Let's see. In this post I have used the letter 'e' at least 10 times so far. I have used CTRL+C zero times (hey look more 'e's).
By the way, I'm typing in Dvorak. I don't find the odd shortcuts to be a problem. I just got use to their position and I can hit those shortcut keys just as fast. I think the benifits of not having to reach for keys outweighs the shock of having to relearn where all the shortcuts are. In fact, I find it easier to reach my middle right finger up for CTRL+C and my ring right finger for CTRL+V. Try it!:) It has a sorta teeter totter effect.
I can also type in qwerty. I have to at work. I don't get confused when I switch back and forth. It just takes practice. Kinda like when we all switched over from Windows to Linux. It wasn't as easy at first, but the benefits motivated us.
Yes, with all this news about processors more powerful than Deep Blue, GPU more powerful than he best on the market, and a peripheral that allows the PS3 to do my laundry, I don't know how this console is going to be affordable! I paid $150 for my Dreamcast, $135 for my Gamecube, and $119 for my PS2, $135 for each of my DS's. $150 is the most I would pay for any game console. So I guess if Sony wants my money, they'll have to figure out how to make it affordable. I guess I'm going to go with the Nintendo Revolution this time around.:)
Perhaps all we need to do is rename p2p...
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I've got an idea. We could rename p2p to something else. You know, kinda like how solicitors get around the no-call list. After all, they're not soliciting, their giving me "curtisy calls".
The sad thing is, is that Microsoft will probably make a good chunck of change on this. There are a lot of people who refuse to see that there is a world out there other than Microsoft.
Friends of my wife and I had a bunch of spyware on their PC. I cleaned up there system and then put Firefox on there. I said, "Use this instead. It's just as easy as IE, but you won't get as much malware on your system."
They said, "Ok!"
The next day I came by and somehow they figured out a way to get the IE icon back on their desktop and set up as the default browser. I was floored. Non techies can do amazing feats to fulfill their stubbornance to use second grade products and services. There's a buddy of mine who pays for some fancy MSN junk. I told him, "You can do that all for free. Yes, even on Windows" He's still a subscriber.... Sad, isn't it?
Forget the voice activated MP3 player. Why not opt for voice activated hydrolics? With something like that, girls would be (as Strongbad would say) "all up ons".
I thought that's what I read. It was denied that Star Trek was going to be cancelled. I want to see it go up to Season 7 just like TNG, DS9, and Voyager. Of course I wished DS9 could go for a few more seasons. Just when it was getting really good, it went away. *sniff*
I agree. I'm not one who likes fps or rts games (with maybe the exception of Pikmin and Metroid Prime). The kind of games I like are family oriented games with a touch of nostalgia. My favorite games inculde Pikmin, Pokémon, Zelda, and anything with the words "Mario" or "Sonic" thrown in there.
As a result of my game choice, it makes perfect sense why I do most of my gaming on a Gamecube, PS2, or GBA. I tried out SuperTux. I loved it, but there was only one area at the time. Most other Linux games aren't very good as well due to various things such as incompletness, too average, etc...
Another reason I choose consoles over Linux (or Windows for that matter) gaming is due to compatibility. When I buy a Gamecube game, I know it's going to work for my system. If I buy a PC game, I don't know if I'm going to have to throw $5000 into my system to get it to work. I also enjoy plug and playability that consoles bring.
I love Linux. It's the only OS I use, but it's not a gaming OS.
This is a very common and a worthy question indeed. To sum it up, people often asked, "If God created everything, who created God?"
Well Genesis 1:1 says "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (heavens can be read, "Universe"). John 1:1 says "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." I guess the point that is being made in these two books is that in the beginning was God.
But this is all confusing and religious, so lets look at this from a logical point of view. If the Universe was created by chance, where did all this junk come from that the universe was accidently formed from? After all, neither matter nor energy can be created, just change form. So both ideas suffer from this problem, not just Creationism.
Creationism, does however suggest a solution based upon the nature of this problem. God not only created the Universe, but created the physics of the Universe (time, matter, energy, how these things interact, etc...) Thus since before God created the Universe and it's physical laws, there were no Universe nor physical laws. God could just exist without being created infinitely in the past and future. It's mind blowing and difficult to grasp, but it is the only logical piece of the puzzle that explains why we exist in this otherwise impossible existance.
God is an entity that exists beyond time/space. An entity that created time/space.
Nope. I'm a Christian as well. But I think that Slashdot is a bit biased. If you speak well of Christ, you'll get a -1 for flamebait.
If you feel that we came about by a brute force algorithm, they love you. It's silly that hackers will accept an idea as illogical that something as complicated as cells just came about by chance. I don't use a brute force algorithm to program, I design it.
It only makes sense why the world is very much against Christianity. They're right, a lot of Christians are hypocrits. They go to church on Sunday and praise God and then they go to the Bar on Friday and drink and praise evil. They further get highly emotional about stuff they don't believe in the first place.
Jesus asked if people truely believed and followed him, why did they not do as he says. It seems to me that most "Christians" are modern day Pharisees. It's unfortunate too. No wonder the world does not believe.
The world tries to see Christ as reflected by those who mearly say they believe in Him. They see those modern day Pharisees and see a completly different picture of who Christ was. In fact, Jesus came to dispute those self rightous hypocrits. Jesus came for the humble, the sinners, us. Those self rightous people are not Christians, they just say they are for fire insurance. Do they not realize that the God they claim to believe in sees through their lies.
I believe Christ did come and die for my sins. I am not worthy of his grace. I wish I could be a good witness, but I am not for I am born with the evil that lies in all of us. It doesn't help that people have the wrong idea about this Jesus I worship. He's about as much of a hacker as we are. But just like hackers, people all have the wrong idea.
As a hacker, I see that the world is too complex to not have been designed. Look at a cell. It's about as close to nano technology as one can get. Sounds like God was into Object Oriented Programming rather than Evolution.
It's about time. I just wish that Cebridge (my cable company) would follow through. With Sprint, I have to wait literally 2 hours on hold to be told that they can't do anything for my service. One time I was so mad at them that I shouted, "As soon as Cebridge gets VoIP I'm cancelling my service." They weren't scared.
On a funnier note, Sprint called me one day asking me if I wanted to upgrade my phone service. The friendly rep said, "You can have all these features for just $67/month!!!"
I replied, "What!? I'm a Wal-Mart truck unloader putting me and my wife through college. I can't afford that!"
He said, "Well how about this! It's only $80/month!"
I stopped him and said, "Dude, I want to save money, not waste more. In fact now that you mention it I wish to downgrade my phone service. I'm paying too much."
"Downgrade?"
"Yup. Downgrade. I just want the most basic plain vanilla service you can offer me."
"Um... I can't do that."
"Well you can upgrade my phone, right? Why can't you downgrade it?"
"You'll have to call customer service to do that."
"Whatever, I will. And if you or any of your reps call again, I'll cancel. I have to go to work in an hour and you wasted precious time with the Gamecube and my wife."
So I called customer service. Waited an hour. Had them downgrade my phone and told them that if I get another offer that I'd go without a phone. Then I rushed off to work.
I guess so, but my grammar is more broken than Microsoft (I know... That's sad.)
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I think that's a very good point. It baffels me that parents will buy their 6 year old an XBox and all the M rated games they whine for. I think a lot of parents are stupid about the rating system.
I truely believe that kids are very infulential at earlier ages. For example, my Dad was a hacker and look at me, I'm all into technology as an adult. In the same way, if we give children games that allow them to act out murdering and picking up hookers, they'll be the pimp daddy at age 14. They'll grow up to be crooks and just drag down our economy with their worthless existance.
Huh? I didn't realize that my "definition" of free Software was confusing.:) I use the Richard Stallman type definition. I was just saying that despite the fact that I like MS Office better, I prefer to use Free (as in Freedom) Software and thus use OpenOffice.org.
I apologize for the confusion.
Microsoft does from time to time make good software. For example I prefer MS Office to OpenOffice.org. MS Office has nice things such as grammar checking.
I do, however, use OpenOffice.org instead due to the fact that I prefer Free Software over proprietary software.
Of course it makes sense that MS would make an anti-spyware program. They obviously wish to compete against all the perks we Free Software users enjoy.
I first started to use a computer when I was 4. My Dad had a Commodore 64/128. He use to surf the BBSes all the time. I remember calling my mother over and saying "Watch this!" He then printed off all of the passwords and usernames of a particular BBS.
I wanted to be real smart like that. As I got older I had a Sega Genesis. I had been fooling around with C64 BASIC for awhile. I was playing Sonic Spinball for the Genesis and pondered on how they could put all of those graphics on the screen or how they could move two objects at once. My programming mindset was very linear. So I theorized and came up with many stupid theories.
Eventually I got a hold of a GB emulatator that did decompiling. I watched all the registers and studied how that machine functioned. Just tracing through all those lines of decompiled programming taught me lots on how games and computers worked.
I guess I'm trying to say that the style of gaming will be different. If I'm playing the PSP, I'm still playing a 3D game. It's kinda like why people generally have an XBox, Gamecube, or PS2 and not all three. The DS games have a uniquly different input and output than the GCN. I guess the only really great thing I see about the PSP is that it may have connectivity simular to the GBA and the GCN.
I asked for the recipie, but when I baked it mine BSOD (Brown Screen of Death) in the oven!:( Anyway, I decided to patch it with Service Pack 12 and it gave me food poisoning. *sigh*
Both eMusic and theKopany don't have the kind of music I like to listen to. I like groups such as Disciple, Pillar, etc... Is there any Linux music download shop that has a good selection of Christian Rock music?
I think this whole must use their software only applies for the Windows and Mac world. After all, *NIX users will just simply add their format compatability to XMMS or MPlayer or something like that.
I think my point was lost... As a consumer, I do not want to buy a seperate game title for PS2 and PSP just so that one of them is portable. Nintendo's two consoles are different from each other. The GBA had 2D titles and the GC generally has 3D titles.
With the DS, the games are going to be uniquly different from the Nintendo Revolution games. From what I predict with the PSP is that the games are going to be pretty much the same between the PS2 and PSP. I can play online multiplayer with the PS2 already. I also play most of my games at home on my HDTV. Why do I want a portable version of the same games I already have? I'm just not seeing the point of the PSP's existance.
Nintendo mentioned once that it has taken on many competitors in the handheld market and have always won. Let's see why...
Nintendo vs. Sega: The gamegear was neat, but it ate batteries faster than a sumo wreastler eats buffalo wings.
Nintendo vs. Atari: The lynx was so hard to find that nobody who was interested could even try it.
Nintendo vs. Nintendo: The virtualboy was a great concept, but who wants to look at 4 shades of red with no 3rd party support?
Nintendo vs. Tiger: When you lie to the public about your product, it won't sell...period. Anybody ever try playing Sonic Jam on the game.com? It sure doesn't look like the game on the box or TV ads.
Nintendo vs. Cybiko: Who (besides me) actually has a Cybiko anyway? And those who do: how do you get it to work again if you try updating it at the wrong time?
Nintendo vs. Sony: Who wants a game console that doesn't do anything the PS2 can't do already?
Nintendo vs. Sega...again: Why Sega!? Stop the embarassment!
Actually the preps in my area (MO, and yes, we use that name too) only seem to have 90840 friends on their list, but that's due to the large scrub (What they call us) population. But most of the preps I know use MSN as well as Y! (HS Preps, MSN. Middle School & College Preps Y!) The scrubs in this area use AIM. Hardly noone except my father and I use ICQ.
Eh? I think hackers and crackers are like birds and chickens. Chickens and birds have a "is a" relationship and I think the same goes for "crackers and hackers" or even "crackers and snackfood". Or something like that. So I don't think that/. was necessarily wrong in using the term Hacker.
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Let's see. In this post I have used the letter 'e' at least 10 times so far. I have used CTRL+C zero times (hey look more 'e's).
:) It has a sorta teeter totter effect.
By the way, I'm typing in Dvorak. I don't find the odd shortcuts to be a problem. I just got use to their position and I can hit those shortcut keys just as fast. I think the benifits of not having to reach for keys outweighs the shock of having to relearn where all the shortcuts are. In fact, I find it easier to reach my middle right finger up for CTRL+C and my ring right finger for CTRL+V. Try it!
I can also type in qwerty. I have to at work. I don't get confused when I switch back and forth. It just takes practice. Kinda like when we all switched over from Windows to Linux. It wasn't as easy at first, but the benefits motivated us.
Yes, with all this news about processors more powerful than Deep Blue, GPU more powerful than he best on the market, and a peripheral that allows the PS3 to do my laundry, I don't know how this console is going to be affordable! I paid $150 for my Dreamcast, $135 for my Gamecube, and $119 for my PS2, $135 for each of my DS's. $150 is the most I would pay for any game console. So I guess if Sony wants my money, they'll have to figure out how to make it affordable. I guess I'm going to go with the Nintendo Revolution this time around. :)
I've got an idea. We could rename p2p to something else. You know, kinda like how solicitors get around the no-call list. After all, they're not soliciting, their giving me "curtisy calls".
What!? It's my birthday as well on the 24th!
The sad thing is, is that Microsoft will probably make a good chunck of change on this. There are a lot of people who refuse to see that there is a world out there other than Microsoft.
Friends of my wife and I had a bunch of spyware on their PC. I cleaned up there system and then put Firefox on there. I said, "Use this instead. It's just as easy as IE, but you won't get as much malware on your system."
They said, "Ok!"
The next day I came by and somehow they figured out a way to get the IE icon back on their desktop and set up as the default browser. I was floored. Non techies can do amazing feats to fulfill their stubbornance to use second grade products and services. There's a buddy of mine who pays for some fancy MSN junk. I told him, "You can do that all for free. Yes, even on Windows" He's still a subscriber.... Sad, isn't it?
Forget the voice activated MP3 player. Why not opt for voice activated hydrolics? With something like that, girls would be (as Strongbad would say) "all up ons".
I thought that's what I read. It was denied that Star Trek was going to be cancelled. I want to see it go up to Season 7 just like TNG, DS9, and Voyager. Of course I wished DS9 could go for a few more seasons. Just when it was getting really good, it went away. *sniff*
As a result of my game choice, it makes perfect sense why I do most of my gaming on a Gamecube, PS2, or GBA. I tried out SuperTux. I loved it, but there was only one area at the time. Most other Linux games aren't very good as well due to various things such as incompletness, too average, etc...
Another reason I choose consoles over Linux (or Windows for that matter) gaming is due to compatibility. When I buy a Gamecube game, I know it's going to work for my system. If I buy a PC game, I don't know if I'm going to have to throw $5000 into my system to get it to work. I also enjoy plug and playability that consoles bring.
I love Linux. It's the only OS I use, but it's not a gaming OS.
This is a very common and a worthy question indeed. To sum it up, people often asked, "If God created everything, who created God?"
Well Genesis 1:1 says "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (heavens can be read, "Universe"). John 1:1 says "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." I guess the point that is being made in these two books is that in the beginning was God.
But this is all confusing and religious, so lets look at this from a logical point of view. If the Universe was created by chance, where did all this junk come from that the universe was accidently formed from? After all, neither matter nor energy can be created, just change form. So both ideas suffer from this problem, not just Creationism.
Creationism, does however suggest a solution based upon the nature of this problem. God not only created the Universe, but created the physics of the Universe (time, matter, energy, how these things interact, etc...) Thus since before God created the Universe and it's physical laws, there were no Universe nor physical laws. God could just exist without being created infinitely in the past and future. It's mind blowing and difficult to grasp, but it is the only logical piece of the puzzle that explains why we exist in this otherwise impossible existance.
God is an entity that exists beyond time/space. An entity that created time/space.
Nope. I'm a Christian as well. But I think that Slashdot is a bit biased. If you speak well of Christ, you'll get a -1 for flamebait.
If you feel that we came about by a brute force algorithm, they love you. It's silly that hackers will accept an idea as illogical that something as complicated as cells just came about by chance. I don't use a brute force algorithm to program, I design it.
It only makes sense why the world is very much against Christianity. They're right, a lot of Christians are hypocrits. They go to church on Sunday and praise God and then they go to the Bar on Friday and drink and praise evil. They further get highly emotional about stuff they don't believe in the first place.
Jesus asked if people truely believed and followed him, why did they not do as he says. It seems to me that most "Christians" are modern day Pharisees. It's unfortunate too. No wonder the world does not believe.
The world tries to see Christ as reflected by those who mearly say they believe in Him. They see those modern day Pharisees and see a completly different picture of who Christ was. In fact, Jesus came to dispute those self rightous hypocrits. Jesus came for the humble, the sinners, us. Those self rightous people are not Christians, they just say they are for fire insurance. Do they not realize that the God they claim to believe in sees through their lies.
I believe Christ did come and die for my sins. I am not worthy of his grace. I wish I could be a good witness, but I am not for I am born with the evil that lies in all of us. It doesn't help that people have the wrong idea about this Jesus I worship. He's about as much of a hacker as we are. But just like hackers, people all have the wrong idea.
As a hacker, I see that the world is too complex to not have been designed. Look at a cell. It's about as close to nano technology as one can get. Sounds like God was into Object Oriented Programming rather than Evolution.
It's about time. I just wish that Cebridge (my cable company) would follow through. With Sprint, I have to wait literally 2 hours on hold to be told that they can't do anything for my service. One time I was so mad at them that I shouted, "As soon as Cebridge gets VoIP I'm cancelling my service." They weren't scared. On a funnier note, Sprint called me one day asking me if I wanted to upgrade my phone service. The friendly rep said, "You can have all these features for just $67/month!!!" I replied, "What!? I'm a Wal-Mart truck unloader putting me and my wife through college. I can't afford that!" He said, "Well how about this! It's only $80/month!" I stopped him and said, "Dude, I want to save money, not waste more. In fact now that you mention it I wish to downgrade my phone service. I'm paying too much." "Downgrade?" "Yup. Downgrade. I just want the most basic plain vanilla service you can offer me." "Um... I can't do that." "Well you can upgrade my phone, right? Why can't you downgrade it?" "You'll have to call customer service to do that." "Whatever, I will. And if you or any of your reps call again, I'll cancel. I have to go to work in an hour and you wasted precious time with the Gamecube and my wife." So I called customer service. Waited an hour. Had them downgrade my phone and told them that if I get another offer that I'd go without a phone. Then I rushed off to work.
I guess so, but my grammar is more broken than Microsoft (I know... That's sad.)
I think that's a very good point. It baffels me that parents will buy their 6 year old an XBox and all the M rated games they whine for. I think a lot of parents are stupid about the rating system. I truely believe that kids are very infulential at earlier ages. For example, my Dad was a hacker and look at me, I'm all into technology as an adult. In the same way, if we give children games that allow them to act out murdering and picking up hookers, they'll be the pimp daddy at age 14. They'll grow up to be crooks and just drag down our economy with their worthless existance.
Huh? I didn't realize that my "definition" of free Software was confusing. :) I use the Richard Stallman type definition. I was just saying that despite the fact that I like MS Office better, I prefer to use Free (as in Freedom) Software and thus use OpenOffice.org.
I apologize for the confusion.
Microsoft does from time to time make good software. For example I prefer MS Office to OpenOffice.org. MS Office has nice things such as grammar checking.
I do, however, use OpenOffice.org instead due to the fact that I prefer Free Software over proprietary software.
Of course it makes sense that MS would make an anti-spyware program. They obviously wish to compete against all the perks we Free Software users enjoy.
I first started to use a computer when I was 4. My Dad had a Commodore 64/128. He use to surf the BBSes all the time. I remember calling my mother over and saying "Watch this!" He then printed off all of the passwords and usernames of a particular BBS.
I wanted to be real smart like that. As I got older I had a Sega Genesis. I had been fooling around with C64 BASIC for awhile. I was playing Sonic Spinball for the Genesis and pondered on how they could put all of those graphics on the screen or how they could move two objects at once. My programming mindset was very linear. So I theorized and came up with many stupid theories.
Eventually I got a hold of a GB emulatator that did decompiling. I watched all the registers and studied how that machine functioned. Just tracing through all those lines of decompiled programming taught me lots on how games and computers worked.
I guess I'm trying to say that the style of gaming will be different. If I'm playing the PSP, I'm still playing a 3D game. It's kinda like why people generally have an XBox, Gamecube, or PS2 and not all three. The DS games have a uniquly different input and output than the GCN. I guess the only really great thing I see about the PSP is that it may have connectivity simular to the GBA and the GCN.
I asked for the recipie, but when I baked it mine BSOD (Brown Screen of Death) in the oven! :( Anyway, I decided to patch it with Service Pack 12 and it gave me food poisoning. *sigh*
Both eMusic and theKopany don't have the kind of music I like to listen to. I like groups such as Disciple, Pillar, etc... Is there any Linux music download shop that has a good selection of Christian Rock music?
I think this whole must use their software only applies for the Windows and Mac world. After all, *NIX users will just simply add their format compatability to XMMS or MPlayer or something like that.
With the DS, the games are going to be uniquly different from the Nintendo Revolution games. From what I predict with the PSP is that the games are going to be pretty much the same between the PS2 and PSP. I can play online multiplayer with the PS2 already. I also play most of my games at home on my HDTV. Why do I want a portable version of the same games I already have? I'm just not seeing the point of the PSP's existance.
Nintendo mentioned once that it has taken on many competitors in the handheld market and have always won. Let's see why... Nintendo vs. Sega: The gamegear was neat, but it ate batteries faster than a sumo wreastler eats buffalo wings. Nintendo vs. Atari: The lynx was so hard to find that nobody who was interested could even try it. Nintendo vs. Nintendo: The virtualboy was a great concept, but who wants to look at 4 shades of red with no 3rd party support? Nintendo vs. Tiger: When you lie to the public about your product, it won't sell...period. Anybody ever try playing Sonic Jam on the game.com? It sure doesn't look like the game on the box or TV ads. Nintendo vs. Cybiko: Who (besides me) actually has a Cybiko anyway? And those who do: how do you get it to work again if you try updating it at the wrong time? Nintendo vs. Sony: Who wants a game console that doesn't do anything the PS2 can't do already? Nintendo vs. Sega...again: Why Sega!? Stop the embarassment!
Actually the preps in my area (MO, and yes, we use that name too) only seem to have 90840 friends on their list, but that's due to the large scrub (What they call us) population. But most of the preps I know use MSN as well as Y! (HS Preps, MSN. Middle School & College Preps Y!) The scrubs in this area use AIM. Hardly noone except my father and I use ICQ.
Eh? I think hackers and crackers are like birds and chickens. Chickens and birds have a "is a" relationship and I think the same goes for "crackers and hackers" or even "crackers and snackfood". Or something like that. So I don't think that /. was necessarily wrong in using the term Hacker.