Actually I've never watched Law & Order. I happen to work for a Fortune 500 company that has had the honor of being sued in small-claims court from time to time. Normally these suits are settled out of court as it's not worth a plane ticket and someone's time to go out and fight over whatever issue but we have sent people from our customer relations department to court when it's a local issue or some "principle" is involved.
Even better. IANAL, but I've been told that you can't send a lawyer to represent you in small claims court. So a company has to send a company official to represent them vs. a locally-hired lawyer... Or settle...
You're crazy. The obvious reason they're doing this is to move the lucrative "conceive at the magnetic north pole" market to Mother Russia!! It's quite obviously a communist plot.
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There are 100 Billion stars in the milky way and 200 known galaxies in the "Known" universe. Most of the galaxies we can see from the earth are vastly larger -- and vastly older than any star in our galaxy.
You're a little off there. There are at least 50 billion galaxies in the known universe and probably far more. That's generally considered a lower bounds, most places I've read estimate more like 100 - 400 billion.
Also, while there are certainly galaxies out there larger than ours, ours does seem to be about average, ~100 billion stars. So what's a 100 billion squared? 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 , 10e21. Just a few more than your 20 trillion...;)
Don't you watch Futurama? Once we're all immortal heads-in-jars, those of use who've developed our time-wasting skills on video games will have a massive head-start in one of the only forms of entertainment left to us! You damned sports-playing jocks will be left in the dust!!
MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
You know, either that or we're conditioning ourselves to be obese slugs that never have to leave our warrens, just being constantly plugged into Hyper-Reality (TM) and having our nutrition and good feelings piped in intravenously. mmmmmm.... intravenous feel-good
Hollywood does NOT like the democrats (much) these days
I don't think this is really the case amongst those Hollywood-types that have the money to make a difference. They realize that politics is often about steam and hot air. I doubt that Gore would have done much at all to cut into their bottom line. He is (was) a national-level politician after all.
but I shudder to think what would have happened if Bush wasn't in the white house on 9/11.
This is another attitude I don't understand. What do you think would've happened if Gore or even Nader were in office? With the national polls running 90+% to go kick Bin Laden's ass either one of them would've done the same damned thing or they'd have been impeached or overruled by the Congress or whatever. I think you could've put Gandhi in the president's seat and it wouldn't have delayed military action by more than a few days. Am I that wrong in my thinking?
It seems to me all that he was doing was to try to prove the date was wrong. He also offers several alternate reasons as to why wearing clothes may have become the societal norm. It seems to me the nut here may be yourself.
IBM at least hasn't completely cleared out of the desktop market. Their workstations and business-class machines and a few consumer-grade boxes are still being sold direct order so that they can still be a "total solution provider". You need 3000 desktops to go with that server farm you just bought and a guarantee that they'll interoperate? No problem... right?:)
It's not the "stupid creators", it's the stupid Sci-Fi Channel. Originally the episodes were slated to air in January but some brilliant exec decided to wait until April in order to minimize the gap between the end of the third season and the beginning of the fourth for whatever dumbass reason....
The moon isn't all that close. Even Hubble can only get a resolution on the order of 100-meters or so. Pretty impressive, but far too large to discern a lander.
You do know that that's an urban myth? [or rural myth as the case may be?:) ]
Check here for details.
This study was done using a 150gr M2 Ball bullet that dropped from muzzle velocity of 2700 f/s to ~300 f/s on reimpact. The terminal velocity of a shotgun pellet would be even less.
The vast majority of machines IBM sold in 1995 with OS/2 were OS/2 - Win 3.1 dual-boot machines. When Win95 came around they were offering machines as soon as it was released and several machines with "free upgrade CD's" in the months prior to release.
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In XP you can shut off UPNP under administrative tools > services. I'd disable it altogether and not just stop it. As far as I know there's not a single UPNP device on the market, not even the XBOX is UPNP. Pretty useless.
You come up with a battery that can store 250 kilowatt hours in a fraction of a second and I'll start working on a way to predict where the lightning will strike... We'll be rich!!!:)
A lightning charge contains an average of 30 million volts at 100,000 amperes and the upstroke from ground to cloud takes about 1/10,000th of a second.
He's talking of something that would be reporting to a government archive. Assumedly the only time something in this archive could be used against you would be in a court of law. He says all the images and voice would be cryptographically cross-signed to prevent easy fakes. Also that the devices themselves would be strongly tamper-resistant, e.g. they report themselves to the government whenever anything happens to try and crack them open. Sure, it wouldn't prevent someone dressing up like you and doing whatever, but geez, that possibility is out there right now with camcorders... He's just talking about making it widespread.
His distinguishing bit is having each device be inextricably linked back to a real person. There would obviously be some sort of penalty to call in false reports. The anonymous piece is what he believes would be very destabilizing.
As a forenote, I am not the AC to whom you are responding with this post.
I am probably what you'd call a Deist though I still drink heavily from the trough of doubt from time to time. I have many Christian friends having grown up in the Southern U.S. and I most certainly respect a person's right to their own beliefs. Most of my family is Protestant Christian. Your belief in the sanctity of life is well-presented, though it is arguable that Jesus knowingly going to his death is committing suicide via inaction. It is also arguable that many self-professed Christians have little regard for this same sanctity when it comes to day-to-day life.
However, I must take exception to your reference to answersingenesis.org as being "evidence for creation". It most assuredly is not. At best it attempts to debunk the theory of evolution (which it does a terrible job of) without presenting a competing "Theory of Creation". Every argument I've ever seen from that site has been thoroughly debunked, most of them on talkorigins.org. It may behoove you to do a little more of that "thinking for yourself" before endorsing such an intellectually bankrupt site.
Well, for the sake of posterity and the possibility you check your comment records, the only reason the PS2 plays PS1 games is that they have the PS1 chip in the PS2. Wouldn't have to do that with a straight x86 architecture.
I'm no hardware guru myself, but it seems that there is a good reason for them going this route.
One, they don't have to build the architecture from the ground up. Two, it's a readily available piece of hardware (read cheap, not custom built) that is being actively worked on to make it faster (read Intel CPU development), leading to easier upgradeability down the road. Imagine how easy the X-Box 2 will be to make with a Pentium 4 and provide backward compatibility with X-Box 1 titles. Three, these CPU's are no slouches when it comes to games. You have to remember a lot of the high-end CPU market is aimed at capturing gamers as they tend to be one of the largest market segments for high-end hardware. And at one point in time, P3's were high-end hardware competing with K6-3's and later on, Athlons. Their MMX routines and fast FPU performance made them the gamers choice until faster Athlons arrived on the scene. Anyway, the NVIDIA chip in the box makes up for any real shortfalls in the P3, IMO.
Athlon t-bird 750 is $50 + s&h (probably another $10-$15) OEM. Duron 750 is $33, less than $50 with s&h. Duron 950 should run pretty close if not better than a P3-750 and it's $48 + s&h. P3's are still overpriced. Athlon 1.33 / 266 fsb are around $100 w/ s&h
Everyone I'm seeing in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg is giving this rave reviews so far. Of course, these are just first impressions as the game just came out yesterday...
This game is PHENOMENAL. I am SO going to get in trouble by my wife for staying up so late, but man, it's GOOD! - Plissken
But the true beauty of the game lies in the gameplay... wow. All other developers out there... this is what turn-based, tactical, Role-Playing combat is supposed to be. - Aether
This is true "old-school" RPGing...in the same legacy as Dungeon Master, Bard's Tale, Might & Magic, and of course Wizardry. This game is beautiful, deep and addicting. - Tachyon
The real strengh is the flexibility...so many classes, races, and skills. It makes BG2 look like a console RPG, IMHO - bad sushi
Hopefully I'm within my fair use rights as these are just excerpts and the authors, as they are, are attributed...:)
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Actually I've never watched Law & Order. I happen to work for a Fortune 500 company that has had the honor of being sued in small-claims court from time to time. Normally these suits are settled out of court as it's not worth a plane ticket and someone's time to go out and fight over whatever issue but we have sent people from our customer relations department to court when it's a local issue or some "principle" is involved.
Even better. IANAL, but I've been told that you can't send a lawyer to represent you in small claims court. So a company has to send a company official to represent them vs. a locally-hired lawyer... Or settle ...
OHNO! That's terrible! How come no one ever told me before?!? God forbid that a cat ever be bewildered!!!
You're crazy. The obvious reason they're doing this is to move the lucrative "conceive at the magnetic north pole" market to Mother Russia!! It's quite obviously a communist plot.
You're a little off there. There are at least 50 billion galaxies in the known universe and probably far more. That's generally considered a lower bounds, most places I've read estimate more like 100 - 400 billion.
Also, while there are certainly galaxies out there larger than ours, ours does seem to be about average, ~100 billion stars. So what's a 100 billion squared? 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 , 10e21. Just a few more than your 20 trillion
Don't you watch Futurama? Once we're all immortal heads-in-jars, those of use who've developed our time-wasting skills on video games will have a massive head-start in one of the only forms of entertainment left to us! You damned sports-playing jocks will be left in the dust!!
MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
You know, either that or we're conditioning ourselves to be obese slugs that never have to leave our warrens, just being constantly plugged into Hyper-Reality (TM) and having our nutrition and good feelings piped in intravenously.
mmmmmm.... intravenous feel-good
I don't think this is really the case amongst those Hollywood-types that have the money to make a difference. They realize that politics is often about steam and hot air. I doubt that Gore would have done much at all to cut into their bottom line. He is (was) a national-level politician after all.
This is another attitude I don't understand. What do you think would've happened if Gore or even Nader were in office? With the national polls running 90+% to go kick Bin Laden's ass either one of them would've done the same damned thing or they'd have been impeached or overruled by the Congress or whatever. I think you could've put Gandhi in the president's seat and it wouldn't have delayed military action by more than a few days. Am I that wrong in my thinking?
It seems to me all that he was doing was to try to prove the date was wrong. He also offers several alternate reasons as to why wearing clothes may have become the societal norm.
It seems to me the nut here may be yourself.
IBM at least hasn't completely cleared out of the desktop market. Their workstations and business-class machines and a few consumer-grade boxes are still being sold direct order so that they can still be a "total solution provider". You need 3000 desktops to go with that server farm you just bought and a guarantee that they'll interoperate? No problem ... right? :)
It's not the "stupid creators", it's the stupid Sci-Fi Channel. Originally the episodes were slated to air in January but some brilliant exec decided to wait until April in order to minimize the gap between the end of the third season and the beginning of the fourth for whatever dumbass reason ....
The moon isn't all that close. Even Hubble can only get a resolution on the order of 100-meters or so. Pretty impressive, but far too large to discern a lander.
Recent biometrics equipment can tell the difference between live and dead fingers and eyeballs to prevent just such a thing from happening.
You do know that that's an urban myth? [or rural myth as the case may be? :) ]
Check here for details.
This study was done using a 150gr M2 Ball bullet that dropped from muzzle velocity of 2700 f/s to ~300 f/s on reimpact. The terminal velocity of a shotgun pellet would be even less.
The vast majority of machines IBM sold in 1995 with OS/2 were OS/2 - Win 3.1 dual-boot machines. When Win95 came around they were offering machines as soon as it was released and several machines with "free upgrade CD's" in the months prior to release.
In XP you can shut off UPNP under administrative tools > services. I'd disable it altogether and not just stop it. As far as I know there's not a single UPNP device on the market, not even the XBOX is UPNP. Pretty useless.
You come up with a battery that can store 250 kilowatt hours in a fraction of a second and I'll start working on a way to predict where the lightning will strike... We'll be rich!!! :)
A lightning charge contains an average of 30 million volts at 100,000 amperes and the upstroke from ground to cloud takes about 1/10,000th of a second.
He's talking of something that would be reporting to a government archive. Assumedly the only time something in this archive could be used against you would be in a court of law. He says all the images and voice would be cryptographically cross-signed to prevent easy fakes. Also that the devices themselves would be strongly tamper-resistant, e.g. they report themselves to the government whenever anything happens to try and crack them open. Sure, it wouldn't prevent someone dressing up like you and doing whatever, but geez, that possibility is out there right now with camcorders... He's just talking about making it widespread.
His distinguishing bit is having each device be inextricably linked back to a real person. There would obviously be some sort of penalty to call in false reports. The anonymous piece is what he believes would be very destabilizing.
As a forenote, I am not the AC to whom you are responding with this post.
I am probably what you'd call a Deist though I still drink heavily from the trough of doubt from time to time. I have many Christian friends having grown up in the Southern U.S. and I most certainly respect a person's right to their own beliefs. Most of my family is Protestant Christian. Your belief in the sanctity of life is well-presented, though it is arguable that Jesus knowingly going to his death is committing suicide via inaction. It is also arguable that many self-professed Christians have little regard for this same sanctity when it comes to day-to-day life.
However, I must take exception to your reference to answersingenesis.org as being "evidence for creation". It most assuredly is not. At best it attempts to debunk the theory of evolution (which it does a terrible job of) without presenting a competing "Theory of Creation". Every argument I've ever seen from that site has been thoroughly debunked, most of them on talkorigins.org. It may behoove you to do a little more of that "thinking for yourself" before endorsing such an intellectually bankrupt site.
I bet the Edonkey will be flying tonight with all that freed up bandwidth!!
Oh wait, all them files are hosted by cable-modem users? Damn it!
Well, for the sake of posterity and the possibility you check your comment records, the only reason the PS2 plays PS1 games is that they have the PS1 chip in the PS2. Wouldn't have to do that with a straight x86 architecture.
I'm no hardware guru myself, but it seems that there is a good reason for them going this route.
One, they don't have to build the architecture from the ground up. Two, it's a readily available piece of hardware (read cheap, not custom built) that is being actively worked on to make it faster (read Intel CPU development), leading to easier upgradeability down the road. Imagine how easy the X-Box 2 will be to make with a Pentium 4 and provide backward compatibility with X-Box 1 titles. Three, these CPU's are no slouches when it comes to games. You have to remember a lot of the high-end CPU market is aimed at capturing gamers as they tend to be one of the largest market segments for high-end hardware. And at one point in time, P3's were high-end hardware competing with K6-3's and later on, Athlons. Their MMX routines and fast FPU performance made them the gamers choice until faster Athlons arrived on the scene. Anyway, the NVIDIA chip in the box makes up for any real shortfalls in the P3, IMO.
Athlon t-bird 750 is $50 + s&h (probably another $10-$15) OEM. Duron 750 is $33, less than $50 with s&h. Duron 950 should run pretty close if not better than a P3-750 and it's $48 + s&h. P3's are still overpriced. Athlon 1.33 / 266 fsb are around $100 w/ s&h
Hopefully I'm within my fair use rights as these are just excerpts and the authors, as they are, are attributed