To hell with Robotech and Starblazers, where are the damned Gigantor DVDs!?!?
I never rushed home from school because Starblazers gave me a 30 minute grace period before Gigantor came on. Last time I saw one was at Dragoncon some 10 years ago. I want my GIGANTOR!
I seriously doubt that the critical systems are anywhere near these machines physicaly or network wise. These machines are office computers and engineering workstations not the power controllers. TVA employs over 13,300 people, the vast majority of which do not work in it's 44 power facilities but rather at the huge administrative centers in Knoxville, Nashville, Chattanooga, and Muscle Shoals.
They are worried about internal documents being compromised not that some SETI hacker will dump core in a non-computing sense.
In this case it is necessary because the administration of.org.au is staggeringly inefficient, and costs for other domains are too high.
Just think about that statement for a minute.
.org.au administration is inefficient;
Costs for other domains are too high.
Those two items may very well be interelated.
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Look up 'Swartalfheim' (land of the dark elves) in Norse mythology, neither cute nor tots. Tolkein's elves however are based on the Norse Vanyir, of whom Frey and Freja are the most noteworthy, not the swartalfs who were more like what we think of as dwarfs. The idea of cute little elves comes from misidentifieng the Norse alfs with Gaelic sidh such as brownies and leprechauns.
Or gods forbid a Sunbeam Alpine, Aston-Martin DB5, or Lotus Elan.
How the hell did the krauts get in on the Bond movies anyhow? He could be driving an XK8 Jag or an Aston-Martin Volante... you know, british cars for a british guy. I think it all started when M made him trade in his Berretta for a Walther in Dr. No (1st movie, but not 1st book... Bond used the Barretta in From Russia With Love).
It's too late to prevent the worst of cruelties, they finalised the Panther Pink color before I was born... nothing more cruel than seeing one of the finest looking cars of all time, '70 Challenger, painted up like a cheap tramp.
This kind of boneheaded legislation should cause it's sponsor(s) to be subject to immediate recall vote when, inevitably, it is found to be unconstitutional. Promulgating an unconstitutional law is a violation of the oath of office (to uphold the constitution). Especialy in cases like this where the law is obviously unconstitutional in light of recent supreme court decisions.
It's not that NS is anime, it's that it's a movie not a TV show. Note how the recent TV version of The Magnificent Seven for all practical purposes omitted the 'Lee' character (Can't remember the actors name... you know, the Man from UNCLE guy) because he's a quite unsavory homosexual character (homicidal, lisps, anti-social, drug addict) even though he's a protagonist.
You want unsavory queers on TV, get ye to Star Trek. Granted they are all lesbians (alas, perhaps Riker won't screw any sophont in existence) but definately evil. Kes kissed a girl when taken over by some evil alien, and on DS9 Kira and Dax II's evil mirror universe versions are gay. Also note Beverly Crushers revolted (and revolting) reaction to her Trill lover's slug being transplanted into a female. For a people so much more advanced socially than us, they seem to view derivation from norms as unacceptable. Typical neo-liberals (ie not liberals at all, just the reactionary left).
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Proposed terms of "cluster of apple computers"
apple tree
I suppose one that developed AI would be an Apple Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil?
From Magnaquench's history: 1982: General Motors, Sumitomo Special Metals and The Chinese Academy of Sciences independently discover a new permanent magnet material composed of neodymium, iron and boron.
Magnaquench and Sumitomo have cross liscensed their patents, they both hold rights to the process.
Seeing as how Magnaquench is owned by Beijing San Huan New Material High-tech, Inc. and China National Non-Ferrous Metals Import & Export Corporation, I would say yes; China will respect this patent.
What's really funny is that these HS administrators are the same asses who always asked us: "Well if everybody jumps off of a bridge would you do so too?" No, of course not. But it seems the school system is perfectly willing to do so.
The other funny thing is that they want to switch to MS now that Apple has a fully robust Unix architecture going for it. Seems like they are saying "Uh oh! Looks like the Apples aren't going to be crashing every other minute now, better move to Windows so as to preserve our pitifully low uptimes."
Why view computer code as speach rather than press? It seems to me that even if code is found not to be speach it is obviously a 'device' for presenting speach and therefore a press with all atendant first amendment protections.
Take Photoshop for example, it is patently a device for creating constitutionaly protected forms of expression. Restrictions on the sale or dissemination of such devices, other than within the limits of IP law, is as unconstitutional as restrictions on the output of such a device.
Viewing an actual printing press in the same manner the MPAA views DeCSS would obviously be wrong. Sure a press can be (and many are) used for massive copyright violations but the rights of people to publish take precedence over the possible illegal uses of such technology. The fact that in this age of the internet presses of all sorts have become widely affordable makes no difference at all unless the courts take the elitist position that the wealthy have more of a right to publish material than most.
"It's never the big boss that gets hurt. Not Julia Roberts or Leonardo Di Caprio. It's the man who's packing the videos for $8/hour. It's the guy making them. He's the one losing the money."
Digital delivery will doom them whether it is paid for or not.
BTW, the only movie I have ever "pirated" off of the net I bought as soon as it was available on DVD. All those nice extras, value added, who'da thunk of it?
You know what I hate... reporters.
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Well, Dvorak is the Andy Rooney of the computer press, always take him with a grain of salt.
We get several ad agency related rags at work and they are fully aware of the issue. The video ad agencies (we're print and interactive so I have no 1st hand experience) all seem to be fully ready to exploit other methods. The most obvious of which is to place ads when the machine is paused, you go take a leak, pause the recorder, and a coke ad comes up while the video is not playing. Believe you me, the TV ad model is not a particular favorite of agencies and they are more than willing to look at other methods of getting their message across.
I'm fully aware that Jaz drives suck sewer water from the anus of brain dead monkeys. Unfortunately the ad agency I admin for receives tons of work on Jaz drives. Hell, when I started here they had all their archives on jaz!
So, every box gets a SCSI card and a damned Jaz drive while the built in firewire ports do nothing. If it were up to me I'd ban the shitty things, I've already put the kibitz on sending any Jaz disks out. Hopefully with CDRs becoming more prevelant I can ditch them all soon (like they won't break soon anyhow;).
The question is who is the "them" in your statement. Radio stations sure as hell do not pay for the advertisements they broadcast, the ad agencies do not pay for them, and the actors do not pay for them. The business that wants to advertise itself pays for the ads. 4A wants more and the actors want more (strangely the radio stations do not seem to be charging more for ad space on internet broadcasts); they should be talking to their clients not the radio station.
No, USB is a great standard for keyboards, mice, speakers, graphics tablets, and whatnot so it will continue to be around. Firewire is for high-bandwidth devices like drives, cameras, and network devices.
Now if Iomega will remove their thumbs from their rectums and get Firewire Jazz drives out...
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And an Old Man from Scene 24 figure would be nice as well. Now, when's the Swamp Castle playset coming out? ... or better yet Castle Anthrax!
C'mon, just a little peril....
I never rushed home from school because Starblazers gave me a 30 minute grace period before Gigantor came on. Last time I saw one was at Dragoncon some 10 years ago. I want my GIGANTOR!
They are worried about internal documents being compromised not that some SETI hacker will dump core in a non-computing sense.
We ain't speakin' no "queen's" english down in these neck of the woods boy.
Hell, I didn't even know transexuals had their own dialect.
Read the Odyssey some time.
Just think about that statement for a minute.
Costs for other domains are too high.
Those two items may very well be interelated.
That one feature dooms
How the hell did the krauts get in on the Bond movies anyhow? He could be driving an XK8 Jag or an Aston-Martin Volante... you know, british cars for a british guy. I think it all started when M made him trade in his Berretta for a Walther in Dr. No (1st movie, but not 1st book... Bond used the Barretta in From Russia With Love).
And they are hard to find due to that show.
It's too late to prevent the worst of cruelties, they finalised the Panther Pink color before I was born... nothing more cruel than seeing one of the finest looking cars of all time, '70 Challenger, painted up like a cheap tramp.
You want unsavory queers on TV, get ye to Star Trek. Granted they are all lesbians (alas, perhaps Riker won't screw any sophont in existence) but definately evil. Kes kissed a girl when taken over by some evil alien, and on DS9 Kira and Dax II's evil mirror universe versions are gay. Also note Beverly Crushers revolted (and revolting) reaction to her Trill lover's slug being transplanted into a female. For a people so much more advanced socially than us, they seem to view derivation from norms as unacceptable. Typical neo-liberals (ie not liberals at all, just the reactionary left).
I had a point somewhere but lost it. To bad...
I suppose one that developed AI would be an Apple Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil?
Bingo! Photoshop supports multiple processors under OS9 but it must be coded at the application level.
6 CPU Cray T3E= $630,000
I can't even find a quote on a 32 proc T3E much less a 100(128). Nothing realistic price-wise here.
Magnaquench and Sumitomo have cross liscensed their patents, they both hold rights to the process.
Seeing as how Magnaquench is owned by Beijing San Huan New Material High-tech, Inc. and China National Non-Ferrous Metals Import & Export Corporation, I would say yes; China will respect this patent.
The other funny thing is that they want to switch to MS now that Apple has a fully robust Unix architecture going for it. Seems like they are saying "Uh oh! Looks like the Apples aren't going to be crashing every other minute now, better move to Windows so as to preserve our pitifully low uptimes."
Schools are weird places.
Take Photoshop for example, it is patently a device for creating constitutionaly protected forms of expression. Restrictions on the sale or dissemination of such devices, other than within the limits of IP law, is as unconstitutional as restrictions on the output of such a device.
Viewing an actual printing press in the same manner the MPAA views DeCSS would obviously be wrong. Sure a press can be (and many are) used for massive copyright violations but the rights of people to publish take precedence over the possible illegal uses of such technology. The fact that in this age of the internet presses of all sorts have become widely affordable makes no difference at all unless the courts take the elitist position that the wealthy have more of a right to publish material than most.
Pain releivers kill, and anyone advocating their use is little better than a killer.
Automobiles kill, and anyone advocating their use is little better than a killer.
Electricity kills, and anyone advocating it's use is little better than a killer.
Life kills, and anyone advocating it is little better than a killer.
Yup, no matter how you apply that argument it is dirt fucking stupid.
Digital delivery will doom them whether it is paid for or not.
BTW, the only movie I have ever "pirated" off of the net I bought as soon as it was available on DVD. All those nice extras, value added, who'da thunk of it?
We get several ad agency related rags at work and they are fully aware of the issue. The video ad agencies (we're print and interactive so I have no 1st hand experience) all seem to be fully ready to exploit other methods. The most obvious of which is to place ads when the machine is paused, you go take a leak, pause the recorder, and a coke ad comes up while the video is not playing. Believe you me, the TV ad model is not a particular favorite of agencies and they are more than willing to look at other methods of getting their message across.
So, every box gets a SCSI card and a damned Jaz drive while the built in firewire ports do nothing. If it were up to me I'd ban the shitty things, I've already put the kibitz on sending any Jaz disks out. Hopefully with CDRs becoming more prevelant I can ditch them all soon (like they won't break soon anyhow ;).
Or am I missing something here?
Now if Iomega will remove their thumbs from their rectums and get Firewire Jazz drives out...