I really miss online fragging. Heavy in Unreal, loved UT and had a couple of servers up at the ISP I worked at. Started to do CS and Q3 then had a couple of kids.
Just don't have time anymore.
I missed the whole UT2K3 and UT2K4. From what I remember, 2K3 sucked then 2K4 fixed it so it rocked at least from what I remember from the demos. I believe 2K3 removed the sniper rifle for some ungodly reason.
I think that if there is some sort of security compromise that shuts off a whole lot of DVD players and people return them, the retailers will have to step in and not support this assanine method of control.
Sony can have a DRM'd player all they want but Best Buy, Circuit City, Fry's, etc... won't carry them if they have a high return rate.
I'm not trying to defend the outrageous prices (Venezuela pays 12 cents a gallon) but put it in a different perspective.
The consensus is that the majority of the UK and European commuters fillup once every 2 weeks on normal commute. I may be wrong now but at least 10 years ago, that was the story (based upon vacationers stories).
Those of us who have a 50 mile or less commute daily can stomach the added expense because it's only a weekly fillup. If you're on a tight budget, you compromise on lunch or entertainment. If you already don't have an entertainment budget then you should be on public transportation.
For me in an 11 gallon car, my weekly bill went up $7.00 which means I cut out soft drinks. ($3.75 and up). My commute is 52 miles daily.
If gas goes up to $14 a gallon, you either pay it or don't and adjust your transportation needs if owning a car isn't affordable anymore. For us tech heads, telecommuting becomes an easy option. The fact that we are paying $3.00 a gallon proves that we are willing to pay it and we'll probably never see $.79 a gallon again
Bush bashing and Clinton bashing aside, New Orleans and the state of Louisiana has a long history of the most corrupt politicians ever in the history of the country.
I believe that Louisiana is the only state with a former governor in prison for his corruption during his tenures.
Growing up there, I thought it was common place for road work to take years. When I moved out, I was quite surprised to see that repaving a road really only takes a good weekend and not 8 years.
I have the patent on extending your right or left arm to a doorknob, twisting the knob clockwise or counterclockwise to open the latch, then pushing or pulling open the door.
This only works on rounded doorknobs. I should have forseen the lever handle.
That only works with BGP. Once your hunker down to the local level, taking out a single router can wipe out alot of customers.
Many a discussion have been had when your business-class internet goes out, all the suits quote the same "I thought the internet meant that it doesn't go out". Sorry, if your firewall goes out, your office is out. If your ISP's router feeding your office is out, you're out. If your ISP's feed has a bad router, they're out and guess what, you're out too.
There was a an address you could POKE some value in on the Commodore 64 that would increase the voltage to one of the chips that would cause it to overheat.
Windows ME sold only because it was the ONLY consumer OS available at the time. There was only a short period of time that a few OEM's would give you a choice between Win98 and ME but other than that, Fry's, Best Buy, Circuit City, etc... only had Windows ME on new computers.
Professional Desktops had a better choice but most small business offices would run Windows 98 which was a professional choice (at least with Compaqs)
DX-7 was too expensive and we didn't have any money.
We nickeled and dimed everything we could. We worked in an electronics lab environment in the entertainment sector so most of the tools and supplies were readily available. The only things we had to buy were (as I remember): switches for the keys most of the power supply 565 and 566 chips
We used spare plastic sheets for the keyboard and had tons of spare wire.
We wanted to by a keyboard shell for our keyboard but that was $200. The other option was use a toy piano and that was $60 which was too much at the time for our budget. So we used enough switches for 1 octave and had a dial that changed the frequency for the other octaves.
It was a pretty cool experiment/project
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I though they wrote 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor written by a 2-bit company that can't stand 1-bit of competition
I've got the "By Request" Album (vinyl) with `Walter`'s caricature and credits on it.
Needless to say, I also have SOB and WTS as Walter. SOB-II album I have and Sonic Seasonings has `Wendy` on it.
20 years ago, I build my own monophonic synthesizer using (I think, it's been a while) 755 and 756 Voltage Controlled Oscillators with Bob Moog and Wendy clearly being the motivation. We (had a friend in with me) built a 1-octave key bank and kept most everything on breadboards. We did etch a few copper plates for our circuits but it was a cool project.
Domino is a nightmare if you think of admining it as an Exchange Administrator. If you get out of that counter productive Microsoft mindset, it does become easy after a while like anything else.
I've done both and highly skilled from Exchange 5.0 and MsMail before that. Going to another mail store type is a cumbersome task and I thought Domino was the worst product ever. I forced myself to re-learn Domino from the ground up, -not as in Exchange does it this way, how does Domino do the same thing- and it became easy.
Notes configuration sucks but Exchange does too -especially after Office XP- from a user standpoint. Notes does synchronization alot better IMO.
I have no idea why I got marked as troll because the intent is definitely not as a troll.
10% is the figure that has been floating around as to why spam increases. You're not getting spam because some script kiddie compromised an email server. You get spam because: -your email has been sold -your email has been harvested -your email was once hosted on a public Exchange server (2000 and below)
Marketers (the bad guys) sell your email in bulk to whoever wants to buy them just like the old mailing address label days. (Remember the chain letters that you used to get about moving your address up one notch and send to 20 people and send $5 to the previous person and that person sends you a mailing list?) In today's infomercial soup, 'You too can be a successful internet marketer without leaving the comfort of your home. Earn thousands while your websites do the work that we set up for you.'
And all that is is just reselling the same damn old email list from years ago to people for $29.99, $49.99 or other.
I know the 2% because I'm in that type of marketing; print and internet. I do email blasts too but mine are legit (not V1agraa or C 1 a l 1 s) and we get a healthier return rate up to %40. I don't count ours but the normal return on mass market Email blasts is a health 10%. That's the healthy HTML formatted cheap software or Viagra ones that actually lead you to a site with a shopping cart. That's 10%.
$10,000 is the cost of a normal print mailer to be sent in bulk mail. Ever see those 20% off at Bed, Bath, and Beyond? 2-3% return
$6,000 is a figure told to me personally by a spammer. $7,000 by another. They wanted to rent rackspace with us and they'd pay $6,000 which is what they were paying in California. They would furnish their own server. I said no way.
Email spamming/marketing has an amazing 10% return rate. Compare that to a regular direct mail marketing piece which is 2% and the cost of doing business which is usually $10,000 for a print run vs. $6000 for rack space on unlimited burstable bandwidth, he's doing pretty well.
Some phones (back in the day when you rented them) had a ringer damper that just widened the space between the bells not really turning the ringer off.
And might I add that when the phone rang, it was pretty damn loud!
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But there's no problem to coding to the standard or what is widely accepted from the published then tweaking for IE like most of us XHTML coders do.
At least Opera workarounds are just different interpretations and not bugs.
IE adds a pixel here and a pixel there.
The Tasman engine (IE/Mac) sucks the most and causes the stylesheet to become bloated but isn't really _that_ big of a problem.
My favorite IE workaround that isn't a hack is the !important rule.
I really miss online fragging. Heavy in Unreal, loved UT and had a couple of servers up at the ISP I worked at. Started to do CS and Q3 then had a couple of kids.
Just don't have time anymore.
I missed the whole UT2K3 and UT2K4. From what I remember, 2K3 sucked then 2K4 fixed it so it rocked at least from what I remember from the demos.
I believe 2K3 removed the sniper rifle for some ungodly reason.
Unreal, Unreal Tournament, Quake 3
Granted you'll have to only join like versions but it sure wasn't forced.
Exactly. Microsoft doesn't have content until their first movie comes out in 2007.
Color
Personally I've been laser since 1999 and haven't had a need for color. If I need photos, Walmart is 19 cents a pic and doesn't require refills.
For employment, I have to get the best printer for the job and for 11x17 color, that's ink jet. I shop HP, Epson, Canon and exclude Lexmark.
I really don't see why this Lexmark thing is still an issue. Long ago I erased Lexmark from any choice when shopping for ink jet printers.
Just stop buying the printers. It isn't worth the hassle.
I think that if there is some sort of security compromise that shuts off a whole lot of DVD players and people return them, the retailers will have to step in and not support this assanine method of control.
Sony can have a DRM'd player all they want but Best Buy, Circuit City, Fry's, etc... won't carry them if they have a high return rate.
America is no more to blame than China and India where they have almost no pollution output control.
And how about South America too?
Last I've seen, America doesn't have a city with statues covered in soot like Greece.
Australia which is a continent with a population less than the USA outputs more pollutants from it's power stations than the good ole USA.
( although I don't get monster truck for a 1 mile trip either)
UK doesn't have the landmass the US has.
I'm not trying to defend the outrageous prices (Venezuela pays 12 cents a gallon) but put it in a different perspective.
The consensus is that the majority of the UK and European commuters fillup once every 2 weeks on normal commute. I may be wrong now but at least 10 years ago, that was the story (based upon vacationers stories).
Those of us who have a 50 mile or less commute daily can stomach the added expense because it's only a weekly fillup. If you're on a tight budget, you compromise on lunch or entertainment. If you already don't have an entertainment budget then you should be on public transportation.
For me in an 11 gallon car, my weekly bill went up $7.00 which means I cut out soft drinks. ($3.75 and up). My commute is 52 miles daily.
If gas goes up to $14 a gallon, you either pay it or don't and adjust your transportation needs if owning a car isn't affordable anymore.
For us tech heads, telecommuting becomes an easy option.
The fact that we are paying $3.00 a gallon proves that we are willing to pay it and we'll probably never see $.79 a gallon again
Libertarians are left of right and right of left, not far from either.
Libertarians are far north of Statists.
http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz.html
Bush bashing and Clinton bashing aside, New Orleans and the state of Louisiana has a long history of the most corrupt politicians ever in the history of the country.
I believe that Louisiana is the only state with a former governor in prison for his corruption during his tenures.
Growing up there, I thought it was common place for road work to take years. When I moved out, I was quite surprised to see that repaving a road really only takes a good weekend and not 8 years.
I have the patent on extending your right or left arm to a doorknob, twisting the knob clockwise or counterclockwise to open the latch, then pushing or pulling open the door.
This only works on rounded doorknobs.
I should have forseen the lever handle.
They should bring cats http://library.thinkquest.org/03oct/00128/en/cats/ history.htm
(I like cats BTW but not enough to think that this -http://catsinsinks.com/- site is cute )
That only works with BGP. Once your hunker down to the local level, taking out a single router can wipe out alot of customers.
Many a discussion have been had when your business-class internet goes out, all the suits quote the same "I thought the internet meant that it doesn't go out".
Sorry, if your firewall goes out, your office is out.
If your ISP's router feeding your office is out, you're out.
If your ISP's feed has a bad router, they're out and guess what, you're out too.
There was a an address you could POKE some value in on the Commodore 64 that would increase the voltage to one of the chips that would cause it to overheat.
If you're a web developer and have gotten rid of windows in your home, you still need to check IE on windows and wine fixes that.
Exactly.
Windows ME sold only because it was the ONLY consumer OS available at the time.
There was only a short period of time that a few OEM's would give you a choice between Win98 and ME but other than that, Fry's, Best Buy, Circuit City, etc... only had Windows ME on new computers.
Professional Desktops had a better choice but most small business offices would run Windows 98 which was a professional choice (at least with Compaqs)
(why anonymous?)
DX-7 was too expensive and we didn't have any money.
We nickeled and dimed everything we could. We worked in an electronics lab environment in the entertainment sector so most of the tools and supplies were readily available.
The only things we had to buy were (as I remember):
switches for the keys
most of the power supply
565 and 566 chips
We used spare plastic sheets for the keyboard and had tons of spare wire.
We wanted to by a keyboard shell for our keyboard but that was $200. The other option was use a toy piano and that was $60 which was too much at the time for our budget.
So we used enough switches for 1 octave and had a dial that changed the frequency for the other octaves.
It was a pretty cool experiment/project
I though they wrote 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor written by a 2-bit company that can't stand 1-bit of competition
I've got the "By Request" Album (vinyl) with `Walter`'s caricature and credits on it.
Needless to say, I also have SOB and WTS as Walter. SOB-II album I have and Sonic Seasonings has `Wendy` on it.
20 years ago, I build my own monophonic synthesizer using (I think, it's been a while) 755 and 756 Voltage Controlled Oscillators with Bob Moog and Wendy clearly being the motivation.
We (had a friend in with me) built a 1-octave key bank and kept most everything on breadboards.
We did etch a few copper plates for our circuits but it was a cool project.
Domino is a nightmare if you think of admining it as an Exchange Administrator. If you get out of that counter productive Microsoft mindset, it does become easy after a while like anything else.
I've done both and highly skilled from Exchange 5.0 and MsMail before that. Going to another mail store type is a cumbersome task and I thought Domino was the worst product ever. I forced myself to re-learn Domino from the ground up, -not as in Exchange does it this way, how does Domino do the same thing- and it became easy.
Notes configuration sucks but Exchange does too -especially after Office XP- from a user standpoint. Notes does synchronization alot better IMO.
It's Microsoft logic.
Burgers are $10 at a pizza joint
Pencils are guaranteed to not work underwater
Windows TCO is far less than Linux's TCO
Our platform is secure
I have no idea why I got marked as troll because the intent is definitely not as a troll.
10% is the figure that has been floating around as to why spam increases. You're not getting spam because some script kiddie compromised an email server.
You get spam because:
-your email has been sold
-your email has been harvested
-your email was once hosted on a public Exchange server (2000 and below)
Marketers (the bad guys) sell your email in bulk to whoever wants to buy them just like the old mailing address label days. (Remember the chain letters that you used to get about moving your address up one notch and send to 20 people and send $5 to the previous person and that person sends you a mailing list?)
In today's infomercial soup, 'You too can be a successful internet marketer without leaving the comfort of your home. Earn thousands while your websites do the work that we set up for you.'
And all that is is just reselling the same damn old email list from years ago to people for $29.99, $49.99 or other.
I know the 2% because I'm in that type of marketing; print and internet. I do email blasts too but mine are legit (not V1agraa or C 1 a l 1 s) and we get a healthier return rate up to %40. I don't count ours but the normal return on mass market Email blasts is a health 10%.
That's the healthy HTML formatted cheap software or Viagra ones that actually lead you to a site with a shopping cart. That's 10%.
$10,000 is the cost of a normal print mailer to be sent in bulk mail. Ever see those 20% off at Bed, Bath, and Beyond? 2-3% return
$6,000 is a figure told to me personally by a spammer. $7,000 by another.
They wanted to rent rackspace with us and they'd pay $6,000 which is what they were paying in California. They would furnish their own server. I said no way.
Email spamming/marketing has an amazing 10% return rate.
Compare that to a regular direct mail marketing piece which is 2% and the cost of doing business which is usually $10,000 for a print run vs. $6000 for rack space on unlimited burstable bandwidth, he's doing pretty well.
Some phones (back in the day when you rented them) had a ringer damper that just widened the space between the bells not really turning the ringer off.
And might I add that when the phone rang, it was pretty damn loud!