Is it just me, or should CmdrTaco spend a little less time playing video games and a little more time doing something more important, like actually doing his job as an editor?
>>Fortunately most people in a video game store are like 12, so I can destroy them with my mind bullets
Sorry, but I can't miss an oppurtunity to quote Tenacious D, even at risk to my karma.
"What Powers you ask? How about the power of flight? Does that do anything for you? That's levitation homes.
How about the power to kill a yak? From 200 yards away. With mind Bullets!!.
That's telekinesis Kyle.
How about the Power, to move you?"
Personally, I wasn't around back then. But looking at Intel's website looking at the predecessors to today's microprocessors really puts the accomplishments of the last thirty years into perceptive. It's staggering how far we've come in such a short period of time.
Yeah but in Rugby you have a different sort of armor, a little Dutch courage so that you don't feel the pain.
On another note, having played football and only watched rugby from the sidelines. It seems that the collisions in football are much more high impact than in rugby, and while more people are hurt playing rugby the severity of injuries in football tend to be much greater.
Well, I wouldn't prefer anybody, that's the point. But of all of the large companies out there, I trust Oracle the least. Ellison is an out of control egotistical maniac, as many previous posters have noted, and I don't want him anywhere near my personal information (what's left of it).
First off, I think that this a horrible idea, not only would it be a tremendous waste of taxpayer dollars, but who would we be paying that money to? Yup, you guessed it Larry "everything in the world needs to be in one of my databases" Ellingson and the fine folks at Oracle Corporation. The same company that released Oracle 8 before it even worked properly. Frankly I don't trust Oracle and Ellingson further than I can throw them (which isn't very far), and I sure as hell aren't going to trust them with every single last piece of personal information there is out there (not that most of it is all but public domain anyway).
I think you're overreacting. The vast amjority of my mp3s are ripped at 128kbps and i have no real complaints about the sound quality. Sure 192 or 256kbps will sound nicer, but unless you have a really high end system (which apperently most slashdotters do, but not most of the mp3 listening public) you're not going to notice that much of a difference IMO.
It seems to me that the best way technology can assist us in this matter is improved surveillance... My friend was telling me about cheap un-manned spy planes that the U.S. has been using. The more we know about the targets, the more likely we are to only damage critical areas and drastically reduce the number of innocnet deaths.
Not getting UPN, i didn't get a chance to watch the pilot. But, how do I say this politely, you can't please everybody. Some of the stuff you're bringing up is nothing short of ridcoulous nitpicking, and I doubt that it's even possible to make a new series (based in ST's past) and have it be completely accurate. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the who for what it is, a different look at the ST universe.
Is it just me, or did we see this exact post verbatim when napster was appearing on Slashdot three times a week?
Regardless, to answer your question, you are missing out on new and different sounds. Personally i hate "pop" music, but there is a lot of new music out there that is definately worth looking into.
Suprise, Suprise... Katz missed the point. He seems to have a real knack for missing the point of whatever movie he is bashing/reveiewing on a given week.
Maybe it's that Katz is just out of touch with today's movie going public (as much as he tries to seem like the opposite), Dogma did not bash the catholic church, it merely pointed out some of its more absurd practices and policies.
Mall Rats (which didn't even get mentioned by Katz), Clerks, Dogma, and Chasing Amy, and now Jay and Silent Bob Strike back are more movies for the teen/college age group, and most people who fall out of that category (cough...Katz...cough) don't seem to get it.
I looked up jock at dictionary.com and came up with this:
jockn.
1. An athletic supporter.
2. Sports. An athlete, especially in college.
3. Slang. One characterized by excessive concern for machismo.
but oddly enough came up with this as well:
jockn.
1. A programmer who is characterised by large and somewhat brute-force programs.
2. When modified by another noun, describes a specialist in some particular computing area. The compounds "compiler jock" and "systems jock" seem to be the best-established examples.
>>Yeah, kind of familiar.
>>Except there is no problem, but the government pretends that it is horrible and that air pollution is killing people.
Not to troll, but there is a serious environmental problem that is only getting worse. While it has not, and might not, reach apocoliptic proportions (as depicted in every crappy sci-fi from the last 20 years), denying that we're pillaging and destroying the planet, and that there's no problem with that, isn't going to help the situation.
I am not a scientist, I have not analyzed any data or done extensive research on this subject. But i know what I see. I live in New England, and over the past decade I've witnessed pretty substantial changes in the weather. The winters keep getting warmer, and there's much less snowfall (consequently, ski resorts in the east are suffering pretty badly). Right now, we're in the middle of the hottest summer that I, or any of my friends can remember.
Now I don't pretend to have any idea what this means from a scientific view point, maybe it's a natural cycle, but I tend to be pessimistic. There's no doubt in my mind, that given enough time, the human race will use up all of the planet's natural resources and in so doing completely destroy the planet. If it's scare tactics that are required to raise public awareness... well, so far they've worked a lot better than anything else that's been tried... Anyways, sorry about the rant, I have a tendancy to do that sometimes...
I'm an Information Technology major at the Rochester Institute of Technology. When I enrolled (two years ago), we were taught Visual Basic as an introductory language. This didn't effect me as much as other students (I had already had a year of C++ as well as other assorted languages), but definitely impacted the way a lot of the other kids in my major program. In fact, the IT department at my school is now switching to a full year of Java as the introductory language, and I for one think it's a great idea. I know the CS department has done the same thing for a while and has had good results with it. Having taken courses in Java, C++ and Visual Basic I think that Java makes an excellent learning language due its flexibility and wide variety of uses. And it's certainly a hell of a lot more useful than VB.
Two ravens were flying cross-country when they decided to take a break for lunch. Spying a large manure pile with a pitchfork stuck in it, they winged down and started eating. The first raven ate a moderate amount, jumped up onto the handle and flew off. The second raven was a bit of a glut however, and gorged himself. He then wobbled over to the handle, tried to take flight, and fell right back into the shit pile. The morale of this story? Don't fly of the handle when you're full of shit.
This kind of reminds me of Arthur C. Clarke's 3001. In the book there are 4 towers (one for each hemisphere) that stretch out beyond the upper reaches of the atmosphere. Virtually all astronomical observations and all shuttle/rocket launches take place from these towers for convenience. All in all it's a pretty cool idea. But I think he's right in that it's still a good ways away in the future.
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Is it just me, or should CmdrTaco spend a little less time playing video games and a little more time doing something more important, like actually doing his job as an editor?
>>Surely Doctor Alan Turing.
>>He did his PhD at Princeton
Where he met Mr. Waterhouse and got an umlaut in him (you know what i mean)... Oh wait, that didn't really happen... Great book though...
>>Fortunately most people in a video game store are like 12, so I can destroy them with my mind bullets
Sorry, but I can't miss an oppurtunity to quote Tenacious D, even at risk to my karma.
"What Powers you ask? How about the power of flight? Does that do anything for you? That's levitation homes.
How about the power to kill a yak? From 200 yards away. With mind Bullets!!.
That's telekinesis Kyle.
How about the Power, to move you?"
- Tenacious D, Wonderboy
Personally, I wasn't around back then. But looking at Intel's website looking at the predecessors to today's microprocessors really puts the accomplishments of the last thirty years into perceptive. It's staggering how far we've come in such a short period of time.
XP = Extra Power... as in "She can't handle any more Captain!"
Yeah but in Rugby you have a different sort of armor, a little Dutch courage so that you don't feel the pain.
On another note, having played football and only watched rugby from the sidelines. It seems that the collisions in football are much more high impact than in rugby, and while more people are hurt playing rugby the severity of injuries in football tend to be much greater.
Well, I wouldn't prefer anybody, that's the point. But of all of the large companies out there, I trust Oracle the least. Ellison is an out of control egotistical maniac, as many previous posters have noted, and I don't want him anywhere near my personal information (what's left of it).
First off, I think that this a horrible idea, not only would it be a tremendous waste of taxpayer dollars, but who would we be paying that money to? Yup, you guessed it Larry "everything in the world needs to be in one of my databases" Ellingson and the fine folks at Oracle Corporation. The same company that released Oracle 8 before it even worked properly. Frankly I don't trust Oracle and Ellingson further than I can throw them (which isn't very far), and I sure as hell aren't going to trust them with every single last piece of personal information there is out there (not that most of it is all but public domain anyway).
What? CmdrTaco is posting as an AC now?
Sorry I had to throw that in there.
I think you're overreacting. The vast amjority of my mp3s are ripped at 128kbps and i have no real complaints about the sound quality. Sure 192 or 256kbps will sound nicer, but unless you have a really high end system (which apperently most slashdotters do, but not most of the mp3 listening public) you're not going to notice that much of a difference IMO.
It seems to me that the best way technology can assist us in this matter is improved surveillance... My friend was telling me about cheap un-manned spy planes that the U.S. has been using. The more we know about the targets, the more likely we are to only damage critical areas and drastically reduce the number of innocnet deaths.
Not getting UPN, i didn't get a chance to watch the pilot. But, how do I say this politely, you can't please everybody. Some of the stuff you're bringing up is nothing short of ridcoulous nitpicking, and I doubt that it's even possible to make a new series (based in ST's past) and have it be completely accurate. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the who for what it is, a different look at the ST universe.
Is it just me, or did we see this exact post verbatim when napster was appearing on Slashdot three times a week?
Regardless, to answer your question, you are missing out on new and different sounds. Personally i hate "pop" music, but there is a lot of new music out there that is definately worth looking into.
Suprise, Suprise... Katz missed the point. He seems to have a real knack for missing the point of whatever movie he is bashing/reveiewing on a given week.
Maybe it's that Katz is just out of touch with today's movie going public (as much as he tries to seem like the opposite), Dogma did not bash the catholic church, it merely pointed out some of its more absurd practices and policies.
Mall Rats (which didn't even get mentioned by Katz), Clerks, Dogma, and Chasing Amy, and now Jay and Silent Bob Strike back are more movies for the teen/college age group, and most people who fall out of that category (cough...Katz...cough) don't seem to get it.
I looked up jock at dictionary.com and came up with this:
jock n.
1. An athletic supporter.
2. Sports. An athlete, especially in college.
3. Slang. One characterized by excessive concern for machismo.
but oddly enough came up with this as well:
jock n.
1. A programmer who is characterised by large and somewhat brute-force programs.
2. When modified by another noun, describes a specialist in some particular computing area. The compounds "compiler jock" and "systems jock" seem to be the best-established examples.
Maybe the latter is what Katz is referring to?
>>Yeah, kind of familiar.
>>Except there is no problem, but the government pretends that it is horrible and that air pollution is killing people.
Not to troll, but there is a serious environmental problem that is only getting worse. While it has not, and might not, reach apocoliptic proportions (as depicted in every crappy sci-fi from the last 20 years), denying that we're pillaging and destroying the planet, and that there's no problem with that, isn't going to help the situation.
>>And in other news, the first file available in the .NAP format is one of a fat lady signing.
The fat lady signed with Napster? Sweet!
I am not a scientist, I have not analyzed any data or done extensive research on this subject. But i know what I see. I live in New England, and over the past decade I've witnessed pretty substantial changes in the weather. The winters keep getting warmer, and there's much less snowfall (consequently, ski resorts in the east are suffering pretty badly). Right now, we're in the middle of the hottest summer that I, or any of my friends can remember.
Now I don't pretend to have any idea what this means from a scientific view point, maybe it's a natural cycle, but I tend to be pessimistic. There's no doubt in my mind, that given enough time, the human race will use up all of the planet's natural resources and in so doing completely destroy the planet. If it's scare tactics that are required to raise public awareness... well, so far they've worked a lot better than anything else that's been tried... Anyways, sorry about the rant, I have a tendancy to do that sometimes...
I'm an Information Technology major at the Rochester Institute of Technology. When I enrolled (two years ago), we were taught Visual Basic as an introductory language. This didn't effect me as much as other students (I had already had a year of C++ as well as other assorted languages), but definitely impacted the way a lot of the other kids in my major program. In fact, the IT department at my school is now switching to a full year of Java as the introductory language, and I for one think it's a great idea. I know the CS department has done the same thing for a while and has had good results with it. Having taken courses in Java, C++ and Visual Basic I think that Java makes an excellent learning language due its flexibility and wide variety of uses. And it's certainly a hell of a lot more useful than VB.
Two ravens were flying cross-country when they decided to take a break for lunch. Spying a large manure pile with a pitchfork stuck in it, they winged down and started eating. The first raven ate a moderate amount, jumped up onto the handle and flew off. The second raven was a bit of a glut however, and gorged himself. He then wobbled over to the handle, tried to take flight, and fell right back into the shit pile. The morale of this story? Don't fly of the handle when you're full of shit.
This kind of reminds me of Arthur C. Clarke's 3001. In the book there are 4 towers (one for each hemisphere) that stretch out beyond the upper reaches of the atmosphere. Virtually all astronomical observations and all shuttle/rocket launches take place from these towers for convenience. All in all it's a pretty cool idea. But I think he's right in that it's still a good ways away in the future.