Hellcat Records has a lot of really good bands. lots of ska and punk. hell, often i'll consider buying a cd just because it says Hellcat on it. (so far i've not been disappointed by anything they've produced)
as far as epitaph goes, there's still some good bands on epitaph and many of them seem perfectly happy with where they are. I've never heard anyone in Rancid have anything bad to say about Bret or Epitaph. While i dont read a whole lot of punk mags and zines lately, the only person i have heard say anything bad was Dexter from Offspring. (and his problem sounded more like he and bret just dont like each other).
>You obviously are not aware of whomever is the securty authorities in charge at Novell.
i'm guessing from the way you phrased this, you arent aware of those people, aside from knowing someone must exist in that capacity, either.
what he asked for was "any respected security authority" not "anyone who has a job description involving security". can you cite anyone who is generally considered an authority on security who supports your views? (i.e. references to papers or interviews where they make statements supporting your case)
personally, i dont know enough about the subject to say that nobody who is an expert supports you. but i'm more inclined to ignore your views when the only support you can manage is a vague reference to someone whose qualifications arent known, even to you. if you think this supports or validates your position, you should probably take some informal logic classes and learn how to build a proper argument.
>In other words, semantic tricks based on religious beliefs. there were no semantic tricks in his statement. he merely said he wasnt aware of any acknowledged experts in the field who support your position. i would assume that you arent aware of any either, or you would have used them to support your case.
your continued reference to "religious beliefs" and the implications you are trying to make with that phrase does fall into a category of logical fallacy though.
if i recall correctly (and it's been a while so i might not), Mark Hamill's contract was for 4 movies. 3 as Luke and 1 as an unspecified other character.
I dont think we'll be seeing him in the next one, but maybe he'll be Anakin in #3.
of course, it's also possible he'll be sitting next to Willow at the pod races when Anakin shows up to free the slaves.
personally, i think i'll wait until the next movie comes out before i start worrying about it.
that makes sense, but unless the last Sith Lord killed himself, they wouldnt be extinct in that scenario. (of course, they werent extinct so that's mostly a moot point)
I'm not sure about Yoda's comment though. the Jedi Knights can only train one apprentice at a time also. I'm sure it's possible (even reasonable) for there to be a master without an apprentice (Darth Sidious currently fits this bill)
and at some point the apprentice should become a master and gain his own apprentice... i guess in this scenario, Maul was not yet a Sith Lord, but was close to mastery.
i guess since the Council thought the Sith Lords to be wiped out, they assumed one Sith Lord would have made a priority of finding an apprentice. So it was safe for them to assume there were at least 2 of the Sith around.
I do wonder how Palpatine manages to mask his presence and his connection to the force from the Jedi Council though. I also wonder how many Sith Lords wished to be Jedi, but were found too late in life to be able to do so. (thus they took the easier and more available route).
if i recall correctly, the two characters looked very different, but that doesnt necessarily mean anything. I do remember there was some background info given on Maul in the game, but i dont remember what exactly was said...I guess i'll have to go play it again and find out.
I used to live there and used to work for Koyote Internet (the isp they specifically mention) and while koyote has some great equipment and offers isdn and adsl at good rates, commerce itself has such a terrible phone system that you cannot get over a 28.8 connection and isdn isnt supported by the phone co. (koyote got around this by housing the server is a better place).
and TAMU-Commerce (i went there) has incredibly bad problems with it's lan and with it's user/modem ratio. they did start wiring the dorms for ethernet, but if you had to dial in, good luck. they actually instituted a 20 minute limit at one point. (after 20 mins they'd kick your connection).
roadrunner also requires you to have cable service (at least the basic package) and the rates for roadrunner service vary depending on what level of cable service you have.
i talked to them last night about it when getting my cable scheduled for hookup....with the classic package (all the standard channels + scifi, history, discover, etc) and HBO, roadrunner is gonna cost me something like $60/month.
if they can fix their problems with their network (they already moved the news server to a unix box...now if they'll just move the rest of it off NT), i might actually keep the service...but for now it's just to tide me over until ADSL is available to my apt. (which the phone guy says will be around the end of this year).
...just in case other people from austin might be interested in that stuff.
you'd be surprised. there's a lot of internet related business in austin and it's a pretty wired town.
having said that, i also have (and do) spent a lot of time in dallas and it's got a lot of telecommunications and computer industry too. i'm a little surprised they arent higher than 10.
the one that surprises me the least is New Orleans being almost at the bottom. (i spend a lot of time there too) must be all that partying...
it's kind of amusing that Washington D.C. scored so high, but the majority of our elected officials are so techno-illiterate. course...i suppose it got bonus points since the inventor of the internet is the v.p. right?
But is it Mac -> Linux -> Win because of install base, or varying hardware? Is Linux bigger than Mac already? On the desktop, I mean?
i imagine that the number of linux users who will be interested/have-machines-capable of running the test is greater than the number of mac users falling into that category. (this isnt a slam on mac.) id also probably has a decent guesstimate of how many downloads of the test for each os too. (they can look at the download rates for the linux ports for quake2 and the mac sales for quake...though i'm sure the mac number would need to be adjusted upwards considering the increase in sales from the imac) probably your other guess is a good one too...i would think it'd be easier to find non-hardware specific bugs in the apple version.
Seems like a really sensible release scheme to me, too. I would assume once the bugs get hammered out, all the final releases would be boxed and shipped at the same time.
every reference i can recall from anyone at id stated that all 3 versions would be released simultaneously.
>1.It must appeal to the average person's prurient interest in sex; >2.depict sexual conduct in a "patently offensive way" as defined by community standards; and >3.taken as a whole, lack serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.
that third one is the real "it's obscene" killer. people have been trying to get magazines on the obscenity thing for a long time but as long as playboy, et.al. have articles about politics and science, or publish quality short stories, the community standards are irrelevent.
(this is a good thing in my opinion. if that third bit wasnt there, i know what my high school would have used for the homecoming bonfire)
it matters in the same why that skinheads arent racists....but in the media they are.
so now anyone who is a skinhead is assumed to be a bigot and a mindlessly violent a$$hole.
of course, you have to be wary of the "almost have a clue" reporters too....to view reports where the reporter acknowledges non-racist skins, you would get the impression that it's a new phenomenon.
skins are all nazis, hackers are all criminals, encryption needs a backdoor for your protection, hiv infected needles are hidden in the seats of all major movie theatres.... i read it in a newspaper so it must be true.
well...all the info i've seen for the TNT2 shows that it beats the Voodoo3.
that's what i would expect though. when you consider that the voodoo technology's foundation is at least a year older than what their competitors are creating, that doesnt surprise me.
i expect 3dfx to come out with a new chipset not founded on the voodoo chipset and i expect it will rock. i also expect it to fix all the shortcomings that resulted when the industry finally outpaced the voodoo technology.
and then, in a year or two, they'll be beaten by a competitor again and it'll all start over.
>>Yeah, it's *my* business, so I shouldn't have to pay fair wages, or give lunches and coffee breaks, give my employees a day off on state holidays, etc., right?
> Nope. You don't have to. Most employees would rather work someplace that does offer some or all of the perks you mentioned, but some employees would be happy to work with none of the above.
uh....yes, you do have to. there are laws requiring you to do so. (you know..minimum wage and all that?) and if you think the market would support decent wages for unskilled labour without those laws, take a peek in a history book at why those laws were created in the first place.
>>When you're in business, you have a responsibility to play fair and abide by legislation. Microsoft obviously hasn't and doesn't, and they deserve whatever they have coming to them.
>What is "playing fair" and what isn't is certainly a subjective opinion. I have no qualms with abiding legislation, provided the legislation is reasonable (and anti-trust laws -- and many many others -- certainly are not).
what is "playing fair" is determined by law for businesses. if you are in business, you obey the applicable laws. if you dont and you get caught, you suck it up. if it's a law and is unreasonable, you work to change the law...but until it is changed you abide by it. (because if you dont and you get caught, you suck it up).
if all the insurance companies in your state got together and agreed on some pricing that would allow them to artifically inflate your insurance costs while decreasing your benefits, would you still be opposed to these laws?
remember, those laws exist because wealthy businesses abused their competitors, their customers, and their employees. what makes you think that that wont happen again if the laws werent there?
in Austin, Texas there is a movie theatre that you can get a complete meal and a wide variety of alcohol at. they have a decent import section too. (and the food is good)
they also have cool theme night type events. (like an akira kurosawa film festival)
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hell, often i'll consider buying a cd just because it says Hellcat on it. (so far i've not been disappointed by anything they've produced)
as far as epitaph goes, there's still some good bands on epitaph and many of them seem perfectly happy with where they are. I've never heard anyone in Rancid have anything bad to say about Bret or Epitaph. While i dont read a whole lot of punk mags and zines lately, the only person i have heard say anything bad was Dexter from Offspring. (and his problem sounded more like he and bret just dont like each other).
>You obviously are not aware of whomever is the securty authorities in charge at Novell.
i'm guessing from the way you phrased this, you arent aware of those people, aside from knowing someone must exist in that capacity, either.
what he asked for was "any respected security authority" not "anyone who has a job description involving security".
can you cite anyone who is generally considered an authority on security who supports your views? (i.e. references to papers or interviews where they make statements supporting your case)
personally, i dont know enough about the subject to say that nobody who is an expert supports you. but i'm more inclined to ignore your views when the only support you can manage is a vague reference to someone whose qualifications arent known, even to you. if you think this supports or validates your position, you should probably take some informal logic classes and learn how to build a proper argument.
>In other words, semantic tricks based on religious beliefs.
there were no semantic tricks in his statement. he merely said he wasnt aware of any acknowledged experts in the field who support your position. i would assume that you arent aware of any either, or you would have used them to support your case.
your continued reference to "religious beliefs" and the implications you are trying to make with that phrase does fall into a category of logical fallacy though.
if i recall correctly (and it's been a while so i might not), Mark Hamill's contract was for 4 movies. 3 as Luke and 1 as an unspecified other character.
I dont think we'll be seeing him in the next one, but maybe he'll be Anakin in #3.
of course, it's also possible he'll be sitting next to Willow at the pod races when Anakin shows up to free the slaves.
personally, i think i'll wait until the next movie comes out before i start worrying about it.
that makes sense, but unless the last Sith Lord killed himself, they wouldnt be extinct in that scenario. (of course, they werent extinct so that's mostly a moot point)
I'm not sure about Yoda's comment though. the Jedi Knights can only train one apprentice at a time also. I'm sure it's possible (even reasonable) for there to be a master without an apprentice (Darth Sidious currently fits this bill)
and at some point the apprentice should become a master and gain his own apprentice...
i guess in this scenario, Maul was not yet a Sith Lord, but was close to mastery.
i guess since the Council thought the Sith Lords to be wiped out, they assumed one Sith Lord would have made a priority of finding an apprentice. So it was safe for them to assume there were at least 2 of the Sith around.
I do wonder how Palpatine manages to mask his presence and his connection to the force from the Jedi Council though. I also wonder how many Sith Lords wished to be Jedi, but were found too late in life to be able to do so. (thus they took the easier and more available route).
just like he said he wasnt obi wan.
i remember Maul from Jedi Knight.
if i recall correctly, the two characters looked very different, but that doesnt necessarily mean anything. I do remember there was some background info given on Maul in the game, but i dont remember what exactly was said...I guess i'll have to go play it again and find out.
the Sith are not a race. they are the dark jedi. a Sith Lord (darth vader, the emperor) is a master of the dark side of the force.
there were presumably wiped out (though obviously not completely). being dark jedi, they are at serious odds with the jedi knights.
i noticed some people thought "Gnu Inside" might be a little too close to Intel Inside (i wonder if they would try to sue...)
so, how about a "Gnu World Order" sticker?
I used to live there and used to work for Koyote Internet (the isp they specifically mention) and while koyote has some great equipment and offers isdn and adsl at good rates, commerce itself has such a terrible phone system that you cannot get over a 28.8 connection and isdn isnt supported by the phone co. (koyote got around this by housing the server is a better place).
and TAMU-Commerce (i went there) has incredibly bad problems with it's lan and with it's user/modem ratio. they did start wiring the dorms for ethernet, but if you had to dial in, good luck. they actually instituted a 20 minute limit at one point. (after 20 mins they'd kick your connection).
i talked to them last night about it when getting my cable scheduled for hookup....with the classic package (all the standard channels + scifi, history, discover, etc) and HBO, roadrunner is gonna cost me something like $60/month.
if they can fix their problems with their network (they already moved the news server to a unix box...now if they'll just move the rest of it off NT), i might actually keep the service...but for now it's just to tide me over until ADSL is available to my apt. (which the phone guy says will be around the end of this year).
you'd be surprised. there's a lot of internet related business in austin and it's a pretty wired town.
having said that, i also have (and do) spent a lot of time in dallas and it's got a lot of telecommunications and computer industry too. i'm a little surprised they arent higher than 10.
the one that surprises me the least is New Orleans being almost at the bottom. (i spend a lot of time there too) must be all that partying...
it's kind of amusing that Washington D.C. scored so high, but the majority of our elected officials are so techno-illiterate.
course...i suppose it got bonus points since the inventor of the internet is the v.p. right?
But is it Mac -> Linux -> Win because of install base, or varying hardware? Is Linux bigger than Mac already? On the desktop, I mean?
i imagine that the number of linux users who will be interested/have-machines-capable of running the test is greater than the number of mac users falling into that category. (this isnt a slam on mac.)
id also probably has a decent guesstimate of how many downloads of the test for each os too. (they can look at the download rates for the linux ports for quake2 and the mac sales for quake...though i'm sure the mac number would need to be adjusted upwards considering the increase in sales from the imac)
probably your other guess is a good one too...i would think it'd be easier to find non-hardware specific bugs in the apple version.
Seems like a really sensible release scheme to me, too. I would assume once the bugs get hammered out, all the final releases would be boxed and shipped at the same time.
every reference i can recall from anyone at id stated that all 3 versions would be released simultaneously.
>1.It must appeal to the average person's prurient interest in sex;
>2.depict sexual conduct in a "patently offensive way" as defined by community standards; and
>3.taken as a whole, lack serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.
that third one is the real "it's obscene" killer.
people have been trying to get magazines on the
obscenity thing for a long time but as long as
playboy, et.al. have articles about politics and
science, or publish quality short stories, the
community standards are irrelevent.
(this is a good thing in my opinion. if that
third bit wasnt there, i know what my high
school would have used for the homecoming
bonfire)
it matters in the same why that skinheads arent racists....but in the media they are.
so now anyone who is a skinhead is assumed to be a bigot and a mindlessly violent a$$hole.
of course, you have to be wary of the "almost have a clue" reporters too....to view reports where the reporter acknowledges non-racist skins, you would get the impression that it's a new phenomenon.
skins are all nazis,
hackers are all criminals,
encryption needs a backdoor for your protection,
hiv infected needles are hidden in the seats of all major movie theatres....
i read it in a newspaper so it must be true.
well...all the info i've seen for the TNT2 shows that it beats the Voodoo3.
that's what i would expect though. when you consider that the voodoo technology's foundation is at least a year older than what their competitors are creating, that doesnt surprise me.
i expect 3dfx to come out with a new chipset not founded on the voodoo chipset and i expect it will rock. i also expect it to fix all the shortcomings that resulted when the industry finally outpaced the voodoo technology.
and then, in a year or two, they'll be beaten by a competitor again and it'll all start over.
>You wouldn't write a role playing game with a Quake engine.
heh, actually...i've been thinking about doing
exactly that. but then, i'm bored.
>>Yeah, it's *my* business, so I shouldn't have to pay fair wages, or give lunches and coffee breaks, give my employees a day off on state holidays, etc., right?
> Nope. You don't have to. Most employees would rather work someplace that does offer some or all of the perks you mentioned, but some employees would be happy to work with none of the above.
uh....yes, you do have to. there are laws requiring you to do so. (you know..minimum wage and all that?) and if you think the market would support decent wages for unskilled labour without those laws, take a peek in a history book at why those laws were created in the first place.
>>When you're in business, you have a responsibility to play fair and abide by legislation. Microsoft obviously hasn't and doesn't, and they deserve whatever they have coming to them.
>What is "playing fair" and what isn't is certainly a subjective opinion. I have no qualms with abiding legislation, provided the legislation is reasonable (and anti-trust laws -- and many many others -- certainly are not).
what is "playing fair" is determined by law for businesses. if you are in business, you obey the applicable laws. if you dont and you get caught, you suck it up. if it's a law and is unreasonable, you work to change the law...but until it is changed you abide by it. (because if you dont and you get caught, you suck it up).
if all the insurance companies in your state got together and agreed on some pricing that would allow them to artifically inflate your insurance costs while decreasing your benefits, would you still be opposed to these laws?
remember, those laws exist because wealthy businesses abused their competitors, their customers, and their employees. what makes you think that that wont happen again if the laws werent there?
in Austin, Texas there is a movie theatre that
you can get a complete meal and a wide variety of
alcohol at. they have a decent import section too.
(and the food is good)
they also have cool theme night type events. (like
an akira kurosawa film festival)
an excellent place to see a movie.