learn to read! from TFP: British - How many times has Robin Hood been made into a movie? Not to mention Dracula, Jekyll and Hyde, Sherlock Holmes, etc, etc, etc.
Learn to read in context. The rest of that post and the following were talking about HK movies. If you want to talk about British movies, fine, but attach your comments to a post that has something to do with them.
Well, it's widely believed that the Russians had smuggled in several small nukes and had them nestled in Washington. Equally, the US was supposed to have some in Moscow. With nukes, really, there is no defence, no "missile shield" will guarantee safety. Looking at some of the other articles on space.com, just one military program, for aerial tankers, has twice the funding of Nasa's entire Moon and Mars program. Not to mention one year in Iraq is costing about 5 times that. Throwing a few billion into space is easy to ridicule, but the payoffs, perhaps a few decades off, will be huge. Most defence spending might as well be used to stuff mattresses with for all the good it will do.
I don't think anyone is going to be getting a freighter or container ship into US ports during a time of war buddy.
Nobody declares war any more. The first you hear about it is after you've been attacked.
You most certainly will not be stopping freight shipping. Wars are often fought to keep trade going. The US isn't going to blockade itself.
Ballistic weapoons are only useful against an opponent with no nukes of their own; or if you have an overwhelming first strike and are confident of knocking out all their nukes. Even so, it's likely to be suicidal. Otherwise, I'd go for a cruise missile delivery solution myself, slow, low and hard to track.
Apparently I have to install the.NET Framework 1.1 in order to use nLite.
He has a "runtime" version of.Net that you can just drop in the same folder as nLite, look on the download page; i.e. it's not installed into Windows, just used by nLite. With this you use the "archive" version of nLite, the "installer" version looks for the full.Net. Though if you use nLite to create a new install CD, it doesn't matter much how much crap you have as you'll wipe it all when you (re)install. It's quite amazing how much functionality is behind the scenes in Windows, this gives you control of a lot.
Oh bah. The laughing poison is a classic, and dates back to the 40's.
I used to read the comic in the 60s and 70s, when the bad guys were a bit less threatening, perhaps due to the influence of the TV series. But there were definitely a few nods to Dark Knight; I remember a Time magazine cover with a story about the fictional island (an ersatz Cuba) where the US was having a war (which name escapes me), for instance. And I'm sure the whole idea had its genesis in DK, little though survived to the script.
augmented reality sunglasses that overlay black squares over billboards
Douglas Adams has prior art on that: "Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses, which had been specially designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude to danger. At the first hint of trouble they turn totally black and thus prevent you from seeing anything that might alarm you." Restaurant at the End of the Universe
>>The Hong Kong film industry was built on the back of martial arts superheroes from Chinese history. And don't get me started on Bollywood!
>You seem to be the only one here who doesn't understand what a 'superhero' is. Let me help, there are these things called comic books...
Not that I have much time for them myself, despite living in HK, but HK kung fu movie heroes have supernormal powers, just they're explained, if at all, as "magic" or "god given" rather than "gamma rays/aliens" technobabble like US heroes. The end results are similar. The only real difference is that they don't wear Spandex suits.
[Christian Bale] who gained 100 pounds a year after The Machinist
I was rocked back imagining the American Psycho as Batman. In contrast to the book, which I was unable to read more than a few chapters of due to the revulsion at the violence, the move was very darkly funny. If he brings a similar tone to Batman Begins it'd be cool.
OK fair enough, but without a browser included how are you going to get whichever one you want? Run across town to a store to buy it? Call a company and have them ship it to you?
The whole idea is that you should be able to buy Windpws without a browser, if that's what you want. And also that OEMs should have the right to offer a preistall with, eg, Opera, Forefox or some other browser. Why did MS spend so much effort to buy IE (was it origially "Spyglass"?) and then give it away? To kill Netscape; that's the essence of the anti-trust case. And this case, about the same thing with WMP, is about killing off Real or any similar player (we may truly despise Real for what baggage their player brings, but they were forced to either go sleazy or go out of business).
Windows with no Microsoft _______ doesn't mean no ________.
Have you ever wanted to remove some Windows components like Media Player, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, MSN Explorer, Messenger...
How about not even to install them with Windows ?
nLite is a GUI for permanent Windows component removal by your choice. After removal there is an option to make bootable image ready for burning on cd or testing in virtual machines. With nLite you will be able to have Windows installation which on install doesn't include, or even contain on cd, unwanted components.
fact that joking about this topic is in poor taste
That's not a "fact", but I share the opinion. I was just pointing out the double standard that usually applies here. For instance, the bushfire in Canberra got a lot of "barbecue" jokes. Despite dozens being burnt alive few seemed to think this was inappropriate.
Yeah, it always good to joke about events that can and do kill hundreds of thousands.
Slashdotters seem to think so, as long is it doesn't affect Americans. every "foreign" disaster eleicts a bunch of ethnic/outsourcing (if in Asia or particularly India) jokes, all modded "Funny". Make similar jokes about American deaths and it's an instant flamebait/troll mod. He might get away with it here since no one seems to have died.
Getting a region-free DVD player is cheaper/easier than getting a VCR that can handle both PAL and NTSC. DVD players take care of television format encoding in the box itself, leaving the media to be format neutral, but VCRs write the raw television feed directly onto the tape
Maybe in the US, but here in Hong Kong it's standard for TVs, DVD players and VCRs to accept either PAL or NTSC.
I use my VCR for time shifting; but in this climate fungus grows on everything, including tapes, so unless you have some sealed strage tapes don't last more than a year. So in a few years we'll probably move to a hard disk recorder.
Well I'm assuming it would be because in the first one they were talking about the MSN site, and this one they're talking about Blogs hosted by MSN.
Well, that might be insightful, except that BOTH STORIES ARE ABOUT BLOGS. Yesterday's FA said "... have been blocked from using a range of potentially sensitive words to label personal websites they create using its free online blog service, MSN Spaces."
Maybe after it went live they noticed and rather than pull it put the disclaimer. I still fail to understand why thay can't either kill dupes, or at least remove them from the front page. But I don't understand why they don't bother to spellcheck or any number of things that make them look like idiots.
Possessive its has no apostrophe, you f***ing r****d. How many visitors a day again and you idiots still can't hire an editor?
Just reposting this as the parent has been modded flamebait. Any modders with itchy fingers, note I've removed the naughty words. The sentiment though I endorse. My seven-year-old daughter knows that "it's" = "it is".
According to TFA, he puts a garbage pail of ICE WATER which lasts for two or thee hours in his "homebrew AC". So the refrigeration comes from his refrigerator. And I'm sure my refrigerator would be pouring out heat if I was using it to make several litres of ice water per hour. So he's transferring heat from his living room to his kitchen, and may find his fridge can't take the strain if he does this constinuously.
I've got a even cheaper and simpler idea: leave your fridge door open and set a fan in front of it.
what's with the lack of animation in anime? Seems like there's only ever one thing moving on the screen
At the risk of being obvious, because it's cheaper to animate a small part of the scene than a larger, most especially if it's done by hand.
I recently saw a rerun of the 1960s Spider-Man TV cartoon. I was amazed at how they recycled exactly the same scenes (e.g. Spider-Man being chased by a monster across a cityscape) 4 or more times; and how many scenes actually had nothing moving at all for several seconds at a time.
Winword 2.0c. It worked fine unless your document was more than 20 or so pages
I never found that, just tried it on a 165 pp doc and it was fine. Maybe fails on some particular formatting.
I switched to Linux + TeX
I actally do most of my editing in plain text with Ultraedit, formatting with Ventura. I've looked at TeX, but it seems to be rather inflexible - I need to change styles from book to book (often prototyping several layouts before I commit) and it appears that's rather a lot of work in TeX, perhaps my inexperience shows here.
Slashdot Mirror
Learn to read in context. The rest of that post and the following were talking about HK movies. If you want to talk about British movies, fine, but attach your comments to a post that has something to do with them.
That would be "Their number one financial backers".
Well, it's widely believed that the Russians had smuggled in several small nukes and had them nestled in Washington. Equally, the US was supposed to have some in Moscow. With nukes, really, there is no defence, no "missile shield" will guarantee safety. Looking at some of the other articles on space.com, just one military program, for aerial tankers, has twice the funding of Nasa's entire Moon and Mars program. Not to mention one year in Iraq is costing about 5 times that. Throwing a few billion into space is easy to ridicule, but the payoffs, perhaps a few decades off, will be huge. Most defence spending might as well be used to stuff mattresses with for all the good it will do.
Nobody declares war any more. The first you hear about it is after you've been attacked.
You most certainly will not be stopping freight shipping. Wars are often fought to keep trade going. The US isn't going to blockade itself.
Ballistic weapoons are only useful against an opponent with no nukes of their own; or if you have an overwhelming first strike and are confident of knocking out all their nukes. Even so, it's likely to be suicidal. Otherwise, I'd go for a cruise missile delivery solution myself, slow, low and hard to track.
What? I can't see anyone referring to werewolves or vampires.
He has a "runtime" version of .Net that you can just drop in the same folder as nLite, look on the download page; i.e. it's not installed into Windows, just used by nLite. With this you use the "archive" version of nLite, the "installer" version looks for the full .Net. Though if you use nLite to create a new install CD, it doesn't matter much how much crap you have as you'll wipe it all when you (re)install. It's quite amazing how much functionality is behind the scenes in Windows, this gives you control of a lot.
I used to read the comic in the 60s and 70s, when the bad guys were a bit less threatening, perhaps due to the influence of the TV series. But there were definitely a few nods to Dark Knight; I remember a Time magazine cover with a story about the fictional island (an ersatz Cuba) where the US was having a war (which name escapes me), for instance. And I'm sure the whole idea had its genesis in DK, little though survived to the script.
Douglas Adams has prior art on that: "Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses, which had been specially designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude to danger. At the first hint of trouble they turn totally black and thus prevent you from seeing anything that might alarm you."
Restaurant at the End of the Universe
>You seem to be the only one here who doesn't understand what a 'superhero' is. Let me help, there are these things called comic books...
Not that I have much time for them myself, despite living in HK, but HK kung fu movie heroes have supernormal powers, just they're explained, if at all, as "magic" or "god given" rather than "gamma rays/aliens" technobabble like US heroes. The end results are similar. The only real difference is that they don't wear Spandex suits.
I was rocked back imagining the American Psycho as Batman. In contrast to the book, which I was unable to read more than a few chapters of due to the revulsion at the violence, the move was very darkly funny. If he brings a similar tone to Batman Begins it'd be cool.
There were elements of that in the Tim Burton Batman. Notably the really evil Joker and his laughing poison. But much more was left out.
The whole idea is that you should be able to buy Windpws without a browser, if that's what you want. And also that OEMs should have the right to offer a preistall with, eg, Opera, Forefox or some other browser. Why did MS spend so much effort to buy IE (was it origially "Spyglass"?) and then give it away? To kill Netscape; that's the essence of the anti-trust case. And this case, about the same thing with WMP, is about killing off Real or any similar player (we may truly despise Real for what baggage their player brings, but they were forced to either go sleazy or go out of business).
Windows with no Microsoft _______ doesn't mean no ________.
Try Nlite:
I don't know what your point is. I said I thought making jokes aout disasters was tasteless.
That's not a "fact", but I share the opinion. I was just pointing out the double standard that usually applies here. For instance, the bushfire in Canberra got a lot of "barbecue" jokes. Despite dozens being burnt alive few seemed to think this was inappropriate.
Slashdotters seem to think so, as long is it doesn't affect Americans. every "foreign" disaster eleicts a bunch of ethnic/outsourcing (if in Asia or particularly India) jokes, all modded "Funny". Make similar jokes about American deaths and it's an instant flamebait/troll mod. He might get away with it here since no one seems to have died.
Maybe in the US, but here in Hong Kong it's standard for TVs, DVD players and VCRs to accept either PAL or NTSC.
I use my VCR for time shifting; but in this climate fungus grows on everything, including tapes, so unless you have some sealed strage tapes don't last more than a year. So in a few years we'll probably move to a hard disk recorder.
This could never work as real AC unit
You thought I was serious?
Note that these are blogs in CHINESE. However, they're well skilled at using creative euphmemism to get around automatic filters.
Well, that might be insightful, except that BOTH STORIES ARE ABOUT BLOGS. Yesterday's FA said "... have been blocked from using a range of potentially sensitive words to label personal websites they create using its free online blog service, MSN Spaces."
Maybe after it went live they noticed and rather than pull it put the disclaimer. I still fail to understand why thay can't either kill dupes, or at least remove them from the front page. But I don't understand why they don't bother to spellcheck or any number of things that make them look like idiots.
Just reposting this as the parent has been modded flamebait. Any modders with itchy fingers, note I've removed the naughty words. The sentiment though I endorse. My seven-year-old daughter knows that "it's" = "it is".
I've got a even cheaper and simpler idea: leave your fridge door open and set a fan in front of it.
At the risk of being obvious, because it's cheaper to animate a small part of the scene than a larger, most especially if it's done by hand.
I recently saw a rerun of the 1960s Spider-Man TV cartoon. I was amazed at how they recycled exactly the same scenes (e.g. Spider-Man being chased by a monster across a cityscape) 4 or more times; and how many scenes actually had nothing moving at all for several seconds at a time.
So you skipped South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut?
I never found that, just tried it on a 165 pp doc and it was fine. Maybe fails on some particular formatting.
I switched to Linux + TeX
I actally do most of my editing in plain text with Ultraedit, formatting with Ventura. I've looked at TeX, but it seems to be rather inflexible - I need to change styles from book to book (often prototyping several layouts before I commit) and it appears that's rather a lot of work in TeX, perhaps my inexperience shows here.