Ever since the PS2 (that seems to be the watershed for me), the damn things have become stupidly unwieldy. The SNES was the last controller that I was happy with. 6 buttons (and only 2 shoulder buttons) and one pad is my limit. 2 analog sticks and 4 shoulder buttons is just too damn much.
"his Democratic counterpart is probably on board too"
Would it be too much to ask that you find out Rep. John Conyer's position - hell, even his name would be an improvement, and perhaps understanding why Rep. Smith is considered "key" (hint: check the committees) - before you start tarring him with the same brush as Rep. Lamar Smith?
The problem is they should ENFORCE fines for "obvious" misuse, such as calls for barking dogs, etc. No fines for borderline cases (ie: when there is an injury, extremely loud sound that could have been explosion, smell of gas, etc.) but for the very obvious.
In my city, Atlanta, GA, USA, 911 is in fact what you use for things like barking dogs, etc. If you try and call the police department to, say, report a busted car window and a stolen cell phone, they will tell you to hang up and call 911. It's kind of annoying.
Tough to tell how it stacks up - looks like the processing power blows away an SNES, but the graphics may be nowhere near as good.
From http://www.xgamestation.com/faq.php#a10:
" Q:
What can the XGameStation Micro Edition hardware do? How powerful is it?
A:
The raw processing power of the XGameStation Micro Edition is approximately 40x that of the Nintendo (NES) or 20X that of a Super Nintendo, 50x that of an Atari 800 and it's graphical capabilities are similar to the Atari 2600, that is a directly controlled raster stream allowing pixel level timing and color control via software loops."
You notice they aren't trying to stop the movie's release with an injunction, they just want a cut of the profits.
Wrong.
126. White Wolf is therefore entitled to:
(a) A preliminary and permanent injunction preventing the distribution, marketing, release, sale, and rental of Underworld and Underworld: Bloodlines.
And then they repeat that claim, oh, 20 more times at least.
Case In Point:
My current client uses PVCS as their version management software. Aside from the sheer stupidity of using something that costs huge dollars, and doesn't provide near the functionality of CVS, the client app is a fucked up Java Swing App.
I used PVCS in 1998. A fucked up Java Swing client
app would be an improvement over the fucked up
win32 client app with all hand-coded widgets they
used to have.
According to the article I read, just because there wasn't a dust plume found, doesn't mean that there's no water:
David Morse, a spokesman for the Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Ca., which is monitoring the global effort to search for water vapor, called the absence of a visible debris cloud upon impact ``a good sign.''
``Had we hit the lip of the crater or the surface of the moon, then you would expect the debris cloud to be very visible,'' Morse told CNN in a televised interview.
here in Canada illegally obtained evidence is not as important as getting the person behind bars
This was the case in America for a long time...completely making the 4th amendment (against unreasonable search and seizure) worthless. The cops could kick down your door, and if they found something illegal all they would get would be a "bad cop" slap on the wrist.
Today, if evidence is obtained illegally, it must be thrown out.
Of course, there are exceptions. If the police officers were "acting in good faith", they get to use whatever they found.
The brain might not be the best model to use as a storage system. If you think about it, the brain must be using some sort of lossy storage system.
I mean, I can't remember everything I've experienced in 32-bit color with sound, although some things I can remember clearly.
In addition, a lot of times you can't remember something you want to, when you want to (much later, it seems, the answer comes floating back).
I feel that the brain is clearly optimized for something other than bit-perfect storage and quick recall of arbitrary data, and so I don't think it would work real well as a storage medium.
However, with some sort of lossy storage, it can probably store a truckload of data, much as jpeg can compress images down a lot.
Linux, in Unixish tradition, won't have a Y2K problem for 3 decades
This is not totally true. Some industries have been dealing with Y2K issues for a while now, and are in all probability not far from dealing with 2038 issues. Imagine retirement investment accounts; I'm not planning on retirement until past 2038, so if I fill that in I'm already past the problem year.
-Richard Campbell (ulmont@bellsouth.net)
These aren't perfect anyway...
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Gene Leakage
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I've seen some of these insect-resistant plants.
They're only partly resistant, and only partly resistant to specific types of insects.
If they jumped, other insects would take up the slack.
Genetic jumps are far more likely to make herbicides obsolete (there are plants engineered to be resistant to, say, Roundup) than to kill off all insects.
Slashdot Mirror
I registered sometime in the fall of 1998.
It scrolled top down, like 1942 or 1943. It was a Sierra-Online import though, yes.
"his Democratic counterpart is probably on board too"
Would it be too much to ask that you find out Rep. John Conyer's position - hell, even his name would be an improvement, and perhaps understanding why Rep. Smith is considered "key" (hint: check the committees) - before you start tarring him with the same brush as Rep. Lamar Smith?
-Richard Campbell.
The problem is they should ENFORCE fines for "obvious" misuse, such as calls for barking dogs, etc. No fines for borderline cases (ie: when there is an injury, extremely loud sound that could have been explosion, smell of gas, etc.) but for the very obvious.
In my city, Atlanta, GA, USA, 911 is in fact what you use for things like barking dogs, etc. If you try and call the police department to, say, report a busted car window and a stolen cell phone, they will tell you to hang up and call 911. It's kind of annoying.
At-will doesn't always work both ways, but in this case feel free.
They can fire you without any severance - you can quit without any notice, if you want.
Anything above that is gravy.
-Richard Campbell.
Spiderweb software is a 10-year old gaming company that only has one coder (President Jeff Vogel).
See http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/.
Thomas Warfield, author of Pretty Good Solitaire, Pretty Good Majongg, etc., is also a Lone Coder.
See http://www.asharewarelife.com/.
See generally discussion on "micro-isvs" at http://www.microisv.com/.
Tough to tell how it stacks up - looks like the processing power blows away an SNES, but the graphics may be nowhere near as good.
:
From http://www.xgamestation.com/faq.php#a10
" Q:
What can the XGameStation Micro Edition hardware do? How powerful is it?
A:
The raw processing power of the XGameStation Micro Edition is approximately 40x that of the Nintendo (NES) or 20X that of a Super Nintendo, 50x that of an Atari 800 and it's graphical capabilities are similar to the Atari 2600, that is a directly controlled raster stream allowing pixel level timing and color control via software loops."
-Richard Campbell.
Wrong.
126. White Wolf is therefore entitled to:
(a) A preliminary and permanent injunction preventing the distribution, marketing, release, sale, and rental of Underworld and Underworld: Bloodlines.
And then they repeat that claim, oh, 20 more times at least.
-Richard.
If you must have an angle, think of this:
If Boucher doesn't get votes, he can't get relected. Money only goes so far (xref Perot and Forbes' presidential bids).
You prefer IE over Netscape? There are so many little things about IE that just annoy the hell out of me... one being that it hangs randomly.
I haven't had IE 4.0 hang randomly on me, but I can crash communicator 4.61 and earlier at will, at least on my nt box.
Open 1 page.
Open a second page in a second window.
Reload both pages simultaneously.
Wait for Dr. Watson...
-Richard.
According to the article I read, just because there wasn't a dust plume found, doesn't mean that there's no water:
David Morse, a spokesman for the Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Ca., which is monitoring the global effort to search for water vapor, called the absence of a visible debris cloud upon impact ``a good sign.''
``Had we hit the lip of the crater or the surface of the moon, then you would expect the debris cloud to be very visible,'' Morse told CNN in a televised interview.
Full article here.
-Richard.
here in Canada illegally obtained evidence is not as important as getting the person behind bars
This was the case in America for a long time...completely making the 4th amendment (against unreasonable search and seizure) worthless. The cops could kick down your door, and if they found something illegal all they would get would be a "bad cop" slap on the wrist.
Today, if evidence is obtained illegally, it must be thrown out.
Of course, there are exceptions. If the police officers were "acting in good faith", they get to use whatever they found.
-Richard.
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and all that.
additional features This is correct. Mostly related to java, iirc.
I know that it has much more featureful jdbc connectivity; I've been
waiting for this release for a while.
-Richard.
I guess if L. Ron Hubbard could call himself a Sci-fi writer, anyone can...
L. Ron Hubbard wrote one fabulous sci-fi book: Battlefield Earth.
Now, Mission Earth sucked a lot, but Battlefield Earth is one of my all time favorites.
Don't put down Hubbard for his sci-fi (unless it's Mission Earth, which is truly awful, not to mention 10 volumes long).
Put him down for inventing the crack cocaine of religions.
-Richard.
Unless the linux user is running that shell script as root, it wouldn't happen.
-Richard, barbarian geek.
The brain might not be the best model to use as a storage system. If you think about it, the brain must be using some sort of lossy storage system.
I mean, I can't remember everything I've experienced in 32-bit color with sound, although some things I can remember clearly.
In addition, a lot of times you can't remember something you want to, when you want to (much later, it seems, the answer comes floating back).
I feel that the brain is clearly optimized for something other than bit-perfect storage and quick recall of arbitrary data, and so I don't think it would work real well as a storage medium.
However, with some sort of lossy storage, it can probably store a truckload of data, much as jpeg can compress images down a lot.
-Richard.
Linux, in Unixish tradition, won't have a Y2K problem for 3 decades
This is not totally true. Some industries have been dealing with Y2K issues for a while now,
and are in all probability not far from dealing with 2038 issues. Imagine retirement investment
accounts; I'm not planning on retirement until past 2038, so if I fill that in I'm already past the
problem year.
-Richard Campbell (ulmont@bellsouth.net)
I've seen some of these insect-resistant plants.
They're only partly resistant, and only partly resistant to specific types of insects.
If they jumped, other insects would take up the slack.
Genetic jumps are far more likely to make herbicides obsolete (there are plants engineered to be resistant to, say, Roundup) than to kill off all insects.
-Richard.
How are threads moderated?
That is, if I decide to view by thread, do I have to give up any benefits of "order by score"?
If I decide to order by score, do I have to give up threading?
Is the score of a thread a weighted average of the messages (first messages count more than the nth level deep ones)?
-Richard Campbell (ulmont@bellsouth.net)