Now lets start on all those pampered middle class wasters pining away, telling us how terrible their poor miserable lifes are with ME/CFS.
Yeah, you're a troll. Now that Slashdot has given users in good standing an automatic bonus point for their posts, it's easy to see who the trolls are.
However, I have to bite here.
From 1991 to 1995 I had Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome. It was a mild case by comparison to those who are bedridden by it, but it was nonetheless pretty debilitating.
Imagine you have the worst fsckn flu you've ever had. No energy, aches, pains, chills, hot spells, and worst of all, a fog descends on your brain that makes it impossible to think clearly.
Now imagine that this flu doesn't go away.
That's CFIDS.
The first CFIDS episode lasted several months, and left lots of puzzled doctors in its wake. Basically I was diagnosed with CFIDS because all the known causes for symptoms like mine were ruled out. I had a few more active episodes before my last one which was in late 1994.
There are deficits left over from the CFIDS. I don't drive (not good in LA) because I sometimes have lapses of consciousness. They are brief, less than a few seconds in duration, but enough to mean I could be dangerous on the road. I find I have a harder time moving information from short-term memory to long-term memory than I did before my CFIDS. My stamina is certainly not what it was pre-CFIDS.
However, I did manage to lift myself up through my own effort. I learned HTML and for about 5 years worked out of my home building websites for people. I have even had contract positions where I worked on-site. The Internet industry went into the crapper but I spent a year retraining and now I'm hitting the bricks again looking for a desktop support/hardware support/junior Windows sysadmin position.
Lucky for me I had the support of good friends, family, and most importantly my spouse. If it weren't for them I probably would have starved during that period. And I will have you know that in that entire period, I never ONCE was on SSI or Disability.
I hope one day you have to deal with a chronic disease. I hope it's nice and painful and lays you out to where you can't fend for yourself. Then I hope someone takes the same attitude you have. "Here's that kick up the arse, mate! Get with it!"
Opera fangrrl over here...
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On my 2K box I find that I use Opera 6 more than IE. There are places I have to use IE to get to (The MCP secure site at M$ to give an example) but Opera 6 is faster, handles multiple windows better and is free as in beer if you don't mind a little ad banner in your taskbar.
On Linux I like Konqueror. It's IE the way IE should be. I suspect there are people sniffing around at Konqui's code up in Redmond now.
This reminds me...I should download Opera for MacOS PPC right away. Netscape 4.08 and its quirks are getting old, and IE 4 for Mac committed seppuku a few weeks ago...it freezes when you try to open it.
Yeah, I'm typing this from work on IE. But folks... http://www.opera.com/ . Just do it. Actually supporting these guys by buying the browser is a Very Good Thing (tm) and it's really not that expensive.
iBreast (So much nicer than iTit, I think...)
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Actually if you wanted to look at just the guts and the way they are put together IBM did this two years ago with the NetVista. However the NV was a crippled i810 chipset based PC, with no way of turning off Vampire Video or the crappy on-board sound. This might actually have decent stuff on the inside of it.
Missed opportunity for a pivoting screen, though. Portrait/Landscape on-the-fly would be schweet.
I strongly think that Steve Wozniak *is* a good communicator. He's great to listen to...his enthusiasm is infectious, and he really knows his stuff.
Any kid who has him as a teacher will probably go on to be a tech superstar. Seriously.
I agree with you on Gates, though...listening to him speak is like listening to Kermit The Frog without the clever and funny lines. And his second in command at MS is worst of all...his idea of communicating is "WOOOOO! GIVE IT UP FOR ME! WOOOOOOO!" and "Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers!"
Use a hardware firewall. Software firewalls are just as secure (or insecure) as the operating system they run under. I wouldn't run a MS operating system on the Internet without one, and I'm an MCSE. Go ahead, flame away...I passed my last test and got the last of my Borg parts yesterday.
However, I did have the cojones to get the Hotmail address "PenguinistaMCSE." So far MS hasn't said boo to me about it. Heh heh heh...
Actually I wouldn't run ANY computer without a hardware firewall on the Internet. Period.
In Japan, underage sexuality is accepted and pervasive.
Not only that, but Japanese entertainment (TV/Movies/OAV Video/Video Games) has the most violence of any in the world. Japan not only has the most violent entertainment in the world, but a pretty violent past. And yet, folks...Japan still has one of the lowest crime rates in the Known World.
Anyone for www.willcodehtml4food.com? It's now up for grabs...since I'm not really in the Web design/development business at this point I really don't need it anymore. I had it registered at Dotster.
That is the gospel truth. The VAST majority of age discrimination in IT is older people being forced out to bring in younger people who command lesser salaries. Or forced out to outsource to coding sweatshops in India and Pakistan. Or whatever.
You think discrimination is bad now? Wait until you're 45 or so.
Actually, there has still been some development for the DreamCast, and a few games have been released (such as NBA 2k2) since the Dreamcast went under. There's nothing like the development going on for PS2 or XBox right now, and development will eventually cease, but there are still dozens of high quality games out there at a very low price. Especially when you compare Dreamcast graphics to the PS2.
Read "there has still been some COMMERCIAL development." As far as a Dreamcast hacking/development community goes, that's where the real action's gonna be for DC in the future.
The beauty of the DC is this:
DC can run multiple operating systems, including Linux;
There is even an open source, game-oriented OS being developed called Kallisti!OS;
Most DC consoles can boot off of CD-Rs specially tweaked for the purpose, and there are workarounds for most others;
DC has got to be one of the most developer-friendly consoles ever made. Anyone I know who codes games loves writing for DC;
DC's hardware is 100% documented. Not so for Sony, Nintendo and XBox.
Someone's gotta step up to the plate and build a reverse-engineered Broadband Adapter. There are too many DCs out there and too much demand, particularly amongst geeks, for that not to happen. The v90 dialup modem that comes with the box is pretty damn good as dialup modems go, btw.
It is more than likely that there will be DC development going on for years into the future. Buy a DC now, and it will indeed have a future. Also RIGHT NOW it has Unreal Tournament, Quake III, Soul Calibur 2 and on and on.
It requires a keyboard to be 100% practical, but that will only cost you roughly $20 more, or less if you get an adapter plus a PS/2 or AT keyboard from your stash. (The Mad Katz adapter will play nicely with both, the others are PS/2 only but how many people still have AT keyboards lying around?)
Certainly using a real computer to surf and get your mail with is better than kludging it with a DC. But this is certainly the cheapest way on. And hey, you can play DC games with this too!
Mag stripes are notoriously easy to crax0r. Not so with chips. It would mean replacing a lot of infrastructure at retailers, and the gift cards would be a lot more expensive to produce, but ultimately it's a better and more secure system.
Anyone know if anyone's working on an open-source Smart Card Authentication system?
I really like the Thinkpads and some of their desktop machines. I think IBM PCs will always have that image problem that they are expensive and underperforming, regardless of their true merits.
The Aptiva line kinda gave IBM that crummy image as far as desktops go. The Thinkpad still is the gold standard for laptops. Not as pretty as the iBook or the TiBook but solid as a fsckn rock. Also Thinkpad support for Linux is awesome. There was a period of time when IBM was even preloading Linux if you asked them nicely.
No matter what happens though, IBM keyboards are the best ever made.:)
No shit. Typing on a genuine PS/2 keyboard right now. I bought it for a buck at Goodwill Computer Clearance Center. The best of all was the original IBM PC keyboard, but you can't use those with modern computers.
Aptivas were poorly made computers unworthy of the IBM nameplate. They contained crap parts and science experiments like the MWave combo sound card/modem they used in some of them.
Aptiva were to IBM what PowerPC Performas were to Apple.
(Note for American readers: Once upon a time you had to have a licence to even own a radio in the UK.. and, believe it or not, you had to have a licence to own a dog. The UK will tax you for anything and everything they can get away with.. and we don't even have a constitution to prevent it.)
In most cities in the US, you have to license your dog or lose it.
Also the US version of Auntie Beeb, called PBS, has things called "pledge breaks" where people harangue you for minutes on end to "become a member" of their lovely Public Broadcast Station. It's almost as bad as paying a "telly tax" every year. Hell, I'd pay a yearly "telly tax" if it meant no more "pledge breaks" on PBS and no more threats by the right-wing nuts in Congress to cut off funding to PBS!
Sonic Foundry Siren uses Fraunhofer MP3. They also have their own proprietary codec that's kinda nifty called Perfect Clarity Audio but because it's put out by a relatively small company in the Midwestern US rather than a big one in Redmond, WA nobody gives a damn about their codec.
If memory serves Siren can handle both RealMedia and WMA as well.
Siren even comes in a freeware version. Unfortunately only for Windows...too bad.
Sazan Eyes (or 3x3 Eyes): There were two series made, the first one "Imortals" is wonderful, though it looks like the producers ran out of money after four episodes and stopped the series right before the climax. The second series "Legend of the Divine Demon" isn't very good. I have a double DVD set with both series.
The guy who wrote 3x3 Eyes later went on to create perhaps one of the best satirical Anime series, All-purpose Cultural Catgirl Nuku Nuku. The satirical angle isn't as obvious in the original OAV as it is in the Nuku Nuku TV series, but both are funny as hell and are ripping fun.
The trouble with Nuku Nuku is that it's getting very hard to find. AD Vision, the company that subbed and released the OAV in the US, has dropped their version and have no plans to bring it to DVD. Nuku Nuku TV was never picked up by any of the major Anime distributors here and seems to only be partially fansubbed. Nuku Nuku Dash! the second NN OAV, is pretty lame...it turns the series into a stupid shoujo story about the main character falling in love with the boy she was designed to protect.
NN OAV and NNTV are to Anime what Police Squad! was to Cop shows. Nuku Nuku rips through Anime cliches like so much kitty litter. If you know anything about Anime you'll love it. Oh yeah, and there's plenty of fanservice there for the drooling otaku boy contingent.
Please! Someone get in touch with Star Child Ltd. and King Records and get the rights to this series! Families of America! It is not too late for Nuku Nuku! ~_^
Actually in the time of the writing of the Book of Revelation, when a man was inducted into the Roman Legions, he was branded with a regimental mark on his right hand and forehead.
In the mysteries of Mithras, those who were of a certain degree in the mysteries were also given a new mark on both places...the mark of Mithras.
There are tons of similarities between elements of both the old and new testaments and the legends of Mithras.
Born on December 25th, his birth witnessed by shepherds.
His mother was either a virgin girl or the Petra Genetrix, a stone which broke open to reveal the newborn Mithras.
A new star appeared in the Heavens on Mithras' birth.
Three priests of the Zoroastrian faith, called Magi, traveled to meet him soon after and give him royal gifts.
When Mithras came of age he saved his people from a drought by striking a rock and bringing forth water from it.
When Ahriman, the enemy of Mithras' father, the supreme Zoroastrian deity Ahura Mazda, caused a world-wide flood, Mithras again saved his people by fashioning a miraculous boat, where he gathered animals and righteous humans in to sail the waters unmolested.
Finally Ahriman incarnated himself as a massive bull, which tore through the world destroying everything in its path. Mithras went forth to slay the bull. At the point when Mithras drove his dagger into the bull to strike the fatal blow, the bull fatally gored the god-man. The mingled blood of bull and godling cleansed the Earth. This cleansing was reenacted in the Mithraeum as the Taurobolium, the cleansing baptism of initiates in the blood of a sacrificed bull.
Three days after the fight which killed him, Mithras rose from the dead. He gathered 12 men with him where he taught them the mysteries of his new religion, the central one being the Mizd, a sacred meal shared amongst initiates. The Roman worshippers of Mithras called the meal Missa. In the Mithraeum, the one who would officiate at this sacred meal was known as the Pontifex Maximus, the Great Bridge-builder, for it is said the act of the Missa bridged the gap between the divine Mithras and his human worshippers.
Finally Mithras ascended into Heaven to sit at the right hand of Ahura Mazda until the time came for the last great battle between Good and Evil.
If you don't believe me, Google for "Mithras" or "Mithraeum."
Much of the writings of the Early Church Fathers were condemnation of Mithraism, a competitor to Christianity.
Many scholars now believe the Book of Revelation was less about a future time and place than about the persecution of Christians under people like the Emperor Nero. When you see it as an allegory of history instead of prophecy, it actually makes more sense. Basically it was a message to those suffering persecution under Imperial Rome. "Hang in there."
He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name. -- Revelation 13:16-17
OK, here's the reason why this ISN'T GONNA HAPPEN IN THE US, FOLKS.
Institute something like this and there will be ultra-right wing Christian Militias, The Army Of God, Michigan Militia, what have you out in the streets with guns the next day.
You think that the tragedy at the Murrah Federal Building in OKC was bad? Just you wait. If the US Guh'mint even breathes a word of interest in tagging its citizenry, there will be fighting in the streets, more bombs going off at Federal buildings nationwide...hell, I would suspect that people who wouldn't normally be inclined to such things would take up arms without a second thought in a situation like that.
And remember...Duh!bya supposedly is an Evangelical Christian. Would he allow something that could be construed as the Mark Of The Beast to be deployed on his watch? I don't think so, folks.
This might happen in Europe, where religious fervor is not as feverish as here. This might even happen in Canada or in Central and South America. I could definitely see the Chinese doing this to its citizenry. But not here. Not in the place where the Bible Belt is buckled. "Mark" my words: it ain't gonna happen in the USA.
No, they stated it [XP] was "their" most secured OS.
And that's actually a LIE.
Note that this hole does NOT affect Windows 2000 Professional, or Server for that matter, but we are talking client OSes here, so comparing 2K Pro to XP Home/Pro is the natural comparison
I knew when the truth finally came out about XP, it would be found to be less secure than 2K Professional. I'm waiting for the next 'sploit to happen...I suspect that Remote Assistance/Remote Desktop is way less secure than 2K Terminal Services, and there will probably be a big-ass vulnerability found in that "feature."
A Win2K Pro machine, fully patched and without IIS enabled, is actually pretty tight. Of course, since 2K Pro is not open sourced, there's no way of knowing for sure. So yeah, other OSes are far more secured than anything from M$. But 2K Pro is definitely more secure than XP.
...lower the price of software to something other than stratospheric levels. Notice that the biggest guns in the BSA are the same software companies that charge extortionate prices for their software...Microsoft? Adobe? Macromedia? Start charging fair prices for software and piracy will dry up. Big time.
Yeah, replying to my own message...just checked Pricewatch and that Radeon only comes in an AGP flavor. No PCI. Oh well. And it's $300+. Kind of out of the ol' price range...
For some reason, I wanna come up with a suitably smart-ass answer to cut you down to size, but I can't -- it look like you got a really sweet system for doing some heavy video processing on a budget.
Budget is the key word here. This all started with a $30 motherboard I found at Overstock.Com. Most of the parts will come from my parts pile, and a good friend dropped an InWin mid-tower case with a Powerman/Sparkle 300W power supply on me, saying "happy holidays."
And much of the parts will come from a machine I rescued from a Doomed Dot Com. For details on that little adventure, follow this link: http://www.lowendpc.com/msgeek/2001/1030.html. I found the ultra-econo motherboard just after I wrote this article.
And what will be the original machine's fate? It will be a file and backup server for my home network. Running Linux. Yeah I had problems installing Mandrake but installing Debian or Red Hat on a machine that probably will never run XFree86 is not a problem.
That Radeon is tempting but very, very pricey. Also the TV Wonder is already in my parts pile.
no dont.
buy a turtle beach santa cruz.
1/2 the price and 3 times the quality.
check the specs, it blows away anything creative can make and borders on professional quality.
Yes, but what if you have a machine with only four PCI slots and you want to replace both the sucky on-mobo sound and add Firewire to your system? You have these cards installed:
1.)Xpert 128 PCI video to kill the hideous i810 Vampire Video;
2.)TV Wonder;
3.)Intel NIC
Pop question: what do you do?
a: Get the Santa Cruz and forget about Firewire, or:
b: Get the Audigy OEM for $20 less than the Santa Cruz and have a little less audio fidelity but all the functionality?
I'm going to run this beastie on 2KPro. (Please don't flame me...I have my reasons.) Suggestions are welcome.
With 512MB or more, XP should run like a dream. uh... yeah, i should hope so.
Windows 2000 Pro is content with 128MB of RAM. I'm hoping that the stripped down version of XP that the 9 states who have not signed onto the M$/Bush DoJ "agreement" want might become a reality. There really is no good reason XP should be a RAM hog like it is. It's not really that much different than 2K.
If you *really, really want* to run Windows, I say go with 2000 Pro over XP Pro. And stay clear of XP Home: more bloatware and crippled networking!
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Yeah, you're a troll. Now that Slashdot has given users in good standing an automatic bonus point for their posts, it's easy to see who the trolls are.
However, I have to bite here.
From 1991 to 1995 I had Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome. It was a mild case by comparison to those who are bedridden by it, but it was nonetheless pretty debilitating.
Imagine you have the worst fsckn flu you've ever had. No energy, aches, pains, chills, hot spells, and worst of all, a fog descends on your brain that makes it impossible to think clearly.
Now imagine that this flu doesn't go away.
That's CFIDS.
The first CFIDS episode lasted several months, and left lots of puzzled doctors in its wake. Basically I was diagnosed with CFIDS because all the known causes for symptoms like mine were ruled out. I had a few more active episodes before my last one which was in late 1994.
There are deficits left over from the CFIDS. I don't drive (not good in LA) because I sometimes have lapses of consciousness. They are brief, less than a few seconds in duration, but enough to mean I could be dangerous on the road. I find I have a harder time moving information from short-term memory to long-term memory than I did before my CFIDS. My stamina is certainly not what it was pre-CFIDS.
However, I did manage to lift myself up through my own effort. I learned HTML and for about 5 years worked out of my home building websites for people. I have even had contract positions where I worked on-site. The Internet industry went into the crapper but I spent a year retraining and now I'm hitting the bricks again looking for a desktop support/hardware support/junior Windows sysadmin position.
Lucky for me I had the support of good friends, family, and most importantly my spouse. If it weren't for them I probably would have starved during that period. And I will have you know that in that entire period, I never ONCE was on SSI or Disability.
I hope one day you have to deal with a chronic disease. I hope it's nice and painful and lays you out to where you can't fend for yourself. Then I hope someone takes the same attitude you have. "Here's that kick up the arse, mate! Get with it!"
On my 2K box I find that I use Opera 6 more than IE. There are places I have to use IE to get to (The MCP secure site at M$ to give an example) but Opera 6 is faster, handles multiple windows better and is free as in beer if you don't mind a little ad banner in your taskbar.
On Linux I like Konqueror. It's IE the way IE should be. I suspect there are people sniffing around at Konqui's code up in Redmond now.
This reminds me...I should download Opera for MacOS PPC right away. Netscape 4.08 and its quirks are getting old, and IE 4 for Mac committed seppuku a few weeks ago...it freezes when you try to open it.
Yeah, I'm typing this from work on IE. But folks... http://www.opera.com/ . Just do it. Actually supporting these guys by buying the browser is a Very Good Thing (tm) and it's really not that expensive.
Actually if you wanted to look at just the guts and the way they are put together IBM did this two years ago with the NetVista. However the NV was a crippled i810 chipset based PC, with no way of turning off Vampire Video or the crappy on-board sound. This might actually have decent stuff on the inside of it.
Missed opportunity for a pivoting screen, though. Portrait/Landscape on-the-fly would be schweet.
I strongly think that Steve Wozniak *is* a good communicator. He's great to listen to...his enthusiasm is infectious, and he really knows his stuff.
Any kid who has him as a teacher will probably go on to be a tech superstar. Seriously.
I agree with you on Gates, though...listening to him speak is like listening to Kermit The Frog without the clever and funny lines. And his second in command at MS is worst of all...his idea of communicating is "WOOOOO! GIVE IT UP FOR ME! WOOOOOOO!" and "Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers!"
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Use a hardware firewall. Software firewalls are just as secure (or insecure) as the operating system they run under. I wouldn't run a MS operating system on the Internet without one, and I'm an MCSE. Go ahead, flame away...I passed my last test and got the last of my Borg parts yesterday.
However, I did have the cojones to get the Hotmail address "PenguinistaMCSE." So far MS hasn't said boo to me about it. Heh heh heh...
Actually I wouldn't run ANY computer without a hardware firewall on the Internet. Period.
Don't believe me? Read these articles.
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/ index.html / love_in_sacto/index.html
http://www.salon.com/ent/music/feature/2001/09/06
If anything should be made illegal, it's the thievery of the record industry.
Not only that, but Japanese entertainment (TV/Movies/OAV Video/Video Games) has the most violence of any in the world. Japan not only has the most violent entertainment in the world, but a pretty violent past. And yet, folks...Japan still has one of the lowest crime rates in the Known World.
Odd, isn't it?
Anyone for www.willcodehtml4food.com? It's now up for grabs...since I'm not really in the Web design/development business at this point I really don't need it anymore. I had it registered at Dotster.
That is the gospel truth. The VAST majority of age discrimination in IT is older people being forced out to bring in younger people who command lesser salaries. Or forced out to outsource to coding sweatshops in India and Pakistan. Or whatever.
You think discrimination is bad now? Wait until you're 45 or so.
Read "there has still been some COMMERCIAL development." As far as a Dreamcast hacking/development community goes, that's where the real action's gonna be for DC in the future.
The beauty of the DC is this:
Someone's gotta step up to the plate and build a reverse-engineered Broadband Adapter. There are too many DCs out there and too much demand, particularly amongst geeks, for that not to happen. The v90 dialup modem that comes with the box is pretty damn good as dialup modems go, btw.
It is more than likely that there will be DC development going on for years into the future. Buy a DC now, and it will indeed have a future. Also RIGHT NOW it has Unreal Tournament, Quake III, Soul Calibur 2 and on and on.
Don't take my word for it...drop in at these sites and see what's going on for yourself:
http://mc.pp.se/dc/
http://www.fivemouse.com/dclinux.html
It requires a keyboard to be 100% practical, but that will only cost you roughly $20 more, or less if you get an adapter plus a PS/2 or AT keyboard from your stash. (The Mad Katz adapter will play nicely with both, the others are PS/2 only but how many people still have AT keyboards lying around?)
Certainly using a real computer to surf and get your mail with is better than kludging it with a DC. But this is certainly the cheapest way on. And hey, you can play DC games with this too!
Hi, I'm Ms. Geek, and I'm a DC addict.
Mag stripes are notoriously easy to crax0r. Not so with chips. It would mean replacing a lot of infrastructure at retailers, and the gift cards would be a lot more expensive to produce, but ultimately it's a better and more secure system.
Anyone know if anyone's working on an open-source Smart Card Authentication system?
The Aptiva line kinda gave IBM that crummy image as far as desktops go. The Thinkpad still is the gold standard for laptops. Not as pretty as the iBook or the TiBook but solid as a fsckn rock. Also Thinkpad support for Linux is awesome. There was a period of time when IBM was even preloading Linux if you asked them nicely.
No matter what happens though, IBM keyboards are the best ever made. :)
No shit. Typing on a genuine PS/2 keyboard right now. I bought it for a buck at Goodwill Computer Clearance Center. The best of all was the original IBM PC keyboard, but you can't use those with modern computers.
Try "sucks ass."
Aptivas were poorly made computers unworthy of the IBM nameplate. They contained crap parts and science experiments like the MWave combo sound card/modem they used in some of them.
Aptiva were to IBM what PowerPC Performas were to Apple.
In most cities in the US, you have to license your dog or lose it.
Also the US version of Auntie Beeb, called PBS, has things called "pledge breaks" where people harangue you for minutes on end to "become a member" of their lovely Public Broadcast Station. It's almost as bad as paying a "telly tax" every year. Hell, I'd pay a yearly "telly tax" if it meant no more "pledge breaks" on PBS and no more threats by the right-wing nuts in Congress to cut off funding to PBS!
If memory serves Siren can handle both RealMedia and WMA as well.
Siren even comes in a freeware version. Unfortunately only for Windows...too bad.
The guy who wrote 3x3 Eyes later went on to create perhaps one of the best satirical Anime series, All-purpose Cultural Catgirl Nuku Nuku. The satirical angle isn't as obvious in the original OAV as it is in the Nuku Nuku TV series, but both are funny as hell and are ripping fun.
The trouble with Nuku Nuku is that it's getting very hard to find. AD Vision, the company that subbed and released the OAV in the US, has dropped their version and have no plans to bring it to DVD. Nuku Nuku TV was never picked up by any of the major Anime distributors here and seems to only be partially fansubbed. Nuku Nuku Dash! the second NN OAV, is pretty lame...it turns the series into a stupid shoujo story about the main character falling in love with the boy she was designed to protect.
NN OAV and NNTV are to Anime what Police Squad! was to Cop shows. Nuku Nuku rips through Anime cliches like so much kitty litter. If you know anything about Anime you'll love it. Oh yeah, and there's plenty of fanservice there for the drooling otaku boy contingent.
Please! Someone get in touch with Star Child Ltd. and King Records and get the rights to this series! Families of America! It is not too late for Nuku Nuku! ~_^
In the mysteries of Mithras, those who were of a certain degree in the mysteries were also given a new mark on both places...the mark of Mithras.
There are tons of similarities between elements of both the old and new testaments and the legends of Mithras.
If you don't believe me, Google for "Mithras" or "Mithraeum."
Much of the writings of the Early Church Fathers were condemnation of Mithraism, a competitor to Christianity.
Many scholars now believe the Book of Revelation was less about a future time and place than about the persecution of Christians under people like the Emperor Nero. When you see it as an allegory of history instead of prophecy, it actually makes more sense. Basically it was a message to those suffering persecution under Imperial Rome. "Hang in there."
OK, here's the reason why this ISN'T GONNA HAPPEN IN THE US, FOLKS.
Institute something like this and there will be ultra-right wing Christian Militias, The Army Of God, Michigan Militia, what have you out in the streets with guns the next day.
You think that the tragedy at the Murrah Federal Building in OKC was bad? Just you wait. If the US Guh'mint even breathes a word of interest in tagging its citizenry, there will be fighting in the streets, more bombs going off at Federal buildings nationwide...hell, I would suspect that people who wouldn't normally be inclined to such things would take up arms without a second thought in a situation like that.
And remember...Duh!bya supposedly is an Evangelical Christian. Would he allow something that could be construed as the Mark Of The Beast to be deployed on his watch? I don't think so, folks.
This might happen in Europe, where religious fervor is not as feverish as here. This might even happen in Canada or in Central and South America. I could definitely see the Chinese doing this to its citizenry. But not here. Not in the place where the Bible Belt is buckled. "Mark" my words: it ain't gonna happen in the USA.
And that's actually a LIE.
Note that this hole does NOT affect Windows 2000 Professional, or Server for that matter, but we are talking client OSes here, so comparing 2K Pro to XP Home/Pro is the natural comparison
I knew when the truth finally came out about XP, it would be found to be less secure than 2K Professional. I'm waiting for the next 'sploit to happen...I suspect that Remote Assistance/Remote Desktop is way less secure than 2K Terminal Services, and there will probably be a big-ass vulnerability found in that "feature."
A Win2K Pro machine, fully patched and without IIS enabled, is actually pretty tight. Of course, since 2K Pro is not open sourced, there's no way of knowing for sure. So yeah, other OSes are far more secured than anything from M$. But 2K Pro is definitely more secure than XP.
...lower the price of software to something other than stratospheric levels. Notice that the biggest guns in the BSA are the same software companies that charge extortionate prices for their software...Microsoft? Adobe? Macromedia? Start charging fair prices for software and piracy will dry up. Big time.
Yeah, replying to my own message...just checked Pricewatch and that Radeon only comes in an AGP flavor. No PCI. Oh well. And it's $300+. Kind of out of the ol' price range...
Budget is the key word here. This all started with a $30 motherboard I found at Overstock.Com. Most of the parts will come from my parts pile, and a good friend dropped an InWin mid-tower case with a Powerman/Sparkle 300W power supply on me, saying "happy holidays."
And much of the parts will come from a machine I rescued from a Doomed Dot Com. For details on that little adventure, follow this link: http://www.lowendpc.com/msgeek/2001/1030.html. I found the ultra-econo motherboard just after I wrote this article.
And what will be the original machine's fate? It will be a file and backup server for my home network. Running Linux. Yeah I had problems installing Mandrake but installing Debian or Red Hat on a machine that probably will never run XFree86 is not a problem.
That Radeon is tempting but very, very pricey. Also the TV Wonder is already in my parts pile.
Thanks for the ideas.
buy a turtle beach santa cruz.
1/2 the price and 3 times the quality.
check the specs, it blows away anything creative can make and borders on professional quality.
Yes, but what if you have a machine with only four PCI slots and you want to replace both the sucky on-mobo sound and add Firewire to your system? You have these cards installed:
1.)Xpert 128 PCI video to kill the hideous i810 Vampire Video;
2.)TV Wonder;
3.)Intel NIC
Pop question: what do you do?
a: Get the Santa Cruz and forget about Firewire, or:
b: Get the Audigy OEM for $20 less than the Santa Cruz and have a little less audio fidelity but all the functionality?
I'm going to run this beastie on 2KPro. (Please don't flame me...I have my reasons.) Suggestions are welcome.
uh... yeah, i should hope so.
Windows 2000 Pro is content with 128MB of RAM. I'm hoping that the stripped down version of XP that the 9 states who have not signed onto the M$/Bush DoJ "agreement" want might become a reality. There really is no good reason XP should be a RAM hog like it is. It's not really that much different than 2K.
If you *really, really want* to run Windows, I say go with 2000 Pro over XP Pro. And stay clear of XP Home: more bloatware and crippled networking!