My local used book shop had about 4 copies of Dream Park about a week ago. Mail me maybe we can work something out. Also have you looked at Fallen Angels? Really good stuff.
And then as we move closer and closer to being like "normal" "healthy" sports when I lose because I lagged by Dad can beat your Dad to death. I would really like gaming to *not* become more like other sports please.
That is one of the reasons that I'm *very* interested in the "anime" mini-series of Treason. That could rock long enough to really do it justice and in a anime style it could look very good.
I always thought that Niven's best work was the stuff he did with Mr. Pournelle. You don't even want to know what I would do for a new Falkenberg book:). In any case go to your nearest used book shop and pick up a copy of 'Treason' it is a *very* good introduction to Card.
I mean I'm from Utah how could I not and Ender's Game is one of the best things I have ever read and Treason is great and he does rock *hard*. But I really do not think that they could ever do Ender justice in a movie that would come out of Hollywood. I just do not see a way they could pull this off. So this is on a very long list of books that I love and that I hope they never make into a movie. Now I think if anyone could prove me wrong that it is Card so if they make this I hope I'm wrong but after the last few years of seeing great books made into movies that suck, I'm not holding my breath. But some of the other books do sound very cool. Am I the only one that wants to see a second book in the Treason universe?
That would be wrong and Linux explains it here better than I ever could. Basically Linux is built well and is therefore portable by it's very nature. In any case read what Linus has to say it is better than any paraphrase I could give.
Of course all the copyright info is here and they are all free as in speech (no surprise there considering the people writing it) The one by Richard Stallman is very cool and serves to dispel many of the myths about that man.
when you could finger coke machines from around the world to find out stuff about them. This is something I thought was gone on the net but it is cool to see that people are doing some neat stuff just because they can.
He does have some reasons and in fact his response to my post cleared up a couple of issues and I wish him the best of luck. I don't *really* agree with his reasons but I can see how they might be concerns and it does look like nebby is aware of what he is doing. But Open Source is all about being free and I just pointed it out. When the Open Source version of this comes out I could see myself looking at using it. All in all good job Nebby and thanks for the response.
I really am not a license snob and in fact in many ways think that the *BSD license is better than the GPL but also think the GPL has it's strong points. But the license he is putting this out under is really bad and it is *not* OSS or free software. Why do people put in commercial use clauses. This really restricts uses of the software and is not really a clear thing. Think about it if I start a site based off of this and start out doing nothing with ads or any kind of income this would be within this license. Now if in a few months it starts to be big and I decide to get a bit of income going so I can improve the site so I start selling a couple of ads. Now do I need another license. Damnit Jim free software is all about being able to do anything I want with it . If I want to make money I should be able to. Just use the freaking GPL or the BSD license and get over it. This is the kind of not_really_free_but_kind_of_free_software hurts us all.
Because PGP is not what the people he is communicating with have. It would appear that they want some of the features that Verisign provides as a part of this service (in particular the level 2 serivce looks interesting) I could easily see how using this to sign and PGP to encrypt would be a very usefull combo. In particular if it made your PHB fell better if someone was offering him money if it did not work.
that in the past these people. Have provided some support to battle bot teams. Mostly it has been in the way of software in exchange for putting a sticker on the bot but you never know and they do have at least some people who know what it is and who have supported it in the past.
Your relationships with Sun have in that case been much better than anything I've been able to get out of them. Granted sounds like I'm in a smaller (perhaps much smaller) firm but all we have ever really gotten out of Sun is "sign this NDA" "OK we are working on it now":) But interesting that you point out Sun as the example. I still think in terms of support OSS beats M$ but maybe not Sun yet (In particular if you are really big)
As far as office goes get staroffice yes it is big and kind of ugly but it works really well with office apps. I don't know about a outlook replacement but personally think that it would be a bad idea.
But if you follow the link you would see that Ballmer is much more interested in the server room than the desktop. Simple reason PC sales are way down but the server market is still growing. The following is from the article "In his talk, Ballmer identified Oracle Corp. (stock:
ORCL) and Sun Microsystems Inc. (stock: SUNW) as
second-tier rivals because "I think [server sales are] our
biggest potential short-term return." And this is why the server room matters more than the desktop for now.
or something from the people who hate it. I'm so glad to be in good company. BTW this shows that they really do understand that in the long run the server room is more important than the desktop and know we can beat them in both. Looks like the next little while is going to be *really* fun.
Does this mean I can get a primer for my daughter? (would you order that from fatbrain?) But just keep in mind now for all the rest of the problems just let Judge Fang spend a few hours with them that should take care of all their problems. This is OT but then again so is this entire comment how good is Zodiac?
I just yesterday got a shiney new card to replace the one that I had used on Egghead before no strangeness on it but the bank just sent it out anyway. Pretty cool of the bank so yea they (egghead) at some point reported the problem to the bank because I did not.
There already is 3 button emulation for the 1 button mouse. It is just a pain in the arse. On a desktop though you can put a trackball on it and be happy.
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My local used book shop had about 4 copies of Dream Park about a week ago. Mail me maybe we can work something out. Also have you looked at Fallen Angels? Really good stuff.
And then as we move closer and closer to being like "normal" "healthy" sports when I lose because I lagged by Dad can beat your Dad to death. I would really like gaming to *not* become more like other sports please.
That is one of the reasons that I'm *very* interested in the "anime" mini-series of Treason. That could rock long enough to really do it justice and in a anime style it could look very good.
I have to agree with you on the "Steven Barnes" thing. Have you ever looked at his solo work? Trash no doubt.
I always thought that Niven's best work was the stuff he did with Mr. Pournelle. You don't even want to know what I would do for a new Falkenberg book :). In any case go to your nearest used book shop and pick up a copy of 'Treason' it is a *very* good introduction to Card.
I had not heard any of this. Do have and could you perhaps post a link or two. Thanks.
I mean I'm from Utah how could I not and Ender's Game is one of the best things I have ever read and Treason is great and he does rock *hard*. But I really do not think that they could ever do Ender justice in a movie that would come out of Hollywood. I just do not see a way they could pull this off. So this is on a very long list of books that I love and that I hope they never make into a movie. Now I think if anyone could prove me wrong that it is Card so if they make this I hope I'm wrong but after the last few years of seeing great books made into movies that suck, I'm not holding my breath. But some of the other books do sound very cool. Am I the only one that wants to see a second book in the Treason universe?
That would be wrong and Linux explains it here better than I ever could. Basically Linux is built well and is therefore portable by it's very nature. In any case read what Linus has to say it is better than any paraphrase I could give.
Of course all the copyright info is here and they are all free as in speech (no surprise there considering the people writing it) The one by Richard Stallman is very cool and serves to dispel many of the myths about that man.
It is just plain scary. And to think my story about this site got rejected. Wow. This is bad kids very bad
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when you could finger coke machines from around the world to find out stuff about them. This is something I thought was gone on the net but it is cool to see that people are doing some neat stuff just because they can.
not only are they suing VA they are also suing Coke. I hate these people.
He does have some reasons and in fact his response to my post cleared up a couple of issues and I wish him the best of luck. I don't *really* agree with his reasons but I can see how they might be concerns and it does look like nebby is aware of what he is doing. But Open Source is all about being free and I just pointed it out. When the Open Source version of this comes out I could see myself looking at using it. All in all good job Nebby and thanks for the response.
I really am not a license snob and in fact in many ways think that the *BSD license is better than the GPL but also think the GPL has it's strong points. But the license he is putting this out under is really bad and it is *not* OSS or free software. Why do people put in commercial use clauses. This really restricts uses of the software and is not really a clear thing. Think about it if I start a site based off of this and start out doing nothing with ads or any kind of income this would be within this license. Now if in a few months it starts to be big and I decide to get a bit of income going so I can improve the site so I start selling a couple of ads. Now do I need another license. Damnit Jim free software is all about being able to do anything I want with it . If I want to make money I should be able to. Just use the freaking GPL or the BSD license and get over it. This is the kind of not_really_free_but_kind_of_free_software hurts us all.
Because PGP is not what the people he is communicating with have. It would appear that they want some of the features that Verisign provides as a part of this service (in particular the level 2 serivce looks interesting) I could easily see how using this to sign and PGP to encrypt would be a very usefull combo. In particular if it made your PHB fell better if someone was offering him money if it did not work.
that in the past these people. Have provided some support to battle bot teams. Mostly it has been in the way of software in exchange for putting a sticker on the bot but you never know and they do have at least some people who know what it is and who have supported it in the past.
Your relationships with Sun have in that case been much better than anything I've been able to get out of them. Granted sounds like I'm in a smaller (perhaps much smaller) firm but all we have ever really gotten out of Sun is "sign this NDA" "OK we are working on it now" :) But interesting that you point out Sun as the example. I still think in terms of support OSS beats M$ but maybe not Sun yet (In particular if you are really big)
You mean something like this.
As far as office goes get staroffice yes it is big and kind of ugly but it works really well with office apps. I don't know about a outlook replacement but personally think that it would be a bad idea.
But if you follow the link you would see that Ballmer is much more interested in the server room than the desktop. Simple reason PC sales are way down but the server market is still growing. The following is from the article "In his talk, Ballmer identified Oracle Corp. (stock: ORCL) and Sun Microsystems Inc. (stock: SUNW) as second-tier rivals because "I think [server sales are] our biggest potential short-term return." And this is why the server room matters more than the desktop for now.
or something from the people who hate it. I'm so glad to be in good company. BTW this shows that they really do understand that in the long run the server room is more important than the desktop and know we can beat them in both. Looks like the next little while is going to be *really* fun.
Does this mean I can get a primer for my daughter? (would you order that from fatbrain?) But just keep in mind now for all the rest of the problems just let Judge Fang spend a few hours with them that should take care of all their problems. This is OT but then again so is this entire comment how good is Zodiac?
I just yesterday got a shiney new card to replace the one that I had used on Egghead before no strangeness on it but the bank just sent it out anyway. Pretty cool of the bank so yea they (egghead) at some point reported the problem to the bank because I did not.
There already is 3 button emulation for the 1 button mouse. It is just a pain in the arse. On a desktop though you can put a trackball on it and be happy.