I often see video games come up in studies that find "evidence" that video games increase aggressive tendancies in children. What about football, soccer, and sports in general? People tend to get pretty worked up and violent over those things.
(Bart and Milhouse turn on game console)
(Hockey playing kid in video game scores a goal)
Dad 1: Your kid sucks! Dad 2: Bring - it - on! Hockey Game Voice: It's HOCKEY DAD! Nooo one's fiighting! Bart: Hockey Dad rules! Feel the awesome wrath of Chuck Stadowski!
(Dads start fighting and each other)
Kid: Dad! Stop! It's only assault! Don't make it murder.
(Dad 1 kills Dad 2 and police arrest him while he celebrates)
I guess you could look at "religious" and "police state" as two separate elements, since we know what the current view is on gay marriage and embryonic stem-cell research, as well as the exclusively abused USA PATRIOT act from the current, and now future, administration.
Exactly. You want to break a KDE menu beyond repair within 5 minutes? Just edit it.
I don't see what the big logistical issue is with putting shortcuts in a hierarchial structure (i.e, link files in directories) and projecting them as menus - something Windows has done for 9 years. But somehow KDE needs shortcuts in a bunch of different places, the folder structure elsewhere, text metadata in yet another place, and so on. Completely retarded.
Re:Just give them TV a Fridge and Chips
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I agree with you on that. Nevertheless, you can always expect somebody waiting to jump on this knowing that some will assume that PC = x86.
At least the term "IBM Compatible" is long gone as a byproduct of this.
Of course, the original discs are sitting in my DVD-rack right now, but it's just less hassle to download a DivX and burn a backup DVD than find the tools that actually work to rip my own. I'm sure many others find the same with MP3's/CD's.
What hassle? DVD Decrypter is extremely easy to use. It's much nicer than trusting someone else's compression (plus the obvious advantage of having exact duplicates of the original disc sans encryption). And if you're backing up a dual-layer DVD, DVD Shrink will reencode the VOBs for you and it will only take about 30-90 minutes.
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or a PC with an internet connection, works for all/. readers!
I love linux but come on. There are certain basic things that your average computer user expects to just work. Video, Sound, Networking, and Printing.
Well, video and sound are optional. I've had people ask for help as to why "mah screen is got real big a few months back" (if it's XP, they won't know the difference, just that the computer's too slow when dragging windows). And, of course, sound broke on my parent's computer until I came to fix it months later by uninstalling the broken driver and letting Windows restore the one from cache would have fixed. (At least they're really good about spyware)
(Not about Linux, just a pointless rant)
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Then you would be talking about 64k. (DS0 being a digital circuit's bandwidth for a single phone)
Dude, you might want to check to see if somethings holding up the boot process. For all but XP, if you have DHCP enabled, but are not really using it (disconnected or use a PPPoE connection), you will see very long boot times as you wait for the DHCP client to time out. This is also not a good thing in XP either, however, the OS will be in a nearly-ready state until DHCP times out (no networking functions will work until a minute or so after the shell is brought up)
Also, since it's Windows 98, remark out all memory managers and such in HIMEM.SYS and any real-mode drivers in AUTOEXEC.BAT, as those will add at least another ten seconds if there are any. If you need real-mode drivers because you exit to MS-DOS occasionally, you can move them to C:\windows\dosstart.bat
Using RegClean and running a defragmenter wouldn't hurt either.
I guess if you were expecting someone to call in saying, "Hello, Powell? Baa baa booey baa baa booey, Howard Stern's penis! Baa baa booey!" your expectations can only go up from there.
(Ob. Family Guy quote where Peter testifies against Clarence Thomas pending...someone else can post it)
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Of course, these reports were back in the early 90s when there were fewer FPSs to blame everything on.
Eleven years later, people are still blaming things on Doom.
I often see video games come up in studies that find "evidence" that video games increase aggressive tendancies in children. What about football, soccer, and sports in general? People tend to get pretty worked up and violent over those things.
(Bart and Milhouse turn on game console)
(Hockey playing kid in video game scores a goal)
Dad 1: Your kid sucks!
Dad 2: Bring - it - on!
Hockey Game Voice: It's HOCKEY DAD! Nooo one's fiighting!
Bart: Hockey Dad rules! Feel the awesome wrath of Chuck Stadowski!
(Dads start fighting and each other)
Kid: Dad! Stop! It's only assault! Don't make it murder.
(Dad 1 kills Dad 2 and police arrest him while he celebrates)
Hockey Game Voice: You are a big man! BIG MAN!
Winner of the fight gets a free iPod?
PS: Is it just me or is Slashdot REALY slow today?
It's November 3rd. Anything special going on right now?
Where's no clothes.
Around the corner then go straight a couple blocks. You can't miss it.
Jethro Baldwin?
I guess you could look at "religious" and "police state" as two separate elements, since we know what the current view is on gay marriage and embryonic stem-cell research, as well as the exclusively abused USA PATRIOT act from the current, and now future, administration.
What's the economy currently like in Petoria these days?
You forgot Greedo conceding that Han shoots him first.
George Carlin said it best:
"Louis Farrakhan is openly black. Colin Powell is openly white - he just happens to be black."
No, he tight!
Photoshop will read raw data, but I have no idea what the dimensions or bitdepth of the image are. Post them here if it's applicable.
Exactly. You want to break a KDE menu beyond repair within 5 minutes? Just edit it.
I don't see what the big logistical issue is with putting shortcuts in a hierarchial structure (i.e, link files in directories) and projecting them as menus - something Windows has done for 9 years. But somehow KDE needs shortcuts in a bunch of different places, the folder structure elsewhere, text metadata in yet another place, and so on. Completely retarded.
I agree with you on that. Nevertheless, you can always expect somebody waiting to jump on this knowing that some will assume that PC = x86.
At least the term "IBM Compatible" is long gone as a byproduct of this.
Meh, I say refrain from buying your 40 cd's, buy a guitar and have infinite free music whenever you want however you want.
And that leave you with quite a difficult decision; listen to crappy RIAA music or listen to people practice guitar. * shudders *
If I hear any more people playing shitty Enter Sandman with their amp turned to 15, I'll go nuts.
Of course, the original discs are sitting in my DVD-rack right now, but it's just less hassle to download a DivX and burn a backup DVD than find the tools that actually work to rip my own. I'm sure many others find the same with MP3's/CD's.
What hassle? DVD Decrypter is extremely easy to use. It's much nicer than trusting someone else's compression (plus the obvious advantage of having exact duplicates of the original disc sans encryption). And if you're backing up a dual-layer DVD, DVD Shrink will reencode the VOBs for you and it will only take about 30-90 minutes.
or a PC with an internet connection, works for all /. readers!
Macintosh zealot in 5, 4, 3, 2....
I love linux but come on. There are certain basic things that your average computer user expects to just work. Video, Sound, Networking, and Printing.
Well, video and sound are optional. I've had people ask for help as to why "mah screen is got real big a few months back" (if it's XP, they won't know the difference, just that the computer's too slow when dragging windows). And, of course, sound broke on my parent's computer until I came to fix it months later by uninstalling the broken driver and letting Windows restore the one from cache would have fixed. (At least they're really good about spyware)
(Not about Linux, just a pointless rant)
Then you would be talking about 64k. (DS0 being a digital circuit's bandwidth for a single phone)
If you're referring to 56k modems, aren't those 33.6 upstream?
Dude, you might want to check to see if somethings holding up the boot process. For all but XP, if you have DHCP enabled, but are not really using it (disconnected or use a PPPoE connection), you will see very long boot times as you wait for the DHCP client to time out. This is also not a good thing in XP either, however, the OS will be in a nearly-ready state until DHCP times out (no networking functions will work until a minute or so after the shell is brought up)
Also, since it's Windows 98, remark out all memory managers and such in HIMEM.SYS and any real-mode drivers in AUTOEXEC.BAT, as those will add at least another ten seconds if there are any. If you need real-mode drivers because you exit to MS-DOS occasionally, you can move them to C:\windows\dosstart.bat
Using RegClean and running a defragmenter wouldn't hurt either.
Well, the "g" is in lowercase. Maybe he meant gooberhertz?
NO YUO
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I guess if you were expecting someone to call in saying, "Hello, Powell? Baa baa booey baa baa booey, Howard Stern's penis! Baa baa booey!" your expectations can only go up from there.
(Ob. Family Guy quote where Peter testifies against Clarence Thomas pending...someone else can post it)
Makes sense. Most RC planes' props don't sound like they exceed 8,000 RPM most of the time anyway.