Went this morning - after reading the reviews, decided to skip the actual movie. And the trailer was worth the $$$. Not only was the animation really well done (as well as Final Fantasy movie, no surprise there), but the story added to the whole "Matrix" experience, the fight scenes were just as good as that of the movie, the pacing was good, breathtaking overall, etc, etc. IMHO, if you're a fan, it's worth the money to see it on a big screen. If not, wait till June and rent/buy the DVD.
Only gripe whatsoever - more time with her "running" to her destination. That part was almost perfunctory, after the "jump". But, overall:
Whoa.
Which is odd, since the Xbox is actually in _third_ place, not second like they'd have you believe. They're behind the gamecube, at this point, by 3-5 million.
Damn.... Damn! At A&M, one of the main reasons students don't vote is due to the Tax Assessor/Registrar Buddy Wynn, who makes it a royal pain to vote. But yes, apathy is king.
According to his web site, http://www.house.gov/carter/ , he has offices in Round Rock and College Station. Anyone know when he's up for election? I think a few posters on Campus with some quotes about his "idea" will get him swiftly kicked out... provided the college populous goes and votes.
Hell, anyone want to recall him? I'm sure there are a few TU students in Round Rock who'd be happy to help...
agreed. Based on your post (which means that it could almost be a reverse-slashdot effect), I tried it. May have taken a little longer than normal, but very cool. Uploading at 11 now.
Anymore, I recommend Dell. Why? Tech support more patient than I am. I haven't done phone tech support for several years now, but I still have to help Dad select multiple icons. Dell doesn't fix that, they keep the computer running so I don't have to - and can focus my attention on the shift key or click-and-drag.
Same at parties - buy a Dell or a Mac. Both do tech support, and then I just _can't_ work on it - it'll ruin the warranty.:)
I'm sorry, I want Farscape instead. I'm not interested in Sci-Fi's "quarterly event". Remember, that's part of the reason Sci-Fi cancelled Farscape, they were going away from series and moving towards Events. Of course, I now see ads for Tremors the TV Show (yeah, I know, the first movie was good), "analyze your dreams" crap and candid camera.
Catch Dune in repeats, if it's that important. But don't watch it this week.
I saw that, and I'm glad he included the disclaimer that if it's not fully cached, it's useless. That is impressive, if not at a completed state yet. Looking forward to seeing where it goes.
What are some good bluetooth phones, provided I don't want to spend an arm and a leg on it? I don't really need a camera. Mp3 would be cool if available, but probably useless compared to my old 32mb Rio.
Another vote for someone who loves it and even owns the DVD, whose commentary explains a lot. The narrator, for one - they deliberately went after the narrator from the Rocky & Bullwinkle movies, to give the audience some idea of the humor to come.
(although, I suspect, all the people who like it just spoke up on this thread)
"Hey mister, are you going to die?" "Exact change? Exact change?!!" (and don't forget that the music played by the handcuffs is the same as the president's phone in the Flint movies)
Actually, a couple of years ago, I got email from a sales rep's home account. The person who emailed the rep couldn't email their the rep's company account. Apparently we had managed to make it onto either RBL or ORBS (I don't remember). After having a laughing fit (so apropos... at the time one of our marketing guys was trying to figure out the best way to spam our potential customers), I did some research. Sure enough, open relay. Nice to see the better-than-thou corporate IT doing such a good job. Anyhow, I got ahold of someone, made them fix it. Re-submitted it to the RBL, and two days later it worked.
Oddly enough, our people weren't willing to fix it until I told them that the vast majority of our clients were probably subscribed (via their schools), and so our customers couldn't reach our sales slugs.
I do, but I'll thank my SQL server for doing it for me. Most aggressively cache data and databases - if Database A is used constantly, it'll be kept in RAM, whereas less-frequently Databases will either stay on the hard disk, or certain tables of that database will be put in memory. It lets you make the most of your RAM.
Is the NNTP protocol. NNTP Peer to NNTP Peer, and then I grab the files from them. Works well, especially keeping SVCDs on the BTVS episode I just watched on TV. a.b.m.b-v-s
Thank you. I said that years ago. It apparently stopped sucking about the time they did the alternate-universe war thing... by which time I was happily watching B5 and never looked back at the ST franchise.
Thanks for info on SmartDog... I'd forgotten about them. And yeah, I confused the OS and the chip. A 162 (or heck, 200mhz) StrongArm eMate would've rocked. I had the chance to play with one and loved it. It...was...just...so...slow.
lovely. They canned Farscape for this crap? Next you know, they'll be doing crap like Candid Camera (http://www.scifi.com/scaretactics/), dream analysis (http://www.scifi.com/dreamteam/), turn some bad made-for-tv movies into a series (http://www.scifi.com/tremors/), give Adrian Paul another show to suck in (http://www.scifi.com/tracker/) and probably some crappy show based on "Chariots of the Gods" (http://www.chariotsofthegods.com/).
I am _so_ glad that there is a new Science-Fiction-based tv channel being created. Never thought I'd see the day. I used to watch SciFi all the time. Now? One hour, once a week.
Watch Farscape. Tell your friends. The "We're So Screwed" Trilogy started last night. It'll replay this weekend.
You can buy a replacement backlight - someone made a batch of them. They look good. Get one.
I actually went digging last weekend for my Newt and found some cool stuff: an mp3 player (MADPlayer), an application to let it easily play 56k streams over the internet (LaunchPLS), and the WaveLan driver. Now I can listen, wirelessly, to internet radio. Pretty cool.
They marketed it wrong, and didn't come out with a 2000-based eMate. That was an ultra-ultralight laptop, just with a different OS. The Newt wasn't just a PDA - it was a computer.
My favorite story is when I went on a 2-week trip to install software. The first day, my laptop stopped connecting to our network. But, since I had some software installed back at the office (the Notes connector and Newton Press), I was able to:
Send and get my Lotus Notes email
receive and print Word documents, including the updated training manual
fill out my expense report
download Slashdot every morning before I awoke.
Not bad at all, eh. I wound up using the laptop as a CD player and base to place my Newt's case on while I typed (gotta love the external keyboard). Simply brilliant. The only changes I wish they'd made:
produced some more interconnect gadgets. Someone's made the Line-in/Line-out.
membrane keyboard for the case. The computer was obviously build with a in-cover keyboard in mind, but no-one ever built it.
But, an utterly brilliant machine. It looks like I'll need to get the 2008 patch (date rollover fix) for it, since nothing else is there yet.
Slashdot Mirror
Found this damn interesting, especially the stuff stricken out.
/ SB 01116I.HTM
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlo/78R/billtext
I found the quality of the questions to at least be on par with that of the average Ask Slashdot.
Troll my ass! Read the sales numbers.
Went this morning - after reading the reviews, decided to skip the actual movie. And the trailer was worth the $$$. Not only was the animation really well done (as well as Final Fantasy movie, no surprise there), but the story added to the whole "Matrix" experience, the fight scenes were just as good as that of the movie, the pacing was good, breathtaking overall, etc, etc. IMHO, if you're a fan, it's worth the money to see it on a big screen. If not, wait till June and rent/buy the DVD.
Only gripe whatsoever - more time with her "running" to her destination. That part was almost perfunctory, after the "jump". But, overall:
Whoa.
Which is odd, since the Xbox is actually in _third_ place, not second like they'd have you believe. They're behind the gamecube, at this point, by 3-5 million.
Damn.... Damn!
At A&M, one of the main reasons students don't vote is due to the Tax Assessor/Registrar Buddy Wynn, who makes it a royal pain to vote. But yes, apathy is king.
According to his web site, http://www.house.gov/carter/ , he has offices in Round Rock and College Station. Anyone know when he's up for election? I think a few posters on Campus with some quotes about his "idea" will get him swiftly kicked out... provided the college populous goes and votes.
Hell, anyone want to recall him? I'm sure there are a few TU students in Round Rock who'd be happy to help...
agreed. Based on your post (which means that it could almost be a reverse-slashdot effect), I tried it. May have taken a little longer than normal, but very cool. Uploading at 11 now.
Anymore, I recommend Dell. Why? Tech support more patient than I am. I haven't done phone tech support for several years now, but I still have to help Dad select multiple icons. Dell doesn't fix that, they keep the computer running so I don't have to - and can focus my attention on the shift key or click-and-drag.
:)
Same at parties - buy a Dell or a Mac. Both do tech support, and then I just _can't_ work on it - it'll ruin the warranty.
I'm sorry, I want Farscape instead. I'm not interested in Sci-Fi's "quarterly event". Remember, that's part of the reason Sci-Fi cancelled Farscape, they were going away from series and moving towards Events. Of course, I now see ads for Tremors the TV Show (yeah, I know, the first movie was good), "analyze your dreams" crap and candid camera.
Catch Dune in repeats, if it's that important. But don't watch it this week.
9) An Apple Xserve, also running Gentoo Linux
Why not run OS X? Seems more, um, natural.
And I'm kicking myself over missing Pineforest Crunch! Dammit....drummer from Anglagard!
When you go fishing with a Baptist, how do you keep him from drinking all your beer?
Invite along another Baptist.
*ba* *dum* *bum*
Working for a company which actually seems to care about you is a very fulfilling experience.
:-b
How's that work, then... you're fine until you start using their software, at which point they start ignoring you?
I saw that, and I'm glad he included the disclaimer that if it's not fully cached, it's useless. That is impressive, if not at a completed state yet. Looking forward to seeing where it goes.
What are some good bluetooth phones, provided I don't want to spend an arm and a leg on it? I don't really need a camera. Mp3 would be cool if available, but probably useless compared to my old 32mb Rio.
Imagine the A-Team, with incredibly skinny legs
The idea of Mr. T with skinny legs is making me laugh.
Another vote for someone who loves it and even owns the DVD, whose commentary explains a lot. The narrator, for one - they deliberately went after the narrator from the Rocky & Bullwinkle movies, to give the audience some idea of the humor to come.
(although, I suspect, all the people who like it just spoke up on this thread)
"Hey mister, are you going to die?"
"Exact change? Exact change?!!"
(and don't forget that the music played by the handcuffs is the same as the president's phone in the Flint movies)
Actually, a couple of years ago, I got email from a sales rep's home account. The person who emailed the rep couldn't email their the rep's company account. Apparently we had managed to make it onto either RBL or ORBS (I don't remember). After having a laughing fit (so apropos... at the time one of our marketing guys was trying to figure out the best way to spam our potential customers), I did some research. Sure enough, open relay. Nice to see the better-than-thou corporate IT doing such a good job. Anyhow, I got ahold of someone, made them fix it. Re-submitted it to the RBL, and two days later it worked.
Oddly enough, our people weren't willing to fix it until I told them that the vast majority of our clients were probably subscribed (via their schools), and so our customers couldn't reach our sales slugs.
So, NBD to get off of one, at least over here.
Who uses a database small enough to fit in RAM?
I do, but I'll thank my SQL server for doing it for me. Most aggressively cache data and databases - if Database A is used constantly, it'll be kept in RAM, whereas less-frequently Databases will either stay on the hard disk, or certain tables of that database will be put in memory. It lets you make the most of your RAM.
Is the NNTP protocol. NNTP Peer to NNTP Peer, and then I grab the files from them. Works well, especially keeping SVCDs on the BTVS episode I just watched on TV. a.b.m.b-v-s
Thank you. I said that years ago. It apparently stopped sucking about the time they did the alternate-universe war thing... by which time I was happily watching B5 and never looked back at the ST franchise.
Yeah yeah yeah. It's been 5 years since I've had to code C... I'm a sql guy now. At least I got the point across, eh?
Thanks for info on SmartDog... I'd forgotten about them. And yeah, I confused the OS and the chip. A 162 (or heck, 200mhz) StrongArm eMate would've rocked. I had the chance to play with one and loved it. It...was...just...so...slow.
lovely. They canned Farscape for this crap? Next you know, they'll be doing crap like Candid Camera (http://www.scifi.com/scaretactics/), dream analysis (http://www.scifi.com/dreamteam/), turn some bad made-for-tv movies into a series (http://www.scifi.com/tremors/), give Adrian Paul another show to suck in (http://www.scifi.com/tracker/) and probably some crappy show based on "Chariots of the Gods" (http://www.chariotsofthegods.com/).
I am _so_ glad that there is a new Science-Fiction-based tv channel being created. Never thought I'd see the day. I used to watch SciFi all the time. Now? One hour, once a week.
Watch Farscape. Tell your friends. The "We're So Screwed" Trilogy started last night. It'll replay this weekend.
My favorite story is when I went on a 2-week trip to install software. The first day, my laptop stopped connecting to our network. But, since I had some software installed back at the office (the Notes connector and Newton Press), I was able to:
Not bad at all, eh. I wound up using the laptop as a CD player and base to place my Newt's case on while I typed (gotta love the external keyboard). Simply brilliant. The only changes I wish they'd made:
But, an utterly brilliant machine. It looks like I'll need to get the 2008 patch (date rollover fix) for it, since nothing else is there yet.