sure. the boy scouts keep out atheists, which is religious discrimination.
i dont see why a club shouldnt be able to demonstrate to the whole world that they are bigoted fuckwits. not that you didnt know that already about the boy scouts.
...and are probably the best price/performance on the market at the moment. You really pay a serious premium for intel hardware. Just because it costs >3x as much doesnt mean its >3x better...
I have two Tyan S2460's with dual 1200mhz Thunderbirds in each, rock solid in W2K and Linux, and excellent performers. They were also very cheap to build.
Maybe someone should do a review of budget Linux SMP setups...
and btw -- you can definitely tape-record a conversation as long as ONE of the parties involved gives their consent... this means the recipient of a call may record the conversation despite the objections of the caller. (otherwise, answering machines would be illegal... duh!)
wow. i cant believe that there's someone out there that feels the same way I do about ender's game..!
the whole book sucked pretty much. the situations were too forced, the characters much too shallow and cartoony, and the ending felt like a total cop-out. (I felt pretty much the same way about Clarke's 3001, btw)
a real book draws you in and forces you to think about what's going on. with ender's game i felt like i was being spoon-fed, yuck.
not all sites need oracle or postgresql, oracle is very resource hefty and expensive. the costs of oracle alone can tank a small business.
plus, mysql is very light. this means it is ideal for embedded systems and PDAs. there's no way anyone is going to shoehorn oracle into a zaurus. mysql runs fine though on it.
postgresql might be more feature-complete, but the community support for mysql is many times better.
advocate oracle and postgresql all you like, it doesnt matter. one size does not fit all.
what url did you go to? their website seems pretty empty to me. i couldnt find any list of maps.
I don't see this lasting, at least not with RTCW..
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Deathmatch for Dollars?
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· Score: 4, Interesting
I'm suprised ID let themselves get snared into this.
YPG servers are based out of the Netherlands Antilles, a haven for money laundering, major drug trafficking, and organized crime. A major problem for the Antilles at the moment is illegal internet gambling operations. Hosting servers there should raise suspicion immediately. Hell, doing almost anything in the Antilles should raise suspicion...
Other major problems -- RTCW does not have a FFA game mode, only team oriented game modes. This fits very poorly into a competetion model of you-frag-others-for-money.
Imagine how pissed off you're going to be when an idiot teammate does something stupid and costs you money!
Also, this will totally fuck up objective oriented games since players will be so worried with kill/death ratios (because deaths cost you money), that they will totally ignore teamplay (hell, *I* would!)
Quake3 or UT2k3 would be better choices -- not only do they have MUCH larger audiences, but they fit better into the competetion model they have, because Quake3 and UT2k3 have FFA game modes.
after having seen the series, i have to agree. it was much better than the first series.
where i would have given the first series a 3, i give this one a 7. it was FAR less amateurish this time around, probably because they got a real directory...
the casting was much better this time around too!
james mcavoy gave a very good performance of leto II... the actor for duncan was much better... a better jessica... a much better stilgar!
bijaz was spot on, exactly as i imagined him from the book... scytale was also very well cast...
and they lost the silly hats! hurrah!
now looking forward to god emperor of dune...
will the acting still be as flat as a pancake?
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Children Of Dune Tonight
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the first miniseries was AWFUL.
Every character was totally uninspiring and the acting was just... horrible (never to mention the odd accents getting in the way of everything).
Kyle MacLachlan can act the pants off this Alec Newman guy.
William Hurt is a normally a fine actor, but in the dune miniseries they had him as if he was permanently goosed up on nyquil or something.
Then the sets. Many of them were BLINDINGLY obviously sound stages, especially the desert scenes. It was very distracting.
The only thing distracting about the Lynch production was Duke Leto speaking into a socket wrench:-)
As jumbled as the Lynch dune production was, and despite how much it deviated from the book, it was easily a million times more enjoyable than the miniseries production.
Given all that, I guess they can hardly do worse than the first miniseries. Nowhere to go but up...
wont happen as long as people like bush hold positions of power. he's moving us toward more conservative views of sex, and rewarding those who abuse our trust.
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They have to report *everything* related to the case, no matter how small. It's up to the courts to decide what's relevant, not you.
/. has even less integrity than indymedia... and that is truly sad.
sure. the boy scouts keep out atheists, which is religious discrimination.
i dont see why a club shouldnt be able to demonstrate to the whole world that they are bigoted fuckwits. not that you didnt know that already about the boy scouts.
how exactly does darpa's money silence anyone? it didn't silence theo.
it's secure, and wietse isn't an arrogant asshole. hes quite pleasant actually.
This is just sooooo typical Theo. His ego gets in the way of common sense and he blows opportunities. This is just the latest example.
There is also a reason why people often lump TDR together with DJB and (sometimes) RMS.
I can only wonder what would happen when you get three persons - each an ego the massivenes of a neutron star - in the same room at the same time.
will it be plagued with the reliability problems of other microdrives though...?
...no news there...
Theres a reason i said budget Linux SMP :-)
PCI-X is $$$, not to mention not exactly a lot of cards for it yet. Not exactly for the budget minded Linux SMP'er.
I am unaware of any dual-memory-channel SMP chipsets at the moment...
...and are probably the best price/performance on the market at the moment. You really pay a serious premium for intel hardware. Just because it costs >3x as much doesnt mean its >3x better...
I have two Tyan S2460's with dual 1200mhz Thunderbirds in each, rock solid in W2K and Linux, and excellent performers. They were also very cheap to build.
Maybe someone should do a review of budget Linux SMP setups...
reproducing the email in its entirety may be infringing on copyright, but excerpts are fair use.
and it's sure as hell not illegal.
and btw -- you can definitely tape-record a conversation as long as ONE of the parties involved gives their consent... this means the recipient of a call may record the conversation despite the objections of the caller. (otherwise, answering machines would be illegal... duh!)
quit making up your own laws.
wow. i cant believe that there's someone out there that feels the same way I do about ender's game..!
the whole book sucked pretty much. the situations were too forced, the characters much too shallow and cartoony, and the ending felt like a total cop-out. (I felt pretty much the same way about Clarke's 3001, btw)
a real book draws you in and forces you to think about what's going on. with ender's game i felt like i was being spoon-fed, yuck.
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Well, I never wanted to buy their CDs in the first place... so thanks to DRM, i now have double the incentive not to buy their CDs... thanks!
not all sites need oracle or postgresql, oracle is very resource hefty and expensive. the costs of oracle alone can tank a small business.
plus, mysql is very light. this means it is ideal for embedded systems and PDAs. there's no way anyone is going to shoehorn oracle into a zaurus. mysql runs fine though on it.
postgresql might be more feature-complete, but the community support for mysql is many times better.
advocate oracle and postgresql all you like, it doesnt matter. one size does not fit all.
what url did you go to? their website seems pretty empty to me. i couldnt find any list of maps.
I'm suprised ID let themselves get snared into this.
YPG servers are based out of the Netherlands Antilles, a haven for money laundering, major drug trafficking, and organized crime. A major problem for the Antilles at the moment is illegal internet gambling operations. Hosting servers there should raise suspicion immediately. Hell, doing almost anything in the Antilles should raise suspicion...
Other major problems -- RTCW does not have a FFA game mode, only team oriented game modes. This fits very poorly into a competetion model of you-frag-others-for-money.
Imagine how pissed off you're going to be when an idiot teammate does something stupid and costs you money!
Also, this will totally fuck up objective oriented games since players will be so worried with kill/death ratios (because deaths cost you money), that they will totally ignore teamplay (hell, *I* would!)
Quake3 or UT2k3 would be better choices -- not only do they have MUCH larger audiences, but they fit better into the competetion model they have, because Quake3 and UT2k3 have FFA game modes.
after having seen the series, i have to agree. it was much better than the first series.
where i would have given the first series a 3, i give this one a 7. it was FAR less amateurish this time around, probably because they got a real directory...
the casting was much better this time around too!
james mcavoy gave a very good performance of leto II... the actor for duncan was much better... a better jessica... a much better stilgar!
bijaz was spot on, exactly as i imagined him from the book... scytale was also very well cast...
and they lost the silly hats! hurrah!
now looking forward to god emperor of dune...
the first miniseries was AWFUL.
:-)
Every character was totally uninspiring and the acting was just... horrible (never to mention the odd accents getting in the way of everything).
Kyle MacLachlan can act the pants off this Alec Newman guy.
William Hurt is a normally a fine actor, but in the dune miniseries they had him as if he was permanently goosed up on nyquil or something.
Then the sets. Many of them were BLINDINGLY obviously sound stages, especially the desert scenes. It was very distracting.
The only thing distracting about the Lynch production was Duke Leto speaking into a socket wrench
As jumbled as the Lynch dune production was, and despite how much it deviated from the book, it was easily a million times more enjoyable than the miniseries production.
Given all that, I guess they can hardly do worse than the first miniseries. Nowhere to go but up...
I remember them having an electron microscope for sale... :)
The capacitors as large as oil drums were cool...
Lots of cool "ooh, i want!" gadgets in the glass display cabinets near the entrance too.
wont happen as long as people like bush hold positions of power. he's moving us toward more conservative views of sex, and rewarding those who abuse our trust.
more often than not it goes in the wrong direction.
related to virtual/simulated child porn, which is one of the things the legislation is trying to ban.
the book rambled too much, and wandered aimlessly a lot. the pseudo-religion was also a bit too weird for me.