You will want a notebook that does not use any fans. I am in Iraq right now and the dust here is like an ultra-fine baby powder. It gets into EVERYTHING. If there are no fans, you will find less of this dust inside of your laptop. I have a Sharp Actius PC-MM20. It is awesome here. While other laptops have dropped dead from sucking in too much dust, my MM20 keeps rocking.
If you are going to make a call for action, you had better be prepared to lead that action. If you do not, then you will have hundreds, thousands, maybe even millions of people acting on their own and that is called... ( wait for it ) anarchy!
Just yelling, "Something must be done!", is worse than useless.
You're looking at this from an I-Build-My-Own-Computer perspective. AMD doesn't care about selling to you. You're pocket change.
That pocket change is what is keeping them afloat... Hardly something to sneer at. They should, and probably DO, care about selling to the home enthusiast.
I want people to be around to sing and dance for me. I want to be told stories. People will not do that unless they are paid (for the most part). A good story takes time to tell. How is the story teller to eat while they tell me their story? I am certainly not wealthy enough to pay for their meals and housing myself... so how does the cost get spread around?
On the other hand, I am willing to do without stories, singing, and dancing if it requires me to give up my general purpose computer! Keep your stories to yourself.
limiting the ability to modify things sucks for everyone who is not happy with the defaults. your argument implies that you have to make it impossible for people to modify settings in order to please the idiots and that is not true at all. you can still have a "kontrol panel" without forcing the idiots to use it. hide it if you must, but make it available, otherwise you are pissing off most of the people who are likely to spend their time with linux to begin with.
way way way back, maybe 6 or 7 years ago, when i was relatively new with linux, i wanted to upgrade my libc. i compiled a new version and deleted the old version. hm. i kept getting an error message from the cp command. i was on irc at the time (EFNET #c) and asked what was up. doh! thankfully, i had netscape open. i used the "open file" menu option in netscape to open libc. a bunch of gibberish was displayed... but i was not interested in seeing how it looked. i clicked on the "save as" menu option and had myself a bright, shiny, new libc. woot!
of course, i was not so lucky while upgrading sshd on a remote server.:(
It would be nice to have the extra cash or the balls to short google stock right now. I think google will survive, but I think their stock is highly overvalued.
I bought a PSP strictly for the ability to play NES and SNES games on it. I am unhappy with the quality of the games (Need For Speed and Ridge Racer) and with the price of their proprietary memory stick, therefore I think that the PSP will not be extremely popular and what popularity that it does have will wane quickly.
The reality is that the current political climate does not make the First Amendment a sufficiently bulletproof document to fall behind in the face of proposed governmental censorship.
good. let's get the fight over censorship out in the open now. i am tired of the first amendment being pecked away in small amounts. let's bring the whole concept to a head right here, right now. the current political climate is bad for this kind of fight? too bad. i am all for forcing the issue one way or the other so everyone can stop sitting on their damn fenceposts trying to see which side is safer.
Why exactly should Rockstar refrain from making this game? To improve the image of the industry? How will refraining from making this game help out the industry in the long run? Why should they feel responsible for helping out the industry when you were originally talking about Social Conscience which implies doing it for society as a whole.
Could you please restate your argument for Rockstar not making this game please?
Bullying in schools has been around since... well, schools. Why not make a game about it? Are you thinking that such a game will increase the amount of bullying going on? Maybe such a game will reduce the amount of bullying since the bullies could see their behaviour being ostracized or maybe the "smaller" kids will feel less threatened and do something about the bullying.
In short, I am not sure how this game relates to your concept of Social Conscience. Sure, it might be tasteless. A game about crashing planes into buildings would surely have been tasteless shortly after 11 September... but you have not proven (or even more than vaguely suggested) that this game would/could cause harm based on its content.
Am I just not able to pay attention or did I miss something here? How does this game violate your sense of Social Conscience?
Ever heard of the First Amendment? Rockstar can make whatever kind of game they want. You are welcome to live in China if you are unhappy with the concept of freedom of speech. You want to drag this to the extreme? Ok. They can make a game where people yell fire in crowded theaters. Happy?
It is funny. I need to keep a "personal responsibility" post ready for all of these Violent Video Game (tm) stories so I can get some free karma(re: GP). Then, you get a +5 insightful by saying, "I wouldn't want to come up with an actual good policy solution that will let parents and kids both keep their freedom and also reduce the harm that some of this stuff causes when it inevitably gets into their hands.", and yet nobody questions the fact that you assume that harm WILL occur by having kids play these games. I would mod you down but I do not waste mod points with negative mods (usually) and I figured a reply would bring out your error in a more obvious manner. Can I see some proof that children (or anyone else!) will be harmed by violent video games please?
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Um... or maybe people do not want to believe in it because they want to at least have an excuse (scientific reason?) to believe in something? Why not not just say that god created aliens and the aliens created us? It is just as believable.
Have you ever had something happen that is so surreal that you simply can not believe that what you are seeing exists in reality? This is one of those things. I feel so... this just can not be true. The president of the United States can not REALLY be saying this and actually MEAN it.
The moderation system seems to be broken (only 20 people have mod points? WTF?) and every poll lately has been locked. I guess no more Slashdot for me.
strike (removing his willingness to moderate and meta-moderate)
The Amiga was the friendliest? For a programmer, sure. For a new user? No way! I remember I bought an Amiga 500 waaaaaayyyyy back when. I was playing this neifty game I had bought with my brand new computer when suddenly, the screen went black and red letters were flashing at me! Scared me to death. With my heart pounding and the blood rushing through my brain, I vainly tried to decipher what was written on the screen:
Guru Meditation Mode
Ok, that didn't sound so bad, but the black screen with the flashing red letters literally scared the shit out of me. (well, ok, not quite literally, my drawers were still clean)
I have had XP blue screen on me, but nowhere near as often as NT4 Yowsa.
If all people in authority were trustworthy and if it were only the criminals being affected, i am certain that we would all openly support the most draconian of policies.
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You will want a notebook that does not use any fans. I am in Iraq right now and the dust here is like an ultra-fine baby powder. It gets into EVERYTHING. If there are no fans, you will find less of this dust inside of your laptop. I have a Sharp Actius PC-MM20. It is awesome here. While other laptops have dropped dead from sucking in too much dust, my MM20 keeps rocking.
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If you are going to make a call for action, you had better be prepared to lead that action. If you do not, then you will have hundreds, thousands, maybe even millions of people acting on their own and that is called... ( wait for it ) anarchy!
Just yelling, "Something must be done!", is worse than useless.
strike
You're looking at this from an I-Build-My-Own-Computer perspective. AMD doesn't care about selling to you. You're pocket change.
That pocket change is what is keeping them afloat... Hardly something to sneer at. They should, and probably DO, care about selling to the home enthusiast.
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wow! the mods certainly are on crack... how could they miss the Episode 1 reference? It was funny people. Laugh. :)
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I want people to be around to sing and dance for me. I want to be told stories. People will not do that unless they are paid (for the most part). A good story takes time to tell. How is the story teller to eat while they tell me their story? I am certainly not wealthy enough to pay for their meals and housing myself... so how does the cost get spread around?
On the other hand, I am willing to do without stories, singing, and dancing if it requires me to give up my general purpose computer! Keep your stories to yourself.
strike
limiting the ability to modify things sucks for everyone who is not happy with the defaults. your argument implies that you have to make it impossible for people to modify settings in order to please the idiots and that is not true at all. you can still have a "kontrol panel" without forcing the idiots to use it. hide it if you must, but make it available, otherwise you are pissing off most of the people who are likely to spend their time with linux to begin with.
strike
way way way back, maybe 6 or 7 years ago, when i was relatively new with linux, i wanted to upgrade my libc. i compiled a new version and deleted the old version. hm. i kept getting an error message from the cp command. i was on irc at the time (EFNET #c) and asked what was up. doh! thankfully, i had netscape open. i used the "open file" menu option in netscape to open libc. a bunch of gibberish was displayed... but i was not interested in seeing how it looked. i clicked on the "save as" menu option and had myself a bright, shiny, new libc. woot!
:(
of course, i was not so lucky while upgrading sshd on a remote server.
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It would be nice to have the extra cash or the balls to short google stock right now. I think google will survive, but I think their stock is highly overvalued.
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you obviously did not player Zelda Four Swords. *sigh*
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I bought a PSP strictly for the ability to play NES and SNES games on it. I am unhappy with the quality of the games (Need For Speed and Ridge Racer) and with the price of their proprietary memory stick, therefore I think that the PSP will not be extremely popular and what popularity that it does have will wane quickly.
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ever tried qemu? now add kqemu http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/kqemu-doc.html into the mix and you have something that is pretty much comparable to vmware.
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His nick, Detritus, is the name of a character from Terry Pratchett's Discworld. It's turtles all the way down...
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The reality is that the current political climate does not make the First Amendment a sufficiently bulletproof document to fall behind in the face of proposed governmental censorship.
good. let's get the fight over censorship out in the open now. i am tired of the first amendment being pecked away in small amounts. let's bring the whole concept to a head right here, right now. the current political climate is bad for this kind of fight? too bad. i am all for forcing the issue one way or the other so everyone can stop sitting on their damn fenceposts trying to see which side is safer.
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Now I am certain that I am missing something...
Why exactly should Rockstar refrain from making this game? To improve the image of the industry? How will refraining from making this game help out the industry in the long run? Why should they feel responsible for helping out the industry when you were originally talking about Social Conscience which implies doing it for society as a whole.
Could you please restate your argument for Rockstar not making this game please?
strike
Bullying in schools has been around since... well, schools. Why not make a game about it? Are you thinking that such a game will increase the amount of bullying going on? Maybe such a game will reduce the amount of bullying since the bullies could see their behaviour being ostracized or maybe the "smaller" kids will feel less threatened and do something about the bullying.
In short, I am not sure how this game relates to your concept of Social Conscience. Sure, it might be tasteless. A game about crashing planes into buildings would surely have been tasteless shortly after 11 September... but you have not proven (or even more than vaguely suggested) that this game would/could cause harm based on its content.
Am I just not able to pay attention or did I miss something here? How does this game violate your sense of Social Conscience?
strike
Ever heard of the First Amendment? Rockstar can make whatever kind of game they want. You are welcome to live in China if you are unhappy with the concept of freedom of speech. You want to drag this to the extreme? Ok. They can make a game where people yell fire in crowded theaters. Happy?
strike
It is funny. I need to keep a "personal responsibility" post ready for all of these Violent Video Game (tm) stories so I can get some free karma(re: GP). Then, you get a +5 insightful by saying, "I wouldn't want to come up with an actual good policy solution that will let parents and kids both keep their freedom and also reduce the harm that some of this stuff causes when it inevitably gets into their hands.", and yet nobody questions the fact that you assume that harm WILL occur by having kids play these games. I would mod you down but I do not waste mod points with negative mods (usually) and I figured a reply would bring out your error in a more obvious manner. Can I see some proof that children (or anyone else!) will be harmed by violent video games please?
strike (I forgot the click the unwilling to moderate box again.)
Um... or maybe people do not want to believe in it because they want to at least have an excuse (scientific reason?) to believe in something? Why not not just say that god created aliens and the aliens created us? It is just as believable.
strike
Have you ever had something happen that is so surreal that you simply can not believe that what you are seeing exists in reality? This is one of those things. I feel so... this just can not be true. The president of the United States can not REALLY be saying this and actually MEAN it.
Can I get a WTF here please?
strike
The moderation system seems to be broken (only 20 people have mod points? WTF?) and every poll lately has been locked. I guess no more Slashdot for me.
strike (removing his willingness to moderate and meta-moderate)
The Amiga was the friendliest? For a programmer, sure. For a new user? No way! I remember I bought an Amiga 500 waaaaaayyyyy back when. I was playing this neifty game I had bought with my brand new computer when suddenly, the screen went black and red letters were flashing at me! Scared me to death. With my heart pounding and the blood rushing through my brain, I vainly tried to decipher what was written on the screen:
Guru Meditation Mode
Ok, that didn't sound so bad, but the black screen with the flashing red letters literally scared the shit out of me. (well, ok, not quite literally, my drawers were still clean)
I have had XP blue screen on me, but nowhere near as often as NT4 Yowsa.
strike
I will bet dollars to doughnuts that IE7 will not even be halfway CSS2 compliant. I will bet my life that it will not be 2/3s compliant.
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If all people in authority were trustworthy and if it were only the criminals being affected, i am certain that we would all openly support the most draconian of policies.
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hey bro, this is megaton from #c. how have you been?
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Still, some economists argue that China isn't growing nearly as quickly as it could. How could that be?
one word: corruption
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