There are some rather cool elements to the setting. It was one of the first time I'd seen a space elevator in print.
One more point: Don't just watch the Anime, the Manga goes in to so much more detail--we actually get to see what life is like in the flying city. The ending is bizarre and a half, but that's not uncommon for manga.
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PBS is in the middle. After every show they take a moment to thank their sponsers (which feels a lot like an ad sometimes), but you don't get car commercials and the like. All in all, it is far less annoying than regular TV though. It's also great when they get British/Canadian sitcoms and then have to stick a weird musical number or short documentary at the end to fill in the time.
There's another reason that some people (like me) go for the CD-crack. It turns out that Safedisc (or whatever the popular one is that 1/2 of the publisher seem to use) doesn't work on my DVD/CDRW combo laptop drive (stupid Dell OEM part). Any game that uses that will refuse to start on my machine (some will pop up abusive dialog boxes telling me that piracy is ruining the country). This is very frustrating when you've actually bought the game.
Thus far, only Blizzard's tech support was willing to work with me. They issued a patched version that seems to work on my machine. Everyone else just stuck me in the "pirate" category and forced me to either find a no-cd crack or return the game.
It's a shame that I spent all of that time getting Warcraft 3 to work, only to discover that it wasn't much fun to play.
I call BS on games refusing to run if Nero or a CD burner is installed. Both of those are installed in far too many systems (a great many OEM systems come with burners these days) to be practical. Your helpdesk would be absolutely flooded with people who bought legitimate copies of the game.
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I know they say it is ballasted to avoid tipping over, but man, that thing looks like a sail.
It also looks like one of those cartoons where the thin people have thin cars and fat people have fat cars (regular cars in this case). I sure hope the rollcage is as good as they say it is, because I just know I'd be T-Boned in one of those.
Reading comprehension isn't a strong suit of yours is it? The problem isn't that they used an industry standard application, it's that they pirated it.
And we didn't have one of those fancy keyboard things neither! We had to toggle in our moves on the front panel switches! You Whippersnappers don't know what fun is! *grumble*grumble*
Most of the blanket condemnations about how difficult it is to read Perl regular expressions comes from people who don't really know how to read them (at least in my experiance). If you know how they work and the (fairly limited) keywords it is pretty easy to tell what any normal Regular expression is doing. There are ways to obfuscate a regular expression, but in general they're a lot more straightforward than the code around them.
Um, that was my point. Larry Wall could have chosen a different syntax (as he has done somewhat with the Perl 6 expressions), but instead he chose the keystroke efficent but hard to read version. It's not like there was a standards body forcing that syntax down his throat.
POSIX on the other hand ignored most of that historic syntax and instead chose their horribly bloated keyword syntax.
$24 for a gender bender? What was it? A "Monster Cable" gender bender with poly-bullshit technology? The local computer store here has them loose in a bin for $2 each!
Quick question, what sentiment were you trying to convey with this letter? Rightous indignation, or bat-shit insane?
Seriously, why did you even send this to the Gap people? They obviously aren't going to read it. You should have submitted it to your local school newspaper or something. At least the people reading it there might get a few of the references. I bet the SCA folks down the block would find it a hoot. Even a Sci-Fi club or other highly-nerdy organization would like it. The Gap corporate office however is not going to get past the first sentance.
I wonder how many of the people who are basically saying "Stop talking about this! It's over! You lost! There's nothing to see here!" would be saying the same thing if the results were reversed? People said the same thing in 2000 and as a result we never did get enough information to really determine if these arguments had any merit. I hope people don't stop short this year, I would like some closure on this myself.
Maybe Kerry (and any other person who might care) isn't making a big fuss because there isn't enough evidence to make a case yet. Seriously, I doubt anybody who had the ability to rig a national election would do it in a sloppy manner that was easy to detect (Dunno what happened in Ohio, that could be pure user error, although it's odd that the errors seem to favor Republicans in nearly every case). I suspect that if the vote was rigged that we will never get more than some statistical oddities out of it. Even when the same irregularities show up year after year, there isn't enough evidence to make a case out of it. Besides, it would take an act of Congress to get a real investigation going, and somehow I don't see that happening (not as long as these strange coincidences keep getting them elected).
College professors and other academics can point out the irregularities in the system all they want, they don't have the power to actually change anything (what are they going to do? Vote those jokers out? Ha!)
At this point I havn't seen anything like a smoking gun (don't expect to either), but I also have a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach that appeared right when it became obvious that yet again the exit polls (the primary measure of voting fraud in foreign countries) were skewed yet again this year (even with different people in charge!). Either 5% of the population have started systematically lying to exit pollsters (refusal rates havn't changed significantly), or there is something else odd happening.
Perl chose a keystroke-efficent syntax that makes them unreadable to anybody who doesn't know how to read them. It also made them very compact and easy to write for anybody who does know how to read them. They look very intimidating, but underneath they are usually easier to understand than the C like perl code surrounding it.
They are amazingly useful. Seriously, if you have never learned about Regular Expressions you owe yourself a lesson in how they work and what they do. I've seen people spend days working on stuff that can be written (more efficently!) in a regular expression in a matter of minutes. Pattern matching is the sort of thing that every general purpose language should have, it is a shame that the basic Regular Expression libraries that comes with most Unixes is such a piece of crap. Who wants to deal with the arcance invocation method, the extremely limited syntax, or the syntatic sugar like: "[[:digit:]]{2}:[[:space:]][[:space:]]*[[:alpha:]] *" when you could write "\d{2}:\s+\w*"?
The tough part is that the.torrent file is pretty small. Just about anybody can host it, in fact many.torrent files get hosted from several sources online just because they're so small and organizing them is so useful. ISPs have a much tougher time tracking down people who have.torrents hosted because they don't take up massive bandwidth the way they would if the people were hosting.avis or.mp3s directly.
If you really want to shut down a torrent you need to shut down the tracker. The tracker needs a fair bit of bandwith (noticable by ISPs) and is necessary for the whole thing to work. That said, trackers require an order of magnitude (or two) less bandwidth than people who host files directly, so even these guys can fall under the ISPs radar. Legal challenges can be spotty (some ISPs remove the files immediatly, others (in foreign countries) don't care), and suing the user is obviously not a viable option except as a way to extort money from 8 year old girls.
Typically it is highly reccomended that on Irix (dunno if they're running Irix or not, but it would make sense) you have a swap space at least as large as main memory (for crash dumps). That said, back in my SGI days we had a lot of machines with 4GB of RAM (this was several years ago) and 4GB disks (the vendor was stingy with the system disks). Since Irix required about a GB of disk back then (early 6.5 days) we only had room for 3GB of swap. This wasn't a huge problem because the OS was rarely taking up more than 3GB of memory when it crashed, and even when it was the undumpable data was rarely interesting.
Isn't this what Hamidon is supposed to be? As far as I know the current version of Hamidon has yet to be beaten on any server. You are right though that once you hit level 50 in CoH you're better off rolling an alt (preferably of a different archetype) and starting over.
I was a libertarian until I realized they were all a bunch of fat cat industrialists. The Libertarian party has a massive disconnect between its stated goals and the actual intentions of pretty much every major ranking member. Why oh why can't we get a third party candidate that isn't a complete and total nutcase?
I hate to tell you this, but nobody considers your livejournal rants "important communication". Email is still used for almost everything business related and that is not going to change any time soon.
Another factor is that the production cost of hardware is not fixed. The first few batches (even discounting development costs) are generally more expensive than the later batches as the component costs go down and the manufacturing is made more efficent. Look at how much the PS2 hardware has changed over the years, Sony is on what, the 11th revision of that hardware?
You actually went the Ni-Cad route? Man those batteries sucked. We tried to use them when I was a kid but they were always dying on me and always back in the charger. Fortunatly kids these days have NiMH batteries, and they rock. I've switched just about every high-drain device in my house over the NiMH now (only things like remote controls and smoke detectors still run on Alkalines). Even with an aftermarket light kit (Afterburner) on my GBA, it still lasts for hours and hours on a set of NiMHs. I havn't managed a good test of the time because it's too long between battery changes.
Careful, a lot of those burner claim to come with Nero or Roxio or whatever, but what they really come with is Nero Lite or Roxio Crippled edition or whatever. Sometimes it's not too bad (the version just can't be updated and only works with that particular burner), but other times the lite version is basically worthless (but for only $50 you can upgrade to the "full" version!).
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Wouldn't a Doom3 case mod just be painting the case brown/green and sticking it in an unlit closet?
There are some rather cool elements to the setting. It was one of the first time I'd seen a space elevator in print.
One more point: Don't just watch the Anime, the Manga goes in to so much more detail--we actually get to see what life is like in the flying city. The ending is bizarre and a half, but that's not uncommon for manga.
PBS is in the middle. After every show they take a moment to thank their sponsers (which feels a lot like an ad sometimes), but you don't get car commercials and the like. All in all, it is far less annoying than regular TV though. It's also great when they get British/Canadian sitcoms and then have to stick a weird musical number or short documentary at the end to fill in the time.
There's another reason that some people (like me) go for the CD-crack. It turns out that Safedisc (or whatever the popular one is that 1/2 of the publisher seem to use) doesn't work on my DVD/CDRW combo laptop drive (stupid Dell OEM part). Any game that uses that will refuse to start on my machine (some will pop up abusive dialog boxes telling me that piracy is ruining the country). This is very frustrating when you've actually bought the game.
Thus far, only Blizzard's tech support was willing to work with me. They issued a patched version that seems to work on my machine. Everyone else just stuck me in the "pirate" category and forced me to either find a no-cd crack or return the game.
It's a shame that I spent all of that time getting Warcraft 3 to work, only to discover that it wasn't much fun to play.
I call BS on games refusing to run if Nero or a CD burner is installed. Both of those are installed in far too many systems (a great many OEM systems come with burners these days) to be practical. Your helpdesk would be absolutely flooded with people who bought legitimate copies of the game.
I know they say it is ballasted to avoid tipping over, but man, that thing looks like a sail.
It also looks like one of those cartoons where the thin people have thin cars and fat people have fat cars (regular cars in this case). I sure hope the rollcage is as good as they say it is, because I just know I'd be T-Boned in one of those.
Reading comprehension isn't a strong suit of yours is it? The problem isn't that they used an industry standard application, it's that they pirated it.
And we didn't have one of those fancy keyboard things neither! We had to toggle in our moves on the front panel switches! You Whippersnappers don't know what fun is! *grumble*grumble*
Most of the blanket condemnations about how difficult it is to read Perl regular expressions comes from people who don't really know how to read them (at least in my experiance). If you know how they work and the (fairly limited) keywords it is pretty easy to tell what any normal Regular expression is doing. There are ways to obfuscate a regular expression, but in general they're a lot more straightforward than the code around them.
Um, that was my point. Larry Wall could have chosen a different syntax (as he has done somewhat with the Perl 6 expressions), but instead he chose the keystroke efficent but hard to read version. It's not like there was a standards body forcing that syntax down his throat.
POSIX on the other hand ignored most of that historic syntax and instead chose their horribly bloated keyword syntax.
$24 for a gender bender? What was it? A "Monster Cable" gender bender with poly-bullshit technology? The local computer store here has them loose in a bin for $2 each!
Quick question, what sentiment were you trying to convey with this letter? Rightous indignation, or bat-shit insane?
Seriously, why did you even send this to the Gap people? They obviously aren't going to read it. You should have submitted it to your local school newspaper or something. At least the people reading it there might get a few of the references. I bet the SCA folks down the block would find it a hoot. Even a Sci-Fi club or other highly-nerdy organization would like it. The Gap corporate office however is not going to get past the first sentance.
I wonder how many of the people who are basically saying "Stop talking about this! It's over! You lost! There's nothing to see here!" would be saying the same thing if the results were reversed? People said the same thing in 2000 and as a result we never did get enough information to really determine if these arguments had any merit. I hope people don't stop short this year, I would like some closure on this myself.
Maybe Kerry (and any other person who might care) isn't making a big fuss because there isn't enough evidence to make a case yet. Seriously, I doubt anybody who had the ability to rig a national election would do it in a sloppy manner that was easy to detect (Dunno what happened in Ohio, that could be pure user error, although it's odd that the errors seem to favor Republicans in nearly every case). I suspect that if the vote was rigged that we will never get more than some statistical oddities out of it. Even when the same irregularities show up year after year, there isn't enough evidence to make a case out of it. Besides, it would take an act of Congress to get a real investigation going, and somehow I don't see that happening (not as long as these strange coincidences keep getting them elected).
College professors and other academics can point out the irregularities in the system all they want, they don't have the power to actually change anything (what are they going to do? Vote those jokers out? Ha!)
At this point I havn't seen anything like a smoking gun (don't expect to either), but I also have a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach that appeared right when it became obvious that yet again the exit polls (the primary measure of voting fraud in foreign countries) were skewed yet again this year (even with different people in charge!). Either 5% of the population have started systematically lying to exit pollsters (refusal rates havn't changed significantly), or there is something else odd happening.
The tough part is that the .torrent file is pretty small. Just about anybody can host it, in fact many .torrent files get hosted from several sources online just because they're so small and organizing them is so useful. ISPs have a much tougher time tracking down people who have .torrents hosted because they don't take up massive bandwidth the way they would if the people were hosting .avis or .mp3s directly.
If you really want to shut down a torrent you need to shut down the tracker. The tracker needs a fair bit of bandwith (noticable by ISPs) and is necessary for the whole thing to work. That said, trackers require an order of magnitude (or two) less bandwidth than people who host files directly, so even these guys can fall under the ISPs radar. Legal challenges can be spotty (some ISPs remove the files immediatly, others (in foreign countries) don't care), and suing the user is obviously not a viable option except as a way to extort money from 8 year old girls.
Sounds like porn to me. XX/XY look like the two most familiar pairs of chromosomes and "Feel the Magic" has all sorts of porn implications.
Didn't this used to be called Social Engineering? One band does a stupid little prank and suddenly everybody uses their name.
Typically it is highly reccomended that on Irix (dunno if they're running Irix or not, but it would make sense) you have a swap space at least as large as main memory (for crash dumps). That said, back in my SGI days we had a lot of machines with 4GB of RAM (this was several years ago) and 4GB disks (the vendor was stingy with the system disks). Since Irix required about a GB of disk back then (early 6.5 days) we only had room for 3GB of swap. This wasn't a huge problem because the OS was rarely taking up more than 3GB of memory when it crashed, and even when it was the undumpable data was rarely interesting.
Isn't this what Hamidon is supposed to be? As far as I know the current version of Hamidon has yet to be beaten on any server. You are right though that once you hit level 50 in CoH you're better off rolling an alt (preferably of a different archetype) and starting over.
I was a libertarian until I realized they were all a bunch of fat cat industrialists. The Libertarian party has a massive disconnect between its stated goals and the actual intentions of pretty much every major ranking member. Why oh why can't we get a third party candidate that isn't a complete and total nutcase?
I hate to tell you this, but nobody considers your livejournal rants "important communication". Email is still used for almost everything business related and that is not going to change any time soon.
Another factor is that the production cost of hardware is not fixed. The first few batches (even discounting development costs) are generally more expensive than the later batches as the component costs go down and the manufacturing is made more efficent. Look at how much the PS2 hardware has changed over the years, Sony is on what, the 11th revision of that hardware?
You actually went the Ni-Cad route? Man those batteries sucked. We tried to use them when I was a kid but they were always dying on me and always back in the charger. Fortunatly kids these days have NiMH batteries, and they rock. I've switched just about every high-drain device in my house over the NiMH now (only things like remote controls and smoke detectors still run on Alkalines). Even with an aftermarket light kit (Afterburner) on my GBA, it still lasts for hours and hours on a set of NiMHs. I havn't managed a good test of the time because it's too long between battery changes.
Careful, a lot of those burner claim to come with Nero or Roxio or whatever, but what they really come with is Nero Lite or Roxio Crippled edition or whatever. Sometimes it's not too bad (the version just can't be updated and only works with that particular burner), but other times the lite version is basically worthless (but for only $50 you can upgrade to the "full" version!).