Not quite. 100 years ago manned, controlled, and powered flight had just become a curiosity. It took the Wright brothers about 6-7 years before they could commercialize on their idea.
it is then the job of IBM to show that the SCO experts are talking SMACK.
As the defendants it is not their job or responsibility to show anything. The burden of proof in the US legal system is squarely on the plaintiff. All the defense has to do is refute, to the point of establishing reasonable doubt, any claims made by the plaintiff.
But, someone will, just so it will be on there for five years in a row.
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I've never had it appear when I tell the installer to not add it. How could it appear?...it's not on the HD.
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and my personal favorite: getting rid of Clippy
Do you really need to buy a book to figure out how to uncheck the "Office Assistants" checkbox in the list of available modules during the install of Office?
How often do you sit down for a relaxing session at your PC
About as often has I have a heart-to-heart discussion with my cordless drill. Maybe slightly less frequently than I take my telephone on a nice vacation to the beach?
A computer is a tool, nothing more, nothing less. I've got no emotional attachment to it whatsoever.
One nice side benefit of this becoming a "must have" is that the 3D cards guys will probably get more serious about doing proper, complete OpenGL drivers for Linux (the current situation ain't that great).
It could be argued that the current situation "ain't that great"(sic) because the card vendors don't see enough of a commercial market in desktop Linux to warrant the investment required to make proper drivers. For Sun's Java Desktop to change that means that it would have to, out of the gate, start garnering market percentages equal to...say...OSX. That's a pretty tall order.
Personally, I don't think some niche desktop enhancement that uses basic texturemapping, 3D transforms/translations, and 32bit color will cause nVidia or ATI to immediately rethink their stance and create proper, complete OpenGL drivers for Linux.
Machines need >8GB of memory to handle the 64bit number clock code?
Crap!
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The show got called a miniseries in the article header because the poster just grabbed various phrases from the linked story and combined them incorrectly. The comment in the article is:
The Henson company would not comment on the information but a source close to the production has confirmed that the new
project will be a miniseries, not a new season as originally hoped for by the fans. While no plot details are available, sources have also confirmed that the new project will be independent from the Sci-Fi Channel, the network that broadcast the series. No information is currently available about just where the new miniseries will be appearing or when.
Obviously, this is good news for the fans that have fought so hard to bring the series back but there may be cause for guarded optimism. The miniseries is currently seen as a standalone project with no new episode commitment attached, so nothing is guaranteed beyond this project. More information as it becomes available right here at IGNFF.
Exactly.
This doesn't need to be turned into a closed versus open argument. The real questions is, "Do we need electronic voting of *any* kind?"
Yes, the UI on the voting machines in Florida sucked. The solution to the failure of the public to understand that UI isn't a full scale rush into electronic voting. The UI on an electronic machine can be just as bad as the mechanical ones.
www.dictionary.com - No entry found for cardshark.
2 entries found for cardsharp.
cardsharp ( P ) Pronunciation Key (kardsharp) also cardsharper (-sharpr)
n.
An expert in cheating at cards.
cardsharping n.
cardsharp
n : a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games [syn: cardsharper]
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...(such as root access for all users)
That's not the case for NT, 2K, or XP. Heck the XP install even asks you for an administrator password and then the names of user accounts to make. Those user accounts default to non-root
So, MS is going to have to port over a major portion of their kernel, including directx and a few other bits, to the G5?
No, they won't. Microsoft has the VirtualPC technology. The ability to move XBox to a different architecture, yet still maintain compatibility, is probably one of the main reasons they bought VPC.
Other technologies yield more realistic animation (see Stuart Little, which was done in Maya).
Yes yes, it's all about the technology and has nothing to do with the art direction. Monsters, Inc. doesn't look like it does because of the technology. It looks like it does because that is how Pixar wanted it to look.
Terrorists might be evil but generally they're NOT stupid.
Except the crew that tried the first World Trade Center bombing in the '90s. They went to the rental truck place three days after the event, claimed the truck was stolen, and wanted their deposit back (a few hundred $). The FBI had already traced the truck based on a serial number on an axle that didn't get destroyed and were waiting for the guys.
Given enough time and talent with a 128 color box of Crayola crayons I can replicate any picture in the Louvre.
The quality of the final output is directly dependant on the skill of the person working on it and the time they spend on it. That Blender has a renderer that produces images on par with Max and/or Maya is nice. But, is the toolset as robust? Does it allow the artist to create the same imagery in the same (or less) time than it would take to do it in Maya or Max?
Generally, right now, I'd say the answer to both of those question is "no". Blender is nice, and there is some good looking stuff made with it. Of course, there a lot of really good looking stuff that was made by passing text files into a POVRay renderer too. That doesn't make POVay stand as an equal to Max or Maya, though.
An interesting piece of conference buzz was the entire development team of Newtek/Lightwave defecting and founding their own company with a flagship 3D Subsurf modeler called 'modo'.
Alan Hastings and Stuart Ferguson, the two people behind Lightwave (all the way back to when it was called Aegis Animator 3D and ran on the Amiga) founded Luxology in 2002. They've not been a part of NewTek for at least a year now.
Yes, Modo is a new program, but the "defection" you mention isn't anything new. Or, was the buzz at the conference about the people NewTek brought into keep Lightwave going also leaving to go work with Hastings and Ferguson?
Yes, it's all legal. But it's a sub-optimal contribution from Lindows.com, when an optimal contribution would cost them zero extra.
Unless, of course, the plan for Lindows is to (gasp) actually make money off of their effort. Giving the code back to Mozilla so free versions of nVu can become available would cost them a lot at that point.
The fact is that the Mozilla code was put out under a specific license (or licenses, as the case may be) and Lindows is adhering to that. Just because you don't like the lack of altuism in their decision it is still within the bounds of the license and legal.
Refilling works only to the point of the print-head wearing out. Inkjet cartridge printheads are design to last for only the approximate number of pages worth of ink in the cartridge. After that the print quality goes down dramatically.
Refilling is not a panacea for the high cost of cartridges. True competition for cartridges, thus lower prices for consumers, is a much better solution. The ruling for SCC is very good news.
Yeah, when SCUDs were a threat I couldn't sleep either. I mean Saddam had SCUDS!!! A 1960s era missile that was derived from the V2. It could carry 2000lbs of conventional munitions 180 MILES!!!
Everyone, and I mean everyone in the US should've been afraid of missiles with a range of 180 miles being pointed at us from Iraq, a country that is half a world away.
I hope you're not taking Political Science, Geography, or Military History there at Brandeis.edu, Mr. Kessin. You clearly don't have any idea whatsover about what is really going on in the world.
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Not quite. 100 years ago manned, controlled, and powered flight had just become a curiosity. It took the Wright brothers about 6-7 years before they could commercialize on their idea.
As the defendants it is not their job or responsibility to show anything. The burden of proof in the US legal system is squarely on the plaintiff. All the defense has to do is refute, to the point of establishing reasonable doubt, any claims made by the plaintiff.
But, someone will, just so it will be on there for five years in a row.
I've never had it appear when I tell the installer to not add it. How could it appear?...it's not on the HD.
Do you really need to buy a book to figure out how to uncheck the "Office Assistants" checkbox in the list of available modules during the install of Office?
About as often has I have a heart-to-heart discussion with my cordless drill. Maybe slightly less frequently than I take my telephone on a nice vacation to the beach?
A computer is a tool, nothing more, nothing less. I've got no emotional attachment to it whatsoever.
It could be argued that the current situation "ain't that great"(sic) because the card vendors don't see enough of a commercial market in desktop Linux to warrant the investment required to make proper drivers. For Sun's Java Desktop to change that means that it would have to, out of the gate, start garnering market percentages equal to...say...OSX. That's a pretty tall order.
Personally, I don't think some niche desktop enhancement that uses basic texturemapping, 3D transforms/translations, and 32bit color will cause nVidia or ATI to immediately rethink their stance and create proper, complete OpenGL drivers for Linux.
Stories posted to Slashdot, and their follow up discussions, will be deeply researched, exhaustively fact checked, and expertly written.
Machines need >8GB of memory to handle the 64bit number clock code? Crap!
Exactly. This doesn't need to be turned into a closed versus open argument. The real questions is, "Do we need electronic voting of *any* kind?" Yes, the UI on the voting machines in Florida sucked. The solution to the failure of the public to understand that UI isn't a full scale rush into electronic voting. The UI on an electronic machine can be just as bad as the mechanical ones.
www.dictionary.com - No entry found for cardshark.
2 entries found for cardsharp. cardsharp ( P ) Pronunciation Key (kardsharp) also cardsharper (-sharpr) n. An expert in cheating at cards.
cardsharping n.
cardsharp
n : a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games [syn: cardsharper]
That's not the case for NT, 2K, or XP. Heck the XP install even asks you for an administrator password and then the names of user accounts to make. Those user accounts default to non-root
MyIE2 rocks. I've been using it for almost a year now. I couldn't imagine going back to vanilla IE.
No, they won't. Microsoft has the VirtualPC technology. The ability to move XBox to a different architecture, yet still maintain compatibility, is probably one of the main reasons they bought VPC.
Yes yes, it's all about the technology and has nothing to do with the art direction. Monsters, Inc. doesn't look like it does because of the technology. It looks like it does because that is how Pixar wanted it to look.
I don't think MS got Mosaic. I think they purchased Spyglass.
Except the crew that tried the first World Trade Center bombing in the '90s. They went to the rental truck place three days after the event, claimed the truck was stolen, and wanted their deposit back (a few hundred $). The FBI had already traced the truck based on a serial number on an axle that didn't get destroyed and were waiting for the guys.
The quality of the final output is directly dependant on the skill of the person working on it and the time they spend on it. That Blender has a renderer that produces images on par with Max and/or Maya is nice. But, is the toolset as robust? Does it allow the artist to create the same imagery in the same (or less) time than it would take to do it in Maya or Max?
Generally, right now, I'd say the answer to both of those question is "no". Blender is nice, and there is some good looking stuff made with it. Of course, there a lot of really good looking stuff that was made by passing text files into a POVRay renderer too. That doesn't make POVay stand as an equal to Max or Maya, though.
Alan Hastings and Stuart Ferguson, the two people behind Lightwave (all the way back to when it was called Aegis Animator 3D and ran on the Amiga) founded Luxology in 2002. They've not been a part of NewTek for at least a year now.
Yes, Modo is a new program, but the "defection" you mention isn't anything new. Or, was the buzz at the conference about the people NewTek brought into keep Lightwave going also leaving to go work with Hastings and Ferguson?
(rolls eyes)
Or that the FTC started the investigation with the knowledge that the NDNCL would be enacted on 10/01/03, as it was always slated to do.
Unless, of course, the plan for Lindows is to (gasp) actually make money off of their effort. Giving the code back to Mozilla so free versions of nVu can become available would cost them a lot at that point.
The fact is that the Mozilla code was put out under a specific license (or licenses, as the case may be) and Lindows is adhering to that. Just because you don't like the lack of altuism in their decision it is still within the bounds of the license and legal.
Refilling is not a panacea for the high cost of cartridges. True competition for cartridges, thus lower prices for consumers, is a much better solution. The ruling for SCC is very good news.
Everyone, and I mean everyone in the US should've been afraid of missiles with a range of 180 miles being pointed at us from Iraq, a country that is half a world away.
I hope you're not taking Political Science, Geography, or Military History there at Brandeis.edu, Mr. Kessin. You clearly don't have any idea whatsover about what is really going on in the world.