Specifically, the dynamic lists that lead to various areas of the site. Check here with a mozilla variant (I am using firebird 0.6, but have tested it with mozilla 1.4b), and you will see what I'm talking about. With Opera 7.1, the same menu totally fails.
I stand by my claim of browser incompatability.
I have several complaints. Without going into too much depth, I proceed:
1. Dialog was mostly circular jibba-jabba and excessively pretentious. Example: the oracle discussion was enough that I wanted to rip my ears off
2. The Agent Smith fight and the fight with weapons in the palace were lacking for something. Let's call it soul.
3. Pulling sais from the wall ala Jedi master. Completely in charachter, but still a BLATENT FUCKING RIP-OFF. This did hurt the movie for me.
4. Bitch next to me going "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, OOOOOOOOOOOOO" for the *entire* Agent Smith fight. Death was close, but my restraint was strong.
All in all a good movie, but as most expected not the caliber of the first. The action was overall superb although as mentioned above a couple of scenes were off. Dialog was shitty but did manage to save face in places. The plot was excellent and leaves you wishing for the next movie to be there now. Everyone should see this but be careful not to expect too much, or, like me, you'll leave with a vauge sense of dissapointment.
There was nothing in the world like playing Doom or Doom II and suddenly hearing the piston powered, ground shaking steps of a cyber-demon. Those things will still make anyone desire a bullet to the head as an alternative to facing that scary bitch in the dark.
When the Quake demo came out, there was nothing like it in the world. Downloaded over a 14.4 as soon as it came out on the net, I don't think I've been that frightened for so long ever in my life. It truly did usher in a new era.
1. The best reason is security. Even with the best planning crackers can sometimes reach the machine in question. OpenBSD has the lowest rate of bugs and security holes of any OS out there. Any serious problems that are found are usually patched within days instead of weeks.
2. Stability. Like a rock. Even running the current branch, you will most likely not have any stability problems. Install, configure, and throw away the key. This is the first OS I've run that I can truthfully say is, besides any necessary patches, maintainence free.
3. BSD systems are much easier to maintain than Linux yet just as powerful as a full Unix. The ports system is well kept up and easy to use and the filesystem is much less cluttered than in Linux.
I will disagree about KDS monitors. I've had a Visual Sensations 19SN for two years that I bought for $180. It has worked brilliantly, has crisp lettering, and looks good at high resolutions. I recommend to everyone that they check their options. Cheap doesn't mean shit.
"We're pretty hopeful that the outcome from all this might be more people making a real commitment to self regulation rather than seeing some draconian regulation introduced."
How is forced self-regulation any different than a law that does the same thing? It's like saying "give me your lunch money or I'll kick your ass and take it!" Admittedly, less ass-kicking is involved, but otherwise you feel just as bad.
I don't think latency would be such a big deal. It would be rather simple to write some sync code. That way the surgery might lag, but at least the surgeon's movements would never be ahead of the operation itself. His commands could be ignored until the two ends were in sync again.
I remember a couple of years back when my friend got a brand new mobo. Well, he decides to install it after smoking a ton of weed and getting stoned out of his mind. Next thing he knows, he has a shorted-out, cracked-in-half motherboard. Very clever.
Well, it appears in this particular case there is less than an advantage to going the hardware route, but theoretically, hardware could could provide a much faster and secure solution.
For instance, encrypting and decrypting the data via software would cause cpu and memory overhead on the host machine. The encryption software would also need to be installed on all machines that you want to use it on, and this is looking to be a portable drive. Also, using an external encrypter, it's less likely that a keygrabber or trojan can grab your password.
The first time I saw The Story of Ricky, I saw the un-subbed version. Just straight Chinese for 90 minutes. Somehow though, I still thought it was an awesome movie, and, amazingly, when I saw the english-subbed version later, it didn't really improve the story.
Most likely your scenario with the laptop wouldn't happen. In general, users shutdown their laptops while in transit as opposed to just suspending it. This particular worm is memory resident meaning that a reboot removes the infection. This was a great help to the admins trying to patch their servers because they didn't have to disinfect the systems; just reboot (after disconnecting the network cable), patch, and you're back up.
*sigh* people really should try reading the links in the stories before posting.
i've been following the linux client since that page was put up, and i think that bioware has done a fantastic job of updating the community on what's going on with development. most companies just say it's done when it's done, stop bothering us. go back and read the page. there are updates almost every week.
if you knew anything about linux development, you would know that there are a LOT more configurations you have to cater to compared to windows where worst case you have a rouge driver that needs updating. also, they didn't know there was a linux version of the sound engine they used which admittedly sounds like a huge fuck up. i'm not quite sure where the blame for that lies.
bioware is setting a great example for other large development houses. they listen to their community, ignore the whining, tell us what's going on, and get shit done. we should all be thankful.
good job bioware
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...every panda that wouldn't screw to save its species.
Ok, now this might sound ridiculous, but who would be suprised if the cd comes with a license agreement giving Mr. Greg Venter the copyright on the cd.
You could argue that the DNA is yours, and you can give a copy to as many people as you want, but let's say the data is in a proprietary format, hard linked with the software. Copying the software would be piracy and converting the data would be infringing the DMCA.
So, in addition to the large sum of 500 large US bills, you could be charged 10,000 for every extra copy. I'm not saying this is likely or even probable. Just possible.
I fail to see a good argument against treating the internet as separate from an individual country.
The internet cannot be regulated by any existing government due to its non-physical existance. Sure you can say that all the servers, nodes, routers, wires, and even electrons exist physically, but the information they represent, the internet, does not. No one can claim a right to control something that they do not own.
That is akin to saying that all the air in my house is mine, and even if it leaves my house, it is still mine. Even the most braindead judge would not listen to such a charge, yet they say much the same about those subatomic particles that run our world.
Now if I take down a server, causing customers to go to another company to do business, or, if I use up large amounts of a company or persons bandwith, then I should be held liable for such. No matter what anybody says, preventing somebody the use of anything they have paid for is theft or vandalism, depending on the case.
But these lawyers and "legal experts" that desire censorship, and commercial or governmental control of the internet and other electronic networks are riding on ways of thinking that should have died with the horse and buggy. The internet does not need the legal systems so necessary in the physical world.
The students studying cyberlaw are on the right track. They realize that the electronic community is a whole new world. Hopefully more people will come to realize this.
there was a movie made by the name of dragonball or dragonball z already. i can't seem to find it on imdb for more info, but i would have a hard time forgetting it. definately a b-movie. bad acting, shoddy special effects, and guns. it didn't seem to take much from the television show and managed to be an atrocious film.
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Specifically, the dynamic lists that lead to various areas of the site. Check here with a mozilla variant (I am using firebird 0.6, but have tested it with mozilla 1.4b), and you will see what I'm talking about. With Opera 7.1, the same menu totally fails. I stand by my claim of browser incompatability.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that people still write websites without checking browser compatability.
The guy who wrote this site is no fucking Einstein.
*** SPOILER SPOILER ***
I have several complaints. Without going into too much depth, I proceed:
1. Dialog was mostly circular jibba-jabba and excessively pretentious. Example: the oracle discussion was enough that I wanted to rip my ears off
2. The Agent Smith fight and the fight with weapons in the palace were lacking for something. Let's call it soul.
3. Pulling sais from the wall ala Jedi master. Completely in charachter, but still a BLATENT FUCKING RIP-OFF. This did hurt the movie for me.
4. Bitch next to me going "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, OOOOOOOOOOOOO" for the *entire* Agent Smith fight. Death was close, but my restraint was strong.
All in all a good movie, but as most expected not the caliber of the first. The action was overall superb although as mentioned above a couple of scenes were off. Dialog was shitty but did manage to save face in places. The plot was excellent and leaves you wishing for the next movie to be there now. Everyone should see this but be careful not to expect too much, or, like me, you'll leave with a vauge sense of dissapointment.
There was nothing in the world like playing Doom or Doom II and suddenly hearing the piston powered, ground shaking steps of a cyber-demon. Those things will still make anyone desire a bullet to the head as an alternative to facing that scary bitch in the dark.
When the Quake demo came out, there was nothing like it in the world. Downloaded over a 14.4 as soon as it came out on the net, I don't think I've been that frightened for so long ever in my life. It truly did usher in a new era.
1. The best reason is security. Even with the best planning crackers can sometimes reach the machine in question. OpenBSD has the lowest rate of bugs and security holes of any OS out there. Any serious problems that are found are usually patched within days instead of weeks.
2. Stability. Like a rock. Even running the current branch, you will most likely not have any stability problems. Install, configure, and throw away the key. This is the first OS I've run that I can truthfully say is, besides any necessary patches, maintainence free.
3. BSD systems are much easier to maintain than Linux yet just as powerful as a full Unix. The ports system is well kept up and easy to use and the filesystem is much less cluttered than in Linux.
Very much worth a try if you have never used it.
aha, i was forgetting the ; after the entity. *sigh* i can be ignorant sometimes. that is much better than the shitty ecode tag.
(close enough anyway) ;)
I will disagree about KDS monitors. I've had a Visual Sensations 19SN for two years that I bought for $180. It has worked brilliantly, has crisp lettering, and looks good at high resolutions. I recommend to everyone that they check their options. Cheap doesn't mean shit.
the trailer is also up on fileplanet and fileshack.
"We're pretty hopeful that the outcome from all this might be more people making a real commitment to self regulation rather than seeing some draconian regulation introduced."
How is forced self-regulation any different than a law that does the same thing? It's like saying "give me your lunch money or I'll kick your ass and take it!" Admittedly, less ass-kicking is involved, but otherwise you feel just as bad.
I don't think latency would be such a big deal. It would be rather simple to write some sync code. That way the surgery might lag, but at least the surgeon's movements would never be ahead of the operation itself. His commands could be ignored until the two ends were in sync again.
I remember a couple of years back when my friend got a brand new mobo. Well, he decides to install it after smoking a ton of weed and getting stoned out of his mind. Next thing he knows, he has a shorted-out, cracked-in-half motherboard. Very clever.
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Well, it appears in this particular case there is less than an advantage to going the hardware route, but theoretically, hardware could could provide a much faster and secure solution.
For instance, encrypting and decrypting the data via software would cause cpu and memory overhead on the host machine. The encryption software would also need to be installed on all machines that you want to use it on, and this is looking to be a portable drive. Also, using an external encrypter, it's less likely that a keygrabber or trojan can grab your password.
The first time I saw The Story of Ricky, I saw the un-subbed version. Just straight Chinese for 90 minutes. Somehow though, I still thought it was an awesome movie, and, amazingly, when I saw the english-subbed version later, it didn't really improve the story.
Most likely your scenario with the laptop wouldn't happen. In general, users shutdown their laptops while in transit as opposed to just suspending it. This particular worm is memory resident meaning that a reboot removes the infection. This was a great help to the admins trying to patch their servers because they didn't have to disinfect the systems; just reboot (after disconnecting the network cable), patch, and you're back up.
*sigh* people really should try reading the links in the stories before posting.
i've been following the linux client since that page was put up, and i think that bioware has done a fantastic job of updating the community on what's going on with development. most companies just say it's done when it's done, stop bothering us. go back and read the page. there are updates almost every week.
if you knew anything about linux development, you would know that there are a LOT more configurations you have to cater to compared to windows where worst case you have a rouge driver that needs updating. also, they didn't know there was a linux version of the sound engine they used which admittedly sounds like a huge fuck up. i'm not quite sure where the blame for that lies.
bioware is setting a great example for other large development houses. they listen to their community, ignore the whining, tell us what's going on, and get shit done. we should all be thankful.
good job bioware
...every panda that wouldn't screw to save its species.
Ok, now this might sound ridiculous, but who would be suprised if the cd comes with a license agreement giving Mr. Greg Venter the copyright on the cd.
You could argue that the DNA is yours, and you can give a copy to as many people as you want, but let's say the data is in a proprietary format, hard linked with the software. Copying the software would be piracy and converting the data would be infringing the DMCA.
So, in addition to the large sum of 500 large US bills, you could be charged 10,000 for every extra copy. I'm not saying this is likely or even probable. Just possible.
I fail to see a good argument against treating the internet as separate from an individual country.
The internet cannot be regulated by any existing government due to its non-physical existance. Sure you can say that all the servers, nodes, routers, wires, and even electrons exist physically, but the information they represent, the internet, does not. No one can claim a right to control something that they do not own.
That is akin to saying that all the air in my house is mine, and even if it leaves my house, it is still mine. Even the most braindead judge would not listen to such a charge, yet they say much the same about those subatomic particles that run our world.
Now if I take down a server, causing customers to go to another company to do business, or, if I use up large amounts of a company or persons bandwith, then I should be held liable for such. No matter what anybody says, preventing somebody the use of anything they have paid for is theft or vandalism, depending on the case.
But these lawyers and "legal experts" that desire censorship, and commercial or governmental control of the internet and other electronic networks are riding on ways of thinking that should have died with the horse and buggy. The internet does not need the legal systems so necessary in the physical world.
The students studying cyberlaw are on the right track. They realize that the electronic community is a whole new world. Hopefully more people will come to realize this.
there was a movie made by the name of dragonball or dragonball z already. i can't seem to find it on imdb for more info, but i would have a hard time forgetting it. definately a b-movie. bad acting, shoddy special effects, and guns. it didn't seem to take much from the television show and managed to be an atrocious film.
what's weird is Salt Lake City is only about 25% mormon and Utah state is roughly only 50%.
It's amazing how so few people can obviously influence their community so much.