Actually Madeleine L'Engle's most important work, "A Wrinkle In Time" has been under fire both from those who are uncomfortable with anything that smacks of Christianity and from the more fanatic fringe of Christianity.
Really, whatever Christianity there is in that book is of a more Unitarian-Universalist bent...not only Jesus is cited as a fighter against The Shadow, but Gandhi and Buddha too. Kindly old ladies who befriend Margaret and are identified as witches doesn't help matters either. And various alien creatures for good measure.
It was one of my favorite books in childhood. Space travel, mysticism, a big gross brain running a planet...cool stuff for someone whose parents wanted to cram Nancy Drew down her throat.
That book would make a great movie...I'd love to see one of the big Anime houses like Ghibli or Gainax or the people who did Escaflowne tackle it. Actually it wouldn't be a bad bit of material for Brad Bird (director of "Iron Giant") at Pixar. Imagine an animated Ixchel! That would be great!
UT 2003 came out with Windows and Linux installers on the same disk set. It's not Doom 3 or anything...oh wait, that's not out yet, and Carmack said that the Linux version will be out at the same time as the Windows one.
Pretty cool for an OS without corporate backing, neh?
The version of the notorious BMX XXX that was released for PS2 was censored, the version for Gamecube is not. Dunno about the XBox.
Sanity's Requiem, Resident Evil Zero...those are also definitely not "family" games. Nintendo might have more than its share of Mario Sunshine kind of cartoony games but they are definitely NOT the only kind of games you can get for Gamecube.
I have been using these HD racks since 2001 and I am very happy with them. A regular 3.5" desktop HD fits in one of these like a glove. I have a machine which can boot off of any of 4 hard drives. Just set your BIOS to autodetect your hard drive, and you are good to go.
OK mes amis...I'm waiting for the official security update, and it ain't here yet! C'mon! Get on the stick, man! Debian, Red Hat and Apple have the update NOW, why do we have to fsckn wait???
I am seriously looking at paying my money and getting the newest version of Libranet. I am enjoying Mandrake 9 now but am getting very tired of waiting for packages getting onto urpmi. It took Linux-Mandrake two weeks to fix Samba, and that was a pretty important update.
Do you remember Aeon Flux? Did you like it? If so, Reign will be right up your alley. Peter Chung created the show, and his distinctive artistic style is all over it. I suspect that the dubscripts will probably be extremely accurate considering that Chung speaks fluent English as well as Korean and Japanese.
SERIAL EXPERIMENTS: LAIN is one of the series that will be aired on this show. This is one of the finest series ever made in Japan. Get ready for the REAL STUFF.
Excel Saga. Be prepared to laugh your ass off...it's the most surreal and funny anime ever. The world needs a good laugh right about now, and Excel Saga fills the bill. Hail Il Palazzo!
That sounds like something the Labor Relations Board would be very interested in hearing about. Even in America this is wildly illegal. Your cousin's husband should report his ass.
What part of... $./configure $ su # make # make install don't you understand?
Installing from source is dead easy on Mandrake 9. Everything you need is right there out of the box. Yeah, it means popping open a console, but once you get past the initial fear factor it's not a problem. Occasionally when you are dealing with Windows you have to open up a command.com or cmd.exe window...it's not the end of the world.
No shit...it's also mathematics like this that allow record companies to cook their books and deny their slaves...I mean artists...royalties they deserve. Check this out.
Aha...so LATVIA owns the.LA CCTLD? That makes sense. I was thinking maybe Lapland but I wasn't sure. The Latvians were trying to market the.LA domain to Los Angeles/Louisiana companies. They are asking a bomb to use their domain. http://www.la/ for the details. Highway robbery. Latvia. Damn.
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John Brunner for "Stand on Zanzibar" (cyberpunk in the 1950s - eat your heart out William Gibson)
Great book, wrong decade. "Stand On Zanzibar" was published in 1968, and is extremely influenced by what was going on in "Swingin' London" during the writing of the book. The events of the book are influenced by '60s-era history...Vietnam, Sukarno being deposed in Indonesia, unrest in various parts of Africa, etc. etc.
This was indeed somewhat prescient of current technology in the early 21st Century: a computer about a foot square with cooling systems that take up an entire room,(a logical final stage to the megahertz race and hotter and hotter CPUs!) narrowcast cable television, 24-hour news channels. He also got a direct hit on Glam Rock of the early 1970s and Punk Rock of the late 1970s.
However, "The Shockwave Rider," written in 1975, was the real Cyberpunk precursor, not "Stand On Zanzibar." A great article on just how prescient "The Shockwave Rider" was of the Internet is available here.
Brunner rocked. It's a shame he hasn't gotten the same reputation as Philip K. Dick as a must-read author.
The domain nbc4.tv belongs to KNBC TV, the local owned-and-operated NBC affiliate in Los Angeles, CA, US. The CCTLD is from Tuvalu but lots of television-related sites are paying up the serious buck$ (this is not a cheap domain) to buy.tv domains.
Worst of all is the.la domain. I wanted a msgeek.la domain but couldn't afford the $100+/year that the owners of the CCTLD.la is selling domains for. I had to settle for msgeek-la-ca.us...I am still trying to figure out what to do with it. But I have it.
You missed Unreal Tournament, both the 1999 and 2003 versions. It took more than a bit of tweakage (tar.gzipping a working install and then untarring/ungzipping the working install into the new computer) to get UT(1999) installed because I couldn't make the Loki installer work under Linux-Mandrake 9, but now that it is installed it works beautifully. Monster Kill, baby!
Unquestionably, everything is crap. My VCR took a dump recently...it was a semi-pro machine and was bought by a major cartoon studio in 1993. My husband and I wound up with it in 1996 or so. It had served us well up until a few weeks ago, when it ate a tape, belched, and wouldn't play anything anymore.
Trouble is, you can't really replace something like that anymore. Most VCRs are made in China, Malaysia, Indonesia or Korea, and are trash quality. I didn't have the heart to buy a piece of crap VCR and possibly risk the demise of more irreplaceable tapes.
I'm waiting for reasonable DVD recorders. Then I will get on the stick and dub all my tapes to DVD-R. (or +R if that shakes out as being the winner) Right now they are way too expensive.
BTW you can't guarantee getting something good if you buy Sony. Sony gets things made for them in China like everyone else does. And worst of all: they belong to the RIAA and MPAA.
I still can control quality on my computers by home-building, but I wonder how long that will last. Everything else...you roll the dice, you take the chance.
Everyone's free to use sunscreen...
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Not exactly...Mel is a walking poster boy for wearing your SPF 30 sunscreen. He got a LOT of sun in his youth. Now he looks like a hunk...of rawhide.
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Actually Madeleine L'Engle's most important work, "A Wrinkle In Time" has been under fire both from those who are uncomfortable with anything that smacks of Christianity and from the more fanatic fringe of Christianity.
Really, whatever Christianity there is in that book is of a more Unitarian-Universalist bent...not only Jesus is cited as a fighter against The Shadow, but Gandhi and Buddha too. Kindly old ladies who befriend Margaret and are identified as witches doesn't help matters either. And various alien creatures for good measure.
It was one of my favorite books in childhood. Space travel, mysticism, a big gross brain running a planet...cool stuff for someone whose parents wanted to cram Nancy Drew down her throat.
That book would make a great movie...I'd love to see one of the big Anime houses like Ghibli or Gainax or the people who did Escaflowne tackle it. Actually it wouldn't be a bad bit of material for Brad Bird (director of "Iron Giant") at Pixar. Imagine an animated Ixchel! That would be great!
Nice domain name, dude.
If you haven't read it...DO IT.
Brunner invented Cyberpunk before it had a name.
UT 2003 came out with Windows and Linux installers on the same disk set. It's not Doom 3 or anything...oh wait, that's not out yet, and Carmack said that the Linux version will be out at the same time as the Windows one.
Pretty cool for an OS without corporate backing, neh?
The version of the notorious BMX XXX that was released for PS2 was censored, the version for Gamecube is not. Dunno about the XBox.
Sanity's Requiem, Resident Evil Zero...those are also definitely not "family" games. Nintendo might have more than its share of Mario Sunshine kind of cartoony games but they are definitely NOT the only kind of games you can get for Gamecube.
THIS is a good deal.
I have been using these HD racks since 2001 and I am very happy with them. A regular 3.5" desktop HD fits in one of these like a glove. I have a machine which can boot off of any of 4 hard drives. Just set your BIOS to autodetect your hard drive, and you are good to go.
One word...Lock-naar. The green one really looks like one.
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*Cough* XChat comes with Mandrake 9 *Cough*
I am seriously looking at paying my money and getting the newest version of Libranet. I am enjoying Mandrake 9 now but am getting very tired of waiting for packages getting onto urpmi. It took Linux-Mandrake two weeks to fix Samba, and that was a pretty important update.
Do you remember Aeon Flux? Did you like it? If so, Reign will be right up your alley. Peter Chung created the show, and his distinctive artistic style is all over it. I suspect that the dubscripts will probably be extremely accurate considering that Chung speaks fluent English as well as Korean and Japanese.
SERIAL EXPERIMENTS: LAIN is one of the series that will be aired on this show. This is one of the finest series ever made in Japan. Get ready for the REAL STUFF.
Excel Saga. Be prepared to laugh your ass off...it's the most surreal and funny anime ever. The world needs a good laugh right about now, and Excel Saga fills the bill. Hail Il Palazzo!
That sounds like something the Labor Relations Board would be very interested in hearing about. Even in America this is wildly illegal. Your cousin's husband should report his ass.
Or a visit with Bob Porter and Bob Slydell...sooner or later, every work situation becomes Office Space.
What part of... ./configure
$
$ su
# make
# make install
don't you understand?
Installing from source is dead easy on Mandrake 9. Everything you need is right there out of the box. Yeah, it means popping open a console, but once you get past the initial fear factor it's not a problem. Occasionally when you are dealing with Windows you have to open up a command.com or cmd.exe window...it's not the end of the world.
Use the Source, Luke! Or Tubabeat, whatever...
No shit...it's also mathematics like this that allow record companies to cook their books and deny their slaves...I mean artists...royalties they deserve. Check this out.
The domain fetish-is-futile.com IS available, for what it's worth.
Aha...so LATVIA owns the .LA CCTLD? That makes sense. I was thinking maybe Lapland but I wasn't sure. The Latvians were trying to market the .LA domain to Los Angeles/Louisiana companies. They are asking a bomb to use their domain. http://www.la/ for the details. Highway robbery. Latvia. Damn.
Great book, wrong decade. "Stand On Zanzibar" was published in 1968, and is extremely influenced by what was going on in "Swingin' London" during the writing of the book. The events of the book are influenced by '60s-era history...Vietnam, Sukarno being deposed in Indonesia, unrest in various parts of Africa, etc. etc.
This was indeed somewhat prescient of current technology in the early 21st Century: a computer about a foot square with cooling systems that take up an entire room,(a logical final stage to the megahertz race and hotter and hotter CPUs!) narrowcast cable television, 24-hour news channels. He also got a direct hit on Glam Rock of the early 1970s and Punk Rock of the late 1970s.
However, "The Shockwave Rider," written in 1975, was the real Cyberpunk precursor, not "Stand On Zanzibar." A great article on just how prescient "The Shockwave Rider" was of the Internet is available here.
Brunner rocked. It's a shame he hasn't gotten the same reputation as Philip K. Dick as a must-read author.
The domain nbc4.tv belongs to KNBC TV, the local owned-and-operated NBC affiliate in Los Angeles, CA, US. The CCTLD is from Tuvalu but lots of television-related sites are paying up the serious buck$ (this is not a cheap domain) to buy .tv domains.
.la domain. I wanted a msgeek.la domain but couldn't afford the $100+/year that the owners of the CCTLD .la is selling domains for. I had to settle for msgeek-la-ca.us...I am still trying to figure out what to do with it. But I have it.
Worst of all is the
You missed Unreal Tournament, both the 1999 and 2003 versions. It took more than a bit of tweakage (tar.gzipping a working install and then untarring/ungzipping the working install into the new computer) to get UT(1999) installed because I couldn't make the Loki installer work under Linux-Mandrake 9, but now that it is installed it works beautifully. Monster Kill, baby!
Unquestionably, everything is crap. My VCR took a dump recently...it was a semi-pro machine and was bought by a major cartoon studio in 1993. My husband and I wound up with it in 1996 or so. It had served us well up until a few weeks ago, when it ate a tape, belched, and wouldn't play anything anymore.
Trouble is, you can't really replace something like that anymore. Most VCRs are made in China, Malaysia, Indonesia or Korea, and are trash quality. I didn't have the heart to buy a piece of crap VCR and possibly risk the demise of more irreplaceable tapes.
I'm waiting for reasonable DVD recorders. Then I will get on the stick and dub all my tapes to DVD-R. (or +R if that shakes out as being the winner) Right now they are way too expensive.
BTW you can't guarantee getting something good if you buy Sony. Sony gets things made for them in China like everyone else does. And worst of all: they belong to the RIAA and MPAA.
I still can control quality on my computers by home-building, but I wonder how long that will last. Everything else...you roll the dice, you take the chance.
Not exactly...Mel is a walking poster boy for wearing your SPF 30 sunscreen. He got a LOT of sun in his youth. Now he looks like a hunk...of rawhide.
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