Forum: Geeks' Lounge Nov 24th, 2004 |
| Replies: 9 Views: 4,870 Platoon, a small indie film used it.
And the idea of the cave isn't that profound. Something similar was believed by many religions prior to Plato's life. |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Nov 22nd, 2004 |
| Replies: 7 Views: 3,534 Besides the fact that I was horribly disaapointed with gameplay and it has the worst ending of any game ever created, I enjoyed it. |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Nov 22nd, 2004 |
| Replies: 9 Views: 4,870 No, it isn't. Many indie films did it long before the Matrix. |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Nov 21st, 2004 |
| Replies: 9 Views: 4,870 There is more to philosophy than simply ontology. There's religous philosophy, linguistics, psychology, ethics, epistemology, etc. |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Nov 21st, 2004 |
| Replies: 31 Views: 7,074 I use Safari 90% of the time, as any Mac user should. Other than that I use Lynx and FireFox sometimes. |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Nov 21st, 2004 |
| Replies: 16 Views: 5,509 Most mail servers have some pretty blatant vulnerabilities. I've used a few to get into servers before (legally, I was fussing with my friend's server.) |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Nov 21st, 2004 |
| Replies: 9 Views: 4,870 I've read parts of "The Matrix and Philosophy" and it's mostly psuedo-intellectual crap, just like the movies are. Matrix is nothing but a poorly done allegory of Plato's "cave". If you want some... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Nov 3rd, 2004 |
| Replies: 54 Views: 12,739 Puppet government? Take a look at any of the other countries that have been invaded by the U.S. recently. They have all had puppets leaders like Pinochet, Noreaga, or the Contras. Anyone with a basic... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Oct 29th, 2004 |
| Replies: 54 Views: 12,739 Who needs green trees when you've got green dollars? |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Oct 20th, 2004 |
| Replies: 10 Views: 3,509 NetNewsWire is my favorite. |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Oct 20th, 2004 |
| Replies: 54 Views: 12,739 "I graduated from Yale University with a low C average. Unlike my counterpart George Bush, I have no higher education and did not get admitted to Harvard nor graduate with an M.B.A "
Claiming Bush... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Oct 18th, 2004 |
| Replies: 54 Views: 12,739 I know that, but his policies aren't that liberal. The CPUSA are just supporting him to get rid of Bush. I'm personally a member or the Socialist Party, which has it's own candidates, but most of us... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Oct 9th, 2004 |
| Replies: 54 Views: 12,739 |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Oct 8th, 2004 |
| Replies: 13 Views: 2,809 Regardless of whether or not there were WMD's, it was an immoral war, but that's not the point. Bush went in with not nearly enough troops. Even conservatives (Franks, Novak, Bremmer, and others)... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Oct 7th, 2004 |
| Replies: 54 Views: 12,739 It was like watching a kid with cerebral palsy being beat with a cattle prod for an hour and a half. |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Oct 7th, 2004 |
| Replies: 13 Views: 2,809 Have you watched the news within the past 6 months? Many military strategists and political scientists suggest that atleast 200,000-300,000 troops, 3x the current numbers. I oppose the draft, as it's... |
Forum: Cellphones, PDAs and Handheld Devices Oct 6th, 2004 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 3,018 It's wierd that the PDA won't accept it, my Tungsten C will accept any styluses. You can even use you finger. What kind of device are you using? |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Oct 2nd, 2004 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 4,659 You can't get a Pentium processor in an iBook. Pentiums run on the x86 architecture, where as Apples use PowerPC, thus your Powerbook would be a g3/g4. After some quick checking on E-Bay I've found... |
Forum: Website Reviews Oct 1st, 2004 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 3,241 Very nice site, easy to navigate and looks professional. |
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Oct 1st, 2004 |
| Replies: 15 Views: 5,203 As an avid Mac user, I'm repulsed by his theft of Mac's ideas and the Windows system in general. I wouldn't go so far to call him evil, he's done a lot of good things with his money. |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Sep 30th, 2004 |
| Replies: 20 Views: 4,669 Post your favorite books of all time.
Mine:
- Being and Nothingness - Jean-Paul Sartre
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietszche
- Hegemony or Survival - Noam Chomsky
- Dress Your... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Sep 30th, 2004 |
| Replies: 54 Views: 12,739 I wasn't alive during the Chile conflict either, but it was essentially when the U.S. took out one leader (who many revered, many hated.) and put in one that was even worse and was nothing but a... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Sep 29th, 2004 |
| Replies: 54 Views: 12,739 It will inevitably become a puppet government. Look at Chile, 1973. |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Sep 29th, 2004 |
| Replies: 54 Views: 12,739 With a puppet government? |
Forum: Ad Space for Sale Sep 27th, 2004 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 3,621 I'm paying $5 to each person I can find to advertise AppleReport.com in their signuatures at various technical forums. E-mail with details on where you'll be posting and for details.... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Sep 26th, 2004 |
| Replies: 54 Views: 12,739 I'm reluctantly supporting Kerry. He's not far enough to the left for me, but he's better than Bush. I would support Nader or the Socialist Party USA candidate, but my time is better spent with Kerry... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Sep 22nd, 2004 |
| Replies: 12 Views: 4,082 You could get a tutor, many schools offer them for free. You may also want to pay better attention, participate a lot, I found that helped me get it.
Another thing is to get some DVDs and set them... |
Forum: Relevant Link Exchanges Sep 22nd, 2004 |
| Replies: 2 Views: 3,201 |
Forum: Growing an Online Community Sep 20th, 2004 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 2,638 I'll do it.
http://www.applereport.com/forum |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Sep 20th, 2004 |
| Replies: 52 Views: 14,411 I see it as my duty to use my "powers" to do things to people I don't like. |
Forum: OS X Sep 19th, 2004 |
| Replies: 3 Views: 26,382 Sometimes .exe's are compressed files and can be uncompressed with StuffIt. It's rare, but it's happened to me a a few times. |
Forum: OS X Sep 15th, 2004 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 4,203 I had the same problem, but I fixed it. The .SD_Helper thing is from Speed Download, which you seem to have download. There's an uninstall app in the Speed Download folder, or you can do it yourself... |
Forum: Posting Games Sep 15th, 2004 |
| Replies: 7,595 Views: 661,792 |
Forum: OS X Sep 14th, 2004 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 6,011 There's a setting that makes your screen saver goon everytime you put your mouse in the corner. You can turn it off in the Screensaver Prefs pannel. |
Forum: Growing an Online Community Sep 14th, 2004 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 2,870 It's a programming language that lets you do a lot more than with HTML. |
Forum: Growing an Online Community Sep 14th, 2004 |
| Replies: 4 Views: 2,870 There's a large range of software you can use. PHPBB, Invision Powerboard, and VBulliten are the most popular currently. PHPBB and IPB are both free and offer god services. VBulliten is $160 (I... |
Forum: OS X Sep 14th, 2004 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 3,327 You can send most program to the trash. If you need to do more than that the application will usually have an uninstalling app inside the folder.
As for windows things, there are Mac equivalents... |
Forum: Posting Games Sep 14th, 2004 |
| Replies: 7,595 Views: 661,792 |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Sep 14th, 2004 |
| Replies: 1 Views: 1,515 Nifty, it's the music from "Fight Club".
Anyways, while this is an interesting video, I know it's been debunked by many people. Not all of them are the nutty right wing patriots, either. Repected... |
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Sep 14th, 2004 |
| Replies: 60 Views: 11,389 Yep. It's a great game. I played it for 200 hours before even starting the first mission. |