No. When 9/11, anthrax, Afghanistan and Iraq came along, I wasn't scared - because I knew enough about military and terrorist actions and weapons to correctly asses risk. I knew neither Afghanistan nor Iraqi Freedom would be as bad a Vietnam - and they aren't. Our media is full of souless fearmongers. Cars scare me to death. Why?
US population: 295,734,134
9/11 deaths: 2,986
Number killed in Iraq (DoD confirmed as of Jan. 5, 2006): 2,182 total deaths
Number killed in Afghanistan: 259
Number of people killed by anthrax attacks: 5
TOTAL TERROR RELATED AMERICAN DEATHS: 5,432
Number of murders in the US in 2003: 16,528
Americans are three times better at killing Americans than people
who are suicidally desperate to kill Americans.
Number killed in motor vehicle accidents in 2001: 42,443
Cars are eight times more deadly than terrorists.
According to Reuters on http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L30502206 .htm
"As many people die every 26 days on U.S. roads as were killed in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks"
Vietnam War deaths: 58,226
American deaths in WWII: 400,000
% of Americans killed by terrorism: 0.0018367849279109593754233320932781
TERRORISTS ARE PUSSIES CARS ARE THE REAL KILLERS
If Osama wants to be really deadly, he should learn to drive.
Yeah, I wasn't around for that, but I'm trying to keep it alive. I just naturally fell into it, and I can't imagine trying to be anyone else. This just is me... and most of what I respect. You would think this would be the culture of the future: completely unbiased (unless it comes to a "religion" like emacs), not only technically compotent but in fact infatuated with the power and possibilities of science and technology. Alas, it seems too many people are still only just beginning to appreciate computers, and forgeting the unimportant things. It will be interesting when western society reaches a point where all living generations grew up with ubiquitous computer access.
Wait, so you are criticizing AMD for being too successful to supply the demand for their product? If only most companies had that problem! I don't seriously think Intel will die anytime soon, but recently AMD has been in the lead, and Intel has yet to come up with something better. If they do, good for them, but like MS, I've been waiting a while, and not been that impressed compared to the speed of OSS development and growth.
Not really, but one can hope. It's more of a hypothetical really: "What's an AMD chip doing in a Mac? Finally something usef- um... non-game, server, or low-end related? Something pretty?"
Well, I said I _pray_ that it happens, but it will be interesting to see if Intel stops pulling crap before it's too late. They are big, but not M$. Either way, competition means I win.
Hi, my name is Jake, and I don't know why I'm here, I...
Okay! I admit it. I'm a Windows user. I just couldn't figure out how to defrag or install.exe's in Linux. I'll turn in my geek badge now.
(actually my wireless adapter is really nonstandard and won't work, buying new specifically for Linux compatibility)
Dude! Us Americans could be effing RICH! We have more fat and weight-gaining products than the rest of the world combined - surely we'll make more than enough to pay off our natl. debt.
P.S. Americans think the world revolves around us because it does! The fat of America actually creates its own gravitational field stronger than the Earth's, which means it rotates around us. This is also why we have so many anorexic people here, they weren't heavy enough to remain where they were because our gravity is stronger. Watch out, McDonald's stock is up...
but as expensive as videogames are now and are expected to become, I'd welcome some subtle advertising in games. Like anywhere where a generic ad would be to add realism to the games, a real ad would be, but no more then that. If that'll shave $10 off of a game, I'm all for it.
Who would want spyware? I spend all of my time killing it on school pcs (not on Macs...). Are companies really that interested in SpySpace, eBay, Amazon, and pr0n? Because that's what people do. Well, for me replace the first three with/., webcomics, and Wikipedia.
I think I saw this on/. somewhere: "Lie, lie, lie / about your age, gender, race / throw a monkey wrench / in their database" Genius.
On the Apple website right over the pic of the Macbook is a line reading "What's an Intel chip doing in a Mac? A lot more than it' ever done in a PC". That's pretty funny. I wonder what they'll say in 10 years when AMD has killed Intel (praying that it happens, of course)? I'd love a Mac with an Athlon and Win (games), Linux, Mac OS, and BSD all on the same machine.
just to have basics like ROMS, torrents, pr0n, and other important info, including legitimate info. Well, the only good that may come of this is a generation of 1337 h4x0rz. https://beijing999.com/https://proxify.net/https://pimpmyip.com/ proxyswitcher, etc. are your friends and filters are your enemy (because filters are freakishly ineffective at hitting their target, but good at getting everything else).
Can you really trust any studies that show up on TV or the newspaper anymore? Pr0n, weed, videogames, global warming, indooor pollution, and everything else under the sun are GOING TO KILL YOU or MAKE YOU KILL OTHERS. Jesus H. Christ! (as if people haven't killed in His name...) 40 years ago scientists were worried of global cooling. The Earth has naturally warmed and cooled many times in the past - and things died, but that's nature. We're still alive. Today's youth are, according to the FBI - the least violent generation in American history, maybe, maybe, because they are inside playing videogames? Oh, and now masturbation may prevent prostate cancer - that's what I call wanking now, cancer prevention. I really just wished people weren't so ready to believe _everything_ the media, a Nigerian email, or a politician (all parties, Libertarians too) tells them to. There's a reason what you watch on TV is called programming...
really, the only people that aren't a security risk without security disabled can easily get around it, if they need (or want...) to. The average luser will cause more problems than this security will. The key to this though, is punishment of those who circumvent security. At my school, I regularly aid even teachers in getting freemail access, around the filter, etc. They trust me because they know I'm smart enough to do this, and not do anything stupid with my 'superpowers'. Most of them are well aware that the security there is bad and the IT staff unskilled (with few exceptions) enough that if I really had ill will in my heart there's not much they could do to stop or even catch me. My cousin's school used to be like this, but then a new administrator came along and changed the rules. My cousin was found using a proxy that SOMEONE ELSE had once, A YEAR AGO, used to look at ONE pr0n site and was suspended for a week (and grounded). The biggest irony is that he used the proxy to get to a site he NEEDED for his assignment. I don't hate stupid people (everyone is stupid in some ways) but everyone hates having an idiot in charge and being unable to avoid their work. With a bad restaraunt, you can go elsewhere, with a bad leader, your options are limited (esp. when you don't get a say in determining the leader).
I knocked my P4 Northwood from 3.0 GHz up to 3.4 GHz without fancy cooling. I have a nice budget heatsink/fan ($23 when I bought it) from Vantec. My full-load CPU temp is about 67 C. With the extra gig of Corsair RAM I got for Xmas (total 1.5GB now) my system really flies. I have a 6600GT and can run HL2 on full visuals and FEAR on Medium for most things pretty well. My case is not water cooled, and I have only added one fan to the case. According to Newegg, the price difference between two processors like mine in terms of that clock increase would have been about $100. I pulled $100 out of my ass without spending more than that on cooling. That is real overclocking skill - NOTICABLY more performance WITHOUT the extra cost. I'm not an expert or anything, this was just a good overclock.
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Yeah, I know, but the coproration doesn't go to the ballots. Not like it matters.
From bash.org...
:-/
:)
flook: bugger, I accidentally printed a page of all black and now I have no ink left
Steve_Cajun: flook> practising your goth poetry then?
The RIAA/MPAA of course.
Corporations are just shy of being citizens in that they can't vote. Yet. Oh, and you can't jail them.
How did that happen? Did you meet at a Linux class? Are you marrying antivirus software?
No. When 9/11, anthrax, Afghanistan and Iraq came along, I wasn't scared - because I knew enough about military and terrorist actions and weapons to correctly asses risk. I knew neither Afghanistan nor Iraqi Freedom would be as bad a Vietnam - and they aren't. Our media is full of souless fearmongers. Cars scare me to death. Why? US population: 295,734,134 9/11 deaths: 2,986 Number killed in Iraq (DoD confirmed as of Jan. 5, 2006): 2,182 total deaths Number killed in Afghanistan: 259 Number of people killed by anthrax attacks: 5 TOTAL TERROR RELATED AMERICAN DEATHS: 5,432 Number of murders in the US in 2003: 16,528 Americans are three times better at killing Americans than people who are suicidally desperate to kill Americans. Number killed in motor vehicle accidents in 2001: 42,443 Cars are eight times more deadly than terrorists. According to Reuters on http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L30502206 .htm
"As many people die every 26 days on U.S. roads as were killed in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks"
Vietnam War deaths: 58,226
American deaths in WWII: 400,000
% of Americans killed by terrorism: 0.0018367849279109593754233320932781
TERRORISTS ARE PUSSIES CARS ARE THE REAL KILLERS
If Osama wants to be really deadly, he should learn to drive.
Yeah, I wasn't around for that, but I'm trying to keep it alive. I just naturally fell into it, and I can't imagine trying to be anyone else. This just is me... and most of what I respect. You would think this would be the culture of the future: completely unbiased (unless it comes to a "religion" like emacs), not only technically compotent but in fact infatuated with the power and possibilities of science and technology. Alas, it seems too many people are still only just beginning to appreciate computers, and forgeting the unimportant things. It will be interesting when western society reaches a point where all living generations grew up with ubiquitous computer access.
Well, of course Linux is part of every sunrise. You wouldn't what Windows running something important like that would you?
Responsibility for this should rest with the Linux vendors
Bittorent?
Wait, so you are criticizing AMD for being too successful to supply the demand for their product? If only most companies had that problem! I don't seriously think Intel will die anytime soon, but recently AMD has been in the lead, and Intel has yet to come up with something better. If they do, good for them, but like MS, I've been waiting a while, and not been that impressed compared to the speed of OSS development and growth.
Not really, but one can hope. It's more of a hypothetical really: "What's an AMD chip doing in a Mac? Finally something usef- um... non-game, server, or low-end related? Something pretty?"
Well, I said I _pray_ that it happens, but it will be interesting to see if Intel stops pulling crap before it's too late. They are big, but not M$. Either way, competition means I win.
Hi, my name is Jake, and I don't know why I'm here, I... Okay! I admit it. I'm a Windows user. I just couldn't figure out how to defrag or install .exe's in Linux. I'll turn in my geek badge now.
(actually my wireless adapter is really nonstandard and won't work, buying new specifically for Linux compatibility)
Dude! Us Americans could be effing RICH! We have more fat and weight-gaining products than the rest of the world combined - surely we'll make more than enough to pay off our natl. debt.
P.S. Americans think the world revolves around us because it does! The fat of America actually creates its own gravitational field stronger than the Earth's, which means it rotates around us. This is also why we have so many anorexic people here, they weren't heavy enough to remain where they were because our gravity is stronger. Watch out, McDonald's stock is up...
but as expensive as videogames are now and are expected to become, I'd welcome some subtle advertising in games. Like anywhere where a generic ad would be to add realism to the games, a real ad would be, but no more then that. If that'll shave $10 off of a game, I'm all for it.
Who would want spyware? I spend all of my time killing it on school pcs (not on Macs...). Are companies really that interested in SpySpace, eBay, Amazon, and pr0n? Because that's what people do. Well, for me replace the first three with /., webcomics, and Wikipedia.
I think I saw this on /. somewhere: "Lie, lie, lie / about your age, gender, race / throw a monkey wrench / in their database" Genius.
Yeah, what aboot that, eh?
On the Apple website right over the pic of the Macbook is a line reading "What's an Intel chip doing in a Mac? A lot more than it' ever done in a PC". That's pretty funny. I wonder what they'll say in 10 years when AMD has killed Intel (praying that it happens, of course)? I'd love a Mac with an Athlon and Win (games), Linux, Mac OS, and BSD all on the same machine.
A wise man once said that true patriotism is loving your country and hating your government. This is true for all men, of all nations, of all ages.
just to have basics like ROMS, torrents, pr0n, and other important info, including legitimate info. Well, the only good that may come of this is a generation of 1337 h4x0rz. https://beijing999.com/ https://proxify.net/ https://pimpmyip.com/ proxyswitcher, etc. are your friends and filters are your enemy (because filters are freakishly ineffective at hitting their target, but good at getting everything else).
Can you really trust any studies that show up on TV or the newspaper anymore? Pr0n, weed, videogames, global warming, indooor pollution, and everything else under the sun are GOING TO KILL YOU or MAKE YOU KILL OTHERS. Jesus H. Christ! (as if people haven't killed in His name...) 40 years ago scientists were worried of global cooling. The Earth has naturally warmed and cooled many times in the past - and things died, but that's nature. We're still alive. Today's youth are, according to the FBI - the least violent generation in American history, maybe, maybe, because they are inside playing videogames? Oh, and now masturbation may prevent prostate cancer - that's what I call wanking now, cancer prevention. I really just wished people weren't so ready to believe _everything_ the media, a Nigerian email, or a politician (all parties, Libertarians too) tells them to. There's a reason what you watch on TV is called programming...
really, the only people that aren't a security risk without security disabled can easily get around it, if they need (or want...) to. The average luser will cause more problems than this security will. The key to this though, is punishment of those who circumvent security. At my school, I regularly aid even teachers in getting freemail access, around the filter, etc. They trust me because they know I'm smart enough to do this, and not do anything stupid with my 'superpowers'. Most of them are well aware that the security there is bad and the IT staff unskilled (with few exceptions) enough that if I really had ill will in my heart there's not much they could do to stop or even catch me. My cousin's school used to be like this, but then a new administrator came along and changed the rules. My cousin was found using a proxy that SOMEONE ELSE had once, A YEAR AGO, used to look at ONE pr0n site and was suspended for a week (and grounded). The biggest irony is that he used the proxy to get to a site he NEEDED for his assignment. I don't hate stupid people (everyone is stupid in some ways) but everyone hates having an idiot in charge and being unable to avoid their work. With a bad restaraunt, you can go elsewhere, with a bad leader, your options are limited (esp. when you don't get a say in determining the leader).
I'll just get back to my perpetual moction machine then. Two nymphomanical lesbians tied to a bed?
That's a great explanation. Thanks for clarifying clearly.
I knocked my P4 Northwood from 3.0 GHz up to 3.4 GHz without fancy cooling. I have a nice budget heatsink/fan ($23 when I bought it) from Vantec. My full-load CPU temp is about 67 C. With the extra gig of Corsair RAM I got for Xmas (total 1.5GB now) my system really flies. I have a 6600GT and can run HL2 on full visuals and FEAR on Medium for most things pretty well. My case is not water cooled, and I have only added one fan to the case. According to Newegg, the price difference between two processors like mine in terms of that clock increase would have been about $100. I pulled $100 out of my ass without spending more than that on cooling. That is real overclocking skill - NOTICABLY more performance WITHOUT the extra cost. I'm not an expert or anything, this was just a good overclock.
I think cancer is the least of their worries.