VMWare recommends that you turn off CD autoplay when it's installed, and goes so far as to provide you a quick clicky-clicky to do so at install-time. I wonder how long until the RIAA goes after VMWare for violation of the DMCA...
I've pretty much got two hobbies. Computers and pool, if you don't count reading and a few choice television shows (hardly a hobby, that). I'm an information security specialist/systems administrator/web applications designer by profession, but if asked, I play pool. I'm in on BCA league, an in-house BCA-style league, and am a member of the APA (for what it's worth), and play 5-6 times a week, for >= 4 hours at a time. I've one cue, and have commissioned a second playing and a third break cue. Each of those will have a spare shaft.
My APA 9-ball team got first place in regionals, and is going to Las Vegas for nationals in August. When I'm not thinking computer programming or network security, chances are I'm thinking about pool... if I'm not already at the table.
The book means Orthanc and Minas Morgul, as stated at the end of most printings of FotR. Don't have my copy on hand, or I'd write it up. The events in the movie differ from the books, so to avoid confusion, Jackson's Two Towers refers to Orthanc and Barad-dûr.
I've been unemployed for the better part of a year now, thanks (in part) to the market. I would do exactly what I've been doing, minus the job-hunt and independant contracting parts...
Get up early, say... sometime around 7 or 7:30am.
Shower, eat breakfast and have my morning coffee.
Spend a couple hours browsing around the web, hitting the computer gaming (mainly rpg) and pool/billiards sites and newsgroups.
Watch a little television (The Practice... 10:00 CST on FX) while I eat an early lunch.
Spend the afternoon on my personal sites, and any chores around the house that need to be done, or reading any of the various books on my list. Alternatively, I'd spend the afternoon at the local pool halls.
Have dinner with my girlfriend
Hit the local pool halls around 6:30-7:00pm and play until they close.
I'm already fairly single-minded when it comes to pool and billiards, but if I didn't have to worry about income, I'd sink into full-on obsession. Thing is, I'd still maintain a certain structure to my days. I'd have a couple things that I *always* tried to do at the same time (such as The Practice at 10:00am, and dishes at 4:30). I find for me, and think it's generally true, that a completely unstructured life is a wasteful one.
Ah yes. Now I remember this. For some reason, I read your comment as "they ARE considering"... silly me.
He's changed enough of the fundamentals already to get serious fans of the works upset, changing the very title would have been ludicrous.
Please expand on this. Who is "they", and what are your sources? There was the infamous petition, but it went nowhere. I've heard nothing else along these lines, and believed that (for once) common sense and sanity had won. While I do doubt your claim, I also very much doubt the prevalence of common sense and sanity.
I hate the phone to begin with. I hate the ringing of mobile phones in theaters enough to punch the offender in the neck. Don't get me started on repeat offenders.
That said, I really do not think this should be law. I'm honestly shocked at the number of people here that have come out in favor of this. It is literally nothing less than legislating manners. It's the height of Political Correctness (I can only hope it's the height, anyway). But now, instead of legislating offensive speech/thought/action, it's legislating annoying speech/thought/action.
Who is hurt here? Who is the victim? So you lose a couple seconds to your own inability to ignore distractions. Two hour movie. $8.50. What... $0.30 total loss? Less if you just get over it. Any more is your own fault for not being able to let go of the minor annoyances.
I will agree that mobile phones ringing in the theater is annoying as hell. I'll further that by saying that bringing small children to theaters is also annoying as hell, if not more so. It's simply not appropriate due to their inability to shut up or sit still. I just think that making it illegal is going too far.
It's not only clear, it's definitive. At the end of FotR, you can find the following text:
The second part is called THE TWO TOWERS, since the events recounted in it are dominated by ORTHANC, the citadel of Saruman, and the fortress of MINAS MORGUL that guards the secret entrance to Mordor; it tells of the deeds and perils of all the members of the now sundered fellowship, until the coming of the Great Darkness.
Unfortunately, this isn't printed in the latest movie versions of the volumes, so if you don't have one of several previousprintings, you won't see it.
The comment you posted is located at http://forums.bioware.com/viewtopic.php?topic=1221 9&forum=2. It was posted Monday, 4 February 2002 19:03. While it is the most recent Official Announcement I've been able to find, I will believe the *relatively* official Amazon, EBGames and GameStop pre-order release dates... at least until I hear otherwise from the NWN team themselves.
I may be way off base here, but this isn't how I remember it. What you say is definitely true of Wolf3D or Doom, but Quake did allow you to shoot up and around and all over (1600X1200 on a GF3 in software mode is pretty funny - if you're into that sort of thing).
Case in point... on the first level you travel down an elevated walkway over (poisoned) water, and above you in a small room is a baddie shooting down on you. You have to look up to see and shoot him back. Then, if your jumping is up to par, you can jump to a small ledge and hop-skip other small ledges to reach that room for extra goodies. Many many other examples exist, not the least of which is the fact that one of your enemies almost always flies down from above on you.
What is not mentioned here, though, is that Ultima Underworld (1992) came out before Quake (1996), and had a very nicely realized 3D engine.
Anyone see him race pods later in life? No? No duh.
I did many things as a young boy that I no longer do now. This, Vader's apparent injuries and the fact that he was just a tad busy eradicating the Jedi and doing the Emperor's bidding make this an unconvincing argument.
Later in life, did the [sic] just forget to mention what they knew about Vader?
Hmmm... erase selective bits of their memory banks, perhaps, so that they don't know? They are computers, after all...
I'd just put together a new machine based on the GigabyteGA7DXR (great board!). Everything was fine for about 2 hours, and then the Delta just stopped. Now, for those that don't know, this particular fan is LOUD. It has a high pitched whine that's unmistakable. I can hear it down the hall and into the livingroom. I knew immediately when it quit, and hit the power button faster than I'd ever hit it before... and STILL had to wait the 4 seconds for it to finally shut down.;)
Don't know how hot the processor got, but that heat sink saved it. Turns out the Delta just blew the motherboard CPU fan header - as several sites that I found later said it would. I was VERY happy to find that plugging the Delta into the PS via a 3-4 pin adapter worked, and the machine hums right along to this day.
I would tend to think you *should* be prosecuted if you modified his computer. Accessing to find out who it was with the intention of alerting them of the problem, and changing their configuration (regardless of how well intentioned you are) are two (relatively) different things. IMHO (and I'm certainly not a lawyer), looking around to find something that gives you contact info is still somewhat questionable if you don't change anything, even as it may be necessary to help fix the problem - but once you change something, you've crossed the line completely.
Don't always think you know better than they do... just happening across an open system tells you only that it's open, it tells you nothing of the limitless circumstances or events leading up to it being open.
(if this is posted twice or is blank... my apologies... guess they're still working out the bugs)
I would tend to think you *should* be prosecuted if you modified his computer. Accessing to find out who it was with the intention of alerting them of the problem, and changing their configuration (regardless of how well intentioned you are) are two (relatively) different things. IMHO (and I'm certainly not a lawyer), looking around to find something that gives you contact info is still somewhat questionable if you don't change anything, even as it may be necessary to help fix the problem - but once you change something, you've crossed the line completely.
Don't always think you know better than they do... just happening across an open system tells you only that it's open, it tells you nothing of the limitless circumstances or events leading up to it being open.
(if this is posted twice... my apologies... guess they're still working out the bugs)
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Where did you get the information that The Valar banished Sauron to oblivion? All I've ever read points at him being reduced to a malevolent shadow unable to assume form again... a seemingly unfounded feeling of fear and foreboding for those that encounter him, but nothing more.
I wish I were so lucky as to have already seen the movie like you obviously have... how else would you know that he's "wide-eyed" in "every single scene".
You are going to hate this movie, b/c you've already decided that you do.
You're missing the point. They have to download and read it to know how to unsubscribe, yes? You are sending e'mail to people who are potentially having to pay for it on a per-e'mail basis. People who have to pay for storage, or time on-line, or bandwidth are PAYING SOMEONE FOR YOU TO SEND THEM E'MAIL. It does not matter WHERE you get the addresses. It does not matter HOW you get the addresses. The point remains that you are forcing people to pay so they can read and then delete your spam.
What the sort of business model is it to force potential customers to pay for advertisements to services that 99% of the time have ZERO relevance to their lives?! Don't feed me that "you pay for television commercials" crap, either. The fact that we pay for television service, which happens to come with advertisements as well is NOT a valid comparison. We pay a flat fee for television service, commercials or no. However, with e'mail spam, if we pay for bandwidth, storage, or time on-line, we most certainly DO pay extra for e'mail spam.
From the Village Voice article:
"It is a huge advance over well-known RPG titles like Doom, in which single users play against the computer."
"RPG titles like Doom". Huh. I didn't realize Doom was an RPG. Here I was, playing a tried and true RPG, when I thought it was just a shooter!
Could you please clarify what, exactly you mean by those terms? To me, "mature" would mean little or no cross platform/cross browser compatibility issues... which is clearly not the case with JavaScript or CSS... to say nothing of HTML.
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VMWare recommends that you turn off CD autoplay when it's installed, and goes so far as to provide you a quick clicky-clicky to do so at install-time. I wonder how long until the RIAA goes after VMWare for violation of the DMCA...
If the server is used to host student shell accounts, then absolutely. Students do some wacky things... I know I did.
I've pretty much got two hobbies. Computers and pool, if you don't count reading and a few choice television shows (hardly a hobby, that). I'm an information security specialist/systems administrator/web applications designer by profession, but if asked, I play pool. I'm in on BCA league, an in-house BCA-style league, and am a member of the APA (for what it's worth), and play 5-6 times a week, for >= 4 hours at a time. I've one cue, and have commissioned a second playing and a third break cue. Each of those will have a spare shaft.
My APA 9-ball team got first place in regionals, and is going to Las Vegas for nationals in August. When I'm not thinking computer programming or network security, chances are I'm thinking about pool... if I'm not already at the table.
This version of the article is so much better... that word "Available" really wasn't needed. Great job.
FYI: Babylon 5 was planned from the very beginning to have a 5 year story arc.
The book means Orthanc and Minas Morgul, as stated at the end of most printings of FotR. Don't have my copy on hand, or I'd write it up. The events in the movie differ from the books, so to avoid confusion, Jackson's Two Towers refers to Orthanc and Barad-dûr.
Resolves to the same place.
I've been unemployed for the better part of a year now, thanks (in part) to the market. I would do exactly what I've been doing, minus the job-hunt and independant contracting parts...
I'm already fairly single-minded when it comes to pool and billiards, but if I didn't have to worry about income, I'd sink into full-on obsession. Thing is, I'd still maintain a certain structure to my days. I'd have a couple things that I *always* tried to do at the same time (such as The Practice at 10:00am, and dishes at 4:30). I find for me, and think it's generally true, that a completely unstructured life is a wasteful one.
Ah yes. Now I remember this. For some reason, I read your comment as "they ARE considering"... silly me. He's changed enough of the fundamentals already to get serious fans of the works upset, changing the very title would have been ludicrous.
Please expand on this. Who is "they", and what are your sources? There was the infamous petition, but it went nowhere. I've heard nothing else along these lines, and believed that (for once) common sense and sanity had won. While I do doubt your claim, I also very much doubt the prevalence of common sense and sanity.
I hate the phone to begin with. I hate the ringing of mobile phones in theaters enough to punch the offender in the neck. Don't get me started on repeat offenders.
That said, I really do not think this should be law. I'm honestly shocked at the number of people here that have come out in favor of this. It is literally nothing less than legislating manners. It's the height of Political Correctness (I can only hope it's the height, anyway). But now, instead of legislating offensive speech/thought/action, it's legislating annoying speech/thought/action.
Who is hurt here? Who is the victim? So you lose a couple seconds to your own inability to ignore distractions. Two hour movie. $8.50. What... $0.30 total loss? Less if you just get over it. Any more is your own fault for not being able to let go of the minor annoyances.
I will agree that mobile phones ringing in the theater is annoying as hell. I'll further that by saying that bringing small children to theaters is also annoying as hell, if not more so. It's simply not appropriate due to their inability to shut up or sit still. I just think that making it illegal is going too far.
It's not only clear, it's definitive. At the end of FotR, you can find the following text:
The second part is called THE TWO TOWERS, since the events recounted in it are dominated by ORTHANC, the citadel of Saruman, and the fortress of MINAS MORGUL that guards the secret entrance to Mordor; it tells of the deeds and perils of all the members of the now sundered fellowship, until the coming of the Great Darkness.
Unfortunately, this isn't printed in the latest movie versions of the volumes, so if you don't have one of several previous printings, you won't see it.
The comment you posted is located at http://forums.bioware.com/viewtopic.php?topic=1221 9&forum=2. It was posted Monday, 4 February 2002 19:03. While it is the most recent Official Announcement I've been able to find, I will believe the *relatively* official Amazon, EBGames and GameStop pre-order release dates... at least until I hear otherwise from the NWN team themselves.
I may be way off base here, but this isn't how I remember it. What you say is definitely true of Wolf3D or Doom, but Quake did allow you to shoot up and around and all over (1600X1200 on a GF3 in software mode is pretty funny - if you're into that sort of thing).
Case in point... on the first level you travel down an elevated walkway over (poisoned) water, and above you in a small room is a baddie shooting down on you. You have to look up to see and shoot him back. Then, if your jumping is up to par, you can jump to a small ledge and hop-skip other small ledges to reach that room for extra goodies. Many many other examples exist, not the least of which is the fact that one of your enemies almost always flies down from above on you.
What is not mentioned here, though, is that Ultima Underworld (1992) came out before Quake (1996), and had a very nicely realized 3D engine.
This is the actual USENET archive of the events, and it's only moderated to 2?
Anyone see him race pods later in life? No? No duh.
I did many things as a young boy that I no longer do now. This, Vader's apparent injuries and the fact that he was just a tad busy eradicating the Jedi and doing the Emperor's bidding make this an unconvincing argument.
Later in life, did the [sic] just forget to mention what they knew about Vader?
Hmmm... erase selective bits of their memory banks, perhaps, so that they don't know? They are computers, after all...
I'd just put together a new machine based on the Gigabyte GA7DXR (great board!). Everything was fine for about 2 hours, and then the Delta just stopped. Now, for those that don't know, this particular fan is LOUD. It has a high pitched whine that's unmistakable. I can hear it down the hall and into the livingroom. I knew immediately when it quit, and hit the power button faster than I'd ever hit it before... and STILL had to wait the 4 seconds for it to finally shut down. ;)
Don't know how hot the processor got, but that heat sink saved it. Turns out the Delta just blew the motherboard CPU fan header - as several sites that I found later said it would. I was VERY happy to find that plugging the Delta into the PS via a 3-4 pin adapter worked, and the machine hums right along to this day.
I would tend to think you *should* be prosecuted if you modified his computer. Accessing to find out who it was with the intention of alerting them of the problem, and changing their configuration (regardless of how well intentioned you are) are two (relatively) different things. IMHO (and I'm certainly not a lawyer), looking around to find something that gives you contact info is still somewhat questionable if you don't change anything, even as it may be necessary to help fix the problem - but once you change something, you've crossed the line completely.
Don't always think you know better than they do... just happening across an open system tells you only that it's open, it tells you nothing of the limitless circumstances or events leading up to it being open.
(if this is posted twice or is blank... my apologies... guess they're still working out the bugs)
I would tend to think you *should* be prosecuted if you modified his computer. Accessing to find out who it was with the intention of alerting them of the problem, and changing their configuration (regardless of how well intentioned you are) are two (relatively) different things. IMHO (and I'm certainly not a lawyer), looking around to find something that gives you contact info is still somewhat questionable if you don't change anything, even as it may be necessary to help fix the problem - but once you change something, you've crossed the line completely.
Don't always think you know better than they do... just happening across an open system tells you only that it's open, it tells you nothing of the limitless circumstances or events leading up to it being open.
(if this is posted twice... my apologies... guess they're still working out the bugs)
Where did you get the information that The Valar banished Sauron to oblivion? All I've ever read points at him being reduced to a malevolent shadow unable to assume form again... a seemingly unfounded feeling of fear and foreboding for those that encounter him, but nothing more.
I wish I were so lucky as to have already seen the movie like you obviously have... how else would you know that he's "wide-eyed" in "every single scene".
You are going to hate this movie, b/c you've already decided that you do.
You're missing the point. They have to download and read it to know how to unsubscribe, yes? You are sending e'mail to people who are potentially having to pay for it on a per-e'mail basis. People who have to pay for storage, or time on-line, or bandwidth are PAYING SOMEONE FOR YOU TO SEND THEM E'MAIL. It does not matter WHERE you get the addresses. It does not matter HOW you get the addresses. The point remains that you are forcing people to pay so they can read and then delete your spam.
What the sort of business model is it to force potential customers to pay for advertisements to services that 99% of the time have ZERO relevance to their lives?! Don't feed me that "you pay for television commercials" crap, either. The fact that we pay for television service, which happens to come with advertisements as well is NOT a valid comparison. We pay a flat fee for television service, commercials or no. However, with e'mail spam, if we pay for bandwidth, storage, or time on-line, we most certainly DO pay extra for e'mail spam.
At what altitude? What air density? What medium, for that matter? IIRC, the speed of sound depends on all those things.
From the Village Voice article: "It is a huge advance over well-known RPG titles like Doom, in which single users play against the computer." "RPG titles like Doom". Huh. I didn't realize Doom was an RPG. Here I was, playing a tried and true RPG, when I thought it was just a shooter!
Could you please clarify what, exactly you mean by those terms? To me, "mature" would mean little or no cross platform/cross browser compatibility issues... which is clearly not the case with JavaScript or CSS... to say nothing of HTML.