Oh, and Luke *did* matter in ROTJ; without his Force skills, the Ewoks would never have attacked the Stormtroopers.
As well, the reason that Lando and the Falcon were able to get into the Death Star and blow up its core was because the Imperial Navy was in shambles and the Executor (big arrowhead-shaped Super Star Destroyer) had crashed into the D.S. already. Why did all that happen? Because the Navy had been held together by Palpatine. He was using the Force to coordinate their work. When he was distracted and Vader turned on him, the Navy was suddenly thown into disarray.
This is all explained in Timothy Zahn's post-Jedi trilogy (endorsed by Lucas -- yes, it is part of SW continuity). ------- Losing your faith is a lot like losing your virginity
Just before going to ISPCON last April, I purchased a new PalmIIIx and gave myself a crash course in Graffiti. I'm sure many of you have been to large trade shows before -- you realize how much crap you end up with. The Palm let me keep a schedule of lectures and panels, a list of the vendor booths I needed to visit, notes from conferences with several other engineers about their products, notes on restaurants, a list of post-show parties each day (btw, thanks to 3Com for the ball game), and even a map of the exhibit floor. Whenever I found another person with a Pilot, we could exchange business cards over the IR port. When I got back to the office, this synced with my Outlook contacts (yes, Outlook--not my idea), thus saving me the trouble of typing the data in myself. All of that in my shirt pocket, without ever having to rummage through my Official ISPCON Satchel (tm) for the myriad sheets of paper in which that information would have been concealed otherwise.
It also let me play Xiang-Qi, Kyle's Quest, and yes, even Hardball on the flights there and back.
Yes, you can play games on a PalmPilot. I play games on my PalmPilot. But I have also found it to be an invaluable tool for dealing with the business (yuck) side of my job.
Now if only the IR had better range so I could use it as a TV remote...:) ------- Losing your faith is a lot like losing your virginity
I know exactly what you mean. One of my best friends is a German immigrant -- even after she married an American citizen, INS put her through hell getting a green card.
Screw the INS. ------- Losing your faith is a lot like losing your virginity
The Gnome WM spec is, I believe, being reworked by several people (only one I know off the top of my head is Brad Hughes, who writes BlackBox). And there's no reason Raster would take the GNOME compatibility out of E just because he left RH... ------- Losing your faith is a lot like losing your virginity
Not to mention that (in my experience, at least) Exchange is *extremely* unreliable even in a small-office environment. My company (small ISP) has ten people using Exchange, with about 2GB of data total. This server dies and must be rebooted about every third day.... The only M$ soft that we haven't really had problems with is SQL Server, but the ASP/ODBC interfaces to that tend to kill IIS frequently... ------- Losing your faith is a lot like losing your virginity
The bit about "the following article is garbage" is in reference to a post on linuxnewbie claiming to be him (about a month ago). ------- Losing your faith is a lot like losing your virginity
okay, here's the article, and a relevant quote from the sidebar:
"If it were an algorithm (or formula) for robust encryption, and if we were to confirm that, then, yes, it would be subject to export control," says William Reinsch, undersecretary of Commerce for export administration. "We've ruled that if (such algorithms) are printed in a book, we have not controlled them, but if the same algorithm appears in electronic form, on diskette or the Internet, we do seek to control it," he says. "We've tried to maintain a policy balancing the needs of privacy and e-commerce with the needs of national security." ---------------
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Oh, and Luke *did* matter in ROTJ; without his Force skills, the Ewoks would never have attacked the Stormtroopers.
As well, the reason that Lando and the Falcon were able to get into the Death Star and blow up its core was because the Imperial Navy was in shambles and the Executor (big arrowhead-shaped Super Star Destroyer) had crashed into the D.S. already. Why did all that happen? Because the Navy had been held together by Palpatine. He was using the Force to coordinate their work. When he was distracted and Vader turned on him, the Navy was suddenly thown into disarray.
This is all explained in Timothy Zahn's post-Jedi trilogy (endorsed by Lucas -- yes, it is part of SW continuity).
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Losing your faith is a lot like losing your virginity
Just before going to ISPCON last April, I purchased a new PalmIIIx and gave myself a crash course in Graffiti. I'm sure many of you have been to large trade shows before -- you realize how much crap you end up with. The Palm let me keep a schedule of lectures and panels, a list of the vendor booths I needed to visit, notes from conferences with several other engineers about their products, notes on restaurants, a list of post-show parties each day (btw, thanks to 3Com for the ball game), and even a map of the exhibit floor. Whenever I found another person with a Pilot, we could exchange business cards over the IR port. When I got back to the office, this synced with my Outlook contacts (yes, Outlook--not my idea), thus saving me the trouble of typing the data in myself. All of that in my shirt pocket, without ever having to rummage through my Official ISPCON Satchel (tm) for the myriad sheets of paper in which that information would have been concealed otherwise.
:)
It also let me play Xiang-Qi, Kyle's Quest, and yes, even Hardball on the flights there and back.
Yes, you can play games on a PalmPilot. I play games on my PalmPilot. But I have also found it to be an invaluable tool for dealing with the business (yuck) side of my job.
Now if only the IR had better range so I could use it as a TV remote...
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Losing your faith is a lot like losing your virginity
I know exactly what you mean. One of my best friends is a German immigrant -- even after she married an American citizen, INS put her through hell getting a green card.
Screw the INS.
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Losing your faith is a lot like losing your virginity
The Gnome WM spec is, I believe, being reworked by several people (only one I know off the top of my head is Brad Hughes, who writes BlackBox). And there's no reason Raster would take the GNOME compatibility out of E just because he left RH...
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Losing your faith is a lot like losing your virginity
Not to mention that (in my experience, at least) Exchange is *extremely* unreliable even in a small-office environment. My company (small ISP) has ten people using Exchange, with about 2GB of data total. This server dies and must be rebooted about every third day.... The only M$ soft that we haven't really had problems with is SQL Server, but the ASP/ODBC interfaces to that tend to kill IIS frequently...
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Losing your faith is a lot like losing your virginity
The bit about "the following article is garbage" is in reference to a post on linuxnewbie claiming to be him (about a month ago).
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Losing your faith is a lot like losing your virginity
billiard? cool. :)
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Losing your faith is a lot like losing your virginity
okay, here's the article, and a relevant quote from the sidebar:
"If it were an algorithm (or formula) for robust encryption, and if we were to confirm that, then, yes, it would be subject to export control," says William Reinsch, undersecretary of Commerce for export administration.
"We've ruled that if (such algorithms) are printed in a book, we have not controlled them, but if the same algorithm appears in electronic form, on diskette or the Internet, we do seek to control it," he says. "We've tried to maintain a policy balancing the needs of privacy and e-commerce with the needs of national security."
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I believe there was also an article on the possibly restriction of the solitaire algorithm (Cryptonomicon) in USA Today last week...
The microkernel debate has come and gone... check out the appendix in "Open Sources" to read the original comp.os.minix postings about it.
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Mebbe that's why they added the /. box to their page -- saves them the trouble of updating their own news. :)