Hmph that's really sad.. not quite as bad as being locked in a cupboard since before you even learned to talk - at least that girl can communicate with others, but still pretty sickening all the same:/
I was using my A1200 with a 30Mhz 68030, 16MB of RAM and 180MB HD:) It could run a browser fine, but the only browsing I ever did was of HTML pages on my Amiga Format CDs.. the first machine I used the 'net on was probably a 486 or a Pentium on Win95 at my dad's work. I didn't know that much about PCs at that time though, I was really into my Macs and Amigas so that's why I couldn't comment on Linux. I did consider getting Linux for my Amiga for a while, but I was happy with workbench and full of propaganda about how it was better than Windows - it was probably even 'better' than Linux back then for lots of performance measures, though likely a lot less secure. I'd still prefer to be using Workbench than Windows even now, but Linux and OSX are getting pretty kickass these days and Amiga managed to kill itself with poor management, so what can you do.
There are some things I don't know, but a lot of what you said about the bible so far I could see was mistaken just from what I do myself know. I stated those things were my belief yes. I stated that God thinks they should die. Maybe I said I think they should but that was me being defensive and stating that because I believed in God's rules, then yes that was what my belief was. I told you that I also believed that lying was worthy of death and such under God's rules. I didn't say I would actually kill anyone for that, it's not up to me to judge. Thinking about all of this has just made me realise how absurd it is though and it just annoys me that there aren't any clear factors to base any religious ideas on, I had thought that Christianity had it nailed but that's just because I've been brought up as a Christian and all my values and beliefs have been based on stuff I've learned in church and from my family. The bible does do a very good job of explaining society IMHO, and it really does have timeless qualities, but "correlation does not imply causation" kind of fits into this. Just because a book accurately describes a system doesn't mean that the reasoning given in the book is the reason that causes things to be as they are.
Haha I'm pretty rubbish at keeping my posts too, and you are being helpful, a calmer attitude makes me take people more seriously. I was thinking Nietzche's ideas were all pretty sensible until I came across a bit about razing all churches to the ground and covering the sites with snakes. That seems a bit extreme, and agrees with what the bible says about the world hating Christianity, though again that doesn't prove that the bible is true. It's funny that you mention Pascal's wager too, before I ever heard of that I wrote an essay in Religious Education in high school about how Christianity is the best thing to believe because in some other religions you get re-incarnated, and even if there is no God then there's nothing wrong with trying to live a moral life, etc. No doubt I missed out some options, but I thought that Christianity was a pretty safe bet back then. Maybe that's why I became a Christian (or thought I did - it maybe was just all an intellectual choice and I didn't really put my heart into it, which explains why if it is the truth, it isn't really working for me). You're right that it could even be something insane like the flying spaghetti monster is the truth, but since I've been brought up as a Christian, I'm more scared of Hell. I'm just going to try and think about life outside of Christianity for a while, and I should make an honest and earnest attempt to seek any God that is out there.. the idea of there being no God does scare me shitless, and also makes me sad for humanity.. so many people thinking there is something more, but in reality we live, we die, and there really is no higher meaning to anything. "Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die". I really don't want that to be the case, but the Universe sure doesn't care what I think:P
I've been thinking a lot about this stuff over the weekend. Even though I still disagree with some of the things you've said about the bible as I can think of some counter-arguments (for example I consider a lot of the things in the New Testament to actually be timeless, and the time that they were said was a good time to do it as that's when humanity really started getting all philosophical and 'logical' and such). I've had a few perspective changes, ones which I consider good for me to be going through, though they are also scary. I simply don't *want* to believe that there is nothing else out there, but I'm prepared to consider that this is the case and we are simply some cruel joke on the part of nature - given the capacity to think and a yearning for something more, that may not even be there! I have been less and less motivated about church for a while, and becoming pretty detached from reality just because I already felt that I had all the answers I needed from the bible and there was nothing left for me to need to know so to speak. That was making life pretty boring. I like using my brain:p Anyway, I was reading a bit about nihilism and such on wikipedia last night as I feel it's basically what I've been leaning towards all my life, and Nietzsche points out that Christianity basically boils down to Nihilism anyway, which explains why the logical conclusions I've drawn from some things like Calvinism led me to believe that there's no point in me doing anything, because God will have his will done whether I'm involved or not. I've also often wondered if I wouldn't be quite such a 'moral' person if I weren't a Christian, for example when it comes to sexual things, my hormonal urges aren't that easy to fight off. Hehe. Well, I've decided that even if God is not there I do want to be 'good', but even if he is there then I still need to stop basing all my values simply on 'godly' things, I need to find some other meaning and values in my life again. I guess that partially just means I need a hobby or something to pass the time;) I've enjoyed martial arts on occasion throughout my life, including last year, but I always tend to get bored of things after a few months and just move onto something else. Even with friends I don't seem to keep relationships for more than a few years (a pattern that wasn't helped by us moving house 3 or 4 times during my childhood). Thanks for making some interesting points anyway, like would I even want to worship a God who has setup such a strange system as one where lots of people exist purely for the end of going to Hell and such. I mean I was obviously concerned about things like that anyway, but there are 'explanations' for it. The fact is that there are too many things which seem to need explained away, and the spiritual experiences I have had in life aren't necessarily related to Christian things. I'm pretty gifted at a lot of things, and I've always thanked God for that in the past, but in recent years I've just been a bit down on life (okay my whole life I've had a propensity to be depressed for different reasons, bullying and such, not doing things other kids did because of my beliefs, then my dad dying right before I started University making me sad going through Computer Science because a lot of what I'd learned about coding and computers I learned from him, and I was going to work for him after I left Uni, though we'd also fallen out a bit the year he died because he was such a strict bastard and was annoyed that I hadn't started reading the software engineering book he'd given me, even though I KNEW I'd be bored re-learning lots of things at Uni, and indeed I was..!). Anyway, rambling.. it does make sense to me that Christianity is the olden days equivalent of those stupid chain mails you get on the internet "if you stop reading this you'll die, and if you don't pass it on to 10 people you'll have bad luck for 7 years" and that kind of thing. Slightly more advanced than that I'll admit, but it could just be a similar idea. Humans are pretty
That's one way of finding out who your friends really are;) I've downloaded extra clients just for one friend in the past, but it didn't last that long because I could already speak to them in a MUD.
No, by stability I mean "will these guys - or anyone - still be working on this product in 10 years?". If the source is open, you could always hire your own coder(s) to fix bugs, but that seems a bit extreme depending on the application. I agree that obviously a dead open source project is better than a dead product from a dead or unhelpful company though.
"What is the oldest piece of code that is still in use today, that has not actually been retyped or reimplemented in some way". Sounds pretty simple, even if one byte of the code changes, that is changing the implementation. Unless the code was designed to self modify of course!:P
Most computers made for Windows 95 wouldn't run as well even with an ultra-minimalistic Linux distros at the same level as Windows 95 Where are you getting your info from? I'm not going to disagree as I've never tried such a comparison myself, but it sounds more than a little farfetched. As for open source being better in support terms than a product from a large manufacturer, that also sounds far fetched, even for out of date products. Microsoft may be a bunch of jerks when it comes to support, but companies that make for example banking software would IMO be more likely to acquiesce to requests for support with old systems (for a cost of course). My problem with using an open source option would depend on how 'big' the project is. Obviously the Linux kernel is going to go for some time to come, but a product made for a niche market surely wouldn't have quite the same stability.
Hah, awesome videos thanks. I have actually been drifting in a FF car, but it was hooked up to a big skid trolley. Drifting in a rear wheel drive car must be easier to induce and control though.. no doubt the cars in the vid had their suspension and tyre setup to not have much grip on the back end? Or a brake bias heavily towards the rear.. I've managed to flick my own car into a bit of oversteer at fairly high speeds by braking into a corner ^^;
There's an engineer at the company I work for who used to work for Rolls Royce, really smart guy and always interesting to talk to, he pointed out that oversteer/understeer in normal conditions (ie when not spinning the tires I suspose) is just a matter of suspension setup, so it is possible to have FWD cars that oversteer rather than understeer if you set them up right. The fact remains though that even RWD cars are usually factory setup to understeer a little to be on the safe side. And I still just tend to think FWD=understeer, RWD=oversteer, but I should stop that.
Yep, I need to stop that habit, though most of the time I think I'd just be lightly gripping the shifter rather than actually resting my hand on it. Most cars I've driven have had a spring mechanism in there anyway for engaging reverse so that would presumably help to reduce wear a bit too. The one car I've owned that had chronic synchromesh issues (even when I got it, as a gift) didn't use the spring method.. it also revved pretty high which can't have made life easy for the 'box (car was a Civic 1.5 VTEC).
I find it kinda funny how you say curve instead of corner, though I guess it's accurate out on open roads:) Probably just because all roads in America are basically straight eh, nothing approaching a 'corner' outside of the cities?:)
Braking down and selecting the appropriate gear before a corner is of course the safest method. You don't lose traction (grip) per se when disengaging the clutch, but the dynamics of the car are different.. you lose fine control of your acceleration/deceleration, and it causes a bit of understeer because the weight is being shifted to the front of the car while the car decelerates - funnily enough the fastest safe way to correct a skid caused by understeer is to hold the wheel in place, and disengage the clutch completely until the car comes back into line. As you probably know, the way to keep most stability through a corner is to hold a bit of light acceleration to counteract the effect of the corner slowing your vehicle down, and therefore keep maximum balance through the corner. You can get away with braking on a lot of corners, but if the corner is severe then you'll probably go straight off the road or into oncoming traffic. People who "comfort brake" on corners are actually just putting themself in more danger..
You could always get them to use one of those multi-protocol clients. Personally I just use MSN. And I did have ICQ for a while before that.. also had a short time of AIM alongside MSN, and quite a while of using Skype too.
A person commits the offense of computer tampering when he knowingly and without
the authorization of a computer's owner, or in excess of the authority granted
to him
(1) Accesses or causes to be accessed a computer or any part thereof, or a
program or data;
(2) Accesses or causes to be accessed a computer or any part thereof, or a
program or data, and obtains data or services
(3) Accesses or causes to be accessed a computer or any part thereof, or a
program or data, and damages or destroys the computer or alters, deletes
or removes a computer program or data. Doesn't look like it to me.. for one thing you have to choose to use messenger (I won't say you have to choose to install it because there is an old version of messngers that comes with XP by default). There's probably even something in the Messenger EULA that they can do whatever they want with your messages:P
For some reason I only get "Results 1 - 10 of about 3,250 for sites for whining Microsoft sycophants." Twitter must be doing well on his 'M$' bounty hunting.
I sent some about 4 days ago.. that was on the Mac version of Live Messenger though.
I did have issues a few years ago where some messages weren't getting through. Didn't work out what the word or phrase causing the block would have been, but there was a message I tried sending a few times and it just didn't get through. It made me wonder how much other stuff hadn't been getting through (as there is no warning that your message has been blocked). So me and my gf moved to Skype for a while (nowadays it's back to MSN as all my friends use it, and the skype interface brings up bad memories:P )
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Okay that's a lie, I'm just stingy.
Hmph that's really sad.. not quite as bad as being locked in a cupboard since before you even learned to talk - at least that girl can communicate with others, but still pretty sickening all the same :/
That must have been pretty crazy fast? Though it was still Windows so maybe it managed to be slow even when completely in cache :P
I was using my A1200 with a 30Mhz 68030, 16MB of RAM and 180MB HD :) It could run a browser fine, but the only browsing I ever did was of HTML pages on my Amiga Format CDs.. the first machine I used the 'net on was probably a 486 or a Pentium on Win95 at my dad's work. I didn't know that much about PCs at that time though, I was really into my Macs and Amigas so that's why I couldn't comment on Linux. I did consider getting Linux for my Amiga for a while, but I was happy with workbench and full of propaganda about how it was better than Windows - it was probably even 'better' than Linux back then for lots of performance measures, though likely a lot less secure. I'd still prefer to be using Workbench than Windows even now, but Linux and OSX are getting pretty kickass these days and Amiga managed to kill itself with poor management, so what can you do.
There are some things I don't know, but a lot of what you said about the bible so far I could see was mistaken just from what I do myself know. I stated those things were my belief yes. I stated that God thinks they should die. Maybe I said I think they should but that was me being defensive and stating that because I believed in God's rules, then yes that was what my belief was. I told you that I also believed that lying was worthy of death and such under God's rules. I didn't say I would actually kill anyone for that, it's not up to me to judge. Thinking about all of this has just made me realise how absurd it is though and it just annoys me that there aren't any clear factors to base any religious ideas on, I had thought that Christianity had it nailed but that's just because I've been brought up as a Christian and all my values and beliefs have been based on stuff I've learned in church and from my family. The bible does do a very good job of explaining society IMHO, and it really does have timeless qualities, but "correlation does not imply causation" kind of fits into this. Just because a book accurately describes a system doesn't mean that the reasoning given in the book is the reason that causes things to be as they are.
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Haha I'm pretty rubbish at keeping my posts too, and you are being helpful, a calmer attitude makes me take people more seriously. I was thinking Nietzche's ideas were all pretty sensible until I came across a bit about razing all churches to the ground and covering the sites with snakes. That seems a bit extreme, and agrees with what the bible says about the world hating Christianity, though again that doesn't prove that the bible is true. It's funny that you mention Pascal's wager too, before I ever heard of that I wrote an essay in Religious Education in high school about how Christianity is the best thing to believe because in some other religions you get re-incarnated, and even if there is no God then there's nothing wrong with trying to live a moral life, etc. No doubt I missed out some options, but I thought that Christianity was a pretty safe bet back then. Maybe that's why I became a Christian (or thought I did - it maybe was just all an intellectual choice and I didn't really put my heart into it, which explains why if it is the truth, it isn't really working for me). You're right that it could even be something insane like the flying spaghetti monster is the truth, but since I've been brought up as a Christian, I'm more scared of Hell. I'm just going to try and think about life outside of Christianity for a while, and I should make an honest and earnest attempt to seek any God that is out there.. the idea of there being no God does scare me shitless, and also makes me sad for humanity.. so many people thinking there is something more, but in reality we live, we die, and there really is no higher meaning to anything. "Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die". I really don't want that to be the case, but the Universe sure doesn't care what I think
I've been thinking a lot about this stuff over the weekend. Even though I still disagree with some of the things you've said about the bible as I can think of some counter-arguments (for example I consider a lot of the things in the New Testament to actually be timeless, and the time that they were said was a good time to do it as that's when humanity really started getting all philosophical and 'logical' and such). I've had a few perspective changes, ones which I consider good for me to be going through, though they are also scary. I simply don't *want* to believe that there is nothing else out there, but I'm prepared to consider that this is the case and we are simply some cruel joke on the part of nature - given the capacity to think and a yearning for something more, that may not even be there! I have been less and less motivated about church for a while, and becoming pretty detached from reality just because I already felt that I had all the answers I needed from the bible and there was nothing left for me to need to know so to speak. That was making life pretty boring. I like using my brain :p Anyway, I was reading a bit about nihilism and such on wikipedia last night as I feel it's basically what I've been leaning towards all my life, and Nietzsche points out that Christianity basically boils down to Nihilism anyway, which explains why the logical conclusions I've drawn from some things like Calvinism led me to believe that there's no point in me doing anything, because God will have his will done whether I'm involved or not. I've also often wondered if I wouldn't be quite such a 'moral' person if I weren't a Christian, for example when it comes to sexual things, my hormonal urges aren't that easy to fight off. Hehe. Well, I've decided that even if God is not there I do want to be 'good', but even if he is there then I still need to stop basing all my values simply on 'godly' things, I need to find some other meaning and values in my life again. I guess that partially just means I need a hobby or something to pass the time ;) I've enjoyed martial arts on occasion throughout my life, including last year, but I always tend to get bored of things after a few months and just move onto something else. Even with friends I don't seem to keep relationships for more than a few years (a pattern that wasn't helped by us moving house 3 or 4 times during my childhood). Thanks for making some interesting points anyway, like would I even want to worship a God who has setup such a strange system as one where lots of people exist purely for the end of going to Hell and such. I mean I was obviously concerned about things like that anyway, but there are 'explanations' for it. The fact is that there are too many things which seem to need explained away, and the spiritual experiences I have had in life aren't necessarily related to Christian things. I'm pretty gifted at a lot of things, and I've always thanked God for that in the past, but in recent years I've just been a bit down on life (okay my whole life I've had a propensity to be depressed for different reasons, bullying and such, not doing things other kids did because of my beliefs, then my dad dying right before I started University making me sad going through Computer Science because a lot of what I'd learned about coding and computers I learned from him, and I was going to work for him after I left Uni, though we'd also fallen out a bit the year he died because he was such a strict bastard and was annoyed that I hadn't started reading the software engineering book he'd given me, even though I KNEW I'd be bored re-learning lots of things at Uni, and indeed I was..!). Anyway, rambling.. it does make sense to me that Christianity is the olden days equivalent of those stupid chain mails you get on the internet "if you stop reading this you'll die, and if you don't pass it on to 10 people you'll have bad luck for 7 years" and that kind of thing. Slightly more advanced than that I'll admit, but it could just be a similar idea. Humans are pretty
Seems it's more of a jam session. We're sticking it to the man and his preset notions of what the internet should be!
That's one way of finding out who your friends really are ;) I've downloaded extra clients just for one friend in the past, but it didn't last that long because I could already speak to them in a MUD.
speed up windows xp
copy data to computers Hehe
Don't worry, this is God Og Go.
He should call it Jar-Jar
I see. Hehe @_@
No, by stability I mean "will these guys - or anyone - still be working on this product in 10 years?". If the source is open, you could always hire your own coder(s) to fix bugs, but that seems a bit extreme depending on the application. I agree that obviously a dead open source project is better than a dead product from a dead or unhelpful company though.
Only on /. could a piece of code to delete a file be modded 'funny' o_0 is there actually a joke in there?
"What is the oldest piece of code that is still in use today, that has not actually been retyped or reimplemented in some way". Sounds pretty simple, even if one byte of the code changes, that is changing the implementation. Unless the code was designed to self modify of course! :P
Yeah, people really need to learn how to better conduct themselves around here
Hah, awesome videos thanks. I have actually been drifting in a FF car, but it was hooked up to a big skid trolley. Drifting in a rear wheel drive car must be easier to induce and control though.. no doubt the cars in the vid had their suspension and tyre setup to not have much grip on the back end? Or a brake bias heavily towards the rear.. I've managed to flick my own car into a bit of oversteer at fairly high speeds by braking into a corner ^^;
There's an engineer at the company I work for who used to work for Rolls Royce, really smart guy and always interesting to talk to, he pointed out that oversteer/understeer in normal conditions (ie when not spinning the tires I suspose) is just a matter of suspension setup, so it is possible to have FWD cars that oversteer rather than understeer if you set them up right. The fact remains though that even RWD cars are usually factory setup to understeer a little to be on the safe side. And I still just tend to think FWD=understeer, RWD=oversteer, but I should stop that.
Yep, I need to stop that habit, though most of the time I think I'd just be lightly gripping the shifter rather than actually resting my hand on it. Most cars I've driven have had a spring mechanism in there anyway for engaging reverse so that would presumably help to reduce wear a bit too. The one car I've owned that had chronic synchromesh issues (even when I got it, as a gift) didn't use the spring method.. it also revved pretty high which can't have made life easy for the 'box (car was a Civic 1.5 VTEC).
:) Probably just because all roads in America are basically straight eh, nothing approaching a 'corner' outside of the cities? :)
I find it kinda funny how you say curve instead of corner, though I guess it's accurate out on open roads
Braking down and selecting the appropriate gear before a corner is of course the safest method. You don't lose traction (grip) per se when disengaging the clutch, but the dynamics of the car are different.. you lose fine control of your acceleration/deceleration, and it causes a bit of understeer because the weight is being shifted to the front of the car while the car decelerates - funnily enough the fastest safe way to correct a skid caused by understeer is to hold the wheel in place, and disengage the clutch completely until the car comes back into line. As you probably know, the way to keep most stability through a corner is to hold a bit of light acceleration to counteract the effect of the corner slowing your vehicle down, and therefore keep maximum balance through the corner. You can get away with braking on a lot of corners, but if the corner is severe then you'll probably go straight off the road or into oncoming traffic. People who "comfort brake" on corners are actually just putting themself in more danger..
You could always get them to use one of those multi-protocol clients. Personally I just use MSN. And I did have ICQ for a while before that.. also had a short time of AIM alongside MSN, and quite a while of using Skype too.
the authorization of a computer's owner, or in excess of the authority granted
to him
(1) Accesses or causes to be accessed a computer or any part thereof, or a
program or data;
(2) Accesses or causes to be accessed a computer or any part thereof, or a
program or data, and obtains data or services
(3) Accesses or causes to be accessed a computer or any part thereof, or a
program or data, and damages or destroys the computer or alters, deletes
or removes a computer program or data. Doesn't look like it to me.. for one thing you have to choose to use messenger (I won't say you have to choose to install it because there is an old version of messngers that comes with XP by default). There's probably even something in the Messenger EULA that they can do whatever they want with your messages
For some reason I only get "Results 1 - 10 of about 3,250 for sites for whining Microsoft sycophants." Twitter must be doing well on his 'M$' bounty hunting.
I sent some about 4 days ago.. that was on the Mac version of Live Messenger though.
:P )
I did have issues a few years ago where some messages weren't getting through. Didn't work out what the word or phrase causing the block would have been, but there was a message I tried sending a few times and it just didn't get through. It made me wonder how much other stuff hadn't been getting through (as there is no warning that your message has been blocked). So me and my gf moved to Skype for a while (nowadays it's back to MSN as all my friends use it, and the skype interface brings up bad memories
Hehehe.. should have their own personal twitter parody..! I may call mine twoddle if I ever get the urge.