Did anyone else notice that one of the monsters in the 'arena' scene looked a lot like a Hydralisk, with the front legs of a Zergling? Maybe even a lurker?
I just saw it last night and laughed when I saw that one...
The thing I enjoyed most was the subtle changing of the background theme towards the Imperial March... it was so subtle that it was cool...
Anyways, ok movie. I have to see it again to cast a better judgement.
I have a GSM (Fido) cell phone which I sit on my desk when I'm at home. The funny thing with GSM is you can hear it communicating back and forth with the network just by holding it near a speaker. Just leave it somewhere close and you'll hear this rythmic noise every once in a while.
Whats really interesting is that my door bell goes off just before my phone rings (1/2 second or so). I have a little Radio Crap wireless one, and it ALWAYS (100%) goes off just before my phone rings, if my phone is close to it. Kinda creepy the first few times it happened.
Theres a LOT of sources of electronic noise out there, it's pretty funny when stuff like this happens.
those of you who bash Novell can try and show me a winblows box thats managed to run this long without a SINGLE problem.
When I worked at my old job, we had a server that had been up for 2.5 years without a single problem. Just sat there doing print services, happily. Even ran SAA stuff, which is notoriously unstable.
Novell is the way to go.. no doubt about it.
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Ok.. I know I could get the answers to this question by searching the net, etc, but well, I know someone here can explain it just as well, and it might make a good discussion, so here goes...
How is it that scientists can find things like water, alcohol, etc that far away? what tools do they use? what software? what deductive logic? what information do they build on?
I don't understand the process at all, so use little words:)
thanks in advance.
We emerge from our mother's womb an unformatted diskette; our culture formats us.
how the HELL does this rate as insiteful. Its simply a reactionary and uninformed, 'stupid-ass' post.
How the HELL can you equate INTERNET censorship with THOUGHT censorship? The Internet is NOT our thoughts... i defy you to go find a web page that contains all my thoughts. Or the guys next to me, or my grandmother who can't even SPELL internet. Or perhaps the other 90% of the populas on EARTH that don't have internet access.
Why don't you THINK before you SPEAK. Its people like YOU who whole annoy the shit out of clear thinking, inteligent people with your wild-eyed conspiracy theories.
grow up.
We emerge from our mother's womb an unformatted diskette; our culture formats us.
This comet as been orbiting for millions of years, and just because NASA wants to blow it up, we're going to fuck with it. It would be like blowing up a historic building just to see whats inside. It's a loss.
Don't ask me, it just feels wrong, but hey, I'm not the one doing it.
We emerge from our mother's womb an unformatted diskette; our culture formats us.
Actually, yes, my little sister WOULD like to install and run Linux on one of her computers. She wants to play with it, but is feeling a little overwhelmed by the process and by the dis-ease of use.
Do you think _I_ really NEED to run linux? does anyone really NEED to run linux? no.. probably not. But do I _WANT_ to run Linux, yes. And that should be enough to allow me to.
My video card is a 4meg S3 Verge... it's supported in ANY docs i've read. My monitor is an NEC Multisync, again, supported.
I'm INSULTED that you would suggest I delete the partition and run Windows. What, you think just because I can't get X running I'm not WORTHY of running Linux? What a great proponent for Linux you are.
We emerge from our mother's womb an unformatted diskette; our culture formats us.
Instead of whining about it, do something, that is the wonder of OpenSource...
You know, i'd LOVE to help out... but I'm just a simple IT guy who wouldn't know how to write a line of C/C++ etc to save his life. So instead, I ask others in the 'movement' to help, and get called a 'newbie' or a 'llamer' or a 'whiner' or told to 'fsck off'.
I'm PART of the 'movement', but I'm an outcast even within that because I'm not a programmer. Imagine how those OUTSIDE feel. The people we are trying to win over are the ones we are alienating by our own actions and 'snobbyness'.
Our attitude, the proponents for Linux, will have to change before the publics does. Comments like Don't come crying when you can't find "foo". are what make people NOt like us/Linux.
When the people pushing for Linx act like arrogant idiots, no one listens.
We emerge from our mother's womb an unformatted diskette; our culture formats us.
I was talking to a previous sales person for Iridium.. she says that phone calls rarely lasted more than one handoff.. she says the sattelites would hand off the call with no ACK, so if the signal didn't bounce properly, the call was lost, which happened frequently.
I have NO proof to back this up, just the word of a salesperson, so attack me not.
We emerge from our mother's womb an unformatted diskette; our culture formats us.
I bought an APex 600a on a whim a few months ago. I'm very sorry I did. AT the time, I hadn't done enough research, and thought a DVD player was a DVD player. But I know now that isn't true.
True, the 600a plays mp3s, but it's navigation is complicated and it doesn't seem to like playing cd's if they have anything other than mp3s on it (playlists, etc). The DVD playing is flakey - it sometimes just goes to sleep, and the only way to get it going again is to power cycle it. Sometimes, as far as I can tell, its decoding goes bad, and all you get is little squares of colour on your screen. The spinup times are horrid sometimes, taking a minute+ to get a DVD actually playing. and if you're doing track skipping, sometimes it just jumps randomly around.
However, when it is working fine (about 65% of the time), it works perfectly, from what I can tell. The one I have allows you to change which zone you're in, but I'd heard a rumour that that feature was being taken away in newer models.
Anyways, I love having a DVD player, but if I was going to do it AGAIN, I wouldn't pick to Apex 600a.
We emerge from our mother's womb an unformatted diskette; our culture formats us.
"The speed increase is thanks to subtle a twist on the solid-state memory
technology that has driven computers for almost for decades. The technology is
known as interlocked pipelined CMOS (complimentary metal oxide semiconductor)
and will allow memory chips to reach speeds - in theory, at least - of between 3.3
gigahertz (GHz) and 4.5 GHz, using conventional silicon transistors. "
"The key to the new technology is a distributed "clock" function. In computer
chips, the clock paces the speed of the circuits.
Standard designs use a centralized clock to synchronize the operations of an
entire chip, ensuring that all operations run at the same interval, or cycle. The
clock waits for all the operations on a chip to finish before starting the next cycle,
so the speed of the entire chip is limited to the pace of the slowest operation.
To increase the speed, the IBM researchers decentralized the clock, using locally
generated clocks to run smaller sections of circuits. Infineon says that it is
working closely with IBM's New York Fishkill research operation on developing
MRAM technology still further, with the intention of allowing the memory chips to
function like bubble memory, which retails the computer data, even when power is
removed from the chipset. "
We emerge from our mother's womb an unformatted diskette; our culture formats us.
Maxlinks technolgoy (I can't speak for Look) is LMCS - one transmitter at the station can broadcast to many different customers using different frequencys. This isn't for mobile customers, as it is only LOS and fairly short range (between 2 and 5km). This isn't service for your laptops or PDAs etc.
The service is offered as a competiter to Fibre/Cable/ADSL (Bell, Rogers and Bell in Toronto).
Our primary market are areas not serviced directly by fibre etc, or where its very expensive. The backend network is all ATM, which allows varying bitrates easily.
We use all Alcatel and Cicso gear... if you have any questions about it, email me, and I'll guess.
We emerge from our mother's womb an unformatted diskette; our culture formats us.
it depends on the technology... the technology that maxlink uses can (and IS) blocked by trees, buildings, roofs, rain and heavy snow. Because it's high frequency, it's pretty easy to block.
You're talking 2.4GHz.. I'm talking 28GHz.. big difference.
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I myself am in Markham, and can honestly say that SHAW cable are a bunch of 'no talent ass clowns'. For 3 weeks my gatway was dropping packets, and for 3 weeks I called to tell them... and they continually insisted it was me. Then one day when I called they said 'oh.. there was a problem with the gateway'.
On top of that, they cut my service for too much bandwidth usage (unlimited.. HA!)... avoid them!
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then you are a BAD parent not deserving of your child. I sincerely hope your child grows up to despise you and the values you give him/her.
Any parent that wouldn't support their own child, despite any actions/decisions they make, isn't a worthy human being, let alone a fit parent. Might I suggest sterilization before you procreate yet again?
you are a despicable human being.
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Re:What about GPL'ed code sent on newsgroups?
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but..
you most likely pay for your internet access, don't you? By your logic, that too is illegal, because they are charging you to access GPL'd material.
The cost isn't for the MATERIAL per se, but for access to the medium that can GET you the material.
Slight difference, but a difference none-the-less.
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umm.. I don't recall ANY of the band members making a statement saying "duh! can't you recognize carcasm you fool?", or anything along those lines. They posted an entire version of a song, with some talking interspersed, and because people like you have no sense of humour and don't know when to shut their mouths and deal with things, they are now under attack.
somehow, this makes then incompetent idiots?
might I suggest that you are the idiot here, not them?
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Slashdot Mirror
Don't forget the Folgers brand exaust and the yellow wiper arms ... oh .. and the blue glowing washer nozzles! yeah!!
Now thats a stupid-fly space probe. wooord.
guy ... perhaps you should spark up and calm the fuck down.
.. you give us a bad name you silly alarmist.
twas a joke. tee hee. I'm Canadian, I laughed.
sheesh
Did anyone else notice that one of the monsters in the 'arena' scene looked a lot like a Hydralisk, with the front legs of a Zergling? Maybe even a lurker?
...
... it was so subtle that it was cool ...
I just saw it last night and laughed when I saw that one
The thing I enjoyed most was the subtle changing of the background theme towards the Imperial March
Anyways, ok movie. I have to see it again to cast a better judgement.
I have a GSM (Fido) cell phone which I sit on my desk when I'm at home. The funny thing with GSM is you can hear it communicating back and forth with the network just by holding it near a speaker. Just leave it somewhere close and you'll hear this rythmic noise every once in a while.
Whats really interesting is that my door bell goes off just before my phone rings (1/2 second or so). I have a little Radio Crap wireless one, and it ALWAYS (100%) goes off just before my phone rings, if my phone is close to it. Kinda creepy the first few times it happened.
Theres a LOT of sources of electronic noise out there, it's pretty funny when stuff like this happens.
yes .. but if you pull the cable while the drive is still spinning/powered you could get power surges and/or data loss.
seems like a big risk to take...
CNet ran a story about this back in October ...
Ad slump spurs Slashdot to experiment
The only thing you need to read is the BOFH.
:)
Make sure you put that on your resume
what a good quality NOS can do.
.. no doubt about it.
those of you who bash Novell can try and show me a winblows box thats managed to run this long without a SINGLE problem.
When I worked at my old job, we had a server that had been up for 2.5 years without a single problem. Just sat there doing print services, happily. Even ran SAA stuff, which is notoriously unstable.
Novell is the way to go
We emerge from our mother's womb an unformatted diskette; our culture formats us.
Ok .. I know I could get the answers to this question by searching the net, etc, but well, I know someone here can explain it just as well, and it might make a good discussion, so here goes...
:)
How is it that scientists can find things like water, alcohol, etc that far away? what tools do they use? what software? what deductive logic? what information do they build on?
I don't understand the process at all, so use little words
thanks in advance.
We emerge from our mother's womb an unformatted diskette; our culture formats us.
how the HELL does this rate as insiteful. Its simply a reactionary and uninformed, 'stupid-ass' post.
... i defy you to go find a web page that contains all my thoughts. Or the guys next to me, or my grandmother who can't even SPELL internet. Or perhaps the other 90% of the populas on EARTH that don't have internet access.
How the HELL can you equate INTERNET censorship with THOUGHT censorship? The Internet is NOT our thoughts
Why don't you THINK before you SPEAK. Its people like YOU who whole annoy the shit out of clear thinking, inteligent people with your wild-eyed conspiracy theories.
grow up.
We emerge from our mother's womb an unformatted diskette; our culture formats us.
I'm definatly with you on this one.
This comet as been orbiting for millions of years, and just because NASA wants to blow it up, we're going to fuck with it. It would be like blowing up a historic building just to see whats inside. It's a loss.
Don't ask me, it just feels wrong, but hey, I'm not the one doing it.
We emerge from our mother's womb an unformatted diskette; our culture formats us.
Actually, yes, my little sister WOULD like to install and run Linux on one of her computers. She wants to play with it, but is feeling a little overwhelmed by the process and by the dis-ease of use.
.. probably not. But do I _WANT_ to run Linux, yes. And that should be enough to allow me to.
... it's supported in ANY docs i've read. My monitor is an NEC Multisync, again, supported.
Do you think _I_ really NEED to run linux? does anyone really NEED to run linux? no
My video card is a 4meg S3 Verge
I'm INSULTED that you would suggest I delete the partition and run Windows. What, you think just because I can't get X running I'm not WORTHY of running Linux? What a great proponent for Linux you are.
We emerge from our mother's womb an unformatted diskette; our culture formats us.
Instead of whining about it, do something, that is the wonder of OpenSource...
... but I'm just a simple IT guy who wouldn't know how to write a line of C/C++ etc to save his life. So instead, I ask others in the 'movement' to help, and get called a 'newbie' or a 'llamer' or a 'whiner' or told to 'fsck off'.
You know, i'd LOVE to help out
I'm PART of the 'movement', but I'm an outcast even within that because I'm not a programmer. Imagine how those OUTSIDE feel. The people we are trying to win over are the ones we are alienating by our own actions and 'snobbyness'.
Our attitude, the proponents for Linux, will have to change before the publics does. Comments like Don't come crying when you can't find "foo". are what make people NOt like us/Linux.
When the people pushing for Linx act like arrogant idiots, no one listens.
We emerge from our mother's womb an unformatted diskette; our culture formats us.
I was talking to a previous sales person for Iridium .. she says that phone calls rarely lasted more than one handoff .. she says the sattelites would hand off the call with no ACK, so if the signal didn't bounce properly, the call was lost, which happened frequently.
I have NO proof to back this up, just the word of a salesperson, so attack me not.
We emerge from our mother's womb an unformatted diskette; our culture formats us.
I bought an APex 600a on a whim a few months ago. I'm very sorry I did. AT the time, I hadn't done enough research, and thought a DVD player was a DVD player. But I know now that isn't true.
True, the 600a plays mp3s, but it's navigation is complicated and it doesn't seem to like playing cd's if they have anything other than mp3s on it (playlists, etc). The DVD playing is flakey - it sometimes just goes to sleep, and the only way to get it going again is to power cycle it. Sometimes, as far as I can tell, its decoding goes bad, and all you get is little squares of colour on your screen. The spinup times are horrid sometimes, taking a minute+ to get a DVD actually playing. and if you're doing track skipping, sometimes it just jumps randomly around.
However, when it is working fine (about 65% of the time), it works perfectly, from what I can tell. The one I have allows you to change which zone you're in, but I'd heard a rumour that that feature was being taken away in newer models.
Anyways, I love having a DVD player, but if I was going to do it AGAIN, I wouldn't pick to Apex 600a.
We emerge from our mother's womb an unformatted diskette; our culture formats us.
http://www.technews.com/news/00/159086.html
"The speed increase is thanks to subtle a twist on the solid-state memory technology that has driven computers for almost for decades. The technology is known as interlocked pipelined CMOS (complimentary metal oxide semiconductor) and will allow memory chips to reach speeds - in theory, at least - of between 3.3 gigahertz (GHz) and 4.5 GHz, using conventional silicon transistors. "
"The key to the new technology is a distributed "clock" function. In computer chips, the clock paces the speed of the circuits. Standard designs use a centralized clock to synchronize the operations of an entire chip, ensuring that all operations run at the same interval, or cycle. The clock waits for all the operations on a chip to finish before starting the next cycle, so the speed of the entire chip is limited to the pace of the slowest operation. To increase the speed, the IBM researchers decentralized the clock, using locally generated clocks to run smaller sections of circuits. Infineon says that it is working closely with IBM's New York Fishkill research operation on developing MRAM technology still further, with the intention of allowing the memory chips to function like bubble memory, which retails the computer data, even when power is removed from the chipset. "
We emerge from our mother's womb an unformatted diskette; our culture formats us.
well you'd better hurry if you plan on taking us over, whoever you are oh 'mythical saviour of maxlink'.
We emerge from our mother's womb an unformatted diskette; our culture formats us.
Maxlinks technolgoy (I can't speak for Look) is LMCS - one transmitter at the station can broadcast to many different customers using different frequencys. This isn't for mobile customers, as it is only LOS and fairly short range (between 2 and 5km). This isn't service for your laptops or PDAs etc.
... if you have any questions about it, email me, and I'll guess.
The service is offered as a competiter to Fibre/Cable/ADSL (Bell, Rogers and Bell in Toronto).
Our primary market are areas not serviced directly by fibre etc, or where its very expensive. The backend network is all ATM, which allows varying bitrates easily.
We use all Alcatel and Cicso gear
We emerge from our mother's womb an unformatted diskette; our culture formats us.
the latency is really low actually ... 30ms ... as long as you are withing range of the transmitter.
We emerge from our mother's womb an unformatted diskette; our culture formats us.
i'm sure they'd be MOST interested in an anonymous coward calling them :)
We emerge from our mother's womb an unformatted diskette; our culture formats us.
it depends on the technology ... the technology that maxlink uses can (and IS) blocked by trees, buildings, roofs, rain and heavy snow. Because it's high frequency, it's pretty easy to block.
.. I'm talking 28GHz .. big difference.
You're talking 2.4GHz
We emerge from our mother's womb an unformatted diskette; our culture formats us.
I myself am in Markham, and can honestly say that SHAW cable are a bunch of 'no talent ass clowns'. For 3 weeks my gatway was dropping packets, and for 3 weeks I called to tell them ... and they continually insisted it was me. Then one day when I called they said 'oh .. there was a problem with the gateway'.
.. HA!) ... avoid them!
On top of that, they cut my service for too much bandwidth usage (unlimited
We emerge from our mother's womb an unformatted diskette; our culture formats us.
then you are a BAD parent not deserving of your child. I sincerely hope your child grows up to despise you and the values you give him/her.
Any parent that wouldn't support their own child, despite any actions/decisions they make, isn't a worthy human being, let alone a fit parent. Might I suggest sterilization before you procreate yet again?
you are a despicable human being.
We emerge from our mother's womb an unformatted diskette; our culture formats us.
but ..
you most likely pay for your internet access, don't you? By your logic, that too is illegal, because they are charging you to access GPL'd material.
The cost isn't for the MATERIAL per se, but for access to the medium that can GET you the material.
Slight difference, but a difference none-the-less.
We emerge from our mother's womb an unformatted diskette; our culture formats us.
umm .. I don't recall ANY of the band members making a statement saying "duh! can't you recognize carcasm you fool?", or anything along those lines. They posted an entire version of a song, with some talking interspersed, and because people like you have no sense of humour and don't know when to shut their mouths and deal with things, they are now under attack.
somehow, this makes then incompetent idiots?
might I suggest that you are the idiot here, not them?
We emerge from our mother's womb an unformatted diskette; our culture formats us.