1) Live in big domes with fake skies.
2) Watch the crystal in your hand turn black on your 30th birthday.
3) Go to Carousel.
10 dollar Amazon gift certificate to the first person to name the movie in this thread! Can't be an AC.
Logan's Run. Which incidentally was nothing like the book.
Didnt they do a redo of "Lathe of Heaven"? similar to the one done back in the late 60's or early 70s
It blew chunks. I have both versions on DVD and I much prefer the 1980's version. At least it was fairly true to the book and not horribly mangled.
Much as what has happened to Earthsea.
Producing these things is not a problem of special effects or writing it's a problem of greed plain and simple. I am quite honestly surprised that LOTR came out as cleanly as it did.
This is a fantastic game! Especially with the add-ons to make the island bigger.
My friends and I spent several long hours playing this game a few months ago and enjoyed every minute of it.
A word of note - this is one of those "screw your neighbor" types of games where it's easy to hose the another person to your advantage. Thos of you that love in-game politics should feel right at home.;-)
Get a clue man, Valve is NOT owned by Vivendi. At one time they owned the rights to Half Life, but Valve got them back.
I stand corrected. Still - Vivendi is one of the major distributors and still was, among others, able to force them to change their policy on the Steam servers re:activation date among other things.
That's no small feat. I suspect that Vivendi still pulls quite a few strings despite their court battles.
Remember - Vivendi has far more money to throw at these problems that others - Valve included.
I know I'm going to get marked Troll as fast as I can post this but it's got to be said.
All these HL2 users and other Steam users should have known better.
It's always been about protecting revenue. Period.
Remember - Valve is owned by Vivendi Universal. The people that squashed an open-source project (BNETD) because it
might
have threatened their business in the future. (Those of you about to mention that BNETD allowed illegal copies to play online remember that BNETD tried to get a validation method out of Blizzard but was repeatedly ignored.)
Now we see the result. BNETD had it been allowed to exist would have easily been a stepping-stone to a legal Steam alternative. By killing BNETD in court they have a leg to stand on when people say they don't want a Steam account to play their game. They have no alternative. You can't even "go elsewhere" if you still want to play the game. They can't even "make their own" without running into previous court cases.
I'm voting with my wallet. I didn't buy or "borrow" HL2 and I'm certainly not going to buy a Blizzard title either.
1) Things like this will probably make kids, provided they get _any_ education in thinking at all (a stretch - I know), grow up with a greater respect for privacy than the current crop of sheep. Hopefully this will cause them to be even more unwilling to deal with the crap that our corporate government puts out.
2) A good Sci-Fi book on this subject is Outlaw School by Rebecca Ore.
Her depiction of society has some fairly pointed parallels to what our society is now becoming.
While I doubt it would happen, I would like to see spammers punished in other ways as well as the big bounty.
Divide the spammer's current net-worth - minus the minimum amount to live for one year - then liquidate and distribute it to everyone that received the spam. Or as many as can be reached after much effort. Make doing this a requirement for the spammer to keep out of federal prison. Make them show progress like an unemployed person has to show progress.
After one year if the person has not found a replacement job of any type or has gone back to spamming then induct them into a government menial job or military service in a non-combat role.
Not an ideal solution but it would at least re-distribute the wealth stolen by these spammers. You'll never get the time back though...
Ohh no RIAA is exerting it's galactic influence!
They don't want the aliens to have a copy of the Rolling Stones they didn't pay for. So they are turning pioneer around.
You've got it all wrong...
the RIAA wants them to have a copy of the song so they can sue aliens for illegally decrypting the song to play it and then make them settle in galactic court.
As a person that has been watchng Anime for many many years I can easily say that:
1) Some Anime does suck - especially if we get "all your base" style translations. Or that wacky badly repeated motion animation. Red mouths with no teeth, etc.
2) There are as many reasons to watch Anime as there are anything else - for the most part the same reasons. Writing, artwork, animation, general insanity, very little taboos, etc.
3) Anime, like any other genre or style of media is a personal taste. I respect your opinion and your right to say it but saying all Anime sucks is like saying all movies suck. It's an opinion - nothing more.
I so wish I had mod points right now. +5 Insightful.
Between this and the Vero(Vereo?) IP crap on E-Pay and other places it's getting so I don't want to buy anything that doesn't run on a free OS and have the source code available.
My daughter is going to grow up with Linux and OpenOffice if I have any say about it.;-)
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The Firefox plugin you're looking for is Spoofstick.
A little simple but it tells you exactly what site you're on.
Perhaps a foam that contained some sort of particles to help strengthen it. Though I would think that even distribution of those particles would be a problem with a sprayed product.
Guilty until proven innocent, huh? I sure hope that you're not one of those people who gets frothy at the mouth about John Ashcroft and USA PATRIOT.
I've met several CEOs over my decade plus in I/T. Not one of them that was of any worth couldn't tell me what was going on at the lowest levels of their company. A good CEO always does. You can't be a good CEO and not know as far as I'm concerned.
Yes, but "a company" doesn't spring from nowhere. People create it, invest in it, operate it. When you harm a corporation you harm everyone who works there and their families, plus everyone who invested in it and their families.
In the past I would have agreed with you and some businesses are still as you describe.
Micro$oft is not one of them in my opinion. More than a few former M$ employees have spoken up about the internal policies of that company in the past to show that something is wrong ethically with that company. Most often at the upper levels of management.
The trend has reversed itself. Now big businesses and even medium businesses act like large corporations with regards to ethics and the law. Can you honestly argue that those companies should be allowed to act this way?
It's unfortunate that the people who are not involved with the breach of ethics in these cases often get the brunt of the pain of bad corporate actions but I don't think that should stop us from preventing companies from acting in an ethically challenged manner.
Were it up to me companies found in violation of such things would have anyone remotely involved with the bad decisions removed and the running of the company in question and it's stocks then handed over to the employees to choose new leaders. Those removed from the company would have restraining orders preventing them from having anything to do with their former corporation for up to 20 years. CEOs would have to work very hard to prove to me that they had no knowledge of the actions in question.
Not the best solution but something that would be workable under existing conditions.
Great idea, so suppose I am wrongly found guily of murder and sentenced to death should I be executed before the appeal which may prove me innocent concludes ?
A death sentence is an irrevocable loss of life. We're talking about a fine against a large company. The fine could be collected and held in a court appointed account until the appeal is finished.
And anyways part of these types of problems is that we're treating corporations like people. They aren't people - they are a company. Despite what the law says they need to be treated without the rights of an individual because they aren't one.
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I have BRLCAD installed here on a Sun workstation at home and I can tell you that it takes some getting used to as it's not very user friendly.
Like most powerful tools it's difficult to learn to use with effectiveness. That and the interface is more than a little clunky
I honestly prefer things like SolidWorks which while not as powerful is a hell of a lot easier to use.
1) Live in big domes with fake skies. 2) Watch the crystal in your hand turn black on your 30th birthday. 3) Go to Carousel. 10 dollar Amazon gift certificate to the first person to name the movie in this thread! Can't be an AC.
Logan's Run. Which incidentally was nothing like the book.
Didnt they do a redo of "Lathe of Heaven"? similar to the one done back in the late 60's or early 70s
It blew chunks. I have both versions on DVD and I much prefer the 1980's version. At least it was fairly true to the book and not horribly mangled.
Much as what has happened to Earthsea.
Producing these things is not a problem of special effects or writing it's a problem of greed plain and simple. I am quite honestly surprised that LOTR came out as cleanly as it did.
This is a fantastic game! Especially with the add-ons to make the island bigger.
;-)
My friends and I spent several long hours playing this game a few months ago and enjoyed every minute of it.
A word of note - this is one of those "screw your neighbor" types of games where it's easy to hose the another person to your advantage. Thos of you that love in-game politics should feel right at home.
Get a clue man, Valve is NOT owned by Vivendi. At one time they owned the rights to Half Life, but Valve got them back.
I stand corrected. Still - Vivendi is one of the major distributors and still was, among others, able to force them to change their policy on the Steam servers re:activation date among other things.
That's no small feat. I suspect that Vivendi still pulls quite a few strings despite their court battles.
Remember - Vivendi has far more money to throw at these problems that others - Valve included.
All these HL2 users and other Steam users should have known better.
It's always been about protecting revenue. Period.
Remember - Valve is owned by Vivendi Universal. The people that squashed an open-source project (BNETD) because it
- might
have threatened their business in the future. (Those of you about to mention that BNETD allowed illegal copies to play online remember that BNETD tried to get a validation method out of Blizzard but was repeatedly ignored.)Now we see the result. BNETD had it been allowed to exist would have easily been a stepping-stone to a legal Steam alternative. By killing BNETD in court they have a leg to stand on when people say they don't want a Steam account to play their game. They have no alternative. You can't even "go elsewhere" if you still want to play the game. They can't even "make their own" without running into previous court cases.
I'm voting with my wallet. I didn't buy or "borrow" HL2 and I'm certainly not going to buy a Blizzard title either.
1) Things like this will probably make kids, provided they get _any_ education in thinking at all (a stretch - I know), grow up with a greater respect for privacy than the current crop of sheep. Hopefully this will cause them to be even more unwilling to deal with the crap that our corporate government puts out.
2) A good Sci-Fi book on this subject is Outlaw School by Rebecca Ore.
Her depiction of society has some fairly pointed parallels to what our society is now becoming.
While I doubt it would happen, I would like to see spammers punished in other ways as well as the big bounty.
Divide the spammer's current net-worth - minus the minimum amount to live for one year - then liquidate and distribute it to everyone that received the spam. Or as many as can be reached after much effort. Make doing this a requirement for the spammer to keep out of federal prison. Make them show progress like an unemployed person has to show progress.
After one year if the person has not found a replacement job of any type or has gone back to spamming then induct them into a government menial job or military service in a non-combat role.
Not an ideal solution but it would at least re-distribute the wealth stolen by these spammers. You'll never get the time back though...
Ohh no RIAA is exerting it's galactic influence!
They don't want the aliens to have a copy of the Rolling Stones they didn't pay for. So they are turning pioneer around.
You've got it all wrong...
the RIAA wants them to have a copy of the song so they can sue aliens for illegally decrypting the song to play it and then make them settle in galactic court.
I'm going to risk feeding a troll here...
As a person that has been watchng Anime for many many years I can easily say that:
1) Some Anime does suck - especially if we get "all your base" style translations. Or that wacky badly repeated motion animation. Red mouths with no teeth, etc.
2) There are as many reasons to watch Anime as there are anything else - for the most part the same reasons. Writing, artwork, animation, general insanity, very little taboos, etc.
3) Anime, like any other genre or style of media is a personal taste. I respect your opinion and your right to say it but saying all Anime sucks is like saying all movies suck. It's an opinion - nothing more.
I have NEVER seen Linux laptop that had working ACPI. I know they exist but I sure haven't seen them.
FWIW my Thinkpad i1300 running Debian 3.0r1(?) unstable seems to support ACPI just fine.
Now if I could just get proper Hermes 2 WEP 128-bit support on it I'd be happy.
Wow! That's the same reason I tuned into "Enterprise".
I imagine the answer is the same though... "They won't... it'll completely suck, and you'll wish you never saw it."
[Futurama]
"YOU WATCHED IT! You can't UN-watch it!"
[/Futurama]
I so wish I had mod points right now. +5 Insightful.
;-)
Between this and the Vero(Vereo?) IP crap on E-Pay and other places it's getting so I don't want to buy anything that doesn't run on a free OS and have the source code available.
My daughter is going to grow up with Linux and OpenOffice if I have any say about it.
The Firefox plugin you're looking for is Spoofstick.
A little simple but it tells you exactly what site you're on.
They also have one for IE.
"subscription required"
Care to give me a non money-sucking link for this?
Toybuilders.com
You pretty much send them a CAD drawing or work with them to produce one and they just create it for you using several different methods.
A couple of the methods even produce something wood-like (paper actually) or metal.
Are there enough pixels in the front picture of the sticker on the windshield? :-(
I tried myself by my photo-fu is too weak.
uses a two color OLED display
Don't OLEDs still have a shorter lifespan than standard LCDs?
Considering how often an mp3 player is using the display when running, song info - etc., would the shorter lifespan of the OLEDs make a difference?
If you output enough wattage it overwhelms the receiver and bleeds over into the audio amplifier. So this technique would be valid with more power.
;-)
Ask any CB'er who has a linear amp.
Now, self-skinnning foams...maybe
Perhaps a foam that contained some sort of particles to help strengthen it. Though I would think that even distribution of those particles would be a problem with a sprayed product.
I'm betting that if you could find a way to spray and cure the concrete in the extreme cold you could use something like these...
From what I understand they have a more than strong enough structure and could easily insulate well enough. Just my $.02 worth.
Guilty until proven innocent, huh? I sure hope that you're not one of those people who gets frothy at the mouth about John Ashcroft and USA PATRIOT.
I've met several CEOs over my decade plus in I/T. Not one of them that was of any worth couldn't tell me what was going on at the lowest levels of their company. A good CEO always does. You can't be a good CEO and not know as far as I'm concerned.
Yes, but "a company" doesn't spring from nowhere. People create it, invest in it, operate it. When you harm a corporation you harm everyone who works there and their families, plus everyone who invested in it and their families.
In the past I would have agreed with you and some businesses are still as you describe.
Micro$oft is not one of them in my opinion. More than a few former M$ employees have spoken up about the internal policies of that company in the past to show that something is wrong ethically with that company. Most often at the upper levels of management.
The trend has reversed itself. Now big businesses and even medium businesses act like large corporations with regards to ethics and the law. Can you honestly argue that those companies should be allowed to act this way?
It's unfortunate that the people who are not involved with the breach of ethics in these cases often get the brunt of the pain of bad corporate actions but I don't think that should stop us from preventing companies from acting in an ethically challenged manner.
Were it up to me companies found in violation of such things would have anyone remotely involved with the bad decisions removed and the running of the company in question and it's stocks then handed over to the employees to choose new leaders. Those removed from the company would have restraining orders preventing them from having anything to do with their former corporation for up to 20 years. CEOs would have to work very hard to prove to me that they had no knowledge of the actions in question.
Not the best solution but something that would be workable under existing conditions.
Great idea, so suppose I am wrongly found guily of murder and sentenced to death should I be executed before the appeal which may prove me innocent concludes ?
A death sentence is an irrevocable loss of life. We're talking about a fine against a large company. The fine could be collected and held in a court appointed account until the appeal is finished.
And anyways part of these types of problems is that we're treating corporations like people. They aren't people - they are a company. Despite what the law says they need to be treated without the rights of an individual because they aren't one.
This is sheer lunacy. Micro$haft was found in violation and needs to be punished.
In my opinion the fine should have been collected _then_ returned if the appeal overturned the issue.
Or maybe not returned even then.