You could of course win the original TA campaign as the Core; I just think that the Arm was Cavedog's favorite. Everybody liked the Arm more: they had the Flash tank, good for rushing.
I don't trust a government or a corporation. I trust somebody to whom I could directly talk; and from this discussion, I can get absolutely frank, honest answers.
Unrealistic? Well, too bad, because I'm still going to complain about every little thing a government or corporation does that screws over "us people." Close is not good enough; have some goals, and set them high. Don't be disappointed if you can only reach them as t -> oo.
From what I can gather from the various bestiality guides around:
For females: if you try mount the animal, and she tries to escape from you or makes a threatening noise, chances are she's not consenting. If she's aroused, she's definitely consenting. As for any gray area left -- well, that's (if you'll excuse me) the nature of the beast.
For males: if you can't tell, you should be castrated.
I can't even remember the story. Something about robots and space and fighting someone else with robots.
Galactic civilization develops the ability to pattern thought into computer memory. Development polarizes society. Half leave to form rival civilization (Arm), while the rest are converted into digital form (Core). War ensues. Both sides nearly annihilate each other.
In the expansion, the Arm have won. But a single Core Commander that lay hidden on a remote world (thus "Core Contingency") activates. Core seeks to destroy the galaxy by some kind of doomsday machine, save the remaining Commander at ground zero; the Commander would then manually rebuild the whole galaxy. Don't know what happens after this. Anybody played Battle Tactics?
My senior class has some bizarre phraseologies. This is one of them.
We spent (as an official school function, with teachers, administration, etc...) a weekend at the beach. I'm out there playing Ultimate. My team is getting its ass kicked. I suggest that we run an actual play that organized Ultimate teams run: the stack. I say "Let's run a stack." One of my peers asks, "What's a stack?" I start explaining. Right in the middle of my speech, he blurts out, "Stacking?No stacking!" Predictably, this silliness stuck.
As for the other components, the gutural sound is the end result of seven years of lingual evolution (or is that devolution?).
Both things' meanings cannot be expressed in formal language. If you want another attempt at an explanation, talk to _Sexy_Pants_. Just ask him about my sig.
To Capitalism's credit, it has legitimately produced very many households having a modest amount of wealth. But who of the super-rich gained his or her wealth by legitimate means?
I think you'll find that a system or ideology does not make a civilization -- the people do.
Well, technically, it's not. Unless the government is compelling these companies to do this, in which case I can see the courts ruling their actions as violating the First.
In particular Sumitomo Bakelite caused rampant failures in Fujitsu disk drives. There's still a lot of Sumitomo Bakelite out there, and we may see the worst of it soon, as components start to fail prematurely.
Conveniently, I first read "Bakelite" as "Bukkake."
Speaking of Windows performance regressions, does anybody notice XP performing a lot like a slower version of linux-2.4, without preemption, and X on a bad nice level?
The problem, of course, is not the glass; it's this pesky desire of ours to have transparent artificial barriers as part of our dwellings---something which will not go away.
Much of the time, my sympathies lie mostly with the animals; but in this case, they're kinda on their own. Survival of the fittest...
May they all live long enough to have more sex than I do...
(Which leads me to a deep thought: right now, at this very moment, millions (billions?) of creatures are having sex. None of them are me.)
The airing of today's Mars rover news conference is being delayed on NASA TV to show the band Aerosmith touring International Space Station Mission Control at Houston's Johnson Space Center.
The kernel build system is what it is. I'm saying that any attempt to simplify this process falls to the distro to do. Unless they want to standardize this. All I'm saying is that Linus has decided on make *config* to configure the kernel, and that no one should ask Linus to make it.
Of course, in retrospect, I think I misinterpreted the phrase "top secret Linux dev HQ" to be with respect to the kernel; you probably meant an arbitrary distro by that.
The point of having lots of stuff in the kernel is so all you have to do is 'y' what you want, 'm' what you want as a module, and 'n' what you don't want. Then compile. You chose what to compile. What you didn't, does not end up in your kernel.
It would also be very annoying to build a whole source tree from 20 different parts, plus patches. Some of us LIKE having the whole source tree in one tar.
The ad du jour: Windows saved 11-22% over Linux in TCO in 4 out of 5 environments.
From the story: Amazon, which has been running Linux since 2000, has been steadily moving its infrastructure from Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Unix servers to Hewlett-Packard Co. ProLiant servers running Linux. The company said in a 2001 Securities and Exchange Commission filing that Linux cut its technology expenses by $16 million, or 25 percent.
I know the Amazon example is in comparison to Solaris; but still... I felt like stoking the fire.
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Thank you for your post discussing flu shots.
I am now going into convulsions.
No, really. I'm not joking.
Oh, so you only have to put in a dime, instead of a quarter, when you reboot?
You could of course win the original TA campaign as the Core; I just think that the Arm was Cavedog's favorite. Everybody liked the Arm more: they had the Flash tank, good for rushing.
I don't trust a government or a corporation. I trust somebody to whom I could directly talk; and from this discussion, I can get absolutely frank, honest answers.
Unrealistic? Well, too bad, because I'm still going to complain about every little thing a government or corporation does that screws over "us people." Close is not good enough; have some goals, and set them high. Don't be disappointed if you can only reach them as t -> oo.
From what I can gather from the various bestiality guides around:
For females: if you try mount the animal, and she tries to escape from you or makes a threatening noise, chances are she's not consenting. If she's aroused, she's definitely consenting. As for any gray area left -- well, that's (if you'll excuse me) the nature of the beast.
For males: if you can't tell, you should be castrated.
I can't even remember the story. Something about robots and space and fighting someone else with robots.
Galactic civilization develops the ability to pattern thought into computer memory. Development polarizes society. Half leave to form rival civilization (Arm), while the rest are converted into digital form (Core). War ensues. Both sides nearly annihilate each other.
In the expansion, the Arm have won. But a single Core Commander that lay hidden on a remote world (thus "Core Contingency") activates. Core seeks to destroy the galaxy by some kind of doomsday machine, save the remaining Commander at ground zero; the Commander would then manually rebuild the whole galaxy. Don't know what happens after this. Anybody played Battle Tactics?
P2P?
Oh, boy...
My senior class has some bizarre phraseologies. This is one of them.
We spent (as an official school function, with teachers, administration, etc...) a weekend at the beach. I'm out there playing Ultimate. My team is getting its ass kicked. I suggest that we run an actual play that organized Ultimate teams run: the stack. I say "Let's run a stack." One of my peers asks, "What's a stack?" I start explaining. Right in the middle of my speech, he blurts out, "Stacking? No stacking!" Predictably, this silliness stuck.
As for the other components, the gutural sound is the end result of seven years of lingual evolution (or is that devolution?).
Both things' meanings cannot be expressed in formal language. If you want another attempt at an explanation, talk to _Sexy_Pants_. Just ask him about my sig.
Capitalism isn't necessesarily bad.
Greed is. So is corruption.
To Capitalism's credit, it has legitimately produced very many households having a modest amount of wealth. But who of the super-rich gained his or her wealth by legitimate means?
I think you'll find that a system or ideology does not make a civilization -- the people do.
three years ago for a civics project, I used the CIA world factbook on gopher.
Well, technically, it's not. Unless the government is compelling these companies to do this, in which case I can see the courts ruling their actions as violating the First.
You have the right to use the image of the dollar, as long as you do not attempt to pass it off as legal tender.
And if you don't, then you should.
In particular Sumitomo Bakelite caused rampant failures in Fujitsu disk drives. There's still a lot of Sumitomo Bakelite out there, and we may see the worst of it soon, as components start to fail prematurely.
Conveniently, I first read "Bakelite" as "Bukkake."
You should probably redirect some of your /. karma to your box.
In 20 years, we'll have more judges and more legislators having grown up with this technology; they might be like this guy.
Man, is that guy real? A person in government who can understand our positions on these matters?
Speaking of Windows performance regressions, does anybody notice XP performing a lot like a slower version of linux-2.4, without preemption, and X on a bad nice level?
The problem, of course, is not the glass; it's this pesky desire of ours to have transparent artificial barriers as part of our dwellings---something which will not go away.
Much of the time, my sympathies lie mostly with the animals; but in this case, they're kinda on their own. Survival of the fittest...
May they all live long enough to have more sex than I do...
(Which leads me to a deep thought: right now, at this very moment, millions (billions?) of creatures are having sex. None of them are me.)
Goddamn I need sleep...
What happens if the user's NIC is the problem? Do you dial right into the user's machine?
The airing of today's Mars rover news conference is being delayed on NASA TV to show the band Aerosmith touring International Space Station Mission Control at Houston's Johnson Space Center.
What, Bruce Willis wasn't there?
I think it had to do with performance.
Gut reaction tells me it's in Documentation/modules.txt
Don't hold me to that.
The kernel build system is what it is. I'm saying that any attempt to simplify this process falls to the distro to do. Unless they want to standardize this. All I'm saying is that Linus has decided on make *config* to configure the kernel, and that no one should ask Linus to make it.
Of course, in retrospect, I think I misinterpreted the phrase "top secret Linux dev HQ" to be with respect to the kernel; you probably meant an arbitrary distro by that.
That's the job of the distro. Now, if the distros want to agree to a way of building a customized kernel, then Linus should be involved.
It may not be true any longer, but some things work better when copiled into the kernel image itself. I think network cards fall into this catagory.
The point of having lots of stuff in the kernel is so all you have to do is 'y' what you want, 'm' what you want as a module, and 'n' what you don't want. Then compile. You chose what to compile. What you didn't, does not end up in your kernel.
It would also be very annoying to build a whole source tree from 20 different parts, plus patches. Some of us LIKE having the whole source tree in one tar.
The ad du jour: Windows saved 11-22% over Linux in TCO in 4 out of 5 environments.
From the story: Amazon, which has been running Linux since 2000, has been steadily moving its infrastructure from Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Unix servers to Hewlett-Packard Co. ProLiant servers running Linux. The company said in a 2001 Securities and Exchange Commission filing that Linux cut its technology expenses by $16 million, or 25 percent.
I know the Amazon example is in comparison to Solaris; but still... I felt like stoking the fire.