Are you aware of how many stations they own? Are you familiar with the concept of monopolies? ClearChannel owns most, if not all, of the music-oriented radio channels in my town.
It's sort of like the evil Simon owning most of the malls. It used to be fun to go to a different city's mall when on a business trip to kill the evening. (Ohhhh, I better not use that evil kill word.) Now most bloody (whoops) malls look pretty much the same. Most music stations sound pretty much the same these days - bland.
I'll take the 10th Anniversary Highlander on LD over DVD *ANY DAY*. Just because it's been transferred to DVD doesn't mean it looks better.
Although anything would look sweet on a thin-tube CRT hanging on my wall.:)
If you don't play in the realm for trading, and assuming you aren't playing for status, then why not play the TCP/IP mode and keep your character local. If you're playing for status, well, everyone in the realm is vulnerable to the inventory eating worm.
...imagine, you have a life, a girlfriend, and you spend, literally, your life with her... then, suddenly, she's hit by a car and is gone... that hurts.
it's all relative. it's only a game, folks.
Given that Diablo costs no more than most other games that DON'T provide a server-based online game, I actually wonder how Blizzard can afford to pay for battlenet. I don't believe for a second that the $35 I spent for D2 and the $32 I spent for D2:LOD multiplied by the number of copies sold can pay for the hardware and bandwidth that battlenet requires for 24x7 operation.
But think about his $250 auction. Given the hours it took to get to a level to find the bow, he's probably making all of $4/hour on time spent. He could have made more working at MickeyD's or Domino's.
No no, according to TOS, Cochrane was FROM Alpha Centauri; he was a Centaurian.
*sigh*. Let me type this slowly for you.
A. As mentioned, TOS was filled with inconsistencies.
B. As mentioned, in the ST world, Cochrane couldn't have invented the warp drive in Alpha Centauri. It's a matter of physics that apply even in the ST world.
C. I was born in California but live in Florida. When I visit another state and get asked "where are you from?" I respond with Florida as I'm a Floridian. It's not my state of birth. It's where I live now.
D. It's just a TV show, folks. Don't base your life on it, unless you really, really identified with Galaxy Quest.
I'm only kidding but you saying we're wasting money on sports research is the same as those rednecks who say NASA is the black hole of money.
Playing devil's advocate, there are many who theorize that the money spent on NASA/DOD programs that have commercial spin-offs would have gone further in the commercial sector in the first place due to NASA/DOD overhead and things like, oh, bombs, bullets, etc.
OTOH, the fear of losing a war can be a great motivator to the ingenuity of the DOD crowd (or the loss of human life or desire to reach the moon first IRT NASA) that the commercial sector might be missing.
And what history? First Contact already blew it with Cochrane on Earth rather than Alpha Centauri as mentioned in TOS. And he didn't look at all the same;)
Er, think about it. Cochrane 'invented' the warp drive. Before warp drive, there's no way he could have GOTTEN to Alpha Centauri. It's most likely that Cochrane moved to AC *after* inventing the drive.
OTOH, ST:TOS was full of inconsistencies, such as Kirk's middle initial/name.
If you think the movie ends "happily" then you didn't see the same AI I did. To quote Aliens 2, "game over". Not too many humans would consider the extinction of human life a happy ending.
Again, another shining example of denying the antecedent. Microsoft did pay taxes. They simply paid $0. They had to file. They had tax liability. However, due to IRS laws, they found a way to reduce that tax liability to zero, as did other corporations.
Uh, sorry, thanks for playing. You've fallen victim to denying the antecedent.
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I'm sorry, I have ZERO sympathy for the guy who wants to dial in to set his clock yet not pay for TiVo service.
First thing is if you set up a shell on your TiVo, you can connect from another PC and set your time manually. You never need to dial TiVo again.
Second, come on. The guy *KNEW* that TiVo expects a subscription. How can he rationally expect TiVo to be a viable company without subscriptions?
Third, if he wants TiVo-like functionality, he could have saved a bit on his $400 investment. Buy an ATI Radeon All-in-Wonder or a Hauppauge card. There are others as well.
The Radeon (Windows solution) comes with TV on demand software - Radeon features - that are free to use thanks to the Guide Plus+(TM) TV listings broadcast in North America.
the Hauppauge (Windows solution) - Hauppauge WinTV-PVR - even boasts about burning a show to CDR for watching on your DVD player - something TiVO CANNOT do.
ShowShifter - a Windows-based software package for ATI, Hauppauge, and Matrox capture cards.
I can see it now. Assuming that this page modification will only occur in IE and not in Mozilla/Opera, write a little JavaScript that redirects IE viewers to a pigged-page, where words are intentionally misspelled to thwart pattern-matching linking.
It's dangerous to compare the work ethic of the Japanese culture to the American. The attitude of the Japanese corporation towards the workers is very, very different than that of its American counterpart. Corporate Japan cares about the workforce. Corporate America could care less.
I know you want small and light-weight. Regardless, I advise you to reconsider. I've layed miles of LAN cable. I firmly believe good tools are worth the cost, mass, and displacement. Do yourself a favor and put these in your "away bag".
A cheap, light-weight tool that breaks at that remote site does you no good. And the torque required for a good crimp will simply wear out cheap frames. You'll be glad at that remote site when the tools work time and time again.
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Except science is looking into this stuff:
/. has run several threads on experiments at the atomic/small scale.
warp drive - variation on worm hole theory
force fields -
transporters - last year there was some article in one of the sciece magazines about quantum atomic pairs theory
phasers - er, where have you been? army's been playing with this stuff for a while now.
geez. where's a moderator's redundant point when it is needed.
Are you aware of how many stations they own? Are you familiar with the concept of monopolies? ClearChannel owns most, if not all, of the music-oriented radio channels in my town.
It's sort of like the evil Simon owning most of the malls. It used to be fun to go to a different city's mall when on a business trip to kill the evening. (Ohhhh, I better not use that evil kill word.) Now most bloody (whoops) malls look pretty much the same. Most music stations sound pretty much the same these days - bland.
I'll take the 10th Anniversary Highlander on LD over DVD *ANY DAY*. Just because it's been transferred to DVD doesn't mean it looks better. Although anything would look sweet on a thin-tube CRT hanging on my wall. :)
If you don't play in the realm for trading, and assuming you aren't playing for status, then why not play the TCP/IP mode and keep your character local. If you're playing for status, well, everyone in the realm is vulnerable to the inventory eating worm.
...imagine, you have a life, a girlfriend, and you spend, literally, your life with her... then, suddenly, she's hit by a car and is gone... that hurts. it's all relative. it's only a game, folks.
Given that Diablo costs no more than most other games that DON'T provide a server-based online game, I actually wonder how Blizzard can afford to pay for battlenet. I don't believe for a second that the $35 I spent for D2 and the $32 I spent for D2:LOD multiplied by the number of copies sold can pay for the hardware and bandwidth that battlenet requires for 24x7 operation.
But think about his $250 auction. Given the hours it took to get to a level to find the bow, he's probably making all of $4/hour on time spent. He could have made more working at MickeyD's or Domino's.
That's absolutely true if you spell car "R O L L S R O Y C E".
No no, according to TOS, Cochrane was FROM Alpha Centauri; he was a Centaurian.
*sigh*. Let me type this slowly for you.
A. As mentioned, TOS was filled with inconsistencies.
B. As mentioned, in the ST world, Cochrane couldn't have invented the warp drive in Alpha Centauri. It's a matter of physics that apply even in the ST world.
C. I was born in California but live in Florida. When I visit another state and get asked "where are you from?" I respond with Florida as I'm a Floridian. It's not my state of birth. It's where I live now.
D. It's just a TV show, folks. Don't base your life on it, unless you really, really identified with Galaxy Quest.
Playing devil's advocate, there are many who theorize that the money spent on NASA/DOD programs that have commercial spin-offs would have gone further in the commercial sector in the first place due to NASA/DOD overhead and things like, oh, bombs, bullets, etc.
OTOH, the fear of losing a war can be a great motivator to the ingenuity of the DOD crowd (or the loss of human life or desire to reach the moon first IRT NASA) that the commercial sector might be missing.
Er, think about it. Cochrane 'invented' the warp drive. Before warp drive, there's no way he could have GOTTEN to Alpha Centauri. It's most likely that Cochrane moved to AC *after* inventing the drive.
OTOH, ST:TOS was full of inconsistencies, such as Kirk's middle initial/name.
If you think the movie ends "happily" then you didn't see the same AI I did. To quote Aliens 2, "game over". Not too many humans would consider the extinction of human life a happy ending.
*sigh*
A movie is multimedia. A movie is IP. Should we be able to see movies for free? Who's going to pay the millions of dollars it takes to make a movie.
IP costs money to develop. If all IP is free, capitalism will QUICKLY collapse.
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SCREW BBCAmerica. I want Channel Four on the Dish.
All multimedia should be set free.
And the day after when you're sitting in the dark without utilities and the grocery stores don't stock food anymore...
Oh, what was that sound? That was the sound of capitalism crashing.
Again, another shining example of denying the antecedent. Microsoft did pay taxes. They simply paid $0. They had to file. They had tax liability. However, due to IRS laws, they found a way to reduce that tax liability to zero, as did other corporations.
Uh, sorry, thanks for playing. You've fallen victim to denying the antecedent.
I'm sorry, I have ZERO sympathy for the guy who wants to dial in to set his clock yet not pay for TiVo service.
First thing is if you set up a shell on your TiVo, you can connect from another PC and set your time manually. You never need to dial TiVo again.
Second, come on. The guy *KNEW* that TiVo expects a subscription. How can he rationally expect TiVo to be a viable company without subscriptions?
Third, if he wants TiVo-like functionality, he could have saved a bit on his $400 investment. Buy an ATI Radeon All-in-Wonder or a Hauppauge card. There are others as well.
If (and last time I check they do) corporations pay taxes, corporations have rights. Time to knock the stuffing out of your noggin.
I can see it now. Assuming that this page modification will only occur in IE and not in Mozilla/Opera, write a little JavaScript that redirects IE viewers to a pigged-page, where words are intentionally misspelled to thwart pattern-matching linking.
And the week aftr when he finds out his 60 GIG drive ain't really 60 gigs...
It's dangerous to compare the work ethic of the Japanese culture to the American. The attitude of the Japanese corporation towards the workers is very, very different than that of its American counterpart. Corporate Japan cares about the workforce. Corporate America could care less.
I know you want small and light-weight. Regardless, I advise you to reconsider. I've layed miles of LAN cable. I firmly believe good tools are worth the cost, mass, and displacement. Do yourself a favor and put these in your "away bag".
Cyclops for removing cable jacket.
AMP crimper with modules- RJ-11 and RJ-45
A cheap, light-weight tool that breaks at that remote site does you no good. And the torque required for a good crimp will simply wear out cheap frames. You'll be glad at that remote site when the tools work time and time again.