I hope they fight. Everyone's gotten all friendly and cosy over the years that things are getting boring. Even Jonas (an alien) is being accepted now. I put ten bucks on Jonas to kick Daniel's butt. Not only is he "a quick study" (damn I hate it when he says that), he also has raging pectorals (which the makers like to remind us of by always giving him tight t-shirts). He should win, assuming that Daniel hasn't acquired any eery powers from beyond the grave.
But Mike Moore isn't blaming all white men, he's only blaming stupid white men. They're stupid people who just happen to be white. On the other hand, they could be white people who just happen to be stupid:)
You'll probably understand things a little better if you read this article first. It explains the supposed "hoax" that is referred to in the NYT story.
Sure it can deflect asteroids and comets, but if it can't even heat my TV dinner what use is it? No, deflecting a comet onto my frozen dinner tray isn't an adequate answer.
Could be a great device if I didn't have to reach behind my computer every time I wanted to plug it in or pull it out. Now that's annoying! I hope it comes with a USB extension lead.
"LCD" isn't an acronym, it is an abbreviation. That is, unless you pronounce the letters as if they formed a word (which would sound pretty retarded if you ask me).
I can't say I've ever had the pleasure of playing those games. The closest games to those that I've played would probably be Sid Meyer's Colonisation, Gold of the Americas and Wing Commander Privateer. Colonisation isn't really a pirate game (it's similar to Sid Meyer's earlier game, Civilisation), but you can play it like one. Gold of the Americas is similar, but lesser known: your aim is to settle the New World and build up colonies. Privateer is mostly a space combat game based around privateers.
It was ten years ago, and I was ten years old at the time (memories, particularly childhood memories, can easily become warped over time), but I'm pretty sure it was entirely based in Southeast Asia. The game was fairly simple (being written in BASIC), and I think all you could own was a ship (besides the goods you traded). You could buy upgrades (cannon, armour, etc.) to fend off pirates and you could upgrade your ship, but I think that was all you could do.
It's funny you mention Italy, though, since one of my Taipan mods was based around Italian ports. I was learning Italian in school at the time, and I found that this made it much more fun.
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...Taipan, a game where you ran a trading vessel in the South China Sea. It ran on my primary school's old Microbee computers (yay!). It was written in BASIC, so myself and my friends would go through the source and change all the items and places. In my game, you travelled to ports like Manilla and traded whores. Aaah, fifth grade! I wish I could go back...
...and in related news tonight, the government of Panama has decided to block the Panama Canal. Apparently, they are 'concerned' about contact with the outside world, and they want to stop this threat to their national sovereignty immediately.
I'm quite partial to the Australian system (although I may be biased since I'm Australian). It is a variation on the simplistic British 'first-past-the-post' system. Basically, you number each candidate in the order you prefer, with #1 being your favourite candidate. When the votes are counted, they first tally all the #1 votes. If after that nobody has a clear majority (50% of the vote plus one), they count the #2 votes and add them to the #1 tallies. They keep doing that until someone gets a majority.
What I like about this system is that you are not tying yourself to one candidate. Your vote won't be wasted if you vote #1 for a minority candidate, since if they don't win your next preferences may count. This also means that you're not necessarily guaranteed a win if you're in one of the larger parties.
In the end (generally), you don't get an electorate that's split between people who did and didn't vote for the winner. Since everybody's preferences are taken into account, you get a decent compromise.
Ding Dong the BSD is dead!
Which old BSD?
The wicked BSD!
Ding Dong the BSD is deaaaad!
Wake up, sleeping process.
Rub your eyes,
Get out of bed.
Wake up the wicked BSD is deaaaad!
It's gone where the daemons go,
Below, below, below
Yo ho,
Let's open up and sing!
And ring the (system) bells out!
Don't take me seriously, I quite like BSD. Remember, "Wicked" can mean two different things:)
A true emulator duplicates the hardware as well as the software. WINE still relies on the host CPU's instruction set, so it is not a true emulator. If you ran, say, MacOS on an x86 CPU, that would be emulation, since you would have to duplicate the instruction set of a PPC.
Because IE is full of bugs and holes. It's probably the most insecure piece of software on the planet. And since MS were dumb enough to tie IE in with the OS, an IE hole can threaten your whole system. Use it at your own risk...
I'm sure there are even dumber patents in the US. The UK has an excuse -- science was still in its infancy, and people were more gullible because they didn't have the kind of access to information and education as we do today. The US has no such alibi. I worry when you can patent absurdities like this.
... I don't think it'll be Telstra doing it. By the looks of it, the Australian Federal Government is going to sell Telstra whether or not it meets its 'bush coverage and standards' requirements (they'll fudge the figures to make it look like it has passed). A privatised Telstra will have no interest in the bush.
Over the next 12 months, Australia (or at least the main cities) is going to see many 802.11b ISPs set up shop. With Australia's low population density (making it expensive to have cables running to every home) and Telstra's reluctance to provide even semi-decent infrastructure, I think this sort of thing will be the future of Australian telecommunications.
In the end, this should be a good thing, since competition will be greater. Compared to a cable-based (telephone, fibre optic, etc.) market, there are far fewer barriers to enter a wireless market (the hardest part is getting a spectrum license). Scores of smaller companies will enter, and we will no longer be as subject to a predatory, uncompetitive monopolist (read: Telstra) as we are now. Only time will tell if that situation will last, though.
I'm pinning my hopes on ultrawide broadband (UWB) communications. Bob Cringely wrote earlier this year that it has the potential to be simultaneously ultra-fast, secure and frequency-neutral (i.e. since it uses the whole spectrum, a virtually unlimited number of UWB signals can be running concurrently). The only problem is the range (about 1km, I believe), but 802.11b has this problem, too.
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I hope they fight. Everyone's gotten all friendly and cosy over the years that things are getting boring. Even Jonas (an alien) is being accepted now. I put ten bucks on Jonas to kick Daniel's butt. Not only is he "a quick study" (damn I hate it when he says that), he also has raging pectorals (which the makers like to remind us of by always giving him tight t-shirts). He should win, assuming that Daniel hasn't acquired any eery powers from beyond the grave.
This is a great way for geeks that are too fat for Dance Dance Revolution to get some exercise. All without having to get off the couch, too.
But Mike Moore isn't blaming all white men, he's only blaming stupid white men. They're stupid people who just happen to be white. On the other hand, they could be white people who just happen to be stupid :)
You'll probably understand things a little better if you read this article first. It explains the supposed "hoax" that is referred to in the NYT story.
Sure it can deflect asteroids and comets, but if it can't even heat my TV dinner what use is it? No, deflecting a comet onto my frozen dinner tray isn't an adequate answer.
Could be a great device if I didn't have to reach behind my computer every time I wanted to plug it in or pull it out. Now that's annoying! I hope it comes with a USB extension lead.
"LCD" isn't an acronym, it is an abbreviation. That is, unless you pronounce the letters as if they formed a word (which would sound pretty retarded if you ask me).
I can't say I've ever had the pleasure of playing those games. The closest games to those that I've played would probably be Sid Meyer's Colonisation, Gold of the Americas and Wing Commander Privateer. Colonisation isn't really a pirate game (it's similar to Sid Meyer's earlier game, Civilisation), but you can play it like one. Gold of the Americas is similar, but lesser known: your aim is to settle the New World and build up colonies. Privateer is mostly a space combat game based around privateers.
Yes, I've had that before. I like double-meanings (especially when they involve pr0n), so I decided to keep it that way :)
It was ten years ago, and I was ten years old at the time (memories, particularly childhood memories, can easily become warped over time), but I'm pretty sure it was entirely based in Southeast Asia. The game was fairly simple (being written in BASIC), and I think all you could own was a ship (besides the goods you traded). You could buy upgrades (cannon, armour, etc.) to fend off pirates and you could upgrade your ship, but I think that was all you could do.
It's funny you mention Italy, though, since one of my Taipan mods was based around Italian ports. I was learning Italian in school at the time, and I found that this made it much more fun.
...Taipan, a game where you ran a trading vessel in the South China Sea. It ran on my primary school's old Microbee computers (yay!). It was written in BASIC, so myself and my friends would go through the source and change all the items and places. In my game, you travelled to ports like Manilla and traded whores. Aaah, fifth grade! I wish I could go back...
Soon they'll also be blocking shipping ports, including the Panama Canal. I've never heard of a country blockading itself before.
...and in related news tonight, the government of Panama has decided to block the Panama Canal. Apparently, they are 'concerned' about contact with the outside world, and they want to stop this threat to their national sovereignty immediately.
I'm quite partial to the Australian system (although I may be biased since I'm Australian). It is a variation on the simplistic British 'first-past-the-post' system. Basically, you number each candidate in the order you prefer, with #1 being your favourite candidate. When the votes are counted, they first tally all the #1 votes. If after that nobody has a clear majority (50% of the vote plus one), they count the #2 votes and add them to the #1 tallies. They keep doing that until someone gets a majority.
What I like about this system is that you are not tying yourself to one candidate. Your vote won't be wasted if you vote #1 for a minority candidate, since if they don't win your next preferences may count. This also means that you're not necessarily guaranteed a win if you're in one of the larger parties.
In the end (generally), you don't get an electorate that's split between people who did and didn't vote for the winner. Since everybody's preferences are taken into account, you get a decent compromise.
Which old BSD?
The wicked BSD!
Ding Dong the BSD is deaaaad!
Wake up, sleeping process.
Rub your eyes,
Get out of bed.
Wake up the wicked BSD is deaaaad!
It's gone where the daemons go,
Below, below, below
Yo ho,
Let's open up and sing!
And ring the (system) bells out!
Don't take me seriously, I quite like BSD. Remember, "Wicked" can mean two different things :)
A true emulator duplicates the hardware as well as the software. WINE still relies on the host CPU's instruction set, so it is not a true emulator. If you ran, say, MacOS on an x86 CPU, that would be emulation, since you would have to duplicate the instruction set of a PPC.
Because IE is full of bugs and holes. It's probably the most insecure piece of software on the planet. And since MS were dumb enough to tie IE in with the OS, an IE hole can threaten your whole system. Use it at your own risk...
That's all fine and dandy, but if it doesn't even read 8-track what use does it have? ;)
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If you have the money, you can claim anything as your own.
But no matter what the flaw is, there will be somebody that is attracted to it: "ooh that little tail really turns me on!"
Why don't you ask Captain Kirk? He's Canadian, right? I think Scotty's Canadian, too.
... I don't think it'll be Telstra doing it. By the looks of it, the Australian Federal Government is going to sell Telstra whether or not it meets its 'bush coverage and standards' requirements (they'll fudge the figures to make it look like it has passed). A privatised Telstra will have no interest in the bush.
Over the next 12 months, Australia (or at least the main cities) is going to see many 802.11b ISPs set up shop. With Australia's low population density (making it expensive to have cables running to every home) and Telstra's reluctance to provide even semi-decent infrastructure, I think this sort of thing will be the future of Australian telecommunications.
In the end, this should be a good thing, since competition will be greater. Compared to a cable-based (telephone, fibre optic, etc.) market, there are far fewer barriers to enter a wireless market (the hardest part is getting a spectrum license). Scores of smaller companies will enter, and we will no longer be as subject to a predatory, uncompetitive monopolist (read: Telstra) as we are now. Only time will tell if that situation will last, though.
I'm pinning my hopes on ultrawide broadband (UWB) communications. Bob Cringely wrote earlier this year that it has the potential to be simultaneously ultra-fast, secure and frequency-neutral (i.e. since it uses the whole spectrum, a virtually unlimited number of UWB signals can be running concurrently). The only problem is the range (about 1km, I believe), but 802.11b has this problem, too.
Yeah, it's called putting a PC in another room and accessing it via vnc/ssh. You won't hear a thing.