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Oh well, it was a fine OS; It's feel is still untouchable. What's really weird is that I got my new Quicksilver G4 delivered on the very day that Be, which is running as the primary OS on my old computer, gets sold (ie: today!). How serindipitous.
Many Napoleonic-era cavalry sabres never had sharpened edges. The primary mode of attack being the point against a mounted opponent and a slash across the face as the horseman passed fleeing infantry (the point against the footman's back tended to lodge in his pack). A sharpened blade tended to kill instantly when used against infantry while an unsharpened blade tended to blind the footsoldier.
Isn't war lovely?
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It has been done... sorta. Some goobers make a Lambroghini/Testerossa body kit for Civics. It is called polishing a turd.
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The problem in the x86 case area is the noted chintziness of PC buyers. Just look at anything Apple related that gets posted on/., it inevetibly devolves into "Macs cost to much, I can get a PC for $300!". Yea you can, and the case will be like the Bene Gesserit human testing box; "What's in it?"... "Pain!"... keep a lot of Neosporine and Band-Aids handy when you add internals and don't have anything planned for a while. Nobody is willing to lay down the investment in the PC market because the vast majority of the DIY propellerheads are cheap bastards and the industrial designers will never recoup their investment and be left hiding out in shanty-town flophouses with bottles of cheap rotgut clenched in their palsied hands moaning incesantly about their great ideas for easy-access case designs.
Roger MacBride Allen's Hunted Earth series volume one: The Ring of Charon. Volume 2 is The Shattered Sphere. It's been a while since I read them and I don't remember the knowledge crash stuff, but they are pretty good hard scifi IIRC.
Allen also wrote a book called The Modular Man about a man who downloads his personality into a robotic vaccum cleaner that is excellent and deals with many of the same concepts Dr. Vinge is talking about.
Yup, I had four emails waiting for me this morning from execs telling me to get the patch from Microsoft for our webserver... our BSD-Apache webserver. Two of them actually requested I patch the OS X file server as well. None of them asked me to patch the only Microsoft server we have, the SQL server... not that it matters.
Hell, I've had users coming up to me all day asking if I patched their workstations... not only does the worm not effect workstations we're an advertising agency, our workstations are all Macs!
CBS is owned by Viacom who are not necesarily our friends on copyright issues. Your local affiliate did well to give coverage, but as an entity I wouldn't trust CBS farther than I can throw it.
WTO-style protests may be counter-productive, but peaceful, organized, and non-violent protest is one of the most effective ways of getting the public to focus on a given issue, and history is full of examples.
Give me an example where the protesters and the authorities were peacfull that had an impact. Yes Gahndi and MLK eschewed violence, but they most definately courted violence. In the early 60s when police turned dogs and firehoses loose on freedom riders the media was all over it. Birmingham, Selma, Montgomery, Memphis... made headlines due to the violence. When the Freedom Riders got to Albany Georgia in December of 1961 police chief Laurie Pritchett did not let his forces get out of controll and the event got virtualy no coverage. What coverage it did get lauded Chief Pritchett for his work although he arrested every single protester that showed up and tried to practice their constitutional rights of free speach and assembly... but he did it peacefully.
You can tell today, only very scanty info on Albany can be found (here for instance) but you can get photos of the Montgomery (police) riots all over the internet. Today it is even worse, when is the last time you saw a big peacefull protest covered like they do these riots? The big media do not want the protester's grievances to be aired, that must be fought by giving them news so compelling that their greed for viewers/readers overcomes their corporate loyalties, and that, unfortunately, means busting heads and blowing shit up.
BTW, I agree completely with the rest of your comment.
I'd like to see a series follow one character as he does his Starfleet service. He'll be transfered, he'll serve under good and bad officers, he'll be promoted (or demoted) and given citations, he won't always be bridge crew, he'll interact with non-comissioned officers and ratings. This way we'll get to see new ships fairly often and maybe some new areas of ships never shown (hydroponics, fire controll, heads). Follow the Strazinsky plan and plot out 5 years worth of show; Start the main character out as a Jr. officer and have him end up as a starship commander. Inbetween he'll serve on evrything from Voyager-esque tin cans to full up battlewagons to starbases to middle-of-nowhere scientific research stations.
As mentioned, in the ST world, Cochrane couldn't have invented the warp drive in Alpha Centauri. It's a matter of physics that apply even in the ST world
Neither the Romulans nor the Humans had warp drive during their first war (Wolf In The Fold); Khan got well into space without warp in a sleeper ship (Space Seed).
Never have they said that warp drive was the only FTL, if you'll remember in the pilot they talked about it as something new when speaking to colonists on a distant planet.
Yea, it's just a TV show, that doesn't mean it should be immune to criticism. Lack of continuity is as deserving of criticism as anything else done badly.
KIllustrator, if anything, is closer to CorelDraw than anything else. Evidently, you've never used the program
I have and you are exactly right, Killustrator is much more like CorelDraw; ie A less functional vector drawing tool than Illustrator or Freehand. However, they are all still vector drawing tools.
"How can a company be allowed to trademark a single word?"
Ford, Apple, Dell, Delta, Coke, Whirlpool, Target, Sun, Sprint, Caterpillar, Oracle, Cardinal, Reliant, Southern, Delphi, Occidental, Dominion, May, Gap, Nike, Fox, Tribune, Limited, Constellation, Quaker, Dover, Apache, Progressive, USA, Popular, Gateway, Staples, Crown, Compass, Cooper, Pinnacle, Sovereign, Dime, Concord, Adobe, Alliance, and Palm are all trademarked names of Fortune 500 corps. How can you not TM single words and still retain the purpose of TMs?
I am more concerned these guys will change history as it has been portrayed through the 3 series (don't count voyuer) and the movies.
Too late.
And what history? First Contact already blew it with Cochrane on Earth rather than Alpha Centauri as mentioned in TOS. And he didn't look at all the same;)
While I think Akira Class ships are cool; Slapping old style nacelles on it and calling it a pre-Constitution class ship is just lame.
"The producers cut of Babylon 5: The legend of the Rangers is now in hand, and goes to the network and studio today. I think it's a really kickass movie, and in terms of general production, performances, and stuff like that, it's probably right there with In The Beggining (not in scale of course, since ItB was just *huge* and sews up the B5 storyline in this big tapestry, they're two vastly different kinds of stories, but in terms of overall quality of production and how well it works)."
Crusade never got a chance, the last episode made (last shown at least, I think they made those crap episodes TNT wanted afterwards) was the first in the big story arc. From what I gather they never find the cure (Garibaldi's company does) and desert Earthforce to hunt down some sort of shadow minions. LotR (not Lord of the Rings, but Legend of the Rangers... acronym conflict!!) if it lasts as a series will overlap with Crusade's time frame so we may get to see some of the story that TNT ruined.
You can not make a car called Vector nor a knife called Vector, but you can make a Double Battery Helix Master (for instance) called the Vector. Capiche?
I think they should call it Kqkbnwglsd. That way no self respecting company would sue them -- the word isn't even pronouncable!
That's a Cat word! It's the sound you make when you get your genitals stuck in something.;)
Look around you at the trademarked logos on your stuff. You will eventually get the idea.
Just on my desk I have an Apple (R), a Dell (R), a bottle of Dr Pepper (R) several copies of Freehand (R), Illustrator (R), Timbuktu (R), and Word (R); I've even got an old copy of Lotus (R) 123 (R) lying around here.
I figure if you can get a registered trademark on '123' you can obviously get one on 'Illustrator'. Note that this does not mean Steve Jobs controlls all references to the fruit commonly known as an Apple, Dell can not sue for using their trademark to describe a small wooded area, I need not submit a proposal to Macromedia to draw freehand or to Adobe to illustrate something, and the city authorities of Timbuktu can rest easy that subpoenas will not be waiting for them in the morning for violating Farallon's trademark. Hell, the Lotus 123 guys did not have to get permission from an English auto manufacturer nor the Jackson 5 to market their product.
OK, Adobe is a copyrighted and trademarked name. Illustrator is as well. This does not mean no one else can use the names at all, it means no one can use 'Adobe' for a software firm or 'illustrator' (or misleading derivitives) for a graphics program.
I can start an architectural firm called 'Adobe Builders' and I can build an ink pen marketed as 'The Illustrator' without a problem at all (from Adobe SW at least). I can not start a software design firm called 'Badobe Software' or design a graphics program called 'Killistrator' (obviously) because they can be construed, rather easily, to mislead the public.
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They sell towers with up to 867 MHz G4s. Just got mine last week.... it's-a very nice.
Oh well, it was a fine OS; It's feel is still untouchable. What's really weird is that I got my new Quicksilver G4 delivered on the very day that Be, which is running as the primary OS on my old computer, gets sold (ie: today!). How serindipitous.
Isn't war lovely?
Allen also wrote a book called The Modular Man about a man who downloads his personality into a robotic vaccum cleaner that is excellent and deals with many of the same concepts Dr. Vinge is talking about.
Hell, I've had users coming up to me all day asking if I patched their workstations... not only does the worm not effect workstations we're an advertising agency, our workstations are all Macs!
Viacom does however own the network that runs the best news program in America, the Peabody Award winning Daily Show on Comedy Central.
Give me an example where the protesters and the authorities were peacfull that had an impact. Yes Gahndi and MLK eschewed violence, but they most definately courted violence. In the early 60s when police turned dogs and firehoses loose on freedom riders the media was all over it. Birmingham, Selma, Montgomery, Memphis... made headlines due to the violence. When the Freedom Riders got to Albany Georgia in December of 1961 police chief Laurie Pritchett did not let his forces get out of controll and the event got virtualy no coverage. What coverage it did get lauded Chief Pritchett for his work although he arrested every single protester that showed up and tried to practice their constitutional rights of free speach and assembly... but he did it peacefully.
You can tell today, only very scanty info on Albany can be found (here for instance) but you can get photos of the Montgomery (police) riots all over the internet. Today it is even worse, when is the last time you saw a big peacefull protest covered like they do these riots? The big media do not want the protester's grievances to be aired, that must be fought by giving them news so compelling that their greed for viewers/readers overcomes their corporate loyalties, and that, unfortunately, means busting heads and blowing shit up.
BTW, I agree completely with the rest of your comment.
I thought that sneaky bastard Jehova put it there to test our faith.
Just my 2 credits.
Neither the Romulans nor the Humans had warp drive during their first war (Wolf In The Fold); Khan got well into space without warp in a sleeper ship (Space Seed).
Never have they said that warp drive was the only FTL, if you'll remember in the pilot they talked about it as something new when speaking to colonists on a distant planet.
Yea, it's just a TV show, that doesn't mean it should be immune to criticism. Lack of continuity is as deserving of criticism as anything else done badly.
I have and you are exactly right, Killustrator is much more like CorelDraw; ie A less functional vector drawing tool than Illustrator or Freehand. However, they are all still vector drawing tools.
"How can a company be allowed to trademark a single word?"
Ford, Apple, Dell, Delta, Coke, Whirlpool, Target, Sun, Sprint, Caterpillar, Oracle, Cardinal, Reliant, Southern, Delphi, Occidental, Dominion, May, Gap, Nike, Fox, Tribune, Limited, Constellation, Quaker, Dover, Apache, Progressive, USA, Popular, Gateway, Staples, Crown, Compass, Cooper, Pinnacle, Sovereign, Dime, Concord, Adobe, Alliance, and Palm are all trademarked names of Fortune 500 corps. How can you not TM single words and still retain the purpose of TMs?
Too late.
And what history? First Contact already blew it with Cochrane on Earth rather than Alpha Centauri as mentioned in TOS. And he didn't look at all the same ;)
While I think Akira Class ships are cool; Slapping old style nacelles on it and calling it a pre-Constitution class ship is just lame.
Did you miss the "...when new things come from apple..." part?
FWIW I had an optical mouse on a Sun 3/50 in the mid eighties and one on my Mac IIci in the early nineties.
Who owns Chrysler these days?
"The producers cut of Babylon 5: The legend of the Rangers is now in hand, and goes to the network and studio today. I think it's a really kickass movie, and in terms of general production, performances, and stuff like that, it's probably right there with In The Beggining (not in scale of course, since ItB was just *huge* and sews up the B5 storyline in this big tapestry, they're two vastly different kinds of stories, but in terms of overall quality of production and how well it works)."
You just discovered how trademarks work!
You can not make a car called Vector nor a knife called Vector, but you can make a Double Battery Helix Master (for instance) called the Vector. Capiche?
I think they should call it Kqkbnwglsd. That way no self respecting company would sue them -- the word isn't even pronouncable!
That's a Cat word! It's the sound you make when you get your genitals stuck in something. ;)
Look around you at the trademarked logos on your stuff. You will eventually get the idea.
Just on my desk I have an Apple (R), a Dell (R), a bottle of Dr Pepper (R) several copies of Freehand (R), Illustrator (R), Timbuktu (R), and Word (R); I've even got an old copy of Lotus (R) 123 (R) lying around here.
I figure if you can get a registered trademark on '123' you can obviously get one on 'Illustrator'. Note that this does not mean Steve Jobs controlls all references to the fruit commonly known as an Apple, Dell can not sue for using their trademark to describe a small wooded area, I need not submit a proposal to Macromedia to draw freehand or to Adobe to illustrate something, and the city authorities of Timbuktu can rest easy that subpoenas will not be waiting for them in the morning for violating Farallon's trademark. Hell, the Lotus 123 guys did not have to get permission from an English auto manufacturer nor the Jackson 5 to market their product.
I can start an architectural firm called 'Adobe Builders' and I can build an ink pen marketed as 'The Illustrator' without a problem at all (from Adobe SW at least). I can not start a software design firm called 'Badobe Software' or design a graphics program called 'Killistrator' (obviously) because they can be construed, rather easily, to mislead the public.