Tranquility is heavily reminiscent of the hoops game that everyone on the Enterprise gets addicted to in that ST:TNG episode. The mechanics are unrelated, but the "Ah, I made it" feeling is perhaps the same.
That said, I couldn't spend that much time playing it. But it's *very* worth checking out.
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With a stick shift! NOT a manual!
Ok, I might be revealing my own ignorance here, but I thought "stick shift" and "manual transmission" were synonyms, both the opposite of "automatic transmission".
What's the difference between stick shift and a manual?
1) Will Smith appearance in this movie is likely about increasing box office revenues.
2) So the fuck what.
I deny that his appearance in this movie will make anti-racists more complacent. I deny that it will prevent people from becoming anti-racists by placating them.
My post exhibits no opinion of B of A. My point is just that the guy actually isn't taking money from B of A. He is taking money from their customers, directly.
If you have to see the doctor, and had it billed to insurance, most likely you're Social Security Number was seen by many people.
And those people don't necessarily work for your doctor or your insurance agency. I worked as a temp for a few weeks at a medical imaging billing company. Since a doctor that works in medical imaging processes a *ton* of patients, the billing becomes a large portion of their office's work. This is (I suspect) almost always outsourced.
My first day on the job, they handed me a stack of several hundred people's names, addresses, phone numbers, SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS AND MEDICAL RECORDS. This is pre-HIPAA. Dunno how it works now.
Let alone identity theft, one of the records they handed me that week was a well known elected politician's totally routine mammogram. Her results were clear. Imagine what that kind of leak could do to an election if it were not.
Obviously their entire business process needed to be completely redesigned if they wanted to provide some semblance of privacy. And you don't know if this company handles your bill or not. And such a redesign would raise their costs astronomically. It might even make them non-competitive with in-house billing. This doesn't mean it's ok, it just means it's not going to happen unless they're forced.
"I was an actor," Massey told me. "I could put on a new hat every day. Who do I want to be today? The feeling after you've just hooked them, is just, like, bam!" He smacked his fist into the palm of his hand. "Take that, Bank of America!"
Of course, by which he means, "Take that, people who have spent their lives helping other people and getting paid for it! All that money you saved is mine now!"
Not only is a two year sentence too short, it'd be fine with me if this guy were beaten to death.
Not like... say virus scanner writers right? [who probably write the viruses they detect...]
If better coders were writing viruses, Sobig and Klez would be the least of our worries. If virus scanner writers were writing viruses, every machine that didn't pay their dues would be infected. It's not that hard.
The Oscars embody the worst of both worlds (critics and fans). They're not blinded by box office returns, but they're still suckers for a certain kind of spectacle. They're not intellectuals, but if a movie makes them feel smart, they'll choose it.
Those are bad things, aren't they?
(P.S. Spirited Away won the Best Animated Feature Film award last year, and I doubt any movie fans would disagree with it. Disney just failed to sell the thing. Or did middle America not like it?)
What element of Heavenly Creatures was Oscar-worthy?
I'd say that the acting might have been, but that's a stretch. The pace of the film was fubar enough that I couldn't agree with a best direction, movie, or screenplay nomination.
Set design, costumes, and art design were perfect for the movie, certainly, but I don't remember being impressed.
This is what will make the Oscars irrelevant? Titanic winning sweeps didn't do it for you? That's just the first thing that leaps to mind. Jesus, best actress for Julia Roberts over Ellen Burstyn didn't set off any alarms?
C'mon, man, you've got to watch better movies, whether or not LoTR is worthy.
Much moreso, which is fine, because a helicopter has other advantages. If they're aiming to cover distances, they'll use their fixed wing UAVs. If they're aiming for extended surveillance, they'll use this new thing.
I want personal aerostats, a home dogpod grid, and nanobot immune system before these things get deployed, though.
We're not talking about desktop users here. For the people that may want to use either UnixWare or Linux, Linux supports those features while UnixWare does not. Less sophisticated users should stay far, far from either Linux or UnixWare, "The Unix That Crashes (TM)". Scaring up a custom kernel is not exactly rocket science.
Well. I don't mean to say that most POS systems are SCO. I mean that most SCO deployments might be POS systems. I don't even know if that's true, but it certainly wouldn't rule out that most POS systems are IBM.
The only SCO systems I've heard of in memory are POS systems. No, not Piece Of Shit, Point Of Sale.
In your local Round Table Pizza, for example, long after everyone goes home for the night they might have a small computer that gathers receipt information from all the cash registers, makes a 14.4K modem call to a "mainframe" at headquarters, and uploads the sales data for that day. Every time on/. when someone admits to using SCO and mentions what the deployment was, it's cash registers.
Anyway. The point is that their brand getting tarnished is completely meaningless to this market. If they do what they say they'll do, Round Table will use them until some sales guy for some competitor (in point of sale systems) convinces them that they're wasting money.
Yes, it would be a good idea for them to spin off their actual products from their tort company, but not 'cause of their name.
Ah, but for developers that have to do serious cross platform bug testing, enough of them will be able to pay $300 that the increased market they get by dropping to $100 is almost negligible.
There is a potentially much much huger market for an affordable VM solution for large developers. This just doesn't seem like a situation in which they need to be scrounging for market.
Of course, if their high prices are what drive plex86 (or whatever they're calling it) to reach serious stability, speed, and ease of deployment, then they'll get their lunch eaten. Dunno about that.
When it only cost $100 it wasn't an option for server deployment. Now it's a lot more stable and a lot more useful, and the license cost is pocket lint compared to the value of the corporate uses.
It doesn't make so much sense for them to focus on home users when it's the very uncommon home user/hobbyist that wants virtual machine software. They might as well ignore them.
Used to carry mine everywhere too, and then they started taking any tool away from you when you traveled on a plane - now, I have beg and borrow when on the road. Cna't count how many little screw drivers I have had to give up at the airport.
Fortunately you're still allowed to keep your tools long enough to use them to kill the guy at the security checkpoint.
Hint: "Pop quiz" is two words. Perhaps the only context in which you have heard them is the movie Speed, starring Keanu "Woah" Reeves. It is also used in an academic context. You may want to look into that.
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I'll second the recommendation.
Tranquility is heavily reminiscent of the hoops game that everyone on the Enterprise gets addicted to in that ST:TNG episode. The mechanics are unrelated, but the "Ah, I made it" feeling is perhaps the same.
That said, I couldn't spend that much time playing it. But it's *very* worth checking out.
With a stick shift! NOT a manual!
Ok, I might be revealing my own ignorance here, but I thought "stick shift" and "manual transmission" were synonyms, both the opposite of "automatic transmission".
What's the difference between stick shift and a manual?
1) Will Smith appearance in this movie is likely about increasing box office revenues.
2) So the fuck what.
I deny that his appearance in this movie will make anti-racists more complacent. I deny that it will prevent people from becoming anti-racists by placating them.
3) You are a jackass.
Mr. Boies: "Because it's devastating to my case, your honor!"
Judge: "Objection overruled."
Mr. Boies: "Good call!"
Hey, jackass.
My post exhibits no opinion of B of A. My point is just that the guy actually isn't taking money from B of A. He is taking money from their customers, directly.
If you have to see the doctor, and had it billed to insurance, most likely you're Social Security Number was seen by many people.
And those people don't necessarily work for your doctor or your insurance agency. I worked as a temp for a few weeks at a medical imaging billing company. Since a doctor that works in medical imaging processes a *ton* of patients, the billing becomes a large portion of their office's work. This is (I suspect) almost always outsourced.
My first day on the job, they handed me a stack of several hundred people's names, addresses, phone numbers, SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS AND MEDICAL RECORDS. This is pre-HIPAA. Dunno how it works now.
Let alone identity theft, one of the records they handed me that week was a well known elected politician's totally routine mammogram. Her results were clear. Imagine what that kind of leak could do to an election if it were not.
Obviously their entire business process needed to be completely redesigned if they wanted to provide some semblance of privacy. And you don't know if this company handles your bill or not. And such a redesign would raise their costs astronomically. It might even make them non-competitive with in-house billing. This doesn't mean it's ok, it just means it's not going to happen unless they're forced.
Obviously, I could go on and on.
Somehow "poor impulse control" wouldn't seem strong enough. How about:
DESERVES TO DIE
"I was an actor," Massey told me. "I could put on a new hat every day. Who do I want to be today? The feeling after you've just hooked them, is just, like, bam!" He smacked his fist into the palm of his hand. "Take that, Bank of America!"
Of course, by which he means, "Take that, people who have spent their lives helping other people and getting paid for it! All that money you saved is mine now!"
Not only is a two year sentence too short, it'd be fine with me if this guy were beaten to death.
Not like... say virus scanner writers right? [who probably write the viruses they detect...]
If better coders were writing viruses, Sobig and Klez would be the least of our worries. If virus scanner writers were writing viruses, every machine that didn't pay their dues would be infected. It's not that hard.
1) Whoever posted this is a fucking genius.
2) We have no reason to actually believe that it was Counterpane.
MORE FLAMEBAIT?!?!?
How dare you!
C'mon. Get him, boys.
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.
The movie has similar characters to the book and a similar plotline, but is overall completely different. Both the book and the movie are excellent.
The Oscars embody the worst of both worlds (critics and fans). They're not blinded by box office returns, but they're still suckers for a certain kind of spectacle. They're not intellectuals, but if a movie makes them feel smart, they'll choose it.
Those are bad things, aren't they?
(P.S. Spirited Away won the Best Animated Feature Film award last year, and I doubt any movie fans would disagree with it. Disney just failed to sell the thing. Or did middle America not like it?)
What element of Heavenly Creatures was Oscar-worthy?
I'd say that the acting might have been, but that's a stretch. The pace of the film was fubar enough that I couldn't agree with a best direction, movie, or screenplay nomination.
Set design, costumes, and art design were perfect for the movie, certainly, but I don't remember being impressed.
This is what will make the Oscars irrelevant? Titanic winning sweeps didn't do it for you? That's just the first thing that leaps to mind. Jesus, best actress for Julia Roberts over Ellen Burstyn didn't set off any alarms?
C'mon, man, you've got to watch better movies, whether or not LoTR is worthy.
Much moreso, which is fine, because a helicopter has other advantages. If they're aiming to cover distances, they'll use their fixed wing UAVs. If they're aiming for extended surveillance, they'll use this new thing.
I want personal aerostats, a home dogpod grid, and nanobot immune system before these things get deployed, though.
Hey I'm uncommon - does that mean I should be ignored, you insensitive jackass??
If I'm a company operating in the best interest of my shareholders... yes it often does, jackass.
We're not talking about desktop users here. For the people that may want to use either UnixWare or Linux, Linux supports those features while UnixWare does not. Less sophisticated users should stay far, far from either Linux or UnixWare, "The Unix That Crashes (TM)". Scaring up a custom kernel is not exactly rocket science.
Well. I don't mean to say that most POS systems are SCO. I mean that most SCO deployments might be POS systems. I don't even know if that's true, but it certainly wouldn't rule out that most POS systems are IBM.
The only SCO systems I've heard of in memory are POS systems. No, not Piece Of Shit, Point Of Sale.
/. when someone admits to using SCO and mentions what the deployment was, it's cash registers.
In your local Round Table Pizza, for example, long after everyone goes home for the night they might have a small computer that gathers receipt information from all the cash registers, makes a 14.4K modem call to a "mainframe" at headquarters, and uploads the sales data for that day. Every time on
Anyway. The point is that their brand getting tarnished is completely meaningless to this market. If they do what they say they'll do, Round Table will use them until some sales guy for some competitor (in point of sale systems) convinces them that they're wasting money.
Yes, it would be a good idea for them to spin off their actual products from their tort company, but not 'cause of their name.
Ah, but for developers that have to do serious cross platform bug testing, enough of them will be able to pay $300 that the increased market they get by dropping to $100 is almost negligible.
There is a potentially much much huger market for an affordable VM solution for large developers. This just doesn't seem like a situation in which they need to be scrounging for market.
Of course, if their high prices are what drive plex86 (or whatever they're calling it) to reach serious stability, speed, and ease of deployment, then they'll get their lunch eaten. Dunno about that.
When it only cost $100 it wasn't an option for server deployment. Now it's a lot more stable and a lot more useful, and the license cost is pocket lint compared to the value of the corporate uses.
It doesn't make so much sense for them to focus on home users when it's the very uncommon home user/hobbyist that wants virtual machine software. They might as well ignore them.
Used to carry mine everywhere too, and then they started taking any tool away from you when you traveled on a plane - now, I have beg and borrow when on the road. Cna't count how many little screw drivers I have had to give up at the airport.
Fortunately you're still allowed to keep your tools long enough to use them to kill the guy at the security checkpoint.
Hint: "Pop quiz" is two words. Perhaps the only context in which you have heard them is the movie Speed, starring Keanu "Woah" Reeves. It is also used in an academic context. You may want to look into that.
This might sound like a stupid question, but are you showing us executable running times or compilation times?