EVERCRACK.
When otherwise decent guys and girls lose their signifigant others, their jobs, have to move back in with their parents, and stop showering and gain thirty pounds, that's a problem. In my circle, Everquest was the drug. Of course, years earlier, AD&D was the drug.
Both times I abstained and thank G-d I did. Seeing some of the hot and willing girlfriends that my male friends gave up for RP was a brutal reminder of the cost of not having appropriate self control.
...run by the people who gave you bad roads, teachers who won't teach, libraries with ten year out of date tech books, raises for city councilmen every five point two seconds, politically motived abuse of zoning regulations, nepotism as a way of life, back-room deals with local crime bosses, etc., etc., etc., ad nauseam.
Yeah, this is a really good idea. I can hardly wait for my next 5291% increase in property evaluation. I'm sure it's worth it so the kids in my neighborhood can get free high-speed wireless porn.
I'll be happier regarding *nix desktops when...
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...none of them remind me of Amiga OS or OS/2 in terms of bass ackward interfaces with idiotic nomenclature pulled out of someone's rear. From that stance, both KDE and Gnome are getting much better every revision. I'm inclined to use both as the mood strikes.
...there would never have been anything but open source as everyone would be capable of writing any kind of code they wished any time they wanted. Of course, it wouldn't have been much worthwhile given it would largely have dealt with referring to libraries of nonsense code which embodied inane ideas like MustWatchSurvivor() and McDonaldsEveryNight(). Screwed if it was, screwed that it isn't.
...it was found to actually be working and when the lack of crashing was investigated, it was found someone went to each server and booted a hacked-up cluster version of Knoppix. No one noticed anything because they couldn't figure out how to use their Windows workstations to connect to it very much either. Stranger still, the CD trays refused to give up their contraband and actually tried to close and break the WinCluster CDs before they could be put in properly.
Since HBO already has its regular series eps on Video on Demand on cable all across the USA, and the cable industry and networks are working on seeing a major expansion over the years, it ain't too far away. Sooner or later Survivor, Jerry Springer, and so on, will be on VoD.
Meanwhile on my computer, where I've got ten dozen network analysis windows open and a couple browsers, where would I put a window to show tv shows and movies? I burn DVDs and VCDs of what I bother downloading and watch them on the DVD player on the TV.
Maybe when the average PC comes with a quad head 16XAGP card and 17" LCDs are under $100 a piece and come bundled with it, I'll care more. Until then, I will probably stick with cable video.
Besides, how are all the low-bandwidth users going to get their fix reliably?
(Not.)
The worst of all worlds.
(Now that was serious.)
I've been hoping someone would do this.
(Unserious, more like fearing someone would do this.)
I guess I'll switch.
(Nearly coughing after fit of maniac laughter.)
No, not really. Sticking with Firefox. It seems to be what Netscape could have been had Netscape not believed its own hype and what IE should have been if only MS could see past proprietarily customizing everything that doesn't move fast enough.
(Looks like that IE-based browser that came with Flyswatter prominently packaged, but forget the name of it off hand...)
This would be much better news if they announced they were going to play the actual movie INSTEAD OF "The OC". Then I'd watch. Instead, I'll live with the knowledge that I can download the trailer endlessly online from now until Star Wars:The TV Series wraps up after 11 seasons and my grandkids are taunting me as to how pathetic the Atari was.
"Tonight in Patterson, NJ, we have sad news that another RoboSitter 2007 went berzerk and spray painted the words 'Linux Rulez' across the faces of the children it was protecting, blinding two of them. Authorities believe that a neighbor exploited a buffer overflow defect in the robot's program and the parents has not downloaded any patches from Microsoft because they were Macintosh users."
This could go sooo wrong in the future. But right now, I'd rather worry about the TV.
Well, the most popular movies on file share seem still to take forever to get no matter how many goodies I have to share with the people I need parts from. But DVDXCopy? Downloaded the entire disc image file before Law and Order was three quarters finished. Just about everyone on the network seems to have one copy of it or another.
Remember people, we're dealing with people who have completely failed to notice that the advent of the VCR caused the end of endless crappy films going straight to the movie house with no way of really knowing if it was worth bothering with and staying until some exec who never saw it decided otherwise.
With the VCR we got "straight to video" and a higher bar was set for the production of films in the first place and for the method of distribution in the second. Yet they still think 8-tracks, cassettes, VCRs, etc. were all bad ideas. Funny how they don't notice that all those ultimately made them wealthier than they've ever been. While piracy ain't exactly right, they are certainly doing every possible thing they can to encourage it.
At my local Sam's Club, I can already buy Intel-based Windows PCs in the mini configuration. TigerDirect has had them for a long while now. There's been industrial strength minis for even longer. This is new in what way?
Sorry, Apple copied the PC when it comes to mini personal computers. And the iMac was a rounded and stylish copy of the original Mac concept which was a copy of the Lisa concept which was a veritable copy of portable suitcase PCs (ala the ones from Compaq, et al, ad nauseam).
All in one PCs whether Intel or Apple are nothing new and so I... yawn.
(And didn't Apple copy their stuff from Xerox PARC research to an astounding extent?)
Wake me when someone copies Don Adams' Get Smart shoe phone in an updated 3G fashion.
The idea renders citizens as subjects if not chattel altogether. Light off fireworks in Canada where it is legal, come back, face charges if they capriciously decide. Smoke pot in a certain European place, get jailed when you get back.
Not defending the Thailand example, but enforcing American laws on Americans when NOT in America is in effect gross arrogance on two counts. First that we somehow "belong" to the American government (the other way around is what the Constitution and Declaration of Independence make pretty clear) and second is that our law supercede the laws of other nations ON THEIR SOIL.
"Police? Yeah, I'm calling from a pay phone after walking four miles. I got mugged and my face is all bruised so my cell phone wouldn't recognize me and..."
This needs a password work-around like other biometrics not-ready-for-primetime.
...for the ultimate advance in environmentalism where we finally get to be as comfortable as we're shooting for with present tech and yet as organic as you can get: living everything. They're going in the right direction but this is very early nanotech theorizing. I'll wait for the nano-engineered biomechanical living buildings which eat all waste output from the residents, absorb ambient thermal and light energy, and are self-repairing. I'll be dead before they manage it, but it's a reassuring and hopeful dream...
Think for a second... Has anyone PROVEN that there has EVER been an "ozone hole" ANYWHERE but at the poles? Like right over ANY of the industrialized nations that emit CFCs?
Not to my knowledge or in any scholarly tract I have ever seen.
It took until NOW for someone to think, "Hmmm... maybe the sun has something to do with the ozone layer..."
The idea that a dynamic world affecting power source could create AND destroy isn't new. Witness the ring of fire in the Pacific Ocean. Subduction destroys, magma release renews.
One wonders how any could miss the fact that the known ozone depletion spots happen to coincide with the planet's magnetic poles and thus where loads of solar charged particle radiation ends up, having to pass through the same ozone that the sun itself created.
This isn't a troll. This is simple exasperation at the endless "human kind is responsible for all ills that plague the world". I'm sure superstitious islanders of the nineteenth century who survived Krakatoa agreed with that, but it ain't necessarily so.
There seems to be some obsession among some people with the idea that everything should always remain as it is right now despite the fact that our own science proves to us that the world was different in multiple different ways over vast periods of time before we were ever a kink in the dna and logically will be short of our intelligent intervention and massive effort.
Heard this about Ashcroft at the outset of the current administration, heard this about Meese at the outset of the Reagan administration, hearing this again, always hearing this...
Those evil conservatives are taking away all my rights!
Meanwhile, whereas Gallery Magazine was Playboy without airbrushing during the Reagan administration it is now hardcore city and I can watch porn in video on demand on cable at home and at almost every hotel I ever visit.
Yeah, I feel so censored.
It won't stand if it does manage to get feet. The trend of the modern world is towards Everything Not Forbidden is Compulsory Especially if it Tweaks Someone. That's not changing any time soon. Mores the pity as lack of self control and embrace of every absolute on every side is making everyone look like children.
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EVERCRACK. When otherwise decent guys and girls lose their signifigant others, their jobs, have to move back in with their parents, and stop showering and gain thirty pounds, that's a problem. In my circle, Everquest was the drug. Of course, years earlier, AD&D was the drug.
Both times I abstained and thank G-d I did. Seeing some of the hot and willing girlfriends that my male friends gave up for RP was a brutal reminder of the cost of not having appropriate self control.
...run by the people who gave you bad roads, teachers who won't teach, libraries with ten year out of date tech books, raises for city councilmen every five point two seconds, politically motived abuse of zoning regulations, nepotism as a way of life, back-room deals with local crime bosses, etc., etc., etc., ad nauseam.
Yeah, this is a really good idea. I can hardly wait for my next 5291% increase in property evaluation. I'm sure it's worth it so the kids in my neighborhood can get free high-speed wireless porn.
...none of them remind me of Amiga OS or OS/2 in terms of bass ackward interfaces with idiotic nomenclature pulled out of someone's rear. From that stance, both KDE and Gnome are getting much better every revision. I'm inclined to use both as the mood strikes.
...there would never have been anything but open source as everyone would be capable of writing any kind of code they wished any time they wanted. Of course, it wouldn't have been much worthwhile given it would largely have dealt with referring to libraries of nonsense code which embodied inane ideas like MustWatchSurvivor() and McDonaldsEveryNight(). Screwed if it was, screwed that it isn't.
...it was found to actually be working and when the lack of crashing was investigated, it was found someone went to each server and booted a hacked-up cluster version of Knoppix. No one noticed anything because they couldn't figure out how to use their Windows workstations to connect to it very much either. Stranger still, the CD trays refused to give up their contraband and actually tried to close and break the WinCluster CDs before they could be put in properly.
Since HBO already has its regular series eps on Video on Demand on cable all across the USA, and the cable industry and networks are working on seeing a major expansion over the years, it ain't too far away. Sooner or later Survivor, Jerry Springer, and so on, will be on VoD.
Meanwhile on my computer, where I've got ten dozen network analysis windows open and a couple browsers, where would I put a window to show tv shows and movies? I burn DVDs and VCDs of what I bother downloading and watch them on the DVD player on the TV.
Maybe when the average PC comes with a quad head 16XAGP card and 17" LCDs are under $100 a piece and come bundled with it, I'll care more. Until then, I will probably stick with cable video.
Besides, how are all the low-bandwidth users going to get their fix reliably?
(Not.)
The worst of all worlds.
(Now that was serious.)
I've been hoping someone would do this.
(Unserious, more like fearing someone would do this.)
I guess I'll switch.
(Nearly coughing after fit of maniac laughter.)
No, not really. Sticking with Firefox. It seems to be what Netscape could have been had Netscape not believed its own hype and what IE should have been if only MS could see past proprietarily customizing everything that doesn't move fast enough.
(Looks like that IE-based browser that came with Flyswatter prominently packaged, but forget the name of it off hand...)
This would be much better news if they announced they were going to play the actual movie INSTEAD OF "The OC". Then I'd watch. Instead, I'll live with the knowledge that I can download the trailer endlessly online from now until Star Wars:The TV Series wraps up after 11 seasons and my grandkids are taunting me as to how pathetic the Atari was.
"Tonight in Patterson, NJ, we have sad news that another RoboSitter 2007 went berzerk and spray painted the words 'Linux Rulez' across the faces of the children it was protecting, blinding two of them. Authorities believe that a neighbor exploited a buffer overflow defect in the robot's program and the parents has not downloaded any patches from Microsoft because they were Macintosh users."
This could go sooo wrong in the future. But right now, I'd rather worry about the TV.
Well, the most popular movies on file share seem still to take forever to get no matter how many goodies I have to share with the people I need parts from. But DVDXCopy? Downloaded the entire disc image file before Law and Order was three quarters finished. Just about everyone on the network seems to have one copy of it or another.
Remember people, we're dealing with people who have completely failed to notice that the advent of the VCR caused the end of endless crappy films going straight to the movie house with no way of really knowing if it was worth bothering with and staying until some exec who never saw it decided otherwise.
With the VCR we got "straight to video" and a higher bar was set for the production of films in the first place and for the method of distribution in the second. Yet they still think 8-tracks, cassettes, VCRs, etc. were all bad ideas. Funny how they don't notice that all those ultimately made them wealthier than they've ever been. While piracy ain't exactly right, they are certainly doing every possible thing they can to encourage it.
At my local Sam's Club, I can already buy Intel-based Windows PCs in the mini configuration. TigerDirect has had them for a long while now. There's been industrial strength minis for even longer. This is new in what way?
Sorry, Apple copied the PC when it comes to mini personal computers. And the iMac was a rounded and stylish copy of the original Mac concept which was a copy of the Lisa concept which was a veritable copy of portable suitcase PCs (ala the ones from Compaq, et al, ad nauseam).
All in one PCs whether Intel or Apple are nothing new and so I... yawn.
(And didn't Apple copy their stuff from Xerox PARC research to an astounding extent?)
Wake me when someone copies Don Adams' Get Smart shoe phone in an updated 3G fashion.
The idea renders citizens as subjects if not chattel altogether. Light off fireworks in Canada where it is legal, come back, face charges if they capriciously decide. Smoke pot in a certain European place, get jailed when you get back.
Not defending the Thailand example, but enforcing American laws on Americans when NOT in America is in effect gross arrogance on two counts. First that we somehow "belong" to the American government (the other way around is what the Constitution and Declaration of Independence make pretty clear) and second is that our law supercede the laws of other nations ON THEIR SOIL.
Thank you for the biggest laugh I've had all morning.
"Police? Yeah, I'm calling from a pay phone after walking four miles. I got mugged and my face is all bruised so my cell phone wouldn't recognize me and..." This needs a password work-around like other biometrics not-ready-for-primetime.
...for the ultimate advance in environmentalism where we finally get to be as comfortable as we're shooting for with present tech and yet as organic as you can get: living everything. They're going in the right direction but this is very early nanotech theorizing. I'll wait for the nano-engineered biomechanical living buildings which eat all waste output from the residents, absorb ambient thermal and light energy, and are self-repairing. I'll be dead before they manage it, but it's a reassuring and hopeful dream...
Think for a second... Has anyone PROVEN that there has EVER been an "ozone hole" ANYWHERE but at the poles? Like right over ANY of the industrialized nations that emit CFCs?
Not to my knowledge or in any scholarly tract I have ever seen.
It took until NOW for someone to think, "Hmmm... maybe the sun has something to do with the ozone layer..."
The idea that a dynamic world affecting power source could create AND destroy isn't new. Witness the ring of fire in the Pacific Ocean. Subduction destroys, magma release renews.
One wonders how any could miss the fact that the known ozone depletion spots happen to coincide with the planet's magnetic poles and thus where loads of solar charged particle radiation ends up, having to pass through the same ozone that the sun itself created.
This isn't a troll. This is simple exasperation at the endless "human kind is responsible for all ills that plague the world". I'm sure superstitious islanders of the nineteenth century who survived Krakatoa agreed with that, but it ain't necessarily so.
There seems to be some obsession among some people with the idea that everything should always remain as it is right now despite the fact that our own science proves to us that the world was different in multiple different ways over vast periods of time before we were ever a kink in the dna and logically will be short of our intelligent intervention and massive effort.
Heard this about Ashcroft at the outset of the current administration, heard this about Meese at the outset of the Reagan administration, hearing this again, always hearing this...
Those evil conservatives are taking away all my rights!
Meanwhile, whereas Gallery Magazine was Playboy without airbrushing during the Reagan administration it is now hardcore city and I can watch porn in video on demand on cable at home and at almost every hotel I ever visit.
Yeah, I feel so censored.
It won't stand if it does manage to get feet. The trend of the modern world is towards Everything Not Forbidden is Compulsory Especially if it Tweaks Someone. That's not changing any time soon. Mores the pity as lack of self control and embrace of every absolute on every side is making everyone look like children.