Probably aren't any King Missile fans here, but they made the song "Detachable Penis".
"It's Saturday"
I want to be different, like everybody else I want to be like. I want to be just like all of the different people.
I have no further interest in being the same, because I have seen difference all around, and now I know that that's what I want.
I don't want to blend in and be indistinguishable. I want to be a part of the different crowd, and assert my individuality along with others who are different like me.
I don't want to be identical to anyone or anything. I don't even want to be identical to myself.
I want to look in the mirror and wonder, "Who is that person? I've never seen that person before. I've never seen anyone like that before."
I want to call into question the very idea that identity can be attached.
I want a floating, shifting, ever changing persona. Invisibility and obscurity, detachment from the ego and all of it's pursuits.
Unity is useless, conformity is competitive and divisive and leads only to stagnation and death.
If what I'm saying doesn't make any sense, that's because sense can not be made It's something that must be sensed And I, for one, am incensed by all this complacency.
Why oppose war only when there's a war? Why defend the clinics only when they're attacked? Why support the squats in the parks only when the police come to close them down? Why are we always reactive? Let's activate something. Let's fuck shit up. Whatever happened to revolution for the hell of it? Whatever happened to protesting nothing in particular? Just protesting, cause it's Saturday and there's nothing else to do.
You paid a large sum for the 360, voided your warranty only hoping it's going to help but being sure that if it dies, you are out on 300 bucks or more?
"Large sum" is relative. I could probably put the sticker back on, too, if the thing actually dies. It won't.:)
Can anyone tell me what exactly makes these games for the 360 so extremely appealing? Are they as addictive as it seems, on par with the most addictive MMORPGs? Is it worse than weed or what?
Games for the 360 are pretty much the same games that come out for PCs... except more convenient to play (no configuration, drivers, rebooting). I dick around with software for a living - when I get home I just want to relax.
Who will flip burgers and pump gas then? Who will do the work I don't want to do? Who will be poor so that my family can live comfortably? If only the wealthy reproduce, then there won't be enough wealth to go around.
I took mine apart, used Dynamat to dampen the inside, changed the exhaust fans to a quieter model, and re-thermal-pasted all the heatsinks. Oh and modded the drive's firmware.
So not only am I not getting suckered into buying several hundred dollars worth of games, but I also took preventative steps to avoid overheating while simultaneously quieting the sucker. And all I had to do was void the warranty! Win!!!
Ya, I bought mine when live.com offered 25% cash back on 'buy it now' ebay purchases. Win!
BTW - The PS2 card reader for PS3 doesn't work on 16MB cards. You need to transfer saved games to an 8MB card on a PS2, if you intend on using old saves.
Find a used CECHA01 (that's the serial number that has hardware backward compatibility).
Yes, I now own two PS3's. The CECHA01 runs a little hotter and slightly noisier, but I mostly fixed that by changing the thermal paste on it - heck, the warranty was void anyway.
What pressure does homo sapiens to evolve, given that our technological abilities largely shield us from the pressures of our environment?
RTFA! The earth will get hotter, water will become depleted, and all of a sudden we'll turn into CAMELOIDS or REPTILOIDS or maybe we'll just fly around drinkin' water. For fuck sake, use your imagination!
Weird. The emails I usually regret are the ones that I didn't realize are offensive/antagonizing. Apparently, it pisses people off more if you say something they don't like in a cool tone.
You do realize that there is no drop-in replacement for cable, don't you? I'd hardly liken paying for a regionally monopolized service to paying for a website.
Even if they do get a subset of people to pay... they aren't going to be the young generation that has already lived with free content.
I'm sure that some subscription models work better than others, and can even sustain a website for an amount of time, but the barrier of entry into the website market is incredibly low, and there's always someone who wants the attention enough to make their content free.
The way I see it is that they might retain some of their viewership, and even stay afloat, but it will certainly not grow unless they come up with a 'killer feature'.
Now hes CHARGING us for his bullshit propaganda? Jeeeeeeeeez.......
Am I the only one that thinks this is a good thing? The grumpy generation of naysayers will die out with a loud, painful scream as they refuse to cooperate, even on the basic level, with the new information generation.
I have Charter, and they do the same thing . I just use 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2 as my primary DNS servers. Although, I can't really speak to their IPv6 capability.
I'm stuck in the conundrum of absolutely hating surveillance with a vengeance, and thinking what the hell is anybody meant to do with people who act like that?
Give them guns and free birth control, let them live in their own isolated areas that the middle and upper class are afraid to venture into, and just watch from a distance, hoping they never find the bus line out to your suburb.
I probably shouldn't say things like this, because they'll come back to bite me when I run for political office some day.
You mean C++ being a clusterfuck of ugly syntax isn't a reason for using C?
I learned C++ first. I thought the 'limitations' of C were silly and archaic. Then I grew up and realized that having straight-forward, easy-to-maintain code is much more important./feeding the troll
This is precisely why I prefer to use 100% C code when I have to write native binaries. C++ is a convoluted mess.
It seems like they were very haphazard at first, with OO being new and compiler optimization being slim. We have to kill off the old C++ and come up with a new natively compiled language. Or not. This web thing seems to be doing pretty well, as do Java and C#.
Vala has some promise, but I'm not entirely convinced yet.
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Probably aren't any King Missile fans here, but they made the song "Detachable Penis".
"It's Saturday"
I want to be different, like everybody else I want to be like.
I want to be just like all of the different people.
I have no further interest in being the same,
because I have seen difference all around,
and now I know that that's what I want.
I don't want to blend in and be indistinguishable.
I want to be a part of the different crowd,
and assert my individuality along with others
who are different like me.
I don't want to be identical to anyone or anything.
I don't even want to be identical to myself.
I want to look in the mirror and wonder,
"Who is that person? I've never seen that person before.
I've never seen anyone like that before."
I want to call into question the very idea that
identity can be attached.
I want a floating, shifting, ever changing persona.
Invisibility and obscurity,
detachment from the ego and all of it's pursuits.
Unity is useless, conformity is competitive and divisive and leads only to stagnation and death.
If what I'm saying doesn't make any sense,
that's because sense can not be made
It's something that must be sensed
And I, for one, am incensed by all this complacency.
Why oppose war only when there's a war?
Why defend the clinics only when they're attacked?
Why support the squats in the parks only when the police come to close them down?
Why are we always reactive?
Let's activate something.
Let's fuck shit up.
Whatever happened to revolution for the hell of it?
Whatever happened to protesting nothing in particular?
Just protesting, cause it's Saturday and there's nothing else to do.
If you're doing anything serious with a line-in jack, you're probably using the wrong tools anyway.
I'd get a professional audio soundcard or, more likely, an external USB or Firewire unit from some company like M-Audio.
You paid a large sum for the 360, voided your warranty only hoping it's going to help but being sure that if it dies, you are out on 300 bucks or more?
"Large sum" is relative. I could probably put the sticker back on, too, if the thing actually dies. It won't. :)
Can anyone tell me what exactly makes these games for the 360 so extremely appealing? Are they as addictive as it seems, on par with the most addictive MMORPGs? Is it worse than weed or what?
Games for the 360 are pretty much the same games that come out for PCs... except more convenient to play (no configuration, drivers, rebooting). I dick around with software for a living - when I get home I just want to relax.
Who will flip burgers and pump gas then? Who will do the work I don't want to do? Who will be poor so that my family can live comfortably? If only the wealthy reproduce, then there won't be enough wealth to go around.
I took mine apart, used Dynamat to dampen the inside, changed the exhaust fans to a quieter model, and re-thermal-pasted all the heatsinks. Oh and modded the drive's firmware.
So not only am I not getting suckered into buying several hundred dollars worth of games, but I also took preventative steps to avoid overheating while simultaneously quieting the sucker. And all I had to do was void the warranty! Win!!!
Ya, I bought mine when live.com offered 25% cash back on 'buy it now' ebay purchases. Win!
BTW - The PS2 card reader for PS3 doesn't work on 16MB cards. You need to transfer saved games to an 8MB card on a PS2, if you intend on using old saves.
Find a used CECHA01 (that's the serial number that has hardware backward compatibility).
Yes, I now own two PS3's. The CECHA01 runs a little hotter and slightly noisier, but I mostly fixed that by changing the thermal paste on it - heck, the warranty was void anyway.
ZOMG NERD ALERT!!
I thought the same thing (posting to remove accidental mod).
My medical record is under my control despite being in others' databases, but I suppose that's a specially legislated 'virtual property' right.
All of the roads and bridges aren't going to be replaced at once, and especially not any bridges that rely on concrete for structural integrity.
Not to mention, every time a material like this comes out, it's prohibitively expensive, so probably only eccentric European cities will even try it.
I wouldn't worry too much about it... nobody's going to take away your concrete just yet.
What pressure does homo sapiens to evolve, given that our technological abilities largely shield us from the pressures of our environment?
RTFA! The earth will get hotter, water will become depleted, and all of a sudden we'll turn into CAMELOIDS or REPTILOIDS or maybe we'll just fly around drinkin' water. For fuck sake, use your imagination!
Weird. The emails I usually regret are the ones that I didn't realize are offensive/antagonizing. Apparently, it pisses people off more if you say something they don't like in a cool tone.
You do realize that there is no drop-in replacement for cable, don't you? I'd hardly liken paying for a regionally monopolized service to paying for a website.
Even if they do get a subset of people to pay... they aren't going to be the young generation that has already lived with free content.
I'm sure that some subscription models work better than others, and can even sustain a website for an amount of time, but the barrier of entry into the website market is incredibly low, and there's always someone who wants the attention enough to make their content free.
The way I see it is that they might retain some of their viewership, and even stay afloat, but it will certainly not grow unless they come up with a 'killer feature'.
Now hes CHARGING us for his bullshit propaganda? Jeeeeeeeeez.......
Am I the only one that thinks this is a good thing? The grumpy generation of naysayers will die out with a loud, painful scream as they refuse to cooperate, even on the basic level, with the new information generation.
I have Charter, and they do the same thing . I just use 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2 as my primary DNS servers. Although, I can't really speak to their IPv6 capability.
I have no objection to putting in the extra work when it's needed, just not routinely.
That's why my company added a dozen interim deadlines into the development cycle. They wanted more 'deadline hours'.
Real publishing requires formats other than MS Word.
Sure, the authors may type their works in MS Word. And the specs for the project are typed in MS Word.
But when it comes down to actually publishing a book, you need something like Adobe inDesign.
My girlfriend's in publishing, and we have frequent arguments over why a stupid book needs more than Word has to offer... but apparently it does.
I'm stuck in the conundrum of absolutely hating surveillance with a vengeance, and thinking what the hell is anybody meant to do with people who act like that?
Give them guns and free birth control, let them live in their own isolated areas that the middle and upper class are afraid to venture into, and just watch from a distance, hoping they never find the bus line out to your suburb.
I probably shouldn't say things like this, because they'll come back to bite me when I run for political office some day.
As far as leaving a message for others, does anyone really leave longer than a 45-second message anyway (keeping the total under a minute)?
Mothers.
You need to strike a balance. Getting burned out because you're too passionate and constantly fighting the man is not the best strategy, either.
That is, it does not occur to them to even think at all of how their decisions are affecting other people, which sums up nearly all human problems.
Fixed!
The pragmatist will see lots of false dichotomies, but the purist will see only one false dichotomy.
You mean C++ being a clusterfuck of ugly syntax isn't a reason for using C?
I learned C++ first. I thought the 'limitations' of C were silly and archaic. Then I grew up and realized that having straight-forward, easy-to-maintain code is much more important. /feeding the troll
This is precisely why I prefer to use 100% C code when I have to write native binaries. C++ is a convoluted mess.
It seems like they were very haphazard at first, with OO being new and compiler optimization being slim. We have to kill off the old C++ and come up with a new natively compiled language. Or not. This web thing seems to be doing pretty well, as do Java and C#.
Vala has some promise, but I'm not entirely convinced yet.
Man, if consciousness were materialistic in nature, I would be much happier.