No matter how much Russia threatens to freeze future arms control talks they STILl have yet to actually ratify the START II treaty and thus are merely bluffing. The START III talks, even they ever do occur, will most likely never produce a ratified treaty.
Furthermore the US has already passed a resolution to develop (or increase work on developing, a fully usable system should be available by 2005 or so at the latest, with 2003 the most common projected date) a National Missile Defense (NMD, often referred to popularly as "Star Wars") system so the ABM treaty needs to be renegotiated. Hence the current problems.
A chip like this, assuming that it will be properly supported and utilized in quality phones, is wonderful. The number of varying standards out there at the moment has simply gotten out of control. The problem, however, comes about when someone wants a chip that will do EVERYTHING, an Ubergadget if you well. In theory this might seem acceptable, but it would only lead to inferior devices. Take the example of integrated tv/vcr units. More often than not you get a poor quality television with a small viewing area and a low-grade vcr bundled in the same package for about the same price as higher quality individual units. Add to this the problems if one breaks down (harking back to the days of integrated keyboards and monitors being standard) and the device in question has lost most of its usefulness.
This trend IS out there. The PDQ smartphone (the one that integrates a PalmOS pocket computer and a cellular phone) is surfacing as one of the many early concepts on gadget integration. So long as the products remain of high quality and design we have little to fear, but should these catch on, or some of the less scrupulous types decide to market only integrated devices we may see it in other areas of computer and gagetry.
I was recently going off to see The Blair Witch Project, seeing as it was the second day of release I expected the lines to be incredibly long and possibly sold out. So, being the cunning eighteen year old lad that I am I went off at 3 that afternoon to buy tickets. Now I didn't expect any problems, me and my $9 got me two student tickets, one for me and my date later that night. But what did I find when I got to the box office? They refused to sell me two tickets since I wasn't 21. Even though I was over 17 they would only sell me one ticket. Even after pleading with the theater and using all known forms of logic they refused to relent. Not wanting to show up for my date without the tickets I was eventually able to get my parents to buy me the tickets.
The thing amazing me most of all though, was why Blair was rated anything over PG13 (although it would probably only actually scare a PG audience). The only reason I was sent through the gauntlet of this theater twice? The characters utter the "dreaded" f-word! OH MY! That I, at 18 might allow an impressionable 16 year old (hell, my date was older than me!) to hear words they use on a regular basis.
The only reason the theater chains continue these practices is because people don't complain. Until the mainstream media bothers to get around to this injustice nothing will get done.
Well, I and many of the others have been badgering him to finally do "OS Wizard" (you may have noticed it on Segfault a few months ago) but he has not succumbed yet... we know of his secret though and will spread word of his llama shagging ways... oh dammit! Ok..ok... just badger him until he does it.
Am I the only person who can remember when I was this age? 14,15,16 what have you. Did you ever try to get into these movies? Wheren't you "ready" to "handle" them? What is the problem with someone of ANY age going to see American Pie? Honestly. What will it do to a single person out there? Is it only mature, responsible adults who are capable of laughing at jokes of a sexual nature? Not at all. Think back to your own time in high school, most of us were making jokes that wouldn't even make thier way into most of these movies.
Sadly most people are severely out of touch with their past. Parents feel they have a right to mold thier children in the way they want, not the way that might be best or produce people capable of going off into society as productive, intelligent, happy people. Many parents feel that they're even acting in the best interests. SO I ask you, think back to when you were this age yourself and do what you know is best.
The thing that I'v always found most laughable about these debaates is how it is always considered wrong for the (in this case) theater owners or employees to make these sort of decisions, but it is considered fully ok for the aprents to make the same sort of arbitrary decision. When will the hypocrisy end? Shouldn't the person be able to make their own decisions? Somehow we have decided that 16 year olds are capable of driving, but not of making a rational decision on a much simpler and less dangerous issue. Should a petty, over-protective parent be allowed to maintain this same degree of control? This is the same type of petty power struggle that exists between theater owners and teens. So long as people consider it fine for parents to exercise this godlike control over the lives of their chldren we will continue to have the same problems. Only once people are allowed to make thier own decisions, regardless of age, will we be able to put this all behind us.
The point isn't whether it's a toy or a tool or both, bexcause a Palm Pilot is neither. Note I did not use the word "PDA" a PDA is like the Franklin REX, or those assorted slim little organisers. No, this is a handheld, palm computer. That is the only way you can think of it. How do I use mine? Well, in the same way as I use my computer. I have all sorts of fun little things on it as well as items of personal interest, books and reference materials, and all the other little bits and piece s of things that my computer does.
Science fiction has promised us that someday soon we'd have palm comupters and read books and newspapers on little handheld devices. Surprise! My Palm V does all this and more (as compared to the hideously overpriced Franklin "eBook"). Saddling a palm computer into the role of either tool or toy is demeaning and silly. You cannot classify a computer as one or the other b/c it's so much more than either of those terms can express.
In relation I simply cannot believe IT departments complaining. Palms are incredibly easy to use and update and require little maintenence. Installing programs is done in a few seconds and syncronizing, you just press the button. Either the people using the computers should not be allowed anywhere near one or the IT people are just complaining unnecessarily.
Ah, but how many of you out there can honestly say you have absolutely no intent of buying an action figure or two or maybe one of the lightsabres?
There is no need to worry about profitability on this film at all, it'll rake in tons of cash no matter what the plot was, if it was a well-written movie made for the fans we'd go see it as would th e little kids. Merchandise would still be sold at record levels. But by dumbing it down all Lucas gets is a few little kids and a bunch of angry geeks
>The most damming evidence is the >ever-annoying Jar Jar Binks.
Yesd, while Jar-Jar does help damn him, the most damning is that Anakin is a little kid. They wanted someone that little kids could easily relate to as opposed to developing a much, much better plot in which Anakin is Obi-Wan's apprentice.
As for the entire series pandering to little kids? Nah, I never saw them until I was a tad older than a little kid and I never "grew up" with Star Wars. The die-hard fans are most often NOT those who were enraptured as children.
However I have heard from an associate (who works for the theater company and got to see it the other night) that it really isn't that great, and just "ok".
Conclusion:Yeah,it'll be ok, but it won't add anything new except more Lucas moralizing to little kids... and the pathetically ruinous Anakid and Jar-Jar
People have fore years tried to find ways around theft of copyright and intellectual property as well as everyday common thuggery and where doe sit all go? The crooks just dfind some way to circumvent it, so we develop a new way to keep it safe, ad infinitum.
This watermarking scheme is no different. As well (from my knowledge on the subject) it would be incredibly irritating just to try and keep track of all of them and where they went and whom they were licensed to. MP3 may very well be a valid medium for musical distribution (ignoring the fact that at aroun 2 MB a song I wouldn't have near as many as I do CDs), but a strategy like this.... doomed to failure
Ok, since the linuxhardware site is just starting adn it doesn't have any info I'll turn to you, my fellow dotheads.
Now I'm upgrading my system, I mena upgrading, i'm going from a motherboard up thorugh a new processor, HD, RAM, the whole deal (well, ok,that's really all I'm doing). What I'd like to know is what motherbaord you'd reccomend for a Linux system. Right now I'm looking at the Asus P2B so I can slot in one of those nice little PII 450s. But keeping in mind I'm definately getting an Intel PII 450. As well, considering the price on the Asus board is at most $130, no way I'm spedning more'n that. Ah well, this is getting long so if you've read this far, you get a lollipop.. YAY!
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No matter how much Russia threatens to freeze future arms control talks they STILl have yet to actually ratify the START II treaty and thus are merely bluffing. The START III talks, even they ever do occur, will most likely never produce a ratified treaty.
Furthermore the US has already passed a resolution to develop (or increase work on developing, a fully usable system should be available by 2005 or so at the latest, with 2003 the most common projected date) a National Missile Defense (NMD, often referred to popularly as "Star Wars") system so the ABM treaty needs to be renegotiated. Hence the current problems.
A chip like this, assuming that it will be properly supported and utilized in quality phones, is wonderful. The number of varying standards out there at the moment has simply gotten out of control. The problem, however, comes about when someone wants a chip that will do EVERYTHING, an Ubergadget if you well. In theory this might seem acceptable, but it would only lead to inferior devices. Take the example of integrated tv/vcr units. More often than not you get a poor quality television with a small viewing area and a low-grade vcr bundled in the same package for about the same price as higher quality individual units. Add to this the problems if one breaks down (harking back to the days of integrated keyboards and monitors being standard) and the device in question has lost most of its usefulness.
This trend IS out there. The PDQ smartphone (the one that integrates a PalmOS pocket computer and a cellular phone) is surfacing as one of the many early concepts on gadget integration. So long as the products remain of high quality and design we have little to fear, but should these catch on, or some of the less scrupulous types decide to market only integrated devices we may see it in other areas of computer and gagetry.
Just a caution...
I was recently going off to see The Blair Witch Project, seeing as it was the second day of release I expected the lines to be incredibly long and possibly sold out. So, being the cunning eighteen year old lad that I am I went off at 3 that afternoon to buy tickets. Now I didn't expect any problems, me and my $9 got me two student tickets, one for me and my date later that night. But what did I find when I got to the box office? They refused to sell me two tickets since I wasn't 21. Even though I was over 17 they would only sell me one ticket. Even after pleading with the theater and using all known forms of logic they refused to relent. Not wanting to show up for my date without the tickets I was eventually able to get my parents to buy me the tickets.
The thing amazing me most of all though, was why Blair was rated anything over PG13 (although it would probably only actually scare a PG audience). The only reason I was sent through the gauntlet of this theater twice? The characters utter the "dreaded" f-word! OH MY! That I, at 18 might allow an impressionable 16 year old (hell, my date was older than me!) to hear words they use on a regular basis.
The only reason the theater chains continue these practices is because people don't complain. Until the mainstream media bothers to get around to this injustice nothing will get done.
Well, I and many of the others have been badgering him to finally do "OS Wizard" (you may have noticed it on Segfault a few months ago) but he has not succumbed yet... we know of his secret though and will spread word of his llama shagging ways... oh dammit! Ok..ok... just badger him until he does it.
Am I the only person who can remember when I was this age? 14,15,16 what have you. Did you ever try to get into these movies? Wheren't you "ready" to "handle" them? What is the problem with someone of ANY age going to see American Pie? Honestly. What will it do to a single person out there? Is it only mature, responsible adults who are capable of laughing at jokes of a sexual nature? Not at all. Think back to your own time in high school, most of us were making jokes that wouldn't even make thier way into most of these movies.
Sadly most people are severely out of touch with their past. Parents feel they have a right to mold thier children in the way they want, not the way that might be best or produce people capable of going off into society as productive, intelligent, happy people. Many parents feel that they're even acting in the best interests. SO I ask you, think back to when you were this age yourself and do what you know is best.
The thing that I'v always found most laughable about these debaates is how it is always considered wrong for the (in this case) theater owners or employees to make these sort of decisions, but it is considered fully ok for the aprents to make the same sort of arbitrary decision. When will the hypocrisy end? Shouldn't the person be able to make their own decisions? Somehow we have decided that 16 year olds are capable of driving, but not of making a rational decision on a much simpler and less dangerous issue. Should a petty, over-protective parent be allowed to maintain this same degree of control? This is the same type of petty power struggle that exists between theater owners and teens. So long as people consider it fine for parents to exercise this godlike control over the lives of their chldren we will continue to have the same problems. Only once people are allowed to make thier own decisions, regardless of age, will we be able to put this all behind us.
The point isn't whether it's a toy or a tool or both, bexcause a Palm Pilot is neither. Note I did not use the word "PDA" a PDA is like the Franklin REX, or those assorted slim little organisers. No, this is a handheld, palm computer. That is the only way you can think of it. How do I use mine? Well, in the same way as I use my computer. I have all sorts of fun little things on it as well as items of personal interest, books and reference materials, and all the other little bits and piece s of things that my computer does.
Science fiction has promised us that someday soon we'd have palm comupters and read books and newspapers on little handheld devices. Surprise! My Palm V does all this and more (as compared to the hideously overpriced Franklin "eBook"). Saddling a palm computer into the role of either tool or toy is demeaning and silly. You cannot classify a computer as one or the other b/c it's so much more than either of those terms can express.
In relation I simply cannot believe IT departments complaining. Palms are incredibly easy to use and update and require little maintenence. Installing programs is done in a few seconds and syncronizing, you just press the button. Either the people using the computers should not be allowed anywhere near one or the IT people are just complaining unnecessarily.
Just my $2,000,000^-8
Ah, but how many of you out there can honestly say you have absolutely no intent of buying an action figure or two or maybe one of the lightsabres?
There is no need to worry about profitability on this film at all, it'll rake in tons of cash no matter what the plot was, if it was a well-written movie made for the fans we'd go see it as would th e little kids. Merchandise would still be sold at record levels. But by dumbing it down all Lucas gets is a few little kids and a bunch of angry geeks
>The most damming evidence is the >ever-annoying Jar Jar Binks.
Yesd, while Jar-Jar does help damn him, the most damning is that Anakin is a little kid. They wanted someone that little kids could easily relate to as opposed to developing a much, much better plot in which Anakin is Obi-Wan's apprentice.
As for the entire series pandering to little kids? Nah, I never saw them until I was a tad older than a little kid and I never "grew up" with Star Wars. The die-hard fans are most often NOT those who were enraptured as children.
However I have heard from an associate (who works for the theater company and got to see it the other night) that it really isn't that great, and just "ok".
Conclusion:Yeah,it'll be ok, but it won't add anything new except more Lucas moralizing to little kids... and the pathetically ruinous Anakid and Jar-Jar
People have fore years tried to find ways around theft of copyright and intellectual property as well as everyday common thuggery and where doe sit all go? The crooks just dfind some way to circumvent it, so we develop a new way to keep it safe, ad infinitum.
This watermarking scheme is no different. As well (from my knowledge on the subject) it would be incredibly irritating just to try and keep track of all of them and where they went and whom they were licensed to. MP3 may very well be a valid medium for musical distribution (ignoring the fact that at aroun 2 MB a song I wouldn't have near as many as I do CDs), but a strategy like this.... doomed to failure
Ok, since the linuxhardware site is just starting adn it doesn't have any info I'll turn to you, my fellow dotheads.
Now I'm upgrading my system, I mena upgrading, i'm going from a motherboard up thorugh a new processor, HD, RAM, the whole deal (well, ok,that's really all I'm doing). What I'd like to know is what motherbaord you'd reccomend for a Linux system. Right now I'm looking at the Asus P2B so I can slot in one of those nice little PII 450s. But keeping in mind I'm definately getting an Intel PII 450. As well, considering the price on the Asus board is at most $130, no way I'm spedning more'n that. Ah well, this is getting long so if you've read this far, you get a lollipop.. YAY!