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Reply to Brad's Notes: 12/5/03 in Blogging JoeUser Forums

"Despite what Dvorak seems to think, there are a lot of bloggers out there. We're working on what we hope will become the definitive RSS reader. We're taking a bit different approach with it than the other readers I've seen in that we're going to try to make it very interactive over time." Bah. Bah I say. Dvorak's been absolutely out-of-touch with the computer world for well over a decade now. It's time his publishers realized this and put him out of his misery.

Reply to Day 24: Fallout 3 and Fallout 3 GotY for 30% Off! in Press Room JoeUser Forums

You know - after spending weeks on getting any flavour of Linux to cooperate with my wireless card & notebook - we went to my roommate's office and snagged the copy of VMWare 4 that they'd bought for him (that he had utterly no need for, prefering to dual boot.) So far, I've been less than impressed with 4's handling of Linux. 3 did so many things so much better. On the plus side, the VESA layer it provides is /much/ faster than it used to be. Using the Linux FB driver under

Reply to 4 reasons why consoles can't replace PCs for gaming in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

Decently written article, but agreed - many of the points are rather antiquated. I don't understand his whole 'point' about storage at all. Consoles will never match PCs for storage - but if you put a harddrive in a console it is no longer a console but a PC? Why - because that's the only way he can prove his point? I don't understand by what logic only a PC can have a harddrive. High-end printers have HDs. Perhaps he forgets that a console /is/ a computer in the first place? It's

Reply to Reviews: Max Payne 2 in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

Better than my review of Max Payne 2 would have been - and yes, I liked it. When I describe it to my friends, it tends to go like this: An absolute rip-off at $50 if you're expecting an actual game. As a game, MP2 is pretty abyssmal - however as a work of art, it's a great success. A $50 success? Not really. I think it's a rather bland, and non-spectacular game, to be fully honest. But like I said - to me, it's more of a work of art than an actual game. The 'graph

Reply to Solution to welfare: Contraception in Politics JoeUser Forums

"I've never met an intelligent high school drop out. And the statistics on poverty certainly don't help their case either." Would you consider me intelligent? Er, wait - that might be a loaded question. I'm a HS dropout. I don't deny it. I suppose I didn't drop out of HS for the same reason most people do though. Why did I drop out? Because HS -was- boring the hell out of me, and even though I was in the so called "advanced" classes they were still teaching me the EXACT sa

Reply to Blake Stone Returns in Blake Stone: Planet Strike in Press Room JoeUser Forums

Hrm... Aqua Teen Hunger Force or Sealab 2021. Tough call.

Reply to Consoles vs. PC Games: The writing is on the wall in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

"Electronic Purchasing. Yes. Sorry but PC gamers are going to have to stop bitching about the lack of diversity in games available at the local store. It ain't changing." Fortunately, we don't have that problem out here at either our Gamestop or our EB. In fact, you can even quite readily find Galactic Civilizations at them! ^_^ I wish I knew what youre sale numbers on it were like - because the guys at EB say it sells fairly well from their store. Anyway, both console and P

Reply to Live and Let Live in Politics JoeUser Forums

Actually - not wanting to start an argument or anything - but anybody -is- free to hate. You do not have to like it, you do not have to agree with it, it may be racist, it may be religious - but they are still fully, 100% free to hate.

Reply to Lack of National Will in Politics JoeUser Forums

Well, if you check defenselink.mil and a host of other sites, you'll find that the National Guard is usually rather active in doing things like fighting forest fires with their helicopters, as well as other forms of disaster relief. The Air National Guard also uses C130's for fighting forest fires quite often. Just one example, I know. "Moreover, is any research ever done about hurricanes and tornados?" This is also done - and quite a lot of money goes into it. In fa

Reply to Hard Drive Crashing in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

Ah! So that's what happened... Well, my roommate's office -does- have some IBM 7133 disk systems that are just sitting in their shipping boxes that we're trying to convince them to let us give a new home to... ^_^ Each one already nicely populated with drives... (We won't go into how -poorly- ran this company is...)

Reply to Vamos vs. Vaminos! in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Ahem. First - the verb 'to go' is 'ir' not 'voy'. Voy is the first person singular conjugation of 'ir' (an irregular verb.) (Yo) voy al almacén. As for vamos y vamonos - both are correct conjugations of the 'we' form of ir. They're different tenses/usages however. Vamos is the standard present tense conjugation, and vamonos is the imperative form of the same.

Reply to Celebrate the 10 Year Anniversary of The Sims with The Sims 3: High End Loft Stuff in Press Room JoeUser Forums

For centuries executions -were- done publicly, and they were considered great social events, too. Somewhere along the lines though, society as a whole decided that this was 'uncivilized' and so the practice went away. At least as late as the mid/late 90's, Alabama, Florida, Arizona and Iowa had all passed laws reinstating chain gangs. Many prisons /do/ house their prisoners in barracks-like conditions - though I admit I don't have the details of which ones off-hand. I read so

Reply to I hate work! in Misc JoeUser Forums

You could always trade places with my roommate... He winds up doing everybody else's work, and doesn't get any extra kind of compensation for it!

Reply to Death of the MTV Generation in Philosophy JoeUser Forums

"Buffy is a cult show," A cult show based off of a much more entertaining, funny, and original movie, I might add.

Reply to European vs. American views on capitalism, free speech in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I think, Draginol (very rarely...) Erm, let me start that over. Silly late-night posting. You hit it on the head, sorta. I believe that one of the reasons you (and Stardock,) has so many detractors isn't because you're capitalist - it's more because you're an /aggressive/ capitalist of sorts (and I say this as a good thing, mind you.) You aren't aggressive in the sense that you buy up all of your competition, or spend all of your time slandering it - instead, you're a

Reply to Getting rid of the bad apples in a net community in Blogging JoeUser Forums

"Judging from the list of behavioral indicators, I actually fall into this categorization of narcissist. The list is neatly and diligently compiled into a sensible list of patient manifestations, that is how I was able to identify." Anthony - I fully admit that when I saw that list, you were one of the first people I thought of, but there's still one /big/ difference. You can still post comments and say things in a civil manner, so I'm afraid you've still got some work to do. ^_~

Reply to When did they decide technology wasn't fun anymore? in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

"The same arguments can be said of the trade shows. Comdex used to be fun, PCExpo is dead and NetWorld InterOp killed itself by targeting the wrong audience." Everybody knows that the only good trade shows left are E3 and the Tokyo Games Show, Larry. ^_~

Reply to VASECTOMIES in Politics JoeUser Forums

Nhavar: It goes beyond education. You can 'educate' until you're blue in the face and idiots will continue to be idiots. Case in point: "Very often he'd get challenged on "just wear a condom" and he'd shoot back with something about "cramping his style" or some other nonsense." Oy. Yes - this is a common reply to that, sadly. It proves that the male is particularly being an idiot. HOWEVER, the second a woman gets told this, that it's "cramping his style," or that the man "

Reply to Penis size and spam in Misc JoeUser Forums

I need to edit myself. It authorizes the /FTC/ to establish a no-email list - not the FCC.

Reply to Penis size and spam in Misc JoeUser Forums

Well, Tech Cat, the current anti-spam legislation that's passed congress gives the FCC the authority to implement a "Do Not Email" registry much like the national do not call list. Unfortunately, it's a complete disaster in every other aspect of it - giving /way/ too many concessions to the marketers (such as making it impossible for anybody to actually -sue- a company.) I'm pretty sore about this new law though - it also manages to give a direct slap in the face to each state,

Reply to Getting rid of the bad apples in a net community in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Heh - I've said it before: Every now and then when I say something, I say something 'right'. Just don't get -too- used to it. ^_~ In this case, it just comes from many, many years of 'people watching' as a hobby. Friends used to call my a wanna-be psychologist - not because of any great amount of profundity or knowledge, just from the little things I'd learned to pick up from just watching and listening over the years. Of course, it's one of those things I can /never/ use w

Reply to When did they decide technology wasn't fun anymore? in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

(I really hate having hitting post too early...) I think another big factor here is the existance of all of the tech news sites that we read regularly - as well as the sheer amount of new news, and the speed it all occurs now. Compare the turnaround time for a traditional print magazine compared to a website. An article printed in a traditional print mag was written at /least/ 30 days before the magazine was published, in general. Now, years ago, this didn't make as much of a

Reply to When did they decide technology wasn't fun anymore? in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

This is why magazines like Boot exist - or at least, used to exist. Unfortunately, now Boot has become Maximum PC - and while they still work semi-hard at keeping it fun and interesting, somewhere along the lines they've lost their focus of being oriented towards power users, are are now just a 'trendy' magazine for neophytes and average users - despite what they say. (And yet, I still have my subscription. ^.^) At one time Wired was a good magazine too (back in the early-mid

Reply to Getting rid of the bad apples in a net community in Blogging JoeUser Forums

"And as bastardly as it may sound, over the years I've become increasingly intolerant of them." From what I've seen from people like myself and others who have been around online for ages (I still remembering dialing up BBSes with our expensive 300 baud modem on our German apple clone,) is that your attitude isn't the exception to things. It seems to be how must people who've been online for 'a long time' seem to feel. ^_^ "people get aggressive online because they know no on

Reply to Depleted Uranium in Politics JoeUser Forums

Even pathetic attempts at witticisms fail me tonight so instead, I offer: "The Health Hazards of Depleted Uranium" Parts 1 and 2 by the UK Royal Society. Part 1 focuses on radiological risks, and part 2 focues on potential environmental issues & toxicity - it even touches risks to civilian populations. http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/files/statfiles/document-143.pdf (part I) http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/files/statfiles/document-167.pdf (part II) Those, as well as the resu