I've been waiting and waiting to be interviewed and nothing happens... maybe they don't care about old school code or something, but I found the lack of interest somewhat strange.
Was there something interesting in the code, though???
A friend found a digital camera on the street, and we downloaded the pictures. Obviously tourists from Italy (I researched the obscure camera -pun intended- model, and only found references in italian) who then went to Spain before crossing the pond. And pictures of a neo-nazi meeting, as well as one of the guy's arses.
Still, the rest of the world isn't a whole hell of a lot better. Think we're conservative? Check the Middle East bub. At least our religious whackos haven't taken over yet.
Just wait till Shrub gets re-elected. He won't have to worry for re-election, so he'll do as he pleases. And it won't be much different from the talibans...
Instead, for the 4th time in his political career, the liberal media is making the *still* unfounded allegations that Bush went AWOL, even though he earned his required points every year he was in the guard.
If Bush WAS in the national guard, there would surely be no shortage of vets that would step forward and say so, just like there was no shortage of Viêt-Nàm vets who stepped forward to badmouth Kerry, no?
Whereas in Star Wars, Lucas is in love with his new found ability to change stuff at the last minute and not let any of this second-opinion peer-review stuff get in the way of his "vision" getting heaped in a big pile of pixels.
I guess this started with Return of the Jedi, when, in order to keep the story ending secret to the last minute, he shot the actors doing really ambiguous stuff, to insure they could not figure it out. He then fixed it all in the cutting room...
(If you ask me, I would have made ROTJ end up with Luke flipping to the dark side seconds before the Death Star II was blown-up, and he would have been considered a martyr by the rebels...)
Most chromakey technology these days uses a truly hideous green that's less likely to conflict with clothing or props.
Funny; when I started to make transparent GIFs, I had to use some extra-program to put the transparency on, and I used #FFFF00 as the colour for the transparency...
The thing that keeps me awake nights is: What happens if some disgruntled ex-employee (there are two floating around out there) decides to seek vengeance against us by targetting us in an extortion scheme?
That one is easy to fix. Management only needs to make sure that there are no ex-disgruntled employees...
Lucas intended to show Han actually being threatened by Greedo. Lucas probably thought that this would be obvious by the fact that Greedo had his gun drawn and was making threatening statements. In Lucas's mind, this was self-defense, although Han's cavalier attitude towards the killing ("Sorry 'bout the mess") still fit into his pragmatic, mercenary attitude (both you and Leia seem to like a scoundrel).
However, many people took this scene to mean that Han offed a guy who wasn't an imminent threat to him. Those people probably liked the idea, and thus they think that Lucas somehow changed Han's character by clarifying the scene.
Many people must be total retards to not see the obvious things you state above. When I saw the "original"
version, back in '77 or '78, I certainly didn't blink when Han "shot
Greedo first"; I actually thought that Solo was
quite a sharp character to get rid of Greedo that
fast.
In the Cantina scene, in the original version, Han Solo whacks the dumbass bounty hunter Greedo with a pre-emptive shot from beneath the table, thus cementing in everyones eyes his total badassness.
That badassness? Solo simply shoots Greedo when
he has a chance, since he knows very well that
if he doesn't, he's toast.
The badass there is Greedo who wants the bounty
Jabba has put on Solo.
Watch, MS will copyright some key element that allows the OS to interface with the USB devices - prohibiting anyone from making compatible software.
The DMCA only works in the USA. Hence it won't
prevent anyone from hosting the proper driver on
a site outside the US (say, in Windsor, Ontario)
and publishing instructions on how to install it.
What if a country who cares about it's citizen's rights (like Germany, where Macrovision is illegal, because it prevents backups)
and decides to OUTLAW the copy-protection
scheme?
Some months ago, a visitor was taking a shower; he managed to
totally unscrew the hot-water faucet handle.
Now, what do I do when I have hot water gushing on the
floor, and not a goddammed valve in reach? I rushed
down the stairs to the basement entrance and
puched the door, then was able to proceed to the
water heater and shut-off the valve there.
The landlord was glad to fix the door instead of having to pay for a new floor/ceiling/whatever is destroyed by the water damage...
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It was copyright infingement, all right, but certainly not code theft.
Well, might as well do the same thing, so here are the pictures.
Money.
(If you ask me, I would have made ROTJ end up with Luke flipping to the dark side seconds before the Death Star II was blown-up, and he would have been considered a martyr by the rebels...)
Are you the "Android Cat" on NANAE?
Bravo!
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There are plenty of ways of preventing DDOS attacks, most of which, unfortunately, call for SKILLED network operators.
Why is this deemed worthy of a slashdot thread? I mean, it's not like security flaws haven't been discovered in Windows before...
Gimme a break.
Here are 570 000 spams that CAME FROM earthlink...
This is a collection of stuff that we do anyways, just because in the last 20 year, the middle-class earning power WENT DOWN.
In any case, it didn't make Solo a BAD character.
The badass there is Greedo who wants the bounty Jabba has put on Solo.
Voilà, problem solved!
But when will the financial geniuses at Symantec decide to start exacting a "fee" to spyware vendors to remove their malware from the list????
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable
from a rigged demo".
No wonder moderation is so wonky nowadays!!!
What if a country who cares about it's citizen's rights (like Germany, where Macrovision is illegal, because it prevents backups) and decides to OUTLAW the copy-protection scheme?
Some months ago, a visitor was taking a shower; he managed to totally unscrew the hot-water faucet handle. Now, what do I do when I have hot water gushing on the floor, and not a goddammed valve in reach? I rushed down the stairs to the basement entrance and puched the door, then was able to proceed to the water heater and shut-off the valve there.
The landlord was glad to fix the door instead of having to pay for a new floor/ceiling/whatever is destroyed by the water damage...
http://www.lockpicking101.com/.
Plenty of forums on lock-picking...