Re:Besides cardboard characters, inconsistent too.
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Dune: House Harkonnen
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The original book had some inconsistencies in itself as well. Most notable was the military strength of the Fremen. During the major attack by Harkonnen they wipe out squads of Sardaukar without problems, even capturing some of the Harkonnen artillery including Sardaukar gunners, and the next moment during the Occupation beast Rabban only loses two men per dead Fremen...doesn't make sense, even if you imagine Harkonnen 'thopters with Laserguns blasting through the desert...
What I consider the very most valuable bit of information in the book are the conversations and anecdotes about leadership. They really make you look around you at our so-called leaders and think about what they're trying to accomplish. Also the way Paul slowly turned from a quite nice young guy to a IMHO tough piece of shit was impressive. I mean, face it, the Kwisatz Haderach wasn't really the person you'd like to hang out with, now was he?
Dune Messiah was only half done when Frank died, so his kid finished it later on, that might explain the "strange style" of the last book, but I personally consider God Emperor to be be the second best after the first book, despite the gholas running around.
that's what it is. Don't get me wrong. I'm definitely a fanatic, I've read the books god knows how many times, watched the film(very reluctantly), played the games, and reread the books once again. But this stuff may concern the same subject, it does not contain the spirit of Frank Herbert and that's what made the books what they were...
I can hardly imagine Slashdot never had a story on burnproof. I don't have a link but there are two writers that I know about that do it, a Plextor/Sanyo and a TDK who both happen to be 12X10X32. Basically, burnproof means that the drive is capable of stopping the writing process when a buffer underrun occurs. When the data starts flowing in again it'll continue to write within 50 nm. of where it stopped. I don't see why this technology couldn't be adapted for use with future DVD-writers as well.
You really need SCSI only if you want/have more than 4 drives.
Make that two drives. ATAPI can only access one device per cable at a time, not to mention the fact that SCSI allows for 7 fully functional devices on 1 IRQ as opposed to 4 semi-functional devices on 2 IRQ's. Now as for my real question, can we have this puppy on Firewire?
A couple of people including myself have been doing this for quite a while already, since we live very close to a number of universities. People come to my place, dump their stuff, and go away again. Other people come to my place to ask if I've got anything for them. Since this usually concerns writing something in wordperfect a 286/386 is all they need. The only problemis that I don't have enough storage space for all those IDE/ESDI controllers:-( Anyway, I don't really see what's new about this.
Do we want Joe Schmoe to elect the next president? No we don't. Does Joe Schmoe have that choice? Yes he does. Why does he have that choice? Because that's the whole concept of a democratic system. Is that the way we want it? I'll leave that up to you to answer...
Motor is not a corporate name as far as I know. So, www.quirkcars.com/www.quirkboats.com etc. should do the trick. Now which company was www.quirkmotors.com about anyway?
Actually, the selections this time go on the assumption that you've taken a few weeks (or some very intense days) to absorb the information you need to accomplish some basic tasks, and they take on the challenge of going beyond the basics.
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The original book had some inconsistencies in itself as well. Most notable was the military strength of the Fremen. During the major attack by Harkonnen they wipe out squads of Sardaukar without problems, even capturing some of the Harkonnen artillery including Sardaukar gunners, and the next moment during the Occupation beast Rabban only loses two men per dead Fremen...doesn't make sense, even if you imagine Harkonnen 'thopters with Laserguns blasting through the desert...
Make that krys knife. I don't usually whine about spelling, but you just commited blasphemism!
What I consider the very most valuable bit of information in the book are the conversations and anecdotes about leadership. They really make you look around you at our so-called leaders and think about what they're trying to accomplish. Also the way Paul slowly turned from a quite nice young guy to a IMHO tough piece of shit was impressive. I mean, face it, the Kwisatz Haderach wasn't really the person you'd like to hang out with, now was he?
Dune Messiah was only half done when Frank died, so his kid finished it later on, that might explain the "strange style" of the last book, but I personally consider God Emperor to be be the second best after the first book, despite the gholas running around.
that's what it is. Don't get me wrong. I'm definitely a fanatic, I've read the books god knows how many times, watched the film(very reluctantly), played the games, and reread the books once again. But this stuff may concern the same subject, it does not contain the spirit of Frank Herbert and that's what made the books what they were...
I can hardly imagine Slashdot never had a story on burnproof. I don't have a link but there are two writers that I know about that do it, a Plextor/Sanyo and a TDK who both happen to be 12X10X32. Basically, burnproof means that the drive is capable of stopping the writing process when a buffer underrun occurs. When the data starts flowing in again it'll continue to write within 50 nm. of where it stopped. I don't see why this technology couldn't be adapted for use with future DVD-writers as well.
How many IRQ's do those four controllers use? 2 or 4. Note to moderators: this is a serious question:-)So mod it down after I had an answer OK?
I don't VCR to be replaced. I want a Firewire VCR player...who needs DVD anyway. Would it be possible to stuff a VCR player into two 5.25 inch bays?
You really need SCSI only if you want/have more than 4 drives.
Make that two drives. ATAPI can only access one device per cable at a time, not to mention the fact that SCSI allows for 7 fully functional devices on 1 IRQ as opposed to 4 semi-functional devices on 2 IRQ's. Now as for my real question, can we have this puppy on Firewire?
A couple of people including myself have been doing this for quite a while already, since we live very close to a number of universities. People come to my place, dump their stuff, and go away again. Other people come to my place to ask if I've got anything for them. Since this usually concerns writing something in wordperfect a 286/386 is all they need. The only problemis that I don't have enough storage space for all those IDE/ESDI controllers :-( Anyway, I don't really see what's new about this.
Do we want Joe Schmoe to elect the next president?
No we don't.
Does Joe Schmoe have that choice?
Yes he does.
Why does he have that choice?
Because that's the whole concept of a democratic system.
Is that the way we want it?
I'll leave that up to you to answer...
Motor is not a corporate name as far as I know. So, www.quirkcars.com/www.quirkboats.com etc. should do the trick. Now which company was www.quirkmotors.com about anyway?
You can scrap those 65535 Karma points. Just give me one point for each reply I had about my .sig today...
www.slash.dot somehow has a better ring to it. Don't know why that is. Can I have www.sex.cum?
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Thanks, me.
I'm touched, really.
So, what does this "Post anonymously" thingy do?
Actually, the selections this time go on the assumption that you've taken a few weeks (or some very intense days) to absorb the information you need to accomplish some basic tasks, and they take on the challenge of going beyond the basics.
In short, RTFM!
Heh, it's gone now! Can we have it back? It really appealed to my current depression.
or is this page suffering from a mild case of the "blackness"(tm)? And no, I'm not browsing with NS6.
Hmm, never really had problems with that. If it insists, try Tweak UI. That'll also allow you to put them back, should you ever want to do so:-)
How in gods name can a browser be 40megs?? Thats the size of a small OS!
How old are you exactly? That's the size of a big OS...
I'm already online, so WHY THE F**K WOULD I WANT AN AOL ICON ON MY DESKTOP?
So you can experience the quality of dragging said icon to the the Trashcan time and time again.
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Cripes, you're right. How did I do that? And even worse, why didn't the second one go down as -1 redundant?
Also, this product could break new ground for web navigation for the handicapped.
Hmm, double-clicking with your nose...
Indeed very OT. One small question, when did serial port change into hot PnP?
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