Errrm, the kernel numbering scheme doesn't work on a "Oh crap, we hit x.y.9, next rev is x.y+1.0!" scheme. The third number has no ceiling; theoretically, we could see 2.6.159, if there was any reason to continue the 2.6.x kernel out that far.
2.4 is hovering in the low 20's as far as minor rev. number at this point.
That's all well and good, but I don't trust people in other areas to do the same. I vote for those i trust every time, it's just getting enough other people to agree with me that's the difficult part...
For instance, I'm trying to help give Snarlin' Arlen Specter the boot from Pennsylvania, but the sniveling PA GOP refuses to actually stand up for supposedly "Republican" principles and is backing one of the most un-Republican senators out there, simply in the name of political expediency and clout.
For instance, Unreal Tournament 2004 has VoIP functionality built-in in order to facilitate communication between teammates. Might it be subject to taxation?
What about GAIM's VoIP plugins? Or Gnomemeeting/Netmeeting?
Are we just talking about apps that mimic a telephone, or are we talking about all VoIP applications?
I don't trust Congress on these matters. I get the feeling that VoIP will end up being broadly defined and some horror stories resulting from the mess.
Actually, if you've seen the interview/tribute that the remaining 5 Python's gave at the Aspen Comedy Festival in 1998, you'd have heard the debate they had as to whether it was sacrilegious or "merely" heretical.
They decided it was most definitely heretical, but not sacrilegious. I'd have to agree.
It's definitely close in production values to the actual movie (enough so that with any post-processing, it should be the same quality as the rest of the film).
'Course, the lo-res clips on the GC version that I played looked horrendously JPEG'd, but what can you expect when the GC discs can only hold 30% of a DVD's worth of info?
The Xbox and PS2 versions most likely have better quality copies of the scenes.
If you've played the RotK video game (out on PS2, Xbox, Gamecube and PC) you've been treated to a whole bunch of footage that most definitely didn't occur in the theatrical release. (Gandalf confronting the king of the Nazgul at the gate of Minas Tirith, far more battle footage from the Black Gate and a whole slew of other stuff that I can't remember at the moment).
This gives me great hope for the extended edition.
I think what this article really ignores is: this is how information generally spreads, regardless of medium. An idea is not going to receive widespread attention until someone with either 1) power or 2) wide exposure takes notice and makes an issue of it.
The link-aggregating blogs, like Metafilter, Instapundit, Little Green Footballs,/., etc. provide the clout and exposure that these little blogs/sites lack. All the little sites have to do is gain the interest of the aggregators and they should get noticed.
There's already a way to track the propagation of an idea across multiple blogs, developed by MovableType called TrackBack.
TrackBack-enabled blogging systems will generate a TrackBack URL. When a blogger links to/writes about a story on another blog, they can "pingback" the TrackBack URL of the "parent" blog entry. These pingbacks are aggregated by the originator and can allow visitors to see who's linking to the post they're reading and what those linkers are saying.
Of course, all of this depends on the secondary linkers being dedicated TrackBackers...
If you have a blog, I'd recommend looking into TrackBack.
See what happens when you employ the same usability testers that Microsoft had testing the original X-Box controllers?
Application for Handtop PC Testers [SNIP] 13. I can: []Palm a basketball []Palm two basketballs simultaneously [x]Palm Cowboy Neal and two basketballs simultaneously [SNIP]
The Simpsons: Hit and Run actually did quite well in the long format. It was fairly entertaining throughout.
I don't know if one successful Simpsons video game necessarily indicates a successful movie implementation, but it does demonstrate that with clever writing and good pacing, a Simpsons storyline can be carried out well past the 1/2 hr. mark.
Agreed. I've found that joysticks and keyboard (ugh) controls tend to oversteer, while the mouse allows for easy and accurate control. It takes a bit of getting used to, but once you've got it, it's incredibly easy and rewarding to pilot the helos.
I love annoying the living daylights out of the Opp players on El Alamein by repeatedly capping the north and south points from the safety and comfort of my Apache's pilot seat.
In the year that I've had DirecTV, the only outtages that I've experienced have been during the strongest of electrical storms. This winter's snow systems haven't even slightly affected our signal.
Does no one watch Sci Fi movies anymore? I work for a bloody defense contractor and I cannot count the number of times I've said to myself "The author of this BAA has obviously never seen T2."
People even name projects "SkyNet" and think it's funny!
Now why'd they do that, go and hide relevant details in the last graf of a sentence? Don't they know that the average American has an extremely short atten... oh, look, shiny things!
I had thought of that, but will it actually be capable of running X-Box games at full speed?
In reality, the GBA and the PS-2 are the only top-flight consoles that have managed to do backwards compatibility, so maybe MS is figuring on going the traditional (i.e., not maintaining backwards compatibility) route.
Mario Kart: Double Dash! is a fairly fun single player game. However, get your buddies to come over and play co-op or battle mode and it's an instant party game. Tons o' fun, IMNSHO.
Perhaps if they had avoided using slow-mo in every bleedin' scene, they could have saved that 1/2 hr. for other, story-related purposes.
Jackson's overuse of the effect in the third installment really cried "I'm a serious director! Look at the emotion I can elicit! Look! It's in slow-motion, so it must be profound!", at least IMNSHO.
You're quite right that I'm not a Hollywood screenwriter, and probably the better for it. However, in all the bonus materials from the first two films, it seemed that Ms. Boyens just didn't "get" the central themes of the books. She claimed she did, but the words coming out of her mouth strongly countermanded that claim (once again, IMNSHO). Her decimation of Faramir typifies her misunderstanding to me.
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Errrm, the kernel numbering scheme doesn't work on a "Oh crap, we hit x.y.9, next rev is x.y+1.0!" scheme. The third number has no ceiling; theoretically, we could see 2.6.159, if there was any reason to continue the 2.6.x kernel out that far.
2.4 is hovering in the low 20's as far as minor rev. number at this point.
Yowsers. Lots more stuff on GNUWinII than on the OpenCD.
Like FlightGear, glTron, SodiPodi, Blender.
Sweet.
That's all well and good, but I don't trust people in other areas to do the same. I vote for those i trust every time, it's just getting enough other people to agree with me that's the difficult part...
For instance, I'm trying to help give Snarlin' Arlen Specter the boot from Pennsylvania, but the sniveling PA GOP refuses to actually stand up for supposedly "Republican" principles and is backing one of the most un-Republican senators out there, simply in the name of political expediency and clout.
For instance, Unreal Tournament 2004 has VoIP functionality built-in in order to facilitate communication between teammates. Might it be subject to taxation?
What about GAIM's VoIP plugins? Or Gnomemeeting/Netmeeting?
Are we just talking about apps that mimic a telephone, or are we talking about all VoIP applications?
I don't trust Congress on these matters. I get the feeling that VoIP will end up being broadly defined and some horror stories resulting from the mess.
Great Scott!
There. Now I've gotten that out of my system.
It's not $179 per seat at volume. RedHat does volume discounts (I believe they even start to kick in around 5 seats).
It's not a straight line function. You'll pay less per copy as you increment the number of copies.
Pretty standard "enterprise" (*shudder*) licensing.
Actually, if you've seen the interview/tribute that the remaining 5 Python's gave at the Aspen Comedy Festival in 1998, you'd have heard the debate they had as to whether it was sacrilegious or "merely" heretical.
They decided it was most definitely heretical, but not sacrilegious. I'd have to agree.
Perhaps he was attempting to use an English equivalent to the Hebrew word, which is pronounced sort of like "massheeoch".
...or does the photo accompanying the Inquirer article look photoshopped?
I'm not saying it's not a real product, just that the image looks a little suspicious.
It's definitely close in production values to the actual movie (enough so that with any post-processing, it should be the same quality as the rest of the film).
'Course, the lo-res clips on the GC version that I played looked horrendously JPEG'd, but what can you expect when the GC discs can only hold 30% of a DVD's worth of info?
The Xbox and PS2 versions most likely have better quality copies of the scenes.
If you've played the RotK video game (out on PS2, Xbox, Gamecube and PC) you've been treated to a whole bunch of footage that most definitely didn't occur in the theatrical release. (Gandalf confronting the king of the Nazgul at the gate of Minas Tirith, far more battle footage from the Black Gate and a whole slew of other stuff that I can't remember at the moment).
This gives me great hope for the extended edition.
I think what this article really ignores is: this is how information generally spreads, regardless of medium. An idea is not going to receive widespread attention until someone with either 1) power or 2) wide exposure takes notice and makes an issue of it.
/., etc. provide the clout and exposure that these little blogs/sites lack. All the little sites have to do is gain the interest of the aggregators and they should get noticed.
The link-aggregating blogs, like Metafilter, Instapundit, Little Green Footballs,
There's already a way to track the propagation of an idea across multiple blogs, developed by MovableType called TrackBack.
TrackBack-enabled blogging systems will generate a TrackBack URL. When a blogger links to/writes about a story on another blog, they can "pingback" the TrackBack URL of the "parent" blog entry. These pingbacks are aggregated by the originator and can allow visitors to see who's linking to the post they're reading and what those linkers are saying.
Of course, all of this depends on the secondary linkers being dedicated TrackBackers...
If you have a blog, I'd recommend looking into TrackBack.
See what happens when you employ the same usability testers that Microsoft had testing the original X-Box controllers?
Application for Handtop PC Testers
[SNIP]
13. I can:
[]Palm a basketball
[]Palm two basketballs simultaneously
[x]Palm Cowboy Neal and two basketballs simultaneously
[SNIP]
See what I mean?
The Simpsons: Hit and Run actually did quite well in the long format. It was fairly entertaining throughout.
I don't know if one successful Simpsons video game necessarily indicates a successful movie implementation, but it does demonstrate that with clever writing and good pacing, a Simpsons storyline can be carried out well past the 1/2 hr. mark.
How can I put this nicely?
You're smoking crack.
Where to begin? The difference in speed along between vanilla BF and DC makes it an entirely new game.
The helicopters are a pain to learn, but once you do, you can wreak some serious damage on the enemies.
The speed and lethality of the jets is highly enjoyable and makes for VERY entertaining aerial combat.
Each of the classes is multi-purposed, unlike in plain BF.
Shall I go on?
Agreed. I've found that joysticks and keyboard (ugh) controls tend to oversteer, while the mouse allows for easy and accurate control. It takes a bit of getting used to, but once you've got it, it's incredibly easy and rewarding to pilot the helos.
I love annoying the living daylights out of the Opp players on El Alamein by repeatedly capping the north and south points from the safety and comfort of my Apache's pilot seat.
*grin*
In the year that I've had DirecTV, the only outtages that I've experienced have been during the strongest of electrical storms. This winter's snow systems haven't even slightly affected our signal.
Of course, YMMV.
Does no one watch Sci Fi movies anymore? I work for a bloody defense contractor and I cannot count the number of times I've said to myself "The author of this BAA has obviously never seen T2."
People even name projects "SkyNet" and think it's funny!
*sigh*
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Eeep. Right you are.
Now why'd they do that, go and hide relevant details in the last graf of a sentence? Don't they know that the average American has an extremely short atten... oh, look, shiny things!
I had thought of that, but will it actually be capable of running X-Box games at full speed?
In reality, the GBA and the PS-2 are the only top-flight consoles that have managed to do backwards compatibility, so maybe MS is figuring on going the traditional (i.e., not maintaining backwards compatibility) route.
Since the X-Box is going to be based on the PowerPC, backwards-compatibility might be out of the question.
Unless you know of an x86-to-PPC compatibility layer that can be plunked into a $300 console...
Mario Kart: Double Dash! is a fairly fun single player game. However, get your buddies to come over and play co-op or battle mode and it's an instant party game. Tons o' fun, IMNSHO.
Perhaps if they had avoided using slow-mo in every bleedin' scene, they could have saved that 1/2 hr. for other, story-related purposes.
Jackson's overuse of the effect in the third installment really cried "I'm a serious director! Look at the emotion I can elicit! Look! It's in slow-motion, so it must be profound!", at least IMNSHO.
You're quite right that I'm not a Hollywood screenwriter, and probably the better for it. However, in all the bonus materials from the first two films, it seemed that Ms. Boyens just didn't "get" the central themes of the books. She claimed she did, but the words coming out of her mouth strongly countermanded that claim (once again, IMNSHO). Her decimation of Faramir typifies her misunderstanding to me.
Yup. Some Anonymous Cowards kindly FC'd my A and I admitted defeat (see above). *grin*