Ditto sir! I only use my digital camera for utilitarian things. Everything I "care about" is photographed with a Minolta SRT202 and the resulting film is run through a Minolta DiMage Scan Dual III film/slide scanner. The results are fantastic.
Let us see: Lenin, Stalin, Castro, a whole host of modernday American senators, most of the DNC, even some GOP members, and millions of other leftists nuts who will never make it into power. But I suppose you're going to think up some sort of excuse to explain why those people aren't leftists and I'm just talking out of my bunghole.
I wouldn't mind Michael Moore so much if he wasn't nuttier and less honest than many of the folks he likes to skewer. His phony humble pie act doesn't fool anyone. If his films are documentaries then Leni Riefenstahl's films are documentaries too.
Kodak's biggest fault is a tendency to rely on proprietary products for profit. Ask a vintage camera collector if he uses any of his old Kodak cameras. The answer will likely be "hell no!"
This is because most Kodak cameras were made to use propietary Kodak film formats like 620 instead of superior open formats like 120 and 220. I have a Kodak II Tourist bellows camera that collects dust because it uses 620.
My mom's old Instamatic is a another example of this Kodak problem. Her Instamatic 700, which she took around Europe in the 1960s is useless, as it uses a film format Kodak decided to stop making in the late 1980s.
Kodak could be raking in the dough from film sales for these old cameras. They exist in attics and storage boxes by the hundreds of thousands. But Kodak will never see that money, because they themselves chose to stop making the film and nobody makes modern cameras for those formats anyway.
Tomahawk Cruise Missle - Nowhere to run, nowhere hide, even underground!
Apache Gunship - Getting the heck blown out of you in total darkness is no fun, just ask Iraqi infantrymen, transport drivers and tank drivers.
M1 Abrahams - Can cut through every existing enemy tank on Earth like butter at the present time.
MOAB - Well yeah, this is kind of stupid.
I would agree with you 100% that military spending is wasteful if our weapons weren't so superior to those they are designed to go up against. But they can wipe the floor with the corresponding enemy equipment. There is no contest. Every loss we've experienced in Iraq so far has been the result of a "golden BB" lucky shot.
I can't understand, for instance, why Russia pours any money at all into some of new things with which they're arming. Most of it isn't much more capable than the old 80s stuff.
Intel and Microsoft? They need to raid a case maker, a hard drive maker, a video card maker and a motherboard maker and they'll be all set to play Half-Life 2 at the precinct.;)
The 'MADE IN CHINA' labels on almost everything reminds me of union glory days and what they did to the domestic manufacturing base. So yes, I remember unions.
I don't think it is a silly statement. I stopped using Linux because of all the library dependancies. It was absurd- every application I wanted to install requried a library I couldn't find or figure out how to use. And then there were the applications built to work with specific distributions (and hence not others). Don't get me started on those!
Ahh, but the chips aren't in there to make the printer function. They're in there to screw the consumer out of being able to use 3rd party printer ink.
I have very little sympathy for the home printer industry. They didn't always run on this fly by night business model. Some peckerhead CEO woke up one morning and decided I shouldn't be able to print more than fifty pages with a $15 printer cartridge. Before this happend I bought a single dot matrix printer ribbon and used it for three or four months of light printing activity.
I don't use my desktop printer at all, and why in the world should I? The cartridges cost a lot, print a small number of pages and dry up if I don't use them within a certain amount of time. If it didn't come free with the computer I wouldn't own it.
If the printer industry wants to adopt an honest money-making business model, they should look to the firearms industry. The gun companies certainly don't try to limit what brand of ammo can be used in their firearms. A gun is chambered for a specific caliber, and that is the end of it. If using a different brand of ammo in the gun caused it to malfunction, the CEOS of these companies would find their asses in jail.
Sure, Kodak was 'the' company. But they were 'the' company one went to for extremely low end family cameras. They've never really attempted to compete in the medium and high end market. Kodak produced one measily SLR camera and it was a failure.
Ask a vintage Super8mm camera collector how many Kodak cameras he has in his collection. The answer will likely be 'none'. This is because Kodak used a lot of low grade plastic parts that should've been made out of metal, resulting in an inability to repair broken machines. More expensive cameras don't have this problem. But Kodak outsold them at the time, and that is what mattered to the stockholders.
Isn't Cisco Systems one of the companies that is helping the Chinese governments censorship effort? I think they have sold a lot of routers to the PRC. I remember reading about it on theregister or something like that. The routers are designed to make government snooping and tracking easier.
The series has been bland since the captain stopped traveling randomly through time with his cigar smoking friend.
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I can get tired of it very quick. I have every version of Quake yet published. But the day after I installed Counter Strike, the Quake games went into my recycle folder. Quake was great fun when I was a kid but I'm getting older and the realism (relatively speaking) of CS is just what the doctor ordered.
Counterstrike is what the new FPS games have to beat. I hope the software publishers realise that- otherwise they'll have an unpleasant year.
Back when I was a tot I remember going to an Atari Personal Computer store with my mom. She was scared away by the prices. The Apple's advanced graphics impressed me- all we had at the time was a Tandy TRS-80. A few years later we got our first "modern" PC: an IBM 286 10mhz with a whopping 1mb of RAM with a proprietary GUI menu system that resembled giant folders and notebook paper. The dern thing would only run on one version of MS-DOS- 3.3 I think.
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We know now that the U.S. plane was on auto-pilot during the "interception". We also know that the Chinese fighter made three close-in passes with an average clearance of less than five feet! On the last pass the Chinese fighter finally came into contact with our plane and almost killed everyone on board. All this happened in international airspace, not Chinese airspace.
These are Communists, folks. Never forget that. Telling lies is their way of life- not just a way to get out of stupid decisions.
This movie is no fun for history buffs because we all know how it ends.:)
I suppose none of my gripes matter. Rumor has it among the experts that the whole thing never happened anyway- that it was a well crafted bit of Soviet propoganda based on the accidental death of a random Wehrmacht sniper. If it's a damn lie, that would explain why Hollywood decided to embrace it.
Hollywood's cartoonish portrayal of German soldiers has always made me laugh. If it were up to them we'd all teach our children that they ate their firstborn and grew bat wings during WW2.
This gadget might enjoy life as a giveawy item in cereal boxes, but damn if I would use it to store any of my personal files.
How does this stop piracy anyway? What would stop me from creating MP3's and storing them on a DataPlay? Am I missing something? All it does is block the piracy of files you'd pay to download in the first place.
Unless the music industry reverts back to a non-digital format, piracy will always be easy to commit. Get used to it or go buy a record player.:)
I have a 3D image generating program called Poser. Two of the default 3D models included are juvenile humans sans clothing. Should I delete this program from my drive or something? Is Poser 3D a "Kiddy Porn" generating program?
OK.. sarcasm mode off. You'd think the idiots in our gov't would have better things to do.
Captain Fox was my seventh, eighth and ninth grade science teacher in a military boarding school. He was relentless in his pursuit to drive science into our heads. We took at least five pages of notes every day. If anything, he taught me how to write very fast. Captain Fox didn't take any guff from slackers. He expected us to learn everything backwards and forwards.
Upon transferring to a public school, I was apalled at the simplistic, hand-holding teaching methods most of the science teachers used. They spent the entire school year drudging through elementary things I had covered in two or three weeks during my military school attendance.
Best Public Teacher: P. Ackely
"Herr Ackely" was my German language teacher for only one year. However, he was very good at what he did. Like Captain Fox, he expected us to learn our subject matter. Those who didn't make an effort soon found themselves ejected from the course. I learned more German during his tenure than that of any other German teacher. Unfortunately he was replaced the following year with a meek, shrewish woman with minimal teaching abilities.
I hope both of these gentlemen have found rewarding postitions with generous pay. They were excellent teachers who demanded the best from their students. America could use more professionals like them.
Lots. Screengems Studios has a production lot here and Dawson's Creek is filmed on my island. The B-52's once filmed a music video in front of my condo. DeLaurentis used the Screengems sound stages to film parts of U-576. Parts of the Matlock TV series were shot around the Wilmington area till the show was canceled.
North Carolina has a deceptively large film industry. Hopefully this stupid SAG strike will be over soon and we can get back to business.
All of this is very true, though I do know some intelligent people who work in the fast food industry. Naturally, they come home almost every day complaining about the "social class" you just wrote about.
These days it's best to smile, wave to The Man and keep your guns well hidden. What worries me is the slow pace of our societal deterioration. Most people aren't even aware it's happening. I don't know if they're too dumb to see or just lazy.
Have you ever heard of the reptilian frying pan phenomenon? Legend has it that if you put a frog in a frying pan and raise the temperature slow enough, the frog will sit there and cook in it's own juices instread of escaping the heat. That's what America reminds me of- that stupid frog.
What ticks me off is their failure to distinguish between modern racial movement trinkets and the highly refined hobby of medal collecting.
The man who first introduced me to WW2 artifacts was a Jew whose father served in the US Army during WW2. His father brought home tons of German surplus items and thus my friend eventually became a dedicated collector. At one point he owned one of Hermann Goering's dress uniforms. Serious collecting requires brains and YEARS of experience! It's not exactly the kind of hobby a nuckle-dragging skinhead enjoys.
Hell, Pokemon collectors are more violent than Nazi medal collectors!
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The new German authoritarian craze seems to go something like this: "They banned our books and burned them so the only way we can stop them from banning and burning more of our books is to ban thier books and burn them."
I guess the Europeans will always have a need to practice some sort of Orwellian "kultur" control. Censorship is the same, whether it's enforced by "good democrats" or "evil fascists".
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Ditto sir! I only use my digital camera for utilitarian things. Everything I "care about" is photographed with a Minolta SRT202 and the resulting film is run through a Minolta DiMage Scan Dual III film/slide scanner. The results are fantastic.
Let us see: Lenin, Stalin, Castro, a whole host of modernday American senators, most of the DNC, even some GOP members, and millions of other leftists nuts who will never make it into power. But I suppose you're going to think up some sort of excuse to explain why those people aren't leftists and I'm just talking out of my bunghole.
I wouldn't mind Michael Moore so much if he wasn't nuttier and less honest than many of the folks he likes to skewer. His phony humble pie act doesn't fool anyone. If his films are documentaries then Leni Riefenstahl's films are documentaries too.
A lot of L.L. Bean stuff is the same Chinese junk you can buy at Wal-Mart. I'm afraid they are losing their ability to scout out quality products.
Kodak's biggest fault is a tendency to rely on proprietary products for profit. Ask a vintage camera collector if he uses any of his old Kodak cameras. The answer will likely be "hell no!"
This is because most Kodak cameras were made to use propietary Kodak film formats like 620 instead of superior open formats like 120 and 220. I have a Kodak II Tourist bellows camera that collects dust because it uses 620.
My mom's old Instamatic is a another example of this Kodak problem. Her Instamatic 700, which she took around Europe in the 1960s is useless, as it uses a film format Kodak decided to stop making in the late 1980s.
Kodak could be raking in the dough from film sales for these old cameras. They exist in attics and storage boxes by the hundreds of thousands. But Kodak will never see that money, because they themselves chose to stop making the film and nobody makes modern cameras for those formats anyway.
Tomahawk Cruise Missle - Nowhere to run, nowhere hide, even underground!
Apache Gunship - Getting the heck blown out of you in total darkness is no fun, just ask Iraqi infantrymen, transport drivers and tank drivers.
M1 Abrahams - Can cut through every existing enemy tank on Earth like butter at the present time.
MOAB - Well yeah, this is kind of stupid.
I would agree with you 100% that military spending is wasteful if our weapons weren't so superior to those they are designed to go up against. But they can wipe the floor with the corresponding enemy equipment. There is no contest. Every loss we've experienced in Iraq so far has been the result of a "golden BB" lucky shot.
I can't understand, for instance, why Russia pours any money at all into some of new things with which they're arming. Most of it isn't much more capable than the old 80s stuff.
Don't steal his cyber-stapler. He'll burn down the main CPU. ;)
Intel and Microsoft? They need to raid a case maker, a hard drive maker, a video card maker and a motherboard maker and they'll be all set to play Half-Life 2 at the precinct. ;)
The 'MADE IN CHINA' labels on almost everything reminds me of union glory days and what they did to the domestic manufacturing base. So yes, I remember unions.
I don't think it is a silly statement. I stopped using Linux because of all the library dependancies. It was absurd- every application I wanted to install requried a library I couldn't find or figure out how to use. And then there were the applications built to work with specific distributions (and hence not others). Don't get me started on those!
Ahh, but the chips aren't in there to make the printer function. They're in there to screw the consumer out of being able to use 3rd party printer ink.
I have very little sympathy for the home printer industry. They didn't always run on this fly by night business model. Some peckerhead CEO woke up one morning and decided I shouldn't be able to print more than fifty pages with a $15 printer cartridge. Before this happend I bought a single dot matrix printer ribbon and used it for three or four months of light printing activity.
I don't use my desktop printer at all, and why in the world should I? The cartridges cost a lot, print a small number of pages and dry up if I don't use them within a certain amount of time. If it didn't come free with the computer I wouldn't own it.
If the printer industry wants to adopt an honest money-making business model, they should look to the firearms industry. The gun companies certainly don't try to limit what brand of ammo can be used in their firearms. A gun is chambered for a specific caliber, and that is the end of it. If using a different brand of ammo in the gun caused it to malfunction, the CEOS of these companies would find their asses in jail.
Sure, Kodak was 'the' company. But they were 'the' company one went to for extremely low end family cameras. They've never really attempted to compete in the medium and high end market. Kodak produced one measily SLR camera and it was a failure.
Ask a vintage Super8mm camera collector how many Kodak cameras he has in his collection. The answer will likely be 'none'. This is because Kodak used a lot of low grade plastic parts that should've been made out of metal, resulting in an inability to repair broken machines. More expensive cameras don't have this problem. But Kodak outsold them at the time, and that is what mattered to the stockholders.
Isn't Cisco Systems one of the companies that is helping the Chinese governments censorship effort? I think they have sold a lot of routers to the PRC. I remember reading about it on theregister or something like that. The routers are designed to make government snooping and tracking easier.
The series has been bland since the captain stopped traveling randomly through time with his cigar smoking friend.
I can get tired of it very quick. I have every version of Quake yet published. But the day after I installed Counter Strike, the Quake games went into my recycle folder. Quake was great fun when I was a kid but I'm getting older and the realism (relatively speaking) of CS is just what the doctor ordered.
Counterstrike is what the new FPS games have to beat. I hope the software publishers realise that- otherwise they'll have an unpleasant year.
GallandBack when I was a tot I remember going to an Atari Personal Computer store with my mom. She was scared away by the prices. The Apple's advanced graphics impressed me- all we had at the time was a Tandy TRS-80. A few years later we got our first "modern" PC: an IBM 286 10mhz with a whopping 1mb of RAM with a proprietary GUI menu system that resembled giant folders and notebook paper. The dern thing would only run on one version of MS-DOS- 3.3 I think. Galland
Now AOL can censor things without having to think up some sort of politically correct excuse for doing it. It's the law over there.
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We know now that the U.S. plane was on auto-pilot during the "interception". We also know that the Chinese fighter made three close-in passes with an average clearance of less than five feet! On the last pass the Chinese fighter finally came into contact with our plane and almost killed everyone on board. All this happened in international airspace, not Chinese airspace.
These are Communists, folks. Never forget that. Telling lies is their way of life- not just a way to get out of stupid decisions.
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This movie is no fun for history buffs because we all know how it ends. :)
I suppose none of my gripes matter. Rumor has it among the experts that the whole thing never happened anyway- that it was a well crafted bit of Soviet propoganda based on the accidental death of a random Wehrmacht sniper. If it's a damn lie, that would explain why Hollywood decided to embrace it.
Hollywood's cartoonish portrayal of German soldiers has always made me laugh. If it were up to them we'd all teach our children that they ate their firstborn and grew bat wings during WW2.
Galland***
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This gadget might enjoy life as a giveawy item in cereal boxes, but damn if I would use it to store any of my personal files.
How does this stop piracy anyway? What would stop me from creating MP3's and storing them on a DataPlay? Am I missing something? All it does is block the piracy of files you'd pay to download in the first place.
Unless the music industry reverts back to a non-digital format, piracy will always be easy to commit. Get used to it or go buy a record player. :)
I have a 3D image generating program called Poser. Two of the default 3D models included are juvenile humans sans clothing. Should I delete this program from my drive or something? Is Poser 3D a "Kiddy Porn" generating program?
OK.. sarcasm mode off. You'd think the idiots in our gov't would have better things to do.
Best Private Teacher: Captain D. Fox
Captain Fox was my seventh, eighth and ninth grade science teacher in a military boarding school. He was relentless in his pursuit to drive science into our heads. We took at least five pages of notes every day. If anything, he taught me how to write very fast. Captain Fox didn't take any guff from slackers. He expected us to learn everything backwards and forwards.
Upon transferring to a public school, I was apalled at the simplistic, hand-holding teaching methods most of the science teachers used. They spent the entire school year drudging through elementary things I had covered in two or three weeks during my military school attendance.
Best Public Teacher: P. Ackely
"Herr Ackely" was my German language teacher for only one year. However, he was very good at what he did. Like Captain Fox, he expected us to learn our subject matter. Those who didn't make an effort soon found themselves ejected from the course. I learned more German during his tenure than that of any other German teacher. Unfortunately he was replaced the following year with a meek, shrewish woman with minimal teaching abilities.I hope both of these gentlemen have found rewarding postitions with generous pay. They were excellent teachers who demanded the best from their students. America could use more professionals like them.
Lots. Screengems Studios has a production lot here and Dawson's Creek is filmed on my island. The B-52's once filmed a music video in front of my condo. DeLaurentis used the Screengems sound stages to film parts of U-576. Parts of the Matlock TV series were shot around the Wilmington area till the show was canceled.
North Carolina has a deceptively large film industry. Hopefully this stupid SAG strike will be over soon and we can get back to business.
All of this is very true, though I do know some intelligent people who work in the fast food industry. Naturally, they come home almost every day complaining about the "social class" you just wrote about.
These days it's best to smile, wave to The Man and keep your guns well hidden. What worries me is the slow pace of our societal deterioration. Most people aren't even aware it's happening. I don't know if they're too dumb to see or just lazy.
Have you ever heard of the reptilian frying pan phenomenon? Legend has it that if you put a frog in a frying pan and raise the temperature slow enough, the frog will sit there and cook in it's own juices instread of escaping the heat. That's what America reminds me of- that stupid frog.
What ticks me off is their failure to distinguish between modern racial movement trinkets and the highly refined hobby of medal collecting.
The man who first introduced me to WW2 artifacts was a Jew whose father served in the US Army during WW2. His father brought home tons of German surplus items and thus my friend eventually became a dedicated collector. At one point he owned one of Hermann Goering's dress uniforms. Serious collecting requires brains and YEARS of experience! It's not exactly the kind of hobby a nuckle-dragging skinhead enjoys.
Hell, Pokemon collectors are more violent than Nazi medal collectors!The new German authoritarian craze seems to go something like this: "They banned our books and burned them so the only way we can stop them from banning and burning more of our books is to ban thier books and burn them."
I guess the Europeans will always have a need to practice some sort of Orwellian "kultur" control. Censorship is the same, whether it's enforced by "good democrats" or "evil fascists".