"-U Quicktime" is good enough.

The GPL and it's rules cultivates your idea of 'freedom'. If there were no GPL and only the BSD free software as we know it would have stagnated and died before it ever reached critical mass. The GPL isn't going away and talking about it in the past tense won't hurry it on it's way either. Everything has it's place and the GPL was and will continue to be a necessary component in providing a cradle in which our 'freedom' to create, persists.

Buddhism still has one kneeling and bowing before icons. Once upon a time it might have been a philosphy, now it's practically teeming with supernatural bit and pieces. There is a good book by Stephen Batchelor, an agnostic and former hardcore buddhist, called "Buddhism without Beliefs" where he re-presents buddhism stripped of a lot of it's historical cruft. It's a small book but it offers up some very practical knowledge.

The Booq Boa could be what you are looking for: Booq Boa Flow XL Digital SLR/17" Laptop Backpack I have a regular laptop bag made by Booq and it's perhaps the nicest thing I own. I was blown away by the quality of it when it arrived. I also paid through the nose for it, but it was worth every penny. Rushfaster, the site I just linked to, also have an excellent website and excellent customer service. Not a shill, just a regular, satisfied customer :) Hope it helps.

Thanks for that link - I was quite impressed (and that's a bit hard to do these days). On the strength of that I donated and and am downloading it in it's entirety.

I hope they make their 40K goal.

I would have paid for a second ME.

I would have forgiven the bad dialogue, lame voice acting and completely unbelievable situations the protagonist found herself in ... I would have even overlooked the empty world she seemed to inhabit, devoid of pedestrians, cars (or anything really) If they could have just taken what they had and improved all of those things above just a little bit. I would have bought a second ME then.

ME was something of a racing and adventure game, I hated being chased and I hated the gazillion quick-saves I had to do. Even if they had gotten rid of the ridiculous plot and had me running bags around rooftops, it would have made ME a better game. No silly conspiracy theories, no armoured evil versions of yourself chasing you ... just find satchel, deliver satchel. It could have been sweet, because It was a beautiful looking game after all, I just wish my beast had a physics card.

Did you mean Redneck Rampage?

oblig: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck_Rampage

The curt dolphin was courteous.

This sounds an awful lot like RFID and NFC (Near Field Communications). The purpose of these is to have inventory that can identify itself when 'pinged' (books, pallets, passports ...). This entails all kinds of things, like shelves that can inventory themselves, tracking an item from manufacturer through shipping, distribution and ultimately to the item in your hands.

Ghostbusters! They have proven experience taking care of slimers ...

He has a website here: http://www.drkarl.com/ and you can listen to him on the ABC website here: http://abc.gov.au/science/drkarl/

gawd. It's "straight" not "strait".

Cough syrup! Nothing but plain, ordinary, over-the-counter children's cough syrup!

I had the same kicked-in-the-guts reaction too. I spent a good chunk of my adolescence either playing it or making elaborate maps that I never published. Learning how to make all the different types of doors, using the BUILD editor, stuffing about with the .con files ... mods! caribbean duke was great. sigh.

I've been waiting for since before I had internet and was still on my local BBS. I spent 6+ hours downloading the original DNF trailer. Of course, it takes less than a minute now on youtube ...

That trailer actually has some spooky similarities to HL and HL2 ... especially about the 1:30 and 2:00 minute marks.

Long live the king.

My first Linux distro was Mandrake after reading an interview in PC Authority (1997?) with RMS and another article about Linus and Linux. The auto-partioner set up roughly 8 or 9 partitions for me (one for /, /etc/ /boot/ /home/ ...). I was thrilled when it finally installed and I was playing Frozen Bubble and had a stack other free software immediately, but I soon nuked it in favour of Gentoo - then SuSE and then Gentoo again.

I'm on Ubuntu now running ion3