"So he was getting the same ineffective treatment time after time because none of the doctors treating him knew the whole history."
Damn straight! When dealing with a chronic illness it's vital to have a running history with a doctor (or at the very least doctors at the same office).
Otherwise you'll never likely get past the first "menu option" in the support call, so to speak. Everyone's going to have you reboot your system and check your firewall settings when what you've really got is a buggy vid card driver.
"If you want to earn the big bucks be prepared to pay the price."
Except that the game dev industry doesn't really pay all that well relative to other software development jobs. Because everyone and their cousin wants to develop games. They'll burn you out like a backyard BBQ because they know they can just replace you.
And all the while they dangle the high salaries of the Top Tier Talent as the crack-laced carrot to keep you slaving away.
You'll find exceptions, but reality is quite ugly.
"Well since Microsoft has patented TCP/IP it would be obvious who they bought the Internet from."
:-)
Think of the ensuing amusement as MS secretly funds SCOogle in order for them to sue the patent holder of TCP/IP for infringment.
Suddenly MS immolates in a blazing ball of fire as $40 billion goes up in a spectacular lawyer-fanned pyre of suing and countersuing themselves into oblivion with all the invevitability of a spent massive star collapsing in on itself.
"The new search engine's name will be Mooglesoft."
Which will subsequently be sued by SCOogle, the latest startup from The Canopy Group, after announcing they purchased the rights to the Internet in a complex transaction which is documented in a briefcase somewhere in Germany.
"If we supported Saddam killing the kurds, we would have NOT started the first gulf war."
Really? That's funny. I thought we launched Desert Shield/Storm because Saddam invaded Kuwait. Up until that point we really didn't give a rat's ass what Saddam did as long as he was Iran's enemy. Rummy sure was chummy with him.
But what do I know, I only fought in that war.
"God damn it! I'm surrounded by F-ing morrons on slashdot"
Yep, that must be it. Everyone else is a moron. Reality-based morons. Must be rough being you. Hey, did you know that there were no WMD in Iraq when we started this latest war?
"Iraq had ties to orginizations that supported terrorism."
And the US had ties to organizations that supported terrorism (check your Central American/Afghanistan/etc. history). One man's "terrorist" is another man's "Freedom Fighter".
In fact we even had direct ties to Saddam while he was gassing his own people.
Clearly due to the fact that his stint as Attorney General was interfering with his duties as Sith Lord.
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"I'm still playing Unreal Tournament (99)."
Same in my house. UT (classic) is the LAN FPS of choice to this day. It runs great on the older hardware, and the Bots are interesting as opposed to fodder. It's simply fun.
Not to say we don't want to try UT 2004 and others, but for general FPS play UT Classic is, well, classic. Maybe when Xboxen are dirt cheap on closeout in 2 years, pick up used Halo 2 copies, and we can network a few together with dedicated screens....
"I'm not sure if the costs can be accurately compared in this way. [... ] Otherwise you can start comparing stuff like SETI which I'm sure is the world's cheapest supercomputer"
Actually that sounds like a perfectly valid comparison, SETI included. In bang for the buck SETI deserves to win hands-down in that scenario, and fairly. System X deserves its place as well.
"6/10 only looks bad to you because you're used to gamer mags that would give "Triple Insane Paintball Command Quake Engine XXX Extreme" a 7.5."
Come on! Triple Insane Paintball Command Quake Engine XXX Extreme RULEZ! Did you know there's a code for making their bikini tops disappear? And then they're all like, topless and stuff. With like their hooties showing? OMFG! HOOTIES!
"I suggest you go see the movie as soon as possible and do what movie makers are justifyable terrified of... Tell everyone exactly what you think of it (without spoilers of course) as soon as you exit the theatre."
I suggest we save our money, never see the movie, and just hang out in front of the theatre telling everyone how patently awful it is.:-)
"That's too bad... it would make a great audio alert for when your air is running low.."
Listening to "Dark Side of the Moon" while cruising through blue space, narc'd and talking to the resident grouper of the local wreck.... Yum.
"or as a receiver for the surface people to use to contact you verbally.."
No! No no no! Ye gods no! Underwater is one of the few places the PHBs can't contact us! Please do NOT give them the ability to harsh my narc-buzz with their complaints that their "Internet" needs to be reinstalled! Gaaaaaah!
Polls are merely polls. We won't know the actual answer until they (as in ALL Iraqis, not just those friendly to the installed government) vote.
And 10 years from now, what if they vote for a theocracy? Their choice, their right. It just seems that the current Administration never really factored that into their planning of possibilities.
"(to a true conservative who believes in less of a role for government in the lives of Americans)."
You have GOT to be kidding me! Under this "conservative" GOP leadership that controls the White House and BOTH houses of Congress, government hasn't been this deeply implanted into our lives in countless decades. The PATRIOT Act? Ashcroft tries to EXPAND the powers of the evil thing, with White House support. Yes Dems voted for it too. Some now want to scale it back. But the point is that the GOP should have been the FIRST in line shooting it down in the first place! Instead this Administration wanted to EXPAND it?
Government spending is at an all-time high. Amending the U.S. Constitution to ban gay marriage? What the hell does that have to do with keeping government out of the lives of Americans? Free trade? Bush imposed steel tariffs. Fiscal responsibility? Spending beyond our means like a drunken sailor. "Nation building" vs. conserving our forces? We're suddenly in the middle of the Mother of All Screw-Ups in nation building history.
Freedom of speech has been reduced to parody. Did you not follow the links I posted? 3 women kicked out of a Bush rally for wearing "Protect Our Civil Liberties" t-shirts?!? "Oaths of Loyalty"? We've seen it before. It was called East Germany and the Stasi. What is it with you people that just CANNOT see that? If you agree with it for some sick reason, fine. But don't pretend it bears any resemblance to a true conservative agenda of individual liberty and free thought.
The fact that self-labeled "conservatives" can sit back and support Bush is an affront to rational conservatism. If Clinton had EVER tried something as ludicrous as an "oath of loyalty" or kicking out people for wearing civil liberties t-shirts, the fair-weather conservatives would have been all over him. Bush does it and suddenly it's "patriotism".
Face it - the conservative movement is being played for fools, too blinded by the chants of "patriotism" and "freedom" to actually remember what it's SUPPOSED to mean. All the reasoning and independent thought of an aging golden retriever chasing a rolled-up sock while the owner reaches for his gun.
And by the time you finally wake up and realize what's going on, it will be too late....
"What if the result of more people voting is exactly the opposite of what you want?"
Like if, say, the Iraqi people overwhelmingly voted for a Muslim theocracy....
The problem with some proponents of democracy is that they're the very same people who are first to add "conditions" to the results thereof. (Not talking about you, ratamacue, just bringing up a point.)
Same with freedom of speech. Those who would claim themselves to be conservatives kicking three women out of a rally for wearing "offensive" t-shirts. The offensive message? "Protect Our Civil Liberties". Great. How about requiring those "loyalty oaths" before attending Bush events? Sound a little Stalinist? Anyone seeing irony here?
I laugh again at those claiming the title "conservative" while throwing all that it means down the toilet, willingly and with a village idiot's smile.
Democracy and freedom - "You keep using those words. I don't think they mean what you think they mean."
Business 2.0 has an interesting article titled "Microsoft's Worst Nightmare" with some additional background on the rise of Firefox.
Reading the text you can almost imagine Redmond concocting a cunning plan to distract 19-year-old Blake from his Firefox duties, involving free tickets to a tropical island with Natalie Portman. And daily hot grits via room service.
"Now that G5's are liquid cooled, it makes me wonder if a 2.5GHz G5 is *really* a 2.5GHz G5, or if it's an overclocked 1.8GHz chip."
If it's running reliably at 2.5GHZ, I'd say that's a 2.5GHz chip.;-)
After all if your $FurryPet snuggles up against your machine's vents and it starts shutting down, it's still the same chip. Only difference is a friendly or hostile thermal environment. Whatever the manufacturer chooses to stamp on a given chip is at times not related to what it actually binned-out at.
Standard SCO tactic - carefully timed press release via shill to manipulate the stock.
SCO vermin are either trying to make a quick buck through this, or they are trying to prevent a freefall of the stock once it slips below the $3/share mark.
Over the past weeks I've always seen SCOX rebound in the last hour of trading every day I've checked. Far more often than other stocks I've followed, to the point of curiousness. Who on earth would be in a rush to buy SCOX at the end of the day? Regularly? And why? Hmmmm.
Friday that did not happen.
Also on Friday (I'm assuming after markets closed - no timestamp on the article) we get this absurd piece from O'Gara, SCO shill at worst, clueless hack "journalist" at best.
Someone's trying to make a buck. Either that or SCO is no longer able to prop up their stock with timed buybacks and are using this as a way to avoid a sub-$3/share freefall.
Delisting a stock takes time, but having your stock head toward $1/share is a good start. I have a feeling that drop to a penny stock will accelerate if SCOX falls below the $3/share mark.
Over the past weeks I've seen SCOX always "bail itself out" in the last hour of trading every day I've checked. Far more often than other stocks I've followed, to the point of curiousness. Who on earth would be in a rush to buy SCOX at the end of the day? Regularly? And why? Hmmmm.
Friday that did not happen.
Then on Friday (I'm assuming after markets closed - no timestamp on the article) we get this absurd piece from O'Gara, SCO shill at worst, clueless hack "journalist" at best.
Someone's trying to make a buck. Either that or SCO is no longer able to prop up their stock with timed buybacks and are using this as a way to avoid a sub-$3/share freefall.
Delisting a stock takes time, but having your stock head toward $1/share is a good start.
"In reality, I skipped out a couple of details in that description of what happend. The man in concern was ALSO being racist and offensive to Chinese and Black people, saying london is "full of japs with cameras" and "niggers running the show" that the Mayor should take a stand and deal with it."
I'm American and I thought this prank was pretty damn funny. And well-deserved, even without the extra info re: the guy being a slur-spewing racist.
Come on people, SLN even pointed out that he has plenty of American friends. The target (assuming accurate description) was a dick the size of the Washington Monument. Had that guy showed up in your neck of the woods insulting everything around you, your city, your culture, racial slurs... Face it, on the NY subway this guy would likely have gotten worse. In Alaska or Minnesota they'd have found a way to get him to lick the metal flagpole at night.
Mega-assholes the world over deserve what they get. Doubly so the clueless ones who expect everyone around them to not only soak up their abuse but then actually HELP the nimrod. Think of your most obnoxious abusive user support experience. Imagine they're also insulting you personally. And everyone else in the room. On speakerphone. You'd all be laughing at how the techie gave them bogus advice.
And I have to say that after decades of traveling around the world, the only insulting behavior I've witnessed has been from fellow American travelers. (Disclaimer - I do NOT go to Euro football matches. Drunken fans are the same the world over, best avoided at all costs.)
It may only be 1 in 100 of those of us who travel abroad, but that 1% really screws up things for the other 99% of us.
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"So he was getting the same ineffective treatment time after time because none of the doctors treating him knew the whole history."
Damn straight! When dealing with a chronic illness it's vital to have a running history with a doctor (or at the very least doctors at the same office).
Otherwise you'll never likely get past the first "menu option" in the support call, so to speak. Everyone's going to have you reboot your system and check your firewall settings when what you've really got is a buggy vid card driver.
"totally at lost as to WHY someone cast me as a troll? "
This seemingly innocent line, no doubt:
"Not ALL geeks have issues getting women! ;)
Seems one of us geeks who DOES have issues getting women took offense. ;-)
"If you want to earn the big bucks be prepared to pay the price."
Except that the game dev industry doesn't really pay all that well relative to other software development jobs. Because everyone and their cousin wants to develop games. They'll burn you out like a backyard BBQ because they know they can just replace you.
And all the while they dangle the high salaries of the Top Tier Talent as the crack-laced carrot to keep you slaving away.
You'll find exceptions, but reality is quite ugly.
"Well since Microsoft has patented TCP/IP it would be obvious who they bought the Internet from."
Think of the ensuing amusement as MS secretly funds SCOogle in order for them to sue the patent holder of TCP/IP for infringment.
Suddenly MS immolates in a blazing ball of fire as $40 billion goes up in a spectacular lawyer-fanned pyre of suing and countersuing themselves into oblivion with all the invevitability of a spent massive star collapsing in on itself.
"The new search engine's name will be Mooglesoft."
Which will subsequently be sued by SCOogle, the latest startup from The Canopy Group, after announcing they purchased the rights to the Internet in a complex transaction which is documented in a briefcase somewhere in Germany.
"Somebody needs a hug."
Me! Me me me!
Uh... "Jamie" is a chick name, right? RIGHT?!?
(dammit)
"If we supported Saddam killing the kurds, we would have NOT started the first gulf war."
Really? That's funny. I thought we launched Desert Shield/Storm because Saddam invaded Kuwait. Up until that point we really didn't give a rat's ass what Saddam did as long as he was Iran's enemy. Rummy sure was chummy with him.
But what do I know, I only fought in that war.
"God damn it! I'm surrounded by F-ing morrons on slashdot"
Yep, that must be it. Everyone else is a moron. Reality-based morons. Must be rough being you. Hey, did you know that there were no WMD in Iraq when we started this latest war?
"Iraq had ties to orginizations that supported terrorism."
And the US had ties to organizations that supported terrorism (check your Central American/Afghanistan/etc. history). One man's "terrorist" is another man's "Freedom Fighter".
In fact we even had direct ties to Saddam while he was gassing his own people.
We should invade ourselves.
"well, he's just now resigning...."
Clearly due to the fact that his stint as Attorney General was interfering with his duties as Sith Lord.
"I'm still playing Unreal Tournament (99)."
Same in my house. UT (classic) is the LAN FPS of choice to this day. It runs great on the older hardware, and the Bots are interesting as opposed to fodder. It's simply fun.
Not to say we don't want to try UT 2004 and others, but for general FPS play UT Classic is, well, classic. Maybe when Xboxen are dirt cheap on closeout in 2 years, pick up used Halo 2 copies, and we can network a few together with dedicated screens....
"I'm not sure if the costs can be accurately compared in this way. [
Actually that sounds like a perfectly valid comparison, SETI included. In bang for the buck SETI deserves to win hands-down in that scenario, and fairly. System X deserves its place as well.
"6/10 only looks bad to you because you're used to gamer mags that would give "Triple Insane Paintball Command Quake Engine XXX Extreme" a 7.5."
Come on! Triple Insane Paintball Command Quake Engine XXX Extreme RULEZ! Did you know there's a code for making their bikini tops disappear? And then they're all like, topless and stuff. With like their hooties showing? OMFG! HOOTIES!
- Lead Developer, Acclaim
"I suggest you go see the movie as soon as possible and do what movie makers are justifyable terrified of... Tell everyone exactly what you think of it (without spoilers of course) as soon as you exit the theatre."
I suggest we save our money, never see the movie, and just hang out in front of the theatre telling everyone how patently awful it is. :-)
"The patent is ridiculously broad. It's purely McKool Smith trying to make money. It's an abuse of the legal system"
McKool Smith? WTF kind of name is that for a law firm? Sounds like a shakedown scam operation from GTA:San Andreas.
"That's too bad... it would make a great audio alert for when your air is running low.."
Listening to "Dark Side of the Moon" while cruising through blue space, narc'd and talking to the resident grouper of the local wreck.... Yum.
"or as a receiver for the surface people to use to contact you verbally.."
No! No no no! Ye gods no! Underwater is one of the few places the PHBs can't contact us! Please do NOT give them the ability to harsh my narc-buzz with their complaints that their "Internet" needs to be reinstalled! Gaaaaaah!
Polls are merely polls. We won't know the actual answer until they (as in ALL Iraqis, not just those friendly to the installed government) vote.
And 10 years from now, what if they vote for a theocracy? Their choice, their right. It just seems that the current Administration never really factored that into their planning of possibilities.
"(to a true conservative who believes in less of a role for government in the lives of Americans)."
You have GOT to be kidding me! Under this "conservative" GOP leadership that controls the White House and BOTH houses of Congress, government hasn't been this deeply implanted into our lives in countless decades. The PATRIOT Act? Ashcroft tries to EXPAND the powers of the evil thing, with White House support. Yes Dems voted for it too. Some now want to scale it back. But the point is that the GOP should have been the FIRST in line shooting it down in the first place! Instead this Administration wanted to EXPAND it?
Government spending is at an all-time high. Amending the U.S. Constitution to ban gay marriage? What the hell does that have to do with keeping government out of the lives of Americans? Free trade? Bush imposed steel tariffs. Fiscal responsibility? Spending beyond our means like a drunken sailor. "Nation building" vs. conserving our forces? We're suddenly in the middle of the Mother of All Screw-Ups in nation building history.
Freedom of speech has been reduced to parody. Did you not follow the links I posted? 3 women kicked out of a Bush rally for wearing "Protect Our Civil Liberties" t-shirts?!? "Oaths of Loyalty"? We've seen it before. It was called East Germany and the Stasi. What is it with you people that just CANNOT see that? If you agree with it for some sick reason, fine. But don't pretend it bears any resemblance to a true conservative agenda of individual liberty and free thought.
The fact that self-labeled "conservatives" can sit back and support Bush is an affront to rational conservatism. If Clinton had EVER tried something as ludicrous as an "oath of loyalty" or kicking out people for wearing civil liberties t-shirts, the fair-weather conservatives would have been all over him. Bush does it and suddenly it's "patriotism".
Face it - the conservative movement is being played for fools, too blinded by the chants of "patriotism" and "freedom" to actually remember what it's SUPPOSED to mean. All the reasoning and independent thought of an aging golden retriever chasing a rolled-up sock while the owner reaches for his gun.
And by the time you finally wake up and realize what's going on, it will be too late....
"What if the result of more people voting is exactly the opposite of what you want?"
Like if, say, the Iraqi people overwhelmingly voted for a Muslim theocracy....
The problem with some proponents of democracy is that they're the very same people who are first to add "conditions" to the results thereof. (Not talking about you, ratamacue, just bringing up a point.)
Same with freedom of speech. Those who would claim themselves to be conservatives kicking three women out of a rally for wearing "offensive" t-shirts. The offensive message? "Protect Our Civil Liberties". Great. How about requiring those "loyalty oaths" before attending Bush events? Sound a little Stalinist? Anyone seeing irony here?
I laugh again at those claiming the title "conservative" while throwing all that it means down the toilet, willingly and with a village idiot's smile.
Democracy and freedom - "You keep using those words. I don't think they mean what you think they mean."
Business 2.0 has an interesting article titled "Microsoft's Worst Nightmare" with some additional background on the rise of Firefox.
Reading the text you can almost imagine Redmond concocting a cunning plan to distract 19-year-old Blake from his Firefox duties, involving free tickets to a tropical island with Natalie Portman. And daily hot grits via room service.
"Everything works in theory, but not pratice."
In theory, anyway.
"Now that G5's are liquid cooled, it makes me wonder if a 2.5GHz G5 is *really* a 2.5GHz G5, or if it's an overclocked 1.8GHz chip."
If it's running reliably at 2.5GHZ, I'd say that's a 2.5GHz chip. ;-)
After all if your $FurryPet snuggles up against your machine's vents and it starts shutting down, it's still the same chip. Only difference is a friendly or hostile thermal environment. Whatever the manufacturer chooses to stamp on a given chip is at times not related to what it actually binned-out at.
Standard SCO tactic - carefully timed press release via shill to manipulate the stock.
SCO vermin are either trying to make a quick buck through this, or they are trying to prevent a freefall of the stock once it slips below the $3/share mark.
Over the past weeks I've always seen SCOX rebound in the last hour of trading every day I've checked. Far more often than other stocks I've followed, to the point of curiousness. Who on earth would be in a rush to buy SCOX at the end of the day? Regularly? And why? Hmmmm.
Friday that did not happen.
Also on Friday (I'm assuming after markets closed - no timestamp on the article) we get this absurd piece from O'Gara, SCO shill at worst, clueless hack "journalist" at best.
Someone's trying to make a buck. Either that or SCO is no longer able to prop up their stock with timed buybacks and are using this as a way to avoid a sub-$3/share freefall.
Delisting a stock takes time, but having your stock head toward $1/share is a good start. I have a feeling that drop to a penny stock will accelerate if SCOX falls below the $3/share mark.
Stock manipulation.
Over the past weeks I've seen SCOX always "bail itself out" in the last hour of trading every day I've checked. Far more often than other stocks I've followed, to the point of curiousness. Who on earth would be in a rush to buy SCOX at the end of the day? Regularly? And why? Hmmmm.
Friday that did not happen.
Then on Friday (I'm assuming after markets closed - no timestamp on the article) we get this absurd piece from O'Gara, SCO shill at worst, clueless hack "journalist" at best.
Someone's trying to make a buck. Either that or SCO is no longer able to prop up their stock with timed buybacks and are using this as a way to avoid a sub-$3/share freefall.
Delisting a stock takes time, but having your stock head toward $1/share is a good start.
"In reality, I skipped out a couple of details in that description of what happend. The man in concern was ALSO being racist and offensive to Chinese and Black people, saying london is "full of japs with cameras" and "niggers running the show" that the Mayor should take a stand and deal with it."
I'm American and I thought this prank was pretty damn funny. And well-deserved, even without the extra info re: the guy being a slur-spewing racist.
Come on people, SLN even pointed out that he has plenty of American friends. The target (assuming accurate description) was a dick the size of the Washington Monument. Had that guy showed up in your neck of the woods insulting everything around you, your city, your culture, racial slurs... Face it, on the NY subway this guy would likely have gotten worse. In Alaska or Minnesota they'd have found a way to get him to lick the metal flagpole at night.
Mega-assholes the world over deserve what they get. Doubly so the clueless ones who expect everyone around them to not only soak up their abuse but then actually HELP the nimrod. Think of your most obnoxious abusive user support experience. Imagine they're also insulting you personally. And everyone else in the room. On speakerphone. You'd all be laughing at how the techie gave them bogus advice.
And I have to say that after decades of traveling around the world, the only insulting behavior I've witnessed has been from fellow American travelers. (Disclaimer - I do NOT go to Euro football matches. Drunken fans are the same the world over, best avoided at all costs.)
It may only be 1 in 100 of those of us who travel abroad, but that 1% really screws up things for the other 99% of us.
"I'm sure every time Shrubby makes up a word or claims that God speaks through him Dick Cheny beats him with a rolled up newspaper."
Then someone ought to buy Cheney a hell of a lot more newspapers to roll up, because so far it isn't working very well.