I'm confused. This guy stabbed someone to death, how would someone shooting him cause a firefight? Was he using some new style knife that fires bullets, or was he stabbing the guy with a gun?
So what do you say to the guy that is NOT cheating? "Hey that is your problem, you oughta cheat too" This code sucks and people that develop it suck as well. They are people that do not believe rules are for them.
wait... are we talking coders or politicians here?
Or you could, y'know, stop being a thieving scumbag and support music by buying from the artists.
How do you buy music from artists that are represented by the RIAA? Seems to me that most of the money you spend when buying most of the music the RIAA cares about isn't going to the artist in the first place.
It's been 20-25 years now, but I know much of what I learned about basic electronics concepts I picked up when I was in grade school studying to get a ham radio license. I never finished with the morse code end so never actually got one but I remember reading through everything I needed on the other side and that has really helped me understand things for just about every other electronics project I've ever worked on.
For all the inflammatory debate, though, former Congressman Rick White noted, "Tech policy drives zero votes. The president and any administration are going to focus on what people care about."
I don't know about anyone else here, but that's pretty high on my list of what drives my vote...
Like blocking port 25 on home connections? It seems to me that ISP's do a lot more service restriction just in general these days then they used to. I miss the good old days of having a shell account.
with all the high def mania out there, why is it that monitor resolutions keep going lower and lower? I still run mainly CRT's because I like 1600x1200 and I don't want to pay a bunch of $$ for an LCD that will support that (most traditional ratio LCD's are 1280x1024, widescreens are Something x somethingcloseto 1024). Now, 900?
A common arguement I hear is 'well, you loose some there but you make up for it on the sides'. HELLO? If I am browsing a web page, looking at a document, or basically doing just about anything, I want length/height on my display, I want to be able to stretch it out up and down.. not sideways.
Maybe for gaming this lower resolution is ok, but really, lets start seeing some higher res. monitors as 'standards'.
my my, somebody woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.
It's true, I've never encoded an entire full length movie, but then I've never really felt I needed to carry full length movies around on some portable player. I HAVE however converted several video clips and homemade video (5-10 minute long stuff) and it works just fine. It's not HD by any means, but then, it's also a 3inch screen, I wouldn't expect it to be. It IS however possible and it's not bad.
Maybe not ones in a $25 proprietary format, but with a decent memory card it will. The Games'N'Music card you can pick up in wal-mart for $20 comes with some video samples and conversion software (and I know there's lots of other stuff out there). Saying the DS won't play movies is silly. It just doesn't have it's own media format specifically for movies.
The problem with that argument is that it assumes 10mil is equally motivating them all. One person may see 10mil as the best thing EVAR, while the next may consider it chump change.
One of the whole problems with the argument that 'everyone is equal given the same amount of effort etc.' is that people have many different levels of ambition. Some people are happy knowing that they COULD do something if they wanted, others aren't happy unless they ARE.
You're both silly! Everyone knows that Meridian 59 is teh bestest mmo EVAR! (followed somewhat closely by EQ).
And yes, I played WoW for a while. Although it's nice being able to solo with just about any class, it gets boring quite fast as it has nowhere near the depth of EQ and (as pointed out above) millions of kids that can't type or spell 'you', 'are', or 'later'.
EQ2 i must admin, I've never messed with as I just didn't see the point after having invested so much time into EQ.
Oh, btw, the first line is a joke.... breath..... calm down.... no need to have a heart attack!
There is a fairly large homebrew scene out there for DS as well. You can get a Datel Games 'N Music cart for DS from walmart online now for about 20 bucks. This is a cart that you can slap a microSD card into. Off the shelf it comes with an MP3 player, and movie player and software to convert most popular video formats to a format that you can play on the DS. Now, there are lots of options as far as GBA carts etc. and probably better ones, but with this out there, it opens homebrew up to the general public and there is a LOT of stuff out there now.
I'm just mentioning this because I spent a couple of weeks messing around with all of this on my DS and it really did open up a whole new world. I have yet to really mess much with actually coding anything for it but it's deffinately on my 'to do' list. What I'd really like to see is the ability to push/get code/roms to my DS via wireless so that I don't have to swap memory back and forth constantly while developing something. I think there are methods for doing this (I've seen some stuff out there) but I'm not sure if any of them currently work with the gimpy little datal cart I have. It's been 6 months or so, I should probably check back into it.
I've seen a lot of posts here going on about the pasty faced kids or 30somethings locked away in their parents bedrooms etc. and the total lack of social skills. This isn't always the case and from some of the things I have seen from playing online games for 10-15 years now I can see some very real similarities between the business world and running long term guilds. I'm not talking about organizing a few raids in WoW, I'm talking about what it takes to start and keep a guild running for more than a few months. I'm currently in an EQ guild that was started about 6-7 years ago and the behind the scenes headaches of keeping 50-80 people (and these are people who are generally 20-45, not 12yr old kids) 'happy' aren't trivial. When you have that many people with their own agendas and personalities, managing them all, coming up with rules/guildlines/policies and enforcing them (and once again, these are people that average in age to be around 25-30 who are intelligent, employed and married in many cases) is VERY much like trying to run a business and balancing your employee's wants and needs against what you need to keep your business afloat.
sorry, I suck at spelling, I'm sure someone will point out all my mistakes.
Take Katrina/New Orleans, if the goverment had spend a fortune on proper dykes they would have been lambasted for wasting money on things only needed in extreme conditions that only happen once every hundred years.
From what I've heard (and I could be wrong, haven't gone looking for citations), the government DID spend money for proper dykes/levees... however it was never spent for what it was intended for. Again, I heard this on mancow I think it was... so take it for what it's worth.
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I'm confused. This guy stabbed someone to death, how would someone shooting him cause a firefight? Was he using some new style knife that fires bullets, or was he stabbing the guy with a gun?
wait... are we talking coders or politicians here?
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/01/09/police.kill.dog/
It doesn't take much to become a police officer.
Or you could, y'know, stop being a thieving scumbag and support music by buying from the artists.
How do you buy music from artists that are represented by the RIAA? Seems to me that most of the money you spend when buying most of the music the RIAA cares about isn't going to the artist in the first place.
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I don't think you've ever lived in East TN.
It's been 20-25 years now, but I know much of what I learned about basic electronics concepts I picked up when I was in grade school studying to get a ham radio license. I never finished with the morse code end so never actually got one but I remember reading through everything I needed on the other side and that has really helped me understand things for just about every other electronics project I've ever worked on.
air or water cooled VW's here?
from this link imbeded in the article http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Infrastructure/Politics-Warms-Up-Tech-Policy-Summit/
For all the inflammatory debate, though, former Congressman Rick White noted, "Tech policy drives zero votes. The president and any administration are going to focus on what people care about."
I don't know about anyone else here, but that's pretty high on my list of what drives my vote...
Spiderplanet Spiderplanet does whatever a spiderplanet does...
back in 1998 a bought a 'freestyle anniversary' tub that had a single chrome/silver brick in it. I wonder if we'll see something like that this year?
Like blocking port 25 on home connections? It seems to me that ISP's do a lot more service restriction just in general these days then they used to. I miss the good old days of having a shell account.
Now, GET OFF MY LAWN!
with all the high def mania out there, why is it that monitor resolutions keep going lower and lower? I still run mainly CRT's because I like 1600x1200 and I don't want to pay a bunch of $$ for an LCD that will support that (most traditional ratio LCD's are 1280x1024, widescreens are Something x somethingcloseto 1024). Now, 900?
A common arguement I hear is 'well, you loose some there but you make up for it on the sides'. HELLO? If I am browsing a web page, looking at a document, or basically doing just about anything, I want length/height on my display, I want to be able to stretch it out up and down.. not sideways.
Maybe for gaming this lower resolution is ok, but really, lets start seeing some higher res. monitors as 'standards'.
You just have to decide which pill to take, the red one or the blue one.
my my, somebody woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.
It's true, I've never encoded an entire full length movie, but then I've never really felt I needed to carry full length movies around on some portable player. I HAVE however converted several video clips and homemade video (5-10 minute long stuff) and it works just fine. It's not HD by any means, but then, it's also a 3inch screen, I wouldn't expect it to be. It IS however possible and it's not bad.
from tfa "(The DS does not play movies.) "
Maybe not ones in a $25 proprietary format, but with a decent memory card it will. The Games'N'Music card you can pick up in wal-mart for $20 comes with some video samples and conversion software (and I know there's lots of other stuff out there). Saying the DS won't play movies is silly. It just doesn't have it's own media format specifically for movies.
"How many people can a drunk driver kill?"
If causing a serious accident involving a bus?
Wrecking on a busy interstate?
I'd say the potential to kill a lot of people if driving drunk is there, maybe not very likely, but definately possible.
The problem with that argument is that it assumes 10mil is equally motivating them all. One person may see 10mil as the best thing EVAR, while the next may consider it chump change.
One of the whole problems with the argument that 'everyone is equal given the same amount of effort etc.' is that people have many different levels of ambition. Some people are happy knowing that they COULD do something if they wanted, others aren't happy unless they ARE.
You're both silly! Everyone knows that Meridian 59 is teh bestest mmo EVAR! (followed somewhat closely by EQ).
And yes, I played WoW for a while. Although it's nice being able to solo with just about any class, it gets boring quite fast as it has nowhere near the depth of EQ and (as pointed out above) millions of kids that can't type or spell 'you', 'are', or 'later'.
EQ2 i must admin, I've never messed with as I just didn't see the point after having invested so much time into EQ.
Oh, btw, the first line is a joke.... breath..... calm down.... no need to have a heart attack!
There is a fairly large homebrew scene out there for DS as well. You can get a Datel Games 'N Music cart for DS from walmart online now for about 20 bucks. This is a cart that you can slap a microSD card into. Off the shelf it comes with an MP3 player, and movie player and software to convert most popular video formats to a format that you can play on the DS. Now, there are lots of options as far as GBA carts etc. and probably better ones, but with this out there, it opens homebrew up to the general public and there is a LOT of stuff out there now.
I'm just mentioning this because I spent a couple of weeks messing around with all of this on my DS and it really did open up a whole new world. I have yet to really mess much with actually coding anything for it but it's deffinately on my 'to do' list. What I'd really like to see is the ability to push/get code/roms to my DS via wireless so that I don't have to swap memory back and forth constantly while developing something. I think there are methods for doing this (I've seen some stuff out there) but I'm not sure if any of them currently work with the gimpy little datal cart I have. It's been 6 months or so, I should probably check back into it.
I've seen a lot of posts here going on about the pasty faced kids or 30somethings locked away in their parents bedrooms etc. and the total lack of social skills. This isn't always the case and from some of the things I have seen from playing online games for 10-15 years now I can see some very real similarities between the business world and running long term guilds. I'm not talking about organizing a few raids in WoW, I'm talking about what it takes to start and keep a guild running for more than a few months. I'm currently in an EQ guild that was started about 6-7 years ago and the behind the scenes headaches of keeping 50-80 people (and these are people who are generally 20-45, not 12yr old kids) 'happy' aren't trivial. When you have that many people with their own agendas and personalities, managing them all, coming up with rules/guildlines/policies and enforcing them (and once again, these are people that average in age to be around 25-30 who are intelligent, employed and married in many cases) is VERY much like trying to run a business and balancing your employee's wants and needs against what you need to keep your business afloat.
sorry, I suck at spelling, I'm sure someone will point out all my mistakes.
?? I don't see ANY of those lines when I look into the sky at night, is there some filter/layer I need to turn on somewhere?
just go to terroristspace.com and sign up for free! You can make friends and swap bombmaking strategies!
Take Katrina/New Orleans, if the goverment had spend a fortune on proper dykes they would have been lambasted for wasting money on things only needed in extreme conditions that only happen once every hundred years.
From what I've heard (and I could be wrong, haven't gone looking for citations), the government DID spend money for proper dykes/levees... however it was never spent for what it was intended for. Again, I heard this on mancow I think it was... so take it for what it's worth.
what? you have time to jog?
And here I thought it was just that most sysadmins didn't have time to eat.. hrmmm...