I'd search for one thing (Divorce lawyer) and they'd start showing adverts for divorce lawyers to me soon to be ex wife and every other computer on my NAT
So use an actual Google account, and separate logins on your PC. I thought even fairly computer illiterate families preferred having separate logon accounts, so why don't you guys? You should also be using adblock everywhere you can too. And I'd think that if you're thinking of divorce, your wife would already have a pretty good idea anyway, unless it's because you're cheating..
The only thing universal healthcare brought you was waiting lines and mediocre care if you're in any country but norway/sweden/denmark and maybe the UK
Know any good resources for building your own ultrabook? I admit I haven't looked, but I don't think there are any options other than just buying one pre-made. Mine came installed with a whole load of crapware. Thankfully I got it through work, so I just bought Windows 7 Pro and nuked it with that.
I did try Mint as the base OS, but network drivers were missing since it was a brand new model (ASUS UX31, got it the day it came out). So now I run Linux in a VM.
Actually I used 2K for a while and still thought XP was decent. Of course, I've always used XP Pro at home and work. If you don't like the theme, you can switch back to boxy windows if you want. I actually use the Zune theme on my XP VM. It's a nice grey and orange style. Reminds me of Half-Life I guess.
Now I use Windows 7 Pro at work. Think I have Home Premium at home, it does the job fine.
An enthusiast is someone who's enthusiastic. There are many different things about computers that you can be enthusiastic about.
Pairing/tripling memory sticks and overclocking? That only takes a tiny bit of Googling to find out how to do. I used to do that stuff 10 years ago to try to get a few extra FPS. I had two monitors too, off of one card. Nowadays I don't really give a shit. I just buy good components to start with. My current machine is water-cooled though, so I could probably overclock it a fair bit if I wanted.
I've never had "bloody hands from all the little solder points". You don't need that to swap in new RAM or to add other components to your PC. You don't even need that to put in a processor (unless of course Intel follow through with these plans).
To use a car analogy, the crowd you're thinking of are drag racers. What they are interested in is speed. Speed is useful to an extent, but beyond a certain point it becomes less interesting and practical. You can also have F1 enthusiasts, rally enthusiasts, offroading enthusiasts etc.
What do you think about the guys that invented the Raspberry Pi? I consider them enthusiasts. Those who want to play about with the Pi are also enthusiasts. Then there are guys who could have specced and built their own Raspberry Pi before mainstream geeks really thought about building their own embedded PCs.
Tablets can do an awful lot these days, yes. In fact there are x86 Windows tablets and tablets running fully fledged Linux these days, so technically anybody could get by with just a tablet if they were forced to. You could use a tablet as a server or as a development machine. So your argument there is kind of invalid..
Well, I've only met two women so far in life who have expressed an interest in it, one only told me so after we'd dated for a couple of years. The other told me very soon after she kissed me that she was still in love with her ex. She actually said "I might be poly" because she still wasn't over the ex before that. She then proceeded to want to be friends with benefits, which isn't really my thing, but I wanted to give it a try because I know I can be too up-tight about relationships sometimes. Then a few weeks later when she broke that off, she said she'd been "trying" to feel like my girlfriend despite making it clear to me that we weren't to be more than friends. As such I wasn't even trying to be emotionally intimate, in fact very much the opposite.. I knew there was no point getting attached when she'd made it clear not to. Anyway, I found the whole experience pretty frustrating, and I guess any insults are probably directed at her. She treated me the whole time like she expected me to be some kind of personal slave, and I did think she seemed rather selfish/narcissistic, to the extent that I don't even want to be friends with her now. She was asking me for help in lots of areas in a very business-like fashion while not really appearing to be putting any effort into simply relaxing and being friends. I'm thinking it's possible she has Aspergers.
As for my ex who expressed an interest in it, she now openly admits she's a narcissist. She seems kind of proud of that actually. She says that she would be fine with dating lots of guys at once, but only if they didn't have anyone else themselves. Though she also considers herself asexual. She kind of enjoys making out, but doesn't like the idea of sex, despite trying it (though not with me - we were both Christians and against sex before marriage back then - though we're both atheists now..).
So - so far my only experience of people who want to be "poly" is that they are selfish and have poor empathy and emotional control:p
We have a lot of storage space these days, but I don't think every piece of software basically having their own/usr/lib or/windows directory is feasible yet.
Also it would make far, far more sense to shred everything into horizontal strips. What's the point in shredding at all if you shred neatly into readable lines?
Likewise, Operation Flashpoint has been my favourite gaming experience for a long time, it was a definite feeling of achievement to get through some of those missions, sneaking for miles through a forest trying to evade the enemy, and the little details like having to take account of gravity and distance when sniping. Perhaps as others pointed out, I should have said "satisfying" rather than "fun".
I think that Skyrim may now be my favourite game over OpFlash though, despite not being as challenging most of the time.
By letting yourself down I meant say eating a cake when you're on a diet. I don't think it's an apt comparison, because you are the one that set the condition in the first place. So it's acceptable for you to change that condition without really breaking any rules. You might be failing yourself in one regard, but you're not really doing anything "wrong".
If you agree to conditions with some other person however, you can't simply change them without their consent. That's the difference.
You can't respect others without respecting yourself; and conversely, if you can't respect yourself you can't respect others.
So all fat people don't respect anybody? I don't think that's true..
I did, the article I read was very pro-polyamory, but I could still see that all the problems I imagined, and more, were problems. Certainly they'd be problems for me anyway. For others who are more secure and more into physical than emotional intimacy, I can see it working. I'm not saying polyamorous people can't be emotionally intimate either, but IMO it's a special bond when you know you only want/need each other, and don't need to draw up a contract defining just how close you can get to other people. Polyamory would work for me personally if it was only about sex, but the moment feelings get involved I simply wouldn't be able to give myself fully to more than one person.
if you have the kind of personality type where it works for you, you might consider it.
Yeah, sounds like that could work pretty well for a sociopath.
I just read an article on polyamory, and it pretty much confirmed to me how dumb an idea it is. With that many people involved, someone is bound to get hurt, whether it's your wife or your other partners, or her other partners. Unless you also draw up contracts to alys be there for these other people too, which seems basically impossible to do for more than one person at a time.
I didn't say "only". It's a combination of other elements that make a game fun.
But if it's not fun, what's the point in playing? Computer games are entertainment. They allow for pleasant passage of time, leading you to your death with minimum hassle. Games can have purpose, but they also should be fun if they're to be worth your time.
There's a huge fucking difference between failing yourself, and failing another human being. Especially one that you claim to care deeply about. How can you even consider making that comparison?
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I'd search for one thing (Divorce lawyer) and they'd start showing adverts for divorce lawyers to me soon to be ex wife and every other computer on my NAT
So use an actual Google account, and separate logins on your PC. I thought even fairly computer illiterate families preferred having separate logon accounts, so why don't you guys? You should also be using adblock everywhere you can too. And I'd think that if you're thinking of divorce, your wife would already have a pretty good idea anyway, unless it's because you're cheating..
The only thing universal healthcare brought you was waiting lines and mediocre care if you're in any country but norway/sweden/denmark and maybe the UK
Mediocre care is better than no care.
Plus people can still go private if they choose.
Report the phone stolen, have the IMEI blocked. Then nobody gets to use it.
Know any good resources for building your own ultrabook? I admit I haven't looked, but I don't think there are any options other than just buying one pre-made. Mine came installed with a whole load of crapware. Thankfully I got it through work, so I just bought Windows 7 Pro and nuked it with that.
I did try Mint as the base OS, but network drivers were missing since it was a brand new model (ASUS UX31, got it the day it came out). So now I run Linux in a VM.
Actually I used 2K for a while and still thought XP was decent. Of course, I've always used XP Pro at home and work. If you don't like the theme, you can switch back to boxy windows if you want. I actually use the Zune theme on my XP VM. It's a nice grey and orange style. Reminds me of Half-Life I guess.
Now I use Windows 7 Pro at work. Think I have Home Premium at home, it does the job fine.
Entertaining and enjoyable are synonyms for fun.
An enthusiast is someone who's enthusiastic. There are many different things about computers that you can be enthusiastic about.
Pairing/tripling memory sticks and overclocking? That only takes a tiny bit of Googling to find out how to do. I used to do that stuff 10 years ago to try to get a few extra FPS. I had two monitors too, off of one card. Nowadays I don't really give a shit. I just buy good components to start with. My current machine is water-cooled though, so I could probably overclock it a fair bit if I wanted.
I've never had "bloody hands from all the little solder points". You don't need that to swap in new RAM or to add other components to your PC. You don't even need that to put in a processor (unless of course Intel follow through with these plans).
To use a car analogy, the crowd you're thinking of are drag racers. What they are interested in is speed. Speed is useful to an extent, but beyond a certain point it becomes less interesting and practical. You can also have F1 enthusiasts, rally enthusiasts, offroading enthusiasts etc.
What do you think about the guys that invented the Raspberry Pi? I consider them enthusiasts. Those who want to play about with the Pi are also enthusiasts. Then there are guys who could have specced and built their own Raspberry Pi before mainstream geeks really thought about building their own embedded PCs.
Tablets can do an awful lot these days, yes. In fact there are x86 Windows tablets and tablets running fully fledged Linux these days, so technically anybody could get by with just a tablet if they were forced to. You could use a tablet as a server or as a development machine. So your argument there is kind of invalid..
Well, I've only met two women so far in life who have expressed an interest in it, one only told me so after we'd dated for a couple of years. The other told me very soon after she kissed me that she was still in love with her ex. She actually said "I might be poly" because she still wasn't over the ex before that. She then proceeded to want to be friends with benefits, which isn't really my thing, but I wanted to give it a try because I know I can be too up-tight about relationships sometimes. Then a few weeks later when she broke that off, she said she'd been "trying" to feel like my girlfriend despite making it clear to me that we weren't to be more than friends. As such I wasn't even trying to be emotionally intimate, in fact very much the opposite.. I knew there was no point getting attached when she'd made it clear not to. Anyway, I found the whole experience pretty frustrating, and I guess any insults are probably directed at her. She treated me the whole time like she expected me to be some kind of personal slave, and I did think she seemed rather selfish/narcissistic, to the extent that I don't even want to be friends with her now. She was asking me for help in lots of areas in a very business-like fashion while not really appearing to be putting any effort into simply relaxing and being friends. I'm thinking it's possible she has Aspergers.
As for my ex who expressed an interest in it, she now openly admits she's a narcissist. She seems kind of proud of that actually. She says that she would be fine with dating lots of guys at once, but only if they didn't have anyone else themselves. Though she also considers herself asexual. She kind of enjoys making out, but doesn't like the idea of sex, despite trying it (though not with me - we were both Christians and against sex before marriage back then - though we're both atheists now..).
So - so far my only experience of people who want to be "poly" is that they are selfish and have poor empathy and emotional control :p
Well, they aren't doing themselves any favours that's for sure.
Define "necessary parts".
We have a lot of storage space these days, but I don't think every piece of software basically having their own /usr/lib or /windows directory is feasible yet.
I know, but the post I was replying to didn't say anything about autonomy.
More autonomous robots are being developed. You'd have to be crazy to not think that the US military is doing R&D into this stuff.
vertical*
Obviously.
Argh.
Also it would make far, far more sense to shred everything into horizontal strips. What's the point in shredding at all if you shred neatly into readable lines?
I stand corrected once again, and humble myself before your art and craft
It's called Google.. try using it when you feel like smacking someone into the dust for being wrong.
Plus, you need to grow a sense of humour. The OP was clearly a joke.
Armed robots are basically SciFi, unless you are aware of some being used or developed?
They've been in use for 5 years. And of course there will be others in development.
Likewise, Operation Flashpoint has been my favourite gaming experience for a long time, it was a definite feeling of achievement to get through some of those missions, sneaking for miles through a forest trying to evade the enemy, and the little details like having to take account of gravity and distance when sniping. Perhaps as others pointed out, I should have said "satisfying" rather than "fun".
I think that Skyrim may now be my favourite game over OpFlash though, despite not being as challenging most of the time.
By letting yourself down I meant say eating a cake when you're on a diet. I don't think it's an apt comparison, because you are the one that set the condition in the first place. So it's acceptable for you to change that condition without really breaking any rules. You might be failing yourself in one regard, but you're not really doing anything "wrong".
If you agree to conditions with some other person however, you can't simply change them without their consent. That's the difference.
You can't respect others without respecting yourself; and conversely, if you can't respect yourself you can't respect others.
So all fat people don't respect anybody? I don't think that's true..
I did, the article I read was very pro-polyamory, but I could still see that all the problems I imagined, and more, were problems. Certainly they'd be problems for me anyway. For others who are more secure and more into physical than emotional intimacy, I can see it working. I'm not saying polyamorous people can't be emotionally intimate either, but IMO it's a special bond when you know you only want/need each other, and don't need to draw up a contract defining just how close you can get to other people. Polyamory would work for me personally if it was only about sex, but the moment feelings get involved I simply wouldn't be able to give myself fully to more than one person.
No, no, no, you're doing it wrong. You're meant to be telling us what is right and/or legal. It's the American way!
Ah yes, the feeling of being a murderer is obviously a lot easier to live with than giving a childless couple a chance at happiness.
To be fair I've done at least 3 of those.. I prefer the legal alternatives when they're available and affordable though :p
if you have the kind of personality type where it works for you, you might consider it.
Yeah, sounds like that could work pretty well for a sociopath.
I just read an article on polyamory, and it pretty much confirmed to me how dumb an idea it is. With that many people involved, someone is bound to get hurt, whether it's your wife or your other partners, or her other partners. Unless you also draw up contracts to alys be there for these other people too, which seems basically impossible to do for more than one person at a time.
I didn't say "only". It's a combination of other elements that make a game fun.
But if it's not fun, what's the point in playing? Computer games are entertainment. They allow for pleasant passage of time, leading you to your death with minimum hassle. Games can have purpose, but they also should be fun if they're to be worth your time.
What you're talking about aren't games, they're more simply interactive art pieces to enjoy.
Games should be fun.
There's a huge fucking difference between failing yourself, and failing another human being. Especially one that you claim to care deeply about. How can you even consider making that comparison?