Planes fly in a mostly-straight line. Trains go through cities, on fixed tracks, and there can't be a huge number of direct trans-continental lines, along with a lot of stops. Your Boston-Denver run would probably be a Boston-NY-Cleveland-Chicago-St. Louis-Kansas City-Denver run, and would probably take a full day. And in today's climate, you're gonna spend just as much time in the train depot security as you would in an airplane. For short trips (San Diego-LA, or Boston-DC) it'd be faster, but there are already those rail lines, and they're already cheaper than planes.
Hopefully Nokia and friends will keep Disney in check. If the standard's aren't end-user friendly the techies know they'll lose money, just like all the other systems being driven by the entertainment industry.
PC's that come with windoze pre-installed by the OEM present the EULA the first time you boot, and won't let you go into windows without clicking "accept". What if you sell the PC? M$ probably argues that they have to get all the material including the printed licenses or some crap like that.
That's why they'll do a search for "Cable Modem Subscriber" AND NOT "Cable Subscriber" in their database, and be out next week to filter that 0.1% of their subscribers.
Granted, the resolution on your monitor is higher. And I'll bet the picture is tinu, and you're sitting two feet from the screen. If you want to be kicked in the nuts while you're playing, check out any high-quality PS2 game over component video to a 36" WEGA, with digital audio into a good receiver and a couple of 150w tower speakers & sub.
It's not as if autonomous weapons are something new. And this is a heck of a lot better than the cruise missle's "Go to the following GPS coordinates and explode" technique. Or the ICBM's "burn your engines on this trajectory, and then when you get close to the ground again, blow up".
Or you can have the service tech call in the modem and get it provisioned over the phone... cable modems always have to be registered at the home office; otherwise you could just but a cable modem, plug it in, and have it work.
When I had ATT broadband install in seattle, my computer was down (blown HD). He just left the software (@Home crap). The service order paper had the host ID, so after he was gone I popped that into the router (that he never saw). Hooked up the laptop (also never seen). Router's great, and guess what? I NEVER clicked their stupid TOS agreement. Never even saw it. So how could they bust me for breaking the TOS? Fun stuff.
No, but we do have laws about what can be SAID to minors. Ever wonder why you don't see alcohol/firearm/pRon billboards across the street from schools? And the self-policing done by the MPAA was created to forestall government getting into the act. When it was being blatantly ignored by the majority of movie theaters (selling R- tickets to minors) there were a lot of calls for government regulation. The vid. game industry tried to put a similar scheme in place, but isn't enforcing it. When self-policing doesn't work, it's a good bet the gummerment's gonna get involved.
This isn't about limiting minor's rights of expression, it's about limiting the expression (sale or rental) of materials to minors. And since it's commercial speach being directed at minors, it gets almost no protection.
Absolutely. Any documents written on company property during the course of business belong to the company. You do have a reasonable expectation of privacy for your personal effects (purses, bags, etc.) but anything in your desk, documents, etc. are company property. Check your employee handbooks and read the fine print; it's all there in darth-vader detail.
If anybody wants to do this, I'd recommend using "tough tags"-- if you know somebody who works in a lab they probably have some. They're designed to stick to plastic even at liquid nitrogen temperatures. There's NO way to pull them off a plastic wrapper without tearing the wrapper;>.
Maybe not the state health departments that barefooters.org checked with-- in my high school job (many moons ago) it was the local health inspector/secret police that would pitch a fit if you didn't have the no shirt/no shoes/no service sign. The store didn't have a choice.
Just have a spaceship with a revolving section for the crew to live (interact) in. Make the cockpit zero-G for cool special effects. No big budget, easy to do with CG, real physics problem solved. Kubrick figured it out for 2001, and nobody's improved on it yet.
Space ships and six-shooters. Scary humans as the vicious bad-guys, no aliens, no magical powers. Maybe have an ex-mafia guy trying to outrun his past as the protagonist. Maybe have an ex-cop as his partner. Add some hackers, a cute female or two. Plenty of gritty, rough lighting. Good music, maybe some jazz, with good blues harmonica added in for good measure. Plenty of martial arts for the action sequences. Seems to remind me of something I saw lately.....
The 1.x linux kernel doesn't support it, either. I guess that means Linux is lagging behind. I'm as much of a linux person as anybody else here, but why beat up on M$ for not adding support for new devices to their old OS's?
The conductivity of your average home source RO water is going to be plenty high enough to allow your mobo to short out. Even if you had a Barnstead at home, the water is going to leach enough stuff out of the piping to bring the resistance down to fry-point pretty quickly. Oh yeah, and ultra-low conductivity water is hell on most metals.
Of course, let's return the Uni to the days when you actually went to class to learn. Get rid of grade inflation, get rid of people getting degrees for four years of partying. After that, if people still want to browse in class, let 'em.
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But for many people, DIGITAL COPY -> DGTL CPY, so what's the diff anyway? Unless you store uncompressed wav's?
Planes fly in a mostly-straight line. Trains go through cities, on fixed tracks, and there can't be a huge number of direct trans-continental lines, along with a lot of stops. Your Boston-Denver run would probably be a Boston-NY-Cleveland-Chicago-St. Louis-Kansas City-Denver run, and would probably take a full day. And in today's climate, you're gonna spend just as much time in the train depot security as you would in an airplane. For short trips (San Diego-LA, or Boston-DC) it'd be faster, but there are already those rail lines, and they're already cheaper than planes.
Hopefully Nokia and friends will keep Disney in check. If the standard's aren't end-user friendly the techies know they'll lose money, just like all the other systems being driven by the entertainment industry.
PC's that come with windoze pre-installed by the OEM present the EULA the first time you boot, and won't let you go into windows without clicking "accept". What if you sell the PC? M$ probably argues that they have to get all the material including the printed licenses or some crap like that.
Guess who's NOT flying to Philly in November?
Go live with a system like this without any real world testing at a major airport? Nothankyoo
That's why they'll do a search for "Cable Modem Subscriber" AND NOT "Cable Subscriber" in their database, and be out next week to filter that 0.1% of their subscribers.
Granted, the resolution on your monitor is higher. And I'll bet the picture is tinu, and you're sitting two feet from the screen. If you want to be kicked in the nuts while you're playing, check out any high-quality PS2 game over component video to a 36" WEGA, with digital audio into a good receiver and a couple of 150w tower speakers & sub.
It's to make the other guy die for his.
It's not as if autonomous weapons are something new. And this is a heck of a lot better than the cruise missle's "Go to the following GPS coordinates and explode" technique. Or the ICBM's "burn your engines on this trajectory, and then when you get close to the ground again, blow up".
Or you can have the service tech call in the modem and get it provisioned over the phone... cable modems always have to be registered at the home office; otherwise you could just but a cable modem, plug it in, and have it work.
When I had ATT broadband install in seattle, my computer was down (blown HD). He just left the software (@Home crap). The service order paper had the host ID, so after he was gone I popped that into the router (that he never saw). Hooked up the laptop (also never seen). Router's great, and guess what? I NEVER clicked their stupid TOS agreement. Never even saw it. So how could they bust me for breaking the TOS? Fun stuff.
Mission Valley 20.... man I'm glad I moved to San Diego
No, but we do have laws about what can be SAID to minors. Ever wonder why you don't see alcohol/firearm/pRon billboards across the street from schools? And the self-policing done by the MPAA was created to forestall government getting into the act. When it was being blatantly ignored by the majority of movie theaters (selling R- tickets to minors) there were a lot of calls for government regulation. The vid. game industry tried to put a similar scheme in place, but isn't enforcing it. When self-policing doesn't work, it's a good bet the gummerment's gonna get involved.
This isn't about limiting minor's rights of expression, it's about limiting the expression (sale or rental) of materials to minors. And since it's commercial speach being directed at minors, it gets almost no protection.
Absolutely. Any documents written on company property during the course of business belong to the company. You do have a reasonable expectation of privacy for your personal effects (purses, bags, etc.) but anything in your desk, documents, etc. are company property. Check your employee handbooks and read the fine print; it's all there in darth-vader detail.
The more they tighten their grip, the more we'll slip through their fingers ;>
If anybody wants to do this, I'd recommend using "tough tags"-- if you know somebody who works in a lab they probably have some. They're designed to stick to plastic even at liquid nitrogen temperatures. There's NO way to pull them off a plastic wrapper without tearing the wrapper ;>.
Maybe not the state health departments that barefooters.org checked with-- in my high school job (many moons ago) it was the local health inspector/secret police that would pitch a fit if you didn't have the no shirt/no shoes/no service sign. The store didn't have a choice.
Just have a spaceship with a revolving section for the crew to live (interact) in. Make the cockpit zero-G for cool special effects. No big budget, easy to do with CG, real physics problem solved. Kubrick figured it out for 2001, and nobody's improved on it yet.
Space ships and six-shooters. Scary humans as the vicious bad-guys, no aliens, no magical powers. Maybe have an ex-mafia guy trying to outrun his past as the protagonist. Maybe have an ex-cop as his partner. Add some hackers, a cute female or two. Plenty of gritty, rough lighting. Good music, maybe some jazz, with good blues harmonica added in for good measure. Plenty of martial arts for the action sequences. Seems to remind me of something I saw lately.....
The 1.x linux kernel doesn't support it, either. I guess that means Linux is lagging behind. I'm as much of a linux person as anybody else here, but why beat up on M$ for not adding support for new devices to their old OS's?
Yes, billions of rubles and $Canadien. Totals out to about $14.92, right?
Sounds like a good way to get a permanent vacation in the Langely basement....
What about a silmarilion miniseries? If you had a budget of >$1billion, you might be able to pull something decent off.
The conductivity of your average home source RO water is going to be plenty high enough to allow your mobo to short out. Even if you had a Barnstead at home, the water is going to leach enough stuff out of the piping to bring the resistance down to fry-point pretty quickly. Oh yeah, and ultra-low conductivity water is hell on most metals.
Unless you're running windowblinds, that is (if you have to run windows, at least you can make it look a little better)
Of course, let's return the Uni to the days when you actually went to class to learn. Get rid of grade inflation, get rid of people getting degrees for four years of partying. After that, if people still want to browse in class, let 'em.