We have been using eRoom software since 1999. We still use 4.2c version of the product. It is cross-platform and cross-browser, can be used with external clients or internally...has a number of features including Version and Access Control. Plus it's easy to set up and easy for people to use with minimal training.
I agree. I collect model horses. I went to a show last year and bought a limited edition model for a kid in BC. We ended up making a trade for horses, so that was good. Then I learned that she sold the $40Cdn horse for $150US. I did buy a couple extra, but it pains me when you do something nice and generous for someone then they turn around and sell to a grovelling bunch of collectors for lots of money. I know, I'm naive, I guess I just have too much faith that people are still nice in the world:\
I have to agree. When Kurt Vonnegut wrote Player Piano, he never intended it to be a work of high art. Many of his books have SF elements in them (Slaughterhouse 5, Prometheus 5, etc). His books are wildly popular though with the lit crit community tho, and rightly so.
yeah, I dreaded that coming. I hate being one nation united under Yahoo. I just hope they don't screw things up like they did to WebRing, that was just AWFUL! So much functionality and power was lost, it's just retarded now.
because of the CBE's filtering software, I believe they use CyberPatrol, the kids in the library where my friend works cannot look up websites on AIDS or breast cancer...they are jr high kids...either way, the kids lose out.
:-) I loved the old ones...I had Ravage and Thunder-something (little red guy). We also had assorted ripoffs...my parents never liked toys with guns (sigh). So instead we played with our friends...oh man! Sean Pasternak, if you're out there I bet you're weeping...I'm pretty sure he and his cousin Shawn had them all:-)
Why does Taco feel the need to describe Chuck D "smart as hell"? Anyone who has listened to their music will know that. Does he feel obligated because Chuck D is black?
Is it any different when in a news story women are described by the clothes they wear, rather than the brains they possess? And if so, why does this not apply to men in the news?
There is also Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure. I loved this game when I first got it 5 years ago. It took my brother and I about 3 months to get through the 10+ levels. It sure beat out the original Pitfall IMHO:-) In this game, you were the son of Pitfall Harry, and had to rescue him.
The music and animal sounds were cool, but nothing beat having a bat suck on your face. We traded levels on and off. I couldn't have finished the game without my brother. BTW, we also had Pitfall for the 2600 and played that game to death. He's going to be thrilled to read the story about it.
I have to agree. I have been running The Great Thompson Hunt for gonzo fans for five years now. I invested in a $500 scanner, a domain (www.gonzo.org), a new HD, I pay $600 for hosting, deal with abusive $hitheads and drooling fanboys and all the while have managed to stay afloat thru the generosity of free hosts and other fans. I make squat.
To date I have had favourable reviews from Ralph Steadman, and others, who were happy to see the site and not ticked off. I have never had a copyright problem, although one photographer wants to be paid a cut of any advertising revenues (I have managed to stay ad free).
I have invested years and time and money and my soul into this site, and as any fan site maintainer will agree, it's a heck of a job, but it's something, a passion that can usually not be bought.
IMHO, Fandom was just lax in getting the TV domain when it first came out. Comparing the two sites, you would never guess they were the same - I'm not confused.
BTW, please don't bash any Fandom webmasters or accuse them of selling out. Happily I have never had lawyers come after me, but other sites have. At the very least Fandom does offer them some protection.
Probably the most interesting of those was a James T. Chick comic (http://www.chick.com) I forget what it's called, but it's easily found on the site. The comic basically says that D&D is the devil's work, and if your character dies, you die too (in fact, a girl is shown having hung herself and leaving a suicide note explaining that). Pretty fugging funny if you ask me!
I have to agree with Gimpboy. Pick up The Big Book of Martyrs (Another fine Big Book from Paradox Press). While I agree with the kid, calling oneself a martyr in light of this is a little belittling of the torturous deaths that many of the martyrs endured. "Victim" would be way more appropriate...
...save Martyr for the day the kid stands up to a police force at a WTO and gets his skull cracked open.
oh totally!! I have seen this so many times, from when I worked with a secretary (the photocopier pw was under a slip of paper taped to the shelf) and the library (ridiculously easy) to a school library (where students changed the pw, locked the files (this was on Win3.1) and because the old admin had quit, no one could change the pw).
I now adminster a groupware product - and it's amazing how many people keep the temporary passwords. Probably the best story I can relate is someone high up who kept forgetting his password. I changed it to his last name (I know, I know) and he still managed to keep forgetting it. Unfortunately the groupware product does not have a user password retrieval.
I have to agree about Webmonkey tho, you wonder how it could have gone so to pot, I've maybe read six articles in 2000, and all the others rotated on the front page are from 1999 or 1998
Builder is getting there. They are still a good beginner site. The real prize there is the Builder Buzz - it's a really good web dev community
*g* when I was going to SAIT way back in 1996, male journalism students were notoriously bad for looking at porn on the computers at the back of the class. It was so funny, ppl kept saying how certain sites were blocked off, but a friend and I tested this claim one day and it certainly wasn't true. As I recall, the two journalism students I saw the most were into women and vegetables (the printer was also at the back of the class, so alas, one had to pass by there)
I know what you mean...Transmetropolitan is the same way and IMHO a much better comic because the character is a superhero without tights:-) http://www.gonzo.org/hst/ht/transmetropolitan.ht ml
My positive thought is that this movie shows that terrible books make terrible movies. I used to be a great conisseur of science fiction; now I find today's SF to be (as usual) low on character development and hack writing (case in point: Margaret Weiss's SF novels). This movie only re-enforces my idea that SF needs to come up with something new and more inventive than the standard plots.
OTOH, I have a SF short story book from 1959 called Nine Tomorrows - there is a story in there that is eerily similar to Battlefield Earth in some ways - oh well - it's all been done, before anyway:-)
I managed to make it so far through life with only owning an old Coca Cola sweatshirt. I prefer plain tees. I don't buy any big label jeans...nothing I have is big label:\ Guess my self-esteem is good enough that I don't have to buy a Gap tee or Nike shoes.
Well, my computer at home is a NEC, I see that every day...otherwise...
I suppose what really bugs me is when multinational companies like Wal-Mart and Pizza Hut stick a little maple leaf on their logos. Is it to make Canadians feel good even tho the franchises are running with the profits back to the US?
The only brand I do wear tho...is the gonzo brand:-) http://www.gonzo.org/hst/benton.html
I think there are about 18 episodes of this one, about a robotic girl with the mind of a cat. The first six eps are the best, it had us in stitches. Especially the 4th ep, where another android girl tries to find Nuku Nuku's "off switch" (hint hint)
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cool, I was worried about getting flamed...I think Bradbury will always have a name that sells well, but...even the best authors need to know when to stop.
Wicked was always a favourite of mine. It totally captivated me as a teen too. I loved the meticulous detail he put into it. And it worked because it created the sinister atmosphere.
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yeah...it seems like that should really remake that movie in this day and age. Like so many SF authors, it's amazing how bang-on Bradbury has been. When I read the book for the nth time when OJ was speeding down the freeway, I thought, My god! That's exactly when the death dog and helicopters are chasing Montague. And it's televised. Weird eh?
In a small way, you could say the net is like the theatre walls that entranced his wife so much, and bud earphones are the little seashells she plugged into at night.
And dare I mention Clarisse? More kids today are hospitalized and doped for "mental illness" than ever before.
A couple more decades and the whole book will become absolute truth.
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Guess I'll have to stop reading both now, not that I ever read much of that FUDmaker ZDNET anyway.
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Is it any different when in a news story women are described by the clothes they wear, rather than the brains they possess? And if so, why does this not apply to men in the news?
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The music and animal sounds were cool, but nothing beat having a bat suck on your face. We traded levels on and off. I couldn't have finished the game without my brother. BTW, we also had Pitfall for the 2600 and played that game to death. He's going to be thrilled to read the story about it.
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To date I have had favourable reviews from Ralph Steadman, and others, who were happy to see the site and not ticked off. I have never had a copyright problem, although one photographer wants to be paid a cut of any advertising revenues (I have managed to stay ad free).
I have invested years and time and money and my soul into this site, and as any fan site maintainer will agree, it's a heck of a job, but it's something, a passion that can usually not be bought.
IMHO, Fandom was just lax in getting the TV domain when it first came out. Comparing the two sites, you would never guess they were the same - I'm not confused.
BTW, please don't bash any Fandom webmasters or accuse them of selling out. Happily I have never had lawyers come after me, but other sites have. At the very least Fandom does offer them some protection.
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...save Martyr for the day the kid stands up to a police force at a WTO and gets his skull cracked open.
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I now adminster a groupware product - and it's amazing how many people keep the temporary passwords. Probably the best story I can relate is someone high up who kept forgetting his password. I changed it to his last name (I know, I know) and he still managed to keep forgetting it. Unfortunately the groupware product does not have a user password retrieval.
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I have to agree about Webmonkey tho, you wonder how it could have gone so to pot, I've maybe read six articles in 2000, and all the others rotated on the front page are from 1999 or 1998
Builder is getting there. They are still a good beginner site. The real prize there is the Builder Buzz - it's a really good web dev community
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http://www.gonzo.org/hst/ht/transmetropolitan.h
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OTOH, I have a SF short story book from 1959 called Nine Tomorrows - there is a story in there that is eerily similar to Battlefield Earth in some ways - oh well - it's all been done, before anyway
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Well, my computer at home is a NEC, I see that every day...otherwise...
I suppose what really bugs me is when multinational companies like Wal-Mart and Pizza Hut stick a little maple leaf on their logos. Is it to make Canadians feel good even tho the franchises are running with the profits back to the US?
The only brand I do wear tho...is the gonzo brand :-) http://www.gonzo.org/hst/benton.html
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Wicked was always a favourite of mine. It totally captivated me as a teen too. I loved the meticulous detail he put into it. And it worked because it created the sinister atmosphere.
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In a small way, you could say the net is like the theatre walls that entranced his wife so much, and bud earphones are the little seashells she plugged into at night.
And dare I mention Clarisse? More kids today are hospitalized and doped for "mental illness" than ever before.
A couple more decades and the whole book will become absolute truth.
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