Actually, I have a newsreader (Thunderbird) and an ISP that allows fairly comprehensive access, except binaries (AT&T DSL), and yet I still choose to use the Google Groups client. It could be better, but with the limited volume of postings in the groups I still visit, it is manageable enough. Plus not having to use a newsreader means I can use just about any web enabled computer - work, home-Windows or home-Linux.
Well, how do you know how long you have been reading Slashdot for? I see on my profile I have been using Linux since 1999, so I suppose I have been reading Slashdot since right around then.
Great news for the community. Now lets hope this helps redirect resources, so I can get those laptop drivers fixed, and then I can finally sleep/hibernate properly!
2002 was the first Talk Like A Pirate Day. Not sure how it was cool 10 years ago, even borderline. Maybe you just need to relax a little and not worry what is cool or not. Go back to your mom's basement and finish watching Napoleon Dynamite.
I don't think so. The new transmissions are double clutch sequential *manual* transmissions. They do not have the torque converters that made the old manumatics (e.g. Tiptronic) basically automatics with selectable gears. Some of the newest high performance cars only come with these new sequential boxes -- they can be that good. Personally, I am not sure if I'd want one on my next car as I quite enjoy shifting gears with a gearshift lever and clutch. (Mini Cooper S)
So the first ad was a disaster. I get that Jerry and Bill are stars in the IT world, but is the posting of each in the series of ads intended to document something about Microsoft? Perhaps rubbernecking at the demise of MS, how low and stupid they are going to go in their quest to become relevant again?
This is a difficult thing about the English language. Why are women allowed to have girlfriends, and it is not assumed to be sexual, and men are not? Furthermore, why can't guys have boyfriends then without it being assumed you are gay? This is a rather silly place.
The trouble with not allowing cookies in the current addons, Stealther for example, is that it blocks the cookies entirely, rather than simply sandboxing them. So reddit or many other sites, for example, keeps asking if you are over 18 and won't allow you past until you allow it to set a cookie. With a sandboxed approach, the site can set the cookie to its hearts content and you, the user, know that the sandbox will be wiped clean when you close the browser/tab.
See, now you had a painful experience getting hit by a car, blacking out and then a moving personal experience (which may or may not have been you meeting God versus something else). My own near-death experience was completely painless. At age 14 I was crossing a busy highway on my bicycle and misjudged the approach of a car, and was hit by it going 40 mph or more. I felt no pain, and continued not to feel pain for some time, what felt like a few seconds, even after hitting the ground. As you say, time dilated, so it may have been milliseconds.
After a few of these moments the pain began. After that point I became convinced that death will be largely painless when it really comes, unless of course it is lingering like bleeding out or cancer. I believe that those shot in the head, for example, will not feel hardly anything. Your description leads me to believe that a) you were not that close to death and therefore your pain sensors were still working or b) everyone's experience is different, and I got lucky by not feeling the impact.
When I got my hair cut short one time, the kids in school started calling me "matchstick". I guess my head looked like a match, and since I was skinny... ta da. I hated it.
I just have to commend you on your correct usage of "losing". I am so sick of seeing "loose" and "loosing" instead. Kudos.
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B&W was also mind numbingly slow. I have a modern, up to date computer with plenty of RAM and a decent video card. And yet B&W runs excruciatingly slowly. Mouse clicks take seconds to register. I haven't gotten much past the tutorial, it is so bad. I don't know how my son (now 12) even can play it. Oh well, thanks for the reminder of another $40 I have wasted on computer games.
Spore seems like another waste, so far. We spent good money on the creature creator, but even with the potential $5 refund, it was not worth it given how little impact creature design has on play in the creature level.
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Late to the party again, but I will add that I finally got to play last night for 90 minutes. In that time I went through the cell stage and started into the creature stage. Overall I was not impressed last night, having a feeling of needing to click too many times on each attack button. I was ready to uninstall it, I was not having any fun.
Nevertheless, after reading some of the strategies employed, perhaps there is greater depth to the game than I gave it credit for. Perhaps I need to restart and spend enough time in cell mode to get that omnivore ability. I will give it another try.
It might need a good heatsink, but honestly the video card fan isn't that loud anyway. When the fan did fail, the temp went over 90c, but the noise wasn't noticable so I didn't notice for a few weeks. I think there might have been some pet hair in there, but who knows. I really wish I could get rid of the CPU fan though, that is crazy loud all for a regular Athlon 3200+. BTW, the 7600GS was $79 from Newegg.com back in October of last year.
Good point. I am also bad about receipts, but newegg and gmail came to the rescue. By searching gmail for '7600gs' my invoice was easily found. I then printed it and put it, as requested, into the box when shipping it back to evga. Gawd I love gmail, just wish I could access it from work (protected by websense).
Just had my 7600gs fan fail after 11 months of use. Unfortunately I did not register with eVGA (new to this computer thing I guess!) so got just the standard 1 year warranty. Nevertheless, since it is in the warranty period they are replacing it. $25 in shipping back to California, and I am hoping it is in my mailbox today or tomorrow. Love the card, though. Makes UT2K4 run quite snappily!
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Actually, I have a newsreader (Thunderbird) and an ISP that allows fairly comprehensive access, except binaries (AT&T DSL), and yet I still choose to use the Google Groups client. It could be better, but with the limited volume of postings in the groups I still visit, it is manageable enough. Plus not having to use a newsreader means I can use just about any web enabled computer - work, home-Windows or home-Linux.
It still shows up on the RSS feed, which is incredibly annoying and difficult to miss.
Well, how do you know how long you have been reading Slashdot for? I see on my profile I have been using Linux since 1999, so I suppose I have been reading Slashdot since right around then.
Either way, I'll take one of each please!
Great news for the community. Now lets hope this helps redirect resources, so I can get those laptop drivers fixed, and then I can finally sleep/hibernate properly!
FSM for the win!
2002 was the first Talk Like A Pirate Day. Not sure how it was cool 10 years ago, even borderline. Maybe you just need to relax a little and not worry what is cool or not. Go back to your mom's basement and finish watching Napoleon Dynamite.
The cake is a lie.
Wow, the opposite of the usual UID game. Cool! (BTW, I lose to both of you)
I don't think so. The new transmissions are double clutch sequential *manual* transmissions. They do not have the torque converters that made the old manumatics (e.g. Tiptronic) basically automatics with selectable gears. Some of the newest high performance cars only come with these new sequential boxes -- they can be that good. Personally, I am not sure if I'd want one on my next car as I quite enjoy shifting gears with a gearshift lever and clutch. (Mini Cooper S)
"We make our loot the old fashioned way. We eaaarn it!"
So the first ad was a disaster. I get that Jerry and Bill are stars in the IT world, but is the posting of each in the series of ads intended to document something about Microsoft? Perhaps rubbernecking at the demise of MS, how low and stupid they are going to go in their quest to become relevant again?
This is a difficult thing about the English language. Why are women allowed to have girlfriends, and it is not assumed to be sexual, and men are not? Furthermore, why can't guys have boyfriends then without it being assumed you are gay? This is a rather silly place.
The trouble with not allowing cookies in the current addons, Stealther for example, is that it blocks the cookies entirely, rather than simply sandboxing them. So reddit or many other sites, for example, keeps asking if you are over 18 and won't allow you past until you allow it to set a cookie. With a sandboxed approach, the site can set the cookie to its hearts content and you, the user, know that the sandbox will be wiped clean when you close the browser/tab.
See, now you had a painful experience getting hit by a car, blacking out and then a moving personal experience (which may or may not have been you meeting God versus something else). My own near-death experience was completely painless. At age 14 I was crossing a busy highway on my bicycle and misjudged the approach of a car, and was hit by it going 40 mph or more. I felt no pain, and continued not to feel pain for some time, what felt like a few seconds, even after hitting the ground. As you say, time dilated, so it may have been milliseconds.
After a few of these moments the pain began. After that point I became convinced that death will be largely painless when it really comes, unless of course it is lingering like bleeding out or cancer. I believe that those shot in the head, for example, will not feel hardly anything. Your description leads me to believe that a) you were not that close to death and therefore your pain sensors were still working or b) everyone's experience is different, and I got lucky by not feeling the impact.
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Either that, or just go to 192.168.1.1 and do a reset to defaults. dd-wrt is your friend! :-)
When I got my hair cut short one time, the kids in school started calling me "matchstick". I guess my head looked like a match, and since I was skinny... ta da. I hated it.
I just have to commend you on your correct usage of "losing". I am so sick of seeing "loose" and "loosing" instead. Kudos.
B&W was also mind numbingly slow. I have a modern, up to date computer with plenty of RAM and a decent video card. And yet B&W runs excruciatingly slowly. Mouse clicks take seconds to register. I haven't gotten much past the tutorial, it is so bad. I don't know how my son (now 12) even can play it. Oh well, thanks for the reminder of another $40 I have wasted on computer games.
Spore seems like another waste, so far. We spent good money on the creature creator, but even with the potential $5 refund, it was not worth it given how little impact creature design has on play in the creature level.
Late to the party again, but I will add that I finally got to play last night for 90 minutes. In that time I went through the cell stage and started into the creature stage. Overall I was not impressed last night, having a feeling of needing to click too many times on each attack button. I was ready to uninstall it, I was not having any fun.
Nevertheless, after reading some of the strategies employed, perhaps there is greater depth to the game than I gave it credit for. Perhaps I need to restart and spend enough time in cell mode to get that omnivore ability. I will give it another try.
It might need a good heatsink, but honestly the video card fan isn't that loud anyway. When the fan did fail, the temp went over 90c, but the noise wasn't noticable so I didn't notice for a few weeks. I think there might have been some pet hair in there, but who knows. I really wish I could get rid of the CPU fan though, that is crazy loud all for a regular Athlon 3200+. BTW, the 7600GS was $79 from Newegg.com back in October of last year.
Good point. I am also bad about receipts, but newegg and gmail came to the rescue. By searching gmail for '7600gs' my invoice was easily found. I then printed it and put it, as requested, into the box when shipping it back to evga. Gawd I love gmail, just wish I could access it from work (protected by websense).
Just had my 7600gs fan fail after 11 months of use. Unfortunately I did not register with eVGA (new to this computer thing I guess!) so got just the standard 1 year warranty. Nevertheless, since it is in the warranty period they are replacing it. $25 in shipping back to California, and I am hoping it is in my mailbox today or tomorrow. Love the card, though. Makes UT2K4 run quite snappily!
Also need to check in on the reply itself to see how it was moderated. Might it get a +1 insightful or a non-karma enhancing +1 funny?
It was a triumph, I'm making a note here, huge success!