RSI is just psychological? Thank goodness. I can tell my mother that the surgery she had on her right hand back in the 70's for RSI was just the result of the trendiness of the IT industry 25 years later.
How about Saturn's moon Titan? Nice thick atmosphere to protect against meteorites and radiation. Granted, it's a bit far away, even thinking in terms of space, and making the atmosphere breathable might be rather tricky compared to Mars.
As much as I love Linux and as much as I'm sick of *BSD zealots badmouthing the evil GPL, based purely on security, OpenBSD would be a better choice than Linux for something as critical as a stock exchange. Linux (properly administered) may be great, but OpenBSD (properly administered) is fantastic. The Bugtraq vulnerability database shows around two dozen exploits for OpenBSD in the past three years. Not a bad track record.
Ever see Star Trek 3? There's a scene in the movie in a bar where these two people are playing a 3D dogfighting game. That's what came to mind when reading your post.
This is a troll, but I'll bite anyway. Right now, the Canadian government cares far more about freedom than the US government.
Point one, the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission (our equivalent of the FCC) has already decided not to touch the Internet in any way, so we don't have any (even attemped) censorship of the net.
Two, what banning of books? Give some examples.
Three, those Human Rights commissions are part of the reason why most Canadian businesses can't completely screw over their workers. As for being taxpayer funded, WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK WE PAY TAXES FOR? We pay taxes to the governments so that they can help us, the citizens! That's the whole fucking point of having a government! The Human Rights tribunals *have* to be as independant as possible from politics, otherwise corruption seeps in.
Four, there is no political repression of the media. Quite the opposite, in fact. Politicians up here *dare* *not* *cross* the media. The politicians may resent the media, but they simply can't touch the media. If a Canadian politician had called a member of the media a "major league asshole" he'd be cleaning his desk out within a week. Rule one in being an elected official up here is "don't piss off reporters".
Five, immigrants aren't selected based on race. They're selected based on education and personal wealth. Political refugees have to have fairly convincing proof that their lives are in danger if they return to their country of origin. If they feel that the Immigration Board was biased, they can always appeal to the government directly. See point four if you don't think the politicians will care about some poor, innocent repressed refugee.
And it's not "speach", it's "speech", you illiterate hick. Didn't you ever go to school?
Yes, but Dark Forces, Jedi Knight, X-Wing, TIE Fighter, X-Wing Versus TIE Fighter and X-Wing Alliance make up for all of those. Pod Racer was amusing, if a little too simplistic, and the PSX fighting game Masters Of Teras Kasi was fun as hell.
But you're right about those games you mentioned. They really did suck... On the whole, though, I'd argue that Lucasfilm is batting a little better than Paramount.
Ever play a PSX fighting game called "Dead Or Alive"? It must be seen to be believed. *grin* The sequel, creatively called "Dead Or Alive 2" is available on Dreamcast, and DOA2: Hardcore Edition (No, I am not making these up) will be on the PS2. I think you'll be rather pleased by the... umm... impressive polygons and attention to detail.
True. Also, if your old TV dies and you don't want to have to pay ~$200 bucks for a little 13-inch, you can buy a little $60 TV tuner for your 17" monitor. Some of us don't have a few hundred dollars to throw around on a whim... Plus, it's just too cool to be able to capture video clips of Gran Turismo 2 replays and setting it to music in personalStudio on BeOS.:)
On, and the obligatory on-topic comment: Not everyone needs to run KDE or GNOME, folks. Some of us get along fine with just X, WDM and a lightweight, stable WM such as WindowMaker.
I've used XFce (not "Xfce":) ) and have found that it's installation script is a tad arrogant if you're running XDM or WDM and use multiple WM's. It overwrites a lot of home directory files when it sets itself up. It's easy enough to fix, but it's still annoying. On the plus side, it's a very stable WM and it's very lightweight in terms of disk space, memory and CPU. I just hope the developers resist the urge to add bloat...
That's exactly the point I'm making about the N64 controller's layout. It may be comfortable, but no game can use all the buttons because their positions are too far apart. Maybe I've just got weird hands, but I find the PSX controller much more comfortable and practical. A pity, too. I absolutely love Rare's games.
>I trust Nintendo / Miyamoto when it comes to
>controller design.
Ugh. I don't. That wretched N64 controller is made of the weakest plastic on the planet. Not only that, but the buttons are so spread out that the crosspad and left shoulder buttons are useless. The analog stick is the most innacurate joystick that I've ever used.
Now the Dual Shock controller for the Playstation is a work of art. You can swing that thing around, smashing it into walls, and it won't break. The buttons, all 10 of them (not including the sticks and crosspad:) ) are all real close together so you can reach everything at once. The two big, well-gripping analog sticks are wonderful for games like Apocalypse or Gran Turismo 1/2. Mucho kudos to Sony for making the Dual Shock the PS2 controller as well.
And don't even get me started on the Dreamcast controller. Sega engineers should be shot.
Hell, at this HD's size, you could could probably store a few DVD-quality movies completely *uncompressed*. Well, maybe one. I really have no idea what MPEG-2 compression is capable of.
Thanks for the URL. I've got a BT848 kicking around, so I might be able to help them out if their lawyers give them the go-ahead for source release.
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RSI is just psychological? Thank goodness. I can tell my mother that the surgery she had on her right hand back in the 70's for RSI was just the result of the trendiness of the IT industry 25 years later.
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How about Saturn's moon Titan? Nice thick atmosphere to protect against meteorites and radiation. Granted, it's a bit far away, even thinking in terms of space, and making the atmosphere breathable might be rather tricky compared to Mars.
Doh! I was rather tired when I read and posted. My mistake.
Pre-9 has hit the mirrors already.
Isn't that how Vader pronounced it?
Foooooooohhhhhh... paaaaahhhhhhhh...
I dunno, some of us Linux lovers *are* cute guys...
Ahem. It's "bugtraq".
As much as I love Linux and as much as I'm sick of *BSD zealots badmouthing the evil GPL, based purely on security, OpenBSD would be a better choice than Linux for something as critical as a stock exchange. Linux (properly administered) may be great, but OpenBSD (properly administered) is fantastic. The Bugtraq vulnerability database shows around two dozen exploits for OpenBSD in the past three years. Not a bad track record.
Ever see Star Trek 3? There's a scene in the movie in a bar where these two people are playing a 3D dogfighting game. That's what came to mind when reading your post.
It's a very pretty interface, though.
:)
And even if most of us don't have Macs, we can still simulate it with a combination of Stardock's products.
This is a troll, but I'll bite anyway. Right now, the Canadian government cares far more about freedom than the US government.
Point one, the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission (our equivalent of the FCC) has already decided not to touch the Internet in any way, so we don't have any (even attemped) censorship of the net.
Two, what banning of books? Give some examples.
Three, those Human Rights commissions are part of the reason why most Canadian businesses can't completely screw over their workers. As for being taxpayer funded, WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK WE PAY TAXES FOR? We pay taxes to the governments so that they can help us, the citizens! That's the whole fucking point of having a government! The Human Rights tribunals *have* to be as independant as possible from politics, otherwise corruption seeps in.
Four, there is no political repression of the media. Quite the opposite, in fact. Politicians up here *dare* *not* *cross* the media. The politicians may resent the media, but they simply can't touch the media. If a Canadian politician had called a member of the media a "major league asshole" he'd be cleaning his desk out within a week. Rule one in being an elected official up here is "don't piss off reporters".
Five, immigrants aren't selected based on race. They're selected based on education and personal wealth. Political refugees have to have fairly convincing proof that their lives are in danger if they return to their country of origin. If they feel that the Immigration Board was biased, they can always appeal to the government directly. See point four if you don't think the politicians will care about some poor, innocent repressed refugee.
And it's not "speach", it's "speech", you illiterate hick. Didn't you ever go to school?
Ever try Rev? It's a caffeinated cooler. Tastes pretty good, too.
Yes, but Dark Forces, Jedi Knight, X-Wing, TIE Fighter, X-Wing Versus TIE Fighter and X-Wing Alliance make up for all of those. Pod Racer was amusing, if a little too simplistic, and the PSX fighting game Masters Of Teras Kasi was fun as hell.
But you're right about those games you mentioned. They really did suck... On the whole, though, I'd argue that Lucasfilm is batting a little better than Paramount.
Ever play a PSX fighting game called "Dead Or Alive"? It must be seen to be believed. *grin* The sequel, creatively called "Dead Or Alive 2" is available on Dreamcast, and DOA2: Hardcore Edition (No, I am not making these up) will be on the PS2. I think you'll be rather pleased by the... umm... impressive polygons and attention to detail.
:)
Thank god for the Japanese video game industry.
True. Also, if your old TV dies and you don't want to have to pay ~$200 bucks for a little 13-inch, you can buy a little $60 TV tuner for your 17" monitor. Some of us don't have a few hundred dollars to throw around on a whim... Plus, it's just too cool to be able to capture video clips of Gran Turismo 2 replays and setting it to music in personalStudio on BeOS. :)
:) ) and have found that it's installation script is a tad arrogant if you're running XDM or WDM and use multiple WM's. It overwrites a lot of home directory files when it sets itself up. It's easy enough to fix, but it's still annoying. On the plus side, it's a very stable WM and it's very lightweight in terms of disk space, memory and CPU. I just hope the developers resist the urge to add bloat...
On, and the obligatory on-topic comment: Not everyone needs to run KDE or GNOME, folks. Some of us get along fine with just X, WDM and a lightweight, stable WM such as WindowMaker.
I've used XFce (not "Xfce"
Katz on acid? How redundant...
That's exactly the point I'm making about the N64 controller's layout. It may be comfortable, but no game can use all the buttons because their positions are too far apart. Maybe I've just got weird hands, but I find the PSX controller much more comfortable and practical. A pity, too. I absolutely love Rare's games.
>I trust Nintendo / Miyamoto when it comes to
:) ) are all real close together so you can reach everything at once. The two big, well-gripping analog sticks are wonderful for games like Apocalypse or Gran Turismo 1/2. Mucho kudos to Sony for making the Dual Shock the PS2 controller as well.
>controller design.
Ugh. I don't. That wretched N64 controller is made of the weakest plastic on the planet. Not only that, but the buttons are so spread out that the crosspad and left shoulder buttons are useless. The analog stick is the most innacurate joystick that I've ever used.
Now the Dual Shock controller for the Playstation is a work of art. You can swing that thing around, smashing it into walls, and it won't break. The buttons, all 10 of them (not including the sticks and crosspad
And don't even get me started on the Dreamcast controller. Sega engineers should be shot.
Iron Chef.
Does that make Jack Valenti to be the Mule?
"Dance"? I'm afraid I don't understand. Oh, wait! Isn't that something you do in Bust-a-groove?
Hell, at this HD's size, you could could probably store a few DVD-quality movies completely *uncompressed*. Well, maybe one. I really have no idea what MPEG-2 compression is capable of. Thanks for the URL. I've got a BT848 kicking around, so I might be able to help them out if their lawyers give them the go-ahead for source release.
Troll? Damn moderators have no sense of humour.
Yes, he's absolutely right. But I still hate shoveling. :)