There are just some things that shouldn't be tolerated - like porn. It's degrading, sick and offensive to 99.9999% of the right-minded individuals out there. Only sickos would want to see bizarre stuff like naked people having sex.
(In case you're completely incapable of logical thought, I'll put a nice big fake HTML tag after this so you know how to interpret it.)
I find it interesting that every time someone launches an attack on free speech, they always lead off with a statement like "I feel that freedom of speech is very important".
What ever happened to "I don't like what you say, but I'll die to defend your right to say it"?
If it's got an impact velocity of 30,000 meters per second (not out of the question), it wouldn't be in the atmosphere for any more than a second or two. Even if it does "blow apart", the heat transfer into the atmosphere isn't going to be insignificant.
If it's moving fast enough, the atmosphere doesn't mean shit - it'll punch through that quickly enough that air friction doesn't have time to reduce its size.
We hope that multi-display gaming will get a lot easier with the introduction of the PCI-Express interface, as it allows the use of several graphics adapters.
This is actually incorrect - contrary to most people's assumptions, there is no technical reason why a motherboard cannot provide multiple AGP slots. Whether software is built to handle it is another question, of course...
No, it doesn't. If you read it properly, you'll see that it's quite different from the classic BSD-with-advertising-clause license.
The new XFree86 license only states that (a) you can't use their name to promote the software, which is fair enough and probably not something you'd do anyway, and (b) you have to include an acknowledgement in the either the end-user documentation or the software itself.
The BSD-W-A-C license required an acknowledgement in all advertising for your product - a much more onerous restriction.
This was Tokyo Disneyland, remember. It's only been open for 20 years.
As for the units, Japan's been metric for ages - I daresay the plans were brought over from the US and converted to metric in 1995 to allow easier use of local suppliers.
Intel doesn't want to release the specs because the Centrino's flexibility allows you to do certain things that breach government broadcast regulations.
Until they can figure out a way to block J. Random Hacker from doing that, they won't release jack shit.
Most definitely not all the candidates. They're missing people like Muadin (who among other things supports the creation of "a planetary e-democratic federal government, The Terran Federation of Earth"), Jack Grimes (the Leader and Director of the United Fascist Union - see him posing in a bad wig with his wife? girlfriend? MOTHER???), and innumerable others.
1. Incorrect. The EX700R was a MicroATX case; considerably smaller. 2. So? You're saying the big news is that they managed to make a passively-cooled external PSU brick? Hardly earthshattering news.
I did read the article; barebones systems with external PSUs have been available for at least a year (the first one I'm aware of is the EX700R, again from Soldam [also known as Hoshino Kinzoku], released in November of 2002), so I didn't really consider it worth a mention.
Well, possibly - Asuka being written in katakana tends to emphasize her foreignness, whereas the avoidance of kanji for Rei makes her name ambiguous and encourages association with the kanji for "cold" or "zero", without making it explicit.
Anyway, I wasn't saying the non-use of kanji didn't have any significance, I was just commenting that it didn't mean they were non-Japanese names.
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There are just some things that shouldn't be tolerated - like porn. It's degrading, sick and offensive to 99.9999% of the right-minded individuals out there. Only sickos would want to see bizarre stuff like naked people having sex.
(In case you're completely incapable of logical thought, I'll put a nice big fake HTML tag after this so you know how to interpret it.)
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I find it interesting that every time someone launches an attack on free speech, they always lead off with a statement like "I feel that freedom of speech is very important".
What ever happened to "I don't like what you say, but I'll die to defend your right to say it"?
If it's got an impact velocity of 30,000 meters per second (not out of the question), it wouldn't be in the atmosphere for any more than a second or two. Even if it does "blow apart", the heat transfer into the atmosphere isn't going to be insignificant.
Because OCRing Japanese text is a lot more difficult than with English text?
I'm not kidding - there are Japanese OCR apps, but the accuracy is way below English OCR unless you're using a really good page image.
If it's moving fast enough, the atmosphere doesn't mean shit - it'll punch through that quickly enough that air friction doesn't have time to reduce its size.
We hope that multi-display gaming will get a lot easier with the introduction of the PCI-Express interface, as it allows the use of several graphics adapters.
This is actually incorrect - contrary to most people's assumptions, there is no technical reason why a motherboard cannot provide multiple AGP slots.
Whether software is built to handle it is another question, of course...
Well, then i guess you aren't afraid of hell, so in that sense, it's better for YOU. But as for me, I'm afraid of burning for eternity.
So your belief system is based on fear? Mmm-hmmm... nice religion, dude.
Try coming to Japan and seeing the alternative.
Believe me, acres and acres of solid concrete is far worse.
Those were minicomputers, dude.
No, it doesn't. If you read it properly, you'll see that it's quite different from the classic BSD-with-advertising-clause license.
The new XFree86 license only states that (a) you can't use their name to promote the software, which is fair enough and probably not something you'd do anyway, and (b) you have to include an acknowledgement in the either the end-user documentation or the software itself.
The BSD-W-A-C license required an acknowledgement in all advertising for your product - a much more onerous restriction.
The Panasonic KX-HCM170 can do encrypted video (40/128-bit WEP, but it's better than nothing).
Not only was this not a conversion problem, but the Disneyland they're talking about is the Tokyo one, and Japan's been metric for years.
This was Tokyo Disneyland, remember. It's only been open for 20 years.
As for the units, Japan's been metric for ages - I daresay the plans were brought over from the US and converted to metric in 1995 to allow easier use of local suppliers.
That's not the real reason.
Intel doesn't want to release the specs because the Centrino's flexibility allows you to do certain things that breach government broadcast regulations.
Until they can figure out a way to block J. Random Hacker from doing that, they won't release jack shit.
Most definitely not all the candidates. They're missing people like Muadin (who among other things supports the creation of "a planetary e-democratic federal government, The Terran Federation of Earth"), Jack Grimes (the Leader and Director of the United Fascist Union - see him posing in a bad wig with his wife? girlfriend? MOTHER???), and innumerable others.
Check out a far more complete list at Politics 1.
However, I would prefer to see an Internet based voting system that gets rid of the electoral college system....
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Well, you could always use Amazon's Sales Rank...
1. Incorrect. The EX700R was a MicroATX case; considerably smaller.
2. So? You're saying the big news is that they managed to make a passively-cooled external PSU brick? Hardly earthshattering news.
I did read the article; barebones systems with external PSUs have been available for at least a year (the first one I'm aware of is the EX700R, again from Soldam [also known as Hoshino Kinzoku], released in November of 2002), so I didn't really consider it worth a mention.
This thing looks almost identical to the Soldam Polo series, the first of which came out around two years ago.
So what's new about this?
Well, possibly - Asuka being written in katakana tends to emphasize her foreignness, whereas the avoidance of kanji for Rei makes her name ambiguous and encourages association with the kanji for "cold" or "zero", without making it explicit.
Anyway, I wasn't saying the non-use of kanji didn't have any significance, I was just commenting that it didn't mean they were non-Japanese names.
See, the names aren't all Japanese, it's just that most of them are Japanese sounding, i.e. "Asuka" and "Rei" have no kanji associated with them.
"Asuka" and "Rei" are actual Japanese names - just because they're not written in Kanji doesn't mean they're not 'real' names.
The 6800s we use at work have had memory module problems at least four times in the last year.
Last time it happened we were in the middle of a trading day (stockbroking firm) and the managers weren't very happy about it...
Any OS that spontaneously reboots when a non-system filesystem fills up is not robust, sorry to say.
If you'd actually administered Sun machines, you'd know that that's a mount-time option; it doesn't have to reboot.
And at a conference, chances are you're going to be wearing pants anyway
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Well, maybe you do...
Goddamn, wouldn't I look fine walking around a trade show in a pair of these!