I found the movie entertaining, mostly for the fight scenes. The special effects were okay, but not original. The Reapers were obviously influenced by the movies "Predator" and "Alien". If you've seen Blade II you will know what I mean.:-)
I've always had a problem making unsecured loans to my employer, which is essentially what you are doing whenever you use your personal credit cards for business purposes. It may be okay every now and then, but I would never do it on a regular basis.
If you have a job where you incur a lot of expenses traveling, then your employer should provide you with a corporate credit card for travel expenses.
I'm just grateful that I have my favorite ad of all time archived...that SmartBeep ad where the young woman is on a blind date, and she passes gas in the car while her date walks to the other side. She doesn't realize that there are two other people in the back seat.
I have some friends and former colleagues who went to work for RLX Technologies in The Woodlands, Texas (north of Houston).
RLX sells rack-mounted server products utilizing the Transmeta Cruesoe chip. Apparently the demand hasn't been that great for their product, even though everything I've seen so far looks pretty impressive. I know two people who work there who have been laid off in the past month.
Oops...maybe I spoke to soon. I went to the United Virtualities website and looked at their showcase with Konqueror. When I did that, unfortunately the ads worked all too well.
All I can think of is perhaps http://www.boston.com doesn't have ALL their ads converted to the shoshkele format.
I went to the site using Konqueror, and all I got was an attempt to open a "normal" pop-up. I love the Konqueror's feature that asks for permission before allowing JavaScript to open a new window.
I wonder what's next. If it becomes common knowledge that some browsers are immune to the ads, will more sites try to force you to use IE by checking the USER_AGENT value and refusing to load?
Grab an air, compressor, fill a balloon up a ways, perhaps heat it to a reasonable temperature and let the damned breathalizer analyse that. Fire up your car and off you go.
Actually they already have breathalyzer devices that can be wired into your ignition system. Many states require by law that convicted drunk drivers have them installed in their vehicles.
They have features that prevent you from using a balloon or air-compressor, such as forcing the person to sharply inhale through the device before exhaling.
This isn't new technology...it's being used right now in many parts of the USA. One such product can be found here.
For instance, the notion of camping for particularly rare items in DAoC is almost unheard of.
Furthermore, when you kill a quest monster in DAoC EVERYONE in your party that has been given that quest will receive the item necessary. There's no need to "roll" for the item.
I find this greatly contributes to the overall experience. A few nights ago my wife and I were playing DAoC and we were looking for a named wolf named Throat Ripper. We saw another character obviously lurking near his spawn point. Instead of competing to see who could do the most damage, we simply grouped, since killing him as a group would assure that all three of us would get the quest item we needed.
It turned what would have been an unpleasant and stressful situation in EverQuest into a fun experience where everyone (except Throat Ripper!) came out ahead.
I agree with you...EverQuest is TOO realistic, which makes it annoying. With Dark Age of Camelot I find myself with more time to enjoy the game, instead of worrying about corpse recovery or buying food/water.
I used to be in the Guide Program in EverQuest, and a large percentage of all the customer service petitions involved either corpse recovery or people ninja-looting or shouting offensive text. DAoC solved this by eliminating corpse recovery, eliminating ninja-looting, and eliminating zone-wide broadcasts (except in cities). It's such a nice change!
I also like the fact that in DAoC you have to be an appropriate level to wear certain armor or use certain weapons. Furthermore, the armor and weapons deteriorate with time, requiring maintenance. One thing that I really disliked about EverQuest was the amount of twinking you saw. I played a Dark Elf Shadow Knight, and after spending 10+ levels in Cazic Thule trying to get all my Darkforge Armor, it was annoying to see a low-level Shadowknight running around in full Darkforge. I think the DAoC is MUCH better, and much more enjoyable.
Of course I will cut Verant (and Origin--makers of Ultima Online) some slack. They did a lot of innovating in the MMORPG arena, and Mythic has had the luxury of learning from their mistakes. Regardless, I have uninstalled EQ from my system, and I'm playing DAoC exclusively.
Did the thing just go straight forward, or was it maneuverable? I'd hate to imagine a cop trying to follow a criminal at high speeds, and control a radio-controlled device at the same time.
Yes, let's stop a car remotely in the middle of a busy road and watch the bloody carnage that ensues from the pile-up.
Actually, I saw that same television show. The device didn't actually kill the engine, but it did force the speed to gradually drop down to about 10-15 mph. Not a drastic stop, but it slows the criminal down. The goal of the technology is to (hopefully) prevent high-speed car chases, which put innocent people at risk.
Currently, whenever a telemarketer calls me, the caller ID reads "Unavailable." So I don't pick up the phone. It's very handy.
A lot of times when a telemarketer calls my home, the caller ID box reads "No Data Sent". Maybe that will stop if this law passes.
What I wish is that there would be a law that requires them to reveal where they got your phone number. I have an unlisted phone number, yet I still get telemarketers calling.
In 1984, I don't think Microsoft really viewed minis and mainframes as competing with them. They didn't really start thinking about taking on the server world until 1987 or 1988.
Novell was the first company to bring PCs into the server market. In 1987 or 1988 Microsoft was still pushing MS-DOS 3.3, which certainly wasn't a server product. They might have been thinking about servers, but I don't think Microsoft started taking networking seriously until after Novell Netware was such a success.
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I found the movie entertaining, mostly for the fight scenes. The special effects were okay, but not original. The Reapers were obviously influenced by the movies "Predator" and "Alien". If you've seen Blade II you will know what I mean. :-)
I've always had a problem making unsecured loans to my employer, which is essentially what you are doing whenever you use your personal credit cards for business purposes. It may be okay every now and then, but I would never do it on a regular basis.
If you have a job where you incur a lot of expenses traveling, then your employer should provide you with a corporate credit card for travel expenses.
I'm just grateful that I have my favorite ad of all time archived...that SmartBeep ad where the young woman is on a blind date, and she passes gas in the car while her date walks to the other side. She doesn't realize that there are two other people in the back seat.
I have some friends and former colleagues who went to work for RLX Technologies in The Woodlands, Texas (north of Houston).
RLX sells rack-mounted server products utilizing the Transmeta Cruesoe chip. Apparently the demand hasn't been that great for their product, even though everything I've seen so far looks pretty impressive. I know two people who work there who have been laid off in the past month.
Oops...maybe I spoke to soon. I went to the United Virtualities website and looked at their showcase with Konqueror. When I did that, unfortunately the ads worked all too well.
All I can think of is perhaps http://www.boston.com doesn't have ALL their ads converted to the shoshkele format.
*SIGH*
I went to the site using Konqueror, and all I got was an attempt to open a "normal" pop-up. I love the Konqueror's feature that asks for permission before allowing JavaScript to open a new window.
I wonder what's next. If it becomes common knowledge that some browsers are immune to the ads, will more sites try to force you to use IE by checking the USER_AGENT value and refusing to load?
Grab an air, compressor, fill a balloon up a ways, perhaps heat it to a reasonable temperature and let the damned breathalizer analyse that. Fire up your car and off you go.
Actually they already have breathalyzer devices that can be wired into your ignition system. Many states require by law that convicted drunk drivers have them installed in their vehicles.
They have features that prevent you from using a balloon or air-compressor, such as forcing the person to sharply inhale through the device before exhaling.
This isn't new technology...it's being used right now in many parts of the USA. One such product can be found here.
For instance, the notion of camping for particularly rare items in DAoC is almost unheard of.
Furthermore, when you kill a quest monster in DAoC EVERYONE in your party that has been given that quest will receive the item necessary. There's no need to "roll" for the item.
I find this greatly contributes to the overall experience. A few nights ago my wife and I were playing DAoC and we were looking for a named wolf named Throat Ripper. We saw another character obviously lurking near his spawn point. Instead of competing to see who could do the most damage, we simply grouped, since killing him as a group would assure that all three of us would get the quest item we needed.
It turned what would have been an unpleasant and stressful situation in EverQuest into a fun experience where everyone (except Throat Ripper!) came out ahead.
I agree with you...EverQuest is TOO realistic, which makes it annoying. With Dark Age of Camelot I find myself with more time to enjoy the game, instead of worrying about corpse recovery or buying food/water.
I used to be in the Guide Program in EverQuest, and a large percentage of all the customer service petitions involved either corpse recovery or people ninja-looting or shouting offensive text. DAoC solved this by eliminating corpse recovery, eliminating ninja-looting, and eliminating zone-wide broadcasts (except in cities). It's such a nice change!
I also like the fact that in DAoC you have to be an appropriate level to wear certain armor or use certain weapons. Furthermore, the armor and weapons deteriorate with time, requiring maintenance. One thing that I really disliked about EverQuest was the amount of twinking you saw. I played a Dark Elf Shadow Knight, and after spending 10+ levels in Cazic Thule trying to get all my Darkforge Armor, it was annoying to see a low-level Shadowknight running around in full Darkforge. I think the DAoC is MUCH better, and much more enjoyable.
Of course I will cut Verant (and Origin--makers of Ultima Online) some slack. They did a lot of innovating in the MMORPG arena, and Mythic has had the luxury of learning from their mistakes. Regardless, I have uninstalled EQ from my system, and I'm playing DAoC exclusively.
Did the thing just go straight forward, or was it maneuverable? I'd hate to imagine a cop trying to follow a criminal at high speeds, and control a radio-controlled device at the same time.
Yes, let's stop a car remotely in the middle of a busy road and watch the bloody carnage that ensues from the pile-up.
Actually, I saw that same television show. The device didn't actually kill the engine, but it did force the speed to gradually drop down to about 10-15 mph. Not a drastic stop, but it slows the criminal down. The goal of the technology is to (hopefully) prevent high-speed car chases, which put innocent people at risk.
Currently, whenever a telemarketer calls me, the caller ID reads "Unavailable." So I don't pick up the phone. It's very handy.
A lot of times when a telemarketer calls my home, the caller ID box reads "No Data Sent". Maybe that will stop if this law passes.
What I wish is that there would be a law that requires them to reveal where they got your phone number. I have an unlisted phone number, yet I still get telemarketers calling.
In 1984, I don't think Microsoft really viewed minis and mainframes as competing with them. They didn't really start thinking about taking on the server world until 1987 or 1988.
Novell was the first company to bring PCs into the server market. In 1987 or 1988 Microsoft was still pushing MS-DOS 3.3, which certainly wasn't a server product. They might have been thinking about servers, but I don't think Microsoft started taking networking seriously until after Novell Netware was such a success.
I see no reason not to use Apache, as long as it is properly configured. Using thttpd would work too, but you wouldn't be able to do as much IMHO.
If he's so interested in Linux, then why is he running a Microsoft web server?
$ perl -e 'print "GET / HTTP/1.0\n\n";' | nc -v -v www.algore2000.com 80 | & head -12
Warning: inverse host lookup failed for 208.206.40.209: Unknown host
algore2000.com [208.206.40.209] 80 (http) open
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Microsoft-IIS/4.0
Content-Location: http://208.206.40.209/index.html
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 19:35:33 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Last-Modified: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 20:37:37 GMT
ETag: "863f984e6d80be1:c93"
Content-Length: 18259