This is something that has confused me greatly: why do people let Lucas off easy for making Ep. 1 merely a "set-up episode" for Ep's 2 and 3? New Hope was thoroughly self-contained and was a far better movie than Ep. 1, due in large part to that fact IMNSHO.
The Matrix was self-contained, even though it was always planned as part 1 of a trilogy.
Maybe it's for the same reasons that Peter Jackson gets away with Fellowship . But then, that's always been known to be part 1 of 3 (and, even having said that, it was a far better movie than Episode 1).
'Twas a WW2 bomber, IIRC. It was sabotaged by the Air Gremlin (You remember Bugs' reaction, right? The classic "Eeeh! Ahhh! Ooooh! Ahhh!" repeated ad nauseum...)
These comic book fellows are not to be messed with.
"But Aquaman, you cannot marry a woman without gills!...I've wasted my life."
"CBG:Yes, finally. I would like to return your quote unquote, Ultimate Belt.
Storekeeper: I see, do you have a receipt, quote unquote, sir?
CBG: I do not have a receipt, I won it as a door prize at the Star Trek convention, although I find their choice of prize highly illogical as the average Trekker has no use for a medium-sized belt.
Storekeeper: Whoa, whoa. A fat, sarcastic Star Trek fan. You must be a devil with the ladies.
CBG: Hey, I... Huh... Tha... Oh...
Storekeeper: Gee, I hate to let you down Casanova, but uh, no receipt, no return.
Bart: I'll give you four bucks for it.
CBG: Very well. I must hurry back to my comic book store, where I dispense the insults rather than absorb them."
ALL of his bones are adamantium reinforced, not made of adamantium. He still has a skeleton, it's just supplemented by the adamantium. There was a storyline where Magneto figured out how to extract the adamantium from Wolverine and he managed to make it through that.
Wolvie's real power is his Mutant Healing Factor, which is what allowed the Weapon X program to implant the adamantium in the first place.
But, due to editorial pressures (i.e. the "You want an imperfect hero? That'll never fly! And besides, people hate spiders! Spider-Man? Pshaw." response that Stan Lee received from his editor when he first envisioned Spider-Man), Spider-Man didn't hit newsstands until 1963, (at least in his own book). Lee had to debut Spidey in Amazing Fantasy #15 in order to slip it in under his editor's nose.
Ummmmmm, no. If you do a "Custom" install (i.e., not "Server", "Workstation", etc.), then you are given the choice of KDE, GNOME or both (as well as wm, fvwm, and E, if they float your boat) to install. When you are prompted for your X Configuration at the end of the install, you can choose your default resolution, whether to boot into graphical mode (gdm) by default, and whether to use KDE or GNOME as your default GUI. So cut the FUD.
"Disabled". Hah. All you need to do is check a bloody checkbox in your package selection.
Yes, "public" beta tests. However, one of the guys here at work is on the internal beta team, so we get the internal releases here as well. So, there were two internal beta releases, followed by the two public Skipjack releases.
Beta release mailing list has gone rather "developer-silent" as of late, usually signalling the imminence of a release. Also, there have been two recent massive package upgrades to Skipjack 2 with little to no public note of such, which is another indicator of release imminence.
Official release calendars would suggest an early June release; circumstances being what they are (and according to some traffic on the beta release mailing list) a mid-May release might end up being the actual case.
Upgrading is all well and good and it works, in theory. However, newly-released versions of distros tend to bundle all relevant new software into easily -installable packages, meaning that you won't bork your system with a faulty upgrade attempt. For example, I've had a devil of a time getting KDE 3 to work on my 7.1 desktop at work. We're skipping 7.2 and waiting for 7.3 to upgrade everyone's desktops. 7.3 is supposed to have a newly-revised kickstart process which will make our upgrades of everyone's boxes peachy.
Also, it's highly convenient for the bandwidth-impaired. Similar to the axiom "never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon filled with tapes driving 65 down the highway".
And, in an even more confusing set of circumstances, Skipjack beta 1 was actually 7.3 beta 3 (there were two unnamed beta releases prior to Skipjack). So, in effect, Skipjack 2 (the current release) is 7.3 beta 4. Make sense?
Correct. No encoder in the PS2 hardware, but that's a different matter from not supporting DD/DTS at all.
As I recall, SSX Tricky actually utilized the second Emotion Engine CPU to do the sound calcs, leaving the first CPU to do geometry setup/physics/etc., which goes towards making Sony's point about having a flexible architecture. It allows clever programmers (like those at EA Big) to do plenty of stuff that the hardware itself was never programmed/designed to do.
Wait, I thought that Starbucks invented all heated beverages,and they didn't exist back in 1900 when we declared independence from Canada, now did they?
Improvements are continually being made but, as Professor Nordin warned, "you don't want to give too much freedom to the robots as they will go crazy.
"You want the robots to have the ability to learn some of the things, but not do completely unexpected things."
Finally, it seems like someone has watched enough sci fi flicks to get the idea that autonomous machines are scary.
I read about advances in AI theory and think "Sheesh, haven't these guys ever heard of Skynet? HAL? Maximilian?" I read about artificial wombs and wonder if Aldous Huxley was ever required reading...
Even the Simpsons had it right: "Itchy and Scratchy Land: the amusement park of the future where nothing can possi-blye go wrong. Er, possi_bly_ go wrong. Heh, that's the first thing that's ever gone wrong."
Frink - "You've got to listen to me. Elementary chaos theory tells us that all robots will eventually turn against their masters and run amok in an orgy of blood and kicking and the biting with the metal teeth and the hurting and shoving."
They don't let us pay w/CCs at any fast food joint around here. McD's doesn't take it. BK doesn't, KFC neither, etc. etc. etc.
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Hmmm. I tried putting my Jedi Knight II CD in my PS2. It wouldn't load. Funny thing, that.
Serious Sam wouldn't load either. Nor Tribes 2. Return to Castle Wolfenstein wouldn't even boot up. Not even Medal of Honor would work. We're not even going to talk about the Sims, Black and White, Dungeon Siege, or Freedom Force.
Seems I do still need my PC for something...
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Nintendo has never resorted to price Whoring
No, they've just fixed prices, induced intentional game shortages, screwed developers, intimidated retailers and misled consumers about the advantages of 16 bit consoles
But no price whoring there, no sir!
How quickly we forget what a monster Nintendo was in the late '80's...
This is something that has confused me greatly: why do people let Lucas off easy for making Ep. 1 merely a "set-up episode" for Ep's 2 and 3? New Hope was thoroughly self-contained and was a far better movie than Ep. 1, due in large part to that fact IMNSHO.
The Matrix was self-contained, even though it was always planned as part 1 of a trilogy.
Maybe it's for the same reasons that Peter Jackson gets away with Fellowship . But then, that's always been known to be part 1 of 3 (and, even having said that, it was a far better movie than Episode 1).
Hrrm.
'Twas a WW2 bomber, IIRC. It was sabotaged by the Air Gremlin (You remember Bugs' reaction, right? The classic "Eeeh! Ahhh! Ooooh! Ahhh!" repeated ad nauseum...)
These comic book fellows are not to be messed with.
...I've wasted my life."
"But Aquaman, you cannot marry a woman without gills!
"CBG:Yes, finally. I would like to return your quote unquote, Ultimate Belt.
Storekeeper: I see, do you have a receipt, quote unquote, sir?
CBG: I do not have a receipt, I won it as a door prize at the Star Trek convention, although I find their choice of prize highly illogical as the average Trekker has no use for a medium-sized belt.
Storekeeper: Whoa, whoa. A fat, sarcastic Star Trek fan. You must be a devil with the ladies.
CBG: Hey, I... Huh... Tha... Oh...
Storekeeper: Gee, I hate to let you down Casanova, but uh, no receipt, no return.
Bart: I'll give you four bucks for it.
CBG: Very well. I must hurry back to my comic book store, where I dispense the insults rather than absorb them."
You mean that Comib Book Fellow?
Yes, but last time I did not receive any cake and I was told that this time, well, okay. But. The cake-to-people ratio is too low, too low!
I...I could set the building on fire.
ALL of his bones are adamantium reinforced, not made of adamantium. He still has a skeleton, it's just supplemented by the adamantium. There was a storyline where Magneto figured out how to extract the adamantium from Wolverine and he managed to make it through that.
Wolvie's real power is his Mutant Healing Factor, which is what allowed the Weapon X program to implant the adamantium in the first place.
But, due to editorial pressures (i.e. the "You want an imperfect hero? That'll never fly! And besides, people hate spiders! Spider-Man? Pshaw." response that Stan Lee received from his editor when he first envisioned Spider-Man), Spider-Man didn't hit newsstands until 1963, (at least in his own book). Lee had to debut Spidey in Amazing Fantasy #15 in order to slip it in under his editor's nose.
Ummmmmm, no. If you do a "Custom" install (i.e., not "Server", "Workstation", etc.), then you are given the choice of KDE, GNOME or both (as well as wm, fvwm, and E, if they float your boat) to install. When you are prompted for your X Configuration at the end of the install, you can choose your default resolution, whether to boot into graphical mode (gdm) by default, and whether to use KDE or GNOME as your default GUI. So cut the FUD.
"Disabled". Hah. All you need to do is check a bloody checkbox in your package selection.
I'll agree with that. However, we're dealing with RedHat, which is hardly a source-based distro, so the point is moot.
Yes, "public" beta tests. However, one of the guys here at work is on the internal beta team, so we get the internal releases here as well. So, there were two internal beta releases, followed by the two public Skipjack releases.
Beta release mailing list has gone rather "developer-silent" as of late, usually signalling the imminence of a release. Also, there have been two recent massive package upgrades to Skipjack 2 with little to no public note of such, which is another indicator of release imminence.
Official release calendars would suggest an early June release; circumstances being what they are (and according to some traffic on the beta release mailing list) a mid-May release might end up being the actual case.
Upgrading is all well and good and it works, in theory. However, newly-released versions of distros tend to bundle all relevant new software into easily -installable packages, meaning that you won't bork your system with a faulty upgrade attempt. For example, I've had a devil of a time getting KDE 3 to work on my 7.1 desktop at work. We're skipping 7.2 and waiting for 7.3 to upgrade everyone's desktops. 7.3 is supposed to have a newly-revised kickstart process which will make our upgrades of everyone's boxes peachy.
Also, it's highly convenient for the bandwidth-impaired. Similar to the axiom "never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon filled with tapes driving 65 down the highway".
And, in an even more confusing set of circumstances, Skipjack beta 1 was actually 7.3 beta 3 (there were two unnamed beta releases prior to Skipjack). So, in effect, Skipjack 2 (the current release) is 7.3 beta 4. Make sense?
Correct. No encoder in the PS2 hardware, but that's a different matter from not supporting DD/DTS at all.
As I recall, SSX Tricky actually utilized the second Emotion Engine CPU to do the sound calcs, leaving the first CPU to do geometry setup/physics/etc., which goes towards making Sony's point about having a flexible architecture. It allows clever programmers (like those at EA Big) to do plenty of stuff that the hardware itself was never programmed/designed to do.
Crule? You mean, the enemy of X-Force?
*ahem*, submitted too early, it should have been noted that I meant both of those games on PS2 feature support for DD/DTS.
XG3 does Dolby Dig in-game, SSX Tricky has DTS in game. *poof* goes that point.
Wait, I thought that Starbucks invented all heated beverages,and they didn't exist back in 1900 when we declared independence from Canada, now did they?
There goes your theory, Mr. Smartypants!
Improvements are continually being made but, as Professor Nordin warned, "you don't want to give too much freedom to the robots as they will go crazy.
"You want the robots to have the ability to learn some of the things, but not do completely unexpected things."
Finally, it seems like someone has watched enough sci fi flicks to get the idea that autonomous machines are scary.
I read about advances in AI theory and think "Sheesh, haven't these guys ever heard of Skynet? HAL? Maximilian?" I read about artificial wombs and wonder if Aldous Huxley was ever required reading...
Even the Simpsons had it right:
"Itchy and Scratchy Land: the amusement park of the future where nothing can possi-blye go wrong. Er, possi_bly_ go wrong. Heh, that's the first thing that's ever gone wrong."
Frink - "You've got to listen to me. Elementary chaos theory tells us that all robots will eventually turn against their masters and run amok in an orgy of blood and kicking and the biting with the metal teeth and the hurting and shoving."
If that comment's "insightful", then I'm a supervillain's sidekick, made entirely of butter.
I want some of the dope the moderator was smoking.
And the fact that all I had to do was add an
Option "TwinView"
Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "30 - 110"
Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "50 - 160"
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "LeftOf"
Option "MetaModes" "1600x1200,1600x1200; 1600x1200,NULL"
To my XFree86Config-4 to enable duall-head configuration pleases me to no end.
X running at 3200x1200 on 19" and 22" monitors is just too sweet.
Now if only I could get the GNOME menu bars to extend across both desktops...
They don't let us pay w/CCs at any fast food joint around here. McD's doesn't take it. BK doesn't, KFC neither, etc. etc. etc.
Hmmm. I tried putting my Jedi Knight II CD in my PS2. It wouldn't load. Funny thing, that.
Serious Sam wouldn't load either. Nor Tribes 2. Return to Castle Wolfenstein wouldn't even boot up. Not even Medal of Honor would work. We're not even going to talk about the Sims, Black and White, Dungeon Siege, or Freedom Force.
Seems I do still need my PC for something...
Latest nVidia drivers are 1.0-2880. Just FYI.
make install won't do the symlink in your user dir. Running "winex " for the first time sets up all fonts, virtual drives, etc.
Conf file for all your virtual drives, etc. is usually in ~/.transgaming/config
I installed my Jedi Knight II install to my H: drive, mapped out like this in ~/.transgaming/config
[Drive H]
"Path" = "/usr/local/games/winex"
"Type" = "hd"
"Label" = "Games"
"Filesystem" = "win95"
And I just chowned the winex to my user account, so I can install any further games there.