Well, I saw Avatar in IMAX and the whole thing was a series of Holy Christ Almighty moments. Saw it in the 3D regular cinema and it was about that good again. Amazing and unforgettable.
So I plunked down extra cash for Tron2 in 3d last week, and literally lost the whole 3D feeling halfway through the movie. Lightcycles - couldn't tell. Cora? still couldn't tell. I don't know what I lost, if I'll ever get it back, or if James Cameron can find it again for me.
I sure hope so because I want want WANT Avatar all over again.
That satellite's anti-missile technology is as dead and unresponsive as the rest of that bird. This is simple target practice. Blow the hydrazine tank, try to break the mirror and open up all the aluminum to expose PCBs. Should be fun to watch, and people will be watching and waiting with telescopes to see the results. Cool!
This is a similar tale as what became of ASE. You'd think someone at Yahoo might start acting like they give a shit about the customers of the companies they buy. But apparently, they just slate these acquisitions for outright destruction, and for what? Maybe if we destroy enough good apps, the stock price will finally go up again? Has Master Control Program taken control over there?
You think "Congress" back in 2001, when they passed the "Help America Vote Act", might have commissioned some study of the topic, instead of just passing the bill as written by the voting machine lobbyists. But, no. It seems very much like that bunch of idiots and corporate mouthpieces cared very little about the actual effect of their so-called law. God forbid they ask someone with any sense to look into the topic, particularly a useless public servant at NIST who just needs to be downsized anyway.
What a complete fucking waste the last 5 years have been, in *so many* ways.
What you just said is completely wrong, according to the link you provided.
The U.S. LANDSCAPE is a carbon sink. The U.S. is a carbon sink if you DON'T count any human activity. The U.S. landscape has the capability to reabsorb ~15% of our emissions, a capability that continues to be reduced (according to the link). The other 85% is a bonus for the atmosphere, oceans, and warming arctic to try to assimilate.
Though you toss out red herrings, you certainly are nice to provide a link that debunks them immediately!
"If you were somebody who made your living in television, but didn't understand anything about it, you would likewise be taking a great risk. You might, for instance, look like a big idiot when you show up to work at your anchor desk wearing a horizontally pinstriped shirt (which looks like ass on TV because of the Moire effect between the lines on the shirt and the TV scanlines). If you had understood the technology a little better, you might not have done that. That's a trivial example -- undoubtedly if you were a TV anchor, you'd learn or be told at some point not to wear a shirt like that without having to learn about scanlines -- but I hope you see my point."
Back in the 70s-80s, it was always funny to see the weatherman sporting a tie with any blue on it, because suddenly you could see through his body to the weather map behind him. When I was 8, I'd always watch Flip Spiceland do the weather just for the trippy effects.
Continuing on that thread: I know what a Linux system is (or a GNU/Linux system), but what is a Linux System?
"As according to the Yankee Group SCO OpenServer products still outbeat Linux' yearly uptime by about 20 percent, world Leading companies should still consider to upgrade to SCO's UnixWare and OpenServer series."
They have summer interns writing these releases, right? Outbeat isn't a word. "world Leading" companies? "consider to upgrade" ?
Rather, I think they have an 8th grader in their shop. "I outbeat you on that UT2K4 swerver bizzitchizzzz!!!"
You are so blatantly and screamingly wrong on all three points... 1) There is an inordinate amount of evidence from observation and simulation that atmospheric composition and temperature are very closely related. 2) It is a global problem if you look at glaciers anywhere *anywhere* on the planet and observe them galloping into the seas or turning into ponds and disappearing altogether. Snow and ice provide water to billions of people. HELLO?!?! 3) Increasing efficiency, sequestering carbon, and sucking up a 30% reduction in energy output to properly sequester that carbon is all do-able and basically critical for the human race to continue operating in harmony on this planet. I don't buy your "We'll all be dead, the human race is just insignificant" argument, because you obviously don't care about the future. FUTURISTS DO CARE and want to not fuck up the cradle of humanity before we might possibly get off this rock. Just because you can't imagine a future, it doesn't give you carte-blanche to screw my vision when you clearly can live happily without doing so. I actually do care about what the planet is like for humans in 200+ years, or 2000+ years, though you may not be able to get your brain around that fact.
If glaciers threaten to run over Denmark, I am all about pumping up CO2. Crank it up! I am sure you would be for that. So lets have some mutual respect.
"Gambling Commission Director Rick Day and Prentice, who sponsored the legislation, said the law is necessary, partly to protect the gamblers themselves."
Not sure getting 5 years for losing 100 bucks to an offshore fly-by-night operation will make me feel very protected.
Just follow the money on this one. This guy's in charge of making sure the state gets their cut. This is EXACTLY like getting 5 years for buying merchandise out of state and not paying state sales taxes.
The companies waited 5 days before even starting to try to tell us the story was false.
With carefully worded statements that avoid coming out and saying what the AT&T case already shows, that the NSA has built snooping into the phone system. Verizon came out and said that "the NSA program" is highly classified and so it can't comment on it. BUT we are not giving them phone records. OK, what ARE you giving them?
I'd give about as much creedence to these denials as Enron saying they aren't manipulating the energy market in California.
The NSA was not created for the White House to wield as a secret, 100-billion-dollar/year, investigative tool for hunting down individuals who leak the illegal activities of said White House to the press.
Coal is as greenhouse neutral as any other method of digging and burning/reacting if you sequester the carbon. And I don't mean by growing trees around the plant, I mean deep injection. The CO2 can pretty readily be fixed into carbonates that aren';t going anywhere. The yield of energy is less becaause some of the energy you release in burning has to be used in the injection. But, its not that much more expensive than solar.
If power is "cheap" anymore, its because its bad for the environment. Consumers are sucking up a doubling in gasoline and natural gas prices just fine. We're living proof. We can pay more for power that sequesters carbon, and gets us over the hump to truely renewable.
I reject nuclear out of sanity concerns, not environmental.
"There have been times in the planet's past (within the last 100,000) years where the climate was MUCH warmer with much higher concentrations of C02."
That is an outright lie. CO2 concentrations have never been as high as they are now, according to the best knowledge we have of the timeline we have measured so far.
The "oh" in CO2 is Oxygen by the way, not a fn zero.
Scintillation is a regular ionospheric phenomenon that occurs at sharp plasma boundaries. These develop under strong subauroral polarization streams or equatorial spread-F. Happens all the time and no wonder the milsats go into a low datarate mode when the effects are detected. The mode you are describing is very likely not for what you think.
I have a 9800pro and a nice machine that has played absolutely every other game I've ever thrown at it. The game barfs and pukes all over itself when trying to load.
The problem probably is that I am running Win2K and there are some bugs that have not been caught because the game was developed for only one platform : XP.
Quake runs on Linux and is rock solid for a reason. Bugs you don't catch on one platform can express themselves on another.
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How is Amazon going to prevent someone from sharing out their username and password?
If you pay for 100 GB of space, Amazon is going to have your credit card sitting in that account ready to rip. That's one clear disincentive.
Only new accounts with 5 GB of free space would work for this. Not exactly ripe for abuse, but who knows.
Well, I saw Avatar in IMAX and the whole thing was a series of Holy Christ Almighty moments. Saw it in the 3D regular cinema and it was about that good again. Amazing and unforgettable.
So I plunked down extra cash for Tron2 in 3d last week, and literally lost the whole 3D feeling halfway through the movie. Lightcycles - couldn't tell. Cora? still couldn't tell. I don't know what I lost, if I'll ever get it back, or if James Cameron can find it again for me.
I sure hope so because I want want WANT Avatar all over again.
Exactly, you beat me to it!
That satellite's anti-missile technology is as dead and unresponsive as the rest of that bird. This is simple target practice. Blow the hydrazine tank, try to break the mirror and open up all the aluminum to expose PCBs. Should be fun to watch, and people will be watching and waiting with telescopes to see the results. Cool!
This is a similar tale as what became of ASE. You'd think someone at Yahoo might start acting like they give a shit about the customers of the companies they buy. But apparently, they just slate these acquisitions for outright destruction, and for what? Maybe if we destroy enough good apps, the stock price will finally go up again? Has Master Control Program taken control over there?
You think "Congress" back in 2001, when they passed the "Help America Vote Act", might have commissioned some study of the topic, instead of just passing the bill as written by the voting machine lobbyists. But, no. It seems very much like that bunch of idiots and corporate mouthpieces cared very little about the actual effect of their so-called law. God forbid they ask someone with any sense to look into the topic, particularly a useless public servant at NIST who just needs to be downsized anyway.
What a complete fucking waste the last 5 years have been, in *so many* ways.
What you just said is completely wrong, according to the link you provided.
The U.S. LANDSCAPE is a carbon sink. The U.S. is a carbon sink if you DON'T count any human activity. The U.S. landscape has the capability to reabsorb ~15% of our emissions, a capability that continues to be reduced (according to the link). The other 85% is a bonus for the atmosphere, oceans, and warming arctic to try to assimilate.
Though you toss out red herrings, you certainly are nice to provide a link that debunks them immediately!
"If you were somebody who made your living in television, but didn't understand anything about it, you would likewise be taking a great risk. You might, for instance, look like a big idiot when you show up to work at your anchor desk wearing a horizontally pinstriped shirt (which looks like ass on TV because of the Moire effect between the lines on the shirt and the TV scanlines). If you had understood the technology a little better, you might not have done that. That's a trivial example -- undoubtedly if you were a TV anchor, you'd learn or be told at some point not to wear a shirt like that without having to learn about scanlines -- but I hope you see my point."
Back in the 70s-80s, it was always funny to see the weatherman sporting a tie with any blue on it, because suddenly you could see through his body to the weather map behind him. When I was 8, I'd always watch Flip Spiceland do the weather just for the trippy effects.
Continuing on that thread: I know what a Linux system is (or a GNU/Linux system), but what is a Linux System?
"As according to the Yankee Group SCO OpenServer products still outbeat Linux' yearly uptime by about 20 percent, world Leading companies should still consider to upgrade to SCO's UnixWare and OpenServer series."
They have summer interns writing these releases, right? Outbeat isn't a word. "world Leading" companies? "consider to upgrade" ?
Rather, I think they have an 8th grader in their shop. "I outbeat you on that UT2K4 swerver bizzitchizzzz!!!"
You are so blatantly and screamingly wrong on all three points...
1) There is an inordinate amount of evidence from observation and simulation that atmospheric composition and temperature are very closely related.
2) It is a global problem if you look at glaciers anywhere *anywhere* on the planet and observe them galloping into the seas or turning into ponds and disappearing altogether. Snow and ice provide water to billions of people. HELLO?!?!
3) Increasing efficiency, sequestering carbon, and sucking up a 30% reduction in energy output to properly sequester that carbon is all do-able and basically critical for the human race to continue operating in harmony on this planet. I don't buy your "We'll all be dead, the human race is just insignificant" argument, because you obviously don't care about the future. FUTURISTS DO CARE and want to not fuck up the cradle of humanity before we might possibly get off this rock. Just because you can't imagine a future, it doesn't give you carte-blanche to screw my vision when you clearly can live happily without doing so. I actually do care about what the planet is like for humans in 200+ years, or 2000+ years, though you may not be able to get your brain around that fact.
If glaciers threaten to run over Denmark, I am all about pumping up CO2. Crank it up! I am sure you would be for that. So lets have some mutual respect.
You seem to be a nice, random example of someone who's brain has gone utterly and irretrievably authoritarian.
You ask "What is wrong with getting 5 years in jail for not paying sales taxes on items ordered over the internet"
Now I understand where these maniacal laws come from, people like you!
"Gambling Commission Director Rick Day and Prentice, who sponsored the legislation, said the law is necessary, partly to protect the gamblers themselves."
Not sure getting 5 years for losing 100 bucks to an offshore fly-by-night operation will make me feel very protected.
Just follow the money on this one. This guy's in charge of making sure the state gets their cut. This is EXACTLY like getting 5 years for buying merchandise out of state and not paying state sales taxes.
" If this is true, it would be the first time intel made anything better than amd. "
Clearly you never got to play with a K6.
The companies waited 5 days before even starting to try to tell us the story was false.
With carefully worded statements that avoid coming out and saying what the AT&T case already shows, that the NSA has built snooping into the phone system. Verizon came out and said that "the NSA program" is highly classified and so it can't comment on it. BUT we are not giving them phone records. OK, what ARE you giving them?
I'd give about as much creedence to these denials as Enron saying they aren't manipulating the energy market in California.
Errr, I thought, the guy's resigned a second time?
No, indeed, it is not news. The 2005 date of the article is even embedded in the link. Halooooo Slashdot!!!
The NSA was not created for the White House to wield as a secret, 100-billion-dollar/year, investigative tool for hunting down individuals who leak the illegal activities of said White House to the press.
Get a giant, fucking, clue, would you?
big hand here
Took a working Athlon XP 2600+ to 3200+ speeds for a few weeks with aggressive cooling. One day, the machine simply wouldn't boot.
It does happen.
But, these good times won't last long. If we don't get some help soon... the reentry show is going to make Mir look like a mere meteor.
Does is have enough juice to put a pound of bacon into the asteroid belt?
Coal is as greenhouse neutral as any other method of digging and burning/reacting if you sequester the carbon. And I don't mean by growing trees around the plant, I mean deep injection. The CO2 can pretty readily be fixed into carbonates that aren';t going anywhere. The yield of energy is less becaause some of the energy you release in burning has to be used in the injection. But, its not that much more expensive than solar.
If power is "cheap" anymore, its because its bad for the environment. Consumers are sucking up a doubling in gasoline and natural gas prices just fine. We're living proof. We can pay more for power that sequesters carbon, and gets us over the hump to truely renewable.
I reject nuclear out of sanity concerns, not environmental.
"There have been times in the planet's past (within the last 100,000) years where the climate was MUCH warmer with much higher concentrations of C02."
That is an outright lie. CO2 concentrations have never been as high as they are now, according to the best knowledge we have of the timeline we have measured so far.
The "oh" in CO2 is Oxygen by the way, not a fn zero.
Scintillation is a regular ionospheric phenomenon that occurs at sharp plasma boundaries. These develop under strong subauroral polarization streams or equatorial spread-F. Happens all the time and no wonder the milsats go into a low datarate mode when the effects are detected. The mode you are describing is very likely not for what you think.
Gone from Amazon's site, but Newegg took my order. Hot!
I have a 9800pro and a nice machine that has played absolutely every other game I've ever thrown at it. The game barfs and pukes all over itself when trying to load.
The problem probably is that I am running Win2K and there are some bugs that have not been caught because the game was developed for only one platform : XP.
Quake runs on Linux and is rock solid for a reason. Bugs you don't catch on one platform can express themselves on another.
Dittos here. The game simply won't play, patches or no.