Actually it wasn't maneuverability but pure speed. See, the Kessel run grazes what is affectionately called the Maw. It' a bunch of black holes next to eachother ripping time apart. Somehow Kessel and the destination (jump point?) are on other sides of the maw. The less distance you take around the Kessel Run = more horse power because you were much closer to the event horizon.
Make sense?
(I prefer it to be correct as a whole universe than be some obvious flaw. Plus, it gave Timothy Zahn one hell of a plot device. Secret weapons development? Genius! Out of touch female general of star destroyer battle group? That's hot.)
Has anyone considered how many people Microsoft keeps employed by making shitty software?
How many slashdotters would be out of a job if tomorrow every windows platform was 100% secured?
Consider your local pc repair shop. They get plenty of business because of microsoft. They also seel pcs with microsoft on it. An inherently secure OS destroys a secondary economy. One which M$ relies on.
So like, quit bitching about removing spyware, and do what I do. Charge for it.
Paper trails are not illegal. The paper printed needs only to reflect the votes of the voter, not his/her identification.
In traditional paper ballots they have a list of names and you get removed from it when you vote. You then mark an anonymous piece of paper anonymously. These are 2 paper trails. These papertrails can be easily replicated by machine, and they can be done so securely. Secret Ballot still intact.
Diebold makes near 100% accurate ATMs. There's no convincing me they couldn't build a relatively safe e-voting machine, verified through those 2 paper trails. Why not? Those trails have existed for years and can easily exist with these machines.
Ask why not? Who gains the most. Follow the Diebold money. You won't have to search very long to find scads of evidence linking Diebold and other makers to the Republican party.
30$ is not bad for a trans-atlantic hop. I've done San fran to Frankfurt on Lufthansa many many times, and while the service is impeccable, those 10 hours sure would go easier with a net connection.
For any of Lufthansa's long haul flights 30$ is very reasonable. The next logical step would be to wire up every seat with an ethernet port (which I imagine this service provides) and set up a LAN. Think about the new A380s, formerly the A3XX or the 400-800 seat true double decker planes.
800 people, lets say San Fran to Frankfurt or Munich, what do you think the odds are that at least 20 people have a laptop with some games. Hello, wouldn't fragging at 35,000 feet be awesome? Even better if the plane hosted old-school games (doom 2, quake 1) so people wouldn't need to all have it installed.
My ISP is Shaw, a cable T.V. and modem service provider for western Canada, B.C and Alberta. They have a cable modem package called Shaw Lite! Speed.
Worst moniker ever, I know. I'm on it now (the price is right) and I get at least 16k/sec to around 30k/sec which is more than enough for the web (lies, downloading porn in video format has become painful and my best argument for paying full price again...) and I get awesome ping times in games, even with voice communication software sucking up bandwidth.
It's much less than half price, comparable to dialup prices. As an American who moved here recently I'm amazed how shitty the broadband experience can be in America, comparatively. Dialup has been practically choked out of here, by the super competitive pricing of broadband service.
And this is in the face of much lower population density, with a great number of people being out of the range of quality DSL. Frankly Shaw saw a brilliant market and capitalized on it brilliantly. Everyone I know that has a computer has Shaw cable.
I hate to sound like an advert but you WISH you had an ISP that bent over backwards for you like these guys do for me. The horror stories I've heard about Verizon and others, I'm so glad to have Shaw. I'm such a shill, but that's what good service does.
What the hell? And just how many boxen would that take? I think he wants the version wtih 15 antennas and 1 computer, not 15 computers and wires coming out his ass.
Thanks for trying though.
My guess is he wants 1 box and 2-5 BIGASS antennas to just swath his plants with radio waves.
Or maybe he wants to see someone's crazy hack of some sweet ass 5 foot antenna that looks like an x-wing and has 5 miles of range.
I just graduated high-school in '04 and thus we had the standard assortment of pentium/celeron based win98 machines. My absolute favorite thing to do was just unplug the Cat5 from the back of every single machine in the library, only to come in 2 days later with hand written OUT OF ORDER signs draped over them.
The real fun was watching the techs come in (You know the type, 30 something and you KNOW you know 100x more about computer than he does) and just struggle with it. I watched this one guy run at least 10 different diagnostics then get frustrated and leave.
I felt bad so I plugged them back in.
I unplugged them in 2 week intervals. I have seriously never laughed more in my life, especially the time there were 3 techs pulling computers apart (and when you put it back duh you plug the wire in) and so they thought they jiggled some magical connection (yeah in all 30 computers).
they proceeded to open every computer, jiggle each pci card, press on the RAM, put it back together and pronounce it cured. Idiots.
Isn't the first rule of troubleshooting to check and recheck every wire? Oh but you couldn't tell these guys anything, they were MCSE.
Take into account the fact that Mac mice ARE multi-button mice. It's just that these other buttons are located on the frickin keyboard. This forces 2 handed operation just to use a goddamn mouse. It is ineffecient.
Troll all you want you mac hippies, your single button mouse is a multi-button mouse, it's just designed in a fucktarded way.
Part of the benefit of having a guide dog is that it can be a true companion to a blind person, and many times more trustworhty than a robot. A dog isn't going to crash and require a reboot, and kibble is easier to figure out than rechargeable batteries.
That said, computers and robotics are a reflection of their creators. I guess I trust dogs a whole lot more. A dog can also provide protection against burglars. The benefits of dogs over robots goes on and on.
Well, e-mail me in 5 days(kanser@@@gmail...com) and I'll tell you whether or not it worked. I just called the 1-800 number(from canada), and it only tooke 2 minutes to say "spaceballs" and my addresse. If I get a form then Canadians are eligible. If I don't then I guess tough noogies for me, I'll have to keep watching this version. (I didn't even notice it was fucked, no one seems stretched or cropped, but I wasn't looking for it.)
Network control panel? When I know I don't need net access I turn off my cable modem with the Memorex Power Center sitting under my monitor. It's basically and extension cord with 6 plugs, 5 switches, and a master on/off.
Software solutions are the ones I trust the least. You could also just unplug your Cat-5. Has the advantage of working with every single OS and Hardware manufacturer.
I don't know how often all the people bitching about the possiblity of someone next to them actually fly.
In case you were unaware, hurtling through they sky in an aluminum tube with big honking jet engines within 100 feet of you is pretty frickin loud already. If someone is truly being inconsiderate with their phone use inform your flight attendant. They will quickly clamp down on the annoying practices of the few for the sanity of the many.
If you're on a plane you've already consented to being crammed together with 400 other people. You expect quiet? You're an ass. Pay 8 g's for a first class ticket.
and I'll say it again. The only reason Japan and Japanese have these sweet 500$ cell-phones is because they see it as a perfectly good investment every 6 months to a year. They relish the new phone with new features, or one that is slimmer or cooler than the next.
In America we want a 99c phone. That's why we get hamstrung in these ridiculous 3 year or more service contracts. If you actually spend the same amount of money that Japanese do on phones, you'll quickly find you have very similair or the same phone.
Seriously, there is no "reason" why they get cool gadgets and we don't. It's not like there's a huge creature in the Pacific that feasts on cargo ships. We just don't want to pay $400 some odd bucks up front. We prefer low monthly installments./rolls eyes
This also explains the year-18 month lag in tech. We just wait for it to get cheap. (Which is ironic, because we Americans as a whole try to piss money away faster than we can earn it.)
The point of literacy is not to proofread, it is to spell correctly in the first place. There is no extra time invested in executing it, only in practicing it. And if I'm not mistaken you had at minimum 12 years of schooling, followed by college/university.
That an employer has to pay for even more training, as opposed to hiring people who were awake during English, is a testament to the quality of the American public school system.
And in the end that is why we will be marginalized by Asia.
When the scanner breaks, how long do they have to detect the fault and shut off the laser before damage is done?
The question is, when the image you're watching crashes, how fast can you blink?
You probably notice this all the time, but with your eyes being so close to your brain the response time to stimuli is really amazing. How many times has something, a bug or some random debris, come flying at your eyes wicked fast only to have you blink and it bounce harmlessly off your eyelid? And I mean stuff that's so fast you don't notice until after you've blinked.
It's probly gonna be way faster (and cheaper) then developing all the crazy failsafes to just expect people to blink.
Still, I'd prefer this laser to shoot at my HUD Glasses rather than my retina.
As well there is a Sony store in Victoria B.C., and it has been there for a number of years now. Infact in my travels I have seen a few sony stores. This is news?
If a teenager wants picture ID he can request a provincial ID card. In BC where I live this looks similair to the BC licences, which can be obatined even EASIER once you turn 16. As such, anyone without ID most likely is not 16. Thus must have a parent to buy with them. I was this age not so long ago and I agree with a system such as this.
To keep things in perspective, kids die of hunger all over the world and don't even know what video games are. Therefore, one should feel compelled to suck it up and carry around a piece of plastic in his wallet.
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Those file names should change depending on the true owner.
i.e. Pwned by BonziBuddy.
An applaudable step towards transparency from Microsoft.
Pip pip.
Actually it wasn't maneuverability but pure speed. See, the Kessel run grazes what is affectionately called the Maw. It' a bunch of black holes next to eachother ripping time apart. Somehow Kessel and the destination (jump point?) are on other sides of the maw. The less distance you take around the Kessel Run = more horse power because you were much closer to the event horizon.
Make sense?
(I prefer it to be correct as a whole universe than be some obvious flaw. Plus, it gave Timothy Zahn one hell of a plot device. Secret weapons development? Genius! Out of touch female general of star destroyer battle group? That's hot.)
w00t comes from hackers proclaiming "root!" when they had gained access to root on a system.
i ll ax/chortle/Engrish/gaydar
As with most net-derived slang its current form is influenced by the second greatest word creator known to man: The Typo.
w00t/teh/pwn/j00
The best word maker has to be the Portmanteau.
Smog/ginormous/brunch/animatronics/camcorder/ch
and everyone's favorite: Crunk.
Has anyone considered how many people Microsoft keeps employed by making shitty software?
How many slashdotters would be out of a job if tomorrow every windows platform was 100% secured?
Consider your local pc repair shop. They get plenty of business because of microsoft. They also seel pcs with microsoft on it. An inherently secure OS destroys a secondary economy. One which M$ relies on.
So like, quit bitching about removing spyware, and do what I do. Charge for it.
Maybe the girls aren't all over you because you post insightful comments about the life span of fuckin gungans?
Paper trails are not illegal. The paper printed needs only to reflect the votes of the voter, not his/her identification.
In traditional paper ballots they have a list of names and you get removed from it when you vote. You then mark an anonymous piece of paper anonymously. These are 2 paper trails. These papertrails can be easily replicated by machine, and they can be done so securely. Secret Ballot still intact.
Diebold makes near 100% accurate ATMs. There's no convincing me they couldn't build a relatively safe e-voting machine, verified through those 2 paper trails. Why not? Those trails have existed for years and can easily exist with these machines.
Ask why not? Who gains the most. Follow the Diebold money. You won't have to search very long to find scads of evidence linking Diebold and other makers to the Republican party.
You couldn't make this shit up.
Read carefully. It will 'play' video, not 'store' it.
Could they give it 1 gig and an optional external burner? Surely burnt cds are cheap enough storage, even in India.
30$ is not bad for a trans-atlantic hop. I've done San fran to Frankfurt on Lufthansa many many times, and while the service is impeccable, those 10 hours sure would go easier with a net connection.
For any of Lufthansa's long haul flights 30$ is very reasonable. The next logical step would be to wire up every seat with an ethernet port (which I imagine this service provides) and set up a LAN. Think about the new A380s, formerly the A3XX or the 400-800 seat true double decker planes.
800 people, lets say San Fran to Frankfurt or Munich, what do you think the odds are that at least 20 people have a laptop with some games. Hello, wouldn't fragging at 35,000 feet be awesome? Even better if the plane hosted old-school games (doom 2, quake 1) so people wouldn't need to all have it installed.
News for nerds. Stuff that mattered (3 months ago).
My ISP is Shaw, a cable T.V. and modem service provider for western Canada, B.C and Alberta. They have a cable modem package called Shaw Lite! Speed.
Worst moniker ever, I know. I'm on it now (the price is right) and I get at least 16k/sec to around 30k/sec which is more than enough for the web (lies, downloading porn in video format has become painful and my best argument for paying full price again...) and I get awesome ping times in games, even with voice communication software sucking up bandwidth.
It's much less than half price, comparable to dialup prices. As an American who moved here recently I'm amazed how shitty the broadband experience can be in America, comparatively. Dialup has been practically choked out of here, by the super competitive pricing of broadband service.
And this is in the face of much lower population density, with a great number of people being out of the range of quality DSL. Frankly Shaw saw a brilliant market and capitalized on it brilliantly. Everyone I know that has a computer has Shaw cable.
I hate to sound like an advert but you WISH you had an ISP that bent over backwards for you like these guys do for me. The horror stories I've heard about Verizon and others, I'm so glad to have Shaw. I'm such a shill, but that's what good service does.
What the hell? And just how many boxen would that take? I think he wants the version wtih 15 antennas and 1 computer, not 15 computers and wires coming out his ass.
Thanks for trying though.
My guess is he wants 1 box and 2-5 BIGASS antennas to just swath his plants with radio waves.
Or maybe he wants to see someone's crazy hack of some sweet ass 5 foot antenna that looks like an x-wing and has 5 miles of range.
I just graduated high-school in '04 and thus we had the standard assortment of pentium/celeron based win98 machines. My absolute favorite thing to do was just unplug the Cat5 from the back of every single machine in the library, only to come in 2 days later with hand written OUT OF ORDER signs draped over them.
The real fun was watching the techs come in (You know the type, 30 something and you KNOW you know 100x more about computer than he does) and just struggle with it. I watched this one guy run at least 10 different diagnostics then get frustrated and leave.
I felt bad so I plugged them back in.
I unplugged them in 2 week intervals. I have seriously never laughed more in my life, especially the time there were 3 techs pulling computers apart (and when you put it back duh you plug the wire in) and so they thought they jiggled some magical connection (yeah in all 30 computers).
they proceeded to open every computer, jiggle each pci card, press on the RAM, put it back together and pronounce it cured. Idiots.
Isn't the first rule of troubleshooting to check and recheck every wire? Oh but you couldn't tell these guys anything, they were MCSE.
Take into account the fact that Mac mice ARE multi-button mice. It's just that these other buttons are located on the frickin keyboard. This forces 2 handed operation just to use a goddamn mouse. It is ineffecient.
Troll all you want you mac hippies, your single button mouse is a multi-button mouse, it's just designed in a fucktarded way.
Part of the benefit of having a guide dog is that it can be a true companion to a blind person, and many times more trustworhty than a robot. A dog isn't going to crash and require a reboot, and kibble is easier to figure out than rechargeable batteries.
That said, computers and robotics are a reflection of their creators. I guess I trust dogs a whole lot more. A dog can also provide protection against burglars. The benefits of dogs over robots goes on and on.
Well, e-mail me in 5 days(kanser@@@gmail...com) and I'll tell you whether or not it worked. I just called the 1-800 number(from canada), and it only tooke 2 minutes to say "spaceballs" and my addresse. If I get a form then Canadians are eligible. If I don't then I guess tough noogies for me, I'll have to keep watching this version. (I didn't even notice it was fucked, no one seems stretched or cropped, but I wasn't looking for it.)
Hmm, it seems one Major Asshole has taken control of Lucasfilm...
Network control panel? When I know I don't need net access I turn off my cable modem with the Memorex Power Center sitting under my monitor. It's basically and extension cord with 6 plugs, 5 switches, and a master on/off.
Software solutions are the ones I trust the least. You could also just unplug your Cat-5. Has the advantage of working with every single OS and Hardware manufacturer.
I don't know how often all the people bitching about the possiblity of someone next to them actually fly.
In case you were unaware, hurtling through they sky in an aluminum tube with big honking jet engines within 100 feet of you is pretty frickin loud already. If someone is truly being inconsiderate with their phone use inform your flight attendant. They will quickly clamp down on the annoying practices of the few for the sanity of the many.
If you're on a plane you've already consented to being crammed together with 400 other people. You expect quiet? You're an ass. Pay 8 g's for a first class ticket.
and I'll say it again. The only reason Japan and Japanese have these sweet 500$ cell-phones is because they see it as a perfectly good investment every 6 months to a year. They relish the new phone with new features, or one that is slimmer or cooler than the next.
/rolls eyes
In America we want a 99c phone. That's why we get hamstrung in these ridiculous 3 year or more service contracts. If you actually spend the same amount of money that Japanese do on phones, you'll quickly find you have very similair or the same phone.
Seriously, there is no "reason" why they get cool gadgets and we don't. It's not like there's a huge creature in the Pacific that feasts on cargo ships. We just don't want to pay $400 some odd bucks up front. We prefer low monthly installments.
This also explains the year-18 month lag in tech. We just wait for it to get cheap. (Which is ironic, because we Americans as a whole try to piss money away faster than we can earn it.)
The point of literacy is not to proofread, it is to spell correctly in the first place. There is no extra time invested in executing it, only in practicing it. And if I'm not mistaken you had at minimum 12 years of schooling, followed by college/university.
That an employer has to pay for even more training, as opposed to hiring people who were awake during English, is a testament to the quality of the American public school system.
And in the end that is why we will be marginalized by Asia.
Yes, thank you very much for giving us Resident Evil In Space instead of what could have been a good movie.
Fuck hollywood sucks.
You're telling Slashdot that Hardware gets cheaper and more accessible over time? *Gasp!*
The question is, when the image you're watching crashes, how fast can you blink?
You probably notice this all the time, but with your eyes being so close to your brain the response time to stimuli is really amazing. How many times has something, a bug or some random debris, come flying at your eyes wicked fast only to have you blink and it bounce harmlessly off your eyelid? And I mean stuff that's so fast you don't notice until after you've blinked.
It's probly gonna be way faster (and cheaper) then developing all the crazy failsafes to just expect people to blink.
Still, I'd prefer this laser to shoot at my HUD Glasses rather than my retina.
As well there is a Sony store in Victoria B.C., and it has been there for a number of years now. Infact in my travels I have seen a few sony stores. This is news?
If a teenager wants picture ID he can request a provincial ID card. In BC where I live this looks similair to the BC licences, which can be obatined even EASIER once you turn 16. As such, anyone without ID most likely is not 16. Thus must have a parent to buy with them. I was this age not so long ago and I agree with a system such as this.
To keep things in perspective, kids die of hunger all over the world and don't even know what video games are. Therefore, one should feel compelled to suck it up and carry around a piece of plastic in his wallet.