good to hear since I hadn't the stomach for 11 after 10 did nothing but catch up subplots or start new ones, from what I remember. Sad he's died though, my first girlfriend got me into those books back in high school. They were good when you're not expecting high-grade fantasy and are just watching the characters, It's clearly ridiculous in places.
When Dante was populating the Inferno, he dumped Odysseus in the 8th circle, 1 up from the bottom. Why? Because he's a smart, tricky bastard, just like the Devil is supposed to be. no, Odysseus/Ulysses is in the 8th circle of hell for being "...fraudulent--those guilty of deliberate, knowing evil" via wikipedia on Inferno (I don't have my copy of the text around.) It's not that he's smart, it's that he uses his intelligence to help commit the genocide of [with the notable exception of Aeneas] the Trojan people by deceit, not by honorable strength of arms.
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ALL of Boondock Saints was excruciating to watch, not just that section. After taking a step back from everyone and their mother talking about how much they love that movie and watching it without having been drinking heavily (people love to watch that on St. Patrick's day here in Boston) something clicked in my head that made me want to do violence to the people who had produced such an inane pile of crap with about 12 seconds of amusing footage.
yeah, anyone who tells you Hershey's is good chocolate is clearly an uncultured idiot who could be fed brown wax and told it was "super chocolate" and would probably eat it right up. gah, terrible stuff. as others have said, Ghiradelli makes some pretty good chocolate for Americans. nice, dark high % coacco chocolate.
Here's a question that i haven't heard asked:
Are there Wii shortages in Japan? clearly/. is largely english speaking US/UK/Ireland and there's no japanese/.er's coming on and saying that they've got no idea what the US consumers are talking about and that there isn't a shortage in Nintendo's home market. I'd be interested to see if the Wii is selling out in Japan too.
It has been increasingly annoying to see the radical left and right adopt a stance against moderates and contribute to the sort of discourse on political leanings that makes your post such a breath of fresh air. Everything's not black and white, right or left, good or bad. We seem to often forget that there's two sides to every coin, and an edge, there's a middle ground (at least in theory if not in practical impelmentation, somewhere)
[rant] I'm American (I'm not going to assume my whole audience is) and fairly liberal but when i see things about Democrats calling for the impeachment of the president I despair a little, why not work to fix things instead of waste time punishing the president for the massive f***ing mistake that is Iraq. We're there and trying to remove the president won't stabilize the country, won't bring anyone home, won't bring back the dead or restore limbs. [/rant]
this looks like the ultimate in vaporware, an as yet unavailable vehicle and runs on "air" might as well run on magic aether or unicorn blood. you can't even see air. pfft.
I don't like the New UI either and I have had massive problems with stability in 2.0. I'll start the brower and it'll just eat my CPU cycles and keep it spinning at 100% until I kill the Process, it is a HUGE pain in the ass. I'll be switching back to 1.5 as soon as I find a mirror to get the old version from. I've also been using Opera which seems to work only a little better than ff 2.0 on my hardware and does things I don't like in the UI and is not as intuitive.
Seconded. I haven't had much time with the Wiimote as a pointing device and none with it in anything but the menu, I only played Wii Sports and Marvel Ultimate Alliance, but just in the menus, the pointing doesn't have the same accuracy that a mouse does. Maybe I just haven't had enough time with the system but it doesn't seem to be percise and seems laggy with a tendency to cause me to overcorrect movements.
for a pocket calculator my TI-36X Solar (it's a step up from the basic TI scientific, it was a 3rd fuction) is the way to go, it was like 20 bucks or something when i bought it for high school math 5 or 6 years ago and being a non-science non-engineering person in college I've not really needed much else.
(though my TI-89 was the crutch that got me through math in high school since I'm almost wholly unable to stimulate an interest or aptitude for mathematics.)
No nancy-boy additions, no milk, no sugar, no nothin' but strong b[l]ack coffee yes, exactly. I only started drinking coffee like a year ago (ahh, the joys of university work) on a couple times a week basis but I can't drink it with anything in it. Completely ruins the flavor of the coffee.
Given the recently released proof of concept Lucas arts visuals we got a little while back, I'd love to see any sort of "guy with a lightsaber (why isn't that in firefox's spell checker) + force powers in the E.U." game. (as far as I'm concerned Jedi Academy was Jedi Knight 2.5 except without an interesting main character, I don't think I ever finished it.)
Lucas Arts, please pull yourself out of the gutter and release something worth playing. I don't want to play through a movie.
The price point is controlled by the fact that they aren't supporting an infrastructure for individual sales/support/etc., only selling to national ministries of education in enormous lots. Paying twice the cost that governments were buying them for in bulk wouldn't be enough to support commercial individual sale and have excess "profit" to subsidize delivering one to the developing world.
why not set up a derivate not-for-profit or a division of the existing organization that would be volunteer or minimally staffed and have that group take pledges (like the previous pledge drive but with the backing of OLPC) and the extra money doesn't go to delivering machines but goes (as others have suggested) back into the organization itself to further its efforts, like a direct subsidy of the final pricing to ministries of education or to future development and design of software, hardware, documentation etc.
That raises a point I'm wondering about, how will training teachers on this work? are OLPC people going to train teachers? gov't officials? is there just a localized manual? Is a curriculum around the OLPC being developed? what's the target age group for the use of the computers? can you teach a kid how to read using one of these? the GUI seems not to require reading for the most part. hopefully they're not just shipping laptops and having the teachers figure out how to teach the kids, giving even the best teachers a basic framework for proven methods of teaching on and with the machines would be a great help. (I'm sure some of these questions have been answered on laptop.org but I didn't stumble across them in looking around on there over the last couple of days.)
I'm not sure if you're completely serious about doing that and I think its outside of the realm of possiblity for the OLPC people to fund or organize at this point.
I am very serious when I say I'd consider doing that: sign up for a year or two, have them fly me there (or i'd even pay my own airfair if i end up feeling that strongly about the potential of the project. I'm not that wholly convinced at this point.) Maybe they also get me some kind of formal certifications (like TEFL or something OLPC realted) give partner or two to work with. A small peace corps-like living stipend that gives me (or so I've read) an income about equal to those I'm working with.
When I graduate in a year and a half doing that sort of work, overseas or domestic service work, is something I'm seriously considering, it beats getting a 9-5 office hell job while i figure out my degree is useless and head back to school for a masters in something specific but equally un-employable.
And, like you said, I end up with a computer at the end of it. I could (and will given the chance) get behind buying an OLPC for 3 or 4 hundred and sending 2 or 3 computers to the programs purchasing them. The program has stated that the costs is still at about $135 per unit, so perhaps having people interested could subsidize the cost so they could sell the laptops at their $100 price point before they actually get the hardware costs down that far. This seems a better solution then buying a laptop for a child in the 3rd world since that seems to not quite mesh with the program's stated goal of selling the laptops to nations wishing to purchase them.
what? I've never read his work but I hadn't heard this and I can't dig up an actual new item on this...are ACs on/. really that far ahead of the curve? can anyone confirm this?
yes, but then the system wouldn't be fully backward compatible, which is a selling point especially if you have a library of GC games and several controllers.
that is the best (and only) answer I've heard to solve the inherent problems in Wii related lightsaber ventures, now we have to just hope the designers are at least as smart as whoever posted that and can make it work in game...sounds like it could work though.
Foobar 2000 is alright, though the interface is an eyesore.
if you want to invest the time, you can fiddle with it and make it look good and there's a small community of people that do. I like it because I can hide the player in the background completely because I listen to music, not stare at it playing, I happen to not give a shit what the player looks like since I hardly look at it but clearly that's not the case for many. I've also made use of global hot keys so i can do most things i'd need to, start stop next etc. w/o bringing up the interface. With the low-grade graphics the program appears to use under 10,000 K of my system memory even with the interface being rendered while I change tracks (the most memory intensive action I could think of.) with normal playback and a hidden interface that usage drops by 75%. The utilities for editing tags and finals are also easily the best I've ever encountered, makes changing all that information much faster than in winamp or in windows or what have you.
what about the destruction of original manuscripts, errors in transcription or translation and quoting unavailable works out of context didn't occur? seems to me things like what you describe has been happening throughout history, the technology just makes it easier. just because its an obvious example, look at the plethora of un-canonized Christian texts like the gospel of Thomas, the early church largely succeeded in burying documents like those.
Equating Heroin and Marijuana?!? Are you serious? Heroin has claimed (tens? hundreds? of) thousands and thousands of lives from overdoses, AIDS, gang related violence, suicides and other terrible things I cannot imagine. My uncle, a friend and a girl from my high school (who had been a graduate for about a month) have all died in connection to Heroin.
I can't imagine I could find information more than a dozen marijuana related fatalities, if that many. I don't know of any first hand.
exactly my problem. not painless, I've never gotten 6.10 to work with my video card to the point where I could boot into GDM and i spent a lot more time messing with it then most people i knew were willing to. I wanted to make it work but here I am, typing on a Windows XP box.
my docotor when i was a kid adn afraid of shots once punched me in the arm and then gave me the shot in the other. I was too busy going "WTF my doctor just tried to give me a dead arm" to react to the shot.
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good to hear since I hadn't the stomach for 11 after 10 did nothing but catch up subplots or start new ones, from what I remember. Sad he's died though, my first girlfriend got me into those books back in high school. They were good when you're not expecting high-grade fantasy and are just watching the characters, It's clearly ridiculous in places.
ALL of Boondock Saints was excruciating to watch, not just that section. After taking a step back from everyone and their mother talking about how much they love that movie and watching it without having been drinking heavily (people love to watch that on St. Patrick's day here in Boston) something clicked in my head that made me want to do violence to the people who had produced such an inane pile of crap with about 12 seconds of amusing footage.
yeah, anyone who tells you Hershey's is good chocolate is clearly an uncultured idiot who could be fed brown wax and told it was "super chocolate" and would probably eat it right up. gah, terrible stuff. as others have said, Ghiradelli makes some pretty good chocolate for Americans. nice, dark high % coacco chocolate.
Here's a question that i haven't heard asked: /. is largely english speaking US/UK/Ireland and there's no japanese /.er's coming on and saying that they've got no idea what the US consumers are talking about and that there isn't a shortage in Nintendo's home market. I'd be interested to see if the Wii is selling out in Japan too.
Are there Wii shortages in Japan? clearly
As the AC said, very well put.
It has been increasingly annoying to see the radical left and right adopt a stance against moderates and contribute to the sort of discourse on political leanings that makes your post such a breath of fresh air.
Everything's not black and white, right or left, good or bad. We seem to often forget that there's two sides to every coin, and an edge, there's a middle ground (at least in theory if not in practical impelmentation, somewhere)
[rant] I'm American (I'm not going to assume my whole audience is) and fairly liberal but when i see things about Democrats calling for the impeachment of the president I despair a little, why not work to fix things instead of waste time punishing the president for the massive f***ing mistake that is Iraq. We're there and trying to remove the president won't stabilize the country, won't bring anyone home, won't bring back the dead or restore limbs. [/rant]
"Punk Rock Died When the First Kid Said, Punk's Not Dead."
this looks like the ultimate in vaporware, an as yet unavailable vehicle and runs on "air" might as well run on magic aether or unicorn blood. you can't even see air. pfft.
I don't like the New UI either and I have had massive problems with stability in 2.0. I'll start the brower and it'll just eat my CPU cycles and keep it spinning at 100% until I kill the Process, it is a HUGE pain in the ass. I'll be switching back to 1.5 as soon as I find a mirror to get the old version from. I've also been using Opera which seems to work only a little better than ff 2.0 on my hardware and does things I don't like in the UI and is not as intuitive.
Seconded. I haven't had much time with the Wiimote as a pointing device and none with it in anything but the menu, I only played Wii Sports and Marvel Ultimate Alliance, but just in the menus, the pointing doesn't have the same accuracy that a mouse does. Maybe I just haven't had enough time with the system but it doesn't seem to be percise and seems laggy with a tendency to cause me to overcorrect movements.
for a pocket calculator my TI-36X Solar (it's a step up from the basic TI scientific, it was a 3rd fuction) is the way to go, it was like 20 bucks or something when i bought it for high school math 5 or 6 years ago and being a non-science non-engineering person in college I've not really needed much else.
(though my TI-89 was the crutch that got me through math in high school since I'm almost wholly unable to stimulate an interest or aptitude for mathematics.)
Given the recently released proof of concept Lucas arts visuals we got a little while back, I'd love to see any sort of "guy with a lightsaber (why isn't that in firefox's spell checker) + force powers in the E.U." game. (as far as I'm concerned Jedi Academy was Jedi Knight 2.5 except without an interesting main character, I don't think I ever finished it.)
Lucas Arts, please pull yourself out of the gutter and release something worth playing. I don't want to play through a movie.
why not set up a derivate not-for-profit or a division of the existing organization that would be volunteer or minimally staffed and have that group take pledges (like the previous pledge drive but with the backing of OLPC) and the extra money doesn't go to delivering machines but goes (as others have suggested) back into the organization itself to further its efforts, like a direct subsidy of the final pricing to ministries of education or to future development and design of software, hardware, documentation etc.
That raises a point I'm wondering about, how will training teachers on this work? are OLPC people going to train teachers? gov't officials? is there just a localized manual? Is a curriculum around the OLPC being developed? what's the target age group for the use of the computers? can you teach a kid how to read using one of these? the GUI seems not to require reading for the most part. hopefully they're not just shipping laptops and having the teachers figure out how to teach the kids, giving even the best teachers a basic framework for proven methods of teaching on and with the machines would be a great help. (I'm sure some of these questions have been answered on laptop.org but I didn't stumble across them in looking around on there over the last couple of days.)
I'm not sure if you're completely serious about doing that and I think its outside of the realm of possiblity for the OLPC people to fund or organize at this point.
I am very serious when I say I'd consider doing that: sign up for a year or two, have them fly me there (or i'd even pay my own airfair if i end up feeling that strongly about the potential of the project. I'm not that wholly convinced at this point.) Maybe they also get me some kind of formal certifications (like TEFL or something OLPC realted) give partner or two to work with. A small peace corps-like living stipend that gives me (or so I've read) an income about equal to those I'm working with.
When I graduate in a year and a half doing that sort of work, overseas or domestic service work, is something I'm seriously considering, it beats getting a 9-5 office hell job while i figure out my degree is useless and head back to school for a masters in something specific but equally un-employable.
And, like you said, I end up with a computer at the end of it. I could (and will given the chance) get behind buying an OLPC for 3 or 4 hundred and sending 2 or 3 computers to the programs purchasing them. The program has stated that the costs is still at about $135 per unit, so perhaps having people interested could subsidize the cost so they could sell the laptops at their $100 price point before they actually get the hardware costs down that far. This seems a better solution then buying a laptop for a child in the 3rd world since that seems to not quite mesh with the program's stated goal of selling the laptops to nations wishing to purchase them.
what? I've never read his work but I hadn't heard this and I can't dig up an actual new item on this...are ACs on /. really that far ahead of the curve? can anyone confirm this?
yes, but then the system wouldn't be fully backward compatible, which is a selling point especially if you have a library of GC games and several controllers.
"while subjects may feel like they have sustained serious burns, the documents claim effects are not long-lasting." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gom_Jabbar
that is the best (and only) answer I've heard to solve the inherent problems in Wii related lightsaber ventures, now we have to just hope the designers are at least as smart as whoever posted that and can make it work in game...sounds like it could work though.
Foobar 2000 is alright, though the interface is an eyesore.
if you want to invest the time, you can fiddle with it and make it look good and there's a small community of people that do. I like it because I can hide the player in the background completely because I listen to music, not stare at it playing, I happen to not give a shit what the player looks like since I hardly look at it but clearly that's not the case for many. I've also made use of global hot keys so i can do most things i'd need to, start stop next etc. w/o bringing up the interface. With the low-grade graphics the program appears to use under 10,000 K of my system memory even with the interface being rendered while I change tracks (the most memory intensive action I could think of.) with normal playback and a hidden interface that usage drops by 75%. The utilities for editing tags and finals are also easily the best I've ever encountered, makes changing all that information much faster than in winamp or in windows or what have you.
Just wanted to recommend one of my favorite apps.
what about the destruction of original manuscripts, errors in transcription or translation and quoting unavailable works out of context didn't occur? seems to me things like what you describe has been happening throughout history, the technology just makes it easier. just because its an obvious example, look at the plethora of un-canonized Christian texts like the gospel of Thomas, the early church largely succeeded in burying documents like those.
Equating Heroin and Marijuana?!? Are you serious? Heroin has claimed (tens? hundreds? of) thousands and thousands of lives from overdoses, AIDS, gang related violence, suicides and other terrible things I cannot imagine. My uncle, a friend and a girl from my high school (who had been a graduate for about a month) have all died in connection to Heroin.
I can't imagine I could find information more than a dozen marijuana related fatalities, if that many. I don't know of any first hand.
exactly my problem. not painless, I've never gotten 6.10 to work with my video card to the point where I could boot into GDM and i spent a lot more time messing with it then most people i knew were willing to. I wanted to make it work but here I am, typing on a Windows XP box.
"Clearly, Schmidt was hired because his experience Internet technologies brings a certain viewpoint and expertise to the Apple board:"
well Al Gore invented the Internet, so I don't know what they need this guy for.
my docotor when i was a kid adn afraid of shots once punched me in the arm and then gave me the shot in the other. I was too busy going "WTF my doctor just tried to give me a dead arm" to react to the shot.