Alas all of these wonderful fests seem to be in far off places like LA and Colorado or NY what about us folk in the midwest. Nothing interesting seems to happen much around here in the way of major cons or fests even though we have Chicago. What gives??
I used to have a Star NX-2420 rainbow. It was a top o' the line 24-pin dot matrix printer, I paid about 200 bucks for it in 1991. This tank lasted me through last year, and if it hadn't been for my last ink ribbon finally giving out i'd STILL be using it, but alas it's now relegated to my basement corner with all of my other discarded computer parts. So I decided to go out and buy a new color printer and being a poor college student picked up a relatively cheap lexmark. When I took it out of the box I was amazed this thing didn't even wiegh a POUND much less be as hefty as the old dot matrix. The color picture quality was actually BETTER on the dot-matrix and it seemed to print faster. Now I know this wasn't a top of the line printer that I just bought, but for the cost of ink nowadays you should get more than what you pay for. Now if you want a good printer that will last you're going to have to look at top of the line, which can run upwards of 500 bucks. I think the cost to quality ratio has SERIOUSLY slipped.
Actually it's the reverse of this for StarOffice, which was originally funded by Sun and OpenOffice is the ongoing Open Source branch of StarOffice (which now offers extended functionality and support as a pay product). Mozilla I don't quite understand, Netscape and Mozilla share simliarties (Gecko) but as far as I thought Mozilla is an independent project and the two programs simply share similarites in code base.
It's called levity, in the face of horrible tragedy people need to laugh. This may be one of the worst disasters in space exploration ever. It's going to set space reaserch and exploration back YEARS when we're already decades behind where we should be. It's tragic that this happened, i'm sorry for the families and NASA who has tried so hard to maintain despite budget cuts and 30 year old technology. Now we're going to blame them and their lack of foresight. In short this was a tragic day, but people still need to laugh, there's no reason not to make a joke from time to time to lighten the mood when something this bad has happened.
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Lol, excellent refference to Pynchon at least.
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I don't know about that, I bought 4 megs of SIMM memmory for my 386 in 92 for a hundred bucks. A lot of what the arugments on here seem to be over is slips in memory between anyone and everyone discussing the costs of this system or it's constituent parts.
There are many great sci-fi authors, dyansties out there. Star Trek, Star Wars, B5, Farscape, *cough* X-Files, etc... Although there is one that seems to me to be continually overlooked mainly because of the immediate succes and then horrible follow-ups.
This is the Aliens series. The first two movies had a certain mystique about them and carried the concept very well. The second two began to slump in this trend of groundbreaking storytelling/special effects.
There is an entire subset of literature set in this "world" and it never seems to get noticed by anyone. There's a large assortment of graphic novels a short run of actual novels and of course the video games (AvP, AvP2 and the upcoming Aliens:Colonial Marines for PS2). There is finally an Aliens vs. Predator movie ACTUALLY in production after having been shelved for almost 10 years. Hopefully this movie will return the legacy of great storytelling, believable characters and excellent eye-candy.
Until then I manage to get by by playing Natural Selection and waiting patiently.
Also in the realm of novels, I'd have to say that Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide "trilogy" is by far the best.
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Alas all of these wonderful fests seem to be in far off places like LA and Colorado or NY what about us folk in the midwest. Nothing interesting seems to happen much around here in the way of major cons or fests even though we have Chicago. What gives??
I used to have a Star NX-2420 rainbow. It was a top o' the line 24-pin dot matrix printer, I paid about 200 bucks for it in 1991. This tank lasted me through last year, and if it hadn't been for my last ink ribbon finally giving out i'd STILL be using it, but alas it's now relegated to my basement corner with all of my other discarded computer parts. So I decided to go out and buy a new color printer and being a poor college student picked up a relatively cheap lexmark. When I took it out of the box I was amazed this thing didn't even wiegh a POUND much less be as hefty as the old dot matrix. The color picture quality was actually BETTER on the dot-matrix and it seemed to print faster. Now I know this wasn't a top of the line printer that I just bought, but for the cost of ink nowadays you should get more than what you pay for. Now if you want a good printer that will last you're going to have to look at top of the line, which can run upwards of 500 bucks. I think the cost to quality ratio has SERIOUSLY slipped.
What can I say, I don't care if it's useful or not, it's just looks damn nice.
Actually it's the reverse of this for StarOffice, which was originally funded by Sun and OpenOffice is the ongoing Open Source branch of StarOffice (which now offers extended functionality and support as a pay product). Mozilla I don't quite understand, Netscape and Mozilla share simliarties (Gecko) but as far as I thought Mozilla is an independent project and the two programs simply share similarites in code base.
It's called levity, in the face of horrible tragedy people need to laugh. This may be one of the worst disasters in space exploration ever. It's going to set space reaserch and exploration back YEARS when we're already decades behind where we should be. It's tragic that this happened, i'm sorry for the families and NASA who has tried so hard to maintain despite budget cuts and 30 year old technology. Now we're going to blame them and their lack of foresight. In short this was a tragic day, but people still need to laugh, there's no reason not to make a joke from time to time to lighten the mood when something this bad has happened.
Lol, excellent refference to Pynchon at least.
I don't know about that, I bought 4 megs of SIMM memmory for my 386 in 92 for a hundred bucks. A lot of what the arugments on here seem to be over is slips in memory between anyone and everyone discussing the costs of this system or it's constituent parts.
There are many great sci-fi authors, dyansties out there. Star Trek, Star Wars, B5, Farscape, *cough* X-Files, etc... Although there is one that seems to me to be continually overlooked mainly because of the immediate succes and then horrible follow-ups. This is the Aliens series. The first two movies had a certain mystique about them and carried the concept very well. The second two began to slump in this trend of groundbreaking storytelling/special effects. There is an entire subset of literature set in this "world" and it never seems to get noticed by anyone. There's a large assortment of graphic novels a short run of actual novels and of course the video games (AvP, AvP2 and the upcoming Aliens:Colonial Marines for PS2). There is finally an Aliens vs. Predator movie ACTUALLY in production after having been shelved for almost 10 years. Hopefully this movie will return the legacy of great storytelling, believable characters and excellent eye-candy. Until then I manage to get by by playing Natural Selection and waiting patiently. Also in the realm of novels, I'd have to say that Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide "trilogy" is by far the best.