I wanted him to be the posterboy of that silly internet-meme picture with the guy in the background that has a caption along the lines of "You know I'm very popular in the MMORPG community" or something similar. Zed thinks he's the big fish in a tiny, tiny, microscopic pond.
I just read about 3/4 of his rant and 90% of it is his bitching about not having his ego stroked at every opportunity.
I hope this guy is a millionaire, because he certainly talks with the arrogance of one and I doubt he'll have much community respect after this (assuming anyone knows who he is). Sounds like "I didn't make my fortune during the.com boom but I deserved to" sour grapes.
That guy must have a HUGE ego...and looking at his douchey picture on his blog, he thinks he's major hot shit.
Guess what buddy? You should be the new poster boy of
I'm not really sure why the article talks about sperm, specifically... Maybe because sperm are the only cells in the human body use flagella to locomote, which is what these nanobots are supposed to do?
Getting people upset doesn't make you a genius. It makes you brazen and shameless but it doesn't take a genius to be a jerk. Ah, but getting people upset at you and then making millions of dollars of it does take some genius.
I still think they're assholes, but there's no way the majority of the population could pull something like that off but simply find it too morally repugnant to do. Otherwise every successful, smart asshole would be doing it (and there are lots of them).
He's laughing at us, he knows he's stupid. He's counting on your love of pointing it out to make him money. If you view Dvorak through this light, he is a very talented individual. He is the very definition of a demagogue. I think of Ann Coulter in the same light: If she actually believes what she says, she's a raving lunatic. If she doesn't believe what she says but says it anyway to make millions, she's a genius (still evil, but a genius).
I'm writing this on a machine that was originally a "2003 MDD 1x1.25GHz G4 PowerMac" that currently has a 256MB graphics card, 2x1.8GHz G4 processor, 1.3TB of drive space (4 internal drive bays), and two DL DVD burners (2 optical slots).
Sure, it's not an Intel machine, but it ought to last a while, and is plenty upgradable.
Why not just use Handbrake? An awesome DVD to MPEG-4 converter for Mac, Windows, and Linux. http://handbrake.m0k.org/ [m0k.org] Watch him put the Apple logo on this open source software. Don't forget, Handbrake does H.264 as well! Much better video codec (takes longer to encode, obviously), and with an avi container you can keep the AC-3 audio track intact (or turn into mp3/aac if that's not important to you). Huzzah!
Now that I think about it, I've only run Handbrake on a Mac...does the Win version also do H.264?
But, bluntly, why should any flower shop or manufacturer of beer bottles register "his" domain in the 80s? It was hardly their topic, and hardly any sensible way to sell their goods without an audience willing and able to buy via the net. And really, they should not have. They had no business (I mean that literally) using the Internet of that day. In the 90s, with the advent of the Web, everything changed. But remember that the Net predates the Web, and back in those days it wasn't really a place that flower shops could have gotten anything from. They could have advertised/taken orders on...gopher!:)
This is most likely the form you had to fill out. Good old SF86, striking fear in the hearts of good-folks-who-did-stupid-things-in-college since, well, some time ago!
Luna 10 was the first probe of any kind to go into Lunar orbit (not just a fly-by). I'm assuming that the Chinese probe being referred to as a "satellite" indicates that it went into orbit, which Luna 3 did not. Luna 10 was the first probe to go into orbit around the moon, in 1966.
Of course, when we moved there it was 1988 and 75th street was considered "far south" Naperville (before Rickert even existed)...now I think it might qualify as "central" or "north central"!
For NAVTEQ data, you can use their Map Reporter to submit information. Once they get around to [1] incorporating the new data, it may then take another few months to filter back to Google and all their other customers. Don't hold your breath. When I moved into my new house 16 months ago, the first thing I did was report my missing subdivision (which had already been there for 12 months or so at that time) using the NAVTEQ tool. I've been checking it once a month and there has been ZERO action on it. No comments from staff, even though I've left several asking for status updates. No NAVTEQ update, no GMap update. Not worth a damn if you ask me.
Um no. This is fantastic precedent. It is actual democracy. If society overwhelmingly commits an action in defiance of 'the law' then society accepts and approves of that action. What else *should* government do but respect the wishes of the majority of its citizens? While I agree with your sentiment, let me introduce you to Tyranny of the majority If the government truly respected the wished of the majority of its citizens (in the US anyway), Christianity would be the state religion, homosexuals would be rounded up and "re-educated", and all sorts of other horrible things. Unfortunately, the majority of people are stupid.
I was in university when napster was first released. I really wished they would have blocked it. All of the network band width disappeared overnight. I used to send data from the physics lab back to my dorm room file server. That became almost impossible after napster. Sounds like you had some really shitty network engineers. QoS has been around for quite some time...
WoW runs just fine on Leopard. In fact, there were some changes to the OpenGL code in Leopard that WoW can take advantage of, especially on multi-core/proc machines.
My old MDD 1x1.25GHz G4 (Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB) is running it right now, and it works better than on Tiger.
When two folders, both named "Documents", where one is dragged and dropped into the home directory containing another "Documents" folder, Windows prompts if you want to replace content from the dropped folder on to the one being dropped on. At this point, if any files with same name are encountered, they will be replaced with the one from the first directory; however, all other files in folder will stay intact. That is totally bizarre, and I would *never* expect a file transfer to work that way. The new folder should replace the existing folder and all its contents. Talk about a way to get craaaazy mixed up.
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heh, I meant to hit preview instead of submit.
I wanted him to be the posterboy of that silly internet-meme picture with the guy in the background that has a caption along the lines of "You know I'm very popular in the MMORPG community" or something similar. Zed thinks he's the big fish in a tiny, tiny, microscopic pond.
I just read about 3/4 of his rant and 90% of it is his bitching about not having his ego stroked at every opportunity.
.com boom but I deserved to" sour grapes.
I hope this guy is a millionaire, because he certainly talks with the arrogance of one and I doubt he'll have much community respect after this (assuming anyone knows who he is). Sounds like "I didn't make my fortune during the
That guy must have a HUGE ego...and looking at his douchey picture on his blog, he thinks he's major hot shit.
Guess what buddy? You should be the new poster boy of
I still think they're assholes, but there's no way the majority of the population could pull something like that off but simply find it too morally repugnant to do. Otherwise every successful, smart asshole would be doing it (and there are lots of them).
I remember reading about plans for said integration when the Wii was still being called the Revolution.
Then again, maybe they were talking about downloading DS demos from the Wii to the DS, as opposed to full games.
I'm writing this on a machine that was originally a "2003 MDD 1x1.25GHz G4 PowerMac" that currently has a 256MB graphics card, 2x1.8GHz G4 processor, 1.3TB of drive space (4 internal drive bays), and two DL DVD burners (2 optical slots).
Sure, it's not an Intel machine, but it ought to last a while, and is plenty upgradable.
Your sig makes me want to kill you. :)
Now that I think about it, I've only run Handbrake on a Mac...does the Win version also do H.264?
Someones gonna have to go back and get a shitload of dimes!
These kind of attacks have been going on for years and years. Nothing new.
SCADA attacks are as old as the hills.
Damn you. :)
http://www.opm.gov/forms/pdf_fill/SF86.pdf
This is most likely the form you had to fill out. Good old SF86, striking fear in the hearts of good-folks-who-did-stupid-things-in-college since, well, some time ago!
I think it would be easiest to search for:
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Since it's only found on pages with "real" Add To Cart button. If it's there, you're golden, if not, out of stock.
Thank you for that extremely enlightening explanation. Patient with the OP and well thought out.
Thanks again.
Luna 10 was the first probe of any kind to go into Lunar orbit (not just a fly-by). I'm assuming that the Chinese probe being referred to as a "satellite" indicates that it went into orbit, which Luna 3 did not. Luna 10 was the first probe to go into orbit around the moon, in 1966.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_10
LOL, I grew up in Naperville.
Of course, when we moved there it was 1988 and 75th street was considered "far south" Naperville (before Rickert even existed)...now I think it might qualify as "central" or "north central"!
Stupid McMansions in Will County...
Go Brookdale Bobcats! rofl
I own and love this shirt...it's purely educational!
If the government truly respected the wished of the majority of its citizens (in the US anyway), Christianity would be the state religion, homosexuals would be rounded up and "re-educated", and all sorts of other horrible things. Unfortunately, the majority of people are stupid.
WoW runs just fine on Leopard. In fact, there were some changes to the OpenGL code in Leopard that WoW can take advantage of, especially on multi-core/proc machines.
My old MDD 1x1.25GHz G4 (Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB) is running it right now, and it works better than on Tiger.