Since we're on the topic of big, interconnected machines, and you mentioned aspen trees...some enlightenment.
Aspen tree formations are the single largest organism on planet earth. They're all dependent and interconnected, forming one organism. So next time someone quizzes you and before you say Elephants or X Whales...now you know.
Well, government supported and regulated monopolies are the only way to do business sometimes. It mainly depends on the integrity of the people at the helm of both, which in this country (the US), both are routinely called into question.
Yeah, our government has some nimrods, and our global corporations do too, but overall, I'd say most people do a good job.
Christ, where are my mod points when I need them most, you deserve a +1 Insightful for this.
I totally agree. CPU cycles are alot less important on my box than disk seek times. Then again, I'm guessing that the people this will be most relevant for are those running servers. Mine are all running reiserfs and ext2.
...how one group will rip and distribute this one first. If everyone gets it at the same time (presumably from the theater), there should be guaranteed diversity.
Then again, an insider always hands some group a dvd screener and you know the rest.
Mexico has been invading the southern US for what, over 100 years now. What else is new?
The grass really is greener on the other side of the US/Mexico border. Just read an interesting factoid the other day that more money per capita is sent home from illegal immigrants than is officially invested in Mexico, to the tune of 6 billion a year. That's some pretty green grass if you ask me. Yet, Mexico still suffers. WTF over?
Actually it could've been alot worse.
'We're the peanut in the IT world's turd'.
'Proudly hosting pr0n for 10 years, worldwide'.
'We can survive a slashdotting. Can you?'
Not just Microsoft, either. Most Linux distros advertise (one way or another) prior to their release, if they have an RC cycle. Most games advertise months, or even years before their release. How long until Doom3, Half Life 2, or even Duke Nukem Forever get released?
You have to be careful about when you generate buzz for products though. Too late and people aren't aware in great numbers. Too early and people forget by the time it finally comes out. Exceptions are anything Id codes and uh...any Microsoft OS release.
Actually, it can. You just have to build the plugin for the Fasttrack network (openFT I believe). You'd be accurate in saying that it doesn't work on fasttrack by default.
I think in the context of Gauntlet, the 'character X needs food, badly' actually meant 'the atari programmers need food, badly'. That machine was the first documented Greedmaster on the planet.
*Greedmaster: noun
Any device or animal designed solely to collect money or items. See: packrat or slot machines.
Yeah, I had one of those too, a nice simple piece of engineering.
The only drawback was that it'd get about 20 feet before a. you lost patience and just rammed it into Castle Grayskull or b. the batteries had to be replaced. Greedy 1980's electronics...I swear Duracell was in on it.
I remember when Be was about to be Apple's new OS, back in 1997-8. There was hype hype and more hype in MacWorld, month after month. My favorite box ever was the prototype BeBox that made the cover one month.
I wonder what things would've been like if BeBoxen had actually hit the market, Apple adopted BeOS instead of OSX, etc. Back in the day, the BeBox looked pretty tight, but looking back now, they aren't that cool after all. Times have changed.
If you installed VMWare you'd never need to reboot to 'boot into windows'. Seriously, for those of you who are halfway dependent on some windows app, get vmware and install a virtual machine with Windows XX on it. Works like a charm, you get sound too and the 2d performance isn't all that bad. Forget about 3d though..
Redhat is half your problem there. Go with a more bleeding edge distro like Mandrake if you've got newer hardware that needs support. Redhat is usually about a year behind everyone else. Not saying that's bad because it helps stability, but it's bad if you're not running a server or ultra modern hardware.
That's entirely possible. While it is relevant in the wonderful Windows vs. Linux world of Slashdot, combative journalism has been popular for the last 20 years or so. Give the public a potentially controversial story and say, 'ok, discuss'.
Notice how all the big newspapers are flaunting their writer's blogs? Who gave a shit about blogs last year (from the mass media)?
Yahoo quit working for me 2 days ago and the Gaim site, yesterday, had no news mentioning recent developments, i.e. we know it's broken now. Any new stuff now?
You and millions of others are probably half the reasons worms spread so fast. Microsoft thought they were being clever by having a real serial checker built into sp1 but sp1 fixed alot of holes. Without sp1 other patches don't want to install from Microsoft's update site (not to say that they WON'T but the site doesn't like you skipping it first).
So basically Microsoft helps prevent piracy (sorta, any keygen and serial changer can work miracles) while at the same time ensuring the spread of 0wn3d machines. Good job guys, quality work.
That makes perfect sense to me. If the Architect was telling Neo that he was the sum of all mistakes, then he's a truly random piece of AI. He's every bit of 'bad' code rolled into one nugget.
I wouldn't be surprised if Smith was actually a debugger.
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Since we're on the topic of big, interconnected machines, and you mentioned aspen trees...some enlightenment.
Aspen tree formations are the single largest organism on planet earth. They're all dependent and interconnected, forming one organism. So next time someone quizzes you and before you say Elephants or X Whales...now you know.
Well, government supported and regulated monopolies are the only way to do business sometimes. It mainly depends on the integrity of the people at the helm of both, which in this country (the US), both are routinely called into question.
Yeah, our government has some nimrods, and our global corporations do too, but overall, I'd say most people do a good job.
It's not Nokia's fault, I found a picture of the third party battery that exploded in the lady's hands. Printed in Mandarin on the battery:
Hacked by Chinese!
Christ, where are my mod points when I need them most, you deserve a +1 Insightful for this.
I totally agree. CPU cycles are alot less important on my box than disk seek times. Then again, I'm guessing that the people this will be most relevant for are those running servers. Mine are all running reiserfs and ext2.
...how one group will rip and distribute this one first. If everyone gets it at the same time (presumably from the theater), there should be guaranteed diversity.
Then again, an insider always hands some group a dvd screener and you know the rest.
Mexico has been invading the southern US for what, over 100 years now. What else is new?
The grass really is greener on the other side of the US/Mexico border. Just read an interesting factoid the other day that more money per capita is sent home from illegal immigrants than is officially invested in Mexico, to the tune of 6 billion a year. That's some pretty green grass if you ask me. Yet, Mexico still suffers. WTF over?
Actually it could've been alot worse.
'We're the peanut in the IT world's turd'.
'Proudly hosting pr0n for 10 years, worldwide'.
'We can survive a slashdotting. Can you?'
Not just Microsoft, either. Most Linux distros advertise (one way or another) prior to their release, if they have an RC cycle. Most games advertise months, or even years before their release. How long until Doom3, Half Life 2, or even Duke Nukem Forever get released?
You have to be careful about when you generate buzz for products though. Too late and people aren't aware in great numbers. Too early and people forget by the time it finally comes out. Exceptions are anything Id codes and uh...any Microsoft OS release.
Actually, it can. You just have to build the plugin for the Fasttrack network (openFT I believe). You'd be accurate in saying that it doesn't work on fasttrack by default.
It wouldn't let YOU do it, that's not to say that it wouldn't let someone you don't KNOW do it.
That's trustworthy computing. It doesn't trust you.
I think in the context of Gauntlet, the 'character X needs food, badly' actually meant 'the atari programmers need food, badly'. That machine was the first documented Greedmaster on the planet.
*Greedmaster: noun
Any device or animal designed solely to collect money or items. See: packrat or slot machines.
Yeah, I had one of those too, a nice simple piece of engineering.
The only drawback was that it'd get about 20 feet before a. you lost patience and just rammed it into Castle Grayskull or b. the batteries had to be replaced. Greedy 1980's electronics...I swear Duracell was in on it.
I remember when Be was about to be Apple's new OS, back in 1997-8. There was hype hype and more hype in MacWorld, month after month. My favorite box ever was the prototype BeBox that made the cover one month.
I wonder what things would've been like if BeBoxen had actually hit the market, Apple adopted BeOS instead of OSX, etc. Back in the day, the BeBox looked pretty tight, but looking back now, they aren't that cool after all. Times have changed.
You?! You're responsible for the birth of clippy?
Man, I'd never admit that to anyone, ever.
If you installed VMWare you'd never need to reboot to 'boot into windows'. Seriously, for those of you who are halfway dependent on some windows app, get vmware and install a virtual machine with Windows XX on it. Works like a charm, you get sound too and the 2d performance isn't all that bad. Forget about 3d though..
Redhat is half your problem there. Go with a more bleeding edge distro like Mandrake if you've got newer hardware that needs support. Redhat is usually about a year behind everyone else. Not saying that's bad because it helps stability, but it's bad if you're not running a server or ultra modern hardware.
That's entirely possible. While it is relevant in the wonderful Windows vs. Linux world of Slashdot, combative journalism has been popular for the last 20 years or so. Give the public a potentially controversial story and say, 'ok, discuss'.
Notice how all the big newspapers are flaunting their writer's blogs? Who gave a shit about blogs last year (from the mass media)?
Well, he's probably richer than God, so he's got every right to have that complex.
Then again every time he looks over his shoulder the Oracle guy has another billion in the bank.
Yahoo quit working for me 2 days ago and the Gaim site, yesterday, had no news mentioning recent developments, i.e. we know it's broken now. Any new stuff now?
You and millions of others are probably half the reasons worms spread so fast. Microsoft thought they were being clever by having a real serial checker built into sp1 but sp1 fixed alot of holes. Without sp1 other patches don't want to install from Microsoft's update site (not to say that they WON'T but the site doesn't like you skipping it first).
So basically Microsoft helps prevent piracy (sorta, any keygen and serial changer can work miracles) while at the same time ensuring the spread of 0wn3d machines. Good job guys, quality work.
That makes perfect sense to me. If the Architect was telling Neo that he was the sum of all mistakes, then he's a truly random piece of AI. He's every bit of 'bad' code rolled into one nugget.
I wouldn't be surprised if Smith was actually a debugger.
ed2k://|file|rev_theatre_0x3839_640_dl.mov|5011745 5|c7df45dfd4e9faaeeb9ed436e218c983|/
Boo yah!
So what's the big deal? I just watched it under Mplayer with the win32-codecs installed.
Nice.
If the car was a 1995 Civic Si hatchback, I'd say you're on..
oh well better luck next time.
I'll use it as long as the webmaster didn't have any say in the gui design.