And I'm one of them. I'd have never bought Avril Lavigne, Michelle Branch, and Vanessa Carlton's album if I hadn't been able to use Kazzaa Lite to sample them in advance.
I think you just converted a bunch of people on Slashdot to IP-loving capitalists.
I think you mean Daedalus and Icarus. Pegasus isn't really a man.
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The actor who played Lisa Clarke (Emily Bergl) used to ride my school bus with me. Kinda interesting seeing someone you used to sit next to in a miniseries.
So did you sit through the other horrendous piece of crap she was in too (I'm talking about Carrie 2)? She seems like she might have some talent, but she sure as hell needs to get better scripts.
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Hey! Animaniacs was the best cartoon ever made! Everything except Slappy the Squirrel and the Goodfeathers was great. It sure as hell is a lot better than the crap they pass off as cartoons nowadays.
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I didn't pay $10 to see a movie that will be considered great and thought-provoking by the "elite" of the artistic and intellectual set. I paid $10 to see a fun scifi movie that would be entertaining.
Then go watch Event Horizon and The 5th Element and be happy with your mindless action sci-fi. The rest of us that actually like to have our minds stimulated and provoked will watch good sci-fi movies.
I'd love to see a CRPG that is based on dialog and plot that would immerse a player in the game...
Check out the Exile series or their reworking with better graphics and a different skills system, the Avernum series.
They have the best mix of dialog, (In the Exile series you actually determine what you say yourself, instead of having canned responses! What a concept!) exploring, immense detail and backstory, and a concrete plot that is open-ended.
And? Most heros are mythical, so what? The fact that they are considered heros can still tell you a lot about a population's moral values.
Morals are not "set by the population".
Really? So everyone everywhere has the exact same moral values? Wow, what an amazing discovery!</sarcasm>
There are a few values that all populations have, such as it is wrong to kill without sufficient reason, but thats just because they couldn't survive without those. Other than that, populations range widely on the values they hold.
Taxes have nothing to do with theft.
They sure look similar to me. Both are forcible losses of wealth, and in the case of the poor stealing from the rich, both are redistributions of wealth from the rich to the poor, which helps the good of the majority.
Well, Robin Hood wasn't real and he is only a hero to some people.
Whether or not he was real has nothing to do with the fact that he is considered a hero. The vast majority of heros are mythical. It is their actions and philosophies that matter, not their reality. And as for only some people thinking he is a hero, obviously the majority of the population think of him as a hero and have for quite a while, otherwise the story wouldn't have gotten repeated and preserved in the societal consciousness.
Most thinking people can look at what he did and say that stealing from the rich and giving to the poor was the wrong (unethical) way to go about it (even though he was fighting against a morally incorrect oppressive governing entity and it was just for him to fight and eventually defeat him).
It was the wrong way to go about what? Stealing from the rich and giving to the poor wasn't a means to an end, it was the end. The government wasn't "morally incorrect" in the story, it was simply taxing the poor more than they could afford. Robin Hood wasn't fighting against the Sheriff of Nottingham because he was racist or sexist, he was fighting because the peasants weren't able to survive, pure and simple.
Anytime you are redistributing income from one group of individuals and giving it to the other it is ethically wrong.
Really? I guess you shouldn't accept your next paycheck then because redistributing money from your employer to you is unethical.
Wrong! Morally you're not allowed to steal from rich people either.
Then why was Robin Hood a hero? That story illustrates the moral idea of "robbing from the rich and giving to the poor" beautifully. Morals are set by the population that has them, and there are a hell of a lot more poor people than rich people. Besides, I don't see how stealing from rich people is any different than taxing them more, and nearly everyone agrees that rich people should pay more taxes than poor people. (Notice I didn't say a higher percentage, just more.)
Data Link layer is phyiscal medium dependant, in other words, you run Ethernet over UTP, ATM over fiber, etc (and yes i know that there is some flexibility in there).
Layer 2 (Data Link Layer) is *not* dependent upon Layer 1 (Physical Layer), thats ridiculous. The whole idea of layers is that each layer abstracts away everything below it so everything above it don't have to care about it.
The reason that Ethernet is physical media dependent is because there is a set of protocols that are collectively called Ethernet. Some of those protocols are Physical Layer, some are Data Link Layer. The Layer 1 protocols define such things as cabling qualities, port pinouts, and modulation schemes. The Layer 2 protocols define things like collision detection and speed/duplex autonegotiation.
You can in fact run Ethernet over barbed wire and electrical cord (I've seen it done, it may have even been on a link from a Slashdot story), or Cat3 UTP, Cat5 UTP, fiber, etc. Hell, if you wanted to you could even run Ethernet over UDP.
Look, the Carbon, Cocoa, and BSD APIs are *all* native APIs. They all sit right on top of the microkernel. None of them go through any other APIs (other than Quartz and Quicktime). Classic is the only non-native API on OS X because it is an emulated API. Thats what non-native means, emulated. Just like 68K code was non-native on PPC machines, it had to run through the 68K emulator in the Mixed Mode Manager.
I'm hoping that they push back the non-booting computers indefinitely. A computer that can't boot 9 is a computer that can't boot from a CD, at least not usefully. The OS X install CD boots straight to an installer when you boot from a CD, and doesn't let you access any kind of file manager. Until someone comes up with a way to boot into a file manager in X from a CD, stopping booting from 9 is a bad idea.
Both Cocoa and Carbon *are* native APIs. There are ways to tell what kind of app you are running though. If it starts up Classic and you see non-Aqua windows, then its not native. If you do a Get Info on the app and see a "Open in Classic Environment" checkbox, then its Carbon. Note that is still a native app. If you right-click on the app and see "Show Package Contents" in the contextual menu, then its either a Cocoa app or a Carbon nib-based app. I'm not sure how you can tell the difference between the last two types short of attaching gdb and looking, but there is probably a way.
The train on one of the lines (I forget which one) actually go through the City Hall station every run. They use it to turn around in. If you ask the driver nicely, they will usually let you ride through and look at the station, although you can't get out.
I think it would actually help, as you'd be able to identify the geeks of the other sex (the people you'd be dating anyway) easier. I mean, who else but another geek would have a device that would respond to yours?
No I don't. What is wrong with you? Can you not read or something? The only units I used in either of my posts were Mb/sec, Mbit/sec and Mbps, all of which are acceptable unit abbreviations for megabit per second.
No, I'm not. All the numbers in my post were in megabits. My number for the bandwidth of HDTV was incorrect though, because I did the calculations wrong. 1080i is approximately 746 Mbit/sec, which FireWire wouldn't be able to stream, although FireWire 2, which is supposed to be out sometime soon at 3.2 Gbps, would have no trouble streaming it.
Firewire is most certainly up to snuff. At 400 Mb/sec it can stream DV (26.5 Mb/sec) in real time quite easily. Hell, it could stream a full 1080i HDTV stream with 24-bit 96kHz audio (375.5 Mb/sec). There needs to be a (-1 Incorrect) moderation.
The pairs are for the two different helices in DNA, you don't actually write the other member of the pair when describing a DNA sequence. ACCCCT is perfectly fine DNA. It just has a complement (other side) of TGGGGA.
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I think you just converted a bunch of people on Slashdot to IP-loving capitalists.
I think you mean Daedalus and Icarus. Pegasus isn't really a man.
So did you sit through the other horrendous piece of crap she was in too (I'm talking about Carrie 2)? She seems like she might have some talent, but she sure as hell needs to get better scripts.
Hey! Animaniacs was the best cartoon ever made! Everything except Slappy the Squirrel and the Goodfeathers was great. It sure as hell is a lot better than the crap they pass off as cartoons nowadays.
Then go watch Event Horizon and The 5th Element and be happy with your mindless action sci-fi. The rest of us that actually like to have our minds stimulated and provoked will watch good sci-fi movies.
Check out the Exile series or their reworking with better graphics and a different skills system, the Avernum series.
They have the best mix of dialog, (In the Exile series you actually determine what you say yourself, instead of having canned responses! What a concept!) exploring, immense detail and backstory, and a concrete plot that is open-ended.
And? Most heros are mythical, so what? The fact that they are considered heros can still tell you a lot about a population's moral values.
Morals are not "set by the population".
Really? So everyone everywhere has the exact same moral values? Wow, what an amazing discovery!</sarcasm>
There are a few values that all populations have, such as it is wrong to kill without sufficient reason, but thats just because they couldn't survive without those. Other than that, populations range widely on the values they hold.
Taxes have nothing to do with theft.
They sure look similar to me. Both are forcible losses of wealth, and in the case of the poor stealing from the rich, both are redistributions of wealth from the rich to the poor, which helps the good of the majority.
Whether or not he was real has nothing to do with the fact that he is considered a hero. The vast majority of heros are mythical. It is their actions and philosophies that matter, not their reality. And as for only some people thinking he is a hero, obviously the majority of the population think of him as a hero and have for quite a while, otherwise the story wouldn't have gotten repeated and preserved in the societal consciousness.
Most thinking people can look at what he did and say that stealing from the rich and giving to the poor was the wrong (unethical) way to go about it (even though he was fighting against a morally incorrect oppressive governing entity and it was just for him to fight and eventually defeat him).
It was the wrong way to go about what? Stealing from the rich and giving to the poor wasn't a means to an end, it was the end. The government wasn't "morally incorrect" in the story, it was simply taxing the poor more than they could afford. Robin Hood wasn't fighting against the Sheriff of Nottingham because he was racist or sexist, he was fighting because the peasants weren't able to survive, pure and simple.
Anytime you are redistributing income from one group of individuals and giving it to the other it is ethically wrong.
Really? I guess you shouldn't accept your next paycheck then because redistributing money from your employer to you is unethical.
Then why was Robin Hood a hero? That story illustrates the moral idea of "robbing from the rich and giving to the poor" beautifully. Morals are set by the population that has them, and there are a hell of a lot more poor people than rich people. Besides, I don't see how stealing from rich people is any different than taxing them more, and nearly everyone agrees that rich people should pay more taxes than poor people. (Notice I didn't say a higher percentage, just more.)
Layer 2 (Data Link Layer) is *not* dependent upon Layer 1 (Physical Layer), thats ridiculous. The whole idea of layers is that each layer abstracts away everything below it so everything above it don't have to care about it.
The reason that Ethernet is physical media dependent is because there is a set of protocols that are collectively called Ethernet. Some of those protocols are Physical Layer, some are Data Link Layer. The Layer 1 protocols define such things as cabling qualities, port pinouts, and modulation schemes. The Layer 2 protocols define things like collision detection and speed/duplex autonegotiation.
You can in fact run Ethernet over barbed wire and electrical cord (I've seen it done, it may have even been on a link from a Slashdot story), or Cat3 UTP, Cat5 UTP, fiber, etc. Hell, if you wanted to you could even run Ethernet over UDP.
I need it to download The Two Towers from China!!!
Wow, thats really cool. Thanks for the link.
Look, the Carbon, Cocoa, and BSD APIs are *all* native APIs. They all sit right on top of the microkernel. None of them go through any other APIs (other than Quartz and Quicktime). Classic is the only non-native API on OS X because it is an emulated API. Thats what non-native means, emulated. Just like 68K code was non-native on PPC machines, it had to run through the 68K emulator in the Mixed Mode Manager.
Thats only true if you are using the old-style event model instead of using the Core Services run-loop.
Just buy them mail order. $50 per 100 is already incredibly expensive. You can get 400 for $60 at places in the US.
I'm hoping that they push back the non-booting computers indefinitely. A computer that can't boot 9 is a computer that can't boot from a CD, at least not usefully. The OS X install CD boots straight to an installer when you boot from a CD, and doesn't let you access any kind of file manager. Until someone comes up with a way to boot into a file manager in X from a CD, stopping booting from 9 is a bad idea.
Both Cocoa and Carbon *are* native APIs. There are ways to tell what kind of app you are running though. If it starts up Classic and you see non-Aqua windows, then its not native. If you do a Get Info on the app and see a "Open in Classic Environment" checkbox, then its Carbon. Note that is still a native app. If you right-click on the app and see "Show Package Contents" in the contextual menu, then its either a Cocoa app or a Carbon nib-based app. I'm not sure how you can tell the difference between the last two types short of attaching gdb and looking, but there is probably a way.
The train on one of the lines (I forget which one) actually go through the City Hall station every run. They use it to turn around in. If you ask the driver nicely, they will usually let you ride through and look at the station, although you can't get out.
I think it would actually help, as you'd be able to identify the geeks of the other sex (the people you'd be dating anyway) easier. I mean, who else but another geek would have a device that would respond to yours?
No I don't. What is wrong with you? Can you not read or something? The only units I used in either of my posts were Mb/sec, Mbit/sec and Mbps, all of which are acceptable unit abbreviations for megabit per second.
No, I'm not. All the numbers in my post were in megabits. My number for the bandwidth of HDTV was incorrect though, because I did the calculations wrong. 1080i is approximately 746 Mbit/sec, which FireWire wouldn't be able to stream, although FireWire 2, which is supposed to be out sometime soon at 3.2 Gbps, would have no trouble streaming it.
DV is 26 Mbit/sec.
Firewire is most certainly up to snuff. At 400 Mb/sec it can stream DV (26.5 Mb/sec) in real time quite easily. Hell, it could stream a full 1080i HDTV stream with 24-bit 96kHz audio (375.5 Mb/sec). There needs to be a (-1 Incorrect) moderation.
The pairs are for the two different helices in DNA, you don't actually write the other member of the pair when describing a DNA sequence. ACCCCT is perfectly fine DNA. It just has a complement (other side) of TGGGGA.
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