Could there have been another call to a certain Redmond number? Of course there will be denials, we expect them by now, so it's pretty murky where the truth is, but it doesn't seem SCO can afford this kind of buy-back, alone.
I've been married 15 years, and it's largely because my wife and I both make sacrifices. There's no getting around it. I hope you work things out for the best.
I used to mud about 6 hours a day. Not much of a problem, aside from arrested social development. However, there were others on the mud who were married and were having children, and still mudding several hours a day and holding down some kind of job. I don't really get that, but it sounds like trouble in the making.
The Detroit Free Press, several years ago, ran an article on online gaming addiction, mother and father (in their 40's) and kids (in highschool) spent every free minute online, playing games. I have no clue what they did for money, but probably lived off assistance or bummed it from relatives. Seems in some ways that online gaming is perfect training for a life stuck to a screen doing customer service or such. To bad even that field now has a dim future.
I've spent time with a bunch of hardware manufacturers who will launch hardware products when we ship our service that will look and feel as good as the iPod product. And they will undoubtedly be a little bit less expensive and so head-to-head against Apple...""
No doubt some of the nameless companies in Taiwan and China which are nearly impossible for Apple to sue on look/feel or other infringement issues.
Now that's one way to take over a seanic vista! I can't really tell from the photo, but that must have been one great view from up the valley. The constuction site has some good photos, but the server will die soon.
I wonder how long before this bridge features in a TdF stage. I'm sure it'll look awesome with a peloton going along it and will figure into several pictures by Graham Watson.
Back in my more fearless days I went camping in West Virginia (behind the Red Dog Saloon, near Fayetteville) for a week and some rafting on the New River. Life behind a bar seemed to begin and end days with a beer in hand and fuzzy sense of things. The sleep deprivation, brought on by thundering (and I really do mean thundering, like 150db or louder) coal trucks dashing down into the gorge every night, didn't help matters much. Eventually my bud Roger suggests we do bridge laps, in reference to the New River Gorge bridge. So what are those? Oh, we'll see. It invovled drinking about six beers then walking along an I beam for about 20 feet then skulking along the cat walk to about halfway out into the gorge where a little access ladder on either side of the bridge allows on to climb up, scramble across and down the other side. Certainly it's one of the highest bridges I've ever been on, or under. A set of train track deep in the gorge, with a tiny spotlight shining on it from near a service shed, looked like N-guage. It was slightly comforting to note that aside from seeing the light on the track there was little other indication of how far below the bottom of the gorge was.
i hear the sony player has terrible audio quality. that's why it's cheap. also the sony music service is plagued by technical problems. just something to consider... you might want to check around a little before getting one of these.
The Microsoft model works great, it is truly a wonder of modern engineering. Microsoft again shows the superiority of their engineering and products.
Oh, and those rumors of subliminal messages, they're pure fantasy and Linus Torvalds is the devil and open source is an evil which must be stamped out.
but rather stealing someone's indentity, which he then used to launch his spam messages."
This describes a few people who are using mine to blast their garbage, even at me. I'd gladly collect and turn the evidence over to anyone willing to prosecute.
I'm thinking that this could be great if they can combine all the best parts of Civ and HL.
How about AD&D?
"You must roll a 12 or higher for your cholera infested blankets to wipe out the natives."
Seriously, I considered doing a game on trade during the bronze age and found the amount of history I needed to LEARN before I could even get started drawing and coding to be quite staggering. It's been my impression that many game makers take shortcuts, a-la Disney, with history just to get the game out. Who cares about historical accuracy when you're out mowing down opposing armies or racking up biggie whopper points.
Not that I don't think it'd be COOL... I just don't think it'll happen:-/
All you really need is the proper motivation to write a Render Worm that spreads to other computers and coopts their spare CPU time to pick up instructions somewhere, render (using your hacked together code for PoV or some such) and deliver the results to you (yeah, you might have a problem with your mailbox filling up or trying to retrieve without getting caught, but it's possible and stupider things have been (and are being) done.
(I'm not saying this is useless, I'm saying it's a form of solar power that is cheaper and more efficient than huge metal arrays)
1. Make the Sonora Desert look like northern New Jersey or East Chicago.
2. Large concentration of Algae attracts/breeds organisms which feed on that particular algae
3. Introduce all sorts of chemical ways to defeat organisms and engineer resistant strains of algae.
Seems like we should be focusing on using LESS energy than figuring out more ways to produce the SAME AMOUNT we area already using.
In the event someone hasn't noticed, one of the primary reasons for the jump in petroleum prices is because China is a growing market, with a lot of room to grow. They're already banning bicycles in major cities like Shanghai to make more room for cars, cars which run on petrol. Get used to paying $3-4 per gallon. Too bad we didn't invest in better mass transit when we had the chance. Ah, well, tax cuts are attractive, aren't they?
The geologists up there keep saying that Washington State is due for a huge magnitude quake, something on the order of 8.0. There are also fault lines crisscrossing the Seattle area, Puget Sound, and the outlying areas.
Undoubtably the west coast was very geologically active over a long period in the distant past. There are vast a lava beds throughout eastern California (driving up 14/395) from Mojave makes this abundantly clear, though these beds go on for hundreds of miles all they way up into northern CA, plus there's the Sierra Nevada (a relatively young mountain range) which was thrust up with no small amount of effort. The Cascades are likewise still in their formative years. I do expect that earthquakes of magnitude we can't even comprehend have happened and will happen.
BTW, I read somewhere that a researcher had derived a quake prediction scheme based on seismic data. The scheme has been very accurate so far, but I can't for the life of me remember where I read it. I think it was Scientific American. But the guy predicts a 6.0+ quake in Mojave this fall.
One of the problems of long term forcast of earthquakes is lack of knowing what the opposing sides of the faults look like, i.e. is there a spur?
The thing is, the plate as massive as it is in scale is elastic and these faults, like the San Andreas may run hundreds of miles. When there's a shift it may only move the whole plate a few inches in an area (or even feet in one example north of San Francisco where a fence was warped) that's a lot of mass to move and we're just standing on it like ants. Some pressure relieved in one locaction undoubtably builds pressure somewhere else, or even transfers presure to a parallel fault. This is a particularly good place to start when looking at the scope of things.
The conventional wisdom among my friends and neighbors is, if it has been quiet for too long, it's a bad sign. I've been through a couple 5.0+ earthquakes, the slow rolling type 15-20 seconds and they're pretty nerve wracking, though
much preferble to the sudden jolt 3.0+ shockwaves. In Monterey, CA I felt the last 5.4(?) a couple weeks ago down near Paso Robles (probably an aftershock of the 6.5 quake Dec 2003.) As the 2003 illustrates, there
are quakes looming in places we're quite unaware until they strike (i.e. Seattle a couple years back), thanks to the complexity of the faults (it's not like there's one fault line, but a who series of fractures along the edge of the plate.) It does seem all the rage of the past few years
has been in trying to detect pending quackes along long silent faults, long as in perhaps hundreds or thousands of years.
Still, as far as I have seen the worst to hit North America since europeans settled here struck in a series between 1811 and 1812 near New Madrid, Missouri, one of which reportedly run church bells as far away as Washington DC.
Some day the big one will hit and all the land east of the San Andreas Fault will slide off into the Atlantic Ocean
I get lots more mail about this than actual porn spam these days. Some of it's more explicit than others....
No, i don't think that's pr0n spam, that's more like medication/pharmacuticals spam and most of what these people are offering to do is illegal on at least on level. Now and then I hear about some warehouse being raided and a few of these trash being rounded up, but you can pretty much bet they aren't really selling the authentic medications, more like placebos. What's so hard about making Sweet-Tart like candies with whatever flavoring you want (icky medicine taste) and stamping on it whatever you want for a brand/product name? (Heck, come to that, that's probably the real reason they raid, because of counterfeit drugs, not because they're trying to sell a contolled substance.)
I'm actually seeing some mail labeled this way in our junk repository - but all of them violate CAN-SPAM in any number of ways, primarily the fact that they have no return address. I don't know why they bother, other than the fact that they're probably better able to reach their target audience with this method/setting up filter to 'Important Stuff' directory
I bounce all this crap, even the stuff that starts adv@blahblahoffers.com, but they obviously don't pay any attention. Think about it, you blast 250,000 or more emails, are you REALLY going to devote any effort to checking any didn't get through and removing them from your list? Hell, even e-tailers I no longer buy from ignore bounced email. They'd need some serious bandwidth and storage to receive and process that stuff themselves and they don't. I don't think anyone does.
Spammers lie, cheat and break the law. I can't see this being enforced succesfully.
I don't know which aspect is more fascinating...
That people actually expect any real help and enforcement from the government.
Or
That anyone who does business with spammers expects to do business with an ethical entity who won't pass along their email address, credit card numbers, etc.
only those younger than 10 years old could ever appreciate Jar Jar Binks...I don't think he was demanded at all.
Among young children I think Jar Jar was an enjoyable character and did well in merchandising.
.it's more like Lucas's fault for writing and directing 3 shitty movies made for kids(kids=10yrs and younger)
No, it's the fault of aging viewers with unrealistic expectations. Lucas' target is the young viewer. It just so happens a lot of us crusty old buggers are still kids at heart and somewhere between the adult and the kid in us we get confused and angry over unmet expectations.
As good as 4-7 are reputed to be, I find them continuing to approach campy-ness.
...there's always the hope that George Lucas will let someone else make more films in the saga.
Plainly stated by someone who realizes not what he/she has said. There are worse, there are far far worse people and companies who could make such a travesty of this you'll never go back and lament about it here in all its glory.
Lucas is doing fine. Don't like it? Go watch American Idol.
After seeing yesterday's pathetic post I'm not at all surprised to see this sort of rubbish from MSNBC. While tipping a couple pints of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale and losing at trivia (had 3rd, but some weaselette came and plucked that meager plum from my enfeebled clutches) I was discussing the problem viewers have with Star Wars movies, particularly of late, inspired by the article yesterday.
The movies are just fine. As a matter of fact they are great! Awesome! Stupendous, marvelous and incredible in their breathtaking ambition and scale. Truly, George Lucas continues to outdo himself.
The films aren't the problem. The viewers are. Anyone who trudges up to the ticket window and parts with their hard earned cash is treated to something beyond their imaginings, unless, and this is the big UNLESS, they have already been influenced by the whiners and crybabies who are now 30 something, 40 something or older and think they know everything about how a proper epic sci-fi adventure flick oughta be (Cue: "Worst movie, ever!") The older viewers continue to overlook how their own expectations have been molded (or moulded) by all sorts of sci-fi films since EP:IV made its debut, how accustomed they are to the spectacle, how utterly ordinary special effects have become.
It's a bit like the Blinkenlights signs. It's alright. It's fine. It's a film targeted to a young audience and trying to compete with myriad influences which jade even ten year olds now. It could be the best movie ever and the sad reality is there will still be those who can't sit down, shut up, enjoy their popcorn and watch the film and follow the story.
Can they be saved? Perhaps it's time for them to wake up from their tortured dreams and go watch some other genre. Maybe western movies will make a comeback.
if they do this on purpose, so they can hook you then make you come back to more.. Caffeine withdrawls suck, and if the home-made stuff isnt as potent, people are pretty much the slave of starbucks (or have to drink 2x more home-made coffee)...
You can always go to the m'f'ing Stop And Go and get your weaker coffee, you know, nobody is twisting your arm.
I'm a recovered caffeine addict (chemical dependency) about 7 years clear. If you really want to torch yourself, don't waste your time at Starbucks or fiddling with an espresso machine. Get a French Press, one that makes a full litre. Buy the darkest, oiliest beans you can lay your hands one, grind them by hand and dump about an 1.5 inches (normal would be about 0.5 inches) into the bottom and pour in boiling hot water. Stir a couple minutes. Chug a mug then dump the rest into your jumbo travel mug. It'll keep you lit for at least 18 hours of work.
I started out drinking coffee for a slight pick up and because I loved the flavor and aroma from a french press made espresso. After two years I found I could go through a pound of seriously strong stuff in a week and went through detox on weekends, only to start again on Mondays. I knew there was a problem when I took my first vacation in 18 months and realized what was happening. I left the job and only drink a little now and then, but _never_ to get work done, ever again. When someone finds they can exploit you, you will be exploited to your own expense. Like with alcohol, drink wisely.
Screw the title, is anyone else worried about this cheesy-sounding fight on lava surfboards? Surfboards?!
I'd personally like to thank the retard editor who let this spoiler go. Surfing lightsabre battle, great, I'm sure it's fantastic, but what is it with posters and editors who think it's necessary to dump details without a spoiler warning? I find I enjoy movies best knowing as little about them as possible before going in. In particular it saves people from me being yet-another-twit posting about how this or that was a let down thanks to my inflated expectations.
I'll see it when it comes out, probably a week or so after opening and when crowds have thinned (after all the whinging begins in papers and on/. about how it sucked because of this, that or the other thing.)
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Could there have been another call to a certain Redmond number? Of course there will be denials, we expect them by now, so it's pretty murky where the truth is, but it doesn't seem SCO can afford this kind of buy-back, alone.
I used to mud about 6 hours a day. Not much of a problem, aside from arrested social development. However, there were others on the mud who were married and were having children, and still mudding several hours a day and holding down some kind of job. I don't really get that, but it sounds like trouble in the making.
The Detroit Free Press, several years ago, ran an article on online gaming addiction, mother and father (in their 40's) and kids (in highschool) spent every free minute online, playing games. I have no clue what they did for money, but probably lived off assistance or bummed it from relatives. Seems in some ways that online gaming is perfect training for a life stuck to a screen doing customer service or such. To bad even that field now has a dim future.
No doubt some of the nameless companies in Taiwan and China which are nearly impossible for Apple to sue on look/feel or other infringement issues.
I wonder how long before this bridge features in a TdF stage. I'm sure it'll look awesome with a peloton going along it and will figure into several pictures by Graham Watson.
On the subject of pissing your pants, imagine the great honor bestowed to the first dog to mark this structure as it's territory.
And on another fine note, here's something else to view on a friday.
Back in my more fearless days I went camping in West Virginia (behind the Red Dog Saloon, near Fayetteville) for a week and some rafting on the New River. Life behind a bar seemed to begin and end days with a beer in hand and fuzzy sense of things. The sleep deprivation, brought on by thundering (and I really do mean thundering, like 150db or louder) coal trucks dashing down into the gorge every night, didn't help matters much. Eventually my bud Roger suggests we do bridge laps, in reference to the New River Gorge bridge. So what are those? Oh, we'll see. It invovled drinking about six beers then walking along an I beam for about 20 feet then skulking along the cat walk to about halfway out into the gorge where a little access ladder on either side of the bridge allows on to climb up, scramble across and down the other side. Certainly it's one of the highest bridges I've ever been on, or under. A set of train track deep in the gorge, with a tiny spotlight shining on it from near a service shed, looked like N-guage. It was slightly comforting to note that aside from seeing the light on the track there was little other indication of how far below the bottom of the gorge was.
Doesn't seem to explain birds or insects very well, does it?
The Microsoft model works great, it is truly a wonder of modern engineering. Microsoft again shows the superiority of their engineering and products.
Oh, and those rumors of subliminal messages, they're pure fantasy and Linus Torvalds is the devil and open source is an evil which must be stamped out.
This describes a few people who are using mine to blast their garbage, even at me. I'd gladly collect and turn the evidence over to anyone willing to prosecute.
How about AD&D?
"You must roll a 12 or higher for your cholera infested blankets to wipe out the natives."
Seriously, I considered doing a game on trade during the bronze age and found the amount of history I needed to LEARN before I could even get started drawing and coding to be quite staggering. It's been my impression that many game makers take shortcuts, a-la Disney, with history just to get the game out. Who cares about historical accuracy when you're out mowing down opposing armies or racking up biggie whopper points.
All you really need is the proper motivation to write a Render Worm that spreads to other computers and coopts their spare CPU time to pick up instructions somewhere, render (using your hacked together code for PoV or some such) and deliver the results to you (yeah, you might have a problem with your mailbox filling up or trying to retrieve without getting caught, but it's possible and stupider things have been (and are being) done.
(I'm not saying this is useless, I'm saying it's a form of solar power that is cheaper and more efficient than huge metal arrays)
1. Make the Sonora Desert look like northern New Jersey or East Chicago.
2. Large concentration of Algae attracts/breeds organisms which feed on that particular algae
3. Introduce all sorts of chemical ways to defeat organisms and engineer resistant strains of algae.
Seems like we should be focusing on using LESS energy than figuring out more ways to produce the SAME AMOUNT we area already using.
In the event someone hasn't noticed, one of the primary reasons for the jump in petroleum prices is because China is a growing market, with a lot of room to grow. They're already banning bicycles in major cities like Shanghai to make more room for cars, cars which run on petrol. Get used to paying $3-4 per gallon. Too bad we didn't invest in better mass transit when we had the chance. Ah, well, tax cuts are attractive, aren't they?
Undoubtably the west coast was very geologically active over a long period in the distant past. There are vast a lava beds throughout eastern California (driving up 14/395) from Mojave makes this abundantly clear, though these beds go on for hundreds of miles all they way up into northern CA, plus there's the Sierra Nevada (a relatively young mountain range) which was thrust up with no small amount of effort. The Cascades are likewise still in their formative years. I do expect that earthquakes of magnitude we can't even comprehend have happened and will happen.
BTW, I read somewhere that a researcher had derived a quake prediction scheme based on seismic data. The scheme has been very accurate so far, but I can't for the life of me remember where I read it. I think it was Scientific American. But the guy predicts a 6.0+ quake in Mojave this fall.
One of the problems of long term forcast of earthquakes is lack of knowing what the opposing sides of the faults look like, i.e. is there a spur?
The thing is, the plate as massive as it is in scale is elastic and these faults, like the San Andreas may run hundreds of miles. When there's a shift it may only move the whole plate a few inches in an area (or even feet in one example north of San Francisco where a fence was warped) that's a lot of mass to move and we're just standing on it like ants. Some pressure relieved in one locaction undoubtably builds pressure somewhere else, or even transfers presure to a parallel fault. This is a particularly good place to start when looking at the scope of things.
Still, as far as I have seen the worst to hit North America since europeans settled here struck in a series between 1811 and 1812 near New Madrid, Missouri, one of which reportedly run church bells as far away as Washington DC.
Some day the big one will hit and all the land east of the San Andreas Fault will slide off into the Atlantic Ocean
Output: A+
No, i don't think that's pr0n spam, that's more like medication/pharmacuticals spam and most of what these people are offering to do is illegal on at least on level. Now and then I hear about some warehouse being raided and a few of these trash being rounded up, but you can pretty much bet they aren't really selling the authentic medications, more like placebos. What's so hard about making Sweet-Tart like candies with whatever flavoring you want (icky medicine taste) and stamping on it whatever you want for a brand/product name? (Heck, come to that, that's probably the real reason they raid, because of counterfeit drugs, not because they're trying to sell a contolled substance.)
I bounce all this crap, even the stuff that starts adv@blahblahoffers.com, but they obviously don't pay any attention. Think about it, you blast 250,000 or more emails, are you REALLY going to devote any effort to checking any didn't get through and removing them from your list? Hell, even e-tailers I no longer buy from ignore bounced email. They'd need some serious bandwidth and storage to receive and process that stuff themselves and they don't. I don't think anyone does.
I don't know which aspect is more fascinating...
That people actually expect any real help and enforcement from the government.
Or
That anyone who does business with spammers expects to do business with an ethical entity who won't pass along their email address, credit card numbers, etc.
Among young children I think Jar Jar was an enjoyable character and did well in merchandising.
No, it's the fault of aging viewers with unrealistic expectations. Lucas' target is the young viewer. It just so happens a lot of us crusty old buggers are still kids at heart and somewhere between the adult and the kid in us we get confused and angry over unmet expectations.
As good as 4-7 are reputed to be, I find them continuing to approach campy-ness.
Plainly stated by someone who realizes not what he/she has said. There are worse, there are far far worse people and companies who could make such a travesty of this you'll never go back and lament about it here in all its glory.
Lucas is doing fine. Don't like it? Go watch American Idol.
The movies are just fine. As a matter of fact they are great! Awesome! Stupendous, marvelous and incredible in their breathtaking ambition and scale. Truly, George Lucas continues to outdo himself.
The films aren't the problem. The viewers are. Anyone who trudges up to the ticket window and parts with their hard earned cash is treated to something beyond their imaginings, unless, and this is the big UNLESS, they have already been influenced by the whiners and crybabies who are now 30 something, 40 something or older and think they know everything about how a proper epic sci-fi adventure flick oughta be (Cue: "Worst movie, ever!") The older viewers continue to overlook how their own expectations have been molded (or moulded) by all sorts of sci-fi films since EP:IV made its debut, how accustomed they are to the spectacle, how utterly ordinary special effects have become.
It's a bit like the Blinkenlights signs. It's alright. It's fine. It's a film targeted to a young audience and trying to compete with myriad influences which jade even ten year olds now. It could be the best movie ever and the sad reality is there will still be those who can't sit down, shut up, enjoy their popcorn and watch the film and follow the story.
Can they be saved? Perhaps it's time for them to wake up from their tortured dreams and go watch some other genre. Maybe western movies will make a comeback.
You can always go to the m'f'ing Stop And Go and get your weaker coffee, you know, nobody is twisting your arm.
I'm a recovered caffeine addict (chemical dependency) about 7 years clear. If you really want to torch yourself, don't waste your time at Starbucks or fiddling with an espresso machine. Get a French Press, one that makes a full litre. Buy the darkest, oiliest beans you can lay your hands one, grind them by hand and dump about an 1.5 inches (normal would be about 0.5 inches) into the bottom and pour in boiling hot water. Stir a couple minutes. Chug a mug then dump the rest into your jumbo travel mug. It'll keep you lit for at least 18 hours of work.
I started out drinking coffee for a slight pick up and because I loved the flavor and aroma from a french press made espresso. After two years I found I could go through a pound of seriously strong stuff in a week and went through detox on weekends, only to start again on Mondays. I knew there was a problem when I took my first vacation in 18 months and realized what was happening. I left the job and only drink a little now and then, but _never_ to get work done, ever again. When someone finds they can exploit you, you will be exploited to your own expense. Like with alcohol, drink wisely.
I'd personally like to thank the retard editor who let this spoiler go. Surfing lightsabre battle, great, I'm sure it's fantastic, but what is it with posters and editors who think it's necessary to dump details without a spoiler warning? I find I enjoy movies best knowing as little about them as possible before going in. In particular it saves people from me being yet-another-twit posting about how this or that was a let down thanks to my inflated expectations.
I'll see it when it comes out, probably a week or so after opening and when crowds have thinned (after all the whinging begins in papers and on /. about how it sucked because of this, that or the other thing.)
Gives new meaning to the phrase: "I can just taste victory."