Oh, great, I'm gonna get modded down for redundancy, even though the guy who posted this same idea above me posted at the same exact time.
So much for my lame attempt at karma whoring.
Thinking more about this idea, however, I realized that this really won't work, unless each piece of PC equipment is stamped much like bottles/cans are, otherwise, the warehouses full of old rotting PC equipment that thousands of companies don't know what to do with will suddenly be showing up asking for a handout (refund of deposit) on merchandise that wasn't charged the deposit in the first place.
I think they should make the consumers pay a $1-$10 refundable deposit on all recyclable computer equipment. Make the dollar figure adjust depending on the type of hardware, maybe $1 for a keyboard, but $10 for a CRT. Have return/refund stations at any place that sells the stuff, and give out refunds, just like we do with bottles and cans in some states.
That way, when I load up my truck with my old junky used equipment and dump it on the side of the road somewhere, bums can load it into shopping carts and make some money. I don't have to clean up my mess, and can dump my PC-related trash anywhere, bums make some extra cash, and the streets remain clean and uncluttered of unsightly PC litter!
Sorry that you tried to kill yourself and failed, but STFU. Yeah, let's start blaming something else for our problems, so what is it now, the INTERNET? First we blamed violence in movies, violence in video games, and now the internet?
It's people like you that cannot realize that all of their problems are in their head, and are usually their own fault, and can also be easily fixed by finding a creative outlet. (your mileage may differ, talk to a therapist if you need to)
Stop fucking blaming others. Attempted suicide = cry for help. Don't cry, it doesn't get you anywhere, just ASK for the help.
This will get modded flamebait or whatever, I don't give a shit. You know why? Cuz this whole post is hypocritical, I used to be just like you (a cutter, sometimes too deep), and these 'cries for help' are stupid, and accomplish nothing. Because the sad fact is that no one else really cares. So if you want help, go get it.
And if you don't want help, figure out how to do the suicide right, and don't ruin the world for the rest of us. I like my video games/movies/internet, and don't need more legislation to be passed to regulate what I can and cannot do because some pansy almost kills himself and figures out that the internet is the reason.
Interesting point... I have no idea how much it takes for plants to give us O2, but why can't we just send up a bunch of plants into space, to convert our CO2 into O2?
Maybe make it an edible plant, so we can feed the astronauts salads as well?
(I'm assuming this has been thought up before, and the plants just take up too much space/water?)
Get the steering wheel / pedal thing from Logitech. I got the 'Driving Pro' version or whatever. Pretty neat.
Of course, it is a HUGE learning curve. It is a lot harder to spin a steering wheel 180 degrees (or more with GT4) than it is to twitch your left thumb 1/2 inch to the left/right.
Thank you, sir, for making me shoot a snot out of my nose, therefore disrupting my workplace, and prodding my peers into wondering what software development project I'm supposed to be working on is so damned funny.
And my tribute to DNA - (and I never forget this, when coding) -
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
I use CVS. How else do I keep track of millions of lines of code?
My point is, if you work on such a system like I do, and you make many changes for many different reasons for many different people (the system I work on is used worldwide) you easily lose track of what changed, and why.
So, for example, I make a change for a particular customer, and put it in the way you say (and the other 7 replies I got state). I then write major modifications/changes on TOP of those changes later on.
Eventually, a bug pops up with the first change I made. I CANNOT simply ROLLBACK and LOSE all of the other work I did. And it's a huge PITA to re-do and re-import all of the other changes I have done if I rollback, especially if other DLL's are involved. The whole system will crash.
In actuality, I should explain myself better. In each DLL (and components of DLLs, if they are large) there is a COMMENTS section. In the code itself, we comment out the line, put in the new line, and mark it with a #, Name, and Date (and sometimes a quick couple words explaining why). In the COMMENTS section (totally separated from the code, so the code remains somewhat readable) we go into the detail why we made the change, what customer requested it, and any other pertinent (sp?) details, such as other DLL's / Functions that are affected.
My major reason for being a dick in my parent reply is the person writing is so concerned about a 800 or 600 line application (I forget what they wrote) and half of those lines being comments. My system has MILLIONS of lines of code, and every single comment that is in there usuallly helps IMMENSELY when trying to debug something.
I don't understand the big deal of leaving commented-out code in a source base, there really is no better place to put it. Hard drive space is cheap, so what if my release versions increase a few kilobytes? It's not like the compiler or the end-users product gets any bigger, the comments are simply ignored and left out of our release.
(Please, all the other people who FLAMED me on my parent post, read/reply to this one.)
Moderate -1, WRONG. Whenever I make a change, I almost always comment out the existing line, put my initials, date, and why I commented it, and then put in my new line.
Yes, it makes search/grep/replace harder to do, but when you work on a 200+ DLL system, and eventually come upon a bug that started at XX date, you can easily revert back all your changes without having to read through comments and figure out what you changed. Just simply put back in the line you commented out.
My $0.02, and doing this has saved my butt numerous times when you're sitting at the implementation phase, ready to go-live, and something fails last-minute. (testing be damned!)
Finally beating Mother Brain in Metroid, feeling like a god, and then realizing I have a time limit to escape before the whole place explodes, and the rush of getting out in time and winning after so many months of playing was joyous.
And to this day, Metroids scare me. Metroid Prime / Echoes, when I see a Metroid I get the heeby-jeebies/willies/shivers whatever your dialect calls it.
Try updating the game kernel, you can go to Civ's website and get it.
Also, check out civfanatics.com (you link it, I'm lazy), lots of good free support forums there.
One thing I noticed with CIV is that if you change your display settings, like 16-bit to 32-bit, or 800x600 to 1024x800, it won't work anymore without completely reinstalling. It checks your video settings when you installed, and always expects them to be the same.
In any case, my CIV 3 (all 3 of em, original, PTW, and Conquests) run just fine under XP SP2.
Obviously you never worked in a hands-on tech support field.
I can't even begin to tell you how many powersupply fans, monitors, mice, cd drives, just to name a few, I have fixed by hitting them, or "properly re-aligning their hardware". Of course it is usually a temporary fix, but a fix all the same.
How many other people had the NES and used to blow really hard into the cartridges/slot to get their copy of Metroid or Zelda to boot up one last time?
That was my first foray into physically fixing hardware cheaply and quickly.:)
I can't honestly believe you would play GTA and decide it was ok for your 10 year old.
In the end, however, I'm more concerned with your kid's actions. If your kid plays GTA and then decided to go out and carjack someone and run them over with their car at the age of 10 because they saw it in the game and thought it cool, I want *your* ass to be in jail for providing your child with an irresponsible upbringing.
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Oh, great, I'm gonna get modded down for redundancy, even though the guy who posted this same idea above me posted at the same exact time.
So much for my lame attempt at karma whoring.
Thinking more about this idea, however, I realized that this really won't work, unless each piece of PC equipment is stamped much like bottles/cans are, otherwise, the warehouses full of old rotting PC equipment that thousands of companies don't know what to do with will suddenly be showing up asking for a handout (refund of deposit) on merchandise that wasn't charged the deposit in the first place.
I think they should make the consumers pay a $1-$10 refundable deposit on all recyclable computer equipment. Make the dollar figure adjust depending on the type of hardware, maybe $1 for a keyboard, but $10 for a CRT. Have return/refund stations at any place that sells the stuff, and give out refunds, just like we do with bottles and cans in some states.
That way, when I load up my truck with my old junky used equipment and dump it on the side of the road somewhere, bums can load it into shopping carts and make some money. I don't have to clean up my mess, and can dump my PC-related trash anywhere, bums make some extra cash, and the streets remain clean and uncluttered of unsightly PC litter!
Everybody wins!
FYI: News.google.com does this, it has a "Sort by relevance" and "Sort by date" links on the top right hand side when you do a search.
http://news.google.com/
One of my favorite things to ask people:
Would you rather have a child who is:
A son, who is flamboyantly, out of the closet, limpwristed, bigger than life homosexual...
Or
A daughter, who is such a slutwhore that she puts the girls in Times square to shame.
I pick daughter.
Your anger at my post indicates that perhaps you have some issues that could be worked out as well?
Anger issues have been worked out, hangover is gone now.
Sorry that you tried to kill yourself and failed, but STFU. Yeah, let's start blaming something else for our problems, so what is it now, the INTERNET? First we blamed violence in movies, violence in video games, and now the internet?
It's people like you that cannot realize that all of their problems are in their head, and are usually their own fault, and can also be easily fixed by finding a creative outlet. (your mileage may differ, talk to a therapist if you need to)
Stop fucking blaming others. Attempted suicide = cry for help. Don't cry, it doesn't get you anywhere, just ASK for the help.
This will get modded flamebait or whatever, I don't give a shit. You know why? Cuz this whole post is hypocritical, I used to be just like you (a cutter, sometimes too deep), and these 'cries for help' are stupid, and accomplish nothing. Because the sad fact is that no one else really cares. So if you want help, go get it.
And if you don't want help, figure out how to do the suicide right, and don't ruin the world for the rest of us. I like my video games/movies/internet, and don't need more legislation to be passed to regulate what I can and cannot do because some pansy almost kills himself and figures out that the internet is the reason.
(let's see how bad this makes my karma)
Interesting point... I have no idea how much it takes for plants to give us O2, but why can't we just send up a bunch of plants into space, to convert our CO2 into O2?
Maybe make it an edible plant, so we can feed the astronauts salads as well?
(I'm assuming this has been thought up before, and the plants just take up too much space/water?)
Get the steering wheel / pedal thing from Logitech. I got the 'Driving Pro' version or whatever. Pretty neat.
Of course, it is a HUGE learning curve. It is a lot harder to spin a steering wheel 180 degrees (or more with GT4) than it is to twitch your left thumb 1/2 inch to the left/right.
Hah! I own 6. Of course two are in storage, mainly as backups in case one or two of the other 4 TVs should suddenly stop working.
:)
God knows what would happen to me and my family if we can't watch TV in every quadrant of the house.
And EVIL LINCOLN!!!
(mods: if you don't know what I'm talking about, move along, there is nothing for you to see here)
UFIA?
Unsolicited Finger In the Anus? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ufia
That has to be one of the strangest acronyms I've ever heard of. And I read fark a lot.
Thank you, sir, for making me shoot a snot out of my nose, therefore disrupting my workplace, and prodding my peers into wondering what software development project I'm supposed to be working on is so damned funny.
And my tribute to DNA - (and I never forget this, when coding) -
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
Be real patient, go real slow and use lots of ...
...lube?
:)
What are we talking about again?
I think we have the same customers :)
Obligatory Clerks reference:
This job would be great if it wasn't for the f***ing customers.
With the Infinite Improbability Drive, anything is possible!
(sorry, eagerly awaiting the release of HHGTTG movie)
I use CVS. How else do I keep track of millions of lines of code?
My point is, if you work on such a system like I do, and you make many changes for many different reasons for many different people (the system I work on is used worldwide) you easily lose track of what changed, and why.
So, for example, I make a change for a particular customer, and put it in the way you say (and the other 7 replies I got state). I then write major modifications/changes on TOP of those changes later on.
Eventually, a bug pops up with the first change I made. I CANNOT simply ROLLBACK and LOSE all of the other work I did. And it's a huge PITA to re-do and re-import all of the other changes I have done if I rollback, especially if other DLL's are involved. The whole system will crash.
In actuality, I should explain myself better. In each DLL (and components of DLLs, if they are large) there is a COMMENTS section. In the code itself, we comment out the line, put in the new line, and mark it with a #, Name, and Date (and sometimes a quick couple words explaining why). In the COMMENTS section (totally separated from the code, so the code remains somewhat readable) we go into the detail why we made the change, what customer requested it, and any other pertinent (sp?) details, such as other DLL's / Functions that are affected.
My major reason for being a dick in my parent reply is the person writing is so concerned about a 800 or 600 line application (I forget what they wrote) and half of those lines being comments. My system has MILLIONS of lines of code, and every single comment that is in there usuallly helps IMMENSELY when trying to debug something.
I don't understand the big deal of leaving commented-out code in a source base, there really is no better place to put it. Hard drive space is cheap, so what if my release versions increase a few kilobytes? It's not like the compiler or the end-users product gets any bigger, the comments are simply ignored and left out of our release.
(Please, all the other people who FLAMED me on my parent post, read/reply to this one.)
Moderate -1, WRONG. Whenever I make a change, I almost always comment out the existing line, put my initials, date, and why I commented it, and then put in my new line.
Yes, it makes search/grep/replace harder to do, but when you work on a 200+ DLL system, and eventually come upon a bug that started at XX date, you can easily revert back all your changes without having to read through comments and figure out what you changed. Just simply put back in the line you commented out.
My $0.02, and doing this has saved my butt numerous times when you're sitting at the implementation phase, ready to go-live, and something fails last-minute. (testing be damned!)
Finally beating Mother Brain in Metroid, feeling like a god, and then realizing I have a time limit to escape before the whole place explodes, and the rush of getting out in time and winning after so many months of playing was joyous.
And to this day, Metroids scare me. Metroid Prime / Echoes, when I see a Metroid I get the heeby-jeebies/willies/shivers whatever your dialect calls it.
And I'm almost 30 years old. Sad, huh.
Try updating the game kernel, you can go to Civ's website and get it.
Also, check out civfanatics.com (you link it, I'm lazy), lots of good free support forums there.
One thing I noticed with CIV is that if you change your display settings, like 16-bit to 32-bit, or 800x600 to 1024x800, it won't work anymore without completely reinstalling. It checks your video settings when you installed, and always expects them to be the same.
In any case, my CIV 3 (all 3 of em, original, PTW, and Conquests) run just fine under XP SP2.
In other news, electricity is being generated from Albert Einstein's coffin as he spins in his grave...
And if you over clock it and burn it out, do you die if you breathe in the fumes?
Does arsenide = arsenic?
They do. All business and first class seats I've ever flown in have them, and some newer planes even have them in coach.
Of course, some airlines have proprietary connections, so you need to go and buy a $150 adapter, which is a real pain in the butt.
Obviously you never worked in a hands-on tech support field.
:)
I can't even begin to tell you how many powersupply fans, monitors, mice, cd drives, just to name a few, I have fixed by hitting them, or "properly re-aligning their hardware". Of course it is usually a temporary fix, but a fix all the same.
How many other people had the NES and used to blow really hard into the cartridges/slot to get their copy of Metroid or Zelda to boot up one last time?
That was my first foray into physically fixing hardware cheaply and quickly.
I'd rather have my under-13 yearold kid take acid then play GTA.
:)
And I should probably write this as AC else I lose all credibility in this argument, but I won't.
I can't honestly believe you would play GTA and decide it was ok for your 10 year old.
In the end, however, I'm more concerned with your kid's actions. If your kid plays GTA and then decided to go out and carjack someone and run them over with their car at the age of 10 because they saw it in the game and thought it cool, I want *your* ass to be in jail for providing your child with an irresponsible upbringing.