I hope you are joking around just for laughs. You are not really attempting to tell me that you are under the honest impression that "high school" is one word, right?
You might be joking, or you might be serious, but let me take a stand for a minute and ask a serious question:
Why is that the only thing that matters to you? And, please, if you're going to reply with "LOL OMG BSOD WILL KILL SOMEONE ROFL," save yourself the trouble and refrain from doing so. I'm very curious why you, and a number of other people, think that the only thing important is if a piece of technology runs Linux or not.
I live in Arizona, and one day in the mail I got a letter with various information about a class action law suit against Microsoft. I don't know how this law place got my address, nor how they managed to come up with a fake business name for me (EnvisionNET?), but the letter was there. Included were various forms to make a claim, and I was thinking about doing it, then I came across the money part. I can't find my claim forms right now, but I took this off of the website:
"A voucher for $9.00 for each license of Office, Word and Excel (specified in Appendix A-1 of the Settlement Agreement).
A voucher for $15.00 for each license of Windows, Windows for Workgroups, Windows NT Workstation and MS-DOS (specified in Appendix A-2 of the Settlement Agreement)."
I mean, not to sound cheap, but $15 isn't enough to make me run out and file this. Not to mention that Word/Excel/etc usually cost more than Windows, yet the voucher is for less.
"The department title for this article should be from the 'Make-NASA-look-dumb' department."
I fail to see how any of this makes NASA look even remotely "dumb." Actually, I think you're bringing up a very valid point. This is why space exploration hasn't taken off (no pun intended) to the full scale people would have expected it to by now. There are too many people, agencies, organizations, and even governments working against each other instead of with each other.
At any rate, saying NASA is "dumb" because of some amatures is just foolish thinking.
Everything shows up as green to me.
However, what I don't understand is why the 101 and 303 are not filled in at all. They have the 17, 51, and 202 all filled in, though. Trying to get from Scottsdale to Glendale gets to be a pain in the ass sometimes; it'd be awesome to be able to find alternate routes before I left to go somewhere. I sincerely hope they decide to update this.
I guess we're all in the same boat. I can't get Direct Connect to work worth beans with Gaim on Windows. I'm not behind a router or anything like that, and I sure know I have my firewall setup correctly, it just always fails to connect. As soon as I wait 30 minutes for AIM to start, Direct Connect works fine.
Also, I love Miranda, I really do. I used it for a couple days and I must say, it's better than Gaim on Windows. However, I couldn't get over the fact that because they use the TOC protocol and not the OCSAR protocol, I couldn't view my contacts away message. It might sound silly, but that's the only reason I switched back to Gaim. Once OSCAR is supported, I think I'll probably be ditching Gaim (as long as the folks at Miranda fix some of the bugs that cause the client to crash everytime I try and configure something).
Cheers.
Alright, I gave it a whirl using my digital camera which doubles as a webcam. Nearly everytime I blinked it managed to recognize that, even without calibrating it. After I had calibrated it, it seemed to pickup my blinks a good nine out of ten times. One of the more annoying things is that you have to position the camera so it can see both of your eyes otherwise you get some very screwy results (kind of difficult when you have a huge hutch hanging over your monitor). Also, if your camera doesn't pickup light very well, forget it. I had to gather up two lamps just to get the lighting to a decent level.
I couldn't test out the mouse/joystick abilities since everytime I attempt to do so it says, "This feature is not activated. Please register to enable it..." I'm actually pretty interested to see how well the mouse part of it works. Sadly, the Nouse painting program crapped itself everytime I tried to run it, so I guess I'm kind of SOL.
Right, resorting to the same dumbass argument to cover up your defeat. Way to go, champ! Kind of hrd to be an American without having American citizenship, but you're just beating around the bush and I've already explained the points you keep bringing up. So, you go ahead and keep thinking that I have something to prove on the Internet, let alone a website based around technology.
Why don't you read what it says again? "Since I don't live anywhere else, I can't speak for anyone else." See what that says? It says, "Since I don't live anywhere else..." That means I don't live anywhere else right now, as in I don't live in two places. You must be fucking retarded. And the part that says, "...I can't speak for anyone else." means I moved away before WiFi or DSL was a big deal and I don't really know what Canada offers right now in terms of DSL/WiFi because I haven't lived there in a while. If I had said something along the lines of, "Since I've never lived anywhere else, I cant speak for anyone else." then yes, that would imply that I am an American.
You can keep trying to fight a losing battle, or just cut the shit. I don't know what you're trying to get out of it, but keep it up. Your shit has been ruined (multiple times now), deal with it.
Look, jackass, living in a country doesn't make you a citizen, nor does it make you that nationality. Obviously you're far too clued out to know what the fuck you're talking about. I have never held American citizenship, nor do I ever plan to, nor want to. Oh, and by the way, being born somewhere has everything to do with your current nationality. You can never lose your citizenship from the country in which you were born (unless you renounce it, or somhow manage to lose it -- e.g. espionage, expatriation, etc). Ever hear of dual citizenship? No? Read a little then come back and try to argue your misleading and incorrect points. Just for shits and giggles, point out where I *ever* said I was an American.
I'd suggest you get your facts straight and figure out what the hell you're talking about before you go around making yourself look like a clown.
Nice try, but I think you missed the point. There isn't the slightest semblance of patriotism in what I said at all (I'll get to that later). I was merely stating that when a country in the middle of nowhere has WiFi and rural areas that are hardly a couple hundred miles from a huge city don't have basic DSL, there is a problem. Oh, and I'm Canadian, here's an idea: foot -> mouth. Try it.
This is pretty cool/amazing: People on the top of mountains with WiFi equipment attached to pieces of trees can get high-speed (I assume it's high-speed since the article mentions video conferencing) Internet access. However, at the same time, it's kind of amazing how people in the United States can't even get high-speed Internet access when they're a couple hundred miles from a major city. Does anyone else see anything wrong with this picture? I mean, it's great to see people making these kinds of advances, but this just goes to show you that maybe we need to take a serious jump on to the WiFi bandwagon, or we need to rework some of our existing technologies.
(P.S. "we" = United States -- Since I don't live anywhere else, I can't speak for anyone else.)
The only one I have is on the front of my computer speaker and it's currently covered with black hockey tape because the thing used to annoy the hell out of me at night. At any rate, I don't know where this guy goes shopping, but I hardly see blue LEDs anywhere.
Not only does RealPlayer fail horribly as a media player, but RealNetworks fails as a company (and so will their so-called music store). Their player has always sucked (people only use.rm and.ram or whatever the hell it is to piss people off) and always will. Whenever I want to watch something and it's in.rm format, I just ignore it. Their software is like AOL, once you install it (yes, I actually installed AOL trying to get free Internet then realized you needed a credit card anyways... good ol' Windows 3.11 days), there is no hope on Gods green earth you're going to remove it.
"Their conclusion: 77 percent of the films came from insider sources, either motion picture companies or theater employees taping from the projection booth."
I happen to be a projection manager at a local movie theater (not for bragging rights, just to set the stage that I actually know what I'm talking about) and I can safely say that taping a movie from a projection booth is the most retarded idea I have ever heard of. Actually, I doubt any clued-in projectionist would want to tape a movie from the booth. Most modern projectors are noisy as hell, likewise with the heat which is why film will melt extremely fast if the bulb gets too hot. The glass between the booth and the auditorium is usually (in a good theater) soundproof. Also, there isn't any sound in the projection booth with the exclusion of the "cute" hum of X number of projectors cranking away. Basically what that amounts to is: nobody likes standing next to projectors. Ever. You feed the film, start the film, and get the hell away. Repeat.
Lastly, where I work, I am usually the only projectionist at night. This might be different, but trying to keep 14 projectors running at the same time gets to be a real pain. Nevermind having the time to be dicking around trying to setup a video camera to record Hollywood's next trashy movie.
Cheers.
Slashdot Mirror
I hope you are joking around just for laughs. You are not really attempting to tell me that you are under the honest impression that "high school" is one word, right?
Compare this: highschool
To this: high school
Catching the drift? Perhaps you would be more "at home" having Google tell you right from wrong (considering Slashdot is a Google fanboy site):
Google: highschool - ~3,840,000 results
Google: high school - ~247,000,000 results
"How about a competently taught highschool English class?"
I take it you must have not attended a competently taught high school English class.
You might be joking, or you might be serious, but let me take a stand for a minute and ask a serious question: Why is that the only thing that matters to you? And, please, if you're going to reply with "LOL OMG BSOD WILL KILL SOMEONE ROFL," save yourself the trouble and refrain from doing so. I'm very curious why you, and a number of other people, think that the only thing important is if a piece of technology runs Linux or not.
I live in Arizona, and one day in the mail I got a letter with various information about a class action law suit against Microsoft. I don't know how this law place got my address, nor how they managed to come up with a fake business name for me (EnvisionNET?), but the letter was there. Included were various forms to make a claim, and I was thinking about doing it, then I came across the money part. I can't find my claim forms right now, but I took this off of the website:
"A voucher for $9.00 for each license of Office, Word and Excel (specified in Appendix A-1 of the Settlement Agreement).
A voucher for $15.00 for each license of Windows, Windows for Workgroups, Windows NT Workstation and MS-DOS (specified in Appendix A-2 of the Settlement Agreement)."
I mean, not to sound cheap, but $15 isn't enough to make me run out and file this. Not to mention that Word/Excel/etc usually cost more than Windows, yet the voucher is for less.
"The department title for this article should be from the 'Make-NASA-look-dumb' department."
I fail to see how any of this makes NASA look even remotely "dumb." Actually, I think you're bringing up a very valid point. This is why space exploration hasn't taken off (no pun intended) to the full scale people would have expected it to by now. There are too many people, agencies, organizations, and even governments working against each other instead of with each other.
At any rate, saying NASA is "dumb" because of some amatures is just foolish thinking.
Everything shows up as green to me. However, what I don't understand is why the 101 and 303 are not filled in at all. They have the 17, 51, and 202 all filled in, though. Trying to get from Scottsdale to Glendale gets to be a pain in the ass sometimes; it'd be awesome to be able to find alternate routes before I left to go somewhere. I sincerely hope they decide to update this.
I guess we're all in the same boat. I can't get Direct Connect to work worth beans with Gaim on Windows. I'm not behind a router or anything like that, and I sure know I have my firewall setup correctly, it just always fails to connect. As soon as I wait 30 minutes for AIM to start, Direct Connect works fine. Also, I love Miranda, I really do. I used it for a couple days and I must say, it's better than Gaim on Windows. However, I couldn't get over the fact that because they use the TOC protocol and not the OCSAR protocol, I couldn't view my contacts away message. It might sound silly, but that's the only reason I switched back to Gaim. Once OSCAR is supported, I think I'll probably be ditching Gaim (as long as the folks at Miranda fix some of the bugs that cause the client to crash everytime I try and configure something). Cheers.
Alright, I gave it a whirl using my digital camera which doubles as a webcam. Nearly everytime I blinked it managed to recognize that, even without calibrating it. After I had calibrated it, it seemed to pickup my blinks a good nine out of ten times. One of the more annoying things is that you have to position the camera so it can see both of your eyes otherwise you get some very screwy results (kind of difficult when you have a huge hutch hanging over your monitor). Also, if your camera doesn't pickup light very well, forget it. I had to gather up two lamps just to get the lighting to a decent level.
I couldn't test out the mouse/joystick abilities since everytime I attempt to do so it says, "This feature is not activated. Please register to enable it..." I'm actually pretty interested to see how well the mouse part of it works. Sadly, the Nouse painting program crapped itself everytime I tried to run it, so I guess I'm kind of SOL.
Right, resorting to the same dumbass argument to cover up your defeat. Way to go, champ! Kind of hrd to be an American without having American citizenship, but you're just beating around the bush and I've already explained the points you keep bringing up. So, you go ahead and keep thinking that I have something to prove on the Internet, let alone a website based around technology.
"Go torture an Iraqi, yankee-boy."
Very mature. How old are you again?
Why don't you read what it says again? "Since I don't live anywhere else, I can't speak for anyone else." See what that says? It says, "Since I don't live anywhere else..." That means I don't live anywhere else right now, as in I don't live in two places. You must be fucking retarded. And the part that says, "...I can't speak for anyone else." means I moved away before WiFi or DSL was a big deal and I don't really know what Canada offers right now in terms of DSL/WiFi because I haven't lived there in a while. If I had said something along the lines of, "Since I've never lived anywhere else, I cant speak for anyone else." then yes, that would imply that I am an American.
You can keep trying to fight a losing battle, or just cut the shit. I don't know what you're trying to get out of it, but keep it up. Your shit has been ruined (multiple times now), deal with it.
Look, jackass, living in a country doesn't make you a citizen, nor does it make you that nationality. Obviously you're far too clued out to know what the fuck you're talking about. I have never held American citizenship, nor do I ever plan to, nor want to. Oh, and by the way, being born somewhere has everything to do with your current nationality. You can never lose your citizenship from the country in which you were born (unless you renounce it, or somhow manage to lose it -- e.g. espionage, expatriation, etc). Ever hear of dual citizenship? No? Read a little then come back and try to argue your misleading and incorrect points. Just for shits and giggles, point out where I *ever* said I was an American.
I'd suggest you get your facts straight and figure out what the hell you're talking about before you go around making yourself look like a clown.
Thanks for playing!
How about someone that was born in Canada, has a Canadian father and a mother with American citizenship?
Good job, captain smert. Here's an even better idea for you: Think before you post. Try that.
"It's better to let people think you are stupid than open your mouth and prove it."
"The Lucky Stiff Funeral Home"
That's just begging for a comment...
Nice try, but I think you missed the point. There isn't the slightest semblance of patriotism in what I said at all (I'll get to that later). I was merely stating that when a country in the middle of nowhere has WiFi and rural areas that are hardly a couple hundred miles from a huge city don't have basic DSL, there is a problem. Oh, and I'm Canadian, here's an idea: foot -> mouth. Try it.
Clown.
This is pretty cool/amazing: People on the top of mountains with WiFi equipment attached to pieces of trees can get high-speed (I assume it's high-speed since the article mentions video conferencing) Internet access. However, at the same time, it's kind of amazing how people in the United States can't even get high-speed Internet access when they're a couple hundred miles from a major city. Does anyone else see anything wrong with this picture? I mean, it's great to see people making these kinds of advances, but this just goes to show you that maybe we need to take a serious jump on to the WiFi bandwagon, or we need to rework some of our existing technologies.
(P.S. "we" = United States -- Since I don't live anywhere else, I can't speak for anyone else.)
Ooh, a mirror. Nevermind me...
No.
"Beige-fucking-everything"
You must be an Apple zealot/owner, eh?
The only one I have is on the front of my computer speaker and it's currently covered with black hockey tape because the thing used to annoy the hell out of me at night. At any rate, I don't know where this guy goes shopping, but I hardly see blue LEDs anywhere.
I'm waiting for someone to post a reply about their "Wooden Accessor{y/ies}" -- I know someone wants to.
Not only does RealPlayer fail horribly as a media player, but RealNetworks fails as a company (and so will their so-called music store). Their player has always sucked (people only use .rm and .ram or whatever the hell it is to piss people off) and always will. Whenever I want to watch something and it's in .rm format, I just ignore it. Their software is like AOL, once you install it (yes, I actually installed AOL trying to get free Internet then realized you needed a credit card anyways... good ol' Windows 3.11 days), there is no hope on Gods green earth you're going to remove it.
"Their conclusion: 77 percent of the films came from insider sources, either motion picture companies or theater employees taping from the projection booth." I happen to be a projection manager at a local movie theater (not for bragging rights, just to set the stage that I actually know what I'm talking about) and I can safely say that taping a movie from a projection booth is the most retarded idea I have ever heard of. Actually, I doubt any clued-in projectionist would want to tape a movie from the booth. Most modern projectors are noisy as hell, likewise with the heat which is why film will melt extremely fast if the bulb gets too hot. The glass between the booth and the auditorium is usually (in a good theater) soundproof. Also, there isn't any sound in the projection booth with the exclusion of the "cute" hum of X number of projectors cranking away. Basically what that amounts to is: nobody likes standing next to projectors. Ever. You feed the film, start the film, and get the hell away. Repeat. Lastly, where I work, I am usually the only projectionist at night. This might be different, but trying to keep 14 projectors running at the same time gets to be a real pain. Nevermind having the time to be dicking around trying to setup a video camera to record Hollywood's next trashy movie. Cheers.