This is something I get a bit annoyed about. Everyone derides the awkwardness of Anakin's delivery and lines... But just think about it a bit: How many girls had he been really intimate with, anyway? Probablyyoucould count them with the fingers in his right habd... After Dooku cust it off and before the cybernetic replacement is placed there. And now think about YOURSELF on you FIRST DATE EVER with a girl you have fantasied about for YEARS while you were in monastery like conditions... Not even allowedto read Playboy or what have you... Think you'd be suave, slick guy wooing the crush of your lifetime? Heck no. And still you all seem to think Anakin ought to have been charming rogue like Han Solo or somethinglike that. Hmph...
Amazon also is somewhat limited with the more esoteric literature. Like in some of the smaller European languages... And don't tell me people in USA read stuff only in english. I happen to know few people from the States who actually enjoy learning new languages, as unlikely as that sounds...
Add to this that most of us are likely to possess other printed material than just books. Like periodicals for our hobbies/technical journals/whatever papers. They have their ISBN-comparable numbering, but they don't have ISSUE numbers in the code (Don't remember right now what it's named like, but I am sure it didn't have issue number) so you'd need to 'bind' stuff.
Of course, with stuff like these, it'd be nice to be able to get the list of articles in the issue on the DB as well.Wouldmake it easier to dig up stuff. Ditto for various non-prose books and their ToC's...
And the final part of the plan is start really sucking up the tax money with schemes for doing something about it -- usually coming from the same people who brought you SDI. And this makes a lot of sense -- many of the stupid ideas that could never stop a missile are equally applicable to asteroids.
Personally, I wonder how big a racket you all Blizzard-boycotters raise when Vivendi announces that 'due to the crash in Blizzard profits' the parent company is closing the game developer down and kicking every developer out.
Or that Blizzardcloses Battle.net and creates an asinine new product licensing system to ensure people can only use legal copies of the games. How about users need to call Blizzard every time they run the game to acquire a new activation code, at maybe a dollar/pop? Or something even sicker.
Truth is, the instant Warcraft3 Beta worked on BNetD,Blizzard's profits were endangered, which in turn can lead to a whole lot of nastiness in business world.
To be brutally honest, I find a lot of the attitudes here sickening. Having seen how many interesting game projects andgame producers kick the bucket lately due to issues in profitability, seeing jerks gloat at the way they insure that the up and coming game will be sidelined just so much faster because there's no profit in improving and maintaining game because significant portion of the user base just gets warezed piece and never even considers who'll pay for the continuation of the game...
Oh well. I am willing to bet not many of thegloatershave to worry about paying their living, what with high school andparent'sbasement being so nifty.
He did say that. Take a look at the line, first there's the currency, then the rate. So he didn't say 40.3399 Guilders, he said 40.3399 Belgian Francs.
Also, if you are a geek with interest in pulpish scifi, you should read Harry harrison's Stainless Steel Rat books. They also use esperanto.:)
Of course, reminds me of a joke about hiring interview where a guy is asked if he really speaks Esperanto ashe says in his resume. and the guy answers: "Yes, I spent three years there and now I speak it like a native."
I think you mean ONI as the anime fsp? That game had those missile swarms too. They weren't completely 'drunken', if I remember correctly, they just spread out first then locked on target and came in from multiple directions.
And then the thief can get his picture taken when using that replica... even if they manage to stay off camera, the risk is enormous for the few hundred bucks they can get before hitting the daily withdrawal limit. Question? Why would the hackers use the copied cards themselves? Wouldn't it be easier to just sell the copied cards in bulk to organized crime, who then exploit the cards? At least that is teh understanding I have about what happens to most stolen cards, they get shipped around and used some odd places. And no photo of the hacker from ATM anywhere while a several crooks run around using cloned credit cards for other shams and illegal activities...
>If a company really wanted to bite the bullet and get off Windows, they would also migrate off MS Office at the same time
Well, there's one problem with that. Especially for small companies.
The customers probably won't migrate away from MSOffice, and then the small, non-MS shop will have a question to ask themselves: How do we communicate with the customer?
The business world loves nice,pretty (Their opinion, not mine) documents in Word/PowerPoint/Excelflavor. And as long as there's some work for converting the documents (invoices, offers, whatever) done by the small company to big customer, you can guess who has the burden ofkeeping things compatible.
Replying to the question in your.sig, I'd guess fake ID and try to get drunk? (The latter par probably isn't that bad a choice if you can't do anything about world going to Hell in Handbasket.)
No, the games are mature. The gamers aren't. When there's 'money for ripping people off', you see the kids going extatic with the way they can 'run this l33t' script to 'haxx0r' people and screw them over, but then, that's teh American Way these days, right?
Excuse me, what is your beef with Amiga emo winning the whole democompo? Especially as you whine about non-optimized code ue to Windows OS? Or was the Amiga running Windows? Me, I sure as Hell enjoy Amiga winning PC's for demos.
Actually, too comfortable sitting position in a chair isn't good for one. When you don't move (after you get just into that comfortable way tos it) your muscles get less oxygen and start acting up. It's healthier to change your sitting position every now and then, like two, three times an hour. That said, an easy to configure chair would help with that tremendously...
And Anonymous Cwards read what they want to every sentence. He said the organizers of the Case Mod competition were asked if the goldfish'd live. He didn't ask you or anyone here about it.
Umm, Stasi had EVERYONE peering into the stepsof each other and reporting. This isn't the same, unless you are burdened by law to keep on spying on your neighbors and report everything you find suspicious. Right now it is more like Government and corporations keeping you under surveillance... But I don't doubt the everyone spies everyone time isn't so far off anymore...
I assume the additional memory is installed when that G4 comes to you? Ever heard of payig for installing the stuff? Every deviation from standar levels means there's got to be at least one, ideally two more work phases: Installing the stuff and (hopefully) Testing the extra stuff works. Of course, the price of work fluctuates badly, you can get a riend to put a memory stick in for peanuts, but Brand Shop to do anything with your name-brand computer is going to make you bleed money through your nose. Of course, Brand Name shop might know what they were doing and not just wonder why the stick doesn't fit well... Or wow at the bright sparks. But work costs, pal, and it can cost a lot if you want convenience.
The McDonals coffee case judge was not braindead. get teh facts straight, they have been mentioned even here hundreds of times already. The coffee was hot enough to cause severe burns on contact, and McD knew it was so and they still sold the coffee at such temperature.
Not that having some judgement like that against MicroSoft wouldn't be nice. Of course, it might not help much in getting MS to clean up their act.
Ah, but the thing isn't that 'You drove the Ford Escort'. The HeLa cells have managed to infect a whole lot of other cell lines, thus ruining research programs, even when suitable methods for keeping the cultures pure were taken. Granted, the methods weren't exactly suitable, as was proven with the contaminations, but before it was figured out, HeLa contaminated a whole lot of cell cultures. Now, my point was that if the Lacks family is going to benefit from the HeLa cells, won't they also become responsible for the damages the same cells have caused? Or should they only reap the benefits? Without responsibilities? Of course, this seems to be the ideal situation in US of A...:)
I wonderif the Lacks family being compensatedfor the benefits from HeLa cell research woul open themselves up for further compensation claims for thenumerous researches that were ruined when HeLa cells infected other cultures?
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This is something I get a bit annoyed about. Everyone derides the awkwardness of Anakin's delivery and lines... But just think about it a bit: How many girls had he been really intimate with, anyway? Probablyyoucould count them with the fingers in his right habd... After Dooku cust it off and before the cybernetic replacement is placed there. And now think about YOURSELF on you FIRST DATE EVER with a girl you have fantasied about for YEARS while you were in monastery like conditions... Not even allowedto read Playboy or what have you... Think you'd be suave, slick guy wooing the crush of your lifetime? Heck no. And still you all seem to think Anakin ought to have been charming rogue like Han Solo or somethinglike that. Hmph...
He didn'tpick out just the dial, but a whole can of the radium-rich paint used to make those glow in dark dials.
Amazon also is somewhat limited with the more esoteric literature. Like in some of the smaller European languages... And don't tell me people in USA read stuff only in english. I happen to know few people from the States who actually enjoy learning new languages, as unlikely as that sounds...
Add to this that most of us are likely to possess other printed material than just books. Like periodicals for our hobbies/technical journals/whatever papers. They have their ISBN-comparable numbering, but they don't have ISSUE numbers in the code (Don't remember right now what it's named like, but I am sure it didn't have issue number) so you'd need to 'bind' stuff.
Of course, with stuff like these, it'd be nice to be able to get the list of articles in the issue on the DB as well.Wouldmake it easier to dig up stuff. Ditto for various non-prose books and their ToC's...
And the final part of the plan is start really sucking up the tax money with schemes for doing something about it -- usually coming from the same people who brought you SDI. And this makes a lot of sense -- many of the stupid ideas that could never stop a missile are equally applicable to asteroids.
And this makes sense for WHICH reason?
I know Acirema, but wasn't it only in Finnish?
Actually, I think the idea is,people know the names, but not the men who wear those names.
Just my two (Euro)cents.
Personally, I wonder how big a racket you all Blizzard-boycotters raise when Vivendi announces that 'due to the crash in Blizzard profits' the parent company is closing the game developer down and kicking every developer out.
Or that Blizzardcloses Battle.net and creates an asinine new product licensing system to ensure people can only use legal copies of the games. How about users need to call Blizzard every time they run the game to acquire a new activation code, at maybe a dollar/pop? Or something even sicker.
Truth is, the instant Warcraft3 Beta worked on BNetD,Blizzard's profits were endangered, which in turn can lead to a whole lot of nastiness in business world.
To be brutally honest, I find a lot of the attitudes here sickening. Having seen how many interesting game projects andgame producers kick the bucket lately due to issues in profitability, seeing jerks gloat at the way they insure that the up and coming game will be sidelined just so much faster because there's no profit in improving and maintaining game because significant portion of the user base just gets warezed piece and never even considers who'll pay for the continuation of the game...
Oh well. I am willing to bet not many of thegloatershave to worry about paying their living, what with high school andparent'sbasement being so nifty.
Just my rant.
He did say that. Take a look at the line, first there's the currency, then the rate. So he didn't say 40.3399 Guilders, he said 40.3399 Belgian Francs.
Also, if you are a geek with interest in pulpish scifi, you should read Harry harrison's Stainless Steel Rat books. They also use esperanto. :)
Of course, reminds me of a joke about hiring interview where a guy is asked if he really speaks Esperanto ashe says in his resume. and the guy answers: "Yes, I spent three years there and now I speak it like a native."
Actually, I thought it wasn't Moon that was made of gold, but the other, smaller moon hidden by the one closer to ours?
I think you mean ONI as the anime fsp? That game had those missile swarms too. They weren't completely 'drunken', if I remember correctly, they just spread out first then locked on target and came in from multiple directions.
Wicked...
And then the thief can get his picture taken when using that replica ... even if they manage to stay off camera, the risk is enormous for the few hundred bucks they can get before hitting the daily withdrawal limit.
Question? Why would the hackers use the copied cards themselves? Wouldn't it be easier to just sell the copied cards in bulk to organized crime, who then exploit the cards? At least that is teh understanding I have about what happens to most stolen cards, they get shipped around and used some odd places. And no photo of the hacker from ATM anywhere while a several crooks run around using cloned credit cards for other shams and illegal activities...
>If a company really wanted to bite the bullet and get off Windows, they would also migrate off MS Office at the same time
Well, there's one problem with that. Especially for small companies.
The customers probably won't migrate away from MSOffice, and then the small, non-MS shop will have a question to ask themselves: How do we communicate with the customer?
The business world loves nice,pretty (Their opinion, not mine) documents in Word/PowerPoint/Excelflavor. And as long as there's some work for converting the documents (invoices, offers, whatever) done by the small company to big customer, you can guess who has the burden ofkeeping things compatible.
Replying to the question in your .sig, I'd guess fake ID and try to get drunk? (The latter par probably isn't that bad a choice if you can't do anything about world going to Hell in Handbasket.)
No, the games are mature. The gamers aren't. When there's 'money for ripping people off', you see the kids going extatic with the way they can 'run this l33t' script to 'haxx0r' people and screw them over, but then, that's teh American Way these days, right?
No, it was U-2 that was flying high and shot down. SR-71 Blackbird flew high and fast, but wasn't cost-effective enough. Just my two planes...
Excuse me, what is your beef with Amiga emo winning the whole democompo? Especially as you whine about non-optimized code ue to Windows OS? Or was the Amiga running Windows? Me, I sure as Hell enjoy Amiga winning PC's for demos.
Actually, too comfortable sitting position in a chair isn't good for one. When you don't move (after you get just into that comfortable way tos it) your muscles get less oxygen and start acting up. It's healthier to change your sitting position every now and then, like two, three times an hour. That said, an easy to configure chair would help with that tremendously...
And Anonymous Cwards read what they want to every sentence. He said the organizers of the Case Mod competition were asked if the goldfish'd live. He didn't ask you or anyone here about it.
Umm, Stasi had EVERYONE peering into the stepsof each other and reporting. This isn't the same, unless you are burdened by law to keep on spying on your neighbors and report everything you find suspicious. Right now it is more like Government and corporations keeping you under surveillance... But I don't doubt the everyone spies everyone time isn't so far off anymore...
I assume the additional memory is installed when that G4 comes to you? Ever heard of payig for installing the stuff? Every deviation from standar levels means there's got to be at least one, ideally two more work phases: Installing the stuff and (hopefully) Testing the extra stuff works. Of course, the price of work fluctuates badly, you can get a riend to put a memory stick in for peanuts, but Brand Shop to do anything with your name-brand computer is going to make you bleed money through your nose. Of course, Brand Name shop might know what they were doing and not just wonder why the stick doesn't fit well... Or wow at the bright sparks. But work costs, pal, and it can cost a lot if you want convenience.
The McDonals coffee case judge was not braindead. get teh facts straight, they have been mentioned even here hundreds of times already. The coffee was hot enough to cause severe burns on contact, and McD knew it was so and they still sold the coffee at such temperature. Not that having some judgement like that against MicroSoft wouldn't be nice. Of course, it might not help much in getting MS to clean up their act.
Ah, but the thing isn't that 'You drove the Ford Escort'. The HeLa cells have managed to infect a whole lot of other cell lines, thus ruining research programs, even when suitable methods for keeping the cultures pure were taken. Granted, the methods weren't exactly suitable, as was proven with the contaminations, but before it was figured out, HeLa contaminated a whole lot of cell cultures. Now, my point was that if the Lacks family is going to benefit from the HeLa cells, won't they also become responsible for the damages the same cells have caused? Or should they only reap the benefits? Without responsibilities? Of course, this seems to be the ideal situation in US of A... :)
I wonderif the Lacks family being compensatedfor the benefits from HeLa cell research woul open themselves up for further compensation claims for thenumerous researches that were ruined when HeLa cells infected other cultures?