I have Logitech MX700 mouse right now, and the added weight from the batteries makes it about the same weight as my old ball mouse.
I used to have a corded optical mouse that weighed very little, to the point where reaching for the keyboard in the wrong way would jerk it off the desk. I went so far as to open it up and glue lead fishing weights on the inside of it to make it heavier.
"Normal people don't get up in the morning and wonder how they can steal or trick someone."
As a person who has been stolen 4 times in one week, I can feel for this guy.
I'm glad you're not *my* history teacher. Though I do think kids need to read more, what *is* the point of teaching something that does not have a practical application in life? By definition, there isn't one.
In your point about how nobody understands why history matters, I noticed that you did not say why it does. I guess I'm one of those kids who "doesn't understand why history matters". Please enlighten me as to why learning about something that we cannot change and that already happened will benefit us, other than saying that it will "make us more learned", because while it's nice to know stuff, there's no point in using taxpayer money to teach something that will not benefit society as a whole.
I happen to be a history buff in general, and it's probably my favorite subject, but honest to god, there isn't a point in it, and I don't think we should require it if a student isn't interested in it.
I do agree with you that we need to stop catering to kid's self-esteem. I'm currently in a very namby-pamby high school where everyone is like this, and it drives me nuts. Teaching kids valuable lessons and the virtues of hard work gives them self-esteem - telling them how wonderful they are does not.
I disagree with your comment about getting computers out of schools completely - computers are an important part of many jobs these days, and to not familiarize our children with them is to leave them unprepared for work.
Also, your point about not letting Juniors and Seniors leave at lunch is just so incredibly idiotic that it made me crush the peach in my hand. Why bother keeping children in the school if they don't even have a class at the time? Imagine how silly it would sound if universities made their students stay, even if they didn't have a class? My school doesn't let us leave for lunch, and it's made *me* scream because THERE IS NO FUCKING POINT IN MAKING STUDENTS PRISONERS DURING THE LUNCH PERIOD. I don't know what it is about K-12 education that makes teachers and administrators such complete control freaks, but whatever it is, it's sure gotten to you. Worst of all, the teachers in my school *are* allowed to leave during the lunch break. What message does *that* send to kids? To me, it sends one of "Better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven", meaning that those who couldn't get into real fields of work have decided to major in education.
We should give children as many privileges and rights as we can without it getting out of control. For example, letting kids do what they want when they have no other responsibilities (i.e. when they have lunch hour or a free period) is harmless.
Thank you, apples to oranges comparison.
DVD Video is a huge, mainstream thing, while DVD Audio is a tiny, stupid thing.
Crackers are bound to spend more time working on getting a movie than content which is already available on non-copy-protected discs (CDs).
I agree. People kept expecting Doom 3 to be a run-and-gun game that they didn't take time to absorb the scary atmosphere about it. It's more like "Alien" than "Aliens" or "Alien 3", and people just didn't know.
Luckily, I knew and I liked the game.
He was tried as a MINOR?
Christ, even 15-year-olds aren't tried as minors in Texas.
Don't these crazy krauts know that you're supposed to hold the suspect until they're 18, then try them as an adult?
Oh yeah, I'm hindered all the time by my modifications.
A while back I realized I couldn't compete with a lot of the other job applicants, so I decided to up my FSB a little and increase my Volt Core. Then I just smeared some Artic Silver on my head, put on a heatsink, and started working harder and faster than everyone else!
My boss said that although the mod was effective, I just didn't fit in anymore. So now I run cables for LAN parties, and fit right in.
Doesn't sound too bad - a single ID card for federal employees would be very handy - you just need one key to get into everything you have access to, instead of fumbling around with multiple keys and passcards.
Until the gov't starts implanting RFID tags in our skulls to track our every move, I don't really see the danger.
Doom's Story: There's some human colony on Mars. Or something. There *are humans*, we do know that...
Oh yeah, and hell opened up or something inside the base. It doesn't really *tell* you before you play, or even while you're playing. You're just shooting stuff the whole time.
Also, Marathon and Doom play in a very similar way, with the 2.5D graphics and sprite-animation. In doom, both you and monsters move faster than in Marathon, though.
Marathon has a much deeper story than Doom. Marathon has pages and pages of terminal instructions from the AIs, and your missions vary from rescue to sabotage to fixing radio transmitters. You even watch as one AI goes insane and commands you!
In Doom, there are no plot changes or even really a plot at all. You just blast aliens that come out of some portal or whatever.
Well, I don't have one of the touch-sensor iPods - I have a 5Gb first gen one that has all moving parts. So mine can really be operated inside a coat pocket, and I can see why you'd want that being a user of it myself.
To be a certified iPod-killer, a new product must undergo rigorous tests and examinations. Specifically, it must meet these criteria:
1. Must be ugly as sin.
2. Must be a rectangular prism.
3. Must have a square display of the exact same size as the iPod.
4. Must incorporate a stupid button/barrel system instead a scroll wheel.
5. Must lie about battery life, giving figures that are for 48 k/sec files.
6. Must have an FM tuner, since people buy Mp3 players to listen to the radio, not their music files.
I'm happy to say that this candidate meets most of these criteria easily (though it's not quite ugly enough), in addition to adding some of its own:
-Useless color screen
-Voice recording (since it's the same shape as a tape recorder)
I think the problem is that they threw all their budget away on that damnable ISS (which if it were unmanned, would cost waaaay less), leaving no funding for real projects.
I mean, what's the point of throwing people up in space station compared to what you can get with an orbital telescope? The price of reparing this has got to be a tiny slice of what the ISS gets every year.
Great. First the Hubble, and now this. The ISS drains billions of dollars from NASA, leaving them little time to do real, affordable R&D into space. But look! We have people in space!!1
I don't care what happens as long as I can get my webcast fix of keynotes at Macworld and the WWDC.
Anyway, doesn't admission to these kinds of things cost ~$1500? I can see why, at this price, no one would want to go...
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That is all.
I'd like to say to the programmer that Lugaru is awesome. Kung-Fu rabbits. Keep up the good work.
I did the same thing!
I have Logitech MX700 mouse right now, and the added weight from the batteries makes it about the same weight as my old ball mouse.
I used to have a corded optical mouse that weighed very little, to the point where reaching for the keyboard in the wrong way would jerk it off the desk. I went so far as to open it up and glue lead fishing weights on the inside of it to make it heavier.
"Normal people don't get up in the morning and wonder how they can steal or trick someone." As a person who has been stolen 4 times in one week, I can feel for this guy.
I'm glad you're not *my* history teacher. Though I do think kids need to read more, what *is* the point of teaching something that does not have a practical application in life? By definition, there isn't one.
In your point about how nobody understands why history matters, I noticed that you did not say why it does. I guess I'm one of those kids who "doesn't understand why history matters". Please enlighten me as to why learning about something that we cannot change and that already happened will benefit us, other than saying that it will "make us more learned", because while it's nice to know stuff, there's no point in using taxpayer money to teach something that will not benefit society as a whole.
I happen to be a history buff in general, and it's probably my favorite subject, but honest to god, there isn't a point in it, and I don't think we should require it if a student isn't interested in it.
I do agree with you that we need to stop catering to kid's self-esteem. I'm currently in a very namby-pamby high school where everyone is like this, and it drives me nuts. Teaching kids valuable lessons and the virtues of hard work gives them self-esteem - telling them how wonderful they are does not.
I disagree with your comment about getting computers out of schools completely - computers are an important part of many jobs these days, and to not familiarize our children with them is to leave them unprepared for work.
Also, your point about not letting Juniors and Seniors leave at lunch is just so incredibly idiotic that it made me crush the peach in my hand. Why bother keeping children in the school if they don't even have a class at the time? Imagine how silly it would sound if universities made their students stay, even if they didn't have a class? My school doesn't let us leave for lunch, and it's made *me* scream because THERE IS NO FUCKING POINT IN MAKING STUDENTS PRISONERS DURING THE LUNCH PERIOD. I don't know what it is about K-12 education that makes teachers and administrators such complete control freaks, but whatever it is, it's sure gotten to you. Worst of all, the teachers in my school *are* allowed to leave during the lunch break. What message does *that* send to kids? To me, it sends one of "Better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven", meaning that those who couldn't get into real fields of work have decided to major in education.
We should give children as many privileges and rights as we can without it getting out of control. For example, letting kids do what they want when they have no other responsibilities (i.e. when they have lunch hour or a free period) is harmless.
Thank you, apples to oranges comparison. DVD Video is a huge, mainstream thing, while DVD Audio is a tiny, stupid thing. Crackers are bound to spend more time working on getting a movie than content which is already available on non-copy-protected discs (CDs).
I agree. People kept expecting Doom 3 to be a run-and-gun game that they didn't take time to absorb the scary atmosphere about it. It's more like "Alien" than "Aliens" or "Alien 3", and people just didn't know. Luckily, I knew and I liked the game.
He was tried as a MINOR? Christ, even 15-year-olds aren't tried as minors in Texas. Don't these crazy krauts know that you're supposed to hold the suspect until they're 18, then try them as an adult?
It gets even worse - if the child pr0n you have is COPYRIGHTED...
Analog Rights Management = ARM
ARM is a type of processor.
Omg conspiracy!
Apparently you, sir, have not heard of Microsoft.
Oh yeah, I'm hindered all the time by my modifications.
A while back I realized I couldn't compete with a lot of the other job applicants, so I decided to up my FSB a little and increase my Volt Core. Then I just smeared some Artic Silver on my head, put on a heatsink, and started working harder and faster than everyone else!
My boss said that although the mod was effective, I just didn't fit in anymore. So now I run cables for LAN parties, and fit right in.
He's got 70 fans. Power consumption and noise are least of his problems. I'd be much more concerned about his level of sanity.
Hear, hear! I plan to stick with AMD for my x86 needs now.
early post!!!1
Doesn't sound too bad - a single ID card for federal employees would be very handy - you just need one key to get into everything you have access to, instead of fumbling around with multiple keys and passcards.
Until the gov't starts implanting RFID tags in our skulls to track our every move, I don't really see the danger.
You're an idiot.
Doom's Story: There's some human colony on Mars. Or something. There *are humans*, we do know that...
Oh yeah, and hell opened up or something inside the base. It doesn't really *tell* you before you play, or even while you're playing. You're just shooting stuff the whole time.
Also, Marathon and Doom play in a very similar way, with the 2.5D graphics and sprite-animation. In doom, both you and monsters move faster than in Marathon, though.
Marathon has a much deeper story than Doom. Marathon has pages and pages of terminal instructions from the AIs, and your missions vary from rescue to sabotage to fixing radio transmitters. You even watch as one AI goes insane and commands you!
In Doom, there are no plot changes or even really a plot at all. You just blast aliens that come out of some portal or whatever.
Well, I don't have one of the touch-sensor iPods - I have a 5Gb first gen one that has all moving parts. So mine can really be operated inside a coat pocket, and I can see why you'd want that being a user of it myself.
To be a certified iPod-killer, a new product must undergo rigorous tests and examinations. Specifically, it must meet these criteria: 1. Must be ugly as sin. 2. Must be a rectangular prism. 3. Must have a square display of the exact same size as the iPod. 4. Must incorporate a stupid button/barrel system instead a scroll wheel. 5. Must lie about battery life, giving figures that are for 48 k/sec files. 6. Must have an FM tuner, since people buy Mp3 players to listen to the radio, not their music files. I'm happy to say that this candidate meets most of these criteria easily (though it's not quite ugly enough), in addition to adding some of its own: -Useless color screen -Voice recording (since it's the same shape as a tape recorder)
Now I can't wear my Al-Qaeda baseball cap.
...that make me sad that I use a wireless card to connect to my LAN.
iBook G4's have a very long battery life. I have one, and it lasts a lot longer than any PC laptop I've encountered.
I think the problem is that they threw all their budget away on that damnable ISS (which if it were unmanned, would cost waaaay less), leaving no funding for real projects.
I mean, what's the point of throwing people up in space station compared to what you can get with an orbital telescope? The price of reparing this has got to be a tiny slice of what the ISS gets every year.
Great. First the Hubble, and now this. The ISS drains billions of dollars from NASA, leaving them little time to do real, affordable R&D into space. But look! We have people in space!!1
I don't care what happens as long as I can get my webcast fix of keynotes at Macworld and the WWDC. Anyway, doesn't admission to these kinds of things cost ~$1500? I can see why, at this price, no one would want to go...