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I agree with the grandparent post that the linked article is more of a blog comment than a review. In sum, I think he probably got it as a "Microsoft rip-off of Photoshop" not to be taken seriously.

Instead, I suggest you look at the following list. They are more professional and in-depth reviews of Microsoft Expression (formerly Creature House Expression - the basis of Acrylic) by various magazines online:

• Graphics Unleashed
• All 'Bout Computers
• creativepro.com
• Designer-info
• Creative Mac
• Applelinks
• MacWorld
• About.com

Notice that Mac version has always been available except for this Beta Acrylic release. So I bet Expression was designed to appeal to artists among the Mac community to begin with.

Expression has made use of a unique technology called Skeletal Stroke (the review by creative.com has some explanation), which adds substance & complexity of raster graphics along vector paths. So I believe this vector drawing & painting package, while not as popular as Adobe Illustrator, has always been targetting a niche market with its own appeal.

In fact, it can produce some of the amazing effect found in Chinese water painting and other fine art drawing handily, even easier than you can do with Illustrator. The downside is a steeper learning curve to tap the full power of this unique & different app.

You can find more tutorials & resources on Expression at Wikipedia

This is not a rival to Adobe products, definetly not Photoshop. It's primarily a vector graphics program with some unique features in that area. It was orignally a program Creative House Expressions which Microsoft bought in 2003.

"Creature House Expression (formerly Fractal Design Expression) is a vector-based drawing tool featuring "skeletal strokes," a 2D drawing primitive which offers complete editability and scalability."
http://graphicssoft.about.com/cs/illustration/gr/e xpression.htm

This new Acrylic beta is essential version 4 of that program.

Giving the timing of the release of a program that Microsoft had seemingly killed off years ago. I'd say they were planing to use it for vector creation in Avalon.

Fair enough

Again this is not a golden rule, just a trend.

It occurs to me that maybe a lot of folks have a bad case of identity crisis - it's difficult to project a strong decisive personality if you don't know who the #&$* you are.

You might look here:
http://www.himalayanacademy.com/resources/

or

http://hinduism.about.com/library/weekly/extra/bl- gitatext.htm

well yes, but money is all about:
MOICHANDIZING!

Star Wars the Science Compendium,
Star Wars the Religious Accompanianment
Star Wars the Case Mod

Good grief, talk about US historical revisionism. Cathode Ray Tube? I don't think so.

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blcat hoderaytube.htm

What'll be next? The wheel? Fire? Cognitive thought?

There's a bin for depositing old phones and batteries at Best Buy stores. The problem is they don't give you any kind of discount for doing it, and I've heard they take the phones in good condition, refirbish, and resell them to consumers with new plans.

There are also programs in existance where you can donate your old cellphone and they are given to battere women so they have an emergency phone to call for help if needed.

You can find these and other ideas what to do with your old cellphone here.

"However, 'the idea of obtaining DNA from dinosaurs, depicted in the film Jurassic Park, remains science fiction.' "

If the scienties don't even READ scientific publications and state that, what of their current 'research.' They almost HAVE dino DNA. From the March 2005 articles, it looks really close. It is like saying the day before the Polio vaccine was tried "it is science fiction that it will work." It is close:

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/mg1862493 5.500

http://geology.about.com/b/a/156358.htm

(different link for above http://geology.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?si te=http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns%3Fid=dn7 195 )

"However, 'the idea of obtaining DNA from dinosaurs, depicted in the film Jurassic Park, remains science fiction.' "

If the scienties don't even READ scientific publications and state that, what of their current 'research.' They almost HAVE dino DNA. From the March 2005 articles, it looks really close. It is like saying the day before the Polio vaccine was tried "it is science fiction that it will work." It is close:

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/mg1862493 5.500

http://geology.about.com/b/a/156358.htm

(different link for above http://geology.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?si te=http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns%3Fid=dn7 195 )

Not on Ganesh's system. Top expresses TIME in Kalpas. You're still using the year? How provincial.

Hmm, if EU countries wait 30 years to collect data and assess the viability of new methods then I'd say they don't need to be worried about the current OSS movement. I doubt much of the OSS developed today is going to compile and run on their Altairs, Apple IIs, and TRS-80s.

They are probably too busy trying to locate parts just to keep their old equipment from the mid 70s running.
http://inventors.about.com/library/blcoindex.htm

Seriously though, I don't think he was saying that the EU needs to dump all current infrastructure and replace it with OSS, he was trying to get across that it would be beneficial to the EU software industry if they did a better job of supporting OSS and not create laws that would impede it.

And if the deciding factor for EU policy is flat out arrogance, "...OSS is being accepted by the US government..." "...should set off alarm bells..." then I suppose they deserve what they end up with in the next 30 years, buying the majority of their software from US corporations. The irony is too much.

burnin

This is from an old article describing the results on mice...
Link

This is from an old article describing the results on mice...
Link

I'd be willing to bet that a $12 price tag would be possible. They probably make their money the same way the game console people do, losing money on the hardware and making profits on the software/content.

From http://portables.about.com/od/portablevideo/a/flju icebox.htm:

Additional content, which will be available for purchase in a price range of $9.99 to $24.99

So that seems like it might work.

-Ben

Come on....

You guys voted for: This guy

T W I C E

And you blame the world?

The very least the U.S. deserves is worldwide mockery. And thanks, for having a president that quite clearly beats most american professional comedians at making the world laugh...Here world meaning, actually, the rest of the world, not just -common american asumption- your 52 states....

Come on....

You guys voted for: This guy

T W I C E

And you blame the world?

The very least the U.S. deserves is worldwide mockery. And thanks, for having a president that quite clearly beats most american professional comedians at making the world laugh...Here world meaning, actually, the rest of the world, not just -common american asumption- your 52 states....

"In 16 mice with a tumor mass in the muscle, the researchers induced neutrophil production by administering an immune system booster known as GM-CSF over two months. In a short time, they observed that GM-CSF altered the growth dynamics of the cells. The tumors of two mice regressed completely and 80-90% tumor-cell death was seen in the rest. If the growth dynamics of tumors are universal, there is every reason to be hopeful the same result could be obtained in humans."

"Tumor cells, they have found, grow through the diffusion or migration of cancer cells at the tumor's outer edges. Only the cells close to the edge of the tumor proliferate--those inside the tumor do not, contrary to previous assumptions. According to the researchers' observations, cells formed at the edge of the tumor diffuse at the border of the tumor mass until they settle in curved depressions where the competition for space is lowest and where they are best protected from the immune system. In their new paper, Bru and co-workers show that the mechanical pressure exerted by immune-system cells known as "neutrophils" around mouse tumors can prevent the diffusion of these cells and thus prevent tumor growth."

http://www.hypography.com/article.cfm?id=34220

http://physics.about.com/b/a/088887.htm

the blog entry that they linked to was kinda vauge on details ;) turns out the only math the used was in calculating how tumours grow, and how they prevent immune responses, so they figured out an immune system response they can trigger that will cause the cells that cause tumours to grow to become a 'target' of the patients immune system. no math equasion used to 'cure' it at all, just a little deductive reasoning and science...

Because it's true. This is the breakdown of reasons why women have abortions, taken from
http://womensissues.about.com/cs/abortionstats/a/a aabortionstats.htm

25.5% of women deciding to have an abortion want to postpone childbearing.
21.3% of women cannot afford a baby.
14.1% of women have a relationship issue or their partner does not want a child.
12.2% of women are too young (their parents or others object to the pregnancy.)
10.8% of women feel a child will disrupt their education or career.
7.9% of women want no (more) children.
3.3% of women have an abortion due to a risk to fetal health.
2.8% of women have an abortion due to a risk to maternal health.

Let's go down the list. Wanting to postpone childbearing is certainly a reason based on convenience. As for cannot afford a baby, I will also put that under convenience, at least in the developed world where you can be poor and fat at the same time. Would you rather lose your child or live in poverty? A relationship issue, such as the partner doesn't want a child is certainly for convenience. The mother being too young is also for convenience, as the baby certainly can be raised even by the mother's parents if necessary. Disruption of a career or education is also for convenience as is especially not wanting more children. And finally, the last two categories concerning health are definitely not for convenience.

You may decide differently what is convenient or not, but I count 95% of abortions performed for convenience. Even with more liberal criteria than what I use, I think you'll arrive at a percentage greater than 50%.

True, the key being 'as a part of a balanced diet. The american association of pediatrics has stated that fruit juice (even pure fruit juice) has no nutritional benefits over whole fruit.

http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/content/f ull/pediatrics;107/5/1210

The AAP state that toddlers and preschool aged children should be limited to just 4-6 ounces of one hundred percent fruit juice. That is a limit though and not a minimum.

Q: How many servings of beverages should a child over the age of two consume?

Children over 2 are supposed to drink 12 ounces or less (and avoid the sugarwater concotions entirely), and usually drink twice that.

http://pediatrics.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm ?site=http://www.appleproducts.org/qanda.html

Not the end of the world, of course. But when I was growing up, I think my parents and I overestimated how healthy juice was. It would have been better if I ate whole fruit and drank water.

Someone really needs to put up a web site shaming everyone who's used 9/11 to advance their own interests or to demonize the opposition as terrorists.

From The Demagogue Files...

"Interpol believes there is a significant link between counterfeiting and terrorism in locations where there are entrenched terrorist groups."
--Jack Valenti, MPAA Chief (Source: senate.gov)

"There are also indicators that some associates of terrorist groups may be involved in IPR [Intellectual Property Right] crime"
--Lieutenant John Stedman [View PDF], Sheriff's Department, County of Los Angeles (source: senate.gov)

"Anti-spammers are terrorists at heart and attack websites and email accounts of companies wishing to bring their products and services to the general public via email, an enviromentally sound, REMARKABLE medium!"
--StealthLaunch/PopLaunch, mass-marketing firm
(source: the Register)

The National Education Association is "a terrorist organization"
--Rod Paige, Education Secretary
(source: usatoday.com)

"I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way -- all of them who have tried to secularize America -- I point the finger in their face and say "you helped this happen."
Rev. Pat Robertson, Religious Leader (source: commondreams.org)

[Discussing liberal Federal judges]
"Over 100 years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that's held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings"
[Followup question asks if liberal judges really are the worst threat America has faced in 400 years - worse than Nazi Germany, Japan and the Civil War...]
"Yes, I really believe that,"
Rev. Pat Robertson, Religious Leader (source: nydailynews.com)

[When asked about abortion in the US]
"I think after September 11th the American people are valuing life more and realizing that we need policies to value the dignity and worth of every life. And President Bush has worked to say, let's be reasonable, let's work to value life, let's try to reduce the number of abortions, let's increase adoptions. The fundamental difference between us and the terror network we fight is that we value every life. It's the founding conviction of our country, that we're endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights, the right to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Unfortunately our enemies in the terror network, as we're seeing repeatedly in the headlines these days, don't value any life, not even the innocent and not even their own," she added."
Karen Hughes, Bush Campaign advisor (source: cnn.com)

"It's absolutely essential that eight weeks from today, on Nov. 2, we make the right choice, because if we make the wrong choice then the danger is that we'll get hit again and we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States"
--Dick Cheney, Vice President of the US (source: about.com)

"America's under attack and so are we."
--Kenneth Lay, CEO, Enron (source: Enron: The Smartest Guys In the Room)

Anyone got

XM's strategic investors include General Motors Corp., American Honda Motor Corp., DIRECTV, Eastbourne Capital, Hearst Corporation and Baystar Capital.
-- http://www.xmradio.com/faq/faq_list_servlet.jsp?se ction_id=1&section_main=XM%20Satellite%20Radio#141

"Sirius... Tends to be more hits based but not anywhere near FM"
-- http://www.xmorsirius.com/programming.html

"En masse, they are led by a Music Director, Lee Abrams, who has set forth the prime directive: "Respect the listener, respect the artist." As long as this rule is adhered to, the individual Program Directors are free to play what they want. Except for one other tiny rule: "If it sounds like FM, you're out." That means play music, lots of it, with lots of variety within the channel's genre."
-- http://www.crutchfieldadvisor.com/ISEO-rgbtcspd/re views/20030623/xm_hq.html?print=1&page=all

"SIRIUS has a song library of 500,000 tunes"
-- http://radio.about.com/library/weekly/aa062403a.ht m

"The designers also had to make the system capable of holding music from 200,000 CDs assembled by the company - about 2 million songs"
--http://www.rwonline.com/reference-room/t rans-2-d igital/05_rwf_xm_1.shtml

So I guess I cannot use my RC car while I am typing anymore?

These RC cars use one of the following channels:

1 - 26.995 MHZ - Brown
2 - 27.045 MHZ - Red
3 - 27.095 MHZ - Orange
4 - 27.145 MHZ - Yellow
5 - 27.195 MHZ - Green
6 - 27.255 MHZ - Blue
Source: http://rcvehicles.about.com/cs/frequencies/p/airfr eqUS.htm

There are also some el cheapo electric RC airplanes using this 27 MHZ channels.

Ok RC car, turn left (asdkljfhl;asdkfa) ups... where did that garbage on my computer come from?

Hmmm.. Could you control the RC car with the keyboard???? This might turn interesting

Sigh.

Its not the United Soviet Socialist Republic anymore duhhhh :)

Hey, are you the guy with the "GET A BRAIN! MORANS" sign?

The other option is to use Liquid Paper also known as White-Out.

That's how I learned back in middle school on Apple ][e's.

Nothing drained the idea of scraping it off faster than the threat of a three day suspension if even the _corner_ showed signs of scraping.

Did you try Google? I did, and it turned up this.

I call BS.

How Glowsticks WorkThe dangerous chemicals in glowsticks are h2o2 and phenol. 30% h2o2, the concentration in glowsticks, will scorch dirt, so even diluted after breaking the capsule it's utterly retarded to be smearing the stuff on your hands, and the phenol produced in the rxn is a nasty acid, not as bad a sulfuric, but definately something to quickly wash off your skin.

With current technology, there will never be another draft any tiime soon. Here's why. As for me? I'm 23 and in prime condition to be drafted. Although I'd enlist first if we actually got to that point (I've lost count of the number of friends/family I have that are active/retired military [including both parents]).

As for the toll, aparently you missed one thing I mentioned. Congress controls the number of people in each branch of the military. The only way they could even do a significant draft would be to increase the number of active duty personnel in the army. Until Congress increses the number of active duty personnel allowed in the army and the money apportioned for said personnel, a draft isn't even possible. And yes, I do know that the army and marines have missed their recruiting targets for the past three months.

to this one: http://retailindustry.about.com/b/a/170809.htm. Sorry, I can't provide sources for the authors of these articles.

However, I think we should be able to agree that the movie industry has always generated the most money of any other medium. Hence, my comment about how video games are now the largest selling form of entertainment. And if you find proof otherwise, great, but I will lay odds that if video games are not at the very top now, they will be within the next few years.

What does that mean exactly? Doesn't the "Patriot" Act allow for law enforcement officials to easily obtain library records during investigations?

The FBI can obtain a warrant from a secret court. The librarians are forbidden from telling ANYONE about the warrant.

In my opinion, this kind of secrecy and power is dangerous and wrong. I do not relish the prospect of living in a fascist society.

Fortunately, a number of librarians appear to agree with me. In one case the FBI backed down after issuing the warrant.

Interesting reading.

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bljet engine.htm

With major beer producers now adulterating their products with such odd additives as guarana and caffeine, they would have to be worried that if a couple of herbal pills meant that Joe Nineteenyrold would only need a beer or two before he's blitzed, their profits would be hurt. How long before the big brewers and distillers lobby for a ban?

over 2 billion people. about 1/3 of the world population is in China.

Ahem, you meant in China and India combined, didn't you? Both have about 1 billion populaion.

http://geography.about.com/cs/worldpopulation/a/mo stpopulous.htm

Microsoft patented isNot. Patenting is not the same as inventing it.

As far as lightbulbs, we're both wrong.
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bllig ht2.htm

1809 - Humphry Davy, an English chemist, invented the first electric light. Davy connected two wires to a battery and attached a charcoal strip betwween the other ends of the wires. The charged carbon glowed making the first arc lamp.

So Lightbulbs are a definite Nono.

About atom bombs. Right, USA made them, but after a german warned them that the german goverment was making them.. which usually implies that the people making it know what they're trying to make, aka use the knowledge that was invented by some german scientist.

Again: invent != patent != make.

Motion pictures.. I pasted the info about that, it's on the web. Patented he might have, but invented, no way. That'd be like inventing the mercedes 5 series.

Anyway, there's contradictionary information on the internet about who invented the WWW.. mainly due to multiple people claiming to be the first. I'll still settle for CERN.

You're more of an idiot.

That post was either referring to an Outlook Express service pack or OE-Quote Fix (http://email.about.com/b/a/075618.htm) in the Add/Remove programs box.

In any event, if you go to WINDOWS COMPONENTS in the Add/Remove programs box, you'll see an option to uncheck and thus, uninstall OE.

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3649/i s_199705/ai_n8761763

From : http://redmondmag.com/columns/article.asp?Editoria lsID=842
2. Brad Silverberg ?Silverberg is widely considered the man who launched Windows 95 and IE. He was lured from rival Borland Software, a move that incurred Borland founder Philippe Kahn's considerable wrath (nothing could be more grating to Kahn than a Microsoft limo showing up at Borland headquarters to whisk away a trusted lieutenant). After leaving Microsoft, Silverberg boarded his bike and pedaled around Canada for a month. Now he's a major force behind Ignition Partners, a VC firm that's a Who's Who of Redmond alumni, including Richard Tong and Cameron Myhrvold.

From: http://about.com/od/delphifornet/a/conspiracydnet_ 2.htm
Do you know that the man behind Delphi is Anders Hejlsberg, one of the original members of the Borland company.
During his time with Borland he extended its' Turbo Pascal compiler. Eventually he became the chief architect for the team which produced the replacement for Turbo Pascal - Delphi. As a chief architect at Borland, Hejlsberg secretly turned Turbo Pascal into an object-oriented application development language, complete with a truly visual environment and superb database-access features. Once touted as the "VB killer," Delphi has remained a cornerstone product for Borland.
In 1996 he left Borland and joined Microsoft where he was the man behind J++ and the Windows Foundation Classes. More recently he has led the team which has created the C# programming language, and he's been a key participant in the development of the .NET Framework. ...
According to the suit:?Among the defecting workers were Paul Gross, Borland's senior R&D VP, and Anders Hejlsberg, a major player in the development of Borland's technology.?Microsoft offered Paul Gross a $1 million signing bonus, stock options, and title to real estate near Microsoft's headquarters. He left Borland for Microsoft in September 1996.?Microsoft offered Anders Hejlsberg a signing bonus of $1.5 million and stock options. Microsoft doubled the bonus to $3 million after Borland made a counter-offer. Hejlsberg left Borland in October 1996.

Heck, there are even guns that don't look like guns.

Gun disguised as key ring

Disguised as mobile phones

There's more to these things though. Myopia, for example has been linked to the higher consumtion of refinined sugars and grains in industrialized society. http://www.mercola.com/2002/apr/17/near-sightednes s.htm Likewise asthma and increased hygene http://allergies.about.com/b/a/2003_10_16.htm I'm not asserting the accuracy of either of these specific claims, just trying to make the point that environment plays a big role in these changes.

hasn't a restricted dvd format already been tried and failed?

http://hometheater.about.com/library/weekly/aa0621 99.htmcircuit city's divx

IBM's $39.95 DOS while CP/M was $450 and UCSD p-System was $550. http://pcworld.about.com/magazine/1908p133id52503. htm

Yes they would... imagine if someone made a movie about all the companies that Microsoft crushed and stole from, just because they could. I know there is a much, much longer list of little companies who were lured in by Microsoft, had all their ideas stolen, and then cast aside.

I'll start the list.
Stac Electronics
Burst.com
Borland
Caldera over Dr. DOS in UK

This is almost a job for Michael Moore....

The article you cited points out that:

A 2002 Small Business Administration study shows that 66 percent of new businesses survive for two years or more, 50 percent for 4 years or more, and 40 percent for six years or more. Earlier studies had very similar numbers.

Even the 50 percent that didn't survive for four years were not all failures. One-third of those closed successfully. They were sold, the owners retired or took other jobs, or the business was closed for other reasons besides failure.

Which reads to me like 44% doesn't survive two years, and 60% don't surivive six. Still a sobering number. Taking the second paragraph into consideration, we see that 33% of businesses die in failure within four years.

Also important is that fact that not all small businesses are created equal. That is, success or failure is not determined entirely by random chance. Somebody who has never taken a job is likely to fit in the "no-employee, $50,000 capital, no-previous-business" pattern of failure cited in your article.

I've heated fish tanks larger than that, with a small heater (you know the little fish tank kind).

However, This site suggests a 75 watt heater to keep a 20 gallon tank 18 degrees F above room temperature, or a 150 watt heater for 36 degrees F.

The computer probably puts out less than 150 watts total. Even assuming an 80 degree F room, that would put the computer at 116 degrees F, which wouldn't upset the computer at all. Granted, the heater you put in a fish tank has a thermostat, and so it's not on all the time, but your computer will not have any problems at 116 degrees F inside, and could go a good deal higher safely.

But I do agree with the other guy to respond to your post -- I don't see the fans even turning, let alone turning enough to move the oil around. Perhaps if they were cut down some ...

Of course, I have no idea how well heat flows through oil, or how well it's transferred from oil to the air. But I imagine that the heat generated is low enough for it to not be a problem.

In the Senate Version of the bill (Summary here), the entire section of Title VII is struck out and dropped. This Title VII is the title that contained the Read-ID act.

The House version of the bill on the other hand, included that section. (Summary here)

And to verify what I know about the process briefly here.

Then when the conference report came in, that section was put back, and approved by the Senate. And the actual text about driver licenses and the beginning of the whole part.

Because the Senate already passed the conference version.... it looks like doomsday for those whom are worried about this.

"There were warnings of potential sea spouts a couple of hours before that storm came in," says Burhans, adding that a sea spout can travel a mile or two, or even farther.

"There were warnings of potential sea spouts a couple of hours before that storm came in," says Burhans, adding that a sea spout can travel a mile or two, or even farther.

"There were warnings of potential sea spouts a couple of hours before that storm came in," says Burhans, adding that a sea spout can travel a mile or two, or even farther.

Sorry about that.

The first excerpt came from this review.

The second excerpt came from this review.

But all of them are collected on rotten tomatoes.

The third excert came from this review.