Oh I agree that the 1000 foot flight is more impressive. I was simply speculating on Pearse's reasons for apparently ceding the "pioneer" title to the Wrights through his own statements.
Could it be simply that Pearse didn't feel his achievment counted as real flight at the time
I imagine this might be because from the descriptions on the web site referenced, not a single flight ended in the craft being flight worthy. "Stuck in a gorse hedge" and "engine overheated and lost power" don't sound as if the plane could be taken back up into the air.
Now I might be incorrect (and this being Slashdot, I'm sure someone will correct me if am), but I don't believe the Wright Flier ended the "Historic" flight in a crash, or a forced landing. Perhaps that's why Pearse himself makes a distinction.
P4 1.7s and 2 year old graphics cards are just GREAT for Quake and the like. I play Quake3 weekly on such a system. The Nvidia card is slightly newer, but not much, and I'm playing at 1600x1200. Even with a GeForce2 for instance, I would expect excellent gameplay, if at a slightly lower resolution.
NeverWinter Nights works very well on the same system. There's lots of options.
I can remember working the Christmas shift and playing Warcraft many years ago on much lesser systems (albeit on Windows back then)
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Application vendors are dropping support for SCO right and left, so really, the level of hardware support is irrelevant.
I find it hard to believe that any company that has made the dire mistake of tying themselves so closely to SCO as a platform would not be actively investigating any possible option to remove themselves from any involvement at all with a clearly doomed company.
Their product is worthless, and their user base is so miniscule as to make it counter productive to expend the cash required to qualify product against SCO.
And the more that happens, the worse it will get for those who persist.
What good is an OS distribution when no one makes applications for it anymore, and those that did DROP support for it completely, because it's cheaper to lose a miniscule number of customers than to spend time and money supporting the OS they use?
Yea. Also, since I work for a competitor to EMC (and I had hoped WE would buy VMWare) I will now have to stop using it in my test suites and move to VirtualPC, for which Unix and Linux support could "accidentally" break at any time.
I have, last weekend on a dirt road. I'm riding back with my buddy, and this kid pulls out of his driveway in front of us without looking, and proceeds to slow down at every intersection (we're already around 20 mph max). He then makes another turn without looking, and in the middle of a turn pulls out a cell phone and starts talking. Not a headset, a fucking handset.
So now this moron is operating a road bike on a dirt road with one hand. Based on his attention to what he was doing, I give him no more than 15 minutes after we passed him before he ate tree, signpost, or truck.
Well then you should have disassembled the Nazi RA's Panzer and re-assembled it in his dorm room./RealGenius: Moles and Trolls. Moles and Trolls. Work Work Work Work Work.
AFAIK, that's the official install procedure for Mac. I run Gentoo on my gaming box (apart from when I'm forced to run XP... and no, zealots, I won't refrain from playing a game I want just because it's not available on Linux) but I have an iBook as my work-issued laptop and I'll have to try there to see what happens.
Thank YOU! I've recently re-discovered NWN once I discovered it would (and does) run wonderfully on my Gentoo box. I'll wait until the Linux binaries are available before I buy the expansion, just so Atari's market-research weasels get the "point".
The NwN team, of course, has been fantastic in their Linux support. I'm not thrilled that the editor isn't available on Linux, but it's more the fault of lying tool publishers than it is theirs...
Probably because they owned the name/concept, and it's easier to establish a new series on that basis.
It's also possible that the creative folks involved sincerely intended to make an homage to the original. Considering the "proportional-to-the-era" T&A involved, I find that quite likely;)
I didn't consider the original "utter crap" at the time, but on seeing it again as an adult, I question why I liked it as much as I did, a little anyhow.
I may be in the minority, but I actually think (having read the leaked script) that this will be a pretty good "re-imagining". Remember that the original exhibited exactly as much "T & A" as was acceptable on broadcast TV circa 1977-78. If Glen Larson made the series himself today (and if he wasn't a Mormon) I'd imagine he'd make pretty much what SciFi is giving us.
I'm interested to see what they do with it, if it progresses beyond the mini-series, given that they've lost the contrived psudeo-mormon mythos of the original.
I'd like to see what a similar re-work of Space:1999 would be like, considering how much of that concept would have to be thrown out. (at least in that case they would have to change the name;) )
I imagine he accidentally left HTML enabled as his default post type. if you don't do
manually with that set, it all runs together.
I've done that on occasion, usually with shorter posts. Now I rarely use HTML on Slashdot.
Nowhere does it warn you that runons are possible with HTML here, HTML-like posting on other sites isn't quite so braindead as to require manual line breaks. (yea yea preview whateva).
Anyhow, it was an interesting post, text formatting notwithstanding.
It would be very easy to conclude that Broadjump is spyware based on this information. At the very least it is detrimental to the customer, and harmful to the performance of the customer's property (computer).
That's kind of what I read into it as well. Also, I figure if they have to tell their support techs NOT to do something so clueful, the techs must actually have a reasonable amount of technical experience, as opposed to just reading scripts from a stock "make-the-customer-get-off-the-phone" book, like some companies.
Not really happy that Dell misunderstands the real problem of spyware, but I have more confidence that if a family member should have to call them for support (other than spyware problems), that the tech they talk to will actually know what he or she is talking about.
Viewers evidentally skip at least 2/3 of commercials anyhow. The Tivo (or ReplayTV) statistics simply make people more aware of that fact.
I know that before I got my ReplayTV, I didn't sit in rapt attention during every commercial break.
Even WITH the Replay, I see enough of a given commercial to know if it applies to something I'm interested in buying, ir is in any way entertaining. I tend to watch a commercial if its of use to me.
Maxi-pad commercials and FTD Florist shilling, I skip.
I did it before Replay, I'll continue to do it.
No one's business model is being destroyed here.
Nothing has changed to any appreciable degree. People are able to make more efficent use of their TV watching time, and still get exposed to commercials. They just don't have to waste time on commercials that would NEVER RESULT IN A SALE ANYHOW.
I'm sorry, your reply really didn't make any logical sense. Were you drunk?
I didn't imply that all parents after say 30 years ago were bad, I merely pointed out that in that timespan the "not my fault", "failure makes little johnny feel bad"* and worst of all "it take a village to raise a child"** mindsets seem to have reduced the number of fit parents.
All of us are somehow now expected to make sacrifices so that Joe and Jane Too-fucking-busy-to-raise-their-hellspawn can have fulfilling careers without the guilt or ostrisization that used to take place when their child turned out to be a wortless piece of shit.
I see you got modded as funny. I hope that's what you were trying for, because it really wasn't all that coherent, much less funny...
* Failure is supposed to make you feel bad. If it didn't, people would have no incentive to NOT fail, to NOT be assholes, and to improve themselves.
** It doesn't take a fucking village. It takes parents that take the job of parenting seriously, and not as a chore that some hired servant or government servant should do for them
Hard drive manufacturers send a letter reading "Good luck buying hard disks for your computers" together with a statue of a hand flipping the bird to the county government.
Fuck Political Correctness sideways with a bandsaw.
I think the key here is that it does work for some, and doesn't for others. I would be less productive giving up my office for a communal space.
Several years ago, my entire department abandoned the communal space idea (except for some few people working on a few features that benefited from it) in favor of 1 or 2 person offices. Our productivity is much better, and has been for several years.
Something that management at the companies that are completely eliminating personal space based on short term studies need to remember is a study a couple years ago that almost ANY change in work environment will improve productivity, for a short time.
Changes (small ones) in light level, ambient sound, wall color, and desk facing were shown to improve productivity, but within a few months it returned to prior levels.
Fortunately, for the moment, management at my company is more reasonable (helps that we don't have an artificially interpereted productivity problem to begin with, I suppose)
As an aside, I'm amused by the children spouting "good! fire them, more room for me!"
I know I wouldn't want to work in an open office space, with no cover, knowing there were hundreds of disgruntled, anti-social nerds out there with nothing to do...nerds that had been fired from the job that I was doing... nosir, I wouldn't feel comfortable in that position at all... talk about Karma...
[OT] I tip my hat to you, sir. Why is it so hard for people to understand that?
[cue 10000 liberal zombies earnestly explaining to me why I should pay more taxes and having the economy go to hell is a good thing because we should all feel guilty and suffer for being born into a great and successful country, when there are millions around the globe suffering because they don't have the common sense to NOT reproduce when they can't even feed themselves]
"If anything the girl should be grateful that the RIAA is willing to drop the charges for a paltry $3,500. "
Oh Bullshit.
She should be grateful that they reduced it to something near actual damages?
THey should be held in contempt of court if they attempt to press the $165 million value. THat much damage has not been done by all the piracy in the world.
You have to cost a sale to cost damage.
I don't buy music at all anymore. I have enough already.
God help anyone who tells me I have to buy a new copy for my car jukebox though. I don't share, and I don't surrender my fair use rights to anyone.
and I think anyone who would sue a child for that much money, or would think that, given the facts would actually think it justified are scumbags, plain and simple.
Actually, people who push to far and are so sociopathic as to think that suing children is a good idea are what make people go nuts and go postal.
Injustice in abuse of the system, with no appreciable penalty to the offender is what makes people go "postal".
Yea, the kid needs to be punished. Threatening a $165 million lawsuit to get $3500 out of her is the act of a lowlife piece of shit.
I could see where say, this kids father say, might accidentally run over a family member or twelve of an RIAA officer. It wouldn't be right, but I could see it happening. Pushing people too far is just not good business.
I think it's a sign that some people might have had just about enough of this shit.
Myself, I'm too lazy, but I could see it happening.
I certainly think that it's a good thing to give a thought to the "Never cost anyone more than it would cost to have you killed " doctrine of the Old West.
Not intentionally pissing people off is a good rule of thumb. Suing children for more money than most basketball players make tends to piss people off.
She's not _stealing_ from anyone. She's infringing their copyright.
That is not theft. No matter what the RIAA wants you to believe. Theft is a Criminal act. Copyright infringement is a Civil act. That's why they're suing her and not throwing her in prison.
Her violation is not worth $165 million. Anyone who suggests that it is is a fucking idiot.
That doesn't make it worth $100 million. Absolutely nothing about this case is Reasonable. The RIAA is trying to shore up a broken business model the same as SCO is. I hope the same horrible fate of starvation and social exile awaits them both.
Peer to Peer swapping is stupid, but suing a child for over a hundred million is just insane. And unethical. I hope karma bites them in the ass as hard as anyone has ever been bitten. Entire families at the RIAA being wiped out by inherited stomach cancer would be just fine with me.
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Oh I agree that the 1000 foot flight is more impressive. I was simply speculating on Pearse's reasons for apparently ceding the "pioneer" title to the Wrights through his own statements.
I suppose we'll never REALLY know.
Could it be simply that Pearse didn't feel his achievment counted as real flight at the time
I imagine this might be because from the descriptions on the web site referenced, not a single flight ended in the craft being flight worthy. "Stuck in a gorse hedge" and "engine overheated and lost power" don't sound as if the plane could be taken back up into the air.
Now I might be incorrect (and this being Slashdot, I'm sure someone will correct me if am), but I don't believe the Wright Flier ended the "Historic" flight in a crash, or a forced landing. Perhaps that's why Pearse himself makes a distinction.
P4 1.7s and 2 year old graphics cards are just GREAT for Quake and the like. I play Quake3 weekly on such a system. The Nvidia card is slightly newer, but not much, and I'm playing at 1600x1200. Even with a GeForce2 for instance, I would expect excellent gameplay, if at a slightly lower resolution.
NeverWinter Nights works very well on the same system. There's lots of options.
I can remember working the Christmas shift and playing Warcraft many years ago on much lesser systems (albeit on Windows back then)
Application vendors are dropping support for SCO right and left, so really, the level of hardware support is irrelevant.
I find it hard to believe that any company that has made the dire mistake of tying themselves so closely to SCO as a platform would not be actively investigating any possible option to remove themselves from any involvement at all with a clearly doomed company.
Their product is worthless, and their user base is so miniscule as to make it counter productive to expend the cash required to qualify product against SCO.
And the more that happens, the worse it will get for those who persist.
What good is an OS distribution when no one makes applications for it anymore, and those that did DROP support for it completely, because it's cheaper to lose a miniscule number of customers than to spend time and money supporting the OS they use?
Yea. Also, since I work for a competitor to EMC (and I had hoped WE would buy VMWare) I will now have to stop using it in my test suites and move to VirtualPC, for which Unix and Linux support could "accidentally" break at any time.
Damnit.
I have, last weekend on a dirt road. I'm riding back with my buddy, and this kid pulls out of his driveway in front of us without looking, and proceeds to slow down at every intersection (we're already around 20 mph max). He then makes another turn without looking, and in the middle of a turn pulls out a cell phone and starts talking. Not a headset, a fucking handset.
So now this moron is operating a road bike on a dirt road with one hand. Based on his attention to what he was doing, I give him no more than 15 minutes after we passed him before he ate tree, signpost, or truck.
Well then you should have disassembled the Nazi RA's Panzer and re-assembled it in his dorm room. /RealGenius: Moles and Trolls. Moles and Trolls. Work Work Work Work Work.
AFAIK, that's the official install procedure for Mac. I run Gentoo on my gaming box (apart from when I'm forced to run XP... and no, zealots, I won't refrain from playing a game I want just because it's not available on Linux) but I have an iBook as my work-issued laptop and I'll have to try there to see what happens.
Thank YOU! I've recently re-discovered NWN once I discovered it would (and does) run wonderfully on my Gentoo box. I'll wait until the Linux binaries are available before I buy the expansion, just so Atari's market-research weasels get the "point".
The NwN team, of course, has been fantastic in their Linux support. I'm not thrilled that the editor isn't available on Linux, but it's more the fault of lying tool publishers than it is theirs...
Probably because they owned the name/concept, and it's easier to establish a new series on that basis.
;)
It's also possible that the creative folks involved sincerely intended to make an homage to the original. Considering the "proportional-to-the-era" T&A involved, I find that quite likely
I didn't consider the original "utter crap" at the time, but on seeing it again as an adult, I question why I liked it as much as I did, a little anyhow.
I definitely want a Viper too.
;) )
I may be in the minority, but I actually think (having read the leaked script) that this will be a pretty good "re-imagining". Remember that the original exhibited exactly as much "T & A" as was acceptable on broadcast TV circa 1977-78. If Glen Larson made the series himself today (and if he wasn't a Mormon) I'd imagine he'd make pretty much what SciFi is giving us.
I'm interested to see what they do with it, if it progresses beyond the mini-series, given that they've lost the contrived psudeo-mormon mythos of the original.
I'd like to see what a similar re-work of Space:1999 would be like, considering how much of that concept would have to be thrown out. (at least in that case they would have to change the name
I imagine he accidentally left HTML enabled as his default post type. if you don't do
manually with that set, it all runs together.
I've done that on occasion, usually with shorter posts. Now I rarely use HTML on Slashdot.
Nowhere does it warn you that runons are possible with HTML here, HTML-like posting on other sites isn't quite so braindead as to require manual line breaks. (yea yea preview whateva).
Anyhow, it was an interesting post, text formatting notwithstanding.
a quick search on "broadjump spyware" on Google turns up links such as
o pl e/200203/msg00013.html
http://lists.elistx.com/archives/interesting-pe
It would be very easy to conclude that Broadjump is spyware based on this information. At the very least it is detrimental to the customer, and harmful to the performance of the customer's property (computer).
That's kind of what I read into it as well. Also, I figure if they have to tell their support techs NOT to do something so clueful, the techs must actually have a reasonable amount of technical experience, as opposed to just reading scripts from a stock "make-the-customer-get-off-the-phone" book, like some companies.
Not really happy that Dell misunderstands the real problem of spyware, but I have more confidence that if a family member should have to call them for support (other than spyware problems), that the tech they talk to will actually know what he or she is talking about.
Besides,
Viewers evidentally skip at least 2/3 of commercials anyhow. The Tivo (or ReplayTV) statistics simply make people more aware of that fact.
I know that before I got my ReplayTV, I didn't sit in rapt attention during every commercial break.
Even WITH the Replay, I see enough of a given commercial to know if it applies to something I'm interested in buying, ir is in any way entertaining. I tend to watch a commercial if its of use to me.
Maxi-pad commercials and FTD Florist shilling, I skip.
I did it before Replay, I'll continue to do it.
No one's business model is being destroyed here.
Nothing has changed to any appreciable degree. People are able to make more efficent use of their TV watching time, and still get exposed to commercials. They just don't have to waste time on commercials that would NEVER RESULT IN A SALE ANYHOW.
I'm sorry, your reply really didn't make any logical sense. Were you drunk?
I didn't imply that all parents after say 30 years ago were bad, I merely pointed out that in that timespan the "not my fault", "failure makes little johnny feel bad"* and worst of all "it take a village to raise a child"** mindsets seem to have reduced the number of fit parents.
All of us are somehow now expected to make sacrifices so that Joe and Jane Too-fucking-busy-to-raise-their-hellspawn can have fulfilling careers without the guilt or ostrisization that used to take place when their child turned out to be a wortless piece of shit.
I see you got modded as funny. I hope that's what you were trying for, because it really wasn't all that coherent, much less funny...
* Failure is supposed to make you feel bad. If it didn't, people would have no incentive to NOT fail, to NOT be assholes, and to improve themselves.
** It doesn't take a fucking village. It takes parents that take the job of parenting seriously, and not as a chore that some hired servant or government servant should do for them
Clueless parents should already be blamed directly for having reprobate kids do stupid things.
Parents: It's no one else's job to raise your kid. You REALLY don't want the government doing it.
In response to the inevitable flood of "that's not a fair statement" and "you obviously don't have kids or you'd understand..."
It's very simple. If you don't have time to raise them properly. DONT HAVE THEM.
That seemed to work pretty good 30 years ago. Then the "not my fault" and "failure makes little johnny feel bad" crowd started passing idiotic laws.
Blame the little monsters' Parents. They're the fuckups.
Hard drive manufacturers send a letter reading "Good luck buying hard disks for your computers" together with a statue of a hand flipping the bird to the county government.
Fuck Political Correctness sideways with a bandsaw.
I think the key here is that it does work for some, and doesn't for others. I would be less productive giving up my office for a communal space.
Several years ago, my entire department abandoned the communal space idea (except for some few people working on a few features that benefited from it) in favor of 1 or 2 person offices. Our productivity is much better, and has been for several years.
Something that management at the companies that are completely eliminating personal space based on short term studies need to remember is a study a couple years ago that almost ANY change in work environment will improve productivity, for a short time.
Changes (small ones) in light level, ambient sound, wall color, and desk facing were shown to improve productivity, but within a few months it returned to prior levels.
Fortunately, for the moment, management at my company is more reasonable (helps that we don't have an artificially interpereted productivity problem to begin with, I suppose)
As an aside, I'm amused by the children spouting "good! fire them, more room for me!"
I know I wouldn't want to work in an open office space, with no cover, knowing there were hundreds of disgruntled, anti-social nerds out there with nothing to do...nerds that had been fired from the job that I was doing... nosir, I wouldn't feel comfortable in that position at all... talk about Karma...
[OT] I tip my hat to you, sir. Why is it so hard for people to understand that?
[cue 10000 liberal zombies earnestly explaining to me why I should pay more taxes and having the economy go to hell is a good thing because we should all feel guilty and suffer for being born into a great and successful country, when there are millions around the globe suffering because they don't have the common sense to NOT reproduce when they can't even feed themselves]
"If anything the girl should be grateful that the RIAA is willing to drop the charges for a paltry $3,500. "
Oh Bullshit.
She should be grateful that they reduced it to something near actual damages?
THey should be held in contempt of court if they attempt to press the $165 million value. THat much damage has not been done by all the piracy in the world.
You have to cost a sale to cost damage.
I don't buy music at all anymore. I have enough already.
God help anyone who tells me I have to buy a new copy for my car jukebox though. I don't share, and I don't surrender my fair use rights to anyone.
and I think anyone who would sue a child for that much money, or would think that, given the facts would actually think it justified are scumbags, plain and simple.
Just because it's legal doesn't make it right.
Actually, people who push to far and are so sociopathic as to think that suing children is a good idea are what make people go nuts and go postal.
Injustice in abuse of the system, with no appreciable penalty to the offender is what makes people go "postal".
Yea, the kid needs to be punished. Threatening a $165 million lawsuit to get $3500 out of her is the act of a lowlife piece of shit.
I could see where say, this kids father say, might accidentally run over a family member or twelve of an RIAA officer. It wouldn't be right, but I could see it happening. Pushing people too far is just not good business.
I think it's a sign that some people might have had just about enough of this shit.
Myself, I'm too lazy, but I could see it happening.
I certainly think that it's a good thing to give a thought to the "Never cost anyone more than it would cost to have you killed " doctrine of the Old West.
Not intentionally pissing people off is a good rule of thumb. Suing children for more money than most basketball players make tends to piss people off.
Not a course of action I would make, myself...
She's not _stealing_ from anyone. She's infringing their copyright.
That is not theft. No matter what the RIAA wants you to believe. Theft is a Criminal act. Copyright infringement is a Civil act. That's why they're suing her and not throwing her in prison.
Her violation is not worth $165 million. Anyone who suggests that it is is a fucking idiot.
That doesn't make it worth $100 million. Absolutely nothing about this case is Reasonable. The RIAA is trying to shore up a broken business model the same as SCO is. I hope the same horrible fate of starvation and social exile awaits them both.
Peer to Peer swapping is stupid, but suing a child for over a hundred million is just insane. And unethical. I hope karma bites them in the ass as hard as anyone has ever been bitten. Entire families at the RIAA being wiped out by inherited stomach cancer would be just fine with me.
Scumbags. Plain and simple.