Citation? So many people toss around opinions without backup here I've given up on listening since the whole thing is such a hotpotato.
And anyways, massive coastal flooding only happens if the south pole melts (because it's actually on land). If you fill a glass with water and ice, just to the point of overflowing on the edges, and cubes are sticking out the top, when that ice melts, does your glass of water overflow? Same concept with the north pole here.
I'd still rather see mod points for specific articles. Particularly some of the threads about China, the one on them and Tibet hit something like 1500 replies IIRC. But 75% of the posts (many from the old timing =5 digit UIDs) remain at 1.
I'd also like something where you can "request" mod points, although the test/screening process for this would have to be very strict. On occasion there will come a Friday night where I'm looking forward to nothing more than some beer and reading Slashdot. Then a wonderful article about something like China comes up and I can't help but think "wow, all this wasted time, I'm going to read every single post here tonight and I don't have a single modpoint." However, doing something like this would turn us into reddit for sure.
This is the sort of thing where somebody has to be first.
If everybody could agree to all publish their letters at once and all be first, then the FBI would be powerless [more or less]. It would blow the whole thing wide open. Everyone could analyze for themselves the validity of these claims, including lots of lawyers who would eat this up. We'd see that 99.9% of these are just a template *.doc file printed with regards to [insert company name here] and mailed off.
I'm all for having watchmen, but not when we don't get to watch THEM. Which is exactly what this
I had this on my Motorola router; when I would set number of allowed connections to unlimited, after reaching a certain speed and certain number of connections, it would cut off and stop working for 30 or so seconds. Now, going straight to the internet, not through the router, that doesn't happen. Could be something with the modems. Torrents are getting fast nowadays.
I grew up on Star Wars and am thus too old to remember the initial infatuation; and didn't have the knowledge of films to be able to pick out superiority. I've gone back and watched them again, but they're both just a long emotionless ride for me. Don't see what was so great about #5.
I, for one, will keep my kids from watching Star Wars until they're old enough to REALLY appreciate it.
Wikileaks has been mirrored to Freenet more than once. I don't know of an up to date link, or a single regularly updated source, but it's there.
A large number of photos from Tibet are available, and there is at least one highly active user posting them and keeping them up to date, with commentary.
Thanks for this informative post, that's encouraging.
In China, if they can't see your traffic (IE it's encrypted), and you're Chinese, they don't bother finding out what it is you're sending. They assume it's something you shouldn't be sharing. So they just cart you away and you never appear again.
Maybe it's an American who's doing the uploading-- they seem to be accepting of our desire for privacy "just because" (they see us as protective and secretive, because we are used to having those rights and using them just because; especially in relation to business affairs). For instance they don't bother second guessing over why all your traffic, as an American in China, is traveling over a fully encrypted American proxy; however if they caught a Chinese citizen doing so, he'd never be seen again. Same with our religions, it's fine if you're over there with an English bible, but if you have an english-chinese bible like my friend (who is a missionary over there, and who is my source on all this), and they see that it's english-chinese, they'll ship you out of the country, never let you back in, and mine your cellphone for all the phone numbers of other people you're working with and track them down and ship them out as well. It's not this way for all religions, mainly Muslims (because some of them have extremist, militant intentions; on this the US and China have grown similar) and Christians (because in China, the government is your savior, they took the people out of poverty and look at all the wealth and growth they've had over the last 15 years. They see you practicing a religion that says, "no, you are not my god, there is another God who is greater than you and no matter what you do to my physical body, you cannot harm the real, true 'me' in my soul", and that scares them. They really have no reason to be afraid because the bible is very specific about obeying your authorities as long as it doesn't involve disobeying God directly, but at first glance, such an ideology that is so contrary to the PRC's mantra (on the surface) is bad and must be stamped out.) Buddhism is allowed, even encouraged, due to the complete pacifism is promotes.
So to bring it back on topic, that's good to hear:)
This is why we were always meant to be ruled; because that is a dichotomy with two unacceptable outcomes. The key is finding the one worthy of ruling. But to be an efficient and effective dictator you must be all-knowing and all-discerning. Are any of us so? No.
Does it enable focus while in video mode? That's a shortcoming to the Canons-- the starting focus is the focal point that the rest of the movie is going to be at. Presumably because the gears moving would feed back into the mic too much. You would think they'd get with Bose to noise-cancel the grinding out. Oh well.
Can you please tell me why you hate not being able to resize the input box. I use iChat and I love the fact that is expands as I need it.
I'm not GP, but I can tell for myself. Personally, I like my GUI layout to remain static unless I explicitly change it (e.g. by dragging splitters around). Auto-resizing input field breaks this model.
Clearly, this is a matter of personal preference, nothing more. Luckily for me, Psi has an option to choose either behavior...
It's important because if you have your IM window touching the bottom of the screen and start typing into it, it suddenly increases the size of the textbox to a size that is off the screen.
I'd really like an ad extension that would let me say "on this site, go ahead and display all the ads. But if you see those same ads being served on another site, don't allow them"
I use NoScript and while you can "Allow" Slashdot.org, you can't "allow" all the other domains that serve ads to Slashdot. I wish they would make one like this so that I can "support" my favorite websites by showing the ads on my favorite websites (but not all of them), which I can then occasionally click out of interest and/or goodwill towards the site to support it.
Arcades made zero sense to me until I had pretty much played every genre of video game. Now that I don't own a console...
You start doing other things besides playing video games all the time, like socializing and hanging out. You start thinking, hm, what could be a fun, cheap, casual date destination? And suddenly the arcade makes all the sense in the world. Think about it-- after class Friday, you walk to the local college arcade with your S.O. and play some pinball, 2-player Tekken, Galaga, whatever. Cheap, easy fun that gives you the option to make small talk about whatever, but also the option to stop and have a decent conversation when you find a common interest. BUT there are none (or very few) of the tense, silent moments where you're both just looking around trying to come up with something to talk about (like during a conventional date when you go get something to eat and sit down at Applebee's for 45m) and where your apparent lack of ability at making conversation rears its ugliest. Then, after, you can drop by the Graeters/Baskin-Robins 31 for some ice cream before you head back to your dorms.
I think us gamers were so far gone from the normal world that the obvious social genius behind the arcade was lost like the forest in the trees.
At least Ubuntu has community support, whereas XP will have no support? Is it really Dell's place to oversee microsoft's business decisions? ? XP has support into 2014. Wiki.
In light of MS's recent comments about turning Windows 7 into a modular OS, and making it subscription based, lets look at any incentives MS might have in cutting off people from their legally purchased music.
I wonder if they're doing this on purpose to scare people away from paying once; to later introduce a subscription music service. Instead of buy once, play forever; buy forever, and play as long as you pay.
It would be very sly of them to scare people away from "buying once" into "paying continually, and if they decide to pull the product, well who cares, you're not paying anymore then after all". I'd have to say this shows incredible foresight if this is what they're aiming for; doing this to leave a sour taste in people's mouth with Buy Once software schemes; aiming for a more tame response to a subscription only Windows7. People would think "well what if they pull the activation servers on Windows Vista like they did the music? Maybe I DO want a subscription service..."
I once thought MS was stupid. Now, they may be more ingenious* than I ever imagined.
*It's probably just some Exec deciding they're not making enough money.
What if I suck at talking in general? I get nervous when people ask me questions about myself. For instance if someone asks me what I did yesterday, I have to stop and think for 20 seconds and recall what it was, and then take another 20 to organize the random thoughts about yesterday into a coherent sentence. If someone is waiting on you (for instance, they asked you a question) then I get nervous because I think they're thinking (and probably are, especially in this case) "why is it taking this guy so long to respond? He seems suspicious" and so they ask more probing questions and the problem just worsens.
However, I have found this to be effective at making me seems less sketchy and at forcing people to accept me. Sure, it may take me some time and some stumbling/incoherent sentences to get what I want to say out, but if I'm looking straight into their eyes when I finally have what I want to say and am saying it, they seem to be more accepting. I'm going across several borders this summer so I will be trying it if I have any problems. Wish me luck.
Ooer... there's my own WAD in there too. Five maps of single-player mayhem, for Doom 2. Released over nine years ago, which was pretty late by Doom standards...
If you want something a bit more modern, there's always this for Half-Life, and this for Half-Life 2: Episode One (Liverpool nil). Andsomereviews!
Ahem. That's quite enough links, I reckon! Hm....how about this instead...I hear these are the wave of the future. Never can be sure with them newfangled hoomdiggies.
Maybe this is partly why consoles and Things In General cost so darn much over there. They have to pay for the eventual failures.
How many peoples' first gen-ps2's didn't develop a laser error? (no you do not have to reply). I just mean I know a lot of people who eventually had problems with theirs.
This could perhaps be why, they have to either make the product more ruggedized for the EU, or simply charge more to offset the cost of the extended warranty (easier than redesigning).
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30 years ago when my parents were in school they were saying we're headed to another Ice age.
I still haven't seen any definitive evidence that we're not in a cycle. Our sample time is far too short.
Citation?
So many people toss around opinions without backup here I've given up on listening since the whole thing is such a hotpotato.
And anyways, massive coastal flooding only happens if the south pole melts (because it's actually on land). If you fill a glass with water and ice, just to the point of overflowing on the edges, and cubes are sticking out the top, when that ice melts, does your glass of water overflow? Same concept with the north pole here.
Ya I got 15 a few days ago.
I'd still rather see mod points for specific articles. Particularly some of the threads about China, the one on them and Tibet hit something like 1500 replies IIRC. But 75% of the posts (many from the old timing =5 digit UIDs) remain at 1.
I'd also like something where you can "request" mod points, although the test/screening process for this would have to be very strict. On occasion there will come a Friday night where I'm looking forward to nothing more than some beer and reading Slashdot. Then a wonderful article about something like China comes up and I can't help but think "wow, all this wasted time, I'm going to read every single post here tonight and I don't have a single modpoint."
However, doing something like this would turn us into reddit for sure.
ya but it's what keeps us coming back. Gotta hand it to em.
feh. It brings up a question which is begging for an answer. It does not beg the question.
I wonder if they tell you before you go in that they won't be doing it by hand themselves...
At the end of the day, hopefully this means cheap healthcare.
This is the sort of thing where somebody has to be first.
If everybody could agree to all publish their letters at once and all be first, then the FBI would be powerless [more or less]. It would blow the whole thing wide open. Everyone could analyze for themselves the validity of these claims, including lots of lawyers who would eat this up. We'd see that 99.9% of these are just a template *.doc file printed with regards to [insert company name here] and mailed off.
I'm all for having watchmen, but not when we don't get to watch THEM. Which is exactly what this
He stopped playing GH3 2 weeks ago, and it has been the most peaceful 2 weeks in months.
Thank you, Activision, now I will have to listen to his voice too.
I had this on my Motorola router; when I would set number of allowed connections to unlimited, after reaching a certain speed and certain number of connections, it would cut off and stop working for 30 or so seconds.
Now, going straight to the internet, not through the router, that doesn't happen.
Could be something with the modems.
Torrents are getting fast nowadays.
What was so good about ESB?
I grew up on Star Wars and am thus too old to remember the initial infatuation; and didn't have the knowledge of films to be able to pick out superiority. I've gone back and watched them again, but they're both just a long emotionless ride for me. Don't see what was so great about #5.
I, for one, will keep my kids from watching Star Wars until they're old enough to REALLY appreciate it.
But can it see why kids love cinnamon toast crunch?
Wikileaks has been mirrored to Freenet more than once. I don't know of an up to date link, or a single regularly updated source, but it's there.
A large number of photos from Tibet are available, and there is at least one highly active user posting them and keeping them up to date, with commentary.
Thanks for this informative post, that's encouraging.In China, if they can't see your traffic (IE it's encrypted), and you're Chinese, they don't bother finding out what it is you're sending. They assume it's something you shouldn't be sharing. So they just cart you away and you never appear again.
Maybe it's an American who's doing the uploading-- they seem to be accepting of our desire for privacy "just because" (they see us as protective and secretive, because we are used to having those rights and using them just because; especially in relation to business affairs). For instance they don't bother second guessing over why all your traffic, as an American in China, is traveling over a fully encrypted American proxy; however if they caught a Chinese citizen doing so, he'd never be seen again. Same with our religions, it's fine if you're over there with an English bible, but if you have an english-chinese bible like my friend (who is a missionary over there, and who is my source on all this), and they see that it's english-chinese, they'll ship you out of the country, never let you back in, and mine your cellphone for all the phone numbers of other people you're working with and track them down and ship them out as well. It's not this way for all religions, mainly Muslims (because some of them have extremist, militant intentions; on this the US and China have grown similar) and Christians (because in China, the government is your savior, they took the people out of poverty and look at all the wealth and growth they've had over the last 15 years. They see you practicing a religion that says, "no, you are not my god, there is another God who is greater than you and no matter what you do to my physical body, you cannot harm the real, true 'me' in my soul", and that scares them. They really have no reason to be afraid because the bible is very specific about obeying your authorities as long as it doesn't involve disobeying God directly, but at first glance, such an ideology that is so contrary to the PRC's mantra (on the surface) is bad and must be stamped out.) Buddhism is allowed, even encouraged, due to the complete pacifism is promotes.
So to bring it back on topic, that's good to hear
This is why we were always meant to be ruled; because that is a dichotomy with two unacceptable outcomes.
The key is finding the one worthy of ruling.
But to be an efficient and effective dictator you must be all-knowing and all-discerning. Are any of us so? No.
Does it enable focus while in video mode? That's a shortcoming to the Canons-- the starting focus is the focal point that the rest of the movie is going to be at. Presumably because the gears moving would feed back into the mic too much. You would think they'd get with Bose to noise-cancel the grinding out. Oh well.
I'm not GP, but I can tell for myself. Personally, I like my GUI layout to remain static unless I explicitly change it (e.g. by dragging splitters around). Auto-resizing input field breaks this model.
It's important because if you have your IM window touching the bottom of the screen and start typing into it, it suddenly increases the size of the textbox to a size that is off the screen.Clearly, this is a matter of personal preference, nothing more. Luckily for me, Psi has an option to choose either behavior...
I'd really like an ad extension that would let me say "on this site, go ahead and display all the ads. But if you see those same ads being served on another site, don't allow them"
I use NoScript and while you can "Allow" Slashdot.org, you can't "allow" all the other domains that serve ads to Slashdot. I wish they would make one like this so that I can "support" my favorite websites by showing the ads on my favorite websites (but not all of them), which I can then occasionally click out of interest and/or goodwill towards the site to support it.
I think we're missing the point of pinball.
Arcades made zero sense to me until I had pretty much played every genre of video game. Now that I don't own a console...
You start doing other things besides playing video games all the time, like socializing and hanging out. You start thinking, hm, what could be a fun, cheap, casual date destination? And suddenly the arcade makes all the sense in the world. Think about it-- after class Friday, you walk to the local college arcade with your S.O. and play some pinball, 2-player Tekken, Galaga, whatever. Cheap, easy fun that gives you the option to make small talk about whatever, but also the option to stop and have a decent conversation when you find a common interest. BUT there are none (or very few) of the tense, silent moments where you're both just looking around trying to come up with something to talk about (like during a conventional date when you go get something to eat and sit down at Applebee's for 45m) and where your apparent lack of ability at making conversation rears its ugliest. Then, after, you can drop by the Graeters/Baskin-Robins 31 for some ice cream before you head back to your dorms.
I think us gamers were so far gone from the normal world that the obvious social genius behind the arcade was lost like the forest in the trees.
XP has support into 2014. Wiki.
In light of MS's recent comments about turning Windows 7 into a modular OS, and making it subscription based, lets look at any incentives MS might have in cutting off people from their legally purchased music.
I wonder if they're doing this on purpose to scare people away from paying once; to later introduce a subscription music service. Instead of buy once, play forever; buy forever, and play as long as you pay.
It would be very sly of them to scare people away from "buying once" into "paying continually, and if they decide to pull the product, well who cares, you're not paying anymore then after all". I'd have to say this shows incredible foresight if this is what they're aiming for; doing this to leave a sour taste in people's mouth with Buy Once software schemes; aiming for a more tame response to a subscription only Windows7. People would think "well what if they pull the activation servers on Windows Vista like they did the music? Maybe I DO want a subscription service..."
I once thought MS was stupid. Now, they may be more ingenious* than I ever imagined.
*It's probably just some Exec deciding they're not making enough money.
What if I suck at talking in general? I get nervous when people ask me questions about myself. For instance if someone asks me what I did yesterday, I have to stop and think for 20 seconds and recall what it was, and then take another 20 to organize the random thoughts about yesterday into a coherent sentence. If someone is waiting on you (for instance, they asked you a question) then I get nervous because I think they're thinking (and probably are, especially in this case) "why is it taking this guy so long to respond? He seems suspicious" and so they ask more probing questions and the problem just worsens.
However, I have found this to be effective at making me seems less sketchy and at forcing people to accept me. Sure, it may take me some time and some stumbling/incoherent sentences to get what I want to say out, but if I'm looking straight into their eyes when I finally have what I want to say and am saying it, they seem to be more accepting. I'm going across several borders this summer so I will be trying it if I have any problems. Wish me luck.
gah it's late
I didn't even rtfp; thought you were talking about dreamcast game mods.
If you want something a bit more modern, there's always this for Half-Life, and this for Half-Life 2: Episode One (Liverpool nil). And some reviews!
Aaaand
Ahem. That's quite enough links, I reckon! Hm....how about this instead...I hear these are the wave of the future. Never can be sure with them newfangled hoomdiggies.
Well, there are higher taxes there too.
Maybe this is partly why consoles and Things In General cost so darn much over there. They have to pay for the eventual failures.
How many peoples' first gen-ps2's didn't develop a laser error? (no you do not have to reply). I just mean I know a lot of people who eventually had problems with theirs.
This could perhaps be why, they have to either make the product more ruggedized for the EU, or simply charge more to offset the cost of the extended warranty (easier than redesigning).