1. Buy jet for $1 Million 2. Hire off-duty Navy personnel to assemble and maintain it 3. Save ~$7.5 Million by doing so 4. Buy private island after bargaining like crazy 5. ??? 6. PROFIT!
--This is not a troll, but perhaps this is why they brought the "midichlorians" into the mix. Consider that the MC's might be a near-invisible race with what we would perceive to be super-powers. Yoda has control of the MC's. Therefore he is directing the MC's to do the work for him. Sort of a deus-ex-machina, but plausible on the surface. Feel free to discuss/dissect.
--Recommended reading: "Out of the Silent Planet" - and any other book by C.S. Lewis. It was a life-altering book for me, and so were the Chronicles of Narnia.
--I'm actually willing to consider *reasonable* explanations for the things I took issue with. The problem is that I haven't seen/heard any reasonable explanations for those very things.
--Suspension of disbelief is a fine art, both in writing and moviemaking. Both Hulk and X2 crossed the line for me - Hulk blatantly, X2 in a few places.
--Spiderman CGI just **did not** look good or believable, and I hated the ending (ok, I've got a thing for red-haired females. Willow fans, back me up here) but I'll see the sequel anyway. I was actually a fan of the cartoon series back in the 70's/80's. And Alfred Molina playing Doc Octopus - that's good casting.
--The Hulk movie basically sucked because it tried to go WAY beyond typical suspension of disbelief. I mean come on people, that movie was just WRONG. There's no frelling WAY the Hulk can throw a tank, or any of the other stupid crap they had him doing. The TV series with Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno was more believable, for Godsake.
--Xmen2: I did like it on the whole for the most part, except when Jean Grey *pushes* a Cyclops eye-beam away with "mental force." For one thing, Cyclops should never have been able to do that; for another, you CAN'T deflect a beam of light with just "Mind Power!"
--Bah. I hated the Spider Man movie, too. But the first X-Men movie was awesome, and I've liked all the Spawn movies (even the animated ones.) Some people just know how to give the genre the Right Treatment(TM).
--Are you KIDDING? You must not have watched it very much. Sure, Lexx was eccentric and somewhat transparent with all the sex jokes, but the ACTING ability of the people involved was of pretty high caliber.
--The actress who plays Xev (Xenia Seeberg) actually did a dead-on rendition of the Prince char's mannerisms over a couple of episodes; very subtle, but noticeable. And Kai - well, Kai is just a cool and unique char in and of himself. Prince (Nigel Bennett) is very complex and tragic - sometimes you reluctantly admire him, sometimes you despise him. But he's never boring!
--Yeah, AFAIConcerned you could replace Stanley and 790 and they prolly wouldn't be missed, but the 3 people above are reason enough to watch the show, for me.
--BTW, Dieter Laser (Mantrid) put in a pretty powerful performance, as well; and Bunny (Patricia Zentilli) was hot in a skinny-athletic kind of way. She was better with the short-hair look though, IMHO.
--Good article on where they're planning to take the series. They say that homage will be paid to the original show, but some characters and other things will be taken in new and unexpected directions.
--Now I have to admit that I skipped the recent Sci-Fi miniseries debut because I was a "light" fan of TOS. But the way they're talking in these articles made me rethink my decision, and now I want to see where they went with it. ~:)
--I'm blowing my mod points for posting a reply here, but: BULLSHIT.
--I tried putting my root admin-helper Bash scripts on Freshmeat a year or so ago, and they DENIED me. Not that I'm bitter, I have a Tripod site - just wasn't expecting that.
--And incidentally, Mr Troll, freshmeat is pretty easy to navigate. Not that hard to find $useful-software there.
--A good insight, cut down on computer usage if possible during the night.
--However, if that doesn't work here are some suggestions:
o White noise generator o Padded eye covering for the sleeper (like a "horse blinder") o LCD monitor o Headphones o Move the computer as far away from the bed as possible
--Apt will not remove packages just by doing apt-get upgrade, at least AFAIK. If you do ' apt-get install blah ' and some packages will be removed, it verbosely asks Y/N.
--" apt-get dist-upgrade " OTOH, can be a nightmare. Definitely not recommended.
--That is frickin schweet, dude. They estimate that power and cooling costs for that cluster are an order of magnitude cheaper for the Transmeta chips vs traditional x86.
--Seriously though - with a 900MHz AMD Duron with 512MB RAM, and a Geforce 4 MX440 (64MB) AGP graphics card, my framerate varies from about 8-15 FPS, on average. Truly pathetic, even with all the suggested speedup mods from the support boards. I also have the latest Nvidia patch (altho I'm still running Win98SE, so that's from a few months ago.)
--So yes: even though these patches are horribly delayed, it still might make some people (like me) dig out the game again, when they finally *do* get published.
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1. Buy jet for $1 Million
2. Hire off-duty Navy personnel to assemble and maintain it
3. Save ~$7.5 Million by doing so
4. Buy private island after bargaining like crazy
5. ???
6. PROFIT!
--Word. Hugo Weaving from the Matrix is in that one as well. (Haven't seen the entire movie, just parts of it - but that was trippy.)
--Thank you for the suggestion. Half a moment...
]READY
$ export TARGET="disbelief-suspensors"
]READY
$ time pahse-three diagnostic
* SYNTAX ERROR *
]READY
$ time diagnostic (phase3
(whirling doodad)
] Diagnostic complete for disbelief-suspensors. == Results: INCONCLUSIVE.
real 1m38.782s
user 0m0.180s
sys 0m0.050s
]READY
$ _
--This is not a troll, but perhaps this is why they brought the "midichlorians" into the mix. Consider that the MC's might be a near-invisible race with what we would perceive to be super-powers. Yoda has control of the MC's. Therefore he is directing the MC's to do the work for him. Sort of a deus-ex-machina, but plausible on the surface. Feel free to discuss/dissect.
--Recommended reading: "Out of the Silent Planet" - and any other book by C.S. Lewis. It was a life-altering book for me, and so were the Chronicles of Narnia.
--I'm actually willing to consider *reasonable* explanations for the things I took issue with. The problem is that I haven't seen/heard any reasonable explanations for those very things.
--Suspension of disbelief is a fine art, both in writing and moviemaking. Both Hulk and X2 crossed the line for me - Hulk blatantly, X2 in a few places.
--Spiderman CGI just **did not** look good or believable, and I hated the ending (ok, I've got a thing for red-haired females. Willow fans, back me up here) but I'll see the sequel anyway. I was actually a fan of the cartoon series back in the 70's/80's. And Alfred Molina playing Doc Octopus - that's good casting.
http://imdb.com/name/nm0000547/
--Haven't you ever seen Superman II? Clark Kent did exactly that, at the end.
--MHO, Terence Stamp as General Zod == His Best Role Evar. And Sarah Douglas as Ursa was Teh Hottay.
--The Hulk movie basically sucked because it tried to go WAY beyond typical suspension of disbelief. I mean come on people, that movie was just WRONG. There's no frelling WAY the Hulk can throw a tank, or any of the other stupid crap they had him doing. The TV series with Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno was more believable, for Godsake.
--Xmen2: I did like it on the whole for the most part, except when Jean Grey *pushes* a Cyclops eye-beam away with "mental force." For one thing, Cyclops should never have been able to do that; for another, you CAN'T deflect a beam of light with just "Mind Power!"
--Bah. I hated the Spider Man movie, too. But the first X-Men movie was awesome, and I've liked all the Spawn movies (even the animated ones.) Some people just know how to give the genre the Right Treatment(TM).
--Are you KIDDING? You must not have watched it very much. Sure, Lexx was eccentric and somewhat transparent with all the sex jokes, but the ACTING ability of the people involved was of pretty high caliber.
--The actress who plays Xev (Xenia Seeberg) actually did a dead-on rendition of the Prince char's mannerisms over a couple of episodes; very subtle, but noticeable. And Kai - well, Kai is just a cool and unique char in and of himself. Prince (Nigel Bennett) is very complex and tragic - sometimes you reluctantly admire him, sometimes you despise him. But he's never boring!
--Yeah, AFAIConcerned you could replace Stanley and 790 and they prolly wouldn't be missed, but the 3 people above are reason enough to watch the show, for me.
--BTW, Dieter Laser (Mantrid) put in a pretty powerful performance, as well; and Bunny (Patricia Zentilli) was hot in a skinny-athletic kind of way. She was better with the short-hair look though, IMHO.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0178149/
--Geez, the search system on Sci Fi Wire pretty much sucks. Took me 15 minutes to find this:
4 -0 2/11/13.00.sfc
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-sfc.html?200
--Good article on where they're planning to take the series. They say that homage will be paid to the original show, but some characters and other things will be taken in new and unexpected directions.
--Now I have to admit that I skipped the recent Sci-Fi miniseries debut because I was a "light" fan of TOS. But the way they're talking in these articles made me rethink my decision, and now I want to see where they went with it. ~:)
--Now that's got me thinking.
/cdrom to client sources.list
/var/cache/apt NFS on /cdrom (R/O) ...and have that as a centralized package server?
Could you:
o Add
o Mount another (server's)
That would be ' apt-get install gaim '. FYI.
--LINUX IS NOT WINDOWS!!! We don't **want** it to be!
--Get used to it. Learn how The Linux Way actually works instead of whining about it.
' man hier ' explains where binaries (and other things) go.
(yes I'm a bitter MF'er today, you would be too if you were in my shoes.)
--I'm blowing my mod points for posting a reply here, but: BULLSHIT.
--I tried putting my root admin-helper Bash scripts on Freshmeat a year or so ago, and they DENIED me. Not that I'm bitter, I have a Tripod site - just wasn't expecting that.
--And incidentally, Mr Troll, freshmeat is pretty easy to navigate. Not that hard to find $useful-software there.
--Check out the Knoppix tracker, the numbers will amaze you:
http://torrent.unix-ag.uni-kl.de:6969/
--Over FOUR TERABYTES worth of data transferred for the previous rev (2003-11-19.) That's pretty impressive, to me.
--A good insight, cut down on computer usage if possible during the night.
--However, if that doesn't work here are some suggestions:
o White noise generator
o Padded eye covering for the sleeper (like a "horse blinder")
o LCD monitor
o Headphones
o Move the computer as far away from the bed as possible
--Backups are your friend.
--Apt will not remove packages just by doing apt-get upgrade, at least AFAIK. If you do ' apt-get install blah ' and some packages will be removed, it verbosely asks Y/N.
--" apt-get dist-upgrade " OTOH, can be a nightmare. Definitely not recommended.
--If somebody's getting to be too much of an anal-retentive jerk, try this:
"Give me the salt shaker NOW, asshat!"
--Yes; in that case they have what's called "switching to Shatner protocol". :b
--That is frickin schweet, dude. They estimate that power and cooling costs for that cluster are an order of magnitude cheaper for the Transmeta chips vs traditional x86.
"Ow owwwww!" == http://imdb.com/title/tt0090685/
"Son of beetch! Sheet!" == http://imdb.com/title/tt0083131/
"J00 fargin' iceholes!" == http://imdb.com/title/tt0087507/
Dude, that post was good enough to land you on my Friends list. :)
--Because the squirrel bit him on the leg?
[ http://www.quiznos.com/ ]
--How about that? Floating mouse balls!
:b
--Blast it man, you stole my post. :)
--Seriously though - with a 900MHz AMD Duron with 512MB RAM, and a Geforce 4 MX440 (64MB) AGP graphics card, my framerate varies from about 8-15 FPS, on average. Truly pathetic, even with all the suggested speedup mods from the support boards. I also have the latest Nvidia patch (altho I'm still running Win98SE, so that's from a few months ago.)
--So yes: even though these patches are horribly delayed, it still might make some people (like me) dig out the game again, when they finally *do* get published.