Seriously, how long do you think that will last? Figuring out how to make third-party software work with this is gonna be child's play compared to reverse-engineering the iTMS DRM was.
With interest rates as low as they are right now, shouldn't they be borrowing and investing more in the future, or some such economic technobabble like that? Cash in the bank can't be giving them as much growth as investment would...
Don't some ISPs break this? I am referring to the ones that decide that their users would only send Spam if they were allowed to bypass the ISP's SMTP server?
I saw the trailer before Daredevil, and I have to say, this could be incredibly good, or it can be the worst thing ever to grace the silver screen, beyond the badness of Batman and Robin. There will be no halfways on this thing.
I was really psyched by the various characterizations, though; they seemed spot-on. And the voiceover sounds like they kept the, um, moral ambiguity aspect of the Alan Moore stuff. Hopefully he had a large hand in the story/script...
Too bad Sean Connery is such a bigger star than anyone else; this means that the center of the story is likely to be Alan Quatermain, rather than, um, whatsherface. I wonder if he will be the leader, just because of the star power present there...
The official NWN sites (the Bioware site, Amazon's page, EB's page) I've been looking at all this time have all implied that the Mac version would be released simultaneously with the Windows and Linux versions, in the same package. Some of them have said things like "Mac requirements forthcoming" even, IIRC. Now I find that it's going to ship in a seperate box? Bleah...
Where's the nightmare? The shippers screwed up, you called them on it, and a replacement is being shipped. This is the way these things are supposed to work. I thought you were going to talk about how technicalities or some bureaucratic headache... This sounds way too straightforward and easy to call a nightmare.
Didn't they say something about having pulled the tapes? After all, they did have agents right in the neighborhood at the right time to have done so...
uber-evil government agents
This was actually one of the well-done points of the movie, I thought. There was no "uber-evil" guy, just this one Jon Voight guy who was , it eventually became clear, in over his head in this affair. His motives were actually understandable, if a despicably ambitious.
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I thought the whole point of the movie was the exact opposite of your rant, though. We need to keep alert, or this stuff will really start happening. It's the same story with The Siege - it's a cautionary tale. You see it happen in a movie, get your blood boiling, and say "dammit, that's never gonna happen while I'm around to vote!"
they specifically talked about tasking birds as they flew over, i thought...? at least, nothing I remembered triggered my spidey sense from the limited knowledge of the subject I've gained from physics textbooks and that one scene in "Patriot Games"...
I would actually disagree. Much of what they did in Enemy of the State seemed to be quite within the realm of possibility. With technology available today. Yes, even the "extrapolate between these two camera images" thing, they had just enough details in it (like a whole arc that they just couldn't see in, since neither camera covered it) to make it seem right, to my analytical side. I really could immerse myself in this movie, and enjoyed it greatly.
Heck, even the politics had some verisimilitude to them ("Let's cut to the chase, we're talking about 3500 jobs in my district alone that'll get hammered by your bill.")
I think that Timecop's science was meant to be funny. My proof lies in the cardinal rule of time travel, according to Timecop: "the same matter can't occupy the same space."
Maybe AMD calls their Durons by their MHz value because they feel the performance numbers are reflected in the clock frequency. If the Duron at 1.3GHz runs as well as a Celeron at 1.3GHz then, they'd, in theory, call the Duron a "1300+" Duron, even though that's the same number as the clock frequency.
Did you ever stop to think that maybe AMD is honest about their intentions with this numbering system?
You thought the middle was bad, you should have seen the *ending*. Blech. The whole thing just utterly fell apart, and there weren't even many stylistic things in it that were appropriate for stealing for, say, role-playing games.
How could anyone have *liked* this thing? Explain, please...
The Tick (the Fox cartoon series), based on Ben Edlund's comic book.
The Mote in God's Eye and Ringworld. Larry Niven.
A Song of Ice and Fire, a continuing series of novels by George R. R. Martin. It starts off with A Game of Thrones, and takes off from there. High fantasy that beats Tolkien hands-down.
Last I heard, wasn't he producing the pilot of his CGI-only Continuing Time tv series? Like doing the CG with his own systems and all that... It was at this "semi-official" page of his. Though that page is also way out of date, it sounds like "AI War," his next book, is on a back burner while he plays with CGI.
Frankly, I don't see how it could ever get better than "The Long Run."
I'd also point out that the Linux USB support for the ISD IDE-USB bridge is pretty shaky right now, at least when I tried it. No idea where the FireWire support is, but it seems a lot more likely to get attention than a corner-case USB driver.
Can you define "incredibly badly"? I remember reading this at the time and wondering where the catch was, but looking at it it seemed to be good methodology... Unless I'm misremembering something, they were doing blind tests with impartial people...
But just in case someone's keeping count, I'd like to add my voice to the throngs saying, "This is much, much better than popunders." One of the reasons is mine, the other is the advertisers'. My reason: less annoying random windowage appearing. Their reason: you can't just run a better browser or a filtering proxy to avoid the ads.
It seems extremely fair to me to have to read a quick little Sprint ad to get through to the article I want to read; it beats having *me* pay for the content, and *someone*'s got to pay for it, or it won't keep coming.
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That assumes that everyone who isn't confident actually sucks; this seems highly unlikely. "The key to knowledge is to know that you know nothing."
Seriously, how long do you think that will last? Figuring out how to make third-party software work with this is gonna be child's play compared to reverse-engineering the iTMS DRM was.
With interest rates as low as they are right now, shouldn't they be borrowing and investing more in the future, or some such economic technobabble like that? Cash in the bank can't be giving them as much growth as investment would...
Though cash in the bank is very safe, at least.
Geeky... lazy... or perfectionist. Look at those serifs!
Don't some ISPs break this? I am referring to the ones that decide that their users would only send Spam if they were allowed to bypass the ISP's SMTP server?
I saw the trailer before Daredevil, and I have to say, this could be incredibly good, or it can be the worst thing ever to grace the silver screen, beyond the badness of Batman and Robin. There will be no halfways on this thing.
I was really psyched by the various characterizations, though; they seemed spot-on. And the voiceover sounds like they kept the, um, moral ambiguity aspect of the Alan Moore stuff. Hopefully he had a large hand in the story/script...
Too bad Sean Connery is such a bigger star than anyone else; this means that the center of the story is likely to be Alan Quatermain, rather than, um, whatsherface. I wonder if he will be the leader, just because of the star power present there...
[X] Standard software install system - LSB, Red Hat, Mandrake, Suse
Does anyone else find it ironic to see the word "standard" on the same line as four different options?
Let alone the fact that the one true option, Debian, was omitted...
I'd just point out that many of the "gotchas" referred to in that article refer specifically to problems in 10.0 that have been fixed in 10.1.
The official NWN sites (the Bioware site, Amazon's page, EB's page) I've been looking at all this time have all implied that the Mac version would be released simultaneously with the Windows and Linux versions, in the same package. Some of them have said things like "Mac requirements forthcoming" even, IIRC. Now I find that it's going to ship in a seperate box? Bleah...
Write your Congressman! Get the people who know how to make days of importance to the American People to nail this bugger down but good!
Or maybe your UN Rep. It could be International Towel Day, I hear Douglas Adams spent quite a bit of his time overseas.
:)
What, like, a mirror?
Where's the nightmare? The shippers screwed up, you called them on it, and a replacement is being shipped. This is the way these things are supposed to work. I thought you were going to talk about how technicalities or some bureaucratic headache... This sounds way too straightforward and easy to call a nightmare.
Didn't they say something about having pulled the tapes? After all, they did have agents right in the neighborhood at the right time to have done so...
uber-evil government agents
This was actually one of the well-done points of the movie, I thought. There was no "uber-evil" guy, just this one Jon Voight guy who was , it eventually became clear, in over his head in this affair. His motives were actually understandable, if a despicably ambitious.
<rant>
I thought the whole point of the movie was the exact opposite of your rant, though. We need to keep alert, or this stuff will really start happening. It's the same story with The Siege - it's a cautionary tale. You see it happen in a movie, get your blood boiling, and say "dammit, that's never gonna happen while I'm around to vote!"
they specifically talked about tasking birds as they flew over, i thought...? at least, nothing I remembered triggered my spidey sense from the limited knowledge of the subject I've gained from physics textbooks and that one scene in "Patriot Games"...
I would actually disagree. Much of what they did in Enemy of the State seemed to be quite within the realm of possibility. With technology available today. Yes, even the "extrapolate between these two camera images" thing, they had just enough details in it (like a whole arc that they just couldn't see in, since neither camera covered it) to make it seem right, to my analytical side. I really could immerse myself in this movie, and enjoyed it greatly.
Heck, even the politics had some verisimilitude to them ("Let's cut to the chase, we're talking about 3500 jobs in my district alone that'll get hammered by your bill.")
I think that Timecop's science was meant to be funny. My proof lies in the cardinal rule of time travel, according to Timecop: "the same matter can't occupy the same space."
The future, as predicted by the visionary movie Firefox is coming true! Next thing you know we'll have to think at our computers in Russian...
Maybe AMD calls their Durons by their MHz value because they feel the performance numbers are reflected in the clock frequency. If the Duron at 1.3GHz runs as well as a Celeron at 1.3GHz then, they'd, in theory, call the Duron a "1300+" Duron, even though that's the same number as the clock frequency.
Did you ever stop to think that maybe AMD is honest about their intentions with this numbering system?
I predict they'll set up the next Quantum Computer to factor 42... and come up with 6*9, despite the fact neither of those numbers are prime.
How could anyone have *liked* this thing? Explain, please...
The Tick (the Fox cartoon series), based on Ben Edlund's comic book.
The Mote in God's Eye and Ringworld. Larry Niven.
A Song of Ice and Fire, a continuing series of novels by George R. R. Martin. It starts off with A Game of Thrones, and takes off from there. High fantasy that beats Tolkien hands-down.
Frankly, I don't see how it could ever get better than "The Long Run."
I'd also point out that the Linux USB support for the ISD IDE-USB bridge is pretty shaky right now, at least when I tried it. No idea where the FireWire support is, but it seems a lot more likely to get attention than a corner-case USB driver.
It seems extremely fair to me to have to read a quick little Sprint ad to get through to the article I want to read; it beats having *me* pay for the content, and *someone*'s got to pay for it, or it won't keep coming.