Yeah, it did have Repetitive Plot Syndrom(tm), but so did Lexx during its second season, and it got much better after that. I think with a little time to adjust they could of done some great things. The episode 'Meow' (Max going into heat) really shows how well the directing was -- Obviously a ratings grabbing episode for sweeps month, but instead of having the entire episode based around sex, they focused on how undesirable it was for her to have those cravings. Verry well done IMO.
Couldn't agree with you more. The last episode set the next season up so perfectly (Max being true to her character and fighting society as a whole by taking a stand), then fox just yanks it. I wonder how much money it would cost to run a TV network now that evrything is digital, maybe setup a system like Transgaming(makers of winex) where subscribers(in this case donators) get to vote on which shows to revive, maybe charge $10 per vote, unlimite votes a slong as you have the money. If enough people got together, you could bring back great shows like Dark Angel and The Invisible Man, maybe even Lexx(though 4 seasons is a good run for a show like that, theres only so much you can do with a small crew like that).
I enjoyed both, but you really only get one run through before its boring. It is a great story and told very well (dream sequence effect was superb), but I honestly don't see myself playing through it again. Same is true with any storyline based game for me, I can fire up quake1 singleplayer any time and its still fun, but once the game has too many cutscenes and dialog it just kills replay. (granted, playing through it again using developer mode to get the nude chick skin would be fun)
Or consider the fact that they block the useragent LWP (libwww-perl) in an attempt to stop bots. Whats this google, you can use bots to spider the entire internet, but we cant make a simple query? I'm not jumping through hopes just to get a limited API license that probably has no extentions for languages I want to use.
"Transgaming supports quite a few Windows games under WineX and they run well. "
Until theres a new patch and you can't play for months. Still cant play cs ever since the steam integration (You can jump through hoops to get steam to work,but the actual game dies with an error referring to gl extentions. This is true with both cs1.6 and any offline steam based game (CZ, hl2beta, not that I'd know of course.)
Turn the disk around, hold it up to sunlight. You can see exactly how much of the disk is full based on the way the cd looks. I can tell within ~75mb or so margin of error and have used this to find my uh 'backup copy' of halflife.
I can't agree with you more. Nothing is worse than being shot at when you're low on hp, only to have your teammate get the knife kill right after you die. This is why I/hate/ any form of player ranking. If you're good, people on your server will know that. Once you start ranking them (especially for stupid things) you get StatWhores(tm) who only play for better stats. I'm even tempted to remove player scores all together on our server (opting to do it the TeamFortress way where everyones playerscore is the teamscore)
Offtopic: Pre-air usually happens when the network is sending the show to the local affiliates to add their own commercials (why they just go black during commercial breaks). It could happen when sending it to wherever adds the SAP and closed captioning, but that requires an actual inside leak (less frequent and more expensive, but easily possible to), as opposed to just getting a big satalite.
Same way there are flaws in FTP that are not specific to any implentation (FTP bounce specificly). Of course it has been worked around, but the workarounds arnt part of the spec.
I'm saying if IE were open source, I could actually consider it competition to Moz. As it is you can't do much with IE due to the license its under, so its not really comparable. To use a bad analogy, it would be like comparing a padlock to a bank vault Sure the bank vault is more secure, but who cares if you can't use it for what you want?
Firebird is nice, but its not really production quality. After looking at an XSL page for a while it can sometimes start to lag uncontrollably. Also takes way too much cpu cycles when sitting idle. And then there is that time it ate all of my bookmarks..
Speed still doesnt compare to opera or even ie, but you can't really compare either of those to moz until they go opensource. The only real competition in the opensource browser market is khtml, but its rendering sucks.
"It's different because on Slashdot, you can browse at -1. Moderators can never delete a post, just push it down a little. " -1 doesnt get archived. In effect all they have to do is downmod you and wait for the story to get archived and your post is gone forever.
"And downmods can't terminate your account, either" Except for the IPban that comes with getting modded down too many times, and the 2post a day limit for bad karma. (neither of these are deletion, I'll give you that, but they are censorship.)
Because if he was a fan of nethack he would of probably posted, removing his right to moderate. This of course forces moderators to either be uninformed or uninterested in a story, see my journal for details.
"what "hard things [are made] easier" on Linux that aren't also made easier under MacOS X? " Scaling down to near-nothing or up to supercomputers. "What impossible things are made possible that aren't that way under MacOS X?" Sourcecode modification of your gui?
They havnt said what it is, but it ends in getting the aniahlus charm. iirc its a small unique charm that gives +1 all skills, faster exp gain, and some other godliness.
offtopic-- where do you download Howard Stern? Our local affiliate stopped carrying it so I stopped listening. Also stopped listening to loveline due to hating having to grab a radio when I have a computer to play everything else.
Ahh, Makes sense. I didnt really get that far in. I do know it helps to build a new char as the old power-builds arnt nearly as godly, but I can see where you have a point. I did try walking through act 1 hell with my old bnet MF sorc (w/ 1 occy ring.. iknow, bad and something i'm against, but she was just for mf.) in.09 I could do baal runs easily, meph with my eyes closed (she could tank it). In.10 Even quil rats would beat her up, It was pretty pathetic. I think they're really trying to force a party now, which can be seen as a good or a bad thing.
Hopefully they havn't forced the patch yet, Maybe it just needs some more balance testing. Where its at now would be great for a good party (sorc+zon+paly, for example).
I hate it, but recognize it isnt going anywhere so i can enjoy when its abused against someone you dont like.
It's just like any other bad thing in the world really. (of course, I dont speak on behalf of slashdot, as we're no longer a hive mind like it used to be years ago)
"Just because 50 million people decide that what they're doing is right and justifiable doesn't mean that they're right and justified."
Yes, It does.
What defines 'right' and 'justified'? Its all objective, so the only thing you have to go by is either personal oppinion or majority, and if the majority is doing something because they think its right and justified, it becomes so.
The boston tea party wasnt 'right' or 'justified' in the eyes of brittain. Neither was Rosa Parks refusing to go to the back of the bus. Whats Right and Justified is constantly evolving, and this is just one of the fronts.
offtopic - whats wrong with it? I'll admit I havnt played since the early days of the first public 1.10 beta -- I *LOATH* the copy protection -- , but it was nothing but great changes IMO -- Really added a challange to the game, and some variety (It wasnt just the cookie cutter bowazons wearing vampgaze, string of ears, wf or buriza, dual sojs, water walks.. etc..09 there was only a set amount of skills/items that would work, and anything else couldnt compare).
On my real servers/desktops, I patch often thanks to apt-get. On my win2k3 install I had for playing condition zero and max payne 2.. I dont patch. Apparently my cdkey is 'pirated' so they refuse to provide me any updates through windows update. While that may sound like a reasonable thing, consider the following:
You run a 600desktop company, all running win2k3 corp like you should be. One of the machines breaks, so to reinstall it your tech has to have the cdkey. Few weeks later, he gets fired. He takes the cdkey with him and procedes to leak it on IRC/usenet, thousands of people use it and it ends up blacklisted. Now your corperation can't patch until you pay 600*$MSTAX. Thanks microsoft, We need more DoS drone bots out there.
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Yeah, it did have Repetitive Plot Syndrom(tm), but so did Lexx during its second season, and it got much better after that. I think with a little time to adjust they could of done some great things. The episode 'Meow' (Max going into heat) really shows how well the directing was -- Obviously a ratings grabbing episode for sweeps month, but instead of having the entire episode based around sex, they focused on how undesirable it was for her to have those cravings. Verry well done IMO.
I'd like to add the SIfl and Olly show. Really funny in a stupid sort of way, but thats why it was best aired at 3am when that humor works best.
Couldn't agree with you more. The last episode set the next season up so perfectly (Max being true to her character and fighting society as a whole by taking a stand), then fox just yanks it. I wonder how much money it would cost to run a TV network now that evrything is digital, maybe setup a system like Transgaming(makers of winex) where subscribers(in this case donators) get to vote on which shows to revive, maybe charge $10 per vote, unlimite votes a slong as you have the money. If enough people got together, you could bring back great shows like Dark Angel and The Invisible Man, maybe even Lexx(though 4 seasons is a good run for a show like that, theres only so much you can do with a small crew like that).
I enjoyed both, but you really only get one run through before its boring. It is a great story and told very well (dream sequence effect was superb), but I honestly don't see myself playing through it again. Same is true with any storyline based game for me, I can fire up quake1 singleplayer any time and its still fun, but once the game has too many cutscenes and dialog it just kills replay. (granted, playing through it again using developer mode to get the nude chick skin would be fun)
And Zeros also, damned binary world.
Or consider the fact that they block the useragent LWP (libwww-perl) in an attempt to stop bots. Whats this google, you can use bots to spider the entire internet, but we cant make a simple query? I'm not jumping through hopes just to get a limited API license that probably has no extentions for languages I want to use.
"Transgaming supports quite a few Windows games under WineX and they run well. "
Until theres a new patch and you can't play for months. Still cant play cs ever since the steam integration (You can jump through hoops to get steam to work,but the actual game dies with an error referring to gl extentions. This is true with both cs1.6 and any offline steam based game (CZ, hl2beta, not that I'd know of course.)
Turn the disk around, hold it up to sunlight. You can see exactly how much of the disk is full based on the way the cd looks. I can tell within ~75mb or so margin of error and have used this to find my uh 'backup copy' of halflife.
I can't agree with you more. Nothing is worse than being shot at when you're low on hp, only to have your teammate get the knife kill right after you die. This is why I /hate/ any form of player ranking. If you're good, people on your server will know that. Once you start ranking them (especially for stupid things) you get StatWhores(tm) who only play for better stats. I'm even tempted to remove player scores all together on our server (opting to do it the TeamFortress way where everyones playerscore is the teamscore)
Offtopic: Pre-air usually happens when the network is sending the show to the local affiliates to add their own commercials (why they just go black during commercial breaks). It could happen when sending it to wherever adds the SAP and closed captioning, but that requires an actual inside leak (less frequent and more expensive, but easily possible to), as opposed to just getting a big satalite.
Same way there are flaws in FTP that are not specific to any implentation (FTP bounce specificly). Of course it has been worked around, but the workarounds arnt part of the spec.
I'm saying if IE were open source, I could actually consider it competition to Moz. As it is you can't do much with IE due to the license its under, so its not really comparable. To use a bad analogy, it would be like comparing a padlock to a bank vault Sure the bank vault is more secure, but who cares if you can't use it for what you want?
Firebird is nice, but its not really production quality. After looking at an XSL page for a while it can sometimes start to lag uncontrollably. Also takes way too much cpu cycles when sitting idle. And then there is that time it ate all of my bookmarks..
Speed still doesnt compare to opera or even ie, but you can't really compare either of those to moz until they go opensource. The only real competition in the opensource browser market is khtml, but its rendering sucks.
"You called me a n00b in a CS game,"
Plant the damned bomb next time n00b
"It's different because on Slashdot, you can browse at -1. Moderators can never delete a post, just push it down a little.
"
-1 doesnt get archived. In effect all they have to do is downmod you and wait for the story to get archived and your post is gone forever.
"And downmods can't terminate your account, either"
Except for the IPban that comes with getting modded down too many times, and the 2post a day limit for bad karma. (neither of these are deletion, I'll give you that, but they are censorship.)
Because if he was a fan of nethack he would of probably posted, removing his right to moderate. This of course forces moderators to either be uninformed or uninterested in a story, see my journal for details.
"what "hard things [are made] easier" on Linux that aren't also made easier under MacOS X? "
Scaling down to near-nothing or up to supercomputers.
"What impossible things are made possible that aren't that way under MacOS X?"
Sourcecode modification of your gui?
They havnt said what it is, but it ends in getting the aniahlus charm. iirc its a small unique charm that gives +1 all skills, faster exp gain, and some other godliness.
offtopic-- where do you download Howard Stern? Our local affiliate stopped carrying it so I stopped listening. Also stopped listening to loveline due to hating having to grab a radio when I have a computer to play everything else.
Ahh, Makes sense. I didnt really get that far in. I do know it helps to build a new char as the old power-builds arnt nearly as godly, but I can see where you have a point. I did try walking through act 1 hell with my old bnet MF sorc (w/ 1 occy ring.. iknow, bad and something i'm against, but she was just for mf.) .09 I could do baal runs easily, meph with my eyes closed (she could tank it). In .10 Even quil rats would beat her up, It was pretty pathetic. I think they're really trying to force a party now, which can be seen as a good or a bad thing.
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Hopefully they havn't forced the patch yet, Maybe it just needs some more balance testing. Where its at now would be great for a good party (sorc+zon+paly, for example).
I hate it, but recognize it isnt going anywhere so i can enjoy when its abused against someone you dont like.
It's just like any other bad thing in the world really. (of course, I dont speak on behalf of slashdot, as we're no longer a hive mind like it used to be years ago)
"Who would win? (Googlefight predicts aria, but maybe becuase fo their big award ceremony last night)"
I think aria wins for Other reasons(nsfw)
"Just because 50 million people decide that what they're doing is right and justifiable doesn't mean that they're right and justified."
Yes, It does.
What defines 'right' and 'justified'? Its all objective, so the only thing you have to go by is either personal oppinion or majority, and if the majority is doing something because they think its right and justified, it becomes so.
The boston tea party wasnt 'right' or 'justified' in the eyes of brittain. Neither was Rosa Parks refusing to go to the back of the bus. Whats Right and Justified is constantly evolving, and this is just one of the fronts.
offtopic - whats wrong with it? I'll admit I havnt played since the early days of the first public 1.10 beta -- I *LOATH* the copy protection -- , but it was nothing but great changes IMO -- Really added a challange to the game, and some variety (It wasnt just the cookie cutter bowazons wearing vampgaze, string of ears, wf or buriza, dual sojs, water walks.. etc. .09 there was only a set amount of skills/items that would work, and anything else couldnt compare).
On my real servers/desktops, I patch often thanks to apt-get. On my win2k3 install I had for playing condition zero and max payne 2.. I dont patch. Apparently my cdkey is 'pirated' so they refuse to provide me any updates through windows update.
While that may sound like a reasonable thing, consider the following:
You run a 600desktop company, all running win2k3 corp like you should be. One of the machines breaks, so to reinstall it your tech has to have the cdkey. Few weeks later, he gets fired. He takes the cdkey with him and procedes to leak it on IRC/usenet, thousands of people use it and it ends up blacklisted. Now your corperation can't patch until you pay 600*$MSTAX. Thanks microsoft, We need more DoS drone bots out there.