I have this one user who destroys a computer everytime he walks within 10 feet of it. He also hates spiders....maybe I can keep him away from the computers if they all look like that.
Let me ask you something, do you think you sound intelligent? I dont care what kind of degree you have. All you seem to spew forth is excrement in an attempt to make yourself sound as if though you know what the hell you are babbeling about. That has now become apparent to me in reading your other self indulged posts.
A shotgun does have that range, but it does not have an EFFECTIVE range of 200 yards, which is my point.
I am not arguing about whether it is illegal to download music, I am arguing that what the RIAA is wrong and the only way to stop it is through civil disobedience and THAT is what people are doing whether they realize it or not.
Prohibition didn't work because people wanted alcohol. The bribing of officers, etc is an outcome of that fact. The analogy is perfectly valid because people still went to court for the use of alcohol, but it did not scare everyone else from using it.
I find it kind of sad that you don't realize that things may not go as you think and people aren't as easily scared as you seem to think.
Do you realize what 0 probability means? It means that never in a million years would you hit it. When in actuality it is quite likely that you would hit the elephant, the point is that you would not do enough damage to it to make any difference.
"The only people who feel anger are the individuals who pilfer music." Not true. I do not share music, I do not download music (unless I own the CD), I am pissed as all get out. I only own a handful of CD's because I refuse to pay the mere price of my soul for a CD. "Although the underground file-sharing "industry" may evolve, forces against it can become more and more tyrannical/iron-fisted until the vast majority of individuals live in fear from doing it."
Just like the prohibition era, right?
"Unfortunately, and sadly, this scenario is the immediate outcome." I wasn't aware that you could predict the furture, I apologize. BS, you don't know what will happen, I don't know what will happen. All I know is that I dont like what the RIAA is doing. Going after 200 some odd people out of a few million is like using a shotgun on an elephant from 200 yards....it wont work. Instead, they will ruin a couple hundred people's lives.
Do you realize how hypocritical you sound? "Its not the game's fault, it's not the child's fault, its the Gun's fault." Give me a break you sound just as bad as the people that want to ban the games.
Maybe its time we stop blaming guns, games, and maybe even the parents (though I think at least some of the blame should go to the parents.) Lets blame the real problem...THE FRIGGIN KIDS!!! They are the ones that pulled the trigger, they are the ones that should be held responsible for their actions. It is time that we stop teaching kids that others are to blame for their actions and start teaching them that what they do has consequences.
1. No RIAA
2. They are ruled by a rich white Prime Minister, not a rich white President.
3. No RIAA
4. Huge spaces of open land where you can hide bodies....err....crap!
5. One word: BEAVER
Has anybody stopped to thank the kid that let the bank know? It is comforting to know that there are still a handful of people out there who are still honest. Just my humble opinion, SirLantos
This is a case where I'd like to see games act more like movies. Cut the cut-scenes, and give me gameplay.
I would have to respectfully disagree with that staement. I LOVE a good story in my game. Cut-scenes are often a welcome break from playing and well done ones make me want to keep playing the game. I never truly enjoyed FPSs until Half-Life put a killer story in with it.
Should the story/cut scenes overshadow the game play...absolutly not. In the end game play is the most important thing, but I still like a little "movie magic".
Experts Urge a Reprieve for the Hubble Space Telescope
By DENNIS OVERBYE
he Hubble Space Telescope, astronomy's vaunted time machine, was granted a conditional reprieve yesterday when an expert panel recommended that NASA consider sending a crew of astronauts at the end of the decade to extend its career, rather than dropping it out of orbit, as has been planned.
But the committee said its recommendation should be carried out only if the science to be performed in those additional years was able to beat competing proposals for new NASA science projects.
For the last 13 years, floating above the Earth's murky atmosphere, the telescope has beamed down crisp images of galaxies still forming at the dawn of cosmic time, peering into the hearts of galaxies and quasars in search of black holes, and investigating the mysterious "dark energy" that seems to be wrenching the cosmos apart.
"By any standards the H.S.T. has been a spectacular success -- one of the most remarkable facilities in the entire history of science," said the committee, whose chairman is Dr. John Bahcall of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, in a report posted yesterday on the Web site of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
The committee members and other astronomers pointed out, however, that since the breakup of the Columbia shuttle, the telescope's future has been threatened because it is hostage to the ability of a space shuttle to pay periodic visits for maintenance and to replace old instruments with new ones.
Those repair missions would take the shuttle too far from the orbit of the International Space Station in case of trouble. As a result, the space agency should be prepared for a range of possibilities, the report said, from no more shuttle missions to two.
More is likely to be heard on that score in a couple weeks when the report of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board is released. But ultimately, Dr. Bahcall said, Congress, the White House and the NASA administrator will decide whether the shuttle may visit the telescope.
Dr. Anne Kinney, who is in charge of astronomy and physics in the space agency's office of space science, said that the Bahcall committee's report was "a good report."
"It reminds us that we need to be flexible," Dr. Kinney said. But she added that there was no budget for the extra mission and no precedent for the kind of competition that Dr. Bahcall and his colleagues had proposed.
"It's going to be a challenge," she said.
Astronomers were generally pleased with the report. Dr. Wendy Freedman, director of the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, Calif., called it "balanced and thoughtful."
Dr. George Rieke, an infrared astronomer at the University of Arizona, said the idea of a competition was "a sensible way to deal with limited resources."
Dr. Steven V. W. Beckwith, director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, praised the report, saying, "I couldn't be happier."
He added:"Everyone here is tremendously grateful to NASA for its support of the Hubble. We're delighted to have the chance to compete to continue this extraordinary story."
The story of the $1 billion Hubble, launched in 1990, is one of the great comeback stories in modern science. It was designed to take advantage of an orbital vantage point above the Earth's atmosphere, which smears images and blocks some wavelengths of light from reaching ground-based telescopes.
Once it was in orbit, however, astronomers were devastated to discover that the telescope had a flawed mirror.
The flaw was corrected in 1993 by sky-walking astronauts who, in effect, fitted the telescope's instruments with corrective lenses, enabling Hubble to attain the glory for which it was designed.
NASA has long planned to end Hubble's spectacular run and bring it down to make way in the budget for the James Webb Space Telescope, now scheduled to be launched in 2011. But som
I LOVE the Heroes of Might and Magic series. UbiSoft also made a number of games that I thought were quite good. (They were involved with a lot of the Tom Clancy games.)
...they publish the address of the new site and then someone else writes a virus that attacks that site. Instead of putting a band-aid on the problem why not just fix it?
Just my opinion,
SirLantos
So, they fully admit that the other half is caused by Windows programing. That is still pretty bad.
Think about it, if 50% of Windows crashes is caused by the possible 1,000's of other programs. That means the other 50% is caused by a handful of MS programs.....thats not a healthy ratio.
I can't wait to play some great games on my linux machine! Perhaps I am setting my standards a little high; but if this takes off the world may actually see that linux is not just an OS for geeks, but an OS that everybody will want to enjoy. I, personally, have been dissapointed by the serious lack of games for my favorite OS. I have always believed that, that was one of the big reasons that linux hasn't been a pervasive as it should be.
Perhaps you should have read the entire comment. Specifically:Then again, probably not.
I am not blaming the system for my getting average grades, I take full resposibility. I agree with you completly: if I had taken the time to give a damn about about it, I would have gotten better grades.
What I am trying to say is that this book may have helped me give a damn about math.
I by no means consider myself a misunderstood genius. Do not group me in the category of geeks who think that they are better than "normal" people.
Yes, but programming, math, etc. is extremely structrured. A plus B always equals C, it is all strict rules that MUST be followed or your answer is wrong.
When I say I am an abstract thinker, I mean that I understand things that aren't required to have structure more than things that absolutly must be a certain way.
Yes, programming requires a bit of imagination. But it is all logic, it must be constructed a certain way or it will fail. Peotry, on the other hand, requires nothing. There is nobody that can say that one persons peotry is absolutly wrong, yes it can be structured, but if the artist decides they don't want it to be structured then that makes the poem more special to the poet.
Before you throw your sarcasm around, be sure you understand what the person is trying to say. Change your perspective to their own and then, respond with intelligence, not with sarcasm.
...if this book was available during my school daze, I would have paid attention in class. Then maybe I would have gotten better than a C in math.
I have always been more of an abstract thinker (which is weird being a programmer.) As such, I have never gotten along very well with the subject. Maybe a book like this would have put me on a better track. Then again, probably not.
I was actually doing tech support for my mom, here is the approximate conversation:
Me: Ok, what's the problem
Mom: The computer won't do anything
Me: Can you move the mouse around?
Mom: Nope, the pointer just sits there
Me: Ok, its just froze, go ahead and turn the computer off, give it a couple of secs and turn it back on
(After a few moments)
Me:Ok, turn it back on now.
Mom:Ok
Me:What is it doing?
Mom:Nothing, its still on the same screen
Me:*Dumbfounded*On the same screen? ok, thats wierd. Didn't go through any booting or anything like that
Mom:No
Me:*idea*What button are you pushing to turn it off?
Mom:The one on the TV thing
Me: Ok, I know what the problem is, on the big tower thingie, there should be a power button, hit that.
Mom:I can't find it
Me: *trying not to sound frustrated*Ok, do you see where the cord goes in to the wall?
Mom:Yes
Me:Pull it out
Mom:Won't that hurt
Me: Probably not
Mom:So it might?
Me:*Not wanting to explain it*No, it won't
Mom: Are you sure?
Me:Yes, I'm sure.
Mom:Ok (sounds in background) Done.
Me:now, plug it back in
Mom:Done.
Me: Is it booting up?
Mom:YES!! You are such a genious.
*Conversation irrelevant from here on in.*
The problem with coming up with a new design interface is that it is VERY risky. What if the consumer doesn't like it? What if it is harder to use thatn predicted?
Innovation is wonderful, it is also VERY expensive. Why reinvent the wheel? Its a tried and true way of doing things. If you are going to innovate, make it worth while.
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I have this one user who destroys a computer everytime he walks within 10 feet of it. He also hates spiders....maybe I can keep him away from the computers if they all look like that.
Let me ask you something, do you think you sound intelligent? I dont care what kind of degree you have. All you seem to spew forth is excrement in an attempt to make yourself sound as if though you know what the hell you are babbeling about. That has now become apparent to me in reading your other self indulged posts.
A shotgun does have that range, but it does not have an EFFECTIVE range of 200 yards, which is my point.
I am not arguing about whether it is illegal to download music, I am arguing that what the RIAA is wrong and the only way to stop it is through civil disobedience and THAT is what people are doing whether they realize it or not.
Prohibition didn't work because people wanted alcohol. The bribing of officers, etc is an outcome of that fact. The analogy is perfectly valid because people still went to court for the use of alcohol, but it did not scare everyone else from using it.
I find it kind of sad that you don't realize that things may not go as you think and people aren't as easily scared as you seem to think.
Do you realize what 0 probability means? It means that never in a million years would you hit it. When in actuality it is quite likely that you would hit the elephant, the point is that you would not do enough damage to it to make any difference.
"The only people who feel anger are the individuals who pilfer music."
Not true. I do not share music, I do not download music (unless I own the CD), I am pissed as all get out. I only own a handful of CD's because I refuse to pay the mere price of my soul for a CD.
"Although the underground file-sharing "industry" may evolve, forces against it can become more and more tyrannical/iron-fisted until the vast majority of individuals live in fear from doing it."
Just like the prohibition era, right?
"Unfortunately, and sadly, this scenario is the immediate outcome."
I wasn't aware that you could predict the furture, I apologize. BS, you don't know what will happen, I don't know what will happen. All I know is that I dont like what the RIAA is doing. Going after 200 some odd people out of a few million is like using a shotgun on an elephant from 200 yards....it wont work. Instead, they will ruin a couple hundred people's lives.
But, thats just my humble opinion,
SirLantos
Do you realize how hypocritical you sound? "Its not the game's fault, it's not the child's fault, its the Gun's fault." Give me a break you sound just as bad as the people that want to ban the games.
Maybe its time we stop blaming guns, games, and maybe even the parents (though I think at least some of the blame should go to the parents.) Lets blame the real problem...THE FRIGGIN KIDS!!! They are the ones that pulled the trigger, they are the ones that should be held responsible for their actions. It is time that we stop teaching kids that others are to blame for their actions and start teaching them that what they do has consequences.
But hey, thats just my humble opinion,
SirLantos
In no particular order
1. No RIAA
2. They are ruled by a rich white Prime Minister, not a rich white President.
3. No RIAA
4. Huge spaces of open land where you can hide bodies....err....crap!
5. One word: BEAVER
Has anybody stopped to thank the kid that let the bank know? It is comforting to know that there are still a handful of people out there who are still honest.
Just my humble opinion,
SirLantos
I am well aware of that.
However, I was refering to the fact that the original poster seemed not to care about the story at all. I suppose I should have been more clear.
Sorry,
SirLantos
Hmmmm....
1. Find something non-Linux based
2. Make a linux version.
3. ???
4. Profit
SirLantos
This is a case where I'd like to see games act more like movies. Cut the cut-scenes, and give me gameplay.
I would have to respectfully disagree with that staement. I LOVE a good story in my game. Cut-scenes are often a welcome break from playing and well done ones make me want to keep playing the game. I never truly enjoyed FPSs until Half-Life put a killer story in with it.
Should the story/cut scenes overshadow the game play...absolutly not. In the end game play is the most important thing, but I still like a little "movie magic".
Just my opinion,
SirLantos
What in the name of flaming hamsters are you babbeling about?
Posted: Once it was in orbit, however, astronomers were devastated to discover that the telescope had a flawed mirror.
Site Original: Once it was in orbit, however, astronomers were devastated to discover that the telescope had a flawed mirror.
No difference.
Hey, just trying to be helpful.
I swear I didn't register for the karma, I just read the articles.
Experts Urge a Reprieve for the Hubble Space Telescope By DENNIS OVERBYE he Hubble Space Telescope, astronomy's vaunted time machine, was granted a conditional reprieve yesterday when an expert panel recommended that NASA consider sending a crew of astronauts at the end of the decade to extend its career, rather than dropping it out of orbit, as has been planned.
But the committee said its recommendation should be carried out only if the science to be performed in those additional years was able to beat competing proposals for new NASA science projects.
For the last 13 years, floating above the Earth's murky atmosphere, the telescope has beamed down crisp images of galaxies still forming at the dawn of cosmic time, peering into the hearts of galaxies and quasars in search of black holes, and investigating the mysterious "dark energy" that seems to be wrenching the cosmos apart.
"By any standards the H.S.T. has been a spectacular success -- one of the most remarkable facilities in the entire history of science," said the committee, whose chairman is Dr. John Bahcall of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, in a report posted yesterday on the Web site of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
The committee members and other astronomers pointed out, however, that since the breakup of the Columbia shuttle, the telescope's future has been threatened because it is hostage to the ability of a space shuttle to pay periodic visits for maintenance and to replace old instruments with new ones.
Those repair missions would take the shuttle too far from the orbit of the International Space Station in case of trouble. As a result, the space agency should be prepared for a range of possibilities, the report said, from no more shuttle missions to two.
More is likely to be heard on that score in a couple weeks when the report of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board is released. But ultimately, Dr. Bahcall said, Congress, the White House and the NASA administrator will decide whether the shuttle may visit the telescope.
Dr. Anne Kinney, who is in charge of astronomy and physics in the space agency's office of space science, said that the Bahcall committee's report was "a good report."
"It reminds us that we need to be flexible," Dr. Kinney said. But she added that there was no budget for the extra mission and no precedent for the kind of competition that Dr. Bahcall and his colleagues had proposed.
"It's going to be a challenge," she said.
Astronomers were generally pleased with the report. Dr. Wendy Freedman, director of the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, Calif., called it "balanced and thoughtful."
Dr. George Rieke, an infrared astronomer at the University of Arizona, said the idea of a competition was "a sensible way to deal with limited resources."
Dr. Steven V. W. Beckwith, director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, praised the report, saying, "I couldn't be happier."
He added:"Everyone here is tremendously grateful to NASA for its support of the Hubble. We're delighted to have the chance to compete to continue this extraordinary story."
The story of the $1 billion Hubble, launched in 1990, is one of the great comeback stories in modern science. It was designed to take advantage of an orbital vantage point above the Earth's atmosphere, which smears images and blocks some wavelengths of light from reaching ground-based telescopes.
Once it was in orbit, however, astronomers were devastated to discover that the telescope had a flawed mirror.
The flaw was corrected in 1993 by sky-walking astronauts who, in effect, fitted the telescope's instruments with corrective lenses, enabling Hubble to attain the glory for which it was designed.
NASA has long planned to end Hubble's spectacular run and bring it down to make way in the budget for the James Webb Space Telescope, now scheduled to be launched in 2011. But som
Personally, I would prefer it if they REALLY tried hard to make Windows more secure so things like this wouldn't be so rampant.
But, I can understand how difficult it is to make a program secure. There is no such thing as hack proof. BLAH BLAH BLAH
Even if they put some a little more serious thought in to security issues, I think people wouldnt be as upset.
Just my opinion,
SirLantos
I LOVE the Heroes of Might and Magic series. UbiSoft also made a number of games that I thought were quite good. (They were involved with a lot of the Tom Clancy games.)
I cant wait to see what they do with it.
But, thats just my opinion,
SirLantos
...they publish the address of the new site and then someone else writes a virus that attacks that site. Instead of putting a band-aid on the problem why not just fix it? Just my opinion, SirLantos
DOH!!
If only this had been posted a day or two earlier.....the FSF may have been able to save some face.
So, they fully admit that the other half is caused by Windows programing. That is still pretty bad.
Think about it, if 50% of Windows crashes is caused by the possible 1,000's of other programs. That means the other 50% is caused by a handful of MS programs.....thats not a healthy ratio.
Makes you wonder.
They are all First Person Shooters. Yes, I enjoy a good frag as much as the next person...but I want some games that are different.
I can't wait to play some great games on my linux machine! Perhaps I am setting my standards a little high; but if this takes off the world may actually see that linux is not just an OS for geeks, but an OS that everybody will want to enjoy. I, personally, have been dissapointed by the serious lack of games for my favorite OS. I have always believed that, that was one of the big reasons that linux hasn't been a pervasive as it should be.
Thats just my opinion,
SitLantos
Perhaps you should have read the entire comment. Specifically:Then again, probably not.
I am not blaming the system for my getting average grades, I take full resposibility. I agree with you completly: if I had taken the time to give a damn about about it, I would have gotten better grades.
What I am trying to say is that this book may have helped me give a damn about math.
I by no means consider myself a misunderstood genius. Do not group me in the category of geeks who think that they are better than "normal" people.
Yes, but programming, math, etc. is extremely structrured. A plus B always equals C, it is all strict rules that MUST be followed or your answer is wrong.
When I say I am an abstract thinker, I mean that I understand things that aren't required to have structure more than things that absolutly must be a certain way.
Yes, programming requires a bit of imagination. But it is all logic, it must be constructed a certain way or it will fail. Peotry, on the other hand, requires nothing. There is nobody that can say that one persons peotry is absolutly wrong, yes it can be structured, but if the artist decides they don't want it to be structured then that makes the poem more special to the poet.
Before you throw your sarcasm around, be sure you understand what the person is trying to say. Change your perspective to their own and then, respond with intelligence, not with sarcasm.
Just my opinion,
SirLantos
...if this book was available during my school daze, I would have paid attention in class. Then maybe I would have gotten better than a C in math.
I have always been more of an abstract thinker (which is weird being a programmer.) As such, I have never gotten along very well with the subject. Maybe a book like this would have put me on a better track. Then again, probably not.
Just my opinion,
SirLantos
I was actually doing tech support for my mom, here is the approximate conversation:
Me: Ok, what's the problem
Mom: The computer won't do anything
Me: Can you move the mouse around?
Mom: Nope, the pointer just sits there
Me: Ok, its just froze, go ahead and turn the computer off, give it a couple of secs and turn it back on
(After a few moments)
Me:Ok, turn it back on now.
Mom:Ok
Me:What is it doing?
Mom:Nothing, its still on the same screen
Me:*Dumbfounded*On the same screen? ok, thats wierd. Didn't go through any booting or anything like that
Mom:No
Me:*idea*What button are you pushing to turn it off?
Mom:The one on the TV thing
Me: Ok, I know what the problem is, on the big tower thingie, there should be a power button, hit that.
Mom:I can't find it
Me: *trying not to sound frustrated*Ok, do you see where the cord goes in to the wall?
Mom:Yes
Me:Pull it out
Mom:Won't that hurt
Me: Probably not
Mom:So it might?
Me:*Not wanting to explain it*No, it won't
Mom: Are you sure?
Me:Yes, I'm sure.
Mom:Ok (sounds in background) Done. Me:now, plug it back in
Mom:Done.
Me: Is it booting up?
Mom:YES!! You are such a genious.
*Conversation irrelevant from here on in.*
The problem with coming up with a new design interface is that it is VERY risky. What if the consumer doesn't like it? What if it is harder to use thatn predicted?
Innovation is wonderful, it is also VERY expensive. Why reinvent the wheel? Its a tried and true way of doing things. If you are going to innovate, make it worth while.
Just my humble opinion,
SirLantos