BSG has amazing - how do you say - spunk.:D Starbuck was a stroke of genius, IMO. The camera movement is awesome - especially the far-to-close zooms really make it seem "realistic". For some reason the wide to close angle shots are just spankin' to me.
I too like the grittyness of the new series. I was a HUGE fan of the original, but this one whoops it hands down. The whole mimi-drama-on-capricorn with Boomer (also a woman, and a hot one I might add) is captivating.
See now - he did imply he meant to turn the phone off, but I read his post as meaning to "disable" via jamming, rather than somehow cycling the power of the device.:)
I recall reading somewhere that proteins and their production / destruction getting messed up was one of the causes of general aging. Sounds kind of brave-new-world-ish but cool nonetheless.
Queue the morality questions along the lines of genetic engineering.
I'm quite appalled at the lack of coherent thought-making ability of the current generation of computer users. IM grammar != real grammar (no pun intended), but don't tell that to the leet. I really wonder if they could type as fast as their ADHD minds could form their best version of a coherent thought, would that improve the quality of written word?
All you philosophy majors are going to go into the dialects of language and how periods (time, not punctuation) influence dialect, but my point remains.
I will give some credence to the fact that todays "shorthand";):O ^_^ was created by the lack of graphical capabilities a decade or more ago and by the archaic input devices (read: cell phone keypads) that require legible thoughts to be short and sweet. As a fellow text-messager without a qwerty keyboard on my phone, I appreciate the bastard that is T9 and quick replies.
Short attention span version: Please learn to type quickly - regardless of how that is accomplished. U wil luv teh rew@rdz when you dun git pwn3d in teh engrsh claz.
Sure he left before launch, but he went to M$....
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This reminds me of when the cheif designer for Banyan-Vine's streettalk went to Microsoft - viola, Active Directory, which very closely resembes Streettalk!
Same-old microsoft play. Take the idea someone else creates and call it innovation when you include it in the OS that 95% of PCs use.
Regardless, this sounds like it needs to be in the "why-the-hell-would-you-waste-your-money-on-it" category. Those fake-rock speakers are one helluva lot cheaper, and sound quite good.
Are you kidding or just ignorantly looking for karma?
It's got four CDs, einstein, because it's got so damned many apps bundled with it.
Try bundling MS office, MS SQL (two versions of it), exchange, and a few other M$ bloatware apps with XP and THEN come tell me about bloated installs.
You have obviously never installed fedora and if you did you did it to put it on your resume that you are a Redhat expert and have administered it for years.
We're not up against a new being - it's the same type of beings that create scripts for the hell of it that wreak havoc on computer networks because 1) "We can" or 2) "To show them their weaknesses".
It was a very interesting read for sure - the genetic marker bit was quite interesting. Admittedly though I got about 2/3rds the way through it and lost interest.
And now we have come to agreeance.:) Tape technology has pretty much, within a fudge factor, parallelled disk capacity / price. It's always been a stretch for a consumer to use a tape to backup, IMHO. Enterprises have always been the targeted market for large-format tapes.
Not forgotten - just fractional over time. Example:
1 160G FCAL disk = $2k (SAN now people - don't panic) 1 AIT-2 backup drive = $2k 1 AIT-2 backup tape (130G capacity) = $50
Each additional disk costs you that same 2k whereas the backup tapes only have an incremental cost of $50.
Now - assume you use regular SATA or U-160/320 SCSI and the price per disk costs in the $200-400 range, but you still have to factor in the cost of the enclosures for each (which offset). Since nobody with that much data will only ever keep ONE backup (we had daily incrementals and weekly fulls), you want the same concept, assumably, for backup to disk.
The pundits of backup-to-disk always neglect to mention the fact that though disk costs continue to decrease and storage capacity continues to increase, so do the capacities of tape storage mechanisms. Even at $50 US a tape, they would still have a lower cost-per-gigabyte (or is it now cost-per-terabyte?). Especially with organizations with SANs, backup-to-disk is TOO expensive and too wasteful for prescious SAN resources.
It's not several billion - it's only 900 million miles away, plus or minus 2 AUs or so.;)
Cassini TRAVELED several billion miles to get there - its path looks like an archimedes spiral because of the multiple slingshot maneuvers it used to gain speed. This is also why it took so long to get there.
CE - Consumer Electronics - is not even remotely about handhelds. Considering how Sony just cancelled their Clie, I seriously doubt their membership in this organization is about handhelds.
What I see its potential use is for things like Home Audio receivers, DVD players, etc that could really use technologies like firewire for sending the entire audio and video stream across a single cable, and then making it available on your network.
Tell me that wouldn't be cool - and to have the Sony quality and use my sony remote. ^_^
It makes Linksys' WRT54G look like an amazing bargain - especially because this runs a MIPS processor, has the same amount of RAM, and there's a (purportedly) bigger developer base for the WRT54G...
Exactly. Sun has been talking about a 3-D environment for years now. I don't recall what it was called before, but needless to say on their overpriced 3-D cards in the Ultra creator 3-D, etc it worked terribly. Now gaming has upped the ante with 3-D hardware rendering in PCs and they want to capitolize on it to make the environment prettier.
I personally would rather see a much better, more integrated environment with time spent on really tackling the M$ near-monopoly's "features" in the current Java Desktop than release yet another interface for developers to complain about.
BTW - if they use things like OpenGL, etc - it should be less of a burden on the CPU and moreso on the GPU.
Give us out of the box functionality and applications that do all of, and more of, what M$ does and will do and then go play with the UI.
"At one point, the company president tried to use a "Web bug" to trace his cyber tormenter, but Tereshchuk detected the ruse."
Uhh - sounds like they tried to install some kind of activex microblaster-enabled spyware bug?? Maybe he was using Mozilla or something less spyware-enabled? ^_^
Still not a bad hack attempt - smart to use others unsecured wireless connections. I'll bet we hear about more of these types of intrusions in the future (if the media prints it).
I mean - NASA has been doing autonomous navigation with DS-1 since 1999
Other autonomous duties don't seem like such a stretch when it only takes a second to communicate - not 10 minutes! Now that's net lag!!!
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It's a slow news day people - I mean come on, octopus robots, YAWIFI article, and the new Emotio^H^H^H^H^H^HCell processor - this is golden stuff.
BSG has amazing - how do you say - spunk. :D Starbuck was a stroke of genius, IMO. The camera movement is awesome - especially the far-to-close zooms really make it seem "realistic". For some reason the wide to close angle shots are just spankin' to me.
I too like the grittyness of the new series. I was a HUGE fan of the original, but this one whoops it hands down. The whole mimi-drama-on-capricorn with Boomer (also a woman, and a hot one I might add) is captivating.
Long live BSG!
See now - he did imply he meant to turn the phone off, but I read his post as meaning to "disable" via jamming, rather than somehow cycling the power of the device. :)
Except for the fact that it's Illegal, I agree with ya. ;)
Now all we need is the salesman-be-gone, the policeman-be-gone, and the nagging-mother-in-law-be-gone. ^_^
I recall reading somewhere that proteins and their production / destruction getting messed up was one of the causes of general aging. Sounds kind of brave-new-world-ish but cool nonetheless.
Queue the morality questions along the lines of genetic engineering.
Realize one thing: The Hughes HDTiVo has a built-in OTA decoder. So you can hock your existing HD STB. ;)
http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/imagine/HDDVR.dsp
I avoided using mod points just so I could post this tidbit:
:)
If you think it means Total Cost of Ownership, as it relates to some BS middle-to-upper-management measurement, then you didn't RTFA.
That is all.
I'm quite appalled at the lack of coherent thought-making ability of the current generation of computer users. IM grammar != real grammar (no pun intended), but don't tell that to the leet. I really wonder if they could type as fast as their ADHD minds could form their best version of a coherent thought, would that improve the quality of written word?
;) :O ^_^ was created by the lack of graphical capabilities a decade or more ago and by the archaic input devices (read: cell phone keypads) that require legible thoughts to be short and sweet. As a fellow text-messager without a qwerty keyboard on my phone, I appreciate the bastard that is T9 and quick replies.
All you philosophy majors are going to go into the dialects of language and how periods (time, not punctuation) influence dialect, but my point remains.
I will give some credence to the fact that todays "shorthand"
Short attention span version: Please learn to type quickly - regardless of how that is accomplished. U wil luv teh rew@rdz when you dun git pwn3d in teh engrsh claz.
This reminds me of when the cheif designer for Banyan-Vine's streettalk went to Microsoft - viola, Active Directory, which very closely resembes Streettalk!
Same-old microsoft play. Take the idea someone else creates and call it innovation when you include it in the OS that 95% of PCs use.
Or was it the "skull vibrator" ie head speker?
Regardless, this sounds like it needs to be in the "why-the-hell-would-you-waste-your-money-on-it" category. Those fake-rock speakers are one helluva lot cheaper, and sound quite good.
Are you kidding or just ignorantly looking for karma?
It's got four CDs, einstein, because it's got so damned many apps bundled with it.
Try bundling MS office, MS SQL (two versions of it), exchange, and a few other M$ bloatware apps with XP and THEN come tell me about bloated installs.
You have obviously never installed fedora and if you did you did it to put it on your resume that you are a Redhat expert and have administered it for years.
Ignorance is bliss, I suppose.
Let's see - my iPaq with wifi gets maybe 1.5-2 hours of playtime.
Add USB usage and that's gotta drop - at least a little.
Add processing for data transfer.
Add external battery.
Call this a novelty, I will.
I mean - hello, humans create it.
We're not up against a new being - it's the same type of beings that create scripts for the hell of it that wreak havoc on computer networks because 1) "We can" or 2) "To show them their weaknesses".
It was a very interesting read for sure - the genetic marker bit was quite interesting. Admittedly though I got about 2/3rds the way through it and lost interest.
Blame the spammers I say. ^_^
And now we have come to agreeance. :) Tape technology has pretty much, within a fudge factor, parallelled disk capacity / price. It's always been a stretch for a consumer to use a tape to backup, IMHO. Enterprises have always been the targeted market for large-format tapes.
Sure - SATA drives can be had for $100 but a single-ended SATA controller holds the same number as an ATA - 2, right?
;)
So for each two disks you add a controller.
In the SCSI world, IIRC, it's every 6 or so disks.
And as another poster said, AIT-3 is double the capabity, native, and its media is similarly priced.
And when you find a "storage unit (your phrase) for $250 with 8 disks, please let me know as I'd love to get one for home.
Oh - you meant without disks, so the enclosure, as I stated, is a wash for both backup to tape and backup to disk scenarios.
Until SCSI disks get to $100 for 200G, the cost of the controller will kill the price-difference in xATA.
Not forgotten - just fractional over time. Example:
1 160G FCAL disk = $2k (SAN now people - don't panic)
1 AIT-2 backup drive = $2k
1 AIT-2 backup tape (130G capacity) = $50
Each additional disk costs you that same 2k whereas the backup tapes only have an incremental cost of $50.
Now - assume you use regular SATA or U-160/320 SCSI and the price per disk costs in the $200-400 range, but you still have to factor in the cost of the enclosures for each (which offset). Since nobody with that much data will only ever keep ONE backup (we had daily incrementals and weekly fulls), you want the same concept, assumably, for backup to disk.
Point being tape is still cheaper for backups.
The pundits of backup-to-disk always neglect to mention the fact that though disk costs continue to decrease and storage capacity continues to increase, so do the capacities of tape storage mechanisms. Even at $50 US a tape, they would still have a lower cost-per-gigabyte (or is it now cost-per-terabyte?). Especially with organizations with SANs, backup-to-disk is TOO expensive and too wasteful for prescious SAN resources.
So I guess four heads are better than one eh?
(ba-dum-ching!)
(ducks impending flame doom)
It's not several billion - it's only 900 million miles away, plus or minus 2 AUs or so. ;)
Cassini TRAVELED several billion miles to get there - its path looks like an archimedes spiral because of the multiple slingshot maneuvers it used to gain speed. This is also why it took so long to get there.
CE - Consumer Electronics - is not even remotely about handhelds. Considering how Sony just cancelled their Clie, I seriously doubt their membership in this organization is about handhelds.
What I see its potential use is for things like Home Audio receivers, DVD players, etc that could really use technologies like firewire for sending the entire audio and video stream across a single cable, and then making it available on your network.
Tell me that wouldn't be cool - and to have the Sony quality and use my sony remote. ^_^
It makes Linksys' WRT54G look like an amazing bargain - especially because this runs a MIPS processor, has the same amount of RAM, and there's a (purportedly) bigger developer base for the WRT54G...
And the Linksys can be had on ebay for $100.
Exactly. Sun has been talking about a 3-D environment for years now. I don't recall what it was called before, but needless to say on their overpriced 3-D cards in the Ultra creator 3-D, etc it worked terribly. Now gaming has upped the ante with 3-D hardware rendering in PCs and they want to capitolize on it to make the environment prettier.
I personally would rather see a much better, more integrated environment with time spent on really tackling the M$ near-monopoly's "features" in the current Java Desktop than release yet another interface for developers to complain about.
BTW - if they use things like OpenGL, etc - it should be less of a burden on the CPU and moreso on the GPU.
Give us out of the box functionality and applications that do all of, and more of, what M$ does and will do and then go play with the UI.
"At one point, the company president tried to use a "Web bug" to trace his cyber tormenter, but Tereshchuk detected the ruse."
Uhh - sounds like they tried to install some kind of activex microblaster-enabled spyware bug?? Maybe he was using Mozilla or something less spyware-enabled? ^_^
Still not a bad hack attempt - smart to use others unsecured wireless connections. I'll bet we hear about more of these types of intrusions in the future (if the media prints it).
I mean - NASA has been doing autonomous navigation with DS-1 since 1999 Other autonomous duties don't seem like such a stretch when it only takes a second to communicate - not 10 minutes! Now that's net lag!!!