> The captain arrives in the middle of the hostage situation, and instead of negotiating, he - without missing a step - simply shoots the guy, picks up his body and throws it out the rear cargo entrance so they can take off.
I love the way Whedon writes in anti-hollywood-formula stuff like this; another example is in the one episode when the captain's having a huge fight with the guard from the experiment lab and the crew members aren't helping out and 1 of them says "no, there's some things the captain must do for himself"...and he screams back at them "NO THERE AREN'T!" so they look at each other and both shoot the baddie.
This sounds great, but a lot of the time spent when catching a train is the time spent travelling to/from the station, and waiting for the train to arrive. I've often spent longer waiting for trains to arrive than the actual length of the journey especially when the train is delayed (yes I am in the UK).
This applies to airplanes as well, when you're expected to get to the airport 2 or 3 hours before international flights.
Does anyone think these magnetic rails could eventually be used for long distance overseas/international trips? (Hmm, rail tracks over the ocean, could look like something out of F-Zero:> )
My biggest speed problem on X at the moment is the startup times etc of applications. KDE takes 20 seconds to start up and each application takes a couple of seconds to load.
Could this be sped up by a faster X server? Or is the problem there more likely Qt, KDE libs, etc?
What's next? Demanding protection money from people so that they _don't_ get arrested?
Mafia style:)
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Used this method (usually combined with stacker and 2m format) lots when I was at university, we didn't have access to hard disk storage so we'd squash things onto disk to use; I got the following working off single disks: Win3.11 Win3.11 booting into netscape Win3.11 booting into Mirc/Pirch X-wing (without cutscenes/movies) Lemmings 2 Borland C (dos ver) Turbo pascal 7 (dos ver)
A few others, including shareware doom off a single disk so that we could play it across the (novell) network without having to log in and be traced:) Although for doom a friend of mine wrote a program that hacked the.wad file and ripped out all the sound files 'cos those didn't compress with stacker.
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> The captain arrives in the middle of the hostage situation, and instead of negotiating, he - without missing a step - simply shoots the guy, picks up his body and throws it out the rear cargo entrance so they can take off. I love the way Whedon writes in anti-hollywood-formula stuff like this; another example is in the one episode when the captain's having a huge fight with the guard from the experiment lab and the crew members aren't helping out and 1 of them says "no, there's some things the captain must do for himself"...and he screams back at them "NO THERE AREN'T!" so they look at each other and both shoot the baddie.
This sounds great, but a lot of the time spent when catching a train is the time spent travelling to/from the station, and waiting for the train to arrive. I've often spent longer waiting for trains to arrive than the actual length of the journey especially when the train is delayed (yes I am in the UK).
:> )
This applies to airplanes as well, when you're expected to get to the airport 2 or 3 hours before international flights.
Does anyone think these magnetic rails could eventually be used for long distance overseas/international trips? (Hmm, rail tracks over the ocean, could look like something out of F-Zero
By suggesting that those Esparomulans have anywhere close to as much power as Klingons, you have insulted my family honour! Prepare to die!!
My biggest speed problem on X at the moment is the startup times etc of applications. KDE takes 20 seconds to start up and each application takes a couple of seconds to load. Could this be sped up by a faster X server? Or is the problem there more likely Qt, KDE libs, etc?
What's next? Demanding protection money from people so that they _don't_ get arrested?
:)
Mafia style
Used this method (usually combined with stacker and 2m format) lots when I was at university, we didn't have access to hard disk storage so we'd squash things onto disk to use; I got the following working off single disks :
:) Although for doom a friend of mine wrote a program that hacked the .wad file and ripped out all the sound files 'cos those didn't compress with stacker.
Win3.11
Win3.11 booting into netscape
Win3.11 booting into Mirc/Pirch
X-wing (without cutscenes/movies)
Lemmings 2
Borland C (dos ver)
Turbo pascal 7 (dos ver)
A few others, including shareware doom off a single disk so that we could play it across the (novell) network without having to log in and be traced