They shut down entire online communities. Most of these P2P sites, were also hubs for users to chat, have a laugh, say what's on their mind. Sure there was some file sharing, but the reason for the sharing was to keep in touch with other users. Now we need other outlets to keep in touch, but they just won't be the same...
You serious? They managed to add 50 minutes to this? Let me guess, they managed to over extend the already exhaustingly long ending. So now there are 30 points where the movie can end rather than 18, right?
Re:Nuclear energy works!
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Yes, burying it is safe, but there was a means of disposing waste that makes it even safer. Synroc (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synroc/) essentially crystallises the waste, making it impossible for radiation to leak. Its just a shame that it hasn't had widespread adoption, as it will quell all the fears of burying nuclear waste.
I'm probably one of the biggest simpsons fans out there, but I honestly believe that they've been floggins a dead horse the past few series. The show has been going downhill since about series 10. They had a good run from series 3 to 10, but recently, the jokes have been forced, the character's have changed, the plots have been unoriginal, and more and more "special" guests have been appearing, and not contributing much at all. To the creators: Let it go, you had a GREAT run! But its time for something else to get the limelight. The Simpsons will never be forgotten, but end the series on a high.
BTW: Futurama in my opinion, is as good as the Simpsons of old, perhaps its time to put more energy there.....
I'm so sick of people trying the predict the end of the CRT, and how digital displays will take over. I have not seen ONE digital display (whether it be LCD, Plasma...) that can rival a CRT when it comes to what matters most: quality. CRT screens just look better. The colours are always alive, blacks are black (not grey), and white are white. Every plasma screen I have seen, sharp though the image may be, is horribly grainy when it comes to colour. It's just like watching something in 16 bit colour. The CRT has been around for almost a century (I might be wrong), and you know why? Because it works. It doesn't need to be replaced, so please stop trying to bring forth its demise. I fear that one day, there'll be a generation out there who will never have known the quality of a nice CRT, the beauty of film, and the smooth sound of a nice vinyl record.
While some of them sound somewhat cool (whether they're real or not), there are some things that are just sacred.
You can't change the music. John Williams is a genius, and what he put in those movies was there for a reason. In fact the music is the only thing that's been consitently good in all the movies
Don't CG everything. There was a loveable quality to Jim Hensons puppets. Even though CG keeps getting better and better, it still doesn't integrate well with film, no matter how hard you try.
One of the clever things about SACD, is that you DON'T need a complex DAC to extract the audio signal (unlike CD or DVD-A). Since SACD is the most "analog" of the digital formats, all you need is a low pass filter, and et viola, you have music!
Well then it's just a simple application of Darwin's theory. Survival of the fittest. The apes that had the right gentic stuff survived, hence their genes live on today.
I have been using Mozilla forever (well, since the alpha 9 release), and have been amazed by it's progress. I downloaded CVS snapshots regularly, and found more and more reason to love Mozilla.
However, ever since 0.9.7, things didn't seem so peachy. The same Mozilla snaps that were brining me so much joy were crashing on a regular basis. Even the official releases were crashing. The little things that I thought were really cool, were deemed to be not so and disabled.
My gripes with Mozilla, however, are now over, now that I've installed KDE 3.0. The new Konqueror is sheer brilliance, and Kmail is as full featured as Mozilla mail was. I am finally 100% satisfied with my desktop system.
I tried to love Mozilla, and for the longest time I did...
I think people should go easy on the mplayer developers. Thanks to their never ending hard work (I update the CVS version everyday to a plethora of updates), Linux users have what is probably the best video player out there (though Xine is still number one for DVD playback).
And yes, I do use GCC 2.96 (from Mandrake 8.0), and there are no problems associated with it.
I agree that on the offset, Mozilla appears to be more of a memory hog than Netscape, but in my experiences (in a Linux environment), show that though Mozilla will take on average, 50MB, it will only take that 50MB.
On numerous occasions I've seen Netscape 4.7 go nuts, and eat up to 300MB (I have 256MB RAM, plus swap). I'd prefer Moz eating 50MB that have to restart Netscape every 5 minutes to get my memory back.
Still, they have come a long way, the most recent snapshot is extremely snappy, fast and stable (though there is a problem with the bookmarks which is just eating me up!).
I have to agree with you there. I am a second year CS/CSE student at RMIT (Melbourne, Australia). First we did Java, and I was somewhat dissapointed, given how "simple" it was, and how high level it was.
Now I'm doing C, and though I've already got the hang of things like pointers, memory management, and whatever else there is, what I got most out of C was the revelation that Java really is a goof programming language. Sure it can lead to bad programming practices, but you have to appreciate its elegance.
I think Sun did a good job with. Good on 'em.
This isn't exactly an insighftul comment, but that was definitely the funniest thing I read on this "nothing out of the ordinary usually happens on this date anyway" day.
Though I agree that the packages are somewhat large, at least there aren't that many. For me, to get Gnome working to a decent degree of functionality, I had to install at least 30 packages. I'm glad KDE isn't that scattered.
I loved RedHat 7.0. My only gripe was a major one. That damned compiler just kept on segfaulting!
I couldn't care less if it broke compatibilty. I'm not a developer. All I knew was that version of GCC generated some pretty damned fast code (when the program actually compiled).
Kudos to RedHat for taking a bold step forward, but the fact remains, if the compiler can't compile, then what's the point? For that reason, I switched to Mandrake. However, if the compiler RedHat chose this time actually does compile, I'll reconsider (Mandrake just doesn't have the same feeling...)
I have no intention on starting a flame war, but why are so many "big names" putting their faith in a product that won't be released for some time, when there are so many viable alternatives already available (*cough*, Konqueror).
I know Sun is an active member of the Gnome foundation, but they, along with many others are assuming that Eazel will be the best thing since sliced bread. Had it been released prior to KDE 2, I'd have probably agreed, but now it seems they're just putting all their eggs in one basket.
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I agree, but for slightly different reasons.
I see computer games as an escape from reality. Surreal images, strange creatures, and worlds we'll never see sometime in our lifetime make for a perfect outlet. Trouble is, when we get to photorealism, the fantasia vanishes, and the magic is gone.
It's like going to an art museum and seeing a portait painted some 500 years ago, and then compare it some whiz kids photorealistic portrait. It's obvious that the "cruder" image has more feeling inside.
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They shut down entire online communities. Most of these P2P sites, were also hubs for users to chat, have a laugh, say what's on their mind. ...
...)
Sure there was some file sharing, but the reason for the sharing was to keep in touch with other users.
Now we need other outlets to keep in touch, but they just won't be the same
(and btw, this happened over a week ago
You serious? They managed to add 50 minutes to this?
Let me guess, they managed to over extend the already exhaustingly long ending.
So now there are 30 points where the movie can end rather than 18, right?
Yes, burying it is safe, but there was a means of disposing waste that makes it even safer. Synroc (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synroc/) essentially crystallises the waste, making it impossible for radiation to leak. Its just a shame that it hasn't had widespread adoption, as it will quell all the fears of burying nuclear waste.
... it is my understanding that tubes will sound better, given that anything with transistors will no longer work.
A recruiting drive in Melbourne?
Why wasn't I informed? (nice one RMIT, keeping us students in the know)
Actually, I use 2 space tabs :)
You know Linux isn't just for leftie puritins ...
I'm probably one of the biggest simpsons fans out there, but I honestly believe that they've been floggins a dead horse the past few series.
.....
The show has been going downhill since about series 10. They had a good run from series 3 to 10, but recently, the jokes have been forced, the character's have changed, the plots have been unoriginal, and more and more "special" guests have been appearing, and not contributing much at all.
To the creators: Let it go, you had a GREAT run! But its time for something else to get the limelight. The Simpsons will never be forgotten, but end the series on a high.
BTW: Futurama in my opinion, is as good as the Simpsons of old, perhaps its time to put more energy there
I'm so sick of people trying the predict the end of the CRT, and how digital displays will take over. ...) that can rival a CRT when it comes to what matters most: quality.
I have not seen ONE digital display (whether it be LCD, Plasma
CRT screens just look better. The colours are always alive, blacks are black (not grey), and white are white.
Every plasma screen I have seen, sharp though the image may be, is horribly grainy when it comes to colour. It's just like watching something in 16 bit colour.
The CRT has been around for almost a century (I might be wrong), and you know why? Because it works. It doesn't need to be replaced, so please stop trying to bring forth its demise.
I fear that one day, there'll be a generation out there who will never have known the quality of a nice CRT, the beauty of film, and the smooth sound of a nice vinyl record.
- You can't change the music. John Williams is a genius, and what he put in those movies was there for a reason. In fact the music is the only thing that's been consitently good in all the movies
- Don't CG everything. There was a loveable quality to Jim Hensons puppets. Even though CG keeps getting better and better, it still doesn't integrate well with film, no matter how hard you try.
Thankyou.I've been studying computer science for a few years, and wrote my first C programs under Linux.
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I used printf to write "hello world".
Should I call my lawyers, cause I'm scared SCO may come after me
None of you guys are from RMIT (Melbourne, Australia) are you? It seems that the AMS is the death knell for many a univeristy =)
One of the clever things about SACD, is that you DON'T need a complex DAC to extract the audio signal (unlike CD or DVD-A).
Since SACD is the most "analog" of the digital formats, all you need is a low pass filter, and et viola, you have music!
Well then it's just a simple application of Darwin's theory. Survival of the fittest. The apes that had the right gentic stuff survived, hence their genes live on today.
Wow!
Who'd have thought Yoda was Anakin's father!!!!
I have been using Mozilla forever (well, since the alpha 9 release), and have been amazed by it's progress. I downloaded CVS snapshots regularly, and found more and more reason to love Mozilla.
...
However, ever since 0.9.7, things didn't seem so peachy. The same Mozilla snaps that were brining me so much joy were crashing on a regular basis. Even the official releases were crashing. The little things that I thought were really cool, were deemed to be not so and disabled.
My gripes with Mozilla, however, are now over, now that I've installed KDE 3.0. The new Konqueror is sheer brilliance, and Kmail is as full featured as Mozilla mail was. I am finally 100% satisfied with my desktop system.
I tried to love Mozilla, and for the longest time I did
I think people should go easy on the mplayer developers. Thanks to their never ending hard work (I update the CVS version everyday to a plethora of updates), Linux users have what is probably the best video player out there (though Xine is still number one for DVD playback).
And yes, I do use GCC 2.96 (from Mandrake 8.0), and there are no problems associated with it.
I agree that on the offset, Mozilla appears to be more of a memory hog than Netscape, but in my experiences (in a Linux environment), show that though Mozilla will take on average, 50MB, it will only take that 50MB.
On numerous occasions I've seen Netscape 4.7 go nuts, and eat up to 300MB (I have 256MB RAM, plus swap). I'd prefer Moz eating 50MB that have to restart Netscape every 5 minutes to get my memory back.
Still, they have come a long way, the most recent snapshot is extremely snappy, fast and stable (though there is a problem with the bookmarks which is just eating me up!).
I have to agree with you there. I am a second year CS/CSE student at RMIT (Melbourne, Australia). First we did Java, and I was somewhat dissapointed, given how "simple" it was, and how high level it was.
Now I'm doing C, and though I've already got the hang of things like pointers, memory management, and whatever else there is, what I got most out of C was the revelation that Java really is a goof programming language. Sure it can lead to bad programming practices, but you have to appreciate its elegance.
I think Sun did a good job with. Good on 'em.
This isn't exactly an insighftul comment, but that was definitely the funniest thing I read on this "nothing out of the ordinary usually happens on this date anyway" day.
Though I agree that the packages are somewhat large, at least there aren't that many. For me, to get Gnome working to a decent degree of functionality, I had to install at least 30 packages. I'm glad KDE isn't that scattered.
I couldn't care less if it broke compatibilty. I'm not a developer. All I knew was that version of GCC generated some pretty damned fast code (when the program actually compiled).
Kudos to RedHat for taking a bold step forward, but the fact remains, if the compiler can't compile, then what's the point? For that reason, I switched to Mandrake. However, if the compiler RedHat chose this time actually does compile, I'll reconsider (Mandrake just doesn't have the same feeling...)
I know Sun is an active member of the Gnome foundation, but they, along with many others are assuming that Eazel will be the best thing since sliced bread. Had it been released prior to KDE 2, I'd have probably agreed, but now it seems they're just putting all their eggs in one basket.
Yes, but can you run SETI on it?
I see computer games as an escape from reality. Surreal images, strange creatures, and worlds we'll never see sometime in our lifetime make for a perfect outlet. Trouble is, when we get to photorealism, the fantasia vanishes, and the magic is gone.
It's like going to an art museum and seeing a portait painted some 500 years ago, and then compare it some whiz kids photorealistic portrait. It's obvious that the "cruder" image has more feeling inside.