"You can't control a car with one hand (unless specially adapted), let alone control it with one hand while you focus on going "oh really? Yes? wow? cool!" over and over down a phone."
That's just silly. I've been driving for five years and I've never been in a major accident (just a few small taps because of ice), and I almost NEVER drive with two hands. It's just not necessary for most normal driving tasks. Anyone with moderate dexterity can make a turn, change lanes, or even do a full reverse-direction Y-turn with just one hand. The issue is, of course, driving with the distraction of a conversation.
Then again, I think it's all situation. If I'm driving five hours back to my parent's house and I'm on I-70 through Ohio (long, flat, no turns) while there's very light traffic, then I'm not going to have any problem using my cell phone. If I'm driving through the hills of Pittsburgh on unfamiliar roads and random stop signs, then I'll wait until I'm somewhere familiar to deal with the phone. If I'm on the phone and there is suddenly a lot of traffic or the potential for a dangerous situation, I'll tell the person to hold on, place the phone down, and get myself into a safe situation before I use the phone again.
It's just common sense. This polarized "I hate all people who ever use cell phones in the car" nonsense doesn't help anyone. It's simply an availability bias - the only time you *notice* someone on a cell phone is when they do something stupid and put you in danger, so you assume that everyone who talks on a cell phone puts people in danger. You'll never notice me talking on a cell phone in my car because I never do it in dangerous situations and I'm competent enough to know when a situation warrants my full attention and when it'll be okay for me to hit the cruise control, stay within the lines, and call someone about something important.
Why do I keep seeing so many posts saying "Waah, I didn't get my rebate and it's too HAAAARD. I can't do it! Why don't they just give me the money off at the register?"
There are two simple reasons that rebates exist, and they're very easy to understand:
1) Money now is worth more than money later This is always true. Even if they're only gaining a little bit of interest on the $40, a retail chain could sell 1,000 units and earn interest on $40,000. Even if it's a low rate, that's still a few hundred dollars to offset the costs. Furthermore, if they time it right, they can have money in their pocket and look profitable for a little while, send out the rebate checks later, and still end up being profitable because:
2) Rebates are a form of "hurdling". By creating arbitrary hurdles for consumers to overcome to get a price break, they can more effectively address individual demands for a product. Let's say 10,000 people are willing to buy product X at $100 and another 4,000 people are willing to buy product X at $60. By having a mail-in rebate, consumers who don't mind spending ten minutes filling out a rebate form and mailing it in can jump a "hurdle" and get the product at a price that they are willing to pay while many of the 10,000 who would have paid $100 will get the discounted price as well. The ones who don't take the effort to send in the rebate will not get the discounted price, but they were willing to pay in the first place.
Yes, it's annoying when companies have scam rebates and don't send them back. Yes, it can be a lot of work to get your rebates back. My parents have been buying items with rebates for years now and have only failed to receive a few rebates. But there's nothing wrong with taking advantage of "breaking" - if a person figures that it isn't worth their time to send in a rebate, they don't get the discounted price. It's an effective way to price discriminate and sell to different people at different prices, and the net effect is that everyone benefits.
Whatever your opinion on whether porn degrades or not, claiming one sex is more exploited than the other (unless you were talking about the nasty S&M stuff, but then even that has a *huge* niche of women dominating men) is an entirely unfounded suggestion rooted in the belief that women do not have sexuality or sex drive - if women want to get paid to have sex, and are paid handsomely for doing so on camera, precisely where is the exploitation occurring?
I agree with you entirely. I've had a few nasty arguments with feminists who argued that since occasionally women are raped during porn and a few psychos claim to have been motivated to rape because of porn, we must make all pornography illegal.
There is a valid point about pornography demeaning women though. People like you and I make an effort to find pornography that's sexual, enjoyable, and fun. However, if you look at a vast cross-section of mainstream porn (such as ampland dot com or al4a dot com) and look at the majority of the videos, you'll see that in at least 1 out of 3 videos the woman is being mistreated in some way. Now, she might enjoy it, and it might be all well and fine, but a large plurality of pornography contains shit like men saying "Take that cock, you little slut" and "Yeah, bitch, you just love to eat my cum". And a lot of the sites glorify the women being controlled and put in pain, e.g. "Watch this bitch get fucked on camera for the FIRST TIME while we rip her ass wide open" or "Watch her scream in pain as she gets two cocks for the first time" or "We told this girl we'd pay her, fucked her, and then dropped her off and drove away laughing".
I think that anyone ought to have the freedom to make porn like that. But I do think it's a matter of concern that so much porn centers around degrading and taking advantage of women, and I'd much rather my hypothetical children see videos of consenting, loving adults than "We shoved three cocks in this bitch and she loves it".
What exactly is a "proverbial win/win situation"? Proverbial literally means that it references a proverb or famous story, and I don't recall any famous story about a win/win situation. Furthermore, even if you accept that 'common usage' has relegated the word proverbial to mean famous and widely referred to, how is a win/win situation famous? It simply *is* a win/win situation. There's no archetypal or specific win/win situation that you're referencing.
The word proverbial indicates the specificity of a situation - either from a proverb or a widely-known situation that has relevance. A win/win situation is simply a generic situation, and needs no "proverbial" reference to be understood.
The problem is that it was fantastically difficult to see Metriod Prime at 480p. That's my primary concern with the Revolution.
I don't really care much about HD, but I do care about 480p. Our house PS2 is hooked up via component cables to a 57" HDTV, and my Xbox used to also be hooked up to it. I barely noticed a difference when I ran THUG2 at 720p instead of 480p, but I get really irritated when a game is 480i instead of 480p. When playing God of War, the difference was significant enough that against bigger bosses, the extra detail from the progressive resolution could make the game easier to play. Likewise, SCIII just looks fantastically better when played in 480p.
However, if I want to play SCIII in progressive, I can't just go into a menu and change to "progressive" like in God of War. Instead, I have to start up the system, hold down X and triangle while the game starts, and then change the option. While I'm clever enough to figure this out, my less theater-savvy housemates find it nearly impossible to hold two buttons and start the game in 480i. Then the only way to change the output is to restart the game! I find that irritating as shit.
Likewise, to see 480p on the GC, you have to purchase a special cable, hope that your GameCube is old enough to still have the digital out (newer GCs shipped with only the analog output), and hold B at the beginning of every game. I know that I could do that, but I live with other people who AREN'T terribly tech-savvy and so I never bothered buying the HD cable. What would the point be when nobody would know how to use it except me?
I don't mind if the Revolution doesn't support 1920x1080, or even 720p. But it had damn well better support progressive video output and widescreen without forcing me to jump through hoops every time I want to play a game.
The Latin word is a third declension noun: Venus, Veneris. The adjective Venereus -a -um means "of Venus" or "of love". Therefore, a venereal disease is actually a disease of love, but a native of Venus would also be a Venereal - a person "of Venus".
In the same way, a Martian is a person "of Mars". Mars, Martis becomes Martian. Third declension nouns do that. A lot of people think Venus is second or fourth declension because it ends in -us, but it is third declension and so the Anglicized adjective referring to a person of Venus will use Veneris to form the word.
I'm a bit rusty on the Latin, but I remember that much. I wonder why. Man, I'm itchy.
Hey, I worked for a market research company. It's important to recognize the difference. Telemarketing is not the same as market research. Unfortunately, a lot of telemarketers will often pose as market researchers, i.e. "Hello, I'm ____ calling from Vagina Marketing Research. I'd like to ask you just a few questions." Demographic questions follow, and then suddenly "Would you be interested in buying Vagina Research Brand Douche?"
A true marketing research firm will try to follow a consistent format. When I worked as a caller for a marketing research firm, my calls often went like this:
"Hello, my name is _____ calling from _____ Marketing Research. May I please speak to the head of your household? I am only calling to ask a few questions, and I assure you I am not selling anything."
"You sonofabitch?! I fucking hate you! You're trying to sell me shit again, aren't you?"
"No, sir. I assure you that I only have a few questions to ask, and we are not selling any product."
"No, you're trying to sell me something, you fucker! "
There are people who lie in order to try to sell you something, but often if someone is trying to call you to do a survey, just do it! Most of them only take a few minutes, and it makes someone's life easier. If they're selling something, just say "I don't buy things over the phone" and be polite - we're just normal fuckers trying to make enough money to pay for food. If they're just doing a survey, take five minutes and do the survey! It's not that hard.
Yes, most universities are left-wing. And just like in the parent's reply, there are many examples of universities restricting free speech.
Here at Carnegie Mellon, we had the Natrat incident wherein most of the staff was fucked up and students were in an uproar, even had an assembly, to have to author of a cartoon using the word "nigger" lynched. And there are plenty of examples at other schools as well. There are definitely examples of left-wing political correctness bullshit restricting students' right to speak.
Some of my friends and I chipped in some money to buy a media PC. We included a Hauppage PVR-250 card, a GeForce Ti4200 to run S-video to our HDTV, an Athlon 2500+ and 256 megs of RAM. Our initial plan was to install MythTV via Gentoo, which one of my friends had a great deal of experience with.
Six months later (we don't pay much attention) and something about a framebuffer, that was abandoned. We said "Fuck it, let's just use KnoppMyth". We installed it straight off the CD, and everything seemed to work great... until we tried to boot into X and make things work. For reasons that I can't even begin to understand, the display was completely off-center and half of the screen wasn't visible. We played with video settings, but every single setting we tried caused horrible scanning and flashing colors on the TV.
"Fuck it", I said, "I'll just install MCE 2005". I run the installer and everything seems to work fine. I install the video drivers - whoops! The GeForce Ti4200 isn't a supported video card, and newer Nvidia drivers break it! Reformat, reinstall. I install older drivers, and things seem to be going well, and then I go to install the Hauppage drivers.
The Hauppage PVR-250 MCE works with MCE 2005. The Hauppage PVR-250 DOES NOT. In fact, it will start crying and shitting itself if you even try.
Finally, I just installed XP Pro and BP-PVR, and everything finally seemed to work. I turn on the television, and it looks like shit! Horrible pixelation, stutters and skips in the live television feed, and a significantly worse picture overall. It probably wouldn't have been noticeable on an old television, but on an HDTV the difference is horribly significant.
The moral of my exceeding long story is 1) make sure you read up on supported hardware before trying to install something and 2) if you take a shitty cable feed, convert it to MPEG-2, and run it through shitty S-video to a high-quality display, you're bound to be horribly disappointed.
That's because women masturbate with pillows, and masturbation kills babies. Even when it doesn't.
To be fair, fungus kills babies too. Especially if you don't refridgerate them properly. If you're planning on keeping it more than two weeks, make sure you freeze the baby properly, and then thaw and grill it when you're ready to eat.
But I shower without soap and rarely use deodorant
Only on Slashdot do you find someone who is *proud* that he doesn't use deodorant often. What does deodorant have to do with germs? It just helps you smell better, for goodness' sake. Women appreciate men who don't smell.
They disappeared because God didn't create the world until six thousand years ago! So if they coexisted with us thirty thousand years ago, it doesn't matter because the world was created long after that.
Either that or they missed the Ark.
Of course, the article talks about how the Neanderthals were found to coexist with our species in France. And that explains why the French are so evil in the neoconservative Christian theology - they weren't God's chosen species!
Maybe the Christian Right just traveled back in time and killed them off because they're not mentioned in the Bible.
I know, I know. -1 Offtopic, -1 Failure to actually be funny. Hooray!
disagrees about there being a billion of him because of some bubbles. But he highly enjoys being related to energy production. Because this is a really lame first post, and it's not even first. Or is it? You decide, America...
Yeah, they're conservative sources, it's all I could find at short notice.
I don't care either way on the issue, and they might have a point about labeling GM foods - I haven't done the research. But it doesn't mean dick to starving Africans if the food is genetically modified or not. And that can certainly be considered terrorism.
Although that's an interesting point, it's been known for ages that the human brain has limited serial processing capabilities, far below that of computers of even ten or fifteen years ago.
The amazing thing about the human brain is its ability to parallel process. Although the recitation of digits was only at 6 baud, you're forgetting the massive amount of processing for the individual to: -breathe -have a heartbeat -maintain balance -keep most muscles relaxed -use the mouth and tongue to form phonemes -compress the diaphragm to rush air over the vocal cords to create the voicing for those phonemes -process all the visual information from the room while the eyes continually dart around -process all audio information and separate the internally generated audio from the audio of the surrounding room -probably drink and digest some water -digest some food that had been eaten previously -form the complex symbolic memory representation in the mind of the experience of reciting over 80,000 digits in front of witnesses (because, as they were reciting digits from memory, they were also creating a memory of the recitation of the recalled digits)
I'm working over the summer in my parents' small business (Yes, I am writing this from my parents' basement). We print 50-80 pages a day of book listings (which we then find and ship, Amazon rocks my world).
For a little while, they were using a big HP inkjet all in one. I switched them to using an HP 1012 Laser that was lying around because I'm quite sure it's cheaper and it's a lot faster to print.
Right now, I'm trying to see if I can find a slighty larger and more efficient laser that prints at a cheaper cost per page - from what I've read, the LJ 1012 costs about 3-4 cents per page, which I think is a little high.
What's the best sub-$500 laser printer for cheap printouts where quality does not matter at all? I don't need color or duplexing, just single page black and white text prints at the absolute cheapest possible cost per page. I've looked at a few Brother and HP models, but it's extremely difficult to find a reliable cost-per-page measure in any review - I think they just make them up.
Suicide is killing yourself. A lot of smokers have underlying mental problems, and smoking is a form of "self-medication".
And that makes it equivalent to suicide? According to your definition, anyone who uses any sort of non-food substance is suicidal, not just smokers. People who drink, smoke weed, take pills - they're all pretty equally likely to kill you in excess or with consistent use over time.
Besides, smoking just works. People don't do drugs, drink liquor, and smoke cigarettes because they hurt their bodies - they do those things because THEY WORK. A cigarette WILL make you feel better after a long day, as will a stiff drink or a nice joint.
I'm sorry but how does downloading Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy on DVD constitute the correct use of a universities network let alone internet2?
Well, go talk to the universities about that. Because they're the ones who provide access to Internet2 from residential areas in the first place.
That's not necessarily a bad thing. Universities pay MASSIVE amounts of money to purchase enough bandwidth for students to access the internet. In order to save money, traffic is efficiently routed through Internet2 whenever possible at these schools.
Every time I look at the Brown, Harvard, or any other I2 school's web site, the traffic is routed over Internet2. This is fantastic when you need to download large files like Linux ISOs because it's faster than using the commodity bandwidth link and saves the university a great deal of money over the course of a year. The effect of this routing on Internet 2 is virtually negligible, given the amount of bandwidth available.
Your tax dollars paid for part of Internet2, and it's used to reduce the cost of the commodity bandwidth link which your tax dollars pay for. So really, it's a good thing. There's no reason to bitch about it. i2hub uses Internet2 exclusively, but every other file sharing application would efficiently route traffic in the same way at any school that has enabled it.
And if you have a problem with students using the Internet connections at their Universities for non-academic purposes... well, feel free to monitor all the usage. Or just accept that students pay for most of that internet access, and that the efficient routing of traffic through a faster network with virtually free bandwidth saves the schools money. That might make sense.
Go for the $1 solution that gives a $100 reward. If you want to see a huge impact on our total enegery use all they would have to do is ban the good ol incadecent light bulb.
You know, you're exactly right. I don't think the government is interfering in my choices *nearly* enough. I want the government to tell me what kind of light bulbs I can install too.
I'm all for energy conservation, but please, don't suggest the government needs to regulate the free market for stupid reasons. 99% of the public bought the lies about recycling - brainwash them about incandescent bulbs and you have a solution without unnecessary government interference.
which is just enough to get calls and head for the window
You know, if a window is expecting a phone call and a blow job, I wouldn't really interfere. You don't want the window to get pissed that you ruined his booty call.
and some 70% of the country doesn't know what a computer is either or what it is used for
Why is there so much of this drivel posted about this topic?
People in India aren't retarded monkeys, you know. Seriously. They have things called 'cities', and 'automobiles', and even poor rural folks go into the city to sell their shit and see rich urban Indians using their cell phones and laptops.
India is not some sort of medieval wasteland of mindless serfs who run away because they've never seen electricity before - it's just a country with a lot of people who can't afford most luxuries that we take for granted, and quite a few people who can't even afford necessities. They still *see* the technology, and they know it exists.
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"You can't control a car with one hand (unless specially adapted), let alone control it with one hand while you focus on going "oh really? Yes? wow? cool!" over and over down a phone."
That's just silly. I've been driving for five years and I've never been in a major accident (just a few small taps because of ice), and I almost NEVER drive with two hands. It's just not necessary for most normal driving tasks. Anyone with moderate dexterity can make a turn, change lanes, or even do a full reverse-direction Y-turn with just one hand. The issue is, of course, driving with the distraction of a conversation.
Then again, I think it's all situation. If I'm driving five hours back to my parent's house and I'm on I-70 through Ohio (long, flat, no turns) while there's very light traffic, then I'm not going to have any problem using my cell phone. If I'm driving through the hills of Pittsburgh on unfamiliar roads and random stop signs, then I'll wait until I'm somewhere familiar to deal with the phone. If I'm on the phone and there is suddenly a lot of traffic or the potential for a dangerous situation, I'll tell the person to hold on, place the phone down, and get myself into a safe situation before I use the phone again.
It's just common sense. This polarized "I hate all people who ever use cell phones in the car" nonsense doesn't help anyone. It's simply an availability bias - the only time you *notice* someone on a cell phone is when they do something stupid and put you in danger, so you assume that everyone who talks on a cell phone puts people in danger. You'll never notice me talking on a cell phone in my car because I never do it in dangerous situations and I'm competent enough to know when a situation warrants my full attention and when it'll be okay for me to hit the cruise control, stay within the lines, and call someone about something important.
Why do I keep seeing so many posts saying "Waah, I didn't get my rebate and it's too HAAAARD. I can't do it! Why don't they just give me the money off at the register?"
There are two simple reasons that rebates exist, and they're very easy to understand:
1) Money now is worth more than money later
This is always true. Even if they're only gaining a little bit of interest on the $40, a retail chain could sell 1,000 units and earn interest on $40,000. Even if it's a low rate, that's still a few hundred dollars to offset the costs. Furthermore, if they time it right, they can have money in their pocket and look profitable for a little while, send out the rebate checks later, and still end up being profitable because:
2) Rebates are a form of "hurdling". By creating arbitrary hurdles for consumers to overcome to get a price break, they can more effectively address individual demands for a product. Let's say 10,000 people are willing to buy product X at $100 and another 4,000 people are willing to buy product X at $60. By having a mail-in rebate, consumers who don't mind spending ten minutes filling out a rebate form and mailing it in can jump a "hurdle" and get the product at a price that they are willing to pay while many of the 10,000 who would have paid $100 will get the discounted price as well. The ones who don't take the effort to send in the rebate will not get the discounted price, but they were willing to pay in the first place.
Yes, it's annoying when companies have scam rebates and don't send them back. Yes, it can be a lot of work to get your rebates back. My parents have been buying items with rebates for years now and have only failed to receive a few rebates. But there's nothing wrong with taking advantage of "breaking" - if a person figures that it isn't worth their time to send in a rebate, they don't get the discounted price. It's an effective way to price discriminate and sell to different people at different prices, and the net effect is that everyone benefits.
I thought the easiest way was to find the original article for the dupe you're reading, find some of the +5s, and copy and paste them!
Haha. Ha. Yeah...
Whatever your opinion on whether porn degrades or not, claiming one sex is more exploited than the other (unless you were talking about the nasty S&M stuff, but then even that has a *huge* niche of women dominating men) is an entirely unfounded suggestion rooted in the belief that women do not have sexuality or sex drive - if women want to get paid to have sex, and are paid handsomely for doing so on camera, precisely where is the exploitation occurring?
I agree with you entirely. I've had a few nasty arguments with feminists who argued that since occasionally women are raped during porn and a few psychos claim to have been motivated to rape because of porn, we must make all pornography illegal.
There is a valid point about pornography demeaning women though. People like you and I make an effort to find pornography that's sexual, enjoyable, and fun. However, if you look at a vast cross-section of mainstream porn (such as ampland dot com or al4a dot com) and look at the majority of the videos, you'll see that in at least 1 out of 3 videos the woman is being mistreated in some way. Now, she might enjoy it, and it might be all well and fine, but a large plurality of pornography contains shit like men saying "Take that cock, you little slut" and "Yeah, bitch, you just love to eat my cum". And a lot of the sites glorify the women being controlled and put in pain, e.g. "Watch this bitch get fucked on camera for the FIRST TIME while we rip her ass wide open" or "Watch her scream in pain as she gets two cocks for the first time" or "We told this girl we'd pay her, fucked her, and then dropped her off and drove away laughing".
I think that anyone ought to have the freedom to make porn like that. But I do think it's a matter of concern that so much porn centers around degrading and taking advantage of women, and I'd much rather my hypothetical children see videos of consenting, loving adults than "We shoved three cocks in this bitch and she loves it".
What exactly is a "proverbial win/win situation"? Proverbial literally means that it references a proverb or famous story, and I don't recall any famous story about a win/win situation. Furthermore, even if you accept that 'common usage' has relegated the word proverbial to mean famous and widely referred to, how is a win/win situation famous? It simply *is* a win/win situation. There's no archetypal or specific win/win situation that you're referencing.
The word proverbial indicates the specificity of a situation - either from a proverb or a widely-known situation that has relevance. A win/win situation is simply a generic situation, and needs no "proverbial" reference to be understood.
The problem is that it was fantastically difficult to see Metriod Prime at 480p. That's my primary concern with the Revolution.
I don't really care much about HD, but I do care about 480p. Our house PS2 is hooked up via component cables to a 57" HDTV, and my Xbox used to also be hooked up to it. I barely noticed a difference when I ran THUG2 at 720p instead of 480p, but I get really irritated when a game is 480i instead of 480p. When playing God of War, the difference was significant enough that against bigger bosses, the extra detail from the progressive resolution could make the game easier to play. Likewise, SCIII just looks fantastically better when played in 480p.
However, if I want to play SCIII in progressive, I can't just go into a menu and change to "progressive" like in God of War. Instead, I have to start up the system, hold down X and triangle while the game starts, and then change the option. While I'm clever enough to figure this out, my less theater-savvy housemates find it nearly impossible to hold two buttons and start the game in 480i. Then the only way to change the output is to restart the game! I find that irritating as shit.
Likewise, to see 480p on the GC, you have to purchase a special cable, hope that your GameCube is old enough to still have the digital out (newer GCs shipped with only the analog output), and hold B at the beginning of every game. I know that I could do that, but I live with other people who AREN'T terribly tech-savvy and so I never bothered buying the HD cable. What would the point be when nobody would know how to use it except me?
I don't mind if the Revolution doesn't support 1920x1080, or even 720p. But it had damn well better support progressive video output and widescreen without forcing me to jump through hoops every time I want to play a game.
Actually, it's venereal.
The Latin word is a third declension noun: Venus, Veneris. The adjective Venereus -a -um means "of Venus" or "of love". Therefore, a venereal disease is actually a disease of love, but a native of Venus would also be a Venereal - a person "of Venus".
In the same way, a Martian is a person "of Mars". Mars, Martis becomes Martian. Third declension nouns do that. A lot of people think Venus is second or fourth declension because it ends in -us, but it is third declension and so the Anglicized adjective referring to a person of Venus will use Veneris to form the word.
I'm a bit rusty on the Latin, but I remember that much. I wonder why. Man, I'm itchy.
Hey, I worked for a market research company. It's important to recognize the difference. Telemarketing is not the same as market research. Unfortunately, a lot of telemarketers will often pose as market researchers, i.e. "Hello, I'm ____ calling from Vagina Marketing Research. I'd like to ask you just a few questions." Demographic questions follow, and then suddenly "Would you be interested in buying Vagina Research Brand Douche?"
A true marketing research firm will try to follow a consistent format. When I worked as a caller for a marketing research firm, my calls often went like this:
"Hello, my name is _____ calling from _____ Marketing Research. May I please speak to the head of your household? I am only calling to ask a few questions, and I assure you I am not selling anything."
"You sonofabitch?! I fucking hate you! You're trying to sell me shit again, aren't you?"
"No, sir. I assure you that I only have a few questions to ask, and we are not selling any product."
"No, you're trying to sell me something, you fucker! "
There are people who lie in order to try to sell you something, but often if someone is trying to call you to do a survey, just do it! Most of them only take a few minutes, and it makes someone's life easier. If they're selling something, just say "I don't buy things over the phone" and be polite - we're just normal fuckers trying to make enough money to pay for food. If they're just doing a survey, take five minutes and do the survey! It's not that hard.
Yes, most universities are left-wing. And just like in the parent's reply, there are many examples of universities restricting free speech.
Here at Carnegie Mellon, we had the Natrat incident wherein most of the staff was fucked up and students were in an uproar, even had an assembly, to have to author of a cartoon using the word "nigger" lynched. And there are plenty of examples at other schools as well. There are definitely examples of left-wing political correctness bullshit restricting students' right to speak.
Some of my friends and I chipped in some money to buy a media PC. We included a Hauppage PVR-250 card, a GeForce Ti4200 to run S-video to our HDTV, an Athlon 2500+ and 256 megs of RAM. Our initial plan was to install MythTV via Gentoo, which one of my friends had a great deal of experience with.
Six months later (we don't pay much attention) and something about a framebuffer, that was abandoned. We said "Fuck it, let's just use KnoppMyth". We installed it straight off the CD, and everything seemed to work great... until we tried to boot into X and make things work. For reasons that I can't even begin to understand, the display was completely off-center and half of the screen wasn't visible. We played with video settings, but every single setting we tried caused horrible scanning and flashing colors on the TV.
"Fuck it", I said, "I'll just install MCE 2005". I run the installer and everything seems to work fine. I install the video drivers - whoops! The GeForce Ti4200 isn't a supported video card, and newer Nvidia drivers break it! Reformat, reinstall. I install older drivers, and things seem to be going well, and then I go to install the Hauppage drivers.
The Hauppage PVR-250 MCE works with MCE 2005. The Hauppage PVR-250 DOES NOT. In fact, it will start crying and shitting itself if you even try.
Finally, I just installed XP Pro and BP-PVR, and everything finally seemed to work. I turn on the television, and it looks like shit! Horrible pixelation, stutters and skips in the live television feed, and a significantly worse picture overall. It probably wouldn't have been noticeable on an old television, but on an HDTV the difference is horribly significant.
The moral of my exceeding long story is 1) make sure you read up on supported hardware before trying to install something and 2) if you take a shitty cable feed, convert it to MPEG-2, and run it through shitty S-video to a high-quality display, you're bound to be horribly disappointed.
That's because women masturbate with pillows, and masturbation kills babies. Even when it doesn't.
To be fair, fungus kills babies too. Especially if you don't refridgerate them properly. If you're planning on keeping it more than two weeks, make sure you freeze the baby properly, and then thaw and grill it when you're ready to eat.
But I shower without soap and rarely use deodorant
Only on Slashdot do you find someone who is *proud* that he doesn't use deodorant often. What does deodorant have to do with germs? It just helps you smell better, for goodness' sake. Women appreciate men who don't smell.
7. Profit?
They disappeared because God didn't create the world until six thousand years ago! So if they coexisted with us thirty thousand years ago, it doesn't matter because the world was created long after that.
Either that or they missed the Ark.
Of course, the article talks about how the Neanderthals were found to coexist with our species in France. And that explains why the French are so evil in the neoconservative Christian theology - they weren't God's chosen species!
Maybe the Christian Right just traveled back in time and killed them off because they're not mentioned in the Bible.
I know, I know. -1 Offtopic, -1 Failure to actually be funny. Hooray!
disagrees about there being a billion of him because of some bubbles. But he highly enjoys being related to energy production. Because this is a really lame first post, and it's not even first. Or is it? You decide, America...
This is totally offtopic, but I can't sit and be quiet.
Do you consider it terrorism to be responsible for the deaths of thousands of people? Because Greenpeace convinced the leader of Zimbabwe that genetically modified foods cause horrible diseases in their efforts to make all genetically modified food labeled.
Yeah, they're conservative sources, it's all I could find at short notice.
I don't care either way on the issue, and they might have a point about labeling GM foods - I haven't done the research. But it doesn't mean dick to starving Africans if the food is genetically modified or not. And that can certainly be considered terrorism.
Not as much as PETA, of course...
Although that's an interesting point, it's been known for ages that the human brain has limited serial processing capabilities, far below that of computers of even ten or fifteen years ago.
The amazing thing about the human brain is its ability to parallel process. Although the recitation of digits was only at 6 baud, you're forgetting the massive amount of processing for the individual to:
-breathe
-have a heartbeat
-maintain balance
-keep most muscles relaxed
-use the mouth and tongue to form phonemes
-compress the diaphragm to rush air over the vocal cords to create the voicing for those phonemes
-process all the visual information from the room while the eyes continually dart around
-process all audio information and separate the internally generated audio from the audio of the surrounding room
-probably drink and digest some water
-digest some food that had been eaten previously
-form the complex symbolic memory representation in the mind of the experience of reciting over 80,000 digits in front of witnesses (because, as they were reciting digits from memory, they were also creating a memory of the recitation of the recalled digits)
I'm working over the summer in my parents' small business (Yes, I am writing this from my parents' basement). We print 50-80 pages a day of book listings (which we then find and ship, Amazon rocks my world).
For a little while, they were using a big HP inkjet all in one. I switched them to using an HP 1012 Laser that was lying around because I'm quite sure it's cheaper and it's a lot faster to print.
Right now, I'm trying to see if I can find a slighty larger and more efficient laser that prints at a cheaper cost per page - from what I've read, the LJ 1012 costs about 3-4 cents per page, which I think is a little high.
What's the best sub-$500 laser printer for cheap printouts where quality does not matter at all? I don't need color or duplexing, just single page black and white text prints at the absolute cheapest possible cost per page. I've looked at a few Brother and HP models, but it's extremely difficult to find a reliable cost-per-page measure in any review - I think they just make them up.
Suicide is killing yourself. A lot of smokers have underlying mental problems, and smoking is a form of "self-medication".
And that makes it equivalent to suicide? According to your definition, anyone who uses any sort of non-food substance is suicidal, not just smokers. People who drink, smoke weed, take pills - they're all pretty equally likely to kill you in excess or with consistent use over time.
Besides, smoking just works. People don't do drugs, drink liquor, and smoke cigarettes because they hurt their bodies - they do those things because THEY WORK. A cigarette WILL make you feel better after a long day, as will a stiff drink or a nice joint.
I'm sorry but how does downloading Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy on DVD constitute the correct use of a universities network let alone internet2?
Well, go talk to the universities about that. Because they're the ones who provide access to Internet2 from residential areas in the first place.
That's not necessarily a bad thing. Universities pay MASSIVE amounts of money to purchase enough bandwidth for students to access the internet. In order to save money, traffic is efficiently routed through Internet2 whenever possible at these schools.
Every time I look at the Brown, Harvard, or any other I2 school's web site, the traffic is routed over Internet2. This is fantastic when you need to download large files like Linux ISOs because it's faster than using the commodity bandwidth link and saves the university a great deal of money over the course of a year. The effect of this routing on Internet 2 is virtually negligible, given the amount of bandwidth available.
Your tax dollars paid for part of Internet2, and it's used to reduce the cost of the commodity bandwidth link which your tax dollars pay for. So really, it's a good thing. There's no reason to bitch about it. i2hub uses Internet2 exclusively, but every other file sharing application would efficiently route traffic in the same way at any school that has enabled it.
And if you have a problem with students using the Internet connections at their Universities for non-academic purposes... well, feel free to monitor all the usage. Or just accept that students pay for most of that internet access, and that the efficient routing of traffic through a faster network with virtually free bandwidth saves the schools money. That might make sense.
here you go! Make sure you RTFA very carefully before accusing others of being reading and comprehension impaired.
Aw, give him a break. He probably used a computer program to read the article and criticize other people's posts.
Go for the $1 solution that gives a $100 reward. If you want to see a huge impact on our total enegery use all they would have to do is ban the good ol incadecent light bulb.
You know, you're exactly right. I don't think the government is interfering in my choices *nearly* enough. I want the government to tell me what kind of light bulbs I can install too.
I'm all for energy conservation, but please, don't suggest the government needs to regulate the free market for stupid reasons. 99% of the public bought the lies about recycling - brainwash them about incandescent bulbs and you have a solution without unnecessary government interference.
which is just enough to get calls and head for the window
You know, if a window is expecting a phone call and a blow job, I wouldn't really interfere. You don't want the window to get pissed that you ruined his booty call.
(all you amputees can bite me)
Isn't that pretty much the only way they could attack you?
Robot prosthetic arm? Give me a robot mechanized nerf gun!
and some 70% of the country doesn't know what a computer is either or what it is used for
Why is there so much of this drivel posted about this topic?
People in India aren't retarded monkeys, you know. Seriously. They have things called 'cities', and 'automobiles', and even poor rural folks go into the city to sell their shit and see rich urban Indians using their cell phones and laptops.
India is not some sort of medieval wasteland of mindless serfs who run away because they've never seen electricity before - it's just a country with a lot of people who can't afford most luxuries that we take for granted, and quite a few people who can't even afford necessities. They still *see* the technology, and they know it exists.