Many years ago a friend and I were riding our bikes in a wooded area. Suddenly a turkey took off from the brush, flapping loudly. It got up to about 25 - 30 feet and then went beyond some trees so I don't know how far it got. It's not the most elegant bird but it does fly. Raised turkeys are probably too fat to fly.
It can be done. It's already running a stripped down version of Windows 2000, as an MS engineer mentions in his "Inside the XBOX Launch" talk here: http://www.technetcast.com/tnc_play_stream.html?st ream_id=666
Unless someone is playing a prank, it looks like the mayor (j.f.street(AT)phila.gov) is attending the Philadelphia Party. Didn't realize anyone in the government would be aware of Mozilla.
-- Binary Boy downloads music, movies and pictures while you sleep.
The cool cover art on Atari games always made the crappy game graphics look even worse in comparison.
In the game Combat when you ran your tanks together they looked like they were having sex.
The game Adventure had a secret area.
The manual for Pitfall implied that there was a secret area at the end of the game. My friend and I spent many all nighters trying to get to the end and never found it.
There's a reasonably good documentary about the insanity inside Atari at scottw.com
the potential to slash satellite launch costs from the $11,000 to $44,000 per kilogram it costs today to under $6600 per kilogram.
I don't get it. How do you cut the price in half just by getting the first 40,000 feet out of 200 miles free? Do the special nozzles make up half the cost of traditional flights?
The music business puts out a product that you are expected to pay for, you can choose to buy the product or you can steal it and suffer the consequences should you be caught. That's fair.
Usually I would agree with this. If you don't pay for something, someone somewhere is going to unfairly lose money. But what if an entire industry refuses to sell what consumers want? What if market forces fail and an industry attacks the public through legislation?
Millions of people want downloadable music files just like they download software and most are willing to pay for it but can't because the music business doesn't sell online music. They should produce a product people want or get the hell out of the way.
I write/sell software. Approximately 98% of customers choose to buy online and download immediately. Only 1% - 2% choose to buy the software on CD. I suggest they move up to 1990's technology and sell online. Distribute songs as.exe files, add a registration system to stop casual pirating and start collecting the much larger profits.
Piracy is wrong. Doing nothing while an industry tries to stop the advancement of technology and forces people to buy bundled songs is even worse.
It may be significant that the anniversary of a Congressional resolution "favoring a Jewish homeland in Palestine" falls on this date. Then again, if you go back a century or two, you may find a lot of anniversaries that seem just as significant.
Yeah, approximately 1 out of every 365 events that has ever happened happened on this day.
A button on the steering wheel might be more reliable and affordable. If your finger slips off the button while the car is moving, it could beep or something. Train engineers have to press a button every few minutes to keep the train moving. Similar idea.
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Getting my ass kicked by a 12-year-old is bad enough. Now the blind are going to beat me?
How to search for and download files while you sleep.
I've seen this.
Many years ago a friend and I were riding our bikes in a wooded area. Suddenly a turkey took off from the brush, flapping loudly. It got up to about 25 - 30 feet and then went beyond some trees so I don't know how far it got. It's not the most elegant bird but it does fly. Raised turkeys are probably too fat to fly.
Fill your hard drive with uncensored files while you sleep.
It can be done. It's already running a stripped down version of Windows 2000, as an MS engineer mentions in his "Inside the XBOX Launch" talk here: http://www.technetcast.com/tnc_play_stream.html?st ream_id=666
Fill your hard drive with music, movies and pictures while you sleep.
>If I paid as much money as NASA did to go get that rock, I'd want it back too.
NASA got it for free. Taxpayers paid for the missions.
Fill your hard drive with music, movies and pictures while you sleep.
75 million in debt / 40,000 subscribers = $1,875 per subscriber. Ouch.
Fill your hard drive with music, movies and pictures while you sleep.
Ack. That page has half a dozen javascript errors.
I'd gladly pay twice as much for twice the bandwidth. Unfortunately they'll probably double the price and increase bandwidth by 10%.
Download music, movies and pictures while you sleep.
Unless someone is playing a prank, it looks like the mayor (j.f.street(AT)phila.gov) is attending the Philadelphia Party. Didn't realize anyone in the government would be aware of Mozilla.
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Binary Boy downloads music, movies and pictures while you sleep.
Microsoft stock is worth less than 50% of its value about 2 years ago so it doesn't seem to be working anyway.
Another prediction... In 1990 it became common for environmentalists to claim "we won't be here in 10 years" because of global warming.
A refund means you overpaid during the year and you're getting some of your own money back (without interest). It's not a gift.
rofl
Because doing something constructive requires more effort and intelligence than doing something stuipid.
There are 76 gotos in the various *.c files.
If Lindows is too close to Windows, call it Winux.
Some thoughts on Atari 2600...
The cool cover art on Atari games always made the crappy game graphics look even worse in comparison.
In the game Combat when you ran your tanks together they looked like they were having sex.
The game Adventure had a secret area.
The manual for Pitfall implied that there was a secret area at the end of the game. My friend and I spent many all nighters trying to get to the end and never found it.
There's a reasonably good documentary about the insanity inside Atari at scottw.com
the potential to slash satellite launch costs from the $11,000 to $44,000 per kilogram it costs today to under $6600 per kilogram.
I don't get it. How do you cut the price in half just by getting the first 40,000 feet out of 200 miles free? Do the special nozzles make up half the cost of traditional flights?
They should replace the towers with two gigantic swirly lollipops. If they're going to be stupid, do it right.
How do we know the Security Focus story wasn't actually the hacker-planted story, and that anything happened over at Yahoo at all?
It wasn't. It was only a dream. The real question is whether you really woke up or are still dreaming.
The music business puts out a product that you are expected to pay for, you can choose to buy the product or you can steal it and suffer the consequences should you be caught. That's fair.
Usually I would agree with this. If you don't pay for something, someone somewhere is going to unfairly lose money. But what if an entire industry refuses to sell what consumers want? What if market forces fail and an industry attacks the public through legislation?
Millions of people want downloadable music files just like they download software and most are willing to pay for it but can't because the music business doesn't sell online music. They should produce a product people want or get the hell out of the way.
I write/sell software. Approximately 98% of customers choose to buy online and download immediately. Only 1% - 2% choose to buy the software on CD. I suggest they move up to 1990's technology and sell online. Distribute songs as .exe files, add a registration system to stop casual pirating and start collecting the much larger profits.
Piracy is wrong. Doing nothing while an industry tries to stop the advancement of technology and forces people to buy bundled songs is even worse.
It may be significant that the anniversary of a Congressional resolution "favoring a Jewish homeland in Palestine" falls on this date. Then again, if you go back a century or two, you may find a lot of anniversaries that seem just as significant.
Yeah, approximately 1 out of every 365 events that has ever happened happened on this day.
A button on the steering wheel might be more reliable and affordable. If your finger slips off the button while the car is moving, it could beep or something. Train engineers have to press a button every few minutes to keep the train moving. Similar idea.
XModem was invented by Ward Christensen in the late 70's.
$4.5 billion Canadian? That's about 35 US dollars and 22 cents isn't it?
No.