I would have agreed with you two weeks ago, but I've also been watching Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (Cartoon Network). Now that the story is coming together, it is OMFG-level sci-fi goodness. Still, BSG is quite awesome, and I'm just very very happy to have so much good stuff showing right now, compared to the dearth of stuff that existed back when SG1 was only on Showtime, and we only had Star Trek: Voyager on TV... Blech!
You do realize that UUNET(/MCI/WorldCom) supports roughly one third of all the traffic on the internet, don't you. You can't simply block one third of all your legitimate incoming mail.
I personally would find it infuriating as all hell, as would most users of the 'net. Within one day of such an obstruction, I bet MCI would respond decisively. Perhaps the most damaging response would also be the most successful?
As an experiment in masochism, I actually have watched most of the Enterprise episodes... considered stopping a few times, especially after the Lost In Space-esque ending to the Xindi conflict (yes you saved your planet, now suprise, it's alien Nazis!)
However, the last couple episodes have done the coolest thing that scifi can do: using the background of future technologies / space travel / odd scientific scenarios, explore how people react, explore ethical dilemnas, try to explore thought processes that we simply don't have right now.
If they keep this up, Enterprise will become an interesting, quality show.
Let's see if the Linux community can match his generosity."
Forbes lists Bill Gates's wealth at 48 Billion, making this donation 1.56% of his worth (just a rough calculation, I'm sure there's a lot more to it)
So, making a 1.56% donation of the accumulated $0.00 licensing fees from Linux sales should be a rather straightforward affair. We can do it!!!
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What can we make percentages of in the world of IRC?
bytes transfered
individual users
channels
individual messages
other?
Further, what is "illegal?" The very existence of warez channels? Lurking in them? Chatting in them? Perhaps just exchanging commercial files in them...
Ah, but it's only the exciting numbers like 99.9% that are headline worthy.
Don't call it a "BitTorrent Arrest" -- some of my best friends use BitTorrent for perfectly legitimate reasons... It's really an arrest for piracy.
Don't call it a "Piracy Arrest" -- some of my best friends board aquatic vessels and kill everyone aboard to steal the posessions for perfectly legitimate reasons... It's really an arrest for violating one-sided copyright laws.
... like American Psycho.:-) Set it in the '80s. Seriously though, if they set it in the same time period and made occasional remarks about what's technologically "impossible" or things that never happened but were expected "in the '90s," it could be fun.
If they try to go action / adventure with this, I see it in the $5 bin at WalMart a few months after the release.
The Bard adapted Romeo and Juliet from Arthur Brooke's poem The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet, which Brooke, in his turn, had based on a French translation by Pierre Boaistuau of various Italian stories.
Whoa.... I thought he adapted it from his first idea of "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter."
When I'm in a mall, a cathedral, or any nice, roomy area with arches and upper structural areas near the ceilings, I soooooooo very much want to use my grappling gun (best Quake mod ever).
I started out playing plenty of video games when I was a kid, and I did a lot of basic programming, starting with the programs printed in a children's book, and going from there. I'd say the things that really gave me the most fun and thinking ability were the open ended stuff: Face-Maker, ChemLab, PrintShop, graphics programs, Wolfenstein 3D with map and sprite editors, Doom editors, simple Web publishing apps. (that spans pre-school age through high school)
Basically, anything that gives the kid control and the ability to do something all of his or her own. I'd recommend choosing gift games on that criteria more than anything else... I'd consider Rockstar's GTA3 better for a child than LucasArts' Loom.
I am eastbound in pursuit of a white Lamborghini. This is not a recording.
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If I tell you boys something, you won't think I've been drinking, will you? The white Lamborghini has vanished, but there's a red Lamborghini behind me honking its horn... correction, it's passing me. And it's got two great looking chicks in it!
I was snorkeling at Phi Phi just a few weeks ago. And I stayed at the Holiday Inn resort on Patong beach... just a couple blocks from the Zen sushi restaurant in this AP photo. I agree that it is a very odd "I was just there" sensation. Especially since my thoughts while there centered on how it is such a nice and relaxing place to live. My thoughts turn to the boat captains, the receptionists, the nice guard at the hotel, the watresses at the Todai down the street, the metal sculpter I bought a beautiful Alien figure from... Many people I recently interacted with, and no telling if they're still alive. Even if they're okay, they surely have friends and family who aren't.
These types of events are always very tragic, and with a closer perspective, all too real.
Sometime in our lifetimes China is going to become a consumer culture, consuming many of the goods that it already makes and exports to the rest of the world.
I was in China a couple weeks ago (Guangzhou). This is a true statement, as it has *already* happened. The media in the U.S. just doesn't really show us what China is like these days. Guangzhou is beginning to look like Hong Kong in terms of skyscrapers everywhere, and lots of great shopping. Crazy mad shopping. More beautifully capatalist than what I see in a medium-sized US town.
Would I move there? Maybe. While China has been changing toward some future state involving more prosperity and freedom, the U.S. has been sliding. Oh, and their beer is much better.:-)
Another anecdotal bit of evidence: When I was in college, one fellow student who I was on a Software Engineering team with would usually smoke a dose right before a presentation. The relaxation would kill her speaking phobias and she did very well each time. I did see her give a presentation "unprepared" and the difference was obvious.
Although it seems very popular to dread the tyranny of hearing other people talk on their phones on a flight, I just don't see it. And I flew over 15 hours last week. When you're in a situation like that, there are already tons of noises far beyond your control: engine noise, bratty children, screeching infants. I brought ear plugs. A few people having phone conversations aren't going to make the experience any worse, and ear plugs will cancel them even more effectively than the high-pitched baby yelping.
Although they just don't seem as cool, most grocery stores have the doors. Also, Google for "Star Trek" and chess, and you'll find that people have come up with the rule set and built their own boards for the 3D chess game seen on the series... now for the other 19 items...:-)
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I would have agreed with you two weeks ago, but I've also been watching Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (Cartoon Network). Now that the story is coming together, it is OMFG-level sci-fi goodness. Still, BSG is quite awesome, and I'm just very very happy to have so much good stuff showing right now, compared to the dearth of stuff that existed back when SG1 was only on Showtime, and we only had Star Trek: Voyager on TV... Blech!
This is not new, check out the original free community network.
potentially letting them make CDs with hundreds of thousands of songs for free...
I just want to hear more about this amazing new CD burning technology!
You do realize that UUNET(/MCI/WorldCom) supports roughly one third of all the traffic on the internet, don't you. You can't simply block one third of all your legitimate incoming mail.
I personally would find it infuriating as all hell, as would most users of the 'net. Within one day of such an obstruction, I bet MCI would respond decisively. Perhaps the most damaging response would also be the most successful?
A funny short story about emergent behavior that I found on Boing Boing today.
As an experiment in masochism, I actually have watched most of the Enterprise episodes... considered stopping a few times, especially after the Lost In Space-esque ending to the Xindi conflict (yes you saved your planet, now suprise, it's alien Nazis!)
However, the last couple episodes have done the coolest thing that scifi can do: using the background of future technologies / space travel / odd scientific scenarios, explore how people react, explore ethical dilemnas, try to explore thought processes that we simply don't have right now.
If they keep this up, Enterprise will become an interesting, quality show.
Let's see if the Linux community can match his generosity."
Forbes lists Bill Gates's wealth at 48 Billion, making this donation 1.56% of his worth (just a rough calculation, I'm sure there's a lot more to it)
So, making a 1.56% donation of the accumulated $0.00 licensing fees from Linux sales should be a rather straightforward affair. We can do it!!!
Further, what is "illegal?" The very existence of warez channels? Lurking in them? Chatting in them? Perhaps just exchanging commercial files in them...
Ah, but it's only the exciting numbers like 99.9% that are headline worthy.
Synthetic Pitch 001: Create a film starring Adam Sandler, where he falls in love with ... a golden retriever.
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"Puppy Love" coming soon to theaters.
Synthetic Pitch 002:
Don't call it a "BitTorrent Arrest" -- some of my best friends use BitTorrent for perfectly legitimate reasons... It's really an arrest for piracy.
Don't call it a "Piracy Arrest" -- some of my best friends board aquatic vessels and kill everyone aboard to steal the posessions for perfectly legitimate reasons... It's really an arrest for violating one-sided copyright laws.
... like American Psycho. :-) Set it in the '80s. Seriously though, if they set it in the same time period and made occasional remarks about what's technologically "impossible" or things that never happened but were expected "in the '90s," it could be fun.
If they try to go action / adventure with this, I see it in the $5 bin at WalMart a few months after the release.
The Bard adapted Romeo and Juliet from Arthur Brooke's poem The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet, which Brooke, in his turn, had based on a French translation by Pierre Boaistuau of various Italian stories.
Whoa.... I thought he adapted it from his first idea of "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter."
When I'm in a mall, a cathedral, or any nice, roomy area with arches and upper structural areas near the ceilings, I soooooooo very much want to use my grappling gun (best Quake mod ever).
I started out playing plenty of video games when I was a kid, and I did a lot of basic programming, starting with the programs printed in a children's book, and going from there. I'd say the things that really gave me the most fun and thinking ability were the open ended stuff: Face-Maker, ChemLab, PrintShop, graphics programs, Wolfenstein 3D with map and sprite editors, Doom editors, simple Web publishing apps. (that spans pre-school age through high school)
Basically, anything that gives the kid control and the ability to do something all of his or her own. I'd recommend choosing gift games on that criteria more than anything else... I'd consider Rockstar's GTA3 better for a child than LucasArts' Loom.
I am eastbound in pursuit of a white Lamborghini. This is not a recording.
If I tell you boys something, you won't think I've been drinking, will you? The white Lamborghini has vanished, but there's a red Lamborghini behind me honking its horn... correction, it's passing me. And it's got two great looking chicks in it!
Yes; there is a Linux port. It even runs nicely on the Sharp Zaurus!
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I was snorkeling at Phi Phi just a few weeks ago. And I stayed at the Holiday Inn resort on Patong beach... just a couple blocks from the Zen sushi restaurant in this AP photo. I agree that it is a very odd "I was just there" sensation. Especially since my thoughts while there centered on how it is such a nice and relaxing place to live. My thoughts turn to the boat captains, the receptionists, the nice guard at the hotel, the watresses at the Todai down the street, the metal sculpter I bought a beautiful Alien figure from... Many people I recently interacted with, and no telling if they're still alive. Even if they're okay, they surely have friends and family who aren't.
These types of events are always very tragic, and with a closer perspective, all too real.
Sometime in our lifetimes China is going to become a consumer culture, consuming many of the goods that it already makes and exports to the rest of the world.
:-)
I was in China a couple weeks ago (Guangzhou). This is a true statement, as it has *already* happened. The media in the U.S. just doesn't really show us what China is like these days. Guangzhou is beginning to look like Hong Kong in terms of skyscrapers everywhere, and lots of great shopping. Crazy mad shopping. More beautifully capatalist than what I see in a medium-sized US town.
Would I move there? Maybe. While China has been changing toward some future state involving more prosperity and freedom, the U.S. has been sliding. Oh, and their beer is much better.
Another anecdotal bit of evidence: When I was in college, one fellow student who I was on a Software Engineering team with would usually smoke a dose right before a presentation. The relaxation would kill her speaking phobias and she did very well each time. I did see her give a presentation "unprepared" and the difference was obvious.
NEC has developed world's first half height size optical drive capable of playing back HD DVDs, DVDs, and CDs with a single optical head
I'm not buying it until it can also burn pictures on the label side of the disc.
Although it seems very popular to dread the tyranny of hearing other people talk on their phones on a flight, I just don't see it. And I flew over 15 hours last week. When you're in a situation like that, there are already tons of noises far beyond your control: engine noise, bratty children, screeching infants. I brought ear plugs. A few people having phone conversations aren't going to make the experience any worse, and ear plugs will cancel them even more effectively than the high-pitched baby yelping.
ooooooh, snap!
Will we have to use use "roads" in the air, or can we go as the crow flies? (going around military installqtions and so forth.
Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.
Although they just don't seem as cool, most grocery stores have the doors. Also, Google for "Star Trek" and chess, and you'll find that people have come up with the rule set and built their own boards for the 3D chess game seen on the series... now for the other 19 items...
To call "Hackers" the worst movie ever just isn't fair.... I consider it my favorite romantic comedy.