Can we get a study done on how likely RIAA Executives are to form illegal price-fixing cartels, file groundless lawsuits against children, commit perjury, hold artists to contracts so restictive that courts often strike them out as restraint of trade, and snort coke?
Why tether to the Earth? Stopping something of the order of 10-50km away from the ground would seem to make much more sense, close enough to reach cheraply by ballon, but far enough to avoid wind, lightning, and the seemingly inevitable political upheval in the equatorial regions. It also saves a lot of counterbalance cable at the other end, since gravity is stronger at our end.
Taking this a step further... Why not build the thing from geostationary orbit outwards, and have it spinning? All the energy needed to launch comes from grabbing a fast moving end of the cable as it goes past, and the whole thing can be cheaply gravitationally powered by adding rocks at the top then dropping them at the bottom.
Rather than building a space elevator, why not explore linear motor technology to launch payloads ballistically? This has all the benefits of a space elevator - no need to take fuel with you, build it once and re-use as many times as you like, with none of the drawbacks, such as requiring 32,00km of exotic cable we don't know how to make positioned to fall on everyone's heads 3 times over.
Microsoft also announced Japanese pricing of Xbox 360... Xbox 360 system,... 20GB detachable Xbox 360 Hard Drive [hype] an Xbox 360 Wireless Controller, an Xbox 360 Media Remote control, an Xbox 360 Headset, a Component HD-AV Cable... an Ethernet cable and batteries, at 37,900 JPY.*
* Actual retail prices may vary.
At today's rates, that's $343.332 US or 190.090 GBP
It is an issue, my company gets a shitload of e-mail intended for the (bigger) company that bought the 'uk.com' version of our domain, because their customers (or more commonly their staff) 'correct' their address.
The whole purpose of uk.com is to mislead gullible people into thinking they are buying a real domain. I just wish someone would take it away from the scammers selling subdomains to the unwary and use it for a proper purpose.
Don't lose the CRT. Make sure you have a good one, that can cope with a wide variety of resolutions and refresh rates - you never know what some idiot has set their screen resolution to (and wants it left at because they like it), and LCDs are a complete pain to look at if you are not feeding them their native resolution.
Having RTFA, they did actually kill the thing first - It survived being dropped out of a car window at 50mph with nothing but scratches, and was still playing after that, plus being dropped onto concrete from 9ft then being run over by a car. Twice. It finally died when they threw it as high in the air as they could and let it land on concrete.
Speaking as a TB-303 owner, who spent quite a while a/b testing ReBirth, it does come remarkably close.
I've been fooled from time to time, and I've had exactly that sort of 'you can tell it's real' comment from people who know I own the real thing, about tracks I've used purely ReBirth on.
If (like me) you own ReBirth, Propellerheads are offering massive discounts on upgrading/crossgrading any version (even the 8 year-old v1.0 that I had) to the latest Reason v3.0 - they even threw in a free ReBirth R.I.P. t-shirt because I was in the first 450!
If you only want Reason, it's probably cheaper to search out an end-of-line ReBirth in your local music shop and then upgrade.
Nintendo is trying to sell the DS at the moment, it doesn't want gamers saving up for next-gen consoles, it wants them buying DS games.
What's the point then in fighting a vapourware war? Sony are flinging enough mud at MS for all but the most hardened fanboys to be undecided about which console to get until they actually see the launch line-ups for PS3 and XB360. Nintendo are probably saving up all the good stuff for a big splash right around the launch of the other 2 consoles.
"*" is a single letter wildcard character, therefore **AA means organisations that have 4 letter names ending in AA. It's usage on Slashdot refers to the RIAA and MPAA, who are taking similar approaches to alienating their customer base, and only unintentionally blankets the Albuquerque Aerostat Ascension Association and others.
If they didn't bother trying to write a real OS, and took Windows back to what it originally was, a windowing system running on top of a simple OS (Dos).
If I was a Microsoft shareholder, I'd be kicking up a fuss about how much more profitable MSFT would be if it stuck to it's strengths of eye candy and API obfuscation and took the free, stable, secure alternative to writing the difficult bits.
Being a front end stuck on an open core seems to be working wonders for OSX. Similarly, Microsoft could stop losing a fortune writing IE then giving it away for free by forking Firefox and calling it IE7.
Price of the PSP in British shops tomorrow: 179.99 GBP Price of import PSP from Liksang.com (free shipping) available months ago: $249.90 = 138.539 GBP
Oh, and just in case you are still not convinced, how about thisa little gem from the Game website: "Please note we only have stock available for those who have already preordered."
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Can we get a study done on how likely RIAA Executives are to form illegal price-fixing cartels, file groundless lawsuits against children, commit perjury, hold artists to contracts so restictive that courts often strike them out as restraint of trade, and snort coke?
What's worse is that they missed out the all important 'skip intro' button!
Why tether to the Earth? Stopping something of the order of 10-50km away from the ground would seem to make much more sense, close enough to reach cheraply by ballon, but far enough to avoid wind, lightning, and the seemingly inevitable political upheval in the equatorial regions. It also saves a lot of counterbalance cable at the other end, since gravity is stronger at our end.
Taking this a step further... Why not build the thing from geostationary orbit outwards, and have it spinning? All the energy needed to launch comes from grabbing a fast moving end of the cable as it goes past, and the whole thing can be cheaply gravitationally powered by adding rocks at the top then dropping them at the bottom.
Rather than building a space elevator, why not explore linear motor technology to launch payloads ballistically? This has all the benefits of a space elevator - no need to take fuel with you, build it once and re-use as many times as you like, with none of the drawbacks, such as requiring 32,00km of exotic cable we don't know how to make positioned to fall on everyone's heads 3 times over.
3GHz G5s?
How about 3.2GHz, triple core? In the shops November 22nd, Street price of about $350. Of course you have to throw away the xbox they come in...
To mainframe mergers we say "Honeywell Bull"!
Try reading the last paragraph...
... 20GB detachable Xbox 360 Hard Drive [hype] an Xbox 360 Wireless Controller, an Xbox 360 Media Remote control, an Xbox 360 Headset, a Component HD-AV Cable ... an Ethernet cable and batteries, at 37,900 JPY.*
Microsoft also announced Japanese pricing of Xbox 360... Xbox 360 system,
* Actual retail prices may vary.
At today's rates, that's $343.332 US or 190.090 GBP
It is an issue, my company gets a shitload of e-mail intended for the (bigger) company that bought the 'uk.com' version of our domain, because their customers (or more commonly their staff) 'correct' their address.
The whole purpose of uk.com is to mislead gullible people into thinking they are buying a real domain. I just wish someone would take it away from the scammers selling subdomains to the unwary and use it for a proper purpose.
Don't lose the CRT. Make sure you have a good one, that can cope with a wide variety of resolutions and refresh rates - you never know what some idiot has set their screen resolution to (and wants it left at because they like it), and LCDs are a complete pain to look at if you are not feeding them their native resolution.
Having RTFA, they did actually kill the thing first - It survived being dropped out of a car window at 50mph with nothing but scratches, and was still playing after that, plus being dropped onto concrete from 9ft then being run over by a car. Twice. It finally died when they threw it as high in the air as they could and let it land on concrete.
A Spitfire can drop a 500lb bomb. I think I just worked out why the article picked such a strange comparison...
No, Classic is still there supporting OS9 apps in Tiger.
My leds are always flashn'
And it wouldn't be a bad thing
But I don't get no packets
And thats no lie
We spent the night in Cisco
At every kind of distro
From that night I kissed
Our data goodbye
Chorus:
Don't blame it on sunshine
Don't blame it on moonlight
Don't blame it on good times
Blame it on the router
Don't blame it on sunshine
Don't blame it on moonlight
Don't blame it on good times
Blame it on the router
The nasty virus bugs me
But somehow it has drugged me
Outbound ports get me
On my feet
I've changed my life completely
I've seen the data leave me
My baby just can't take
Her PCs offline
Chorus:
Don't blame it on sunshine
Don't blame it on moonlight
Don't blame it on good times
Blame it on the router
I just can't
I just can't
I just can't control my ports...
"Giant Hamster Balls!"
Not only a description of the best bit of The Avengers, but also a review of the rest of it.
Rebuilding towns elsewhere seems to be something of a regional speciality - after all, take a look at this place
Speaking as a TB-303 owner, who spent quite a while a/b testing ReBirth, it does come remarkably close.
I've been fooled from time to time, and I've had exactly that sort of 'you can tell it's real' comment from people who know I own the real thing, about tracks I've used purely ReBirth on.
If (like me) you own ReBirth, Propellerheads are offering massive discounts on upgrading/crossgrading any version (even the 8 year-old v1.0 that I had) to the latest Reason v3.0 - they even threw in a free ReBirth R.I.P. t-shirt because I was in the first 450!
If you only want Reason, it's probably cheaper to search out an end-of-line ReBirth in your local music shop and then upgrade.
The Perry Bible Fellowship explains
Anyone found one of these adverts yet? I'd like to block them before I ever see one, if possible.
mumbo jumbo to me!
No, bowdlerisation does not conform to regexp. It's "F***ing Windows crashed again" not 'F???ing Windows crashed again'.
Nintendo is trying to sell the DS at the moment, it doesn't want gamers saving up for next-gen consoles, it wants them buying DS games.
What's the point then in fighting a vapourware war? Sony are flinging enough mud at MS for all but the most hardened fanboys to be undecided about which console to get until they actually see the launch line-ups for PS3 and XB360. Nintendo are probably saving up all the good stuff for a big splash right around the launch of the other 2 consoles.
"*" is a single letter wildcard character, therefore **AA means organisations that have 4 letter names ending in AA. It's usage on Slashdot refers to the RIAA and MPAA, who are taking similar approaches to alienating their customer base, and only unintentionally blankets the Albuquerque Aerostat Ascension Association and others.
If they didn't bother trying to write a real OS, and took Windows back to what it originally was, a windowing system running on top of a simple OS (Dos).
If I was a Microsoft shareholder, I'd be kicking up a fuss about how much more profitable MSFT would be if it stuck to it's strengths of eye candy and API obfuscation and took the free, stable, secure alternative to writing the difficult bits.
Being a front end stuck on an open core seems to be working wonders for OSX. Similarly, Microsoft could stop losing a fortune writing IE then giving it away for free by forking Firefox and calling it IE7.
Price of the PSP in British shops tomorrow: 179.99 GBP
Price of import PSP from Liksang.com (free shipping) available months ago: $249.90 = 138.539 GBP
Oh, and just in case you are still not convinced, how about thisa little gem from the Game website: "Please note we only have stock available for those who have already preordered."