...that is, for threatening a/.ing of the ISP which I occasionally use.
But cats do indeed occasionally go after the bigger birds - see below link.
http://www.oz.net/~inthane/catbird.jpg
This is an honest-to-god picture of a cat attacking an eagle at some eagle preserve in Japan - can't give more detail than that off the top of my head, sorry.
Naw, didn't miss that - I'm well aware of the heritage of Fallout/Fallout 2, and the peerage of the authors. Sadly, the original authors of Wasteland couldn't get their hands on the rights to the Wasteland license, and hence we have Fallout.
I wonder what they'll call the series when they ressurect it a third time?
It's more of a spiritual successor than a remake. While they shared the same geographic region and the post-apocolyptic environment, the stories are pretty different.
Warning, this entire post should be considered spoiler bait!
First off, I'm a big fan of the original books. FotR (the movie) did not impress me greatly - too much of the books ended up on the cutting room floor, and stuff that had no point (like that damn staircase sequence in the middle of the balrog chase) ended up replacing stuff that should have been in the film, like the gift-giving scene in Lorien. Yes, the basic plot of the story was adhered to, but there were huge gaps that just rubbed me the wrong way.
FotR (extended edition) made up for that in my mind - the gifts were added back in, and some other minor scenes that added good flavor to the film brought it up to a respectable tribute to something that is essentially unfilmable. I even forgave Peter for his staircase sequence.
TTT, on the other hand, brought strongly mixed emotions from me. Golumn is an incredible work, and his portrayal was the first time I was ever able to really pity him as a character. On the other hand, the portrayal of ents as a bunch of idiots that had to be hoodwinked into taking down Saruman, as well as the major changes to the character of Faramir, and the mess that was the battle of Helm's deep (don't get me started about Legolas, or the elves, or the sudden conclusion of the battle) did not impress me.
(Ok, I'll get started about Legolas. Here's a complete badass, who has so far has a greater than 1:1 kill ratio with his arrows against orcs (he kills 2 orcs with one shot in FotR) who puts TWO arrows into the torch carrier, but doesn't drop him, and then immediately afterwards shoots FOUR orcs and drops all four WHILE SURFING DOWN A STAIRCASE ON A SHIELD! Sheesh.)
What I'm getting at is that the problems with FotR were not for the most part structural, but instead a problem of omission, while the problems that I have seen in TTT are structural, and not a problem of omission. I'm still getting the extended edition, and I will be interested to see how it works out, but I fear that out of the trilogy, TTT does not give me great hope for RotK...
Oh, and yes, I do expect to be flamed to Holy Hell and back for this. Still, it had to be said.
http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/EdCur ry
I knew Ed himself at the time he died. While Microsoft did nothing directly to him that caused the stroke, I have no doubt in my mind that they were behind the events that led to him being unable to find employment.
I've got a cousin who's a cop, and a brother-in-law who's a prison guard. The stories both of them have told me about the kind of crap they've pulled on people when nobody else is watching is pretty disugsting - for example, the prison guard told me about "elevator rides" where they would pull the stop button on the elevator, pound the crap out of a prisoner who they thought was "uppity", and then tell the court "he fell in the elevator."
When the cops are done beating the subject, they then wait five minutes, then hit the "record" button. It's a "feature" for the "discerning law enforcement professional." If it kept five hours of tape, then they could be held liable for all kinds of abuse...
Why isn't anybody talking orbital power satellites?
I'm not speaking from a position of knowledge here, but it seems to me that while solar energy sucks down here where the atmosphere gets in the way, sticking up huge solar arrays in orbit, using microwave radiation to beam the energy down to a central spot (such as Death Valley) might be an interesting idea... Has anybody looked into this? Got any good links?
According to Wizards of the Coast, all of the modifications made from 3.0 to 3.5 will be released, free of charge, as part of the Standard Reference Document. You can use those as a template for "upgrading" your campaign, if you want.
Me? I'm sticking with my 3.0 books, and I'll borrow from what I like in 3.5, but I'm not shelling out the money. Quit whining! Sheesh, it's like you think you deserve free copies of the new books, or something...
You know, I agree with the first half of your comment - "The Two Towers was shitty" - but the second half, well, let's just say that Gollum was the redeeming point in that film for me.
I've read the books a bunch of times (20+) since I first had them read to me at the age of 7 by my mother. Each time, I wondered how somebody could find a creature like Gollum as pitiable, and not just a loathsome vile beast.
Jackson and Serkis showed me a gollum who wasn't corrupt to the core, but a flawed, twisted creature who was deserving of pity...
Traditionally, companies have released products in two forms - a free, spammy version and a non-free, spamless version. Only in a couple cases have people been paid to be spammed, and I haven't seen too many of those companies still in business. Wasn't there a company named Cybergold a bit back that did that?
Lately, I've been seeing a movement away from the spam-free product in a lot of cases. Take, for instance, the movie industry. You pay to get in, and then you get spammed for 20 minutes before the film starts. I'm seeing a bit of this in the cell phone industry, as well - some SMS advertising has started creeping in lately, even though I pay for my phone and service.
The problem is, advertising is a value-added revenue stream for the manufacturer, who is always looking for some way to get the cost down a little bit more, underneath that of their competitors. Of course, it's just a pointless race to the bottom - ye olde Prisoner's Dilemma all over again - but advertising is slowly creeping into every facet of our lives, and I doubt we'll be compensated one cent for it, ever.
Remember, this part is probably OEM targeted, not enthusiast marketed. Most users will say, "Gee, that thingamabob's got 2.4 gigahertz of RAM, wow it's fast!" and buy it, not realizing they got shafted on the video.
Carry out this philosophy across the machine, and you can shave $100-200 off the price of the machine, at least.
At one point, Moz was rendering faster than the IE on the machine I was using at the time - a P2/400 w/64mb of RAM running Win98SE. This was in the ~0.9.frog-knows era. IE was I believe either 5.01 or 5.5. I don't remember which.
Nowadays, while Moz is pretty snappy, IE hands it's ass to Moz in sheer render speed. Don't ask me what changed, I have no idea. I've noticed this from a P200/48mb RAM laptop running win98se to a P4/2000 w/256mb or RAM running WinXP.
If Apple was selling a skinning program that allowed users to change their desktop appearance, and there were skinning apps in direct competition with Apple's apps, then yes, this would be a similar situation, especially if Apple's skinner continued to work, and the third party apps didn't.
However, Apple isn't in competition with the 3rd party developers - it's just not supporting them, either. It's a choice that I personally think will end up shooting Apple in the foot - but in no way is it the same as the "hidden API" stuff that was going on at Microsoft
Around the same time that Wolf3D came out, Origin Systems released Ultima Underworld. I remember that somewhere in the game was the pac-man maze, along with four "ghosts" which were killable, along with these little "nodules" that you would automatically pick up as you walked over them. There was a subquest surrounding this as well...
Ultima Underworld and it's sequel remain to this day to be some of the favorite games I have ever played.
With apologies to Bashou
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Writing crap about Spammers laughing at system Is not a good story
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http://www.snopes.com/history/american/gauge.htm
...that is, for threatening a /.ing of the ISP which I occasionally use.
But cats do indeed occasionally go after the bigger birds - see below link.
http://www.oz.net/~inthane/catbird.jpg
This is an honest-to-god picture of a cat attacking an eagle at some eagle preserve in Japan - can't give more detail than that off the top of my head, sorry.
Naw, didn't miss that - I'm well aware of the heritage of Fallout/Fallout 2, and the peerage of the authors. Sadly, the original authors of Wasteland couldn't get their hands on the rights to the Wasteland license, and hence we have Fallout.
;)
I wonder what they'll call the series when they ressurect it a third time?
Fallout's Wasteland?
It's more of a spiritual successor than a remake. While they shared the same geographic region and the post-apocolyptic environment, the stories are pretty different.
Query: If one checks the "Clear screen" checkbox, and sets the clear screen timeout to 1 minute - does that recover most of the CPU time?
I ask because I've found that my Windows box runs a little slow for games when it's running the background Seti@home client.
Warning, this entire post should be considered spoiler bait !
First off, I'm a big fan of the original books. FotR (the movie) did not impress me greatly - too much of the books ended up on the cutting room floor, and stuff that had no point (like that damn staircase sequence in the middle of the balrog chase) ended up replacing stuff that should have been in the film, like the gift-giving scene in Lorien. Yes, the basic plot of the story was adhered to, but there were huge gaps that just rubbed me the wrong way.
FotR (extended edition) made up for that in my mind - the gifts were added back in, and some other minor scenes that added good flavor to the film brought it up to a respectable tribute to something that is essentially unfilmable. I even forgave Peter for his staircase sequence.
TTT, on the other hand, brought strongly mixed emotions from me. Golumn is an incredible work, and his portrayal was the first time I was ever able to really pity him as a character. On the other hand, the portrayal of ents as a bunch of idiots that had to be hoodwinked into taking down Saruman, as well as the major changes to the character of Faramir, and the mess that was the battle of Helm's deep (don't get me started about Legolas, or the elves, or the sudden conclusion of the battle) did not impress me.
(Ok, I'll get started about Legolas. Here's a complete badass, who has so far has a greater than 1:1 kill ratio with his arrows against orcs (he kills 2 orcs with one shot in FotR) who puts TWO arrows into the torch carrier, but doesn't drop him, and then immediately afterwards shoots FOUR orcs and drops all four WHILE SURFING DOWN A STAIRCASE ON A SHIELD! Sheesh.)
What I'm getting at is that the problems with FotR were not for the most part structural, but instead a problem of omission, while the problems that I have seen in TTT are structural, and not a problem of omission. I'm still getting the extended edition, and I will be interested to see how it works out, but I fear that out of the trilogy, TTT does not give me great hope for RotK...
Oh, and yes, I do expect to be flamed to Holy Hell and back for this. Still, it had to be said.
Tough noogies.
Useless informational post:
The sun's weight is one solar mass. Have a nice day.
http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/EdCur ry
I knew Ed himself at the time he died. While Microsoft did nothing directly to him that caused the stroke, I have no doubt in my mind that they were behind the events that led to him being unable to find employment.
Seems you know something about the next election.
;)
I smell a Diebold employee.
I've got a cousin who's a cop, and a brother-in-law who's a prison guard. The stories both of them have told me about the kind of crap they've pulled on people when nobody else is watching is pretty disugsting - for example, the prison guard told me about "elevator rides" where they would pull the stop button on the elevator, pound the crap out of a prisoner who they thought was "uppity", and then tell the court "he fell in the elevator."
I only wish I was trolling.
When the cops are done beating the subject, they then wait five minutes, then hit the "record" button. It's a "feature" for the "discerning law enforcement professional." If it kept five hours of tape, then they could be held liable for all kinds of abuse...
Note: mozilla-xft is only availible in the Sid (Unstable) branch.
Right click on the "popup" window and select "reject popups from this site."
Why isn't anybody talking orbital power satellites?
I'm not speaking from a position of knowledge here, but it seems to me that while solar energy sucks down here where the atmosphere gets in the way, sticking up huge solar arrays in orbit, using microwave radiation to beam the energy down to a central spot (such as Death Valley) might be an interesting idea... Has anybody looked into this? Got any good links?
According to Wizards of the Coast, all of the modifications made from 3.0 to 3.5 will be released, free of charge, as part of the Standard Reference Document. You can use those as a template for "upgrading" your campaign, if you want.
Me? I'm sticking with my 3.0 books, and I'll borrow from what I like in 3.5, but I'm not shelling out the money. Quit whining! Sheesh, it's like you think you deserve free copies of the new books, or something...
You know, I agree with the first half of your comment - "The Two Towers was shitty" - but the second half, well, let's just say that Gollum was the redeeming point in that film for me.
I've read the books a bunch of times (20+) since I first had them read to me at the age of 7 by my mother. Each time, I wondered how somebody could find a creature like Gollum as pitiable, and not just a loathsome vile beast.
Jackson and Serkis showed me a gollum who wasn't corrupt to the core, but a flawed, twisted creature who was deserving of pity...
Traditionally, companies have released products in two forms - a free, spammy version and a non-free, spamless version. Only in a couple cases have people been paid to be spammed, and I haven't seen too many of those companies still in business. Wasn't there a company named Cybergold a bit back that did that?
Lately, I've been seeing a movement away from the spam-free product in a lot of cases. Take, for instance, the movie industry. You pay to get in, and then you get spammed for 20 minutes before the film starts. I'm seeing a bit of this in the cell phone industry, as well - some SMS advertising has started creeping in lately, even though I pay for my phone and service.
The problem is, advertising is a value-added revenue stream for the manufacturer, who is always looking for some way to get the cost down a little bit more, underneath that of their competitors. Of course, it's just a pointless race to the bottom - ye olde Prisoner's Dilemma all over again - but advertising is slowly creeping into every facet of our lives, and I doubt we'll be compensated one cent for it, ever.
...will we actually have the option to pay not to be spammed, for a reasonable amount?
Remember, this part is probably OEM targeted, not enthusiast marketed. Most users will say, "Gee, that thingamabob's got 2.4 gigahertz of RAM, wow it's fast!" and buy it, not realizing they got shafted on the video.
Carry out this philosophy across the machine, and you can shave $100-200 off the price of the machine, at least.
At one point, Moz was rendering faster than the IE on the machine I was using at the time - a P2/400 w/64mb of RAM running Win98SE. This was in the ~0.9.frog-knows era. IE was I believe either 5.01 or 5.5. I don't remember which.
Nowadays, while Moz is pretty snappy, IE hands it's ass to Moz in sheer render speed. Don't ask me what changed, I have no idea. I've noticed this from a P200/48mb RAM laptop running win98se to a P4/2000 w/256mb or RAM running WinXP.
I still use Mozilla for everything I can, though.
If Apple was selling a skinning program that allowed users to change their desktop appearance, and there were skinning apps in direct competition with Apple's apps, then yes, this would be a similar situation, especially if Apple's skinner continued to work, and the third party apps didn't.
However, Apple isn't in competition with the 3rd party developers - it's just not supporting them, either. It's a choice that I personally think will end up shooting Apple in the foot - but in no way is it the same as the "hidden API" stuff that was going on at Microsoft
SP1 for XP does NOT install .NET services. I know, we just rolled it out two days ago after some fairly exhaustive tests.
Around the same time that Wolf3D came out, Origin Systems released Ultima Underworld. I remember that somewhere in the game was the pac-man maze, along with four "ghosts" which were killable, along with these little "nodules" that you would automatically pick up as you walked over them. There was a subquest surrounding this as well...
Ultima Underworld and it's sequel remain to this day to be some of the favorite games I have ever played.
Writing crap about
Spammers laughing at system
Is not a good story
Glad to be of service!