Admittedly, I didn't look REALLY hard, but I couldn't find any location information about this event on the openBSD site itself, or even linked from the article.
So for somebody that's organizing it, can you post a link to the information about the event itself? Things like locations, dates, times, etc? I live in Calgary, so hey, might check it out just for fun. But it's kind of hard to do that when you have no idea beyond "a hotel downtown".
I thought the plot kind of fell apart towards then end when it was essentially all "find lots of hidden powerful shit".
lol. I'd pretty much agree with that too. 6 remains my favorite FF, but I'd agree with this statement.
What they could have done is kept it a lot more structured when you were re-discovering the characters. It KIND OF did this, as in if you actually did follow the "clues" along the way, you WOULD find most (all?) of them in a story-driven order, and that makes it quite a bit better. But ya, it did suffer from TOO much free-form at the end, as most of the FFs do (FF4 (not as much, but some), FF5, FF6, and FF7 at least).
I think it's just tied to the fact you have an airship near the end of all these games, and makes just about anywhere "out of bounds" feel even MORE artificial.
Thanks. I was pretty sure that was it, but I didn't want to post it unless I was certain. And I'll admit to being overcome by a condition of extreme lazyness, so I didn't feel like looking it up either.
Buy a smoke detector. Those have radioactive materials in them. Wasn't it on/. a few years ago that there was a story about a kid making a mini-reactor in his backyard shed out of tritium from gun sights, and whatever the material is in old smoke detectors?
I wouldn't be suprised if this is another case of artificial preference by the Operating System for IE. It could easily be making sure that whenever it is looking for resources to clear up to NOT touch IE until the last possible moment, whereas it treats Firefox as just any other program, so its memory gets swapped to disk sooner. This makes IE look better compared to Firefox, but it is really only through OS tricks.
Could be completely off though, but hey, it's one explaination. =)
I'd like to know where, in Canada, people speak that way
So would I. You'd think that their only ideas on how Canadians speak comes from Southpark or something.
Just so you know, in most places in the US, if you are talking to a Canadian, and they restrain themselves from saying "eh" too much (we really do say that too much. Listen to your own converstations sometimes and you might be shocked), then we're basically indistinguishable. You'd never know we're not from somewhere in the states.
As long as the Lexx is out there, we can hitch a ride to get off of this planet. As long as Ki doesn't kill us, or Stan accidentally blow up Orlando, or any other extremely weird thing happen to us...
Never thought that a show that was essentially about two people (and a dead assassin, and a robot head) flying through the galaxy in a superweapon, trying to get laid, could be so entertaining...
And in case anybody is wondering "wtf is zoo?", that's the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. They used to say that we're a bunch of animals in that department, hence "zoo".
I'm not sure what the first one is, but the 2nd link is actually the show's 4th season. They made it as "two movies" or 8 regular episodes. It was broadcast on TV some time ago though.
And responding to a few other comments here, the show WAS a kids show in the first couple of seasons (until right near the end of season 2), but in season 3 onward, it took on a more "teenage" feel. In their press info at the time, they even said that, as they realized that their ORIGINAL audience WAS growing up, and so they played to the audience they already had.
I know all the terms are thrown around loose in that show, but it was still great fun. And it's really funny to see some of the references they put in there sometimes, like how they had a show with "Fax Modem" and "Data Nully" investigation "X-files-like" occurances. They actually had Gillian Anderson come in to play the voice of Nully as well. In a later episode in the destruction of Mainframe, a building falls on "Fax" while he's seen looking at two brouchurs (sp?), one for LA, and the other for Vancouver. As many here probably know, it was mostly David Duchoveny's whining that moved production of X-files from vancouver to LA, hence a little "revenge" dropping the building on him, since Reboot's people are in Vancouver.
Anyways, I know it's unlikely reboot will continue further, but it'd be cool if it did.
Reboot was a more "fun" idea of computers. Should just make THAT into a movie, rather than spoiling an old classic.
I liked tron, but I can't see how they'll retain the "feel" of the original. I won't say it's impossible, but it just seems like they're setting people up for disappointment.
Apparently Rogers bought the rights to Call for Help (or something) and is now producing the show out of Toronto, and it's being aired on the Canadian G4TechTV channel. Website.
And as for the rest, I agree with most of the other sentiment here. Personally I thought Kevin and Patrick worked on TSS, but after G4 bought them, and they put on that "Alex" guy, it just went down the tubes. The whole tone changed, and it was NOT a good thing, and it was almost painful to watch the guy.
Still, I didn't know the whole details of the affair, so I was glad to read the article to see exactly what happened, and in what order. The link at the end of the blog to Wil Wheaten's blog was also good IMO. For those that missed it, that link is here.
Still, sad to see a good TV show go down. Sure it wasn't super-involved in the technical questions (not too complicated for the lay person), but the "feel" of the show was right, and I enjoyed watching. Now, no way. Only if there's NOTHING else on, which is rare.
Now you won't only be crashing because of wind, visibility, or crashing into another plane (didn't happen to me personally, but happened at the club I belong to, and I was there), but now your RADIO can crash too!!
I can't see this as a good thing. I'll stick with my older Futaba radio. It does what I need, and has never shown me a blue screen of death.
This thing (or a variant) has been around at LEAST 6 years (probably a lot longer, but that long at least I remember seeing a picture of it).
The way it works is that the "deck" of the lawnmower itself is the wing. It is essentially a strange-shaped flying wing. The "bars" to the handle are the rudders, and there's elevons (combination aileron/elevator) behind the deck/wing. You can easily see the engine and propellor on the front as-is.
Neat to see more pictures of it though, even if variants of it have been around for a while.
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...you are making choices about one life being more valuable than onother, no?
I wouldn't say that. Rather, you are saying "I am going to detain a few lives, and possibly ruin said lives to save thousands/millions more." It isn't saying that the lives with the disease are less valuable, it is saying that if you have to ruin 5000 lives, or millions, which is preferrable? To put it another way, are those people so much MORE valuable that they MUST be allowed to go around infecting others rather than saving the lives of everybody else?
The flip side of this as well is would this debate even occur if this disease killed you quickly? If you were infected, and died in let's say a month, then this would be considered a much more serious disease than it is now, even if the method of transmission remained the same (blood, intercourse). Remember that AIDS is 100% fatal. We can now extend people's lives greatly, but it is still fatal with no cure. It is only because it kills SLOWLY that this debate is even occuring which actually makes the disease even WORSE than one that kills fast, since it will infect even MORE people than if it killed quickly.
KDE is still one of the most-used desktop environments around. Ignoring KDE in favor of GNOME would be like only including VI and not Emacs (or Emacs and not VI), and forcing all users to use one.
But it isn't pure hydrogen. They are reforming Methanol, which if I remember correctly, is CH3OH. A lot of us know that the products of the Hydrogen-Oxygen fuel cell is just pure water, but what OTHER products are there for this process? The carbon at least has to be accounted for somehow. I've never seen that answered anywhere. If anybody has a link or something, that would be appreciated.
In the wake of stories like this, and yesterday's story about RSA-576 being cracked (here), is this a message that we need more secure forms of encryption than we already have? RSA is great so far, but how long until 1024 is broken? Or any other schemes, like the MD5 hashing that's used for digital signatures?
Topics that people with lots of credentials behind their names are going to have to solve. Keeping ahead of the crackers is a big concern not only for security of transactions, but for personal privacy as well.
This is only partially true for MMORPGs. Listening to only SOME players is exactly what caused quite a large population of people to leave Ultima Online.
In 99 or 2000 (can't remember exactly), most of the PvP issues had been resolved so that people who were annoying could be dealt with (Kill Stealers, people who deliberately try and get powerful monsters like Balrons to kill you, and then loot you [Lewters]), while still punishing those who recklessly and willfully hunted helpless people like newbies. Newbie killing was NOT an accepted practice, even among those who were deeply "red".
Then they screwed the game up. The devs listened to all of the people who had absolutely no sense, and couldn't figure out why they died every half an hour from being stupid. In that game, it was NOT hard to escape from more powerful players. But then they removed pre-casting (the ability to have a spell ready to cast and still have a weapon equipped). This effectively made it almost impossible to kill somebody who had even rudimentary escaping skills, like the A-holes who deliberately tried to get you killed, instead of killing you themselves.
My example is where the developers changed a game to cater to a specific vocal sub-set of the players, ignoring all those who were OK with that system. It was one of the primary reasons that caused me to leave UO (The other being the introduction of absolutely rediculous time sinks like the necessity of having the Evaluate Intelligence Skill). UO used to be a game where the players mainly policed themselves by treating other people fairly, and killing those who just were there to ruin it for others. However, after those changes, it turned into a free-for-all for the A-holes, who could ruin other people's experiences with no consequences to them.
Basically, for MMORPGs, the developers should mainly listen to the old-hands, and those who are established on community messageboards as being sensible people, and ignore the people that nobody respects. Most people who act badly are not well-represented in online communities, while those who know what's happening and are constructive generally participate in lots of online and offline activities. In UO a good measure would be to see who attracted the most people for the Weddings. Those people are the ones to be respected, not the whiners.
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I think it is Zelda that rides Link when in wolf form, but only that she rides him when SHE turns into Sheik.
Zelda rides Link?
leave it alone...
leave it alone...
=)
Thanks for the info. From the article, it had a slightly different "tone", so I wasn't sure.
As for the two events mentioned on the CUUG site, sounds interesting... =)
Admittedly, I didn't look REALLY hard, but I couldn't find any location information about this event on the openBSD site itself, or even linked from the article.
So for somebody that's organizing it, can you post a link to the information about the event itself? Things like locations, dates, times, etc? I live in Calgary, so hey, might check it out just for fun. But it's kind of hard to do that when you have no idea beyond "a hotel downtown".
I thought the plot kind of fell apart towards then end when it was essentially all "find lots of hidden powerful shit".
lol. I'd pretty much agree with that too. 6 remains my favorite FF, but I'd agree with this statement.
What they could have done is kept it a lot more structured when you were re-discovering the characters. It KIND OF did this, as in if you actually did follow the "clues" along the way, you WOULD find most (all?) of them in a story-driven order, and that makes it quite a bit better. But ya, it did suffer from TOO much free-form at the end, as most of the FFs do (FF4 (not as much, but some), FF5, FF6, and FF7 at least).
I think it's just tied to the fact you have an airship near the end of all these games, and makes just about anywhere "out of bounds" feel even MORE artificial.
Thanks. I was pretty sure that was it, but I didn't want to post it unless I was certain. And I'll admit to being overcome by a condition of extreme lazyness, so I didn't feel like looking it up either.
=)
Buy a smoke detector. Those have radioactive materials in them. Wasn't it on /. a few years ago that there was a story about a kid making a mini-reactor in his backyard shed out of tritium from gun sights, and whatever the material is in old smoke detectors?
lol. I like the sig.
Sorry for adding nothing to the conversation, but I hadn't seen it before, and it deserved recognition.
=)
I wouldn't be suprised if this is another case of artificial preference by the Operating System for IE. It could easily be making sure that whenever it is looking for resources to clear up to NOT touch IE until the last possible moment, whereas it treats Firefox as just any other program, so its memory gets swapped to disk sooner. This makes IE look better compared to Firefox, but it is really only through OS tricks.
Could be completely off though, but hey, it's one explaination. =)
So would I. You'd think that their only ideas on how Canadians speak comes from Southpark or something.
Just so you know, in most places in the US, if you are talking to a Canadian, and they restrain themselves from saying "eh" too much (we really do say that too much. Listen to your own converstations sometimes and you might be shocked), then we're basically indistinguishable. You'd never know we're not from somewhere in the states.
As long as the Lexx is out there, we can hitch a ride to get off of this planet. As long as Ki doesn't kill us, or Stan accidentally blow up Orlando, or any other extremely weird thing happen to us...
Never thought that a show that was essentially about two people (and a dead assassin, and a robot head) flying through the galaxy in a superweapon, trying to get laid, could be so entertaining...
Nah, Zoo here as well.
=)
And in case anybody is wondering "wtf is zoo?", that's the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. They used to say that we're a bunch of animals in that department, hence "zoo".
=)
Considering I'm alumni at UofC, AND a graduate of their Engineering program, I wish the hosts all the best. I hope they DESTROY everybody else.
=)
I'm not sure what the first one is, but the 2nd link is actually the show's 4th season. They made it as "two movies" or 8 regular episodes. It was broadcast on TV some time ago though.
And responding to a few other comments here, the show WAS a kids show in the first couple of seasons (until right near the end of season 2), but in season 3 onward, it took on a more "teenage" feel. In their press info at the time, they even said that, as they realized that their ORIGINAL audience WAS growing up, and so they played to the audience they already had.
I know all the terms are thrown around loose in that show, but it was still great fun. And it's really funny to see some of the references they put in there sometimes, like how they had a show with "Fax Modem" and "Data Nully" investigation "X-files-like" occurances. They actually had Gillian Anderson come in to play the voice of Nully as well. In a later episode in the destruction of Mainframe, a building falls on "Fax" while he's seen looking at two brouchurs (sp?), one for LA, and the other for Vancouver. As many here probably know, it was mostly David Duchoveny's whining that moved production of X-files from vancouver to LA, hence a little "revenge" dropping the building on him, since Reboot's people are in Vancouver.
Anyways, I know it's unlikely reboot will continue further, but it'd be cool if it did.
=)
Erioll
Reboot was a more "fun" idea of computers. Should just make THAT into a movie, rather than spoiling an old classic.
I liked tron, but I can't see how they'll retain the "feel" of the original. I won't say it's impossible, but it just seems like they're setting people up for disappointment.
Erioll
Apparently Rogers bought the rights to Call for Help (or something) and is now producing the show out of Toronto, and it's being aired on the Canadian G4TechTV channel. Website.
And as for the rest, I agree with most of the other sentiment here. Personally I thought Kevin and Patrick worked on TSS, but after G4 bought them, and they put on that "Alex" guy, it just went down the tubes. The whole tone changed, and it was NOT a good thing, and it was almost painful to watch the guy.
Still, I didn't know the whole details of the affair, so I was glad to read the article to see exactly what happened, and in what order. The link at the end of the blog to Wil Wheaten's blog was also good IMO. For those that missed it, that link is here.
Still, sad to see a good TV show go down. Sure it wasn't super-involved in the technical questions (not too complicated for the lay person), but the "feel" of the show was right, and I enjoyed watching. Now, no way. Only if there's NOTHING else on, which is rare.
Erioll
And your batteries will probably last 3X longer as well because you aren't driving a GUI with all the WinCE overhead.
Very true. I should have thought of that. That alone would be a reason NOT to go to it.
Erioll
Now you won't only be crashing because of wind, visibility, or crashing into another plane (didn't happen to me personally, but happened at the club I belong to, and I was there), but now your RADIO can crash too!!
I can't see this as a good thing. I'll stick with my older Futaba radio. It does what I need, and has never shown me a blue screen of death.
Erioll
Flying Model Airplanes for 9 years
I just hope the penalty is $2-$8 per e-mail, or $25,000, whichever is HIGHER.
Hitting em in the pocketbook is usually pretty reliable. Assuming you can enforce it in the first place, but that's another discussion. =P
Erioll
This thing (or a variant) has been around at LEAST 6 years (probably a lot longer, but that long at least I remember seeing a picture of it).
The way it works is that the "deck" of the lawnmower itself is the wing. It is essentially a strange-shaped flying wing. The "bars" to the handle are the rudders, and there's elevons (combination aileron/elevator) behind the deck/wing. You can easily see the engine and propellor on the front as-is.
Neat to see more pictures of it though, even if variants of it have been around for a while.
Erioll
I wouldn't say that. Rather, you are saying "I am going to detain a few lives, and possibly ruin said lives to save thousands/millions more." It isn't saying that the lives with the disease are less valuable, it is saying that if you have to ruin 5000 lives, or millions, which is preferrable? To put it another way, are those people so much MORE valuable that they MUST be allowed to go around infecting others rather than saving the lives of everybody else?
The flip side of this as well is would this debate even occur if this disease killed you quickly? If you were infected, and died in let's say a month, then this would be considered a much more serious disease than it is now, even if the method of transmission remained the same (blood, intercourse). Remember that AIDS is 100% fatal. We can now extend people's lives greatly, but it is still fatal with no cure. It is only because it kills SLOWLY that this debate is even occuring which actually makes the disease even WORSE than one that kills fast, since it will infect even MORE people than if it killed quickly.
KDE is still one of the most-used desktop environments around. Ignoring KDE in favor of GNOME would be like only including VI and not Emacs (or Emacs and not VI), and forcing all users to use one.
This is a mistake if they don't include both.
Erioll
But it isn't pure hydrogen. They are reforming Methanol, which if I remember correctly, is CH3OH. A lot of us know that the products of the Hydrogen-Oxygen fuel cell is just pure water, but what OTHER products are there for this process? The carbon at least has to be accounted for somehow. I've never seen that answered anywhere. If anybody has a link or something, that would be appreciated.
Erioll
In the wake of stories like this, and yesterday's story about RSA-576 being cracked (here), is this a message that we need more secure forms of encryption than we already have? RSA is great so far, but how long until 1024 is broken? Or any other schemes, like the MD5 hashing that's used for digital signatures?
Topics that people with lots of credentials behind their names are going to have to solve. Keeping ahead of the crackers is a big concern not only for security of transactions, but for personal privacy as well.
Erioll
This is only partially true for MMORPGs. Listening to only SOME players is exactly what caused quite a large population of people to leave Ultima Online.
In 99 or 2000 (can't remember exactly), most of the PvP issues had been resolved so that people who were annoying could be dealt with (Kill Stealers, people who deliberately try and get powerful monsters like Balrons to kill you, and then loot you [Lewters]), while still punishing those who recklessly and willfully hunted helpless people like newbies. Newbie killing was NOT an accepted practice, even among those who were deeply "red".
Then they screwed the game up. The devs listened to all of the people who had absolutely no sense, and couldn't figure out why they died every half an hour from being stupid. In that game, it was NOT hard to escape from more powerful players. But then they removed pre-casting (the ability to have a spell ready to cast and still have a weapon equipped). This effectively made it almost impossible to kill somebody who had even rudimentary escaping skills, like the A-holes who deliberately tried to get you killed, instead of killing you themselves.
My example is where the developers changed a game to cater to a specific vocal sub-set of the players, ignoring all those who were OK with that system. It was one of the primary reasons that caused me to leave UO (The other being the introduction of absolutely rediculous time sinks like the necessity of having the Evaluate Intelligence Skill). UO used to be a game where the players mainly policed themselves by treating other people fairly, and killing those who just were there to ruin it for others. However, after those changes, it turned into a free-for-all for the A-holes, who could ruin other people's experiences with no consequences to them.
Basically, for MMORPGs, the developers should mainly listen to the old-hands, and those who are established on community messageboards as being sensible people, and ignore the people that nobody respects. Most people who act badly are not well-represented in online communities, while those who know what's happening and are constructive generally participate in lots of online and offline activities. In UO a good measure would be to see who attracted the most people for the Weddings. Those people are the ones to be respected, not the whiners.
Erioll
lol
Hope that's all the time I AM there for. :P Longer would suck. A lot.
Erioll