Young whippersnappers. When I was "at a young age," it was called stone, and it didn't have any of the fruity ease of use features that other mediums like clay tablets and papyrus have. We had to learn to be precise and exact, because once we typed something there was no way to "navigate" or fix mistakes. I was fine with the drawbacks, because I always knew wherever I was there would be stone, which is not true with clay, papyrus, pulp paper, or systems of tubes.
Now only to convince nVidia to release their drivers for this new X. As long as these things don't happen, this probably won't take off.
Man, we really need OSS drivers.
WHOA!!!!! Slow down there, cowboy. Before convincing nVidia to do anything too progressive we should probably encourage them to market only products that are not faulty by design and that might not die extremely prematurely. Open source drivers, yes, but for those to be of use they must work with chips that consistently function as they are purported to.
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One dog.
Seriously, if a burglar sees or hears a dog, he'll move on to other houses until he finds one without a dog. If you have secret plans and chests filled with treasure, and everyone in town knows about it, maybe you need something more sophisticated, but a canine deterrent system is more than effective for the average home. And an alarm system won't wag its tail or lick your face when you come home from work. Or, go whole-hog and get four dogs, and a monkey that can dial a phone.
Chill. What will you do if you get vote-by-vote coverage of every precinct of every county in every state? Your head will explode. I will probably watch CNN and tune to FOX News every so often, and maybe check a few websites if I get bored, until I get tired and decide to go to bed. Seriously, I am not a CNN fanboy, but they do a pretty good job of reporting (whether or not you think they are biased). The TV networks will be all over this election, so this is one event for which we probably won't have to look too hard to find every bit of information we desire, and more. Three of my four computers and my Palm Treo will basically be resting this time, and I think your electronic goodies will forgive you if you enjoy the suspense from the couch too.
I overheard my mom talking about this the other day, when I took a 2-minute game break to come up from the basement and grab a ho-ho. She brought my dinner down to me (duh) so that was all I heard. Is there like an election or something? Meh.
Back in 1993, I think, I replaced my 486SX 33Mhz with a 486DX 66Mhz, and I remember paying $600 for the thing!
Hmm, I think I paid about $1400 for a system based on an AMD 486DX 40Mhz chip, in 1993 or 1994. The DX2-66 was the screamer, and I couldn't quite justify the price premium, even for all the added speed. I also helped the engineers I interned with set up a network in early 1994, and the server was a DX2-66 with something crazy like 32MB RAM. The 486DX-40 sure beat the pants off my parents' 386SX-16, at least!
Kiddie porn is already illegal EVERYWHERE, and most people in every society frown on it. It still happens. Censoring the internet and inconveniencing the rest of us will not stop perverts from going about their sick business. After all, they didn't always have the evil web to assist them, yet I think child pron predates the WWW. Shall we put up checkpoints at every intersection next, to prevent the flow of contraband?
I'm a proponent of rehabilitation and I feel that sentencing here in the US is generally too harsh - the deterrence factor we count on isn't there if the certainty of being caught is not high. Pedophiles are particularly disturbing because their rate of recidivism is remarkably high. They know what they do is 100% wrong, they are typically very careful and secretive so as to avoid suspicion, and if they are caught they still don't stop. Censorship won't stop them, only incarceration for life will. This is a war like the overly-simplified "war on terror," in that it must be fought but can never be won. So I have a real problem with the 99.9% of the population who are generally law-abiding having to suffer. I won't go into more detailed criminology, but censoring or filtering the internet will not end anything, and will merely drive kiddie porn, gambling and hate speech back offline.
If you do decide to use a ton of alcohol, I would suggest doing it outside, or perhaps only in a structure you don't mind burning down. Adequate ventilation, no sparks or open flames, blah blah blah, just to be safe.
If the class is currently as unstructured as it appears, I would suggest talking to your students before selecting your tack. It sounds like your students' computer knowledge and skills are likely to be all over the board, so I would say use the first class session to familiarize yourself with what the know and what they would benefit from learning. Computer-oriented classes are all too often done with a one-size-fits-all approach (especially the lower/entry-level ones), so if it really is up to you, tailor the class to meet the needs of your students, be it basic email and safe web usage, elementary html, php and python, or simple network administration. In my experience in education, the more technical or arcane the subject matter, the less communicative the teacher. Look at this as one of those rare opportunities to really help individuals with their specific needs, and everyone might come out a winner, including you. Just be flexible and share only the appropriate knowledge, and presume that some topics will fly clear over the heads of many bright folks.
So.. a vote for McCain/Palin is a vote for putting Jesus Christ in office?
Wait, the GOP haven't switched the ticket when I was busy eating babies, did they? Jesus Christ in office? Man, and I thought McCain was old. At least then you might not have to worry about Palin taking over, since J.H.C. has already shown incredible resiliency to being murdered. Would that violate the constitution, or would it only be a problem if his dad was on the ticket with him?
I watched CBS's coverage in HD and saw the color balance change frequently when showing Biden, revealing the uneven patterning of makeup. It was worst when they did a split-screen presentation of Biden and Palin.
Ah yes, major flaws that completely ruined the vice presidential debate and overshadowed the actual substance and point of the whole charade. Horrible!
My stepfather still has an old Pentium III laptop with Windows 95 running on it. Booting the laptop to read an E-mail takes around 20 minutes.
One of three things is occurring here: a. You added a "0" after the "2". b. You are exaggerating grossly. c. There is something seriously wrong with that computer. I have a Pentium-III, 800mhz machine sitting in my closet that I ran XP and Win-98 on for quite some time. I probably haven't touched the thing in a year now, but I don't remember it taking more than about two minutes to boot. Yes, that is probably a dog of a machine the old man has there, but it should not take anywhere near 20 minutes to boot Win-95. My 486 with 16MB RAM didn't take that long.
Distiller's Masterpiece is one example I know of. Booker Noe (of Beam fame) used Geyser Peak port casks for this bourbon, and I think it goes straight from the cask into bottles. It's crazy expensive I hear, and I have not tried it. I'm quite happy with Knob when I want bourbon.
You had the internet? In my day, the only way to flame your friends and make sarcastic comments was in person. A lot of sarcasm still went unnoticed, but the flames were just as obvious, since a good ol' hotfoot can get anyone's attention.
Why not include a 24-bit 192 or 96 khz lossless format, and maybe something in 5.1 instead?
Why? Because most people don't care. People who listen to ipods, buy from itunes, rip their own cds with crappy compression, and mainly listen to their music with $5 headphones, can't tell the difference between a lossless format and the common, lossy formats. That applies to the majority of consumers. Very little demand for anything better than 320kbps mp3 or aac or whatever. I like flac for archiving, personally, but I also often convert to a mediocre mp3 format for portability with my Palm Treo.
You're right, let's mandate that all citizens, hell all residents regardless of citizenship, are required to carry loaded guns at all times. Yeah, that will work out great. Around here, law abiding citizens may obtain permits to carry CONCEALED handguns in many public locations, and the castle doctrine is pretty forgiving in one's home. Should we not even try to control guns? Japan does pretty well as far as gun crimes are concerned, because they don't tolerate them legally or socially.
So guns and knives are abhorrent and should not be promoted in the UK (and in fact should be censored), but guns and knives are perfectly fine for Youtube to cash in on in the US? Congrats on the great use of mod points!
Yep, when I pick up my Palm Treo it is usable in about 1 second. If you REALLY need something super uberquick so you don't forget your brilliant stroke of genius, you probably don't need everything that a laptop can do. You can prbably get a decent Treo 650 or something else with a qwerty keyboard for under $75, OS included. Otherwise, I'd say run any minimalistic linux distro with any one of dozens of text editors. If that's all you need or want, you have zillions of choices that will all function exactly as you require. Heck, even a fully-loaded Linux Mint setup boots pretty quick on my mediocre laptop.
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Young whippersnappers. When I was "at a young age," it was called stone, and it didn't have any of the fruity ease of use features that other mediums like clay tablets and papyrus have. We had to learn to be precise and exact, because once we typed something there was no way to "navigate" or fix mistakes. I was fine with the drawbacks, because I always knew wherever I was there would be stone, which is not true with clay, papyrus, pulp paper, or systems of tubes.
Angus Young has already said he wants one. Something about it having its very own power chord, I guess.
Now only to convince nVidia to release their drivers for this new X. As long as these things don't happen, this probably won't take off. Man, we really need OSS drivers.
WHOA!!!!! Slow down there, cowboy. Before convincing nVidia to do anything too progressive we should probably encourage them to market only products that are not faulty by design and that might not die extremely prematurely. Open source drivers, yes, but for those to be of use they must work with chips that consistently function as they are purported to.
One dog.
Seriously, if a burglar sees or hears a dog, he'll move on to other houses until he finds one without a dog. If you have secret plans and chests filled with treasure, and everyone in town knows about it, maybe you need something more sophisticated, but a canine deterrent system is more than effective for the average home. And an alarm system won't wag its tail or lick your face when you come home from work. Or, go whole-hog and get four dogs, and a monkey that can dial a phone.
Chill. What will you do if you get vote-by-vote coverage of every precinct of every county in every state? Your head will explode. I will probably watch CNN and tune to FOX News every so often, and maybe check a few websites if I get bored, until I get tired and decide to go to bed. Seriously, I am not a CNN fanboy, but they do a pretty good job of reporting (whether or not you think they are biased). The TV networks will be all over this election, so this is one event for which we probably won't have to look too hard to find every bit of information we desire, and more. Three of my four computers and my Palm Treo will basically be resting this time, and I think your electronic goodies will forgive you if you enjoy the suspense from the couch too.
I overheard my mom talking about this the other day, when I took a 2-minute game break to come up from the basement and grab a ho-ho. She brought my dinner down to me (duh) so that was all I heard. Is there like an election or something? Meh.
Back in 1993, I think, I replaced my 486SX 33Mhz with a 486DX 66Mhz, and I remember paying $600 for the thing!
Hmm, I think I paid about $1400 for a system based on an AMD 486DX 40Mhz chip, in 1993 or 1994. The DX2-66 was the screamer, and I couldn't quite justify the price premium, even for all the added speed. I also helped the engineers I interned with set up a network in early 1994, and the server was a DX2-66 with something crazy like 32MB RAM. The 486DX-40 sure beat the pants off my parents' 386SX-16, at least!
Kiddie porn is already illegal EVERYWHERE, and most people in every society frown on it. It still happens. Censoring the internet and inconveniencing the rest of us will not stop perverts from going about their sick business. After all, they didn't always have the evil web to assist them, yet I think child pron predates the WWW. Shall we put up checkpoints at every intersection next, to prevent the flow of contraband?
I'm a proponent of rehabilitation and I feel that sentencing here in the US is generally too harsh - the deterrence factor we count on isn't there if the certainty of being caught is not high. Pedophiles are particularly disturbing because their rate of recidivism is remarkably high. They know what they do is 100% wrong, they are typically very careful and secretive so as to avoid suspicion, and if they are caught they still don't stop. Censorship won't stop them, only incarceration for life will. This is a war like the overly-simplified "war on terror," in that it must be fought but can never be won. So I have a real problem with the 99.9% of the population who are generally law-abiding having to suffer. I won't go into more detailed criminology, but censoring or filtering the internet will not end anything, and will merely drive kiddie porn, gambling and hate speech back offline.
10. Use alcohol (not the stuff from step 5) to remove any pain and attachment to lost items.
11. Call flood insurance provider.
12. Repeat step 10 if you were like me (no flood insurance).
13. Go shopping.
If you do decide to use a ton of alcohol, I would suggest doing it outside, or perhaps only in a structure you don't mind burning down. Adequate ventilation, no sparks or open flames, blah blah blah, just to be safe.
Oh, that's just great.... I hope it isn't Seven of nine, cause I can't take two more crappy releases after 7, before MS vanishes.
If the class is currently as unstructured as it appears, I would suggest talking to your students before selecting your tack. It sounds like your students' computer knowledge and skills are likely to be all over the board, so I would say use the first class session to familiarize yourself with what the know and what they would benefit from learning. Computer-oriented classes are all too often done with a one-size-fits-all approach (especially the lower/entry-level ones), so if it really is up to you, tailor the class to meet the needs of your students, be it basic email and safe web usage, elementary html, php and python, or simple network administration. In my experience in education, the more technical or arcane the subject matter, the less communicative the teacher. Look at this as one of those rare opportunities to really help individuals with their specific needs, and everyone might come out a winner, including you. Just be flexible and share only the appropriate knowledge, and presume that some topics will fly clear over the heads of many bright folks.
2. e-Bay goggles.
2. Keep your computer in a cabinet or room with a combination lock. (Ever try to open one o' those babies after too many cups of liquid courage?)
3. AOL. (Your email will probably get lost anyway.)
4. Use an email address like v1agera694Ucheap@gmail.com or r0llexxBargains@gmail.com. (Your message will be flagged as spam and never read anyway.)
5. Don't email after more than two drinks. Ever, no matter how innocuous your message may seem.
6. Don't drink more than you can handle, especially on a regular enough basis to need something like this, you moron.
...yesterday, before I gmailed my boss after a few bowls of loud-mouth soup following a bad day at the office!
Wait, the GOP haven't switched the ticket when I was busy eating babies, did they? Jesus Christ in office? Man, and I thought McCain was old. At least then you might not have to worry about Palin taking over, since J.H.C. has already shown incredible resiliency to being murdered. Would that violate the constitution, or would it only be a problem if his dad was on the ticket with him?
Ah yes, major flaws that completely ruined the vice presidential debate and overshadowed the actual substance and point of the whole charade. Horrible!
One of three things is occurring here: a. You added a "0" after the "2". b. You are exaggerating grossly. c. There is something seriously wrong with that computer. I have a Pentium-III, 800mhz machine sitting in my closet that I ran XP and Win-98 on for quite some time. I probably haven't touched the thing in a year now, but I don't remember it taking more than about two minutes to boot. Yes, that is probably a dog of a machine the old man has there, but it should not take anywhere near 20 minutes to boot Win-95. My 486 with 16MB RAM didn't take that long.
Distiller's Masterpiece is one example I know of. Booker Noe (of Beam fame) used Geyser Peak port casks for this bourbon, and I think it goes straight from the cask into bottles. It's crazy expensive I hear, and I have not tried it. I'm quite happy with Knob when I want bourbon.
If Nintendo gets some help from 3d realms: Wii Might As Well Forget It.
You had the internet? In my day, the only way to flame your friends and make sarcastic comments was in person. A lot of sarcasm still went unnoticed, but the flames were just as obvious, since a good ol' hotfoot can get anyone's attention.
Why? Because most people don't care. People who listen to ipods, buy from itunes, rip their own cds with crappy compression, and mainly listen to their music with $5 headphones, can't tell the difference between a lossless format and the common, lossy formats. That applies to the majority of consumers. Very little demand for anything better than 320kbps mp3 or aac or whatever. I like flac for archiving, personally, but I also often convert to a mediocre mp3 format for portability with my Palm Treo.
You're right, let's mandate that all citizens, hell all residents regardless of citizenship, are required to carry loaded guns at all times. Yeah, that will work out great. Around here, law abiding citizens may obtain permits to carry CONCEALED handguns in many public locations, and the castle doctrine is pretty forgiving in one's home. Should we not even try to control guns? Japan does pretty well as far as gun crimes are concerned, because they don't tolerate them legally or socially.
So guns and knives are abhorrent and should not be promoted in the UK (and in fact should be censored), but guns and knives are perfectly fine for Youtube to cash in on in the US? Congrats on the great use of mod points!
Yep, when I pick up my Palm Treo it is usable in about 1 second. If you REALLY need something super uberquick so you don't forget your brilliant stroke of genius, you probably don't need everything that a laptop can do. You can prbably get a decent Treo 650 or something else with a qwerty keyboard for under $75, OS included. Otherwise, I'd say run any minimalistic linux distro with any one of dozens of text editors. If that's all you need or want, you have zillions of choices that will all function exactly as you require. Heck, even a fully-loaded Linux Mint setup boots pretty quick on my mediocre laptop.
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