The best mod out there is promode for Quake3--fixes all the bugs and crap that was put in there to keep the newbies happy. The difference between promode and vanilla quake 3 (and UT) is like the difference between professional baseball and T-ball.
But don't take my word for it, try it yourself: Try it yourself
Sorry, but spam won't peter out until we run out of idiots--after all, the best way to make money spamming is to sell tools and lists to spammer wannabes.
Given the hordes of people yet to go online, I don't think we'll run out of idiots in out lifetime.
It's due to the anonymous nature of electronic communication that these types are able to sell anything. Regulatory agencies would come down, BLAMMO, on a telemarketer phoning you and screaming pornographic lines at you. Spammers don't ask questions when taking jobs. Newspaper editors and TV commercial producers do.
You're talking about the tone of the advertising, not its fraudulent content. As for the fraud,
regulatory agencies might get into the act after 5-10 years of abuse, by which time thousands of people will have been scammed. A few examples:
Predatory lending exploiting the elderly (telemarketing).
"zero interest" credit card offers with huge late fees and max interest rates if you're one day late (3-5 of these per day in my mailbox)
"Sale" prices for tires that are the regular price, and don't mention mandatory "service" charges per tire (the Sunday comics wrapper)
"Investment seminars" are advertised every week in the business section of the newspaper--the seminars are come-ons for such reputable schemes as multi-level-marketing, day-trading (past tense), REITs, etc.
And in further news, a minimum of two-thirds of all types of intrusive advertising contain false claims--telephone cold-calls, loud tv commercials, the crap that hides the funnies in the sunday newspaper, the daily pound of paper cluttering your mailbox, you name it. The more intrusive the advertising, the more fraudulent the content.
Bah. The guy probably hadn't eaten in 3 days and was thinking "If I don't cut down this tree for a fishing boat, I'll surely die."
Nah, more likely it was "Lets cut this last tree to build a canoe and get the fuck out of here, so we can bring our precious way of life to a new island."
It's a good thing that modern loggin companies plant new trees when after they cut them down. Too bad a lot of enviro-wackos forget that part.
They plant commercially viable species, and harvest them at the optimum ROI age (15-30 years). A healthy forest has a variety of species at various stages of maturity. A commercial plantation is no more a forest than a swimming pool is a wetland.
Off-topic, but how come we don't put Kenneth Starr in charge of the 9/11 investigation (assuming it is still happening)? He's quite thorough, and has a lot more credibility than an old fixer like Kissinger.
However terminals never really took off. Even Unix users no longer use terminals but vnc. This is one of the reasons to rewrite and can X. Do we really need this today since people run thin clients and not dumb terminals?
WTF? Care to expand on this one? I've never heard of anyone using or desiring VNC on unix servers or workstations. The mind boggles...
Kester said the electronics industry has made changing the state law a top priority because it is making it difficult to recruit employees from other states and around the world.
"We run the risk of not having them move here," Kester said. "That puts us at a significant disadvantage."
Yeah, right. Like the weather, fallout from the various crooked company implosions, bankrupt state government and general shitty quality of life have nothing to do with it.
Wait five years from now after deregulation occurs and we are still paying $50/month for 1.5Mbps ADSL when the rest of the world will have fiber strung to their doorsteps.
I do have fiber strung to my doorstep (AT&T "digital" cable), but AT&T won't supply bandwidth on the system--something about holding the city hostage for a better monopoly deal. Be careful what you wish for. Meanwhile, I'd love to pay $50/month for even IDSL, let alone ADSL, and tell AT&T cable to go fuck themselves. My only option is a business class IDSL line, where I'm paying > $100/month for someone to fight with SBC communications.
Enron caused the power crisis there? I thought it was due to deregulation of the power industry.
Enron's (and other energy company) lobbyists wrote the rules of California energy deregulation. Thank the Pete Wilson administration. This is why its so scary when Dick Cheney sets energy policy via private meetings with energy company executives, and won't tell what went on. If the energy co's greed hadn't made such a public spectacle in California they might have been able to pull off price-fixing on a national scale.
Well, its not like they're going to give me my money back for the crappy first one, and I don't appreciate the unattributed plug they're giving themselves on Slashdot.
Would you care to describe the second one? ie. is a real strategy/campaign game, or are you dragged along a scripted storyline?
First, please put the Enter key somewhere *you* can find it.
Second, if you don't use software that requires lots of mouse usage, your input speed will go way up. If you don't like hunting for the mouse, consider a touchpad attached to the keyboard.
I've played the first Disciples game--turn based limited DnD style hack-n-slash, with your party's characters standing in a 2 x 3 grid with no maneuvering, the opposing party also in a 2 x 3 grid.
The "strategy" is scripted exploration of a very small maze-limited world. The "campaign" is that after you finish one maze the game takes you to the next. Bo-ring. A 20-line perl script could play this game to completion. I didn't.
That would be had eliminated budget deficits during Clinton's terms. Now we're back to giving extraction industries and military contractors too large a skim off the GDP.
Just a thought, but why can't this thing be legally stopped on the basis of Verizon (or my bank, mortage company, credit card issuer, etc) using my likeness without my permission? They're effectively selling my life story (cheaply, to be sure), and selling a statistical picture of me. I'm certainly not a public figure, so if someone took a picture of me in a non-public place (eg. my home), they couldn't sell it without my permission. So how feasible would it be to apply the same restrictions to my life's story and statistical profile? Any lawyers lurking?
UML (I yet have to see a company other than Rational do it right)
UML is a kitchen-sink object diagramming standard, not bad, until something a little more concise comes along. I assume you meant RUP (Rational Unified Process, since renamed "Unified Process" to sidestep the folks asking why RUP doesn't have any viral marketshare).
Oh, and if you had used any homegrown Rational software (not purify or clearcase), you'd take it as an indictment of RUP.
I made the mistake of buying a vaio assuming that the battery would be at least ballpark useable (eg. sales literature says 1-2 hours, I figure at least 1.25 hours doing text entry). Wrong--the wonderful BP1-A half-empty battery could barely keep the screen lit for 40 minutes.
I ended up having to buy a decent battery (BP-71A) on ebay for $200 extra.
Spokesman Warren Flatau of the Railroad Administration said the agency has invested $13 million US in developing the turbine-powered locomotive since about 1997. With Bombardier matching that, JetTrain has cost at least $41 million Cdn so far.
Don't they know you have to charge the US Gubmint at least $500 million to get any attention? There's not enough pork in this project for it to go anywhere.
All critical databases will be identified and registered with the Department of Communications which includes the details of the database administrator, the location of the database and the general description of the categories or types of information stored in the critical database.The registered information will be treated as confidential.
Does anyone else realize what a whopping huge security hole this is? Go to one place to learn where all the secrets are! Even if you don't get the db contents (yet), you can infer all sorts of interesting things about organizations and people that show up on the lists. Using as a baseline the sad history of moles in US government security agencies, it shouldn't take much $$ relatively speaking to acquire the lists of secret dbs.
Well, yeah. Music can be distributed more profitably without the bloated coast structure of the RIAA and their cohorts. The scary thing is they're sitting on enough money and cash flow that they can do real damage to this (USA) country's laws in their attempt to preserve their parasitic role.
I mean, in a few years will ownership of a non-DRM-crippled PC be grounds for assumption of lawbreaking?
(disclaimer: this is a shameless plug for a website, but I am a satisfied customer)
Convenient way to buy independent CDs, without giving any of your money to the RIAA: CD Baby
They even let you pass a message to the artist for every CD purchased. Plus I love the line on the "about" page: "No Microsoft products were used in the creation of this website."
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Hardened against aimbots too.
The best mod out there is promode for Quake3--fixes all the bugs and crap that was put in there to keep the newbies happy. The difference between promode and vanilla quake 3 (and UT) is like the difference between professional baseball and T-ball.
But don't take my word for it, try it yourself: Try it yourself
Sorry, but spam won't peter out until we run out of idiots--after all, the best way to make money spamming is to sell tools and lists to spammer wannabes.
Given the hordes of people yet to go online, I don't think we'll run out of idiots in out lifetime.
It's due to the anonymous nature of electronic communication that these types are able to sell anything. Regulatory agencies would come down, BLAMMO, on a telemarketer phoning you and screaming pornographic lines at you. Spammers don't ask questions when taking jobs. Newspaper editors and TV commercial producers do.
You're talking about the tone of the advertising, not its fraudulent content. As for the fraud, regulatory agencies might get into the act after 5-10 years of abuse, by which time thousands of people will have been scammed. A few examples:
Predatory lending exploiting the elderly (telemarketing).
"zero interest" credit card offers with huge late fees and max interest rates if you're one day late (3-5 of these per day in my mailbox)
"Sale" prices for tires that are the regular price, and don't mention mandatory "service" charges per tire (the Sunday comics wrapper)
"Investment seminars" are advertised every week in the business section of the newspaper--the seminars are come-ons for such reputable schemes as multi-level-marketing, day-trading (past tense), REITs, etc.
And in further news, a minimum of two-thirds of all types of intrusive advertising contain false claims--telephone cold-calls, loud tv commercials, the crap that hides the funnies in the sunday newspaper, the daily pound of paper cluttering your mailbox, you name it. The more intrusive the advertising, the more fraudulent the content.
Bah. The guy probably hadn't eaten in 3 days and was thinking "If I don't cut down this tree for a fishing boat, I'll surely die."
Nah, more likely it was "Lets cut this last tree to build a canoe and get the fuck out of here, so we can bring our precious way of life to a new island."
It's a good thing that modern loggin companies plant new trees when after they cut them down. Too bad a lot of enviro-wackos forget that part.
They plant commercially viable species, and harvest them at the optimum ROI age (15-30 years). A healthy forest has a variety of species at various stages of maturity. A commercial plantation is no more a forest than a swimming pool is a wetland.
Off-topic, but how come we don't put Kenneth Starr in charge of the 9/11 investigation (assuming it is still happening)? He's quite thorough, and has a lot more credibility than an old fixer like Kissinger.
However terminals never really took off. Even Unix users no longer use terminals but vnc. This is one of the reasons to rewrite and can X. Do we really need this today since people run thin clients and not dumb terminals?
WTF? Care to expand on this one? I've never heard of anyone using or desiring VNC on unix servers or workstations. The mind boggles...
From the article:
Kester said the electronics industry has made changing the state law a top priority because it is making it difficult to recruit employees from other states and around the world. "We run the risk of not having them move here," Kester said. "That puts us at a significant disadvantage."
Yeah, right. Like the weather, fallout from the various crooked company implosions, bankrupt state government and general shitty quality of life have nothing to do with it.
Whats with directors screwing up their own movies????
Maybe the studio forced the original ending, and the director's cut is the ending he wanted?
"Good Ash, bad Ash, I'm the one with gun."
Wait five years from now after deregulation occurs and we are still paying $50/month for 1.5Mbps ADSL when the rest of the world will have fiber strung to their doorsteps.
I do have fiber strung to my doorstep (AT&T "digital" cable), but AT&T won't supply bandwidth on the system--something about holding the city hostage for a better monopoly deal. Be careful what you wish for. Meanwhile, I'd love to pay $50/month for even IDSL, let alone ADSL, and tell AT&T cable to go fuck themselves. My only option is a business class IDSL line, where I'm paying > $100/month for someone to fight with SBC communications.
Yeah, but you're missing the details. Production of AOL CDs grew by 100% year over year, meanwhile everything else declined by 3% per year.
Enron caused the power crisis there? I thought it was due to deregulation of the power industry.
Enron's (and other energy company) lobbyists wrote the rules of California energy deregulation. Thank the Pete Wilson administration. This is why its so scary when Dick Cheney sets energy policy via private meetings with energy company executives, and won't tell what went on. If the energy co's greed hadn't made such a public spectacle in California they might have been able to pull off price-fixing on a national scale.
Well, its not like they're going to give me my money back for the crappy first one, and I don't appreciate the unattributed plug they're giving themselves on Slashdot.
Would you care to describe the second one? ie. is a real strategy/campaign game, or are you dragged along a scripted storyline?
First, please put the Enter key somewhere *you* can find it.
Second, if you don't use software that requires lots of mouse usage, your input speed will go way up. If you don't like hunting for the mouse, consider a touchpad attached to the keyboard.
I've played the first Disciples game--turn based limited DnD style hack-n-slash, with your party's characters standing in a 2 x 3 grid with no maneuvering, the opposing party also in a 2 x 3 grid. The "strategy" is scripted exploration of a very small maze-limited world. The "campaign" is that after you finish one maze the game takes you to the next. Bo-ring. A 20-line perl script could play this game to completion. I didn't.
That would be had eliminated budget deficits during Clinton's terms. Now we're back to giving extraction industries and military contractors too large a skim off the GDP.
Just a thought, but why can't this thing be legally stopped on the basis of Verizon (or my bank, mortage company, credit card issuer, etc) using my likeness without my permission? They're effectively selling my life story (cheaply, to be sure), and selling a statistical picture of me. I'm certainly not a public figure, so if someone took a picture of me in a non-public place (eg. my home), they couldn't sell it without my permission. So how feasible would it be to apply the same restrictions to my life's story and statistical profile? Any lawyers lurking?
UML (I yet have to see a company other than Rational do it right)
UML is a kitchen-sink object diagramming standard, not bad, until something a little more concise comes along. I assume you meant RUP (Rational Unified Process, since renamed "Unified Process" to sidestep the folks asking why RUP doesn't have any viral marketshare).
Oh, and if you had used any homegrown Rational software (not purify or clearcase), you'd take it as an indictment of RUP.
I made the mistake of buying a vaio assuming that the battery would be at least ballpark useable (eg. sales literature says 1-2 hours, I figure at least 1.25 hours doing text entry). Wrong--the wonderful BP1-A half-empty battery could barely keep the screen lit for 40 minutes.
I ended up having to buy a decent battery (BP-71A) on ebay for $200 extra.
Not a happy camper when people say Vaio.
Spokesman Warren Flatau of the Railroad Administration said the agency has invested $13 million US in developing the turbine-powered locomotive since about 1997. With Bombardier matching that, JetTrain has cost at least $41 million Cdn so far.
Don't they know you have to charge the US Gubmint at least $500 million to get any attention? There's not enough pork in this project for it to go anywhere.
All critical databases will be identified and registered with the Department of Communications which includes the details of the database administrator, the location of the database and the general description of the categories or types of information stored in the critical database.The registered information will be treated as confidential.
Does anyone else realize what a whopping huge security hole this is? Go to one place to learn where all the secrets are! Even if you don't get the db contents (yet), you can infer all sorts of interesting things about organizations and people that show up on the lists. Using as a baseline the sad history of moles in US government security agencies, it shouldn't take much $$ relatively speaking to acquire the lists of secret dbs.
Well, yeah. Music can be distributed more profitably without the bloated coast structure of the RIAA and their cohorts. The scary thing is they're sitting on enough money and cash flow that they can do real damage to this (USA) country's laws in their attempt to preserve their parasitic role.
I mean, in a few years will ownership of a non-DRM-crippled PC be grounds for assumption of lawbreaking?
(disclaimer: this is a shameless plug for a website, but I am a satisfied customer)
Convenient way to buy independent CDs, without giving any of your money to the RIAA: CD Baby
They even let you pass a message to the artist for every CD purchased. Plus I love the line on the "about" page: "No Microsoft products were used in the creation of this website."