I will testify to their sturdiness! They are being used as blocks, to hold up my 1962 Jaguar XJ12 - itself another of those time-honored robust technologies, in contrast to today's delicate and tempermental flim-flams!
It somehow asserts in it's opening paragraph the MS acquired code from Apple, which acquired it - in turn - from Xerox PARC.
This is simple muddling of ideas: that imitating a technology and a design are somehow equivalent to acquring products and companies. It is a kind of intellectual laziness and shorthand, written by someone not particularly conversant in th edetails of either technology or business.
It also demonstrates a mastery of opinion over knowlege of the subject at hand. In particular, of Microsoft. I would venture to say that the author of the piece was not around to see the original Apple GUI, or the introduction of Windows 1.0 through 3.0.
A better, more accurate and relevant anecdote about Microsoft would be the semi-ethical acquisition of QDOS and Tim Patterson from Rod Brock and Seattle Computer products. This was the birth of MS, as IBM's OS supplier of choice, and propelled them from being a purveyor of ubiquitous BASIC ROMs, to the most cash-rich corporation in history (outside of banking.
Smug are we? You didn't look into the battery recall then.
I remember the first Aluminium PowerBooks. They became so hot, that the bottoms expanded to a convex shape after an hour of running. They tottered, wobbled and turned about, like a Weeble. This was really noticeable on the 12" models - where the footprint was so small, the curvature was really pronounced!
Now have the Sony exploding, flammable battery problem that Dell and Lenovo suffer from.
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Lessee. Seven 100Mb files for a.RAR archive from RapidShare.de certainly "equal" seven pages from PBSkids.org?
Crichton is an industry shill - and has been pretty well debunked. His writing here is an extended form of 'Straw Man' argument, and borrows it's pedagogical style of character portrayal from the pseudo-literature of Ayn Rand.
"All of these "educational" dialogues take the same format: A smart-guy character, holding forth in technical banter bearing little resemblance to spoken English, runs rings around a character who holds misguided beliefs that he or she cannot defend with reference to the scientific literature. These erroneous beliefs all hinge on the notion that the earth is warming significantly, that this has resulted at least in part from human activities, and that the consequences have begun to make themselves felt and could grow quite severe over time--a robust mainstream scientific view, although apparently not one shared by Crichton. Hilariously, at the end of his book Crichton states: "A novel such as State of Fear, in which so many divergent views are expressed, may lead the reader to wonder where, exactly, the author stands on these issues...." As if it wasn't obvious."...
"Let's face it: Such writing is pure porn for global warming deniers, in much the same way that fictional accounts of UFO abduction skeptics converting into true believers titillate UFO fans."
It IS a reaction of the otherwise powerless to the effacement of globalization and the supremacy of capital over people, culture and state. The crime of Israeli statehood in 1948 also provides an ongoing irritant.
Ultimately tho' "terror" is also almost statistically non-existant, but for media furore - exploted by the super-state. In a western, 'liberal democracy' it is more prudent to worry about traffic accidents, than concern oneself with radical terrorism.
I remember traveling in Ital and France in '85-'86. There was a tremendous scare that kept Americans at home - but travel became cheap! Other than the Carbinieri slinging automatic weapons in Rome, there was little to worry about. It is more so today.
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Test it on Dick Cheney's pacemaker. Those things have warning against retail anti-theft devices!
Then we can see if it's use is safe against the general population.
My 1983 Walkman has nothing to fear from Zune!
I slipped a typo. '62 NOT! '72 is the year.
The XJ's are Saloons, not sports - but the same truisms apply if you don't keep 'em up!
:-)
'Lectrics are fine, actually!
I drive the '89 XJ40 Vanden Plas. 'Cos it's BLACK, and powerful. I can afford parts, and the leather is tip-top.
The XJ12 is a Daimler Sovereign. Not all original.
Gingrich re-evaluates you!
Best .SIG!
Hoffa dissapeared YEARS before the introduction of the 88-Key!
I will testify to their sturdiness! They are being used as blocks, to hold up my 1962 Jaguar XJ12 - itself another of those time-honored robust technologies, in contrast to today's delicate and tempermental flim-flams!
It somehow asserts in it's opening paragraph the MS acquired code from Apple, which acquired it - in turn - from Xerox PARC.
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This is simple muddling of ideas: that imitating a technology and a design are somehow equivalent to acquring products and companies. It is a kind of intellectual laziness and shorthand, written by someone not particularly conversant in th edetails of either technology or business.
It also demonstrates a mastery of opinion over knowlege of the subject at hand. In particular, of Microsoft. I would venture to say that the author of the piece was not around to see the original Apple GUI, or the introduction of Windows 1.0 through 3.0.
A better, more accurate and relevant anecdote about Microsoft would be the semi-ethical acquisition of QDOS and Tim Patterson from Rod Brock and Seattle Computer products. This was the birth of MS, as IBM's OS supplier of choice, and propelled them from being a purveyor of ubiquitous BASIC ROMs, to the most cash-rich corporation in history (outside of banking.
Linkage:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Computer_Pro
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Paterson
Your ideas intrigue me, sir and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
That's the Xelibri.
That's a T4$ Hangover!
Heat to electricity? It's like my Powerbook, only in reverse!
Smug are we? You didn't look into the battery recall then.
I remember the first Aluminium PowerBooks. They became so hot, that the bottoms expanded to a convex shape after an hour of running. They tottered, wobbled and turned about, like a Weeble. This was really noticeable on the 12" models - where the footprint was so small, the curvature was really pronounced!
Now have the Sony exploding, flammable battery problem that Dell and Lenovo suffer from.
Lessee. Seven 100Mb files for a .RAR archive from RapidShare.de certainly "equal" seven pages from PBSkids.org?
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The instrument determines the measurement. What is the Pr0n content of this NSFW link? :
http://rapidshare.de/files/35028090/island4_hd.wm
Framebrate?
I must have been flaming myself!
That there was a joke, Son! A joke!
What are they teaching kids these days?
How low do you have to go?
Lead Panties.
Who put all that junk in your trunk?
http://www.csicop.org/doubtandabout/crichton/
Sure!
They are breaking off the Antartic ice shelf, as this thins and melts...
Once you swim the new northern polar navigational channel with me.
So. GMail married mutt! Doesn't that take the cake? In High School, they didn't even like each other!
Wasn't Stallman married to a DEC PDP System at one point?
Share the software, and you'll be free...
XYZZY
A catastrophe of biblical proportion!
It IS a reaction of the otherwise powerless to the effacement of globalization and the supremacy of capital over people, culture and state. The crime of Israeli statehood in 1948 also provides an ongoing irritant.
Ultimately tho' "terror" is also almost statistically non-existant, but for media furore - exploted by the super-state. In a western, 'liberal democracy' it is more prudent to worry about traffic accidents, than concern oneself with radical terrorism.
I remember traveling in Ital and France in '85-'86. There was a tremendous scare that kept Americans at home - but travel became cheap! Other than the Carbinieri slinging automatic weapons in Rome, there was little to worry about. It is more so today.