Yes but the ROTK in theatres this year isn't going to be the extended version. I'd assume you'd have to wait 11 months or so to get the extended ROTK DVD.
I'd be willing to bet that the noisiest highway surface in the country is I-5 in Seattle. I'm not talking about the expansion joints (much of the surface is elevated) but the fact that the concrete has been eroded into visible ruts so you are driving on large chunks of rock. It's deafening inside the car. I recently drove 1200 miles and back (each way) on I-90 and found no section as noisy as that in Seattle. Apparently the problem is studded tires during the winter. It's funny how you see all these old people in the giant cars driving around with studded tires in the winter months even though there's no snow here.
Break down a large task into small steps. Next to each task, in the first column, predict how difficult that task will be on a scale from 0-100%. Leave a column blank, which will be the percentage of the actual difficulty after you do that step. Next column is predicting how satisfying it will be, 0-100%, and then one more blank column used to record the actual satisfaction after the step. (It's a cognitive therapy technique.) IANAD. I'd be curious if anyone actually tries this, how it works out for them.
Did you read the same article I did? Actually I'm only on page 25 out of 27 (been reading it all freakin day almost) and it definitely covered how it rescued the video game industry.
That's so amazing. I so amazed. Look at me. This is me being amazed. This is so useful. You can do... stuff... with it. Finally the killer feature we've all been waiting for. I'm so glad this feature is available now. Cell phones need more features like this. This will revolutionize the communications paradigm.
Thanks for the suggestion! I'll look into that and most likely make that my recommendation, with the caveat that if they don't listen to me without a really good reason I'm not going to be the one doing tech support.
Why don't you just create a desktop ICON to start CMD and call it "DOS Prompt" (it's ok.. that's what it is after all). When I set up image disks for laptop customers I set up all their requested applications with desktop icons (actually in folders on the desktop like "Communications" etc.). I mean if she knows how to use the dos prompt to copy files then let her.
This topic is actually interesting to me as my grandma (80+ years old) wants to get a computer next week and get on the internet. Somehow the idea horrifies me, partly because I figure I'm going to get sucked into tech support, and partly because I'm afraid she's not going to understand the inevitable hoaxes, spam, scams, security problems, pr0n being forced onto your screen if you click on the wrong link, spyware, email viruses... *shudder*
With all the comments on here that "the protest was friendly, SCO gave us lemonade, and everyone laughed and had a good time" about the anti-protest it makes me wonder what the protesters were trying to accomplish. The way I look at it is the purpose of a protest is to raise the social costs (in other words make it more costly for SCO to pursue the actions they are trying for than the rewards they think they will gain from it) against the company you are protesting. As it is, SCO is making itself look bad enough through its own actions. It sounds like there were no real demands and anywhere to raise the social costs if they didn't meet those demands.
In the immortal words of ESR:
on
My Visit to SCO
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· Score: 1
I'm an INTP too. It's like 2% of the population yet I bet 25% of sites like slashdot and k5 are INTPs. So, out of curiosity, do you start new challenging "hobbies" all the time and get into them just far enough to realize that you could do it if you wanted to and... oh, here's another interesting subject... I'll become that master of that instead...
If you have two PC's: Diablo 2 is a great cooperative game. I played it with a friend and his wife (on three computers) and we played through the levels (not online).
Another good one is Doom 2. The good thing is if you don't already have two computers (or even one) is you can probably put some together for free with used parts because Doom 2 is such an old game. It's a pretty fun game with lots of cooperative playing. And if you get bored you can turn on each other and turn it into a deathmatch. ("Ok ok... truce now... for real.... DIE!")
You know what's scary is if you look at the GNU version of true (in the shellutils (now coreutils) package) it actually contains code to print out a help page and it also checks to see if you are in a posix environment and so on. Mostly likely it's just because it's template code. I looked at one of the BSD versions and it merely has the license in comments and then exits with the proper return code.
GNU version:
/* Exit with a status code indicating success.
Copyright (C) 1999-2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
/* The name this program was run with. */ char *program_name;
void usage (int status) {
printf (_("\ Usage: %s [ignored command line arguments]\n\
or: %s OPTION\n\ Exit with a status code indicating success.\n\ \n\ These option names may not be abbreviated.\n\ \n\ "),
program_name, program_name);
fputs (HELP_OPTION_DESCRIPTION, stdout);
fputs (VERSION_OPTION_DESCRIPTION, stdout);
printf (_("\nReport bugs to <%s>.\n"), PACKAGE_BUGREPORT);
exit (status); }
int main (int argc, char **argv) {
program_name = argv[0];
setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
bindtextdomain (PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
textdomain (PACKAGE);
atexit (close_stdout);
/* Recognize --help or --version only if it's the only command-line
argument and if POSIXLY_CORRECT is not set. */
if (argc == 2 && getenv ("POSIXLY_CORRECT") == NULL)
{
if (STREQ (argv[1], "--help"))
usage (EXIT_SUCCESS);
/*
* Copyright (c) 1988, 1993
* The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
*
* Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
* 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
* 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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* 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
* THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTIC
IANAD but Cafeinne increases your blood pressure. If your blood pressure is over 115 (used to be 120 but that has been revised recently) one of the first things you can do is cut out the cafeinne. It sure beats taking blood pressure medication which can cause sexual disfunctions! When you cut out cafeinne you will probably have a couple days of headaches to put up with, especially the first day. I haven't drinken (drunk?) any cafeinne in about 3 weeks, but started again yesterday and today. Oh well. If you are hardcore addict (whatever that might mean) then I'd recommend a gradual, planned reduction to reduce the headache problem.
Actually it was Unreal (not the game by the same name, though) and Second Reality. I wouldn't say the demo scene has gone underground. I think it is outside the golden age though, when you could do more impressive things in demos than in games. I think these days games are more works of art and coding skill than demos. Recently I picked up a DVD with lots of PC demos you could watch on your TV (video captured). Oh ya, it's called "Mindcandy vol 1. PC Demos" It's actually produced by Hornet (the demoscene ftp server guys) if you remember them. www.mindcandydvd.com So you can watch 2nd reality anytime you want without having to whip out the Gravis Ultrasound and CONFIG.SYS menu editor.:-)
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Yes but the ROTK in theatres this year isn't going to be the extended version. I'd assume you'd have to wait 11 months or so to get the extended ROTK DVD.
I would agree, but I wondered if they made flatwould bass strings. Sweet. They do make flatwound bass strings.
And he has an account here as well.
Spring of Megaman
Was good - II, III, good games all
The rest were no good
I'd be willing to bet that the noisiest highway surface in the country is I-5 in Seattle. I'm not talking about the expansion joints (much of the surface is elevated) but the fact that the concrete has been eroded into visible ruts so you are driving on large chunks of rock. It's deafening inside the car. I recently drove 1200 miles and back (each way) on I-90 and found no section as noisy as that in Seattle. Apparently the problem is studded tires during the winter. It's funny how you see all these old people in the giant cars driving around with studded tires in the winter months even though there's no snow here.
I think I speak for all of us when I say: FUCK YOU! Again: F U C K Y O U !
I think it is funny that PSUs with integrated UPSes haven't become more popular
They have. They just call them laptops.
But on a CD 0db is maximum level... you see it's logarhytmic and... ah forget it.
Break down a large task into small steps. Next to each task, in the first column, predict how difficult that task will be on a scale from 0-100%. Leave a column blank, which will be the percentage of the actual difficulty after you do that step. Next column is predicting how satisfying it will be, 0-100%, and then one more blank column used to record the actual satisfaction after the step. (It's a cognitive therapy technique.) IANAD. I'd be curious if anyone actually tries this, how it works out for them.
Did you read the same article I did? Actually I'm only on page 25 out of 27 (been reading it all freakin day almost) and it definitely covered how it rescued the video game industry.
Who says corporations don't kill people?
That's so amazing. I so amazed. Look at me. This is me being amazed. This is so useful. You can do... stuff... with it. Finally the killer feature we've all been waiting for. I'm so glad this feature is available now. Cell phones need more features like this. This will revolutionize the communications paradigm.
(not!)
Thanks for the suggestion! I'll look into that and most likely make that my recommendation, with the caveat that if they don't listen to me without a really good reason I'm not going to be the one doing tech support.
Why don't you just create a desktop ICON to start CMD and call it "DOS Prompt" (it's ok.. that's what it is after all). When I set up image disks for laptop customers I set up all their requested applications with desktop icons (actually in folders on the desktop like "Communications" etc.). I mean if she knows how to use the dos prompt to copy files then let her.
This topic is actually interesting to me as my grandma (80+ years old) wants to get a computer next week and get on the internet. Somehow the idea horrifies me, partly because I figure I'm going to get sucked into tech support, and partly because I'm afraid she's not going to understand the inevitable hoaxes, spam, scams, security problems, pr0n being forced onto your screen if you click on the wrong link, spyware, email viruses... *shudder*
Of course I'm biased. I have an agenda and it is anti-corporate. What's wrong with being biased (i.e. having a point of view)?
With all the comments on here that "the protest was friendly, SCO gave us lemonade, and everyone laughed and had a good time" about the anti-protest it makes me wonder what the protesters were trying to accomplish. The way I look at it is the purpose of a protest is to raise the social costs (in other words make it more costly for SCO to pursue the actions they are trying for than the rewards they think they will gain from it) against the company you are protesting. As it is, SCO is making itself look bad enough through its own actions. It sounds like there were no real demands and anywhere to raise the social costs if they didn't meet those demands.
SCO, shut up and show us the code.
I'm an INTP too. It's like 2% of the population yet I bet 25% of sites like slashdot and k5 are INTPs. So, out of curiosity, do you start new challenging "hobbies" all the time and get into them just far enough to realize that you could do it if you wanted to and... oh, here's another interesting subject... I'll become that master of that instead...
If you have two PC's:
Diablo 2 is a great cooperative game. I played it with a friend and his wife (on three computers) and we played through the levels (not online).
Another good one is Doom 2. The good thing is if you don't already have two computers (or even one) is you can probably put some together for free with used parts because Doom 2 is such an old game. It's a pretty fun game with lots of cooperative playing. And if you get bored you can turn on each other and turn it into a deathmatch. ("Ok ok... truce now... for real.... DIE!")
Not that I know of (I haven't looked). Why not try it yourself... it's free after all.
Recipients, not participants.
Monolog, not dialog.
(That goes for the political system as well... (as if they were two separate entities).)
GNU version:
BSD version
IANAD but Cafeinne increases your blood pressure. If your blood pressure is over 115 (used to be 120 but that has been revised recently) one of the first things you can do is cut out the cafeinne. It sure beats taking blood pressure medication which can cause sexual disfunctions! When you cut out cafeinne you will probably have a couple days of headaches to put up with, especially the first day. I haven't drinken (drunk?) any cafeinne in about 3 weeks, but started again yesterday and today. Oh well. If you are hardcore addict (whatever that might mean) then I'd recommend a gradual, planned reduction to reduce the headache problem.
Do you ever send first-class mail? Then you *do* pay for bulk snail-mail.
The classes of mail do not subsidize each other, by law. Whether or not that is actually the case is debatable of course.
Actually it was Unreal (not the game by the same name, though) and Second Reality. I wouldn't say the demo scene has gone underground. I think it is outside the golden age though, when you could do more impressive things in demos than in games. I think these days games are more works of art and coding skill than demos. Recently I picked up a DVD with lots of PC demos you could watch on your TV (video captured). Oh ya, it's called "Mindcandy vol 1. PC Demos" It's actually produced by Hornet (the demoscene ftp server guys) if you remember them. www.mindcandydvd.com So you can watch 2nd reality anytime you want without having to whip out the Gravis Ultrasound and CONFIG.SYS menu editor. :-)