Yep. We need to stop flying completely. Limit automobile usage. And implement inner city electric subways and intercity electric trains. If it's got a rail you can power it. We just need a good buzz word to get the whole exchange started, and the sheep will fall in line with the progress desired by those with minds.
You could stop the burning of fossil fuels you mentioned by using electric powered mining and construction equipment. H2 cells maybe? I agree with you on nuclear fission not being the best option. Fusion!:) It's technically the base for all our energy we use today, even oil and coal. Those were created from heat from the sun. We just don't have any dinosaurs around to kill, so we gotta stop using oil sometime.
I've always wonder how the activist groups got by with that crap. They're not human. They don't have human rights. You just can't treat an animal "inhumanely" since you shouldn't be giving it "humane" treatment. Til the mice start paying taxes, they're fair game.
Your mention of the patent/copyright system made me recall a thought I had a few days ago. You think a Greek philosopher rolls in his grave everytime his god names are used without his permission?
You could offer them a hosts file that'd block most that garbage. But that'd take money away from your business. Your dialup customers would love you for it though. The hosts file on my firewall/router/fileserver has 10148 lines in it now (I can send it to you if you'd like). That many somestimes makes a windows box crap itself unfortunately.
You're a dipshit. Don't blame Bush for the budget that both houses of Congress created and approved. Blame those 535 morons first. Write your congresscritters a simple note saying "No pork next year please."
Fundamental mistakes? Like? Oh like possibly letting Iran develop nuclear weapons that they might use on Israel and then we'd use on them, then Russia on us and so forth. Yeah, that technology stuff is great. Or were you thinking of something else?
They're not going to the asteroids cause there's more important stuff to do? They need to go blow those things up. Good going NASA. We're all going to die now.
While reading, I was thinking exactly about Asterisk. Didn't know if it would do this though (I have 0 use for conference calls, or a land line for that matter). But I do know it's a great project to support. Mainly because its originator Mark Spencer is one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet with his amount of coding talent. I know, I used to work at Digium.
Ok, so your union sucks. Lots of them do. Those unions aren't good now and they weren't good in the 50's. Are you further active in it in any way other than complaining about them on slashdot? Do you participate in elections at your local? Do you ever run in those elections to try and promote logical influence on the larger whole? There are obviously enough benefits from your union or else you and every other member would stop paying dues until they changed their practices. When people get screwed by corporations, they gather to form a union and protest. When people get screwed by unions, you gather to form a better union and protest.
Anyone got some freaking mod points for this guy/gal? If I did they'd get it from me, cause I don't have a clue how someone that thinks your typical laborer makes $90K a year gets a +2, Insightful for their FUD opinion while someone with an actual brain doesn't have any yet. Unions have helped the US's industry parts substantially for the greater part of the last 80 years. Very few of them have a negative effect on their fields. Teacher's Unions come to mind. But it's not the fact that they have a union that's bad, it's the things that union tries to do. As for the government not caring, I disagree with the sole example of OSHA. It's a huge agency that doesn't screw around when it comes to their rules and gets a lot done. Hmm, I see why the grandparent got up moderated, they took a shot at Bush's staff. While having no clue where we'd be without unions helping bring a balance to rights and wealth.
So block connections to the typical trouble networks. I thought it was pretty crappy not being able to connect to freenode for a year. They did plenty of things to students' private property that I considered intrusive. Basically when signing up to get access to the university LAN you signed a waiver stating the computer was considered property of the school while it was connected to the LAN. Then they forced an outdated set of windows updates (from a "patches CD") and blocked windows updates after that. Their patches CD also installed a crappy antivirus package that was a huge resource hog and only got the updates they wanted it to when they got around to it, not updates put out by the maintaners. And to finally have internet capabilities the user had to log into a java based app that died every few hours (unless you killed one of the processes it spawned within a few seconds of it being created). Their solution to people using napster was to make the network so impossible to use that it forced many students to turn to dialup. I know there were plenty of abusive users. Most become one without ever knowing it. They're the same people that ask "Hey, can you take a look at why my computer is having popups all the time. One sec, lemme close all the stuff I opened to this free porn site I found first to show you which windows I don't want."
But I didn't originally post to consider their policies nazish. More that the network admins were incompetent. 80% availibility, QoS speeds making no sense (and no one noticed for months), buying uncessary hardware that didn't solve anything except adding a sketchy WAN (that they were nazish about letting people use, 1 PC per student policy... And that boiled down to 1 MAC per student. So if you happened to have a laptop with wireless and a desktop you had to choose which you wanted internet on and weren't allowed to run NAT. And if you ever changed your mind which you wanted to have internet right then you lost it on both machines until a 6 or 12 o'clock am or pm when server scripts run and it'd turn on access to the new MAC requested).
IMO, a really good hosts file on their DNS would have fixed 90% of that network's problems. And if for some reason there were a small group of students that required legitimate access for class to any blocked sites they could have a secondary not so restrictive DNS they could be pointed to.
Oh, and like I said, they didn't put that bandwidth cap in place til 2004. Way after the "evil napster". Back in 99-00 they didn't really care about napster. If they want to cap it to save money, that's fine... IMO they took it a little too far, but still don't tout 12KB/s as broadband speed to me or anyone else (they did, not saying you) simply because it's a bit greater than dialup.
Ha, that'd be the best. "I'm going to have to take this one with me to the lab to disinfect." Next day in class, "I found this big hole... no, not Windows this time, it's called doorways."
They wouldn't just suspend them. They're auto enrolled in classes controlled by that "Student Dean of Corrections". I'm guessing "time out" for 55 minutes a day 3 days a week.
I think many of us find that hard to believe. Care to post the pictures for proof? Typical person would have snapped shots of the guards before running off, so let's see those too.
Reasons like wanting an organized and working network? Feel like giving my old university a call sometime? They used to have a network that was up only about 80% of the time. Then they went and bragged about having the latest and greatest of Cisco brand routers and switches (latest meaning beta versions that had garbage buggy firmware) 2 summers ago. Supposedly they spent about #500,000 upgrading a network that still runs 10mbit hubs. Their "solution" was throwing away over a thousand class A IPs and setting up a VPN and blocking almost all traffic, including IRC. IRC being the reason I mention blocking traffic. I completely understand wanting to block kazaa and all other P2P software. Their new QoS policy was 105kbit/s down per student and 105kbyte/s up per student. I simply couldn't agree with you more about many of those in universities just not having a clue. No, those speeds are not a typo on my behalf. I always assumed they were a typo on whoever configured the firewall's/router's behalf. Either that or serious miscommunication (and then fear to ask for clarification) between the uni's president and computer network services (CNS).
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Because it's easier on the programmers to just go over the top of what the last person did to get the latest and greatest "shock value" out of the buyer instead of actually being creative and innovative. But yeah, unfortunately it seems you get the choices of violent content, sexual content or kiddie content with hardly any middle ground. It may lead to off-topicness, but some of the hardcore gamers on here might have suggestions for you if you have an age range. I found more expensive (more money wasteful) hobbies than video games years ago... first Jeeps, then saltwater aquariums.
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"All of them". Um ok, great specific example of a game "I might have played.". So instead of aliens Nintendo wanted its customers to kill koopas and dragons. I never felt Mario and Luigi were cutesy. Metroid? Oh, wait, those are aliens, so it passes. Zelda? Hero saves the princess by defeating a wizard pig. Jaws? Megaman? Iron Sword? Hogan's Alley? Tetris maybe. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles maybe... but still... They're mutated!:) and that's gotta count for something. One game I'd consider "cute" that I spent hours playing as a child (with my mom even, she loved it more than I did) is Bubble Bobble.
I guess you'd consider anything with an animal in it as cute. That'd even rule out the alien game I listen since the metroids were basically jellyfish inspired.
Nonetheless, I listed just a few "successful" titles that I still own that brought a company likely close to a billion dollars in revenue when combined (also including the cost to purchase the NES).
My point is, Nintendo released many titles that didn't fall under the cute category and sold them to masses, but kudos to them for also paying attention to the sector of buyers that wanted the "cutesy" games.
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Actually there have been recent studies showing giving children video games wasn't all that irresponsible. Students who have "learned" how to play video games are more capable of performing multiple tasks at once and are also better at blocking out distractions while trying to concentrate on a singular task, like say a test at school.
Blah, I can't find any articles to this study. "video games concentration" just simply spits out too many results for the game concentration and adding in "study" to the search easily comes up with an old study from 2002 stating the opposite., but the one I'd seen on TV news is only 1-2 months old.
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Which of their successful games would you call "cutesy"?
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Yep. We need to stop flying completely. Limit automobile usage. And implement inner city electric subways and intercity electric trains. If it's got a rail you can power it. We just need a good buzz word to get the whole exchange started, and the sheep will fall in line with the progress desired by those with minds.
You could stop the burning of fossil fuels you mentioned by using electric powered mining and construction equipment. H2 cells maybe? I agree with you on nuclear fission not being the best option. Fusion! :) It's technically the base for all our energy we use today, even oil and coal. Those were created from heat from the sun. We just don't have any dinosaurs around to kill, so we gotta stop using oil sometime.
"Oh but what about all the waste from the batteries"... I hate that typical response to your opinion/suggestion. Duh, recycle them into *gasp* new batteries. I just wanted to chip in that my current ideal world (until we have those transporter thingies) would be absolutely covered with maglev train routes and hubs for them. Soon as we make them go 500mph or so we get rid of the planes. The government is just sitting on its ass. Fun and interesting linkages: http://www.evworld.com/images/US_highspeed_railcor ridors.jpg
http://www.nlr.net/images/NLR-Map-large.jpg
http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/mag netrain.html
I've always wonder how the activist groups got by with that crap. They're not human. They don't have human rights. You just can't treat an animal "inhumanely" since you shouldn't be giving it "humane" treatment. Til the mice start paying taxes, they're fair game.
Your mention of the patent/copyright system made me recall a thought I had a few days ago. You think a Greek philosopher rolls in his grave everytime his god names are used without his permission?
You could offer them a hosts file that'd block most that garbage. But that'd take money away from your business. Your dialup customers would love you for it though. The hosts file on my firewall/router/fileserver has 10148 lines in it now (I can send it to you if you'd like). That many somestimes makes a windows box crap itself unfortunately.
If you knew my friends... and judging from your sig you might. Or did you mean the GP?
ONLY 20%? There's your counter argument :-p. I'd call about 20% of the internet useful.
You're a dipshit. Don't blame Bush for the budget that both houses of Congress created and approved. Blame those 535 morons first. Write your congresscritters a simple note saying "No pork next year please."
Fundamental mistakes? Like? Oh like possibly letting Iran develop nuclear weapons that they might use on Israel and then we'd use on them, then Russia on us and so forth. Yeah, that technology stuff is great. Or were you thinking of something else?
But at least he/she understands capitalism. Where money is more important than even human life.
pray a more civilised nation beats you into space.
And who is that more civilized nation? You, sir or madam, are the troll.They're not going to the asteroids cause there's more important stuff to do? They need to go blow those things up. Good going NASA. We're all going to die now.
While reading, I was thinking exactly about Asterisk. Didn't know if it would do this though (I have 0 use for conference calls, or a land line for that matter). But I do know it's a great project to support. Mainly because its originator Mark Spencer is one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet with his amount of coding talent. I know, I used to work at Digium.
Ok, so your union sucks. Lots of them do. Those unions aren't good now and they weren't good in the 50's. Are you further active in it in any way other than complaining about them on slashdot? Do you participate in elections at your local? Do you ever run in those elections to try and promote logical influence on the larger whole? There are obviously enough benefits from your union or else you and every other member would stop paying dues until they changed their practices. When people get screwed by corporations, they gather to form a union and protest. When people get screwed by unions, you gather to form a better union and protest.
Anyone got some freaking mod points for this guy/gal? If I did they'd get it from me, cause I don't have a clue how someone that thinks your typical laborer makes $90K a year gets a +2, Insightful for their FUD opinion while someone with an actual brain doesn't have any yet. Unions have helped the US's industry parts substantially for the greater part of the last 80 years. Very few of them have a negative effect on their fields. Teacher's Unions come to mind. But it's not the fact that they have a union that's bad, it's the things that union tries to do. As for the government not caring, I disagree with the sole example of OSHA. It's a huge agency that doesn't screw around when it comes to their rules and gets a lot done. Hmm, I see why the grandparent got up moderated, they took a shot at Bush's staff. While having no clue where we'd be without unions helping bring a balance to rights and wealth.
So block connections to the typical trouble networks. I thought it was pretty crappy not being able to connect to freenode for a year. They did plenty of things to students' private property that I considered intrusive. Basically when signing up to get access to the university LAN you signed a waiver stating the computer was considered property of the school while it was connected to the LAN. Then they forced an outdated set of windows updates (from a "patches CD") and blocked windows updates after that. Their patches CD also installed a crappy antivirus package that was a huge resource hog and only got the updates they wanted it to when they got around to it, not updates put out by the maintaners. And to finally have internet capabilities the user had to log into a java based app that died every few hours (unless you killed one of the processes it spawned within a few seconds of it being created). Their solution to people using napster was to make the network so impossible to use that it forced many students to turn to dialup. I know there were plenty of abusive users. Most become one without ever knowing it. They're the same people that ask "Hey, can you take a look at why my computer is having popups all the time. One sec, lemme close all the stuff I opened to this free porn site I found first to show you which windows I don't want."
But I didn't originally post to consider their policies nazish. More that the network admins were incompetent. 80% availibility, QoS speeds making no sense (and no one noticed for months), buying uncessary hardware that didn't solve anything except adding a sketchy WAN (that they were nazish about letting people use, 1 PC per student policy... And that boiled down to 1 MAC per student. So if you happened to have a laptop with wireless and a desktop you had to choose which you wanted internet on and weren't allowed to run NAT. And if you ever changed your mind which you wanted to have internet right then you lost it on both machines until a 6 or 12 o'clock am or pm when server scripts run and it'd turn on access to the new MAC requested).
IMO, a really good hosts file on their DNS would have fixed 90% of that network's problems. And if for some reason there were a small group of students that required legitimate access for class to any blocked sites they could have a secondary not so restrictive DNS they could be pointed to.
Oh, and like I said, they didn't put that bandwidth cap in place til 2004. Way after the "evil napster". Back in 99-00 they didn't really care about napster. If they want to cap it to save money, that's fine... IMO they took it a little too far, but still don't tout 12KB/s as broadband speed to me or anyone else (they did, not saying you) simply because it's a bit greater than dialup.
Ha, that'd be the best. "I'm going to have to take this one with me to the lab to disinfect." Next day in class, "I found this big hole... no, not Windows this time, it's called doorways."
They wouldn't just suspend them. They're auto enrolled in classes controlled by that "Student Dean of Corrections". I'm guessing "time out" for 55 minutes a day 3 days a week.
I think many of us find that hard to believe. Care to post the pictures for proof? Typical person would have snapped shots of the guards before running off, so let's see those too.
Reasons like wanting an organized and working network? Feel like giving my old university a call sometime? They used to have a network that was up only about 80% of the time. Then they went and bragged about having the latest and greatest of Cisco brand routers and switches (latest meaning beta versions that had garbage buggy firmware) 2 summers ago. Supposedly they spent about #500,000 upgrading a network that still runs 10mbit hubs. Their "solution" was throwing away over a thousand class A IPs and setting up a VPN and blocking almost all traffic, including IRC. IRC being the reason I mention blocking traffic. I completely understand wanting to block kazaa and all other P2P software. Their new QoS policy was 105kbit/s down per student and 105kbyte/s up per student. I simply couldn't agree with you more about many of those in universities just not having a clue. No, those speeds are not a typo on my behalf. I always assumed they were a typo on whoever configured the firewall's/router's behalf. Either that or serious miscommunication (and then fear to ask for clarification) between the uni's president and computer network services (CNS).
Because it's easier on the programmers to just go over the top of what the last person did to get the latest and greatest "shock value" out of the buyer instead of actually being creative and innovative. But yeah, unfortunately it seems you get the choices of violent content, sexual content or kiddie content with hardly any middle ground. It may lead to off-topicness, but some of the hardcore gamers on here might have suggestions for you if you have an age range. I found more expensive (more money wasteful) hobbies than video games years ago... first Jeeps, then saltwater aquariums.
"All of them". Um ok, great specific example of a game "I might have played.". So instead of aliens Nintendo wanted its customers to kill koopas and dragons. I never felt Mario and Luigi were cutesy. Metroid? Oh, wait, those are aliens, so it passes. Zelda? Hero saves the princess by defeating a wizard pig. Jaws? Megaman? Iron Sword? Hogan's Alley? Tetris maybe. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles maybe... but still... They're mutated! :) and that's gotta count for something. One game I'd consider "cute" that I spent hours playing as a child (with my mom even, she loved it more than I did) is Bubble Bobble.
I guess you'd consider anything with an animal in it as cute. That'd even rule out the alien game I listen since the metroids were basically jellyfish inspired.
Nonetheless, I listed just a few "successful" titles that I still own that brought a company likely close to a billion dollars in revenue when combined (also including the cost to purchase the NES).
My point is, Nintendo released many titles that didn't fall under the cute category and sold them to masses, but kudos to them for also paying attention to the sector of buyers that wanted the "cutesy" games.
Actually there have been recent studies showing giving children video games wasn't all that irresponsible. Students who have "learned" how to play video games are more capable of performing multiple tasks at once and are also better at blocking out distractions while trying to concentrate on a singular task, like say a test at school.
Blah, I can't find any articles to this study. "video games concentration" just simply spits out too many results for the game concentration and adding in "study" to the search easily comes up with an old study from 2002 stating the opposite., but the one I'd seen on TV news is only 1-2 months old.
Which of their successful games would you call "cutesy"?