"The article notes that smoking cannabis will not deliver significant quantities of CBD."
Good thing you can eat it.. you can even distill the pot down to high quality hash where a small bite (think small peanut butter cup) will deliver the medicine quite nicely.
unfortunately I never see this brought up when anti pot activists spout the "more dangerous than cigarettes/400 toxic compounds in smoke" argument.
"I'm using a 8800GTS, which is nice and fast, but is incredibly hot. It generates huge amounts of waste heat, meaning I actually have to run the AC in my room or it gets uncomfortable sitting next to my computer."
the 8800GT would be the successor to the 8600, runs like an 8800 GTS (for the most part) but with less power or heat and at a 150-200 price point.
"You kind of figured that Gordon would have said, "Uh, hey, WTF?" and asked for an explanation. The graphics are awesome, even beautiful, though.
It seemed to me that every time Gordon was about to say "WTF is going on", the other characters said "OMG LOOK OVER THERE *points*" and then shuffled you off to some new "important task".
Spot on with your post tho.. i felt the same way (although i think we are some of the only few who did?)
i killed all of the grubs halfway before i noticed that the achievement wasn't being properly recorded.. apparently you can't play in offline mode and track achievements (even tho i was), it looks like steam thought i wasn't connected to steam and therefore ignored the tracking..
When i resumed playing a day later it did track the events but i was already a good ways through the game...
OR if copyright laws weren't so perverted, public works of art could be used instead of locked up for an indeterminate length of time for the possibility of making profit "sometime" in the future.
Lot took other families with him.. his son's family and some others?
"Terrorism (10 plagues -- attacks against a civilian populace to achieve a political result from the rulers)"
more like retribution for the treatment of his chosen people.. you do know that the first born male of the jewish families were killed (except for moses) before the whole 10 plagues, right?
"# Polygamy (Jacob & Rachel/Leah) # Fraud (Jacob and Esau)"
And punishment was meted out for those sins..
I'm not sure what your point is here..
If you removed sin from every modern day movie, tv show and book you wouldn't have any "entertainment"
"America needs a telecom overhaul. This came from Japan, land of 100M residential fiber connections."
If america had an overhaul imagine how many people would start pirating movies and games!!! i mean it took (um) my friend 16 hours to download a 6GB game over the weekend, imagine if every home had a 100MB upspeed instead of 40k? it would have taken minutes..
"And all the sudden a lot of ignorant people are voting based on satire that went above their head. The author may have a right to do it, but that doesn't make it right nor in the best interest of the country."
You know what you should be worried about.. that someone might make a news organization dedicated to promoting propaganda for a political party, this would be dangerous because just being on TV and billing yourself as a "news" channel, people automatically give some credence to the information that is disseminated.
someone mistaking parody and satire is 100x less frightening that pure deception carefully crafted to deceive those who care enough to vote on important issues. At least people who mistake the satire for reality aren't changing their own belief system based on lies.
"Yes you can get a desktop in about 30-40 seconds on a fast machine.. but use it? The services etc. take about another minute to come up and you can't click on anything in the desktop until it's fully up."
Really? from pressing the power button to the point where i'm on the desktop and getting applications to open on my windows XP SP2 box.. 32 seconds. and it has a RAID array (i.e. it takes 5-7 seconds to initialize in POST)
While i believe YOU, i have seen the same thing (and I work in IT, so maybe that's why) some models will not boot without a battery attached, i have even seen ones that wouldn't boot WITH a battery because it was a little loose, reseating it allowed it to boot again.
I believe the most infamous for this of the types i've worked with are the Sonys, which by the way are not suited for the corporate world because of their lack of durability.
Seriously, does anyone care what this guy has to say? not to mention he is already been proved wrong....
If i wanted to know something about KISS i'd ask gene simmons, if I wanted to know anything else (dating advice, how to raise kids, etc.. (well maybe not makeup removal..) he'd be the last person i'd ask.
If you haven't seen the movie "the final cut" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364343/ check it out, interesting look into the possibility and what it would entail..
I use a really weird keyboard and mouse mapping but the main point (that i wanted to post here) is that i don't use the mouse for shooting.. i use a key on the keyboard instead.. it never made sense to me to put the trigger button on something you have to move around all the time.. I mean, just the action of clicking the mouse will move it that little bit, making precise aiming harder?
I usually do better than anyone i know, but i don't know if that has anything to do with it...
"The lack of balance between high ranked players and the lowly private is what keeps me from giving COD4 multiplayer 5 stars. But then again, life comes at you from all different directions and it isn't always fair. So, when I can best a high ranked player I feel I have really accomplished something."
And i have no problem paying agaisnt a stacked desk as long as I have a "chance" of coming out on top, but like a mod for CS (warcraft) used to do, is give the good players such an advantage, if you joined the map late you would never progress out of the bottom 5 players..
what on earth don't you do to only pay 15 dollars? standard fees alone (like surcharges and other BS charges they tack on) are like 5-10 dollars for me. take cold showers in the dark eating k rations?
"Theft being wrong isn't a business model, it's a moral model, and one that civiliztion is more or less based on."
well if you are going to start arguing morals, what is being stolen?
If you mean that civilization is built on the precept that if i steal bread from you, it deprives you of something, which will lead to retribution and (in the largest sense) ultimately war, then yes that is a great point.
If you are trying to say that me downloading a song i would never purchase is somehow depriving someone of something then your point is moot.
Opps, properly formatted it looks like this:
1) Performance!
The darn thing gobs up 600MB of RAM when it has nothing open, and even more when you open up applications. It's called precaching, it does this to make apps more responsive, XP had the same type of feature, Vista's implementation is more aggressive BUT it is actually a good use of memory, since you have nothing open, why does it matter if the ram is preloaded? this will only decrease the time to open any app that is cached?
The bootup time is slow and the whole system feels very slow. This is unacceptable. This is bloated code to hell. Hard to argue with you here.. as you aren't saying anything that can be verified one way or another.
2) Lock-Ins
Want to disable the stupid Windows indexing search thing? You can't! Want to uninstall all the stupid apps that are bundled in with Windows? You can't do that either. My first search for "vista uninstall indexing" found 3 ways to do this:
http://help.wugnet.com/vista/disable-Vista-indexing-ftopict43619.html [wugnet.com]
Use add/remove programs fro the rest. we have a full vista installer here at work for developer stations.. i'm not actually sure to what bundled apps you refer.. possibly bundled by the (HP/DELL/alienware?) OEM?
3) The look
I don't understand how Aero is supposed to be revolutionary. The interface is unbelievably distracting. The semi-transparent and blurry window borders look like a joke. Aswell, most programs will use that old-school rectangular look. It feels like I'd be running Wine. Something else you can disable?
the rest of your problems it doesn't seem like you have really given vista a chance.. but whatever, it's your preference obviously to use XP instead.. I don't use vista myself but if you want to get rid of your media i'd be happy to try it out...
It's a pathetic operating system while Leopard is kicking everyone's asses. ah here it is, the apple OS that came out last week is already kicking "everybody's" asses? I see that you aren't really trying to give your "experience" with vista but rather a dig at the evil M$ and pop in a pro apple statement while you have the chance...
[quote] 1) Performance! The darn thing gobs up 600MB of RAM when it has nothing open, and even more when you open up applications.[/quote] It's called precaching, it does this to make apps more responsive, XP had the same type of feature, Vista's implementation is more aggressive BUT it is actually a good use of memory, since you have nothing open, why does it matter if the ram is preloaded? this will only decrease the time to open any app that is cached?
[quote] The bootup time is slow and the whole system feels very slow. This is unacceptable. This is bloated code to hell.[/quote] Hard to argue with you here.. as you aren't saying anything that can be verified one way or another.
[quote]2) Lock-Ins Want to disable the stupid Windows indexing search thing? You can't! Want to uninstall all the stupid apps that are bundled in with Windows? You can't do that either.[/quote]
Use add/remove programs fro the rest. we have a full vista installer here at work for developer stations.. i'm not actually sure to what bundled apps you refer.. possibly bundled by the (HP/DELL/alienware?) OEM?
[quote]3) The look I don't understand how Aero is supposed to be revolutionary. The interface is unbelievably distracting. The semi-transparent and blurry window borders look like a joke. Aswell, most programs will use that old-school rectangular look. It feels like I'd be running Wine.[/quote]
Something else you can disable?
[quote] the rest of your problems [/quote] it doesn't seem like you have really given vista a chance.. but whatever, it's your preference obviously to use XP instead.. I don't use vista myself but if you want to get rid of your media i'd be happy to try it out...
[quote]It's a pathetic operating system while Leopard is kicking everyone's asses. [/quote] ah here it is.. you're a rabid MAC fanboi, the apple OS that came out last week is already kicking "everybody's" asses? Maybe when it comes to accidentally deleting your data, although i hear they have a fix for that?
I felt the same way as you but since i have 4 systems in my house, all frequently being used.. I was able to soothe my conscience by the fact that an LCD uses 1/2 the power of a CRT, i bought 2 LCDs as replacements and have seen savings of up to 30-40 bucks a month in our power bill.
along with replacing all of the bulbs in my house with CFL, i'm paying about 100-120 less than i did the same time last year.
So while an LCD might set you back 200 for a good one with max 1280x1024 res and 4:3 ratio, this will pay for itself in less than a year or sooner depending on how much you use it... esp if 1028x1024 is the only res you are using.
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"The article notes that smoking cannabis will not deliver significant quantities of CBD."
Good thing you can eat it.. you can even distill the pot down to high quality hash where a small bite (think small peanut butter cup) will deliver the medicine quite nicely.
unfortunately I never see this brought up when anti pot activists spout the "more dangerous than cigarettes/400 toxic compounds in smoke" argument.
"I'm using a 8800GTS, which is nice and fast, but is incredibly hot. It generates huge amounts of waste heat, meaning I actually have to run the AC in my room or it gets uncomfortable sitting next to my computer."
the 8800GT would be the successor to the 8600, runs like an 8800 GTS (for the most part) but with less power or heat and at a 150-200 price point.
"You kind of figured that Gordon would have said, "Uh, hey, WTF?" and asked for an explanation. The graphics are awesome, even beautiful, though.
It seemed to me that every time Gordon was about to say "WTF is going on", the other characters said "OMG LOOK OVER THERE *points*" and then shuffled you off to some new "important task".
Spot on with your post tho.. i felt the same way (although i think we are some of the only few who did?)
i killed all of the grubs halfway before i noticed that the achievement wasn't being properly recorded.. apparently you can't play in offline mode and track achievements (even tho i was), it looks like steam thought i wasn't connected to steam and therefore ignored the tracking..
When i resumed playing a day later it did track the events but i was already a good ways through the game...
I would disagree, look at bert's head... and he's way to uptight to be a receiver.
OR if copyright laws weren't so perverted, public works of art could be used instead of locked up for an indeterminate length of time for the possibility of making profit "sometime" in the future.
"Incest (Lot and his daughters)"
Lot took other families with him.. his son's family and some others?
"Terrorism (10 plagues -- attacks against a civilian populace to achieve a political result from the rulers)"
more like retribution for the treatment of his chosen people.. you do know that the first born male of the jewish families were killed (except for moses) before the whole 10 plagues, right?
"# Polygamy (Jacob & Rachel/Leah)
# Fraud (Jacob and Esau)"
And punishment was meted out for those sins..
I'm not sure what your point is here..
If you removed sin from every modern day movie, tv show and book you wouldn't have any "entertainment"
Who is to say what is the better way to spend your time? I say if it makes someone happy, isn't hurting anyone else.. let them do it?
"A fair deal is that we treat people with genetic defects if they agree to not produce kids."
Which would be pretty much everyone if we are restricting based on carrying the genetic marker.
"America needs a telecom overhaul. This came from Japan, land of 100M residential fiber connections."
If america had an overhaul imagine how many people would start pirating movies and games!!! i mean it took (um) my friend 16 hours to download a 6GB game over the weekend, imagine if every home had a 100MB upspeed instead of 40k? it would have taken minutes..
Is piracy a problem in japan?
"And all the sudden a lot of ignorant people are voting based on satire that went above their head. The author may have a right to do it, but that doesn't make it right nor in the best interest of the country."
You know what you should be worried about.. that someone might make a news organization dedicated to promoting propaganda for a political party, this would be dangerous because just being on TV and billing yourself as a "news" channel, people automatically give some credence to the information that is disseminated.
someone mistaking parody and satire is 100x less frightening that pure deception carefully crafted to deceive those who care enough to vote on important issues. At least people who mistake the satire for reality aren't changing their own belief system based on lies.
"Yes you can get a desktop in about 30-40 seconds on a fast machine.. but use it? The services etc. take about another minute to come up and you can't click on anything in the desktop until it's fully up."
Really? from pressing the power button to the point where i'm on the desktop and getting applications to open on my windows XP SP2 box.. 32 seconds. and it has a RAID array (i.e. it takes 5-7 seconds to initialize in POST)
what services are you referring to specifically?
While i believe YOU, i have seen the same thing (and I work in IT, so maybe that's why) some models will not boot without a battery attached, i have even seen ones that wouldn't boot WITH a battery because it was a little loose, reseating it allowed it to boot again.
I believe the most infamous for this of the types i've worked with are the Sonys, which by the way are not suited for the corporate world because of their lack of durability.
Seriously, does anyone care what this guy has to say? not to mention he is already been proved wrong....
If i wanted to know something about KISS i'd ask gene simmons, if I wanted to know anything else (dating advice, how to raise kids, etc.. (well maybe not makeup removal..) he'd be the last person i'd ask.
oh wait..
the one i have now is the samsung 932B, one of the few i could find that didn't have this problem.
It's not a widescreen but that's fine with me.
maybe a few years back i would agree with you but monitors have dropped quite a bit in the last year or so.
If you haven't seen the movie "the final cut" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364343/ check it out, interesting look into the possibility and what it would entail..
I use a really weird keyboard and mouse mapping but the main point (that i wanted to post here) is that i don't use the mouse for shooting.. i use a key on the keyboard instead.. it never made sense to me to put the trigger button on something you have to move around all the time.. I mean, just the action of clicking the mouse will move it that little bit, making precise aiming harder?
I usually do better than anyone i know, but i don't know if that has anything to do with it...
"The lack of balance between high ranked players and the lowly private is what keeps me from giving COD4 multiplayer 5 stars. But then again, life comes at you from all different directions and it isn't always fair. So, when I can best a high ranked player I feel I have really accomplished something."
And i have no problem paying agaisnt a stacked desk as long as I have a "chance" of coming out on top, but like a mod for CS (warcraft) used to do, is give the good players such an advantage, if you joined the map late you would never progress out of the bottom 5 players..
Doesn't sound like this is the case here tho...
what on earth don't you do to only pay 15 dollars? standard fees alone (like surcharges and other BS charges they tack on) are like 5-10 dollars for me. take cold showers in the dark eating k rations?
"pathetic attempt to justify getting music for free.
Heres a clue.
GET A FUCKING JOB AND PAY YOUR WAY."
I like my way better, i will not download any song and not buy any music either. How's that?
if you're fine with that how about this:
I will not buy any music ever. I might download a song here and there...
Show me the difference when it comes to the (*play violins now*) starving children of music producers(/end violins) please.
"Theft being wrong isn't a business model, it's a moral model, and one that civiliztion is more or less based on."
well if you are going to start arguing morals, what is being stolen?
If you mean that civilization is built on the precept that if i steal bread from you, it deprives you of something, which will lead to retribution and (in the largest sense) ultimately war, then yes that is a great point.
If you are trying to say that me downloading a song i would never purchase is somehow depriving someone of something then your point is moot.
[quote] 1) Performance!
The darn thing gobs up 600MB of RAM when it has nothing open, and even more when you open up applications.[/quote]
It's called precaching, it does this to make apps more responsive, XP had the same type of feature, Vista's implementation is more aggressive BUT it is actually a good use of memory, since you have nothing open, why does it matter if the ram is preloaded? this will only decrease the time to open any app that is cached?
[quote] The bootup time is slow and the whole system feels very slow. This is unacceptable. This is bloated code to hell.[/quote]
Hard to argue with you here.. as you aren't saying anything that can be verified one way or another.
[quote]2) Lock-Ins
Want to disable the stupid Windows indexing search thing? You can't! Want to uninstall all the stupid apps that are bundled in with Windows? You can't do that either.[/quote]
My first search for "vista uninstall indexing" found 3 ways to do this:
http://help.wugnet.com/vista/disable-Vista-indexing-ftopict43619.html
Use add/remove programs fro the rest. we have a full vista installer here at work for developer stations.. i'm not actually sure to what bundled apps you refer.. possibly bundled by the (HP/DELL/alienware?) OEM?
[quote]3) The look
I don't understand how Aero is supposed to be revolutionary. The interface is unbelievably distracting. The semi-transparent and blurry window borders look like a joke. Aswell, most programs will use that old-school rectangular look. It feels like I'd be running Wine.[/quote]
Something else you can disable?
[quote] the rest of your problems [/quote]
it doesn't seem like you have really given vista a chance.. but whatever, it's your preference obviously to use XP instead.. I don't use vista myself but if you want to get rid of your media i'd be happy to try it out...
[quote]It's a pathetic operating system while Leopard is kicking everyone's asses. [/quote] ah here it is.. you're a rabid MAC fanboi, the apple OS that came out last week is already kicking "everybody's" asses? Maybe when it comes to accidentally deleting your data, although i hear they have a fix for that?
I felt the same way as you but since i have 4 systems in my house, all frequently being used.. I was able to soothe my conscience by the fact that an LCD uses 1/2 the power of a CRT, i bought 2 LCDs as replacements and have seen savings of up to 30-40 bucks a month in our power bill.
along with replacing all of the bulbs in my house with CFL, i'm paying about 100-120 less than i did the same time last year.
So while an LCD might set you back 200 for a good one with max 1280x1024 res and 4:3 ratio, this will pay for itself in less than a year or sooner depending on how much you use it... esp if 1028x1024 is the only res you are using.