I was a big fan of Metagaming (nee Metagaming Concepts), the company Steve Jackson was at while developing the precursors to GURPS. So I saw Melee and Wizard and the first The Fantasy Trip books as they were published in the late 1970s. I liked TFT much better than D&D, and I have a shelf full of GURPS books.
Hoth... that would be Ep. 5 _The_Empire_Strikes_Back_.
Which is the first film I saw where I thought "24 frames per second is just not enough".... I wish Douglas Trumball's ShowScan technology had caught on. 60 full frames per second!
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You are just really, really confused.
Global Warming is not about expanding the volume of AIR around the earth. The "air ball" is no bigger, and not dragging on anything, and not changing the earth's orbit.
Even a nuclear war is unlikely to destroy all lifeforms. There are many changes we could, and maybe are, making that could upset the balance of ecology sufficient that modern "civilization" would no longer function, i.e. produce and distribute enough food to keep everyone alive.
Civilization is much more delicate than humanity which is much more delicate than life.
Every computer you saw in kindergarten was an Apple//e. The brackets were last used on the Apple ][+.
The Commodore 64 had a dinky little 32x16 character display. The//e could do a reasonable 80x24. Disk drives on the C-64 were godawful slow compared to the//e.
Bayer AG lost their "Aspirin" trademark because Germany lost World War I. It was taken from them, as part of limitations on Germany's chemical industries.
That $900 dell comes with a cheap CRT. Upgrade to the flat screen CRT and you've got a machine to compare against Apple's eMac, which starts at $1100. Only a $150 difference, and that assumes that desk space is free.
To compare the Dell to an iMac, you have to upgrade to a digital flat panel screen, and that costs $340.
However, for $1500 these days you can build a fast, high quality PC. Puts to shame Mac prices.
Yeah. Shame on Apple for making a computer with an 700 MHz G4 processor, 17 inch flat CRT, and selling it for $1100, including a CD-RW drive. With the stability of a real Unix kernel. And plug-n-play that really works. Why, you could spend $400 more and get an inferior system.
90% availability: down for a 5 weeks a year 99% availability: down for three and a half days a year 99.9% availability: down for eight hours a year 99.99% availability: down for 52 minutes a year 99.999% availability: down for 5 minutes a year 99.9999% availability (four nines):
down for 31 seconds per year
One part per million 99.99999% availability: (five nines):
down for 3 seconds a year 99.999999% availability: (six nines):
down for 300 milliseconds a year
"like winning the lottery".
It's funny. The files the RIAA really wants to stop, Brittany, Nickelback, etc. are available on any one of the hundreds of P2P providers out there, they aren't stopping a single pirate by shutting down AG, but the lesser knowns and out of prints now are homeless.
The reason why Macs have a great reputation for stability is that their hardware is standardised, there's no mucking around with strange devices.
Mostly false. Someone just published a story about taking a generic, two-year-old IDE hard drive out of a PC, dropping it into a generic IEEE 1394 case, and plugging it into two different PCs running flavors of windows, and into a Mac. Result: Mac found it, and offered to format it. The author had to dig and dig and dig and consult tech support to do the same thing on the PC. Can anyone find the article?
It's something that Wintel has been struggling with for years.
Not quite. The first copy of the software has all the costs of development, regardless of whether costs have been recouped or not. The _marginal_ cost of the second copy of the software is near zero: copy the manual, burn another CD, ftp from a server.
Each copy of software also carries support costs. The more copies sold, the more people will call your support lines.
The challenge for the software publisher is to price software so that enough customers buy it to cover the cost of development.
It didn't seem to me that HAL was necessarily crazy, as a lot of reviews imply. He was given special information that made it necessary that he survive all the way to Jupiter. Thus when the two astronauts discuss taking him offline, he reacts in the only way possible.
Go see the movie again. Pay attention to the scene where HAL says "Just a minute... Just a minute... I have just detected a fault...." That IMHO is when HAL decided to off the crew, by breaking contact between the ship and earth.
And it occurrs before Dave or Whasshisname talk about disconnecting him.
Double-blind listening tests show that there are no audible differences between cheap audio amps (a $200 pioneer receiver, years ago) and very expensive audio amps (a pair of $10,000 each Conrad Johnson monoblocks) as long as the amps aren't driven to clipping.
You can believe that esoteric and expensive CD players sound better than cheap ones. But try and prove that sometime. If the difference is so significant, you should be able to show the difference in a well-controlled double-blind test, right? Why not?
If I were spending $1000 for sound equipment just to play CDs, I'd spend $150 on the player, $150 on a receiver, and $700 on speakers.
The person indicated that he had started a new job at lower pay, because of the.com.bomb.
My wife lost her job int he.com.bomb as well.
IIRC, Right after my daughter was born, (or it might have been the summe my (now) ex-wife was pregnant) I did get a 15% raise outside of the usual corporate performance review cycle. Without asking for it. Great baby shower gift.
Maybe the requirement to print the EULA in a readable font on the outside of the package will encourage vendors to make them shorter and more comprehensible, and less restrictive.
Windows does not have any intentional backdoors, it's just an OS that was designed for features and the security of a "disconnected environment". The second everyone got onto the Internet,
In 1995
MS realized the importance of security as hole after hole was announced.
In 2002.
However, it's very difficult to take away features, and it takes a long time to role out a fundamentally different design.
Which is why it's important to design some features correctly in the first place. Compare Java's sandbox security model with Microsoft's certifications-based model, which says that malicious code can do anything it wants to your machine, as long as you know where it came from... unless it can fake that.
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I was a big fan of Metagaming (nee Metagaming Concepts), the company Steve Jackson was at while developing the precursors to GURPS. So I saw Melee and Wizard and the first The Fantasy Trip books as they were published in the late 1970s. I liked TFT much better than D&D, and I have a shelf full of GURPS books.
I think so. Closed Captioning was a $150 option... once it was mandatory, manufacturers found a way to include it on a 50 cent chip...
Hoth... that would be Ep. 5 _The_Empire_Strikes_Back_.
Which is the first film I saw where I thought "24 frames per second is just not enough".... I wish Douglas Trumball's ShowScan technology had caught on. 60 full frames per second!
Airlines. You think the airports appear without legislation?
Dihydrogen Monoxide, or DHMO.
It is also known as hydroxilic acid.
See www.dhmo.org for the full story.
You are just really, really confused.
Global Warming is not about expanding the volume of AIR around the earth. The "air ball" is no bigger, and not dragging on anything, and not changing the earth's orbit.
Even a nuclear war is unlikely to destroy all lifeforms. There are many changes we could, and maybe are, making that could upset the balance of ecology sufficient that modern "civilization" would no longer function, i.e. produce and distribute enough food to keep everyone alive.
Civilization is much more delicate than humanity which is much more delicate than life.
The earth is mostly a ball of iron.
No. There are only two video formats with any market penetration (PAL and NTSC. Long rest SECAM).
Aren't there seven regions?
Sigh.
//e. The brackets were last used on the Apple ][+.
//e could do a reasonable 80x24. Disk drives on the C-64 were godawful slow compared to the //e.
Every computer you saw in kindergarten was an Apple
The Commodore 64 had a dinky little 32x16 character display. The
Right. 'cause they're price conscious, and would probably drop $1100 on an eMac, or $900 on the old 15" CRT G3 iMac.
52x times 200 RPM = 10,000 RPM. CDs self destructed at 25,000 RPM. So you're safe... as long as the disk isn't cracked.
Bayer AG lost their "Aspirin" trademark because Germany lost World War I. It was taken from them, as part of limitations on Germany's chemical industries.
That $900 dell comes with a cheap CRT. Upgrade to the flat screen CRT and you've got a machine to compare against Apple's eMac, which starts at $1100. Only a $150 difference, and that assumes that desk space is free.
To compare the Dell to an iMac, you have to upgrade to a digital flat panel screen, and that costs $340.
So what happened with the bill? Did the Ethanol provisions stay in?
90% availability: down for a 5 weeks a year
99% availability: down for three and a half days a year
99.9% availability: down for eight hours a year
99.99% availability: down for 52 minutes a year
99.999% availability: down for 5 minutes a year
99.9999% availability (four nines):
down for 31 seconds per year
One part per million
99.99999% availability: (five nines):
down for 3 seconds a year
99.999999% availability: (six nines):
down for 300 milliseconds a year
"like winning the lottery".
Napolean? French knights? I think you need a history lesson...
Not quite. The first copy of the software has all the costs of development, regardless of whether costs have been recouped or not. The _marginal_ cost of the second copy of the software is near zero: copy the manual, burn another CD, ftp from a server.
Each copy of software also carries support costs. The more copies sold, the more people will call your support lines.
The challenge for the software publisher is to price software so that enough customers buy it to cover the cost of development.
Go see the movie again. Pay attention to the scene where HAL says "Just a minute... Just a minute... I have just detected a fault...." That IMHO is when HAL decided to off the crew, by breaking contact between the ship and earth.
And it occurrs before Dave or Whasshisname talk about disconnecting him.
Double-blind listening tests show that there are no audible differences between cheap audio amps (a $200 pioneer receiver, years ago) and very expensive audio amps (a pair of $10,000 each Conrad Johnson monoblocks) as long as the amps aren't driven to clipping.
You can believe that esoteric and expensive CD players sound better than cheap ones. But try and prove that sometime. If the difference is so significant, you should be able to show the difference in a well-controlled double-blind test, right? Why not?
If I were spending $1000 for sound equipment just to play CDs, I'd spend $150 on the player, $150 on a receiver, and $700 on speakers.
I/O on the PET was far slower than the Disk Drives on the Apple ][.
//e could display 80 columns of upper and lower case characters, I bought one. four-digit serial number. Still have it, too.
When the Apple
The person indicated that he had started a new job at lower pay, because of the .com .bomb.
.com .bomb as well.
My wife lost her job int he
IIRC, Right after my daughter was born, (or it might have been the summe my (now) ex-wife was pregnant) I did get a 15% raise outside of the usual corporate performance review cycle. Without asking for it. Great baby shower gift.
Why is that a problem for the consumer?
Maybe the requirement to print the EULA in a readable font on the outside of the package will encourage vendors to make them shorter and more comprehensible, and less restrictive.
In 1995
In 2002.
Which is why it's important to design some features correctly in the first place. Compare Java's sandbox security model with Microsoft's certifications-based model, which says that malicious code can do anything it wants to your machine, as long as you know where it came from... unless it can fake that.