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Our New Pearl Harbor
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"In the City of God there will be a great thunder, Two brothers torn apprt by Chaos, while the fotress undures, the great leader will succumb" "The third big war will begin when the big City is burning"
quote -Nostradamus- 1654 n. C.
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This is not real
Just do a search on google for this phrase. If I make say a thousand prophecies that are fairly abstract for example:
In the City of God there will be a great thunder, Two brothers torn apart by Chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb
Well let us analyse this. For Example what does City of God mean? It could be Mecca, Medina, Rome, Jeruselum, Salt Lake City, or any holy city depending on your religion. What do I mean by thunder--a storm? War? EarthQuake? lots of stuff can be described by thunder. There are a lot of two brothers on this world (I think the Number runs among the Billions) and fortress edure's what--Besiegement, Famine, etc? What Great Leader? How will he succumb? To what?
Why should people care what happens outside their game? Sorry.. welcome to the real world. If something has value to someone else, then cash can be exchanged for it.
If they wanted the real world, they wouldn't be playing a game.
Now, unfortunately, come the repercussions in our copyright/patent/IP-obsessed age. Now that someone can whip up things easily, we're going to see a repeat of the fears that led us to the DMCA, et al. These machines could concievably duplicate something you don't have the right to - time for massive government controls!
Consider the IP ramifications of having 2 Trek-style replicators. The replicator company would feel like Sony.
For the interested, the outside packaging of "A Tribute to Jim Reeves" says this:
This audio CD is protected by SunnComm MediaCloQ (TM) version 1.0.
It is designed to play in stardard Audio CD players only and is not intended for use in DVD players.
Licensed copies of all music on this CD are available for downloading.
Simply insert CD into your computer to begin.
On the inside, there's an insert that says this:
Thank you for purchasing Charley Pride's "A tribute to Jim Reeves." This product is protected with SunComm's MediaCloq (TM) Digital Content Cloaking Technology designed to prevent unauthorized duplication or distribution of Digital Original(TM) audio files. To listen to "A Tribute to Jim Reeves" on your computer,
1. Log on to the internet.
2. Once you have established your connection, insert cd
3. MediaCloQ (TM) will do the rest.
Actually, that's not correct either. The job of The Supreme Court is to determine the validity of laws. Your average Circuit court just decides whether you've broken a law, without regard to the validity of that law. That's why only the Supreme Court can declare a law unconstitutional, and circuit courts aren't blasting acts of Congress left and right.
While neither the Supreme Court nor any other court has an explicit Constitutional mandate, the circuit courts seem to think they can declare laws unconsitutional as well.
If you have not noticed the news on the sales of new computers being very low as of late then it might suprise you that OEMs will do anything to cut costs and unless there is a huge public outcry they will not bother with it.
I'd think the support costs would justify the inclusion of the JVM. I imagine all sorts of people calling to ask why certain web sites are broken.
JScript (as opposed to Javascript), Visual Basic, Bookmarks, Web Caches, Web Proxies and other "high-level" functionality.
Visual Basic? I wouldn't have expected to see that in a list of browser handlers. Can you provide an example of Visual Basic acting as a part of a web browser?
I feel that if the auto industry truly had the grip that it did on politics at the time, I don't think it should have *supported* the clean air act, yet oddly enough, most did.
It would almost seem as if it was an attempt to *prevent* people from doing their own customizing and design, and rather have them pay full price for big auto's machine instead.
I was going to mod this down, but there isn't a '-1: Paranoid'.
Another thing I just thought of... skin cancer rates rising as our "fashions" bare more skin to the sun. I mean, less than 100 years ago, people would go out in frickin' long sleeves and jeans in the middle of summer.
Along those same lines, we've knocked down a bunch of trees in recent history.
C99 is an update to straight C-standard. It picks up a few features of C++ (e.g.// comments) and general mishmash. Much of it is already supported by modern compilers.
I know it's becoming common usage, but region 0 is a silly thing to call a disc without regional restriction. If there's no CSS, there are no region bits. They aren't zero; the field is just absent. On the other hand, a CSS encrypted all-region disc would have all 1s in the field.
To determine whether or not to play a disc, the player has to logically AND the disc's region with the region code. As in:
Ok, maybe. What grants the "authority of the United States"? The Constitution.
The President swears to defend the Constitution when he takes office, and I would call the violation of the Constitution through treaty treasonous. I think your bit with the monarchy makes it pretty clear that the framers didn't intend for a treaty to match the Constitution in power.
Fortunately, we don't have to aim for lossless compression. MPEG4 works wonders....
MPEG-4 is a Good Thing, but with the storage available in this hypothetical box I suspect that you'd want to keep the original quality. NTSC MPEG-4 at 6Mbps looks pretty much the same as NTSC MPEG-2 at 6Mbps. The payoff for MPEG-4 comes at the really low video bitrates at which MPEG-2 looks like crap.
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Normal fuel meaning diesel?
It was something similar. Craig Maloney did a review of Linux Game Programming .
That's odd. I got 5 hits.
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If they wanted the real world, they wouldn't be playing a game.
Consider the IP ramifications of having 2 Trek-style replicators. The replicator company would feel like Sony.
According to these guys, that logo implies conformance to Red Book.
If it didn't look significantly better, it wasn't HD.
John Marshall seized the power of Judicial Review in the case of Marbury v. Madison.
JScript (as opposed to Javascript), Visual Basic, Bookmarks, Web Caches, Web Proxies and other "high-level" functionality. Visual Basic? I wouldn't have expected to see that in a list of browser handlers. Can you provide an example of Visual Basic acting as a part of a web browser?
For most Americans, a running car is a necessity while the computer is a hobby.
Cars are mostly more expensive than cars.
A botched car repair might kill folks.
Now, that doesn't give the computer novice the right to complain if his "repair" disables his sound card. But I can see how a guy could get there.
Kuro5hin ran a story on this.
To determine whether or not to play a disc, the player has to logically AND the disc's region with the region code. As in:
if( (discs_region_mask & player_region)==0 )
do_not_play_the_disc();
else
play_the_disc();
It would be more appropriate to call an unrestricted disc region 255. If the mask is 0, that would be a disc that would play in no regions.
The President swears to defend the Constitution when he takes office, and I would call the violation of the Constitution through treaty treasonous. I think your bit with the monarchy makes it pretty clear that the framers didn't intend for a treaty to match the Constitution in power.
The goal isn't always to reproduce the original.