Back when I was in Hogh School, 1979-1983, a computer club would have had a purpose. Very few people used computers, and even fewer had one at home. Todays everyone has access to a computer and huge numbers of people own them. What purpose would a club serve in that context?
At least you'll get to see it. If you really like it and want it subbed you can buy it on DVD! The problem I have with Anime is that no one I know locally watches it and the local video stores think that Anime begins and ends with Dragonball Z (though Spirited Away has made a dent in their flat heads). I don't know which Anime I like and which I don't.
Given the choice of being able to figure our what the hell a directory was used for, and being lazy and saving three or four keystrokes, I'll take the verbose names. Is it really such a pain to type a longer name? I guess it was if they felt compelled to remove the "n" from the unmount command.
I used to be heavily involved with the alt.games.doom(.*) and rec.games.computer.doom.* newsgroups and I undertsand what he was talking about. I speant a tremendous amount of time kicking newbie-bashers in the teeth. Newbies are a fact of life and the only thing I've found that really works is to politely stear them to the information they need, including the resources already available.
I bailed out when I found myself spending more time yelling at people for being assholes than I was spending either getting information I wanted or helping people with questions/problems.
The arival of SPAM didn't help anything. Yeah, I was there to see Kantner and Seigel's landmark Greencard spam. I also saw, and helped difuse the infamous alt.games.doom VS Clark.Net fiasco: some tool spammed a insulting and vulgar message to every Clark.Net user with alt.games.doom as the sender. Which caused every angry responce to get posted to alt.games.doom.
Anyway, Usenet is almost useless unless you are involved with one of the more esoteric newsgroups out there. Pretty much anything in the alt* region is burried in a sewer of spam.
The only image tarnished by this whole affair is that of the overly-litigious facist dorks who thought a suit would be a good idea.
What lawsuit? American Greetings sent Penny Arcade a cease and disist letter and telling them to remove a comic that they felt infringed on their copyrights and / or trademarks. No one has sued anyone.
American Greetings acted as they felt best protected their assets. They could have files a suit without a C&D letter first, but they did not. They chose to give Gabe and Tycho a chance to take down the offending (in American Greeting's eyes) comic and avoid any further trouble.
And how do Tycho and Gabe espond? By calling them "Pucking Nazi's". Real mature, guys. Way to act like adults. The only image tarnished here is that of Tycho and Gabe, who have resorted to name calling and swearing.
I run my home server off of the 500Mhz Via mini-itx board. It consumes very litte power and works well enough to fling files about with. I don't have hard numbers on the power consumption, but my electric bills have gone down since I upgraded from the old Pentium 233MMX system it replaced. You can get the 500Mhz boards for about $95.00 at Mwave.com. Or anywhere else that seles Via EPIA motherboards.
MWave.Com, and a few others, sell the motherboards that go in these babies. The 500 and 800MHz jobs will run you just shy of $100.00, that includes dual IDE buses, built in video (nothing spectacular, but runs Windiows okay), audio, TV-Out, 10/100base T, serial, parallel, USB and CPU. Not a bad deal at all. I've got three different models in my house.
Oh, and these are Via EPIA motherboards. You can even get external 60 watt power adapters for them that remove the need for a fan and PSU in the system.
The hardest part is finding the Lego bricks to build the case out of!
But to the AC post: The problem, as other have explained ad nausium, is that the subpoenas were not issued by a judge, but by the RIAA. If the RIAA wins this case it means that ANY company can ask for private records about YOU because they think you are violating their copyright. They don't need enough probable cause to convince a judge that you've done anything at all. This opens the system up for a sea of abuse the likes of which we have never seen.
There is a flat fee that covers all local calls for residential customers. Most people do not make enough local voice calls to actually get the value of what they pay. So you in the UK might be better off when it comes to voice calls.
Business and government offices pay for local calls on a per-call fee for any calls that leave their internal exchanges.
This has caused a LOT of government and business organizations to invest in such fun technologies as Voice Over IP to get around these fees.
A few years ago when dail-up modem connections to the Internet were peaking the phone companies were wining and bitching about how these calls were stressing their systems and costing them money, even though greater than 50% of modem users had gotten a second phone line just for modem use.
You realize that the explosives contain all of the combustable materials within them, don't you? I really hope you are trying to be funny. It would sadden me to think you were being serious.
But you forget one vital detail: IBM has lawyers cloned from Agen Smith. No meaty thud. Just the shattering of concrete as their thick black shoes hit the ground.
There was not enough fuel on the Shuttle to match orbits with the ISS. It's not just a difference in altitude, but in direction and velocity. They simply didn't have the means to get there. And it would not mattered if they did. There was no docking collar on the shuttle. And an emergency rescue launch was laso out of the question. It takes a minimum of 3 months to prep a shuttle for launch and there were no shuttles anywhere near launch status.
The bottom line with teh shuttle program is that if something goes wrong the astronaughts are screwed. But that has been true since the days of Project Mercury.
Weird Al doesn't HAVE to ask. But he does anyway. I don't think it's a matter of covering his butt, but of the fact that he's basically a nice guy.
And that hoo-ha over "Amish Paradise" is funny as hell if you remember that Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise" is prett much a rip-off of Stevie Wonder's "Village Ghetto Land".
This reminds me a LOT of a centerfold National Lampoon did in the early 1980's called "Strawberry Cheesecake" with our Strawberry Shortcake and a Smurph engaged in, um, well, wild monkey sex. I've been looking for a copy of that for years and haven't been able to find it.:(
"Firebird" is another name for the Phoenix. The "firebird" is part of Russian folklore (and I thouht American Indian, but I can't find any links to support that).
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Yeah, and those newbies are killing Punk, too!
Get over it. If you like it, you like it. If you're into it becuase no one esle is you are a poser and deserve to be laughed at.
*points* HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAHAHA!
Back when I was in Hogh School, 1979-1983, a computer club would have had a purpose. Very few people used computers, and even fewer had one at home. Todays everyone has access to a computer and huge numbers of people own them. What purpose would a club serve in that context?
At least you'll get to see it. If you really like it and want it subbed you can buy it on DVD! The problem I have with Anime is that no one I know locally watches it and the local video stores think that Anime begins and ends with Dragonball Z (though Spirited Away has made a dent in their flat heads). I don't know which Anime I like and which I don't.
I use eMusic and while i like it, I find its selection fairly lacking.
The parent post is either a troll or he has a serious bug up his ass. This is not "insightful" in the least.
Jebus, people, treat your mod points with some freaking respect.
Given the choice of being able to figure our what the hell a directory was used for, and being lazy and saving three or four keystrokes, I'll take the verbose names. Is it really such a pain to type a longer name? I guess it was if they felt compelled to remove the "n" from the unmount command.
the nuber of The Beast was 555-1212!
I used to be heavily involved with the alt.games.doom(.*) and rec.games.computer.doom.* newsgroups and I undertsand what he was talking about. I speant a tremendous amount of time kicking newbie-bashers in the teeth. Newbies are a fact of life and the only thing I've found that really works is to politely stear them to the information they need, including the resources already available.
I bailed out when I found myself spending more time yelling at people for being assholes than I was spending either getting information I wanted or helping people with questions/problems.
The arival of SPAM didn't help anything. Yeah, I was there to see Kantner and Seigel's landmark Greencard spam. I also saw, and helped difuse the infamous alt.games.doom VS Clark.Net fiasco: some tool spammed a insulting and vulgar message to every Clark.Net user with alt.games.doom as the sender. Which caused every angry responce to get posted to alt.games.doom.
Anyway, Usenet is almost useless unless you are involved with one of the more esoteric newsgroups out there. Pretty much anything in the alt* region is burried in a sewer of spam.
Thiinks about the money Robert Heinlein would have made if he had patented half of the things he devised for his stories!
The evil trolls inside my head keep trying to make a joke about women, scanners and a lack of pants, but it's just not coming together.
What lawsuit? American Greetings sent Penny Arcade a cease and disist letter and telling them to remove a comic that they felt infringed on their copyrights and / or trademarks. No one has sued anyone.
American Greetings acted as they felt best protected their assets. They could have files a suit without a C&D letter first, but they did not. They chose to give Gabe and Tycho a chance to take down the offending (in American Greeting's eyes) comic and avoid any further trouble.
And how do Tycho and Gabe espond? By calling them "Pucking Nazi's". Real mature, guys. Way to act like adults. The only image tarnished here is that of Tycho and Gabe, who have resorted to name calling and swearing.
I run my home server off of the 500Mhz Via mini-itx board. It consumes very litte power and works well enough to fling files about with. I don't have hard numbers on the power consumption, but my electric bills have gone down since I upgraded from the old Pentium 233MMX system it replaced. You can get the 500Mhz boards for about $95.00 at Mwave.com. Or anywhere else that seles Via EPIA motherboards.
MWave.Com, and a few others, sell the motherboards that go in these babies. The 500 and 800MHz jobs will run you just shy of $100.00, that includes dual IDE buses, built in video (nothing spectacular, but runs Windiows okay), audio, TV-Out, 10/100base T, serial, parallel, USB and CPU. Not a bad deal at all. I've got three different models in my house.
Oh, and these are Via EPIA motherboards. You can even get external 60 watt power adapters for them that remove the need for a fan and PSU in the system.
The hardest part is finding the Lego bricks to build the case out of!
No, it's not "discovery". No one has been charged with anything. If this was part of a court action I wouldn't have a problem with it.
Stupid mods. :(
But to the AC post: The problem, as other have explained ad nausium, is that the subpoenas were not issued by a judge, but by the RIAA. If the RIAA wins this case it means that ANY company can ask for private records about YOU because they think you are violating their copyright. They don't need enough probable cause to convince a judge that you've done anything at all. This opens the system up for a sea of abuse the likes of which we have never seen.
- There is a flat fee that covers all local calls for residential customers.
- Business and government offices pay for local calls on a per-call fee for any calls that leave their internal exchanges.
A few years ago when dail-up modem connections to the Internet were peaking the phone companies were wining and bitching about how these calls were stressing their systems and costing them money, even though greater than 50% of modem users had gotten a second phone line just for modem use.Most people do not make enough local voice calls to actually get the value of what they pay. So you in the UK might be better off when it comes to voice calls.
This has caused a LOT of government and business organizations to invest in such fun technologies as Voice Over IP to get around these fees.
Double Dragon - sucked (except for Alyssa Milano's cute tukkus).
And you must be a youngin' if you think "The Wizard" was good. *SHUDDER*
You realize that the explosives contain all of the combustable materials within them, don't you? I really hope you are trying to be funny. It would sadden me to think you were being serious.
Too bad they screwed that all up. The moon is drifting away from the Earth and there is nothing we can ever do about it. Ever.
But you forget one vital detail: IBM has lawyers cloned from Agen Smith. No meaty thud. Just the shattering of concrete as their thick black shoes hit the ground.
A Glock and 180 bullets will get the job done just as easily.
There was not enough fuel on the Shuttle to match orbits with the ISS. It's not just a difference in altitude, but in direction and velocity. They simply didn't have the means to get there. And it would not mattered if they did. There was no docking collar on the shuttle. And an emergency rescue launch was laso out of the question. It takes a minimum of 3 months to prep a shuttle for launch and there were no shuttles anywhere near launch status.
The bottom line with teh shuttle program is that if something goes wrong the astronaughts are screwed. But that has been true since the days of Project Mercury.
Weird Al doesn't HAVE to ask. But he does anyway. I don't think it's a matter of covering his butt, but of the fact that he's basically a nice guy.
And that hoo-ha over "Amish Paradise" is funny as hell if you remember that Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise" is prett much a rip-off of Stevie Wonder's "Village Ghetto Land".
This reminds me a LOT of a centerfold National Lampoon did in the early 1980's called "Strawberry Cheesecake" with our Strawberry Shortcake and a Smurph engaged in, um, well, wild monkey sex. I've been looking for a copy of that for years and haven't been able to find it. :(
"Firebird" is another name for the Phoenix. The "firebird" is part of Russian folklore (and I thouht American Indian, but I can't find any links to support that).