Why not include a voucher for free cables with the console?
That's not a bad idea... but again, that drives up your production costs. Most cables start at $50. And if you don't know who does and who doesn't have HD capability, you wouldn't want to provide that if your users don't need it... at that price anyways.:)
Crap.... Now my son is going to want a HDTV in addition to the 360 for Christmas.
*GIGGLE* Gawd, I remember those days. Now it's work work work work 60 hours a week for 3 months to save.:) Things never do really change, do they?
I must admit that we do have great service from Cox. I hear it's one of the few places that does have really good support and service from them.... everywhere else I hear, it just blows. But they've done all kinds of stuff for me, including re-running all of my cable because it was so old, it wouldn't support the load I draw into my house.:P And I'm calling to bump up my bandwidth speeds!
For your son's gaming TV... I did see 27" plasma HD monitors for sale for $500.00. I think this was at Costco, actually. But I know they are coming down through the floor, and quick. I'm starting to save for our replacement, because mine is 2 years old, and it's burned in. (it's rear projection) We watch so much news, it's got the MSNBC logo burned in. I really want to get a DLP monitor, and I don't want it to be plasma, either.:) Give me the behemoths please!
Well then I hope Microsoft all the best. The add-on I was speaking of is cabling.
That'll teach me to RTFA, except I already have all this in last months' EGM.:P Um.... yeah, this is probably a true statement. The original XBox didn't offer it either. At first, I got extra cables from my Cable company to hook in the HD XBox.... but they weren't performing very well, so I did switch up to the Monster HD cables for it, which were like $40. I think that the reason that they don't provide this is because it would be prohibitively expensive just to add the HD cables. I had to hunt all over town to find them under $75. Most places charge an even $100 bucks for a set of High-def cables. This is a known issue with HDTVs, but they don't provide them with the purchase of the tele, either. So, it's basically been accepted that, like with stereo equipment, you gotta choose your own cables.
This is a good thing too, because there are ranges that you can choose from.... size, strength, combinations, etc. To include or not to include SVideo or fiber audio.... etc. It's just too hard to include the right cables for each individual set up. Though... I really wish they would make that clearer.:) We were lucky... even though I went in at opening on the day after Thanksgiving two years ago to plunk down my $1000 for a 52" HDTV... the salesperson took their time with me and explained *everything* that I needed to do. At Best Buy no less. They even set up our cable install right in the store. And they told us right then that cables were going to be our biggest expenditure. But Cox has been very generous and helped us get everything set up.:)
I personally don't believe that HD gaming is coming in a big way to the game market yet, but it is good to see Microsoft positioning itself to take advantage of the market when it comes. I guess we will have to see how the DVD wars sort themselves out, but having an HD-capable system now means at least on less add-on to convince consumers to buy later.
I don't know man... have you tried gaming in true high-definition? That was the whole reason I plunked down the money for an HD box, was so that I could better play games (I have eyesight issues). Not to mention, it's great for football. The first time I got my Xbox hooked up and popped in a true HD Game - MechAssault, Unreal Championship, Pariah, Metal Arms, all of these are in 1080i resolution - I about shat myself. And I've been gaming since I was 7 - Pong was my best friend!:P
Nothing could ever have prepared me for those first fire fights. High-Def gives you an extreme advantage over your non-HD players, because you can see things well enough to dodge, take out, hide, whatever. I can manipulate my characters between hails of machine gun fire and stay alive, and sneak up and kill the bastard, because I could see his muzzle flash. You can see the bits of metal and parts that go flying when you blow up your opponent/atmosphere, whatever. The Xbox graphics look good, but they are uncompared when viewed in 1080i. I think that's one of the reasons that Unreal remains a staple in our home, because it looks awesome, responds well, and has such great HD support. I don't know if this is true of all High-definition games. That's generally all we buy... it's gotta have 1080i support (at LEAST 720p), multi-player, and playable against each other.
I don't think HD gaming has taken off as well yet, because the Xbox has been the only supporter. Competition will be good in this arena! As for adding it on as an additional support mechanism.... I'm fairly sure it's part of the GPU that enables it, so it probably couldn't be an add-on.... just something that was either enabled or disabled. But I don't know.... With $500.00 Plasma HD TVs on the market this fall, this is poised to jump through the ceiling.
This is the exact reason that we are waiting out launch day. I got burned by the bad Thompson DVD drives they used in the Xbox 1, AFTER waiting almost a year. Heh. I'm definitely waiting until they work out the bugs this time. Which is going to be hard after seeing a Quake 4 demo for it last night! *Swooooooooon*
The other reason is that we are going to wait for the patches to be developed for our favorite games that are supported on the 360. Only 2 of them that we have ARE supported. My new XBox isn't even a full year old yet... I can wait a few months!
The other other reason is that Microsoft is going to be ramping up delivery of the boxes, rather than shipping all they have. It may be pretty tough to get one the first few weeks. Give them the time to flush out all the bugs in the process... probably save some money in the process... and you'll be a whole lot happier when you DO buy it.:)
Hey there Smoker....
I just want to thank you for posting this most insightful note. I don't think it matters where in the world we live, we all have to deal with the twits on the roads. It is a real adventure in San Diego... I believe we have some of the worst drivers I've ever seen. Yes, on my way to work this morning, I saw a man driving a big huge dump truck. What was he doing? Text messaging AND eating!!! I love the ones that read the paper too while driving. I just want to shoot them with a paintball gun. *sigh* But what can we do, except try to drive to avoid them. Unfortunately, that gets you pulled over bigtime, I got nailed for a 'speeding' ticket, when I hadn't even gotten on the freeway just yet! *argh* And it was because I drove agressively to avoid getting hit. I'm fighting it in court, though.
I completetly agree with your assessment of the average Joe Driver. And it's scary. I, for one, am a good driver... or as good as I know how to be. That includes maintaining safe (and gas-saving) speeds most of the time, but I know how to drive very aggressively and defensively. And with a Jaguar Vanden Plas, it's just so easy. I firmly believe that the best of British engineering is in my car, and that she will save my life and hers. And she has. She has not yet failed me... even when I tried to push her to see how she'd behave on hot/slick/wet/flooded streets. *smile* It's just sad to know that every day so many people are killed or maimed by such idiots, yet nothing has been done to stop it. The police turn a blind eye, and go after the easy money targets - the pretty girl driving the hot British car! Bastards.:(
And one that opens this month in San Francisco - Lestat - based upon the works of Anne Rice. I've got tickets for January in San Francisco. It moves to Broadway in March!:D
I thought strongly about the things you said, and to a large degree do agree with you Druids and about the cuneiform in particular. I was quite saddened to see that we don't have more stories of the Ancient Worlds and Mysteries than we have. But I retain hope and wishes that as we continue deciphering ancient symbology that we will find out more. A couple of years ago, the RSA Conference in SF was working on decrypting the stones from the Mayan Calendar at Teothiucan to try to determine why it runs out in 2012.... interesting.
But on the manner of the humanity time scale, I don't know exactly where I would start, 'humanity' and divide it from 'primates', simply because they are still so much like us today, and is proven even more fascinating the more research we do. I've studied much pre-history, mostly in terms of an interest driven by books, but have visted many prestigious museums and spoken with docents. And I agree with you that no one agrees about a specific timeline, except radio-carbon dating - though there are many that would like to dispute that it's accurate.:) As it turns out, I was still off by a couple hundred thousand years.
And while St. Patrick is credited with introducing 'writing', there are many that believe that he obliterated any proof of Celtic writing prior. My ancestors resided in Ireland prior to the coming of Patrick, and were among the snakes pushed to Scotland - so now it looks like we're Scots, when we're Celts. heheheh... it's so much fun to try to show people stuff they can't grasp. Hell, most of them can't get anything older than 20 years, let alone 20 centuries!:P
Hijacked is more like it!:P I guess I'm glad that I learned what I could from my ancestors before they passed away. I was the only one in 40 years to express an interest. And so the knowledge too shall pass to my children. Oral traditions went the way of the Navajo unfortunately.:) I'm one of the few that thinks Gerald should be beaten with a wet noodle in public. Doreen I can take or leave, at least she tries to keep it real.:P
Hehehehe.... I just changed my name *to* this!:D Funny what marriage does.:) Ok, well, not just, but about 18 months ago.
Heya... thanks for the good information, because it does coincide with much of what I was taught.
Although, I was of the understanding that some 'Venus' carvings dated back as far as 120,000 years, but I can't point you to the source right now. I've seen some in museum settings that claim to be more than 70,000 years old, which would be prior to the Toba Bottleneck, so that's interesting.
I agree with your assertion that we cannot truly KNOW anything about these times, but I sure wish we could. All we can do is try to make our best educated guesses based on what we find. I am especially watchful of archeological works in the Greater British Isles that may yet turn up very interesting things. But as we know, the Druids primarly passed information in stories and song transmitted verbally, because writing them down could be deadly.
Someday, I hope to get rich enough to go back to school and pursue ancient archeology. Someday.:)
It would be nice if the UN would also regulate the use of traditional weaponary with regards to murdering people with them. Although I would rather be killed in battle than come home eating out a straw with a few parts missing.
At least, I think that's what you were referring to. Rwanda happens all over again, and the entire world turns a blind eye. Yet, the tools remain simple and same - blades. Let's just have the UN outlaw blades of any kind. Ah, but it's the UN who's turning the blind eye, while their 'workers' are raping Darfur's child refugees for fun.:(
So what if the US bends the rules a little bit? When are people going to realize and figure out that the world is a helluva lot nastier than the United States Military, while it may have it's whackjobs, most are sane, smart, and compassionate people who make the right decisions. And I'm sorry, if it takes a little bit of pressure and coercion, maybe even some torture for a while, to rid the world of these IslamiFacisiNazis that are slaughtering who races of people... GO FOR IT! Hell, give me some bamboo splinters and a water bucket, I'll join in the fun.
Genocide is the most animalistic exhibition of evil on the planet today... yet the world says nothing, does nothing, and continues to let millions of people die by the hands of Allah in the name of race purification. It makes me sick, it makes me vomit, and it makes me proud to be an American to know that despite all the bullshit and the protests and the fuckwads, WE ARE DOING THE RIGHT AND JUST THING.
As an initiate, I must *sorely* disagree with you. But you are correct in the sense that it is an amalgamation - and there is a lot of offshoots that are wretched cults. The Olde Ways have been maintained by my familial bloodties going back centuries, to Roman times. It has been as real a spiritual way of life for hundreds of years, such as have Buddhism and Hinduism.
There is archaelogical evidence going back hundreds of millenia to support such very well understood Goddess Worship structures, and survived well into the first Millenia in forms of Greek and Roman Worship. In fact, the Romans preserved much of the Celtic Druidic Leadership to help control the areas as they moved into them and brought the lands under Roman rule. This is all very well documented and very much understood in museums and books around the world. And while the Druids performed sacrifice, it's well known that the only human sacrifices were those sentenced already to death by justice. It has been and always will be unlawful under the Wiccan Reed to cause harm to another. Those sentanced to death were dead already. This does not include other uses of human blood for ritualistic purposes, though that is greatly shunned today. The mass majority of sacrifices were the Goddess' own creatures as revered by the people. Besides, life was SUPER cheap back in that day.:)
Yeah, like Nancy Pelosi is the shining example of Democracy!!! *ARGH*!!!!!1 Wake up and smell the meth, man. She's the biggest hypocrite in the House! Everyone in California with 1/2 a brain in their head hates that she speaks for this state, because she's so clueless. Wanna see how clueless/
"Staunch union supporter Rep. Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) has received the Cesar Chavez Award from the United Farmworkers Union. But the $25 million Northern California vineyard she and her husband own is a non-union shop.
The hypocrisy doesn't end there. Pelosi has received more money from the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees union than any other member of Congress in recent election cycles.
But the Pelosis own a large stake in an exclusive hotel in Rutherford, Calif. It has more than 250 employees. But none of them are in a union, according to Schweizer, author of "The Bushes: Portrait of a Dynasty" and a regular contributor to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and other periodicals.
The Pelosis are also partners in a restaurant chain called Piatti, which has 900 employees. The chain is - that's right, a non-union shop."
Bought and paid for by the people she's buttraping.:*(
This is a more personal comment, but wtf? Ya know?:P Ok, so I'm not a developer by trade, but I am on OS Specialist, a senior one even, with 15 years experience. In fact, I worked with some of the 0.90 versions of Linux when Torvalds was still using BBSs to distribute them. Hehehehe. I had a dual boot 386-33 running multiple 40 & 80Mb drives! I threw in another controller and went to work. Unfortunately, the marriage didn't last as long as Linux did.:P
So as my career advanced, of course it was all Novell and Windoze. Of course, that's what all the biz industry wanted in 1992-about 1999. But throughout it all, I maintained my knowledge of Linux and of Unix flavors, so that I could just keep that little edge. In so many ways, I could see areas where the *nix world could take over Windows, except for the pesky end users.:P But as I've grown, and I've become pretty proficient in the most recent releases of RedHat, AIX, and Solaris. So now, I'm going back and building my own dual-boot system with XP (I have an end user at home too) and RedHat 9 (it's what I have on CD).
But the reason that I'm writing to ya, is that though I'm not a developer - I am merely a glorified SQL/Scripting kinda gal.... only because I don't get development too well, that whole object oriented thing kills me every time... But I do have massive experience and ideas that I am willing to share if it will help you out. I'll volunteer.:) I'll test, QA, coordinate ideas, whatever you need. Let me know.:)
And of course, if I'm just annoyin' ya, that's ok too... but I apologize!:P Thanks for taking the time, man, we all need to do our part to grow our industry.
All this looks like is a web based RSS aggregator for the web. We're prohibited from using Firefox at work (ISA server to get out to the 'net), so I tested it with IE 6. It's just another portal. *bleh* How is this supposed to be innovative, inspiring or new? Oh, to anyone who's just born or just woke up from a coma. I see.
But then I clicked on the What's New tab, and found a lot of what they have planned.... I think this is what scares me more. How can you have webbased IM? Isn't webbased antivirus an oxymoron? WTF over? I guess I'm going to go ahead and check it out... only because god knows it's going to be mandated by mgmt. at some point to pull it internally. *feh* I hope not though... we're more a *nix shop now these days.
Ya know what..... screw all this crap. It's as bad, if not worse than DRM. At least DRM serves a purpose. Why don't they run this snoopware on their servers, not on my computer?
I've never been a fan of MMORPGs, ever since I saw my friend lose his mind to Evercrack. Seriously.... he went into a mental hospital, and I haven't heard from him since.....5 years ago. I was intrigued by Half-Life 2 until the whole registration process became a nightmare. I loved WoW until I found out that I had to pay a monthly fee, etcetcetc.
Screw the PC game designers and all their toys. That's what I have an XBox for... and I know what I'm getting for my $40.00 that I pay for a game. It's *worth* it. And yes, my XBox360 is on order for an even higher magnitude of yummeh. DISCLAIMER: Playstations don't support HighDefinition or 1080i. When you can get 8.92 frags a second in Unreal, let me know.:D
Oh yeah, the cheats are built into the games and easy to find. And if not, well, then they aren't.:)
Or the satellite photos of Russian trucks leaving key installations known to house WMDs for Syria before the invasion?
This is a new one, I have never ever heard this one - wheres the evidence? Wheres the photos? Wheres the outcry?
I have heard this from repeated sources, including men who were in the ground invasion. Check out this site for a lot of very interesting links through.... I know it's a blog, but I actually read through the links on the page.... this very well could have happened, and NOT been fabricated. Gee, and ya wonder why Syria is nervous and making a display of force.
Thank you frickin' *god* for posting this. I swear. If it weren't for Susan Ivanova - I wouldn't still be in IT. I can't tell you how many times I have quoted this, beaten this, or henpecked this in to one of the victims of my mentoring. It goes well when threatening breaking fingers near console keyboards in Data Centers.:)
This is priceless!!!! It is too cute for words. Now I'm sitting her trying to rack my brain for any reasons this could be possible. Thanks for the laugh - this is just too cute.:)
He's in Corcoran State Prison in Kings County. That's probably why they were looking to put Jackson there, because it is nearby Neverland. Kinda. Sirhan Sirhan is also imprisoned there. I would think these guys would be at San Quentin, but then, that's reserved for child rapists and murderers...
*lol* Thanks.... a friend of mine said this yesterday when he got chopped off of Google Talk during the midst of a conversation, and I laughed so hard, it was hysterial. Go fig.:P
I think they (they being L3/Cogent) already *did* poop on the Internet, hence why the agreement. I'd like to know that this kind of stuff *isn't* going to happen anymore with the agreement. But one can never be so sure.
Absolutetly. We also had problems with people getting access to our University site, which *SUCKS* because how else are we supposed to help train all these new insurance adjusters. I feel your pain, seriously.... Especially since many of our transactions were backlogged for days.:( And I don't think our company has ever been seriously affected before like this. We're looking into alternative solutions.
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Why not include a voucher for free cables with the console?
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That's not a bad idea... but again, that drives up your production costs. Most cables start at $50. And if you don't know who does and who doesn't have HD capability, you wouldn't want to provide that if your users don't need it... at that price anyways.
Jho
Crap.... Now my son is going to want a HDTV in addition to the 360 for Christmas.
:) Things never do really change, do they?
:P And I'm calling to bump up my bandwidth speeds!
:) Give me the behemoths please!
*GIGGLE* Gawd, I remember those days. Now it's work work work work 60 hours a week for 3 months to save.
I must admit that we do have great service from Cox. I hear it's one of the few places that does have really good support and service from them.... everywhere else I hear, it just blows. But they've done all kinds of stuff for me, including re-running all of my cable because it was so old, it wouldn't support the load I draw into my house.
For your son's gaming TV... I did see 27" plasma HD monitors for sale for $500.00. I think this was at Costco, actually. But I know they are coming down through the floor, and quick. I'm starting to save for our replacement, because mine is 2 years old, and it's burned in. (it's rear projection) We watch so much news, it's got the MSNBC logo burned in. I really want to get a DLP monitor, and I don't want it to be plasma, either.
Jho
Well then I hope Microsoft all the best. The add-on I was speaking of is cabling.
:P Um.... yeah, this is probably a true statement. The original XBox didn't offer it either. At first, I got extra cables from my Cable company to hook in the HD XBox.... but they weren't performing very well, so I did switch up to the Monster HD cables for it, which were like $40. I think that the reason that they don't provide this is because it would be prohibitively expensive just to add the HD cables. I had to hunt all over town to find them under $75. Most places charge an even $100 bucks for a set of High-def cables. This is a known issue with HDTVs, but they don't provide them with the purchase of the tele, either. So, it's basically been accepted that, like with stereo equipment, you gotta choose your own cables.
:) We were lucky... even though I went in at opening on the day after Thanksgiving two years ago to plunk down my $1000 for a 52" HDTV... the salesperson took their time with me and explained *everything* that I needed to do. At Best Buy no less. They even set up our cable install right in the store. And they told us right then that cables were going to be our biggest expenditure. But Cox has been very generous and helped us get everything set up. :)
That'll teach me to RTFA, except I already have all this in last months' EGM.
This is a good thing too, because there are ranges that you can choose from.... size, strength, combinations, etc. To include or not to include SVideo or fiber audio.... etc. It's just too hard to include the right cables for each individual set up. Though... I really wish they would make that clearer.
Jho
I personally don't believe that HD gaming is coming in a big way to the game market yet, but it is good to see Microsoft positioning itself to take advantage of the market when it comes. I guess we will have to see how the DVD wars sort themselves out, but having an HD-capable system now means at least on less add-on to convince consumers to buy later.
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I don't know man... have you tried gaming in true high-definition? That was the whole reason I plunked down the money for an HD box, was so that I could better play games (I have eyesight issues). Not to mention, it's great for football. The first time I got my Xbox hooked up and popped in a true HD Game - MechAssault, Unreal Championship, Pariah, Metal Arms, all of these are in 1080i resolution - I about shat myself. And I've been gaming since I was 7 - Pong was my best friend!
Nothing could ever have prepared me for those first fire fights. High-Def gives you an extreme advantage over your non-HD players, because you can see things well enough to dodge, take out, hide, whatever. I can manipulate my characters between hails of machine gun fire and stay alive, and sneak up and kill the bastard, because I could see his muzzle flash. You can see the bits of metal and parts that go flying when you blow up your opponent/atmosphere, whatever. The Xbox graphics look good, but they are uncompared when viewed in 1080i. I think that's one of the reasons that Unreal remains a staple in our home, because it looks awesome, responds well, and has such great HD support. I don't know if this is true of all High-definition games. That's generally all we buy... it's gotta have 1080i support (at LEAST 720p), multi-player, and playable against each other.
I don't think HD gaming has taken off as well yet, because the Xbox has been the only supporter. Competition will be good in this arena! As for adding it on as an additional support mechanism.... I'm fairly sure it's part of the GPU that enables it, so it probably couldn't be an add-on.... just something that was either enabled or disabled. But I don't know.... With $500.00 Plasma HD TVs on the market this fall, this is poised to jump through the ceiling.
Jho
Hey there Joerdie -
:)
This is the exact reason that we are waiting out launch day. I got burned by the bad Thompson DVD drives they used in the Xbox 1, AFTER waiting almost a year. Heh. I'm definitely waiting until they work out the bugs this time. Which is going to be hard after seeing a Quake 4 demo for it last night! *Swooooooooon*
The other reason is that we are going to wait for the patches to be developed for our favorite games that are supported on the 360. Only 2 of them that we have ARE supported. My new XBox isn't even a full year old yet... I can wait a few months!
The other other reason is that Microsoft is going to be ramping up delivery of the boxes, rather than shipping all they have. It may be pretty tough to get one the first few weeks. Give them the time to flush out all the bugs in the process... probably save some money in the process... and you'll be a whole lot happier when you DO buy it.
Jho
Hey there Smoker.... I just want to thank you for posting this most insightful note. I don't think it matters where in the world we live, we all have to deal with the twits on the roads. It is a real adventure in San Diego... I believe we have some of the worst drivers I've ever seen. Yes, on my way to work this morning, I saw a man driving a big huge dump truck. What was he doing? Text messaging AND eating!!! I love the ones that read the paper too while driving. I just want to shoot them with a paintball gun. *sigh* But what can we do, except try to drive to avoid them. Unfortunately, that gets you pulled over bigtime, I got nailed for a 'speeding' ticket, when I hadn't even gotten on the freeway just yet! *argh* And it was because I drove agressively to avoid getting hit. I'm fighting it in court, though.
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I completetly agree with your assessment of the average Joe Driver. And it's scary. I, for one, am a good driver... or as good as I know how to be. That includes maintaining safe (and gas-saving) speeds most of the time, but I know how to drive very aggressively and defensively. And with a Jaguar Vanden Plas, it's just so easy. I firmly believe that the best of British engineering is in my car, and that she will save my life and hers. And she has. She has not yet failed me... even when I tried to push her to see how she'd behave on hot/slick/wet/flooded streets. *smile* It's just sad to know that every day so many people are killed or maimed by such idiots, yet nothing has been done to stop it. The police turn a blind eye, and go after the easy money targets - the pretty girl driving the hot British car! Bastards.
Jho
And one that opens this month in San Francisco - Lestat - based upon the works of Anne Rice. I've got tickets for January in San Francisco. It moves to Broadway in March! :D
I don't know man... I sure found this article awful interesting, and beats every one of your death by bungy bungy theories: http://www.sciam.com/print_version.cfm?articleID=0 0073A97-5745-1359-94FF83414B7F0000
Jho
Hey there Weedlekin -
:) As it turns out, I was still off by a couple hundred thousand years.
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- this one has 'art' 3,000,000 years old... wow!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3047383. stm
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I thought strongly about the things you said, and to a large degree do agree with you Druids and about the cuneiform in particular. I was quite saddened to see that we don't have more stories of the Ancient Worlds and Mysteries than we have. But I retain hope and wishes that as we continue deciphering ancient symbology that we will find out more. A couple of years ago, the RSA Conference in SF was working on decrypting the stones from the Mayan Calendar at Teothiucan to try to determine why it runs out in 2012.... interesting.
But on the manner of the humanity time scale, I don't know exactly where I would start, 'humanity' and divide it from 'primates', simply because they are still so much like us today, and is proven even more fascinating the more research we do. I've studied much pre-history, mostly in terms of an interest driven by books, but have visted many prestigious museums and spoken with docents. And I agree with you that no one agrees about a specific timeline, except radio-carbon dating - though there are many that would like to dispute that it's accurate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_art http://donsmaps.com/tantanvenus.html http://www.wadsworth.com/art_d/templates/student_
And while St. Patrick is credited with introducing 'writing', there are many that believe that he obliterated any proof of Celtic writing prior. My ancestors resided in Ireland prior to the coming of Patrick, and were among the snakes pushed to Scotland - so now it looks like we're Scots, when we're Celts. heheheh... it's so much fun to try to show people stuff they can't grasp. Hell, most of them can't get anything older than 20 years, let alone 20 centuries!
Jho
Hijacked is more like it! :P I guess I'm glad that I learned what I could from my ancestors before they passed away. I was the only one in 40 years to express an interest. And so the knowledge too shall pass to my children. Oral traditions went the way of the Navajo unfortunately. :) I'm one of the few that thinks Gerald should be beaten with a wet noodle in public. Doreen I can take or leave, at least she tries to keep it real. :P
:D Funny what marriage does. :) Ok, well, not just, but about 18 months ago.
Hehehehe.... I just changed my name *to* this!
Heya... thanks for the good information, because it does coincide with much of what I was taught.
:)
Although, I was of the understanding that some 'Venus' carvings dated back as far as 120,000 years, but I can't point you to the source right now. I've seen some in museum settings that claim to be more than 70,000 years old, which would be prior to the Toba Bottleneck, so that's interesting.
I agree with your assertion that we cannot truly KNOW anything about these times, but I sure wish we could. All we can do is try to make our best educated guesses based on what we find. I am especially watchful of archeological works in the Greater British Isles that may yet turn up very interesting things. But as we know, the Druids primarly passed information in stories and song transmitted verbally, because writing them down could be deadly.
Someday, I hope to get rich enough to go back to school and pursue ancient archeology. Someday.
It would be nice if the UN would also regulate the use of traditional weaponary with regards to murdering people with them. Although I would rather be killed in battle than come home eating out a straw with a few parts missing.
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At least, I think that's what you were referring to. Rwanda happens all over again, and the entire world turns a blind eye. Yet, the tools remain simple and same - blades. Let's just have the UN outlaw blades of any kind. Ah, but it's the UN who's turning the blind eye, while their 'workers' are raping Darfur's child refugees for fun.
So what if the US bends the rules a little bit? When are people going to realize and figure out that the world is a helluva lot nastier than the United States Military, while it may have it's whackjobs, most are sane, smart, and compassionate people who make the right decisions. And I'm sorry, if it takes a little bit of pressure and coercion, maybe even some torture for a while, to rid the world of these IslamiFacisiNazis that are slaughtering who races of people... GO FOR IT! Hell, give me some bamboo splinters and a water bucket, I'll join in the fun.
Genocide is the most animalistic exhibition of evil on the planet today... yet the world says nothing, does nothing, and continues to let millions of people die by the hands of Allah in the name of race purification. It makes me sick, it makes me vomit, and it makes me proud to be an American to know that despite all the bullshit and the protests and the fuckwads, WE ARE DOING THE RIGHT AND JUST THING.
As an initiate, I must *sorely* disagree with you. But you are correct in the sense that it is an amalgamation - and there is a lot of offshoots that are wretched cults. The Olde Ways have been maintained by my familial bloodties going back centuries, to Roman times. It has been as real a spiritual way of life for hundreds of years, such as have Buddhism and Hinduism.
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There is archaelogical evidence going back hundreds of millenia to support such very well understood Goddess Worship structures, and survived well into the first Millenia in forms of Greek and Roman Worship. In fact, the Romans preserved much of the Celtic Druidic Leadership to help control the areas as they moved into them and brought the lands under Roman rule. This is all very well documented and very much understood in museums and books around the world. And while the Druids performed sacrifice, it's well known that the only human sacrifices were those sentenced already to death by justice. It has been and always will be unlawful under the Wiccan Reed to cause harm to another. Those sentanced to death were dead already. This does not include other uses of human blood for ritualistic purposes, though that is greatly shunned today. The mass majority of sacrifices were the Goddess' own creatures as revered by the people. Besides, life was SUPER cheap back in that day.
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Yeah, like Nancy Pelosi is the shining example of Democracy!!! *ARGH*!!!!!1 Wake up and smell the meth, man. She's the biggest hypocrite in the House! Everyone in California with 1/2 a brain in their head hates that she speaks for this state, because she's so clueless. Wanna see how clueless/ "Staunch union supporter Rep. Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) has received the Cesar Chavez Award from the United Farmworkers Union. But the $25 million Northern California vineyard she and her husband own is a non-union shop. The hypocrisy doesn't end there. Pelosi has received more money from the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees union than any other member of Congress in recent election cycles. But the Pelosis own a large stake in an exclusive hotel in Rutherford, Calif. It has more than 250 employees. But none of them are in a union, according to Schweizer, author of "The Bushes: Portrait of a Dynasty" and a regular contributor to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and other periodicals. The Pelosis are also partners in a restaurant chain called Piatti, which has 900 employees. The chain is - that's right, a non-union shop." Bought and paid for by the people she's buttraping. :*(
Hey there Batman -
:P Ok, so I'm not a developer by trade, but I am on OS Specialist, a senior one even, with 15 years experience. In fact, I worked with some of the 0.90 versions of Linux when Torvalds was still using BBSs to distribute them. Hehehehe. I had a dual boot 386-33 running multiple 40 & 80Mb drives! I threw in another controller and went to work. Unfortunately, the marriage didn't last as long as Linux did. :P
:P But as I've grown, and I've become pretty proficient in the most recent releases of RedHat, AIX, and Solaris. So now, I'm going back and building my own dual-boot system with XP (I have an end user at home too) and RedHat 9 (it's what I have on CD).
:) I'll test, QA, coordinate ideas, whatever you need. Let me know. :)
:P Thanks for taking the time, man, we all need to do our part to grow our industry.
This is a more personal comment, but wtf? Ya know?
So as my career advanced, of course it was all Novell and Windoze. Of course, that's what all the biz industry wanted in 1992-about 1999. But throughout it all, I maintained my knowledge of Linux and of Unix flavors, so that I could just keep that little edge. In so many ways, I could see areas where the *nix world could take over Windows, except for the pesky end users.
But the reason that I'm writing to ya, is that though I'm not a developer - I am merely a glorified SQL/Scripting kinda gal.... only because I don't get development too well, that whole object oriented thing kills me every time... But I do have massive experience and ideas that I am willing to share if it will help you out. I'll volunteer.
And of course, if I'm just annoyin' ya, that's ok too... but I apologize!
Jho
All this looks like is a web based RSS aggregator for the web. We're prohibited from using Firefox at work (ISA server to get out to the 'net), so I tested it with IE 6. It's just another portal. *bleh* How is this supposed to be innovative, inspiring or new? Oh, to anyone who's just born or just woke up from a coma. I see.
But then I clicked on the What's New tab, and found a lot of what they have planned.... I think this is what scares me more. How can you have webbased IM? Isn't webbased antivirus an oxymoron? WTF over? I guess I'm going to go ahead and check it out... only because god knows it's going to be mandated by mgmt. at some point to pull it internally. *feh* I hope not though... we're more a *nix shop now these days.
Jho
Ya know what..... screw all this crap. It's as bad, if not worse than DRM. At least DRM serves a purpose. Why don't they run this snoopware on their servers, not on my computer?
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I've never been a fan of MMORPGs, ever since I saw my friend lose his mind to Evercrack. Seriously.... he went into a mental hospital, and I haven't heard from him since.....5 years ago. I was intrigued by Half-Life 2 until the whole registration process became a nightmare. I loved WoW until I found out that I had to pay a monthly fee, etcetcetc.
Screw the PC game designers and all their toys. That's what I have an XBox for... and I know what I'm getting for my $40.00 that I pay for a game. It's *worth* it. And yes, my XBox360 is on order for an even higher magnitude of yummeh. DISCLAIMER: Playstations don't support HighDefinition or 1080i. When you can get 8.92 frags a second in Unreal, let me know.
Oh yeah, the cheats are built into the games and easy to find. And if not, well, then they aren't.
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Or the satellite photos of Russian trucks leaving key installations known to house WMDs for Syria before the invasion? This is a new one, I have never ever heard this one - wheres the evidence? Wheres the photos? Wheres the outcry?
:) I haven't found any photos yet, but I'll touch back if I do.
I have heard this from repeated sources, including men who were in the ground invasion. Check out this site for a lot of very interesting links through.... I know it's a blog, but I actually read through the links on the page.... this very well could have happened, and NOT been fabricated. Gee, and ya wonder why Syria is nervous and making a display of force.
http://www.indcjournal.com/archives/001223.php
I'm also searching to see what else I can find!
Jho
Thank you frickin' *god* for posting this. I swear. If it weren't for Susan Ivanova - I wouldn't still be in IT. I can't tell you how many times I have quoted this, beaten this, or henpecked this in to one of the victims of my mentoring. It goes well when threatening breaking fingers near console keyboards in Data Centers. :)
This is priceless!!!! It is too cute for words. Now I'm sitting her trying to rack my brain for any reasons this could be possible. Thanks for the laugh - this is just too cute. :)
He's in Corcoran State Prison in Kings County. That's probably why they were looking to put Jackson there, because it is nearby Neverland. Kinda. Sirhan Sirhan is also imprisoned there. I would think these guys would be at San Quentin, but then, that's reserved for child rapists and murderers...
Geeez, I wish I had mod points today - this is hysterical. LMAO. Ok, now everyone at work thinks I'm crazy. :P
I'm certainly sure that we do. I'll pass this on. :) Thanks!
*lol* Thanks.... a friend of mine said this yesterday when he got chopped off of Google Talk during the midst of a conversation, and I laughed so hard, it was hysterial. Go fig. :P
I think they (they being L3/Cogent) already *did* poop on the Internet, hence why the agreement. I'd like to know that this kind of stuff *isn't* going to happen anymore with the agreement. But one can never be so sure.
Absolutetly. We also had problems with people getting access to our University site, which *SUCKS* because how else are we supposed to help train all these new insurance adjusters. I feel your pain, seriously.... Especially since many of our transactions were backlogged for days. :( And I don't think our company has ever been seriously affected before like this. We're looking into alternative solutions.