Toshiba laptops have been a royall pissoff for me for nearly two years. I used to swear by Toshiba until they went with this legacy free BIOS bullshit. For me, they're history. I swear by Dell products now.
You know, I can't fathom why people like the RIAA dares to test the Internet's might. Invariably, idealistic folks like that tend to get crushed by the distributed response of a million tireless souls. Unlike this here steamroller of an Internet, at some point the RIAA will either run out of patience, money or resources. Or all three.
One Egyptian critic, Wael Abdel Fatah, said: "The press launched a campaign to stop showing the movie, saying that it reflects Zionist ideas, and promotes Jewish and Zionist beliefs.
And I say bullshit to that. You say Zion because the film says Zion. Learn to read between the lines, Fatah. Despite all the religiously pluralistic razzle dazzle the brothers threw in to keep the nickpicks guessing, the dominating religious influence in it is Buddhism, right down to Neo abandoning discursive thought (mushin) and freeing his mind. In Buddhism, they call a free mind a boddhisatva.
Sell it along with all your games and download the entire romset and an emulator as thanks to Nintendo for rendering their classic GBA deprecated. Gotta tell ya, Boycott Advance 0.28 works damn near flawlessly.
My hope would be that at this point PNG can stand on its own technical merits, rather then on ideological merits
The word is "than", not "then". And while I'm here, it's "definitely", not "definately", "your" is not a substitute for "you are" and vice versa, and we certainly don't make plurals of words by tacking on an apostrophe followed by an S. We also don't use the word "where" in place of "were". We also spell "you" fully rather than using "U", and we should read more.
Unreal sucks along with its horribly small player models and sub-par game engine. This game does not realize there's beauty in simplicity Rather, it's everything-extravagant, and that my friends, makes it lame.
Yo, I've seen the movie three times in theatres already, with a fourth viewing slated for the upcoming IMAX release. Post the link, because I'VE EARNED IT.
That law should also make it mandatory for employers to manually acknowledge they've seen your resume, by electronic or postal mail, even if they acknowledge with a fill-in-the-blank form letter. Nothing is more insulting to a person interested in working for an organization than to be ignored. Companies ought to be grateful.
Funny. I'm probably closer to anything remotely resembling a Jedi than ninety-nine percent of those fools. The Jedi are just pretend samurai; I study the real thing. Eishin iaijutsu (iaido).
P.S. British Columbia is overrun with crazies. No surprise there.
I theorized this over fifteen years ago as a pre-teen. I said precisely what the article is saying. If infinity is all-encompassing, then there must be an infinite number of planets out there with one carbon copy of every one of us, doing precisely what we're doing right now.
If missing axles are a mistake, then the black cat scene in the first film ought to be one too. Remember, you're dealing with a construct where Earth-based rules of nature are the exception. Call it what you want -- a production fuckup or intentional ommission, but a movie designed to question itself and normality has the producers covered in a case like this, save of course for spontaneously combuting film reels.
The Warchowski (sp) brothers have demonstrated they're smart folks with a penchant for unheard of nickpickiness. I'm sure they themselves went through the film with fine-toothed comb, noticed the omission and said "hey, what's a truck without axels in a matrix? Normal!"
Microsoft lawyers underestimate the ingenuity of good software crackers. Before long, a good cracker will reverse engineer the software and circulate a key generator based on the software's key encoding algorithm. That's generally the bad thing about serial number based software; they're predictable.
Probably the next best thing since Matrix. Hardly a single journalist raved about this film to even a fraction of an extent compared to Matrix. I don't recall it making any top ten lists for best movies of 2002, nor do I remember it winning any kind of award. Heck, I don't think it was even reviewed here on Slashdot.
Dell never ceases to amaze me. Until recently I was a diehard Toshiba supporter, that is until their Canadian division dropped the ball on their choice of adopting the Legacy Free BIOS design (bad for Linux) and issues surrounding desktop processors in their notebooks.
I'd written that article two months before I decided on a Dell Inspiron 8200 complete with a 64 meg GeForce440 and all its UXGA glory. Runs Q3A in a full-out 1600x1200 with nary a hitch. Typing this article on that same 8200 now actually.
Dell truly knows how to cater to geek needs. They're a progressive minded company with cool commercials and damn good laptops. So long as they maintain their high standards, I'll be a customer of theirs for awhile to come.
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Popular music sucks anyway.
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Good. Maybe IBM could move against Disney's will and do the Tron sequel Pixar hasn't bothered to do up to now.
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Toshiba laptops have been a royall pissoff for me for nearly two years. I used to swear by Toshiba until they went with this legacy free BIOS bullshit. For me, they're history. I swear by Dell products now.
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The MCP smiles upon me! A joyous day indeed! Catch me around as "Inode", the same Inode as on the Tron PKMUD I used to frequent back in the day.
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Galaxies? Who cares. I'm waiting for Tron 2.0. Sooner or later, someone's gonna hack Galaxies and fuck everyone up anyway.
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You know, I can't fathom why people like the RIAA dares to test the Internet's might. Invariably, idealistic folks like that tend to get crushed by the distributed response of a million tireless souls. Unlike this here steamroller of an Internet, at some point the RIAA will either run out of patience, money or resources. Or all three.
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From the BBC article:
One Egyptian critic, Wael Abdel Fatah, said: "The press launched a campaign to stop showing the movie, saying that it reflects Zionist ideas, and promotes Jewish and Zionist beliefs.
And I say bullshit to that. You say Zion because the film says Zion. Learn to read between the lines, Fatah. Despite all the religiously pluralistic razzle dazzle the brothers threw in to keep the nickpicks guessing, the dominating religious influence in it is Buddhism, right down to Neo abandoning discursive thought (mushin) and freeing his mind. In Buddhism, they call a free mind a boddhisatva.
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Sell it along with all your games and download the entire romset and an emulator as thanks to Nintendo for rendering their classic GBA deprecated. Gotta tell ya, Boycott Advance 0.28 works damn near flawlessly.
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My hope would be that at this point PNG can stand on its own technical merits, rather then on ideological merits
The word is "than", not "then". And while I'm here, it's "definitely", not "definately", "your" is not a substitute for "you are" and vice versa, and we certainly don't make plurals of words by tacking on an apostrophe followed by an S. We also don't use the word "where" in place of "were". We also spell "you" fully rather than using "U", and we should read more.
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Unreal sucks along with its horribly small player models and sub-par game engine. This game does not realize there's beauty in simplicity Rather, it's everything-extravagant, and that my friends, makes it lame.
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Yo, I've seen the movie three times in theatres already, with a fourth viewing slated for the upcoming IMAX release. Post the link, because I'VE EARNED IT.
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That law should also make it mandatory for employers to manually acknowledge they've seen your resume, by electronic or postal mail, even if they acknowledge with a fill-in-the-blank form letter. Nothing is more insulting to a person interested in working for an organization than to be ignored. Companies ought to be grateful.
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architect@matrix$ su - /home/zion /pron /pron /usr/bin/neo /pron /usr/bin/trinity /home/architect /usr/bin/persephone > /dev/NULL
Enter password: *******
root@matrix# rm -rf
root@matrix# mkdir
root@matrix# wget http://goatse.cx/hello.jpg
root@matrix# mv hello.jpg
root@matrix# mv
root@matrix# mv
root@matrix# mv
root@matrix# exit
architect@matrix$ exit
Connection closed by foreign host.
Funny. I'm probably closer to anything remotely resembling a Jedi than ninety-nine percent of those fools. The Jedi are just pretend samurai; I study the real thing. Eishin iaijutsu (iaido).
P.S. British Columbia is overrun with crazies. No surprise there.
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London Daily Mirror thinks they're the first to review Reloaded. I'm thinking Time Magazine beat them to it.
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Yawn.
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I theorized this over fifteen years ago as a pre-teen. I said precisely what the article is saying. If infinity is all-encompassing, then there must be an infinite number of planets out there with one carbon copy of every one of us, doing precisely what we're doing right now.
Yay me!
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If missing axles are a mistake, then the black cat scene in the first film ought to be one too. Remember, you're dealing with a construct where Earth-based rules of nature are the exception. Call it what you want -- a production fuckup or intentional ommission, but a movie designed to question itself and normality has the producers covered in a case like this, save of course for spontaneously combuting film reels.
The Warchowski (sp) brothers have demonstrated they're smart folks with a penchant for unheard of nickpickiness. I'm sure they themselves went through the film with fine-toothed comb, noticed the omission and said "hey, what's a truck without axels in a matrix? Normal!"
Free your mind!
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Embedded. Please no, not that word again!
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Tell you something.
Microsoft lawyers underestimate the ingenuity of good software crackers. Before long, a good cracker will reverse engineer the software and circulate a key generator based on the software's key encoding algorithm. That's generally the bad thing about serial number based software; they're predictable.
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In case y'all didn't know, SuSE is Slackware's long long lost bastard child. It sprung directly from it just as Redhat squirted out Mandrake.
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Probably the next best thing since Matrix. Hardly a single journalist raved about this film to even a fraction of an extent compared to Matrix. I don't recall it making any top ten lists for best movies of 2002, nor do I remember it winning any kind of award. Heck, I don't think it was even reviewed here on Slashdot.
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Ain't my war. I'm Canadian. Blame me.
Blasphemy! How dare you take the good TRON's name in vain!
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Dell never ceases to amaze me. Until recently I was a diehard Toshiba supporter, that is until their Canadian division dropped the ball on their choice of adopting the Legacy Free BIOS design (bad for Linux) and issues surrounding desktop processors in their notebooks.
I'd written that article two months before I decided on a Dell Inspiron 8200 complete with a 64 meg GeForce440 and all its UXGA glory. Runs Q3A in a full-out 1600x1200 with nary a hitch. Typing this article on that same 8200 now actually.
Dell truly knows how to cater to geek needs. They're a progressive minded company with cool commercials and damn good laptops. So long as they maintain their high standards, I'll be a customer of theirs for awhile to come.
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