"Teach kids not to give a rat's ass about what others say."
Far better to teach kids to respect each other. It's a real short trip from not caring what they say, to not caring how they feel. Children can be cruel enough as it is w/o encouraging that. Teach them compassion and respect, a sense of community and belonging, rather than apathy.
When people ask me what I do, I reply "Information security for a bank." This typically provokes the follow-up "What does that mean?" My reply has always been "I keep the bad guys out, and the employees in... and the latter is the more difficult."
"While the disappearance (and possible murder) of his wife is tragic, Linux users will wonder where this will leave Reiser 4."
That sentence really bothers me. It should read "While Linux users will wonder where this will leave Reiser 4, the disappearance (and possible murder) of his wife is tragic."
I got all the way through to generating keys. Then an "unknown error" occurred, and I can't get any further. I'll keep it around and try later in the day, in the hopes that it's a server-side issue.
You *should* wonder about the theory of evolution. It's that wonder, that curiosity, that questioning that leads to more answers, which lead to more questions, and on and on. Science is (obviously) not a constant in and of itself, but an evolving (heh) craft owing as much to chance, happenstance and luck as to true brilliance.
Many things have been held to be true, that have since been proven false. That doesn't mean that the time spent on those theories and ideas was pointless or useless... if you can see it all as an evolving body of work that generally moves towards a more accurate understanding of the way things work.
Jar Jar *was* played by a real actor, by the name of Ahmed Best (http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0078886/). The only CGI (at least for the first film... didn't care enough to check out the second) was the head.
Of course... you didn't actually define "real" in the phrase "real actor"...
Obligatory "me too." I remember being kept awake by my father's modem in high school. It was attached to a//e (128KB RAM and an add on 10MB HD -- Woo Hoo!). Either you couldn't disable the handshaking sounds, or he didn't bother. At the time, it never occurred to me, but I could have been trading all my gamez over BBS rather than at school on 5.25" at school. Who knows what else I would have become involved in, or how my computing knowledge would have developed.
Had I only known... it wasn't until 6 years later at college that I started realizing the potential of networked computing.
I challenge you to 10 pages of any popular typewritten communication. You use only a mouse, while I use a keyboard. If you insist, I'll even type using a keyboard with no number pad or function keys.
I'll put $10 on me winning.
The right tool for the job... Keyboards are good. Mouses are good. This debate is pointless.
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Dungeon Keeper II ('99 - Bullfrog). The graphics have really stood the test of time, in part, if not in full, b/c they didn't try to go realistic. The game-play is fun (and actually quite funny), though there are some compatibility issues. I can still hear the sound the little imps made when you slapped them around... to say nothing of the Dark Mistress. It doesn't require epic level hardware to run, either. I've heard Startopia is a good member of the DK/DKII tradition, though I've never played it.
Battlezone II: Combat Commander ('99 - Pandemic Studios). Again with the graphics and the testing and the time. The game play is phenomenal, and will run on older hardware. The ability to control a single craft (FPS-style), or be the commander in charge of base installations, supply and overall strategy (RTS-style) was is still amazing and allowed for hours and hours (and hours and hours) of LAN gaming.
I don't think either has much in the way of ongoing community support, which is sad, as both stand in my mind as great games, always deserving to be installed
Then there's Ultima III and Ultima IV. The fact that my original ~20 year old 5.25" diskettes still run on an Apple//e Enhanced absolutely and without doubt qualifies them as "standing the test of time."
I set mine up using the center rearview mirror. Each side mirror is adjusted so that they pick up just about where the center mirror leaves off. Pretty much the same result that you describe, just a slightly different method of getting there (and I don't have to smear face grease on the driver side window).
To everyone nit-picking at the nit-picker, given that the page is actually called "Nit-Pickers Guide...", I think one should expect the author of the page to actually nit-pick at the movies, rather than point out only the truly disturbing and fundamental changes.
Go watch Lord of the Rings again if you want purity.
There was very little in terms of "pure" in those movies. They were good for the most part, even with all the changes made, but they weren't, by any means, "pure."
As for the rest, I agree. I'm of the crowd that really thinks Eps. I and II just aren't that good. They both had good moments, but neither hold a candle to Eps. 4-6 for me. It's all subjective, and most likely due to the fact that I saw them all at just the right age. But the bottom line is, they belong to Lucas. He can, will, and should do with them what he wants, and he's frankly beholden to no one. He pretty much has a license to print money, so I can't imagine anything said on a/. story is going to sway him one way or another.
"Except for the $150 worth of Windows you have to buy to run it, of course."
I'd rephrase that to something more along the lines of "Except for the $150 you have to pay for Windows." I'm hard pressed to say it's actually worth $150... but that may just be me.
Sauron was not "dead" as a previous poster stated. He had, however, placed a great part of his power (his life-essence, so to speak) into the Ring. He didn't have enough power leftto forge another ring... at least not one with potency enough to rule the other Rings of Power.
Part of the reason the Ring in question was able to gain dominion over the other rings was that it was forged in secrecy. While Celebrimbor and the Mirdain of Eregion were forging the 3, the 7 and the 9, Sauron was forging the One. Since he had a part in the 7 and the 9, he was able to more or less directly control the bearers of those. Even though he did not have a direct hand in the 3, the One was of sufficient power to have influence. Such power could only be used once.
There's a difference that you ignore between Ford trucks randomly exploding, and security holes being exploited. The one is a random event free of motivation or intent, while the other is a deliberate action with clear intent, if not motive.
The trucks would certainly explode no matter who knew about it. The holes may not be exploited if they remained unknown while fixes were being developed.
Microsoft's reputation will suffer either way, but if they are given the opportunity to develop fixes, the data of those who still use IE (for whatever reason) may not have to.
If a 3.5-hour film is considered to be too long, they could always have an interval, so don't tell me run-time is the reason for chopping the cinematic
While you may be right that the real money is to be made in post theatrical run sales of DVDs and merchandise (I honestly don't know - never looked into it), there is still plenty of money to be made during the theatrical run. The longer the movie, the fewer showings (even taking into account multiple screens - there's a lot of movies competing for screens), and the fewer showings, the less money in tickets and concessions.
It *is* about money, but not necessarily in the way you describe.
Interesting, except that by attacking immediately, the Rohirrim don't have time to come to the aid of Minas Tirith, and Aragorn likely never takes the Umbar fleet. Without those two things coming together at the Battle of Pelennor Fields, Gondor would almost certainly fall to Sauron's forces, which were already too strong to take head to head. I say "almost" b/c nothing is truly certain, but my thoughts are that it is far far more likely.
Given that Sauron has a sizeable army at Minas Morgul. Given that Minas Morgul is within marching distance to Osgiliath. Given that Sauron now knows the location of the ring in Osgiliath, on his very borders through the Nazgul that Frodo encountered there. Given that Sauron wants the ring back.
Seems to me that Sauron would do two things at this point. 1. Send more forces to Osgiliath to secure the ring where it is. 2. Keep forces at Minas Morgul to guard the pass instead of sending them into battle at the Pelennor Fields.
Tolkien has Sauron think that Saruman had the Ring, and was distracted by Aragorn's use of the Palantir. He had no reason to think it was near at hand. Jackson gave him that reason. Why worry at all about Gondor when the Ring is right there? With it back on his hand, Gondor is inconsequential.
As I don't like awarding experience ONLY for combat, as so many cRPG's tend to do, nor do I like the idea of awarding NO experience for combat. Seems to me that experience should be awarded based on task completed. Finishing off an opponent is, at least to my mind, a task. What I'd like to see implemented is a system that awards experience for just about everything, with the experience awarded for a given task weighted towards the class most suited to the task at hand. Fighter classes get slightly more experience for combat, rogue classes get slightly more experience for detecting, setting and disarming traps, picking pockets and assassinations, spell-casters classes get slightly more experience for successfully casting spells, bards will slightly more experience for social tasks, and so on.
Combat, like anything else, is a challenge that should be rewarded... especially when the class you chose to play is geared heavily towards it.
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"Teach kids not to give a rat's ass about what others say."
Far better to teach kids to respect each other. It's a real short trip from not caring what they say, to not caring how they feel. Children can be cruel enough as it is w/o encouraging that. Teach them compassion and respect, a sense of community and belonging, rather than apathy.
When people ask me what I do, I reply "Information security for a bank." This typically provokes the follow-up "What does that mean?" My reply has always been "I keep the bad guys out, and the employees in... and the latter is the more difficult."
At these file sizes, I, for one, do not aim to misbehave.
"While the disappearance (and possible murder) of his wife is tragic, Linux users will wonder where this will leave Reiser 4."
That sentence really bothers me. It should read "While Linux users will wonder where this will leave Reiser 4, the disappearance (and possible murder) of his wife is tragic."
Come on, people.
I got all the way through to generating keys. Then an "unknown error" occurred, and I can't get any further. I'll keep it around and try later in the day, in the hopes that it's a server-side issue.
Firstly, we need a law which binds anyone who acquires any kind of used memory device to absolute secrecy over the contents.
But then we wouldn't have vigilante justice like what's going on against Amir Massoud Tofangsazan right now!
You *should* wonder about the theory of evolution. It's that wonder, that curiosity, that questioning that leads to more answers, which lead to more questions, and on and on. Science is (obviously) not a constant in and of itself, but an evolving (heh) craft owing as much to chance, happenstance and luck as to true brilliance.
Many things have been held to be true, that have since been proven false. That doesn't mean that the time spent on those theories and ideas was pointless or useless... if you can see it all as an evolving body of work that generally moves towards a more accurate understanding of the way things work.
Backups? Here I was, thinking that a followup to Third Stage had been released.
Jar Jar *was* played by a real actor, by the name of Ahmed Best (http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0078886/). The only CGI (at least for the first film... didn't care enough to check out the second) was the head.
Of course... you didn't actually define "real" in the phrase "real actor"...
The increase in hurricanes is not due to the increase in global temperatures, rather, it is due to a decrease in the number of pirates.
Obligatory "me too." I remember being kept awake by my father's modem in high school. It was attached to a //e (128KB RAM and an add on 10MB HD -- Woo Hoo!). Either you couldn't disable the handshaking sounds, or he didn't bother. At the time, it never occurred to me, but I could have been trading all my gamez over BBS rather than at school on 5.25" at school. Who knows what else I would have become involved in, or how my computing knowledge would have developed.
Had I only known... it wasn't until 6 years later at college that I started realizing the potential of networked computing.
I challenge you to 10 pages of any popular typewritten communication. You use only a mouse, while I use a keyboard. If you insist, I'll even type using a keyboard with no number pad or function keys.
I'll put $10 on me winning.
The right tool for the job... Keyboards are good. Mouses are good. This debate is pointless.
That should be "too stupid to NOT see"...
Dungeon Keeper II ('99 - Bullfrog). The graphics have really stood the test of time, in part, if not in full, b/c they didn't try to go realistic. The game-play is fun (and actually quite funny), though there are some compatibility issues. I can still hear the sound the little imps made when you slapped them around... to say nothing of the Dark Mistress. It doesn't require epic level hardware to run, either. I've heard Startopia is a good member of the DK/DKII tradition, though I've never played it.
//e Enhanced absolutely and without doubt qualifies them as "standing the test of time."
Battlezone II: Combat Commander ('99 - Pandemic Studios). Again with the graphics and the testing and the time. The game play is phenomenal, and will run on older hardware. The ability to control a single craft (FPS-style), or be the commander in charge of base installations, supply and overall strategy (RTS-style) was is still amazing and allowed for hours and hours (and hours and hours) of LAN gaming.
I don't think either has much in the way of ongoing community support, which is sad, as both stand in my mind as great games, always deserving to be installed
Then there's Ultima III and Ultima IV. The fact that my original ~20 year old 5.25" diskettes still run on an Apple
I set mine up using the center rearview mirror. Each side mirror is adjusted so that they pick up just about where the center mirror leaves off. Pretty much the same result that you describe, just a slightly different method of getting there (and I don't have to smear face grease on the driver side window).
To everyone nit-picking at the nit-picker, given that the page is actually called "Nit-Pickers Guide...", I think one should expect the author of the page to actually nit-pick at the movies, rather than point out only the truly disturbing and fundamental changes.
Go watch Lord of the Rings again if you want purity.
There was very little in terms of "pure" in those movies. They were good for the most part, even with all the changes made, but they weren't, by any means, "pure."
As for the rest, I agree. I'm of the crowd that really thinks Eps. I and II just aren't that good. They both had good moments, but neither hold a candle to Eps. 4-6 for me. It's all subjective, and most likely due to the fact that I saw them all at just the right age. But the bottom line is, they belong to Lucas. He can, will, and should do with them what he wants, and he's frankly beholden to no one. He pretty much has a license to print money, so I can't imagine anything said on a /. story is going to sway him one way or another.
"Except for the $150 worth of Windows you have to buy to run it, of course."
I'd rephrase that to something more along the lines of "Except for the $150 you have to pay for Windows." I'm hard pressed to say it's actually worth $150... but that may just be me.
That it's a crime at all is what baffles me.
Sauron was not "dead" as a previous poster stated. He had, however, placed a great part of his power (his life-essence, so to speak) into the Ring. He didn't have enough power leftto forge another ring... at least not one with potency enough to rule the other Rings of Power.
Part of the reason the Ring in question was able to gain dominion over the other rings was that it was forged in secrecy. While Celebrimbor and the Mirdain of Eregion were forging the 3, the 7 and the 9, Sauron was forging the One. Since he had a part in the 7 and the 9, he was able to more or less directly control the bearers of those. Even though he did not have a direct hand in the 3, the One was of sufficient power to have influence. Such power could only be used once.
There's a difference that you ignore between Ford trucks randomly exploding, and security holes being exploited. The one is a random event free of motivation or intent, while the other is a deliberate action with clear intent, if not motive.
The trucks would certainly explode no matter who knew about it. The holes may not be exploited if they remained unknown while fixes were being developed.
Microsoft's reputation will suffer either way, but if they are given the opportunity to develop fixes, the data of those who still use IE (for whatever reason) may not have to.
If a 3.5-hour film is considered to be too long, they could always have an interval, so don't tell me run-time is the reason for chopping the cinematic
While you may be right that the real money is to be made in post theatrical run sales of DVDs and merchandise (I honestly don't know - never looked into it), there is still plenty of money to be made during the theatrical run. The longer the movie, the fewer showings (even taking into account multiple screens - there's a lot of movies competing for screens), and the fewer showings, the less money in tickets and concessions.It *is* about money, but not necessarily in the way you describe.
Interesting, except that by attacking immediately, the Rohirrim don't have time to come to the aid of Minas Tirith, and Aragorn likely never takes the Umbar fleet. Without those two things coming together at the Battle of Pelennor Fields, Gondor would almost certainly fall to Sauron's forces, which were already too strong to take head to head. I say "almost" b/c nothing is truly certain, but my thoughts are that it is far far more likely.
Absolutely agreed.
Given that Sauron has a sizeable army at Minas Morgul.
Given that Minas Morgul is within marching distance to Osgiliath.
Given that Sauron now knows the location of the ring in Osgiliath, on his very borders through the Nazgul that Frodo encountered there.
Given that Sauron wants the ring back.
Seems to me that Sauron would do two things at this point.
1. Send more forces to Osgiliath to secure the ring where it is.
2. Keep forces at Minas Morgul to guard the pass instead of sending them into battle at the Pelennor Fields.
Tolkien has Sauron think that Saruman had the Ring, and was distracted by Aragorn's use of the Palantir. He had no reason to think it was near at hand. Jackson gave him that reason. Why worry at all about Gondor when the Ring is right there? With it back on his hand, Gondor is inconsequential.
As I don't like awarding experience ONLY for combat, as so many cRPG's tend to do, nor do I like the idea of awarding NO experience for combat. Seems to me that experience should be awarded based on task completed. Finishing off an opponent is, at least to my mind, a task. What I'd like to see implemented is a system that awards experience for just about everything, with the experience awarded for a given task weighted towards the class most suited to the task at hand. Fighter classes get slightly more experience for combat, rogue classes get slightly more experience for detecting, setting and disarming traps, picking pockets and assassinations, spell-casters classes get slightly more experience for successfully casting spells, bards will slightly more experience for social tasks, and so on.
Combat, like anything else, is a challenge that should be rewarded... especially when the class you chose to play is geared heavily towards it.