Contrary to popular belief, a lot of people like Temple of Doom. While it's a radical departure from the storyline of the first movie, and the story is hokey, well, it's still pretty damn cool. And John Williams's score for the Thuggee ceremony gives me nightmares. It's the single most evil piece of music I think I've ever heard (except for Wumpscut).
ISPs are going to have to add support for this in a real-world environment before it begins to really move in businesses. Right now, a fairly complicated tunneling process has to happen before machines using IPv6 can hit the internet in general. Yes, I know you can run IPv6 and IPv4 at the same time, but doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose? Besides, until IPv6 addresses are being assigned by ISPs, the addressing schemes are going not conform to the standard that is finally settled on, meaning that individual addresses will have to change numerous times for people who adopt it early.
Mind you, the above statements are highly uninformed, based on what I've read of IPv6 and my own brief experience setting up a tunnel for it with 6bone (which, I understand, is no longer with us).
The first time I encountered one of those floating brain things in Duke Nukem 3D I nearly peed myself. Those things made the creepiest noises, did massive damage, and completely freaked me out the first time I saw one (after it snuck up behind me, underwater).
As for a game that affected me emotionally, I'd have to say Final Fantasy 4 (2 in the US). The storyline was so deep that, even with the terrible translation that Square inflicted on it, the pain of the characters showed through.
however, in none of these cases was encryption reported to have prevented law enforcement officials from obtaining the plain text of communications intercepted.
So are we talking ROT13 here, or real encryption? Seems a little unnerving if it's the latter.
If I had a Linux distro (If I had a Linux distro) I'd wanna support your mouse (I would really support your mouse) If I had a Linux distro (If I had a Linux distro) I'd load a GUI for your mouse (Maybe KDE 3 or Gnome) And if I had a Linux distro (If I had a Linux distro) Well, I'd autoprobe your hardware (Hey, that's a nice NVidia card!) If I had a Linux distro I'd fill your drive...
If I had a Linux distro I'd load every package under the sun If I had Linux distro C'mon, you know it'd be lots of fun If I had Linux distro Maybe we could put like a little tiny package manager in there You know, we could just like, run the package manager Like, look at all the names and stuff There would already be a huge list and everything Like little packaged apps and everthing
They have packaged apps but they don't have packaged distros Well, can you blame 'em Uh, yeah
If I had a Linux distro (If I had a Linux distro) Well I'd compile everything from scratch (Except Mozilla, that's just cruel) And if I had a Linux distro (If I had a Linux distro) Well I'd include O'Reilly books (Yep, with the llamas and the emus) And if I had a Linux distro (If I had a a Linux distro) Well I'd install millions of games (Ooh, all them crazy Minesweeper clones!) And If I had a Linux distro I'd fill your drive...
If I had a Linux distro You'd have every GUI under the sun If I had a Linux distro Well you know you can't use just one If I had a Linux distro We wouldn't have to eat Kraft Dinner But we would eat Kraft Dinner Of course we would, we'd just eat less 'Cause we wouldn't be making a dime off this thing That's right, we'd probably have to eat Ramen, actually Mmmmmm, noodles
If I had a Linux distro (If I had a Linux distro) Well I'd update it every night (Just 'cause bleeding edge is cool) And if I had a Linux distro (If I had a Linux distro) Well, I'd bloat the kernel to death (Video4Linux and throw in ALSA!) If I had a Linux distro (If I had a Linux distro) Well I'd include a monkey (Haven't you always wanted a monkey?)
If I had a Linux distro I'd fill your driiiive...
If I had a Linux distro, If I had a Linux distro If I had a Linux distro, If I had a Linux distro If I had a Linux distro I'd be killed.
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Sorry, but as soon as I saw the title of this story this had to be written.
You'd like to think that. So would I. Sad thing is, it's not true. The vast majority of the home machines that I work on have got nothing but Windows Media Player on them. About 1/3 have MusicMatch Jukebox (and in the majority of those cases the user doesn't know how it got there). Winamp is showing up less and less...
Turbo-lasers not behave like lasers and in fact can't be lasers. More likely they are bolts of exotic matter wrapped in self-contained electromagnetic bubbles, or maybe something analogous to a warp field. Whatever it is, exactly, it would definitely play merry hell with the Enterprise's power sources and shields.
And the SD also has another advantage; its crew is protected by fuses, so that when a particular subsystem is damaged, the console that controls it doesn't explode in the operator's face...
Just out of curiousity, have you tried Abiword(word processor) and Gnumeric(spreadsheet)? Both are pretty slick Linux apps with Microsoft file compatibility.
You've never done tech repair work, have you? I have, for 12+ years now, and believe me, there are PLENTY of things that can go wrong on a system that it sure as hell doesn't "tell" me about.
Now, through my experience, I can gain a certain idea of where to START looking for a problem by the symptoms of it. For instance, if someone's system is locking after playing Everquest for 5 minutes, I'd start off by looking at potential heat problems on/around the video card. If that seemed okay, I'd start looking for resource and/or device conflicts, driver updates... and swapping the video card, which did seem to fix the problem. Except that the video card wasn't the real problem.
Turns out that moving the sound card down one PCI slot from the original (AGP) video card made the problem go away, so the guy didn't have to buy a new video card. It didn't matter what interrupt the sound card was on or whether or not the sound card was hot, if it was in the slot directly below the video card's AGP slot, then the computer would lock up after playing Everquest (or, as I found, any other 3d game even with sound disabled) after about 5 minutes.
So where was the problem? Was it in the video card? Was it some problem with the sound card? The motherboard? And if it WAS the motherboard, was the problem in the BIOS software (an update didn't fix it)? Or was it some funky hardware thing? Replacing the sound card also made the problem go away, so was it a conflict between those two SPECIFIC devices? The guy certainly didn't want me to sit there playing whack-a-mole, so I've never been able to find out for certain.
This is just one example of MANY such problems I've seen where the culprit is not as clear-cut as you imply in the wishful thinking of your post.
In addition, it was only my experience and level of intuition that led me to try putting the old card back in, because in my experience hardware doesn't "just die" nearly as often as a lot of people seem to believe. I'm willing to bet that most less-experienced techs would have just swapped the video card, told the guy his old one was "dead", and the guy would've been out that much more money.
So much for the computer "telling" us about its problems. This is just one example, but I've encountered hundreds of situations that were like this in that there is no clear-cut answer that can be gleaned from the symptoms of the problem.
I don't look forward to the days when a computer can just tell us what's wrong with it... 'cause I'll be out of a job.
Because it isn't explicitly forbidden. And it's hard to make another law to stop it. Even if you could get it passed, how would you word something like that?
And while your example of the Australian senate procedures sounds pretty good, I question the effectiveness... after all, didn't Australia recently pass a law that tried to outlaw world-wide content that Australia found unacceptable?
ADD is genetic, not a result of bad parenting (although bad parenting can exacerbate the symptoms).
And as someone who is on medication to treat ADD, I can tell you that my life before and after starting the medication (both as a child and as an adult) is like night and day. Ritalin, the most common medication for ADD, is one of the most well-researched and longest-used (since the 1940s) drugs currently available. Like ANY medication, these is some risk involved in using it. The majority of the risk comes from not using the medication properly, overdosing, or allergic reaction.
There is not one, single, documented case of Prozac (the most common anti-depressant) creating a "psychotic". Not one.
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Contrary to popular belief, a lot of people like Temple of Doom. While it's a radical departure from the storyline of the first movie, and the story is hokey, well, it's still pretty damn cool. And John Williams's score for the Thuggee ceremony gives me nightmares. It's the single most evil piece of music I think I've ever heard (except for Wumpscut).
Ah, just in time to be bought by the truckload, before the DVD set that includes movie #4 comes out.
That assumes, of course, that movie #4 turns out to be worth paying money for.
ISPs are going to have to add support for this in a real-world environment before it begins to really move in businesses. Right now, a fairly complicated tunneling process has to happen before machines using IPv6 can hit the internet in general. Yes, I know you can run IPv6 and IPv4 at the same time, but doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose? Besides, until IPv6 addresses are being assigned by ISPs, the addressing schemes are going not conform to the standard that is finally settled on, meaning that individual addresses will have to change numerous times for people who adopt it early.
Mind you, the above statements are highly uninformed, based on what I've read of IPv6 and my own brief experience setting up a tunnel for it with 6bone (which, I understand, is no longer with us).
And don't anyone even THINK about asking what the TURTLE stands on... turtles swim.
Fortunately, most of us ADD'ers have a decent sense of humor, too.
The first time I encountered one of those floating brain things in Duke Nukem 3D I nearly peed myself. Those things made the creepiest noises, did massive damage, and completely freaked me out the first time I saw one (after it snuck up behind me, underwater).
As for a game that affected me emotionally, I'd have to say Final Fantasy 4 (2 in the US). The storyline was so deep that, even with the terrible translation that Square inflicted on it, the pain of the characters showed through.
however, in none of these cases was encryption reported to have prevented law enforcement officials from obtaining the plain text of communications intercepted.
So are we talking ROT13 here, or real encryption? Seems a little unnerving if it's the latter.
Okay, you both beat me to it. But only because I did the whole song.
If I had a Linux distro (If I had a Linux distro)
I'd wanna support your mouse (I would really support your mouse)
If I had a Linux distro (If I had a Linux distro)
I'd load a GUI for your mouse (Maybe KDE 3 or Gnome)
And if I had a Linux distro (If I had a Linux distro)
Well, I'd autoprobe your hardware (Hey, that's a nice NVidia card!)
If I had a Linux distro I'd fill your drive...
If I had a Linux distro
I'd load every package under the sun
If I had Linux distro
C'mon, you know it'd be lots of fun
If I had Linux distro
Maybe we could put like a little tiny package manager in there
You know, we could just like, run the package manager
Like, look at all the names and stuff
There would already be a huge list and everything
Like little packaged apps and everthing
They have packaged apps but they don't have packaged distros
Well, can you blame 'em
Uh, yeah
If I had a Linux distro (If I had a Linux distro)
Well I'd compile everything from scratch (Except Mozilla, that's just cruel)
And if I had a Linux distro (If I had a Linux distro)
Well I'd include O'Reilly books (Yep, with the llamas and the emus)
And if I had a Linux distro (If I had a a Linux distro)
Well I'd install millions of games (Ooh, all them crazy Minesweeper clones!)
And If I had a Linux distro I'd fill your drive...
If I had a Linux distro
You'd have every GUI under the sun
If I had a Linux distro
Well you know you can't use just one
If I had a Linux distro
We wouldn't have to eat Kraft Dinner
But we would eat Kraft Dinner
Of course we would, we'd just eat less
'Cause we wouldn't be making a dime off this thing
That's right, we'd probably have to eat Ramen, actually
Mmmmmm, noodles
If I had a Linux distro (If I had a Linux distro)
Well I'd update it every night (Just 'cause bleeding edge is cool)
And if I had a Linux distro (If I had a Linux distro)
Well, I'd bloat the kernel to death (Video4Linux and throw in ALSA!)
If I had a Linux distro (If I had a Linux distro)
Well I'd include a monkey (Haven't you always wanted a monkey?)
If I had a Linux distro
I'd fill your driiiive...
If I had a Linux distro, If I had a Linux distro
If I had a Linux distro, If I had a Linux distro
If I had a Linux distro
I'd be killed.
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Sorry, but as soon as I saw the title of this story this had to be written.
You'd like to think that. So would I. Sad thing is, it's not true. The vast majority of the home machines that I work on have got nothing but Windows Media Player on them. About 1/3 have MusicMatch Jukebox (and in the majority of those cases the user doesn't know how it got there). Winamp is showing up less and less...
Turbo-lasers not behave like lasers and in fact can't be lasers. More likely they are bolts of exotic matter wrapped in self-contained electromagnetic bubbles, or maybe something analogous to a warp field. Whatever it is, exactly, it would definitely play merry hell with the Enterprise's power sources and shields.
And the SD also has another advantage; its crew is protected by fuses, so that when a particular subsystem is damaged, the console that controls it doesn't explode in the operator's face...
Just out of curiousity, have you tried Abiword(word processor) and Gnumeric(spreadsheet)? Both are pretty slick Linux apps with Microsoft file compatibility.
So, was having your sense of humor surgically removed a painful process? Or was it so atrophied to begin with that it didn't really matter?
You've never done tech repair work, have you? I have, for 12+ years now, and believe me, there are PLENTY of things that can go wrong on a system that it sure as hell doesn't "tell" me about.
Now, through my experience, I can gain a certain idea of where to START looking for a problem by the symptoms of it. For instance, if someone's system is locking after playing Everquest for 5 minutes, I'd start off by looking at potential heat problems on/around the video card. If that seemed okay, I'd start looking for resource and/or device conflicts, driver updates... and swapping the video card, which did seem to fix the problem. Except that the video card wasn't the real problem.
Turns out that moving the sound card down one PCI slot from the original (AGP) video card made the problem go away, so the guy didn't have to buy a new video card. It didn't matter what interrupt the sound card was on or whether or not the sound card was hot, if it was in the slot directly below the video card's AGP slot, then the computer would lock up after playing Everquest (or, as I found, any other 3d game even with sound disabled) after about 5 minutes.
So where was the problem? Was it in the video card? Was it some problem with the sound card? The motherboard? And if it WAS the motherboard, was the problem in the BIOS software (an update didn't fix it)? Or was it some funky hardware thing? Replacing the sound card also made the problem go away, so was it a conflict between those two SPECIFIC devices? The guy certainly didn't want me to sit there playing whack-a-mole, so I've never been able to find out for certain.
This is just one example of MANY such problems I've seen where the culprit is not as clear-cut as you imply in the wishful thinking of your post.
In addition, it was only my experience and level of intuition that led me to try putting the old card back in, because in my experience hardware doesn't "just die" nearly as often as a lot of people seem to believe. I'm willing to bet that most less-experienced techs would have just swapped the video card, told the guy his old one was "dead", and the guy would've been out that much more money.
So much for the computer "telling" us about its problems. This is just one example, but I've encountered hundreds of situations that were like this in that there is no clear-cut answer that can be gleaned from the symptoms of the problem.
I don't look forward to the days when a computer can just tell us what's wrong with it... 'cause I'll be out of a job.
Why the hell is this allowed?
Because it isn't explicitly forbidden. And it's hard to make another law to stop it. Even if you could get it passed, how would you word something like that?
And while your example of the Australian senate procedures sounds pretty good, I question the effectiveness... after all, didn't Australia recently pass a law that tried to outlaw world-wide content that Australia found unacceptable?
Someone mod the parent up; very informative article in the link.
Oh, you mean like this?
Damn! I've had my current e-mail address for about 3 years now and I get 1 or 2 spams a day, if that.
Atheism isn't a matter of belief. Atheists do not believe there is no god... they KNOW it, as evidenced by the world around them.
I can only assume that you're trolling, but just so that no one else puts any stock in the bullshit spewing forth from the parent post...
There is NO relationship between sugar and hyperactivity.
ADD is genetic, not a result of bad parenting (although bad parenting can exacerbate the symptoms).
And as someone who is on medication to treat ADD, I can tell you that my life before and after starting the medication (both as a child and as an adult) is like night and day. Ritalin, the most common medication for ADD, is one of the most well-researched and longest-used (since the 1940s) drugs currently available. Like ANY medication, these is some risk involved in using it. The majority of the risk comes from not using the medication properly, overdosing, or allergic reaction.
There is not one, single, documented case of Prozac (the most common anti-depressant) creating a "psychotic". Not one.
Hey, when I read your sig my monitor went dim and my head started to hurt. You really ought to do something about that.
That's why I love my wife... she'd be right there blowing up polygon hookers with me :)
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