ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE.
This sentence here to avoid the stupid filters.
I was looking at those images and for some reason they just didn't look right to me. If you browse down the page a bit, you'll see that not only was the moon "processed" into the image. Essentially the entire "earth" and Jupiter images were "processed" as well.
Why does Jupiter look so big in that picture? Did anyone catch what magnification that picture was taken at? Jupiter was behind the earth, and a long ways away, why does it still look so big?
Looks like the server puked under the load, hopefully they'll come back up soon.
Which of course suggests that this will always occur. The bad guys just capture it intact and keep the motor running. Or else just break into the network...before anyone screams 'cryptographically secure' it's always humans who do these things. And the U.S. in particular has a bad record of its people selling it out, heck the head of the FBI counterintelligence unit was a spy. The #1 intelligence adviser on Cuba was a spy for the Cubans. Lonetree, Ames, the Walkers, ad nauseum.
I saw a quote from a game maker on this...he said something to the effect of, "We have to be really careful with testing the console versions of our games, because if something goes wrong we can't just issue a patch to fix it like we can the PC version."
IN other words, it's been a really long time since you upgraded the kernel.
Uptime isn't a fetish. It's great but uptime for the sake of uptime is just silly. Especially on a box with zero load, you're just wasting cash on electricity.
So a careful look at the record indicates that the USA and USSR were the same? The American system and the Communist system could hardly be more different. I was merely disagreeing with you before; now I can safely dismiss you as a total crank.
Which "Webster's"? Webster's is not a copyrighted term, so any dictionary maker can use it in their title. Virtually every American dictionary ever made is called Webster's something.
I wish I had done that...for a long time ('93 on) I had a wonderfully obscure nickname on the internet. Nobody knew about it except scholars of Tolkien. Then, that goddamn Middle-Earth MTG card game came out, and all the sudden everyone and their dog knows the real names of the five Istari. Fuck fucking card games. Fuck MTG. Fuck comic book geeks, too, for good measure.
It should also be worth mentioning that the Soviet forces in the DDR and Ukraine drilled for months rehearsing an invasion of Poland. The Soviets should have repeated Prague, too, because the Solidarity movement was the hole in the dike of Communism that eventually led to the whole system coming apart. Of course, Reagan gave the whole thing a few blows with a wrecking ball to help the process along.
It's just funny how the antinuclear faction in Europe never spoke a whisper against the Soviet short-range missiles in the DDR, and yet came out by the thousands against the logical American response to the Soviet deployment of these weapons. It almost makes you think they actually wanted to become Communist...nah, that's crazy talk. Europeans were never that insane. I mean, heck, the Communist parties in Europe fell apart after the Soviet Union saw the error of its ways and dissolved itself.
Uh, no direct hostilities between the USSR and USA? Are you nuts? Ever heard of that NATO alliance, in which an attack on one is an attack on all? What about the thousands of U.S. bases in Europe? I suppose they just would have waved to the oncoming Soviets.
Man, you're really out out touch. It's France and Germany that are out of touch with the rest of Europe, not the other way around. Their power is waning, they don't like it one bit, and they just wanted to show off to the world that they're not irrelevant any more. Doesn't even matter in the long run, as Europe will culuturally cease to exist in about another 100 years due to unstoppable demographic trends.
Hello jjl. My name is Dr. Sbaitso. I am here to help you. Say whatever is in your mind freely, our conversation will be kept in strict confidence. Memory contents will be wiped off after you leave. So, tell me about your problems.
Ha! Ha! You say you can't understand! You have revealed yourself to be one of the underclass, the lower minds, the kitsch! You are expelled from the coffeehouse forever!
Everyone knows that when presented with an inexplicable piece of "art", one must immediately feign understanding, lest he be lumped with the great mass of society who can't understand either. You are, of course, better than the rest of society, yes? And if you can't "understand" art exhibitions, you might as well be an animal or a redneck or a cracker! If you don't want to be one of those, make up an explanation of why you think this artwork is deep and immensely thoughtful. And better yet, publish this opinion where others can see it, so that ye may better be recognized at parties as the guy who understood the piece of art that nobody else could appreciate!
You'll have to forgive me, I get confused by all those tiny European countries whose security has been guaranteed by the U.S. Isn't Finland the European country that freely allied itself with Nazi Germany? Or maybe they're the ones who surrendered after a few weeks' resistance...maybe that was Belgium or Denmark or France or the Netherlands or Greece. I'm sorry, I received an American public school education, please excuse me if I learned my facts wrong.
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I'll call Scott McNealy and let him know a slashdot reader has some problems with the decisions he's been making lately.
How else are you going to be able to say, "Hey, there's my house!"
This sentence here to avoid the stupid filters. I was looking at those images and for some reason they just didn't look right to me. If you browse down the page a bit, you'll see that not only was the moon "processed" into the image. Essentially the entire "earth" and Jupiter images were "processed" as well. Why does Jupiter look so big in that picture? Did anyone catch what magnification that picture was taken at? Jupiter was behind the earth, and a long ways away, why does it still look so big? Looks like the server puked under the load, hopefully they'll come back up soon.
YHBT. YHL. HAND.
Which of course suggests that this will always occur. The bad guys just capture it intact and keep the motor running. Or else just break into the network...before anyone screams 'cryptographically secure' it's always humans who do these things. And the U.S. in particular has a bad record of its people selling it out, heck the head of the FBI counterintelligence unit was a spy. The #1 intelligence adviser on Cuba was a spy for the Cubans. Lonetree, Ames, the Walkers, ad nauseum.
Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my gun.
No surprise, there.
Man, talk about the cure being worse than the disease. I'd rather have mice than a house that smelled like cat piss.
Get real, boy. Nintendo is for playing games. Unix is for getting work done.
-01? That's the first one they came out with! 'Tis not my opinion, 'tis a fact.
I saw a quote from a game maker on this...he said something to the effect of, "We have to be really careful with testing the console versions of our games, because if something goes wrong we can't just issue a patch to fix it like we can the PC version."
Uptime isn't a fetish. It's great but uptime for the sake of uptime is just silly. Especially on a box with zero load, you're just wasting cash on electricity.
So a careful look at the record indicates that the USA and USSR were the same? The American system and the Communist system could hardly be more different. I was merely disagreeing with you before; now I can safely dismiss you as a total crank.
Which "Webster's"? Webster's is not a copyrighted term, so any dictionary maker can use it in their title. Virtually every American dictionary ever made is called Webster's something.
If you deprecate in here, you'll clean it up.
A worse villain, huh? Great. Thanks.
I wish I had done that...for a long time ('93 on) I had a wonderfully obscure nickname on the internet. Nobody knew about it except scholars of Tolkien. Then, that goddamn Middle-Earth MTG card game came out, and all the sudden everyone and their dog knows the real names of the five Istari. Fuck fucking card games. Fuck MTG. Fuck comic book geeks, too, for good measure.
Oh, wait, I did.
It should also be worth mentioning that the Soviet forces in the DDR and Ukraine drilled for months rehearsing an invasion of Poland. The Soviets should have repeated Prague, too, because the Solidarity movement was the hole in the dike of Communism that eventually led to the whole system coming apart. Of course, Reagan gave the whole thing a few blows with a wrecking ball to help the process along.
It's just funny how the antinuclear faction in Europe never spoke a whisper against the Soviet short-range missiles in the DDR, and yet came out by the thousands against the logical American response to the Soviet deployment of these weapons. It almost makes you think they actually wanted to become Communist...nah, that's crazy talk. Europeans were never that insane. I mean, heck, the Communist parties in Europe fell apart after the Soviet Union saw the error of its ways and dissolved itself.
Warning! Opera isn't free software.
Man, you're really out out touch. It's France and Germany that are out of touch with the rest of Europe, not the other way around. Their power is waning, they don't like it one bit, and they just wanted to show off to the world that they're not irrelevant any more. Doesn't even matter in the long run, as Europe will culuturally cease to exist in about another 100 years due to unstoppable demographic trends.
Hello jjl. My name is Dr. Sbaitso. I am here to help you. Say whatever is in your mind freely, our conversation will be kept in strict confidence. Memory contents will be wiped off after you leave. So, tell me about your problems.
Everyone knows that when presented with an inexplicable piece of "art", one must immediately feign understanding, lest he be lumped with the great mass of society who can't understand either. You are, of course, better than the rest of society, yes? And if you can't "understand" art exhibitions, you might as well be an animal or a redneck or a cracker! If you don't want to be one of those, make up an explanation of why you think this artwork is deep and immensely thoughtful. And better yet, publish this opinion where others can see it, so that ye may better be recognized at parties as the guy who understood the piece of art that nobody else could appreciate!
You'll have to forgive me, I get confused by all those tiny European countries whose security has been guaranteed by the U.S. Isn't Finland the European country that freely allied itself with Nazi Germany? Or maybe they're the ones who surrendered after a few weeks' resistance...maybe that was Belgium or Denmark or France or the Netherlands or Greece. I'm sorry, I received an American public school education, please excuse me if I learned my facts wrong.