Not quite based on an anonymous attack, but in California some seizure-happy drug thugs (both feds and county mounties) executed a no-knock warrant on a reclusive millionaire's house at 2AM.
Said reclusive millionaire was shot when he came out of his bedroom with a gun to protect himself and his wife from the 'criminals' invading his house (who never actually said they were police.)
Basis for the search?
His young, pretty wife had been seen around town with spending freely, using hundred dollar bills.
Strata 3D only requires an internet connection once, when you first install it. You need that to do the registration thing. Afterwards, just close the 3d.com info box that comes up and you're fine.
The diff between the free version and the $30 version is the $30 version comes on a CD so you don't have to download it or log on to the internet to install it.
A printed manual instead of a PDF on the CD is another $30 or so (IIRC)
The diff between the $30 and the $500 version (Strata Pro) is a LOT of plug-ins and functionality, like inverse kinematics, etc.
OTOH, you can buy the things separately, and not blow the $500 all at once. The best thing to do is scout about for a used copy of Strata StudioPro 2.5.3; the upgrade to the sttrata Pro version is $90.
Finally, all these idiots whining about 'I can't run 3D software on my machine and it even has 128 mb of RAM!!' don't quite understand how much RAM 3D stuff wants.
128 megs doesn't even get you _started_. I know pros who have their machines cranked up to things like 700-800 megs.
Those days when the VMS source was available, were days when the _hardware_ that DEC sold cost tens of thousands of dollars, the number of computers in the world could still be counted, only a few of them were networked together, and the possiblity of VMS running on anything _BUT_ a DEC machine was, essentially, nil.
Contrast this to MS's position, where their software is running on _millions_ of computers, available from a wide variety of sources, connected by a network that can move gigabytes of data around quickly.
The worlds these two examples occupy are quite different.
Likely this will cost as much, and every damn reviewer out there will piss and moan that it doesn't fit in their shirt pocket, so of course it can't be any good.
Sorry folks...we're stuck with a crappy little device that has 2 square inches of screen space that manages (barely) to serve as a decent address book replacement.
Bitter...me...naaahhh:-)
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Don't the strings on the viola get in the way of erasing anything?
Yes. He went to parc after the nearly fired him for screwing around with that **&@%$ useless laser printer idea.
Read the book "Dealers of Lightning:Xerox Parc and the Dawn of the Computer Age" by Michael Hiltzik, isbn 0887308910
Fascinating look at PARC and the deeply dysfunctional company that was Xerox then.
Note: Apple paid Xerox in shares in Apple for the rights to the GUI stuff. Xerox sold these shares _before_ Apple went public, and missed tripling their take from it.
Well, Steve hated them because a) they were expensive and large compared to palm devices, b) they were John Scully's baby, c) they were stuck with the 'Doonsberry' stigma, even though HWR had gotten almost perfect, d) they were John Scully's baby, e) John Scully fired Steve from Apple, and oh, f) did I mention they were John Scully's baby?;-)
Seriously, having played with them, palms suck big green donkey turds for what I want a handheld to be, primarily because I used a Newt before I was exposed to them. Still use my Newt.
It's sorta like Windows...until you've tried something that _works_ Windows seems pretty good as an OS...
Mostly this is because of the gawdawful kludge that is Graffiti.
Been using them for about 4 years now...they have never done that to me. Not a real one, that is.
Make _sure_ however you are looking at the _real_ Stokke chairs...there are a bunch of _really_ cheap knockoffs out there which are probably worse for you than falling and breaking your neck.
Looks design.
I have an ancient Balans at home, I picked up at a swap meet for $25 from someone who didn't know any better (they sell for around $300). I love it, and ended up getting a HAG for my office at work.
Everyone makes fun of it, but at least my back, neck and head don't ache. I took a class recently where we were stuck in cheapo classroom chairs for 8 hrs a day. After two days I was waking up with horrific migraines.
Ahh bite me. I'm tired of the deification of that second rate actor.
Reagan was not taken prisoner by a bunch of generals attempting a coup because of what he did to end the cold war. Gorbachev was.
Ronnie Ray-Gun talked trash, and spent a gazillion of (partly) _my_ %%#$!@# tax dollars on the military because he listened to a bunch of toady CIA spooks telling him what he wanted to hear, that the "Evil Empire' _was_ a dangerous threat rather than the truth, which was that they were a barely functioning ex-superpower teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, whose soldiers _could_ have invaded Europe...
...for about fifteen miles, until their tanks ran out of gas because their commanders had sold it all on the black market to buy food.
Gorbachev _ended_ his form of government, ushered in democracy, and got himself sacked and almost shot for his troubles.
RayGun sat around, spent money and smiled in a senile fashion.
"Computer animation has been it's own art for since Fantasia, or even before."
This must be some weird definition of 'computer animation' that I've never heard of before.
_Fantasia_ premiered in 1940, decades before the first examples of CG animation. Perhaps you were thinking of _Tron_, the first commercial film to use extensive CG animation. (1979)
Welcome to Logical Fallacies, and thank you for playing!
You have witnessed ONE possibly scary 5 year-old.
Since he is a violent, threatening kid, you leap to the conclusion that it's because of DOOM.
Now you're ready to generalize to the entire world.
A single anecdotal datapoint does not make a conclusion.
Blindly dismissing all the other factors in this kids life is another grave error. You mention that his parents hadn't done a good job of teaching the child. If the kid's been left to play doom since he was 'old enough to handle a mouse', I suspect there's something a little more deeply wrong in this kids life than his choice of video games.
Finally, you've not much experience with five-year-olds, have you. MOST five year olds have no concept of death or dying. MOST five year olds go through phases where they threaten people around them.
This is around the age when children are finally becoming strong enough to actually manipulate things in an adult world. These are attempts at control. It's the parent's job to teach them that there are appropriate avenues and times for exerting control of your world, and that threatening people isn't one of them.
It's not much differentfrom age two, when they learn the power of the word NO!
They tend to use it, a lot, until they figure out the rules under which the power of NO! works, and telling that to Mom or Dad when they say to go to bed, is not one of those rules;-)
We have a fairly good handle on the _general_ idea of how humans get socialized. We just don't have a good handle on the deep specifics.
Yes, children DO 'go through phases' They are fundamental steps in how we get socialized. IN some cases that doesn't happen, for reasons that are still very murky. That's when you get the Kip Kinkels of the world.
>Go ahead and back up your proposterous claim that >organic farming is somehow more harmful for the >environment.
Coastal wetlands are a big example. The Chesapeake bay area, once one of the largest and most productive wetlands areas in the US is being horribly polluted by nitrogenous materials. (causing algal blooms, deoxengenation of the water and subsequent fish kills)
The largest source of nitrates? Runoff from the _naturally_ fertilized organic farms of the Amish upstream in Pennsylvania. The recent boom in organic crop prices has made their produce worth a lot more, leading to decreased fallow time for their fields, leading to increased need for fertilizer: manure.
So called 'chemical' fertilizers can be applied much easier to minimize runoff...but that's not 'organic'.
Watch out for them unintended consequenses, they'll bitecha on the ass every time.
(besides...does it have carbon atoms in there? Then it's organic by definition;-)
You also might want to check out Oracle's WebDB product (which is available for Linux) which allows you to do a lot of DBA and development stuff (particularly simple web-based apps) via a web client from anywhere. It's all.html on the client side.
What puzzles me is that Oracle's DBA tools (like Oracle Enterprise Manager, which is pretty damn slick) and some of their development tools are _written in Java_...yet they're available for NT only...stupid
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Aeron, schmaeron!
Go get a Balans Variable....
http://www.stokke-furniture.no/new/home.html
I love mine...one at home and one at work.
Translation:
Waaaahhhhh! Sun won't give me stuff! Waaaahhhh!!!
If their proprietary hardware and software is so freakin' offensive to you, here's a clue: don't buy it.
OOhhhh such deep mastery of arcane principles....
More to the point, it sounds exactly like the Newton interface, which he mentions explicitly in the book.
Not quite based on an anonymous attack, but in California some seizure-happy drug thugs (both feds and county mounties) executed a no-knock warrant on a reclusive millionaire's house at 2AM.
Said reclusive millionaire was shot when he came out of his bedroom with a gun to protect himself and his wife from the 'criminals' invading his house (who never actually said they were police.)
Basis for the search?
His young, pretty wife had been seen around town with spending freely, using hundred dollar bills.
Don't take much to make 'em think you're prey.
Uhhh, monopoly?
My FLGS has a lot of stuff not by Wizards.
Take Steve Jackson Games, foex, they have a hugely successful line of GURPS stuff.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Based on ten-year-old Sybase is more like it.
Sybase and Microsoft parted ways at SQL Server 4. There has been a lot of programming water under the bridge since then.
That wavy scroll is Windows for 'I don't know what this thing is'
Notepad's icon is, oddly enough, a little notepad...
Old one:
Q:"Why do the British drink warm beer?"
A:"Lucas Refrigerators."
Oh my.
"Apple About To Die!"
News at 11!
Strata 3D only requires an internet connection once, when you first install it. You need that to do the registration thing. Afterwards, just close the 3d.com info box that comes up and you're fine.
The diff between the free version and the $30 version is the $30 version comes on a CD so you don't have to download it or log on to the internet to install it.
A printed manual instead of a PDF on the CD is another $30 or so (IIRC)
The diff between the $30 and the $500 version (Strata Pro) is a LOT of plug-ins and functionality, like inverse kinematics, etc.
OTOH, you can buy the things separately, and not blow the $500 all at once. The best thing to do is scout about for a used copy of Strata StudioPro 2.5.3; the upgrade to the sttrata Pro version is $90.
Finally, all these idiots whining about 'I can't run 3D software on my machine and it even has 128 mb of RAM!!' don't quite understand how much RAM 3D stuff wants.
128 megs doesn't even get you _started_. I know pros who have their machines cranked up to things like 700-800 megs.
Damn Slashdot and it's $#%@$# html-ization.
that first line should say
VMS NE Windows and DEC NE Microsoft..
VMS Windows, and DEC Microsoft.
Those days when the VMS source was available, were days when the _hardware_ that DEC sold cost tens of thousands of dollars, the number of computers in the world could still be counted, only a few of them were networked together, and the possiblity of VMS running on anything _BUT_ a DEC machine was, essentially, nil.
Contrast this to MS's position, where their software is running on _millions_ of computers, available from a wide variety of sources, connected by a network that can move gigabytes of data around quickly.
The worlds these two examples occupy are quite different.
Trouble for Palm? No more than the Newton did.
:-)
Likely this will cost as much, and every damn reviewer out there will piss and moan that it doesn't fit in their shirt pocket, so of course it can't be any good.
Sorry folks...we're stuck with a crappy little device that has 2 square inches of screen space that manages (barely) to serve as a decent address book replacement.
Bitter...me...naaahhh
Don't the strings on the viola get in the way of erasing anything?
Yes. He went to parc after the nearly fired him for screwing around with that **&@%$ useless laser printer idea.
Read the book "Dealers of Lightning:Xerox Parc and the Dawn of the Computer Age" by Michael Hiltzik, isbn 0887308910
Fascinating look at PARC and the deeply dysfunctional company that was Xerox then.
Note: Apple paid Xerox in shares in Apple for the rights to the GUI stuff. Xerox sold these shares _before_ Apple went public, and missed tripling their take from it.
Well, Steve hated them because a) they were expensive and large compared to palm devices, b) they were John Scully's baby, c) they were stuck with the 'Doonsberry' stigma, even though HWR had gotten almost perfect, d) they were John Scully's baby, e) John Scully fired Steve from Apple, and oh, f) did I mention they were John Scully's baby? ;-)
Seriously, having played with them, palms suck big green donkey turds for what I want a handheld to be, primarily because I used a Newt before I was exposed to them. Still use my Newt.
It's sorta like Windows...until you've tried something that _works_ Windows seems pretty good as an OS...
Mostly this is because of the gawdawful kludge that is Graffiti.
Been using them for about 4 years now...they have never done that to me. Not a real one, that is.
Make _sure_ however you are looking at the _real_ Stokke chairs...there are a bunch of _really_ cheap knockoffs out there which are probably worse for you than falling and breaking your neck.
Looks design.
I have an ancient Balans at home, I picked up at a swap meet for $25 from someone who didn't know any better (they sell for around $300). I love it, and ended up getting a HAG for my office at work.
Everyone makes fun of it, but at least my back, neck and head don't ache. I took a class recently where we were stuck in cheapo classroom chairs for 8 hrs a day. After two days I was waking up with horrific migraines.
Ahh bite me. I'm tired of the deification of that second rate actor.
Reagan was not taken prisoner by a bunch of generals attempting a coup because of what he did to end the cold war. Gorbachev was.
Ronnie Ray-Gun talked trash, and spent a gazillion of (partly) _my_ %%#$!@# tax dollars on the military because he listened to a bunch of toady CIA spooks telling him what he wanted to hear, that the "Evil Empire' _was_ a dangerous threat rather than the truth, which was that they were a barely functioning ex-superpower teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, whose soldiers _could_ have invaded Europe...
...for about fifteen miles, until their tanks ran out of gas because their commanders had sold it all on the black market to buy food.
Gorbachev _ended_ his form of government, ushered in democracy, and got himself sacked and almost shot for his troubles.
RayGun sat around, spent money and smiled in a senile fashion.
Now tell me who did more?
"Computer animation has been it's own art for since Fantasia, or even before."
This must be some weird definition of 'computer animation' that I've never heard of before.
_Fantasia_ premiered in 1940, decades before the first examples of CG animation. Perhaps you were thinking of _Tron_, the first commercial film to use extensive CG animation. (1979)
BZZZT!
Welcome to Logical Fallacies, and thank you for playing!
You have witnessed ONE possibly scary 5 year-old.
Since he is a violent, threatening kid, you leap to the conclusion that it's because of DOOM.
Now you're ready to generalize to the entire world.
A single anecdotal datapoint does not make a conclusion.
Blindly dismissing all the other factors in this kids life is another grave error. You mention that his parents hadn't done a good job of teaching the child. If the kid's been left to play doom since he was 'old enough to handle a mouse', I suspect there's something a little more deeply wrong in this kids life than his choice of video games.
Finally, you've not much experience with five-year-olds, have you. MOST five year olds have no concept of death or dying. MOST five year olds go through phases where they threaten people around them.
This is around the age when children are finally becoming strong enough to actually manipulate things in an adult world. These are attempts at control. It's the parent's job to teach them that there are appropriate avenues and times for exerting control of your world, and that threatening people isn't one of them.
It's not much differentfrom age two, when they learn the power of the word NO!
They tend to use it, a lot, until they figure out the rules under which the power of NO! works, and telling that to Mom or Dad when they say to go to bed, is not one of those rules;-)
We have a fairly good handle on the _general_ idea of how humans get socialized. We just don't have a good handle on the deep specifics.
Yes, children DO 'go through phases' They are fundamental steps in how we get socialized. IN some cases that doesn't happen, for reasons that are still very murky. That's when you get the Kip Kinkels of the world.
One little nagging question...were those targets shooting _back_ at you?
Notice, the quote is about a _shootout_ at close range, not shooting on a practice range.
Bad guys shooting back at you do not stand there and give you a nice stationary target.
Go look up the statistics on soldiers firing in combat. In some cases, _hundreds_ of rounds are expended per hit.
NEVER make the mistake of judging Gateway's corporate systems support with their consumer support. These are two completely different situations.
We buy cow boxes here, a fair number of 'em (about 300 over the last five years or thereabouts)
I have called support any number of times, and have waited on hold a maximum of about 7 minutes one time.
95% of the time the conversation goes like this:
GW "how can I help you'
Me "The system with serial number xxx needs a new video card, the one in it now is toasted."
GW "Are you sure?"
Me "Swapped in another video card and everything's peachy."
GW "Ok, hold on a sec while I process your order."
Me idly browses Slashdot while waiting, usually get through about two comments.
GW "Ok, the new part is on the way, you should have it in 3-5 working days, your RMA is xyz. Theres a return shipping label in the box."
Me "Thanks!"
Elapsed time, usually less than 5 minutes. If we get the order in before the last UPS truck leaves for the day, we usually have the part in 2 days.
The other 5% of the time, the tech comes up with something for me to try before they ship the part (usually confined to undiagnosable MB problems)
I laughed so hard I almost blacked out...
Been a looong week, gotta go suck down some beer.
>Go ahead and back up your proposterous claim that
;-)
>organic farming is somehow more harmful for the
>environment.
Coastal wetlands are a big example. The Chesapeake bay area, once one of the largest and most productive wetlands areas in the US is being horribly polluted by nitrogenous materials. (causing algal blooms, deoxengenation of the water and subsequent fish kills)
The largest source of nitrates? Runoff from the _naturally_ fertilized organic farms of the Amish upstream in Pennsylvania. The recent boom in organic crop prices has made their produce worth a lot more, leading to decreased fallow time for their fields, leading to increased need for fertilizer: manure.
So called 'chemical' fertilizers can be applied much easier to minimize runoff...but that's not 'organic'.
Watch out for them unintended consequenses, they'll bitecha on the ass every time.
(besides...does it have carbon atoms in there? Then it's organic by definition
You also might want to check out Oracle's WebDB product (which is available for Linux) which allows you to do a lot of DBA and development stuff (particularly simple web-based apps) via a web client from anywhere. It's all .html on the client side.
...yet they're available for NT only...stupid
What puzzles me is that Oracle's DBA tools (like Oracle Enterprise Manager, which is pretty damn slick) and some of their development tools are _written in Java_