Since it was mentioned that the author wanted to eventually do some Video Editing: When editing on computers with 5200 rpm drives I've had huge playback problems in Adobe Premiere and other programs, lots of skipping and so fourth.
I've developed a deep hate for microsoft, but never had the juevos to give up most of my games and switch completely to linux, if this distro is everything promised, it could make that decision alot easier, for me and tons of other people like me.
Every flight tracking site i tried was flooded, but if you go to you can download a demo of their flight tracking software wich seems to work fine, showing me nothing directly over the US, with a fiew flights heading out of the atlantic towards the US, and one heading out of the pacific towards SoCal.
No matter how angry you are, the people we would be retaliateing against if we declared war on somebody, are still fathers and sons and mothers and doughters and brothres and sisters. They're still people.
While there are some nifty technological advances, airline security is far from perfect. I know that i walk through metal detectors with metal belt buckles, watches, change, cell phones, all sorts of things, often, without triggering the alarm. I know people with metal plates in them go through metal detectors all the time without setting them off. I was flying with a cousin who had a broken ankle and a walking cast with metal in it, who walked through, triggered the detector, and was simply waived passed. The point is that it wouldn't be exceedingly difficult to smuggle weapons in, especially "non conventional" weapons, ie some kind of disableing gas, etc...
It would be easy to pass off blame to the airlines, but in a way, it's not their fault either, how many of us would be willing to pay more for tickets because of increased security costs? Or mabye even more undesireable, be required to spend more time at the airport going through and waiting for security measures? There's not an easy answer. We can hope that an immense tragedy like this one will spawn some of those answers.
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On that topic, I play the cello, and you can get a good string quartet for alot less than 140k a year, that's over $2000 per performance. Most quartets will play weddings for less than $1000, and while I'm sure it would be more expensive to have Yo-Yo Ma play, the 140k is still more than anyone should be paying for live music.
Y'all ever been to Walla Walla, (south eastern Washington) we have more wireless ISP's than you can shake a possum's tail at (three for a town of 40,000). And a software development studio owned by Havas Interactive, (the people who own Blizzard and Sierra). And one of those newfangled interweb cafes. People here care. Or at least they will when they realize that you can buy hog feed online.
Many people who have TNT2 based cards with the Detonator 3 drivers are able to see through walls when they use Direct 3d in Counter-Strike. If nvidia can do it "accientally" I doubt much R&D went into ASUS developing this hack.
Or simply ignore them. A large percentage of Counter-Strike games I play have little annoying people who are trying to have as good a score as possible through any means possible. I admit, it's hard to get through my haze of testosterone and ignore them, but it's occasionally possible.
Right, that's why moving a mouse and pressing buttons on a keyboard and aiming a gun with things like actual weight, and recoil, are so similar. I mean, hey they both go Click, and with speakers they both go bang, but that's about where the similarities end.
There is a fine line between helping human interests and screwing over the environment. This type of thing has a very mixed track record; rabbits in austrilia, just about everything in Hawaii. On the other hands, lots of organic farmers and gardeners successfully release thouseands of ladybugs or preying mantis's to controll other bugs that would damage their crops.
This case is a little different because they're releaseing a genetically altered orginism.
What we need to consider is that the only commenly viable alternative is pesticides, wich tend to lack selectivity. Dump a bunch of pesticides on the crop and yeah you'll kill those damn catipillars, as well as those birds, and mice, and deer, and possibly humans. Release the catapillars and you run the risk of upsetting the balance of nature. You could make a pretty good case for genetically altered disease and pest resistant crops, but even then you run the risk of displaceing native flora. There's no easy answer.
Posh, Ebola, or Bovine Spongiform, or Aids, or Cancer, or mass infertility, or something else will soon have things cleared up for us. They're the ELF's best friend.
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Since it was mentioned that the author wanted to eventually do some Video Editing: When editing on computers with 5200 rpm drives I've had huge playback problems in Adobe Premiere and other programs, lots of skipping and so fourth.
We can't forget to put every system made by Atari since the Lynx in that same catagory.
I've developed a deep hate for microsoft, but never had the juevos to give up most of my games and switch completely to linux, if this distro is everything promised, it could make that decision alot easier, for me and tons of other people like me.
..can be found at another Bert Is Evil site.
Every flight tracking site i tried was flooded, but if you go to you can download a demo of their flight tracking software wich seems to work fine, showing me nothing directly over the US, with a fiew flights heading out of the atlantic towards the US, and one heading out of the pacific towards SoCal.
No matter how angry you are, the people we would be retaliateing against if we declared war on somebody, are still fathers and sons and mothers and doughters and brothres and sisters. They're still people.
While there are some nifty technological advances, airline security is far from perfect. I know that i walk through metal detectors with metal belt buckles, watches, change, cell phones, all sorts of things, often, without triggering the alarm. I know people with metal plates in them go through metal detectors all the time without setting them off. I was flying with a cousin who had a broken ankle and a walking cast with metal in it, who walked through, triggered the detector, and was simply waived passed. The point is that it wouldn't be exceedingly difficult to smuggle weapons in, especially "non conventional" weapons, ie some kind of disableing gas, etc...
It would be easy to pass off blame to the airlines, but in a way, it's not their fault either, how many of us would be willing to pay more for tickets because of increased security costs? Or mabye even more undesireable, be required to spend more time at the airport going through and waiting for security measures? There's not an easy answer. We can hope that an immense tragedy like this one will spawn some of those answers.
Read the Monkey Wrench Gang, by Edward Abbey.
What, people still buy CD's? Nobody told me.
On that topic, I play the cello, and you can get a good string quartet for alot less than 140k a year, that's over $2000 per performance. Most quartets will play weddings for less than $1000, and while I'm sure it would be more expensive to have Yo-Yo Ma play, the 140k is still more than anyone should be paying for live music.
Y'all ever been to Walla Walla, (south eastern Washington) we have more wireless ISP's than you can shake a possum's tail at (three for a town of 40,000). And a software development studio owned by Havas Interactive, (the people who own Blizzard and Sierra). And one of those newfangled interweb cafes. People here care. Or at least they will when they realize that you can buy hog feed online.
They're not mailing keys, they're e-mailing them.
But I wouldn't have complained if they had mailed me a CD.
Many people who have TNT2 based cards with the Detonator 3 drivers are able to see through walls when they use Direct 3d in Counter-Strike. If nvidia can do it "accientally" I doubt much R&D went into ASUS developing this hack.
Or simply ignore them. A large percentage of Counter-Strike games I play have little annoying people who are trying to have as good a score as possible through any means possible. I admit, it's hard to get through my haze of testosterone and ignore them, but it's occasionally possible.
Right, that's why moving a mouse and pressing buttons on a keyboard and aiming a gun with things like actual weight, and recoil, are so similar. I mean, hey they both go Click, and with speakers they both go bang, but that's about where the similarities end.
Please, can you explain to me how sex is bad?
Because it's fun, geez, what are you, stupid?
There is a fine line between helping human interests and screwing over the environment. This type of thing has a very mixed track record; rabbits in austrilia, just about everything in Hawaii. On the other hands, lots of organic farmers and gardeners successfully release thouseands of ladybugs or preying mantis's to controll other bugs that would damage their crops. This case is a little different because they're releaseing a genetically altered orginism. What we need to consider is that the only commenly viable alternative is pesticides, wich tend to lack selectivity. Dump a bunch of pesticides on the crop and yeah you'll kill those damn catipillars, as well as those birds, and mice, and deer, and possibly humans. Release the catapillars and you run the risk of upsetting the balance of nature. You could make a pretty good case for genetically altered disease and pest resistant crops, but even then you run the risk of displaceing native flora. There's no easy answer.
Posh, Ebola, or Bovine Spongiform, or Aids, or Cancer, or mass infertility, or something else will soon have things cleared up for us. They're the ELF's best friend.