Holy crap! Watch your step getting off that horse; it's a high one!
When my current PC outlives its usefulness, I'll be a "switcher" too. And look out, because there are going to be a lot of us pretty soon. Whether we meet you high, exacting standards is moot. Thanks to current Windows trends, Mac is about to become a lot more popular.
And I guess MacSnobs wouldn't know Clarus from Claris. Maybe the word of the day is Pretender.
Last time I was in school, an instructor suggested a performance enhancing drug to take before writing an exam, of sitting down at home to write up an assignment. Since then I've had great results from taking this miracle drug when studying.
The drug is simply a protein-rich, non-meat snack. A handful of nuts, a protein bar, some yogurt; anything along those lines will increase your mental focus. Meat isn't good because the fat counteracts the effects of the protein.
Keep in mind, this is from someone whose mental focus is pretty good to start with, as long as I eat a generally healthy diet. For anyone with a serious learning disorder, drugs may be required on top of a healthy diet and exercise regimen.
...relaible instant-on systems, with none of the tedious waiting for drives to spin up.
Good question, but not quite the right one. Most of the time you wait for your computer isn't the hard drive spinning up, but the OS transferring information from the hard drive to RAM (and to other parts of the hard drive). Flash RAM will do this faster because it won't have to wait for the HD's heads to access a particular part of the spinning drive, but it will still take time.
We'll never have the same instant-on response that we had with our Commodore 64's!
"$2.50 a gallon?! I'd have to work a week to fill my tank! What? You make how much?"
I think the value of the dollar would be one of the most shocking things someone from the '20s would notice. Back then, $25,000 a year was a nice executive salary, not what a retail clerk would make.
And if anything, they would be shocked at the lack of expected technological advances. "Where's your flying car? You were supposed to have them in 1999! And where are the moon colonies? Eighty years and all you've come up with was an itty-bitty wireless telegraph?!"
The [p] tag works normally if you close the previous paragraph with a [/p] (which has been the preferred way to close a paragraph for several years, although unclosed paragraphs still work for the most part.
I guess we need to pass laws against these dangerous M-rated outdoor hunting games that encourage over-aged gamers to shoot their partners in the face, then blame "hunter's tunnel vision" for their own carelessness.
So you're saying that bad people don't exist in canada?
Well, let's put it this way: Listen to each of the following:
Sicilian Mafia
Chicago mafia
Russian Mafia
Japanese Mafia (Yakuza)*
Canadian Mafia
Which of the preceding would strike fear into your heart?
"Sorry, buddy, but we're like gonna have to break yer legs, eh?"
...Or just never get voted into office?
Certainly they do. Brian Mulroney, for example, would have sold his mother for profit if he had had the chance, but he only took his head out of Ronald Reagan's butt long enough to give billions to Quebec and double the national debt. He never ordered anyone's legs broken, though.
* Okay, they're not technically Mafia, but neither are the Russians.
...one has to wonder what this politician would have done if he'd been able to track him down.
This is Canada we're talking about, not some right-wing police state like, um... well, the USA.
Besides, we'll find out eventually. If the site was put up by a 'real' person, he'll come out right away and complain about a politician abusing his power to censor political satire. If it was (as I suspect) some Tory backbencher out to smear the Liberals any way he can, we won't hear about it for a while longer.
...they should be able to ask to see the log that says that Rack 0016 blade number 32 is "example.com".
But that's the point. They obviously didn't bring anyone along who knew how to open a console and check a log. And apparently they didn't order one of the techs to show them the log/directory--or the techs refused to do so. (I haven't seen the video, because "The Police Bay" seemed to have been slashdotted when I checked. The seizure video was listed as one of the top torrents, but I couldn't retrieve it.)
Thank you for that detailed explanation of your dissenting viewpoint.
However, maybe I should clarify my statement: There is no reason why any ordinary Canadian citizen would feel the need to hide his identity when publishing legitimate satire about a Canadian politician.
The whole point is moot, though, since it was not anonymity that brought the site down, but potential defamation. That is bullshit, because satire is protected speech. If it stops being protected, anyone who lampooned Pierre Trudeau, Brian Mulroney, or Jean Chretien (to name several favourite targets) is in big trouble.
The warrant was for seizing the servers hosting TPB; any seizure exceeding that was outside the scope of the warrant...
Well, that's the problem, isn't it? I wonder if they expected to walk in and find a bunch of server racks, neatly separated, with big signs on top of them proclaiming which companies were hosted on which servers.
...or maybe they figured the pirate servers would have jolly roger flags on the console screens?
At this point, it's pretty clear that the dinosaur extinction was caused by an asteroid/comet impact.
No, it's not. It's pretty clear that there was a significant impact that coincided with the decline of the dinosaurs, but coincidence is not the same as causality.
The asteroid did not cause the continents to continue their drift, widening the gap that would become the Atlantic Ocean. It did not cause the drainage of the shallow inland seas that enhanced a dinosaur-friendly climate. The asteroid did accelerate the extinction of the dinosaurs, but it did not cause it.
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Point taken, 'pretender' comment withdrawn.
'MacSnob' comment still stands.
Whaaa...?
What does storybytes.com have to do with clarus.com? Whatever, here's the Google search result for Clarus.
I think patch days like today are an indication that XP will never be "patched and secure." And probably, neither will Vista.
But if you're switching to Mac, beware of the purists who seem to think Mac use is a royal privelege or something.
Holy crap! Watch your step getting off that horse; it's a high one!
When my current PC outlives its usefulness, I'll be a "switcher" too. And look out, because there are going to be a lot of us pretty soon. Whether we meet you high, exacting standards is moot. Thanks to current Windows trends, Mac is about to become a lot more popular.
And I guess MacSnobs wouldn't know Clarus from Claris. Maybe the word of the day is Pretender .
Funny, but you'll note I said a non-meat snack.
Last time I was in school, an instructor suggested a performance enhancing drug to take before writing an exam, of sitting down at home to write up an assignment. Since then I've had great results from taking this miracle drug when studying.
The drug is simply a protein-rich, non-meat snack. A handful of nuts, a protein bar, some yogurt; anything along those lines will increase your mental focus. Meat isn't good because the fat counteracts the effects of the protein.
Keep in mind, this is from someone whose mental focus is pretty good to start with, as long as I eat a generally healthy diet. For anyone with a serious learning disorder, drugs may be required on top of a healthy diet and exercise regimen.
After reading that comment, I don't know whether my brain needs bleaching or un-twisting...
They're not quite dead yet.
They think they'll go for a walk.
They feel happy...
I already pay $20 for a pack of AAA NiMH batteries that last me for years.
Good question, but not quite the right one. Most of the time you wait for your computer isn't the hard drive spinning up, but the OS transferring information from the hard drive to RAM (and to other parts of the hard drive). Flash RAM will do this faster because it won't have to wait for the HD's heads to access a particular part of the spinning drive, but it will still take time.
We'll never have the same instant-on response that we had with our Commodore 64's!
Have you copyrighted and DRM'd that line, or can I steal it as a forum sig line?
"$2.50 a gallon?! I'd have to work a week to fill my tank! What? You make how much?"
I think the value of the dollar would be one of the most shocking things someone from the '20s would notice. Back then, $25,000 a year was a nice executive salary, not what a retail clerk would make.
And if anything, they would be shocked at the lack of expected technological advances. "Where's your flying car? You were supposed to have them in 1999! And where are the moon colonies? Eighty years and all you've come up with was an itty-bitty wireless telegraph?!"
Read the section number again, and you'll see why computer geeks assume it cannot be found. :)
99% of computer geeks can't find that section.
/obligatory
The [p] tag works normally if you close the previous paragraph with a [/p] (which has been the preferred way to close a paragraph for several years, although unclosed paragraphs still work for the most part.
He's obviously a gamer; gaming for actual game.
I guess we need to pass laws against these dangerous M-rated outdoor hunting games that encourage over-aged gamers to shoot their partners in the face, then blame "hunter's tunnel vision" for their own carelessness.
Well, let's put it this way: Listen to each of the following:
Which of the preceding would strike fear into your heart?
"Sorry, buddy, but we're like gonna have to break yer legs, eh?"
Certainly they do. Brian Mulroney, for example, would have sold his mother for profit if he had had the chance, but he only took his head out of Ronald Reagan's butt long enough to give billions to Quebec and double the national debt. He never ordered anyone's legs broken, though.
* Okay, they're not technically Mafia, but neither are the Russians.
This is Canada we're talking about, not some right-wing police state like, um... well, the USA.
Besides, we'll find out eventually. If the site was put up by a 'real' person, he'll come out right away and complain about a politician abusing his power to censor political satire. If it was (as I suspect) some Tory backbencher out to smear the Liberals any way he can, we won't hear about it for a while longer.
But that's the point. They obviously didn't bring anyone along who knew how to open a console and check a log. And apparently they didn't order one of the techs to show them the log/directory--or the techs refused to do so. (I haven't seen the video, because "The Police Bay" seemed to have been slashdotted when I checked. The seizure video was listed as one of the top torrents, but I couldn't retrieve it.)
My posture is usually leaning to one side so I can check out female co-workers' butts as they go by, and give whistles and cat-calls to the hot ones.
So I guess I don't have a PC posture.
...the WTO joins YOU!
Thank you for that detailed explanation of your dissenting viewpoint.
However, maybe I should clarify my statement: There is no reason why any ordinary Canadian citizen would feel the need to hide his identity when publishing legitimate satire about a Canadian politician.
The whole point is moot, though, since it was not anonymity that brought the site down, but potential defamation. That is bullshit, because satire is protected speech. If it stops being protected, anyone who lampooned Pierre Trudeau, Brian Mulroney, or Jean Chretien (to name several favourite targets) is in big trouble.
Well, that's the problem, isn't it? I wonder if they expected to walk in and find a bunch of server racks, neatly separated, with big signs on top of them proclaiming which companies were hosted on which servers.
...or maybe they figured the pirate servers would have jolly roger flags on the console screens?
No, it's not. It's pretty clear that there was a significant impact that coincided with the decline of the dinosaurs, but coincidence is not the same as causality.
The asteroid did not cause the continents to continue their drift, widening the gap that would become the Atlantic Ocean. It did not cause the drainage of the shallow inland seas that enhanced a dinosaur-friendly climate. The asteroid did accelerate the extinction of the dinosaurs, but it did not cause it.
Oops, please disregard. Just read down some more.