This also explains why Threepio was never hit by a laser bolt in the opening battle aboard the blockade runner.. Vader was like, "if you see a gold protocol droid, DON'T SHOOT IT.. it's mine!"
> Your character has three attributes: Body, Mind, and Spirit. In turn, these attributes help determine your consumable personal resources. Body determines Health, Mind determines Chi, and Spirit determines Focus.
I would think Mind would determine Focus, and Spirit would determine Chi. But IANARM (reiki master).
> Since we cannot save our own ass, we will bite yours. We already stole music and have done something wrong. But instead we will focus on how we can pick on something else to fight on.
Which is why threads like this are useful/mildly interesting to unhAx0r types like me, who know nothing about hacking and didn't know (having had no reason to know) that 127.0.0.1 was a self-referential address. Now I know that.
No idea what I'm going to do with that knowledge, but at least I'll know if someone's trying to play that joke on me.
The original Macintosh and Macintosh Plus had keyboard connectors that used RJ-11. I always thought that was bizarre and an inherently bad idea, but they didn't consult with me. (Besides, I was 11.)
I think the rest of us would be much better off without the West Coast, myself. With the exception of the Silicon and Sonoma Valleys.. I think we'd miss them.
That's an interesting point. Adobe did good things with PageMaker.. I still use the software today (although I think they have dropped it from their product line by now.. they capped development on it at version 7.0 I think). I can't see Freehand surviving this merger.. Adobe didn't need it from Aldus, and they don't need it from Macromedia either.
I guess it's anyone's guess as to whether they'll keep Dreamweaver, but I'd put my money on corporate hubris any day. Adobe was not producing a competitor to Quark when they acquired PageMaker (unless it was FrameMaker.. anybody?) so they sunk a lot of good money into developing PageMaker for prime time. Since they've already made that investment in GoLive, I seriously doubt they're going to chuck it all in favor of their main competition if they have the chance to stick the knife in Dreamweaver. If Quark had acquired PageMaker somehow, would they continue to develop it for those people who still wanted to use it? Nah.
Adobe produces GoLive.. Macromedia produces Dreamweaver. These are in direct competition.
Adobe produces Illustrator.. Macromedia produces Freehand. These are in direct competition.
Adobe produces Photoshop.. Macromedia produces Fireworks. These aren't direct competitors exactly, but Adobe wants everyone who uses Fireworks now to use Photoshop instead, regardless of how much bloat Photoshop has today, or how clean its generated code is.
The problem is, I like Macromedia's products. I don't want to use Adobe's. If they axe Dreamweaver and Fireworks, I won't have a choice anymore. That is what they call "bad".
I like how the car in the video at 60 Minutes is "tethered" by a crane. Hmmmmm... makes one wonder how much that thing was really under its own power. "Magic carpet ride" indeed..
What I loved about the movie "Apollo 13" was that it celebrated the true heroism exhibited by the "geeks" at NASA. I remember reading editorials from feminist man-haters whining about how all the men in the movie were, well, men, and white men, which is somehow worse. That kind of criticism really made me ill. I felt really sorry for the kind of person who would attack a movie for being sexist or even cheuvanist simply because it shows a group of white men being heroes, even if it is historically accurate.
It's not often you see a group of actual, Coke-bottle-glasses, pocket-protector, polyester-pants GEEKS acting in concert to save lives presented in movies these days. (Usually they are sexed-up CSI-types. Yeah, sure.) But damnit, those boys (and girls) at NASA really do have people's lives in their hands, and each and every successful, boring old manned mission is a tremendous risk and a testament to the genius and sheer balls of the American Nerd.
You've got a funny view of what it means to be "arrested". If you mean they cannot force you into a patrol car and take you downtown to throw you in jail overnight, then no, they can't. If you mean they cannot stop you in your tracks with what you're trying to illegally remove from the store.. you just try it and see who laughs.
I have a 40GB iPod. It is almost half full of music.. pushing 19 gigs, and I still keep rotating playlists on and off. Yes, having a nice big selection is nice, but I probably only listen to about 1/8th of that music at any given time. The rest of it is there just in case I am suddenly inspired to listen to it.
My point is that as far as having a portable music player, I could probably get by with 5GB or so. I don't think I'd be moving music around on it any more than I am now. Actually I use the iPod more for data storage and transit than to listen to music anyway.
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Whoa, that is DARK. Dark, dark, dark!
Or when Han uses "parsecs" as a unit of time measurement.
Or were we limiting our criticism to just Eps I and II? Sorry.
This also explains why Threepio was never hit by a laser bolt in the opening battle aboard the blockade runner .. Vader was like, "if you see a gold protocol droid, DON'T SHOOT IT .. it's mine!"
> Your character has three attributes: Body, Mind, and Spirit. In turn, these attributes help determine your consumable personal resources. Body determines Health, Mind determines Chi, and Spirit determines Focus.
I would think Mind would determine Focus, and Spirit would determine Chi. But IANARM (reiki master).
I don't know, I think my Commodore 128 is pretty secure and satisfying, nobody's tried to hack me yet. I guess it crashes now and then ..
> Since we cannot save our own ass, we will bite yours. We already stole music and have done something wrong. But instead we will focus on how we can pick on something else to fight on.
I thought he was talking about the RIAA.
Which is why threads like this are useful/mildly interesting to unhAx0r types like me, who know nothing about hacking and didn't know (having had no reason to know) that 127.0.0.1 was a self-referential address. Now I know that.
No idea what I'm going to do with that knowledge, but at least I'll know if someone's trying to play that joke on me.
No idea why anyone would, but .. whatever.
The original Macintosh and Macintosh Plus had keyboard connectors that used RJ-11. I always thought that was bizarre and an inherently bad idea, but they didn't consult with me. (Besides, I was 11.)
Oh come on .. that was damn funny.
Yeah, I wonder if anyone is ever going to offer a bounty on my 1984 issues of MacWorld ..
Wow, Julie sounds like an amazing human being, and an astronaut too! How do you top that?
I still think Eileen Collins is cuter.
The shuttle Commander is a babe, too.
I'm with Mike Crichton on this .. I think our epitaph will be, "They Didn't Understand What They Were Doing."
I think the rest of us would be much better off without the West Coast, myself. With the exception of the Silicon and Sonoma Valleys .. I think we'd miss them.
That's an interesting point. Adobe did good things with PageMaker .. I still use the software today (although I think they have dropped it from their product line by now .. they capped development on it at version 7.0 I think). I can't see Freehand surviving this merger .. Adobe didn't need it from Aldus, and they don't need it from Macromedia either.
I guess it's anyone's guess as to whether they'll keep Dreamweaver, but I'd put my money on corporate hubris any day. Adobe was not producing a competitor to Quark when they acquired PageMaker (unless it was FrameMaker .. anybody?) so they sunk a lot of good money into developing PageMaker for prime time. Since they've already made that investment in GoLive, I seriously doubt they're going to chuck it all in favor of their main competition if they have the chance to stick the knife in Dreamweaver. If Quark had acquired PageMaker somehow, would they continue to develop it for those people who still wanted to use it? Nah.
Wonder if they'll keep Fontographer?
> PDF is also the imaging technology underlying Quartz, the display subsystem used on Mac OS X.
<pedant>I think you mean PostScript. PDF is based on PostScript.</pedant>
Adobe produces GoLive .. Macromedia produces Dreamweaver. These are in direct competition.
Adobe produces Illustrator .. Macromedia produces Freehand. These are in direct competition.
Adobe produces Photoshop .. Macromedia produces Fireworks. These aren't direct competitors exactly, but Adobe wants everyone who uses Fireworks now to use Photoshop instead, regardless of how much bloat Photoshop has today, or how clean its generated code is.
The problem is, I like Macromedia's products. I don't want to use Adobe's. If they axe Dreamweaver and Fireworks, I won't have a choice anymore. That is what they call "bad".
I'm not happy about this at all.
I like how the car in the video at 60 Minutes is "tethered" by a crane. Hmmmmm ... makes one wonder how much that thing was really under its own power. "Magic carpet ride" indeed ..
That wouldn't be Austin, Texas, would it?
What I loved about the movie "Apollo 13" was that it celebrated the true heroism exhibited by the "geeks" at NASA. I remember reading editorials from feminist man-haters whining about how all the men in the movie were, well, men, and white men, which is somehow worse. That kind of criticism really made me ill. I felt really sorry for the kind of person who would attack a movie for being sexist or even cheuvanist simply because it shows a group of white men being heroes, even if it is historically accurate.
It's not often you see a group of actual, Coke-bottle-glasses, pocket-protector, polyester-pants GEEKS acting in concert to save lives presented in movies these days. (Usually they are sexed-up CSI-types. Yeah, sure.) But damnit, those boys (and girls) at NASA really do have people's lives in their hands, and each and every successful, boring old manned mission is a tremendous risk and a testament to the genius and sheer balls of the American Nerd.
I don't see how "resurrection ecology" has anything to do with the harvesting of human embryos. Sorry, your comparison is silly, please try again.
Kind of like your store's competitors walking in and looking at clothing displays.
You've got a funny view of what it means to be "arrested". If you mean they cannot force you into a patrol car and take you downtown to throw you in jail overnight, then no, they can't. If you mean they cannot stop you in your tracks with what you're trying to illegally remove from the store .. you just try it and see who laughs.
Off-topic yes, Interesting, highly.
I have a 40GB iPod. It is almost half full of music .. pushing 19 gigs, and I still keep rotating playlists on and off. Yes, having a nice big selection is nice, but I probably only listen to about 1/8th of that music at any given time. The rest of it is there just in case I am suddenly inspired to listen to it.
My point is that as far as having a portable music player, I could probably get by with 5GB or so. I don't think I'd be moving music around on it any more than I am now. Actually I use the iPod more for data storage and transit than to listen to music anyway.