Many Christians and non-Christians alike quote references out of the bible that has nothing to do with the meaning behind it.
You want to read about war and killing, the Bible is a good place to read about it.
How about Judges 19-20. To summarize, we read a story that starts off very simlar to Sodom and Gomorrah. In one of the towns of the tribe of Benjamin, some men raped and killed a girl. The rest of Israel assembled with 400,000 soldiers and judged the situation. In 20:13 we find Israel demanding the men responsible be released to them so they could be put to death. The Benjamites refused and assembled their soldiers. When it was all said and done the Benjamites were nearly removed from the face of the earth. From my reading, I think not a woman or child survived and only 600 men.
How could fellow tech support callers be your best customer? You have no idea if they are a fellow tech support person or not.
A month ago I had to call cox about my cable modem and I dreaded making the call, knowing that I was going to be treated to someone with less than half my knowlege.
My connection would just die after any type data would transfer. It could be replicated within a seconds of loading up counter-strike or downloading a file. After much tests I concluded that either my cable modem was going bad, or their line had issues.
Sir, do you have a home network. Yes. Sir, first of all, it is not our network, it is your network with the problem. Lady, I disconnected from the network and am currently directly connected to the cable modem. Ok sir, what browser do you use. Opera. Sir, we don't support Opera Lady, I have Firefox and IE, I assume you want me to use IE, pretend I never said Opera. How often do you clear your temporary internet files? Lady, I just want to play counter-strike, I never use IE, so I don't clear the temp files. Sir, we don't support games Ok, forget I said counter-strike, would you like me to go clear my temp files now? Please. Ok, that was fast, now what? I still can't download more than a few KB of that linux ISO.
(we continued with other newbie crap such as my connection settings, firewall, manage add-ins, if I have any 'strange icons next to the clock', etc, etc...)
Sir, I am in your modem right now and all the levels look good I start a download and connection dies, she says she is still in my modem. Your modem is fine, I am connected to it and all levels look good. It looks good??? my internet JUST died. Lady, I need to get off the phone, click
I go to best buy, buy a new cable modem, call them up and give them my new info and my problems are now gone.
What good was my knowledge? Even though I know a thing or two, I was treated like I knew nothing.
If you want games like you find on psp and gameboys, this machine probably isn't for you.
If you are into emulation and/or love to play home brew games (tux racer) and want to hack up your own stuff (or think you want to, but never get around to it), this will probably be the best possible machine to get.
Why do I see people asking for a rechargable batteries?
Have you guys thought this through? Your PSP, newer Gameboys, yeah, you will find replacement batteries, but who is going to sell these batteries for gamepark once they decide to stop selling them?
I love my 15 minute Rayovac rechargable batteries that I use in my GP32. What am I going to do when my Zodiac needs replacements?
I doubt that would be the main reason. I think it has more to do with advertising costs.
Most films are not block buster hits and not having to rebuild interest from scratch can save a lot of money.
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So much of this sounds like old arguments I would read on the firebird developers news feeds about the sql optimizer.
The optimizer had problems, too many times it would not be able to figure out which index to use for a given query.
Some people would argue, we need to be able to manually specify the index(es) to use for a query, others would say, 'no, we need to fix the optimizer'.
Yes, there will be a few of us will buy it just for emulation. My Zod and GP32 were purchased for the same reason.
Emulation is good enough for some of us, but like you said, if a great game comes out, then I will be able to buy it, only because emulation got me to buy the system in the first place.
I find it funny what some people consider important, drives me nuts.
My browser of choice starts with an O. 99.95% of the time plugins are turned off. 99.98% of the time, gif animation is turned off. 99.999% of the time sounds in web pages is turned off. A lot of web pages I view without images.
If there was a problem with web sites using java to drive me crazy, it would mostly be off too. If a web site decides that something needs to follow my mouse, javascript is gone.
Sites that insist on using colors that make the font unreadable, I go into 'user mode' which basically disables their style and makes the site look like a 5th grader made it, but can now be read. (In IE I would do a 'select all')
He answered a question (click the parent button on his post), the parent specifically said he had a sub ghz tbird machine, what would he benifit by upgrading. The answer was 'a lot'.
First, because I am white and male, I can't have an opinion (after all, I responsible for the what any white male has ever done).
Now, because a handfull of scum sucking spammers are American, 260 million Americans are responsible for their actions.
Fill in the blanks on what else I am accountable for
I live in Virginia I own 2 vehicles I took a day off to be with my mom last week My hair is brown I get my water from a well I work 40+ hours a week I am married My parents are divorced
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Many Christians and non-Christians alike quote references out of the bible that has nothing to do with the meaning behind it.
You want to read about war and killing, the Bible is a good place to read about it.
How about Judges 19-20. To summarize, we read a story that starts off very simlar to Sodom and Gomorrah. In one of the towns of the tribe of Benjamin, some men raped and killed a girl. The rest of Israel assembled with 400,000 soldiers and judged the situation. In 20:13 we find Israel demanding the men responsible be released to them so they could be put to death. The Benjamites refused and assembled their soldiers. When it was all said and done the Benjamites were nearly removed from the face of the earth. From my reading, I think not a woman or child survived and only 600 men.
Book after book, you will find similar stories.
Turbo Basic XL?
Sounds like the list of languages I played with (except I never got to Action!)
And I would have loved you :) as that is about what I wanted to happen.
How could fellow tech support callers be your best customer? You have no idea if they are a fellow tech support person or not.
A month ago I had to call cox about my cable modem and I dreaded making the call, knowing that I was going to be treated to someone with less than half my knowlege.
My connection would just die after any type data would transfer. It could be replicated within a seconds of loading up counter-strike or downloading a file. After much tests I concluded that either my cable modem was going bad, or their line had issues.
Sir, do you have a home network.
Yes.
Sir, first of all, it is not our network, it is your network with the problem.
Lady, I disconnected from the network and am currently directly connected to the cable modem.
Ok sir, what browser do you use.
Opera.
Sir, we don't support Opera
Lady, I have Firefox and IE, I assume you want me to use IE, pretend I never said Opera.
How often do you clear your temporary internet files?
Lady, I just want to play counter-strike, I never use IE, so I don't clear the temp files.
Sir, we don't support games
Ok, forget I said counter-strike, would you like me to go clear my temp files now?
Please.
Ok, that was fast, now what? I still can't download more than a few KB of that linux ISO.
(we continued with other newbie crap such as my connection settings, firewall, manage add-ins, if I have any 'strange icons next to the clock', etc, etc...)
Sir, I am in your modem right now and all the levels look good
I start a download and connection dies, she says she is still in my modem.
Your modem is fine, I am connected to it and all levels look good.
It looks good??? my internet JUST died. Lady, I need to get off the phone, click
I go to best buy, buy a new cable modem, call them up and give them my new info and my problems are now gone.
What good was my knowledge? Even though I know a thing or two, I was treated like I knew nothing.
If you want games like you find on psp and gameboys, this machine probably isn't for you.
If you are into emulation and/or love to play home brew games (tux racer) and want to hack up your own stuff (or think you want to, but never get around to it), this will probably be the best possible machine to get.
Why do I see people asking for a rechargable batteries?
Have you guys thought this through? Your PSP, newer Gameboys, yeah, you will find replacement batteries, but who is going to sell these batteries for gamepark once they decide to stop selling them?
I love my 15 minute Rayovac rechargable batteries that I use in my GP32. What am I going to do when my Zodiac needs replacements?
I kind of consider my gp32 as a handheld atari or commodore of the 2000's, I guess this will be the Amiga.
I doubt that would be the main reason. I think it has more to do with advertising costs.
Most films are not block buster hits and not having to rebuild interest from scratch can save a lot of money.
So much of this sounds like old arguments I would read on the firebird developers news feeds about the sql optimizer.
The optimizer had problems, too many times it would not be able to figure out which index to use for a given query.
Some people would argue, we need to be able to manually specify the index(es) to use for a query, others would say, 'no, we need to fix the optimizer'.
Yes, there will be a few of us will buy it just for emulation. My Zod and GP32 were purchased for the same reason.
Emulation is good enough for some of us, but like you said, if a great game comes out, then I will be able to buy it, only because emulation got me to buy the system in the first place.
I don't know if Adama dies or not, but I am starting to like the XO. Obviously he will be in charge for the next few episodes, lets see what happens.
We didn't use Novell for that long, but I remember the typical text for patch files read something to the effect of...
If your system does not display these symptoms and is running as you expect, then do not install this patch.
It was like they did not want you to patch your system.
There was a time when you couldn't even change graphic resolutions without restarting windows.
Eventually....
I find it funny what some people consider important, drives me nuts.
My browser of choice starts with an O. 99.95% of the time plugins are turned off. 99.98% of the time, gif animation is turned off. 99.999% of the time sounds in web pages is turned off. A lot of web pages I view without images.
If there was a problem with web sites using java to drive me crazy, it would mostly be off too. If a web site decides that something needs to follow my mouse, javascript is gone.
Sites that insist on using colors that make the font unreadable, I go into 'user mode' which basically disables their style and makes the site look like a 5th grader made it, but can now be read. (In IE I would do a 'select all')
Different people want different stuff...
He answered a question (click the parent button on his post), the parent specifically said he had a sub ghz tbird machine, what would he benifit by upgrading. The answer was 'a lot'.
First, because I am white and male, I can't have an opinion (after all, I responsible for the what any white male has ever done).
Now, because a handfull of scum sucking spammers are American, 260 million Americans are responsible for their actions.
Fill in the blanks on what else I am accountable for
I live in Virginia
I own 2 vehicles
I took a day off to be with my mom last week
My hair is brown
I get my water from a well
I work 40+ hours a week
I am married
My parents are divorced