OK that makes sense to me. I must admit that I had no knowledge of Blender specifically but with your explanation I can see the difference.
PS I know this was of no value to the thread in general, I just wanted to give "props"
OK It's definately a cool event, but it is reserved for a particular political leaning. I would say that the closest thing we have in the good ol' US is held in Mesquite TX every year. I'm too drunk to remember the name for sure but it might be QuakeCon.
Id Software releases it's old and not-so-profitable-anymore source code, and I'm not seeing a single great thing being created with any of it, and as most would agree, Id's products are top notch. So I don't see how greatness can come from buying anyone else's old code.
But I can spend $700 or so and build a much, much faster system in the world of Intel. With a bigger monitor too. And a whole lot more software from which to choose (all the *NIX as well as Winblows®). I know the reason to buy a Mac 5 years ago or so was for it's superior graphics and sound capabilities, especially editing, but those days are long gone now are they not?
I think you are onto something. I was thinking of clients being able to flag each other as bogus or legit, with enough bad votes getting a client banned from the network, and enough good votes getting a client some sort of flag as a trusted source of files, ala ebay's feedback.
I remember Troy McClure from such educational films as Here Comes the Metric System. The world is turning to the US's wacky measurements, not the other way around.
It made me mad, but last time I bought a system I discovered that I could not build my own for any less money than a Dell Dimension would cost, including shipping, and it came with software and warranty and all that too. I'm still building my own next time tho, dammit. Just because.
People who write software, or maintain corporate networks or computing faclilites are in a whole different world for a guy who can mearly 'build his own PC' or 'install Linux'.
Or spell...
...to have enough admins so that there is usually one on a server, and after certain regular players on a server have been there long enough to determine whether they have any common sense or not, make them admins too, and ID ban anyone who cheats. I know a few servers that are run like this and they are by far the most fun for me the player, as well as being the most popular (and populated) servers.
Ahh the days of TradeWars, LORD, MajorMUD, WildNET, FidoNET, and about 100 other little stupid doors. We lived in the sticks and had a party line, the old lady down the road would always pick up the phone right when I was about to knife some fool sleeping in the LORD inn. There'd be about 5 secs of garbage on the screen then...
NO CARRIER
Well, water weighs a great deal, so it is very nice not to have to carry it on a spacecraft. Also this makes it vastly more likely that life existed on Mars.
I was going to pretty much say the same thing. I can imagine a cheap 286 notebook being left behind a garbage can, serving kiddie pr0n and plenty of other nefarious things happening on that there wireless LAN thingybop.
I'm a relative Linux n00b but I have tried several of the newer distros to see what I like and I have to say that the Mandrake distros always seems to "just work" more than RH. And I agree with you about the dual booting, no one wants to completely abandon what is familiar to them right away.
I use WinXP Pro, WinME, and Mandrake 8.2. I know someone who got their entire mp3 collection wiped off a windows partition by some kind of virus so I keep my collection on a FAT32 on one computer and mirrored on a Linux partition on the other computer. Let's see a virus wipe them all out at the same time!
With today's "everywhere accepts every card" world, the only 2 reasons I can think of to use any certain card are: convenience and APR. I don't see how inconveniencing most of Mastercard's internet-using customers is going to help their bottom line.
That is exactly the point: removing drags on human progression from the gene pool. At least temporarily. I know this post doesn't offer much, but I needed to vent.
That is all, carry on.
It's just that our real lives tend to suck. This makes fantasy lives so appealing... Can we hope for the day when our real lives are as stimulating and rewarding as the games are today?
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Less distribution of your email address? The USPS sells your real address to any spammer that wants to buy it.
OK that makes sense to me. I must admit that I had no knowledge of Blender specifically but with your explanation I can see the difference. PS I know this was of no value to the thread in general, I just wanted to give "props"
OK It's definately a cool event, but it is reserved for a particular political leaning. I would say that the closest thing we have in the good ol' US is held in Mesquite TX every year. I'm too drunk to remember the name for sure but it might be QuakeCon.
Id Software releases it's old and not-so-profitable-anymore source code, and I'm not seeing a single great thing being created with any of it, and as most would agree, Id's products are top notch. So I don't see how greatness can come from buying anyone else's old code.
Well wasnt there?
But I can spend $700 or so and build a much, much faster system in the world of Intel. With a bigger monitor too. And a whole lot more software from which to choose (all the *NIX as well as Winblows®). I know the reason to buy a Mac 5 years ago or so was for it's superior graphics and sound capabilities, especially editing, but those days are long gone now are they not?
WinMX is still pretty good.
I think you are onto something. I was thinking of clients being able to flag each other as bogus or legit, with enough bad votes getting a client banned from the network, and enough good votes getting a client some sort of flag as a trusted source of files, ala ebay's feedback.
I remember Troy McClure from such educational films as Here Comes the Metric System. The world is turning to the US's wacky measurements, not the other way around.
"We claim this moon in the name of the Queen, Herbert Hoover."
So the Doc on call does not go to a movie any more than he would drink martinis while he's on call.
It made me mad, but last time I bought a system I discovered that I could not build my own for any less money than a Dell Dimension would cost, including shipping, and it came with software and warranty and all that too. I'm still building my own next time tho, dammit. Just because.
People who write software, or maintain corporate networks or computing faclilites are in a whole different world for a guy who can mearly 'build his own PC' or 'install Linux'. Or spell...
...to have enough admins so that there is usually one on a server, and after certain regular players on a server have been there long enough to determine whether they have any common sense or not, make them admins too, and ID ban anyone who cheats. I know a few servers that are run like this and they are by far the most fun for me the player, as well as being the most popular (and populated) servers.
Ahh the days of TradeWars, LORD, MajorMUD, WildNET, FidoNET, and about 100 other little stupid doors. We lived in the sticks and had a party line, the old lady down the road would always pick up the phone right when I was about to knife some fool sleeping in the LORD inn. There'd be about 5 secs of garbage on the screen then... NO CARRIER
OMFG!! Wallhacking AA cheater!
Well, water weighs a great deal, so it is very nice not to have to carry it on a spacecraft. Also this makes it vastly more likely that life existed on Mars.
I was going to pretty much say the same thing. I can imagine a cheap 286 notebook being left behind a garbage can, serving kiddie pr0n and plenty of other nefarious things happening on that there wireless LAN thingybop.
I'm a relative Linux n00b but I have tried several of the newer distros to see what I like and I have to say that the Mandrake distros always seems to "just work" more than RH. And I agree with you about the dual booting, no one wants to completely abandon what is familiar to them right away. I use WinXP Pro, WinME, and Mandrake 8.2. I know someone who got their entire mp3 collection wiped off a windows partition by some kind of virus so I keep my collection on a FAT32 on one computer and mirrored on a Linux partition on the other computer. Let's see a virus wipe them all out at the same time!
With today's "everywhere accepts every card" world, the only 2 reasons I can think of to use any certain card are: convenience and APR. I don't see how inconveniencing most of Mastercard's internet-using customers is going to help their bottom line.
That is exactly the point: removing drags on human progression from the gene pool. At least temporarily. I know this post doesn't offer much, but I needed to vent. That is all, carry on.
It's just that our real lives tend to suck. This makes fantasy lives so appealing... Can we hope for the day when our real lives are as stimulating and rewarding as the games are today?
It was less expensive than I could have built it myself for. I'm not sure what a cluebie is, sounds like a word for queers to use.
In 4 tries, it failed to install. Kept running into a problem and flashing "Some packages were not installed" before anything at all was installed.
...just cause some, err, "sunspot-type interference" and fry their electronics. The sun did it, honest!