and hide the main character in a suit so people who never played the game don't realize she's a she until the very end when she takes off her helmet. They should not, however, emulate the game's graphics or endlessly confusing mazes. However, the turning into a ball and other stuff of that nature would be cool.
This could make for some really interesting desktops, if this is what I think it is. Make some interesting graphical effects within icons or as the desktop without dragging the system down. I can see a new type of desktop where the start menu is replaced by an interactive desktop background. Personally, I hate the damn start menu (including the Linux implementations) as an incredibly ineffieicient way to organize menus. But, that's just my opinion- obviously someone has to like it.
It was alot of fun. I remember my school went to the national competition in Indiana the first time we competed. It was a bit like a condensed fun-science course. I worked on the build-a-tower-as-light-as-possible part of it. The first time around we used dowel rods. You could stand on the thing, but it weighed so much we never stood a chance. Our second iteration of balsa wood kept falling apart because we waited until the last minute and the cyano-acrilate hadn't set yet.
That was a really fun competition, although the robotics were more fun. JETS was good too. MA(theta) was never my thing.. damn, there were alot of those if your school was into it.
I agree with the parent. If my job involved "foul-smelling chemical mixtures" that got all over me every day, I'd find out what was in there. On of the plaintifs said if he knew, he'd have walked off the job, so saying they had no choice isn't an option here. These are tech jobs, as well, so it's not like we're talking minimum-wage-slave type no-thinkers, these are supposedly people with some sense. Whether or not the chemicals were actually responcible- who knows. This is similar to the McDonalds coffee lady, except this time they didn't win. You are the only person responsible for your life, suing someone for not telling you dousing yourself in chemicals is bad shouldn't be an option.
Comparing the old and new license it appears all they added was the requirement to place the copyright in the documentation of binary releases, include an acknowledgement of the XFree86 project, and forbid the use of "he name of The XFree86 Project, Inc" in advertising. It's not like they're closing the source, so what exactly is the problem the distros have with the new license?
The only thing I can think of is a general resistance to cahnging licenses mid-stream, regardless of the nature of the change.
I'm waiting for them to come up with a sound search and an image search that look at the subject of the image rather than its file name. After that I'm not sure what's left. Maybe comparative searches for sounds and images, where you can upload a source to compare? Who knows! I hope these guys don't follow the normal path of spiralling into inconsequence after they go public.
When I went to the demonstration site and clicked the link in Mozilla 1.5 it showed the file name as "ie.%7B3050f4d8-98B5-11CF-BB82-00AA00BDCE0B%7DSecu nia_Internet_Explorer%252Epdf" and asked what to do with it, by default saving it to disk. Even if you were an internet clueless person somehow using Mozilla this still doesn't seem as dangerous if for no other reason than the bizarre filename, which doesn't look the least like it's a.pdf file. On IE it asks if you want to download "...Secunia_Internet_Explorer.pdf" which looks much worse as far as disguising itself goes.
At risk of being modded offtopic, this comment really annoyed me. Neanderthals were most likely *not* ancestors to us. Neanderthals came from another branch and it's suspected that they were wiped out by the early modern humans which *were* our ancestors.
Just because they have a story you short-sightedly dismissed as improbable doesn't mean that all the stories are, especially when you're wrong about the one you dismiss. Since this is another email virus it has to be sneaky, and the fact that it appears to be lacking the normal bad english that denotes most spam and instead fakes a returned mail makes it that much harder to spot, and deserving of the 'sneaky' moniker.
Water reactive means it reacts with water and therefore wouldn't form in a wet environment. That means that if you find a rock with this mineral it must be igneous in nature because the other main type of rock formation occurs on seabeds, thus in the presence of water. I'd love for them to find some sandstone or limestone, that'd be a pretty clear indication of water in the past.
That's how it's being pitched in Wired, not exactly the publication you'd expect most people to read. This article is aimed at the techno-literate computer crowd that can appreciate what went into the making of the film as far as computers go, not people like my mom who want to see the movie but who could care less about the computing aspect of it's creation.
..not a condition required for a problem free existance. For every problem solved, though, a new set will crop up. That's what drives progress. If we ever get to the point where there is no more adversity we will either create deom from nothing or self destruct as a species.
I guess they don't want their company name to go the way of others previously- there's a term for it, though I forget what it is exactly. The "Dummies" books publisher recently sued someone to keep them from using that term, it's a similar situation though I think it's already too late for them. Like Saran wrap, Velcro, and even Hoover and Coke, Google is now a non-corporate aprt of the English language, and most likely several other languages as well, despite the French government. These things happen when a product becomes so popular it's creator is even eclipsed by it. No doubt some day people will 'google' something on Teoma or whatever. For now they should ride the wave and not bother trying to stop the inevitable, because trying only makes them look like the other evil giant entities out there, like the MPAA and RIAA.
I, for one, amd sad to see them go. I had them for a year, and once certain initial configureation issues were resolved they were a very good service. Outages happened, but I'm realistic and don't complain about that.
I chose them because not only did they provide a static IP on the basic account, but the tech support knew what Linux was. This means I didn't have to call in with a problem and pretend I had Windows in order to get them to talk to me like I did with BellSouth.
Ah, well. They're not the first to go, and certainly won't be the last.
Salut!
The network isn't too bad, but the incompetence of the people that run it astounds me. I've had large segments of it go out unnoticed by them because a UPS failed in a closet somewhere. Took them forever to track it down, too. In the end it's not the routers/switches that scare me, but the tons of old, outdated, unpatched Solaris machines that exist on this network. There are so many manufacturers out there that use crappy installations to run their MRI and CAT scanners that it terrifies me. It's really only a matter of time until all me and my company's doomsaying (we're a third party vendor that supports a medical image archive) will come true. Unfortunately, I think it will collapse on us because the IS people will be unable to handle it.
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and hide the main character in a suit so people who never played the game don't realize she's a she until the very end when she takes off her helmet. They should not, however, emulate the game's graphics or endlessly confusing mazes. However, the turning into a ball and other stuff of that nature would be cool.
This could make for some really interesting desktops, if this is what I think it is. Make some interesting graphical effects within icons or as the desktop without dragging the system down. I can see a new type of desktop where the start menu is replaced by an interactive desktop background. Personally, I hate the damn start menu (including the Linux implementations) as an incredibly ineffieicient way to organize menus. But, that's just my opinion- obviously someone has to like it.
It was alot of fun. I remember my school went to the national competition in Indiana the first time we competed. It was a bit like a condensed fun-science course. I worked on the build-a-tower-as-light-as-possible part of it. The first time around we used dowel rods. You could stand on the thing, but it weighed so much we never stood a chance. Our second iteration of balsa wood kept falling apart because we waited until the last minute and the cyano-acrilate hadn't set yet. That was a really fun competition, although the robotics were more fun. JETS was good too. MA(theta) was never my thing.. damn, there were alot of those if your school was into it.
I agree with the parent. If my job involved "foul-smelling chemical mixtures" that got all over me every day, I'd find out what was in there. On of the plaintifs said if he knew, he'd have walked off the job, so saying they had no choice isn't an option here. These are tech jobs, as well, so it's not like we're talking minimum-wage-slave type no-thinkers, these are supposedly people with some sense. Whether or not the chemicals were actually responcible- who knows. This is similar to the McDonalds coffee lady, except this time they didn't win. You are the only person responsible for your life, suing someone for not telling you dousing yourself in chemicals is bad shouldn't be an option.
Comparing the old and new license it appears all they added was the requirement to place the copyright in the documentation of binary releases, include an acknowledgement of the XFree86 project, and forbid the use of "he name of The XFree86 Project, Inc" in advertising. It's not like they're closing the source, so what exactly is the problem the distros have with the new license? The only thing I can think of is a general resistance to cahnging licenses mid-stream, regardless of the nature of the change.
I'm waiting for them to come up with a sound search and an image search that look at the subject of the image rather than its file name. After that I'm not sure what's left. Maybe comparative searches for sounds and images, where you can upload a source to compare? Who knows! I hope these guys don't follow the normal path of spiralling into inconsequence after they go public.
When I went to the demonstration site and clicked the link in Mozilla 1.5 it showed the file name as "ie.%7B3050f4d8-98B5-11CF-BB82-00AA00BDCE0B%7DSecu nia_Internet_Explorer%252Epdf" and asked what to do with it, by default saving it to disk. Even if you were an internet clueless person somehow using Mozilla this still doesn't seem as dangerous if for no other reason than the bizarre filename, which doesn't look the least like it's a .pdf file. On IE it asks if you want to download "...Secunia_Internet_Explorer.pdf" which looks much worse as far as disguising itself goes.
At risk of being modded offtopic, this comment really annoyed me. Neanderthals were most likely *not* ancestors to us. Neanderthals came from another branch and it's suspected that they were wiped out by the early modern humans which *were* our ancestors. Just because they have a story you short-sightedly dismissed as improbable doesn't mean that all the stories are, especially when you're wrong about the one you dismiss. Since this is another email virus it has to be sneaky, and the fact that it appears to be lacking the normal bad english that denotes most spam and instead fakes a returned mail makes it that much harder to spot, and deserving of the 'sneaky' moniker.
Water reactive means it reacts with water and therefore wouldn't form in a wet environment. That means that if you find a rock with this mineral it must be igneous in nature because the other main type of rock formation occurs on seabeds, thus in the presence of water. I'd love for them to find some sandstone or limestone, that'd be a pretty clear indication of water in the past.
That's how it's being pitched in Wired, not exactly the publication you'd expect most people to read. This article is aimed at the techno-literate computer crowd that can appreciate what went into the making of the film as far as computers go, not people like my mom who want to see the movie but who could care less about the computing aspect of it's creation.
..not a condition required for a problem free existance. For every problem solved, though, a new set will crop up. That's what drives progress. If we ever get to the point where there is no more adversity we will either create deom from nothing or self destruct as a species.
I guess they don't want their company name to go the way of others previously- there's a term for it, though I forget what it is exactly. The "Dummies" books publisher recently sued someone to keep them from using that term, it's a similar situation though I think it's already too late for them. Like Saran wrap, Velcro, and even Hoover and Coke, Google is now a non-corporate aprt of the English language, and most likely several other languages as well, despite the French government. These things happen when a product becomes so popular it's creator is even eclipsed by it. No doubt some day people will 'google' something on Teoma or whatever. For now they should ride the wave and not bother trying to stop the inevitable, because trying only makes them look like the other evil giant entities out there, like the MPAA and RIAA.
I, for one, amd sad to see them go. I had them for a year, and once certain initial configureation issues were resolved they were a very good service. Outages happened, but I'm realistic and don't complain about that. I chose them because not only did they provide a static IP on the basic account, but the tech support knew what Linux was. This means I didn't have to call in with a problem and pretend I had Windows in order to get them to talk to me like I did with BellSouth. Ah, well. They're not the first to go, and certainly won't be the last. Salut!
The network isn't too bad, but the incompetence of the people that run it astounds me. I've had large segments of it go out unnoticed by them because a UPS failed in a closet somewhere. Took them forever to track it down, too. In the end it's not the routers/switches that scare me, but the tons of old, outdated, unpatched Solaris machines that exist on this network. There are so many manufacturers out there that use crappy installations to run their MRI and CAT scanners that it terrifies me. It's really only a matter of time until all me and my company's doomsaying (we're a third party vendor that supports a medical image archive) will come true. Unfortunately, I think it will collapse on us because the IS people will be unable to handle it.