Does it have the annoying voice-overs that try to pack in narrative elements from the book that are more or less unecessary in the movie? (I'm assuming this is the Dune movie with a young Sting and an even younger Patrick Stewart.)
My site contains stuff that's mostly visual (artwork folios, fancy case mod, link to my Lexa Doig wallpaper hosted off-site) that I doubt it matters. Anyway, I get maybe five hits a day. It's quite possible I've never had a blind person visit my site.
Microsoft is only doing stupid things with its products. The RIAA is doing stupid things with its customers, and SCO are doing stupid things with other people's customers.
Telcos are refusing to monitor due to the added cost, nothing more.
At the risk of my karma, I'd just like to say that this whole thing is getting to the point where I just wish the RIAA would fuck off and die, and take SCO with them. How do companies survive so long after so many people actively loath them?
My personal site uses a simple image of my email address with no link. So far no spam, but the odd real email. Even if it does start getting spam, it's a Spamcop address. At work, we have a generic text-only active link as you would expect for reception. For individual emails you need to be logged onto our student/staff portal.
Meanwhile, I'm keeping an eye out for the next technology to replace email. IM was promising about five years ago, but went to hell faster than email.
Apparently it's less accurate, particularly whenever a tune is considered to be better than average. When you're dealing with hybrid digital/analogue output devices, the Real Thing(TM) is always better than emulation.
I want to run Linux under Windows, is there a product to do this? A single file on my Windows PC with the entire Linux OS in it, ssh access as standard with the ability to install VNC for X would be ideal.
For those of you without access to a real SID anymore, I've just started slowly recording the better tunes from the "High Voltage SID Collection" using a real SID installed in my Catweasel MK3. I take requests. My current request list includes: Shadow of the Beast, Blood money, The intro from Shaped Up/Shape, Batman/JCH, Theme tune to Ghouls and Ghosts, GRG in Cyberspace, Kurt and doris are in love (puterman).
There's a GBA version coming out with some modern homebrew titles too. Since it can render the games fine if you want a collection on your Gamecube, just buy it and the GB Player.
They should bundle it. A Linux kit plus the Open Office suite and Mozilla would make it more of a personal computer than the C64 or Atari 8-bits ever were.
A few jobs back I was fairly outspoken about the level of software piracy in a certain university department. An external software audit had been announced for early Feb and I had finally decided to take some leave over Christmas and the New Year. On the day before my leave was to start, the guy who had just been dressed up in a Santa costume for the Christmas morning tea thing (my boss's boss), came into my office and told me things weren't working it and I wasn't to come in again and that my contract would be paid out in full. If I didn't leave quietly then they'd use their position as a reputable university department to sabotage the reast of my working life. I only found out later that they were not a reputable university department.
If so many power generation facilities weren't so damn toxic, it wouldn't be such a problem.
Meanwhile, I'd be willing to invest in solar panels and/or wind generation if it was a bit easier (but not necessarily cheaper) to hook into the grid. And if everyone generated even a bit of their own power then many of these problems would go away.
Since there's a pre-built mod that does S-Video/AV out and subsequently handles power nicely, PLUS the official GB Player for the GC that you add a screen and battery pack to, this mod is kinda pointless.
Now, if the guy had produced a cartridge with a real, full-sized slot for, say, Atari 2600 (insert your favourite old console here) carts which were than played with an emulater, that would be a "console hack".
Yeah, well, I bought a Zalman NR heatsink -- one of those huge paper-fan-like heatsinks, but since someone had the wonderful idea of putting the CPU close to the power supply because of the fans in it, the damn thing doesn't fit.
A leaked screener may or may not be the reason that I didn't see LotR:TTT at the cinema. That it's a purile, badly-told, pointless story also may or may not have been the reason.
What you say is assumed for the first set of reviews. How long do you think we should wait? The answer is that we shouldn't, but we should be open to revising our opinion as new information and better testing arrives.
I vetoed a plan to make publicly available a database of questionable security that I developed for internal consumption only. I could demonstrate at least a dozen ways that security could be compromised, most of which I've addressed in my more recent development project (killing the session if any variables are passed on the address line, turning less than and greater than signs in user-submitted text blocks into their ampersand enties, that sort of thing).
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Does it have the annoying voice-overs that try to pack in narrative elements from the book that are more or less unecessary in the movie? (I'm assuming this is the Dune movie with a young Sting and an even younger Patrick Stewart.)
My site contains stuff that's mostly visual (artwork folios, fancy case mod, link to my Lexa Doig wallpaper hosted off-site) that I doubt it matters. Anyway, I get maybe five hits a day. It's quite possible I've never had a blind person visit my site.
Microsoft is only doing stupid things with its products. The RIAA is doing stupid things with its customers, and SCO are doing stupid things with other people's customers.
At the risk of my karma, I'd just like to say that this whole thing is getting to the point where I just wish the RIAA would fuck off and die, and take SCO with them. How do companies survive so long after so many people actively loath them?
Cool, thanks.
Meanwhile, I'm keeping an eye out for the next technology to replace email. IM was promising about five years ago, but went to hell faster than email.
Apparently it's less accurate, particularly whenever a tune is considered to be better than average. When you're dealing with hybrid digital/analogue output devices, the Real Thing(TM) is always better than emulation.
I want to run Linux under Windows, is there a product to do this? A single file on my Windows PC with the entire Linux OS in it, ssh access as standard with the ability to install VNC for X would be ideal.
Okay, I'll bite. What does "NLP" stand for. No doubt I've heard the phrase, just never seen the TLA.
For those of you without access to a real SID anymore, I've just started slowly recording the better tunes from the "High Voltage SID Collection" using a real SID installed in my Catweasel MK3. I take requests. My current request list includes: Shadow of the Beast, Blood money, The intro from Shaped Up/Shape, Batman/JCH, Theme tune to Ghouls and Ghosts, GRG in Cyberspace, Kurt and doris are in love (puterman).
There's a GBA version coming out with some modern homebrew titles too. Since it can render the games fine if you want a collection on your Gamecube, just buy it and the GB Player.
I know yours works because of the brackets, try it with some letters too.
They should bundle it. A Linux kit plus the Open Office suite and Mozilla would make it more of a personal computer than the C64 or Atari 8-bits ever were.
A few jobs back I was fairly outspoken about the level of software piracy in a certain university department. An external software audit had been announced for early Feb and I had finally decided to take some leave over Christmas and the New Year. On the day before my leave was to start, the guy who had just been dressed up in a Santa costume for the Christmas morning tea thing (my boss's boss), came into my office and told me things weren't working it and I wasn't to come in again and that my contract would be paid out in full. If I didn't leave quietly then they'd use their position as a reputable university department to sabotage the reast of my working life. I only found out later that they were not a reputable university department.
Or just buy Activision Anthology with, what, 30+ games for A$49.95.
Better physics, no objects passing-through other objects, better AI. There's heaps of room to move, just not in the eye-candy area.
Chainmail. You should wear gloves that bounce off the sawblade. Checkout what butchers wear when using the big electric meat saw.
If so many power generation facilities weren't so damn toxic, it wouldn't be such a problem.
Meanwhile, I'd be willing to invest in solar panels and/or wind generation if it was a bit easier (but not necessarily cheaper) to hook into the grid. And if everyone generated even a bit of their own power then many of these problems would go away.
How about purchasing less food that needs refridgeration and some candles? (And a GBAsp.)
Now, if the guy had produced a cartridge with a real, full-sized slot for, say, Atari 2600 (insert your favourite old console here) carts which were than played with an emulater, that would be a "console hack".
Yeah, well, I bought a Zalman NR heatsink -- one of those huge paper-fan-like heatsinks, but since someone had the wonderful idea of putting the CPU close to the power supply because of the fans in it, the damn thing doesn't fit.
A leaked screener may or may not be the reason that I didn't see LotR:TTT at the cinema. That it's a purile, badly-told, pointless story also may or may not have been the reason.
What you say is assumed for the first set of reviews. How long do you think we should wait? The answer is that we shouldn't, but we should be open to revising our opinion as new information and better testing arrives.
Given that email is full of spam and IM is full of, well, this crap, is there a nicer way for people to communicate on the Interweb?
I vetoed a plan to make publicly available a database of questionable security that I developed for internal consumption only. I could demonstrate at least a dozen ways that security could be compromised, most of which I've addressed in my more recent development project (killing the session if any variables are passed on the address line, turning less than and greater than signs in user-submitted text blocks into their ampersand enties, that sort of thing).