Groo or Usagi Yojimbo, by Stan Sakai. I've got all the Groos up to about 6 years ago, dunno what I'm going to do with them. Did meet Sergio and Stan at a local book signing, both are very cool guys. I'm not much for comic books these days.
My primary reference to Sergio Leone and his "spaghetti westerns" was inspired by the style of the tale of played out, theme music, good use of panaramic views and exploration of the hero/heroine's character.
Follow the link. Not much else, statistics, dollars earned, blah blah blah.
Here's hoping he's right. November's been a bit of a let down. Matrix Revolutions blew chunks (but nice CGI), Cat in the Hat is outright stupid and Timeline was underwhelming. Kill Bill Vol 1, however, was very cool and I'm looking forward to Feb. 20 to see Vol 2. (Did anyone else think of Sergio Leone's work while watching Kill Bill?)
I thought the days of this kind of excess would have ended (remember the Lego desk?) Perhaps there's still a few dotcoms clinging to life and this is the final blow needed to finish them off.
Can't side with an employee that does that. Where do people get the idea this is as defensible as a smoking gun? If he showed pictures of Balmer selling reefers to school children I'd feel differently, in this case he simply revealed something his employer wanted kept under wraps for good reason.
Any word on how the much ballyhooed Trustworthy Computing fits into the picture?
Or is there going to be the convenient clause in the EULA which states, "the consumer will be obligated to periodically, by an automated process download and install patches or warranty is void" This could be the OS that finally gets everyone onto broadband/DSL/etc. due to the shear volume that each will have to download. Yay!
Then again, many will try to use this operating system on stand-alone systems, which will probably be some violation of terms of the EULA, where Microsoft needs to know everything you have on your computer and what you're doing with it.
I could make an 'all your base' reference, but as Breathed and others have noted, you can't compete with reality anymore.
I did a serarch on amazon this morning and this 'search inside the book' came up. utterly in convenient and i would be greatly happy never to see it again. it founnd the most tangential references to my query and reminded me of half-baked technology long abandoned. stupid. and nothing new as searches have worked for documents for years.
Yeah? Let's see how you like it when witty postings like yours can be sent in by a PhD from IIT and you have to stand in line to make your monthly posting on alt.angst because nobody is left to hear or care about your whining.
You release any claim to intellectual property for any development within Microsoft Visual Studio 200x. All algorithms, methods, interfaces and media developed with the assistance of Microsoft Development Tools become the sole property of Microsoft, which you may use free of licensing fees. You release any legal claim to contest this clause should you find it later while skimming through the EULA, after ignoring it and simply clicking through.
Seems there was already something in the past which grants them some rights to anything developed with one of their tools or passing through their networks, even if unintentionally.
Their legal team probably gets loaded on sodium pentathol before coming up with these things in a fit of giggling.
I've noticed my peripheral vision has greater accuity than forward. I wonder if years staring at bright CRT's have played much of a role in that. Hopefully my vision will continue satisfactorily, but I wear sunglasses more often to protect whats left.
Obviously you don't have someone looking out for you as a manager. A decent manager should be telling these customers, "If you want it then it will cost so many dollars, or take so many hours." If it's internal then someone else has to approve the expenditure. Money is the means of metering out resources, if it isn't money it's time, and someone has to be in charge of making those decisions. Once they've been made just do the work and don't sweat the details.
If you don't have a manager or people run roughshod over cost/resource allocation then start looking for a better place to work or adopt the attitude that you'll put in the hours your paid to work and no more. Don't kill yourself to make someone else's goals, especially if there's no benefit to you directly or indirectly (i.e. getting a bigwig's project done gets a favorable nod toward increased IT funding, thus adding resources to the dept.)
If you're not a Woman, a boy, or a slashdotter, nobody cares about you.
(not even your mum!)
Actually, someone with some serious control over purse-strings has been bidding up copies of M.U.L.E. on eBay. One copy sold for $158, another just sold for $90. Just played it again tonight on my c64 emulator, fab game.
They had a long explanation on this on the BBC last night. The helium is bled off to wick away heat, but they didn't say anything about the orbit or placement of these things. Seems the earth's shadow would be a good place as over two years it should be able to view pretty much everything twice.
Prepare to be underwhelmed by images though as they'll probably the the spotty or smudgey things astronomers whoop with joy over and say, "Nyah! Dark Mass, told you so!" But just aren't visually appealing enough to hang on your wall.:-)
No kidding here. You should lookup nearby junior colleges or even community colleges which can cover your first two years close to work/home as they'll likely be huge lecture halls at a big university.
A friend spent a semester at Stanford and was disenchanted by the size of classes, so he came back home and did two years there, _making sure_ everything would transfer into Stanford. Then returned to Stanford for the final two years to get the BSCS degree.
It's important to research with your targeted University where they will accept transfers from and in which studies, etc. I've known people to get 2 years at Delta College (in Michigan, a CC), transfer into U of Mich for the B then go on to Harvard, Stanford, Berkley, etc. for masters all with no problems.
Ok, so maybe he should have said "Americans in power" only like free markets when it works in their favor, then? Amounts to the same thing for all practical intents, until our government starts listening to people again instead of corporate interests.
Right. And Bertelsmann AG is an american company. Vivendi is an american company. Sony is an american company. Even Motown is owned (last I read) by a dutch group. See where I'm going with this?
Let me spell it out for you. Great chunks of "american" IP and industry are foreign owned. It is globalization, but not eminating from inside the US. The US is just a convenient strawman. Some people tend to forget there is considerable foreign interest in who gets elected and what policy is. I'm not talking about some stupid super-secret-pact-o'-evil, like conspiracy theorists invent, but the fact there's old money in the world and those people who control it like to look after it. The US is just a very convenient playfield, since it has a large economy, lots of unwitting (and not less than a few corrupt ones) political decision makers and legislation authors, and a big bad military to back it all up with.
Things aren't actually as bad as they used to be, with the overt toppling of unsympathetic democratically elected governments which nationalize wide foreign holdings to look after their own people. But this exportation of law is something which requires close scrutiny by peoples of other nations to be sure someone isn't using the leverage of the US to screw them.
Yeah, I'd post anonymously, too, if I were going to belch a flame like that.
Americans only like free markets and capitalism when it works in their favor.
The fact is some of us yanks like to see the these goons get sorted out. There's stuff that costs absurd amounts, or you can't even get in the US, thanks to restrictions on importing bought to us by the very same sphere of influence. They like to get money whether things are coming or going.
Some people like to refer to them as F.O.B. (friends of Bush), but they actually manage to get strings pulled their way no matter who the Prez is.
[off-topic reference, wtf is this about?] snipped.
22% lowest ever? Lowest since they started tracking things, I'd buy. Things are poor, but not horrible. The Fed. Govt. is in a bigger hole and W.'s approval is doing well, but not for long, as it's sagging too. Most politicians are doing poorly in polls these days. Best to look to examples rather than just poll numbers.
Hitler's regime was stable, but rose out of the chaos of instability of economic turmoil and social upheaval post WWI, but obviously you don't consider history worth studying.
"Here's what I think..." [speculation and such blather snipped] No you don't think, you don't know either. California isn't all liberal. It's a pretty good mix of left and right. Even in the Bay Area San Fran is extremely liberal in respect to San Jose. Orange County and San Diego are very conservative. It's too bad people outside California don't realize these things, but just assume the state is full of whackos. Remember when Prop. 13 started in California? No, you probably know next to nothing about the west. Good place to start is reading Cadillac Desert.
What a short memory people have. The energy crisis, which compounded the economic impact from the collapse of the dotcoms really doomed the budget.
Am I the only one who recalls a lack of willingness on the part of the President to intervene in the rising energy costs and shortages faced by the west? That VP Cheney had met (and meeting minutes are still sealed as a national security concern) with Enron and other energy industry representatives to plan "national energy strategy"? That Enron and other energy companies were found to be purposely creating shortages to trade energy, as a commodity, at higher and higher rates? That energy generated in California was routed outside the state to futher the shortage until the state government stepped in and brought the whole house of cards down and broke the bastards?
Oh, socialism works, but people have to be dedicated to it, you can't force it upon them. The way things are going in the US it's not hard to actually see people as Dukes, Counts, Earls, etc. by feat. Do you see where it's going?
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My primary reference to Sergio Leone and his "spaghetti westerns" was inspired by the style of the tale of played out, theme music, good use of panaramic views and exploration of the hero/heroine's character.
Humorous diary of Saruman
Here's hoping he's right. November's been a bit of a let down. Matrix Revolutions blew chunks (but nice CGI), Cat in the Hat is outright stupid and Timeline was underwhelming. Kill Bill Vol 1, however, was very cool and I'm looking forward to Feb. 20 to see Vol 2. (Did anyone else think of Sergio Leone's work while watching Kill Bill?)
Personally, I'd like to see the re-introduction of Oliver Wendell Jones.
I thought the days of this kind of excess would have ended (remember the Lego desk?) Perhaps there's still a few dotcoms clinging to life and this is the final blow needed to finish them off.
Can't side with an employee that does that. Where do people get the idea this is as defensible as a smoking gun? If he showed pictures of Balmer selling reefers to school children I'd feel differently, in this case he simply revealed something his employer wanted kept under wraps for good reason.
Or is there going to be the convenient clause in the EULA which states, "the consumer will be obligated to periodically, by an automated process download and install patches or warranty is void" This could be the OS that finally gets everyone onto broadband/DSL/etc. due to the shear volume that each will have to download. Yay!
Then again, many will try to use this operating system on stand-alone systems, which will probably be some violation of terms of the EULA, where Microsoft needs to know everything you have on your computer and what you're doing with it.
I could make an 'all your base' reference, but as Breathed and others have noted, you can't compete with reality anymore.
I did a serarch on amazon this morning and this 'search inside the book' came up. utterly in convenient and i would be greatly happy never to see it again. it founnd the most tangential references to my query and reminded me of half-baked technology long abandoned. stupid. and nothing new as searches have worked for documents for years.
Yeah? Let's see how you like it when witty postings like yours can be sent in by a PhD from IIT and you have to stand in line to make your monthly posting on alt.angst because nobody is left to hear or care about your whining.
I thought Andy's job was now being done by a 16 year old name Haji in Bangalore.
Friday Evening: ~190
Saturday Morning: ~500
Saturday: several batches of 60 to 80
People can be so stupid.
Microsoft can be so sloppy.
Wormwriters can go to hell.
Seems there was already something in the past which grants them some rights to anything developed with one of their tools or passing through their networks, even if unintentionally.
Their legal team probably gets loaded on sodium pentathol before coming up with these things in a fit of giggling.
I've noticed my peripheral vision has greater accuity than forward. I wonder if years staring at bright CRT's have played much of a role in that. Hopefully my vision will continue satisfactorily, but I wear sunglasses more often to protect whats left.
If you don't have a manager or people run roughshod over cost/resource allocation then start looking for a better place to work or adopt the attitude that you'll put in the hours your paid to work and no more. Don't kill yourself to make someone else's goals, especially if there's no benefit to you directly or indirectly (i.e. getting a bigwig's project done gets a favorable nod toward increased IT funding, thus adding resources to the dept.)
(not even your mum!)
Actually, someone with some serious control over purse-strings has been bidding up copies of M.U.L.E. on eBay. One copy sold for $158, another just sold for $90. Just played it again tonight on my c64 emulator, fab game.
Prepare to be underwhelmed by images though as they'll probably the the spotty or smudgey things astronomers whoop with joy over and say, "Nyah! Dark Mass, told you so!" But just aren't visually appealing enough to hang on your wall. :-)
A friend spent a semester at Stanford and was disenchanted by the size of classes, so he came back home and did two years there, _making sure_ everything would transfer into Stanford. Then returned to Stanford for the final two years to get the BSCS degree.
It's important to research with your targeted University where they will accept transfers from and in which studies, etc. I've known people to get 2 years at Delta College (in Michigan, a CC), transfer into U of Mich for the B then go on to Harvard, Stanford, Berkley, etc. for masters all with no problems.
No Intergalactic State University?
No Potawatami University? (ol' PU)
Bob's Instant College of Fine Arts (just add water) ?
Ronald Reagan National University (yet) ?
I'm sorry, but I've watched far too many RoadRunner cartoons to believe a Coyote could have done better anywhere else.
Right. And Bertelsmann AG is an american company. Vivendi is an american company. Sony is an american company. Even Motown is owned (last I read) by a dutch group. See where I'm going with this?
Let me spell it out for you. Great chunks of "american" IP and industry are foreign owned. It is globalization, but not eminating from inside the US. The US is just a convenient strawman. Some people tend to forget there is considerable foreign interest in who gets elected and what policy is. I'm not talking about some stupid super-secret-pact-o'-evil, like conspiracy theorists invent, but the fact there's old money in the world and those people who control it like to look after it. The US is just a very convenient playfield, since it has a large economy, lots of unwitting (and not less than a few corrupt ones) political decision makers and legislation authors, and a big bad military to back it all up with.
Things aren't actually as bad as they used to be, with the overt toppling of unsympathetic democratically elected governments which nationalize wide foreign holdings to look after their own people. But this exportation of law is something which requires close scrutiny by peoples of other nations to be sure someone isn't using the leverage of the US to screw them.
Americans only like free markets and capitalism when it works in their favor.
The fact is some of us yanks like to see the these goons get sorted out. There's stuff that costs absurd amounts, or you can't even get in the US, thanks to restrictions on importing bought to us by the very same sphere of influence. They like to get money whether things are coming or going.
Some people like to refer to them as F.O.B. (friends of Bush), but they actually manage to get strings pulled their way no matter who the Prez is.
The bad news is this isn't what I was led to expect from Gundam, RoboTech, etc. I expected bright-eyed nubile women, not crotchety old geezers.
Of course, it does give me something to look forward to in my old age :-]
It doesn't work in Europe, need another adapter.
22% lowest ever? Lowest since they started tracking things, I'd buy. Things are poor, but not horrible. The Fed. Govt. is in a bigger hole and W.'s approval is doing well, but not for long, as it's sagging too. Most politicians are doing poorly in polls these days. Best to look to examples rather than just poll numbers.
Hitler's regime was stable, but rose out of the chaos of instability of economic turmoil and social upheaval post WWI, but obviously you don't consider history worth studying.
"Here's what I think..." [speculation and such blather snipped] No you don't think, you don't know either. California isn't all liberal. It's a pretty good mix of left and right. Even in the Bay Area San Fran is extremely liberal in respect to San Jose. Orange County and San Diego are very conservative. It's too bad people outside California don't realize these things, but just assume the state is full of whackos. Remember when Prop. 13 started in California? No, you probably know next to nothing about the west. Good place to start is reading Cadillac Desert.
Am I the only one who recalls a lack of willingness on the part of the President to intervene in the rising energy costs and shortages faced by the west? That VP Cheney had met (and meeting minutes are still sealed as a national security concern) with Enron and other energy industry representatives to plan "national energy strategy"? That Enron and other energy companies were found to be purposely creating shortages to trade energy, as a commodity, at higher and higher rates? That energy generated in California was routed outside the state to futher the shortage until the state government stepped in and brought the whole house of cards down and broke the bastards?
Oh, socialism works, but people have to be dedicated to it, you can't force it upon them. The way things are going in the US it's not hard to actually see people as Dukes, Counts, Earls, etc. by feat. Do you see where it's going?