My first tries with linux ended miserably with going back to win95 beacuse my hard-drive wasn't big enough or something, dunno, Turbolinux 6.5 was uninstallable.
My first successful try was Mandrake around 2003 and I've been a full-time linux user ever since; primarily it was because learning C/C++ was much much easier done in linux than on windows.
It would seem that no matter where I am, the best coding I do is at about two to four in the morning. It's that time of the day when the internet is somewhat at rest because aussies are going home from work and having dinner, americans are just starting to actually work, or are getting to work and europe is mostly at sleep.
Then just put a movie or some tv show on the second screen and code away. Nirvana.
However about writing fiction or any sort of prose, I'm very picky as to the locale. It has to be a busy coffee shop or better yet, a club event. No idea why, just has to.
Wireless router - comes with every ISP package these days Cables - most people get a bunch with any graphics card TV - most people already have one collecting dust in the living room Laptop - most people already have at least one in the house
They didn't have to buy anything _extra_. Just use the stuff already lying around the house and some free time.
Desktops need big big icons. And only three or four of them, ten-ish if you're on a double large screen setup. Otherwise it just looks all too cluttered and annoying.
I'm sure the cost wasn't very low around here either. I think they even circumvented the law a little bit in some places and decided to "do it now, ask for permission later when it can't be reversed and the benefits are apparent". It was a gamble and it paid off.
And interestingly enough, whether it's correlation or causation, the human populace has grown stupider and stupider (in general) with every generation ever since just before the first newspaper generation.
Mass media - it will make you stupid, no matter what form it takes.
Instead I'll say you're being sexist! Don't you realise women are perfect and deserve special treatment? Stop living in a hole you anti-feminisim dirty pig!
This is what happened in Slovenia. A new comer (T-2) came along and decided to say fuck you to the biggest and the baddest and just start laying down fiber, offering FTTH at prices much lower than the market value and simply work against all conventional business ideology.
What happened was that after a few years they were the cheapest, fastest and all around bestest internet provider in the country. This forced the biggest and the baddest to sharply drop their prices and start laying FTTH to simply stay in business at all.
Now, about 5 years after this started happening, Slovenia is the 7th in the world in FTTH adoption right behind Scandinavia and Asia.
Fun fact: It's about half cheaper to get 20/20 FTTH here than it is to get 1024/256 ADSL.
Even people without social lives per se use social networks online. It's the boring brutes who can't see a hair past their GPA (and are the only ones to actually care about it) that nobody wants to socialise with and thus locking them into a perpetual circle of academic exelence at the cost of inability to operate in real life.
I bet most successful CEO's, politicans, lawyers and other impressively successful types would use social networks a lot if they existed way back when. However, I'm sure most of their accountants and other people with great GPA's wouldn't.
There's a difference between a natural disaster and a very preventable human disaster nobody wanted to prevent because they were having too much fun filling their pockets and putting it off for later.
I don't know what planet you anti-government/free market extremist types live on but if you've been paying attention for the last 20 years/../ if I were in charge I'd shut these people down, they add NOTHING to the economy except charging people exorbitant rates
Your argument doesn't quite add up. First you say we shouldn't be blaming the government because they aren't at fault, then you say how you'd fix it if you were the government.
What is it then? Should we let the government go since they're innocent, or should we be knocking at their doors because they aren't doing enough to prevent things like these as your wonderful example suggests one way they could?
You should try if they're actually still playable. I wanted to play some Abe's Exoddus for nostalgia reason a few years back and the CD was completely unreadable. No scratching or anything, just your run of the mill dye fade.
You know I'm the same way, but the only thing I seem to find are women not that great for sex and very great for mooching all my attention and not giving any back. Maybe I'm just a whimp though.
I always thought the SouthPark movie was making fun of Satan not Saddam. I mean, to make Satan herself your bitch? Only a very special and awesome man could do that.
Real English would be Old English spoken by the tribes of Angol that settled the British Isles before the Saxon invasion in whenever that was. Barely anyone is still able to understand it.
Since that english no longer exists we can safely assume its closest approximation is the english currently spoken by the people in southern regions of the main British Island. This is the English that spread to the rest of the world and was then simplified by American settlers due to them being largely non-native english speakers and english being the simplest of available languages to learn since it has some french, it has some whatever and so on.
With time English became lingua franca of the New World and continued to evolve from there into what is fast becoming more than just a regional accent since American English is starting to change grammatical structures and whatnot.
Of course I am no linguist, but the English language happens to be a hobby of mine.
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You seem to be implying that there is such a thing as a windows machine without malware ...
My first tries with linux ended miserably with going back to win95 beacuse my hard-drive wasn't big enough or something, dunno, Turbolinux 6.5 was uninstallable.
My first successful try was Mandrake around 2003 and I've been a full-time linux user ever since; primarily it was because learning C/C++ was much much easier done in linux than on windows.
the PETA that puts naked chicks in cages on the street
WHERE!? Where does this happen and how do I get there!?
Ok, Jane. I'm all relaxed, so very relaxed... what now?
Blowjob time.
It would seem that no matter where I am, the best coding I do is at about two to four in the morning. It's that time of the day when the internet is somewhat at rest because aussies are going home from work and having dinner, americans are just starting to actually work, or are getting to work and europe is mostly at sleep.
Then just put a movie or some tv show on the second screen and code away. Nirvana.
However about writing fiction or any sort of prose, I'm very picky as to the locale. It has to be a busy coffee shop or better yet, a club event. No idea why, just has to.
Wireless router - comes with every ISP package these days
Cables - most people get a bunch with any graphics card
TV - most people already have one collecting dust in the living room
Laptop - most people already have at least one in the house
They didn't have to buy anything _extra_. Just use the stuff already lying around the house and some free time.
Desktops need big big icons. And only three or four of them, ten-ish if you're on a double large screen setup. Otherwise it just looks all too cluttered and annoying.
I'm sure the cost wasn't very low around here either. I think they even circumvented the law a little bit in some places and decided to "do it now, ask for permission later when it can't be reversed and the benefits are apparent". It was a gamble and it paid off.
It's got countries doesn't it? Therefore I can simplify. YOU do realise Scandinavia isn't a country either right? It's a peninsula.
At least be consistent in your trolling.
And interestingly enough, whether it's correlation or causation, the human populace has grown stupider and stupider (in general) with every generation ever since just before the first newspaper generation.
Mass media - it will make you stupid, no matter what form it takes.
Damn if only I could mod you insightful.
Instead I'll say you're being sexist! Don't you realise women are perfect and deserve special treatment? Stop living in a hole you anti-feminisim dirty pig!
This is what happened in Slovenia. A new comer (T-2) came along and decided to say fuck you to the biggest and the baddest and just start laying down fiber, offering FTTH at prices much lower than the market value and simply work against all conventional business ideology.
What happened was that after a few years they were the cheapest, fastest and all around bestest internet provider in the country. This forced the biggest and the baddest to sharply drop their prices and start laying FTTH to simply stay in business at all.
Now, about 5 years after this started happening, Slovenia is the 7th in the world in FTTH adoption right behind Scandinavia and Asia.
Fun fact: It's about half cheaper to get 20/20 FTTH here than it is to get 1024/256 ADSL.
My comparison has as much basis as a porcupine in a hedgefund.
That's what economists base their predictions on right?
I've always been a brainy loner and my grades have sucked for just as long. Explain that with your bipolar argument.
Let me give you a hint: people who have bad grades are the people who realise grades don't matter, knowledge does.
That's because linux is a product. Want Hollywood to mention your product? Pay!
This is why Penny said two weeks ago "Diet Oke" instead of "Diet Coke", Coca Cola didn't pay for product placement.
Even people without social lives per se use social networks online. It's the boring brutes who can't see a hair past their GPA (and are the only ones to actually care about it) that nobody wants to socialise with and thus locking them into a perpetual circle of academic exelence at the cost of inability to operate in real life.
I bet most successful CEO's, politicans, lawyers and other impressively successful types would use social networks a lot if they existed way back when. However, I'm sure most of their accountants and other people with great GPA's wouldn't.
Networking - it's been here forever.
There's a difference between a natural disaster and a very preventable human disaster nobody wanted to prevent because they were having too much fun filling their pockets and putting it off for later.
I don't know what planet you anti-government/free market extremist types live on but if you've been paying attention for the last 20 years /../ if I were in charge I'd shut these people down, they add NOTHING to the economy except charging people exorbitant rates
Your argument doesn't quite add up. First you say we shouldn't be blaming the government because they aren't at fault, then you say how you'd fix it if you were the government.
What is it then? Should we let the government go since they're innocent, or should we be knocking at their doors because they aren't doing enough to prevent things like these as your wonderful example suggests one way they could?
It was still somewhat legal to rip games and sell them around here back then ;)
It's just that it may (or may not) have been a ripped and burned game. Those fade, much too soon.
But hey, TPB to the rescue and I could still play the game regardless of the state the disc was in.
You should try if they're actually still playable. I wanted to play some Abe's Exoddus for nostalgia reason a few years back and the CD was completely unreadable. No scratching or anything, just your run of the mill dye fade.
You know I'm the same way, but the only thing I seem to find are women not that great for sex and very great for mooching all my attention and not giving any back. Maybe I'm just a whimp though.
I'm a guy and quit putting out to my women every day for the same reason. Then with time I get dumbed down to their standard. Then we break up.
Ah the cycle of boredom. Magnificent no?
I always thought the SouthPark movie was making fun of Satan not Saddam. I mean, to make Satan herself your bitch? Only a very special and awesome man could do that.
Real English would be Old English spoken by the tribes of Angol that settled the British Isles before the Saxon invasion in whenever that was. Barely anyone is still able to understand it.
Since that english no longer exists we can safely assume its closest approximation is the english currently spoken by the people in southern regions of the main British Island. This is the English that spread to the rest of the world and was then simplified by American settlers due to them being largely non-native english speakers and english being the simplest of available languages to learn since it has some french, it has some whatever and so on.
With time English became lingua franca of the New World and continued to evolve from there into what is fast becoming more than just a regional accent since American English is starting to change grammatical structures and whatnot.
Of course I am no linguist, but the English language happens to be a hobby of mine.