LegoQuake would be fun - just you and hordes of evil but tiny yellow plastic people! Reminds me of BarneyDooM - now there was an enemy that deserved the rocket launcher.
British Empire [snip] they're also the cause of the India/Pakistan conflict. Both situations were caused by the exact same thing, poor border designs by the British Empire.
The British did not want to partition India. The Indians didn't want to partition India either. The only people who wanted partition were Muslim rabble rousers who wanted there own country in the NW of British India. Gandhi and the British both knew that partition would be a disaster and so it proved. The original massacres occured in the Punjab and Rajastan and were down to having to draw a line somewhere and the impossibility of avoiding splitting populations.
The current mess in Kashmir had little to do with the British. The only input the British had here was in letting the rulers of the nominally independent princely states decide which country to join. Ususally this was an easy decision but Hyderabad (Muslim ruler in the Hindu heartland) and Kashmir (other way round) dithered. India eventually overthrew the Nizam of Hyderabad and likewise Pakistan invaded Kashmir. That would have been that if the Pakistani army had actually seized control quickly but they were too busy looting, raping and pillaging and gave the Indians time to respond to the Maharajah's plea for help leaving the world with the mess we have now.
No script kiddy will actually know how to use the bloody thing.
Heh true! VMS command line is deeply weird - I wonder how long the kiddies would take to figure out how to change directories?
set def [-] for cd.. set def [.mysubdir] for cd mysubdir
It should also be mentioned that VMS is one hell of a stable and secure OS - far better than VMSlite for sure.
I didn't know they could appear anywhere on the screen. I've never seen them outside the bottom strip, myself, even when translating signs. I suppose that just means they don't usually bother.
I've got a Dr. Who DVD (Ark in Space) that placed some subtitles on the top of the screen when they would otherwise have obscured the action.
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Yes I have. There are many Kurosawa remakes - Yojimbo and A Fistful of Dollars being a very literal transplantation from Japan to the Wild West. Kurosawa also goes the other way borrowing from Shakespeare's Macbeth with 'Throne of Blood'
Of course going from ancient Japan to futuristic (OK it's a long time ago far far away and all that but you know what I mean) outer space is going to change things a bit more but as another respondant says it is still a story about the master samurai and his sword at heart. Also don't forget that the Kurosawa original even has the equivalent of the C3P0 and R2-D2 characters so there is more than a passing resemblance - though I will, of course, admit to it not being a scene for scene remake!
Who is going to be motivated to work on software that they can probably never run themselves?
But they could install Linux on the air traffic control system, run TuxRacer in the 1337 round green screen radar display and tell slashdot all about it.
I have to wonder why there was no failsafe system to bring online while they were "upgrading"...
They did - that's why the planes kept flying albeit at a reduced rate. Anyway it was still a major cock-up and I just hope it doesn't happen again at the start of June (long weekend so half the country will be flying out).
Indeed, 3.3 is nothing to talk about considering the Richter scale is logarithmic. The British band Madness managed to record 4.5 on the Richter scale with their 1992 reunion concert!
There's an easy way out of inheritance tax in the UK. Simply become the monarch then you will never be troubled by this insidious tax again.
Seriously though you are right, inheritance tax only taxes those whose relatives die unexpectedly. Anyone with anything worth inheriting will have made sure that they've given it to the intended recipients years before they die thus avoiding the tax.
Ok here's a scenario:
Bug in software causes craft to explode shortly after take-off a la Ariane 5 but unlike the real Ariane 5 the debris lands on a populated area.
Also unmanned launches may be carrying payloads with nuclear reactors - the Voyagers for example - and you wouldn't want one of them to be in your exploding launch vehicle.
if only we could just get the mpeg-4 people to pull their heads out of their asses and stop killing their own format with stupid licensing bullshit, then we could just forget about the sorensen codec and people would start using mpeg-4 instead.
And what company is doing the most to try and extract crania from recta and is actively criticising the broken MPEG-4 licence?
I don't think there's been a single example of an online petition having an effect. Please provide examples if I'm mistaken.
Well there's always the Information wants to be wide petiton - that has been quite successful for IE users. Of course in this case both bases are covered here and the Narrow Information for Life petiton isn't doing so well!
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LegoQuake would be fun - just you and hordes of evil but tiny yellow plastic people! Reminds me of BarneyDooM - now there was an enemy that deserved the rocket launcher.
British Empire [snip] they're also the cause of the India/Pakistan conflict. Both situations were caused by the exact same thing, poor border designs by the British Empire.
The British did not want to partition India. The Indians didn't want to partition India either. The only people who wanted partition were Muslim rabble rousers who wanted there own country in the NW of British India. Gandhi and the British both knew that partition would be a disaster and so it proved. The original massacres occured in the Punjab and Rajastan and were down to having to draw a line somewhere and the impossibility of avoiding splitting populations.
The current mess in Kashmir had little to do with the British. The only input the British had here was in letting the rulers of the nominally independent princely states decide which country to join. Ususally this was an easy decision but Hyderabad (Muslim ruler in the Hindu heartland) and Kashmir (other way round) dithered. India eventually overthrew the Nizam of Hyderabad and likewise Pakistan invaded Kashmir. That would have been that if the Pakistani army had actually seized control quickly but they were too busy looting, raping and pillaging and gave the Indians time to respond to the Maharajah's plea for help leaving the world with the mess we have now.
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No script kiddy will actually know how to use the bloody thing.
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Heh true! VMS command line is deeply weird - I wonder how long the kiddies would take to figure out how to change directories?
set def [-] for cd
set def [.mysubdir] for cd mysubdir
It should also be mentioned that VMS is one hell of a stable and secure OS - far better than VMSlite for sure.
I think you'll find that BMW are the ones who have a hydrogen powered car.
I guess most publishing is done using XFree86 systems because of its renowned font handling superiority. :/
I didn't know they could appear anywhere on the screen. I've never seen them outside the bottom strip, myself, even when translating signs. I suppose that just means they don't usually bother.
I've got a Dr. Who DVD (Ark in Space) that placed some subtitles on the top of the screen when they would otherwise have obscured the action.
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Have you *seen* The Hidden Fortress?!?
Yes I have. There are many Kurosawa remakes - Yojimbo and A Fistful of Dollars being a very literal transplantation from Japan to the Wild West. Kurosawa also goes the other way borrowing from Shakespeare's Macbeth with 'Throne of Blood'
Of course going from ancient Japan to futuristic (OK it's a long time ago far far away and all that but you know what I mean) outer space is going to change things a bit more but as another respondant says it is still a story about the master samurai and his sword at heart. Also don't forget that the Kurosawa original even has the equivalent of the C3P0 and R2-D2 characters so there is more than a passing resemblance - though I will, of course, admit to it not being a scene for scene remake!
You're almost there - Star Wars is in fact a remake of Akira Kurosawa's Kakushi toride no san akunin (1958) ('The Hidden Fortress' in English) as George Lucas has acknowleged.
Is this an indication of:
Linux is dying
Nobody cares about Linux point releases
Half the posts in this thread are 'BSD is dying'
People are more interested in BSD than Linux
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Who is going to be motivated to work on software that they can probably never run themselves?
But they could install Linux on the air traffic control system, run TuxRacer in the 1337 round green screen radar display and tell slashdot all about it.
Will he Ask Slashdot in a last resort?
No he'll post a clueless request to comp.sys.airtrafficcontrol get flamed by the regulars and receive no help whatsoever.
I have to wonder why there was no failsafe system to bring online while they were "upgrading"...
They did - that's why the planes kept flying albeit at a reduced rate. Anyway it was still a major cock-up and I just hope it doesn't happen again at the start of June (long weekend so half the country will be flying out).
You pay for Internet Explorer when you pay for Windows.
What if you're running IE on MacOS?
Too bad Matrox cards don't play with Macs - nVidia GeForce 4 Ti for me them.
PS Frist P0st
A bad UNIX shell script was to blame for the iTunes installer. It only went wrong if you named your drives in a certain way:
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HardDrive
HardDrive Tunez
I install iTunes on 'HardDrive Tunez' and the script runs:
rm -rf HardDrive Tunez/path/to/old/iTunes/stuff
Ooops! No quotes
Indeed, 3.3 is nothing to talk about considering the Richter scale is logarithmic. The British band Madness managed to record 4.5 on the Richter scale with their 1992 reunion concert!
There's an easy way out of inheritance tax in the UK. Simply become the monarch then you will never be troubled by this insidious tax again.
Seriously though you are right, inheritance tax only taxes those whose relatives die unexpectedly. Anyone with anything worth inheriting will have made sure that they've given it to the intended recipients years before they die thus avoiding the tax.
Perhaps BMW think that Mac owners occupy a similar demographic in that they are prepared to pay a bit more for the experience?
My VW directs air away from the windscreen (regardless of setting) until it is sufficiently de-humidified. Those Germans do know how to build cars.
Ok here's a scenario: Bug in software causes craft to explode shortly after take-off a la Ariane 5 but unlike the real Ariane 5 the debris lands on a populated area.
Also unmanned launches may be carrying payloads with nuclear reactors - the Voyagers for example - and you wouldn't want one of them to be in your exploding launch vehicle.
if only we could just get the mpeg-4 people to pull their heads out of their asses and stop killing their own format with stupid licensing bullshit, then we could just forget about the sorensen codec and people would start using mpeg-4 instead.
And what company is doing the most to try and extract crania from recta and is actively criticising the broken MPEG-4 licence?
Maybe the kind of jackass who takes the renowned and humourus troll PhysicsGenius seriously and then is stupid enough to write about it?
Too bad the moderators didn't get the joke though.
I don't think there's been a single example of an online petition having an effect. Please provide examples if I'm mistaken.
Well there's always the Information wants to be wide petiton - that has been quite successful for IE users. Of course in this case both bases are covered here and the Narrow Information for Life petiton isn't doing so well!