I don't accept checks, money orders, paypal transactions, nor do I accept credit/debit cards.
I do accept cash. United States Dollars, to be exact.
What do I do?
I fix your computer. I'm the guy, who makes house calls, to fix whatever the fuck you, or someone else did to mess up your computer.
Sure, you can go to the geek squad, or pay some "professional" place to do it. chances are, they won't fix it correctly, charge you way more then I do, and don't do house calls. Not to mention they might report something you have on your computer to some government agency. You didn't know the pics of your kids in the bathtub is considered child porn? That would suck to find out on the way to jail.
Or you can call me up, see when i'm free, and get your shit fixed correctly the first time. I also do the barter system, but that's mostly for weed dealers. Oh, and not only do I have better things to do then poke around your harddrive for whatever you have, I could care less what you have on your computer. Not my business, and your paying me cash to keep it not my business.
If the gov can put fucking camera's on light poles, and where the fuck ever they choose, I will use my right to take pictures of what the fuck I want to. Including cops, including government officials.
I don't go for hypocrisy. Oh hell no. What's good for the gander is good for the geese.
Mainly when the courts hold the word of police as being truthful, even though the police are taught how to lie when dealing with suspects (which i should point out, any time the cops talk to you, you are a suspect).
But the gov is in some serious trouble. And really, really fucking stupid. How do they think that with all this new tech they got to spy on us, we won't use it to spy on them?
This is is why having an open government is the only way to go. Because man is naturally a shit head that will steal, use power to better themselves and walk the fuck all over anyone that lets them. Is all man like that? No, but enough is that we need to have a system where we watch them and they know they are being watched, to keep them inline.
The big Corps don't actually like patents anymore. So some of them, mainly hardware/software makers, figure out if they start suing each other, and putting in patents for blatenly obvious stuff, that sooner or later the gov will stop sucking the MIAA & RIAA's dick long enough to invalidate all patents.
Or at least, that's my spin on some obvious greedy corporations.
Mathematics is the foundation for philosophy, not technocracy. What a better world we'd be in if we were motivated by the former rather than pursuing the latter.
Intelligence is the foundation for philosophy.
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.
Now, from the wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy, I got that meaning. I can see how you might think philosophy & mathematics are related, but that math is the foundation of philosophy? That's a pretty big stretch.
Sure, problem solving, doing math equations, they are similar to trying to figure out the meaning of life. But they are different.
You can use math to explain how birds fly, but math will never explain why birds fly. Philosophy will.
You can use math to break down all the parts of a car, but can math explain why you prefer a blue colored car to a green color car? No.
In fact, no math is involved on picking what you like.
math is using numbers and equations to come up with answers to physical stuff that happens. (ya, that's arguable, but for the argument, accurate enough). Philosophy is about understanding why we do what we do. Not how we do it, but why we do it.
I think they might in gamer mags, but I don't know, I don't read them anymore (too many of them are just paid advertisers these days, no real reviews or unbiased reports. Plus i'm totally sick of the bullshit hype they do).
But when it come to advertising, Sony sucks big ass donkey balls and always asks for seconds.
Not to mention, sony couldn't even do Free to Play correctly for EQ2. You know, instead of bring new peeps into the already existing servers (that they had to merge recently because of lack of players), they make a new fucking server for it. So, now you have a bunch of noobs, on a free to play, but damn, you better pay out your nose for market shit, server. If the peeps decide they like the game and want to pay for a subscription, are they really going to want to leave the server they were on and made friends on for a normal eq2 server? No, they won't.
Let's discuss Star Wars Galaxies. You know, where sony was in charge and they made it so becoming an jedi was so easy it made the hardcore players quit?
DCU would be best served by anyone other then having Sony as there sugar mom.
Now me, personally, i'm waiting for Champions Online to become Free to play in january. Why? Because I'd like to have a superhero MMO that I can play on occasion. I don't need another subscription for a game I won't find that interesting. Would I spend money for stuff? Probably. I do with DDO even though I don't play that game that much. I'd rather spend $10 every few months then $15 every month.
So now, the CIA is inspecting Barn Doors after the horses have left and are running down mainstreet?
Well, apparently we now know the gov's more concerned about their image then about actually treating people decently.
Wikileaks is made to keep government's honest. No threat in that.
But the American Government? They don't want to be honest, shit, they don't even want to do anything for the people of the USA.
They rather the sheeple, i mean, people of the USA kept their heads in the sand, while they (the government) run around with the corporations, because all the matters is money. Not how you get it, who you step on to get it, but actually having it.
Should the CIA be investigating wikileaks? No. They need to get their lazy, over paid asses in line, and start doing shit for the people of the united states, instead of the corporations or government of the united states.
Ah, fuck it, who am I kidding? Most the people are too stupid to even realize when the government is stomping on their rights to even care. Glad I should be dead within 40 years, seriously sad fucking world we are turning into here.
So North Korea & South Korea blow themselves off the map? Sounds good to me.
Or we could just go ahead and blow North Korea off the map. It's like, what? The most useless country ever?
Seems to me this would be doing us a favor, a way of getting rid of a problem.
Or look at it this way. There is too many people on the earth, so this would help with that problem?
I'm sorry I have no empathy for the Korean people. I'm sure the south is a bunch of great people. They like video games, which is cool.
So ya, lets just bomb north korea into a landfill, give it to south korea, call it korea, and then we have a united korea, got rid of the imbreeds, i mean, the north, and everyone is happy.
I know we'll lose some of the great comedy routines of Jae Kim Too. Or whatever his name is. Dude made an invisible cellphone, so he is dangerous.
People are being given free ChromeOS laptops for the purpose of testing ChromeOS, and theyre going to throw Ubuntu on there (and thus presumably stop testing ChromeOS)?
Seems kind of cheap, why dont you just buy your own laptop, or actually TEST the one youve been given?
One of the things you agreed on when apply to beta the CR-48 is that you will use it as your main computer.
I thought that was funny because on my main computer I play Everquest 2, amoungst other video games, and I'm pretty damn sure I won't be able to do that on a CR-48.
MCP (which did stand for Master Control Program) was the operating system on Burroughs Large Systems machines, from the B5000 onwards. It was released in 1961, so predated TRON by some time. It was the first OS to support multiple CPUs, the first OS to be written in a high-level language, and the first commercial OS to support virtual memory.
They say in Tron that the MCP started out as a chess program, so it would seem that it actually stood for Master Chess Program, before it got promoted. =)
On one hand you have Twitter, a way of communicating with the world instantly. While it has it's uses, it's made up of the idea that what you have to post is so fucking important, that everyone needs to see it.
Facebook. the "social network" that everyone is on. Everyone has to share their photo's, info, and every fucking thing else of their lives. While there is some privacy, it seems to be very crappy. And it is also based on the idea that what you do is important enough to share with everyone (though it does have like some privacy settings).
And on the other hand, we have people complaining about the lack of privacy, how companies like google track everything you do, etc.
The Netflix streams are all have proprietary DRM protection. To write our own client we would have to reverse engineer this proprietary protocol (which is legal, but can be difficult), and then worse, we would have hack the authorized players, and to get the DRM keys out of them. This implementation would constitute a circumvention device, and using or distributing it would be illegal under the DMCA.
Asking open source customers to break the law to use your service isn't exactly friendly to open source.
So that's like making it so your customers have to break the law for "fair use"? You know, like it is currently with DVD's & Blurays?
Probably a bad idea to put a bunch of Jews in the center of a bunch of people who hate Jews, but it's not like the only reason they want to kill Jews is because their "homeland is being invaded". They were of that mindset long before Israel existed.
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I was under the impression that everyone hated Jews because they go around saying they are god's children and better then everyone else?
Or is it everyone else is just sick of "jewish comedy"?
People do understand, this is the game that ruined all FPS to come?
What you say?
FPS aren't made for gamepads. Yet, we now have a generation of kids that think that using gamepads is the only way to play FPS.
Get the fuck off my lawn with your stupid gamepads, keyboards & mice only!!!
=)
Just a note, I have the Goldeneye remake for my Wii and it's not too bad (for using a gamepad). Now playing it on a 1080p TV sucks, like most Wii games. Good thing I still have 3 Commodore monitors (1902, 1080, 1084) for my non HD consoles (which is mostly what I own).
You know, it's pretty sucky to bitch about the size of your work space when so many people would love to have a job to bitch about.
okay, why it posted as AC when I never post as AC is sort of weird. I'm not bitching about a lack of job, fyi. I'm disabled, so I don't have to work. I get shit for money, but I don't work in a cubicle. (instead, I live in one...)
While the Cr-48's big event recently could be seen worldwide over the internet infrastructure that Google itself supports, testing of this device was only limited to those residing in the US!
This was unfair to those outside the United States. Making things even worse was the fact that at registration, one only came to this realization after being asked about what the U.S. State of residence is. This would be after asking for all other information!
Google should have allowed those without a U.S. shipping address to be billed for any expenses if they really wanted to be part of the testing regime. Heck...Google has "Google Checkout", right?
I was not happy at all. Google being a worldwide company would have benefited a lot from worldwide input.
How am I wrong?
You are wrong because you are just thinking of yourself.
Business do crap like this all the time for their home country. Why should they bare the expense of sending these across the globe, just so you can be happy?
They are busy testing these. They paid for them, they are incurring the expense. Part of it, I'm sure, is we can do 60k of these if we limit the testing to the USA, or we can test 30k across the globe.
Seems you'd get better numbers from the 60k at home, then 30k across the globe.
But lets look as some logic here.
While a lot of peeps in world speak English, it isn't the common language across the world. They have to, for a product they are testing, put language files into it. It can't handle USB devices yet, so why worry about it speaking russian, or chinese?
You should grow up, accept that you won't be privilage to everything in life. I hope you realize that your chance of getting one these beta offerings, if they did make it available to the world, is like very slim. 7 billion peeps in the world, 60k netbooks going out.
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The Government looks after the interests of the corporations, not the people.
If that hasn't been clear before, it should be pretty clear now.
Why do we still carry money anyway?
Because when you pay people like me.
I don't accept checks, money orders, paypal transactions, nor do I accept credit/debit cards.
I do accept cash. United States Dollars, to be exact.
What do I do?
I fix your computer. I'm the guy, who makes house calls, to fix whatever the fuck you, or someone else did to mess up your computer.
Sure, you can go to the geek squad, or pay some "professional" place to do it. chances are, they won't fix it correctly, charge you way more then I do, and don't do house calls. Not to mention they might report something you have on your computer to some government agency. You didn't know the pics of your kids in the bathtub is considered child porn? That would suck to find out on the way to jail.
Or you can call me up, see when i'm free, and get your shit fixed correctly the first time. I also do the barter system, but that's mostly for weed dealers. Oh, and not only do I have better things to do then poke around your harddrive for whatever you have, I could care less what you have on your computer. Not my business, and your paying me cash to keep it not my business.
I thought the popo's were Public Servants.
Public. wonder what that means?
If the gov can put fucking camera's on light poles, and where the fuck ever they choose, I will use my right to take pictures of what the fuck I want to. Including cops, including government officials.
I don't go for hypocrisy. Oh hell no. What's good for the gander is good for the geese.
Mainly when the courts hold the word of police as being truthful, even though the police are taught how to lie when dealing with suspects (which i should point out, any time the cops talk to you, you are a suspect).
But the gov is in some serious trouble. And really, really fucking stupid. How do they think that with all this new tech they got to spy on us, we won't use it to spy on them?
This is is why having an open government is the only way to go. Because man is naturally a shit head that will steal, use power to better themselves and walk the fuck all over anyone that lets them. Is all man like that? No, but enough is that we need to have a system where we watch them and they know they are being watched, to keep them inline.
Still waiting for that day to happen though...
Here's what I think.
The big Corps don't actually like patents anymore. So some of them, mainly hardware/software makers, figure out if they start suing each other, and putting in patents for blatenly obvious stuff, that sooner or later the gov will stop sucking the MIAA & RIAA's dick long enough to invalidate all patents.
Or at least, that's my spin on some obvious greedy corporations.
Mathematics is the foundation for philosophy, not technocracy. What a better world we'd be in if we were motivated by the former rather than pursuing the latter.
Intelligence is the foundation for philosophy.
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.
Now, from the wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy, I got that meaning. I can see how you might think philosophy & mathematics are related, but that math is the foundation of philosophy? That's a pretty big stretch.
Sure, problem solving, doing math equations, they are similar to trying to figure out the meaning of life. But they are different.
You can use math to explain how birds fly, but math will never explain why birds fly. Philosophy will.
You can use math to break down all the parts of a car, but can math explain why you prefer a blue colored car to a green color car? No.
In fact, no math is involved on picking what you like.
math is using numbers and equations to come up with answers to physical stuff that happens. (ya, that's arguable, but for the argument, accurate enough).
Philosophy is about understanding why we do what we do. Not how we do it, but why we do it.
I'm an EQ2 player, been so for like 4 or 5 years.
Do they advertise EQ2 on TV? No.
I think they might in gamer mags, but I don't know, I don't read them anymore (too many of them are just paid advertisers these days, no real reviews or unbiased reports. Plus i'm totally sick of the bullshit hype they do).
But when it come to advertising, Sony sucks big ass donkey balls and always asks for seconds.
Not to mention, sony couldn't even do Free to Play correctly for EQ2. You know, instead of bring new peeps into the already existing servers (that they had to merge recently because of lack of players), they make a new fucking server for it. So, now you have a bunch of noobs, on a free to play, but damn, you better pay out your nose for market shit, server. If the peeps decide they like the game and want to pay for a subscription, are they really going to want to leave the server they were on and made friends on for a normal eq2 server? No, they won't.
Let's discuss Star Wars Galaxies. You know, where sony was in charge and they made it so becoming an jedi was so easy it made the hardcore players quit?
DCU would be best served by anyone other then having Sony as there sugar mom.
Now me, personally, i'm waiting for Champions Online to become Free to play in january. Why? Because I'd like to have a superhero MMO that I can play on occasion. I don't need another subscription for a game I won't find that interesting. Would I spend money for stuff? Probably. I do with DDO even though I don't play that game that much. I'd rather spend $10 every few months then $15 every month.
So now, the CIA is inspecting Barn Doors after the horses have left and are running down mainstreet?
Well, apparently we now know the gov's more concerned about their image then about actually treating people decently.
Wikileaks is made to keep government's honest. No threat in that.
But the American Government? They don't want to be honest, shit, they don't even want to do anything for the people of the USA.
They rather the sheeple, i mean, people of the USA kept their heads in the sand, while they (the government) run around with the corporations, because all the matters is money. Not how you get it, who you step on to get it, but actually having it.
Should the CIA be investigating wikileaks? No. They need to get their lazy, over paid asses in line, and start doing shit for the people of the united states, instead of the corporations or government of the united states.
Ah, fuck it, who am I kidding? Most the people are too stupid to even realize when the government is stomping on their rights to even care. Glad I should be dead within 40 years, seriously sad fucking world we are turning into here.
So they want an Opt-in program for porn?
Nice, then give me an Opt-in program for spam, for advertising, and for other things I or someone else will think of.
Since you apparently can make it (or so you think) that having an Opt-in system would work, lets use it for the more beneficial stuff.
I might not be a scientist, but i'm pretty sure time causes aging.
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How the fuck did you get US security clearance if you can't even use basic English?
Probably had public school education.
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wow, to think about all the times I really sucked in bed yet didn't get rape charges for it.
I must be the luckiest man alive.
Really, give the soliders in the battlefield a device that can: Take pictures (complete with gps location!), have a gps. have ways of sharing data.
Yes, We don't need some lone solider to turn info into wikileaks, we'll just use facebook.
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NAV doesn't see a problem with it
Ya, Norton Anti Virus is a quality virus finding program. Sort of like Mcafee is a quality virus finding program.
What I mean is, if you run those, virus will find your computers to be a good place to breed.
So North Korea & South Korea blow themselves off the map? Sounds good to me.
Or we could just go ahead and blow North Korea off the map. It's like, what? The most useless country ever?
Seems to me this would be doing us a favor, a way of getting rid of a problem.
Or look at it this way. There is too many people on the earth, so this would help with that problem?
I'm sorry I have no empathy for the Korean people. I'm sure the south is a bunch of great people. They like video games, which is cool.
So ya, lets just bomb north korea into a landfill, give it to south korea, call it korea, and then we have a united korea, got rid of the imbreeds, i mean, the north, and everyone is happy.
I know we'll lose some of the great comedy routines of Jae Kim Too. Or whatever his name is. Dude made an invisible cellphone, so he is dangerous.
People are being given free ChromeOS laptops for the purpose of testing ChromeOS, and theyre going to throw Ubuntu on there (and thus presumably stop testing ChromeOS)?
Seems kind of cheap, why dont you just buy your own laptop, or actually TEST the one youve been given?
One of the things you agreed on when apply to beta the CR-48 is that you will use it as your main computer.
I thought that was funny because on my main computer I play Everquest 2, amoungst other video games, and I'm pretty damn sure I won't be able to do that on a CR-48.
MCP (which did stand for Master Control Program) was the operating system on Burroughs Large Systems machines, from the B5000 onwards. It was released in 1961, so predated TRON by some time. It was the first OS to support multiple CPUs, the first OS to be written in a high-level language, and the first commercial OS to support virtual memory.
They say in Tron that the MCP started out as a chess program, so it would seem that it actually stood for Master Chess Program, before it got promoted. =)
Okay, lets look at this.
On one hand you have Twitter, a way of communicating with the world instantly. While it has it's uses, it's made up of the idea that what you have to post is so fucking important, that everyone needs to see it.
Facebook. the "social network" that everyone is on. Everyone has to share their photo's, info, and every fucking thing else of their lives. While there is some privacy, it seems to be very crappy. And it is also based on the idea that what you do is important enough to share with everyone (though it does have like some privacy settings).
And on the other hand, we have people complaining about the lack of privacy, how companies like google track everything you do, etc.
The Netflix streams are all have proprietary DRM protection. To write our own client we would have to reverse engineer this proprietary protocol (which is legal, but can be difficult), and then worse, we would have hack the authorized players, and to get the DRM keys out of them. This implementation would constitute a circumvention device, and using or distributing it would be illegal under the DMCA.
Asking open source customers to break the law to use your service isn't exactly friendly to open source.
So that's like making it so your customers have to break the law for "fair use"? You know, like it is currently with DVD's & Blurays?
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Probably a bad idea to put a bunch of Jews in the center of a bunch of people who hate Jews, but it's not like the only reason they want to kill Jews is because their "homeland is being invaded". They were of that mindset long before Israel existed.
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I was under the impression that everyone hated Jews because they go around saying they are god's children and better then everyone else?
Or is it everyone else is just sick of "jewish comedy"?
People do understand, this is the game that ruined all FPS to come?
What you say?
FPS aren't made for gamepads. Yet, we now have a generation of kids that think that using gamepads is the only way to play FPS.
Get the fuck off my lawn with your stupid gamepads, keyboards & mice only!!!
=)
Just a note, I have the Goldeneye remake for my Wii and it's not too bad (for using a gamepad). Now playing it on a 1080p TV sucks, like most Wii games. Good thing I still have 3 Commodore monitors (1902, 1080, 1084) for my non HD consoles (which is mostly what I own).
You know, it's pretty sucky to bitch about the size of your work space when so many people would love to have a job to bitch about.
okay, why it posted as AC when I never post as AC is sort of weird. I'm not bitching about a lack of job, fyi. I'm disabled, so I don't have to work. I get shit for money, but I don't work in a cubicle. (instead, I live in one...)
It was a hardware problem.
the hardware wasn't enough to keep up with all the requests coming in.
Guess what, the Taliban calls you a "spoiled brat acting like thugs".
Iran calls you that.
North Korea calls the western world that.
It makes it a lot easier to hate the other side if you give them a derogatory name and belittle them.
I say to them: "takes one to know one"
...and here's why:
While the Cr-48's big event recently could be seen worldwide over the internet infrastructure that Google itself supports, testing of this device was only limited to those residing in the US!
This was unfair to those outside the United States. Making things even worse was the fact that at registration, one only came to this realization after being asked about what the U.S. State of residence is. This would be after asking for all other information!
Google should have allowed those without a U.S. shipping address to be billed for any expenses if they really wanted to be part of the testing regime. Heck...Google has "Google Checkout", right?
I was not happy at all. Google being a worldwide company would have benefited a lot from worldwide input.
How am I wrong?
You are wrong because you are just thinking of yourself.
Business do crap like this all the time for their home country. Why should they bare the expense of sending these across the globe, just so you can be happy?
They are busy testing these. They paid for them, they are incurring the expense. Part of it, I'm sure, is we can do 60k of these if we limit the testing to the USA, or we can test 30k across the globe.
Seems you'd get better numbers from the 60k at home, then 30k across the globe.
But lets look as some logic here.
While a lot of peeps in world speak English, it isn't the common language across the world. They have to, for a product they are testing, put language files into it. It can't handle USB devices yet, so why worry about it speaking russian, or chinese?
You should grow up, accept that you won't be privilage to everything in life. I hope you realize that your chance of getting one these beta offerings, if they did make it available to the world, is like very slim. 7 billion peeps in the world, 60k netbooks going out.
I, for one, do not support this comment. Smack that kid and send him to bed without supper. Problem solved.
Yes, "smack" that kid. Since violence solves everything.