Yeah monorails are expensive to build, and maintain - not to mention conventional electric rail systems like those found in japan and europe have much more capacity.
What would that do about existing phase 2 satellites? I mean there are lots of them up there that are still useful - like a lot of the amateur radio satellites (which I use once in a while), iridium and spy satellites.
I too live in portland, and I'm also unemployed:( - 60 days is more then enough time to roll out linux actually. Its all a matter of planning and then either hiring or volunteering enough people to install the software. We could use something like system imager - make a floppy and just stick in it and blast the system away. Before hand it would be a good idea to have a migration plan - think of all the services windows machines provide and create linux equivelents on a seperate network - make some nice clients too - on the same seperate network make sure it all works then pick a weekend and move in.
I remember a while back when I was contracted to install Windows 2000 on computers at Jones Farm Intel - did the entire floor of JF-4 (pretty big office) in one weekend. So literally - workers left on friday, came back on monday and saw windows 2000. If they can do that with windows - they sure as hell can do it with linux.
When I was living out east (Hartford CT and Boston Mass for the most part) - I had 80$'s of locks from Kryptonite - one was the hardened steel u-lock and the other was a 2 meter long piece of cable maybe by Kryptonite. I've actually parked my bike (an older trek) in some pretty rough neighborhoods - even ones where I live now in Portland - its never been ripped off.
The trick is - I wrap the cable around both wheels and the frame and secure the cable and the bike to the object (pole or whatever)
The inifinity machine - I guess its pretty rare these days, but I got mine at the local fred meyers. I think in Europe it was called the "Game Killer". Basically the cartridge when inserted and you switched a C64 (or C128) on it would display this crack intro sort of thing - hit the space bar you'd bop back to the basic screen. When you loaded a game it would work just like normal, but when you hit the little red button on the side the screen would go blank for a second and you could no longer be hit by the bad guys.
Basically all it did was disable the sprite collision register - which you can do with an action replay cartridge - or the "final cartridge" (not to be confused with the final ethernet). You can also do the same thing with most every single emulator.
Lets see - it actually helped me finish several "unbeatable" games like commando, green beret, ghost and goblins, iridium, and a whole bunch more actually - lets face it there were some games out there that were really hard.
I've actually got a few - in my parents house. Mostly C-128, parts/chips, service manuals, drives, cables, and I probably have about 9 fast load cartridges - and maybe still have one infinity machine (real gamers know what this is). Somewhere I've got a user port to serial port adapter - its pretty rare.
I've actually thrown systems out - I just have too many:( - usually yank the important chips for parts though.
Thats an awfully isolationist attitude to have. If my friend is in the gutter naturally I want to extend a hand to help pull him out.
I'm sure you wouldn't take the same stance if a good friend of yours (maybe a girlfriend/wife even) became hopelessly addicted to drugs, alchohol or video games.
You need to read japanese newspapers more often - I'd recomend the english (side at least) rag mainichi daily news (mainichi literally means every day around the clock). At any rate - I've found that in my Japanese studies they suffer from a lot (not all) of the same things we do.
Well maybe americanized is not the right word, but make it so that mainstream people will watch it. Hire some good voice actors - and do your level best to not derail the story as often happens with a lot of japanese animation - even with subtitled works.
I don't see exactly what your point is actually. People do get in trouble - addicted to things and I think its only human to try to help them out. And when you are addicted to something you almost have to do it just to feel normal after a while - its like a trap that you may have set for yourself.
But that aside I do really know a good friend who has wasted the better part of 3 years playing everquest. He doesn't seem to aknowledge he's an addict. But he's lost two pretty decent jobs, spent at least a year moving from friend to friend with his computer to mooch of free food, power and internet connection.
The once or twice I saw Everquest it seems they (the company who wrote the game) don't do too much to really help out - for instance it seems like it is real time world - for instance if you get hurt you have to stay online for whatever it takes to heal yourself. I literally waited half an hour at my friends place (back when he had one) to wait for an avatar of some sort before we went out to eat - and when it didn't work I had to leave him behind. It really does seem like you could spend 40 hours plus a week playing it and live a normal life in the game it self.
Unlike one of my old favorites Phantasy Star Online - if you get sick of it drop it no worries your character will be just fine when you come back online.
Personally I think I took responsibility for the game in the first place - I haven't played it - mostly because I don't have the time to.
I'll probably get nailed for this - but to me Akira was an awful bore. I watched it like 4 times I really never did get it - this coming from someone who took several anime film classes (seriously!). And then it hit me - this film is gross, confusing and really pretty poorly written. I don't care what the manga (comic) had to say about it - this is the film version. I think people idolize it because it had a much higher cell count then any other film, but big deal.
BTW - one fun thing to do is read reviews of what the film was all about from film critics - every single one of them tells a different tale of what the story is about.
To make it worse all you have to do is just release the - what was the company called? Silverline Studios? Version - I guess it was edited for content - and the voice acting was pretty bad.
Why not take a more beautful film like Mimi o Sumaseba or Tanuki Wars - and release that in north america? Those films were fun:)
I don't think so - I rather have intergrated components - as long as they work well (which in the case of my A7V-266E they do). For one thing it saves a whole lot of time and headache - because you know they tested it and its going to work most of the time.
Not to mention this board - you can just buy it, plop a video card and a hard disk drive and your done - pc built:).
either - I was one of those guys who waited outside all night - which wasn't so bad - its like going on a camping trip in the middle of the city.
Anyhoo a year later and it still only had like 30 titles - many of them were disapointing or boring. I told most of my friends that I regretting buying into it. I felt while talking to some people who were also camping out for playstations that they were really getting it not because they had done any research, but because well the playstation was such a hit the playstation 2 has got to be an even bigger hit. Initially the playstation 2 rode the sales wave of fandom - now it rides the waves of having more titles combined then any other console.
Don't get me wrong - I like it today - I have several good titles for it now (like gt3, gta3, and mgs2) - but before I think you can announce something as being dead against a console that took a year to really get going as well.
Some of them do - like Playboy - which according to the last place I worked (rulespace.com) was adult material.
Often the definition of what porn is - is very broad. For instance should books on sex be banned? Again check your local shelves you might be suprised.
We can probably skip the discussion on what these filters tend to actually filter. Just I think its funny when my dad (who is a certified librarian at a public school) tried to visit the American Library Association but was stopped by "web sense". Their filter also used to block "entertainment" until my father pointed out that people do enjoy reading - since the school was using the metaphor for a long time that the internet could replace the library.
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Yeah monorails are expensive to build, and maintain - not to mention conventional electric rail systems like those found in japan and europe have much more capacity.
What would that do about existing phase 2 satellites? I mean there are lots of them up there that are still useful - like a lot of the amateur radio satellites (which I use once in a while), iridium and spy satellites.
He calls apple users a cult - I suppose its a good thing there aren't too many amiga users around anymore.
I too live in portland, and I'm also unemployed :( - 60 days is more then enough time to roll out linux actually. Its all a matter of planning and then either hiring or volunteering enough people to install the software. We could use something like system imager - make a floppy and just stick in it and blast the system away. Before hand it would be a good idea to have a migration plan - think of all the services windows machines provide and create linux equivelents on a seperate network - make some nice clients too - on the same seperate network make sure it all works then pick a weekend and move in.
I remember a while back when I was contracted to install Windows 2000 on computers at Jones Farm Intel - did the entire floor of JF-4 (pretty big office) in one weekend. So literally - workers left on friday, came back on monday and saw windows 2000. If they can do that with windows - they sure as hell can do it with linux.
When I was living out east (Hartford CT and Boston Mass for the most part) - I had 80$'s of locks from Kryptonite - one was the hardened steel u-lock and the other was a 2 meter long piece of cable maybe by Kryptonite. I've actually parked my bike (an older trek) in some pretty rough neighborhoods - even ones where I live now in Portland - its never been ripped off.
The trick is - I wrap the cable around both wheels and the frame and secure the cable and the bike to the object (pole or whatever)
I dunno - I bought my copy in a supermarket in the US - its not so uncommon.
Also uses Ogg Vorbis - except you never saw that as a headline on slashdot.org
Well its still okay - since its still cheaper then the long distance rates I currently end up paying from verizon.
The lady I talked to picked 212, but I'm in 503 - Oregon
I noticed there aren't any local area codes for where I live, so if someone calls locally to my number how does it get billed?
Or do I have to switch to their 39$ service?
No worries - I saw tax software for sale - dirt cheap down at the grocery store this evening :).
The inifinity machine - I guess its pretty rare these days, but I got mine at the local fred meyers. I think in Europe it was called the "Game Killer". Basically the cartridge when inserted and you switched a C64 (or C128) on it would display this crack intro sort of thing - hit the space bar you'd bop back to the basic screen. When you loaded a game it would work just like normal, but when you hit the little red button on the side the screen would go blank for a second and you could no longer be hit by the bad guys.
Basically all it did was disable the sprite collision register - which you can do with an action replay cartridge - or the "final cartridge" (not to be confused with the final ethernet). You can also do the same thing with most every single emulator.
Lets see - it actually helped me finish several "unbeatable" games like commando, green beret, ghost and goblins, iridium, and a whole bunch more actually - lets face it there were some games out there that were really hard.
I've actually got a few - in my parents house. Mostly C-128, parts/chips, service manuals, drives, cables, and I probably have about 9 fast load cartridges - and maybe still have one infinity machine (real gamers know what this is). Somewhere I've got a user port to serial port adapter - its pretty rare.
:( - usually yank the important chips for parts though.
I've actually thrown systems out - I just have too many
Yeah - my rca cable modem does that too - seriously!
Thats an awfully isolationist attitude to have. If my friend is in the gutter naturally I want to extend a hand to help pull him out.
I'm sure you wouldn't take the same stance if a good friend of yours (maybe a girlfriend/wife even) became hopelessly addicted to drugs, alchohol or video games.
You need to read japanese newspapers more often - I'd recomend the english (side at least) rag mainichi daily news (mainichi literally means every day around the clock). At any rate - I've found that in my Japanese studies they suffer from a lot (not all) of the same things we do.
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/
Well maybe americanized is not the right word, but make it so that mainstream people will watch it. Hire some good voice actors - and do your level best to not derail the story as often happens with a lot of japanese animation - even with subtitled works.
I don't see exactly what your point is actually. People do get in trouble - addicted to things and I think its only human to try to help them out. And when you are addicted to something you almost have to do it just to feel normal after a while - its like a trap that you may have set for yourself.
But that aside I do really know a good friend who has wasted the better part of 3 years playing everquest. He doesn't seem to aknowledge he's an addict. But he's lost two pretty decent jobs, spent at least a year moving from friend to friend with his computer to mooch of free food, power and internet connection.
The once or twice I saw Everquest it seems they (the company who wrote the game) don't do too much to really help out - for instance it seems like it is real time world - for instance if you get hurt you have to stay online for whatever it takes to heal yourself. I literally waited half an hour at my friends place (back when he had one) to wait for an avatar of some sort before we went out to eat - and when it didn't work I had to leave him behind. It really does seem like you could spend 40 hours plus a week playing it and live a normal life in the game it self.
Unlike one of my old favorites Phantasy Star Online - if you get sick of it drop it no worries your character will be just fine when you come back online.
Personally I think I took responsibility for the game in the first place - I haven't played it - mostly because I don't have the time to.
I'll probably get nailed for this - but to me Akira was an awful bore. I watched it like 4 times I really never did get it - this coming from someone who took several anime film classes (seriously!). And then it hit me - this film is gross, confusing and really pretty poorly written. I don't care what the manga (comic) had to say about it - this is the film version. I think people idolize it because it had a much higher cell count then any other film, but big deal.
:)
BTW - one fun thing to do is read reviews of what the film was all about from film critics - every single one of them tells a different tale of what the story is about.
To make it worse all you have to do is just release the - what was the company called? Silverline Studios? Version - I guess it was edited for content - and the voice acting was pretty bad.
Why not take a more beautful film like Mimi o Sumaseba or Tanuki Wars - and release that in north america? Those films were fun
I don't think so - I rather have intergrated components - as long as they work well (which in the case of my A7V-266E they do). For one thing it saves a whole lot of time and headache - because you know they tested it and its going to work most of the time.
:).
Not to mention this board - you can just buy it, plop a video card and a hard disk drive and your done - pc built
either - I was one of those guys who waited outside all night - which wasn't so bad - its like going on a camping trip in the middle of the city.
Anyhoo a year later and it still only had like 30 titles - many of them were disapointing or boring. I told most of my friends that I regretting buying into it. I felt while talking to some people who were also camping out for playstations that they were really getting it not because they had done any research, but because well the playstation was such a hit the playstation 2 has got to be an even bigger hit. Initially the playstation 2 rode the sales wave of fandom - now it rides the waves of having more titles combined then any other console.
Don't get me wrong - I like it today - I have several good titles for it now (like gt3, gta3, and mgs2) - but before I think you can announce something as being dead against a console that took a year to really get going as well.
What are you talking about? I've seen the japanese xbox controllers - they are totally different.
I noticed halo visually got better and better as it went on. There were some scenes for instance that I audibly said "wow".
The game also drags on a bit - I mean after a while you are literally running through levels just to get through them.
Some of them do - like Playboy - which according to the last place I worked (rulespace.com) was adult material.
Often the definition of what porn is - is very broad. For instance should books on sex be banned? Again check your local shelves you might be suprised.
We can probably skip the discussion on what these filters tend to actually filter. Just I think its funny when my dad (who is a certified librarian at a public school) tried to visit the American Library Association but was stopped by "web sense". Their filter also used to block "entertainment" until my father pointed out that people do enjoy reading - since the school was using the metaphor for a long time that the internet could replace the library.