He got like 3 lines in that whole movie, and now he's left out of the fun of being ribbed on Slashdot. Probably has something to do with having no ribs... Sorry, had to:P
As I said to the other two, I thought I typed "elitist", and since it wasn't a spelling error, I missed it when I skimmed the comment preview. Simple mistake, that's all.
Yes, you are the third person to comment so. I've only ever heard "egalitarian" in a derogatory context, and I thought I'd typed "elitist". Since it wasn't an obvious spelling error, I missed it when I reread the preview. Everyone thinks you're so very very clever for saying what two people have already stated, about a simple mistake someone has made. Next time, attach that powerful brain to a spine and don't post anonymously.
I originally had a rant planned for this post, but it would have made me come off as an even more egalitarian prick than usual. Acronyms and abbreviations, in games, I can understand. Time is limited, and sometimes so is the text input space. Doing it when there's plenty of time and space to type properly just makes people look like idiots. I also loathe reading a conversation with someone who has all of their smilies on plain text cues, instead of inside hyphens or parentheses. I prefer to read text, not a rebus
I'm not sure how much of this story is absolute fact and how much is embellished, or even if it's a legitimate story or just an attack on a popular target for some cheap views; no offense to the poster, it's more my (healty/unhealthy?) skepticism of anything I read on the internet. When I was working in retail (I won't say where, since I may have signed something forbidding that...) I was instructed to stonewall a little on things like when something was coming to the store, what the upcoming sales were, or how long we'd be stocking something (even if the answer was definite to the date it would be pulled from the shelf), among others. Some of this story sounds like a standard stuffed-shirt, painted-smile retail facade (that, I know quite well), while some of it sounds like being evasive for the sake of evasion.
If I had a dollar for every comment titled "That's no moon..." that I've seen on/., well... I'd probably be sued by George Lucas... But assuming that didn't happen, I could easily afford my new video card several times over. That is, of course, not counting comments titled "That's no moon..." that I haven't seen:P
Your average musician would attain fame close to 20 or later (unless they're child-stars). 95 years after that extends revenue to the age of 115, while most people don't live past 80 or 90; if the much-publicised lives of today's musicians are anything to go by, a lot of them won't make it past 50. I refuse to pay just because someone's arrogant-bastard children think they deserve money because their father wrote a song that sold well.
This will be a huge boon to the UMPC form factor. SSDs are still far too expensive, and regular laptop hard drives eat through batteries in a single-digit matter of hours.
I'm sick of all the brown-and-grey monstrosities in the games market these days, and it's about time something with some colour in it came out. I think it looks beautiful, and somehow more real than the gritty brown reality we're fed all too often. It doesn't try to look realistic but the art style still leaves it... believable. I probably didn't articulate that thought too well, but I'm sure someone will know what I meant...
Programs can be written to easily beat CAPTCHA, but somehow, I need to do it at least three times before I get it right... Sometimes a 0 looks like an O, but others, I'm confusing a noise line with part of a letter.
Just as my motherboard half-died and left me without a video card (and an awful on board chip), I was reliving some Apogee classics in Dosbox. Now, I hear Apogee are coming back:D
Rest assured, you aren't the only one with the problem. I've been wondering about that myself. When I was using Opera (not so long ago, about the time of the latest release), my paragraphs still got jumbled together, so I doubt it's choice of browser that affects it.
First, I'd give them some of Michael Pryor's books. The Doorways Trilogy, starting with The House of Many Rooms is about a teenager from Earth who gets swept up in a succession conflict and ends up traveling between worlds. In the first book there isn't much remarkable about him except that he can open "Doorways", like members of the royal family of The House of Many Rooms - a completely fabricated world, an ever-expanding house in the void between worlds. Two others of his I recommend are The Mask of calaban and Talent. Those two touch a little on the darker side of human nature, but aren't dark overall. After those, I would say The Obernewtyn Chronicles, by Isobelle Carmody. It's an as-yet incomplete series set in a post nuclear holocaust future. The world has reverted to a middle-ages tech level and few remember exactly what the bright lights were, generations ago. Along with the usual negative mutations, there are positive mutations like psychic abilities. Children with those abilities are stolen away to a secret facility called Obernewtyn where they're experimented on. The first book deals with the children overthrowing the controllers of Obernewtyn, while the rest of the series is about them fighting to stay alive, since they're seen as abominations. The main character, Elspeth, is on a quest to destroy the last remaining nuclear weapons to prevent them from harming the world again.
Now, I don't doubt it. Before, though, there wasn't even any definitive proof anyone had died. I thought that was kind of a prerequisite for charging someone with murder.
Maybe, but his immune system could always be crap. It probably isn't as bad as mine though; I've caught the chicken pox seven times. My doctor didn't believe I'd caught them multiple times until he'd diagnosed it three different times (the first four times I was in another state).
My rule of thumb when "pirating" music or movies is this: If I can't walk into a local retail outlet and immediately buy, or at least order, a physical copy, they don't want/deserve my money. I don't have a credit card, and I sure as hell don't trust Paypal, so I'm not going to buy DRM-laden crap online. I like to reserve the right to do whatever I want with the 1s and 0s on my hard drive.
Calling it a sound is just a way of analogising it to a sensory spectrum we can perceive. We look at radio telescope images in false colour, so why not listen for anomalies too? I'm not a musician, but I can pick up patterns in noise pretty easily. There's hardly anything remarkable about me, so I'd say I'm certainly not unique in having that trait. A regularly repeated "noise" could be attributed to reactions within the star, however it could also be the magnetic field of a planet distorting regular radio wave emissions. It could be used to check known planets for a magnetic field, or it could be used in combination with the wobble when deciding if a star has a planet orbiting it.
It hardly seems to be a huge breakthrough, but it's not unimportant.
I think the important part is the distortion created in the general background scream. I don't know much about the possible methods of observation, but if the incomprehensible jabber of the star is distorted in a regular pattern (say a funny sequence of higher pitched clicks amid the chirping) which could look like an orbit when the position of the distortion over time is graphed, then there's a fair chance it's a planet. Or some other large body with a magnetic field... or a tiny body with an extremely large magnetic field:P
Ballmer has a severe case of verbal diarrhea, so we know how he feels about open source software. "Open source is a cancer...", "Linux infringes on over 200 Microsoft patents" (as-yet undisclosed patents, I might add). I can only see Microsoft going Open Source when they finally glue Ballmer's hand to a chair. Then he'll follow it out the window when he throws it.
After all these people suggesting a mac, I think Steve Jobs should buy him an Apple store. I don't care how nifty macs are, there are very limited uses for this many:P
I was going to say something about dirigibles and trebuchets. Everyone should know how to mount a trebuchet on a dirigible. It's a matter of national security!
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He got like 3 lines in that whole movie, and now he's left out of the fun of being ribbed on Slashdot. Probably has something to do with having no ribs... Sorry, had to :P
As I said to the other two, I thought I typed "elitist", and since it wasn't a spelling error, I missed it when I skimmed the comment preview. Simple mistake, that's all.
I thought I'd typed elitist. Since it wasn't a spelling error (more of a mental dictionary failure...), I missed it when I read the preview.
Yes, you are the third person to comment so. I've only ever heard "egalitarian" in a derogatory context, and I thought I'd typed "elitist". Since it wasn't an obvious spelling error, I missed it when I reread the preview. Everyone thinks you're so very very clever for saying what two people have already stated, about a simple mistake someone has made. Next time, attach that powerful brain to a spine and don't post anonymously.
I originally had a rant planned for this post, but it would have made me come off as an even more egalitarian prick than usual. Acronyms and abbreviations, in games, I can understand. Time is limited, and sometimes so is the text input space. Doing it when there's plenty of time and space to type properly just makes people look like idiots. I also loathe reading a conversation with someone who has all of their smilies on plain text cues, instead of inside hyphens or parentheses. I prefer to read text, not a rebus
I'm not sure how much of this story is absolute fact and how much is embellished, or even if it's a legitimate story or just an attack on a popular target for some cheap views; no offense to the poster, it's more my (healty/unhealthy?) skepticism of anything I read on the internet. When I was working in retail (I won't say where, since I may have signed something forbidding that...) I was instructed to stonewall a little on things like when something was coming to the store, what the upcoming sales were, or how long we'd be stocking something (even if the answer was definite to the date it would be pulled from the shelf), among others. Some of this story sounds like a standard stuffed-shirt, painted-smile retail facade (that, I know quite well), while some of it sounds like being evasive for the sake of evasion.
If I had a dollar for every comment titled "That's no moon..." that I've seen on /., well... I'd probably be sued by George Lucas... But assuming that didn't happen, I could easily afford my new video card several times over. That is, of course, not counting comments titled "That's no moon..." that I haven't seen :P
Your average musician would attain fame close to 20 or later (unless they're child-stars). 95 years after that extends revenue to the age of 115, while most people don't live past 80 or 90; if the much-publicised lives of today's musicians are anything to go by, a lot of them won't make it past 50. I refuse to pay just because someone's arrogant-bastard children think they deserve money because their father wrote a song that sold well.
Even though it's old news, it's still a little bit interesting. The news is, I guess, that the UAV is being used again, this year.
This will be a huge boon to the UMPC form factor. SSDs are still far too expensive, and regular laptop hard drives eat through batteries in a single-digit matter of hours.
I'm sick of all the brown-and-grey monstrosities in the games market these days, and it's about time something with some colour in it came out. I think it looks beautiful, and somehow more real than the gritty brown reality we're fed all too often. It doesn't try to look realistic but the art style still leaves it... believable. I probably didn't articulate that thought too well, but I'm sure someone will know what I meant...
Programs can be written to easily beat CAPTCHA, but somehow, I need to do it at least three times before I get it right... Sometimes a 0 looks like an O, but others, I'm confusing a noise line with part of a letter.
Just as my motherboard half-died and left me without a video card (and an awful on board chip), I was reliving some Apogee classics in Dosbox. Now, I hear Apogee are coming back :D
I'm all for anything that boosts The Piratebay's ad revenue. Bethesda should sue the OFLC for this, as it directly harms their sales.
Rest assured, you aren't the only one with the problem. I've been wondering about that myself. When I was using Opera (not so long ago, about the time of the latest release), my paragraphs still got jumbled together, so I doubt it's choice of browser that affects it.
First, I'd give them some of Michael Pryor's books. The Doorways Trilogy, starting with The House of Many Rooms is about a teenager from Earth who gets swept up in a succession conflict and ends up traveling between worlds. In the first book there isn't much remarkable about him except that he can open "Doorways", like members of the royal family of The House of Many Rooms - a completely fabricated world, an ever-expanding house in the void between worlds. Two others of his I recommend are The Mask of calaban and Talent. Those two touch a little on the darker side of human nature, but aren't dark overall. After those, I would say The Obernewtyn Chronicles, by Isobelle Carmody. It's an as-yet incomplete series set in a post nuclear holocaust future. The world has reverted to a middle-ages tech level and few remember exactly what the bright lights were, generations ago. Along with the usual negative mutations, there are positive mutations like psychic abilities. Children with those abilities are stolen away to a secret facility called Obernewtyn where they're experimented on. The first book deals with the children overthrowing the controllers of Obernewtyn, while the rest of the series is about them fighting to stay alive, since they're seen as abominations. The main character, Elspeth, is on a quest to destroy the last remaining nuclear weapons to prevent them from harming the world again.
Now, I don't doubt it. Before, though, there wasn't even any definitive proof anyone had died. I thought that was kind of a prerequisite for charging someone with murder.
Maybe, but his immune system could always be crap. It probably isn't as bad as mine though; I've caught the chicken pox seven times. My doctor didn't believe I'd caught them multiple times until he'd diagnosed it three different times (the first four times I was in another state).
for the crippling virus infecting their machines.
My rule of thumb when "pirating" music or movies is this: If I can't walk into a local retail outlet and immediately buy, or at least order, a physical copy, they don't want/deserve my money. I don't have a credit card, and I sure as hell don't trust Paypal, so I'm not going to buy DRM-laden crap online. I like to reserve the right to do whatever I want with the 1s and 0s on my hard drive.
Calling it a sound is just a way of analogising it to a sensory spectrum we can perceive. We look at radio telescope images in false colour, so why not listen for anomalies too? I'm not a musician, but I can pick up patterns in noise pretty easily. There's hardly anything remarkable about me, so I'd say I'm certainly not unique in having that trait. A regularly repeated "noise" could be attributed to reactions within the star, however it could also be the magnetic field of a planet distorting regular radio wave emissions. It could be used to check known planets for a magnetic field, or it could be used in combination with the wobble when deciding if a star has a planet orbiting it. It hardly seems to be a huge breakthrough, but it's not unimportant.
I think the important part is the distortion created in the general background scream. I don't know much about the possible methods of observation, but if the incomprehensible jabber of the star is distorted in a regular pattern (say a funny sequence of higher pitched clicks amid the chirping) which could look like an orbit when the position of the distortion over time is graphed, then there's a fair chance it's a planet. Or some other large body with a magnetic field... or a tiny body with an extremely large magnetic field :P
Ballmer has a severe case of verbal diarrhea, so we know how he feels about open source software. "Open source is a cancer...", "Linux infringes on over 200 Microsoft patents" (as-yet undisclosed patents, I might add). I can only see Microsoft going Open Source when they finally glue Ballmer's hand to a chair. Then he'll follow it out the window when he throws it.
After all these people suggesting a mac, I think Steve Jobs should buy him an Apple store. I don't care how nifty macs are, there are very limited uses for this many :P
I was going to say something about dirigibles and trebuchets. Everyone should know how to mount a trebuchet on a dirigible. It's a matter of national security!