I remember when I first heard about S.T.A.L.K.E.R:Shadow of Chernobyl. Especially after I saw the movie that inspired the game (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079944/). I was giddy with anticipation like DNF. I followed the development but kept getting disappointed because they kept delaying as new engines came out and they rewrote the game to use those engines. At some point you have to say, OK choose a branch and run it out and stop making changes. Ultimately, this is what THQ did and they did produce an amazing game. I think 3DRealms could have learned a lesson from them. My number one rule of engineering: "You are never done, you just run out of time and/or money to make changes."
Too bad, when DN-3D came out it was my favorite replacing Doom II, but at least they both live on in the community. The Duke will always be around FOREVER!!!
It's not that people don't have the opportunity. You have to change the culture. For those in the 'hood, if you study, do your homework, work hard, etc., you are trying to be "white". Most want to be a rapper or ball player. The role models that they had until this time is Jesse and Al who continue to preach that they are being put down. Even though I may not agree with everything that Obama is doing, more role models like him are needed.
On a note about surveillance, I am a civil engineer and every city and state building now you have to sign in, show ID, and/or go through a metal detector now. They do it slow, one building at a time. They put up "red light" and intersection cameras which may only have a limited resolution now, but all it would take is quiet change during the nights and then you have system in place. They need the backbone in place. Doing it in the name of public safety is the way they do it.
This is nice, however, partisans have modded down any questions regarding B.O.'s relationship and knowledge regarding the pay for play issue of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. This certainly raises questions, now I am not accusing, but since B.O. is the product of Chicago politics . . .
From Washington Correspondent Jamie Dupree's Blog for Cox Radio:
President-elect Barack Obama's Transition today launched "Open for Questions," a Digg-style feature allowing citizens to submit questions, and to vote on one another's questions, bringing favored inquiries to the top of the list.
It was suggested when it launched that the tool would bring uncomfortable questions to the fore, but the results so far are the opposite: Obama's supporters appear to be using -- and abusing -- a tool allowing them to "flag" questions as "inappropriate" to remove all questions mentioning Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich from the main pages of Obama's website.
The Blagojevich questions -- many of them polite and reasonable -- can be found only by searching words in them, like "Blagojevich," which produces 35 questions missing from the main page of the site.
"Given the current corruption charges involving Blagojevich, will serious' campaign finance reform that takes money completely out of politics through publicly funded elections be a priority in the first term?" asked Metteyya of Santa Cruz, California. "This submission was removed because people believe it is inappropriate," reads the text underneath it.
Also removed as "inappropriate":
"In light of the recent corruption scandals (Blagojevich, Rangel, Jefferson, Stevens, etc) that have dominated the political scene,is there any ethics legislation being crafted to actually curb corruption and prevent another wave of nixonian cynicism?", a question from "lupercal," of Gainesville.
And: "Is Barack Obama aware of any communications in the last six weeks between Rod Blagojevich or anyone representing Rod Blagojevich and any of Obama's top aides?", a question from Phil from Pennsylvania.
Declaring a question "inappropriate" is different from merely voting it down; it's calling foul on a question, not just disapproving of it.
Community reporting systems like this are often vulnerable to abuse from committed partisans -- YouTube has wrestled with a parallel problem -- and the only solution is conscious efforts to remedy it.
So far, Obama's team does not seem to have stepped in to allow uncomfortable questions to rise to the top, and instead is allowing his supporters to sanitize the site.
I'd really like to know what Smith, Keynes, or Friedman would think. Unfortunately, 2 of them are long dead and the third probably doesn't like to think about it anymore, let alone able to feed or wipe himself.
My gaming clan's website has been the target of spammed hacks that are posted to the forums which have a posting with a link in the posting pointing to a download described in this article. Is this something similar which we fixed by having multiple response to questions requiring a response by a human as well as the standard graphic picture with text to be entered. These postings stopped. Now the article is not very clear as to how it occurs. Does it rewrite the phpBB code running the forums itself? Is it an embedded active script that runs when you view the forum? If so how is the loophole closed.
We have Comcast where I work. Every January and July/August our connection goes completely on the fritz. The connection will drop and sometimes it will take 2 minutes to 30 minutes (or more) to restore. I have placed many service calls and they just don't seem like they are intersted in getting to the heart of the matter. They don't have anything to track problem locations it seems like and then be able to deduce that they have temperature problem with some device on the line. They always send out a site installation tech who knows like nothing about the infrastructure. One trip they say the signal is too hot and they put an attenutator on. The next time the tech says the signal is to low and takes the attenuator off. Another tech replaces the ground block on our incoming line to the building. One crew replaced our modem to no avail. One tech told me, "All I can do is just replace stuff and hope that fixes it." It is very frustrating because I explain to them that I need a line tech to the support line and they treat me like I am some dumbass average PC user, not someone who has experience in buiding PCs back to the 386 days and working previously for a company debugging communication systems in modem, twisted pair, fiber and radio. "Have you cycled the power on your modem" and stupid basic stuff like that they ask.
I have bitched up and down and it wasn't until I told them once fiber comes in area my boss is goning to switch that they send out two line techs to look into the problem. It was fine for a couple of days, but it is starting to get bad again. DSL just isn't enough bandwidth for a business sending large autocad drawings and documents back and forth and since Comcast has a City granted franchise, we have no other choice right now. I don't have this problem at home, in fact I am very satisfied with the stability of my Comcast service here.
The lack of any reasonable competition for them just makes them complacent.
They didn't credit him, but they are a mainstream news org that stuck with it until something was done. I would imagine that a lot stories in the mainstream news get their start on blogs. Kudos to the bloggers even though I don't have the time to read them. I'll check out this guy's blog and see if it is worth adding to my startup pages in Firefox. Most I have read are just rants with no supporting facts.
CNBC's "On the Money" is reporting on this right now. A Colorado congressman will be introducing a bill to make this illegal. Hopefull it do so. I canned my landline a year ago and I get no BS calls on my cell phone. My life has become more peaceful and this does not affect me right now. This may change, I am sure as more people do this. Hwever, for the time being I am ok.
Incidently, "On the Money" broke the story about the cell phone records for sale on the net. They did not drop the story until Congress took action. Kudos to them. Hopefully they do this on this topic as well.
I have 6 PCs at my house, all for different tasks, (2 just for playing Doom II, heh heh) I just picked up 3 free 17" CRTs from a friend of mine whose firm was replacing all of theirs with LCDs. I have a 19" LCD on my living room computer but that is for a special purpose and location. CRTs aren't dead yet especially when I can get them free.
. ..make the doors open at 70 mph,
. . . switch all your radio stations to Air America or Rush
Limbaugh . . . (de) activate the school zone detection system all the time, especially on the freeway (in school zones). . . . Turn your automatic window tinting to a nice shade of blue giving new meaning to "Blue Screen of Death"!
I have not watched any Star Wars movie since Episode 6 which all it took was one time, teddy bears beating up storm troopers, bloody hell! I'll watch 4 and 5 over and over but I would rather stick my finger down my throat rather than watching any of the others. Fischer, Ford, and Hamill must have been wacked out their minds to do 6, (I know Fischer was!).
I'm sure the someone has. It's just classified right now. A few years will go by and if we did it someone will get under the Freeom of Information Act.
I think the government has gone too far with this terrorism thing. I think that in order to be charged under the Patriot Act, the intent of committing terrorism should be proven. This does not mean that I don't think he should be punished for what he did, but this law is so broad that a bank robber could be charged under the Patriot Act for terrorizing the customers and employees. Terrorism is performed on mass scale, not on handfull of people.
I am using the receiver that came with it. I would imagine that any receiver would work fine since I can use the receiver for multiple Bluetooth devices, not just the kybd and mouse that came with with it. I don't have any other receivers so I don't know.
I setup a PC with 98 on it so I could play ZDoom (actually I have two setup) and dual booted with FC1 just fine. When I tried to upgrade to FC2 it failed after I selected install type (ie destop, server, etc.) It could not read the partiton info. I deleted the partitions and tried to reinstall but then Grub failed. I had reinstall Win98 to get it to boot back to Windows. Luckily nothing was lost nor anything needed to be setup again.
I setup a system recently and am using the Logitech Bluetooth MX Duo. The optical mouse works on everything but my glass top, including my couch. It works just fine for me. Granted some other options might have changed my purpose. Right now it is pricy, about $200US, but it's the only thing available at common locations.
I have been waiting for this for a long time. I wish more student films were put out on DVD. This along with "Dark Star" by John Carpenter(Halloween,Escape from New York, The Thing, etc) and Dan O'Bannon (Alien and Heavy Metal plus more) are my favorites. When these guys are young and they have no pressure for a commercial product they do their best or most weird and interesting work, hopefully both versions will be included on the DVD. WOO HOO!!!
Most of the foreigners I deal with are from India and Pakistan and they do work their buts off. Have you ever seen the places they come from? Sometimes they appreciate what we have here more than we do. I understand that this is all part of dealing with employees, but what about employees dealing with managers?
I bet though they put in a solid 35 hours. I barely get 30 out of some my employees and they bill out 40. That lost time is paid by my clients or my boss, who may have to write it off. It makes projects go over budget and impacts my salary and bonuses. And then they complain when they haven't had a raise in while.
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I remember when I first heard about S.T.A.L.K.E.R:Shadow of Chernobyl. Especially after I saw the movie that inspired the game (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079944/). I was giddy with anticipation like DNF. I followed the development but kept getting disappointed because they kept delaying as new engines came out and they rewrote the game to use those engines. At some point you have to say, OK choose a branch and run it out and stop making changes. Ultimately, this is what THQ did and they did produce an amazing game. I think 3DRealms could have learned a lesson from them. My number one rule of engineering: "You are never done, you just run out of time and/or money to make changes."
Too bad, when DN-3D came out it was my favorite replacing Doom II, but at least they both live on in the community. The Duke will always be around FOREVER!!!
It's not that people don't have the opportunity. You have to change the culture. For those in the 'hood, if you study, do your homework, work hard, etc., you are trying to be "white". Most want to be a rapper or ball player. The role models that they had until this time is Jesse and Al who continue to preach that they are being put down. Even though I may not agree with everything that Obama is doing, more role models like him are needed.
On a note about surveillance, I am a civil engineer and every city and state building now you have to sign in, show ID, and/or go through a metal detector now. They do it slow, one building at a time. They put up "red light" and intersection cameras which may only have a limited resolution now, but all it would take is quiet change during the nights and then you have system in place. They need the backbone in place. Doing it in the name of public safety is the way they do it.
This is nice, however, partisans have modded down any questions regarding B.O.'s relationship and knowledge regarding the pay for play issue of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. This certainly raises questions, now I am not accusing, but since B.O. is the product of Chicago politics . . .
From Washington Correspondent Jamie Dupree's Blog for Cox Radio:
President-elect Barack Obama's Transition today launched "Open for Questions," a Digg-style feature allowing citizens to submit questions, and to vote on one another's questions, bringing favored inquiries to the top of the list.
It was suggested when it launched that the tool would bring uncomfortable questions to the fore, but the results so far are the opposite: Obama's supporters appear to be using -- and abusing -- a tool allowing them to "flag" questions as "inappropriate" to remove all questions mentioning Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich from the main pages of Obama's website.
The Blagojevich questions -- many of them polite and reasonable -- can be found only by searching words in them, like "Blagojevich," which produces 35 questions missing from the main page of the site.
"Given the current corruption charges involving Blagojevich, will serious' campaign finance reform that takes money completely out of politics through publicly funded elections be a priority in the first term?" asked Metteyya of Santa Cruz, California. "This submission was removed because people believe it is inappropriate," reads the text underneath it.
Also removed as "inappropriate":
"In light of the recent corruption scandals (Blagojevich, Rangel, Jefferson, Stevens, etc) that have dominated the political scene,is there any ethics legislation being crafted to actually curb corruption and prevent another wave of nixonian cynicism?", a question from "lupercal," of Gainesville.
And: "Is Barack Obama aware of any communications in the last six weeks between Rod Blagojevich or anyone representing Rod Blagojevich and any of Obama's top aides?", a question from Phil from Pennsylvania.
Declaring a question "inappropriate" is different from merely voting it down; it's calling foul on a question, not just disapproving of it.
Community reporting systems like this are often vulnerable to abuse from committed partisans -- YouTube has wrestled with a parallel problem -- and the only solution is conscious efforts to remedy it.
So far, Obama's team does not seem to have stepped in to allow uncomfortable questions to rise to the top, and instead is allowing his supporters to sanitize the site.
I'd really like to know what Smith, Keynes, or Friedman would think. Unfortunately, 2 of them are long dead and the third probably doesn't like to think about it anymore, let alone able to feed or wipe himself.
My gaming clan's website has been the target of spammed hacks that are posted to the forums which have a posting with a link in the posting pointing to a download described in this article. Is this something similar which we fixed by having multiple response to questions requiring a response by a human as well as the standard graphic picture with text to be entered. These postings stopped. Now the article is not very clear as to how it occurs. Does it rewrite the phpBB code running the forums itself? Is it an embedded active script that runs when you view the forum? If so how is the loophole closed.
May 15th is my birthday and I am 40 now. The only cool thing I have found about turning 40, ugh!!!
The Crystal River Nuke plant isn't blurred. This is located at about 28 degrees 57'42" North and 82 degrees 41'45" West.
See my comment below. Threaten them and they go into action.
Yeah a cheap company owner like mine.
We have Comcast where I work. Every January and July/August our connection goes completely on the fritz. The connection will drop and sometimes it will take 2 minutes to 30 minutes (or more) to restore. I have placed many service calls and they just don't seem like they are intersted in getting to the heart of the matter. They don't have anything to track problem locations it seems like and then be able to deduce that they have temperature problem with some device on the line. They always send out a site installation tech who knows like nothing about the infrastructure. One trip they say the signal is too hot and they put an attenutator on. The next time the tech says the signal is to low and takes the attenuator off. Another tech replaces the ground block on our incoming line to the building. One crew replaced our modem to no avail. One tech told me, "All I can do is just replace stuff and hope that fixes it." It is very frustrating because I explain to them that I need a line tech to the support line and they treat me like I am some dumbass average PC user, not someone who has experience in buiding PCs back to the 386 days and working previously for a company debugging communication systems in modem, twisted pair, fiber and radio. "Have you cycled the power on your modem" and stupid basic stuff like that they ask.
I have bitched up and down and it wasn't until I told them once fiber comes in area my boss is goning to switch that they send out two line techs to look into the problem. It was fine for a couple of days, but it is starting to get bad again. DSL just isn't enough bandwidth for a business sending large autocad drawings and documents back and forth and since Comcast has a City granted franchise, we have no other choice right now. I don't have this problem at home, in fact I am very satisfied with the stability of my Comcast service here.
The lack of any reasonable competition for them just makes them complacent.
They didn't credit him, but they are a mainstream news org that stuck with it until something was done. I would imagine that a lot stories in the mainstream news get their start on blogs. Kudos to the bloggers even though I don't have the time to read them. I'll check out this guy's blog and see if it is worth adding to my startup pages in Firefox. Most I have read are just rants with no supporting facts.
CNBC's "On the Money" is reporting on this right now. A Colorado congressman will be introducing a bill to make this illegal. Hopefull it do so. I canned my landline a year ago and I get no BS calls on my cell phone. My life has become more peaceful and this does not affect me right now. This may change, I am sure as more people do this. Hwever, for the time being I am ok.
Incidently, "On the Money" broke the story about the cell phone records for sale on the net. They did not drop the story until Congress took action. Kudos to them. Hopefully they do this on this topic as well.
I have 6 PCs at my house, all for different tasks, (2 just for playing Doom II, heh heh) I just picked up 3 free 17" CRTs from a friend of mine whose firm was replacing all of theirs with LCDs. I have a 19" LCD on my living room computer but that is for a special purpose and location. CRTs aren't dead yet especially when I can get them free.
. . .make the doors open at 70 mph,
. . . switch all your radio stations to Air America or Rush
Limbaugh
. . . (de) activate the school zone detection system all the time, especially on the freeway (in school zones).
. . . Turn your automatic window tinting to a nice shade of blue giving new meaning to "Blue Screen of Death"!
I have not watched any Star Wars movie since Episode 6 which all it took was one time, teddy bears beating up storm troopers, bloody hell! I'll watch 4 and 5 over and over but I would rather stick my finger down my throat rather than watching any of the others. Fischer, Ford, and Hamill must have been wacked out their minds to do 6, (I know Fischer was!).
I'm sure the someone has. It's just classified right now. A few years will go by and if we did it someone will get under the Freeom of Information Act.
I think the government has gone too far with this terrorism thing. I think that in order to be charged under the Patriot Act, the intent of committing terrorism should be proven. This does not mean that I don't think he should be punished for what he did, but this law is so broad that a bank robber could be charged under the Patriot Act for terrorizing the customers and employees. Terrorism is performed on mass scale, not on handfull of people.
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I am using the receiver that came with it. I would imagine that any receiver would work fine since I can use the receiver for multiple Bluetooth devices, not just the kybd and mouse that came with with it. I don't have any other receivers so I don't know.
I setup a PC with 98 on it so I could play ZDoom (actually I have two setup) and dual booted with FC1 just fine. When I tried to upgrade to FC2 it failed after I selected install type (ie destop, server, etc.) It could not read the partiton info. I deleted the partitions and tried to reinstall but then Grub failed. I had reinstall Win98 to get it to boot back to Windows. Luckily nothing was lost nor anything needed to be setup again.
The Bluetooth connects independently of the OS. This is as long as your machine will recognize a USB keyboard in the BIOS.
I setup a system recently and am using the Logitech Bluetooth MX Duo. The optical mouse works on everything but my glass top, including my couch. It works just fine for me. Granted some other options might have changed my purpose. Right now it is pricy, about $200US, but it's the only thing available at common locations.
I have been waiting for this for a long time. I wish more student films were put out on DVD. This along with "Dark Star" by John Carpenter(Halloween,Escape from New York, The Thing, etc) and Dan O'Bannon (Alien and Heavy Metal plus more) are my favorites. When these guys are young and they have no pressure for a commercial product they do their best or most weird and interesting work, hopefully both versions will be included on the DVD. WOO HOO!!!
Most of the foreigners I deal with are from India and Pakistan and they do work their buts off. Have you ever seen the places they come from? Sometimes they appreciate what we have here more than we do. I understand that this is all part of dealing with employees, but what about employees dealing with managers?
I bet though they put in a solid 35 hours. I barely get 30 out of some my employees and they bill out 40. That lost time is paid by my clients or my boss, who may have to write it off. It makes projects go over budget and impacts my salary and bonuses. And then they complain when they haven't had a raise in while.