because of Austrialia's progressive censorship policies, fans were able to enjoy true color commentary from like minded fans.
I can't believe anyone could describe Australia's censorship regime as progressive, unless they were from Iran or China. Have you guys heard anything of the Mysterious Skin debacle or the Ken park disgrace, or the fact that despite the greater proportion of gamers being adults, games in Australia can be rated no higher than MA15+ ?
Actually I get it now. Look at the misspelling. They meant Austria!
I guess I should know better than to enter into the gun debate. What is that line out of "Pattern Recognition" referring to it being something Americans and non-Americans each wondering why the other just doesn't "get it?"
I'm glad I live in Australia. You know that our rate of murder (per capita) is less than a quarter of the USA's? You know why that is? It is because we don't have this screwed up attitude that says because someone entered our home we have the right to end their life. It is because we don't have this screwed up idea that "defendin' mah family" means killing a fellow human being.
It makes me sad that those people can't see how such an attitude diminishes themselves as a person, and diminishes society along with them.
One more thing before I'm done. Many people use the "murderer in the night" as a justification for their beliefs. This is know as a fallacy of false vividness, where a colourful description is used to avoid confronting facts. Firstly, non-violent burglaries outweigh violent ones by about a bazillion to one, so if someone has broken into your house, a non-lethal response is most likely to be appropriate. Secondly, most people are murdered by people they know, not strangers in the night. And of that group, a fair proportion are family members.
So go ahead, buy a gun and shoot the stranger at the door if it makes you happy. Just ask the people who accidentally shot their son/daughter sneaking home after a late date if it was all worthwhile.
Anybody have any recommendations in regards to breeds of dogs that are insanely protective of the family and *won't* attack Junior if the dog's ears are being pulled?
Asking which breeds of dogs are predisposed towards certain types of complex behaviours is like asking whether blacks or Asians are more genetically likely to join gangs. This thinking leads to insanities like Bred-Specific Legislation.
There is much dog ownership information on the web, but I'll give you some important points.
Research your breeds, particularly in terms of temperament and needs. Some dogs need a lot more physical exercise that others. Don't get an active dog and expect it to sit calmly in the back yard all day. Don't get a long hair dog and complain about having to vacuum continuously.
Get the dog as a puppy. Take it to puppy obedience/socialisation school. Get it used to the sort of handling you want it to tolerate, e.g. ear pulling etc.
Take the dog to obedience school when it is six months old or so. Teach it using positive reinforcement methods (e.g. rewards), NOT negative reinforcement methods.
If you want the dog to be good around children, let it spend lots of time around children.
Don't leave a dog unsupervised around small children. Children can be astonishingly cruel to dogs.
Particularly in its formative years, the dog will pick up behaviours from you. If you react with fear or hostility to strangers, it will too. Remember that Aunty Dot is a stranger to the dog if it hasn't met her before.
Above all, remember a dog is for life, not just for Christmas!
I will never understand people like you, who are bothered by the average person having the right to defend themself when their life is clearly being threatened.
This is and endless debate, and I should probably know better than to try and change someone's mind, but here goes anyway.
Someone breaks into your house. He is armed, you are not. You lose some valuables.
Someone breaks into your house. You are armed, he is armed. You lose nothing, he loses his life.
As one comment has already noted, reflex refers to the reflection of the image to the viewfinder. The rest of the story is that the relected image gets projected on a screen for eye-level viewing of the image. Non-slr digital cameras always have an eye-level optical viewfinder. So what you see in the viewfinder is totally separate from the image being photographed.
I was under the impression that the "reflex" in SLR referred to the reflex action of it flipping out of the way when the shutter is released.
Also I am puzzled by your second comment. Many P&S digital cameras do use a separate optical viewfinder, but the higher-end ones invariably use an electronic viewfinder, which looks through the lens.
Equating ipf/iptables with Firewall-1 etc is like confusing a Hertz rental truck with DHL.
Not everyone needs Firewall-1. But as the number of firewalls you manage goes up, the management features of Firewall-1 really come into their own.
Firewall-1 also assists in reaching the desired level of abstraction where your ruleset stops describing your network topology and starts describing your network policy.
The difference is hard to appreciate until you have worked with both for a while.
You may wish to consider the (Asahi) Pentax Spotmatic rather than the K-1000 if you want to be really cheap. A K-1000 is basically a lobotomised Spotmatic F with a bayonet mount rather than M-42 screw mount.
The Spotmatic body has depth of field preview that the K-1000 lacks. Also, Pentax Super/SMC Takumar screw mount lenses are cheap, excellent and plentiful on eBay.
I loved Gattaca, so I'd almost be tempted to put it at no. 1, although I loved Blade Runner as well. They should have picked Mad Max over Mad Max II (The Road Warrior), it was a far better film.
For me, "Strange Days" is a large and glaring omission.
Matrix is way overrated, IMHO. And what happened to The Running Man?:)
It seems every time a Hollywood script calls for an Australian accent, we always seem to get some yank sounding vaguely cockney, but saying "cobber" and "mate" a lot.
Maybe I can save some fellow Caldera users some time...
Despite what the above article states, it looks like there is no Caldera OpenLinux support yet. The go-gnome script exits with a message stating that the version of rpm Caldera is using is too old, and to download the packages manually.
However, when trying to get a list of Caldera packages from the web page, it breaks with a "file not found" message. Looking at the directories manually shows that although a "distributions/Caldera" directory exists, it is empty except for an.xml file.
Maybe HelixCode should remove Caldera from the list of distributions they claim to support until such time as such support is ready!
Best strategy? StarCraft is a very pretty and well executed game, with nicely balanced sides and a great storyline.
However it has no 3D terrain, no true line of sight, sucky limited resource model, no water units, no sub units, planes don't land, maps aren't big enough for good 8 player games, and you have to micromanage constantly.
Time to acknowledge the one true greatest RTS of all time... Total Annihilation. I would pay good money for a Linux port of TA. How 'bout it, Loki? Linux port of TA Gold edition (ie, including Battle Tactics and Core Contingency) for $50?
(Well, maybe not the greatest of all time. After all, Homeworld is out now. Just gotta wait for XFree4 and Loki can port that too.:)
Sun may charge extra for the compiler, but you can head straight over to www.sunfreeware.com -- a site that Sun sponsors -- and download gcc/gdb in binary, ready to run, Solaris pkg form.
Actually, the poster said he was running Debian, which means/usr/X11R6/bin/X is not a link to the appropriate X server, it is a small program that checks/etc/X11/Xserver (I think?) and runs the appropriate Xserver.
So fixing the situation is not a case of relinking, its a case of reinstalling Xbase.
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Vista ain't done until Apple won't run!
By the way, you quoted Matthew 6:1-5, not Mark 6:1-5. Hope this helps.
Actually I get it now. Look at the misspelling. They meant Austria!
If the Australian experience is anything to go by, the answer is "Pie warmers".
I'm glad I live in Australia. You know that our rate of murder (per capita) is less than a quarter of the USA's? You know why that is? It is because we don't have this screwed up attitude that says because someone entered our home we have the right to end their life. It is because we don't have this screwed up idea that "defendin' mah family" means killing a fellow human being.
It makes me sad that those people can't see how such an attitude diminishes themselves as a person, and diminishes society along with them.
One more thing before I'm done. Many people use the "murderer in the night" as a justification for their beliefs. This is know as a fallacy of false vividness, where a colourful description is used to avoid confronting facts. Firstly, non-violent burglaries outweigh violent ones by about a bazillion to one, so if someone has broken into your house, a non-lethal response is most likely to be appropriate. Secondly, most people are murdered by people they know, not strangers in the night. And of that group, a fair proportion are family members.
So go ahead, buy a gun and shoot the stranger at the door if it makes you happy. Just ask the people who accidentally shot their son/daughter sneaking home after a late date if it was all worthwhile.
Asking which breeds of dogs are predisposed towards certain types of complex behaviours is like asking whether blacks or Asians are more genetically likely to join gangs. This thinking leads to insanities like Bred-Specific Legislation.
There is much dog ownership information on the web, but I'll give you some important points.
This is and endless debate, and I should probably know better than to try and change someone's mind, but here goes anyway.
Someone breaks into your house. He is armed, you are not. You lose some valuables.
Someone breaks into your house. You are armed, he is armed. You lose nothing, he loses his life.
Now tell me which is the greater evil.
Australian Capital Territory, and the capital city is Canberra, you ignorant American.
You need a Matias Tactile Pro Keyboard. A little expensive, but worth it.
I was under the impression that the "reflex" in SLR referred to the reflex action of it flipping out of the way when the shutter is released.
Also I am puzzled by your second comment. Many P&S digital cameras do use a separate optical viewfinder, but the higher-end ones invariably use an electronic viewfinder, which looks through the lens.
Not everyone needs Firewall-1. But as the number of firewalls you manage goes up, the management features of Firewall-1 really come into their own.
Firewall-1 also assists in reaching the desired level of abstraction where your ruleset stops describing your network topology and starts describing your network policy.
The difference is hard to appreciate until you have worked with both for a while.
If you want to move to Australia, you could at least learn to spell it.
You may wish to consider the (Asahi) Pentax Spotmatic rather than the K-1000 if you want to be really cheap. A K-1000 is basically a lobotomised Spotmatic F with a bayonet mount rather than M-42 screw mount.
The Spotmatic body has depth of field preview that the K-1000 lacks. Also, Pentax Super/SMC Takumar screw mount lenses are cheap, excellent and plentiful on eBay.
I loved Gattaca, so I'd almost be tempted to put it at no. 1, although I loved Blade Runner as well. They should have picked Mad Max over Mad Max II (The Road Warrior), it was a far better film.
:)
For me, "Strange Days" is a large and glaring omission.
Matrix is way overrated, IMHO. And what happened to The Running Man?
If OS X likes Linux servers so much, why can't I get the damn thing to mount a NFS volume?
(One possible answer is that I'm an idiot.)
I think Donald Becker summarised it much better:
The RTL8129 series is a low-cost design, and thus should be considered a "connectivity solution" rather a performance-oriented product.
You think you've got it bad ..
It seems every time a Hollywood script calls for an Australian accent, we always seem to get some yank sounding vaguely cockney, but saying "cobber" and "mate" a lot.
cf The end of "Point Break" for instance.
Maybe I can save some fellow Caldera users some time ...
.xml file.
Despite what the above article states, it looks like there is no Caldera OpenLinux support yet. The go-gnome script exits with a message stating that the version of rpm Caldera is using is too old, and to download the packages manually.
However, when trying to get a list of Caldera packages from the web page, it breaks with a "file not found" message. Looking at the directories manually shows that although a "distributions/Caldera" directory exists, it is empty except for an
Maybe HelixCode should remove Caldera from the list of distributions they claim to support until such time as such support is ready!
Best strategy? StarCraft is a very pretty and well executed game, with nicely balanced sides and a great storyline.
However it has no 3D terrain, no true line of sight, sucky limited resource model, no water units, no sub units, planes don't land, maps aren't big enough for good 8 player games, and you have to micromanage constantly.
Time to acknowledge the one true greatest RTS of all time ... Total Annihilation. I would pay good money for a Linux port of TA. How 'bout it, Loki? Linux port of TA Gold edition (ie, including Battle Tactics and Core Contingency) for $50?
(Well, maybe not the greatest of all time. After all, Homeworld is out now. Just gotta wait for XFree4 and Loki can port that too. :)
Sun may charge extra for the compiler, but you can head straight over to www.sunfreeware.com -- a site that Sun sponsors -- and download gcc/gdb in binary, ready to run, Solaris pkg form.
Have you considered that perhaps English is not the writer's first language?
Actually, the poster said he was running Debian, which means /usr/X11R6/bin/X is not a link to the appropriate X server, it is a small program that checks /etc/X11/Xserver (I think?) and runs the appropriate Xserver.
So fixing the situation is not a case of relinking, its a case of reinstalling Xbase.