*flexes his mouse muscle* well lets see here I have 17 windows opened for various ajax, java, c++ and other misc nerdy work I'm doing. I have no less than 8 different browsers open at any given time, currently opera with 8 tabs, firefox with 6, IE7 with 9 different tabs, Netscape, Lynx, and a couple other browsers each have one. Mozilla has 47 as I'm currently doing uh..research.
I'm also defragging my torrents which requires another 4 windows, and I'm writing this slashdot entry through a special program I wrote which opens a tab for every sentence. All this on my custom built (I poured the plastic myself when I was 3) 36 inch desktop ultra super flat LCD.
Asking a "who has more" question on slashdot is inviting a nerd flexing contest.
Fantasy movies often suck not because of being a live action medium, but because they are usually born of B-movie scripts with bad dialog, and cheesy special effects. Written properly with a proper budget to back the special effects and not choreographed by someone's retarted cousin, they would do fine.
People have been doing that since collecting became popular for 20+ yaers now. Serious collectors have always just bought boxes and boxes of cards and tore through them looking for a certain card. This isn't a new phenomenon.
Forgetting about when the AOL volunteers turned around and sued AOL for time. That damaged the volunteer movement on websites, and effectively ruined geocities and other websites as they suddenly cancelled their volunteer programs for fear of being sued.
Cheers. Google vidoe is useless (ps3 ad results in a bunch of keyword spamming porn ads) and all I could find on youtube was some home made ads from people who think they're peter jackson because they can strip sound off a pro commercial and put on a new song.
I've had mixed results with that. I have a network printer at home (HP photosmart 2575) and my college has a network printer in every room (all HPs, maybe its just them) they usually don't do well unless you tell em specifically which kind it is.
I think its one thing if its a coffee shop or perhaps another business with non-sensitive data. Its an entirely different game when it comes to something like a doctor's office and the sensitive information that might be on their network.
When it comes to medical records and other data, I'd prefer to keep someone off the network entirely, rather than tempt them. The only way I might feel safe is if they were physically kept off the network but that increases his cost to provide wireless for people he had no intention of providing wireless for.
I did treat myself. I saw my doctor who referred me to him. I knew when I needed help and sought it out. He didn't. He's also a professional who has private records of me, possibly on his computer, as well as the records of others. Its just that much easier to get access to his machines now.
No one questioned why I was using a laptop in the waiting room, and no one obviously noticed that I had full access to the router in question.
I mentioned to him that he should lock it down because its completely open. I see him again in 6 weeks and see if he's actually gone and done that.
I forgave him though because he had a lovely young resident who could have been out of the pages of FHM perform the initial exam on me.
Worst security?I was referrered to a sports medicine doctor. I was early as I'd never been to that part of town before. I opened up my laptop for fun and scanned and found two networks. 1 from the gym in the building and a "linksys". No wep, default passwords on the router, and net access. there were 7 machines connected, myself, a printer, 4 others that had no name listed, and one that had the full name of one of the other doctors in the office. I wasn't able to easily view any shares at least. I recommended he lock it down after I met with him.
I doubt thats very common from most YouTube users. We are not exactly talking about master criminals here. I'm failry positive the vast majority will be kids using a computer in their parent's basement.
Exactly. And most of these non-master criminals can't even secure a wireless access point with something as simple as WEP. I can pick up 65 wireless networks from my apartment using netstumbler. Very few of them are set to anything but defaults. Their parents aren't any smarter in most cases. Even a closed access point with just WEP is only secure for a few minutes.
Last I heard they did the engine in DirectX this time around instead of OpenGL, which is why it won't goto Linux. Since it has gone gold, I don't see them suddenly turning around and saying "You know what...lets change our entire engine". For it to goto Linux at this time, someone would have to be hired to write a full port.
Their abuse department for 360 is completely useless. At first it wasn't bad, occasionally I had to resubmit one when someone just missed the boat, but lately they've been utterly useless and incompetent. They have profiles of old males which consist of nothing but shots of their penis, and their entire friend list consists of profiles reputedly belonging to 14 and 15 year old girls, and Yahoo can't seem to find their way to removing the obvious adult themed photos even after repeated resubmission, even though its clearly against their ToS (unless that was quietly changed in the last few months to allow that type of thing ot be okay). Having a friends list full of teen girls isn't against the rules, but to me it only compounds the issue of why this 50 year old guy is allowed to keep a dozen pics of his penis on his profile.
That really depends on how much of this movement would translate to sustained exercise. While something like Dance Dance Revolution (or Stepmania for your PC) is very easy to compare to traditional exercise, I'm not sure if Wii Tennis is on that same level.
You may find that once you get in to it, strenuous movement isn't required to actually play these games. If it isn't, then the excercise component is non-existent. While some movement is better than no movement, the actual benefits might not even materialize. I've seen the Wii Tennis video, and until I actually play it for myself, I can't be certain they weren't exaggerating the movement to make it look more physical than it really is.
I've also seen the Zelda video, while you move, it certainly isn't even in the realm of exercise. No more than reaching for my mouse really.
While I love the concept of the Wii, and its likely going to be the first console I've ever bought, I'm certainly not prepared to assume its going to be useful as part of real exercise. On the other hadn if we see a DDR game come out that includes a mat AND uses the Remote and Nunchuks to encourage full body moving, that is another story.
Every little bit helps. 4% here, 3% here on something else, etc. 4% less polution from power plants could be the equivalent of taking 20 million cars off the road for all we know.
Where society fails is that they try to tell everyone that they can be that way if they want to. Society itself needs to grow up and realize that we're not all equal cookie cutter people and stop trying to force that down people's throats in some pathetic attempt to avoid stepping on toes.
Some people have natural aptitudes. Its life. One of those aptitudes can be the ability to retain knowledge and pick up new knowledge easily. Others can't remember jack but seem to be able to pick a musical instrument like they were practicing in the womb.
Its nice that we want to encourage everyone, but I wonder if we don't do more harm than good by giving too much positive reinforcement to children only to have them crash and burn when they're not the super people the public service announcements lead them to believe.
Some die-hards at Sony still believe that, properly designed, the e-book has a future.
Like Sony is the one to be making that statement. I wouldn't trust Sony to make anything right. My parents owned a Beta, I think thats the last thing that has ever been a Sony in my family.
Oh wait, I did buy a Sony DVD+RW because my Fuji one gave up the ghost after much rewriting, and that was all the store had left. It was garbage and I replaced it first opportunity I had with another Fuji.
That is likely because the manager is nice and let 3 employees (possibly including himself) jump the "pre-order" line. At least that is my guess. I doubt I'll have too much trouble getting one around here when I want one. Ebgames is always packed, but they always seem to have tons of stock.
In my experience it is rare. When I was quite active on Ebay last year over about 3 months, I reported a lot of things to ebay, most were quite obvious things (like the ridiculously excessive shipping) or blatant misleading titles (D-link NOT linksys or cisco) and everytime the form letter was of the tone "Fuck off we're not going to touch it, this guy has sold 20,000 items here" Because powersellers are the worst offenders by far. I also found powersellers saturating an item, i.e. 20 or 30 of them (ebay limited to like 10 identical at the same time) and other crap like that. I never once filed a complaint that seemed to result in an item being removed, etc. The only account that I saw closed was someone who stole money from myself and a few other people. Ebay did more than the police seemed to in that case. At least I got a refund, minus shipping and "processing". The local police took info than filed it under T.
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well lets see here I have 17 windows opened for various ajax, java, c++ and other misc nerdy work I'm doing. I have no less than 8 different browsers open at any given time, currently opera with 8 tabs, firefox with 6, IE7 with 9 different tabs, Netscape, Lynx, and a couple other browsers each have one. Mozilla has 47 as I'm currently doing uh..research.
I'm also defragging my torrents which requires another 4 windows, and I'm writing this slashdot entry through a special program I wrote which opens a tab for every sentence. All this on my custom built (I poured the plastic myself when I was 3) 36 inch desktop ultra super flat LCD.
Asking a "who has more" question on slashdot is inviting a nerd flexing contest.
Fantasy movies often suck not because of being a live action medium, but because they are usually born of B-movie scripts with bad dialog, and cheesy special effects. Written properly with a proper budget to back the special effects and not choreographed by someone's retarted cousin, they would do fine.
My wife says whenever I do the dishes...so you know..infrequently ;)
I make her do far less paperwork.
I always make them sign a paper if they tell me they're on the pill, it requires 2 witnesses and a video taped statement. I also have it notarized.
People have been doing that since collecting became popular for 20+ yaers now. Serious collectors have always just bought boxes and boxes of cards and tore through them looking for a certain card. This isn't a new phenomenon.
If you're going to be a nazi you might want to toss a "get" or "spell" into your sentence there.
I knew I'd seen it before when it got to the photography part.
Forgetting about when the AOL volunteers turned around and sued AOL for time. That damaged the volunteer movement on websites, and effectively ruined geocities and other websites as they suddenly cancelled their volunteer programs for fear of being sued.
Cheers. Google vidoe is useless (ps3 ad results in a bunch of keyword spamming porn ads) and all I could find on youtube was some home made ads from people who think they're peter jackson because they can strip sound off a pro commercial and put on a new song.
Someone needs to provide a link for this commercial.
I've had mixed results with that. I have a network printer at home (HP photosmart 2575) and my college has a network printer in every room (all HPs, maybe its just them) they usually don't do well unless you tell em specifically which kind it is.
I think its one thing if its a coffee shop or perhaps another business with non-sensitive data. Its an entirely different game when it comes to something like a doctor's office and the sensitive information that might be on their network.
When it comes to medical records and other data, I'd prefer to keep someone off the network entirely, rather than tempt them. The only way I might feel safe is if they were physically kept off the network but that increases his cost to provide wireless for people he had no intention of providing wireless for.
I couldn't see the printer, so it would have been guess work on trying to convince XP what kind of printer it is.
As I said in another post here, I see him again in 6 weeks. If he hasn't locked it down then, I'll offer to do it for him.
I did treat myself. I saw my doctor who referred me to him. I knew when I needed help and sought it out. He didn't. He's also a professional who has private records of me, possibly on his computer, as well as the records of others. Its just that much easier to get access to his machines now.
No one questioned why I was using a laptop in the waiting room, and no one obviously noticed that I had full access to the router in question.
I mentioned to him that he should lock it down because its completely open. I see him again in 6 weeks and see if he's actually gone and done that.
I forgave him though because he had a lovely young resident who could have been out of the pages of FHM perform the initial exam on me.
Worst security?I was referrered to a sports medicine doctor. I was early as I'd never been to that part of town before. I opened up my laptop for fun and scanned and found two networks. 1 from the gym in the building and a "linksys". No wep, default passwords on the router, and net access. there were 7 machines connected, myself, a printer, 4 others that had no name listed, and one that had the full name of one of the other doctors in the office. I wasn't able to easily view any shares at least. I recommended he lock it down after I met with him.
Exactly. And most of these non-master criminals can't even secure a wireless access point with something as simple as WEP. I can pick up 65 wireless networks from my apartment using netstumbler. Very few of them are set to anything but defaults. Their parents aren't any smarter in most cases. Even a closed access point with just WEP is only secure for a few minutes.
Last I heard they did the engine in DirectX this time around instead of OpenGL, which is why it won't goto Linux. Since it has gone gold, I don't see them suddenly turning around and saying "You know what...lets change our entire engine". For it to goto Linux at this time, someone would have to be hired to write a full port.
Their abuse department for 360 is completely useless. At first it wasn't bad, occasionally I had to resubmit one when someone just missed the boat, but lately they've been utterly useless and incompetent. They have profiles of old males which consist of nothing but shots of their penis, and their entire friend list consists of profiles reputedly belonging to 14 and 15 year old girls, and Yahoo can't seem to find their way to removing the obvious adult themed photos even after repeated resubmission, even though its clearly against their ToS (unless that was quietly changed in the last few months to allow that type of thing ot be okay). Having a friends list full of teen girls isn't against the rules, but to me it only compounds the issue of why this 50 year old guy is allowed to keep a dozen pics of his penis on his profile.
That really depends on how much of this movement would translate to sustained exercise. While something like Dance Dance Revolution (or Stepmania for your PC) is very easy to compare to traditional exercise, I'm not sure if Wii Tennis is on that same level.
You may find that once you get in to it, strenuous movement isn't required to actually play these games. If it isn't, then the excercise component is non-existent. While some movement is better than no movement, the actual benefits might not even materialize. I've seen the Wii Tennis video, and until I actually play it for myself, I can't be certain they weren't exaggerating the movement to make it look more physical than it really is.
I've also seen the Zelda video, while you move, it certainly isn't even in the realm of exercise. No more than reaching for my mouse really.
While I love the concept of the Wii, and its likely going to be the first console I've ever bought, I'm certainly not prepared to assume its going to be useful as part of real exercise. On the other hadn if we see a DDR game come out that includes a mat AND uses the Remote and Nunchuks to encourage full body moving, that is another story.
Every little bit helps. 4% here, 3% here on something else, etc. 4% less polution from power plants could be the equivalent of taking 20 million cars off the road for all we know.
Where society fails is that they try to tell everyone that they can be that way if they want to. Society itself needs to grow up and realize that we're not all equal cookie cutter people and stop trying to force that down people's throats in some pathetic attempt to avoid stepping on toes.
Some people have natural aptitudes. Its life. One of those aptitudes can be the ability to retain knowledge and pick up new knowledge easily. Others can't remember jack but seem to be able to pick a musical instrument like they were practicing in the womb.
Its nice that we want to encourage everyone, but I wonder if we don't do more harm than good by giving too much positive reinforcement to children only to have them crash and burn when they're not the super people the public service announcements lead them to believe.
That is likely because the manager is nice and let 3 employees (possibly including himself) jump the "pre-order" line. At least that is my guess. I doubt I'll have too much trouble getting one around here when I want one. Ebgames is always packed, but they always seem to have tons of stock.
In my experience it is rare. When I was quite active on Ebay last year over about 3 months, I reported a lot of things to ebay, most were quite obvious things (like the ridiculously excessive shipping) or blatant misleading titles (D-link NOT linksys or cisco) and everytime the form letter was of the tone "Fuck off we're not going to touch it, this guy has sold 20,000 items here" Because powersellers are the worst offenders by far. I also found powersellers saturating an item, i.e. 20 or 30 of them (ebay limited to like 10 identical at the same time) and other crap like that. I never once filed a complaint that seemed to result in an item being removed, etc. The only account that I saw closed was someone who stole money from myself and a few other people. Ebay did more than the police seemed to in that case. At least I got a refund, minus shipping and "processing". The local police took info than filed it under T.
ack..that should have been a shipping fee of $50 for a USB thumb drive via regular US post.