A google search turns up several reviews with the Dallas Morning News and the Denton Record-Chronicle. I guess she submits to amazon what her papers won't publish.
You might want to hunt the net for the possibility of a class action suit regarding this. A few years ago I received notice of a class action settlement against NationsBank for exactly the same practice. If I hadn't thrown out my bank statements I would have been eligible for a refund of my overdraft fees.
The balancing system is generally very forgiving. If you run into a curb or some similar obstacle, it will generally stop forward movement altogether, giving you the choice to climb it or go around it.
I can't speak however for what would happen if you were barreling ahead at full speed and not watching where you are going. The Segway is not a mountain bike, so if you try to abuse it you will get the same results as when you abuse any other piece of machinery. Just as you would pay attention when using a bicycle or a car to the state of the path in front of you, you need to pay attention to what's going on in front of you on a Segway.
However, the Lusers who come to your site and don't see all the purple squiggly lines think your site sucks because it doesn't provide all these cool links.
Therefore, in order to compete with other sites, you need to re-enable that tag.
According to Entertainment Weekly, Mike Myers was having a hard time determining the vocal characterizations for Shrek. He changed his mind about how he was going to play Shrek, and as a result the facial renderings had to be changed. It was supposedly a big challenge with Dreamworks because of the cost involved.
I would provide a link, but the EW site is a slow moving piece of crap. I read it in the real world, on paper.
Firewalls can stop your computer from becoming a pawn in a game.
The number of computers that are just sitting out there waiting to be own3d is probably one of the biggest threats out there. It's like guns just lying around the house.
In all this stink about "hurting the artists", I wonder why Napster didn't come along and say "Ok, if you're concerned about the artists, we will send royalties directly to the artists on the same level as what they receive for radio airplay."
I do find it interesting, however, that the RIAA has not proposed this solution either.
I would have no problem using a song-trading service that charged me a royalty fee and sent it directly to the artists. Not the label mind you, as I am not getting any physical product from them, but the artist themselves.
To my understanding, the point of FIRST has not been to monetarily fund the increase in science interest in education nationwide. Rather, the goal has been to get more kids thinking about science the way the majority of them now think about sports.
Dean's position has been that he wants science and engineering to get as much attention as major league sports, that he wants scientists and engineers to be heros and role models to children. If this were to happen, instead of all the kids being out on the basketball court working on their jump shot in the vain hope that they could make it to the NBA, they would be at home working on their homework in the more realistic hope that they could someday invent something of real value.
But not everyone wants to learn how to program assembly for the x86, or C or Pascal for that matter.
I know it is probably heresy to say this on Slashdot, but that doesn't make people idiots. They just don't have the aptitude to succeed in programming. It is a skill set some people can grasp while some others can't. I'm sure people would agree that someone like the Dalai Lama is a very intelligent person, but I doubt he could hack code.
Hypercard is an extension of the philosophy that the Mac was founded on, that there had to be a way to create a computer that was easy to use. Hypercard was a way for people with limited programming aptitude to create small custom databases for things like recipes, record collections, etc. I had a custom cassette label maker that I used in Hypercard. Hypercard stacks were not intended to be complex things.
Honestly, even poor old Saddam could get his hands on some better hardware than a PS2 for military purposes. What would he do, strap PS2's to the side of SCUD missles for better aiming?
Just one more person with too much time on their hands.
I really wonder what would happen if people like this applied themselves to creating something useful, like a really cheap, fully functional computer that doesn't have the bells and whistles but can be used/given to computer-deprived poor children to bridge the digital divide.
So what happens if you are a major radio station who has a web listening presence, like most major stations out there? You pay royalties to broadcast over the air, and then pay again when you broadcast over the net?
What a profitable ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H artist-protecting idea!
For those of you that have the bandwidth, you can check out the Dateline piece about the iBot here:Dateline
I also found the "jobs" email address for His company for those of you who read the story and thought, I want to work with him! (Like me)
You can send your resume to: DEKA Jobs
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Please type the UPC code from a bottle of Michelob Ultra to proceed to the next level....
.... while the members of Reel Big Fish were still in diapers.
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A google search turns up several reviews with the Dallas Morning News and the Denton Record-Chronicle. I guess she submits to amazon what her papers won't publish.
... is like using a big, huge, truck to drive 10 miles back and forth to work in..
:-)
Oh, wait.........
You might want to hunt the net for the possibility of a class action suit regarding this. A few years ago I received notice of a class action settlement against NationsBank for exactly the same practice. If I hadn't thrown out my bank statements I would have been eligible for a refund of my overdraft fees.
The balancing system is generally very forgiving. If you run into a curb or some similar obstacle, it will generally stop forward movement altogether, giving you the choice to climb it or go around it.
I can't speak however for what would happen if you were barreling ahead at full speed and not watching where you are going. The Segway is not a mountain bike, so if you try to abuse it you will get the same results as when you abuse any other piece of machinery. Just as you would pay attention when using a bicycle or a car to the state of the path in front of you, you need to pay attention to what's going on in front of you on a Segway.
Rebel guy: "We... are... on... a... diplomatic... mission."
Vader: "If this is a consular ship, where is the ambassador?"
Great, so you can opt out of it with a META tag.
However, the Lusers who come to your site and don't see all the purple squiggly lines think your site sucks because it doesn't provide all these cool links.
Therefore, in order to compete with other sites, you need to re-enable that tag.
According to Entertainment Weekly, Mike Myers was having a hard time determining the vocal characterizations for Shrek. He changed his mind about how he was going to play Shrek, and as a result the facial renderings had to be changed. It was supposedly a big challenge with Dreamworks because of the cost involved.
I would provide a link, but the EW site is a slow moving piece of crap. I read it in the real world, on paper.
Firewalls can stop your computer from becoming a pawn in a game.
The number of computers that are just sitting out there waiting to be own3d is probably one of the biggest threats out there. It's like guns just lying around the house.
I have to fight with my wife sometimes about who's going to play the game after work!
Wife+gamer+intelligent+funny=Heaven!
I do find it interesting, however, that the RIAA has not proposed this solution either.
I would have no problem using a song-trading service that charged me a royalty fee and sent it directly to the artists. Not the label mind you, as I am not getting any physical product from them, but the artist themselves.
Maybe they walled it up to protect it against having NT installed on it. :-)
To my understanding, the point of FIRST has not been to monetarily fund the increase in science interest in education nationwide. Rather, the goal has been to get more kids thinking about science the way the majority of them now think about sports.
Dean's position has been that he wants science and engineering to get as much attention as major league sports, that he wants scientists and engineers to be heros and role models to children. If this were to happen, instead of all the kids being out on the basketball court working on their jump shot in the vain hope that they could make it to the NBA, they would be at home working on their homework in the more realistic hope that they could someday invent something of real value.
Any other movies that go into this - I mean Hollywood movies, not documentaries.
But not everyone wants to learn how to program assembly for the x86, or C or Pascal for that matter. I know it is probably heresy to say this on Slashdot, but that doesn't make people idiots. They just don't have the aptitude to succeed in programming. It is a skill set some people can grasp while some others can't. I'm sure people would agree that someone like the Dalai Lama is a very intelligent person, but I doubt he could hack code. Hypercard is an extension of the philosophy that the Mac was founded on, that there had to be a way to create a computer that was easy to use. Hypercard was a way for people with limited programming aptitude to create small custom databases for things like recipes, record collections, etc. I had a custom cassette label maker that I used in Hypercard. Hypercard stacks were not intended to be complex things.
Ummm.....wouldn't NORAD be a little nervous about this?
Genuity is formerly GTE Internetworking, which is formerly BBN. I believe BBN was one of the first backbone providers.
Honestly, even poor old Saddam could get his hands on some better hardware than a PS2 for military purposes. What would he do, strap PS2's to the side of SCUD missles for better aiming?
I really wonder what would happen if people like this applied themselves to creating something useful, like a really cheap, fully functional computer that doesn't have the bells and whistles but can be used/given to computer-deprived poor children to bridge the digital divide.
Please note that there are some cheat codes available from the start menu by entering the following key sequence:
Left-right-left-left-up-left-esc-ctrl-esc-numloc k-left-down-right-right-right-rig ht-rig ht-right-right-caret-ampersand-up-right-F1
Once at the cheat menu, you can enter the following cheats:
MICROSOFT SUCKS = Infinite lives
GEEKS RULE = Unlimited weapons
CMDR TACO = Unlimited ammo
KURO5HIN = Invincibility
RIAA SUCKS = Quad damage
MPAA SUCKS = Double damage
METALLICA SUCKS = Special hidden music tracks
DECSS = Unlock Emmanuel Goldstein character
BILL GATES RULES = Special Lara Croft shower scene.
So what happens if you are a major radio station who has a web listening presence, like most major stations out there? You pay royalties to broadcast over the air, and then pay again when you broadcast over the net?
What a profitable ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H artist-protecting idea!
To hell with the $2500 robotic dog...crank out some more PS2's so that I won't have to buy one on the black market on launch date.
For those of you that have the bandwidth, you can check out the Dateline piece about the iBot here: Dateline
I also found the "jobs" email address for His company for those of you who read the story and thought, I want to work with him! (Like me) You can send your resume to: DEKA Jobs