Not sarcastic at all. Calling bin Laden an ex-cia operative is more a matter of semantics than anything. The CIA considered him and some others 'friendly partners'. Partner, operative, a rose is a rose. Check out this article for some details. More education here.
The point is, you can kill people all day, but ideas are what caused this, and ideas are much harder to kill than people are. There could be dozens, or hundreds of potential Taliban that nobody is aware of but the people in the region.
The Russian info IS valid, regardless of who's still strong now. Democracy destroyed their country, it's a known fact, and we keep chugging along, but that doesn't negate the fact that Russia couldn't beat Afghanistan with our backing of bin Laden and his crews. You ever think hard about a 10 year war on a huge Russia/Afghanistan border? Pretty incredible.
Do a little google searching and you'll find that in Reagan's time, he also declared an 'international war on terrorism'. That basically consisted of bombing Libya for awhile, packing the bags and going home. Same shit, different decade.
Well, when the people you're searching for are Ex-CIA operatives (yes bin Laden and crew had CIA backing to fight Russia for a decade and received training), they already know most of your tricks and some new ones of their own. Makes it alot harder especially when it's not your home turf. Russia tried to invade Afghanistan for 10 freakin' years to no avail. Do you think the US can fly over there, bomb the hell out of the rubble, drop some ground troops and mission accomplished? Nope.
Nobody really knows what to do with the Amiga but the users and coders. Commodore didn't market it worth a shit, but I remember going into the back of the bookstore and seeing an a500 running demos and just drooling. Eventually I got an a600 and it was fun..
Anyway, look how many times Amiga has changed hands over the years. Nobody knows what to make of it. Someone tried using Amiga tech for a game machine, someone tried making set-top boxes...it's just a really strange anomaly.
Before you bust out with a price comparison, consider the source. This is a short-run, small time manufacture, not a produced-by-the-billions-in-taiwan motherboard so many intel freaks are accustomed to. This is not Abit, nor Asus, nor Intel, nor Gigabyte. Of course it will be expensive. Have you priced manufacturing your own motherboard lately? Doubtful.
As the anonymous poster replied, a complete system with this board from these guys runs about a grand in US dollars. That's pretty price-competitive compared to Macs.
....I don't think he can afford to make ANYONE his bitch these days.
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Silent Hill on the original playstation was crap. There's nothing fun, scary, or creepy about having permanent fog EVERYWHERE about 3 feet in front of your face. What a steaming choad...maybe the PS2 version has the horsepower it needs, haven't seen it.
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"Unlike the game, where ammo is improbably laying around all over the place, in the movie the good guys run almost out of ammo before the half way point"
Shows that you never played any of the RE games on anything except Easy. Even medium has you deciding if it's a better idea to run or shoot and waste ammo. This factor is true to the games. Half of the fear is the fear of running out of explosive rounds, somehow knowing there has to be at least 5 or 6 Hunters in the basement you've yet to explore. That and the fact that you're at 50% health and don't have enough first aid to survive more than one attack.
I really, really hope the movie includes the Hunters. Those things are the scariest buggers ever. One swipe from their claws and you lose your head, game over.
The only thing new and innovative about this thing is the fact that it's wireless. Wacom has had an incredible little tablet lcd you can sit on your lap or desktop and draw directly on the screen with for years. Pretty good tech, expensive as hell though. I guess they'll have to come up with a new model that's wireless to compete now.
It would take a small percentage of the NASA budget to get food to all these starving people. So the money being spent on "pointless" things isn't the problem.
Isn't the real problem here Sally Struthers eating all the twinkies that are destined for Northern Africa or (insert starving nation here)? I never trust a fat person who claims to represent starving people. We all know who's getting the food in THIS case.
Oh yeah - a few stars' mega-contracts. Boo-hoo. I wonder if you took the top 20 stars' contracts out of the financial picture (since those vastly skew the distribution of costs), what the "average" cost would be then Amen to that brother. Anyone tired of seeing Helen Hunt's tired ass, Julia Robert's sucker-punched lips and drooping boobs, Richard Gere shagging-yet-another-very-young-woman, Billy Crystal trying in vain to get people to laugh, ad nauseum? I think it's about time for a whole new realm of discount stars in good films. Just take Jason Lee for example. If not for the steaming choad called "Almost Famous" I give him MAD props. We need more talented, interesting stars, not the same old faces in the same recycled plotlines.
Maybe what Hollywood and the studios need more than anything is an original script with a new cast. God forbid I go one month without seeing another rehashed war flick.
BTW anyone notice Hollywoods annoying tendency to spam the theatres with 4 versions of the same genre film at once? Slew of war flicks followed by slew of horror flicks followed by slew of love stories.
I'd like to see the ability to switch from Linux/Windows in a keypress, a massive context-switch, but I haven't seen that so far
Well, I've seen that for the past two years, and it's called vmware. You would be doing yourself a big favor to go download it and get emailed a serial for the 30 day trial. If your computer has the strength, you can run windows under linux or vice-versa, or beos, or freebsd, or whatever toots your whistle.
Believe it or not, I have an HP usb scanner that uses some crazy scsi over usb protocol. It doesn't work in linux. BUT if I run win98 on vmware in linux, it's detected, bridged, and available without complaint. Simply incredible.
A technique similar to that is used to count hairs on people's heads. You square off a section and count that area then multiply...simple. You may be off by a hundred or so but you still get a pretty accurate representation of the picture. Same principle for the old 'grains of sand on a beach' problem.
Here we go again. Yet another nation ignoring it's problems with common poverty, mass starvation, etc. while turning its attention towards an expensive information infrastructure. Shouldn't you fix domestic problems before you strive for technology, or is it a means to an end, i.e. having this wonderful network will feed the starving and shelter the homeless?
Re:Is it possible to catalogue all LIVING things?
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Slashing and burning the rainforest does eliminate species, but nature does also. Keep in mind how many things went extinct naturally (and continue to go extinct) regardless of human intervention.
With this in mind, I doubt everything will ever be counted.
As long as the KKK doesn't rally, OJ doesn't kill anyone else, and the G3 summit doesn't happen anywhere, I don't think we'll see too many riots here in the US.
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...there's little wonder why lots of people are trying linux these days.
Not sarcastic at all. Calling bin Laden an ex-cia operative is more a matter of semantics than anything. The CIA considered him and some others 'friendly partners'. Partner, operative, a rose is a rose. Check out this article for some details. More education here.
The point is, you can kill people all day, but ideas are what caused this, and ideas are much harder to kill than people are. There could be dozens, or hundreds of potential Taliban that nobody is aware of but the people in the region.
The Russian info IS valid, regardless of who's still strong now. Democracy destroyed their country, it's a known fact, and we keep chugging along, but that doesn't negate the fact that Russia couldn't beat Afghanistan with our backing of bin Laden and his crews. You ever think hard about a 10 year war on a huge Russia/Afghanistan border? Pretty incredible.
Do a little google searching and you'll find that in Reagan's time, he also declared an 'international war on terrorism'. That basically consisted of bombing Libya for awhile, packing the bags and going home. Same shit, different decade.
Well, when the people you're searching for are Ex-CIA operatives (yes bin Laden and crew had CIA backing to fight Russia for a decade and received training), they already know most of your tricks and some new ones of their own. Makes it alot harder especially when it's not your home turf. Russia tried to invade Afghanistan for 10 freakin' years to no avail. Do you think the US can fly over there, bomb the hell out of the rubble, drop some ground troops and mission accomplished? Nope.
Sweet, just caught the reference tonight after watching Bladerunner Director's Cut. Good stuff.
Nobody really knows what to do with the Amiga but the users and coders. Commodore didn't market it worth a shit, but I remember going into the back of the bookstore and seeing an a500 running demos and just drooling. Eventually I got an a600 and it was fun..
Anyway, look how many times Amiga has changed hands over the years. Nobody knows what to make of it. Someone tried using Amiga tech for a game machine, someone tried making set-top boxes...it's just a really strange anomaly.
Before you bust out with a price comparison, consider the source. This is a short-run, small time manufacture, not a produced-by-the-billions-in-taiwan motherboard so many intel freaks are accustomed to. This is not Abit, nor Asus, nor Intel, nor Gigabyte. Of course it will be expensive. Have you priced manufacturing your own motherboard lately? Doubtful.
As the anonymous poster replied, a complete system with this board from these guys runs about a grand in US dollars. That's pretty price-competitive compared to Macs.
Better question: can the average Slashdotter pass the Voight-Kampff empathy test?
With a 60k word vocabulary, if it could write, we could replace Katz once and for all.
I had a funny one for Spam LIbs but the lameness filter broke me off for my underscores. Damn you dirty apes!
....I don't think he can afford to make ANYONE his bitch these days.
Silent Hill on the original playstation was crap. There's nothing fun, scary, or creepy about having permanent fog EVERYWHERE about 3 feet in front of your face. What a steaming choad...maybe the PS2 version has the horsepower it needs, haven't seen it.
"Unlike the game, where ammo is improbably laying around all over the place, in the movie the good guys run almost out of ammo before the half way point"
Shows that you never played any of the RE games on anything except Easy. Even medium has you deciding if it's a better idea to run or shoot and waste ammo. This factor is true to the games. Half of the fear is the fear of running out of explosive rounds, somehow knowing there has to be at least 5 or 6 Hunters in the basement you've yet to explore. That and the fact that you're at 50% health and don't have enough first aid to survive more than one attack.
I really, really hope the movie includes the Hunters. Those things are the scariest buggers ever. One swipe from their claws and you lose your head, game over.
The only thing new and innovative about this thing is the fact that it's wireless. Wacom has had an incredible little tablet lcd you can sit on your lap or desktop and draw directly on the screen with for years. Pretty good tech, expensive as hell though. I guess they'll have to come up with a new model that's wireless to compete now.
It would take a small percentage of the NASA budget to get food to all these starving people. So the money being spent on "pointless" things isn't the problem.
Isn't the real problem here Sally Struthers eating all the twinkies that are destined for Northern Africa or (insert starving nation here)? I never trust a fat person who claims to represent starving people. We all know who's getting the food in THIS case.
Oh yeah - a few stars' mega-contracts. Boo-hoo. I wonder if you took the top 20 stars' contracts out of the financial picture (since those vastly skew the distribution of costs), what the "average" cost would be then
Amen to that brother. Anyone tired of seeing Helen Hunt's tired ass, Julia Robert's sucker-punched lips and drooping boobs, Richard Gere shagging-yet-another-very-young-woman, Billy Crystal trying in vain to get people to laugh, ad nauseum? I think it's about time for a whole new realm of discount stars in good films. Just take Jason Lee for example. If not for the steaming choad called "Almost Famous" I give him MAD props. We need more talented, interesting stars, not the same old faces in the same recycled plotlines.
Maybe what Hollywood and the studios need more than anything is an original script with a new cast. God forbid I go one month without seeing another rehashed war flick.
BTW anyone notice Hollywoods annoying tendency to spam the theatres with 4 versions of the same genre film at once? Slew of war flicks followed by slew of horror flicks followed by slew of love stories.
I'd like to see the ability to switch from Linux/Windows in a keypress, a massive context-switch, but I haven't seen that so far
Well, I've seen that for the past two years, and it's called vmware. You would be doing yourself a big favor to go download it and get emailed a serial for the 30 day trial. If your computer has the strength, you can run windows under linux or vice-versa, or beos, or freebsd, or whatever toots your whistle.
Believe it or not, I have an HP usb scanner that uses some crazy scsi over usb protocol. It doesn't work in linux. BUT if I run win98 on vmware in linux, it's detected, bridged, and available without complaint. Simply incredible.
A technique similar to that is used to count hairs on people's heads. You square off a section and count that area then multiply...simple. You may be off by a hundred or so but you still get a pretty accurate representation of the picture. Same principle for the old 'grains of sand on a beach' problem.
I'd say closer to 9/10ths.
Here we go again. Yet another nation ignoring it's problems with common poverty, mass starvation, etc. while turning its attention towards an expensive information infrastructure. Shouldn't you fix domestic problems before you strive for technology, or is it a means to an end, i.e. having this wonderful network will feed the starving and shelter the homeless?
Slashing and burning the rainforest does eliminate species, but nature does also. Keep in mind how many things went extinct naturally (and continue to go extinct) regardless of human intervention.
With this in mind, I doubt everything will ever be counted.
As long as the KKK doesn't rally, OJ doesn't kill anyone else, and the G3 summit doesn't happen anywhere, I don't think we'll see too many riots here in the US.
Trust me, well over 99% of /. readers don't live anywhere NEAR senators.
"It may not be perfect, but at least it's on the street."
Isn't that Microsoft's slogan? I smell some trademark infringement here...