It's not like it's any worse a concept than Star Search either. Any program that dares to show a level of artistic talent instead of demeaning contests set in "real" situations is a winner in my book.
In contrast, one of the most annoying aspects of Trek is the abuse of so called "time travel stories". Putting aside that philosophically I don't see how time travel is possible--there's no timeline anyhow
Wait, but you like B5! Several of B5's most important plot points rely on the fact that the previous station was sent back in time 1000 years with Sinclair and the Triluminary onboard.
For example, lets pretend you have a programmer working on the application code, and a designer working on the layout of a program. In this case, there is going to be a point where one person checks in their changes, which leaves the main branch in a broken state until the second person checks in their code.
Never do this. This is how shit happens. What happens is that you end up contaminating your main branch with a partial feature that you didn't test against its counterpart. Now you have a broken main branch that you can't cut a build off of. Furthermore, if the new feature contains a defect, you won't find out until the other developer introduces his changes to main, and by that time all hell has broken loose, QA is breathing down your neck, your paranoid boss is in your office, and the asshole in the other department is making fun of your group's incompetence (I am NOT bitter).
You could solve this problem by creating an interim branch, and then checking that branch into main; but that adds alot of work to what is otherwise a simple, fast process.
Yes, this is the correct thing to do! The interim branch makes it very easy to test the complete feature without contaminating the main branch or any other developer branches that need to merge features from main. If you have a good revision control system, this should be a relatively easy process to create a branch for this.
In our team, we use this feature so often that we created a script to do it for us. We can simply create any type of branch we need and then merge that branch into main after we are finished testing it. Because we are always merging, we never have collisions, we never need to lock any file, and we never contaminate the main line.
The song title is "Sexual", by a band called "Goddess".
I'm replying, because I know how annoying this can be. I checked 10 of the top lyric search engines, and the song just doesn't exist (at least to them).
This is the only information I found on that song.
For the uninitiated, the G. Lucas American film series about warfare amongst the stars is a peculiar look at parallel universes and strange creatures interacting with humans in an attempt to secure peace throughout the galaxy. Indeed, this
war amongst the stars, or "Star Wars" as it is called, is indeed a film series about love and betrayal, incest and abandonment, good midgets and bad midgets, strange fish creatures with too much power, and robots.
Indeed, this film series (whose art house qualities remind the intellectual filmgoer of the Decalogue in scope, or perhaps a parallel can be best made between Star Wars and the Trois Couleurs Trilogy, in that both series exhibit semi-paradoxical tendencies for the both the surreal and the comic while trying to maintain at least some semblance of the post-modernistic cliche of parallel bereavement and longing for the freudian (or perhaps jungian would be better) other in that the subconscious is always expressed in terms of pseudo-violence, usually directed towards the self but often manifested in the form of senseless destruction against establishment regulation.
It is important to remember this war amongst the stars in these quasi-anthropological terms, for the genesis of such serial work too can have its roots in the experimental (think of the
obvious parallels between Return of the Jedi and, say, Man With a Movie Camera). With that in mind, Revenge of the Sith...
I've never seen ST:TAS, and I don't know anyone who has.
I somehow managed during my childhood to see one episode. It just happned to be the one that was written by Larry Niven and based on his story, "The Soft Weapon". Pretty cool actually, and probably the only time a Kzin was on TV.
Strangely, I also had a set of ViewMaster discs that showed the episode about Spock's youth (albeit in slide form). I have no idea how I got that one.
May your next trip to the grocery store involve getting in line behind someone paying for a cart full of groceries with coupons and pennies....sheesh....I bet you also stay parked in front of the ATM while you carefully try to slide the card back into its protective sleeve.
It doesn't even take a second to pull the card out of its sleeve and put it back.
If you have this much trouble doing a simple thing like that, you probably shouldn't be out in public unsupervised.
Come on, this was on Mythbusters; these guys kicked the CRAP out out of some credit cards,
They hardly kicked the crap out of the cards. All Mythbusters did was subject the cards to electric shocks.
I'm talking about friction rubbing off the magnetic material on the card. This makes the magnetic strip inoperative, because there is no magnetic strip left.
Take some sandpaper and sand the magnetic strip a bit. Then tell me if your card still works.
Why is this so difficult for people to understand?
Magnetic strips haven't been prone to rubbing off in years.
Uh, no. Even when they're in the sleeves, some of the strip still gets rubbed off. The friction just isn't as bad as when it's sleeveless, and they actually survive 3 or 4 years without having to be replaced.
Perhaps that's why the only people I see who have to laboriously pull their cards
Laboriously? It's not like you're trying to break into Fort Knox. You just pull the card out.
out of those stupid sleeves are old farts.
You really should talk to a counsellor regarding the hostility you feel towards inanimate objects and the elderly.
Do you keep your credit or debit cards in a protective sleeve now?
Yes, actually. I'm not just being facetious and suggesting the sleeve is my wallet either. I actually have each one of my cards in a sleeve inside my wallet.
No, I'm not paranoid; it just keeps the magnetic strips from being rubbed off (which used to happen to me all the time).
So for me, keeping the new cards in a some kind of sleeve wouldn't be any different than what I do now.
And thanks for making me feel old - I haven't heard Ranjit (okay, or a.m.p) mentioned in, gods, over a decade.
LOL! The funny part is, I haven't read a.m.p. in about a decade, so thanks for stressing the old bit.;)
Speaking of which, I need to call Greg tonight and order some stuff - any recommendations? Tonight is Greg, tomorrow is Ken.
Forgive my ignorance, but who are Greg and Ken?
On my list, I have Present, White Willow, Univers Zero, Isildur's Bane, Meshuggah, Pain of Salvation, Deus Ex Machina (if they've done anything new in a while), and a few others.
Hmmm, I'm going to have to add most of your list to my list of music to look into (I'm not the biggest fan of Pain of Salvation). Meshuggah was already on my list.
Recently, I've been into Lacuna Coil, Nightwish, and Opeth. I managed to find the original two disk set of Lacuna Coil's "Comalies", so I've been blasting it.
So, what do I recommend....
For new progressive rock, I recommend bands like Echolyn, Spock's Beard, or The Flower Kings. Echolyn may be very hard to find, but the newest album is supposed to be amazing. Spock's Beard's latest, Octane, is also very good. Most fans of the Flower Kings don't like their latest album, "Adam & Eve", as much as their older ones.
Ozric Tentacles is interesting if you like instrument rock with some folk and dance music thrown in. I recommend the middle era OT, as it seems to be the most progressive. Their best albums are probably, "Strangitude", "Arborescense", "Become the Other", and "Waterfall Cities".
If you want a completely unpredictable band from album to album, by all means, get Porcupine Tree. Their style varies from 30 minute Pink Floyd meets Ozric Tentacles jams on "The Sky Moves Sideways", to hard rock and Beach Boys choruses on "In Absentia". Their best known works are "Signify" and "In Absentia". If you like a good mix, you basically can't go wrong with "In Absentia" (which is available in DTS 5.1 if you want). Most of the time, I just play their concert albums, "Coma Divine" and "Warszawa".
For progressive metal, I still recommend Dream Theater. "Scenes From a Memory" is good if you like concept albums with a mix of styles, and "Train of Thought" is a more grounded progressive metal sound. The second album, "Images and Words", is a classic, but does suffer a bit from a bad mix.
If you want an interesting DT ripoff, I would suggest Dali's Dilemma, "Manifesto for Futurism". It's interesting in that if you listen to DT, you can hear snippets of DT riffs. The album also has a very nice bass solo on the second song, so as instrumentalists, they aren't bad.
As for DT supergroups, I would go with O.S.I. They don't sound so much like DT, but rather a heavy Pink Floyd. It's very strange. There aren't any amazing solos on the album, but the instrumental sections are still pretty cool. One of the songs features Porcupine Tree's Stephen Wilson. The recommended version of this album is the Limited Edition one, mainly for the fact that the second disk contains an instrumental suite of an early cut of the songs on the album.
If you don't like the DT sound, but still want progressive metal, try Symphony X. They have a different sound than DT, and, like DT, their first album is awful. Subsequent albums are a huge improvement over the first. The definitive SymX album is, "V: The New Mythology Suite", which is a concept album. However, their best song is, "The Divine Wings of Tragedy", off the album of the same name. The latest album, "The Odyssey", is also fantastic. If you like live albums, "Live On The Edge of Forever", is quite the treat, as the live version of "The Divine Wings of Tragedy" is amazing.
If you want a cheesy space opera inspired album, go with Star One's "Space Metal". The vocals are top notch, since it's from the mastermind of supergroups, Arjen Anthony Lucassen. There are also great Hawkwind and David Bow
It's a general Slashdot thing. Everyone seems fit to suggest what the legal system _should_ do, versus what it might _actually_ do, which have no relation to each other
That's totally true. The first thing that enters your head should always be, "see a lawyer", not, "ask Slashdot".
It would be nice to have followups from the story submitters of what advice their lawyers actually gave them (provided they can reveal this info). That way when other people go to their lawyer, they aren't going in totally uninformed.
The top of the notebook has a finer grain texture compared to the R52 we looked at not long ago, but you can defiantly tell it is made of sturdier material
No one shall dare resist you as you defiantly tell them your notebook is made of sturdier material, DAMMIT!! MUH, HA, HA, HA!!!!
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It's not like it's any worse a concept than Star Search either. Any program that dares to show a level of artistic talent instead of demeaning contests set in "real" situations is a winner in my book.
It ironic stuff like this a +5 Funny!
Wait, but you like B5! Several of B5's most important plot points rely on the fact that the previous station was sent back in time 1000 years with Sinclair and the Triluminary onboard.
Not the one...
Not the one...
Incidentally, how is a Debian release like an orgasm?
Because you know it's coming and there's nothing you can do about it.
Never do this. This is how shit happens. What happens is that you end up contaminating your main branch with a partial feature that you didn't test against its counterpart. Now you have a broken main branch that you can't cut a build off of. Furthermore, if the new feature contains a defect, you won't find out until the other developer introduces his changes to main, and by that time all hell has broken loose, QA is breathing down your neck, your paranoid boss is in your office, and the asshole in the other department is making fun of your group's incompetence (I am NOT bitter).
You could solve this problem by creating an interim branch, and then checking that branch into main; but that adds alot of work to what is otherwise a simple, fast process.
Yes, this is the correct thing to do! The interim branch makes it very easy to test the complete feature without contaminating the main branch or any other developer branches that need to merge features from main. If you have a good revision control system, this should be a relatively easy process to create a branch for this.
In our team, we use this feature so often that we created a script to do it for us. We can simply create any type of branch we need and then merge that branch into main after we are finished testing it. Because we are always merging, we never have collisions, we never need to lock any file, and we never contaminate the main line.
I'm replying, because I know how annoying this can be. I checked 10 of the top lyric search engines, and the song just doesn't exist (at least to them).
This is the only information I found on that song.
Good luck!
Indeed, this film series (whose art house qualities remind the intellectual filmgoer of the Decalogue in scope, or perhaps a parallel can be best made between Star Wars and the Trois Couleurs Trilogy, in that both series exhibit semi-paradoxical tendencies for the both the surreal and the comic while trying to maintain at least some semblance of the post-modernistic cliche of parallel bereavement and longing for the freudian (or perhaps jungian would be better) other in that the subconscious is always expressed in terms of pseudo-violence, usually directed towards the self but often manifested in the form of senseless destruction against establishment regulation.
It is important to remember this war amongst the stars in these quasi-anthropological terms, for the genesis of such serial work too can have its roots in the experimental (think of the obvious parallels between Return of the Jedi and, say, Man With a Movie Camera). With that in mind, Revenge of the Sith...
I somehow managed during my childhood to see one episode. It just happned to be the one that was written by Larry Niven and based on his story, "The Soft Weapon". Pretty cool actually, and probably the only time a Kzin was on TV.
Strangely, I also had a set of ViewMaster discs that showed the episode about Spock's youth (albeit in slide form). I have no idea how I got that one.
Don't forget the one that actually references HardOCP and the suit!
It doesn't even take a second to pull the card out of its sleeve and put it back.
If you have this much trouble doing a simple thing like that, you probably shouldn't be out in public unsupervised.
Uh, how the heck was that a Troll???
Makes a little scratch in what? Wood? Glass? Diamond?
Don't keep me in suspense, man!
What?!? It means money? Oh.
Nevermind.
Oh no! Mars Odyssey blinked!
Well, back it up and take another picture. Make sure the "red eye" setting is on too.
Say, "Fuzzy Pickle", Mars Odyssey.
This is exactly what I do. I got mine from a friend who used to work at a bank.
and sometimes five or six seconds if I grab the wrong card.
If you use a different color Sharpie on the edge of each sleeve, it makes it easier to pick out the correct card.
Or, if your wallet exposes the top of each card sleeve, you can just label them.
Um, yeah, that's why I do this. Otherwise, they wear out regardless of the type of wallet I use.
They hardly kicked the crap out of the cards. All Mythbusters did was subject the cards to electric shocks.
I'm talking about friction rubbing off the magnetic material on the card. This makes the magnetic strip inoperative, because there is no magnetic strip left.
Take some sandpaper and sand the magnetic strip a bit. Then tell me if your card still works.
Why is this so difficult for people to understand?
Uh, no. Even when they're in the sleeves, some of the strip still gets rubbed off. The friction just isn't as bad as when it's sleeveless, and they actually survive 3 or 4 years without having to be replaced.
Perhaps that's why the only people I see who have to laboriously pull their cards
Laboriously? It's not like you're trying to break into Fort Knox. You just pull the card out.
out of those stupid sleeves are old farts.
You really should talk to a counsellor regarding the hostility you feel towards inanimate objects and the elderly.
Yes, actually. I'm not just being facetious and suggesting the sleeve is my wallet either. I actually have each one of my cards in a sleeve inside my wallet.
No, I'm not paranoid; it just keeps the magnetic strips from being rubbed off (which used to happen to me all the time).
So for me, keeping the new cards in a some kind of sleeve wouldn't be any different than what I do now.
LOL! The funny part is, I haven't read a.m.p. in about a decade, so thanks for stressing the old bit. ;)
Speaking of which, I need to call Greg tonight and order some stuff - any recommendations? Tonight is Greg, tomorrow is Ken.
Forgive my ignorance, but who are Greg and Ken?
On my list, I have Present, White Willow, Univers Zero, Isildur's Bane, Meshuggah, Pain of Salvation, Deus Ex Machina (if they've done anything new in a while), and a few others.
Hmmm, I'm going to have to add most of your list to my list of music to look into (I'm not the biggest fan of Pain of Salvation). Meshuggah was already on my list.
Recently, I've been into Lacuna Coil, Nightwish, and Opeth. I managed to find the original two disk set of Lacuna Coil's "Comalies", so I've been blasting it.
So, what do I recommend....
For new progressive rock, I recommend bands like Echolyn, Spock's Beard, or The Flower Kings. Echolyn may be very hard to find, but the newest album is supposed to be amazing. Spock's Beard's latest, Octane, is also very good. Most fans of the Flower Kings don't like their latest album, "Adam & Eve", as much as their older ones.
Ozric Tentacles is interesting if you like instrument rock with some folk and dance music thrown in. I recommend the middle era OT, as it seems to be the most progressive. Their best albums are probably, "Strangitude", "Arborescense", "Become the Other", and "Waterfall Cities".
If you want a completely unpredictable band from album to album, by all means, get Porcupine Tree. Their style varies from 30 minute Pink Floyd meets Ozric Tentacles jams on "The Sky Moves Sideways", to hard rock and Beach Boys choruses on "In Absentia". Their best known works are "Signify" and "In Absentia". If you like a good mix, you basically can't go wrong with "In Absentia" (which is available in DTS 5.1 if you want). Most of the time, I just play their concert albums, "Coma Divine" and "Warszawa".
For progressive metal, I still recommend Dream Theater. "Scenes From a Memory" is good if you like concept albums with a mix of styles, and "Train of Thought" is a more grounded progressive metal sound. The second album, "Images and Words", is a classic, but does suffer a bit from a bad mix.
If you want an interesting DT ripoff, I would suggest Dali's Dilemma, "Manifesto for Futurism". It's interesting in that if you listen to DT, you can hear snippets of DT riffs. The album also has a very nice bass solo on the second song, so as instrumentalists, they aren't bad.
As for DT supergroups, I would go with O.S.I. They don't sound so much like DT, but rather a heavy Pink Floyd. It's very strange. There aren't any amazing solos on the album, but the instrumental sections are still pretty cool. One of the songs features Porcupine Tree's Stephen Wilson. The recommended version of this album is the Limited Edition one, mainly for the fact that the second disk contains an instrumental suite of an early cut of the songs on the album.
If you don't like the DT sound, but still want progressive metal, try Symphony X. They have a different sound than DT, and, like DT, their first album is awful. Subsequent albums are a huge improvement over the first. The definitive SymX album is, "V: The New Mythology Suite", which is a concept album. However, their best song is, "The Divine Wings of Tragedy", off the album of the same name. The latest album, "The Odyssey", is also fantastic. If you like live albums, "Live On The Edge of Forever", is quite the treat, as the live version of "The Divine Wings of Tragedy" is amazing.
If you want a cheesy space opera inspired album, go with Star One's "Space Metal". The vocals are top notch, since it's from the mastermind of supergroups, Arjen Anthony Lucassen. There are also great Hawkwind and David Bow
Wow! Sounds like the voice of experience.
Uh, so does TiVo.
That's totally true. The first thing that enters your head should always be, "see a lawyer", not, "ask Slashdot".
It would be nice to have followups from the story submitters of what advice their lawyers actually gave them (provided they can reveal this info). That way when other people go to their lawyer, they aren't going in totally uninformed.
No one shall dare resist you as you defiantly tell them your notebook is made of sturdier material, DAMMIT!! MUH, HA, HA, HA!!!!
Yes. It also means that, like a rabbit, he makes no noise during copulation (i.e. has cotton balls).