Ohhh... fuck you. For crying out loud, you people are fucking addicted to this place and all you can do is bitch about it. I like it better when it was just for Malda's personal amusement, I don't give a fuck about the shareholders and he shouldn't either. If he starts running the site with nothing but the shareholders in mind then everything that makes the site worthwhile will vanish. So a hearty FUCKOFF to you, maybe if Malda ignored the shareholders clamoring for money more often we'd go back to getting amusing stories about lego robots dismantling other lego robots with glow in the dark magnetic nerf guns.
I can assure you that only 5 planets + the Earth + the Sun + the Moon can be known to these people. The rest can't be seen with the naked eye, you need a telescope to see the rest (except possibly Uranus in good conditions if you know where to look). So if the number of lines on the drawings correspond to the number of planets/moons in the solar system, then the whole thing must be a prank.
There you go just assuming that the cave people didn't have telescopes! What if their alien overlord masters let them look through the alien telescopes eh? Maybe they were refugees from Atlantis and their telescopes were ultra powerful but.. ummm... biodegradable, yeah! They were biodegradable so they rotted away before we could find them! You don't know, you weren't there! >:)
Mae-East is protected by about 4 feet of concrete, and you pretty much can't get in to see the machine unless you have a lot of heavy explosives and guns, or or known by site to the guards AND have your passkey. It's not just for Mae, there's a shitload of other machines in the same parking deck, but Mae is there. And yeah, you heard me right, Mae is housed in a bigass parking deck. It would be quit a project to take her out.
Bullshit. I LOVE Anime. It's original, the plots are innovative (Or horribly silly, depending on what you watch). Cowboy Bebop and Trigun are two of the best works of fiction I've ever envountered. Hikaru No Go is also an amazing series as it manages to portray Go in a very action oriented and interesting light. Samurai X (Roruni Kenshin (sp?)) is another amazing series. I love anime. But this trilogy is not on the level of any of the above. This is a third rate set of novels by a second rate author. Bah. There are better books of similar plot that could be reviewed. And for the record, I liked Harry Potter, but I wouldn't recommend those be reviewed on slashdot either for the same reasons. It's just not relevant to the audience in my opinion.
Apparently the assumption is that people in the US are too stupid to know what the 'Philosophers Stone' or the 'Northern Lights' is/are. Drives me crazy.
As much as I don't normally like to criticise the editors selection of articles on the site I fail to see how this trilogy is in any way relevant to anything any of us are interested in. It's target age group is obviously 13-16 or thereabouts, it's nothing innovative or even particularly good. The plot is cliche to say the least and has been done better in several other novels available at your local library. One of the best has some spectacular cover art involving a girl looking through a floor length mirror and seeing another world (Not Through the Looking Glass) but I can't remember the title off hand. This trilogy is just plain not worth the attention of Slashdot.
Yeah, I never saw a blue screen on my win2k box either, it just hardlocked and laughed at me. Grumble... Now I'm running RH, which is occasionally frustrating but better than Win2k.
I worked in an ENTIRE OFFICE like this, Everyone who had any kind of management job would print out every e-mail they recieved and keep it in a file cabinet, then the e-mail would get backed up on the network to tape where we could recover it instantly, that tape got duplicated and one copy taken off site. So there was pretty much no way in hell they were going to lose an e-mail. And they STILL wouldn't delete the e-mails out of their mailbox until the Mail server (exchange) almost died from lack of disk space. It was just crazy.... I can understand a little redundancy, but printing out 'Yeah, I can make that 2:30 meeting, see ya.' and filing it just seems like a huge waste of resources.
Sorry guys, but as much as you may dislike that particular scene the blurred imagery is intentional. If you flip through some vampire gaming stuff you'll find an ability called Celerity which vampires use to move faster than humans. The blurring effect from the CGI in that was supposed to be indicitive of the fact that the characters were moving faster than the human eye could follow without blurring the fightscene into an unviewable mess. I thought it was very well done and reflected the comic book style of the movie.
I'm still advocating hostage taking, just like the last time I got moderated down. If you REALLY desperately think it's bloody worth it, then go get yourself a gun or a bomb and 40 or so hostages. Viola. Instant media attention.
It's in the part that has to do with having no rights as a minor who is under the protection of ones parents. Normally his parents could sign the contract with him and they would be bound to and if he broke it they would be responsible... So I dunno why they haven't pursued that avenue.
I love those things, I've set it up with my local phone company (Bellsouth) so that my line CAN NOT have long distance service of any kind. So I just cash the check and Bellsouth tells AT&T to fuckoff for me. Then 3 months letter MCI sends me ANOTHER check and I do the same thing. Back and forth, back and forth. An extra couple hundred bucks a year for doing nothing.
The domain expiration notices are designed so that it is not obvious that the notices are from Verisign, Inc. as opposed to Go Daddy Software. To see a copy of one of these deceptive expiration notices, please go to the following URL: http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/private_vsrn.asp?dis play=letter [godaddy.com].
Umm, so the big VERISIGN logo in the corner didn't clue anyone in? I agree that this is a shady business practice and should be stopped, but it's clearly marked on the letter that it's from Verisign.
I believe this is because guitar and piano players actually encounter resistance in their finger based activities whereas programmers/game players are involved in an activity which involves almost no resistance to their finger movements. This resistanceless movement is what causes RSI. If you want to prevent it you can get something that cuases a lot of resistance when you squeeze it, and ever 10 or 15 minutes during the day pick it up and squeeze it for 30 seconds or so. It will strengthen your hands and wrists and keep you from getting RSI.
Kintanon
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* Bloodthirsty: To borrow from Tom Clancy, "Most of the Marines I know prefer beer." The soldiers I've known who had real combat time didn't glorify their experiences in the least. War is a savage and brutal act, the final extension of foreign policy, and its practitioners are sometimes required to undertake dangerous or distasteful tasks. Nonetheless, sometimes diplomacy fails (in the current case, when a bunch of religious zombies decided to turn the deaths of thousands of innocent people -- of all nations -- into a bloody public statement of hatred). When it does fail, soldiers must make war with justice, practiced skill, and swift surety, but never with unchecked agression.
A good quote I've heard from several military and ex-military people is this 'You don't hate war half as much as they guys who have been there'. Most soldiers HATE combat, they don't want to be in combat, they despise it. The object of most operations is to avoid combat when at all possible. But when the shit hits the fan they have to be ready to go all out. So anyone bitching about the military, I may not like how our military is USED all the time, but I have the utmost repsect for the people in it!
I got your body fat % beat. under 4%. Of course, I only way 125lbs.>:) I'm not scrawny thought, I've got the bruce lee ripped-all-over-from-doing-a-ton-of-aerobics physique. I'm also a hardcore Martial Artist and light gymnast. And one of my good friends who moved to calif is one of those guys that is just incredibly strong, he benches 315lbs 5 times as his workout. He's a truck.... Hehehe. Of course, this entire post is off topic and sill if I really think about it, but it's 2am and I really don't care. I have karma to burn.>:)
More power to the fitness inclined Geeks of the world!!
The area is for TEXAS, thought I had made that clear but as I go back it seems that I am implying that the area of the earth is that. Which is not true. That is the square mileage of TEXAS ONLY.
and understand that the entire population of the word can live comfortably in the state of Texas. The following is simply some math to help people in their analysis of the above statement. I'm not rendering an opinion on it, but I know this thread will erupt into a flame war in which no one bothers to actually DO any math on it. so here is the math, now you guys can flame each other.
Here are the relevant numbers: 261,914 square miles of LAND (that does not include the 5K odd square miles of water) Population of the earth: Roughly 6,200,000,000. That is 23671 people per square mile. By contrast, Tokyo has a population density of 33,232 people per square mile.
The logic behind this is that clerks have NO IDEA what a proper out of state license looks like because all of the states have different licenses. You can just about photocopy a piece of paper that says 'Minnesotta Drivers License' and tape your picture to it and take it to bars in georgia and get in because they have NO IDEA what a real Min license looks like.
There can be HUGE problems with this. Problem 1, they want you to turn in your old drivers license, or any other ID you might have. You aren't allowed to have an ID in 2 seperate states, and you have to present the same info you would for a drivers license in most cases. This can lead to problems like the one my wife is having right now, she used to live in Maryland, she had her license revoked for a speeding ticket in Virginia by a Virginia court, they took her license and it disappeared. Now Maryland wants her to send them the license, which she already gave to the Virginia court, she can't get an Georgia ID of ANY KIND while her license is tied up like this. It's crazy. She can't get a job without a license, she can't go to half the places in town without a license... It's incredibly frustrating.
I found my Kroger card in a parking lot somewhere. I think it was the walmart parking lot.>:) So someone, somewhere, has a bout 14 pounds of cheese, 6 pounds of tofu, 6 cans of beans, and 4 industrial sized cans of Tomato sauce per month showing up on his purchasing record. MUAHAHAHAHHA!!
(That's the stuff for a kickass 3 bean cheese chili that my wife makes)
It makes sense because: Equally applicable = not applicable at all, the exacty same degree of applicability which applies to missiles. It's funny because it makes fun of government organizations and their love of creating things which have no long term productive value but provide secure lifelong employment for many many useless people. This is not to imply that I believe any of those things are true of nasa, only to explain to you the previous posters comment, since you didn't get it.
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And if you had read the article you would know that he was already diagnosed with clinical depression amongst other things.
Kintanon
Ohhh... fuck you.
For crying out loud, you people are fucking addicted to this place and all you can do is bitch about it. I like it better when it was just for Malda's personal amusement, I don't give a fuck about the shareholders and he shouldn't either. If he starts running the site with nothing but the shareholders in mind then everything that makes the site worthwhile will vanish. So a hearty FUCKOFF to you, maybe if Malda ignored the shareholders clamoring for money more often we'd go back to getting amusing stories about lego robots dismantling other lego robots with glow in the dark magnetic nerf guns.
Kintanon
I can assure you that only 5 planets + the Earth + the Sun + the Moon can be known to these people. The rest can't be seen with the naked eye, you need a telescope to see the rest (except possibly Uranus in good conditions if you know where to look). So if the number of lines on the drawings correspond to the number of planets/moons in the solar system, then the whole thing must be a prank.
There you go just assuming that the cave people didn't have telescopes! What if their alien overlord masters let them look through the alien telescopes eh? Maybe they were refugees from Atlantis and their telescopes were ultra powerful but.. ummm... biodegradable, yeah! They were biodegradable so they rotted away before we could find them! You don't know, you weren't there! >:)
Kintanon
Mae-East is protected by about 4 feet of concrete, and you pretty much can't get in to see the machine unless you have a lot of heavy explosives and guns, or or known by site to the guards AND have your passkey. It's not just for Mae, there's a shitload of other machines in the same parking deck, but Mae is there. And yeah, you heard me right, Mae is housed in a bigass parking deck. It would be quit a project to take her out.
Kintanon
Bullshit. I LOVE Anime. It's original, the plots are innovative (Or horribly silly, depending on what you watch). Cowboy Bebop and Trigun are two of the best works of fiction I've ever envountered. Hikaru No Go is also an amazing series as it manages to portray Go in a very action oriented and interesting light. Samurai X (Roruni Kenshin (sp?)) is another amazing series. I love anime. But this trilogy is not on the level of any of the above. This is a third rate set of novels by a second rate author. Bah. There are better books of similar plot that could be reviewed. And for the record, I liked Harry Potter, but I wouldn't recommend those be reviewed on slashdot either for the same reasons. It's just not relevant to the audience in my opinion.
Kintanon
Yup! Mirror of Her Dreams AND a Man Rides Through. Both of them are quite good. And I REALLY liked the cover art.
Kintanon
Apparently the assumption is that people in the US are too stupid to know what the 'Philosophers Stone' or the 'Northern Lights' is/are. Drives me crazy.
Kintanon
As much as I don't normally like to criticise the editors selection of articles on the site I fail to see how this trilogy is in any way relevant to anything any of us are interested in. It's target age group is obviously 13-16 or thereabouts, it's nothing innovative or even particularly good. The plot is cliche to say the least and has been done better in several other novels available at your local library. One of the best has some spectacular cover art involving a girl looking through a floor length mirror and seeing another world (Not Through the Looking Glass) but I can't remember the title off hand. This trilogy is just plain not worth the attention of Slashdot.
Kintanon
Yeah, I never saw a blue screen on my win2k box either, it just hardlocked and laughed at me. Grumble... Now I'm running RH, which is occasionally frustrating but better than Win2k.
Kintanon
I worked in an ENTIRE OFFICE like this, Everyone who had any kind of management job would print out every e-mail they recieved and keep it in a file cabinet, then the e-mail would get backed up on the network to tape where we could recover it instantly, that tape got duplicated and one copy taken off site. So there was pretty much no way in hell they were going to lose an e-mail. And they STILL wouldn't delete the e-mails out of their mailbox until the Mail server (exchange) almost died from lack of disk space. It was just crazy.... I can understand a little redundancy, but printing out 'Yeah, I can make that 2:30 meeting, see ya.' and filing it just seems like a huge waste of resources.
Kintanon
Sorry guys, but as much as you may dislike that particular scene the blurred imagery is intentional. If you flip through some vampire gaming stuff you'll find an ability called Celerity which vampires use to move faster than humans. The blurring effect from the CGI in that was supposed to be indicitive of the fact that the characters were moving faster than the human eye could follow without blurring the fightscene into an unviewable mess. I thought it was very well done and reflected the comic book style of the movie.
Kintanon
I'm still advocating hostage taking, just like the last time I got moderated down. If you REALLY desperately think it's bloody worth it, then go get yourself a gun or a bomb and 40 or so hostages. Viola. Instant media attention.
Kintanon
It's in the part that has to do with having no rights as a minor who is under the protection of ones parents. Normally his parents could sign the contract with him and they would be bound to and if he broke it they would be responsible... So I dunno why they haven't pursued that avenue.
Kintanon
I love those things, I've set it up with my local phone company (Bellsouth) so that my line CAN NOT have long distance service of any kind. So I just cash the check and Bellsouth tells AT&T to fuckoff for me. Then 3 months letter MCI sends me ANOTHER check and I do the same thing. Back and forth, back and forth. An extra couple hundred bucks a year for doing nothing.
Kintanon
The domain expiration notices are designed so that it is not obvious that the notices are from Verisign, Inc. as opposed to Go Daddy Software. To see a copy of one of these deceptive expiration notices, please go to the following URL: http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/private_vsrn.asp?dis play=letter [godaddy.com].
Umm, so the big VERISIGN logo in the corner didn't clue anyone in? I agree that this is a shady business practice and should be stopped, but it's clearly marked on the letter that it's from Verisign.
Kintanon
I believe this is because guitar and piano players actually encounter resistance in their finger based activities whereas programmers/game players are involved in an activity which involves almost no resistance to their finger movements. This resistanceless movement is what causes RSI. If you want to prevent it you can get something that cuases a lot of resistance when you squeeze it, and ever 10 or 15 minutes during the day pick it up and squeeze it for 30 seconds or so. It will strengthen your hands and wrists and keep you from getting RSI.
Kintanon
* Bloodthirsty: To borrow from Tom Clancy, "Most of the Marines I know prefer beer." The soldiers I've known who had real combat time didn't glorify their experiences in the least. War is a savage and brutal act, the final extension of foreign policy, and its practitioners are sometimes required to undertake dangerous or distasteful tasks. Nonetheless, sometimes diplomacy fails (in the current case, when a bunch of religious zombies decided to turn the deaths of thousands of innocent people -- of all nations -- into a bloody public statement of hatred). When it does fail, soldiers must make war with justice, practiced skill, and swift surety, but never with unchecked agression.
A good quote I've heard from several military and ex-military people is this 'You don't hate war half as much as they guys who have been there'. Most soldiers HATE combat, they don't want to be in combat, they despise it. The object of most operations is to avoid combat when at all possible. But when the shit hits the fan they have to be ready to go all out.
So anyone bitching about the military, I may not like how our military is USED all the time, but I have the utmost repsect for the people in it!
Kintanon
I got your body fat % beat. under 4%.
Of course, I only way 125lbs.>:)
I'm not scrawny thought, I've got the bruce lee ripped-all-over-from-doing-a-ton-of-aerobics physique. I'm also a hardcore Martial Artist and light gymnast.
And one of my good friends who moved to calif is one of those guys that is just incredibly strong, he benches 315lbs 5 times as his workout. He's a truck.... Hehehe. Of course, this entire post is off topic and sill if I really think about it, but it's 2am and I really don't care. I have karma to burn.>:)
More power to the fitness inclined Geeks of the world!!
Kintanon
The area is for TEXAS, thought I had made that clear but as I go back it seems that I am implying that the area of the earth is that. Which is not true. That is the square mileage of TEXAS ONLY.
Kintanon
and understand that the entire population of the word can live comfortably in the state of Texas.
The following is simply some math to help people in their analysis of the above statement. I'm not rendering an opinion on it, but I know this thread will erupt into a flame war in which no one bothers to actually DO any math on it. so here is the math, now you guys can flame each other.
Here are the relevant numbers:
261,914 square miles of LAND (that does not include the 5K odd square miles of water)
Population of the earth: Roughly 6,200,000,000.
That is 23671 people per square mile. By contrast, Tokyo has a population density of 33,232 people per square mile.
Kintanon
How about we hold a few dozen people hostage and put on our list of demands 'Repeal DMCA' and 'Don't pass SSSCA'? That would be pretty effective!
Kintanon
The logic behind this is that clerks have NO IDEA what a proper out of state license looks like because all of the states have different licenses. You can just about photocopy a piece of paper that says 'Minnesotta Drivers License' and tape your picture to it and take it to bars in georgia and get in because they have NO IDEA what a real Min license looks like.
Kintanon
There can be HUGE problems with this. Problem 1, they want you to turn in your old drivers license, or any other ID you might have. You aren't allowed to have an ID in 2 seperate states, and you have to present the same info you would for a drivers license in most cases. This can lead to problems like the one my wife is having right now, she used to live in Maryland, she had her license revoked for a speeding ticket in Virginia by a Virginia court, they took her license and it disappeared. Now Maryland wants her to send them the license, which she already gave to the Virginia court, she can't get an Georgia ID of ANY KIND while her license is tied up like this. It's crazy. She can't get a job without a license, she can't go to half the places in town without a license... It's incredibly frustrating.
Kintanon
I found my Kroger card in a parking lot somewhere. I think it was the walmart parking lot.>:) So someone, somewhere, has a bout 14 pounds of cheese, 6 pounds of tofu, 6 cans of beans, and 4 industrial sized cans of Tomato sauce per month showing up on his purchasing record. MUAHAHAHAHHA!!
(That's the stuff for a kickass 3 bean cheese chili that my wife makes)
Kintanon
It makes sense because:
Equally applicable = not applicable at all, the exacty same degree of applicability which applies to missiles.
It's funny because it makes fun of government organizations and their love of creating things which have no long term productive value but provide secure lifelong employment for many many useless people.
This is not to imply that I believe any of those things are true of nasa, only to explain to you the previous posters comment, since you didn't get it.
Kintanon