I was in a local mom and pop store and he was raving to this guy about getting a hardware 56k modem for his 3Ghz new machine for three times the price than a software as the software modem will affect his CPU performance.
His point was valid... when processors were running at 200MHz!. Nowadays sure the maximum throughput of 56k worth of data that the cpu needs to deal with may affect that fraction of a percent of cpu power.
Yeah I stopped watching Dr. Who shortly after Tom Baker left. Which coincidently was around the time I reached puberty and discovered girls (not saying anything about that just that girls became more interesting for me).
But now I am married and starting to watch the old ones again.
Yeah I liked Stripes better than Caddy Shack but that may be due to liking Bill Murray more than Chevy Chase. Although lately I have had an inkling to watch Porky's.
But it isn't something new. During the Tom Baker years there were several times when there were 3 of them. Genesis of the daleks and Ark in Space come to mind. I think you can see the whole ark of time if you include k9 as a third entity.
I have seen Animal House a couple of times and honestly I don't remember that scene. For me the memorable quotes are: "They are on super-secret probation" or something like that and "Food Fight"
The movie was good but I wouldn't say that memorable especially since it has been about a decade since I watched it.
You lose all the detail if you don't have a wide screen TV You lose a lot more than just detail if you go 4:3, you lose part of the picture. Mind you some directors are aware of the butchering that has been done to movies in the past when they were made widescreen and shrunk to "fit your tv" and are ensuring that their shots that are initially done in widescreen will show in fullscreen as well
Thing to keep in mind is that all of the "special features" justify the higher price plus the fact that you get better surround sound on DVDs thus making the value of the contents of the DVD outweight the difference in costs between DVD and VHS.
It isn't quite like the money grab that CDs are still.
I agree it would be ugly but that doesn't stop it from happening. However I do think there will be a lot of people wishing they hadn't paid so much for their realestate just because interest rates were high. I doubt it will hit epic levels but I could see 10% interest rates (pulled that out of the air no scientific proof but then again neither is the stock market)
Out of curiousity, why would you not sysprep your ghost images? THe only reason I could see is if you are making separate images for each workstation and you want to keep the same name etc.
Same thing happened with Quake on CD. id released a cd with Quake and all of their games. One keygenerator (I think it did a hask lookup) later and you had all of their software.
Nah we are off compiling some new network code and don't have access to the web:)
Maybe the zealotry has worn off. I like Gentoo not for the whole compile stuff, just for the ease of use with updating packages and resolving dependencies. I know there is Debian and all but when I decided on a distro I flipped a coin and went with Gentoo
What would also be good is if it could be used to display any webpage which involves typing. Maybe in a subframe. Then you (or anybody) could use it anywhere.
What are you going to do if your wife gets pregnant I will ask her who she is sleeping with as I got fixed a year or two ago. It was a choice we made as her background makes her highly susceptible to having post partum psychosis as well as birth defects. If we change our minds we have already decided we will adopt.
Having kids doesn't make you mature either looking at the crappy parents out there who think that the TV is a great babysitter or that throwing their kids in with a bunch of other kids will raise them, it only expands the experiences that a person will have. We have chosen right now to not have children and it has nothing to do with maturity. Maturity is not having kids because society says you need to and then expecting others to raise them. If we decide we want kids it will be on our own terms.
To quote Keanu Reeves in the only sensible thing he has ever said in a movie: "You need a license to drive a car, even to fish, but any asshole can be a parent"
The increased risk of cancer etc. is just statistics. You can make the same correlation with getting in an accident and eating carrots.
I was quite surprised to see Rocket Robin Hood on tv here in Canada a month ago as I watched over a quarter of a century ago. But what didn't surprise me was that it was made in Scarborough.
Cutting edge animation.... no. Similar to Spiderman but worse.
I wish I was in the same boat. I have the 5% downpayment but the difference in renting the apartment I am in now compared to a starter bungalow is about 450 a month more. i.e 900-1000 sqft bungalow is around 220-250k which would be about 1200 a month not including utils while I am paying a total of 918 including utils.
Equity is nice but I refuse to get into mortgage poverty. Plus market has slowed down a bit so I am hoping prices will become more reasonable as well.
But arguing that owning a condo == immature is inaccurate as in my area a lot of elderly are downsizing to condos as they want the less work and have no need for the house anymore.
Also I would say that not having a child does not make you immature, it just makes you mature differently. My wife and I have more or less decided that children are not in our future. Some people have said it is selfish. I don't think it is. I would rather have a child because I want one not because society/nature says so. Right now they don't fit in with our lifestyle. I think the mature thing is living our lifestyle than having a kid and trying to continue to do it otherwise.
Both myself and my wife do not believe in daycare as we have seen abandonment issues in pretty much every kid that we know who has and if you look at most of the statistics (yeah I know lies, damn lies and statistics) regarding juvenile offenders there is an underlying thread of daycare. For us, it is if you are going to have a child why not raise it yourself. Not sure yet who that will be.
Non-compete clauses are slippery. I know in Canada they can't stop you from working at other employers. It's against the law.
I had a small kerfuffle with a contracting company moving from them to another one as my contract was technically over (they wanted to extend it on a month by month basis) and they threatened to sue. I called their bluff and they backed down. The only people it hurt was the original contracting company as it made them look bad to all that was involved. Although I guess they got the last laugh once I found out how much they had been gouging the client before giving me my pay.
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Should have mentioned there was no bloody way he was looking to run a linux machine so for him a winmodem would more than do.
Slightly offtopic.
I was in a local mom and pop store and he was raving to this guy about getting a hardware 56k modem for his 3Ghz new machine for three times the price than a software as the software modem will affect his CPU performance.
His point was valid... when processors were running at 200MHz!. Nowadays sure the maximum throughput of 56k worth of data that the cpu needs to deal with may affect that fraction of a percent of cpu power.
(This should be good for my karma.)
Now here is a situation where open source is truly beneficial.
What is funny for me is in the HHGTG books when they talk about the Krikket robots, I always imagined the Cybermen with a cricket bat.
Yeah I stopped watching Dr. Who shortly after Tom Baker left. Which coincidently was around the time I reached puberty and discovered girls (not saying anything about that just that girls became more interesting for me).
But now I am married and starting to watch the old ones again.
Yeah I liked Stripes better than Caddy Shack but that may be due to liking Bill Murray more than Chevy Chase. Although lately I have had an inkling to watch Porky's.
BTW I am 32.
But it isn't something new. During the Tom Baker years there were several times when there were 3 of them. Genesis of the daleks and Ark in Space come to mind. I think you can see the whole ark of time if you include k9 as a third entity.
not to mention thr grammer.
:)
You should talk
I have seen Animal House a couple of times and honestly I don't remember that scene. For me the memorable quotes are:
"They are on super-secret probation" or something like that and
"Food Fight"
The movie was good but I wouldn't say that memorable especially since it has been about a decade since I watched it.
May have to sit down and watch it again.
You lose all the detail if you don't have a wide screen TV
You lose a lot more than just detail if you go 4:3, you lose part of the picture. Mind you some directors are aware of the butchering that has been done to movies in the past when they were made widescreen and shrunk to "fit your tv" and are ensuring that their shots that are initially done in widescreen will show in fullscreen as well
Thing to keep in mind is that all of the "special features" justify the higher price plus the fact that you get better surround sound on DVDs thus making the value of the contents of the DVD outweight the difference in costs between DVD and VHS.
It isn't quite like the money grab that CDs are still.
I agree it would be ugly but that doesn't stop it from happening. However I do think there will be a lot of people wishing they hadn't paid so much for their realestate just because interest rates were high. I doubt it will hit epic levels but I could see 10% interest rates (pulled that out of the air no scientific proof but then again neither is the stock market)
never knew that but I was thinking also about all the other games they included:
Doom
Doom 2
Heretic
Hexen
bunch of expansion packs for Doom 2
Out of curiousity, why would you not sysprep your ghost images? THe only reason I could see is if you are making separate images for each workstation and you want to keep the same name etc.
Last place I was at had a yellow light but YMMV and that was more of a warning that ears who did not have need to know access were around.
Same thing happened with Quake on CD. id released a cd with Quake and all of their games. One keygenerator (I think it did a hask lookup) later and you had all of their software.
Nah we are off compiling some new network code and don't have access to the web :)
Maybe the zealotry has worn off.
I like Gentoo not for the whole compile stuff, just for the ease of use with updating packages and resolving dependencies. I know there is Debian and all but when I decided on a distro I flipped a coin and went with Gentoo
What would also be good is if it could be used to display any webpage which involves typing. Maybe in a subframe. Then you (or anybody) could use it anywhere.
Uh yeah it is. It's called an inputbox. You can give options, textboxes etc in vbscript.
Looks like they have finally realised that the {Li,U}n{u,i}x way of providing powerful command line utilities is actually pretty useful
I thought that was when they came out with vbscript. Essentially everything you can do in the gui can be scripted using vbs
What are you going to do if your wife gets pregnant
I will ask her who she is sleeping with as I got fixed a year or two ago. It was a choice we made as her background makes her highly susceptible to having post partum psychosis as well as birth defects. If we change our minds we have already decided we will adopt.
Having kids doesn't make you mature either looking at the crappy parents out there who think that the TV is a great babysitter or that throwing their kids in with a bunch of other kids will raise them, it only expands the experiences that a person will have. We have chosen right now to not have children and it has nothing to do with maturity. Maturity is not having kids because society says you need to and then expecting others to raise them. If we decide we want kids it will be on our own terms.
To quote Keanu Reeves in the only sensible thing he has ever said in a movie: "You need a license to drive a car, even to fish, but any asshole can be a parent"
The increased risk of cancer etc. is just statistics. You can make the same correlation with getting in an accident and eating carrots.
I was quite surprised to see Rocket Robin Hood on tv here in Canada a month ago as I watched over a quarter of a century ago. But what didn't surprise me was that it was made in Scarborough.
Cutting edge animation.... no. Similar to Spiderman but worse.
I wish I was in the same boat. I have the 5% downpayment but the difference in renting the apartment I am in now compared to a starter bungalow is about 450 a month more. i.e 900-1000 sqft bungalow is around 220-250k which would be about 1200 a month not including utils while I am paying a total of 918 including utils.
Equity is nice but I refuse to get into mortgage poverty. Plus market has slowed down a bit so I am hoping prices will become more reasonable as well.
But arguing that owning a condo == immature is inaccurate as in my area a lot of elderly are downsizing to condos as they want the less work and have no need for the house anymore.
Also I would say that not having a child does not make you immature, it just makes you mature differently. My wife and I have more or less decided that children are not in our future. Some people have said it is selfish. I don't think it is. I would rather have a child because I want one not because society/nature says so. Right now they don't fit in with our lifestyle. I think the mature thing is living our lifestyle than having a kid and trying to continue to do it otherwise.
Both myself and my wife do not believe in daycare as we have seen abandonment issues in pretty much every kid that we know who has and if you look at most of the statistics (yeah I know lies, damn lies and statistics) regarding juvenile offenders there is an underlying thread of daycare. For us, it is if you are going to have a child why not raise it yourself. Not sure yet who that will be.
Non-compete clauses are slippery. I know in Canada they can't stop you from working at other employers. It's against the law.
I had a small kerfuffle with a contracting company moving from them to another one as my contract was technically over (they wanted to extend it on a month by month basis) and they threatened to sue. I called their bluff and they backed down. The only people it hurt was the original contracting company as it made them look bad to all that was involved. Although I guess they got the last laugh once I found out how much they had been gouging the client before giving me my pay.