Not without a bit more information than a name an address, e.g. his social security number. Although nowadays that whole security through obscurity thing for SS and tying SS numbers to most financial dealings doesn't seem so bright. Oops.
Whoa, I totally didn't catch that. Time to spin up the DVDs again and, as long as I have them out, rip them for easy viewing.
Maybe I'll make a note of all the places I see "Blue Sun". Did you catch that Jayne was, for the first time, wearing a "Blue Sun" t-shirt when River slashed his chest with the knife? She then says, "He looks better in red." Creepy. I suspect, but am not positive, that the cans River was tearing the labels off of were Blue Sun products.
People use what's cheap and does the job. Did the four wheeler hinder them? Guns kill people and don't require expensive batteries and care like laser guns did in the show.
I keep saying this, but read about people living in Mongolia or the Amazon. In our age of cars they still horses to pull things? In our age of construction equipment they still build houses by hand? They still use machetes to clear brush?
There are people that live long and happy lives (even in the US or other modern countries) without ever personally using a computer. On a present day tv show do you complain that some people still do their taxes on paper?
I guess people like to hope that in the future we will all be in the future. Sorry, as a species we will never all be at the same technological level. Print out that prediction and read it every fifty years, it will always be true.
Or know criminal psychopaths by name. Or can identity guns used by analyzing their burn patterns. Or know a lot about a lot of shady things.
You know that Book was probably a made-up on the spot name right? When Kaylee asks him his name he looks at the book in his hand and says, "Book...yes, my name is Book." Kind of odd. He's probably someone in law enforcement, except that I don't think even cops get that kind of treatment. So my favorite theory is that he's an alliance general (or high military), specifically one that orchestrated the battle for Serenity Valley. After the war he checked into the Abbey to start a life of peace. Then got to feeling that he needed to make some kind of amends. At the spaceport on Persephone he was looking at the ships, but he was searching for Serenity.
Firefly was a western set in, what, the future? I mean they used revolvers, had train robberies and all of the characters were predictable and pedestrian. I mean, c'mon - the ship's preacher is named Shepherd Book?
Right. Just like now in our modern times no one uses horses, or swords, or lives in farming communities.
Read up on the anachronisms of the present day (Mongolia, The Amazon, etc.) and you won't be surprised if guns are still a cheap way of killing in the future. The modernized alliance forces (and rich people) had futuristic laser guns and non-lethal stun guns. Just like...forever, people with nothing get by with what's cheap or available.
Remember when the first Spider-man trailer came out? Lots of movies have trailer lead times of four months or more. For big movies over six months is not uncommon.
In WC2: When Spirit did a kamikaze run into the Kilrathi station that had her man captured. She knew that we had to destroy it, so she decided to go with it.
Or in WC1 when you are on the mission to take out the Dralthi ace (he must have been really good to be an ace in that flying deathtrap). You in a raptor, them in two waves of nine dralthi. Send your wingman home and take em all out.
Or near the end of WC1 (or was it one of the secret missions?) taking out the kilrathi strike force in your *hornet* when you are supposed to just be on a recon run. (You are actually supposed to destroy the strike force in the next mission.) The pilot commander berated you, "While I'm sure that losing their entire strike force will be a great psychological blow to the Kilrathi, that's not what you were ordered to do!"
Yes! Or the strange epic feeling of Zork 3. Sailor, Hello...man I need to fire up frotz and play that one again.
Or in Planetfall...when Floyd...:-(
What they made me do in Stationfall was awful.
For an *awesome* non infocom text game puzzle solution. Check out Spider and Web. Oh man, it's such a beautiful moment. You'll know it when you see it.
Ah...actually mattyrobinson69 was pointing out the weakness of your statement. I.e. just because it has geothermal vents doesn't mean it has geothermal life. Or: just because it has ice, doesn't mean it has penguins.
Every game that saves uses the HD. SO...yeah, pretty much every game. It's very convenient to not have to worry about save blocks and memory cards. Every game that allows custom audio tracks uses the HD. Take Burnout 3 for example, I can rip some cool audio cds on the XBox and put them in a play list (DrivingTunes or whatever) and then select that playlist from within Burnout 3. Shiny. Out of the few titles I own, three support custom music. Fun stuff.:-)
Well you know Cantonese and Mandarin are extremely different, the only thing they really share is the writing system. But at any rate, I don't offend easily in person much less from text.:-D
So... exactly what I posted? Curious that you write out the fifth tone. There is only one other place I have ever seen it written that way.
Since you have typed it twice I have to assume it isn't a typo and must ask, where is Tiawan? If it's actually Taiwan, what kind of romanization is that? Even the evil wade-giles system writes T'ai-wan.
Point taken. I've only had a mac for two years so I missed the joys (?) of anything before OS X. This is how it was explained to me by my friendly mac fantatics. Thanks for the info.
I think we are confusing terms. 10.4 is not an Apple point release, it is an OS upgrade. 10.3.x are point releases to the OS.
Basically, it goes like this:
1.2.3 where
1 = generational upgrade, not backwards compatible 2 = major operating system release 3 = an incremental (point) release of patches and updates
If you want to get into semantics just remember that windows uses this same numbering scheme. Windows 2000 is Windows NT 5.0. Windows XP is Windows NT 5.1. Microsoft hides the numbering system, a good way to see it is via browser information on a site such as: http://techpatterns.com/forums/about101.html.
So going from 10.3 to 10.4 is more like going from Windows 2000 to Windows XP (or Win 95 to Win 98) than going from SP1 to SP2. By comparison going from OS9 to OSX was like going from Win3.1 to Win95. Remember how freecell was a litmus test of whether your pc had 32-bit capability?:-)
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Not without a bit more information than a name an address, e.g. his social security number. Although nowadays that whole security through obscurity thing for SS and tying SS numbers to most financial dealings doesn't seem so bright. Oops.
Right, so we are just getting the light now.
Right. Just like there are still people who enjoy riding horses. Free driving of cars will be offloaded from the highways to specialized tracks.
Your personal preference (which I share btw) doesn't get to dictate society's method of transit.
Whoa, I totally didn't catch that. Time to spin up the DVDs again and, as long as I have them out, rip them for easy viewing.
Maybe I'll make a note of all the places I see "Blue Sun". Did you catch that Jayne was, for the first time, wearing a "Blue Sun" t-shirt when River slashed his chest with the knife? She then says, "He looks better in red." Creepy. I suspect, but am not positive, that the cans River was tearing the labels off of were Blue Sun products.
People use what's cheap and does the job. Did the four wheeler hinder them? Guns kill people and don't require expensive batteries and care like laser guns did in the show.
I keep saying this, but read about people living in Mongolia or the Amazon. In our age of cars they still horses to pull things? In our age of construction equipment they still build houses by hand? They still use machetes to clear brush?
There are people that live long and happy lives (even in the US or other modern countries) without ever personally using a computer. On a present day tv show do you complain that some people still do their taxes on paper?
I guess people like to hope that in the future we will all be in the future. Sorry, as a species we will never all be at the same technological level. Print out that prediction and read it every fifty years, it will always be true.
Or know criminal psychopaths by name. Or can identity guns used by analyzing their burn patterns. Or know a lot about a lot of shady things.
You know that Book was probably a made-up on the spot name right? When Kaylee asks him his name he looks at the book in his hand and says, "Book...yes, my name is Book." Kind of odd. He's probably someone in law enforcement, except that I don't think even cops get that kind of treatment. So my favorite theory is that he's an alliance general (or high military), specifically one that orchestrated the battle for Serenity Valley. After the war he checked into the Abbey to start a life of peace. Then got to feeling that he needed to make some kind of amends. At the spaceport on Persephone he was looking at the ships, but he was searching for Serenity.
Firefly was a western set in, what, the future? I mean they used revolvers, had train robberies and all of the characters were predictable and pedestrian. I mean, c'mon - the ship's preacher is named Shepherd Book?
Right. Just like now in our modern times no one uses horses, or swords, or lives in farming communities.
Read up on the anachronisms of the present day (Mongolia, The Amazon, etc.) and you won't be surprised if guns are still a cheap way of killing in the future. The modernized alliance forces (and rich people) had futuristic laser guns and non-lethal stun guns. Just like...forever, people with nothing get by with what's cheap or available.
Remember when the first Spider-man trailer came out? Lots of movies have trailer lead times of four months or more. For big movies over six months is not uncommon.
In WC2: When Spirit did a kamikaze run into the Kilrathi station that had her man captured. She knew that we had to destroy it, so she decided to go with it.
Or in WC1 when you are on the mission to take out the Dralthi ace (he must have been really good to be an ace in that flying deathtrap). You in a raptor, them in two waves of nine dralthi. Send your wingman home and take em all out.
Or near the end of WC1 (or was it one of the secret missions?) taking out the kilrathi strike force in your *hornet* when you are supposed to just be on a recon run. (You are actually supposed to destroy the strike force in the next mission.) The pilot commander berated you, "While I'm sure that losing their entire strike force will be a great psychological blow to the Kilrathi, that's not what you were ordered to do!"
Ha ha!
Yeah, he still dies. It must've been a super-duper meteo attack.
Wait wait, what about the scene at the very beginning where Jade is fighting the creatures and the action slows down and music swells...beautiful.
That game deserves a replay.
Yes! Or the strange epic feeling of Zork 3. Sailor, Hello...man I need to fire up frotz and play that one again.
:-(
Or in Planetfall...when Floyd...
What they made me do in Stationfall was awful.
For an *awesome* non infocom text game puzzle solution. Check out Spider and Web. Oh man, it's such a beautiful moment. You'll know it when you see it.
Don't forget Psychonauts yo.
Of course there is. Popcorn.
For excellent DVD ripping use MacTheRipper.
For excellent ripping to divx, HandBrake.
It's a freakin' Mac, multimedia editing is its home territory.
Sounds more like a car to me. A car with spinners.
Ah...actually mattyrobinson69 was pointing out the weakness of your statement. I.e. just because it has geothermal vents doesn't mean it has geothermal life. Or: just because it has ice, doesn't mean it has penguins.
Every game that saves uses the HD. SO...yeah, pretty much every game. It's very convenient to not have to worry about save blocks and memory cards. Every game that allows custom audio tracks uses the HD. Take Burnout 3 for example, I can rip some cool audio cds on the XBox and put them in a play list (DrivingTunes or whatever) and then select that playlist from within Burnout 3. Shiny. Out of the few titles I own, three support custom music. Fun stuff. :-)
That wouldn't even get you one semester at Duke.
Well you know Cantonese and Mandarin are extremely different, the only thing they really share is the writing system. But at any rate, I don't offend easily in person much less from text. :-D
? Sorry, I wasn't part of that discussion. I jumped in when I recognized some Chinese input :-)
So ... exactly what I posted? Curious that you write out the fifth tone. There is only one other place I have ever seen it written that way.
Since you have typed it twice I have to assume it isn't a typo and must ask, where is Tiawan? If it's actually Taiwan, what kind of romanization is that? Even the evil wade-giles system writes T'ai-wan.
Hmm, slashcode doesn't handle unicode Chinese very well. Or at all. Well pinyin then, do you mean: ta1 ma1 de
Someone who speaks Mandarin would be confused without tones to go by.
I assume that you are actually transcripting a Chinese quote of Mal's from the episode "Serenity" from the excellent series Firefly?
Point taken. I've only had a mac for two years so I missed the joys (?) of anything before OS X. This is how it was explained to me by my friendly mac fantatics. Thanks for the info.
I think we are confusing terms. 10.4 is not an Apple point release, it is an OS upgrade. 10.3.x are point releases to the OS.
:-)
Basically, it goes like this:
1.2.3 where
1 = generational upgrade, not backwards compatible
2 = major operating system release
3 = an incremental (point) release of patches and updates
If you want to get into semantics just remember that windows uses this same numbering scheme. Windows 2000 is Windows NT 5.0. Windows XP is Windows NT 5.1. Microsoft hides the numbering system, a good way to see it is via browser information on a site such as: http://techpatterns.com/forums/about101.html.
So going from 10.3 to 10.4 is more like going from Windows 2000 to Windows XP (or Win 95 to Win 98) than going from SP1 to SP2. By comparison going from OS9 to OSX was like going from Win3.1 to Win95. Remember how freecell was a litmus test of whether your pc had 32-bit capability?
So were the nine upgrades to Panther. 10.3.[1-9].