I know you have issued a judgment against me saying I'm not allowed to beat my wife. I have full intent to comply with the law. However if I stop beating my wife I will... ummm... I will... suffer significant psychological damage. That's it! Psychological damage. So I would like to file this motion saying that, while another judge double-checks your homework, I should be allowed to continue beating my wife. Respectfully yours,
In Lord of The Rings Online we have regularly scheduled player concerts in front of The Prancing Pony (at least on my server). Hearing Queen played on harp-and-flute is quite an experience.
Even more, there are dye-based green lasers which are tunable too. Have been around for decades.
Also, I don't see how the existence of a (tentative) commercially available green diode laser will impact the development of "laset TVs". Unless of course you are talking of projectors.
Doesn't Orlando have self-select back diamond lanes?
Yes. And when I flew there last week, in front of the lanes entrance there was a TSA employee directing everyone equally into allo 3 lanes, regardless of the black diamond designation. Many families with cartfulls of luggage and 3-4 kids were sent to the "expert traveler" lane.
Simple solution: once the user has racked up say, $100 in extra costs, block anything that costs extra until they pay.
Stands to reason, right? Yes, but you see they don't want to do that. They want to be able to bill you for $500, or $1000, or $17000 if you go on a texting or 1-900 calling rampage for instance.
"The world's first X-ray laser (LCLS) has seen first light. A Free Electron Laser (FEL) is based on the light that is emitted by accelerated electrons when they are forced to move in a curved path. The beam then interacts with this emitted light in order to excite coherent emission (much like in a regular laser); thus producing a very short, extremely bright, bunch of coherent X-ray photons. The engineering expertise that went into this machine is phenomenal -- 'This is the most difficult light source that has ever been turned on,' said LCLS Construction Project Director John Galayda. 'It's on the boundary between the impossible and possible, and within two hours of start-up these guys had it right on.' -- and the benefits to the applied sciences from research using this light can be expected to be enormous: 'For some disciplines, this tool will be as important to the future as the microscope has been to the past.' said SLAC Director Persis Drell."
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
The numbers above assume of course that you only have the generators working for 1 year and trash them afterwards... which won't happen in real life. On the other hand it does not account for any maintenance costs, spare parts etc.
There is no oversight whatsoever to the whole process. They claim my coupon was mailed on 12/29/08; it never made it to my mailbox. After a few weeks I contacted the program's customer support, and I am basically SOL. There is no way they will reissue coupons if they get lost in the mail, nor are you allowed to reapply. There is no way to appeal this decision. There are internet forums full of people saying that their coupons supposedly mailed between november and december never arrived, and got the same reply I did when complaining. I suspect something wrong went on during those months, and they just won't admit it. Again, there is no recourse.
The Original Virge considerably predates the existence of nVidia and when it came out there was nothing even close. It didn't really speed anything up, but it gave a substantial boost to visual effects. It actually tended to come at a frame rate penalty vs. software renderers except on the fastest machines.
Yeah - S3 Virge/DX, the video decelerator. I still have one in a box somewhere. In action games you were better off using software rendering, as you'd get more FPS.
I don't think anyone would want a chip that can calculate extremely fast that a nuclear reactor has a probability of failing in the next year between 50 and 99%.
Motorola spun out its semiconductors division a few years ago - now you can find it at http://www.freescale.com/
Yes they are still producing CPUs, in fact they even still make the 68040. Chances are one of their processors powers your cell phone. Or your music player, etc.
Slashdot Mirror
Half-Life (yes I know, I know...)
And Michael was his name-o...
God was knockin', and he wanted in bad...
Wham! Wham! Wham! Wham!
Glad I'm not the only Footfall fan out there.
"Dear Judge,
I know you have issued a judgment against me saying I'm not allowed to beat my wife. I have full intent to comply with the law. However if I stop beating my wife I will... ummm... I will... suffer significant psychological damage. That's it! Psychological damage. So I would like to file this motion saying that, while another judge double-checks your homework, I should be allowed to continue beating my wife. Respectfully yours,
Microsoft"
Yeah. I'm sure that would go well.
Yes, I can confirm all of the rats involved in the experiment were American.
In Lord of The Rings Online we have regularly scheduled player concerts in front of The Prancing Pony (at least on my server). Hearing Queen played on harp-and-flute is quite an experience.
Go back and check them. All. It's worth it.
Even more, there are dye-based green lasers which are tunable too. Have been around for decades.
Also, I don't see how the existence of a (tentative) commercially available green diode laser will impact the development of "laset TVs". Unless of course you are talking of projectors.
JPC has been around for at least 3 years, and on Slashdot at least twice before.
Doesn't Orlando have self-select back diamond lanes?
Yes. And when I flew there last week, in front of the lanes entrance there was a TSA employee directing everyone equally into allo 3 lanes, regardless of the black diamond designation. Many families with cartfulls of luggage and 3-4 kids were sent to the "expert traveler" lane.
Simple solution: once the user has racked up say, $100 in extra costs, block anything that costs extra until they pay.
Stands to reason, right? Yes, but you see they don't want to do that. They want to be able to bill you for $500, or $1000, or $17000 if you go on a texting or 1-900 calling rampage for instance.
There are a few countries in Eastern Europe that are so racially uniform it's not even funny.
White River Junction, VT to Stamford, CT:
Amtrak: $59
gas for car: $19
QED
"The world's first X-ray laser (LCLS) has seen first light. A Free Electron Laser (FEL) is based on the light that is emitted by accelerated electrons when they are forced to move in a curved path. The beam then interacts with this emitted light in order to excite coherent emission (much like in a regular laser); thus producing a very short, extremely bright, bunch of coherent X-ray photons. The engineering expertise that went into this machine is phenomenal -- 'This is the most difficult light source that has ever been turned on,' said LCLS Construction Project Director John Galayda. 'It's on the boundary between the impossible and possible, and within two hours of start-up these guys had it right on.' -- and the benefits to the applied sciences from research using this light can be expected to be enormous: 'For some disciplines, this tool will be as important to the future as the microscope has been to the past.' said SLAC Director Persis Drell."
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
The numbers above assume of course that you only have the generators working for 1 year and trash them afterwards... which won't happen in real life. On the other hand it does not account for any maintenance costs, spare parts etc.
"Earthican" is better. /futurama
There is no oversight whatsoever to the whole process. They claim my coupon was mailed on 12/29/08; it never made it to my mailbox. After a few weeks I contacted the program's customer support, and I am basically SOL. There is no way they will reissue coupons if they get lost in the mail, nor are you allowed to reapply. There is no way to appeal this decision. There are internet forums full of people saying that their coupons supposedly mailed between november and december never arrived, and got the same reply I did when complaining. I suspect something wrong went on during those months, and they just won't admit it. Again, there is no recourse.
(Is Windows 7 a Borg designation?)
As in Windows 7 of 9?
So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated.
Classic.
Sure. "Trust us not to use the TOS in the way it was written, but in the way we explained to you in a post on some blog"
The Original Virge considerably predates the existence of nVidia and when it came out there was nothing even close. It didn't really speed anything up, but it gave a substantial boost to visual effects. It actually tended to come at a frame rate penalty vs. software renderers except on the fastest machines.
Yeah - S3 Virge/DX, the video decelerator. I still have one in a box somewhere. In action games you were better off using software rendering, as you'd get more FPS.
LOL that was back in 2004 - and since then there is yet to be launched a single device running Cobalt.
20 years ago, you'd be groveling over 64k vs. 32k.
I don't think anyone would want a chip that can calculate extremely fast that a nuclear reactor has a probability of failing in the next year between 50 and 99%.
Motorola spun out its semiconductors division a few years ago - now you can find it at http://www.freescale.com/
Yes they are still producing CPUs, in fact they even still make the 68040. Chances are one of their processors powers your cell phone. Or your music player, etc.