I thought it was interesting in Episode II, the way Count Dooku gives a very western style salute with his lightsaber. I don't recall whether it was before fighting Obi-Wan and Anakin, or before fighting Yoda. His lightsaber also looked had a bend to it, like the orthopedic grip on many epees and foils.
I make it a point to look aside while forwarding past commercials. I can tell when to stop by a combination of a general sense of the lightness/color of the screen and the proper amount of time having gone by.
In my younger and less socially-adapted days, I once went into a store that sold Apple ][ computers, and typed this:
call -151 300:a5 00 20 ed fd ad 30 c0 4c 00 03 300g
Or for those that don't read 6502 machine code: LDA $00 JSR $FDED LDA $C030 JMP $0300
This fills the screen with random garbage and clicks the speaker, repeatedly. I feel kind of bad about it now:-).
(I don't remember whether the second byte was $00 or not; it was a zero page location that was ever-changing. I don't have an Apple ][ reference manual anymore:-()
Unless they've changed the cards, that thing on the back is an optical media area. It contains everything that's on the rest of the card. An interesting byproduct of the technology is that when its written to you it visibly scars the media, so they can also etch your picture, signature, etc in the material.
I consider IE to be simply the first stage of the Mozilla/FireFox installer, and thereafter used only for Windows Update, on my dwindling number of Windows machines.
or a home network? Paranoia is understandable, but smart cards on a home network? and 14 character passwords inside your house. OK, on the outside, that makes some sense. But what kind of secrets do you internally that you need that level of paranoia. If the entire network is open to the outside world, that a different matter, but what could possibly be so important that your kids need 14 character passwords to protect it inside your home?
Hiw whole point is that it doesn't matter whether he has anything "worth" protecting on his internal network, if he gets into the habit of practicing strong security everywhere, he's less likely to use weak security where it really matters.
I feel the same way, but based on what the article describes, I'm probably only 62.54% as paeranoid as he is.:-)
I'm with you. I've managed to keep that crap out of my life for so long, that now I feel uncomfortable being stuck somewhere where advertising is unavoidable, like a sub shop with the radio playing, or on a train with crap advertising plastered on every flat surface.
I'm with you. When I played EverQuest it wasn't too common at first, but became more common. I just put offenders on ignore. It's rampant in WoW, unfortunately, to the point where I don't even keep general chat open anymore.
If you can't be bothered to type it, I can't be bothered to read it. Abbreviations are acceptable to me, like "AFK" or "BRB". "b4", "u", "r", and crap like that are not.
>What do you want them to do? Seriously, what should they do? Just blandly (and uninterestedly) present the bare facts and let you decide for yourself?
I haven't tried WoW yet. How does lag figure in to the interactivity of combat? Does lag = death (or at least a much worse time of it) more so then in EQ?
> Really. Think. Give me an example of one person you know (more points if it's a public person -- the Dalai Lama is out) that: 1. does not abuse ANY drug. caffeine and all the other stuff in chocolate included. 2. does not tries in any way to impose its will upon others, by threatening force if necessary. The prosecution rests its case. I, for one, know of no such person.
>>Then hammer them with advertising. Its the american way:)
I would have ended that statement with ":(" myself.
> How many Slashdotters/TiVo users will have the guts to back their outrage with action?
Considering the slowness of www.mythtv.org right now, probably a few:-).
TiVo is dead to me. I'm definitely going ahead and building my own. I've been gritting my teeth for years whenever I saw crap I didn't want show up on the main screen, but that didn't disgust me enough to change.
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> Home of the Brave? Not recently.
Land of the Free? Not recently, or at least, not for long if the trends continue.
And it should be "Yoda, Yo-yo-yo-yo-Yoda" (thanks, Wierd Al).
And now, we know who you are.
Please wait patiently while the unmarked black helicopters come.
I thought it was interesting in Episode II, the way Count Dooku gives a very western style salute with his lightsaber. I don't recall whether it was before fighting Obi-Wan and Anakin, or before fighting Yoda. His lightsaber also looked had a bend to it, like the orthopedic grip on many epees and foils.
Anonymous because I'm moderating here.
I make it a point to look aside while forwarding past commercials. I can tell when to stop by a combination of a general sense of the lightness/color of the screen and the proper amount of time having gone by.
In my younger and less socially-adapted days, I once went into a store that sold Apple ][ computers, and typed this:
:-).
:-()
call -151
300:a5 00 20 ed fd ad 30 c0 4c 00 03
300g
Or for those that don't read 6502 machine code:
LDA $00
JSR $FDED
LDA $C030
JMP $0300
This fills the screen with random garbage and clicks the speaker, repeatedly. I feel kind of bad about it now
(I don't remember whether the second byte was $00 or not; it was a zero page location that was ever-changing. I don't have an Apple ][ reference manual anymore
Unless they've changed the cards, that thing on the back is an optical media area. It contains everything that's on the rest of the card. An interesting byproduct of the technology is that when its written to you it visibly scars the media, so they can also etch your picture, signature, etc in the material.
In the Culture-Idiran War from Iain L. Bank's book, "Consider Phlebas":
.3%)
Total casualties, including machines (reckoned on logarithmic sentience scale), medjel and non-combatants: 851.4 billion (+-
Wasn't it Marx who said "Time flies like an arrow, :-)
fruit flies like a banana?" Ok, so it's the wrong Marx for this discussion...
Perhaps "Matthew" is his title?
I consider IE to be simply the first stage of the Mozilla/FireFox installer, and thereafter used only for Windows Update, on my dwindling number of Windows machines.
or a home network? Paranoia is understandable, but smart cards on a home network? and 14 character passwords inside your house. OK, on the outside, that makes some sense. But what kind of secrets do you internally that you need that level of paranoia. If the entire network is open to the outside world, that a different matter, but what could possibly be so important that your kids need 14 character passwords to protect it inside your home?
:-)
Hiw whole point is that it doesn't matter whether he has anything "worth" protecting on his internal network, if he gets into the habit of practicing strong security everywhere, he's less likely to use weak security where it really matters.
I feel the same way, but based on what the article describes, I'm probably only 62.54% as paeranoid as he is.
I'm with you. I've managed to keep that crap out of my life for so long, that now I feel uncomfortable being stuck somewhere where advertising is unavoidable, like a sub shop with the radio playing, or on a train with crap advertising plastered on every flat surface.
My two mantras are:
All advertising sucks. All the time, everywhere.
I will not be advertised at.
Me too!@!!
"incuded"? I swear I'm not dyslexic. That should have been "induced".
Or was it caffeine-incuded time dilation? :-)
I'm with you. When I played EverQuest it wasn't too common at first, but became more common. I just put offenders on ignore. It's rampant in WoW, unfortunately, to the point where I don't even keep general chat open anymore.
If you can't be bothered to type it, I can't be bothered to read it. Abbreviations are acceptable to me, like "AFK" or "BRB". "b4", "u", "r", and crap like that are not.
>What do you want them to do? Seriously, what should they do? Just blandly (and uninterestedly) present the bare facts and let you decide for yourself?
YES! Why should anything else be necessary?
UnderWare developed the Brief editor, if I recall correctly. Back in the day I loved that editor even more then emacs...
I haven't tried WoW yet. How does lag figure in to the interactivity of combat? Does lag = death (or at least a much worse time of it) more so then in EQ?
Llama? Did I miss an OS X release?
> Really. Think. Give me an example of one person you know (more points if it's a public person -- the Dalai Lama is out) that:
1. does not abuse ANY drug. caffeine and all the other stuff in chocolate included.
2. does not tries in any way to impose its will upon others, by threatening force if necessary.
The prosecution rests its case. I, for one, know of no such person.
I do: Me.
I and 2 of my friends memorized pi to 50 places in high school, on a bet. I can still recite it today, over 20 years later.
I have Suggestions turned off, I'm referring to the "Win a trip to Hollywood for 8!" junk. I've never seen a way to turn that off.
>>Then hammer them with advertising. Its the american way :)
.
:-).
I would have ended that statement with ":(" myself
> How many Slashdotters/TiVo users will have the guts to back their outrage with action?
Considering the slowness of www.mythtv.org right now, probably a few
TiVo is dead to me. I'm definitely going ahead and building my own. I've been gritting my teeth for years whenever I saw crap I didn't want show up on the main screen, but that didn't disgust me enough to change.