The Ancients, presumably Greeks or Romans (nobody ever checks in with Visigoths, Chinese or Scythians), recorded that Betelgeuse was blue, not red. Since there's no poetry about blue blood and sunsets, or winedark seas incarnadine, one supposes they knew the difference.
A blue stars turns red fairly early in recorded history? No worries. I can't remember where I read it.
I wouldn't mind helping, but: I'm not going to update from Jaunty just to test something "better" than Wine 1.0.1, the synaptic pkg in Jaunty. I would like to see Many Faces of Go work right (no screen artifacts, especially in drop shadows), but JellyFish Lite 3.5 works. Fallout and Fallout 2 used to work under the previous Wine. The only things I want to run are the Windows versionx of SmartGo and Rosetta Stone. Everything else does just fine in Sun's Office.
Is Wine 1.2 going to be great? Depends how fast they get it to Ubuntu. And whether Canonical thinks it matters to support anything older than Lucid.
It's never worth buying ANY game new, these days. In two weeks, the recycled sludge is marked down to $14.95 or less, "used." In six months, it's only available at Amazon, marked up to $718.49, a sure sign somebody somewhere else has it for $7 bucks.
I haven't paid new prices since Final Fantasy XII, which was the last game I bought worth what I paid for it.
Atavistic Aardvark, of course. I'll probably break down and run Windows 7, though, just to reconnect with those apps that don't work on Mac, iPiddle, or Wine. Also known as the real reason you bought a computer. That said, yes, at the moment my wife and I run Jaunty Jackalope, our daughter runs Karmic Koala, and we all share a good-sized Smartdisk CrossFire and a simple manual backup procedure, viz., cp -auv/home./media/CrossFire/. so we don't have to lintpick our way through a tar.bz2 to find Thing Needed.
Begs the question, is this an evolved form of some other oxygen-using Earth native? Or does it share absolutely NO ancestors with any other form on Earth? The latter is strong evidence for life as we don't know it elsewhere in the cosmos. A pretty strong hint, iow, that life is cheap and ubiquitous.
Why would "Major Book Publishers" insist on using an outdated bookstall model? If you prefer to own the means of distribution instead of the means of production, prices come down, volume goes up, and Apple laughs all the way to the bank. Means of production has been a cottage industry since Postscript. Even high-volume distribution channels have been around since Bittorrent. So it remains to be seen whether MBP's can make a living by clamping filters on the sludge.
It sucks, skippit. But gee, thanks, Mr. Gates, for a philosophy that proves those clowns at IBM had some of it right in the prehistoric Sixties. (I.e., racks of software printouts, and a multitiered CVS with flinty-eyed human engineers running the protocols, not some flimsy database system.) You had to SIGN your stuff in the old days.
No badguy encryption is safe against Abby and McGee's secret decoder groups and rings, codenamed GRRR. And even if that doesn't work, we can always get Sigourney Weaver to stare at a screenful of alien gobbledygook for a few hours.
Kidding aside, the NSA does not indulge in bragadoccio without a reason. In the present instance, the motive may simply be to panic Ted and Alice into changing not just their keys, but their algorithms, hopefully forcing them to use beta (and buggy) software before its time. The attack is against weakness (i.e., pointy-haired managers) and not against techs (must...restrain...Fist...of...Death....)
The only point of interest in this is how NSA capabilities fare versus similar shops, for example, Mossad, the Russians, the British, the French, the North Koreans, China, India, Toodai, Al Qaeda, NHK, some group you'd never dream of.
Speaking of tightly wound hairpieces, might not that be back-translated as "You bun two"? I'll admit precious few of us who cut our teeth on Apple ][+ at the age of 42 are tinkering with the Linux kernel, but as a sandbox Ubuntu does offer plenty of opportunities for non-productive timewasting and golden idleness. BASH was fun, but now we've got Perl and Ruby and just recently I stumbled over Code::Blocks IDE, so C is back in the playpen.
I've played Mike Goetz' B03 version of CP/M Adventure (really Crowther & Woods's, with a few additions) on every computer I've owned since my Kaypro 10, thanks to emulation software. The original CP/M files cost nothing but download time (at 300 baud on a SmartModem, measured in hours, IIRC), and I've played them unmodified since 1984. On this repurposed Dell Inspiron 1525 running Jaunty Jackalope, I use the excellent YAZE emulator by Andreas Gerlich. Hilariously, this old text adventure runs an order of magnitude or two faster than it ever did running natively on the Kaypro.
So, on the Scotch parsimony principle of cost benefit, Time Plaid divided by Cost, this one game is worth about 80 grillion pazools. Probably a universal principle; I've just spent January replaying every Star Ocean game ever released in English, and will move on to Blue Sphere (in Japanese on the GBC) shortly. After that, maybe FF12 again, who knows...? (What's a life for?)
>>...I think that Square is milking FF1 for what is by current standards, a pretty bad game...
Bah! Current standards have fallen like dominoes in their own muck, thanks to the Great Disney Dumbdown of 1955 (thank you, Annette Funicello!) FF1 is just as droll as ever, especially the Dance Academy about 50 levels down in the deepest dungeon in the known universe.
Just blathering about this stuff is enough to send committed, anointed-by-Allah, jihadi martyrs to bed, pulling their prayer rugs over their heads? IDTS.
On the other hand, I'll worry about invincible killerbots when we use them in airports instead of junior G-Men TSA knuckleheads.
My personal vision of kickass AI minelets, is a swarm of little dodecahedrons that roll around where they've been dropped, that unfold a small set of sun-following venetian blinds that gather power and use dragonfly-style neural net vision to detect motion and identify foe as not-friend. (Friends have the AES-encrypted countersign of the day.) Lay those down in a circle thirty yards deep and a hundred yards wide, and you have a nasty defensive perimeter serving the same function as a Roman palisade. This stuff doesn't have to be high tech.
Studio Ghibli apparently held (or was at least thinking about, once upon a time) some sort of rights to a Miyazaki version of James H. Schmidt's Witches of Karres. See http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/books/miyazaki/#karres for a cover illustration for the Japanese edition of the book. An anime version would be awesome.
Mod this up to 10. This is important because plant genomes have been the source of some stupendously unexpected discoveries indicating that DNA is extremely plastic, and manages to squeeze into available ecosphere niches with ease -- resulting in closely related genomes that express forms as divergent as pineapples and plane trees. Linnaean classification schemes based on morphology therefore disconnect from reality and become first approximation maps. When the morphologies in question are fossils, the peril in drawing conclusions from shapes alone throws decades of curatorship into doubt. The greater implication is, that evolution is not only reasonable and easy but dirt cheap. The probability that life exists on other planets, in the galaxy if not the solar system, becomes a near certainty.
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I forgot I had mod points (so they expired), or I'd bump this guy up a notch! Insightful.
Hands off my Orange Pekoe and Pekoe Cut Black Tea!! OF COURSE tea keeps you alert, maybe TOO alert. Lawks. What planet are these puritans from?
The Ancients, presumably Greeks or Romans (nobody ever checks in with Visigoths, Chinese or Scythians), recorded that Betelgeuse was blue, not red. Since there's no poetry about blue blood and sunsets, or winedark seas incarnadine, one supposes they knew the difference.
A blue stars turns red fairly early in recorded history? No worries. I can't remember where I read it.
I wouldn't mind helping, but: I'm not going to update from Jaunty just to test something "better" than Wine 1.0.1, the synaptic pkg in Jaunty. I would like to see Many Faces of Go work right (no screen artifacts, especially in drop shadows), but JellyFish Lite 3.5 works. Fallout and Fallout 2 used to work under the previous Wine. The only things I want to run are the Windows versionx of SmartGo and Rosetta Stone. Everything else does just fine in Sun's Office. Is Wine 1.2 going to be great? Depends how fast they get it to Ubuntu. And whether Canonical thinks it matters to support anything older than Lucid.
Zzz...
It's never worth buying ANY game new, these days. In two weeks, the recycled sludge is marked down to $14.95 or less, "used." In six months, it's only available at Amazon, marked up to $718.49, a sure sign somebody somewhere else has it for $7 bucks. I haven't paid new prices since Final Fantasy XII, which was the last game I bought worth what I paid for it.
Atavistic Aardvark, of course. I'll probably break down and run Windows 7, though, just to reconnect with those apps that don't work on Mac, iPiddle, or Wine. Also known as the real reason you bought a computer. That said, yes, at the moment my wife and I run Jaunty Jackalope, our daughter runs Karmic Koala, and we all share a good-sized Smartdisk CrossFire and a simple manual backup procedure, viz., cp -auv /home ./media/CrossFire/. so we don't have to lintpick our way through a tar.bz2 to find Thing Needed.
...never tells me nothing. Not a peep. And I've checked all the cords'n'everthing.
On the other hand, maybe "they" have gotten lives and aren't waiting for the phone to ring.
Bunk. Wine is not ready for prime time.
Begs the question, is this an evolved form of some other oxygen-using Earth native? Or does it share absolutely NO ancestors with any other form on Earth? The latter is strong evidence for life as we don't know it elsewhere in the cosmos. A pretty strong hint, iow, that life is cheap and ubiquitous.
"There is no royal road to [your math discipline here]."
That said, maybe Manga Guide to Calculus? http://www.amazon.com/Manga-Guide-Calculus-Hiroyuki-Kojima/dp/1593271948/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1270383631&sr=8-1
Why would "Major Book Publishers" insist on using an outdated bookstall model? If you prefer to own the means of distribution instead of the means of production, prices come down, volume goes up, and Apple laughs all the way to the bank. Means of production has been a cottage industry since Postscript. Even high-volume distribution channels have been around since Bittorrent. So it remains to be seen whether MBP's can make a living by clamping filters on the sludge.
It sucks, skippit. But gee, thanks, Mr. Gates, for a philosophy that proves those clowns at IBM had some of it right in the prehistoric Sixties. (I.e., racks of software printouts, and a multitiered CVS with flinty-eyed human engineers running the protocols, not some flimsy database system.) You had to SIGN your stuff in the old days.
No badguy encryption is safe against Abby and McGee's secret decoder groups and rings, codenamed GRRR. And even if that doesn't work, we can always get Sigourney Weaver to stare at a screenful of alien gobbledygook for a few hours.
Kidding aside, the NSA does not indulge in bragadoccio without a reason. In the present instance, the motive may simply be to panic Ted and Alice into changing not just their keys, but their algorithms, hopefully forcing them to use beta (and buggy) software before its time. The attack is against weakness (i.e., pointy-haired managers) and not against techs (must...restrain...Fist...of...Death....)
The only point of interest in this is how NSA capabilities fare versus similar shops, for example, Mossad, the Russians, the British, the French, the North Koreans, China, India, Toodai, Al Qaeda, NHK, some group you'd never dream of.
...only outlaws will have internet.
That depends if hackers attack the system its designers think they wrote, doesn't it? Only 300 million years of evolution can design survivability.
Parsons Technology, the company that peddled income tax and DIY wills a few years ago?
Speaking of tightly wound hairpieces, might not that be back-translated as "You bun two"? I'll admit precious few of us who cut our teeth on Apple ][+ at the age of 42 are tinkering with the Linux kernel, but as a sandbox Ubuntu does offer plenty of opportunities for non-productive timewasting and golden idleness. BASH was fun, but now we've got Perl and Ruby and just recently I stumbled over Code::Blocks IDE, so C is back in the playpen.
Who owns the coffeepots at NASA? Dimes to tiddlywinks, the job is contracted out.
I've played Mike Goetz' B03 version of CP/M Adventure (really Crowther & Woods's, with a few additions) on every computer I've owned since my Kaypro 10, thanks to emulation software. The original CP/M files cost nothing but download time (at 300 baud on a SmartModem, measured in hours, IIRC), and I've played them unmodified since 1984. On this repurposed Dell Inspiron 1525 running Jaunty Jackalope, I use the excellent YAZE emulator by Andreas Gerlich. Hilariously, this old text adventure runs an order of magnitude or two faster than it ever did running natively on the Kaypro.
http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/cpm/cpm-advent-b03.zip
http://www.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/users/ag/yaze-ag/
So, on the Scotch parsimony principle of cost benefit, Time Plaid divided by Cost, this one game is worth about 80 grillion pazools. Probably a universal principle; I've just spent January replaying every Star Ocean game ever released in English, and will move on to Blue Sphere (in Japanese on the GBC) shortly. After that, maybe FF12 again, who knows...? (What's a life for?)
>>...I think that Square is milking FF1 for what is by current standards, a pretty bad game...
Bah! Current standards have fallen like dominoes in their own muck, thanks to the Great Disney Dumbdown of 1955 (thank you, Annette Funicello!) FF1 is just as droll as ever, especially the Dance Academy about 50 levels down in the deepest dungeon in the known universe.
Just blathering about this stuff is enough to send committed, anointed-by-Allah, jihadi martyrs to bed, pulling their prayer rugs over their heads? IDTS. On the other hand, I'll worry about invincible killerbots when we use them in airports instead of junior G-Men TSA knuckleheads.
My personal vision of kickass AI minelets, is a swarm of little dodecahedrons that roll around where they've been dropped, that unfold a small set of sun-following venetian blinds that gather power and use dragonfly-style neural net vision to detect motion and identify foe as not-friend. (Friends have the AES-encrypted countersign of the day.) Lay those down in a circle thirty yards deep and a hundred yards wide, and you have a nasty defensive perimeter serving the same function as a Roman palisade. This stuff doesn't have to be high tech.
Studio Ghibli apparently held (or was at least thinking about, once upon a time) some sort of rights to a Miyazaki version of James H. Schmidt's Witches of Karres. See http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/books/miyazaki/#karres for a cover illustration for the Japanese edition of the book. An anime version would be awesome.
"I'm not a grammer nazi..." G-R-A-M-M-A-R. Sorry.
Mod this up to 10. This is important because plant genomes have been the source of some stupendously unexpected discoveries indicating that DNA is extremely plastic, and manages to squeeze into available ecosphere niches with ease -- resulting in closely related genomes that express forms as divergent as pineapples and plane trees. Linnaean classification schemes based on morphology therefore disconnect from reality and become first approximation maps. When the morphologies in question are fossils, the peril in drawing conclusions from shapes alone throws decades of curatorship into doubt. The greater implication is, that evolution is not only reasonable and easy but dirt cheap. The probability that life exists on other planets, in the galaxy if not the solar system, becomes a near certainty.