Now *that* is an insightful post. I agree completely. After watching a movie (or tv show, video game, etc) in my formative years, my parents would always make sure to explain to us kids that there is a difference between the movies and the real world. There was movie language (curse words for the most part), movie actions (violence, etc) that were fun, exciting, and amusing at times; and there was family language and actions (no curse words, no fighting, etc).
Of *course* we rebelled, but only slightly because the mystique just wasn't there. There was nothing defiantly "cool" about using swear words, drinking beer underage, smoking, drinking excessively, etc. because my parents never made them a big deal but instead just described and demonstrated how to life a good lifestyle.
A test would be nice though, because my robo would have to deal with 2 cats (bonus points for hovering up to the sofa and cleaning all the hairs off it)...
Just buy a Roomba at your nearest Sharper Image store. No hassle two month return policy, especially at the Raleigh store.
"Fisher did ultimately develop a pressurized pen for use by NASA astronauts (now known as the famous "Fisher Space Pen"), but both American and Soviet space missions initially used pencils, NASA did not seek out Fisher and ask them to develop a "space pen," Fisher did not charge NASA for the cost of developing the pen, and the Fisher pen was eventually used by both American and Soviet astronauts."
You were in the RDU triangle area right? I'll certainly never forget the few days without power...in the middle of a snow storm in a state that freaks at the mere mention of the white substance...in a state that likes to pretend that it is always hot so most apartments only have electrical heating. Yeah.
Of course the blackout of December 2002 was not without its charm. We are about to have a mini baby boom in September.
Building it from source is virtually impossible, like most Gnome apps- it's a maze of dependencies that makes your head spin trying to get them all satisified. It has the most dependencies of any program I've ever seen, save Request Tracker(but at least RT's dependencies are perl modules, and MOST of that can be handled by CPAN- thank god, because you can end up needing over FIFTY perl modules for RT!) I REALLY want to be using the latest Gnucash, but there are no Mandrake packages, and I don't want to waste 5 hours of my life trying to compile it:-)
Offtopic, but this is where gentoo *really* shines. With a simple "emerge gnucash" it automatically downloads everything that gnucash needs and compiles the latest version from source.
Not UNC-Chapel Hill though Unix is an established server OS. UNC has a deal with Microsoft ensuring that all of the intro computer classes (officially) teach on Microsoft products. Linux is very much an underground thing there. I was able to convince the TA to let me turn in my work from a Linux development environment (which would compile with blackdown, but not with MS's JDE). He was pretty nice about it for an emacs user.:-)
I've said it before but it's worth saying again: CD Baby is a fantastic site if you are looking for independently released music. You can browse music by genre, geographical location (woo! local bands), featured instrument, mood, etc. CDs are previewed via streaming mp3 (usually 2 minutes of 4 songs from the CD). The commentaries and reviews are quite well written.
If you are at all interested in music, you will find something you like at cdbaby.
(No I'm not in any way affiliated with cdbaby. I'm just a very happy customer.)
So the X-Wing and other winged rebel ships can't "make the jump to lightspeed" then?:-)
How about the freakish B-Wing? Is that thing really meant to fly in an atmosphere?
How about the A-Wing? No wings, but atmospheric flight isn't a problem.
Maybe the planets from a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away all had very light atmospheres.
Keep in mind that just about every scifi series falls victim to the "ships that look cool" trap. The shuttles in Star Trek are an odd design for atmospheric flight. Just look at Cowboy Bebop for a similar display in anime style.
Only Babylon 5 really seemed to try and get things right -- the Star Furies could do little more than slightly penetrate a planet's atmosphere before losing control.
Zero points would be pretty much perfect for catching the golden snitch -- it should just end the game. Then the seekers' roles in the game become much more strategic, i.e. one seeker (whose team is ahead) will try to snag the snitch when it appears before his/her team can fall behind, while the other would be trying to prevent that from happening until his/her team manages to take the lead.
As it stands right now, Quiddich isn't really a team sport but a device that looks like a team sport and allows Harry to be a superstar all on his own.
Do I really need to estimate sub 1% in a slashdot reply on a non-mathematical topic?
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Sure we can pull some odd-ball statistic saying that 70% of web content isn't read, but is it the same 70% for all people? Of course not.
Your average internet user doesn't read slashdot, and doesn't care about slashdot news material. But that doesn't mean that/. is without worth.
The same goes for just about any website. I don't need to read a website describing someone's two week ordeal that it took to get a salt-water fishtank in proper condition. I don't have fish, I might never have fish, but if I ever needed anecdotal advice it would now be there for the consideration.
The Internet is such a beautiful thing because of its high availability of information. As such, of course not all of it will be relavant to all people at all times. Frankly, I'm surprised the percentage is that low. I'd estimate that I view about one to two percent of web content at most.
Sorry, but the Great Wall never really served any real function either. In fact the pyramids had more of a function than it did. The Wall was pretty much an effective way for various Chinese dynasties (Ming in particular) to make it seem like it was doing something and to employ a significant portion of the population.
No invading force ever had much trouble with the Great Wall.
Four good games (Mech Assault, Ghost Recon, Unreal Championship)?
Seriously, what good games does X-Box really going that are exclusive? Splinter Cell I would've given, but now it's going to be ported to PS2 and Gamecube, so what's left?
I'm running KDE 3.1 on a Pentium II 333Mhz with 160 megs of RAM (stephenball.net) compiled on a gentoo system. While my system doesn't exactly fly, it is more than peppy enough for me to run KDE with the drop shadows, translucent menus, and anti-aliasing turned on.
If you don't like the eye candy, then turn it off. It's very simple and KDE even provides a nifty slider in kpersonalizer to enable and disable options for you as you slide it from the "highest speed" to "maximum eye candy". You can also selectively turn them on and off via the control center.
Virginia is the "birthplace of the internet" and North Carolina has Research Triangle Park (RTP). In and around RTP you will find a low cost of living, high availability of broadband providers, and no lack of hard working undergrads or recent graduates from the UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke, and NC State Universities as well as many tech oriented vocational schools.
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Now *that* is an insightful post. I agree completely. After watching a movie (or tv show, video game, etc) in my formative years, my parents would always make sure to explain to us kids that there is a difference between the movies and the real world. There was movie language (curse words for the most part), movie actions (violence, etc) that were fun, exciting, and amusing at times; and there was family language and actions (no curse words, no fighting, etc).
Of *course* we rebelled, but only slightly because the mystique just wasn't there. There was nothing defiantly "cool" about using swear words, drinking beer underage, smoking, drinking excessively, etc. because my parents never made them a big deal but instead just described and demonstrated how to life a good lifestyle.
What are we, a perfect bell curve?
The turgid is grounded!
What? You're living in the wall?
A test would be nice though, because my robo would have to deal with 2 cats (bonus points for hovering up to the sofa and cleaning all the hairs off it)...
Just buy a Roomba at your nearest Sharper Image store. No hassle two month return policy, especially at the Raleigh store.
Now that is extremely well written. Ever read dailykos.com?
Sorry. False.
"Fisher did ultimately develop a pressurized pen for use by NASA astronauts (now known as the famous "Fisher Space Pen"), but both American and Soviet space missions initially used pencils, NASA did not seek out Fisher and ask them to develop a "space pen," Fisher did not charge NASA for the cost of developing the pen, and the Fisher pen was eventually used by both American and Soviet astronauts."
You were in the RDU triangle area right? I'll certainly never forget the few days without power...in the middle of a snow storm in a state that freaks at the mere mention of the white substance...in a state that likes to pretend that it is always hot so most apartments only have electrical heating. Yeah.
Of course the blackout of December 2002 was not without its charm. We are about to have a mini baby boom in September.
Building it from source is virtually impossible, like most Gnome apps- it's a maze of dependencies that makes your head spin trying to get them all satisified. It has the most dependencies of any program I've ever seen, save Request Tracker(but at least RT's dependencies are perl modules, and MOST of that can be handled by CPAN- thank god, because you can end up needing over FIFTY perl modules for RT!) I REALLY want to be using the latest Gnucash, but there are no Mandrake packages, and I don't want to waste 5 hours of my life trying to compile it :-)
Offtopic, but this is where gentoo *really* shines. With a simple "emerge gnucash" it automatically downloads everything that gnucash needs and compiles the latest version from source.
Eternal Darkness is a good example.
Not UNC-Chapel Hill though Unix is an established server OS. UNC has a deal with Microsoft ensuring that all of the intro computer classes (officially) teach on Microsoft products. Linux is very much an underground thing there. I was able to convince the TA to let me turn in my work from a Linux development environment (which would compile with blackdown, but not with MS's JDE). He was pretty nice about it for an emacs user. :-)
I've said it before but it's worth saying again: CD Baby is a fantastic site if you are looking for independently released music. You can browse music by genre, geographical location (woo! local bands), featured instrument, mood, etc. CDs are previewed via streaming mp3 (usually 2 minutes of 4 songs from the CD). The commentaries and reviews are quite well written.
If you are at all interested in music, you will find something you like at cdbaby.
(No I'm not in any way affiliated with cdbaby. I'm just a very happy customer.)
So the X-Wing and other winged rebel ships can't "make the jump to lightspeed" then? :-)
How about the freakish B-Wing? Is that thing really meant to fly in an atmosphere?
How about the A-Wing? No wings, but atmospheric flight isn't a problem.
Maybe the planets from a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away all had very light atmospheres.
Keep in mind that just about every scifi series falls victim to the "ships that look cool" trap. The shuttles in Star Trek are an odd design for atmospheric flight. Just look at Cowboy Bebop for a similar display in anime style.
Only Babylon 5 really seemed to try and get things right -- the Star Furies could do little more than slightly penetrate a planet's atmosphere before losing control.
Now we know for sure that there is a location for Gamete!
Zero points would be pretty much perfect for catching the golden snitch -- it should just end the game. Then the seekers' roles in the game become much more strategic, i.e. one seeker (whose team is ahead) will try to snag the snitch when it appears before his/her team can fall behind, while the other would be trying to prevent that from happening until his/her team manages to take the lead.
As it stands right now, Quiddich isn't really a team sport but a device that looks like a team sport and allows Harry to be a superstar all on his own.
One to two percent of web content at most.
Do I really need to estimate sub 1% in a slashdot reply on a non-mathematical topic?
Sure we can pull some odd-ball statistic saying that 70% of web content isn't read, but is it the same 70% for all people? Of course not.
/. is without worth.
Your average internet user doesn't read slashdot, and doesn't care about slashdot news material. But that doesn't mean that
The same goes for just about any website. I don't need to read a website describing someone's two week ordeal that it took to get a salt-water fishtank in proper condition. I don't have fish, I might never have fish, but if I ever needed anecdotal advice it would now be there for the consideration.
The Internet is such a beautiful thing because of its high availability of information. As such, of course not all of it will be relavant to all people at all times. Frankly, I'm surprised the percentage is that low. I'd estimate that I view about one to two percent of web content at most.
CDBaby is one of the few online stories that really get it.
I left RIAA music behind a few months ago, why not try and do the same?
It's waterproof, made of aircraft aluminum, visible from 2 miles away, and casts a beam that's brighter than my maglite.
Check it out here.
Sorry, but the Great Wall never really served any real function either. In fact the pyramids had more of a function than it did. The Wall was pretty much an effective way for various Chinese dynasties (Ming in particular) to make it seem like it was doing something and to employ a significant portion of the population.
No invading force ever had much trouble with the Great Wall.
What I could never figure out is just why that girl you are supposed to be saving couldn't drop kick Akuma to the pavement.
Approach her in combat stance to see what I'm talking about...pow!
Akuma's entrance has gotta be one of the coolest of the forgotten videogame scenes though.
Four good games (Mech Assault, Ghost Recon, Unreal Championship)?
Seriously, what good games does X-Box really going that are exclusive? Splinter Cell I would've given, but now it's going to be ported to PS2 and Gamecube, so what's left?
I'm running KDE 3.1 on a Pentium II 333Mhz with 160 megs of RAM (stephenball.net) compiled on a gentoo system. While my system doesn't exactly fly, it is more than peppy enough for me to run KDE with the drop shadows, translucent menus, and anti-aliasing turned on.
If you don't like the eye candy, then turn it off. It's very simple and KDE even provides a nifty slider in kpersonalizer to enable and disable options for you as you slide it from the "highest speed" to "maximum eye candy". You can also selectively turn them on and off via the control center.
Virginia is the "birthplace of the internet" and North Carolina has Research Triangle Park (RTP). In and around RTP you will find a low cost of living, high availability of broadband providers, and no lack of hard working undergrads or recent graduates from the UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke, and NC State Universities as well as many tech oriented vocational schools.
But you forgot the last bit:
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