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If this is your opinion, why are you reading? Why are you posting? You're acting like the religious nuts that listen to Howard Stern all day just so they can find something to complain about. If you don't like it, change the fucking channel.
I have an REB1100 and it's GREAT. Font scaling, bookmarks, dictionary, lots of storage... I have few complaints.
The same cannot be said for the "Upgrade" model, the GEB1150. When Gemstar took over production from Rocket, then withdrew from manufacturing with RCA, they reworked the thing and made it useless. Gone are the ability to change font sizes beyond the default two loaded into the device, screen rotation, dictionary, the ability to load custom content, and the ability to backup content to a local PC. This "upgrade" broke everything that was useful about the REB1100. And it costs MORE.
Fortunately, I was able to find a few REB1100s on ebay and keep one as a spare.
Agreed on the nitrogen narcosis... might be fun above the surface, but pretty damn dangerous at depth. I've only been narc'd once, and it was at a depth of 120' right at the edge of the continental shelf. I remember getting a distinct feeling of flight, kinda cool at first. Then vertigo, then nausea. Imagine yarking into a reg'... gyah. Fortunately, I was spared that (potentially lethal) horror.
Agreed. Personally, (and according to PADI recommendations, I believe,) I don't trust computers at all. I have one, yes, but I still trust the tables a whole lot more. Someone recently showed me the wheel, which is apparently easier to screw up than the tables but far more accurate.
Checks and balances. I use the computer to make sure I'm doing the manual calclations correctly, and the manual calculations to keep the computer honest.
Then again, I'm strictly a recreational diver. Pros and semi-pros are a completely different story.
Since SCO has thusfar been unwilling or unable to produce evidence of or even point to any instances of stolen code, has anyone at RedHat, IBM, or anyone else performed a code audit in an attempt to locate any code fragments that might belong to SCO? It seems to me that this would be a prudent thing to do.
Yeah, I had a pair of scissors that I used to use to cut open boxes, cut tape, etc.. One day I descided to strip all of the excess glue off of them, and used a reagent bottle of acetone that some one in my lab had lifted from the chem department. Unfortunately for me, I managed to slice open my hand with the scissors while pouring acetone over the blades. Let me explain to you what pain REALLY is...
Another side effect... acetone in that concentration will suck the moisture right out of your skin. Even a single tiny drop will leave a white, dried spot on your flesh.
Actually, they could very easily know. All they have to do is put some kind of alcohol-soluble, UV ink mark on the chip. It doesn't even have to be visible in UV... that's just if they want to be sneaky about it.
A thousand dollars for a linux install, eh? These SCO people must know something I don't. Seriously, can anyone tell me what would justify paying that?
I don't know, ask RedHat. I personally think it's a fine idea from their perpective if they can sell it, but that's another issue.
There there, Michael. There shouldn't be any reason that There wouldn't be searchable. There are PLENTY of different ways on that there search engine that There could be found. There might be a way to find There using other attributes of There. Though you have to watch out for spelling problems; there might be difficulties with their they're and their, for example. So THERE!
Agreed. I've been using 7.2 since shortly after it was released, and am still using it for all new server deployments. This may change very, very shortly, however, as RedHat insists on droppping support for anything before 8.0 within a year. *sigh*
Imagine that... a well paid internship with one of the world's largest companies, lots of perks, a pretty good chance of a permanent position with said megacorp, great perks, AND a catered lunch?
Yeah, I wouldn't take that position. That would be fucking stupid.
Interesting thing... if/when this resolves itself, and it's shown that SCO's allegations are false, and Linux DID scale to those performance levels in such a short period of time, this will weigh extremely favorably on the side of the effectiveness of the open source model.
Interesting analysis of the materials. I wonder what the self support length of other materials might be. Like spider's silk, which is claimed to have tensile strength far greater than that of steel.
Now that's frightening... I implemented exactly the same IRC bot, using almost identical commands. Freaky.
I agree with you about the d20 system over 2nd ed; MUCH more intuitive, and much easier to comprehend. It's also a lot easier from the GM's perspective. I've not actually played 3rd ed yet, as I've been playing White Wolf's Aberrant for the last four years, but the elegance of the system has me SERIOUSLY interested. I hope to start in a few weeks.
PCGen is actually one of the things that has me so interested in 3rd ed. Everything for a character (ok, not EVERYTHING, but most things) is managed, leaving more time for concentrating on the game itself.
How dare you! I plan to RETIRE to Vanuatu! With a land area slightly larger than Conneticut, a total population less than 200,000 people, and an economy based mostly on subsistence farming and, er, shady overseas financial deals (with a little tourism on the side,) what's not to love?
Please note the above comments about shady financial dealings, and ask yourself again why Kazaa is incorporated there.
For more information on vanuatu, see the CIA world Factbook.
Yeah, but Taco was out with his new bride when the first one was posted. Do you really expect him to be reading his site ON HIS WEDDING NIGHT? I can see it now... carrying her across the threshhold of the honeymoon suite, gruffly depositing her on the bed, whipping out his Zaurus (no, not THAT "Zaurus..." the one with the, er, stylus. I mean, batteries... no, that's certainly no good. Digital screen, yes. The zaurus with the digital screen...) and searching feverishly around the hotel room for a nearby WAP so he can read his website.
I'm a pretty big trek fan, as trek fans go, and I REALLY liked the film. I'm terrible at writing reviews without giving away plot hints, but I'm here to say that it was probably my #3 favorite trek film.
One thing, though. I can see people interested in Locutus, Borg Queen, Khan, or a few other star trek-related bad guys. But this film's bad guy? He's just picard with a narrower, younger head. He was still a good bad guy, I thought, but I don't think he has the sinister style that sticks with people like the other bad guys I mentioned.
One very important thing to consider : With certain types of tape drives, a misaligned head can render your tape media useless in another drive of exactly the same type. DLT is a good example of this. You can write and read to your heart's content on the same drive, but try to read a tape written in one drive on another and you can be sunk (professional data recovery experts with the proper tools can work around this, but it's expensive, and the whole point of this discussion was the need for "professional help" if certain parts of the hardware fail.)
Sure, if you want lousy technical support, NO hardware support beyond warrantee, contracts, limited deployment with a single dish, multiple wires bored into your home to support more than one receiver, unreliable service during even slightly inclement weather, a retched browsable guide, limited selection of PVRs with native tuner support, and the dependance on line of sight (hint : if you have a dish installed in winter, take into account how many leaves are going to be on nearby trees in the summer.)
Perhaps, but both are succeptible to corrosion; even stainless steel "rusts." Metals are also more likely to succumb to environmental corrosive agents like soil Ph and the like. No, stone is the way to go.
Except, it HAS BEEN translated. Sure, we don't know what what ancient aramaic sounds like (first person to tell me what it takes to translate spoken ancient aramaic gets a cookie) but we can READ IT. And even without the rosetta stone, translation of ancient egyptian would have eventually been possible from other small scraps of information here and there.
Linguists can do some pretty amazing things when it comes to tracing the roots of a language. Don't discount the ability of future historians to do the same with english.
Screw that, use stone tablets. Big fucking heavy ones, maybe marble or granite. That shit'll last THOUSANDS of years. How long does a CD last, 70 with archive grade media?
What happens if there's some kind of cataclysm and only a handful of people survive, revert to barbarism, then arise as a new advanced culture thousands of years from now? Future historians will find our libraries and data centers and they'll be USELESS due both to limited shelf life of media and inaccessibility of an unknown format.
Big granite slabs are the way to go. But don't make that writing TOO fine, or it'll erode with time. One centimeter letters etched a millimeter into the stone should last a few millenia.
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If this is your opinion, why are you reading? Why are you posting? You're acting like the religious nuts that listen to Howard Stern all day just so they can find something to complain about. If you don't like it, change the fucking channel.
Unless you're using it as a single /16, of course. In which case you only have one network and one broadcast address, so you have 65534 addresses.
I have an REB1100 and it's GREAT. Font scaling, bookmarks, dictionary, lots of storage... I have few complaints.
The same cannot be said for the "Upgrade" model, the GEB1150. When Gemstar took over production from Rocket, then withdrew from manufacturing with RCA, they reworked the thing and made it useless. Gone are the ability to change font sizes beyond the default two loaded into the device, screen rotation, dictionary, the ability to load custom content, and the ability to backup content to a local PC. This "upgrade" broke everything that was useful about the REB1100. And it costs MORE.
Fortunately, I was able to find a few REB1100s on ebay and keep one as a spare.
Agreed on the nitrogen narcosis... might be fun above the surface, but pretty damn dangerous at depth. I've only been narc'd once, and it was at a depth of 120' right at the edge of the continental shelf. I remember getting a distinct feeling of flight, kinda cool at first. Then vertigo, then nausea. Imagine yarking into a reg'... gyah. Fortunately, I was spared that (potentially lethal) horror.
Agreed. Personally, (and according to PADI recommendations, I believe,) I don't trust computers at all. I have one, yes, but I still trust the tables a whole lot more. Someone recently showed me the wheel, which is apparently easier to screw up than the tables but far more accurate.
Checks and balances. I use the computer to make sure I'm doing the manual calclations correctly, and the manual calculations to keep the computer honest.
Then again, I'm strictly a recreational diver. Pros and semi-pros are a completely different story.
Since SCO has thusfar been unwilling or unable to produce evidence of or even point to any instances of stolen code, has anyone at RedHat, IBM, or anyone else performed a code audit in an attempt to locate any code fragments that might belong to SCO? It seems to me that this would be a prudent thing to do.
Yeah, I had a pair of scissors that I used to use to cut open boxes, cut tape, etc.. One day I descided to strip all of the excess glue off of them, and used a reagent bottle of acetone that some one in my lab had lifted from the chem department. Unfortunately for me, I managed to slice open my hand with the scissors while pouring acetone over the blades. Let me explain to you what pain REALLY is...
Another side effect... acetone in that concentration will suck the moisture right out of your skin. Even a single tiny drop will leave a white, dried spot on your flesh.
Actually, they could very easily know. All they have to do is put some kind of alcohol-soluble, UV ink mark on the chip. It doesn't even have to be visible in UV... that's just if they want to be sneaky about it.
There there, Michael. There shouldn't be any reason that There wouldn't be searchable. There are PLENTY of different ways on that there search engine that There could be found. There might be a way to find There using other attributes of There. Though you have to watch out for spelling problems; there might be difficulties with their they're and their, for example. So THERE!
Agreed. I've been using 7.2 since shortly after it was released, and am still using it for all new server deployments. This may change very, very shortly, however, as RedHat insists on droppping support for anything before 8.0 within a year. *sigh*
7.2 may be old, but it's Rock-Solid-Stable(TM)
Imagine that... a well paid internship with one of the world's largest companies, lots of perks, a pretty good chance of a permanent position with said megacorp, great perks, AND a catered lunch?
Yeah, I wouldn't take that position. That would be fucking stupid.
Interesting thing... if/when this resolves itself, and it's shown that SCO's allegations are false, and Linux DID scale to those performance levels in such a short period of time, this will weigh extremely favorably on the side of the effectiveness of the open source model.
Interesting analysis of the materials. I wonder what the self support length of other materials might be. Like spider's silk, which is claimed to have tensile strength far greater than that of steel.
Now that's frightening... I implemented exactly the same IRC bot, using almost identical commands. Freaky.
I agree with you about the d20 system over 2nd ed; MUCH more intuitive, and much easier to comprehend. It's also a lot easier from the GM's perspective. I've not actually played 3rd ed yet, as I've been playing White Wolf's Aberrant for the last four years, but the elegance of the system has me SERIOUSLY interested. I hope to start in a few weeks.
PCGen is actually one of the things that has me so interested in 3rd ed. Everything for a character (ok, not EVERYTHING, but most things) is managed, leaving more time for concentrating on the game itself.
How dare you! I plan to RETIRE to Vanuatu! With a land area slightly larger than Conneticut, a total population less than 200,000 people, and an economy based mostly on subsistence farming and, er, shady overseas financial deals (with a little tourism on the side,) what's not to love?
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Please note the above comments about shady financial dealings, and ask yourself again why Kazaa is incorporated there.
For more information on vanuatu, see the CIA world Factbook.
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ge
I knew it! BillG is a dee-bee! He's secretly working as an agent of Xiticex, and intends to bring down the Coalition and NGR with help from...
Oh, er, there I go cross referencing fantasy and reality again. I am not an NGR Borg... I am NOT an NGR Borg...
Yeah, but Taco was out with his new bride when the first one was posted. Do you really expect him to be reading his site ON HIS WEDDING NIGHT? I can see it now... carrying her across the threshhold of the honeymoon suite, gruffly depositing her on the bed, whipping out his Zaurus (no, not THAT "Zaurus..." the one with the, er, stylus. I mean, batteries... no, that's certainly no good. Digital screen, yes. The zaurus with the digital screen...) and searching feverishly around the hotel room for a nearby WAP so he can read his website.
CowboyNeal, maybe, but Taco?
I'm a pretty big trek fan, as trek fans go, and I REALLY liked the film. I'm terrible at writing reviews without giving away plot hints, but I'm here to say that it was probably my #3 favorite trek film.
One thing, though. I can see people interested in Locutus, Borg Queen, Khan, or a few other star trek-related bad guys. But this film's bad guy? He's just picard with a narrower, younger head. He was still a good bad guy, I thought, but I don't think he has the sinister style that sticks with people like the other bad guys I mentioned.
But anyway, go see the movie... it was excellent.
One very important thing to consider : With certain types of tape drives, a misaligned head can render your tape media useless in another drive of exactly the same type. DLT is a good example of this. You can write and read to your heart's content on the same drive, but try to read a tape written in one drive on another and you can be sunk (professional data recovery experts with the proper tools can work around this, but it's expensive, and the whole point of this discussion was the need for "professional help" if certain parts of the hardware fail.)
Sure, if you want lousy technical support, NO hardware support beyond warrantee, contracts, limited deployment with a single dish, multiple wires bored into your home to support more than one receiver, unreliable service during even slightly inclement weather, a retched browsable guide, limited selection of PVRs with native tuner support, and the dependance on line of sight (hint : if you have a dish installed in winter, take into account how many leaves are going to be on nearby trees in the summer.)
So yeah, I love my fucking dish.
Perhaps, but both are succeptible to corrosion; even stainless steel "rusts." Metals are also more likely to succumb to environmental corrosive agents like soil Ph and the like. No, stone is the way to go.
Except, it HAS BEEN translated. Sure, we don't know what what ancient aramaic sounds like (first person to tell me what it takes to translate spoken ancient aramaic gets a cookie) but we can READ IT. And even without the rosetta stone, translation of ancient egyptian would have eventually been possible from other small scraps of information here and there.
Linguists can do some pretty amazing things when it comes to tracing the roots of a language. Don't discount the ability of future historians to do the same with english.
Screw that, use stone tablets. Big fucking heavy ones, maybe marble or granite. That shit'll last THOUSANDS of years. How long does a CD last, 70 with archive grade media?
What happens if there's some kind of cataclysm and only a handful of people survive, revert to barbarism, then arise as a new advanced culture thousands of years from now? Future historians will find our libraries and data centers and they'll be USELESS due both to limited shelf life of media and inaccessibility of an unknown format.
Big granite slabs are the way to go. But don't make that writing TOO fine, or it'll erode with time. One centimeter letters etched a millimeter into the stone should last a few millenia.