Yea, and verily God Himself will strike down the heathen Napster users. They they shall burn in hell, tortured by their demon computers as punishment. Music on the Internet is the voice of Satan himself...
What's with that about "stealing the breakfasts of hundreds of million of European children"?? Are we about to see a ring of RIAA employes around Napster's offices singing "Tears are not Enough"?
I'm listening to "I'm Afraid of Americans" by Bowie/NIN at this moment. Highly appropriate. And yes dammit I own it. No wait, I don't *actually* own it, I am listening to it with the grace of the RIAA becuase I happen to posess a certain platter of glass. Go figure.
A sad day at 3dfx today. The Voodoo 5 cards are so large and heavy, it appears that one of the primary engineers for the card was killed when the industrial strength crane used to lift the card out of the case accidentally failed and dropped the card over his head, crushing his body in the process.
Engineers were later heard to report that the card in question was stil functional and "played Quake 3 Arena 47% gorier than before".
If they send Napster a nice text file on a couple floppies, this won't be a huge issue for Napster. Just hack up a quick Perl script. Everyone gets a new userID, everyone's happy.
If the send Napster a 7000 page printed document of user names... They would be obliged to remove the names, pretty much by hand.
The quick solution of course is to dump all the existing user names. 98% of them are probably expired already...
I can see it now...
Napster User: Why did you drop my username?!?
Napster: Are you SURE you weren't pirating Metallica?
However, I don't think people realize how little of "English" is really still around. English is a mongrel language, combinations of French, Norse, Latin, Spanish. It would be hard to find a language in the world that didn't have some influence on English in some way (where do you think words like "shampoo" came from?:)
There was a wonderful commentarty by Joe Slesinger on CBC regarding the recent flap in France about air traffic controllers using English over radio waves, causing a big flap (mostly in Quebec, where if it isn't French, it's possibly illegal). He peppered his commentary with at least 20-30 Frech words, and then pointed out that every one of them was in the English dictionary.
So in short, English will prevail, but "English" circa 2100 won't probably sound a think like the archaic "English 2000" we speak today.
(but will there be a W3C document defining language?:)
3) Had the time to work the 70-80 hours per week you've been putting in.
Honours B. Sc. in Math, minors in Physics and Comp Sci, three years coding experience out of university and drooling to work on a game like this. Oh, and ran a B5 mailing list for the region with over 500 people on it...:)
I considered sumbitting a resume after the slashdot story, but the 70 hours a week would kill me.
Just watched the demo avi, listened to the music....
Has anyone else noticed a distinct B5 influence? The stations look similar (not so much the theory as the shape, their rather bulbous.) The music sounds like Tangerine Dream/Christopher Franke. Plus there seem to be nebulae everywhere, one of B5 tricks for producing adequate lighting...
This is probably related to the fact that many suicidal people come to the point where they want to take the person who caused their suffering with them.
There was an excellent 60 Minutes II on this about a month ago.
No, it can't be true! It can't. It makes a horrible kind of sense though. Jar Jar should have died 12 times over in that movie. Even the weaker characters from 4-6 evolved.
Wuse the fawce, Wuke! Wet go uf war feewings... Twust me....
I just got a paging cell a few weeks ago so that I could monitor our work systems 24/7. About 4 days after I got the phone, I got spammed.
It's to bad the spam ended: "For more information, call". and just ended there. If I had got the call at 3am instead of 5pm, I would have been bloody furious. Maybe they expected me to respond, but I can't see the actual address on this cell...
I'd have to agree. I just ran outside (12:20PM) from Surrey (just a few kilometers to the southeast of wsabstract), and can't see diddley. But it's fairly clear Of course, all of New Westminster, Burnaby, and the mountains are in the way. (We're both just north of the 49 degrees N, and about 124 W on the west end of the continent
For anyone who CAN see it, how high above the horizon in degrees do you see the aurora?
So these planets have >8 Jupiter masses, but 13 Jupiter masses (the limit for a brown dwarf).
I think this simplifies to "really big gas ball". Or perhaps a "black dwarf".. Neat to see the distinction between star and planet blurred. It's all big spectrum...
Cool though. I didn't realize Brown Dwarfs actually underwent fusion for a short period. How much easier is it to fuse deuterium than raw hydrogen? What's the natural distribution of Deuterium to Hydrogen in the universe? (Same as in water on Earth?)
Red Dwarfs burn their hydrogen forever (well, about 15 billion years+, longer than the current age of the universe) but really dimly. How long would a brown dwarf burn for before fizzling and cooling off?
I just love Duke Nukem 3D. If you can ignore the blatant sexism of the game, it's got the highest giggle factor of any game I've ever played. I can play for hours and just laugh the whole time.
I'm really really desperate to play this game again. The problem is that my WinBox is behind my Linux IP masq box, and I'm having a lot of difficulty.
There's a program out there called iC, an add on for Duke that is great for two machines connecting via TCP/IP. Doesn't work behind IP masq... It suffers from the "your IP address is 192.168.*.*, the other comp can't connect to you" problem.
Last night, I was trying Kali with their new kproxy software. It works great for Starcraft, but we just can't seem to see each other in Duke. I'd be eternally grateful for anyone willing to offer Kali/ipmasq/kproxy support for Duke. My wife on the other hand...:)
Now comes DosEmu. I could just run Duke on the Linux server! Does anyone have experience getting Duke to run over the Internet with Duke3D and DosEmu?
The BA-2 has a restarting third stage, which enables multiplt satellite deployments, Hohmann transfer orbit injections, and GTO targeted Earth-escape missions. (their spelling)
So I guess they lauch several sattelites at once, drop one off, move to a different orbit, drop a few more off, etc.
I wonder if you put an androgynous docking unit on one of these if it would be good for lifting space stations into higher orbit? Or if you docked two of them together, nose to nose, and went twice as far... (for that telescope on the L3 (?) Lagrange point on the far side of the moon (yea I know it's not stable...)
Nuclear-powered Watches (They used to mix Radium with the glow in the dark paint on the dials so they would glow all night)
My high school physics teacher used to talk about this. He once owned one of these watches. He said he once had rather red inflammed skin directly underneath the watch after he wore it for a significant amount of time...
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Yea, and verily God Himself will strike down the heathen Napster users. They they shall burn in hell, tortured by their demon computers as punishment. Music on the Internet is the voice of Satan himself...
What's with that about "stealing the breakfasts of hundreds of million of European children"?? Are we about to see a ring of RIAA employes around Napster's offices singing "Tears are not Enough"?
I'm listening to "I'm Afraid of Americans" by Bowie/NIN at this moment. Highly appropriate. And yes dammit I own it. No wait, I don't *actually* own it, I am listening to it with the grace of the RIAA becuase I happen to posess a certain platter of glass. Go figure.
A sad day at 3dfx today. The Voodoo 5 cards are so large and heavy, it appears that one of the primary engineers for the card was killed when the industrial strength crane used to lift the card out of the case accidentally failed and dropped the card over his head, crushing his body in the process.
Engineers were later heard to report that the card in question was stil functional and "played Quake 3 Arena 47% gorier than before".
Boy it's a long day at work today...
Duck Dodgers, in the 23rd & 1/2th century!
my.god:
http://my.god/its/full/of/stars/
http://my.god/is/better/than/your.god/
http://oh.my.god/
why.god:
http://why.god/WHY?/
While we're resistering companies, how about:
http://sun.god/
http://be.god/
Or advertise your prowess in programming:
http://linux.god/
http://perl.god/
http://java.god/
http://sql.god/
Rats, there goes my Star Wars idea and my karma bonus.. :)
:)
I was thinking rather of posters with Boba Fett on them, pointing his arm rocket pack toward the viewer...
"Now you too can be a bounty hunter"...
Oh well, At least I have something:
Darth Vader is now Canadian...
How they made the request will be relevant.
If they send Napster a nice text file on a couple floppies, this won't be a huge issue for Napster. Just hack up a quick Perl script. Everyone gets a new userID, everyone's happy.
If the send Napster a 7000 page printed document of user names... They would be obliged to remove the names, pretty much by hand.
The quick solution of course is to dump all the existing user names. 98% of them are probably expired already...
I can see it now...
Napster User: Why did you drop my username?!?
Napster: Are you SURE you weren't pirating Metallica?
Napster User: Uh... I can't remember!
Napster: We thought so...
However, I don't think people realize how little of "English" is really still around. English is a mongrel language, combinations of French, Norse, Latin, Spanish. It would be hard to find a language in the world that didn't have some influence on English in some way (where do you think words like "shampoo" came from? :)
:)
There was a wonderful commentarty by Joe Slesinger on CBC regarding the recent flap in France about air traffic controllers using English over radio waves, causing a big flap (mostly in Quebec, where if it isn't French, it's possibly illegal). He peppered his commentary with at least 20-30 Frech words, and then pointed out that every one of them was in the English dictionary.
So in short, English will prevail, but "English" circa 2100 won't probably sound a think like the archaic "English 2000" we speak today.
(but will there be a W3C document defining language?
Oh man, I would be so there if...
:)
:)
1) I wasn't married.
2) I didn't have kids.
and thus
3) Had the time to work the 70-80 hours per week you've been putting in.
Honours B. Sc. in Math, minors in Physics and Comp Sci, three years coding experience out of university and drooling to work on a game like this. Oh, and ran a B5 mailing list for the region with over 500 people on it...
I considered sumbitting a resume after the slashdot story, but the 70 hours a week would kill me.
Oh well. In another life, perhaps...
Just watched the demo avi, listened to the music....
Has anyone else noticed a distinct B5 influence? The stations look similar (not so much the theory as the shape, their rather bulbous.) The music sounds like Tangerine Dream/Christopher Franke. Plus there seem to be nebulae everywhere, one of B5 tricks for producing adequate lighting...
I'm drooling now,...
This is probably related to the fact that many suicidal people come to the point where they want to take the person who caused their suffering with them.
There was an excellent 60 Minutes II on this about a month ago.
Beaten to unconciousness and then had her head held underwater by a girl who bragged about it at school the day after.
Happy now?
More info on Virk here.
No, it can't be true! It can't. It makes a horrible kind of sense though. Jar Jar should have died 12 times over in that movie. Even the weaker characters from 4-6 evolved.
Wuse the fawce, Wuke! Wet go uf war feewings... Twust me....
I just got a paging cell a few weeks ago so that I could monitor our work systems 24/7. About 4 days after I got the phone, I got spammed.
It's to bad the spam ended: "For more information, call". and just ended there. If I had got the call at 3am instead of 5pm, I would have been bloody furious. Maybe they expected me to respond, but I can't see the actual address on this cell...
Poe is right, this is actually true. The episodes are 112 hours long. However, there's only one 112 hour long episode... :)
Assuming you use the Star Trek definition of "episode" where everything is wrapped up in its nice little parcel at the end.
May Valen go with you...
I'd have to agree. I just ran outside (12:20PM) from Surrey (just a few kilometers to the southeast of wsabstract), and can't see diddley. But it's fairly clear Of course, all of New Westminster, Burnaby, and the mountains are in the way. (We're both just north of the 49 degrees N, and about 124 W on the west end of the continent
For anyone who CAN see it, how high above the horizon in degrees do you see the aurora?
Check out Origins.
:)
and
Terrestrial Planet Finder
for more info on future directions in planet finding.
Just waiting for DS3 to get approved...
So these planets have >8 Jupiter masses, but 13 Jupiter masses (the limit for a brown dwarf).
I think this simplifies to "really big gas ball". Or perhaps a "black dwarf".. Neat to see the distinction between star and planet blurred. It's all big spectrum...
Cool though. I didn't realize Brown Dwarfs actually underwent fusion for a short period. How much easier is it to fuse deuterium than raw hydrogen? What's the natural distribution of Deuterium to Hydrogen in the universe? (Same as in water on Earth?)
Red Dwarfs burn their hydrogen forever (well, about 15 billion years+, longer than the current age of the universe) but really dimly. How long would a brown dwarf burn for before fizzling and cooling off?
Wouldn't it be in Blizzard's best interest to pick a good distribution of machine types, rather than picking everyone at random for testing purposes?
He says, hoping his absolute minimum spec computer will get him higher up the ladder...
I can only ask, will Toto do the music?!?
(or at least, do they have rights to the original Dune soundtrack and its score?)
Dum.... Dum.. Da Dum.....
:)
ahh crap.. that's what I get for posting at 2 in the morning... :)
I just love Duke Nukem 3D. If you can ignore the blatant sexism of the game, it's got the highest giggle factor of any game I've ever played. I can play for hours and just laugh the whole time.
:)
I'm really really desperate to play this game again. The problem is that my WinBox is behind my Linux IP masq box, and I'm having a lot of difficulty.
There's a program out there called iC, an add on for Duke that is great for two machines connecting via TCP/IP. Doesn't work behind IP masq... It suffers from the "your IP address is 192.168.*.*, the other comp can't connect to you" problem.
Last night, I was trying Kali with their new kproxy software. It works great for Starcraft, but we just can't seem to see each other in Duke. I'd be eternally grateful for anyone willing to offer Kali/ipmasq/kproxy support for Duke. My wife on the other hand...
Now comes DosEmu. I could just run Duke on the Linux server! Does anyone have experience getting Duke to run over the Internet with Duke3D and DosEmu?
The web site states:
The BA-2 has a restarting third stage, which enables multiplt satellite deployments, Hohmann transfer orbit injections, and GTO targeted Earth-escape missions. (their spelling)
So I guess they lauch several sattelites at once, drop one off, move to a different orbit, drop a few more off, etc.
I wonder if you put an androgynous docking unit on one of these if it would be good for lifting space stations into higher orbit? Or if you docked two of them together, nose to nose, and went twice as far... (for that telescope on the L3 (?) Lagrange point on the far side of the moon (yea I know it's not stable...)
Nuclear-powered Watches (They used to mix Radium with the glow in the dark paint on the dials so they would glow all night)
My high school physics teacher used to talk about this. He once owned one of these watches. He said he once had rather red inflammed skin directly underneath the watch after he wore it for a significant amount of time...
William Shatner is busy playing Homer Simpson.
What would that sound like?
"D'h...... OOOO AHH!"
Ever since we lost the X-Files, Hollywood hasn't seemed that Canadian anymore.
:)
As it's not possible for it to be performed live, I suggest getting a medley of Canadian singers to perform the song. Just think of it:
Anne Murray
Rita McNeil
Jim Carey
Mike Myers
Alanis Morrisette
Geddy Lee, and the rest of Rush
and of course, the one and only
William Shatner
And the whole thing could be introduced by Morely Safer or Dan Rather...
Bravo for bringing the Great White North back to the forefront!