I don't live in the US; I'm sure the price has been kept artificially low for you in the run-up to the election -- can't have a recession starting, can we? Out here in the rest of the world, we don't have any such luck, and Bush and his friends are cashing up on their self-created Gulf crisis.
I was just pointing out the hypocrisy of claiming that Kerry was out to enrich himself, while Bush wasn't. They're all in it for corporate interests and not to "protect the American people", why vote against Kerry on that basis?
we have to assure our more senior executives that these boxes have the same level of security and protection as the commercial products... a race to the bottom is in the offing. Centrelink won't install Linux until it's just as susceptible to viruses, works and hackers as Windows is.:)
The LotR trilogy was mostly true to the original -- well, the 5% or so of it that was actually filmable. I'd be expecting a *true* translation to last 30 or 40 hours.
This probably coincides with the banning of TV car advertisements portraying unsafe or unrealistic driving. (I guess they felt driving games were just another advertising channel for the car companies, which isn't too far from the truth these days.)
Don't worry, "Honest John" Howard is doing all he can to "strengthen" Medicare, which would be why he's paying so much of the taxpayers' money to the private health care fund shareholders, and doing nothing to reduce public hospital queues.
Before we know it, we'll have an American-level health system too. (Rich == healthy)
The Liberals cut the Commonwealth Dental Health scheme (total money gained from that move, $100m) and then spent 4 times that amount (again, of our own money) telling us why we needed a GST. At the time, I was a very poor student with bad teeth. Dental pain certainly focusses the mind at the ballot box. Still, the Aussie people have voted the bastard back in again, so they obviously deserve every minute of the next three years, including the housing market bubble bursting and the inevitable interest rate rises.
Ironically, if Nixon had won that election it would have been due to fraud his campaign was involved in... and he eventually went down for covering up crimes which turned out to be completely irrelevant to the 1972 result, which was a Republican landslide.
"There are some functionalities that can only be done a certain way," he said. "Names are going to be similar or identical because there are only certain ways to do things."
Quote from Linus responding to SCO, isn't it?
(Of course, he was talking about POSIX implementations, where source compatability pretty much mandates these similarities, so that's a completely different bowl of fruit.:)
What, aren't 'new' and 'cool' good enough for you?
Enough to have me salivating with consumerist delight. After all, who wants 'old' and 'warm'?
But seriously, that story wasn't really much better than "OMG K3wL! Ch3ck 0ut $tu44", at least in terms of actually informing me about anything. Anything at all.
"This last week the CMU Robotics Institute showed off some of the stuff they were doing. They were showing the new stuff they were working on. I with two of my coworks drop by there and we got this video of it, so you can see some of the cool stuff they are doing."
Can we have some adjectives? Please? I understand they're doing 'stuff', and I imagine it has to do with robots, but what?
And what's a cowork? Is this some sort of Tolkien/Gary Larson crossover?
Her secret to longevity -- good genes and good luck. She was a statistical necessity, if it hadn't been here it would have been someone else.
I feel sorry for the (47yo) guy who agreed to pay an annuity in exchange for her house when she died -- she outlived him (she was 90 when she agreed to this).
If they're all open source (which I think they are), you might have to get your hands dirty, but it's probably doable. You could probably find others to help, as the crossover between programmers and users of alternate keysets is probably higher than the average.
I never really got into 'hjkl' as navigation keys, as even when playing the ports on my Amiga 500 I had a numberpad to use instead:) (Those keys were used in the early Unix editors for left-up-down-right, weren't they, thus the adoption by the games?)
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By global standards, the parties are centre-right and far-right though. So maybe they should be light and dark blue?
I don't live in the US; I'm sure the price has been kept artificially low for you in the run-up to the election -- can't have a recession starting, can we? Out here in the rest of the world, we don't have any such luck, and Bush and his friends are cashing up on their self-created Gulf crisis.
I was just pointing out the hypocrisy of claiming that Kerry was out to enrich himself, while Bush wasn't. They're all in it for corporate interests and not to "protect the American people", why vote against Kerry on that basis?
Do you think we'd be mucking around in Iraq if we knew where to find terrorists?
You've gone over there to make some more, I'd thought. Can't have a war on terrorism without terrorists, after all...
Vote Bush for a better, safer America. Vote Kerry for a wealthier Kerry.
Have you seen the price of oil recently?
we have to assure our more senior executives that these boxes have the same level of security and protection as the commercial products ... a race to the bottom is in the offing. Centrelink won't install Linux until it's just as susceptible to viruses, works and hackers as Windows is. :)
gladly feed us to a pack of dogs if the US asked for it.
See Hicks and Habib. Evidence? Charges? Fair trial? Nah, just keep 'em as long as ya want mate, she'll be right...
The LotR trilogy was mostly true to the original -- well, the 5% or so of it that was actually filmable. I'd be expecting a *true* translation to last 30 or 40 hours.
This probably coincides with the banning of TV car advertisements portraying unsafe or unrealistic driving. (I guess they felt driving games were just another advertising channel for the car companies, which isn't too far from the truth these days.)
These bands have the highest fan to talent ratio in the history of popular music.
:)
You may be forgetting New Kids On The Block and Vanilla Ice.
I'm sure there are completely talentless "musicians" who were just as popular if you go further back too.
Yes, and the version printed in the fourth issue of Wired is linked to in TFA.
Don't worry, "Honest John" Howard is doing all he can to "strengthen" Medicare, which would be why he's paying so much of the taxpayers' money to the private health care fund shareholders, and doing nothing to reduce public hospital queues.
Before we know it, we'll have an American-level health system too. (Rich == healthy)
The Liberals cut the Commonwealth Dental Health scheme (total money gained from that move, $100m) and then spent 4 times that amount (again, of our own money) telling us why we needed a GST. At the time, I was a very poor student with bad teeth. Dental pain certainly focusses the mind at the ballot box. Still, the Aussie people have voted the bastard back in again, so they obviously deserve every minute of the next three years, including the housing market bubble bursting and the inevitable interest rate rises.
And for the record, it's pretty easy to see over, under, through, or around an SUV if you're driving one yourself.
Thanks for considering the rest of us.
Sturgeon's Law states that 90% of SF is shit.
Sturgeon's Law was actually a response to the observation that "90% of SF is crud": "90% of *everything* is crud".
Well, >99% of software is.
To paraphrase, Sturgeon was an optimist.
They've paid for the voting system, they haven't paid for the OSS.
Soon it might be like the RIAA and CD burners... "Well, you have a *very* fast processor, so we treat it as 32 processors".
Ironically, if Nixon had won that election it would have been due to fraud his campaign was involved in... and he eventually went down for covering up crimes which turned out to be completely irrelevant to the 1972 result, which was a Republican landslide.
"There are some functionalities that can only be done a certain way," he said. "Names are going to be similar or identical because there are only certain ways to do things."
:)
Quote from Linus responding to SCO, isn't it?
(Of course, he was talking about POSIX implementations, where source compatability pretty much mandates these similarities, so that's a completely different bowl of fruit.
What, aren't 'new' and 'cool' good enough for you?
...
Enough to have me salivating with consumerist delight. After all, who wants 'old' and 'warm'?
But seriously, that story wasn't really much better than "OMG K3wL! Ch3ck 0ut $tu44", at least in terms of actually informing me about anything. Anything at all.
Some people are never happy with anything
Sorry, I'll get back in my box now.
"This last week the CMU Robotics Institute showed off some of the stuff they were doing. They were showing the new stuff they were working on. I with two of my coworks drop by there and we got this video of it, so you can see some of the cool stuff they are doing."
Can we have some adjectives? Please? I understand they're doing 'stuff', and I imagine it has to do with robots, but what?
And what's a cowork? Is this some sort of Tolkien/Gary Larson crossover?
Her secret to longevity -- good genes and good luck. She was a statistical necessity, if it hadn't been here it would have been someone else.
I feel sorry for the (47yo) guy who agreed to pay an annuity in exchange for her house when she died -- she outlived him (she was 90 when she agreed to this).
If they're all open source (which I think they are), you might have to get your hands dirty, but it's probably doable. You could probably find others to help, as the crossover between programmers and users of alternate keysets is probably higher than the average.
:) (Those keys were used in the early Unix editors for left-up-down-right, weren't they, thus the adoption by the games?)
I never really got into 'hjkl' as navigation keys, as even when playing the ports on my Amiga 500 I had a numberpad to use instead
Can't you remap the keys in most roguelike games?
And here was me thinking that they have Osama stashed away somewhere, just waiting for his big day...
(Still, with Virgin Galactic I'm prepared to forgive him...)
Wait until the ships are up before you do that. Until that point, it's just hype.
Still, I'm hoping it's part of the downward progression in price that will see me in space before I'm too old to make the trip...