The Kennedy Space Center is in Cape Canveral/Kennedy Florida. The Marshall Space Flight Center is in Huntsville Alabama. And actually Huntsville isn't that bad of a geek-tourist destination, they've also got a supercomputer center there that's quite cool. Getting to see a Saturn IV and a Cray SV1 on the same day is nice. Plus there's always the chance of fresh cattle mutilations to the north in the - totally coincidental - area around Arnold AFB near Manchester, TN!
I came over to OS X from BeOS on X86. I had a nice Be machine based on a K6-550 with TV card, CDR, and all sorts of cool hardware that made Windows choke and die when I tried to boot into it but ran wonderfully under Be. I waited a long time to upgrade since I wanted a dual-proc Athlon rig but - as luck would have it - Be died before getting compatibility with the DP Athlons added (have they ever fixed this?). So I bought a DP G4 and while I still miss the raw speed that Be provided, I am not displeased with OS X at all.
Zilla: n. 1. A low, thorny, suffrutescent, crucifeous plant (Zilla myagroides) found in the deserts of Egypt. Its leaves are boiled in water, and eaten, by the Arabs.
Zillah: n. 1. A district or local division, as of a province. (SE Asia)
Quit acquiescing to this extension of the boundry of IP and insist their copyright is for Godzilla; The guy in a lizard suit. Period. End of Godzilladamned paragraph.
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Every NeXT box ever made had at least the option of an internal HD. The Lisa had an available internal HD and would run Mac apps by 1985 (aka Macintosh XL). The Thin and Fat Macs had a serial connected HD available, and SCSI appeared on the SEs in '86. Sure no internal, but look at the size difference between a PC AT and a Mac SE some time. When Macs came in bigger cases - starting with the II series in 1987 - they had internal HDs.
I just don't get this. My TiBook has - for all practical purposes - a touchpad with 78 buttons. Your hands are there anyways, just use the command and option keys just above and to the left of the pad.
That said, I vastly prefer my tiny two-button and scrollwheel Macally USB optical micro-mouse. Its small enough to use the space to the right of the touchpad as a mousing surface.
IIRC - I was very high - Cartoon Network showed all 5 of those episodes, plus the first ep, this past Saturday night.
My SO commented after we watched Wings of Honomoise (I don't even know how that's spelled) last week that the anime on Cartoon Net wasn't ever even close to that quality. So I sat her down Saturday and made her watch those eps of Bebop. She was quite impressed.
Not neccesarily, these are supposed to be "island" elements. Element 114 lasted over 30 seconds - in comparison Element 112 lasted 280 milliseconds - before decaying and the island should include 116 although 118 would be pushing it.
Then - assuming any stability can be achieved past 120 - we'll get the superactinides around 122...
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I believe he was reffering to all purveyors of information services...
Think about this: The most succesfull computer ad campaign in the past few years has been Stephan the Dell Boy. Fucking stupid right? Right, but it works and it is NOT aimed at people like us. Its aimed at the common man, the (and forgive me Mr. Brooks) common clay of the new internet.... you know, MORONS.
I work as an admin for an ad agency and date a copy writer and all the ad wizards I know say the new Apple campaign is TOO cerebral and elitist. Funny enough, I think you hit it at the end; yes, some people like being advertised to and those people are not us. We - the jaded, cynical, intellegent, educated, tech-savvy types - are not the target of these campaigns. Virtualy no campaigns are aimed at us because we are an ad targeter's nightmare. So instead they - wisely - just let guys like Avie Tevanian and Jordan Hubbard geek out in public: seems to work OK.
Am I the only one here who actually has opened up his toaster to make sure it works?
Jeebus, when I was twelve or so I dissasembeled nearly every mechanical and electronic device in my house... plus I taped an album off a guy around then too so I suppose I'm responsible for all the shitty music put out since 1980.
Oh wait, there was shitty music being put out before that too so I guess not.
Lucas also reportedly told E! Online that the reason droids C-3P0 and R2-D2 have no memory of Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader is because their memories have been wiped prior to the beginning of Episode IV, the original Star Wars movie. "[C-3P0's] memory system has been erased, and so has R2's,...
Kinda obvious that. The question is: who wiped Obi-Wan's memory of them?
I watched part of Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame with my nephew and got physically ill. Now I see why Disney wants to keep their copyrights in perpetuity... so no one will do to Mickey what they did to Quasimodo. And don't get me started on Starship Troopers... Aliens was a better version of that book than Veerhoven's monumental paen to shitty sci-fi moviemaking.
Not being particularly impressed with the book (it was OK, but not groundbreaking like so many find it), I doubt a lame movie version of Ender's Game will be my cup of tea.
This is a mongolian budget clusterfuck. Wouldn't want anything like a pay raise for the highest paid state judges in the country or dishwasher sized 10 commandments displays to be sacrificed in favor of some piddling thing like JURY TRIALS.
It makes me feel better that you capitalists argue so badly. The operative phrase in your carefully picked quote is "In this sense...".
That sense being "The distinguishing feature of communism is not the abolition of property generally, but the abolition of bourgeoise property. But modern bourgoise private property is the final and complete expression of the system of producing and appropriating products that is based on class antogonisims, of the exploitation of the many by the few."
And furthermore: "Do you mean the property of the petty artisan or the small peasant, a form of property that preceeded the bourgoise form? There is no need to abolish that, the development of industry has to a great extent already destroyed it, and is still destroying it daily."
Everybody with internet access has a copy of the Manifesto so don't yank my lariat. I suggest you read it instead of cherry picking quotes to support the elements of your argument that don't rest on appeals to ridicule.
We have as much a chance of predicting the eventual post-human as a chimp would have had predicting a human a few million years ago. If he had known (and had the capacity to know) that the super-chimp involved losing body hair, standing up strait, losing muscle density and almost total loss of natural weaponry he'd have called bullshit on the idea. But here we are.
"The remaining human future is 25 years or 50 years," says Max More, president of the Extropy Institute, a pioneering explorer of the acceleration of technology and trans-humanism.
Holy shit! It took Marx 100 pages or so to set it down, if he'd only have known it could have been distilled into one sentance!
Let's see here:
A theoretical economic system characterized by the collective ownership of property and by the organization of labor for the common advantage of all members. (American Heritage)
A scheme of equalizing the social conditions of life; specifically, a scheme which contemplates the abolition of inequalities in the possession of property, as by distributing all wealth equally to all, or by holding all wealth in common for the equal use and advantage of all. (Websters!)
A political theory favoring collectivism in a classless society (WordNet)
Yea, communism is a bit more complex than you think. I believe morality is too.
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Indeed. That's why the Windows version uses Mac OS standard keyboard shortcuts.
Zilla: n. 1. A low, thorny, suffrutescent, crucifeous plant (Zilla myagroides) found in the deserts of Egypt. Its leaves are boiled in water, and eaten, by the Arabs.
Zillah: n. 1. A district or local division, as of a province. (SE Asia)
Quit acquiescing to this extension of the boundry of IP and insist their copyright is for Godzilla; The guy in a lizard suit. Period. End of Godzilladamned paragraph.
That said, I vastly prefer my tiny two-button and scrollwheel Macally USB optical micro-mouse. Its small enough to use the space to the right of the touchpad as a mousing surface.
My SO commented after we watched Wings of Honomoise (I don't even know how that's spelled) last week that the anime on Cartoon Net wasn't ever even close to that quality. So I sat her down Saturday and made her watch those eps of Bebop. She was quite impressed.
I think she may be ready for Lain now...
Your post is the first to actually make .mac sound like a good deal.
Then - assuming any stability can be achieved past 120 - we'll get the superactinides around 122...
I work as an admin for an ad agency and date a copy writer and all the ad wizards I know say the new Apple campaign is TOO cerebral and elitist. Funny enough, I think you hit it at the end; yes, some people like being advertised to and those people are not us. We - the jaded, cynical, intellegent, educated, tech-savvy types - are not the target of these campaigns. Virtualy no campaigns are aimed at us because we are an ad targeter's nightmare. So instead they - wisely - just let guys like Avie Tevanian and Jordan Hubbard geek out in public: seems to work OK.
X I/V ?
Jeebus, when I was twelve or so I dissasembeled nearly every mechanical and electronic device in my house... plus I taped an album off a guy around then too so I suppose I'm responsible for all the shitty music put out since 1980.
Oh wait, there was shitty music being put out before that too so I guess not.
And it would be even better if it made the lightsaber noise when in use rather than the usual scredriver sound.
Kinda obvious that. The question is: who wiped Obi-Wan's memory of them?
Escape velocity to get off the moon is 2380 m/s. The average driver shot on a golf ball is around 60 m/s. So, uh, no.
Not being particularly impressed with the book (it was OK, but not groundbreaking like so many find it), I doubt a lame movie version of Ender's Game will be my cup of tea.
Omega Man
12 Monkeys
Ghost In The Shell
Metropolis
The Lathe of Heaven
The Fly
Things To Come
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Rollerball
If any confusion arises, the original is the one I'm talking about (The Fly, Body Snatchers, Rollerball).
Copywrite lovers? I'm a lover of a copywriter, but even she has little regard for the copy she writes.
That sense being "The distinguishing feature of communism is not the abolition of property generally, but the abolition of bourgeoise property. But modern bourgoise private property is the final and complete expression of the system of producing and appropriating products that is based on class antogonisims, of the exploitation of the many by the few."
And furthermore: "Do you mean the property of the petty artisan or the small peasant, a form of property that preceeded the bourgoise form? There is no need to abolish that, the development of industry has to a great extent already destroyed it, and is still destroying it daily."
Everybody with internet access has a copy of the Manifesto so don't yank my lariat. I suggest you read it instead of cherry picking quotes to support the elements of your argument that don't rest on appeals to ridicule.
"The remaining human future is 25 years or 50 years," says Max More, president of the Extropy Institute, a pioneering explorer of the acceleration of technology and trans-humanism.
Excellent, just in time for AI right?.... right?
Let's see here:
A theoretical economic system characterized by the collective ownership of property and by the organization of labor for the common advantage of all members. (American Heritage)
A scheme of equalizing the social conditions of life; specifically, a scheme which contemplates the abolition of inequalities in the possession of property, as by distributing all wealth equally to all, or by holding all wealth in common for the equal use and advantage of all. (Websters!)
A political theory favoring collectivism in a classless society (WordNet)
Yea, communism is a bit more complex than you think. I believe morality is too.