Post by emmelPost by Neo<snip>
Post by emmelPost by NeoPost by emmelPost by NeoIt is worse.
With iDEAL you can buy stuff in web stores. But there is a picture of
which number you should type to confirm your payment to the bank.
That picture is completely gone in Opera. It used to be there, but they
'fixed' it.
Now nobody I know uses Opera for online payment (well, my dad did but I
warned him of this).
Shupid system. Not Opera's fault. (You could log a bug, you know...)
Actually. I have my bank's site as the homepage in Internet Explorer.
I use Internet Explorer exclusively for banking, and I check the 'lock'
and the site each time I do.
That's just so wrong.
1. Is your computer fully updated?
(yes)
2. Are you at the correct site?
(see above)
3. Check if your payments are correct.
(I actually have a 'paper trail', so that is pretty good also, and
pretty unusual in Holland these days)
My paper trail is PDF...
Bits and Bytes are volatile by their very nature.
Unless you print them out on paper!
Post by emmelPost by NeoNot that our government has a clue a about IT btw.
Naturally.
Not that they are even trying...
Post by emmelPost by NeoPost by emmelPost by NeoPost by emmelPost by NeoPost by emmelThere are several books I thing that about.
It is better to have too many books, than to have nothing at all to
read when you feel like it.
Have. As in already bought.
So how many books do you own (not related to physics).
A hell of a lot more than physics related ones.
So how many meters do you own? How much of your wall is covered with
bookshelves?
Dunno. Five? Something like that.
That is a lot!
More than I have, and I am older than you.
I have 3m of computer games though. 3 shelves high (though there is a
meter of DVD's too). All legal!
Post by emmelPost by NeoPost by emmelPost by NeoPost by emmelPost by NeoPost by emmelD E D - dead.
Red Dragon had some problems of her own she confessed here. But I have
my hands full with you and hoping you can get through the hard parts of
your life. Like no university and no girlfriend (did you know those two
things were true for me at some time?).
Like university, but no girlfriend.
I didn't have any female companions till a few years ago. And she
picked me, so there must be hope for you also.
Hope dies last. But it *does* look pretty dead to me by now.
I promise you, by the time you have been together with a girl for two
years, you can't wait to be alone and on your own again.
That's what you say.
Depends on the girl I guess.
Mine tends to talk a lot.
About things that don't interest me (mostly about herself).
I don't want to be rude to her, but it gets on my nerves after a while!
Post by emmelPost by NeoTrue love is *very* rare. Especially these days where everybody is
swamped by information and data. And where noone has any time left to
think of feel.
Yeah. But... One can hope, eh?
"It is not the despair. I can handle the despair. It is the *hope* that
is driving my crazy" - Clockwise, John Cleese as the headmaster.
Post by emmelPost by NeoPost by emmelPost by NeoPost by emmelPost by NeoBut I bet Red Dragon will return soon here because of the holidays!
You and Red Dragon would look good together. Except that I have no idea
what you both look like.
<g>
Is Red Dragon a goth? I can't remember.
She was very skinny right?
How the hell am I supposed to know? It's not like girls send my
photographs all the time. Or at all. And that's not limited to girls. Or
Photographs. I suck.
Post by NeoAnd made her own soap out of human flesh or something.
I don't think human flesh was involved.
She would have reacted to his has she still lurked, wouldn't she?
Yes...
We need to RP her out of the group.
Post by emmelPost by NeoI am told I have an edge in annoying females. Must have something to do
with growing up with a younger sister (or in her case, an older
brother).
Not necessarily. Aren't siblings supposed to help matters?
You learn to fight when you have brothers or sisters. And you learn to
manipulate your parents into taking your side.
I don't know if that is good.
Post by emmelPost by NeoI think it is pretty bad manners to tell someone on usenet that you are
depressed, and then disappear without a trace.
Or tell people you are dying when you are not...
We are all dying, emmel.
We started to die, before we were even born.
Post by emmelPost by NeoAnd I have been in suicide groups on the internet (for very short
amounts of time because it is not really my thing to be busy with for
longer periods of time).
I guess you can get suicidal there.
It is actually quite nice to have similar minded people talking to you
about their problems.
But governments do not like these sites because they think it costs
them votes. (or gains them votes by attacking these sites in public).
In Holland they will put lights and camera's with speakers at railroad
crossing now.
Especially near mental institutions there are a lot of 'jumpers' they
say. (and I don't blame them for wanting to jump). It is just that
other people have to clean up the mess. Not something I would be eager
to do. But so is walking back to the mental institution you are forced
to life in.
Maybe they should make life more worth living for mental patients, and
then they wouldn't think of ways to kill themselves all day long!
I mean there is depression.
But it is not just depressed people that jump in front of trains.
Really depressed people just lay in bed all day, feeling miserable. Not
jumping in front of trains.
Post by emmelPost by NeoPost by emmelPost by NeoPost by emmelPost by NeoPost by emmelEvery now and then, but I haven't updated the one on site in ages. I
just can't find enough time to write. I need me-time for that. Me on my
own with nothing to do for longer stretches of time.
That is the best news I heard in months!
Isn't.
Why? Would you rather have done other things with that time?
I love writing.
If you really love writing, you will find time to do so.
Your eternal optimism. It's nothing I can squeeze in. It requires a
certain mind set and I have trouble find that lately.
Talk about mindset.
I buy games for my one year old game rig, but I never play them. I
never even install them!
I used to love gaming. That all changed. That is for sure.
I keep waiting and waiting and then there are months gone without
playing any game.
I browse the web a lot. Same sites every day. All day long.
Wonder if I am addicted to 'the internet'.
I do get a good feeling from it. And I feel miserable without it.
Post by emmelPost by NeoAnd if your writing is really worth reading (which I think it is), you
will convince a publisher to buy your book.
Actually I think my chances are very slim on that one. Even if it was
good enough I tend to be very protective about my intellectual property
and that doesn't sit too well with publishers, I guess.
You need to influence the right people.
If you go through the 'proper channels', your chances are indeed slim.
There is a lot of competition for these stories since the Lord of the
Rings and Harry Potter movies.
But I would read your stories, you know I have so far!
Post by emmelPost by NeoAnd your stories are very easy to write sequels for by their very
nature. So you will never run out of stuff to write.
You think so? Their nature is actually quite closed. Or will be once I
write the end.
I have never seen you finish a story here on AGC :-)
Post by emmelPost by NeoPost by emmelPost by NeoPost by emmelPost by NeoPost by emmelPost by NeoPost by emmelPost by NeoYou have to start small. Like getting out of bed ::hurray::. Washing
yourself and getting dressed ::hurray::. Brushing your teeth before you
That's... depressing.
Very depressing.
Oh my...
Isn't it obvious?
No it is not. It is not me, is it?
Emphasizing such small things gives me the very distinct feeling that I
have failed big time. As if I need a reminder of that.
I live with that feeling every single day.
Sometimes I feel despair too. But not often these days.
Post by emmelPost by NeoPost by emmelPost by NeoPost by emmelPost by NeoPost by emmelPost by NeoIt seems they add a new processor instruction set every generation. And
they number these generations :-( Like SSE4.
I know.
Post by NeoI think 'we' don't need more instructions, we need faster instructions
and lower power usage! And larger caches!
That didn't exactly work out. Less general specialist designs easily
beat the specialist ones. That was what made the Amiga so powerful back
in the day and indeed what makes CUDA worthwhile.
CUDA? Is that an amiga emulator?
Nope, NVidia's parallel programming thingamajig (Hey, it's been ages
since I used that one!) for GPUs.
Now you have OpenCL right?
Huh?
It is not a typo.
I first saw it on the site from apple. It being supported in Snow
Leopard. http://www.apple.com/de/macosx/technology/#opencl
Whatever.
ATI Catalyst drivers for Windows have support for it too!
Post by emmelPost by NeoPost by emmelPost by NeoPost by emmelPost by NeoThat was in 199x, but seems like a potential buffer overflow to me.
a test program to see if any data in the allocated space was mangled.
Which it was.
Very simple program, but too much trouble to investigate for the
student helper. You can see why my happiness in life took a wrong turn
at that point.
Yeeeees. Kinda.
But now I have time to do what I always wanted to do!
Post to usenet, update my computer and read my e-mail (if I get any).
That's somehow sad. I get only spam, really.
It is happening to me too. I wonder if it is me, that people are afraid
of me. I can get quite annoyed by not being replied to in certain mails.
Some people have learned to reply to me, but they hardly send me
something by themselves.
Girlfriend takes care of the lonely feeling however. I give her that. I
haven't felt lonely since I met her. And that is worth something.
You are lucky.
I know :-) :-)
Yet I accomplish little every day. Except patching my computers and
those of my parents.
I think I am pretty secure unless I attract the attention of the TLA.
And they have no right to be inside my computer!!
Post by emmelPost by NeoPost by emmelPost by NeoPost by emmelPost by NeoPost by emmelPost by NeoPost by emmelPost by NeoPost by emmelPost by NeoBut the fast parts were in assembler.
Only a few bits. And: Not portable.
Large computer games have never been portable (except Quake III maybe).
Oh, Quake I and II as well. And C3/DS...
That's all?
Alpha Centauri. There have been a few more in the good old Loki days.
Not many since.
I love Alpha Centauri!
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to run any more.
Have you tried firaxis' site? They have an W2K/XP patch.
And that helps with the Linux version how exactly?
Can't you dual-boot a cracked version of windows XP?
Nah, my legal Windows occupies that space...
I have installed Windows 98SE. Then Windows XP (dual boot). Then Ubuntu
(or I think I could).
Problem is that my S-ATA harddisk cannot run Windows 98SE. And I tried.
The S-ATA on my Asus motherboard will only run as RAID. And There is no
RAID floppy for Windows 98SE. If it was able to start at all :-(
My new motherboard is incompatible with Windows 98SE. If this machines
breaks down. I will have no way to play Windows 9x games any more.
Post by emmelPost by NeoYou just don't put it on the internet (by removing the ethernet drivers
preferably). Just for games!
I run Vista32, XP and Xubuntu. (And Snow Leopard).
Windows 7 is quite nice, actually. But unfortunately they removed the
Unix compat stuff from Professional.
It would be even nicer if my dad had a manual for it!
He spend hours figuring out why his programs disappeared when he moved
the mouse to the lower right corner.
The taskbar isn't the same either any more. It is different, but I
wouldn't call it better.
Post by emmelPost by NeoPost by emmelPost by NeoPost by emmelPost by NeoDid you know Civilization V is in the making? It will have to do until
they do a remake of AC!
What is 'loki'?
A company porting games to Linux. Went out of business years ago.
Publishers probably saw no future in their games running on linux.
Not exactly. They just couldn't get enough money from the ports. With
them being released quite some time after the windows version...
Another problem is that the linux crowd likes to get things for free.
As in free beer.
Not really. I mean everyone does, but there's enough commercial stuff
for Linux.
Like Open Solaris no longer being open.
Post by emmelPost by NeoPost by emmelPost by NeoPost by emmelPost by NeoPost by emmelPost by NeoPost by emmelPost by NeoThough I had big trouble getting her to leave my flat yesterday. I
think she stayed till almost 2 am (and I was getting very tired way
before that).
Erm, bed? I don't quite see the problem.
No, she just watches tv till I throw her out each day.
Oh. Shame.
On the other hand, she will be making some kind of fresh fruit salad
today for us both. I am very curious how that will turn out.
Tasty, I can only hope.
It was very nice :-) I would never make such things just for myself.
Nice? That sounds that a death sentence.
It is actually pretty good!
Should have said so. You never call anything nice when woman or cooking
are involved.
She would get used to my flattery. What is worse, she would see through
it! And punish me in some way!
Post by emmelPost by NeoShe is the kind of girl that will burn the meat when she cooks normal
food. So I normally do the cooking.
Hey, I can do that.
The burning bit, or the cooking bit?
Post by emmelPost by NeoPost by emmelPost by NeoPost by emmelPost by NeoPost by emmelPost by NeoIt is a good thing when you don't kill somebody.
Depends entirely on the person in question.
Nah, killing is always bad because the bad spirits or the person you
kill will start living inside yourself.
Erm...
Ok. Call it 'karma'.
Calling it differently doesn't change a thing.
You obviously don't understand anything about politics ;-)
Or commerce.
Maybe I just refuse to lower myself onto their turf?
That reminds me of Babylon 5. The dialogue went something like that: We
don't have homeless anymore on Earth. (That was the last one in three
things, I think.) - When did that happen? - When we rewrote the
dictionary.
NewSpeak at its best. Now where's my DoubleSpeak Dictonary?
We have low unemployment in Holland.
What they forget is that there is a lot of 'security' related jobs that
weren't there ten years ago!!
Besides, home is where your bottle of whiskey is :-) At least I imagine
it to be like that.
Post by emmelPost by NeoPost by emmelPost by NeoPost by emmelPost by NeoIn fact, imagine that hitler didn't get himself elected in 193x. You
wouldn't have such good privacy laws now in Germany as you do have now.
And zionists would still be without a country of their own.
Sometimes bad things must happen to get a better world.
Erm...
It is a fact that without Hitler, there wouldn't be a zionist state.
The good privacy laws are probably more a result of the stasi in the
DDR.
You are exaggerating.
I probably am. But that doesn't make it untrue.
Zionists gained greatly from the WWII.
I just think that most regular jews didn't. (The kind that doesn't give
a damn about Israel, and who just want to practice their believe in
JHWH without getting killed by nazi's).
To me, Israel is a religious theme park. Even though I do believe in
JHWH.
I think you are being to harsh. Theme park religion more fits those
American fundamentalists.
I try not to have an opinion on Israel. But they make it very hard for
people to not have an opinion on it!
I mean, burning civilians with phosphor. Israel is the only country in
the world that can get away with that. And why? Not because of what
Hitler did to the jews I hope. That was over half a century ago!
I think all the zionists should move to Holland and give their holy
land back to the infidels. I don't know if we have room here, but they
would be welcome here from my point of view. Problem solved.
Post by emmelPost by NeoPost by emmelPost by NeoPost by emmelPost by NeoWhat if Jesus wasn't crucified? We might not have Christianity at all
if that didn't happen!
And where's the problem exactly?
We would be poli-religious?
And?
non-religious?
And?
Pick your religion.
Fight for it's believes.
Kill the non-believers!
Post by emmelPost by NeoPost by emmelPost by NeoPost by emmelPost by NeoPost by emmelPost by NeoPost by emmelPost by NeoPost by emmelPost by NeoThe BFG is the bait.
A bait that delivers delicious nuclear doom...
If you make it that far down the alley leading to it. With me somewhere
at a random angle from the entry to it.
But it has a nice fire rate. For five seconds or so...
If you camp the spawn place of the BFG, that is not a problem.
Besides, you get killed with a BFG well within 5 seconds!!
Indeed.
I camped the BFG when I played on my LAN with a friend who is very much
addicted to Quake III. You swim under water till you go up, and then
there is a stair left and right. I sat somewhere waiting for him on
those stairs, and he just couldn't get to the BFG before I killed him.
Not that we are very good players. But before I camped I kept getting
shot by his BFG. We had some bots too. So killing them a lot would mean
you won also.
Bots were easy.
I tried to ignore they were bots with known paths. Just run like crazy
to get the most kills! Dying isn't that bad if you get 100 health back
instead of the 12 you had before you met your doom.
I liked sniping.
I have a 'Headshot' t-shirt. It is a skull getting a bullet through it
in yellow and black. I freaked out a psychiatrist with that t-shirt.
But when I explained it was from FPS games, he understood.
You did freak him out on purpose, didn't you?
I did actually, but I didn't expect him to actually freak out!
Neo
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