it was the pet project of Rick Delashmit, one of the original coders- but he left Origin, and the client languished. Regrettably, it doesn't work anymore....
UO does run under Wine, but kind of crappily, and it emphatically does NOT do UOAssist, which is half the fun.
Every network's "branding" has increased in size each year- at first, a few years ago, it was a small, transparent logo that was mostly there to watermark the source of the show, appearing occasionally. Then, it became a persistent, color image. Now, many networks (TNN is the best example) put a big old splash graphic along the lower part of the screen, which is simply inches away from being a banner.
Question: Would you accept the banner ad as a replacement for commercials, e.g. the show runs uninterrupted? It seems a tempting replacement.
I do wish it had some decent ones- I tried the Corel suite and found it endlessly irritating (damn unstable.)
But Blackbox is beautiful. I mean, I do things. They happen. I don't use the whole heavy-ass GNOME/KDE lumps, just the bits I need for applications. (though I did have an Enlightenment thing going on for a while.) It's the most responsive desktop I've ever used (except for Be, gods rest its soul.)
Just wish I could do more with it, graphics-wise.
Well, that and lack of Ultima Online. But I can really reboot for that.
I do a lot of business over mail, phone and e-mail, and I generally charge a standard rate for shipping (depending on what's ordered, whatever,) and it's always more than the actual shipping cost. The extra amount I consider the handling fee- and it takes a lot of handling to get a shipment through.
Remember that it's the shipper's responsibility to do things like spend hours on the phone with the freight service and various other folks trying to take care of damage claims, should that be necessary.
Generally, the fee on the lower-cost, easy shipments subsidizes the higher-cost, weird, major pain in the ass type of shipments.
I would jump to Ogg, no more mp3, no more anything else, if there were some l33tz0r Ogg hardware players... as it stands, I'm waiting on the very edge of getting an mp3 player, now that flash cards are moving at acceptable prices...
Please, someone show me a good Ogg player!
mp3s are a format of convenience for me. I spend 15 minutes encoding and storing, and then roll on from there. But I'd love to replace it with Ogg...
The only ones I know that don't are relentless self-promoters... they generally run their own small labels, often supporting other, similar musicians. Music isn't something you generally make money at. Granted, most small businessmen would tell you that business isn't something you make massive amounts of money at either...
is far, far greater than that of television. At least to me. The only thing I use the satellite for is hockey. If I could get a $15 a month hockey-only subscription....
I'm probably as sick of Unix world domination plans as you are- but don't go encouraging Unix developers to write something other than what's simpler for them. The stuff IS free in both ways, after all- the most we can expect is that people solve their own problems first! Everything after that is gravy.
This will make war *worse* if carried this far
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The Drone War
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· Score: 2
"A war without sacrifice is definitely a 21st century idea. Why should citizens of any country hesitate to wage such a war if they have the machinery? War has recently seemed so terrible that civilized societies view it as a last resort. But American history is crammed with technological innovations that are neither discussed nor much thought out. Drone Wars might not appear so terrible. They might even become irresistible."
If that's the case, then the only targets worth fighting will be stationary civilian ones.
International wars might be waged on the level of terrorism- not truly declared, just a fleet of drones that will fly in one night, decimate a city, with responsibility taken in the morning.
This, however, is only the worst case scenario, and assumes that the military as we know it will be weakened. But this seems to be what you're suggesting- if we fight with only drones, other drones will not be our targets.
No large company can be trusted- Neil Stephenson said it best when he likened Apple to a hippie commune ruled by a control freak Manson-type. While Apple definitely innovates, they have a bastard streak a mile wide.
Symphony orchestras are perhaps the musical entities most deserving of your money.
Granted, they get massive endowments as it stands, and have always been reliable charities- but in this case, it's the performance that's being paid for.
So paying for classical music is just as important as the others.
This having been said, the CDs are indeed often dirt cheap, and good buys by anyone's standard.
Spam is a major monkey wrench in electronic communications, but it's the same way with phone numbers! If you don't want phone calls, don't give your number out. And you can get a new email instantly- it's really no big deal. Anyone who's been around the block a few times has multiple emails- private, public, and spamtoilet. Actually, bigfoot.com has been doing a remarkable job of keeping shit out of my inbox for years now.
There's no need for John Law to put his fingers in there. We'll be just fine, thanks.
In a world where people are willing to take a book and OCR scan it, page by page, into a text file so that they can post it on usenet, the efficacy of any scheme that allows you to actually use the media involved is questionable.
The amount of sheer non-laziness evident in such behavior seems a massive disincentive to spending the billions required to design and implement protection.
Oh, and I'm sure the go-juice for all of these highly expensive endeavors comes directly from the artists' pockets.
Openness and mass compatibility is simply nice for users. I don't see it as a world domination scheme, and nor do I care. It's nice for me, the user, to be able to run Windows stuff without rebooting.
That's all I really care about.
Remember, Linux's main strength is that it is a solid, free framework. People who want that will use it, both on the developer and user side.
Those who wish to rule the world with it can sit in their bunkers with their Mr. Bigglesworths and scheme. I wish them all the best- I love distributed world conquest. They might even win.
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Yes, sir, you bet. I'll get smurfing right away. Regardless of color.
Or, just where to hit someone so that you'll kill them.
Perhaps a biofeedback mood-scanning system that prints out suggestions for terrible things to say in arguments?
it was the pet project of Rick Delashmit, one of the original coders- but he left Origin, and the client languished. Regrettably, it doesn't work anymore....
UO does run under Wine, but kind of crappily, and it emphatically does NOT do UOAssist, which is half the fun.
Every network's "branding" has increased in size each year- at first, a few years ago, it was a small, transparent logo that was mostly there to watermark the source of the show, appearing occasionally. Then, it became a persistent, color image. Now, many networks (TNN is the best example) put a big old splash graphic along the lower part of the screen, which is simply inches away from being a banner.
Question: Would you accept the banner ad as a replacement for commercials, e.g. the show runs uninterrupted? It seems a tempting replacement.
Bah, believability is something that was thrown out the window in the earliest days of Ultima Online. EQ derivatives don't even try. Why?
People don't want a virtual world. Every time it's been offered, they've shied away from it.
I do wish it had some decent ones- I tried the Corel suite and found it endlessly irritating (damn unstable.)
But Blackbox is beautiful. I mean, I do things. They happen. I don't use the whole heavy-ass GNOME/KDE lumps, just the bits I need for applications. (though I did have an Enlightenment thing going on for a while.) It's the most responsive desktop I've ever used (except for Be, gods rest its soul.)
Just wish I could do more with it, graphics-wise.
Well, that and lack of Ultima Online. But I can really reboot for that.
I do a lot of business over mail, phone and e-mail, and I generally charge a standard rate for shipping (depending on what's ordered, whatever,) and it's always more than the actual shipping cost. The extra amount I consider the handling fee- and it takes a lot of handling to get a shipment through.
Remember that it's the shipper's responsibility to do things like spend hours on the phone with the freight service and various other folks trying to take care of damage claims, should that be necessary.
Generally, the fee on the lower-cost, easy shipments subsidizes the higher-cost, weird, major pain in the ass type of shipments.
I would jump to Ogg, no more mp3, no more anything else, if there were some l33tz0r Ogg hardware players... as it stands, I'm waiting on the very edge of getting an mp3 player, now that flash cards are moving at acceptable prices...
Please, someone show me a good Ogg player!
mp3s are a format of convenience for me. I spend 15 minutes encoding and storing, and then roll on from there. But I'd love to replace it with Ogg...
The only ones I know that don't are relentless self-promoters... they generally run their own small labels, often supporting other, similar musicians. Music isn't something you generally make money at. Granted, most small businessmen would tell you that business isn't something you make massive amounts of money at either...
Is that pronounced like "humidity"?
is far, far greater than that of television. At least to me. The only thing I use the satellite for is hockey. If I could get a $15 a month hockey-only subscription....
I'm probably as sick of Unix world domination plans as you are- but don't go encouraging Unix developers to write something other than what's simpler for them. The stuff IS free in both ways, after all- the most we can expect is that people solve their own problems first! Everything after that is gravy.
"A war without sacrifice is definitely a 21st century idea. Why should citizens of any country hesitate to wage such a war if they have the machinery? War has recently seemed so terrible that civilized societies view it as a last resort. But American history is crammed with technological innovations that are neither discussed nor much thought out. Drone Wars might not appear so terrible. They might even become irresistible."
If that's the case, then the only targets worth fighting will be stationary civilian ones.
International wars might be waged on the level of terrorism- not truly declared, just a fleet of drones that will fly in one night, decimate a city, with responsibility taken in the morning.
This, however, is only the worst case scenario, and assumes that the military as we know it will be weakened. But this seems to be what you're suggesting- if we fight with only drones, other drones will not be our targets.
Other people will.
is at unhelpful.org.
c tion=view
"Do you vote in web polls?"
Answer options:
"yes"
The results: http://www.unhelpful.org/cgi/vote.cgi?name=vote&a
No large company can be trusted- Neil Stephenson said it best when he likened Apple to a hippie commune ruled by a control freak Manson-type. While Apple definitely innovates, they have a bastard streak a mile wide.
It doesn't take a lot of thought, and is overused by people who think altogether too much of themselves.
Symphony orchestras are perhaps the musical entities most deserving of your money.
Granted, they get massive endowments as it stands, and have always been reliable charities- but in this case, it's the performance that's being paid for.
So paying for classical music is just as important as the others.
This having been said, the CDs are indeed often dirt cheap, and good buys by anyone's standard.
Spam is a major monkey wrench in electronic communications, but it's the same way with phone numbers! If you don't want phone calls, don't give your number out. And you can get a new email instantly- it's really no big deal. Anyone who's been around the block a few times has multiple emails- private, public, and spamtoilet. Actually, bigfoot.com has been doing a remarkable job of keeping shit out of my inbox for years now.
There's no need for John Law to put his fingers in there. We'll be just fine, thanks.
Look out for rogue gods, in that case.
Who can tell one extra from another?
Sounds like another gimp-assed subset of ZDTV.
Shall we dance, Mr. Irrelevance?
Why I'd love to, Ms. Bankruptcy.
Advertising is meant to be seen, seen, and seen again.
Advertising is the social history of 20th century America- it only makes sense that it be preserved, and especially the embarrassing bits.
You're comparing Microsoft corporate support offerings to random hobbyist support offerings.
Wait, wait, for my next trick, I think I'll compare the support you can get from your 20-year-old son for Windows to a Red Hat corporate support plan.
It would be wiser to compare the support from an actual Linux company, such as Red Hat or IBM, to that of Microsoft.
In a world where people are willing to take a book and OCR scan it, page by page, into a text file so that they can post it on usenet, the efficacy of any scheme that allows you to actually use the media involved is questionable.
The amount of sheer non-laziness evident in such behavior seems a massive disincentive to spending the billions required to design and implement protection.
Oh, and I'm sure the go-juice for all of these highly expensive endeavors comes directly from the artists' pockets.
Openness and mass compatibility is simply nice for users. I don't see it as a world domination scheme, and nor do I care. It's nice for me, the user, to be able to run Windows stuff without rebooting.
That's all I really care about.
Remember, Linux's main strength is that it is a solid, free framework. People who want that will use it, both on the developer and user side.
Those who wish to rule the world with it can sit in their bunkers with their Mr. Bigglesworths and scheme. I wish them all the best- I love distributed world conquest. They might even win.
I'll just do what I do.