There are ways of dealing with CO2 emissions that we're not currently taking, but that we could. One of those involves injecting CO2 into oceanic depths where it's likely that it will remain in solution.
"You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul."
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
"Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man"
- Mohandas Karamachand Gandhi
Nonviolent disobedience people. Download the music, rip the DVD's, skip the commericials, encrypt the email. Don't buy the X-Box or the PS2. Don't go to see Disney movies. Don't give in. Don't give up.
Of course if they were both perfectly compliant, it wouldn't matter, but neither one is.
Gecko has a larger install base with existing Netscape, Moz, Chameleon, Galeon, and Phoenix installs, and is more likely, with AOL converts, to have a larger market share and have more 'feature-rich' pages designed to render properly in it. Both are cross-platform.
(BTW, have you used Phoenix.5 yet? Whoowee! 6mb download and faster than IE in every way in Win2000)
The only thing I can figure out here is that Steve really likes KDE or he really doesn't like the MPL. Maybe he's paranoid about helping Steve Case any more than need be by speeding Moz/Netscape acceptance.
The power of the PS3 if properly used won't go to making a more impressive FPS count, or even the more important polygon per second count. What it will do is enable game developers to use movie-quality CGI rendering techniques (or very nearly) in real time.
If used properly, and I'm not saying that it will be, then we could have games in which realistic-looking people (or very nearly) were the main characters *and* could be controled by the player rather than moving through pre-determined, pre-filmed action sequences rendered in compressed video.
With the kind of hardware Sony is putting into the PS3, it puts the burden on software developers to make games than can use it to acheive levels of realism indistinquishable from a hollywood movie or a TV sitcom.
Wether or not anyone will do that remains to be seen. The fact that people will gladly pay sony for this piece of hardware despite being one of the pillars of the **AA's is almost a given.
It's cause Greeks and Romans did some numbers in base 12. Also the reason we have 360 degrees in a circle despite the fact that radians make much more sense is because greek
For every site that parodies stupidity like this, the actions that the real intolerants take will be seen and treated with less seriousness. Compare this site to the OLGAnon web boards started by Elizabeth Wooley, mother of a suicided gamer. She blames Everquest for her son's death. Everyone else blames his obvious mental problems. Accordingly, she has a great deal of trouble with people from other EQ message boards who come to hers to try to flame and spam her into non-existance.
The most successfull of those trolls, however, and the ones that do the most damage to Liz's crusade of self-victimization and responsibility avoidance are those that parody the 'real' posters who frequent the site.
Not only do those parody posts make everyone laugh at the people who don't seem to have the ability to take responsibility for their own actions, they make the site less credible as a whole.
Lave the back button alone. It does what it's supposed to perfectly well. As long as it's not applied to file-systems or any other PC arcana, it's perfect for the task.
If you want to make something that works for both file-systems or GUI shell browsing and web browsing, design a new tool. Don't overload the existing tools and make them useless for both tasks.
I was quite gratified to see that while the Volt supports WMA format, it does not support copy protected WMA files. In fact, the manual walks the user through disabling copy protection in Media Player.
Amen to that. One of the more common requests I get as a digital artist is to digitally add or subtract someone from group photos. I've grown fairly adept at the compositing tasks (most people can't tell the original from the fake), but I've seen people who are absolutely *perfect*. This stuff fools a trained eye easily. Juries, who are usually not trained eyes, would have no chance of being able to tell fake from original, especially of something abstract like fingerprints. Juries should never be presented with evidence that has been digitally edited
What a great movie. It dealt with information security before most people understood what it was... and explained digitial encryption in way most people could understand.
Whistler: Cryptography systems are based on math problems so complex that they can't be solved without a key.
They also explained why being able to easily solve just one of those problems would render all encryption based on the same problem (Long factorials, anyone?) moot. We're coming up against this with Quantum technology. While it will provide encryption that can't be broken, all previous encryption will be pretty easily brute-forced with even a relatively weak quantum computer.
Download the tone from http://heymoe.freeyellow.com/ and record it on an old answering machine. Set the answering machine to pick up all calls on the first ring and volume to 'max' on the answering machine, so you can use it to screen your calls.
Total cost? $5 for a cheap-ass answering machine at Wal-mart.
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'Chase the Chuckwagon?' WTF I would have thrown that game away with other favorites like 'Avoid the Noid' and '7-up Spot'. Seriously...
Top Ten Games that Don't Suck and I'd still willingly pay money for:
Doom - PC - FPS Grandaddy. Battlezone - 2600 or any other platform since. Super Mario Bros. 3 - NES, SNES - Miyamoto's best work, IMHO. Metroid - NES. I once saw a prototype/display cartridge at Sears Roebuck in which Samus had a heart meter instead of a power meter. Burgertime - Colecovision? Arcade classic, at any rate. I can still play Burgertime for hours at a time on Mame. Galaga - Ditto. Legend of Zelda - NES - Excellent game design by Miyamoto before there really was such a thing. ChronoTrigger - SNes - All kinds of RPG Goodness from Square. Sonic the Hedgehog - Genesis. The first 'Twitch' game I ever played. Sonic rocked my world. Excitebike - NES - One of the first games you could truly edit. My friends and I would spend hours making nasty, yet well designed tracks to race through. We went so far as to write the letter/number track parts down because the save feature never worked quite right. I always assumed it was for the floppy-endabled Famicom.
As a matter of fact, I've seen a few applications do just this to try to do 'instant' registration by using rundll32.exe to open a url that's a complex URL-encoded string with registration details.
The one that comes to mind is PowerDVD. I've seen it do this on a coworkers PC.
The solution to this is to deny your default browser's abilities to access the internet before installing a new app like this and then applying a deny rule against the IP or hostname it tries to access.
I use Tiny Personal Firewall 2.0 to stop this sort of crap under Windows. It'll block any application from 'reporting' back home via the internet. It's a pro at keeping apps like Real Player or guys like this from tattling. It's not open source, but the 2.0 version was freeware. I'm not sure about the 4.0 version.
I strongly suspect that this won't even be an issue for most Linux users.
Heaven help you if your email address happens to begin with 'jbulger@' and you don't know enough to protect your cookies from being read by web bugs or your machine from spyware apps.
No, of course the FBI wouldn't stoop this far. Homeland security is completely benevolent and the United States is not... despite all appearances... turning into a police state controlled by wealthy resource and media industries.
Grid computing is definied as super-efficient, superfast clustering... provided you use any languaged BESIDES Java to impliment your algorithms
Yes, yes, imagine a beowulf cluster of these and then imagine the incredible total overhead wasted by hundreds or thousands of instances of any given JVM.
I felt like the major theme of Thunderdome was the beginning of rebuilding of culture after the the big end.
The conflict, in case you hadn't noticed, was not between Max, The Kiddies, and Tina Turner. The real conflict was between the gentler, more spiritual, but primative cargo-cult-style cutlure the children had built for themselves and the harsher, capitalistic culture of Batertown. Which of these two would be the salvation of the human race? Barter-town was certainly growing and progressing faster than the Kiddies, but was already encountering shortages and conflicts that could only be dealt through with war... The Thunderdome. Even though they claimed to have done away with the past, it still haunted them. The Kiddies were holding onto the past like a religion... and only a religion. They were starting over from the ground up, having truly left the past behind them for all intents and purposes.
The director's view of the conflict is pretty straightforward. Which culture moved back into the cities and began to rediscover technology at the end of the movie?
I hear a lot of people complain about Beyond Thunderdome. I think it's because they're not looking deeply enough for real, chewable content. It's a great movie. You just have to know where to look to find it. (Hint... It's not in Tina's chainmail minidress.)
While funny, this guy has hit the nail on the head. Without constant, vigilant backups, plastic and magnetic media don't mean dick in the long run.
If you're serious about keeping data for ever and ever, but also want convenience, you have to back up both ways.
1. Go ahead and keep data on that harddrive, but you're stucking buying another one to replace it, at least every year or so, just to make sure. This gives you the highest convenience for reinstating that data when (not if) it is corrupted.
2. Print it out. Print out all of it on non-acid paper with archival ink with the most expensive commercial printer that money can buy. Images, text, what have you. If you don't have a hard copy, you don't have the data for the long term. Once it's all printed out, put it in air and water-tight containers and then put it in a temperature controlled vault somewhere, preferrably underground so that it remains termperature controlled, even if power is lost for a long time.
Tintin is much more of an episodic adventure story, similar to cliffhangers. The posters who state that it's like 'Indiana Jones' are fairly correct. Tintin is told on a much more juvenille scale.
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There are ways of dealing with CO2 emissions that we're not currently taking, but that we could. One of those involves injecting CO2 into oceanic depths where it's likely that it will remain in solution.
"Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty."
"You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul."
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
"Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man"
- Mohandas Karamachand Gandhi
Nonviolent disobedience people. Download the music, rip the DVD's, skip the commericials, encrypt the email. Don't buy the X-Box or the PS2. Don't go to see Disney movies. Don't give in. Don't give up.
Why KHTML rather than Gecko, I wonder?
.5 yet? Whoowee! 6mb download and faster than IE in every way in Win2000)
Of course if they were both perfectly compliant, it wouldn't matter, but neither one is.
Gecko has a larger install base with existing Netscape, Moz, Chameleon, Galeon, and Phoenix installs, and is more likely, with AOL converts, to have a larger market share and have more 'feature-rich' pages designed to render properly in it. Both are cross-platform.
(BTW, have you used Phoenix
The only thing I can figure out here is that Steve really likes KDE or he really doesn't like the MPL. Maybe he's paranoid about helping Steve Case any more than need be by speeding Moz/Netscape acceptance.
The power of the PS3 if properly used won't go to making a more impressive FPS count, or even the more important polygon per second count. What it will do is enable game developers to use movie-quality CGI rendering techniques (or very nearly) in real time.
If used properly, and I'm not saying that it will be, then we could have games in which realistic-looking people (or very nearly) were the main characters *and* could be controled by the player rather than moving through pre-determined, pre-filmed action sequences rendered in compressed video.
With the kind of hardware Sony is putting into the PS3, it puts the burden on software developers to make games than can use it to acheive levels of realism indistinquishable from a hollywood movie or a TV sitcom.
Wether or not anyone will do that remains to be seen. The fact that people will gladly pay sony for this piece of hardware despite being one of the pillars of the **AA's is almost a given.
It's cause Greeks and Romans did some numbers in base 12. Also the reason we have 360 degrees in a circle despite the fact that radians make much more sense is because greek
365 days a year is just a lucky coincidence.
Sex and Sci-fi?
Look at Anime. A great deal of the action anime boils down to guns, robots, tits, and ass.
Now which country is it again that is famous for pioneering work in robotics, minaturization, and embedded computers?
Ahem. If you need me, I'll be busy watching my 'Bubblegum Crisis' OAVs for the 392nd time.
For every site that parodies stupidity like this, the actions that the real intolerants take will be seen and treated with less seriousness. Compare this site to the OLGAnon web boards started by Elizabeth Wooley, mother of a suicided gamer. She blames Everquest for her son's death. Everyone else blames his obvious mental problems. Accordingly, she has a great deal of trouble with people from other EQ message boards who come to hers to try to flame and spam her into non-existance.
The most successfull of those trolls, however, and the ones that do the most damage to Liz's crusade of self-victimization and responsibility avoidance are those that parody the 'real' posters who frequent the site.
Not only do those parody posts make everyone laugh at the people who don't seem to have the ability to take responsibility for their own actions, they make the site less credible as a whole.
Is what I think they're looking for.
Lave the back button alone. It does what it's supposed to perfectly well. As long as it's not applied to file-systems or any other PC arcana, it's perfect for the task.
If you want to make something that works for both file-systems or GUI shell browsing and web browsing, design a new tool. Don't overload the existing tools and make them useless for both tasks.
Downloaded the manual from Diamond/Sonic-blue.
I was quite gratified to see that while the Volt supports WMA format, it does not support copy protected WMA files. In fact, the manual walks the user through disabling copy protection in Media Player.
Now if only the Volt supported Ogg Vorbis...
Amen to that. One of the more common requests I get as a digital artist is to digitally add or subtract someone from group photos. I've grown fairly adept at the compositing tasks (most people can't tell the original from the fake), but I've seen people who are absolutely *perfect*. This stuff fools a trained eye easily. Juries, who are usually not trained eyes, would have no chance of being able to tell fake from original, especially of something abstract like fingerprints. Juries should never be presented with evidence that has been digitally edited
What a great movie. It dealt with information security before most people understood what it was... and explained digitial encryption in way most people could understand.
Whistler: Cryptography systems are based on math problems so complex that they can't be solved without a key.
They also explained why being able to easily solve just one of those problems would render all encryption based on the same problem (Long factorials, anyone?) moot. We're coming up against this with Quantum technology. While it will provide encryption that can't be broken, all previous encryption will be pretty easily brute-forced with even a relatively weak quantum computer.
Download the tone from http://heymoe.freeyellow.com/ and record it on an old answering machine. Set the answering machine to pick up all calls on the first ring and volume to 'max' on the answering machine, so you can use it to screen your calls.
Total cost? $5 for a cheap-ass answering machine at Wal-mart.
The legal system is becoming what it's always become in any culture and in any civilization... an implimentation of the golden rule:
He who has the gold makes the rules.
DON'T LOSE OUT!
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Mod parent up +1, Funny. ...but please, please let this be the last of the 'IN SOVIET RUSSIA' posts.
'Chase the Chuckwagon?' WTF I would have thrown that game away with other favorites like 'Avoid the Noid' and '7-up Spot'. Seriously...
Top Ten Games that Don't Suck and I'd still willingly pay money for:
Doom - PC - FPS Grandaddy.
Battlezone - 2600 or any other platform since.
Super Mario Bros. 3 - NES, SNES - Miyamoto's best work, IMHO.
Metroid - NES. I once saw a prototype/display cartridge at Sears Roebuck in which Samus had a heart meter instead of a power meter.
Burgertime - Colecovision? Arcade classic, at any rate. I can still play Burgertime for hours at a time on Mame.
Galaga - Ditto.
Legend of Zelda - NES - Excellent game design by Miyamoto before there really was such a thing.
ChronoTrigger - SNes - All kinds of RPG Goodness from Square.
Sonic the Hedgehog - Genesis. The first 'Twitch' game I ever played. Sonic rocked my world.
Excitebike - NES - One of the first games you could truly edit. My friends and I would spend hours making nasty, yet well designed tracks to race through. We went so far as to write the letter/number track parts down because the save feature never worked quite right. I always assumed it was for the floppy-endabled Famicom.
Agreed. It's a fun action movie, but rates a very decided 'enh' on my movie scale. Nowhere near the quality or plot of Sen to Chihiro.
Absolutely nothing.
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As a matter of fact, I've seen a few applications do just this to try to do 'instant' registration by using rundll32.exe to open a url that's a complex URL-encoded string with registration details.
Imagine a URL like:
http://www.company.com/registration.cgi?appname
etc...
The one that comes to mind is PowerDVD. I've seen it do this on a coworkers PC.
The solution to this is to deny your default browser's abilities to access the internet before installing a new app like this and then applying a deny rule against the IP or hostname it tries to access.
I use Tiny Personal Firewall 2.0 to stop this sort of crap under Windows. It'll block any application from 'reporting' back home via the internet. It's a pro at keeping apps like Real Player or guys like this from tattling. It's not open source, but the 2.0 version was freeware. I'm not sure about the 4.0 version.
I strongly suspect that this won't even be an issue for most Linux users.
Heaven help you if your email address happens to begin with 'jbulger@' and you don't know enough to protect your cookies from being read by web bugs or your machine from spyware apps.
No, of course the FBI wouldn't stoop this far. Homeland security is completely benevolent and the United States is not... despite all appearances... turning into a police state controlled by wealthy resource and media industries.
Grid computing is definied as super-efficient, superfast clustering... provided you use any languaged BESIDES Java to impliment your algorithms
Yes, yes, imagine a beowulf cluster of these and then imagine the incredible total overhead wasted by hundreds or thousands of instances of any given JVM.
I felt like the major theme of Thunderdome was the beginning of rebuilding of culture after the the big end.
The conflict, in case you hadn't noticed, was not between Max, The Kiddies, and Tina Turner. The real conflict was between the gentler, more spiritual, but primative cargo-cult-style cutlure the children had built for themselves and the harsher, capitalistic culture of Batertown. Which of these two would be the salvation of the human race? Barter-town was certainly growing and progressing faster than the Kiddies, but was already encountering shortages and conflicts that could only be dealt through with war... The Thunderdome. Even though they claimed to have done away with the past, it still haunted them. The Kiddies were holding onto the past like a religion... and only a religion. They were starting over from the ground up, having truly left the past behind them for all intents and purposes.
The director's view of the conflict is pretty straightforward. Which culture moved back into the cities and began to rediscover technology at the end of the movie?
I hear a lot of people complain about Beyond Thunderdome. I think it's because they're not looking deeply enough for real, chewable content. It's a great movie. You just have to know where to look to find it. (Hint... It's not in Tina's chainmail minidress.)
While funny, this guy has hit the nail on the head. Without constant, vigilant backups, plastic and magnetic media don't mean dick in the long run.
If you're serious about keeping data for ever and ever, but also want convenience, you have to back up both ways.
1. Go ahead and keep data on that harddrive, but you're stucking buying another one to replace it, at least every year or so, just to make sure. This gives you the highest convenience for reinstating that data when (not if) it is corrupted.
2. Print it out. Print out all of it on non-acid paper with archival ink with the most expensive commercial printer that money can buy. Images, text, what have you. If you don't have a hard copy, you don't have the data for the long term. Once it's all printed out, put it in air and water-tight containers and then put it in a temperature controlled vault somewhere, preferrably underground so that it remains termperature controlled, even if power is lost for a long time.
It comes preloaded with the Eminem and Dixie Chicks?
c:\
c:\deltree \mypreloadedmusic-DRM
Are you sure you want to delete the directory \mypreloadedmusic-DRM and all subdirectories? [Y/N]
Youbetcherass
172 File(s) deleted.
c:\
Tintin is much more of an episodic adventure story, similar to cliffhangers. The posters who state that it's like 'Indiana Jones' are fairly correct. Tintin is told on a much more juvenille scale.