See limitations on liability from spills and years of subsidies (implicit and explicit) and other anticompetitive, discipline-weakening interventions. You describe the choice as between the free market and government oversight. In fact, the free market is not one of the choices offered, but the two main political subdivisions have an interest in making it seem that way.
"7's the key number here. Think about it. 7-Elevens. 7 doors. 7, man, that's the number. 7 chipmunks twirlin' on a branch, eatin' lots of sunflowers on my uncle's ranch. You know that old children's tale from the sea. It's like you're dreamin' about Gorgonzola cheese when it's clearly Brie time, baby." -Hitchhiker, There's Something About Mary
- "Revenge of the Sith" is, quite simply, fucking awesome. This is the "Star Wars" prequel the haters have been bitching for since "Menace" came out, and if they don't cop to that when they finally see it, they're lying. As dark as "Empire" was, this movie goes a thousand times darker - from the triggering of Order 66 (which has all the Shock Troopers turning on the Jedi Knights they've been fighting beside throughout the Clone Wars and gunning them down), to the jaw-dropping Anakin/Obi Wan fight on Mustafar (where - after cutting his legs and arm off, Ben leaves Skywalker burning alive on the shores of a lava river, with Anakin spitting venomous sentiments at his departing mentor), this flick is so satisfyingly tragic, you'll think you're watching "Othello" or "Hamlet".
I saw a gorgeous digitally projected version of the flick, and lemme tell ya': this is a beautiful looking film. The opening space battle sequence is the best in any of the six "Star Wars" movies. Grievous and Kenobi's lightsaber duel is bad-ass, with Grievous rocking four sabers. The Clone Wars end rather early in the flick (about the halfway point), leaving the rest of the film to concentrate on Anakin's turn to the Dark Side, and the resulting slaughter of the Jedi.
Perfect example of how dark shit gets: remember the Younglings - the kid Jedis in training from "Clones"? As a result of Order 66, when Anakin invades the Jedi Temple with an army of Clone Troopers, he enters the Council room to find a gaggle of said younglings hiding behind the seats. They see Anakin and emerge, asking "What should we do, Master Anakin?" The query's met with a stone-cold Anakin firing up his lightsaber. The next time you see the kids, Yoda's sifting through their corpses on the floor.
Yes, it's just that dark - and rightfully so. This is the birth of Darth Vader we're talking about. The only comic moments in the flick are given to R2D2, and while good, they're all pretty few and far between; the order of the day is dark, dark, dark.
Ian McDiarmid and Ewan McGregor steal the show, but Hayden Christensen silences any naysayers who wrote him off as too whiney in "Clones". This is the flick that feels closest to Episodes 4, 5, and 6, because - for the first time since "Return of the Jedi" - there is a clear villain. And for all the shadow-play Palpatine has been upto in the last two flicks, his treachery is about as subtle as John Williams' score in "Sith." Whether he's slowly drawing Anakin toward the Dark Side during an opera/performance art piece with his promise of the Sith's power of life over death, or he's engaged in a balls-to-the-wall lightsaber duel in the Senate with Yoda, his "Little, green friend" (his words, not mine - which I kinda dug, because, interestingly, I think it's the first time anyone's acknowledged that Yoda is green in any of the "Star Wars" flicks), this is the Emperor's movie.
The last fifteen minutes dovetail nicely into Episode 4 (or just plain "Star Wars" for you non-geeks), and the movie is full of link-up moments as well.
- At flick's end, Threepio and Artoo are given to Captain Antilles (with the caveat that the Protocol's memory be wiped).
- The twins, natch, are split up. Leia heads to Alderann with Bail Organa, and Obi Wan hands Luke over to Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru (indeed, the closing shot is Owen holding Luke while looking out over the setting suns of Tatooine - mimicking the shot of the adult Luke doing the same in "Star Wars", complete with callback cue from Williams).
- After he succumbs to the Dark Side, Anakin tries to convine Padme that he can overthrow Palpatine, and together, he and Padme can rule the galaxy as husband and wife.
- Vader and the Emperor stand beside a younger Grand Moff Tarkin on the bridge of a Star Destroyer, overlooking the earliest construction stage of the Death Star.
- Yoda telling Obi Wan that, as he heads to Tatooine to hand over Luke and go into exile, that he should spen
Java Desktop Ssytem (JDS) actually has nothign to do with Java. It's just a rebranded Suse linux running Gnome, integrated with evoluition and everything. It's actually pretty cool.
I liked Gnome 2.4 a lot better than 2.6. Spacial Nautilus opens up a new window for every folder that you open. This is unbelieveably annoying. At least Windows 95 had an option in the preferences menu that would let you browse in the same window. Couldn't the Nautilus developers learn anything from that?
Luckily after some experimentation I found a way to get Nautilus to let you browse in the same window. Run gconf-editor. Go to/apps/nautilus/preferences and check off 'always_use_broswer'. Now your Nautilus will work the old way. It's stupid that they don't have this in the preferences menu though.
I never bought it because it wasn't absolutely necessary. Our exchange server here provided IMAP and POP3 inboxes that I could use in any standard mail client.
I've had DirecTv for 3 yrs here in Massachusetts. I've only had 1 service outage in that time and it was for about 5 minutes during a crazy thunderstorm. I've never lost service due to snow or other weather events.
dont let comcast screw you. my friends have them and I personally hate their digital program guide. Slow as molassas in the winter
Anand's site is so biased towards AMD it makes me sick.
Back in the day I used to read his site all the time. All he did was was rave about the K6 processor so I put togethor several systems for myself and friends.
What pieces of shit! All kinds of compatability issues with my Lucent win-modems, Creative soundcards, and 3dfx or nvidia cards. Their processors also run *way* hotter than Intels'.
2 of uncles have had the same experiences more recently with Althlon processors. They both swear that they'll never use AMD again and neither will I!
My roomate in college had an AMD system that blew out its motherboard once a year. My trusty Intel P3 lasted all 4 yrs.
I'd much rahter pay more money and get reliable Intel quality. To hell with AMD!
(P.S. I'm not trolling or flaming, I'm talking out of many bad personal experiences. YMMV)
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See limitations on liability from spills and years of subsidies (implicit and explicit) and other anticompetitive, discipline-weakening interventions. You describe the choice as between the free market and government oversight. In fact, the free market is not one of the choices offered, but the two main political subdivisions have an interest in making it seem that way.
I just checked Windows Update. This 'Desktop Search' update is listed under 'Optional Software'.
It will not be automatically pushed to your desktops
actually Sun did have its own Linux distribution. It's was called Java Desktop and I think it was based on Suse.
And yes they used their "vaunted engineering skills" to help Linux. Sun is a very big supporter of Gnome Desktop
PNG and JPEG are not designed for the same purpose. PNG is lossless and was intended to replace GIF.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Png
"7's the key number here. Think about it. 7-Elevens. 7 doors. 7, man, that's the number. 7 chipmunks twirlin' on a branch, eatin' lots of sunflowers on my uncle's ranch. You know that old children's tale from the sea. It's like you're dreamin' about Gorgonzola cheese when it's clearly Brie time, baby."
-Hitchhiker, There's Something About Mary
Apple does't make the click wheel for the iPods. They buy them from Synaptics, the same company that makes touch pads for laptops.
These guys probably got them from Synaptics too.
a Pentium 4 670 at 3.8GHz, Pentium D 820 at 2.8Ghz, a Pentium Extreme Edition 840 w/o HT, and a Pentium 4 6XX based on the Prescott 2M core???
seriously, how is this naming convention better than the old one?
Its called KnoppMyth, based off Knoppix
http://www.mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html
"SITH" SPOILERS
You've been warned...
- "Revenge of the Sith" is, quite simply, fucking awesome. This is the "Star Wars" prequel the haters have been bitching for since "Menace" came out, and if they don't cop to that when they finally see it, they're lying. As dark as "Empire" was, this movie goes a thousand times darker - from the triggering of Order 66 (which has all the Shock Troopers turning on the Jedi Knights they've been fighting beside throughout the Clone Wars and gunning them down), to the jaw-dropping Anakin/Obi Wan fight on Mustafar (where - after cutting his legs and arm off, Ben leaves Skywalker burning alive on the shores of a lava river, with Anakin spitting venomous sentiments at his departing mentor), this flick is so satisfyingly tragic, you'll think you're watching "Othello" or "Hamlet".
I saw a gorgeous digitally projected version of the flick, and lemme tell ya': this is a beautiful looking film. The opening space battle sequence is the best in any of the six "Star Wars" movies. Grievous and Kenobi's lightsaber duel is bad-ass, with Grievous rocking four sabers. The Clone Wars end rather early in the flick (about the halfway point), leaving the rest of the film to concentrate on Anakin's turn to the Dark Side, and the resulting slaughter of the Jedi.
Perfect example of how dark shit gets: remember the Younglings - the kid Jedis in training from "Clones"? As a result of Order 66, when Anakin invades the Jedi Temple with an army of Clone Troopers, he enters the Council room to find a gaggle of said younglings hiding behind the seats. They see Anakin and emerge, asking "What should we do, Master Anakin?" The query's met with a stone-cold Anakin firing up his lightsaber. The next time you see the kids, Yoda's sifting through their corpses on the floor.
Yes, it's just that dark - and rightfully so. This is the birth of Darth Vader we're talking about. The only comic moments in the flick are given to R2D2, and while good, they're all pretty few and far between; the order of the day is dark, dark, dark.
Ian McDiarmid and Ewan McGregor steal the show, but Hayden Christensen silences any naysayers who wrote him off as too whiney in "Clones". This is the flick that feels closest to Episodes 4, 5, and 6, because - for the first time since "Return of the Jedi" - there is a clear villain. And for all the shadow-play Palpatine has been upto in the last two flicks, his treachery is about as subtle as John Williams' score in "Sith." Whether he's slowly drawing Anakin toward the Dark Side during an opera/performance art piece with his promise of the Sith's power of life over death, or he's engaged in a balls-to-the-wall lightsaber duel in the Senate with Yoda, his "Little, green friend" (his words, not mine - which I kinda dug, because, interestingly, I think it's the first time anyone's acknowledged that Yoda is green in any of the "Star Wars" flicks), this is the Emperor's movie.
The last fifteen minutes dovetail nicely into Episode 4 (or just plain "Star Wars" for you non-geeks), and the movie is full of link-up moments as well.
- At flick's end, Threepio and Artoo are given to Captain Antilles (with the caveat that the Protocol's memory be wiped).
- The twins, natch, are split up. Leia heads to Alderann with Bail Organa, and Obi Wan hands Luke over to Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru (indeed, the closing shot is Owen holding Luke while looking out over the setting suns of Tatooine - mimicking the shot of the adult Luke doing the same in "Star Wars", complete with callback cue from Williams).
- After he succumbs to the Dark Side, Anakin tries to convine Padme that he can overthrow Palpatine, and together, he and Padme can rule the galaxy as husband and wife.
- Vader and the Emperor stand beside a younger Grand Moff Tarkin on the bridge of a Star Destroyer, overlooking the earliest construction stage of the Death Star.
- Yoda telling Obi Wan that, as he heads to Tatooine to hand over Luke and go into exile, that he should spen
...does it run Linux?
app-text/acroread-7.0
does it have a Hemi?
from TFA: "The cost of the GPS system is about $10 per day, and could be paid for by the offender."
they expect the offender to pay $300 a month to be tracked?? this is insane
Java Desktop Ssytem (JDS) actually has nothign to do with Java. It's just a rebranded Suse linux running Gnome, integrated with evoluition and everything. It's actually pretty cool.
the name is pretty decieving.
...is it digitally signed?
Dude, the high level manager you describe is called Portage...it's what Gentoo Linux uses. You should give it a try.
I did and I never want back to crappy RPM based package management
$30 in the next couple of days?!?! AMD is trading at $18 now. Merrill Lynch set their target for AMD to hit $22 NEXT YEAR.
So no, I doubt AMD will double in a week. Their stock has been doing pretty well this year tho.
I liked Gnome 2.4 a lot better than 2.6. Spacial Nautilus opens up a new window for every folder that you open. This is unbelieveably annoying. At least Windows 95 had an option in the preferences menu that would let you browse in the same window. Couldn't the Nautilus developers learn anything from that?
/apps/nautilus/preferences and check off 'always_use_broswer'. Now your Nautilus will work the old way. It's stupid that they don't have this in the preferences menu though.
Luckily after some experimentation I found a way to get Nautilus to let you browse in the same window. Run gconf-editor. Go to
I never bought it because it wasn't absolutely necessary. Our exchange server here provided IMAP and POP3 inboxes that I could use in any standard mail client.
official gentoo distcc guide:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/distcc.xml
64 is twice as fast
I've had DirecTv for 3 yrs here in Massachusetts. I've only had 1 service outage in that time and it was for about 5 minutes during a crazy thunderstorm. I've never lost service due to snow or other weather events.
dont let comcast screw you. my friends have them and I personally hate their digital program guide. Slow as molassas in the winter
theres no way im going to bed tonight!
many many thanks to the nerds who make this wonderful stuff possible
Anand's site is so biased towards AMD it makes me sick.
Back in the day I used to read his site all the time. All he did was was rave about the K6 processor so I put togethor several systems for myself and friends.
What pieces of shit! All kinds of compatability issues with my Lucent win-modems, Creative soundcards, and 3dfx or nvidia cards. Their processors also run *way* hotter than Intels'.
2 of uncles have had the same experiences more recently with Althlon processors. They both swear that they'll never use AMD again and neither will I!
My roomate in college had an AMD system that blew out its motherboard once a year. My trusty Intel P3 lasted all 4 yrs.
I'd much rahter pay more money and get reliable Intel quality. To hell with AMD!
(P.S. I'm not trolling or flaming, I'm talking out of many bad personal experiences. YMMV)
the site is slashdotted and there aren't even any posts. doesn't anybody post BEFORE reading the article anymore??
=)