Tron was a security watchdog program (more like a resident anti-virus). It's job was to shut down things attempting illegal access (however that was to be defined) to other systems. The big, bad MCP couldn't stand the concept of being monitored (after all, it was going to hack the Kremlin).
And kids eat chocolate eggs, because of the color of the chocolate, and the color of the... wood on the cross. Well, you tell me! It's got nothing to do with it, has it? You know, people going, "Remember, kids," the kids who're eating the chocolate eggs,
"Jesus died for your sins."
"Yeah, I know, it's great!"
"No, no no, it's bad, it's bad!"
" No, it's bad! It's very bad. It's terrible! Whatever you want, just keep giving me these eggs."
And the bunny rabbits! Where do they come into the crucifixion? There were no bunny rabbits up on the hill going, "Hey, what, are you going to put those crosses in our warrens? We live below this hill, all right?" Bunny rabbits are for shagging, eggs are for fertility. It's a festival - it's the spring festival!
I've got a SN45G (v2 variant, not the v3 here which only seems to add SATA and change the sound chipset) and it's quite a bit quieter on normal load that my Antec 660AMG that it's sitting on. Occasionally, the fan will go full speed during some heavy compiling, but then it's only slightly louder than the Antec.
I haven't seen any lights like that explode, but I have seen several transformers short out and/or explode. Every time, there's lots of light from the sparks, but very little smoke. At the distance that the light pole seems to be, the small amount of smoke generated would probably not be very noticable.
However, there does seem to be some sort of smoke rising from the base of the light pole.
Your "speeding motorboat" doesn't look like it's got a significant wake, so it can't be going that fast. As these pictures were taken for time lapse purposes, there could be a fairly significant gap between the pictures.
Sean Connery (Aug 25, 1930) wasn't replaced by Roger Moore (Oct 14, 1927) because of age. In fact, Roger Moore is older than Connery (not by much, but he always seemed even older to me).
George Lazenby was younger (Sept 5, 1939), but he only lasted the one movie before they went back to Birts for the part.
So how does this work when newer, faster components come out?
If I buy a top of the line computer (lets call it a level 10) in order to play some games with a "level 7 or higher" requirement, what about a year or two later? Do they keep incrementing the number that's used for the highest level system, or am I supposed to magically know that my system now qualifies as a level 6?
IMHO, this is useless and will probably end up confusing people even more.
In some cases, Newegg's policy is better than the manufacturer. Samsung's policy for 17-19 inch LCDs is 10 dead pixels. Meanwhile, Viewsonic's policy for the same size range is 7. I seem to recall that there are a couple of manufacturers with a 1-3 pixel range, but that may be for smaller screens.
I personally agree with you that any dead pixels should be unacceptable, but you won't find any manufacturer with that policy because it's (supposedly) very hard for them to assure that. That being said, I've never had a laptop with any dead pixels in the display.
You use F1 as an example of why crew chiefs are still important, but then you say that doing on-the-fly adjustments is a worse idea than getting rid of the crew chief. Modern F1 cars have tons of controls so the driver can adjust things without having to go into the pits.
During many of the races this year, Michael Schumacher (who's one all but one race to this point), was adjusting the brake bias at various points of a course so he would be able to maintain an optimal speed through various corners.
One of the teams (Renault, I think) had a variable-angle wing on the tail so the driver could add or remove some rear downforce if needed. (It got banned vary early in the race weekend). Renault also has a way of adjusting the transmission for extra torque which is one of the things that allows them to get the fantastic starts they've had this season. (Now that launch control programs have been banned)
IIRC, Citroen had a hydraulic suspension that would do exactly that back in the 80s.
One of the problems though is that it was fairly slow to react. Going through a fast, tight slolam course result in some off balance turns that would send even experience race drivers off course in some dramatic spins (and occasional rolls).
They've improved on it dramatically, but I think it was outlawed in a lot of competitive series (like WRC).
Here Hollywood is claiming to be afraid of MS, but on the other hand, the HD-DVD camp (Warner Bros. et al) is using a MS CODEC for one of the (three, IIRC) supported CODECs. One more reason I'm on the Blu-ray (a/k/a Sony, et al) side of this particular format war..
Unfortunately, it sounds like Warner Bros. is the front runner (ahead of Sony) in the bidding war for MGM. Whichever side gets MGM's massive collection of titles will probably win the format war..
I remember seeing a header file on the AIX and Solaris boxes in college that was part of the STL headers. It contained 100+ lines of copyright notifications (from various universities and companies like HP and SGI) followed by the following:
I feel the same way about Doom and have the same hopes for Doom 3, but your missing out on a game that was creepier than Doom - System Shock 2. That was a game which could stop your heart. I picked it up on recommendation from a friend. It was the first game I played that really used good surround sound on my shiny new Aureal soundcard and 4+1 speaker setup.
Playing that game in the dark with surround sound will definately give you the heebee-jeebees.. *shudder*
I gotta hand this one to Bruce Campbell as the "Tour Guide" in the Spiderman game. The only bad part about it was the fact that I was paying more attention to him than the game..;)
I haven't gotten around to trying Evil Dead: A Fistfull of Boomstick yet, but I imagine he's just as good in that one (even though the game got some pretty bad reviews)
..Kerry has 'ceased political activiy in honor of President Reagan.'
The hell he has. I've seen/heard more Kerry ads/news reports in the last two days than I had in the 3 months prior! I'm getting sick of hearing 'I'm <candidate name> and I approved this message.'
I hate election years.. Or to be more specific, I hate politics..
The CD burning restriction is only if you're using their file manager to burn your disks. If you install k3b and cdrecord, you won't have said restriction.
Also, the ad-sponsored version of Opera, is the same ad-sponsored free version of Opera you can download directly from the Opera site. The ads are displayed directly in a "toolbar" of the browser. Personally, I don't like Opera's UI, and much prefer Mozilla Firefox, though I'm not upgrading until more of the extensions I use support the newer builds. I've already got a 0.9 build of the Qute theme ready..
As far as CrossOver is concerned, do you really expect them to include a commercially licenced product that costs money in a free version of their distro?
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They bump the major version to match that of the version of QT it uses.
Um.. Bzzzt. Tron wasn't a debugger.
Tron was a security watchdog program (more like a resident anti-virus). It's job was to shut down things attempting illegal access (however that was to be defined) to other systems. The big, bad MCP couldn't stand the concept of being monitored (after all, it was going to hack the Kremlin).
don't know where you got your version, but on both my dvd and the mp3s i've got (which are slightly different), it's 'warrens'
And kids eat chocolate eggs, because of the color of the chocolate, and the color of the... wood on the cross. Well, you tell me! It's got nothing to do with it, has it? You know, people going, "Remember, kids," the kids who're eating the chocolate eggs,
"Jesus died for your sins."
"Yeah, I know, it's great!"
"No, no no, it's bad, it's bad!"
" No, it's bad! It's very bad. It's terrible! Whatever you want, just keep giving me these eggs."
And the bunny rabbits! Where do they come into the crucifixion? There were no bunny rabbits up on the hill going, "Hey, what, are you going to put those crosses in our warrens? We live below this hill, all right?" Bunny rabbits are for shagging, eggs are for fertility. It's a festival - it's the spring festival!
I've got a SN45G (v2 variant, not the v3 here which only seems to add SATA and change the sound chipset) and it's quite a bit quieter on normal load that my Antec 660AMG that it's sitting on. Occasionally, the fan will go full speed during some heavy compiling, but then it's only slightly louder than the Antec.
Agreed. Steam is the one thing that is stopping me and several freinds from getting HL2.
Um...
<scratches head>
No, I'd have to say they've always been a punchline..
I haven't seen any lights like that explode, but I have seen several transformers short out and/or explode. Every time, there's lots of light from the sparks, but very little smoke. At the distance that the light pole seems to be, the small amount of smoke generated would probably not be very noticable.
However, there does seem to be some sort of smoke rising from the base of the light pole.
Your "speeding motorboat" doesn't look like it's got a significant wake, so it can't be going that fast. As these pictures were taken for time lapse purposes, there could be a fairly significant gap between the pictures.
Sean Connery (Aug 25, 1930) wasn't replaced by Roger Moore (Oct 14, 1927) because of age. In fact, Roger Moore is older than Connery (not by much, but he always seemed even older to me).
George Lazenby was younger (Sept 5, 1939), but he only lasted the one movie before they went back to Birts for the part.
1.0 does not mean "finished." There will always be ongoing development. (OK, maybe not always, but for the forseeable future)
I dunno..
I found the "Best deals: The Courts" rather amusing..
So how does this work when newer, faster components come out?
If I buy a top of the line computer (lets call it a level 10) in order to play some games with a "level 7 or higher" requirement, what about a year or two later? Do they keep incrementing the number that's used for the highest level system, or am I supposed to magically know that my system now qualifies as a level 6?
IMHO, this is useless and will probably end up confusing people even more.
In some cases, Newegg's policy is better than the manufacturer. Samsung's policy for 17-19 inch LCDs is 10 dead pixels. Meanwhile, Viewsonic's policy for the same size range is 7. I seem to recall that there are a couple of manufacturers with a 1-3 pixel range, but that may be for smaller screens.
I personally agree with you that any dead pixels should be unacceptable, but you won't find any manufacturer with that policy because it's (supposedly) very hard for them to assure that. That being said, I've never had a laptop with any dead pixels in the display.
There's also the fact that it looks like an abandoned project. There hasn't been an update to either the project or his site in general for 2 years.
Um.. You sure you're looking at the right page?
The shots on both the main page and the Firefox page are clearly the new theme, not Qute.
You use F1 as an example of why crew chiefs are still important, but then you say that doing on-the-fly adjustments is a worse idea than getting rid of the crew chief. Modern F1 cars have tons of controls so the driver can adjust things without having to go into the pits.
During many of the races this year, Michael Schumacher (who's one all but one race to this point), was adjusting the brake bias at various points of a course so he would be able to maintain an optimal speed through various corners.
One of the teams (Renault, I think) had a variable-angle wing on the tail so the driver could add or remove some rear downforce if needed. (It got banned vary early in the race weekend). Renault also has a way of adjusting the transmission for extra torque which is one of the things that allows them to get the fantastic starts they've had this season. (Now that launch control programs have been banned)
IIRC, Citroen had a hydraulic suspension that would do exactly that back in the 80s.
One of the problems though is that it was fairly slow to react. Going through a fast, tight slolam course result in some off balance turns that would send even experience race drivers off course in some dramatic spins (and occasional rolls).
They've improved on it dramatically, but I think it was outlawed in a lot of competitive series (like WRC).
Here Hollywood is claiming to be afraid of MS, but on the other hand, the HD-DVD camp (Warner Bros. et al) is using a MS CODEC for one of the (three, IIRC) supported CODECs. One more reason I'm on the Blu-ray (a/k/a Sony, et al) side of this particular format war..
Unfortunately, it sounds like Warner Bros. is the front runner (ahead of Sony) in the bidding war for MGM. Whichever side gets MGM's massive collection of titles will probably win the format war..
I feel the same way about Doom and have the same hopes for Doom 3, but your missing out on a game that was creepier than Doom - System Shock 2. That was a game which could stop your heart. I picked it up on recommendation from a friend. It was the first game I played that really used good surround sound on my shiny new Aureal soundcard and 4+1 speaker setup.
Playing that game in the dark with surround sound will definately give you the heebee-jeebees.. *shudder*
I gotta hand this one to Bruce Campbell as the "Tour Guide" in the Spiderman game. The only bad part about it was the fact that I was paying more attention to him than the game.. ;)
I haven't gotten around to trying Evil Dead: A Fistfull of Boomstick yet, but I imagine he's just as good in that one (even though the game got some pretty bad reviews)
Wow.. How do they survive reentry out there?
This is of course assuming they have sealed suits and a good oxygen supply..
Hey! That button came in handy for trying to play the old Star Wars arcade game on my Pentium 133.
:)
One press of the Turbo button, and it went from 1 second until game over to 2 full seconds!
..Kerry has 'ceased political activiy in honor of President Reagan.'
The hell he has. I've seen/heard more Kerry ads/news reports in the last two days than I had in the 3 months prior! I'm getting sick of hearing 'I'm <candidate name> and I approved this message.'
I hate election years.. Or to be more specific, I hate politics..
The CD burning restriction is only if you're using their file manager to burn your disks. If you install k3b and cdrecord, you won't have said restriction.
Also, the ad-sponsored version of Opera, is the same ad-sponsored free version of Opera you can download directly from the Opera site. The ads are displayed directly in a "toolbar" of the browser. Personally, I don't like Opera's UI, and much prefer Mozilla Firefox, though I'm not upgrading until more of the extensions I use support the newer builds. I've already got a 0.9 build of the Qute theme ready..
As far as CrossOver is concerned, do you really expect them to include a commercially licenced product that costs money in a free version of their distro?