the other day I was thinking the same while watching the old Battlestar Galactica.... While the new CG looked cooler, the old models looked more "real" I thought.
I hope they have addressed the design flaws that allow spammers to harvest addresses from it with ease. There's no reason email addresses have to be displayed to everyone. For instance, I use slashdot with no problems without displaying my address.
I seem to remember them implementing some kind of kludge that munges the '@' symbol with a character entitiy. I think that is too little, too late myself.
Beware: 90% of the spam I receive comes from my mozilla bugzilla email alias. I won't be joining any more bugzilla's because of this, until it's fixed at least.
What's wrong with just compressing (bzip2/gzip) the files to speed downloads... and save space? I doubt all the string handling is that big a bottle neck on modern processors. It's not like they are using XML to render fur or anything.
What about Galactica 1980? Did they forget this series, or ignoring it?
In 1980, they finally found earth, and the cylons started blasting all the gas guzzling 1970's cars to bits. So, the colonials had to leave to save earth.
At least, that's how I remember it.... I was nine at the time.;)
huh? I use XP on x86, and I have used 2k3 on Itanium and they all worked fine. Stable and powerful.
They have to set up behind a NAT and patched, and most services shut down, mozilla installed, but no biggie. They are stable as a rock. Your support staff don't know what they are doing... it's not uncommon.
I also use gentoo on my laptop. It's stable too. I'd say it is less integrated than Windows, but still I am gradually trying to migrate to it permanently.
But my reasons have much more to do with EULA's than stability.
extra? CD players cost less than 50 bucks 5 years ago;)
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If that were so, every Afgani warlord and African dictator would have one. The fact remains that only reasonably well-to-do nations dedicated to decades long programs have succeeded in doing so....
I'm not talking about nomads... North Korea, Iran, Pakistan, India.... Lots of other countries are trying, some will/may succeed. Some may sell, it's not hard to imagine, as it is human nature. The technology was perfected in the 40's, it's difficult but not that difficult. A dirty bomb is even easier. I'm not expecting an attack soon, but there is no margin for error here.
No he wasnt, in fact he was a particularly crappy middle-eastern dictator. But that in no way, shape or form justifies the actions US took. If you want to get rid of an idiot like that the only two sane options are: instigate and support via comprehenive international effort an internal uprising or send a commando team and take him out hoping the next dude in line gets a clue. Starting a war of conquest in an Arab country is just about the stupidest thing one can possibly do
These statements are all opinion. May I also add that all opposition was systematically murdered over the course of a half century. There was little left to instigate... Iraq had been broken. A commando team would be similarly ineffective considering no one ever knew where SH was. I think they tried to drop the bomb on him many times over the years, but never succeeded.
Describing Saddam's Iraq as crappy doesn't do the poor Iraqi's justice. I cared about them, though I never believed he was a significant external threat.
there was simply no rational, feasible way to bring Saddam down from outside without the cure ending up being worse then the desease
Perhaps, but the cure isn't _much_ worse than the disease, and the sooner it gets started the sooner it'll be over. It's like ripping the band-aid off instead of pulling it slowly. That's the only point I am trying to make here. I acutally think the war has been against the long-term interests of the US, and I fear for it's future now.
But on the other hand, I don't buy the misplaced outrage, or conspiracy theories either. Iraq was in really bad shape, now it is in really bad, bad shape.
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Why Iraq, and not these others?
Well, yeah. I guess you weren't expecting this answer but yes, I would support knocking over every very evil regime....not necessarily all by war, but whatever way worked. Not hypocrisy at all. Of course, it should be done by an international coalition, not just the US.
Don't forget that even if the US wanted to fight 6 separate wars at the same time, it couldn't. It can barely handle one, despite all the big talk.
I believe it was Bill Clinton that said, "just because we can't fix every problem in the world, doesn't mean we shouldn't try to fix any." Your argument is defeatist.
Practically speaking, the US is very occupied now, and simply hasn't the resources to tackle a place like Sudan. However, the UN and Europe are free and doing what they do best... talking. Another genocide in their front yard, but they are more concerned with national sovereignty and hurt feelings. Europe wouldn't lift a finger on their own damn continent when Yugoslavia was killing itself. I'll leave WWII as an excersise for any readers left.
You may have mistaken me as a Bush lackey, but I'm not, I just see the world in more than black and white. I don't believe anything anyone says, really, they've all got their motives. I don't believe 90% of the pro-war propaganda, and I certainly don't believe all the revisionist history about how great Iraq was before.
But, I'll celebrate the removal or impending removal of every evil dictator.
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Ha... I was enjoying your thread for a while, but here you're wrong... nuclear proliferation is a real problem. One that isn't getting better anytime soon.
Maybe it's not so easy to deliver one of these weapons, but acquiring one isn't so, in this world of poor nuclear powers and rich scumbags.
I agree though that the US should be out of the business of protecting Europe and various other countries. Doing so is a remnant of times past that don't really apply much anymore.
Here, I'm gonna take issue with the constant incredible outrage over Iraq. Let's get some perspective here. You act like Saddam's Iraq was some kind of fucking paradise on earth. Now, we all know the given reasons for starting the war were crap, and Bush is an idiot... but beyond that, the fact is Saddam started several wars, killed tens of thousands on whims, suffocated and wasted a generation (25 million?) of his people, indirectly caused the destruction of Iraq's material infrastructure through his actions, and defied UN mandates and resolutions for over a decade.
Where was your outrage then? I guess it wasn't fashionable, and too cozy in that big fluffy chair with your feet up and reading that thought-provoking book enabled by your free PhD education. Maybe you don't fully appreciate the horror of living in a country without freedom of expression, hope, or opportunity.
It's just this kind of European do-nothing attitude (while genocide (or worse) is occuring on your doorstep) that makes MY blood boil. It's the same thing that led to the fascist takeover (of Europe) in the 30's. What did we learn from that? That Evil must be fought, right away.
So, yeah, I think Iraq and it's people needed a change, and at least Bush and company is trying to accomplish something. It's too bad they're so incompetent, but I'll take 'em over Appeasement.
Back in the day my dad bought me and my sister our own Vic-20's. It had 5k of ram or something... I forget now.
I remember studying the Basic manual and hacking the automatic random sentence generator, by replacing the nouns and verbs with all the bad words a 12 year old could think up. Hilarious. Kept us entertained for MONTHS, literally.
These days, I would recommend learning programming with python and a simple text editor with syntax highlighting. Hey, I'm using that now!! =)
Gimp 2.0+ requires no right-clicks, but are still available. In fact it is now a standard non-mdi graphics app. All these UI issues are yesterday's news, I'm not sure why people are still bringing them up.
I use bookmark keywords like "g keyword" for google and "d keyword" for dictionary.com, etc whenever I need to search. Whether in mozilla or firefox, it's just amazingly efficient.
The first thing I do in firefox is get rid of that useless google box. It only takes a second.
Sorry, you're wrong. 2003 is just the newest version of the Windows NT Server OS. It is very, very close to XP, and uses the same drivers.
Just because the stupid company that built your optical drive blocked install on anything but XP doesn't mean the drivers wouldn't work. It means they don't want you to try.
However, you are welcome to choose the resolution to the problem as you see fit. I'd get a new drive with better drivers... they are very cheap now. Or you could just wait, until newer drivers are provided.
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funny you mention that...
the other day I was thinking the same while watching the old Battlestar Galactica.... While the new CG looked cooler, the old models looked more "real" I thought.
depends what you define as killer... It's not a speed deamon but sure is small and quiet and discreet. That's killer to me.
I hope they have addressed the design flaws that allow spammers to harvest addresses from it with ease. There's no reason email addresses have to be displayed to everyone. For instance, I use slashdot with no problems without displaying my address.
I seem to remember them implementing some kind of kludge that munges the '@' symbol with a character entitiy. I think that is too little, too late myself.
Beware: 90% of the spam I receive comes from my mozilla bugzilla email alias. I won't be joining any more bugzilla's because of this, until it's fixed at least.
What's wrong with just compressing (bzip2/gzip) the files to speed downloads... and save space? I doubt all the string handling is that big a bottle neck on modern processors. It's not like they are using XML to render fur or anything.
Can anyone here set me straight?
What about Galactica 1980? Did they forget this series, or ignoring it?
;)
In 1980, they finally found earth, and the cylons started blasting all the gas guzzling 1970's cars to bits. So, the colonials had to leave to save earth.
At least, that's how I remember it.... I was nine at the time.
If you're gonna be condescending, triple check yer facts. The first version of NT was 3.1 I know cuz I used it. :)
what about the intel centrino drivers?? I'm using them right now :)
huh? I use XP on x86, and I have used 2k3 on Itanium and they all worked fine. Stable and powerful.
They have to set up behind a NAT and patched, and most services shut down, mozilla installed, but no biggie. They are stable as a rock. Your support staff don't know what they are doing... it's not uncommon.
I also use gentoo on my laptop. It's stable too. I'd say it is less integrated than Windows, but still I am gradually trying to migrate to it permanently.
But my reasons have much more to do with EULA's than stability.
you're probably right.
extra? CD players cost less than 50 bucks 5 years ago ;)
If that were so, every Afgani warlord and African dictator would have one. The fact remains that only reasonably well-to-do nations dedicated to decades long programs have succeeded in doing so....
I'm not talking about nomads... North Korea, Iran, Pakistan, India.... Lots of other countries are trying, some will/may succeed. Some may sell, it's not hard to imagine, as it is human nature. The technology was perfected in the 40's, it's difficult but not that difficult. A dirty bomb is even easier. I'm not expecting an attack soon, but there is no margin for error here.
No he wasnt, in fact he was a particularly crappy middle-eastern dictator. But that in no way, shape or form justifies the actions US took. If you want to get rid of an idiot like that the only two sane options are: instigate and support via comprehenive international effort an internal uprising or send a commando team and take him out hoping the next dude in line gets a clue. Starting a war of conquest in an Arab country is just about the stupidest thing one can possibly do
These statements are all opinion. May I also add that all opposition was systematically murdered over the course of a half century. There was little left to instigate... Iraq had been broken. A commando team would be similarly ineffective considering no one ever knew where SH was. I think they tried to drop the bomb on him many times over the years, but never succeeded.
Describing Saddam's Iraq as crappy doesn't do the poor Iraqi's justice. I cared about them, though I never believed he was a significant external threat.
there was simply no rational, feasible way to bring Saddam down from outside without the cure ending up being worse then the desease
Perhaps, but the cure isn't _much_ worse than the disease, and the sooner it gets started the sooner it'll be over. It's like ripping the band-aid off instead of pulling it slowly. That's the only point I am trying to make here. I acutally think the war has been against the long-term interests of the US, and I fear for it's future now.
But on the other hand, I don't buy the misplaced outrage, or conspiracy theories either. Iraq was in really bad shape, now it is in really bad, bad shape.
Why Iraq, and not these others?
Well, yeah. I guess you weren't expecting this answer but yes, I would support knocking over every very evil regime....not necessarily all by war, but whatever way worked. Not hypocrisy at all. Of course, it should be done by an international coalition, not just the US.
Don't forget that even if the US wanted to fight 6 separate wars at the same time, it couldn't. It can barely handle one, despite all the big talk.
I believe it was Bill Clinton that said, "just because we can't fix every problem in the world, doesn't mean we shouldn't try to fix any." Your argument is defeatist.
Practically speaking, the US is very occupied now, and simply hasn't the resources to tackle a place like Sudan. However, the UN and Europe are free and doing what they do best... talking. Another genocide in their front yard, but they are more concerned with national sovereignty and hurt feelings. Europe wouldn't lift a finger on their own damn continent when Yugoslavia was killing itself. I'll leave WWII as an excersise for any readers left.
You may have mistaken me as a Bush lackey, but I'm not, I just see the world in more than black and white. I don't believe anything anyone says, really, they've all got their motives. I don't believe 90% of the pro-war propaganda, and I certainly don't believe all the revisionist history about how great Iraq was before.
But, I'll celebrate the removal or impending removal of every evil dictator.
Ha... I was enjoying your thread for a while, but here you're wrong... nuclear proliferation is a real problem. One that isn't getting better anytime soon.
Maybe it's not so easy to deliver one of these weapons, but acquiring one isn't so, in this world of poor nuclear powers and rich scumbags.
I agree though that the US should be out of the business of protecting Europe and various other countries. Doing so is a remnant of times past that don't really apply much anymore.
Here, I'm gonna take issue with the constant incredible outrage over Iraq. Let's get some perspective here. You act like Saddam's Iraq was some kind of fucking paradise on earth. Now, we all know the given reasons for starting the war were crap, and Bush is an idiot... but beyond that, the fact is Saddam started several wars, killed tens of thousands on whims, suffocated and wasted a generation (25 million?) of his people, indirectly caused the destruction of Iraq's material infrastructure through his actions, and defied UN mandates and resolutions for over a decade.
Where was your outrage then? I guess it wasn't fashionable, and too cozy in that big fluffy chair with your feet up and reading that thought-provoking book enabled by your free PhD education. Maybe you don't fully appreciate the horror of living in a country without freedom of expression, hope, or opportunity.
It's just this kind of European do-nothing attitude (while genocide (or worse) is occuring on your doorstep) that makes MY blood boil. It's the same thing that led to the fascist takeover (of Europe) in the 30's. What did we learn from that? That Evil must be fought, right away.
So, yeah, I think Iraq and it's people needed a change, and at least Bush and company is trying to accomplish something. It's too bad they're so incompetent, but I'll take 'em over Appeasement.
hmmm....
Hard drives have been stuck in the 200-300g range for almost 5 years. The innovation in this sector has hit a brick wall damn near.
Kind of dissapointing if you like to horde dvd iso's like myself.
right on.... it drives me nuts that soy milk costs more than cow's milk too. It should be practically free.
Back in the day my dad bought me and my sister our own Vic-20's. It had 5k of ram or something... I forget now.
I remember studying the Basic manual and hacking the automatic random sentence generator, by replacing the nouns and verbs with all the bad words a 12 year old could think up. Hilarious. Kept us entertained for MONTHS, literally.
These days, I would recommend learning programming with python and a simple text editor with syntax highlighting. Hey, I'm using that now!! =)
Yeah, but it doesn't work right because it raises the window on any events. That pretty much makes point to focus useless.
your info is a bit out of date....
Gimp 2.0+ requires no right-clicks, but are still available. In fact it is now a standard non-mdi graphics app. All these UI issues are yesterday's news, I'm not sure why people are still bringing them up.
if you shutdown all the useless services, and misc crap, xp can run fine in 128
I use bookmark keywords like "g keyword" for google and "d keyword" for dictionary.com, etc whenever I need to search. Whether in mozilla or firefox, it's just amazingly efficient.
The first thing I do in firefox is get rid of that useless google box. It only takes a second.
right, I use "g keyword" for google and "d keyword" for dictionary.com, etc. Whether in mozilla or firefox, it's just amazingly efficient.
The first thing I do in firefox is get rid of that stupid google box.
they will in a future release. MS has bought an AV and a spyware company and is integrating thier products as we speak.
I think I read that they are #4 after SAP at #3
Sorry, you're wrong. 2003 is just the newest version of the Windows NT Server OS. It is very, very close to XP, and uses the same drivers.
Just because the stupid company that built your optical drive blocked install on anything but XP doesn't mean the drivers wouldn't work. It means they don't want you to try.
However, you are welcome to choose the resolution to the problem as you see fit. I'd get a new drive with better drivers... they are very cheap now. Or you could just wait, until newer drivers are provided.