Now that would be just wrong. I would never get a satellite image of Boca Raton, find the address on MapQuest, then indicate Ground Zero and a suggested blast radius. Goodness me, no...
(This is far enough downthread that I'm not going to get the admin pissed off, right? Right?)
The only reason people live in Europe is so that they can trample on the frea speach rights of upstanding American ethikul biznesmen and be immune from lawsuits. Nobody actually, you know, gets born here, it's a continent of people hiding from the law.
And the misapprehensions are laughable. Sue Steve Linford, fine, he's the guy running Spamhaus. Sue his brother? Um... well done, spammer, good research there. But then they add Shiksaa, Steven Sobol, Clifto, Morely, Joe Jared... this really is a Who's Who of nanae. I bet Suresh is pissed off that they left him out.
They probably believe that the Lumber Cartel (tinlc) is out to get them, too...
Mr Wilson. Ha. A pitiful specimen. The _real_ Dennis the Menace would have that man suffering a nervous breakdown inside ten minutes.
Oh, and one show I'd like to see taken out and shot is 'The All-New Popeye Show' with the surfer kids, though Olive Oyl in the army with the Goon was funny. And any Scooby-Doo with Scrappy in it. Throwing him out of the van in the middle of the desert was way too good for him.
And this is why anime is coming in big. It isn't politically correct.
My guess is that anime is taking off largely as a side-effect of the video game culture. We grew up playing the same Nintendo games as the Japanese, and now a lot of us have ended up watching the same cartoons. Nintendo clearly noticed this trend and cashed in with Pokémon, and now the consequences are flooding kids' TV. Mostly horrific commercial crap where they designed the trading cards or the plastic spinning tops first, and then came up with the plot, but hey, it's a start...
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Several hundred of those have been manned, with only one catastrophe.
Two catastrophes involving loss of astronaut life (one dead on Soyuz 1, burned up on reentry, and three on Soyuz 11, depressurised in the upper atmosphere). One catastrophe involving loss of ground crew on an appalling scale (Nedelin). And one spectacular cock-up involving a supply ship and a space station, which thankfully was survived by all concerned, including the station.
Oh, and they buggered up their last landing on return from Station. Landed five hundred miles or so off target.
System Shock (the original) -- still one of the most cinematic games in history, IMHO. Best scene in any game ever: I finally set the station to self-destruct, and fought my way to the escape pod... then, just as the countdown is about to reach 0 to launch and I am breathing easy... the countdown stops and Shodan appears on the screen. "You're not leaving!" Oh, hell. I didn't know whether to laugh or scream -- as I recall, I did both.
Definitely. Shock 1 beat Shock 2 for me. SHODAN was the greatest nemesis in any video game ever. She didn't just lurk at the end of the last level like so many other nasties... she was _watching_, every step you took, every puzzle you solved, and you knew she was laughing at you as you blundered closer to her latest trap...
Cutting off the escape pod was horrible. But the one that got me was when she let you walk merrily into the data transmitter room, plant your plastic explosive charges around the dish, and set the timer - and then sealed you in there with a forcefield. Sick! I survived by hiding around the other side of the pedestal from the explosive - it shielded enough of the blast, thank $DEITY.
The summer I got Shock 2, I was working in a warehouse (summer job, extra money for poor student sort of thing) and the power had gone off in part of it. Lights were out, but on the ceiling was a security camera which was on a separate circuit. It looked at me, the LED flicked from green to red, and I moved faster than I ever had in my life, ducked around the corner of a row of shelves and reached for my laser pistol with my mouse hand...
Did Clarke ever file a patent for the geosynchronous satellites?
No, he never did. If he had, he would almost certainly by now be far and away the richest man on the planet. Now, imagine if you will what Arthur Clarke might have done with a fortune that would make Gates green with envy... He'd have been on Mars twenty years ago.
It has everything to do with spamming. You get a Chinese spam, don't bother forwarding to abuse@ - Chinese ISPs are spamhausen through and through. Instead, reply to the spammer saying 'Thank you for the information on Falun Gong' or 'My donation to the Free Tibet movement is on its way' or just good old 'Down with dictatorship, long live the democratic revolution'.
Hopefully, that will get the spammer into some trouble. Maybe even trouble of the kind delivered by high-velocity bits of lead (we can but dream...)
Unfortunately, most spam from China (at least from my POV) is sent by Americans, who are beyond the reach of their righteous socialist vengeance. Maybe I could thank them for supporting some Arabic organisation or other. To get a spammer disappeared and taken to Cuba would be wonderful;-)
Shit, what has France got that's larger in numbers?
Electricity.
Nope, I'm afraid your wrong again, Frenchie. The USA produces 754.9 Billion KWhs. France only makes 395.0 Billion KWhs.
But the previous poster was talking specifically about California, not the USA as a whole. In 2000, California consumed 264,000GWh, while only generating 226,000GWh, forcing them to become a net importer. And as you say, France produces 395,000GWh. In fact, France is an electricity exporter. If the French wanted to, they could brownout half of southern England simply by pulling the plug.
I concur. Ideally we should leave them in hotel rooms, like that Gideon mob who keep planting Bibles. Trouble is, I think 1984 is still under copyright, so you couldn't just print them by the million and deal them out, you'd have to get permissions and pay royalties and so on.
Yep, 'fraid so. SAMBA's an illegal filesharing tool. Be sure to delete it from your machines, everyone.
And if anyone has a machine running any FTP or HTTP servers, they've got to go too. Can't have that sort of thing going on, you know.
Buggered if I know what the US economy is like, but the British economy is roughly £1 trillion, or $1.6 trillion. There are about five times as many Americans as British, and they're a bit richer on average, so we're looking at something like eight to ten trillion. So two trillion seems a bit low for the US federal budget, even though the taxes over there are lower... I would also be surprised to find that the military account for fully half of government spending. That would be frightening.
As far as meteor defence goes, the annual cost needn't be that great. All we need to do is keep an eye out for any asteroids that look like coming dangerously close. If we find one that's on a collision course, then things start getting expensive; we need a ship, a whole lot of heavy equipment, maybe a good-sized nuclear arsenal. But to just have a meteor patrol watching the sky isn't that great a demand; it's certainly trivial compared to, say, the US military or the EU agricultural policy.
... Slashdot making preparations for traffic spikes. I think we richly deserve to get massacred for days - shall we say ten minutes of downtime for every website we've blasted off the net over the years?
ISTR that the NYT websute switched to a very graphics-light format in 11 September 2001, in order to cope with the mass traffic. Slashdot is already mostly text, but if necessary it could be lightened a bit. But I imagine the main load is CPU and memory, handling all those database queries and updates, rather than bandwidth; I don't see an easy way of dealing with that short of adding a few more machines. Imagine a... No, I won't:-)
I'm sorry, but people like the parent poster sicken me with their cowardly drivel.
Absolutely. Oppose the war by all means, protest against the actions of the politicians, campaign all you like against Bush and Blair. But do NOT act against the army.
Right now in Britain there is a dispute over firefighters' pay; there have been a couple of strikes over the past few months, in which soldiers were brought in to provide cover. Suppose the fire brigade were to strike now, forcing the Army to divert soldiers from the war in order to cover for them. They'd be massacred in the press and in public opinion, and the Daily Mail would probably call for the union leaders to be arrested for treason.
The Army does its job. Anyone who criticises the soldiers themselves is scum of the lowest order. Criticise the politicians, sure, organise campaigns, petitions, sit-ins, demonstrations, whatever you care to name, but the people on the front line have enough to worry about. You don't criticise them. You don't do anything to endanger them - no blocking supply lines with your protests, no Greenpeace dinghys outside the naval harbours. You don't do anything to divert resources from the war. That just sucks.
WHOOHOO This is the first linux install I'm gonna try. I'm a meganewbie, so wish me luck:)
Good luck. I really mean it. Admire your courage.
Personally I spent a good while messing about with Red Hat (7.0, 7.2, 7.3) and Mandrake (9.0) before settling down on Gentoo. Slack's good, though; fellow in the next room uses it, loves the thing. I have a Slackware boot CD around here somewhere, but I never did get around to trying it - I did use it as a rescue disk once or twice though.
It just struck me... you're not having us on, are you? Maybe it's your first Linux install, but you're a veteran of three hundred different BSD systems?:-)
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Now that would be just wrong. I would never get a satellite image of Boca Raton, find the address on MapQuest, then indicate Ground Zero and a suggested blast radius. Goodness me, no... (This is far enough downthread that I'm not going to get the admin pissed off, right? Right?)
The only reason people live in Europe is so that they can trample on the frea speach rights of upstanding American ethikul biznesmen and be immune from lawsuits. Nobody actually, you know, gets born here, it's a continent of people hiding from the law.
They probably believe that the Lumber Cartel (tinlc) is out to get them, too...
Oh, and one show I'd like to see taken out and shot is 'The All-New Popeye Show' with the surfer kids, though Olive Oyl in the army with the Goon was funny. And any Scooby-Doo with Scrappy in it. Throwing him out of the van in the middle of the desert was way too good for him.
My guess is that anime is taking off largely as a side-effect of the video game culture. We grew up playing the same Nintendo games as the Japanese, and now a lot of us have ended up watching the same cartoons. Nintendo clearly noticed this trend and cashed in with Pokémon, and now the consequences are flooding kids' TV. Mostly horrific commercial crap where they designed the trading cards or the plastic spinning tops first, and then came up with the plot, but hey, it's a start...
Several hundred of those have been manned, with only one catastrophe. Two catastrophes involving loss of astronaut life (one dead on Soyuz 1, burned up on reentry, and three on Soyuz 11, depressurised in the upper atmosphere). One catastrophe involving loss of ground crew on an appalling scale (Nedelin). And one spectacular cock-up involving a supply ship and a space station, which thankfully was survived by all concerned, including the station. Oh, and they buggered up their last landing on return from Station. Landed five hundred miles or so off target.
In the UK, there are the counties of Essex, Middlesex and Sussex. There is also the region of Wessex.
Not to mention the town of Scunthorpe, which has triggered many a naive filter...
Definitely. Shock 1 beat Shock 2 for me. SHODAN was the greatest nemesis in any video game ever. She didn't just lurk at the end of the last level like so many other nasties... she was _watching_, every step you took, every puzzle you solved, and you knew she was laughing at you as you blundered closer to her latest trap...
Cutting off the escape pod was horrible. But the one that got me was when she let you walk merrily into the data transmitter room, plant your plastic explosive charges around the dish, and set the timer - and then sealed you in there with a forcefield. Sick! I survived by hiding around the other side of the pedestal from the explosive - it shielded enough of the blast, thank $DEITY.
The summer I got Shock 2, I was working in a warehouse (summer job, extra money for poor student sort of thing) and the power had gone off in part of it. Lights were out, but on the ceiling was a security camera which was on a separate circuit. It looked at me, the LED flicked from green to red, and I moved faster than I ever had in my life, ducked around the corner of a row of shelves and reached for my laser pistol with my mouse hand...
Multichannel TV? Hah! Five is at least one too many...
No, he never did. If he had, he would almost certainly by now be far and away the richest man on the planet. Now, imagine if you will what Arthur Clarke might have done with a fortune that would make Gates green with envy... He'd have been on Mars twenty years ago.
It has everything to do with spamming. You get a Chinese spam, don't bother forwarding to abuse@ - Chinese ISPs are spamhausen through and through. Instead, reply to the spammer saying 'Thank you for the information on Falun Gong' or 'My donation to the Free Tibet movement is on its way' or just good old 'Down with dictatorship, long live the democratic revolution'.
Hopefully, that will get the spammer into some trouble. Maybe even trouble of the kind delivered by high-velocity bits of lead (we can but dream...)
Unfortunately, most spam from China (at least from my POV) is sent by Americans, who are beyond the reach of their righteous socialist vengeance. Maybe I could thank them for supporting some Arabic organisation or other. To get a spammer disappeared and taken to Cuba would be wonderful ;-)
I thought digging spammer dirt was just Shiksaa's hobby. Now she's going to be paid for it.
Electricity.
Nope, I'm afraid your wrong again, Frenchie. The USA produces 754.9 Billion KWhs. France only makes 395.0 Billion KWhs.
But the previous poster was talking specifically about California, not the USA as a whole. In 2000, California consumed 264,000GWh, while only generating 226,000GWh, forcing them to become a net importer. And as you say, France produces 395,000GWh. In fact, France is an electricity exporter. If the French wanted to, they could brownout half of southern England simply by pulling the plug.
And it stopped short, never to go again, when the robot died...
I concur. Ideally we should leave them in hotel rooms, like that Gideon mob who keep planting Bibles. Trouble is, I think 1984 is still under copyright, so you couldn't just print them by the million and deal them out, you'd have to get permissions and pay royalties and so on.
Yep, 'fraid so. SAMBA's an illegal filesharing tool. Be sure to delete it from your machines, everyone. And if anyone has a machine running any FTP or HTTP servers, they've got to go too. Can't have that sort of thing going on, you know.
Sold! Console emuing and MP3s in something that size is damn sweet. And £100 is a nice price too.
.oggs I can't be arsed to rerip.
Well, maybe. Smart cards, is it? Why not a USB interface direct to a PC? I'd like to be able to just plug in and dump my Massive ROM Collection (tm).
Oh, and that Linux port can't come too soon. I have a whole lot of
Sweepstakes time, I think. There are still a few hours to go in /.'s home time zone. How many more times can we expect to see this story?
As far as meteor defence goes, the annual cost needn't be that great. All we need to do is keep an eye out for any asteroids that look like coming dangerously close. If we find one that's on a collision course, then things start getting expensive; we need a ship, a whole lot of heavy equipment, maybe a good-sized nuclear arsenal. But to just have a meteor patrol watching the sky isn't that great a demand; it's certainly trivial compared to, say, the US military or the EU agricultural policy.
Yes, of course there'll be a Monkey Island 5. Remember, the Voodoo Lady has an unbreakable five-game contract with LucasArts.
I would give up every Doom and Quake game ever made for Half-Life, Goldeneye and System Shock.
Nail on blackboard
White noise
Perfect sine tone, but damn loud
'You Suck' over and over again
N-Sync
ISTR that the NYT websute switched to a very graphics-light format in 11 September 2001, in order to cope with the mass traffic. Slashdot is already mostly text, but if necessary it could be lightened a bit. But I imagine the main load is CPU and memory, handling all those database queries and updates, rather than bandwidth; I don't see an easy way of dealing with that short of adding a few more machines. Imagine a... No, I won't :-)
Absolutely. Oppose the war by all means, protest against the actions of the politicians, campaign all you like against Bush and Blair. But do NOT act against the army.
Right now in Britain there is a dispute over firefighters' pay; there have been a couple of strikes over the past few months, in which soldiers were brought in to provide cover. Suppose the fire brigade were to strike now, forcing the Army to divert soldiers from the war in order to cover for them. They'd be massacred in the press and in public opinion, and the Daily Mail would probably call for the union leaders to be arrested for treason.
The Army does its job. Anyone who criticises the soldiers themselves is scum of the lowest order. Criticise the politicians, sure, organise campaigns, petitions, sit-ins, demonstrations, whatever you care to name, but the people on the front line have enough to worry about. You don't criticise them. You don't do anything to endanger them - no blocking supply lines with your protests, no Greenpeace dinghys outside the naval harbours. You don't do anything to divert resources from the war. That just sucks.
Good luck. I really mean it. Admire your courage.
Personally I spent a good while messing about with Red Hat (7.0, 7.2, 7.3) and Mandrake (9.0) before settling down on Gentoo. Slack's good, though; fellow in the next room uses it, loves the thing. I have a Slackware boot CD around here somewhere, but I never did get around to trying it - I did use it as a rescue disk once or twice though.
It just struck me... you're not having us on, are you? Maybe it's your first Linux install, but you're a veteran of three hundred different BSD systems? :-)