It is what I currently use on my laptop and I haven't had any problems since I implemented it over two months ago. Also, if you want to install stuff, there's a sudo program for windows http://home.toadlife.net/winsudo/ that you might want to check out.
My opthomologist recomended that I place a hot towel on top of my eyes once a day or so (I have moderate dry eye and contact lenses SUCK, and make sure you close your eyes BEFORE you put the hot towel on!) and he also suggested fish oil supplements. He told me the side effect of fish oil was that it made the tears a bit bigger so that would leave my eye lubricated more (same as with the hot towel, plus the steam supposedly helps clear out the tear ducts). Don't know if that is true or not because later I got that custom lasik with intralase. $5000 bucks, but after 23 years of myopia, I'm free of coke bottle glasses and contacts. Joy.
Also, it has been said the best way to learn any language is to live in the country where it is spoken. I currently live in Japan, in the country where barely anyone speaks English, and even fewer speak it well. My Japanese skill is by far from perfect, however while I studied the language one of my professors told me to actively seek out situations where you are forced to speak Japanese and guage how well you did, etc. I have joined a bunch of clubs where no one speaks English (however, one does speak Spanish so I can still communicate!). At first, it sucked. Royally. It was frustrating as hell trying to communicate with the people, but if you make an effort, the people WILL respond in like and do their best to communicate with you, etc. Yes, it is a stressful thing to learn a new language, but believe you me, the rewards greatly outweigh the hell you go through learning the language.
I am still far from fluent, but now I can be functional at the office and even chat with the other teachers once in a while, albeit nothing philosophical, just stuff about work, sports, and small talk.
Also, vocabulary and grammar do not make a language. The culture is also vital in learning the language. That is why many top linguists can talk about a culture based on the way the language is used. Basically they can reconstruct the culture (or a good deal of it) just by studying the language and its nuances. =)
I fail to see how hard it is to quit these so called "addictions". I've been reading some comments and although I agree with trying to help out the friend, zounds man!, if he doesn't want to quit let him get burned. Nothing like a swift kick to the nuts (metaphorically speaking and perhaps RL too) that is getting fired and losing more than the job to get the friend to truly wake up and see how much of his life he has squandered away on a rather insignificant game (yea yea, wow is best mmo evar, etc etc. grow up, its just a game).
While not exactly the same, I started smoking when I was 16. Got up to two packs a day. One day I woke up and realised that a.) cigarettes were really expensive and b.) they were detrimental to my health. I was also an alcoholic at an early age too.
You just stop doing it. Yes, it's that easy. People say that it's hard or impossible to quit addictions because of withdrawal, etc. Nonesense. It's all in your head. Just stop and see how these things are impacting your life and that's reason enough to quit.
I'm assuming the title of your comment refers to the first Monkey Island game? The giant monkey head where the cannibals left worship idols and led to LeChuck's lair after sticking the 'key' into the giant ear?
I agree with parent. How can the EA guy say this with a straight face?! I'm sure someone must have laughed quite heartedly when this was said. And then promptly removed by security.
I was born in Colombia, reared in the US and now live in Japan. I speak four languages. I cannot fathom regionalised internet unless they can seamlessly talk to each other (which will no doubt be impossible). This would be detrimental because I teach English to junior high school students here and depend on foreign websites to help me with my lesson planning. I also love reading up on the latest football scores from Colombia and the Premiership as well as foreign politics. And of course Slashdot.
This is just another way to screw over the customer and fatten the already filthy rich companies' pockets.
To those companies: I fart in your general direction.
There's an old axiom (or saying or whatever) "I want to work in theory, because everything works in theory"
Which applied to MS programming mentality seems to hold true.
I mean for fuck's sake, in order to even remotely secure my system i had to apply NIST (http://csrc.nist.gov/itsec/guidance_WinXP.html) security profiles and stuff to lockdown my XP installation. So far, no viruses or spyware, but I have everything cranked up to extra paranoid.
True, however you must remember this is from ancient times in China where women were to be obidient (gee, the more things change the more they stay the same, eh?).
I would assume they (or rather their families) receive some sort of payment, though. Usually only the rich old geezers would be interested in this in order to retain their status/power/etc.
Sadly, this practice is still ongoing, which is why pedophilia is quite common in asian countries. Take Japan for instance: a teacher gets busted shagging a schoolgirl but only gets busted for "upbringing and wholesome education" laws instead of pedophilia.
Actually, it comes from an ancient Taoist belief. Not too sure exactly what, but the elderly men were deemed to be suffering from a lack of balance (Ying and Yang) so it was believed that the virgin woman would provide some counter to the ailments the elderly men were suffering. This is why back in the old days old men were always shagging young girls and hoarding virgins.
Gettin' some ying for their yang! (There goes my karma...)
After reading the follow-ups to your comment (regarding SMAC, god I love that game), I totally agree with you. Or even better, how about making technologies to which multiple purposes can be served, some totally not intended?
Example, the Chinese and gunpowder. One group used it for pretty fireworks, the other for warfare.
I think it would be incredibly interesting to see how games could progress using those types of accidental technologies.
the host's stupidity. I don't know about 'little known exploit'. Stupidity is rampant. Apple can't patch that, so they're SOL as is this fool.
Stupidity can't be patched (too bad) and if they try to make an idiot proof OS, well, you know what happens.
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It is what I currently use on my laptop and I haven't had any problems since I implemented it over two months ago. Also, if you want to install stuff, there's a sudo program for windows http://home.toadlife.net/winsudo/ that you might want to check out.
Every pirate's choice of drink!
Contains one or more of the following: kerosene
propylene glycol
sulphuric acid
artificial sweeteners
red dye no2
rum
acetone
battery acid
scumm
axle grease
and/or pepperoni
If you want to talk about hangovers, this one will put you in a coma!
My opthomologist recomended that I place a hot towel on top of my eyes once a day or so (I have moderate dry eye and contact lenses SUCK, and make sure you close your eyes BEFORE you put the hot towel on!) and he also suggested fish oil supplements. He told me the side effect of fish oil was that it made the tears a bit bigger so that would leave my eye lubricated more (same as with the hot towel, plus the steam supposedly helps clear out the tear ducts). Don't know if that is true or not because later I got that custom lasik with intralase. $5000 bucks, but after 23 years of myopia, I'm free of coke bottle glasses and contacts. Joy.
I thought network television did that...
Also, it has been said the best way to learn any language is to live in the country where it is spoken. I currently live in Japan, in the country where barely anyone speaks English, and even fewer speak it well. My Japanese skill is by far from perfect, however while I studied the language one of my professors told me to actively seek out situations where you are forced to speak Japanese and guage how well you did, etc. I have joined a bunch of clubs where no one speaks English (however, one does speak Spanish so I can still communicate!). At first, it sucked. Royally. It was frustrating as hell trying to communicate with the people, but if you make an effort, the people WILL respond in like and do their best to communicate with you, etc. Yes, it is a stressful thing to learn a new language, but believe you me, the rewards greatly outweigh the hell you go through learning the language.
I am still far from fluent, but now I can be functional at the office and even chat with the other teachers once in a while, albeit nothing philosophical, just stuff about work, sports, and small talk.
Also, vocabulary and grammar do not make a language. The culture is also vital in learning the language. That is why many top linguists can talk about a culture based on the way the language is used. Basically they can reconstruct the culture (or a good deal of it) just by studying the language and its nuances. =)
While not exactly the same, I started smoking when I was 16. Got up to two packs a day. One day I woke up and realised that a.) cigarettes were really expensive and b.) they were detrimental to my health. I was also an alcoholic at an early age too.
You just stop doing it. Yes, it's that easy. People say that it's hard or impossible to quit addictions because of withdrawal, etc. Nonesense. It's all in your head. Just stop and see how these things are impacting your life and that's reason enough to quit.
Just my two cents...
God I miss those games...
I agree with parent. How can the EA guy say this with a straight face?! I'm sure someone must have laughed quite heartedly when this was said. And then promptly removed by security.
This is just another way to screw over the customer and fatten the already filthy rich companies' pockets.
To those companies: I fart in your general direction.
Excuse me, I hear the Joke Police sirens...
When I first read this I thought it said that Mythbusters were making a rootkit bot.
There's an old axiom (or saying or whatever) "I want to work in theory, because everything works in theory" Which applied to MS programming mentality seems to hold true. I mean for fuck's sake, in order to even remotely secure my system i had to apply NIST (http://csrc.nist.gov/itsec/guidance_WinXP.html) security profiles and stuff to lockdown my XP installation. So far, no viruses or spyware, but I have everything cranked up to extra paranoid.
I would assume they (or rather their families) receive some sort of payment, though. Usually only the rich old geezers would be interested in this in order to retain their status/power/etc.
Sadly, this practice is still ongoing, which is why pedophilia is quite common in asian countries. Take Japan for instance: a teacher gets busted shagging a schoolgirl but only gets busted for "upbringing and wholesome education" laws instead of pedophilia.
Here's the link http://www2.hu-berlin.de/sexology/GESUND/ARCHIV/SE N/CH23.HTM
Gettin' some ying for their yang! (There goes my karma...)
I don't have the clap! It's my prostate cancer pills. Honest!
I, for one, welcome our new locust overlords...
Yes. Cures their sight and regrows their tails back. Once that happens, that farmer bitch is dead meat!
After reading the follow-ups to your comment (regarding SMAC, god I love that game), I totally agree with you. Or even better, how about making technologies to which multiple purposes can be served, some totally not intended? Example, the Chinese and gunpowder. One group used it for pretty fireworks, the other for warfare. I think it would be incredibly interesting to see how games could progress using those types of accidental technologies.
the host's stupidity. I don't know about 'little known exploit'. Stupidity is rampant. Apple can't patch that, so they're SOL as is this fool. Stupidity can't be patched (too bad) and if they try to make an idiot proof OS, well, you know what happens.
"Hmm, how much can I charge my client per hour this time..." or "Damn you I.B.M.!!!!" or "That Darl fucker better pay us for this..."
Do you mean 'Not Another Stupid Acronym' ?
Sure it is. The reason it took so long was because it JUST finished compiling. =)
On stone tablets. And then I give them to bearded men on top of mountains so they can show the world my coding wisdom.
If it works for nvidia, why not your company? =)