Puerto Rico. Its a psuedo-US territory without the taxes. 3rd world people in a 1st world country (a quote from a native PRian whom I am friends with). I spent a summer there, has all the benefits of America, but all the high energy internation drugs/crime you'd expect from a modern country. I loved it, but then again, I am not passive and do not want the government to watch out for me 24/7. I am sorta serious with this, I love America, it is the best place I can think of to live for they way I wish to live, and that is what is important. Say for example in China, you really think the Chinese government watches over 1.2 billion peoples shoulders? Hell no. I would say the 700 million deep interior Chinese could almost give a shit about their governments abuse of humans right, if they even know about it. They don't have the same psuedo-freedom of press as we do here.
But deferring makes it sound like they are going to take it away from the winner, and will no doubt cause mass confusion. But if it was set up to allow the seller to mark multiple quanitity for runner ups and specify how many (or if the winner wants multiple, but not Dutch levels),etc. Good idea man, better go patentent.
Ok, I have to point out a technical problem with Amazon's list. I can almost gaurantee most of us have not read the great masterworks of human history, even the more popular ones like the Iliad. And to take into account books did not achieve their true status until say the 1800's amungst the common folk means you really only have 200 years of a serious story telling book industry to base this off of. Books from pre-incabula to the Industrial revolution were generally religious/scientific/medicinal in nature. Minus global exceptions like the Bible/Greek poems/etc, what was the last book of scribal origin you read that you can thinking of:) Not knocking readers as well, you can only read so much in one lifetime buy come on Amazon, what is with those (and the music/movie) lists! Talk about skew. J.K. Rowling over Shakespere, get real. You should have added a fad filter. Not knocking his work personally, but he only struck a nerve with kids and became famous over it. You get the point.
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There is no great difference between the two prorgams anywhere that I have seen other then the details of what is taught, for example encryption. You probably don't have that in CIS, but at the same time how often do CS majors use it? Not often. When it comes to making money right off the bat, if you don't get a great research of decent programming job you are going to make the same, doing CIS style tasks. Personally, I used to be a computer science and telecommunications major, but moved to history. Why? One was personal against those previous departments. But what pushed me over the edge was, while I love math, I suck at it, I will be honest, and it was killing me. Plus a liberal arts major and two tech minors look damn good on a resume. My job is a computer engineer, and I make more then all but maybe two friends I can think of off hand. So to consolidate, unless you truly push the programming/research angle of your CS degree, your going to end up doing the jobs of CIS students anyway, IT management, sysadm, webdev, etc.
But you must realize something here. Unless its an extreme case, nothing moniterily is taken or damaged, and no physical good is stolen. I am not defending data theft, just saying there is a difference if someone lifts my pRon and resume as compared to someone ripping out my harddrive or taking my whole computer.
Ugh, ok, lets not even think of terms of hacking, you take your one boat (and sorry, rowboats is a bit brutual when discussin sun servers, they are fairly nice.) But when um a natural disaster, oh say, a large storm knocks a wall on your one box, tell me you would have rather had a couple sites of equal, load-balanced, and mirrored servers then, especially when dealing with "800,000" accounts.
You and sirwired have the same flaw, "provided security is good enough". I know how the unit is made. I was just saying, don't put all your eggs in one basket, no matter how disjoined and reliable the basket is.
Sorry, but if I was running *any* serious company, I would load-balance across multiple machines, not just one big one. Seems to be asking for trouble if you ask me. One good hacker on one box......
I am sorry, but this is complete BS man. He would not lose. Remember, popular vote was on his side, and most people now are not bitching about him wanting a recount, rather just to have a president-elect, period. And speaking of fraud, I am sorry, this was a close election, but the fact is, out of 10 of millions of votes, that with each recount, Gore has come closer and closer to over taking Bush, and that is a fact that you can not deny. Gore never said do not recount the military votes, FL law says they can't be. I am sorry, but since you within 600 or so votes now, seems to me that Jeb forced a nursing home to go vote:) j/k. Don't get me wrong, things are close, and I would have expected the Republicans to have done the same thing if it were the other way around. But really, before you open your mouth think of what your saying. Gore hasn't lost anything, and the only things that have been definitive so far is, Gore *won* the popular vote, and that with every recount, he gets closer. Hell if they redid Dade county alone I think he would over take Bush by quite a large margin (in terms of the few hundred or thousand that have made the difference so far).
(joking here)
My last semester of college is coming up, and one class I have to take is Spanish (4th semester of). Now I can't speak for everyone, but I have been damn good in school all my life, except for one notible exception, spanish. Why? I think quite simply I do not use it enough. Plain and simple. So with that said, I hope the growth of the net over the holiday season leads to its destruction so I do not have to take it in the spring semester and run the risk of not being able to graduate:)
FUD. I am sorry, but my clients and users do not wake up and go, ah Bill Gates is the founder of the OS. Lets get real here man. KT made great contributions granted, but Windows has not faded since day one, so give it some credit, even if its because of marketing. But really. if you unix zealots were so damn interested in getting Windows destoyed, make unix useable for the common user. I am sorry, as nice as GNOME and KDE are (to me anyway), thats not going to cut it by a long shot, there is many things left to do.
There is a slight flaw to your arugment here. I agree with you, but you omit the fact developing on a new system does not mean writing to the metal. In fact, very rarely (contrary to what every game development article would have you believe) do people write games in assembly or machine code, but maybe tweak the occassional function. The problem is the support from the hardware/system manuacturers. They essentially force the developer to make many incorrect guesses as to how to optimize code, making their lives difficult. And of course, the development tools (if you use theirs, which I am sure to an extent you do) are not mature enough initially to handle what the average consumer assumes the system can do at launch time. Anyway, again you have a good point, but the tools to be more mature, and the system developers need to get the information out in an orderly fashion to facilitate 3rd party development.
This is incorrect. 6 fingers are not mutant, in fact 5 are. However during the development process the sixth digit is suppressed, and hence the majority have 5 digits.
You are right, but only to an extent. The Master System came in various combinations (ie packaged with different games). So as to which one was truly first is sort of well, relative to what package was released where you lived. I had the Hang On/Safari Hunt package thought.
Its not only the sentimentality......finding such a large and complete collection is actually quite hard. I have been casually looking for Strider for Genesis for years, literally. Sure, I could have spent a few moments and tracked it online, paid a high price and had it in a few days, but even freaks have limits. But a few days ago (I am 22, wanted it since hell, like I was 12 or whenever it came out) I found it for 12 dollars, and go it. Try doing that with this guys collection.
As for it being his first, well shit happens and maybe this is the easiest way for him to offload the collection as a whole.....but I see your point.
However, as for mint, you are right, having collected games over the decades, I have found caring for all the packaging a monster chore. You will be amazed what your family and friends will just randomly do to your stuff, like throwing away your styrofom paackaging and then collapsing your boxes when your away to save room! I could have cried.....
In a museam? Forget that! My own personal collection over the years is greater then this one, but I couldn't imagine parting with it. Even today with comp games taking up more of my time, I play Starcraft on BN before I go to bed and warm up next to my Sega Nomad and play ESWAT, or my newly aquired Strider:)
I recent got the email about the paying client, and of course was like, finally! So I went and downloaded it and installed it, and initially realized my client was running Gamma Flux and not CSC. So I went to the Dcypher page and realized CSC is closed, yes the free one, Gamma Flux is still open. Then this morning I realized neither one of these are the pay client, and its this web checking biz.
So my point is, that warning they emailed is a complete sham to get more people beta testing their other client software. So do yourself a favor and give your cycles to SETI, or *anything* else.
How arrogant is/.? Seriously, you think Gore woke up and said "Oh I need to cater to Taco and Katz this morning since their vote is more important then the rest". Voting is very important, and of course to get votes you have to cater to the public, just because Gore had a semi-frank discussion on eTopics (tm) does not mean that he is trying to sweeten/. readers up, but all techies.
Actually, couldn't people have their own scanner, with their ID info in it (say its initialized upon opening the unit with a quick retinal and finger print scan. So this way, if stolen, it would be useless.
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"interrupted the intrusion " It does not say nor imply it stopped it, interrupted it rather. READ READ READ!
Puerto Rico. Its a psuedo-US territory without the taxes. 3rd world people in a 1st world country (a quote from a native PRian whom I am friends with). I spent a summer there, has all the benefits of America, but all the high energy internation drugs/crime you'd expect from a modern country. I loved it, but then again, I am not passive and do not want the government to watch out for me 24/7. I am sorta serious with this, I love America, it is the best place I can think of to live for they way I wish to live, and that is what is important. Say for example in China, you really think the Chinese government watches over 1.2 billion peoples shoulders? Hell no. I would say the 700 million deep interior Chinese could almost give a shit about their governments abuse of humans right, if they even know about it. They don't have the same psuedo-freedom of press as we do here.
But deferring makes it sound like they are going to take it away from the winner, and will no doubt cause mass confusion. But if it was set up to allow the seller to mark multiple quanitity for runner ups and specify how many (or if the winner wants multiple, but not Dutch levels),etc. Good idea man, better go patentent.
Like I said to another post about this, my mistake, sorry.
I was thinking translations since the Renaissance. But I guess we shouldn't be to technical with BSB over Beethoven in the other list :)
I have, you have.........I said most, and I am almost certain that generalization is correct, sorry.
I never thought about that, opps. My mistake, sorry.
Ok, I have to point out a technical problem with Amazon's list. I can almost gaurantee most of us have not read the great masterworks of human history, even the more popular ones like the Iliad. And to take into account books did not achieve their true status until say the 1800's amungst the common folk means you really only have 200 years of a serious story telling book industry to base this off of. Books from pre-incabula to the Industrial revolution were generally religious/scientific/medicinal in nature. Minus global exceptions like the Bible/Greek poems/etc, what was the last book of scribal origin you read that you can thinking of :) Not knocking readers as well, you can only read so much in one lifetime buy come on Amazon, what is with those (and the music/movie) lists! Talk about skew. J.K. Rowling over Shakespere, get real. You should have added a fad filter. Not knocking his work personally, but he only struck a nerve with kids and became famous over it. You get the point.
There is no great difference between the two prorgams anywhere that I have seen other then the details of what is taught, for example encryption. You probably don't have that in CIS, but at the same time how often do CS majors use it? Not often. When it comes to making money right off the bat, if you don't get a great research of decent programming job you are going to make the same, doing CIS style tasks. Personally, I used to be a computer science and telecommunications major, but moved to history. Why? One was personal against those previous departments. But what pushed me over the edge was, while I love math, I suck at it, I will be honest, and it was killing me. Plus a liberal arts major and two tech minors look damn good on a resume. My job is a computer engineer, and I make more then all but maybe two friends I can think of off hand. So to consolidate, unless you truly push the programming/research angle of your CS degree, your going to end up doing the jobs of CIS students anyway, IT management, sysadm, webdev, etc.
But you must realize something here. Unless its an extreme case, nothing moniterily is taken or damaged, and no physical good is stolen. I am not defending data theft, just saying there is a difference if someone lifts my pRon and resume as compared to someone ripping out my harddrive or taking my whole computer.
Ugh, ok, lets not even think of terms of hacking, you take your one boat (and sorry, rowboats is a bit brutual when discussin sun servers, they are fairly nice.) But when um a natural disaster, oh say, a large storm knocks a wall on your one box, tell me you would have rather had a couple sites of equal, load-balanced, and mirrored servers then, especially when dealing with "800,000" accounts.
You and sirwired have the same flaw, "provided security is good enough". I know how the unit is made. I was just saying, don't put all your eggs in one basket, no matter how disjoined and reliable the basket is.
Sorry, but if I was running *any* serious company, I would load-balance across multiple machines, not just one big one. Seems to be asking for trouble if you ask me. One good hacker on one box......
I am sorry, but this is complete BS man. He would not lose. Remember, popular vote was on his side, and most people now are not bitching about him wanting a recount, rather just to have a president-elect, period. And speaking of fraud, I am sorry, this was a close election, but the fact is, out of 10 of millions of votes, that with each recount, Gore has come closer and closer to over taking Bush, and that is a fact that you can not deny. Gore never said do not recount the military votes, FL law says they can't be. I am sorry, but since you within 600 or so votes now, seems to me that Jeb forced a nursing home to go vote :) j/k. Don't get me wrong, things are close, and I would have expected the Republicans to have done the same thing if it were the other way around. But really, before you open your mouth think of what your saying. Gore hasn't lost anything, and the only things that have been definitive so far is, Gore *won* the popular vote, and that with every recount, he gets closer. Hell if they redid Dade county alone I think he would over take Bush by quite a large margin (in terms of the few hundred or thousand that have made the difference so far).
(joking here) My last semester of college is coming up, and one class I have to take is Spanish (4th semester of). Now I can't speak for everyone, but I have been damn good in school all my life, except for one notible exception, spanish. Why? I think quite simply I do not use it enough. Plain and simple. So with that said, I hope the growth of the net over the holiday season leads to its destruction so I do not have to take it in the spring semester and run the risk of not being able to graduate :)
FUD. I am sorry, but my clients and users do not wake up and go, ah Bill Gates is the founder of the OS. Lets get real here man. KT made great contributions granted, but Windows has not faded since day one, so give it some credit, even if its because of marketing. But really. if you unix zealots were so damn interested in getting Windows destoyed, make unix useable for the common user. I am sorry, as nice as GNOME and KDE are (to me anyway), thats not going to cut it by a long shot, there is many things left to do.
There is a slight flaw to your arugment here. I agree with you, but you omit the fact developing on a new system does not mean writing to the metal. In fact, very rarely (contrary to what every game development article would have you believe) do people write games in assembly or machine code, but maybe tweak the occassional function. The problem is the support from the hardware/system manuacturers. They essentially force the developer to make many incorrect guesses as to how to optimize code, making their lives difficult. And of course, the development tools (if you use theirs, which I am sure to an extent you do) are not mature enough initially to handle what the average consumer assumes the system can do at launch time. Anyway, again you have a good point, but the tools to be more mature, and the system developers need to get the information out in an orderly fashion to facilitate 3rd party development.
This is incorrect. 6 fingers are not mutant, in fact 5 are. However during the development process the sixth digit is suppressed, and hence the majority have 5 digits.
You are right, but only to an extent. The Master System came in various combinations (ie packaged with different games). So as to which one was truly first is sort of well, relative to what package was released where you lived. I had the Hang On/Safari Hunt package thought.
Its not only the sentimentality......finding such a large and complete collection is actually quite hard. I have been casually looking for Strider for Genesis for years, literally. Sure, I could have spent a few moments and tracked it online, paid a high price and had it in a few days, but even freaks have limits. But a few days ago (I am 22, wanted it since hell, like I was 12 or whenever it came out) I found it for 12 dollars, and go it. Try doing that with this guys collection.
As for it being his first, well shit happens and maybe this is the easiest way for him to offload the collection as a whole.....but I see your point. However, as for mint, you are right, having collected games over the decades, I have found caring for all the packaging a monster chore. You will be amazed what your family and friends will just randomly do to your stuff, like throwing away your styrofom paackaging and then collapsing your boxes when your away to save room! I could have cried.....
In a museam? Forget that! My own personal collection over the years is greater then this one, but I couldn't imagine parting with it. Even today with comp games taking up more of my time, I play Starcraft on BN before I go to bed and warm up next to my Sega Nomad and play ESWAT, or my newly aquired Strider :)
I recent got the email about the paying client, and of course was like, finally! So I went and downloaded it and installed it, and initially realized my client was running Gamma Flux and not CSC. So I went to the Dcypher page and realized CSC is closed, yes the free one, Gamma Flux is still open. Then this morning I realized neither one of these are the pay client, and its this web checking biz. So my point is, that warning they emailed is a complete sham to get more people beta testing their other client software. So do yourself a favor and give your cycles to SETI, or *anything* else.
How arrogant is /.? Seriously, you think Gore woke up and said "Oh I need to cater to Taco and Katz this morning since their vote is more important then the rest". Voting is very important, and of course to get votes you have to cater to the public, just because Gore had a semi-frank discussion on eTopics (tm) does not mean that he is trying to sweeten /. readers up, but all techies.
Actually, couldn't people have their own scanner, with their ID info in it (say its initialized upon opening the unit with a quick retinal and finger print scan. So this way, if stolen, it would be useless.