I haven't seen the original in a while, but are you sure you're not talking about the alternate ending on the DVD? That SUCKED. Then again, that's why they didn't use it and I'd suppose, never finished it.
I think the ending they actually went with was pretty good.
As for the new one, just go see it if you like the first one. Better effects. A much more comic book feel. The plot is cheesy, but it is an action movie about vampires. Duh.
It was infinitely better than Queen of the Damned.
Tip for the wise... Don't trust Mandrake's download page to tell you where to find it. As soon as those listings are updated, they're slammed. Instead, try looking for places that carry older versions, very often, they'll have an un-advertised 8.2 as well.
Personally, I rsynced it from the same place the mirrors do. Great speed, but they limit the connects to 10, so you'll have to get in line.
I'll leave the locations as an exercise for the user.
Exactly. The things people will "discover" just to get published and invited on the Oprah show.
I have no doubts that this guy got some people together, had them take a test, told some of them they sucked, other that they were wonderful, and the rejected ones scored lower on a second test then they had previously. Who the hell would show any motivation to score well after being treated like that?
It's no secret that treating people poorly will make them uninterested in you and your "silly little test".
The really annoying thing is that this study suggests that the effect is permanent when no information was given as to the affects of the subjects outside of his IQ tests or over any period of time.
The study also make quite a jump in suggesting the aggression increases as IQ lowers and vice versa.
I've been using that for a couple of months now. (It has been available buried at http://www.google.com/news/newsheadlines.html) I find it very useful. I wish they'd explain exactly how it worked though. Is it all machine parsed? Are the articles listed in order of relevance, time posted, etc?
I've see a couple occasions where it's had an article on a completely different subject under the header, but it's not the norm. It's always up to date. My only gripe is that it doesn't have an "Older Stories" link. I've gone back to try and find something I've seen before only to find that it had been pushed off.
They also keep a list of links to news sourse and current relevant resources at http://www.google.com/news/.
Also keep in mind that these tunnels run very close to the Ramapo Fault Line [PDF]. Every few years or so we get a minor quake. I always seem to sleep through them, so they're not that big, but I'm sure they've had some impact on the aqueducts.
Lot's more info is available from Lamont-Doherty Labs which is located in the area.
I jet remembered the name... NetJet. Can't find the company homepage so they probably washed out with the tide. I did find an article calling it it NetDeath. The complaint was that when misconfigured it would essentially DoS webservers and quadruple traffic requests. Good for the user, severe bitch for the site.
http://browserwatch.internet.com/news/story/peak 9. html
I also seem to recall one that would prefetch/cache pages that it knew you went to and commonly clicked links on a page. So while you busy reading the front page of/., the software would have already cached the comments of each story. It's a neat idea and for people you actually have set patterns and do alot of reading I could see how it might give a significant percieved speedup.
It's a neat idea. I'm sure you could achieve a similiar effect with some type of offline scheduled cache.
I can think of at least one severe example of an exception... Dresden. I think precision bombing might have just been the more efficient method as opposed to any moral stand.
Good points. I think you can make a pretty simple case for both questions.
1) You've reached a point where you cannot profit from that property any longer. By releasing it, you allow other people to use it, and perhaps create a new market for that property. This can be beneficial because you are already the formost expert on the property if new profitable opportunities come up. You may alos have the option of entering back into the game with duel licensing.
2) Seems like every peice of software I've ever used disclaims liability right up front. I think the courts would be even more understanding if you're giving it away. You get what you pay for sometimes.
I personally see little reason in not opening up your IP once you're done with it. Normally by the time you'd want to, the cat is out of the bag and there's very little secret. Just holding it hostage for the abaility to sue infringers seems like a rather weak plan to me.
It's a great game. My girlfriend is actually waiting for me to get off the computer right now so she can play it. Excite's game pages feature it and they have some other good ones. Try Bounce Out for a similiar game but a bit harder due to the layout.
All my friends are currently killing brain cells to Frequency at the moment. I-Qube is a personal favorite for the PS1.
It may take the fun out of it, but Upoc offers a free service that works a bit like this. It's build more around SMS and email, but you can also leave voice message that can be checked from any phone or online. I've found it pretty useful once in awhile. There's probably similiar services out there.
#2 is interesting. Suppose you want to milit freeloaders, but also see them as a necessary evil for the reasons you mentioned. Perhaps you could let them freeload from zero, but refuse service if the content they share ever goes down (below acceptable threshold). Kind of like warez welfare.
I saw some info about modafinil (or Provigil) on 20/20 or one of the network mag shows recently and was quite impressed. Side affects appear minimal. I don't know if I'd care to use it over extended periods, but I'm interested.
Some dubious links are here and here. More reliable stuff is here and here.
I don't feel like finding the links, but from working at Kinko's in the past, we were always told this. The high-end color machines would actually lock up if you attempted to copy money. A Xerox tech would actually have to come in, file a report (presumably registered with the Treasury) and re-enable the machine.
I'm far from an expert on the subject, it barely made the news here at all. But if I recall, the WTO ruled the EU's embargo of Central American bananas marketed by he US as against trade agreements and the EU was penalized ~$200 million. Plus, US companies can now do exactly what they wanted to do in the first place. The trade embargo was a miserable failure, and you're post, uninformed and offtopic.
I've yet to buy a Tivo, but I do have the Motorola/GI/Comcast box. From the conversations over at AVS Forum, it seems that the serial connector does not actually work. It does supposedly work with DirecTV though. However, Tivo does have an IR output on the front of the case that has tricked more that a few people to into believing the the serial connection works even without the blaster hooked up. Give it a shot.
Also, for anyone who cares, ATT is selling a branded newer version of the Tivo hardware with USB ports and buttons on the front. The reason for USB is still unknown. Check out attbroadband.tivo.com or AVS Forum for more info.
Back in college I actually used to fertilze my pot plants with stale beer. It worked pretty well. It's also a great idea in gardens which get attacked by slugs and some type of bacteria.
I probably had the worst spot in the US for the event. Right across the Hudson from Ground Zero, NYC. They're still working all night so as bad as NY is, it's all the worse with the amount of light they're giving off at that location.
It was still spectacular tho. At about 1am, I saw a couple of spectacular fireballs close to the horizon. A couple of little ones here and there. Went back out from 4:30 to 5:30 and there was at least 1-2 a minute visible, and bursts of up to 10-15 per minute. I really was beautiful. Smoke trails were clearly visible for the larger ones. We even saw one that left no trail really, but seemed to be just a greenish explosion in the middle of the sky. Amazing.
I'll definately be renting a car and going upstate for the next big shower that comes along.
Point 1) I just want to address that stock value does not "magically disappear". Stocks are bought and sold according to bid ans ask rates. Someone always walks away with the cash. Money sort of follows physics in that it is not created or destroyed. One of those kinetic vs potential kind of things.
Point 2) I can't say that Mad Cow destroyed the economy of the UK, although they've had their problems they're still better off than the EU in general. I still buy Angus steaks and pay quite a bit for it too. It's not as easy as it sounds and I think we load our beef with enough antibiotics to piss off a raging minority of Greens in this country anyway. Besides, they insure those cows y'know. What does the insurance co do to come up with some quick capital? yeah... it doesn't just effect the US.
That's not even the same damn thing. I wonder if the Freedom of Info Act would allow someone that's being wiretapped to find out. But I digress. What we're talking about here is not the investigation where there is a need for secrecy. It's the hearing after the investigation, where the evidence is laid out and and you are judged by a jury of your peers.
Without examination of the procedings, the evidence, and the findings, you're giving a court far too much power. Our founders knew that because it's common sense. "Abosolute power corrupts absolutely."
P2P will always have latency issues. Depending on how you do it, you either going to hit a bandwidth obsticle or high hop counts. And with games, you're going to run into cheating issues because the data is coming from untrusted clients. I'd suspect a central server would be more equipped to deal with this.
Perhaps it could work well in a setup like IRC where you have many central servers all interconnected. That way you'll save on bandwidth and hops. There will still be trust issues, but it's better than pure p2p. Just watch out for server splits.
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I haven't seen the original in a while, but are you sure you're not talking about the alternate ending on the DVD? That SUCKED. Then again, that's why they didn't use it and I'd suppose, never finished it.
I think the ending they actually went with was pretty good.
As for the new one, just go see it if you like the first one. Better effects. A much more comic book feel. The plot is cheesy, but it is an action movie about vampires. Duh.
It was infinitely better than Queen of the Damned.
Tip for the wise... Don't trust Mandrake's download page to tell you where to find it. As soon as those listings are updated, they're slammed. Instead, try looking for places that carry older versions, very often, they'll have an un-advertised 8.2 as well.
Personally, I rsynced it from the same place the mirrors do. Great speed, but they limit the connects to 10, so you'll have to get in line.
I'll leave the locations as an exercise for the user.
Exactly. The things people will "discover" just to get published and invited on the Oprah show.
I have no doubts that this guy got some people together, had them take a test, told some of them they sucked, other that they were wonderful, and the rejected ones scored lower on a second test then they had previously. Who the hell would show any motivation to score well after being treated like that?
It's no secret that treating people poorly will make them uninterested in you and your "silly little test".
The really annoying thing is that this study suggests that the effect is permanent when no information was given as to the affects of the subjects outside of his IQ tests or over any period of time.
The study also make quite a jump in suggesting the aggression increases as IQ lowers and vice versa.
I've been using that for a couple of months now. (It has been available buried at http://www.google.com/news/newsheadlines.html) I find it very useful. I wish they'd explain exactly how it worked though. Is it all machine parsed? Are the articles listed in order of relevance, time posted, etc?
I've see a couple occasions where it's had an article on a completely different subject under the header, but it's not the norm. It's always up to date. My only gripe is that it doesn't have an "Older Stories" link. I've gone back to try and find something I've seen before only to find that it had been pushed off.
They also keep a list of links to news sourse and current relevant resources at http://www.google.com/news/.
Also keep in mind that these tunnels run very close to the Ramapo Fault Line [PDF]. Every few years or so we get a minor quake. I always seem to sleep through them, so they're not that big, but I'm sure they've had some impact on the aqueducts.
Lot's more info is available from Lamont-Doherty Labs which is located in the area.
Whatever. He shares the trademark as he has the rest of his work. For Linus' comments on the matter see http://www.memalpha.cx/Linux/trademark.html
I laughed till I cried when I heard there was actually a law against "Inciting the Masses".
I jet remembered the name... NetJet. Can't find the company homepage so they probably washed out with the tide. I did find an article calling it it NetDeath. The complaint was that when misconfigured it would essentially DoS webservers and quadruple traffic requests. Good for the user, severe bitch for the site.
k 9. html
http://browserwatch.internet.com/news/story/pea
I also seem to recall one that would prefetch/cache pages that it knew you went to and commonly clicked links on a page. So while you busy reading the front page of /., the software would have already cached the comments of each story. It's a neat idea and for people you actually have set patterns and do alot of reading I could see how it might give a significant percieved speedup.
It's a neat idea. I'm sure you could achieve a similiar effect with some type of offline scheduled cache.
Anyone remember the name of the software?
I can think of at least one severe example of an exception... Dresden. I think precision bombing might have just been the more efficient method as opposed to any moral stand.
Go for it... he's rich.
Good points. I think you can make a pretty simple case for both questions.
1) You've reached a point where you cannot profit from that property any longer. By releasing it, you allow other people to use it, and perhaps create a new market for that property. This can be beneficial because you are already the formost expert on the property if new profitable opportunities come up. You may alos have the option of entering back into the game with duel licensing.
2) Seems like every peice of software I've ever used disclaims liability right up front. I think the courts would be even more understanding if you're giving it away. You get what you pay for sometimes.
I personally see little reason in not opening up your IP once you're done with it. Normally by the time you'd want to, the cat is out of the bag and there's very little secret. Just holding it hostage for the abaility to sue infringers seems like a rather weak plan to me.
It's a great game. My girlfriend is actually waiting for me to get off the computer right now so she can play it. Excite's game pages feature it and they have some other good ones. Try Bounce Out for a similiar game but a bit harder due to the layout.
All my friends are currently killing brain cells to Frequency at the moment. I-Qube is a personal favorite for the PS1.
It may take the fun out of it, but Upoc offers a free service that works a bit like this. It's build more around SMS and email, but you can also leave voice message that can be checked from any phone or online. I've found it pretty useful once in awhile. There's probably similiar services out there.
#2 is interesting. Suppose you want to milit freeloaders, but also see them as a necessary evil for the reasons you mentioned. Perhaps you could let them freeload from zero, but refuse service if the content they share ever goes down (below acceptable threshold). Kind of like warez welfare.
I saw some info about modafinil (or Provigil) on 20/20 or one of the network mag shows recently and was quite impressed. Side affects appear minimal. I don't know if I'd care to use it over extended periods, but I'm interested.
Some dubious links are here and here. More reliable stuff is here and here.
As opposed to sitting in front of a CRT, under flourencent lights and cell phones practically strapped to our nuts for atleast 8 hours a day?
We're all fried, crispy.
I don't feel like finding the links, but from working at Kinko's in the past, we were always told this. The high-end color machines would actually lock up if you attempted to copy money. A Xerox tech would actually have to come in, file a report (presumably registered with the Treasury) and re-enable the machine.
I'm far from an expert on the subject, it barely made the news here at all. But if I recall, the WTO ruled the EU's embargo of Central American bananas marketed by he US as against trade agreements and the EU was penalized ~$200 million. Plus, US companies can now do exactly what they wanted to do in the first place. The trade embargo was a miserable failure, and you're post, uninformed and offtopic.
Have a nice day.
I've yet to buy a Tivo, but I do have the Motorola/GI/Comcast box. From the conversations over at AVS Forum, it seems that the serial connector does not actually work. It does supposedly work with DirecTV though. However, Tivo does have an IR output on the front of the case that has tricked more that a few people to into believing the the serial connection works even without the blaster hooked up. Give it a shot.
Also, for anyone who cares, ATT is selling a branded newer version of the Tivo hardware with USB ports and buttons on the front. The reason for USB is still unknown. Check out attbroadband.tivo.com or AVS Forum for more info.
Watering your garden with beer.
Back in college I actually used to fertilze my pot plants with stale beer. It worked pretty well. It's also a great idea in gardens which get attacked by slugs and some type of bacteria.
I probably had the worst spot in the US for the event. Right across the Hudson from Ground Zero, NYC. They're still working all night so as bad as NY is, it's all the worse with the amount of light they're giving off at that location.
It was still spectacular tho. At about 1am, I saw a couple of spectacular fireballs close to the horizon. A couple of little ones here and there. Went back out from 4:30 to 5:30 and there was at least 1-2 a minute visible, and bursts of up to 10-15 per minute. I really was beautiful. Smoke trails were clearly visible for the larger ones. We even saw one that left no trail really, but seemed to be just a greenish explosion in the middle of the sky. Amazing.
I'll definately be renting a car and going upstate for the next big shower that comes along.
Point 1) I just want to address that stock value does not "magically disappear". Stocks are bought and sold according to bid ans ask rates. Someone always walks away with the cash. Money sort of follows physics in that it is not created or destroyed. One of those kinetic vs potential kind of things.
Point 2) I can't say that Mad Cow destroyed the economy of the UK, although they've had their problems they're still better off than the EU in general. I still buy Angus steaks and pay quite a bit for it too. It's not as easy as it sounds and I think we load our beef with enough antibiotics to piss off a raging minority of Greens in this country anyway. Besides, they insure those cows y'know. What does the insurance co do to come up with some quick capital? yeah... it doesn't just effect the US.
That's not even the same damn thing. I wonder if the Freedom of Info Act would allow someone that's being wiretapped to find out. But I digress. What we're talking about here is not the investigation where there is a need for secrecy. It's the hearing after the investigation, where the evidence is laid out and and you are judged by a jury of your peers.
Without examination of the procedings, the evidence, and the findings, you're giving a court far too much power. Our founders knew that because it's common sense. "Abosolute power corrupts absolutely."
P2P will always have latency issues. Depending on how you do it, you either going to hit a bandwidth obsticle or high hop counts. And with games, you're going to run into cheating issues because the data is coming from untrusted clients. I'd suspect a central server would be more equipped to deal with this.
Perhaps it could work well in a setup like IRC where you have many central servers all interconnected. That way you'll save on bandwidth and hops. There will still be trust issues, but it's better than pure p2p. Just watch out for server splits.