Ok, i just watched this movie on tv, but I'll be damned if I remeber the title:)
It was about an advanced prototype helicopter, which featured a tracking system, allowing the pilot to just look at whatever he wanted to minigun to small chunks:)
He demonstrated this in a excercize by taking out a highjacker-dude in the middle of a full schoolbus, without hurting the kids offcourse.
The helicopter also did a inside loop later, in a dogfight sequence in the middle of the city.
As always, I'm puzzled at the speed of which news like this spreads.
Tragic as it is, I am somewhat intrigued by the how big news like this spreads on the internet - 10 years ago I would have learned about something like the wtc-incident in the local news the day after or on the national television. Now i heard about the crash 5 minutes after it happened, and then we learned about everything through irc and the heavily dos'ed newssites almost realtime as it happened.
Also, i see that there are tons of rumours, like the comments to this article shows, there are enormous amounts of hearsay and false newsitems, making it more important than ever before to filter out the 'real' stuff.
How do you all experience the internet as used to spread information on topics like this?
My symphaties to those involved in this latter (hopefully) accident.
Given the lack of founds Nasa have had the recent years, I don't really see a problem with this, as long as they do it the right way.
Getting high bids, people wanting to commit to a project, making people care about it, would certainly make sure privaticing would be the way to go. If they end up getting low bids from people not interested in anything but a short-time investment or free pr, they will be better of as they are today.
I'd love to see the spirit people had way back when we first landed on the moon, but nasa needs more money for this to happen.
First of all, I really hope the slashdot crowd refrains from silly flames and other immature letters, like some unfortunately have resorted to in the past.
Anyways, are there some sort of comprehensive website that explains in lay-man terms what has happened in this case?
Reading court documents and simular isn't too thrilling, especially when I don't understand half of the legal mumbo-jumbo, and I also find that much of the info that I _can_ read is spread across a zillion websites.
I've looked into the various options I have at ebay, or more specifically, how I as a non-us resident living in Norway can get money for the items I sell on ebay.
Paypal looked ok, except that it seemed like a hassle to transfer the money to my local account.
What is the easiest and safest way to 'get my money home' ?
How about forcing them to view 'Orca - The killer whale' instead?
We used to have regular movie-nights, watching a movie from a huge pile of movies we'd gotten, in a forced sequence, never skipping any movies, regardless of how bad it was.
One night we watched Orca, and one of my friends didn't show up. We thought it would be a good punishment to strap him into a chair and use the loop-forever feature on my vcr:-)
But since it would most likely kill him, we didn't do it:-)
>> I guess he changed his mind somewhere along the line... because Q3 is almost always won by the lpb.
Uhm, how is he supposed to circumvent this? He can't make the ip-packets go faster by magic you know:-)
If the packet takes 150 ms to leave your computer, go through your connection and get to the recieving host, how are you going to reduce that time?
The only thing he could do is to reduce the packet size, but bandwith has never been a problem in these games.
The lag will always be there, no matter what (unless it's hardware-caused lag, like diablo2) and the only thing the game can do is make it _seem_ smoother.
Even though the older quake games were much less dependant on pure aiming (lpb) skills, given 2 players in q1 with the same skills, the lpb would still win. I've met plenty of people that i spanked on lan's that I lost bigtime to in q1 and q2 because i was a hpw:)
In the article they site that they will be the largest lan on earth - well not quite:-)
This easter we had a great time at The Gathering in The viking ship on Hamar, Norway as usual. 4500 (!) attendees brought their own computers, and once again it became the biggest temporary lan ever made.
100Mbit ethernet provided by Nortel, it worked mostly flawless, with exception of the normal power outages and bad switches.:)
I can truly say that Gathering is one of the most fun ways to spend easter, i got whupped in the quake3 tournament, but atleast i brought home 85GB of 'stuff':)
I really like the "Linux means business" column in Linux-journal. Are there any websites/articles/whatever with info/articles about the firms that rely on linux each day?
Here in norway, we have to pay aprox $1/hour nighttime and $2/hour daytime for dialup access. Last year, they raised the price for local call internet with over 60%, all while claiming that they lowered the rate, just because they reduced the long-range tax somewhat. They put every effort into making long-distance and foreign calls cheaper, all the while maintaining the high cost on the things they earn the big money from: cellular phones and dialup internet.
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Ok, i just watched this movie on tv, but I'll be damned if I remeber the title :)
:)
:)
It was about an advanced prototype helicopter, which featured a tracking system, allowing the pilot to just look at whatever he wanted to minigun to small chunks
He demonstrated this in a excercize by taking out a highjacker-dude in the middle of a full schoolbus, without hurting the kids offcourse.
The helicopter also did a inside loop later, in a dogfight sequence in the middle of the city.
Hope someone knows what movie I'm talking about
Scenario:
:)
My office has a great line abroad
My home ISP got a sucky line abroad
How can I set up a vpn that allows me to route my traffice through the office line instead of my home line?
I've been looking at setting up a ssh-tunnel, is this the easiest way? Or should I look into other tools?
I need to tunnel all outbound traffic tcp/udp, all ports through a encrypted line to my office.
I'd appreciate any help you guys might have
linux: "Linux is not for users, wait for hurd for something real" (not a direct quote)
ROTFL!
Why isn't there more email-enabled mini-gadgets?
:)
I want a box that can replace my fax machine, where i in addition to 'enter recipients phone #', also have the oppurtunity to enter recipients email.
Vice-versa, give my fax a email-address and let it print out stuff people emails it!
But please, please do it in a smart way, I don't want a 4-hour setup nightmare or a dos'ed fax machine
Are we getting there? when?
I get:
:)
X-Fry: Hardy Boys: too easy. Nancy Drew: too hard!
80% of the time, must be something wrong with their random number generator
Anyways, how do I add my own custom http headers in a easy way?
printf "X-foo: bar\nContent-type: text/html\n\n" would work offcourse, but how do I go ahead and do it if i want i in every request?
As always, I'm puzzled at the speed of which news like this spreads.
Tragic as it is, I am somewhat intrigued by the how big news like this spreads on the internet - 10 years ago I would have learned about something like the wtc-incident in the local news the day after or on the national television. Now i heard about the crash 5 minutes after it happened, and then we learned about everything through irc and the heavily dos'ed newssites almost realtime as it happened.
Also, i see that there are tons of rumours, like the comments to this article shows, there are enormous amounts of hearsay and false newsitems, making it more important than ever before to filter out the 'real' stuff.
How do you all experience the internet as used to spread information on topics like this?
My symphaties to those involved in this latter (hopefully) accident.
Any mirrors out there?
:)
I can't seem to find a list of mirrors on the ximian pages, and the main ftp is offcourse totally busy
Given the lack of founds Nasa have had the recent years, I don't really see a problem with this, as long as they do it the right way.
Getting high bids, people wanting to commit to a project, making people care about it, would certainly make sure privaticing would be the way to go. If they end up getting low bids from people not interested in anything but a short-time investment or free pr, they will be better of as they are today.
I'd love to see the spirit people had way back when we first landed on the moon, but nasa needs more money for this to happen.
Anyone care to give a short explanation on what this system is?
:)
I've always been interesting in kernel coding, but some of the concepts sound pretty black-magic for me
First of all, I really hope the slashdot crowd refrains from silly flames and other immature letters, like some unfortunately have resorted to in the past.
Anyways, are there some sort of comprehensive website that explains in lay-man terms what has happened in this case?
Reading court documents and simular isn't too thrilling, especially when I don't understand half of the legal mumbo-jumbo, and I also find that much of the info that I _can_ read is spread across a zillion websites.
I've looked into the various options I have at ebay, or more specifically, how I as a non-us resident living in Norway can get money for the items I sell on ebay.
Paypal looked ok, except that it seemed like a hassle to transfer the money to my local account.
What is the easiest and safest way to 'get my money home' ?
How about forcing them to view 'Orca - The killer whale' instead?
:-)
:-)
We used to have regular movie-nights, watching a movie from a huge pile of movies we'd gotten, in a forced sequence, never skipping any movies, regardless of how bad it was.
One night we watched Orca, and one of my friends didn't show up. We thought it would be a good punishment to strap him into a chair and use the loop-forever feature on my vcr
But since it would most likely kill him, we didn't do it
>> I guess he changed his mind somewhere along the line... because Q3 is almost always won by the lpb.
:-)
:)
Uhm, how is he supposed to circumvent this? He can't make the ip-packets go faster by magic you know
If the packet takes 150 ms to leave your computer, go through your connection and get to the recieving host, how are you going to reduce that time?
The only thing he could do is to reduce the packet size, but bandwith has never been a problem in these games.
The lag will always be there, no matter what (unless it's hardware-caused lag, like diablo2) and the only thing the game can do is make it _seem_ smoother.
Even though the older quake games were much less dependant on pure aiming (lpb) skills, given 2 players in q1 with the same skills, the lpb would still win. I've met plenty of people that i spanked on lan's that I lost bigtime to in q1 and q2 because i was a hpw
I wonder if the culture was very different due to the different dial-up costs?
:)
:)
I remember paying alot to the local ma bell here in norway, while the americans had a flat fee all along?
I don't think i was connected more than 10-15 minutes at a time, just enough to use my offline newsreader (blue-something) to fetch the new news.
I'm just curious what the 'vanilla' american bbs-users were like, i mostly read news and downloaded files.
The coolest bbs's even had USENET, and i do recall using ftp-through-email to fetch new wads from cdrom.com
But i digress.. those were the days
Amazon got it listed for $39.96 now
In the article they site that they will be the largest lan on earth - well not quite :-)
:)
:)
This easter we had a great time at The Gathering in The viking ship on Hamar, Norway as usual. 4500 (!) attendees brought their own computers, and once again it became the biggest temporary lan ever made.
100Mbit ethernet provided by Nortel, it worked mostly flawless, with exception of the normal power outages and bad switches.
I can truly say that Gathering is one of the most fun ways to spend easter, i got whupped in the quake3 tournament, but atleast i brought home 85GB of 'stuff'
Check out http://www.gathering.org for the lan site, and ftp://ftp.gathering.org has all the great compo-winners and demos.
>You sound like a socialist... so I thought I would ask-- are you?
:)
:)
no, unlike most people here in norway, i'm not
I'm just pointing out that many people here will be all scared of the big monopoly monster, but in reality we might be a bit pessimistic
Another huge corporation that wants to control our lives and determine what we do and when we do it..
:)
Or am i just a bit pessimistic?
According to the journal, it looks like they got
cracked with the same methods ILOVEYOU used.
Is it just me, or isn't this a tad ironic?
:-)
Offcourse this sort of thing is bound to happen with such an alliance.
:)
The thing to do then is offcourse to search multiple search engines simultaniously.
Which you do easiest at http://findfu.com
I really like the "Linux means business" column in
Linux-journal. Are there any websites/articles/whatever with info/articles about the firms that rely on linux each day?
Here in norway, we have to pay aprox $1/hour nighttime and $2/hour daytime for dialup access.
;-)
Last year, they raised the price for local call internet with over 60%, all while claiming that they lowered the rate, just because they reduced the long-range tax somewhat.
They put every effort into making long-distance and foreign calls cheaper, all the while maintaining the high cost on the things they earn the big money from: cellular phones and dialup internet.
Some people don't know how lucky they are..
It's nice to know that I'm not the only one mangling my language with badly constructed function names :)