You know, reading these comments i kept thinking of C&C: Red alert 2, and reading this one really clinched it- the game *IS* essentially presision (chrono leigonares, bombing runs) vs mass destruction (nukes, dynamite, etc.)
Mostly, though, this reminds me of the Allied side's "Prism" technology- essentially lasers. You can have prism towers for defence, and if you have more than 1 they can reflect off each other, it's rather interesting.
I think this should be called a "Prism Jet"- cuz that's basically what it is. ----
What if the nearest, most benevolent alien civilisation in the universe... talks like static? We could be bathed in signals from all directions but can't see it through all the legitimate static.
Let's not forget Tomb Raider and the Infernal.. SORRY, i mean Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine. Which was basically Tomb Raider with Indiana Jones... ----
May I ask how it is "off topic"? CuteMX is a distrubited filesharing app. Until the ideal one comes, it's good to have one that, to my knowledge, is still up.
First it was up, then they were going ot crash it, then they were going to keep it up, then they were going to crash it, then they were going ot keep it up, then they were going to crash it, then it was saying up, now it's going to crash again.
Come on! This is a space station, not a yoyo! ----
If this si UCITCA-related, then Microsoft are idiots. A government passes a bill tha helps them, licence wise, and then they go after the government. Once other places (and even Virgina) start equating UCITCA with wasting millions on softward audits, it will be seen in quite a different light. ----
it would be a shame if there weren't just a few people who devoted their lives to figuring out where all my socks go after I put them in the washer.
I saw/heard in a science show/book (i forget where, it was during a period where I was gobbling up these facts) that your socks end up going up over the side of the washer bin and then fall down inside. I forget hwat happens after. ----
The scene: an office, filled with cubicles. An IT worker walks down one of the rows, takes a look down a perpendicular line of cubicles, and then, satisifed, turns around, and wlaks in the opposite direction.
A lone penguin comes out of a nearby pool of water (connected directly, of course, to the Alaskan sea). THe annonymous bird leans up against a cubicle, and checks down the corridor. Seeing an IT worker, he ducks back behind cover, and quickly runs up behind when his back is turned, and then ducks down another way. he eventually makes it to the elevator, and presses 'up'.
The penguin removes his infiltration gear, and the words blare across the screen:
METAL GEAR LINUX
Tactical Operating System Installation Action! ----
Here at acadia all the rooms have two network drops, plus there's more in lounges, the SUB, and in most classrooms. The use of the network for distrubiting assignments and such is in full swing here.
And by the way, since this *is* Slashdot, Napster, scour, etc. (and other high ports, like games and lunarnet irc) are only blocked during the daytime. ----
Nova Scotia, Canada, Acadia University, Wolfville.
The Acadia Advantage. Tuition goes up a bit, but every student gets a school laptop loaded with the stuff they need. Classes use the network, and the computer, for various activities. For example:
Math: There's a program called Maple which is an excellent problem solver for nearly every type of math.
Physics: Course information, and lab software is on the network.
Computer Science: Take a wild guess.
Also, CS students get Slackware put on the lap top as well... apparently our C classes will be in Linux.
it's all sorts of fun potential disastes
I don't know, I find black holes to taste very good. Most of the time it just needs salt. An asteroid is really an aquired taste, though, and the texture can be a real put off.
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The problem, in my mind, isn't so much they';re banning it for young people, but that they always assume that the cut-off point should be 18 years or 20-21 years old. Wouldn't something like 16 be far more appropriate? ----
Originiating in the armed forces, "Frag" means 'kill' in a FPS. oriignally, however, it referenced hitting your own guys with fragmentaion grenades accidentally ----
Netscape = Shareware on the net, 40 bucks shrinkwrapped in stores when IE 3 hit the scene.
IE 3 was when IE really started to compete...
and IE was free. Netscape wasn't. IE was.
Remember that short time when Netscape said "screw this" and left the browser market?
I think there should be a balance between Standards Compliance and Standards Forcing. I'm not sure about mozilla, but not closing a tag in Netscape 4.x makes the entire table unreadable as if the data itslef isn't there. Sure, it's sloppy to not close tables, but IE still renders the page 'ignoring' errors, it doesn't just stop ----
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You know, reading these comments i kept thinking of C&C: Red alert 2, and reading this one really clinched it- the game *IS* essentially presision (chrono leigonares, bombing runs) vs mass destruction (nukes, dynamite, etc.)
Mostly, though, this reminds me of the Allied side's "Prism" technology- essentially lasers. You can have prism towers for defence, and if you have more than 1 they can reflect off each other, it's rather interesting.
I think this should be called a "Prism Jet"- cuz that's basically what it is.
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350 pounds is considerably enough to break SOMETHING, at least.
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What if the nearest, most benevolent alien civilisation in the universe... talks like static? We could be bathed in signals from all directions but can't see it through all the legitimate static.
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Let's not forget Tomb Raider and the Infernal.. SORRY, i mean Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine. Which was basically Tomb Raider with Indiana Jones...
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The problem isn't the ram effecting the monitor but the monitor wiping the ram. Magnetism works both ways.
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There was a fairly similar code for TMNT 2, and the accepted name of the code *is* the "Konami Code"
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May I ask how it is "off topic"? CuteMX is a distrubited filesharing app. Until the ideal one comes, it's good to have one that, to my knowledge, is still up.
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CuteMX, by the makers of CuteFTP
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First it was up, then they were going ot crash it, then they were going to keep it up, then they were going to crash it, then they were going ot keep it up, then they were going to crash it, then it was saying up, now it's going to crash again.
Come on! This is a space station, not a yoyo!
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If this si UCITCA-related, then Microsoft are idiots. A government passes a bill tha helps them, licence wise, and then they go after the government. Once other places (and even Virgina) start equating UCITCA with wasting millions on softward audits, it will be seen in quite a different light.
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it would be a shame if there weren't just a few people who devoted their lives to figuring out where all my socks go after I put them in the washer.
I saw/heard in a science show/book (i forget where, it was during a period where I was gobbling up these facts) that your socks end up going up over the side of the washer bin and then fall down inside. I forget hwat happens after.
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Okay, whoever named an /asteroid/ "Eros" is simply asking for dumb jokes.
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I decided to reinstall FF7 on my laptop, and on the back I noticed a few ads... including Tomb Raider II and Daikatana.
The catch phrase, under the Daikatana logo?
"Beleive the hype"
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yes, but Metal Gear Solid happens in Alaska.
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The scene: an office, filled with cubicles. An IT worker walks down one of the rows, takes a look down a perpendicular line of cubicles, and then, satisifed, turns around, and wlaks in the opposite direction.
A lone penguin comes out of a nearby pool of water (connected directly, of course, to the Alaskan sea). THe annonymous bird leans up against a cubicle, and checks down the corridor. Seeing an IT worker, he ducks back behind cover, and quickly runs up behind when his back is turned, and then ducks down another way. he eventually makes it to the elevator, and presses 'up'.
The penguin removes his infiltration gear, and the words blare across the screen:
METAL GEAR LINUX
Tactical Operating System Installation Action!
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It might be why they're not number one.
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Here at acadia all the rooms have two network drops, plus there's more in lounges, the SUB, and in most classrooms. The use of the network for distrubiting assignments and such is in full swing here.
And by the way, since this *is* Slashdot, Napster, scour, etc. (and other high ports, like games and lunarnet irc) are only blocked during the daytime.
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Nova Scotia, Canada, Acadia University, Wolfville.
The Acadia Advantage. Tuition goes up a bit, but every student gets a school laptop loaded with the stuff they need. Classes use the network, and the computer, for various activities. For example:
Math: There's a program called Maple which is an excellent problem solver for nearly every type of math.
Physics: Course information, and lab software is on the network.
Computer Science: Take a wild guess.
Also, CS students get Slackware put on the lap top as well... apparently our C classes will be in Linux.
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I've done that once.
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it's all sorts of fun potential disastes I don't know, I find black holes to taste very good. Most of the time it just needs salt. An asteroid is really an aquired taste, though, and the texture can be a real put off.
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All we need now for an interplanitary death ray is a giant cellular phone and a focusing dish
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The problem, in my mind, isn't so much they';re banning it for young people, but that they always assume that the cut-off point should be 18 years or 20-21 years old. Wouldn't something like 16 be far more appropriate?
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Originiating in the armed forces, "Frag" means 'kill' in a FPS. oriignally, however, it referenced hitting your own guys with fragmentaion grenades accidentally
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The reason Netscape won the browser war is this:
Netscape = Shareware on the net, 40 bucks shrinkwrapped in stores when IE 3 hit the scene.
IE 3 was when IE really started to compete...
and IE was free. Netscape wasn't. IE was.
Remember that short time when Netscape said "screw this" and left the browser market?
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I think there should be a balance between Standards Compliance and Standards Forcing. I'm not sure about mozilla, but not closing a tag in Netscape 4.x makes the entire table unreadable as if the data itslef isn't there. Sure, it's sloppy to not close tables, but IE still renders the page 'ignoring' errors, it doesn't just stop
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