Re:I'm Not a Fan of Sequels, Trilogys and That Sor
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New Ender Sequel
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This is exactly what I think about Orson Scott Card, especially the Alvin Maker series, where he goes from one half-realization to another over 4 or 5 books, and you wonder, when is he going to get to the point, and not all these half finished allusions to concepts that somehow work into his as yet unrevealed world picture.
If he just wanted to write interesting episodic fiction, like Piers Anthony does (or did), that would be okay; but everytime he writes something, he tries to take it to a new climax, or finale, and then he has yet another surprise\contination to pull on you...why? Because he gets bored, wants to write,but doesn't want to create new characters? Or because he has a "message" and wants to expliacate it to us, and figures he can just shove it into the mouth of his old characters?
Well, I guess I shouldn't say that much about this; because for all of this, the new book might be the best thing ever written.
Why does spaghetti end up all tangled up? Or, a more practical problem, why do power cords, cables, phone lines, etc. all end up in a gigantic ball underneath my desk, no matter how many times I sort them out? I don't think it is just Murphy's Law.
My own theory on this is that the cable, cord, etc. tends to be more weighted down in the center, and therefore drags there. As it drags, it forces other cables, cords, etc. out of the way. As soon as it forces them out of the way and drops down to a lower level, the tension on the other cords, cables, etc. tends to make them wrap around the heavier cables cords...so in about a month or so, they all tend to tie around each other.
But I should point out that I don't see what about this is "illegal crap"...thank God. If someone wants to say these things, they can. It isn't illegal to have damaging, malicious, evil or even untrue views...until you say something malicious against a person that can't be proven.
I think we all know the argument, if we stop Nazi's right to free speech, we will be just as bad as them, etc.
Dude...that sig is kind of interesting...I clicked on it just to see what happened...but if not for the autosave feature in Civ II, countless hours of work could have been wasted...but that would go under "my own damn fault"...but think of the children, d00d.
Who the hell moderated this to funny? Shooting children isn't funny.
Although maybe Nike or the Indonesian govt could find a use for gun equipped robots, shooting their 8 year old workers if they didn't work hard enough.
Shit, what is wrong with you son??? Drinking only 15 gallons of salsa a year? I go through that much in a month!!! But only because I need something to flavor my hot grits and raw cookie dough!!!
Another government screw up!!!
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Hubble Turns 10
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Well, here is just further proof that NASA can't do anything right, is full of beaurcracy and too expensive. Oh wait...it has been working for ten years.
This Sunday, Micro$oft arranged every American to wake up to a picture of a robocop DOJ agent pointing a gun at a frightened six year old...thus placing in everybodies mind that the DOJ are bullies out to get everyone who wants to stand up for themselves.
M$ would like nothing better to paint themselves as the bullied...although in the case of M$, the feds actually have a reason to be so tenacious and vicious.
"Private companies can't afford to screw up"? Have you never owned a car that was a lemon? Never owned a computer? Never ran Windows? Ever had a bank overcharge you? And have you ever been employed by a large private company?
"You never have this kind of imcomptence"?, you are kidding, right? While NASA might have made some mistakes, how can you say that they are doing a terrible job, when you have no one to compare them to? They have lost 10 astonauts in 40 years, while using new technologies to do totally new things.
The post office is a mostly private company...they receive no tax dollars and I think they mostly do a pretty good job. $.33 to move a letter across a continent in a week is a pretty good price.
I think I walked upright a few times. The last time was about a month or two ago when Slashdot hadn't posted anything interesting and I got up to go to the refrigarator for some more raw cookie dough and cough syrup
The fact the Windows crashed? Does the Space Shuttle get invalid page faults in kernel32.dll?, although that would explain most of NASAs cost over runs and delays.
But seriously folks, does anyone know what OS is used on the space shuttle computers, and what NASA generally uses?
Bell Labs is AT&T, right? And also that would make them Pacific Bell, Bell Atlantic, USWest, etc., right? So Bell Labs was where this corporate behemoth is hiding all their "talent and respect", or where they used it all up 30 years ago?
That is a really good question. I see the reason for the national TLDs, because they actually give reference to some physical information.
But for the purpose of IP, TCP routing, browser translation, why does your computer need to know why the data that is coming in is from a university, a commercial site, or a government site?
The only possible reason I can think of is that when the big ol' DNS server gets a URL, it can shorten its searching for a particular web site to find the IP address of by narrowing down the list with the TLD...but I don't think that is a factor in creating the two new TLDs. I think it is to cause some hype and make some money.
Hey, I forgot to ask you...what part of the country are you from? In my home city (Portland, OR), we have a chain of 'retrocades' open, where they have all the classic atari era arcade games and nothing else.
But I can't say I disagree with you...Street Fighter II was the coolest game, when I was twelve years old.
I was wondering why when I installed Caldera Linux, the little game of Tetris that it lets you play while it is installing is called a "Tetris like game"...when it is obviously totally Tetris.
Wonder if the VC can be sued retroactivly for the "tet" offensive...and what about that tetrishedroncannabinol?
Someone else posted about switching this to Linux, like they did with the i-Opener (which seems silly, this is a real computer, not an appliance, switching it to Linux shouldn't be an issue)...so after those people's cars crash, their OS will still be up and running.
YES!!! No longer will I have to troll on Slashdot to get attention online! I no longer seek out negative attention with my posts, because I have found a warm and caring girl who wishes to talk to me.
Thank you for introducing me to Alice...although it looks like me and her might "just be friends"
And so does this, because it has the stench of AOL on it.
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What's the deal with browsers? Why are they so important to work on? Besides the lame AOL browser (not meaning this, but meaning the browser that comes with AOL), isn't the only point of a browser to have a back and forward button and then to display a web page? Okay, fine, there are plenty of other things a browser is good for, but in the grand scheme of things, how important are they?
Is there a religious right in Great Britian? How can you have Southern Baptists when there is no South? But seriously, I didn't know that there was any kind of rightwing\fundamentalist movement in Great Britian or the continent...all the right wingers I hear about in Europe are neonazis and anti-immigrant people.
Also, I wouldn't group "the religious right" and "big corporations" together (Ralph Reed\M$ notwithstanding), and I wouldn't put any of them in with this lawsuit. This lawsuit is suck that anyone if Nigel sends Rutherford an e-Mail saying that Andrew likes to shove hotgrits down his pants, Andrew can sue not only Nigel, but Nigels ISP as well. I can only imagine the junk lawsuits that will ensue.
I am glad to see that once again Hannah Arendts prediction comes true, America the land of political freedom and social repression (since most of our free speech rights are channeled into a discussion of Back Street Boys vs. *NSynch, but Joeylover459@aol.com can call the BSB fags all she wants without having to prove it).
From all that I have seen, and from my own personal experience, this is probably the way it is going to be.
After all, everyone knows that the internet will be here for a while, but they don't know exactly what it will be used for.
the business types, being their usual creative selves, figured that the best use of this epoch-making technical tool was to sell online rutabegas, Viagra and Hello Kitty Lip Gloss. Now everybody realized that was a stupid idea, so that is gone. But the technical backbone of the internet isn't going away.
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This is exactly what I think about Orson Scott Card, especially the Alvin Maker series, where he goes from one half-realization to another over 4 or 5 books, and you wonder, when is he going to get to the point, and not all these half finished allusions to concepts that somehow work into his as yet unrevealed world picture.
If he just wanted to write interesting episodic fiction, like Piers Anthony does (or did), that would be okay; but everytime he writes something, he tries to take it to a new climax, or finale, and then he has yet another surprise\contination to pull on you...why? Because he gets bored, wants to write,but doesn't want to create new characters? Or because he has a "message" and wants to expliacate it to us, and figures he can just shove it into the mouth of his old characters?
Well, I guess I shouldn't say that much about this; because for all of this, the new book might be the best thing ever written.
Why does spaghetti end up all tangled up? Or, a more practical problem, why do power cords, cables, phone lines, etc. all end up in a gigantic ball underneath my desk, no matter how many times I sort them out? I don't think it is just Murphy's Law.
My own theory on this is that the cable, cord, etc. tends to be more weighted down in the center, and therefore drags there. As it drags, it forces other cables, cords, etc. out of the way. As soon as it forces them out of the way and drops down to a lower level, the tension on the other cords, cables, etc. tends to make them wrap around the heavier cables cords...so in about a month or so, they all tend to tie around each other.
I think we all know the argument, if we stop Nazi's right to free speech, we will be just as bad as them, etc.
Although maybe Nike or the Indonesian govt could find a use for gun equipped robots, shooting their 8 year old workers if they didn't work hard enough.
Since this is an anti-Windows joke, moderate up to funny.
Well, I tell you, that post office...
This Sunday, Micro$oft arranged every American to wake up to a picture of a robocop DOJ agent pointing a gun at a frightened six year old...thus placing in everybodies mind that the DOJ are bullies out to get everyone who wants to stand up for themselves.
M$ would like nothing better to paint themselves as the bullied...although in the case of M$, the feds actually have a reason to be so tenacious and vicious.
If this runs on RAMDISK, does it only run on a MacIntosh? Can you use RAMDISK on Windows?
"Private companies can't afford to screw up"? Have you never owned a car that was a lemon? Never owned a computer? Never ran Windows? Ever had a bank overcharge you? And have you ever been employed by a large private company?
"You never have this kind of imcomptence"?, you are kidding, right? While NASA might have made some mistakes, how can you say that they are doing a terrible job, when you have no one to compare them to? They have lost 10 astonauts in 40 years, while using new technologies to do totally new things.
The post office is a mostly private company...they receive no tax dollars and I think they mostly do a pretty good job. $.33 to move a letter across a continent in a week is a pretty good price.
and man shouldn't walk upright
I think I walked upright a few times. The last time was about a month or two ago when Slashdot hadn't posted anything interesting and I got up to go to the refrigarator for some more raw cookie dough and cough syrup
The fact the Windows crashed? Does the Space Shuttle get invalid page faults in kernel32.dll?, although that would explain most of NASAs cost over runs and delays.
But seriously folks, does anyone know what OS is used on the space shuttle computers, and what NASA generally uses?
Bell Labs is AT&T, right? And also that would make them Pacific Bell, Bell Atlantic, USWest, etc., right? So Bell Labs was where this corporate behemoth is hiding all their "talent and respect", or where they used it all up 30 years ago?
Not that I am bitter or anything.
That is a really good question. I see the reason for the national TLDs, because they actually give reference to some physical information.
But for the purpose of IP, TCP routing, browser translation, why does your computer need to know why the data that is coming in is from a university, a commercial site, or a government site?
The only possible reason I can think of is that when the big ol' DNS server gets a URL, it can shorten its searching for a particular web site to find the IP address of by narrowing down the list with the TLD...but I don't think that is a factor in creating the two new TLDs. I think it is to cause some hype and make some money.
Because ".banc" sounds more interesting and 31337,like Toberlone or something like that.
Hey, I forgot to ask you...what part of the country are you from? In my home city (Portland, OR), we have a chain of 'retrocades' open, where they have all the classic atari era arcade games and nothing else.
But I can't say I disagree with you...Street Fighter II was the coolest game, when I was twelve years old.
I was wondering why when I installed Caldera Linux, the little game of Tetris that it lets you play while it is installing is called a "Tetris like game"...when it is obviously totally Tetris.
Wonder if the VC can be sued retroactivly for the "tet" offensive...and what about that tetrishedroncannabinol?
Someone else posted about switching this to Linux, like they did with the i-Opener (which seems silly, this is a real computer, not an appliance, switching it to Linux shouldn't be an issue)...so after those people's cars crash, their OS will still be up and running.
YES!!! No longer will I have to troll on Slashdot to get attention online! I no longer seek out negative attention with my posts, because I have found a warm and caring girl who wishes to talk to me.
Thank you for introducing me to Alice...although it looks like me and her might "just be friends"
>Could you have cybersex with me
Possibly, but I haven't given it much thought.
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a0L Su(kz
And so does this, because it has the stench of AOL on it.
(End Troll)
What's the deal with browsers? Why are they so important to work on? Besides the lame AOL browser (not meaning this, but meaning the browser that comes with AOL), isn't the only point of a browser to have a back and forward button and then to display a web page? Okay, fine, there are plenty of other things a browser is good for, but in the grand scheme of things, how important are they?
I sure hope so.
Is there a religious right in Great Britian? How can you have Southern Baptists when there is no South? But seriously, I didn't know that there was any kind of rightwing\fundamentalist movement in Great Britian or the continent...all the right wingers I hear about in Europe are neonazis and anti-immigrant people.
Also, I wouldn't group "the religious right" and "big corporations" together (Ralph Reed\M$ notwithstanding), and I wouldn't put any of them in with this lawsuit. This lawsuit is suck that anyone if Nigel sends Rutherford an e-Mail saying that Andrew likes to shove hotgrits down his pants, Andrew can sue not only Nigel, but Nigels ISP as well. I can only imagine the junk lawsuits that will ensue.
I am glad to see that once again Hannah Arendts prediction comes true, America the land of political freedom and social repression (since most of our free speech rights are channeled into a discussion of Back Street Boys vs. *NSynch, but Joeylover459@aol.com can call the BSB fags all she wants without having to prove it).
From all that I have seen, and from my own personal experience, this is probably the way it is going to be.
After all, everyone knows that the internet will be here for a while, but they don't know exactly what it will be used for.
the business types, being their usual creative selves, figured that the best use of this epoch-making technical tool was to sell online rutabegas, Viagra and Hello Kitty Lip Gloss. Now everybody realized that was a stupid idea, so that is gone. But the technical backbone of the internet isn't going away.
Although hopefully Micro$oft will.