I take great pains to backup. I have a 60 gig IDE raid running on my Linux box at home, and I will occasionally (every 4-6 months) burn a bunch of CDs of my important data.
But that ain't a long-term solution. Perpetual admin in the only real way of insuring that my data stays safe, but I consider photos in particular to be important enough to deserve additional safeguards.
So, I have my photos printed (about 40 cents a shot). If they're really good, I send duplicates to my mom, who keeps them in a drawer with the mararoni art I did when I was 3. Pow, I figure I'm at least as safe as film now...
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I guess I might fall into the "searching for god" category.
Curious: What makes you think that ET would have better insight into theology that ourselves? Who even says that ET would have the same sort of predisposition towards religion as humans?
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They find instead world after world where any of a hundred (thousand? million?) variables was off by just enough to doom the life there to brainless simplicity.
Yup, but they just let users with UIDs under 500 read/post there.
I've been smarting about that one for going on 5 years now (yes, I know the account system hasn't been in all that time, this is humor).
Five years of this now, and I've been here since about two months in. Please, someone, shoot me.
And what kind of horsepower do you need to pull two towers anyway?
It's not about horsepower. For that sort of job you need good low-end torque. Watch a Ford commercial sometime.
Starcraft stands out in my mind as having an entertaining single-player mode -- IMO, none of the Warcrafts (or the other clones) had that, so I hope it's something that they continue in this game. The missions made sense in terms of one another, but didn't get too distracted away from the basic gameplay.
I also liked the cinematics (esp. those in Broodwar); I felt combination of events and score worked really well together.
So, let's hope we have another winner here -- I need something to play when I'm on a long flight (and as such deprived of a good broadband connection).
* Archer: way too anxious to prove the Vulcans wrong. Doesn't stop to think before he does something.
* T'Pol: For someone who is supposedly devoid of emotions, she acts like a pouty little child an awful lot.
* 3rd in command (whatever his name is): Whines a hell of a lot.
* Hoshi: Probably competant in her work but you really can't trust her to keep her head when things get rough.
* Doctor: Need I say anything here?
What? You mean the characters have (gasp) FLAWS?!?!?
Well, there's nothing to say that couldn't still be the case. The best villians, IMO, are the ones you think are your friends (or who actually are your friends -- personally, I think they should have kept Evil Willow as the Big Bad for this season of Buffy).
Anyhow, both sides are obviously manipulating their pieces (enterprise/suliban) to further their own ends.
You then received 33 months of jail time (or just under 3 years) which seems to me to be rather fair.
Dude, that's two and a half years in the can. Imagine erasing your life from Jan. 1 2000 to get an idea of how long that is.
I don't mean to suggest he doesn't deserve punishment, but think about how incredibly long that is. Add to that the fact that his guy'll be passed around like currency for most of that time and it seems pretty damn long to me.
My Palm V uses a nice lithium battery that recharges in its cradle. My cell phone uses a rechargible battery that only needs to be plugged in a couple hours every few days. My iPod also charges.
Batteries are a limiting factor, but they're not that big a deal.
How about having Hillary Rosen use her nefarious connections to have a young Shawn Fanning-esqe character killed by hitmen, who are blissfully unaware that his father is actually a retired mafia hitman hiding in the witness relo program (played, of course, by DeNiro). Revenge ensues.
The ending where DeNiro reaps death apon the entire RIAA would have an awfully satisfying feel (esp. if it were filmed without special effects). Maybe the sequel could take down the MPAA.
[Pictures Jack Valenti being knifed by DeNiro. Smiles.]
Or article of how some people are mixing quake with realaity. (Fake monsters, real buildings, running outdoors).
Whoa whoa, slow down there, professor.
You're saying that people who play Quake both run and go outdoors, let alone combine the two? Dear God, if that's not front-page news, I don't know what is.
Note that DeNiro's not necessarily planning to act in the movie. He's looking for a script for his film company to produce.
Personally, I think having a modern-day crime drama about a guy brought in to set up secure computing for the mob might be a winner. Think a mix of DeNiro's gambling specialist character from Casino and Ben Kingsley's character in Sneakers.
"The world isn't run by weapons anymore, or energy, or money. It's run by little ones and zeroes, little bits of data. It's all just electrons." Then Joe Peschi would be beaten severely and buried alive. All movies, even light-hearted comic romances, should have Joe Peschi beaten severely and buried alive.
In what way was Memento a science-oriented film? How does it fit in with Good Will Hunting or A Beautiful Mind (which was good mostly due to Jennifer Connley -- how did she stay so damn good looking?).
This would be a great thing in terms of fragmented computing, but there's been zero progress with the tools we have now.
I've played booster for this before, but the industry just hasn't reacted in any sort of reasonible way. Instead, we've seen mutant solutions like cell phones will sub-par digital cameras built in (which is, to me anyway, pretty much useless).
So, once more with feeling, here is my dream: I want a personal network that moves with me. I want to be able to have the various personal devices I'm carrying at any given time detect each other and communicate (securely) and to act in a way which raises the value of the whole beyond that of just the components.
I want to take pictures with my digital camera and have them stored on my iPod. I want my cell phone to detect this and use idle time to send bits back to my home computer (maybe the pictures could show up in email or something). I want to use my PDA to sort through my MP3s and have them play on wireless headphones. I want to use my PDA to get a real-time account balance (again, via my phone, which is more of a communication hub) when I'm trying to decide how much to spend at lunch.
I don't want a *wearible* computer. I want my computer to be the sum of my devices.
Really, there are only two companies positioned to provide CPUs for PCs. Intel is showing more and more signs of losing their grip on bits of the market, and AMD only really needs to gain small bits of Intel's narket share to be wildly successful.
Besides, you should never sell during a recession. Now, if you want risky products, join me and buy some Abiomed (makers of the Abicor heart). Might not work out long term, but if they work out the kinks people will pay any price...
That sounds way too much like fixing problems in the bureaucracy by adding another layer of bureaucracy.
I think of it more as a way to streamline work between lower-level local bureaucracies. It would never work, really... The real solution would be to divide the larger states into more managible units until they were all the side of Delaware (good news for Rhode Island!).
You're a moron. The people of Florida decided what their election law would be, via their elected representatives. And they decided it before the 2000 presidential election. It is the Florida Supreme Court that decided to throw out preexisting law and procedure, and make up their own, after the election, because they didn't like the outcome, and they saw an opportunity to change it.
Aw, now my feelings are hurt.
The people of Florida decided on election law and then voted in people they trusted to make decisions. These people then appointed Harris, who implemented a sub-par system and then leapt to certify questionable results when her candidate won.
Long and short of it: The people involved with the election didn't do their best to be sure that the person voted for the most times won. In fact, they didn't give a flying fuck so long as it benefitted the guy they were backing. This is analogous to having NFL refs refuse ("apon further review") to overturn bogus calls in the Superbowl because they have money riding on one team or the other.
And, frankly, your "this is how the system is, so it must be right" attitude is sickening.
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An 802.11b connection would be even better -- I don't want to run ethernet just for my stereo (everything else in my house uses 802.11)
Well, it could have been, but the ruling itself is covered by the DMCA and I can't afford a license. =(
But that ain't a long-term solution. Perpetual admin in the only real way of insuring that my data stays safe, but I consider photos in particular to be important enough to deserve additional safeguards.
So, I have my photos printed (about 40 cents a shot). If they're really good, I send duplicates to my mom, who keeps them in a drawer with the mararoni art I did when I was 3. Pow, I figure I'm at least as safe as film now...
Curious: What makes you think that ET would have better insight into theology that ourselves? Who even says that ET would have the same sort of predisposition towards religion as humans?
Sounds like my university.
Yup, but they just let users with UIDs under 500 read/post there. I've been smarting about that one for going on 5 years now (yes, I know the account system hasn't been in all that time, this is humor). Five years of this now, and I've been here since about two months in. Please, someone, shoot me.
And what kind of horsepower do you need to pull two towers anyway? It's not about horsepower. For that sort of job you need good low-end torque. Watch a Ford commercial sometime.
Hm, poor wording on my part. I meant Warcraft or any of the other Warcraft clones (of which I count Starcraft as one).
I also liked the cinematics (esp. those in Broodwar); I felt combination of events and score worked really well together.
So, let's hope we have another winner here -- I need something to play when I'm on a long flight (and as such deprived of a good broadband connection).
One of my gripes is that the Federation encountered the Ferrengi.
* T'Pol: For someone who is supposedly devoid of emotions, she acts like a pouty little child an awful lot.
* 3rd in command (whatever his name is): Whines a hell of a lot.
* Hoshi: Probably competant in her work but you really can't trust her to keep her head when things get rough.
* Doctor: Need I say anything here?
What? You mean the characters have (gasp) FLAWS?!?!?
Ah, finally, a Star Trek character I can identify with -- a drunken engineer.
Well, there's nothing to say that couldn't still be the case. The best villians, IMO, are the ones you think are your friends (or who actually are your friends -- personally, I think they should have kept Evil Willow as the Big Bad for this season of Buffy).
Anyhow, both sides are obviously manipulating their pieces (enterprise/suliban) to further their own ends.
Dude, that's two and a half years in the can. Imagine erasing your life from Jan. 1 2000 to get an idea of how long that is.
I don't mean to suggest he doesn't deserve punishment, but think about how incredibly long that is. Add to that the fact that his guy'll be passed around like currency for most of that time and it seems pretty damn long to me.
I think I'd "prepare" by bulking up with a trainer and liberal use of steroids, a crash self-defense course and my having my cornhole paved over.
Batteries are a limiting factor, but they're not that big a deal.
Are you kidding? I've seen it so many times that I can close my eyes and see the scene where they make her ride the K-Mart horse thingie.
[stops, closes eyes, smiles]
The ending where DeNiro reaps death apon the entire RIAA would have an awfully satisfying feel (esp. if it were filmed without special effects). Maybe the sequel could take down the MPAA.
[Pictures Jack Valenti being knifed by DeNiro. Smiles.]
Whoa whoa, slow down there, professor.
You're saying that people who play Quake both run and go outdoors, let alone combine the two? Dear God, if that's not front-page news, I don't know what is.
Personally, I think having a modern-day crime drama about a guy brought in to set up secure computing for the mob might be a winner. Think a mix of DeNiro's gambling specialist character from Casino and Ben Kingsley's character in Sneakers.
"The world isn't run by weapons anymore, or energy, or money. It's run by little ones and zeroes, little bits of data. It's all just electrons." Then Joe Peschi would be beaten severely and buried alive. All movies, even light-hearted comic romances, should have Joe Peschi beaten severely and buried alive.
In what way was Memento a science-oriented film? How does it fit in with Good Will Hunting or A Beautiful Mind (which was good mostly due to Jennifer Connley -- how did she stay so damn good looking?).
I've played booster for this before, but the industry just hasn't reacted in any sort of reasonible way. Instead, we've seen mutant solutions like cell phones will sub-par digital cameras built in (which is, to me anyway, pretty much useless).
So, once more with feeling, here is my dream: I want a personal network that moves with me. I want to be able to have the various personal devices I'm carrying at any given time detect each other and communicate (securely) and to act in a way which raises the value of the whole beyond that of just the components.
I want to take pictures with my digital camera and have them stored on my iPod. I want my cell phone to detect this and use idle time to send bits back to my home computer (maybe the pictures could show up in email or something). I want to use my PDA to sort through my MP3s and have them play on wireless headphones. I want to use my PDA to get a real-time account balance (again, via my phone, which is more of a communication hub) when I'm trying to decide how much to spend at lunch.
I don't want a *wearible* computer. I want my computer to be the sum of my devices.
Really, there are only two companies positioned to provide CPUs for PCs. Intel is showing more and more signs of losing their grip on bits of the market, and AMD only really needs to gain small bits of Intel's narket share to be wildly successful.
Besides, you should never sell during a recession. Now, if you want risky products, join me and buy some Abiomed (makers of the Abicor heart). Might not work out long term, but if they work out the kinks people will pay any price...
I think of it more as a way to streamline work between lower-level local bureaucracies. It would never work, really... The real solution would be to divide the larger states into more managible units until they were all the side of Delaware (good news for Rhode Island!).
Aw, now my feelings are hurt.
The people of Florida decided on election law and then voted in people they trusted to make decisions. These people then appointed Harris, who implemented a sub-par system and then leapt to certify questionable results when her candidate won.
Long and short of it: The people involved with the election didn't do their best to be sure that the person voted for the most times won. In fact, they didn't give a flying fuck so long as it benefitted the guy they were backing. This is analogous to having NFL refs refuse ("apon further review") to overturn bogus calls in the Superbowl because they have money riding on one team or the other.
And, frankly, your "this is how the system is, so it must be right" attitude is sickening.