Jordan, Robert Wheel of Time Series Books: Eye of the World, The Great Hunt, The Dragon Reborn, The Shadows Rising, The Fires of Heaven, Lord of Chaos, A Crown of Swords
I'm a huge fan of the WOT story and universe, but apart from the last few pages of winter's heart, the last 3 or so books have sucked. It's slow, and has diversified into too many different tales all at once... It's become a soap with magic. Kind of like Night's Dawn but not done as well. The next one is out in a few weeks I think, I hope it picks up the pace.
...went on TV to apologise for the governments historical treatment of the indigenous population - something that John Howard (the PM) refuses to do.
God damn I'm sick of people whinging about this. John Howard has publicly stated that he regrets it, offers his condolences, yada yada yada. That's the best ANY prime minister can do. It's simple really - the prime minister is the face of the government. If he apologizes, that act constitutes the government taking responsibility for the child-nappings. Then it's open floodgates for the aborigines to sue. They'll get a little, but mainly the lawyers will profit, as the case goes back and forth all the way to the supreme court - all at taxpayers' expense.
Now explain to me how, say, a missile defence system (which will end up costing more than the Mars mission) would have helped in *anything* the army, navy, or air force need to do?
Building nuclear weapons is not a difficult thing to do. It's very expensive, but there's not a lot of experimentation involved any more. Deuterium is very easy to come by. You need water and power. There are billions of people who hate the US and its allies, some for valid reasons, some not. Need I go on?
Actually I heart my pacific account. I get unlimited d/l on weekends, and upload is free, so if I'm fetching something on kazaa it doesn't matter if I forget it's running and people download from me... well it didn't till I found out fuckhead companies are trying to get people disconnected for sharing...
Gimp isn't in the same ballpark as photoshop. It's in the same ballpark as something like paint-shop pro, but it's barely in the same sport as photoshop. Photoshop is laden with features that most people never use, but they're essential for those who do.
I must have this cd.... second reality and crystal dreams 2 are quite simply the most stand-out "holy fucking shit" memories I have of computers ever. Dope and Amnesia also rule. God damn there's some phat old demos, I'm getting that disc!
Stored in the holds, or simply stacked on deck,of the Mont Blanc were 35 tons of benzol, 300 rounds of ammunition, 10 tons of gun cotton, 2,300 tons of picric acid (used in explosives), and 400,000 pounds of TNT.
Is that a typo, or did they think 300 rounds was worth mentioning? Did they also list the packet of matches in the captain's shirt pocket?
Or is it like big-ole-country ammunition like for a howitzer or some such?
It doesn't matter a whit what looks wrong to you, it's "CDs". "CD's, CEO's, UFO's" are all 100% wrong. There's no case to be made, no arguments to have, it's just plain old incorrect.
Real Z dimension? Improvement on doom? Have you played rott? It's just wolfenstein with textured floors and height paramaeters for walls. There are floating-sprites you can walk under and on, but iirc no real "rooms above rooms" stuff..
The important question is - does that crackpot doctor really have a clone growing to be born in january? I sure hope so. Not because I think cloning people is a good thing (not in this form anyway), but because it'll be a reassuring sign that science can and will go forward, even if the "won't sombody think of the children" brigade are against it.
Who needs to be paid? I can't believe I'm having this conversation with a fellow/.er... the video quality is terrible compared to quicktime or mediaplayer, the software is horrendous, and sticks icons and system tray crap all over the place. Personally I don't like any of the competing video playback software packages, but as crap as it is, media player wins by a mile, simply because like quicktime the quality is good, and unlike quicktime you can view movies full-screen.
Why would i firebomb a chinese restaurant? because vietnamese often form gangs? You can call me a racist all you like, i don't care, and it certainly won't make any vietnamese gangs disappear, and it won't help anybody who the aforementioned gang member shot at school.
And I'd never vote for pauline hanson because personally i like my vote to go to somebody smarter than my dog.
pppht... karma whore... my karma goes up and down like a whore's draws, but it always settles on 50, i don't think i really need to whore all that much.
So you're after a free server, for some maaaagical format that's both widely popular and free of patents?
Real is the crappest video I've seen, and they're not anwywhere near as popular as they like to say they are, because even the proverbial joe sixpacs and mothers I know loath their software and ask me to help them kill it.
Assuming I have a 9 bullet handgun I can kill 9 people from a reasonable distance before anyone can do much about it.
Always with this argument. Except that anybody who is intending on killing lots of people will ALWAYS be able to get a gun, or some explosives, or poisons. Making enough explosives to kill a lot of people is trivial. Most murders are personal, they have a reason, there's one or two victims, and they're just as likely to happen with a knife or a hammer as they are with a gun. The difference is, there'll be no gun for joe six-pack to stop somebody from busting into his house, taking his possesions and having his way with his daughter.
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Jordan, Robert
Wheel of Time Series
Books: Eye of the World, The Great Hunt, The Dragon Reborn, The Shadows Rising, The Fires of Heaven, Lord of Chaos, A Crown of Swords
I'm a huge fan of the WOT story and universe, but apart from the last few pages of winter's heart, the last 3 or so books have sucked. It's slow, and has diversified into too many different tales all at once... It's become a soap with magic. Kind of like Night's Dawn but not done as well. The next one is out in a few weeks I think, I hope it picks up the pace.
...went on TV to apologise for the governments historical treatment of the indigenous population - something that John Howard (the PM) refuses to do.
God damn I'm sick of people whinging about this. John Howard has publicly stated that he regrets it, offers his condolences, yada yada yada. That's the best ANY prime minister can do. It's simple really - the prime minister is the face of the government. If he apologizes, that act constitutes the government taking responsibility for the child-nappings. Then it's open floodgates for the aborigines to sue. They'll get a little, but mainly the lawyers will profit, as the case goes back and forth all the way to the supreme court - all at taxpayers' expense.
Funniest.
Post.
Ever.
Hey I was just saying it needed to be done - not that bush was doing it the best way possible ;-)
Now explain to me how, say, a missile defence system (which will end up costing more than the Mars mission) would have helped in *anything* the army, navy, or air force need to do?
Building nuclear weapons is not a difficult thing to do. It's very expensive, but there's not a lot of experimentation involved any more. Deuterium is very easy to come by. You need water and power. There are billions of people who hate the US and its allies, some for valid reasons, some not. Need I go on?
Actually I heart my pacific account. I get unlimited d/l on weekends, and upload is free, so if I'm fetching something on kazaa it doesn't matter if I forget it's running and people download from me... well it didn't till I found out fuckhead companies are trying to get people disconnected for sharing...
Gimp isn't in the same ballpark as photoshop. It's in the same ballpark as something like paint-shop pro, but it's barely in the same sport as photoshop. Photoshop is laden with features that most people never use, but they're essential for those who do.
If we want fatter geeks, this is the way to go. Otherwise, I'll just stick to my perishable food.
Er, I don't believe this patch delivers quite the fat fontent of a large supreme pizza... If anything it'd be a great way to slim the geeks down.
I must have this cd.... second reality and crystal dreams 2 are quite simply the most stand-out "holy fucking shit" memories I have of computers ever. Dope and Amnesia also rule. God damn there's some phat old demos, I'm getting that disc!
Stored in the holds, or simply stacked on deck,of the Mont Blanc were 35 tons of benzol, 300 rounds of ammunition, 10 tons of gun cotton, 2,300 tons of picric acid (used in explosives), and 400,000 pounds of TNT.
Is that a typo, or did they think 300 rounds was worth mentioning? Did they also list the packet of matches in the captain's shirt pocket?
Or is it like big-ole-country ammunition like for a howitzer or some such?
I've got a 24" 1920x1200 HDTV CRT running off of a Radeon VE (AGP) on my Windows 98...
Meanwhile I'm getting one of these 48" plasma displays and a DTS 300 watt 7 speaker setup for my commodore 64.
No, I believe the wedding ring is the one that closes various entrances, er... doors.
It doesn't matter a whit what looks wrong to you, it's "CDs". "CD's, CEO's, UFO's" are all 100% wrong. There's no case to be made, no arguments to have, it's just plain old incorrect.
Impressive? I don't think so.... That software
a) Is hideously ugly
b) Looks like a user-interface nightmare
I expect that lots of it was actually copied from unix
Close, but it's actually more that unix and msdos both evolved from the same ancestors (via cp/m and such)
Er, you guys have radio stations that play something other than shitty punk music? Wow, that'd rule!
Real Z dimension? Improvement on doom? Have you played rott? It's just wolfenstein with textured floors and height paramaeters for walls. There are floating-sprites you can walk under and on, but iirc no real "rooms above rooms" stuff..
Which in turn pales in comparison with having chairs far enough apart so those of us over 6' tall don't have our legs digging into the seat in front.
Er, I believe we can safely call a pre-emptive strike in favour of duke nukem forever.
The important question is - does that crackpot doctor really have a clone growing to be born in january? I sure hope so. Not because I think cloning people is a good thing (not in this form anyway), but because it'll be a reassuring sign that science can and will go forward, even if the "won't sombody think of the children" brigade are against it.
Who needs to be paid? I can't believe I'm having this conversation with a fellow /.er... the video quality is terrible compared to quicktime or mediaplayer, the software is horrendous, and sticks icons and system tray crap all over the place. Personally I don't like any of the competing video playback software packages, but as crap as it is, media player wins by a mile, simply because like quicktime the quality is good, and unlike quicktime you can view movies full-screen.
Why would i firebomb a chinese restaurant? because vietnamese often form gangs? You can call me a racist all you like, i don't care, and it certainly won't make any vietnamese gangs disappear, and it won't help anybody who the aforementioned gang member shot at school.
And I'd never vote for pauline hanson because personally i like my vote to go to somebody smarter than my dog.
pppht... karma whore... my karma goes up and down like a whore's draws, but it always settles on 50, i don't think i really need to whore all that much.
So you're after a free server, for some maaaagical format that's both widely popular and free of patents?
Real is the crappest video I've seen, and they're not anwywhere near as popular as they like to say they are, because even the proverbial joe sixpacs and mothers I know loath their software and ask me to help them kill it.
Assuming I have a 9 bullet handgun I can kill 9 people from a reasonable distance before anyone can do much about it.
Always with this argument. Except that anybody who is intending on killing lots of people will ALWAYS be able to get a gun, or some explosives, or poisons. Making enough explosives to kill a lot of people is trivial. Most murders are personal, they have a reason, there's one or two victims, and they're just as likely to happen with a knife or a hammer as they are with a gun. The difference is, there'll be no gun for joe six-pack to stop somebody from busting into his house, taking his possesions and having his way with his daughter.