I bet the evil corporate banana growers will have a fungus-resistant modified banana out and growing shortly, while luddism and superstition regarding engineered bananas in Africa will kill millions.
But they're darker and they sound funny, and they're really far away, so I guess they don't matter, except that it makes me glad that they are still living authentically squalid^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hreal lives.
I'm somewhat in the process of migrating from Bind9 to PowerDNS, and apart from some niggling issues (PDNS master won't play nice with slave AXFRs and updates unless it's Linux (solaris PDNS master has endian issues?)) I definitely appreciate its flexibility. It's like the ProFTPd of DNS, and we're fixing to use it with a mysql backend for zone data.
Also, PDNS web-admin tools are still pretty crap as far as I've found, if someone else has a good recommendation for a web-based mysql backend mgmt tool for PDNS that's up-to-date and works with modern tools (like PHP5, modern Perl, Python or Ruby) I would love to hear about it as it'd save me the work of writing such a thing..
I have to say that BBS was IMHO not as good as 2 good original episodes of _Futurama_. I was so psyched, and yet when I watched the DVD I ended up being more like "meh".
Sort of like my reaction to the revival of _Family Guy_..
(But _South Park_ is still battin' em out of the park if you ask me.. Lately it seems like they're trying as hard as they can to get Comedy Central to censor them into quitting...)
To encounter such a turgid reaction to such a deplorable and lamentable pastime is beyond amazement. It bespeaks the intellectual and psychic degeneration of our current culture.
Maybe if electric fusion can generate surplus, economical power, it would be wiser to just create gasoline from water and air? Hydrocarbons can store hydrogen in high densities much more safely and easily than via compression, and recycling carbon dioxide would result in zero net additional CO2.. Who knows, if the WB-series of fusors can be scaled up enough, maybe it'd eventually be cheaper to manufacture gasoline this way than by cracking raw crude?
I wasn't gonna ever drive drunk before, but now that I saw it in GTA IV, I think it looks pretty goddamned fun and I think I'll try it this weekend!! Because I do EVERYTHING I see in videogames...
IMO there is a natural, healthy basic tension between developers (whose job is to make shiny new features and hack away at cruft) and operational admins (whose job depends on stuff not breaking). Devs hate documenting and training, Ops hate changes and surprises.
When one of these sides gains too much power/favor with management, you get either chaos (developers) or stultifying bureaucracy (admins).
The most successful organizations strike an appropriate balance based on the strengths of their teams, and adjudicate fairly, openly, and in the best interests of the overall business.
As an admin, I have quit a number of developer-centric orgs because the balance of favor tilted too far into the cowboy chaos (without concomitant tolerance for the effects of such 'freedom') and prevented me from being able to support the business in a way that would give me some pride in my craft. I've also quit admin-centric orgs because at the end of the day they tend to bore the shit out of me.
(Right now I'm in an org that IMO is transitioning from dev-centric to balanced, and it's actually somewhat exciting, but I'd never admit it;)
(and of course, none of this applies to admins that are on-call.. If you call an admin on a sunday morning at 3am because of something that is not his problem, expect to be FLAMED.)
Given that I could care less about DACs as I'll only be attaching via digital and passing DTS, I have to say that the b-enspirer is a pretty darned good deal...
(and yes, apparently there are downloadable drivers for Linux from the website...)
... something similar... Presumably a Buckytube wouldn't be able to handle as much pressure, but could it handle enough to compress silane into superconductivity? Sealed off at each end with, I guess you'd call it a Buckydome?
.... The new stuff isn't as good as the original stuff.
There. I said it.
I bought BBS, and it was OK, but to compare it to episodes I'd say I laughed about 1.5x as much as I'd laugh at an episode, which is not what I'd expect given that it's about 4x the length.
It reminds me of the other fan revivals, _Family Guy_ and _Jericho_.
Still, relatively, I'd rather watch BBS than almost anything else on TV. In the Futurama Pantheon, I'd rate it 5 out of 10.
I wonder if these molecules would fit within carbon buckytubes, and if those tubes could withstand the pressure required for room-temp superconductivity without exploding into organic compounds?
Did you actually use those more "powerful" features?
You mean like PiP? Sure did, the _300_ commentary was pretty sweet (once I got a disc that wouldn't freeze), and the 1st season of Star Trek is all about the PiP..
Networking? _Transformers_ had downloadable images, presumably _Be Kind Rewind_ would have been great with this feature (user-contributed sweded videos)...
I'll like it better when I can get the version that's got a proper video-taking camera, 3G, official 3rd-party app support, cut-and-paste, etc.. For $299.
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I bet the evil corporate banana growers will have a fungus-resistant modified banana out and growing shortly, while luddism and superstition regarding engineered bananas in Africa will kill millions.
But they're darker and they sound funny, and they're really far away, so I guess they don't matter, except that it makes me glad that they are still living authentically squalid^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hreal lives.
Huzzah! I've been fixin' to upgrade.. When will this be pushed to stable for kde-redhat RPMs?
I'm somewhat in the process of migrating from Bind9 to PowerDNS, and apart from some niggling issues (PDNS master won't play nice with slave AXFRs and updates unless it's Linux (solaris PDNS master has endian issues?)) I definitely appreciate its flexibility. It's like the ProFTPd of DNS, and we're fixing to use it with a mysql backend for zone data.
Also, PDNS web-admin tools are still pretty crap as far as I've found, if someone else has a good recommendation for a web-based mysql backend mgmt tool for PDNS that's up-to-date and works with modern tools (like PHP5, modern Perl, Python or Ruby) I would love to hear about it as it'd save me the work of writing such a thing..
I have to say that BBS was IMHO not as good as 2 good original episodes of _Futurama_. I was so psyched, and yet when I watched the DVD I ended up being more like "meh".
Sort of like my reaction to the revival of _Family Guy_..
(But _South Park_ is still battin' em out of the park if you ask me.. Lately it seems like they're trying as hard as they can to get Comedy Central to censor them into quitting...)
To encounter such a turgid reaction to such a deplorable and lamentable pastime is beyond amazement. It bespeaks the intellectual and psychic degeneration of our current culture.
Get a life, people. Get a real life.
Get over yourself, ese...
Maybe if electric fusion can generate surplus, economical power, it would be wiser to just create gasoline from water and air? Hydrocarbons can store hydrogen in high densities much more safely and easily than via compression, and recycling carbon dioxide would result in zero net additional CO2.. Who knows, if the WB-series of fusors can be scaled up enough, maybe it'd eventually be cheaper to manufacture gasoline this way than by cracking raw crude?
... QUIETER Bluray drive, 20gb disk or greater, HDMI, IR remote for Harmony compatibility, at say $299?
SOLD.
I wasn't gonna ever drive drunk before, but now that I saw it in GTA IV, I think it looks pretty goddamned fun and I think I'll try it this weekend!! Because I do EVERYTHING I see in videogames...
QFT!
To find out why, read The Killing Star... If you can find a copy :p
Why oppress animals to take DNA samples, why not just clone human flesh?
IMO there is a natural, healthy basic tension between developers (whose job is to make shiny new features and hack away at cruft) and operational admins (whose job depends on stuff not breaking). Devs hate documenting and training, Ops hate changes and surprises.
;)
When one of these sides gains too much power/favor with management, you get either chaos (developers) or stultifying bureaucracy (admins).
The most successful organizations strike an appropriate balance based on the strengths of their teams, and adjudicate fairly, openly, and in the best interests of the overall business.
As an admin, I have quit a number of developer-centric orgs because the balance of favor tilted too far into the cowboy chaos (without concomitant tolerance for the effects of such 'freedom') and prevented me from being able to support the business in a way that would give me some pride in my craft. I've also quit admin-centric orgs because at the end of the day they tend to bore the shit out of me.
(Right now I'm in an org that IMO is transitioning from dev-centric to balanced, and it's actually somewhat exciting, but I'd never admit it
(and of course, none of this applies to admins that are on-call.. If you call an admin on a sunday morning at 3am because of something that is not his problem, expect to be FLAMED.)
Has the b-enspirer been discontinued?
Given that I could care less about DACs as I'll only be attaching via digital and passing DTS, I have to say that the b-enspirer is a pretty darned good deal...
(and yes, apparently there are downloadable drivers for Linux from the website...)
KILL THE WISE ONE!!!
.... for him to kill himself?
10 million?
Maybe switching from Nerf to Lasertag? A real-life Halo zombie map? Just make sure they're not high-powered...
School budgets are being cut.
And this is a Federal problem instead of a State or Local problem because.....
?
... something similar... Presumably a Buckytube wouldn't be able to handle as much pressure, but could it handle enough to compress silane into superconductivity? Sealed off at each end with, I guess you'd call it a Buckydome?
.... The new stuff isn't as good as the original stuff.
There. I said it.
I bought BBS, and it was OK, but to compare it to episodes I'd say I laughed about 1.5x as much as I'd laugh at an episode, which is not what I'd expect given that it's about 4x the length.
It reminds me of the other fan revivals, _Family Guy_ and _Jericho_.
Still, relatively, I'd rather watch BBS than almost anything else on TV. In the Futurama Pantheon, I'd rate it 5 out of 10.
I wonder if these molecules would fit within carbon buckytubes, and if those tubes could withstand the pressure required for room-temp superconductivity without exploding into organic compounds?
Did you actually use those more "powerful" features?
You mean like PiP? Sure did, the _300_ commentary was pretty sweet (once I got a disc that wouldn't freeze), and the 1st season of Star Trek is all about the PiP..
Networking? _Transformers_ had downloadable images, presumably _Be Kind Rewind_ would have been great with this feature (user-contributed sweded videos)...
... that the lack of competition would bring higher prices? Me fail economix? That's unpossible!
(waiting on even cheaper HDDVDs, or used (eBay or Netflix).. Then it's all Matroska all the time baby!!)
(how wicked cool of a burn would it be for Tosh to open the hardware specs to opensourcers, and someone ports VLC to the XA2?)
I just finished reading this and I'm thinking maybe the human race needs to just STFU?
:/)
(good luck finding a used copy, it's way out of print
I'll like it better when I can get the version that's got a proper video-taking camera, 3G, official 3rd-party app support, cut-and-paste, etc.. For $299.
That'll be what, a year?
I can wait.