Those on the mac should check out Adium. I haven't tried Miranda, but Adium has all the "pretty" features of Trillian, the power of GAIM (and much more flexibility) and has this neat feature that some IM client vendors still haven't figure out: it lets you keep the windows from automatically popping up. Nice when you're on a coding bender or your friend sends you an in-line copy of tubgirl while you're giving a demo to your boss.
BBS systems brought a sense of community that, well, the internet could only dream of having.
Most of my good friends that I still keep in contact with, I met in high school mostly through BBS systems.
As a result, meeting the people you chat with online has always been an odd pleasure of mine, just because I like to see who the other ghost-face is. More often than not, it's let me break social barriers that I might not have otherwise broken.
But it was never on Synchronet. Telegard hacks, baby.
Besides, every Xbox you buy is another console in another home where your friends will come over and see it.
And maybe you won't buy the games, but your friends will. And the games bring in big dinero.
It's the same reason that you can find Photoshop on every warez site and Adobe tells stock holders one thing and doesn't do a damn thing about it otherwise.
That kid that downloaded photoshop to work on his web page is going to look for jobs that require that as a skill - those businesses are going to buy Photoshop, because Adobe will actually go after them.
This was almost 6-7 years ago. While (at least where I lived at the time) barcodes were a staple at supermarkets, your local 7-11 or equivalent was still tagging things.
Yeah, and your "buy out" probably raised the price of their film buy a considerable chunk of change.
It may not effect you now, but "the customer is always right" mantra ends up hurting you and others, especially in scenarios like this. I can't tell you how many times I've probably rejected innocent people's honest complaints because of too many bad apples. It's a giant spectrum of grey when on "the other side", and it's hard to comprehend when you "buy out" a whole stockpile of film.
That said, I had some rather unconventional superiors that supported me treating trash customers that were hurting us more than helping as they should be treated. And yes, I worked for a major convenience store chain, not some mom & pop shop.
I know for a fact Oregon oxygenates in the summer or the winter, I can't remember, but half the year, they're doing it. I'm not sure about the other half. (Sorry, I'm really pushing the vague meter here)
We are also taxed on our gas. Not sure how much, however. Oregon is fucking weird some times, but I guess that can be said about most government.
Dunno, big deal, I say. The fact is, that system will run most older games, and the people that are buying these systems for their children are not trying to emphasize gameplay, but don't want to blow a grand or two on something their kid isn't going to use.
I have never had any problem finding players, so I guess I'm different in that regard.
My problem is finding players that don't utterly piss me off. You know, the guys that waste 30 minutes in the middle of initiative rolls reading passages from the PHB to the DM when the result is inevitably going to be what the damned DM said in the first place.
Another group that really annoys me are guys that aren't necessarily "power gamers", but don't realize that flaws in a character, well... add character. I find that most of these people have never played in a game of GURPS, where choices like this are required and a good GM will enforce that you RP them.
Oh well. To be honest, my favorite RPG has and always will be Vampire. However, especially nowadays I can't stand that group in general, to a point where a D&D game with the players I described above sounds like a joyous session in comparison. And LARP is like ripping your imagination out and replacing it with really bad acting and replacing any tactical action with a large chance of success, regardless of challenge. (as most LARP actions are decided by Rock, Paper, Scissors) And of course, LARP DM's (if you can find them) don't care about any of this.
Vampire used to be a fun political RPG that had little to do with Vampires and more to do with intrigue. Now everyone paints their face white and for some fucking reason, thinks that Vampire is a Goth RPG. Good god, I wonder if they dress in cherokee headwear for Werewolf games. Oh well.
Well, at least no one has fucked with Shadowrun. Oh, wait, someone actually needs to fuck with Shadowrun. Oh well.
Heh, this is what is hilarious about self-serve gas.
I live in Southern Oregon, and as some of you know Oregon prohibits self-service. Despite the arguments this does create a few extra jobs lying around.
Of course, I take the 4-6 hour trip to Sacramento and somehow, despite the better economy, the distinct lack of anyone at the station other than maybe a mechanic, a single attendant (there are normally several in oregon stations), and a guy behind the counter inside, the gas is still more expensive.
How is it that oregon stations can charge less, pay more employees, and still make a profit on gas that sells for the same price everywhere? I know there are government subsidies, but remember that oregon doesn't have a sales tax either, and our wonderful economy means that those of you paying our outrageous income taxes are in the minority.
Personally, the only clue that I have is that business property costs more down there, but you'd think that with the big gas chains and lack of need for employees this would be less of an issue.
How is this different from now, or anytime in the past, or are you tongue in cheek?
Sold to corporations = hiring employees. Dress codes and moral standards defined in your employee handbook can go a long way in defining your character if you like suburbia. And don't get me started on management or executive responsibility.
Status symbol = your H2 that your CXX job paid for.
Child of privilidge: know what an alumnus society is?
Sponsorship = scholarships. Getting around this means you're related to or are good friends with someone important. At my last job, I almost ended up working with the nephew of our CEO, as a peer. I flat out told my boss (like others did, I think), that I would be compromised, as if I felt the need to argue a technical topic with this man, no matter how insignificant or important, that my job was put on the line.
Seriously, it's called moral majority, and as long as it is, it will be. What you choose to do about it is your business, but complaining about it won't get you anywhere.
You'd be surprised. Prediction algorithms have come a long way. I've worked on the one that Amazon used before they wrote their own, and actually seen the "guts" when the company went under. Without personalization (basically just filing lists of items as assigned to an anonymous entity), it is still very effective.
When do you mention a pricing error in your favor?
As a person who used to work at a convenience store in college and ran inventory, I guess I just know better.
As for "in their favor", that's why most stores don't tag everything individually anymore. Besides the obvious labor cost (especially when you want to re-price), you be the guy on the other end arguing with 10+ customers a day about price tags, especially when you know damn well 6 or 7 of them swapped tags to save 20 cents. I'm sorry, but not everyone is as honest as you and I and it happens more often than you think.
Just to be perfectly clear, I am neither right nor left. I am also choosing not to vote because I feel endorsement of either candidate is compromise of my character, and endorsement of any other candidate is open invitation to scrutiny that I could otherwise do without, while having no real effect on anything that I hold dear.
Of course, you're welcome to presume what you like.
My republican friends, the staunch right, almost never bring it up. And if they do, they always take the stance that I'm entitled to my opinion.
The liberal "friends" that I have (I struggle to call them that too), repeatedly feed me a spoonful of it without my endorsement nor solicitation. These were people I worked with, too. You try getting anything done when you're having a serious design conversation with someone and they interject "ho ho ho, that's about as stupid as electing Bush", or something like that. It gets real old after a while.
I know it's a sweeping generalization, because I know it's not true for everyone, but it is for me.
You're forgetting something that a lot of people seem to do.
The mac doesn't have many games. Kids like to play games. When I was a kid, I may not have had Doom 3, but I had X-Wing, original Doom, Warcraft (yes, there was a game before Warcraft II), etc. I also had numerous games on my BBS. These all took several hours of my day. I also had the consoles at the time, namely the SNES. I still have a childhood-attached "trapped in the 70's" love for the SNES. In my opinion, it was the last great console.
The PC however has more games nowadays than I as a kid could ever ask for, or dream of. If that kid has more than a passing interest in what's beneath that copy of Doom 3, he will at least try linux. Maybe he'll get hooked. And that's where it all comes around.... He'll be running for that mac if he has enough cash and knows any better.
And all of us mac users know exactly why.
And yes, the machine sitting right next to the mac I'm typing on here is a windows machine chock full of games.
Have you ever seen an ad for The Daily Show? Please, tell me where in any ad they've ever shown you have any indication that Stewart or Comedy Central is giving the impression that "hard questions" are going to be asked.
Christ, I am really sick and tired of you people that seem to think because someone is successful they have some moral obligation to everyone else. Go find your own success and ask the "hard questions" for all I care. I just want to fucking laugh.
I've said it a few times before and I'm happy to say it again:
The Daily Show is labeled as entertainment. I don't view it as news, and anyone who does is a big fat idiot. I turn it on when I want some humor. In fact, because of this, I normally find something more interesting to do during the interviews - most of them are pretty bland.
CrossFire is turned on by people who want to see issues debated. It's intent is not humor, nor is it labeled as such.
You know, I'm just eagerly waiting for that to happen.
If Bush gets elected, I have to deal with 4 more years of bullshit from my liberal friends who don't have a bone of common sense in their body.
If Kerry gets elected, I get to remind them "hey dumbshit, you elected this guy." every time he fucks up. And then, the real entertainment ensues when I watch them see how fast they can back pedal.
Of course, I don't want Bush in there either, if not for the reason above, but because I'm not too hip to cops looking through my trash. Until military service is no longer optional, it's really hard for me to feel compassion for the people in Iraq or the soldiers, one way or another, as I am simply not in a situation where experience of it is the deciding factor. Amoral, perhaps, but realistic. All I know about what's going on is what some "money party" (read: news, government official) member tells me.
I know it's cynical, but I'm at the point where I really can't wait until it's over. You guys are going to be at the polls and I'll be having a small party with a bottle of scotch, trying to forget the last year or so. It's going to be nice having my old friends and family back and getting rid of the cannibalistic dogs they have become.
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Those on the mac should check out Adium. I haven't tried Miranda, but Adium has all the "pretty" features of Trillian, the power of GAIM (and much more flexibility) and has this neat feature that some IM client vendors still haven't figure out: it lets you keep the windows from automatically popping up. Nice when you're on a coding bender or your friend sends you an in-line copy of tubgirl while you're giving a demo to your boss.
BBS systems brought a sense of community that, well, the internet could only dream of having.
Most of my good friends that I still keep in contact with, I met in high school mostly through BBS systems.
As a result, meeting the people you chat with online has always been an odd pleasure of mine, just because I like to see who the other ghost-face is. More often than not, it's let me break social barriers that I might not have otherwise broken.
But it was never on Synchronet. Telegard hacks, baby.
Besides, every Xbox you buy is another console in another home where your friends will come over and see it.
And maybe you won't buy the games, but your friends will. And the games bring in big dinero.
It's the same reason that you can find Photoshop on every warez site and Adobe tells stock holders one thing and doesn't do a damn thing about it otherwise.
That kid that downloaded photoshop to work on his web page is going to look for jobs that require that as a skill - those businesses are going to buy Photoshop, because Adobe will actually go after them.
This was almost 6-7 years ago. While (at least where I lived at the time) barcodes were a staple at supermarkets, your local 7-11 or equivalent was still tagging things.
Yeah, and your "buy out" probably raised the price of their film buy a considerable chunk of change.
It may not effect you now, but "the customer is always right" mantra ends up hurting you and others, especially in scenarios like this. I can't tell you how many times I've probably rejected innocent people's honest complaints because of too many bad apples. It's a giant spectrum of grey when on "the other side", and it's hard to comprehend when you "buy out" a whole stockpile of film.
That said, I had some rather unconventional superiors that supported me treating trash customers that were hurting us more than helping as they should be treated. And yes, I worked for a major convenience store chain, not some mom & pop shop.
Did you buy any red herring?
I know for a fact Oregon oxygenates in the summer or the winter, I can't remember, but half the year, they're doing it. I'm not sure about the other half. (Sorry, I'm really pushing the vague meter here)
We are also taxed on our gas. Not sure how much, however. Oregon is fucking weird some times, but I guess that can be said about most government.
Dunno, big deal, I say. The fact is, that system will run most older games, and the people that are buying these systems for their children are not trying to emphasize gameplay, but don't want to blow a grand or two on something their kid isn't going to use.
Translation: It'll run Counter-Strike.
I have never had any problem finding players, so I guess I'm different in that regard.
My problem is finding players that don't utterly piss me off. You know, the guys that waste 30 minutes in the middle of initiative rolls reading passages from the PHB to the DM when the result is inevitably going to be what the damned DM said in the first place.
Another group that really annoys me are guys that aren't necessarily "power gamers", but don't realize that flaws in a character, well... add character. I find that most of these people have never played in a game of GURPS, where choices like this are required and a good GM will enforce that you RP them.
Oh well. To be honest, my favorite RPG has and always will be Vampire. However, especially nowadays I can't stand that group in general, to a point where a D&D game with the players I described above sounds like a joyous session in comparison. And LARP is like ripping your imagination out and replacing it with really bad acting and replacing any tactical action with a large chance of success, regardless of challenge. (as most LARP actions are decided by Rock, Paper, Scissors) And of course, LARP DM's (if you can find them) don't care about any of this.
Vampire used to be a fun political RPG that had little to do with Vampires and more to do with intrigue. Now everyone paints their face white and for some fucking reason, thinks that Vampire is a Goth RPG. Good god, I wonder if they dress in cherokee headwear for Werewolf games. Oh well.
Well, at least no one has fucked with Shadowrun. Oh, wait, someone actually needs to fuck with Shadowrun. Oh well.
Heh, this is what is hilarious about self-serve gas.
I live in Southern Oregon, and as some of you know Oregon prohibits self-service. Despite the arguments this does create a few extra jobs lying around.
Of course, I take the 4-6 hour trip to Sacramento and somehow, despite the better economy, the distinct lack of anyone at the station other than maybe a mechanic, a single attendant (there are normally several in oregon stations), and a guy behind the counter inside, the gas is still more expensive.
How is it that oregon stations can charge less, pay more employees, and still make a profit on gas that sells for the same price everywhere? I know there are government subsidies, but remember that oregon doesn't have a sales tax either, and our wonderful economy means that those of you paying our outrageous income taxes are in the minority.
Personally, the only clue that I have is that business property costs more down there, but you'd think that with the big gas chains and lack of need for employees this would be less of an issue.
Uh...
How is this different from now, or anytime in the past, or are you tongue in cheek?
Sold to corporations = hiring employees. Dress codes and moral standards defined in your employee handbook can go a long way in defining your character if you like suburbia. And don't get me started on management or executive responsibility.
Status symbol = your H2 that your CXX job paid for.
Child of privilidge: know what an alumnus society is?
Sponsorship = scholarships. Getting around this means you're related to or are good friends with someone important. At my last job, I almost ended up working with the nephew of our CEO, as a peer. I flat out told my boss (like others did, I think), that I would be compromised, as if I felt the need to argue a technical topic with this man, no matter how insignificant or important, that my job was put on the line.
Seriously, it's called moral majority, and as long as it is, it will be. What you choose to do about it is your business, but complaining about it won't get you anywhere.
You'd be surprised. Prediction algorithms have come a long way. I've worked on the one that Amazon used before they wrote their own, and actually seen the "guts" when the company went under. Without personalization (basically just filing lists of items as assigned to an anonymous entity), it is still very effective.
Which rarely is a good thing. Imagine if you were checking out a girl and found out she went through tubes of K.Y. a week.
Maybe you're different, but that gets filed under "I better be drunk and not interested in commitment."
I don't know if it's required but most bulk/bag/produce areas do this in the states.
When do you mention a pricing error in your favor?
As a person who used to work at a convenience store in college and ran inventory, I guess I just know better.
As for "in their favor", that's why most stores don't tag everything individually anymore. Besides the obvious labor cost (especially when you want to re-price), you be the guy on the other end arguing with 10+ customers a day about price tags, especially when you know damn well 6 or 7 of them swapped tags to save 20 cents. I'm sorry, but not everyone is as honest as you and I and it happens more often than you think.
Just to be perfectly clear, I am neither right nor left. I am also choosing not to vote because I feel endorsement of either candidate is compromise of my character, and endorsement of any other candidate is open invitation to scrutiny that I could otherwise do without, while having no real effect on anything that I hold dear.
Of course, you're welcome to presume what you like.
Yeah, you know why?
My republican friends, the staunch right, almost never bring it up. And if they do, they always take the stance that I'm entitled to my opinion.
The liberal "friends" that I have (I struggle to call them that too), repeatedly feed me a spoonful of it without my endorsement nor solicitation. These were people I worked with, too. You try getting anything done when you're having a serious design conversation with someone and they interject "ho ho ho, that's about as stupid as electing Bush", or something like that. It gets real old after a while.
I know it's a sweeping generalization, because I know it's not true for everyone, but it is for me.
Heh, oops. I was pretty tired when I wrote that. :)
You're forgetting something that a lot of people seem to do.
The mac doesn't have many games. Kids like to play games. When I was a kid, I may not have had Doom 3, but I had X-Wing, original Doom, Warcraft (yes, there was a game before Warcraft II), etc. I also had numerous games on my BBS. These all took several hours of my day. I also had the consoles at the time, namely the SNES. I still have a childhood-attached "trapped in the 70's" love for the SNES. In my opinion, it was the last great console.
The PC however has more games nowadays than I as a kid could ever ask for, or dream of. If that kid has more than a passing interest in what's beneath that copy of Doom 3, he will at least try linux. Maybe he'll get hooked. And that's where it all comes around.... He'll be running for that mac if he has enough cash and knows any better.
And all of us mac users know exactly why.
And yes, the machine sitting right next to the mac I'm typing on here is a windows machine chock full of games.
Have you ever seen an ad for The Daily Show? Please, tell me where in any ad they've ever shown you have any indication that Stewart or Comedy Central is giving the impression that "hard questions" are going to be asked.
Christ, I am really sick and tired of you people that seem to think because someone is successful they have some moral obligation to everyone else. Go find your own success and ask the "hard questions" for all I care. I just want to fucking laugh.
I've said it a few times before and I'm happy to say it again:
The Daily Show is labeled as entertainment. I don't view it as news, and anyone who does is a big fat idiot. I turn it on when I want some humor. In fact, because of this, I normally find something more interesting to do during the interviews - most of them are pretty bland.
CrossFire is turned on by people who want to see issues debated. It's intent is not humor, nor is it labeled as such.
Yeah, I'd pay to see him go up against Edwards or Cheney.
And I'd fly to and attend personally if he went up against Quayle.
You know, I'm just eagerly waiting for that to happen.
If Bush gets elected, I have to deal with 4 more years of bullshit from my liberal friends who don't have a bone of common sense in their body.
If Kerry gets elected, I get to remind them "hey dumbshit, you elected this guy." every time he fucks up. And then, the real entertainment ensues when I watch them see how fast they can back pedal.
Of course, I don't want Bush in there either, if not for the reason above, but because I'm not too hip to cops looking through my trash. Until military service is no longer optional, it's really hard for me to feel compassion for the people in Iraq or the soldiers, one way or another, as I am simply not in a situation where experience of it is the deciding factor. Amoral, perhaps, but realistic. All I know about what's going on is what some "money party" (read: news, government official) member tells me.
I know it's cynical, but I'm at the point where I really can't wait until it's over. You guys are going to be at the polls and I'll be having a small party with a bottle of scotch, trying to forget the last year or so. It's going to be nice having my old friends and family back and getting rid of the cannibalistic dogs they have become.
Apparently you and I are the only people that saw the Pee-Wee Herman action figure with motorized drum beating action.
His talk show wasn't anything to write home about, but it had it's moments.
I'm not sure you're taking it in the right context.
His show is clearly labeled satire. The advertisements all refer to it as "the most reliable fake news", or something similar.
CrossFire is not that kind of a show. It's not setup as that kind of show and you have no inkling of indication that it will be that kind of a show.
What you're asking is to take Larry King, put him as a voice actor on a cartoon, and have him interview Superman on issues or some shit.