Remember it is a two-way satellite. Not a passive one-way for regular satellite TV. As such, the signal is more prone to being disturbed. The dish has to be aimed more precisely at the satellite and any wind or heavy rain can affect this. (Disclaimer: I used to work for Starband)
Why would you want to develop a gaming console using the i86 instruction set. It's main redeeming value is it's backwards compatibility, but since the xbox isn't pc compatible who cares?
"Compatibility with older Xbox software could be provided by emulation technology Microsoft acquired in February from Connectix, which sells Virtual PC, allowing Intel-based software to run on PowerPC chips."
.. and basically the way they explain it. The aid is more like coupons, the money they receive in aid is spent here purchasing weapons and the like. Getting pumped right back into the US economy.
It's advantageous for certain parts of Washington to be in forever favor of foreign Israel. Military spending aside, it's also nice for us to have an ally in the region(for reasons debatable, from oil to whatever).
The arguement isn't about defending Saddam Hussein. It's that we did the right thing for the wrong reasons. It's getting pretty tiresome listening to people go on and on about what a brutal dictator Saddam was. Yet turn a blind eye to other brutal regimes, committing hideous atrocities.
Granted Iraq's resources(the oil) are going to come into play. On both sides, we're only there for the oil/we don't want a madman in power with that much resource at his disposal. Freeing the people and bringing them justice was at best a secondary or tertiary reason for our involvement in the region.
Does it glamorize violence? Sure. Does it desensitize us to violence? Of course. Does it help us tolerate violence? You bet. Does it stunt our empathy for our fellow beings? Heck yes.
Does it cause violence?.... Well, that's hard to prove.
This device had you RTFA, is more akin to water skiing than regular vanilla surfing in the ocean with waves. It's more designed for a still water lake environment. Just to cruise around on, with the other watercraft.
Uhh not exactly cool, although they'll never admit to it. Conformity is cool. Kids all act the same damn way. they all try and be different and rebel, all doing it the same way homogenizing their style. Look at how all the white kids follow mass market rap like eminem and so forth.
All MS needs to do is harness this form of pseduo-mass rebellion. They'll target linux like those trucker hats that were briefly in style. At first rare and cool, now trendy poseur and lame.
From HalfLife2.net
Ever have one of those weeks? This has just not been the best couple of days for me or for Valve.
Yes, the source code that has been posted is the HL-2 source code.
Here is what we know:
1) Starting around 9/11 of this year, someone other than me was accessing my email account. This has been determined by looking at traffic on our email server versus my travel schedule.
2) Shortly afterwards my machine started acting weird (right-clicking on executables would crash explorer). I was unable to find a virus or trojan on my machine, I reformatted my hard drive, and reinstalled.
3) For the next week, there appears to have been suspicious activity on my webmail account.
4) Around 9/19 someone made a copy of the HL-2 source tree.
5) At some point, keystroke recorders got installed on several machines at Valve. Our speculation is that these were done via a buffer overflow in Outlook's preview pane. This recorder is apparently a customized version of RemoteAnywhere created to infect Valve (at least it hasn't been seen anywhere else, and isn't detected by normal virus scanning tools).
6) Periodically for the last year we've been the subject of a variety of denial of service attacks targetted at our webservers and at Steam. We don't know if these are related or independent.
Well, this sucks.
What I'd appreciate is the assistance of the community in tracking this down. I have a special email address for people to send information to, helpvalve@valvesoftware.com. If you have information about the denial of service attacks or the infiltration of our network, please send the details. There are some pretty obvious places to start with the posts and records in IRC, so if you can point us in the right direction, that would be great.
We at Valve have always thought of ourselves as being part of a community, and I can't imagine a better group of people to help us take care of these problems than this community.
My friend who went to a university in Japan, told me that at the end of the year the students generally throw out all their appliances. He tells me they all yank out the power cord in the back so it can't be reused.
Slashdot Mirror
Remember it is a two-way satellite. Not a passive one-way for regular satellite TV. As such, the signal is more prone to being disturbed. The dish has to be aimed more precisely at the satellite and any wind or heavy rain can affect this. (Disclaimer: I used to work for Starband)
That, and an English accent is much more pleasing to the ear than an American one.
Found what? Sorry not the most grammatically friendly sentence around.
... there's no one on slashdot I would give a present to. Rather no one that I would be giving a present to, uses slashdot.
Should provide adequate sustinence for the Animated Dr Who marathon!
So how/where does the Italian Wedding play into your post? Maybe I'm missing something...
And the originals are no longer available, nor will they be.
Why would you want to develop a gaming console using the i86 instruction set. It's main redeeming value is it's backwards compatibility, but since the xbox isn't pc compatible who cares?
"Compatibility with older Xbox software could be provided by emulation technology Microsoft acquired in February from Connectix, which sells Virtual PC, allowing Intel-based software to run on PowerPC chips."
They were considering it, but never went through with it.
Yes, a cromulent news cast like that will embiggen the smallest patriot!
It's advantageous for certain parts of Washington to be in forever favor of foreign Israel. Military spending aside, it's also nice for us to have an ally in the region(for reasons debatable, from oil to whatever).
They also have impressions of someone who was at the presentation. Pretty interesting stuff.
Granted Iraq's resources(the oil) are going to come into play. On both sides, we're only there for the oil/we don't want a madman in power with that much resource at his disposal. Freeing the people and bringing them justice was at best a secondary or tertiary reason for our involvement in the region.
Wow, didn't realize so many ladies trolled slashdot!
One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter.
Does it glamorize violence? Sure. Does it desensitize us to violence? Of course. Does it help us tolerate violence? You bet. Does it stunt our empathy for our fellow beings? Heck yes.
Does it cause violence? .... Well, that's hard to prove.
This device had you RTFA, is more akin to water skiing than regular vanilla surfing in the ocean with waves. It's more designed for a still water lake environment. Just to cruise around on, with the other watercraft.
Uhh not exactly cool, although they'll never admit to it. Conformity is cool. Kids all act the same damn way. they all try and be different and rebel, all doing it the same way homogenizing their style. Look at how all the white kids follow mass market rap like eminem and so forth.
All MS needs to do is harness this form of pseduo-mass rebellion. They'll target linux like those trucker hats that were briefly in style. At first rare and cool, now trendy poseur and lame.
From HalfLife2.net Ever have one of those weeks? This has just not been the best couple of days for me or for Valve.
Yes, the source code that has been posted is the HL-2 source code.
Here is what we know:1) Starting around 9/11 of this year, someone other than me was accessing my email account. This has been determined by looking at traffic on our email server versus my travel schedule.
2) Shortly afterwards my machine started acting weird (right-clicking on executables would crash explorer). I was unable to find a virus or trojan on my machine, I reformatted my hard drive, and reinstalled.
3) For the next week, there appears to have been suspicious activity on my webmail account.
4) Around 9/19 someone made a copy of the HL-2 source tree.
5) At some point, keystroke recorders got installed on several machines at Valve. Our speculation is that these were done via a buffer overflow in Outlook's preview pane. This recorder is apparently a customized version of RemoteAnywhere created to infect Valve (at least it hasn't been seen anywhere else, and isn't detected by normal virus scanning tools).
6) Periodically for the last year we've been the subject of a variety of denial of service attacks targetted at our webservers and at Steam. We don't know if these are related or independent.
Well, this sucks.
What I'd appreciate is the assistance of the community in tracking this down. I have a special email address for people to send information to, helpvalve@valvesoftware.com. If you have information about the denial of service attacks or the infiltration of our network, please send the details. There are some pretty obvious places to start with the posts and records in IRC, so if you can point us in the right direction, that would be great.
We at Valve have always thought of ourselves as being part of a community, and I can't imagine a better group of people to help us take care of these problems than this community.
GabeMy friend who went to a university in Japan, told me that at the end of the year the students generally throw out all their appliances. He tells me they all yank out the power cord in the back so it can't be reused.
I.C. Wiener?
No, no more Flash! Make it stop!
Well not always the worst thing.
... is the real problem. Give me a device that can actually do all those things for a decent amount of time. Something ergonomic wouldn't hurt either.