more information can be found here ' and the ' here ' word was linked to slashdot, that would be bad. Since he says that he wants all the links in phrases instead of one word lines, the more correct way to cite it ' more information can be found at slashdot ', would actually be, according to mr. taco wrong.
Think of it like real writing. People do everything possible in books to have such things as numebred footnotes, and *'s next to words, to tell the reader that there is more info, without breaking the reading flow. Thats why i have always liked footnotes. What you and mr taco are advocating can be compared to having the footnotes be inline (like this), which does break the flow of the text. IMHO.
Im sure its just a personal preference, but having written paper before web i can guess that might be why alot of people think what i am saying is more proper and i still hold my objection that stories should _never_ be rejected for something so petty.
digg is completely meaningless accept to people "anonymous" as they may be, posting in every story how digg had some story first, or that digg would do it bettar!!11one. heres a little hint: GOOD SITES DONT NEED TO ANONYMOUSLY PLUG THEMSELVES ALL THE TIME.
This is all i see with digg. As i understand it, digg was made by some guy who constantly drops rumors that google is buying digg or whatever. its sickening. Ive been to that site. Its compeletly different from this one and generally i would also perfer reddit in almost every way. I honestly DONT CARE wether other people liked a link or not before i click it, which seems to be the only difference between slashdot and digg. (besides the overwhelming ego trip that members of digg.com seem to be flying on)
the most amusing thing about digg.com is that these former techTV people are spamming EVERYWHERE trying to advertise and talk about how digg is SOOOO much better than everywhere else. do everyone a favor and shutup. Real sites, like slashdot and reddit, dont have to advertise. they are already cool.
"When you hit a grammatical or spelling error you cause a pipeline stall."
Do i have above average reading comprehension skills or something? I parse typos just fine into the words that they are supposed to be based on the sentance that they are in. A typo or a mispeeling hardly ever throws me for a loop.
I dont get why everyone cares so much about spelling and grammar. It makes NO SENSE. And, IMHO is generally used to discredit someones post, not on the basis of their ideas, but rather on something trivial like they forgot an 'o' on the word 'to'.
GET OVER IT PEOPLE
I went too the store. and I went to the store.
For all intents and purposes, that is the exact same sentance. The rest, semantics and petty complaints by petty minds. I am also of the opinion that if the onyl thing you can complain about in someones post is their spelling, then i take that to mean that you implicitly accept all of thier points, as you only can basically nitpick their arguments.
"Next is proper anchor texting. I fix the hyper text on the vast majority of submissions. People link the word 'Here' or 'Article' or 'CNN' and I find that very frustrating. I want the hypertext to be the most appropriate 2-3 words that tell you exactly what you're clicking on. I think that is absolutely essential. Every URL should matter, and every bit of hypertext should tell you exactly what it is you're going to get when you click that mouse button."
I have submitted quite a few stories that read as follows: ' Joe guy went to the store and webcammed about it! you can access his webcam here ' with here being a link.
I do not see whats wrong with that. If you are reading the whole sentance you can easily see exactly what I mean. That submissions are rejected because of a personal preference seems very shallow. I hate it when multiple words are links actually as it pulls you out of the paragraph you are reading and makes you think about going somewhere else, instead of finishing what you are currently reading.
I find it very disapointing that because of a personal style preference by the editors, submissions are being rejected. Please argue why it is wrong to link just the word 'link'. If the reader is paying attention i see no reason for them to be fouled up by this.
Yes wow is racist. There are many times when people will be ostracised because they are percieved to be a farmer. These people are called names, insulted and eventually ignored by the server populations.
I believe that there is a good reason behind this however.
I have been in plenty of pickup groups where people cant speak english. it is VERY HARD to communicate with people if they dont speak your language. I've seen people pull and whipe whole instance groups because we cannot communicate to them that they should not pull when people arent ready, or that they arent the main tank. This is why people get ostracised most of the time. If you arent doing business with someone because they cant speak the language, thats another story, and i would argue more detrimentally racist.
I dont blame chinese people for inflating the market, as many people i know do. But there have been occasions where i would make water for someone, a few stacks, and they would demand i make them more. like just constantly opening the trade window saying '200' '200'. these people do not take no for an answer and it quite upsets me sometimes.
Bottom line, no matter what your race, if you cant follow orders in a raid chat then you will not be in a party very long.
"Einstein, who had a wardrobe full of identical clothing and saw nothing wrong with smoking cigarette butts collected off the street.
Is that true? Somehow i cant see Einstein doing that. I guess if he was REALLY cheap, but most people that i know who smoke would never pick butts off the ground, even if they were broke. (they'd just bum one but thats not really the point)
Anyways thats the first i ever heard of this. Anyone can confirm this very interesing anecdote?
Well i just decided to google for it and it aparently is true. "Bernhard Caesar Einstein said in the letter written in 1998 that his grandfather collected the cigarette butts to circumvent his doctor's orders to stop smoking, reported the Sunday Telegraph."
well the us has its fair share of religious people, which could destabilize the country if given enough power. They could argue against a seed bank and claim that only NOAH could create such a bank. anything else would be blasphemy!
unfortunately no. they should have kept the william hartnel opening sequence. all black and white with the like plasma or whatever streaks. imagine dropping acid and watching that shit back in the day. must have been craazy
it curdles the blood almost now. imagine how it would have felt to people when they didnt even have electronic music...
kinda looked like this but google doesnt provide a better image.
I think if most people got the money themselves then they would probably provide that information. The issue is that 1) you make no money and some company makes a profit off you 2) you havent the option of consent 3) the company does not even inform you that they have released this information.
the only possible way not to be upset about something like this is if you were of the opinion that other people have the right to profit off of what you create. i consider the data i create mine, not the advertising companies, not the phone companies, mine. i created it, they just archived it for me.
"How exactly is this the loss of a civil liberty? This is a private university, to which the student has entered into a financial arrangement with."
I love this line of reasoning. Its a private institution so be damned with the laws! Isnt it funny that the people that say this sort of thing, will also be the ones who want to privatize EVERYTHING. What happens when your medical insurance wont cover you because you talk bad about them to your friends? water companies? electricity companies? and of course there is always social security. What are you going to do when they stop issuing your social security checks because you spoke out against the amount and violated some EULA type thing you verbally agreed to.
no one ever looks at the social costs of privatization. Always what is discussed is the economic cost, with the standard line of reasoning that the lower cost benefits will spiral down to the consumer. Maybe there is a reason government should be running some essential services like education. maybe that reason has nothing to do with the financial cost.
"On the other hand, had he identified the offending professor, he could be sued for libel/slander by the object of his statements"
thats absolutely insane. if i call someone a motherfucker on a BLOG for christs sake, im expected to be sued and prove that he actually fucks mothers?
i thought slander laws were just for actual factual misrepresentations, such as so an so's business kills babies. obviously if im calling someone a motherfucker, i do not actually think they are going around fucking peoples mothers. That isnt even really an insult since they are getting some which is a positive thing.
if i call someone a stupid fucker am i expected to prove that they have a low IQ and have tonnes of sex?
no ive found its actually two peaks with a valley in the middle. unfortunately i cant draw it here but it kinda looks like a small hill comming up to around 3 drinks, then it starts to drop of (you can drive better with more alcohol) between 4 and 6 drinks. this is why its actually better to be more drunk sometimes than less. if your just a little drunk your all paranoid and hesitate with decisions. if your in the sweet spot, you drive normally unless som,ething really unexpected happens. after like 6 drinks it starts to climb very fast to the "i shouldnt be driving" area and your confidence in the ability to drive goes down. If your a bit drunk, your confidence is also lowered. you really just have to aim for the sweet spot if you must drive drunk.
tax the rich feed the poor till there are no rich no more
also everyone in this discussion (especially mr scented cone, who must have a pretty sweet job to be posting all day) should watch status anxiety and the ownership society. it addresses all these issues and more.
basically the guy argues that the culture americans (and indeed the world now adays) lives in is completly based around accumulation of wealth. That should be pretty obvious to anyone who doesnt have alot of wealth. Then he goes on to say that this culture, which has replaced christianity as the ideology of our times, creates status anxiety. Status is being determined more and more by your $ value. He also illustrates why it wasnt always that way.
you can get it from mininova.org its like 2gigs. you people probably wont like it though as it kinda invalidates your life.
"Perhaps consumers gravitate towards the Honda Accords instead of the Dodge Neons. Both have a steering wheel and four tires, but most people are willing to pay more for the Accord."
I am currently shopping for a car. every single japanese small car that i have looked at has been way too small for me (im tall so picture knees next to the steering wheel). the price you pay for something has NOTHING to do with its worth as a product. I wish apple snobs would realize this. The reason that apple support is better is because they sell you a whole package, OS and hardware together. On the other hand, M$ doesnt support jack all unless you pay big bucks. The reason? diversity of hardware available to windows users.
"Perhaps you care to explain how a survey of 140,000 readers of Consumer Reports rated Apple service higher"
Higher than what? M$? Dell? Cisco? I would be surprised if people calling dell were treated any less well than people calling apple. If they were, they probably added some component or software that made things more difficult for the tech. Both those problems will start happing with apple when they release their OS to x86/64.
for the past 15+ years apple has stood for hardware lockin, while wintel has meant verity and choice. it will be interesting to see what happens in the next few years.
what he is saying is that the fact that fixing a "mac" is considered a "genius" worthy title, when macs are supposed to be the easiest computers to use. He infers and i agree that they must be easy to fix as well and therefor are much less deserving of a "genius" title than say, somewhere that fixes PC's.
"That's like saying people that buy BMW cars compared to a plain old GM or Ford know more about and understand the inner workings of cars, that is why they bought a BWM"
you almost got the point there but your still backwards. People who buy BMW cars have WAYYYY less incentive to learn how to fix their own cars, then people who buy american made cars. Thats pretty obvious. If you have the luxury of money to pay people to fix things for you, youd be more likely to buy a beemer. If your poor (or just dont feel like your penis is small) then you buy a cheap car and do what you can to fix it. The only way to understand something is to fix it IMHO.
"The company turns around and says "oh, we hired someone internally" - translation: there was no job"
having conducted several IT interviews, I can tell you that they were probably just trying to blow you off nicely. Probably they hired the guy that came in right after you and didnt want to hurt your feelings by telling you. Furthermore, if this happens to you as much as you claim (80% of the time) you are either applying for the wrong jobs or your interviewing skillz are bad. If you dont have a job for more than a month, while activly submitting resumes, you arent trying hard enough or aiming low enough. I would rather hire someone that already had a job than someone who was unemployed for 5 months. Even if their other job is delivering pizza's, they still prove that they arent so egotistical and eliteist as to let their job define them.
It can be your fault if you dont have a job you know.
I have dual opterons, a geforce 6800 7 hdds a dvd burner, addin cards etc and my system wont even start with just a 600 watt psu. Or it starts and the voltages are all over the place, and the system is very unstable. I had to get a 450 and cable it to the drives to get power to the machine. And these are antec power supplies too so its not like im using cheap chinese shit. (its expensive chinese shit)
What I dont get right now, is why you cant just use two power supplies like i do. Its bound to be cheaper than a stand alone unit. I had looked for a product like this about 6 months ago and definately would have baught one if the price was right.
The CPU in your machine ALONE uses like 50 watts, so I think that your fancy LCD pannel is lying to you.
your an idiot. First off 2mil net worth is HARDLY anything to be proud of. Maybe you or I dont have that much money, but for a 65+yr old writer who has been an activist since the 60s, thats a very small amount. Especially if you consider the volume of work that he has produced.
Secondly, the whole article seems to live in a fantasy land. There is nothing wrong with making sure you dont have to live on the street, and nothing wrong with gaming the current system to survive. You probably havent invested much in your life so let me educate you a bit here. Generally, when you go to your financial planner and say "i have 20k, please invest for me" you are giving them control on where to put your money. they probably give you a say, but if your like me you dont really care as long as your not losing money. So hes not a financial god. BFD...
Just because you are a genius doesnt mean you dont need money.
the other thing i find objectionable about the linked article mr ac, is the idea that chomsky is a brand. SURE. as much as bob marley is or marcus garvey or ghandi. That has nothing to do with the worth, or non worth of what he says. Some people probably put on a che patch and think they are all badass. Otherpeople read what he wrote and, maybe dont even have a clear idea what the person looked like. It has nothing to do with him, and everything to do with what he says.
Last thing, the following quote "It would not be advisable to download the audio from one of his speeches without paying the fee, warns his record company" is moronic. Everyone who browses this site , AT LEAST, should know that record companies and artist are not one and the same. Infact what he says about property rights (which is also cited in the "article") is spot on what he thinks about it (or else why would he say it?). So given that, im sure he personally wouldnt care if you distributed his IP.
"Typical flaming slashdot. If this guy was linking to software that ignored open licencing he'd be getting hate email. But because he's helping rip off others' work outside the computing industry he's some kind of hero."
This is interesting and since i dont want to be a hypocrite, im going to rationalize this position for you. Closed software is like a magic box. If someone takes some open source code and puts it into a closed source box, its VERY hard to tell that this has been done. Usually, its some little commonality or hint that gets people busted for this. Im sure many more software projects have open source code in them then will ever be found out. This is what copyright was put in place to stop. You passing off someone elses hard work as your own. That said, when a movie is released and distributed on the trackers, no one claims it as their own. They might add some "greets" screens and a tag or two, maybe even a watermark, but in the end, its very obvious that king kong was directed by peter jackson, not joe pirater. So the people who originally worked on it DO get credit. There is no way for the piraters to stop people from IMDB'ing the first lead grips name and finding out who made all that gripping possible.
The issue is credit. In software its much harder to see whoes responsible when all you see is the pretty GUI interface. In movies, its no doubt that the people who worked on the movie get the credit.
The other issue people raise with pirating is the regular folk getting compensated for their work, ( the makeup people the hair people the people who build the sets etc ). This has already happened once the movie has hit the theaters. Its not like the movie studios engage in profit sharing with the guy who gets the snacks everyday, or the workers who clean the studios. They already got paid by the time a movie is released, so i dont think that they are really suffering at all no matter how its distributed
"if you are really intent on pirating other people's property, and it's not about "Sharing", come on"
The best argument for not pirating is "come on" ? that may have worked for the bloods and the crips but you wont get me falling for that so easily. It is 100% about sharing. Its about keeping content and information alive and having it reach the most amount of people possible. In my opinion, its far more important that everyone has free easy access to content then to line the pockets of the very rich. Would you deny the poor college student from watching a movie like Dr Strangelove, that could change their life? What if they didnt have the $9.95 to buy it? They shouldnt be alowd to watch it because some company owns the rights to have it locked in a vault for the rest of time?
Please. This is why all the "something think of teh movie studios!!" crap breaks down. The idea of music/movies/art is to tell a story. Not to make money. FREE Storytelling has been a part of human history since the dawn of man. Just because in the last 150 years people decided that they could make a quick buck off of it doesnt change this fact.
"it's about gettng crap for free, look at Indian Reservations"
Oh your a racist too. Nice. (P.S. you can be racist against your own race. I dont know when you decided jsut because you are native that makes it ok to insult all natives.)
"Wow... not very good at the whole reading comprehension thing, are you?"
Well i guess im not either because the grandparent wrote the following:
I try to open an MS document now it does open using Word except it does ask me to license the product
so in actuality, you ( i assume you are the GP because you posted as an AC and you rabidly defended the GP from a valid complaint ) cannot write proper sentences. That sentence clearly says that it DID ask you to license the product. Who knows if you really meant does NOT instead of does? you do maybe but thats not what you wrote.
When a user installs open office with msword on the same system, very frequently MSword will steal all the file associations back. the parent and I both guessed, based on the literal words you used, that that is what was happening. How was anyone to know you actually meant the exact opposite. magic?
Yeah with AOE you have to do this funny business with a "network install" to get it going. Its not like it doesnt run, but someone (who could it be?) doesnt want people running older versions of their products anymore, so it throws up a dialogue box to stop you.
Im pretty sure all MS games have a network install switch but its still a pain in the ass, and probably just an oversite by them.
its funny because i remember when win2k came out, a bunch of games had a warning box that said "windows 2000 is not a gaming OS" or "only tested on win98 and windows ME". Of course the games all ran finee. You gotta fight em comming AND going these days.
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oh it runs under wine sure. of course if you want fancy things like " 3d graphics " and " audio support " then you might not be as happy with it.
( please spare me from the 'wtfbbq it works for me stfu n00b rtfm' as it doesnt "just work" and if i have to go manually enter mode lines ever again i will kill myself ) Not to mention i seem to remember something about paying for the version of wine that actually runs it nice (cross over?). I could be wrong about that and im not sure, but that might be why i gave up on it.
"First and most obvious is the fact that links from the article are presented in the sidebar, orphaned from the story text. If your story says "You can find out more about slashdot here [slashdot.org]" then there will be a link "here [slashdot.org]" in the sidebar. This is pretty useless."
Well ive NEVER used a sidebar and just had to look to even see what you were talking about.
as to your second point, i wouldnt write "click here to go to slashdot" , but what commander taco is saying is that if i wrote ' more information can be found here ' and the ' here ' word was linked to slashdot, that would be bad. Since he says that he wants all the links in phrases instead of one word lines, the more correct way to cite it ' more information can be found at slashdot ', would actually be, according to mr. taco wrong.
Think of it like real writing. People do everything possible in books to have such things as numebred footnotes, and *'s next to words, to tell the reader that there is more info, without breaking the reading flow. Thats why i have always liked footnotes. What you and mr taco are advocating can be compared to having the footnotes be inline (like this), which does break the flow of the text. IMHO.
Im sure its just a personal preference, but having written paper before web i can guess that might be why alot of people think what i am saying is more proper and i still hold my objection that stories should _never_ be rejected for something so petty.
digg is completely meaningless accept to people "anonymous" as they may be, posting in every story how digg had some story first, or that digg would do it bettar!!11one. heres a little hint: GOOD SITES DONT NEED TO ANONYMOUSLY PLUG THEMSELVES ALL THE TIME.
This is all i see with digg. As i understand it, digg was made by some guy who constantly drops rumors that google is buying digg or whatever. its sickening. Ive been to that site. Its compeletly different from this one and generally i would also perfer reddit in almost every way. I honestly DONT CARE wether other people liked a link or not before i click it, which seems to be the only difference between slashdot and digg. (besides the overwhelming ego trip that members of digg.com seem to be flying on)
the most amusing thing about digg.com is that these former techTV people are spamming EVERYWHERE trying to advertise and talk about how digg is SOOOO much better than everywhere else. do everyone a favor and shutup. Real sites, like slashdot and reddit, dont have to advertise. they are already cool.
"When you hit a grammatical or spelling error you cause a pipeline stall."
Do i have above average reading comprehension skills or something? I parse typos just fine into the words that they are supposed to be based on the sentance that they are in. A typo or a mispeeling hardly ever throws me for a loop.
I dont get why everyone cares so much about spelling and grammar. It makes NO SENSE. And, IMHO is generally used to discredit someones post, not on the basis of their ideas, but rather on something trivial like they forgot an 'o' on the word 'to'.
GET OVER IT PEOPLE
I went too the store.
and
I went to the store.
For all intents and purposes, that is the exact same sentance. The rest, semantics and petty complaints by petty minds. I am also of the opinion that if the onyl thing you can complain about in someones post is their spelling, then i take that to mean that you implicitly accept all of thier points, as you only can basically nitpick their arguments.
"Next is proper anchor texting. I fix the hyper text on the vast majority of submissions. People link the word 'Here' or 'Article' or 'CNN' and I find that very frustrating. I want the hypertext to be the most appropriate 2-3 words that tell you exactly what you're clicking on. I think that is absolutely essential. Every URL should matter, and every bit of hypertext should tell you exactly what it is you're going to get when you click that mouse button."
I have submitted quite a few stories that read as follows: ' Joe guy went to the store and webcammed about it! you can access his webcam here ' with here being a link.
I do not see whats wrong with that. If you are reading the whole sentance you can easily see exactly what I mean. That submissions are rejected because of a personal preference seems very shallow. I hate it when multiple words are links actually as it pulls you out of the paragraph you are reading and makes you think about going somewhere else, instead of finishing what you are currently reading.
I find it very disapointing that because of a personal style preference by the editors, submissions are being rejected. Please argue why it is wrong to link just the word 'link'. If the reader is paying attention i see no reason for them to be fouled up by this.
Yes wow is racist. There are many times when people will be ostracised because they are percieved to be a farmer. These people are called names, insulted and eventually ignored by the server populations.
I believe that there is a good reason behind this however.
I have been in plenty of pickup groups where people cant speak english. it is VERY HARD to communicate with people if they dont speak your language. I've seen people pull and whipe whole instance groups because we cannot communicate to them that they should not pull when people arent ready, or that they arent the main tank. This is why people get ostracised most of the time. If you arent doing business with someone because they cant speak the language, thats another story, and i would argue more detrimentally racist.
I dont blame chinese people for inflating the market, as many people i know do. But there have been occasions where i would make water for someone, a few stacks, and they would demand i make them more. like just constantly opening the trade window saying '200' '200'. these people do not take no for an answer and it quite upsets me sometimes.
Bottom line, no matter what your race, if you cant follow orders in a raid chat then you will not be in a party very long.
"Einstein, who had a wardrobe full of identical clothing and saw nothing wrong with smoking cigarette butts collected off the street.
Is that true? Somehow i cant see Einstein doing that. I guess if he was REALLY cheap, but most people that i know who smoke would never pick butts off the ground, even if they were broke. (they'd just bum one but thats not really the point)
Anyways thats the first i ever heard of this. Anyone can confirm this very interesing anecdote?
Well i just decided to google for it and it aparently is true.
"Bernhard Caesar Einstein said in the letter written in 1998 that his grandfather collected the cigarette butts to circumvent his doctor's orders to stop smoking, reported the Sunday Telegraph."
and thats the end of that mystery.*dusts hands*
well the us has its fair share of religious people, which could destabilize the country if given enough power. They could argue against a seed bank and claim that only NOAH could create such a bank. anything else would be blasphemy!
or something...
unfortunately no. they should have kept the william hartnel opening sequence. all black and white with the like plasma or whatever streaks. imagine dropping acid and watching that shit back in the day. must have been craazy
it curdles the blood almost now. imagine how it would have felt to people when they didnt even have electronic music...
kinda looked like this but google doesnt provide a better image.
I think if most people got the money themselves then they would probably provide that information. The issue is that 1) you make no money and some company makes a profit off you 2) you havent the option of consent 3) the company does not even inform you that they have released this information.
the only possible way not to be upset about something like this is if you were of the opinion that other people have the right to profit off of what you create. i consider the data i create mine, not the advertising companies, not the phone companies, mine. i created it, they just archived it for me.
"How exactly is this the loss of a civil liberty? This is a private university, to which the student has entered into a financial arrangement with."
I love this line of reasoning. Its a private institution so be damned with the laws! Isnt it funny that the people that say this sort of thing, will also be the ones who want to privatize EVERYTHING. What happens when your medical insurance wont cover you because you talk bad about them to your friends? water companies? electricity companies? and of course there is always social security. What are you going to do when they stop issuing your social security checks because you spoke out against the amount and violated some EULA type thing you verbally agreed to.
no one ever looks at the social costs of privatization. Always what is discussed is the economic cost, with the standard line of reasoning that the lower cost benefits will spiral down to the consumer. Maybe there is a reason government should be running some essential services like education. maybe that reason has nothing to do with the financial cost.
"On the other hand, had he identified the offending professor, he could be sued for libel/slander by the object of his statements"
thats absolutely insane. if i call someone a motherfucker on a BLOG for christs sake, im expected to be sued and prove that he actually fucks mothers?
i thought slander laws were just for actual factual misrepresentations, such as so an so's business kills babies. obviously if im calling someone a motherfucker, i do not actually think they are going around fucking peoples mothers. That isnt even really an insult since they are getting some which is a positive thing.
if i call someone a stupid fucker am i expected to prove that they have a low IQ and have tonnes of sex?
no ive found its actually two peaks with a valley in the middle. unfortunately i cant draw it here but it kinda looks like a small hill comming up to around 3 drinks, then it starts to drop of (you can drive better with more alcohol) between 4 and 6 drinks. this is why its actually better to be more drunk sometimes than less. if your just a little drunk your all paranoid and hesitate with decisions. if your in the sweet spot, you drive normally unless som,ething really unexpected happens. after like 6 drinks it starts to climb very fast to the "i shouldnt be driving" area and your confidence in the ability to drive goes down. If your a bit drunk, your confidence is also lowered. you really just have to aim for the sweet spot if you must drive drunk.
of corse YMMV
"There is no "solution to poverty." "
tax the rich
feed the poor
till there are
no rich no more
also everyone in this discussion (especially mr scented cone, who must have a pretty sweet job to be posting all day) should watch status anxiety and the ownership society. it addresses all these issues and more.
basically the guy argues that the culture americans (and indeed the world now adays) lives in is completly based around accumulation of wealth. That should be pretty obvious to anyone who doesnt have alot of wealth. Then he goes on to say that this culture, which has replaced christianity as the ideology of our times, creates status anxiety. Status is being determined more and more by your $ value. He also illustrates why it wasnt always that way.
you can get it from mininova.org its like 2gigs. you people probably wont like it though as it kinda invalidates your life.
Record companies are completely meaningless in a digital world.
Dissemination of culture will bring us closer to enlightenment.
"Perhaps consumers gravitate towards the Honda Accords instead of the Dodge Neons. Both have a steering wheel and four tires, but most people are willing to pay more for the Accord."
I am currently shopping for a car. every single japanese small car that i have looked at has been way too small for me (im tall so picture knees next to the steering wheel). the price you pay for something has NOTHING to do with its worth as a product. I wish apple snobs would realize this. The reason that apple support is better is because they sell you a whole package, OS and hardware together. On the other hand, M$ doesnt support jack all unless you pay big bucks. The reason? diversity of hardware available to windows users.
"Perhaps you care to explain how a survey of 140,000 readers of Consumer Reports rated Apple service higher"
Higher than what? M$? Dell? Cisco? I would be surprised if people calling dell were treated any less well than people calling apple. If they were, they probably added some component or software that made things more difficult for the tech. Both those problems will start happing with apple when they release their OS to x86/64.
for the past 15+ years apple has stood for hardware lockin, while wintel has meant verity and choice. it will be interesting to see what happens in the next few years.
oh my backwards.
what he is saying is that the fact that fixing a "mac" is considered a "genius" worthy title, when macs are supposed to be the easiest computers to use. He infers and i agree that they must be easy to fix as well and therefor are much less deserving of a "genius" title than say, somewhere that fixes PC's.
"That's like saying people that buy BMW cars compared to a plain old GM or Ford know more about and understand the inner workings of cars, that is why they bought a BWM"
you almost got the point there but your still backwards. People who buy BMW cars have WAYYYY less incentive to learn how to fix their own cars, then people who buy american made cars. Thats pretty obvious. If you have the luxury of money to pay people to fix things for you, youd be more likely to buy a beemer. If your poor (or just dont feel like your penis is small) then you buy a cheap car and do what you can to fix it. The only way to understand something is to fix it IMHO.
"The company turns around and says "oh, we hired someone internally" - translation: there was no job"
having conducted several IT interviews, I can tell you that they were probably just trying to blow you off nicely. Probably they hired the guy that came in right after you and didnt want to hurt your feelings by telling you. Furthermore, if this happens to you as much as you claim (80% of the time) you are either applying for the wrong jobs or your interviewing skillz are bad. If you dont have a job for more than a month, while activly submitting resumes, you arent trying hard enough or aiming low enough. I would rather hire someone that already had a job than someone who was unemployed for 5 months. Even if their other job is delivering pizza's, they still prove that they arent so egotistical and eliteist as to let their job define them.
It can be your fault if you dont have a job you know.
theres NO WAY your system only uses 55 watts.
I have dual opterons, a geforce 6800 7 hdds a dvd burner, addin cards etc and my system wont even start with just a 600 watt psu. Or it starts and the voltages are all over the place, and the system is very unstable. I had to get a 450 and cable it to the drives to get power to the machine. And these are antec power supplies too so its not like im using cheap chinese shit. (its expensive chinese shit)
What I dont get right now, is why you cant just use two power supplies like i do. Its bound to be cheaper than a stand alone unit. I had looked for a product like this about 6 months ago and definately would have baught one if the price was right.
The CPU in your machine ALONE uses like 50 watts, so I think that your fancy LCD pannel is lying to you.
your an idiot. First off 2mil net worth is HARDLY anything to be proud of. Maybe you or I dont have that much money, but for a 65+yr old writer who has been an activist since the 60s, thats a very small amount. Especially if you consider the volume of work that he has produced.
Secondly, the whole article seems to live in a fantasy land. There is nothing wrong with making sure you dont have to live on the street, and nothing wrong with gaming the current system to survive. You probably havent invested much in your life so let me educate you a bit here. Generally, when you go to your financial planner and say "i have 20k, please invest for me" you are giving them control on where to put your money. they probably give you a say, but if your like me you dont really care as long as your not losing money. So hes not a financial god. BFD...
Just because you are a genius doesnt mean you dont need money.
the other thing i find objectionable about the linked article mr ac, is the idea that chomsky is a brand. SURE. as much as bob marley is or marcus garvey or ghandi. That has nothing to do with the worth, or non worth of what he says. Some people probably put on a che patch and think they are all badass. Otherpeople read what he wrote and, maybe dont even have a clear idea what the person looked like. It has nothing to do with him, and everything to do with what he says.
Last thing, the following quote "It would not be advisable to download the audio from one of his speeches without paying the fee, warns his record company" is moronic. Everyone who browses this site , AT LEAST, should know that record companies and artist are not one and the same. Infact what he says about property rights (which is also cited in the "article") is spot on what he thinks about it (or else why would he say it?). So given that, im sure he personally wouldnt care if you distributed his IP.
"Typical flaming slashdot. If this guy was linking to software that ignored open licencing he'd be getting hate email. But because he's helping rip off others' work outside the computing industry he's some kind of hero."
This is interesting and since i dont want to be a hypocrite, im going to rationalize this position for you. Closed software is like a magic box. If someone takes some open source code and puts it into a closed source box, its VERY hard to tell that this has been done. Usually, its some little commonality or hint that gets people busted for this. Im sure many more software projects have open source code in them then will ever be found out. This is what copyright was put in place to stop. You passing off someone elses hard work as your own. That said, when a movie is released and distributed on the trackers, no one claims it as their own. They might add some "greets" screens and a tag or two, maybe even a watermark, but in the end, its very obvious that king kong was directed by peter jackson, not joe pirater. So the people who originally worked on it DO get credit. There is no way for the piraters to stop people from IMDB'ing the first lead grips name and finding out who made all that gripping possible.
The issue is credit. In software its much harder to see whoes responsible when all you see is the pretty GUI interface. In movies, its no doubt that the people who worked on the movie get the credit.
The other issue people raise with pirating is the regular folk getting compensated for their work, ( the makeup people the hair people the people who build the sets etc ). This has already happened once the movie has hit the theaters. Its not like the movie studios engage in profit sharing with the guy who gets the snacks everyday, or the workers who clean the studios. They already got paid by the time a movie is released, so i dont think that they are really suffering at all no matter how its distributed
"if you are really intent on pirating other people's property, and it's not about "Sharing", come on"
The best argument for not pirating is "come on" ? that may have worked for the bloods and the crips but you wont get me falling for that so easily. It is 100% about sharing. Its about keeping content and information alive and having it reach the most amount of people possible. In my opinion, its far more important that everyone has free easy access to content then to line the pockets of the very rich. Would you deny the poor college student from watching a movie like Dr Strangelove, that could change their life? What if they didnt have the $9.95 to buy it? They shouldnt be alowd to watch it because some company owns the rights to have it locked in a vault for the rest of time?
Please. This is why all the "something think of teh movie studios!!" crap breaks down. The idea of music/movies/art is to tell a story. Not to make money. FREE Storytelling has been a part of human history since the dawn of man. Just because in the last 150 years people decided that they could make a quick buck off of it doesnt change this fact.
"it's about gettng crap for free, look at Indian Reservations"
Oh your a racist too. Nice. (P.S. you can be racist against your own race. I dont know when you decided jsut because you are native that makes it ok to insult all natives.)
Well i guess im not either because the grandparent wrote the following:
so in actuality, you ( i assume you are the GP because you posted as an AC and you rabidly defended the GP from a valid complaint ) cannot write proper sentences. That sentence clearly says that it DID ask you to license the product. Who knows if you really meant does NOT instead of does? you do maybe but thats not what you wrote.
When a user installs open office with msword on the same system, very frequently MSword will steal all the file associations back. the parent and I both guessed, based on the literal words you used, that that is what was happening. How was anyone to know you actually meant the exact opposite. magic?
Yeah with AOE you have to do this funny business with a "network install" to get it going. Its not like it doesnt run, but someone (who could it be?) doesnt want people running older versions of their products anymore, so it throws up a dialogue box to stop you.
Im pretty sure all MS games have a network install switch but its still a pain in the ass, and probably just an oversite by them.
its funny because i remember when win2k came out, a bunch of games had a warning box that said "windows 2000 is not a gaming OS" or "only tested on win98 and windows ME". Of course the games all ran finee. You gotta fight em comming AND going these days.
"Who would staff a platform at an altitude of 30 miles?"
Me.
"How much would you pay them, given the hazardous nature of the work?"
$200 000/yr.
"How would you get them up and down?"
Jetpacks.
Any more questions mr smarty pants?