I ended up watching it from within LA city limits...from about 2:00PST to 2:45 in West Hollywood, on a condo rooftop just north of Sunset on Horn, and then driving up to Mulholland just east of Beverly Glen on a turn-out from about 3:10 to 5:00 in the morning.
I was surprised how much I could see from the condo rooftop, we were seeing about 3-4 per minute with a couple of nice bright ones. However, up on Mulholland, it was absolutely fantastic. Seeing about 7-8 per minute with a few bolides, including an absolutely spectacular one to the south-southwest that lit up the area I was in like a flash from a camera. It was stunning, to put it mildly.
I had planned to drive out north to Pyramid lake, but my friends convinced me to stay in West Hollywood until 2. Unfortunately, because of that, I didn't get a chance to pick up any blankets, lawnchairs, or even a jacket, so I was sitting up on Mulholland with just a super thin longsleeve shirt and jeans, and according to another guy up there, it was about 43 degrees or so. At least that's what his truck said. Stood there for about two hours craning my neck, but I fought through that pain!
Nice time, and I'm glad I could see what I did from the city limits.
That's interesting. I ran Win98 since it came out and had crash after crash with it...I generally had to reboot at least once a day, though I do a lot of gaming on it, and I've found ever since Windows 95, it's easier to crash a machine playing DirectX games than any other operation.
Ever since I got Win2K, I have not ONCE had it crash on me. Admittedly, it's still slower than my Linux install and it's a hell of a lot more fun to screw around with mod_perl on Linux, but for all the gaming that I do, Win2K has been much more of a godsend than I thought possible from Microsoft.
My only complaint is that Win2K seems to be waiting for a network timeout or something before giving me a login prompt, so I stare at this bluish screen for about 2 minutes until suddenly the comp wakes up again and gives me the prompt. Nobody has been able to tell me what I need to turn off to fix this, but it ain't the DHCP or DNS registration startup processes.
I do understand that, but the idea is that terrorism, real terrorism, takes people's lives. Cyberterrorism doesn't. You can recover from financial losses, you can't recover from death.
The saddest part about all of this is that what Ashcroft is saying, and you're now backing up, is:
Money is as important as human lives.
I mean, calling both losing money and losing 6,000+ human lives terrorism basically equates corporate dollars and people's lives. I dunno about anyone else, but that thoroughly disgusts me.
There's some of that in LA too, I've been pretty lucky. Got laid off twice in the past 8 months and might have another one coming, but so far I've been able to land on my feet and get a job relatively easily, if only because I'm a Linux/UNIX guy and they don't need to teach me anything, help admin my box, or anything like that.
But why, for the love of everything good and true, would you mention Siebel, that foul scourge on the face of everything honest and beautiful.
I do miss the the old days though...just got Dance Dance Revolution today and at this company I can't just start playing it when I get back from the store like I used to;)
Well, it kinda was, if you were at E3. I got lucky enough to go for my first time this weekend, and while being over at Activision's booth I saw one rebooting and showing the normal BIOS screen, and I saw it twice at the XBox booth itself. They've got less than 6 months to have these boxes in little kids' hands...it's about time they get it all sorted out, wouldn't one think?
Oddly enough, Sony was showing off a pre-release build of GT3, despite the fact that it's out in Japan. I didn't wait in line to play, but a friend of mine did and tells me players were warned not to pick an Oreca Viper or the game would crash.
I know *exactly* what you mean there too, 'cept the Dodgers suck;)
I listened to Padres games over the 'net almost every day last year since I've moved from San Diego to Los Angeles, and while I can still pick up the SD station in my car, I can't get it in my house. Now I can't listen to it over the 'net without paying MLB, and frankly, I don't see how a radio station paying for the hosting and doing their whole thing on their own costs the MLB any money.
Oddly enough, ClearChannel was mentioned in this article and they also own the station that carries Padres games, they've also cut off their feed. I don't believe they're offering it through mlb.com actually, as well.
I miss listening to my games, especially since I've got 4-5 sports channels on my TV and they all show the same two games every night, and of course never Padres games, since they're not really all that great at baseball...
Is it just me or:
When responding to the question about MS's lack of adhering to standards often times, he seemed to infer that this only occurs because MS always implements the entirety of the standard, then adds their own extensions. Only problem is, at least so far they've not always completely implemented the standard in the first place. If a standard is made so it just defines the basic things needed and can then be extended, why goof up that initial standard like IE and others have?
And, as for the question on the pricing model of XP, does anyone else find it strange that he didn't seem to bother actually answering the question about that pricing model but instead just defended the idea that you should have to pay for XP? I'm all for paying for software that companies want to charge me for as long as the software is good, but that wasn't the question in the first place.
Still, at least the rest of the answers were pretty decent...
I think the difference here, however, is that Sega is still making great games (and I believe hold at least 6 of the top 10 current arcade game spots), while Atari was making...well...crap.
So far, ignoring economic losses, Sega has moved into second position, passing up the N64 in sales. It's had a number of #1 selling titles as of late (NFL2K1, Marvel vs. Capcom 2, etc), and seems on its way up.
I think it's a bit premature to count Sega out yet, especially since said announcement about developing for other systems was not about the PS2, GameCube or X-box, but about various PDA's, cell phones, and the PC.
If it weren't for Tekken Tag Tournament, I probably wouldn't have gotten one. But I couldn't resist...Tekken 3 is still a regular staple in my PSX, and I just had to have it. Finally getting to whoop my roommate with a Hwoarang/Baek or a Jin/Jun team will be like a dream come true.
Same here. I only had 3dfx boards (all three of the Voodoos) until finally I broke down and bought myself a GeForce DDR. I had no idea what I was missing, and I'm not going back anytime soon either.
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I ended up watching it from within LA city limits...from about 2:00PST to 2:45 in West Hollywood, on a condo rooftop just north of Sunset on Horn, and then driving up to Mulholland just east of Beverly Glen on a turn-out from about 3:10 to 5:00 in the morning.
I was surprised how much I could see from the condo rooftop, we were seeing about 3-4 per minute with a couple of nice bright ones. However, up on Mulholland, it was absolutely fantastic. Seeing about 7-8 per minute with a few bolides, including an absolutely spectacular one to the south-southwest that lit up the area I was in like a flash from a camera. It was stunning, to put it mildly.
I had planned to drive out north to Pyramid lake, but my friends convinced me to stay in West Hollywood until 2. Unfortunately, because of that, I didn't get a chance to pick up any blankets, lawnchairs, or even a jacket, so I was sitting up on Mulholland with just a super thin longsleeve shirt and jeans, and according to another guy up there, it was about 43 degrees or so. At least that's what his truck said. Stood there for about two hours craning my neck, but I fought through that pain!
Nice time, and I'm glad I could see what I did from the city limits.
That's interesting. I ran Win98 since it came out and had crash after crash with it...I generally had to reboot at least once a day, though I do a lot of gaming on it, and I've found ever since Windows 95, it's easier to crash a machine playing DirectX games than any other operation.
Ever since I got Win2K, I have not ONCE had it crash on me. Admittedly, it's still slower than my Linux install and it's a hell of a lot more fun to screw around with mod_perl on Linux, but for all the gaming that I do, Win2K has been much more of a godsend than I thought possible from Microsoft.
My only complaint is that Win2K seems to be waiting for a network timeout or something before giving me a login prompt, so I stare at this bluish screen for about 2 minutes until suddenly the comp wakes up again and gives me the prompt. Nobody has been able to tell me what I need to turn off to fix this, but it ain't the DHCP or DNS registration startup processes.
Great. Thanks. Now I'm going to get about 18,000 e-mails with this in it. You bastard.
I do understand that, but the idea is that terrorism, real terrorism, takes people's lives. Cyberterrorism doesn't. You can recover from financial losses, you can't recover from death.
See the difference?
The saddest part about all of this is that what Ashcroft is saying, and you're now backing up, is:
Money is as important as human lives.
I mean, calling both losing money and losing 6,000+ human lives terrorism basically equates corporate dollars and people's lives. I dunno about anyone else, but that thoroughly disgusts me.
There's some of that in LA too, I've been pretty lucky. Got laid off twice in the past 8 months and might have another one coming, but so far I've been able to land on my feet and get a job relatively easily, if only because I'm a Linux/UNIX guy and they don't need to teach me anything, help admin my box, or anything like that.
;)
But why, for the love of everything good and true, would you mention Siebel, that foul scourge on the face of everything honest and beautiful.
I do miss the the old days though...just got Dance Dance Revolution today and at this company I can't just start playing it when I get back from the store like I used to
Servo thought everything was a strapless evening gown, thank you very much...
"You think everything is a strapless evening gown!"
"Well, I like them!!"
Well, it kinda was, if you were at E3. I got lucky enough to go for my first time this weekend, and while being over at Activision's booth I saw one rebooting and showing the normal BIOS screen, and I saw it twice at the XBox booth itself. They've got less than 6 months to have these boxes in little kids' hands...it's about time they get it all sorted out, wouldn't one think? Oddly enough, Sony was showing off a pre-release build of GT3, despite the fact that it's out in Japan. I didn't wait in line to play, but a friend of mine did and tells me players were warned not to pick an Oreca Viper or the game would crash.
I know *exactly* what you mean there too, 'cept the Dodgers suck ;)
I listened to Padres games over the 'net almost every day last year since I've moved from San Diego to Los Angeles, and while I can still pick up the SD station in my car, I can't get it in my house. Now I can't listen to it over the 'net without paying MLB, and frankly, I don't see how a radio station paying for the hosting and doing their whole thing on their own costs the MLB any money.
Oddly enough, ClearChannel was mentioned in this article and they also own the station that carries Padres games, they've also cut off their feed. I don't believe they're offering it through mlb.com actually, as well.
I miss listening to my games, especially since I've got 4-5 sports channels on my TV and they all show the same two games every night, and of course never Padres games, since they're not really all that great at baseball...
Is it just me or: When responding to the question about MS's lack of adhering to standards often times, he seemed to infer that this only occurs because MS always implements the entirety of the standard, then adds their own extensions. Only problem is, at least so far they've not always completely implemented the standard in the first place. If a standard is made so it just defines the basic things needed and can then be extended, why goof up that initial standard like IE and others have? And, as for the question on the pricing model of XP, does anyone else find it strange that he didn't seem to bother actually answering the question about that pricing model but instead just defended the idea that you should have to pay for XP? I'm all for paying for software that companies want to charge me for as long as the software is good, but that wasn't the question in the first place. Still, at least the rest of the answers were pretty decent...
I think the difference here, however, is that Sega is still making great games (and I believe hold at least 6 of the top 10 current arcade game spots), while Atari was making...well...crap. So far, ignoring economic losses, Sega has moved into second position, passing up the N64 in sales. It's had a number of #1 selling titles as of late (NFL2K1, Marvel vs. Capcom 2, etc), and seems on its way up. I think it's a bit premature to count Sega out yet, especially since said announcement about developing for other systems was not about the PS2, GameCube or X-box, but about various PDA's, cell phones, and the PC.
If it weren't for Tekken Tag Tournament, I probably wouldn't have gotten one. But I couldn't resist...Tekken 3 is still a regular staple in my PSX, and I just had to have it. Finally getting to whoop my roommate with a Hwoarang/Baek or a Jin/Jun team will be like a dream come true.
The early PS2 dev kits where running on Linux, the PS2 itself does not.
Same here. I only had 3dfx boards (all three of the Voodoos) until finally I broke down and bought myself a GeForce DDR. I had no idea what I was missing, and I'm not going back anytime soon either.