Actually, the movie wasn't real bad, in and of it's self. I just wish they hadn't called it Sarship Troopers.
I don't think RAH would really have minded, though; I think he would have been shocked if the movie came even close to the book.
BTW, Starship Troopers is on the list of 10 books my son absolutely has to read before I will help him buy a car.
You are right, and you are wrong.
You can't build a dirt cheap system cheaper than you can buy one; the big boys get massive volume discounts, they can afford to sell you a cheapy system for $400 and still make a profit; you couldn't piece-build a system for the same price.
However.
I've built all my own systems since the 386SX-25; My mom is using a computer that I put in that case; a friend of mine is using a 486DX-120 I built in '95 as a FTP server, and my present computer is using a case I bought in '97, one of it's hard drives is from '99, the SBAWE64 card is from '98, motherboard from '01, GeForce2 card from 2 weeks ago.
The point is, if you build it yourself, you can just upgrade the parts that actually need upgrading. with a cheap low-end Dell or whatever, you are basically getting a disposable computer. You will be able to use the Drives, and thats most likely it (maybe the CPU).
check out http://www.jncs.com, http://www.lan-plus.com for parts.
Ahem.
I've been arguing this point with a leftist-commie-pinko-bastard friend of mine, and I think I've come up with a way of expressing things that is understandable to low-grade morons.
The first point that needs to be established is that Laws are not mandates from god (in the U.S., at least). I would challenge anyone in the country to say conclusively that they had never broken a law.
I would also like to point out that there are some laws that are unconstitutional; they are still laws until they get thrown out, but should a person obey a law where obedience breaks a higher law?
Ok, so things aren't black and white. right?
So. If the government can catch everyone breaking any law, even the silly ones, even the illegal ones, even the unconstitutional ones, then you claim that this is a GOOD thing?
I don't quite understand that point of view.
Anyone else remember when activeworlds was cool? it was free to go in and set up your own little space, hang out, chat...but the building & designing was what was really cool. At the same time, you could get a server for solaris or NT, and run your own mini world, all for free....it had enourmous potential. then they screwed it up.
Take a look at the situation:
Not everyone has a DVD player; my parents, for instance.
A cheap DVD player foes for about $90. An X-box goes for $200.
For a extra $100-$130, I can get my parents a DVD player, a device that would allow them to play Divx CD's I send them, and potentially, a web-tv type device. And, my kids would have something to do while they are visiting.
Of course, I could always just send them VHS tapes. but what's the fun in that?
Why not just make your own?
I've got a Matrox Marvel G200 hooked up to cable; whenever I want to record something, I just tell it when, and it does.
No problems whatsoever.
It doesn't automatically cut out the commercials, but who really cares? we've all learned to tune those out anyway, right?
Video Capture card + Computer with lots of hard drive = tons of hours of recording.
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SUV's are in the constitution? really? is it a particular make or model, or do any qualify? I've got a wrangler, does it count?
I'm upset about the armalites thing though. I never liked them, they remind me of BB guns.
Why, oh why, does everyone have to be such a prickly, snooty, politically correct idiot these days?
I'm white, blonde, norman ancestry. please make as much fun of me, my race, my hair, my car, etc as you want. you have my permission.
Gotta be a canadian.
Will hopefully be playing "Fly By Night" when he goes up.
This guys has a great idea, btw. Now all he has to do is put it on a extreme altitude balloon before he lights it off.
You mean I could run it on the same system I got to run Morrowind? cool!
But seriously, folks.
they should have it set up so that it's a modular system; zoom ALLLLL the way in on a residential neighborhood, it starts the sims, and passes the data along; zoom all the way in on a farm, it start sim farm, all the way in on a commercial HD building and it starts simTower....
Zoom ALL the way in on the spaceport, and it forces Maxis engineers to actually finish sim Mars.
That would be cool.
I thought Deer Hunter was the best selling PC game of all time.
It's popular, not cool. Sim Earth was cool. SC2k was cool. even SimLife was kinda cool.
Ahem.
As a disabled veteran of the United States Navy, having received my disabling injury during the Gulf War thingy, I feel compelled to say:
Shut Up.
No one pokes more fun at the military than veterans. we like having fun poked at the military.
The Military deserves it.
Ok?
How exactly do they think they are going to profit from this? more like a Nail in the Coffin than anything else, free PGP from MIT is considered a sacred inalienable right, right?
We have had the capability to do a Mars mission since shortly after 1969. the only thing lacking is the will.
I've just been praying for 1 of 3 things:
1) a really, REALLY robust chinese space program to get started.
2) hostile aliens, that aren't much past our technology level.
3) a probable dinosaur-killer class asteroid coming in about 20 years.
I'd kinda prefer option 1, but i would settle for 2 or 3; any one would get us into space next freakin' week.
I have kids; I'm relatively well educated. I don't want all my eggs in one basket (Earth).
Unfortunately, I can't see the national will being mustered for this at this time, there is no motivation for the common man.
Lets say they had contacted a decent, non-student-union type lawyer early on. Couldn't they have lobbied the court for a pre-emptive ruling against blizzrd? And, if they had, would they be kinda like, covered? ex post facto, grandfathered, etc? Not that anyone ever pays any attention to those concepts, but hey.
Hmm. I wonder if I should go ahead and sue Cisco to get a pre-emptive ruling against them on my NACS system?
I don't think it would have actually been the end of the story, but it would have put the burden of proof with Blizzrd.
You can power it via induction simply enough. just have your variating EM field originating in a pair of glasses, or a hat, or maybe a necklace.
However, with the extremely low photovoltaic energy use these things must use considering the size mentioned, I have to think they could be powered by nervous energy, about 70mv if I remember correctly. You might get some artifacts in the organic material, though.
Hey, i'm an MCSE, that means i'm a programmer? cool!
But seriously, folks......
I left a job over ethics last may. aside from a few consultations, mini-contracts, no more than say 1 month worth, i've been out of work for about a year now.
Looking back on things from the unemployed, about to be bankrupt perspective, I have to say I would kinda like the idea of a professional ethics org of some sort for IT pro's.
Would I still have left the position if I had known then what I know now?
Yup. just 6 months sooner, and with a LOT more fireworks. If you are going to get blackballed by the cat herders for leaving quietly, why leave quietly?
Ahh, Clipper Graham, how I miss yee...
I may be getting a bit cynical, but I just don't believe NASA will ever assist in the devlopment of something that will make them obsolete, like a truly inexpensive, safe 1-stage reusable spacecraft.
Common, Mr. Gates! actually do something for mankind! put the resources of your evil empire behind this problem!
Just PLEASE don't run the flight control computers with XP.
Hmmm.
I think Sealand was designed to withstand attacks by the naval powers of That Time, which in my mind means the German Navy.
Which means, I would think, that they designed it to be bombarded by 12"+ naval guns.
If this is the case, and the structure hasn't seriously degraded due to age, a couple of tomahawks (or more accurately in this case, YJ-8Q SLCM's) wouldn't stand a chance. I really doubt it was made to withstand 16" shells, though.
Actually, Freenet is a really good way to do something like what was mentioned.
Due to low user numbers, and a little bit of upheavel in the development process, right now it's not functioning better than marginally. However, with enough perseverance, you can at the current time put ANYTHING you want on freenet, and have it be visible from the Internet at large through the use of the (currently few) public proxies.
The longest running public proxy is apparently down right now, but here is the google cache.
There are a couple of others i'm aware of, but as running a public freenet proxy can surely get you in trouble, i won't mention them.
there is also a pretty good automated freesite (freenet based website) publishing program called freeweb, ( http://freeweb.sourceforge.net/ ) which allows you to operate a freesite fairly easily.
So here is what you get: you can publish a freesite which can contain ANYTHING whatsoever, with complete anonymity, or as much anonymity as you like. The more popular the site is, the easier it will be for people using freenet to see.
with increasing freenet adoption, more public freenet proxies will become available; the internet at large can access these proxies, and the more of them there are, the more the bandwidth load will be spread out.
Getting back to the original question, if I wanted to have a website and wanted to have as few controls over it as possible, I would get a T-1 or better, run a freenet node on it, and possibly a freenet public proxy; you should be able to get "common carrier" type protections on the legal aspects of running the proxy, and you can if you wish run your freesite on it and not claim ownership.
If anyone wants to do this, there are a BUNCH of people, myself included, who would help out on the technical aspects of the whole thing.
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Actually, the movie wasn't real bad, in and of it's self. I just wish they hadn't called it Sarship Troopers. I don't think RAH would really have minded, though; I think he would have been shocked if the movie came even close to the book. BTW, Starship Troopers is on the list of 10 books my son absolutely has to read before I will help him buy a car.
You are right, and you are wrong. You can't build a dirt cheap system cheaper than you can buy one; the big boys get massive volume discounts, they can afford to sell you a cheapy system for $400 and still make a profit; you couldn't piece-build a system for the same price. However. I've built all my own systems since the 386SX-25; My mom is using a computer that I put in that case; a friend of mine is using a 486DX-120 I built in '95 as a FTP server, and my present computer is using a case I bought in '97, one of it's hard drives is from '99, the SBAWE64 card is from '98, motherboard from '01, GeForce2 card from 2 weeks ago. The point is, if you build it yourself, you can just upgrade the parts that actually need upgrading. with a cheap low-end Dell or whatever, you are basically getting a disposable computer. You will be able to use the Drives, and thats most likely it (maybe the CPU). check out http://www.jncs.com, http://www.lan-plus.com for parts.
Ahem. I've been arguing this point with a leftist-commie-pinko-bastard friend of mine, and I think I've come up with a way of expressing things that is understandable to low-grade morons. The first point that needs to be established is that Laws are not mandates from god (in the U.S., at least). I would challenge anyone in the country to say conclusively that they had never broken a law. I would also like to point out that there are some laws that are unconstitutional; they are still laws until they get thrown out, but should a person obey a law where obedience breaks a higher law? Ok, so things aren't black and white. right? So. If the government can catch everyone breaking any law, even the silly ones, even the illegal ones, even the unconstitutional ones, then you claim that this is a GOOD thing? I don't quite understand that point of view.
Anyone else remember when activeworlds was cool? it was free to go in and set up your own little space, hang out, chat...but the building & designing was what was really cool. At the same time, you could get a server for solaris or NT, and run your own mini world, all for free....it had enourmous potential. then they screwed it up.
Take a look at the situation: Not everyone has a DVD player; my parents, for instance. A cheap DVD player foes for about $90. An X-box goes for $200. For a extra $100-$130, I can get my parents a DVD player, a device that would allow them to play Divx CD's I send them, and potentially, a web-tv type device. And, my kids would have something to do while they are visiting. Of course, I could always just send them VHS tapes. but what's the fun in that?
Why not just make your own? I've got a Matrox Marvel G200 hooked up to cable; whenever I want to record something, I just tell it when, and it does. No problems whatsoever. It doesn't automatically cut out the commercials, but who really cares? we've all learned to tune those out anyway, right? Video Capture card + Computer with lots of hard drive = tons of hours of recording.
SUV's are in the constitution? really? is it a particular make or model, or do any qualify? I've got a wrangler, does it count? I'm upset about the armalites thing though. I never liked them, they remind me of BB guns.
Why, oh why, does everyone have to be such a prickly, snooty, politically correct idiot these days? I'm white, blonde, norman ancestry. please make as much fun of me, my race, my hair, my car, etc as you want. you have my permission.
And the VERY best windows titles.... are just knock off's of old Amiga titles. How sad for idiots.
Gotta be a canadian. Will hopefully be playing "Fly By Night" when he goes up. This guys has a great idea, btw. Now all he has to do is put it on a extreme altitude balloon before he lights it off.
Did anyone else happen to notice that you have to be 13 to 34 to pre-order it? Anyone ready to start the age discrimination lawsuit yet?
You mean I could run it on the same system I got to run Morrowind? cool! But seriously, folks. they should have it set up so that it's a modular system; zoom ALLLLL the way in on a residential neighborhood, it starts the sims, and passes the data along; zoom all the way in on a farm, it start sim farm, all the way in on a commercial HD building and it starts simTower.... Zoom ALL the way in on the spaceport, and it forces Maxis engineers to actually finish sim Mars. That would be cool.
I thought Deer Hunter was the best selling PC game of all time. It's popular, not cool. Sim Earth was cool. SC2k was cool. even SimLife was kinda cool.
Ahem. As a disabled veteran of the United States Navy, having received my disabling injury during the Gulf War thingy, I feel compelled to say: Shut Up. No one pokes more fun at the military than veterans. we like having fun poked at the military. The Military deserves it. Ok?
How exactly do they think they are going to profit from this? more like a Nail in the Coffin than anything else, free PGP from MIT is considered a sacred inalienable right, right?
We have had the capability to do a Mars mission since shortly after 1969. the only thing lacking is the will. I've just been praying for 1 of 3 things: 1) a really, REALLY robust chinese space program to get started. 2) hostile aliens, that aren't much past our technology level. 3) a probable dinosaur-killer class asteroid coming in about 20 years. I'd kinda prefer option 1, but i would settle for 2 or 3; any one would get us into space next freakin' week. I have kids; I'm relatively well educated. I don't want all my eggs in one basket (Earth). Unfortunately, I can't see the national will being mustered for this at this time, there is no motivation for the common man.
Lets say they had contacted a decent, non-student-union type lawyer early on. Couldn't they have lobbied the court for a pre-emptive ruling against blizzrd? And, if they had, would they be kinda like, covered? ex post facto, grandfathered, etc? Not that anyone ever pays any attention to those concepts, but hey. Hmm. I wonder if I should go ahead and sue Cisco to get a pre-emptive ruling against them on my NACS system? I don't think it would have actually been the end of the story, but it would have put the burden of proof with Blizzrd.
You can power it via induction simply enough. just have your variating EM field originating in a pair of glasses, or a hat, or maybe a necklace. However, with the extremely low photovoltaic energy use these things must use considering the size mentioned, I have to think they could be powered by nervous energy, about 70mv if I remember correctly. You might get some artifacts in the organic material, though.
I've just had to come to the realization that this is not about the REAL spiderman.
Hey, i'm an MCSE, that means i'm a programmer? cool! But seriously, folks...... I left a job over ethics last may. aside from a few consultations, mini-contracts, no more than say 1 month worth, i've been out of work for about a year now. Looking back on things from the unemployed, about to be bankrupt perspective, I have to say I would kinda like the idea of a professional ethics org of some sort for IT pro's. Would I still have left the position if I had known then what I know now? Yup. just 6 months sooner, and with a LOT more fireworks. If you are going to get blackballed by the cat herders for leaving quietly, why leave quietly?
Any chance you could elaborate on that? I have NO clue what you are talking about. Sorry.
Ahh, Clipper Graham, how I miss yee... I may be getting a bit cynical, but I just don't believe NASA will ever assist in the devlopment of something that will make them obsolete, like a truly inexpensive, safe 1-stage reusable spacecraft. Common, Mr. Gates! actually do something for mankind! put the resources of your evil empire behind this problem! Just PLEASE don't run the flight control computers with XP.
Hmm. can you get "New" coke anywhere anymore? they don't sell it in my neck of the woods. And some Pepsi Clear. yeah.
Hmmm. I think Sealand was designed to withstand attacks by the naval powers of That Time, which in my mind means the German Navy. Which means, I would think, that they designed it to be bombarded by 12"+ naval guns. If this is the case, and the structure hasn't seriously degraded due to age, a couple of tomahawks (or more accurately in this case, YJ-8Q SLCM's) wouldn't stand a chance. I really doubt it was made to withstand 16" shells, though.
Actually, Freenet is a really good way to do something like what was mentioned. Due to low user numbers, and a little bit of upheavel in the development process, right now it's not functioning better than marginally. However, with enough perseverance, you can at the current time put ANYTHING you want on freenet, and have it be visible from the Internet at large through the use of the (currently few) public proxies. The longest running public proxy is apparently down right now, but here is the google cache. There are a couple of others i'm aware of, but as running a public freenet proxy can surely get you in trouble, i won't mention them. there is also a pretty good automated freesite (freenet based website) publishing program called freeweb, ( http://freeweb.sourceforge.net/ ) which allows you to operate a freesite fairly easily. So here is what you get: you can publish a freesite which can contain ANYTHING whatsoever, with complete anonymity, or as much anonymity as you like. The more popular the site is, the easier it will be for people using freenet to see. with increasing freenet adoption, more public freenet proxies will become available; the internet at large can access these proxies, and the more of them there are, the more the bandwidth load will be spread out. Getting back to the original question, if I wanted to have a website and wanted to have as few controls over it as possible, I would get a T-1 or better, run a freenet node on it, and possibly a freenet public proxy; you should be able to get "common carrier" type protections on the legal aspects of running the proxy, and you can if you wish run your freesite on it and not claim ownership. If anyone wants to do this, there are a BUNCH of people, myself included, who would help out on the technical aspects of the whole thing.