that and civic design. Here in Houston I challenge you to ride a bike from point A to point B. There are no sidewalks, no back roads that go through, no bike lanes, what bike lanes that do exist are right next to fast moving over sized commercial loads that reguard that as a "vehicle sprawl" lane. Figure in unstable buisness environments that virtually guarantee that if you move close enough to work to walk/bike you will lose your job and be forced to work forty miles away.
When I lived in Phoenix, I rode my bike everywhere. Now that I live in Houston (one of the most sprawled cities in existance) I have gained massive amounts of weight, and regularly commuted 3+ hours a day.
The Not For Hire ran on a batacitor charged on the grail stones. According to Phillip Jose Farmer these things were supposed to have been developed in the early 80s. 5th paragraph.
There are adult sections in some video stores. You have to be of age to go into the back room to view the porn videos and to rent them. I don't see a problem with this. If they want to mandate a seperate section for M and A rated games I don't really have a problem with it. Where the fuck does 30 come from? I could legally buy cigarrets and porn at 18, and booze at 21. Why should I be legal to smoke and beat off for 12 years and booze it up for 9 before I can buy a video game where I shoot someones head off, when theoretically I could have been doing that in the military for 13 years for real? 30's a bit old. Make it a reasonable age, such as 17 for M and/or 18 for A like the ESRB recommends and I would actually support it. It would shut a lot of people up I would hope. Heck, if it's a video store they could put the porn in the same room.
I've got several problems with Blizzard, mostly with their public relations.
Once upon a time, battle.net SUCKED, bad, you couldn't get on to play StarCraft half the time, or you go booted, had laggy servers if you did. Someone makes BNetD, gets a nudge nudge wink wink okay from Blizzard. They didn't have a problem with it and allows the program to exsist for quite some time. Oops! it doesn't verify authanticity and some bean counter got pissed. Sue the developers! Cease and desist! Drag the geeks to court. A friend of mine is actually an expert witness in this trial. The trials still not settled and has been dragging on for years. Every now and then he gets called back into the court room to repeat that no Blizzard code was used and that the protocol was reverse engineered.
Some fans liked StarCraft so much, they made UT Mods to make it possible to more or less play a sort-of game of StarCraft from the perspective of just one of the units. Blizzard again gave a nudge nudge wink wink without ever giving a certified okay you can do this. Let the development of this mod go on for a couple of years, then they liked the idea so much they developed StarCraft Ghost. Well, now that we're making ours, you can't make yours, same shit they pulled on BNetD.
What do they have against Linux? They can port something to Mac, which is BSD, even on Intel now. Sucessfully porting something to OSX, especially on Intel hardware should make porting over to Linux trivial. Do they have a vendetta against Linux? Atari doesn't have a problem porting most games, neither does Bioware.
I hate to admit it, but I loved playing Blizzard games. I have fond memories of hours and hours of local IPX StarCraft play after hours at work, and I also enjoyed playing both Diablo games with my old roommates. Recently I dumped my StarCraft strategy guides into the share a book bin at the coffee shop and I got rid of the actual disk years ago. I will not buy another Blizzard game until they improve their PR, and release the games on something I can play it on. As it stands, if they released StarCraft Ghost on the Gamecube tomorrow, which is technicaly something I could play it on, I wouldn't give a dime for it no matter how good it was. Since they scratched the game all together that wont happen, but others should join me and send them a message instead of just buying more copies of World of Warcraft.
Bah, I didn't wait. I bought more flourescents than I needed, so I went down the line until I had all the old bulbs in my house that were eligable replaced. I'm cheap. I've been buying these for about four years now, every time I move (more often than I like) I start the cycle over.
Three in a fixture on a dimmer, the ones that I never use, can't use those in a dimmer, plus two in the bathroom. Turning the ones in the bathroom on heats up the mirror just above the dew point making it easier to shave without leaving towl streaks. All the rest are compact florecents.
I'm a libertarian, raised as a redneck, Renfest dork by choice, owner of swords and guns, defender of our right to not only keep, but to bare arms. I'm in both crowds (as much as they'll accept me)
My ex tried to use my profession against me.
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My ex took up prostitution to pay for her drug habbit after we split (and as I think back on it probably before as well). She was advertising online. I of course took the advertising photo's to court for use as evidence. She attempted to claim I doctored the photo's. An eye glazing explanation of JPEG compression methods and the dead giveaways that come with photo editing cleared me of that one.
Another thing she did was attempt to get me labeled as a cyber stalker. I think she succeeded in that. I no longer have custody of our daughter, but neither does she my parents do.
One thing to keep in mind. Lawyers and judges are not typicaly techs. Most lawyers and judges are actually less adept technically than other professionals earning simular wages. They view technology with an eye of suspicion, because as legal people they usually see the criminal end of things not the positive end of technology. Your typical legal person will use Office 97 on an out of date computer with an out of date version of Windows. The only thing they'll use the average Linux geek will use as well is PDF documents. They love PDF's, they're like faxes, only not nasty looking.
In the end I was labeled as a criminal by a divorce court with absolutely no proof whatsoever that can be tied back to me. The only thing they had was the word of a proven liar, that was a convicted felon, convicted of drug posession and theft. My criminal record to this day is spotless. She attempted to have me arrested, but when I proved to the detective she was a liar the detective dropped the case. I'm surprised she didn't turn around and go after her instead. The civil end of things are another matter entirely. I honestly think my profession had a lot to do with the courts distrust of me, and my Ex's lawyer played that up with every oppertunity. The fact I had webpage printouts of her advertising and CD's burned of her bragging about the crimes she comitted actually worked against me in that respect.
If you've ever read the RiverWorld series by Philip Jose Farmer you would see a lot of simmularities between this and the batacitor that powered the Not For Hire. I'm surprised this wasn't a topic, on another note where are they going to find grail stones to charge them?
My parents have had my old K6-233 for YEARS running Windows 95. It still worked fine for what they do believe it or not. Came across some spare hardware, a Duron 800 with 512MB of RAM, figured it was time they had an upgrade. I put a PC-BSD pre 1.0 on it, believe it was RC2 had it installed here at the house forever, finally deployed it to them. Dad loves it, mom says he never gets off of it. Of course all they do with it is play Pysol, SameGame, and FrozenBubble. UT2k4 and Armagetron are installed on it,but those were more of stress test for my own testing more than anything and wont be used by them. Overall I loved it. I like PC-BSDs single program installers, they're as easy if not easier than using Windows installers, but I tend to use the ports system instead. If you're interested in my adventures in PC-BSD land here's a link.
this device is going to create smudges and blurs everywhere. As water flows around an object it is also stired, imagine a suspension in the water as it flows, the particles in the suspension will not come back in the same order and place. I imagine the cloaked object will be the right basic color - perhaps with a bit of a shift or blend, possibly with some resemblance to what's behind it, but overall I forsee a blur. Predators cloak is excelent in comparison to this tech and you can see that bastard. I think this qualifies as mobile camoflauge. Now, perhaps with some time, development of pixelated strands in layers, and a lot more development you just may get something better than a camo/blur. This article doesn't go into enough detail on the negatives, but then again that doesn't draw readers.
History has proven, with the BetaMax case as a point of reference and the strike down of the broadcast flag, that any attempt to lock the people down will be countered with the people finding a way to unlock themselves legally. Be it with a landmark court case or an alternative way of doing things. I'm not to worried about it. On that note, I do plan to get an HDTV tuner before the next broadcast flag requirement.
(BTW - Redundant mod? check the timestamps, I was the first one to bring it up on this posting)
I use MythTV. I does everything I would want a Tivo for, records every instance of a program, lets me pause live TV, time shifting in general. On top of that it has a deadicated weather module, video game management, music player/management, netflix management, and a photoalbum. I'm sure I've missed a few things. I'm plaaning on building a dedicated MythTV backend and setting up several front ends throughout the house all sharing the same central content. Screw Tivo, I like this better.
Wasn't there supposed to be a Windows 2000 Home Edition at some point but they scrapped it and did ME? If I recall I think there was going to be two levels of 2000 pro that never happened. They unleashed the plague of ME upon us instead.
Also, wasn't there supposed to be a few more versions of XP that never happened?
and didn't learn anything worthwhile until I picked up the Gimp. I never learned photoshop. Nice effort, the interface looks fine and everything, but I don't see the need.
I can of course see where he's coming from, there was a time when Netscape 4.x sucked so bad it wasn't worth using before Mozilla got good enough for normal work so I used NeoPlanet with a Netscape Skin. I definately see where he's coming from, just not for me.
OS/2 died because it could run Windows programs, and thus nobody wrote any for OS/2. Okay, fine we can shell out a ton of cash for OS/2 and Windows, then we can run OS/2 programs AND Windows programs. Wait, why don't we just right Windows programs since OS/2 can run them anyways? We don't need to write OS/2 programs. Thus, the OS/2 software library did not grow. Know anybody still running OS/2? We shell out cash for Windows games and run them on Linux. As far as the developer is concerned they just sold a game to a Windows user. They just made more money on Windows, not Linux. Sure, encourage them. For the record I have had Starcraft running on Linux, but not for several years, and I used plain old WINE to do it. Using WINE just makes me feel dirty, and Blizzard is still a gaping hole. I wont even buy a Blizzard game for my GameCube until they fix their Linux problem.
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Uhmm Sprawl and Automobile have a self perpetuating cause and effect relationship. More of one cases more of the other with our current mindset.
that and civic design. Here in Houston I challenge you to ride a bike from point A to point B. There are no sidewalks, no back roads that go through, no bike lanes, what bike lanes that do exist are right next to fast moving over sized commercial loads that reguard that as a "vehicle sprawl" lane. Figure in unstable buisness environments that virtually guarantee that if you move close enough to work to walk/bike you will lose your job and be forced to work forty miles away.
When I lived in Phoenix, I rode my bike everywhere. Now that I live in Houston (one of the most sprawled cities in existance) I have gained massive amounts of weight, and regularly commuted 3+ hours a day.
The Not For Hire ran on a batacitor charged on the grail stones. According to Phillip Jose Farmer these things were supposed to have been developed in the early 80s. 5th paragraph.
There are adult sections in some video stores. You have to be of age to go into the back room to view the porn videos and to rent them. I don't see a problem with this. If they want to mandate a seperate section for M and A rated games I don't really have a problem with it. Where the fuck does 30 come from? I could legally buy cigarrets and porn at 18, and booze at 21. Why should I be legal to smoke and beat off for 12 years and booze it up for 9 before I can buy a video game where I shoot someones head off, when theoretically I could have been doing that in the military for 13 years for real? 30's a bit old. Make it a reasonable age, such as 17 for M and/or 18 for A like the ESRB recommends and I would actually support it. It would shut a lot of people up I would hope. Heck, if it's a video store they could put the porn in the same room.
I've got several problems with Blizzard, mostly with their public relations.
Once upon a time, battle.net SUCKED, bad, you couldn't get on to play StarCraft half the time, or you go booted, had laggy servers if you did. Someone makes BNetD, gets a nudge nudge wink wink okay from Blizzard. They didn't have a problem with it and allows the program to exsist for quite some time. Oops! it doesn't verify authanticity and some bean counter got pissed. Sue the developers! Cease and desist! Drag the geeks to court. A friend of mine is actually an expert witness in this trial. The trials still not settled and has been dragging on for years. Every now and then he gets called back into the court room to repeat that no Blizzard code was used and that the protocol was reverse engineered.
Some fans liked StarCraft so much, they made UT Mods to make it possible to more or less play a sort-of game of StarCraft from the perspective of just one of the units. Blizzard again gave a nudge nudge wink wink without ever giving a certified okay you can do this. Let the development of this mod go on for a couple of years, then they liked the idea so much they developed StarCraft Ghost. Well, now that we're making ours, you can't make yours, same shit they pulled on BNetD.
What do they have against Linux? They can port something to Mac, which is BSD, even on Intel now. Sucessfully porting something to OSX, especially on Intel hardware should make porting over to Linux trivial. Do they have a vendetta against Linux? Atari doesn't have a problem porting most games, neither does Bioware.
I hate to admit it, but I loved playing Blizzard games. I have fond memories of hours and hours of local IPX StarCraft play after hours at work, and I also enjoyed playing both Diablo games with my old roommates. Recently I dumped my StarCraft strategy guides into the share a book bin at the coffee shop and I got rid of the actual disk years ago. I will not buy another Blizzard game until they improve their PR, and release the games on something I can play it on. As it stands, if they released StarCraft Ghost on the Gamecube tomorrow, which is technicaly something I could play it on, I wouldn't give a dime for it no matter how good it was. Since they scratched the game all together that wont happen, but others should join me and send them a message instead of just buying more copies of World of Warcraft.
Brits still weight themselves in Stone.
Of course the ones that work better in Windows do so because those systems are full of cheap hardware that offload ROM code to the driver.
They're not going to sell them for one reason:
LED's are built to last forever.
This is not a substainable buisness model. The Edison light company went broke for this reason, some of their original bulbs still work today.
Bah, I didn't wait. I bought more flourescents than I needed, so I went down the line until I had all the old bulbs in my house that were eligable replaced. I'm cheap. I've been buying these for about four years now, every time I move (more often than I like) I start the cycle over.
Three in a fixture on a dimmer, the ones that I never use, can't use those in a dimmer, plus two in the bathroom. Turning the ones in the bathroom on heats up the mirror just above the dew point making it easier to shave without leaving towl streaks. All the rest are compact florecents.
According to that one map the winter ice extends to the Mexican border. Somehow I doubt that.
I wanna go!
I'm a libertarian, raised as a redneck, Renfest dork by choice, owner of swords and guns, defender of our right to not only keep, but to bare arms. I'm in both crowds (as much as they'll accept me)
My ex took up prostitution to pay for her drug habbit after we split (and as I think back on it probably before as well). She was advertising online. I of course took the advertising photo's to court for use as evidence. She attempted to claim I doctored the photo's. An eye glazing explanation of JPEG compression methods and the dead giveaways that come with photo editing cleared me of that one.
Another thing she did was attempt to get me labeled as a cyber stalker. I think she succeeded in that. I no longer have custody of our daughter, but neither does she my parents do.
One thing to keep in mind. Lawyers and judges are not typicaly techs. Most lawyers and judges are actually less adept technically than other professionals earning simular wages. They view technology with an eye of suspicion, because as legal people they usually see the criminal end of things not the positive end of technology. Your typical legal person will use Office 97 on an out of date computer with an out of date version of Windows. The only thing they'll use the average Linux geek will use as well is PDF documents. They love PDF's, they're like faxes, only not nasty looking.
In the end I was labeled as a criminal by a divorce court with absolutely no proof whatsoever that can be tied back to me. The only thing they had was the word of a proven liar, that was a convicted felon, convicted of drug posession and theft. My criminal record to this day is spotless. She attempted to have me arrested, but when I proved to the detective she was a liar the detective dropped the case. I'm surprised she didn't turn around and go after her instead. The civil end of things are another matter entirely. I honestly think my profession had a lot to do with the courts distrust of me, and my Ex's lawyer played that up with every oppertunity. The fact I had webpage printouts of her advertising and CD's burned of her bragging about the crimes she comitted actually worked against me in that respect.
Here's an out of date account of my case. I need to make an updated version.
If you've ever read the RiverWorld series by Philip Jose Farmer you would see a lot of simmularities between this and the batacitor that powered the Not For Hire. I'm surprised this wasn't a topic, on another note where are they going to find grail stones to charge them?
Try Brad - the game
My parents have had my old K6-233 for YEARS running Windows 95. It still worked fine for what they do believe it or not. Came across some spare hardware, a Duron 800 with 512MB of RAM, figured it was time they had an upgrade. I put a PC-BSD pre 1.0 on it, believe it was RC2 had it installed here at the house forever, finally deployed it to them. Dad loves it, mom says he never gets off of it. Of course all they do with it is play Pysol, SameGame, and FrozenBubble. UT2k4 and Armagetron are installed on it,but those were more of stress test for my own testing more than anything and wont be used by them. Overall I loved it. I like PC-BSDs single program installers, they're as easy if not easier than using Windows installers, but I tend to use the ports system instead. If you're interested in my adventures in PC-BSD land here's a link.
this device is going to create smudges and blurs everywhere. As water flows around an object it is also stired, imagine a suspension in the water as it flows, the particles in the suspension will not come back in the same order and place. I imagine the cloaked object will be the right basic color - perhaps with a bit of a shift or blend, possibly with some resemblance to what's behind it, but overall I forsee a blur. Predators cloak is excelent in comparison to this tech and you can see that bastard. I think this qualifies as mobile camoflauge. Now, perhaps with some time, development of pixelated strands in layers, and a lot more development you just may get something better than a camo/blur. This article doesn't go into enough detail on the negatives, but then again that doesn't draw readers.
History has proven, with the BetaMax case as a point of reference and the strike down of the broadcast flag, that any attempt to lock the people down will be countered with the people finding a way to unlock themselves legally. Be it with a landmark court case or an alternative way of doing things. I'm not to worried about it. On that note, I do plan to get an HDTV tuner before the next broadcast flag requirement.
(BTW - Redundant mod? check the timestamps, I was the first one to bring it up on this posting)
I use MythTV. I does everything I would want a Tivo for, records every instance of a program, lets me pause live TV, time shifting in general. On top of that it has a deadicated weather module, video game management, music player/management, netflix management, and a photoalbum. I'm sure I've missed a few things. I'm plaaning on building a dedicated MythTV backend and setting up several front ends throughout the house all sharing the same central content. Screw Tivo, I like this better.
Uhm, why am I having flashbacks to watching Earth Final Conflict?
And I quote:
"Of course, since bluetooth and 802.11 is built in, the only port you hopefully will need is power."
Guess again.
Wasn't there supposed to be a Windows 2000 Home Edition at some point but they scrapped it and did ME? If I recall I think there was going to be two levels of 2000 pro that never happened. They unleashed the plague of ME upon us instead.
Also, wasn't there supposed to be a few more versions of XP that never happened?
Lets see what actually happens in the end.
and didn't learn anything worthwhile until I picked up the Gimp. I never learned photoshop. Nice effort, the interface looks fine and everything, but I don't see the need.
I can of course see where he's coming from, there was a time when Netscape 4.x sucked so bad it wasn't worth using before Mozilla got good enough for normal work so I used NeoPlanet with a Netscape Skin. I definately see where he's coming from, just not for me.
MOD PARENT UP
You need to check out his link and give him props for his work and drive, even if it's not really playable yet.
What killed OS/2?
OS/2 died because it could run Windows programs, and thus nobody wrote any for OS/2. Okay, fine we can shell out a ton of cash for OS/2 and Windows, then we can run OS/2 programs AND Windows programs. Wait, why don't we just right Windows programs since OS/2 can run them anyways? We don't need to write OS/2 programs. Thus, the OS/2 software library did not grow. Know anybody still running OS/2? We shell out cash for Windows games and run them on Linux. As far as the developer is concerned they just sold a game to a Windows user. They just made more money on Windows, not Linux. Sure, encourage them. For the record I have had Starcraft running on Linux, but not for several years, and I used plain old WINE to do it. Using WINE just makes me feel dirty, and Blizzard is still a gaping hole. I wont even buy a Blizzard game for my GameCube until they fix their Linux problem.