Doing better than microsoft ever could? I dunno there was a time when microsoft was considering introducing it's own flavor of linux. Then all Bill Gates would have to say is "We did our best to re-engineer this wayward operating system, but our windows still beat it."
I mean really if any software engineers can bloat something into barely working it's those professionals at microsoft.
Real role players can play anywhere and everywhere. Sure dice dont work so well in theater seats, but a pda with a random number generator works well. Also theres the problem of seeing, but there is a simple solution glowsticks. And yes, some of the other people might complain but just answer them in character, they will soon leave you alone. In fact others might join. Ok so the ushers might get upset... haven't figured that out yet, but soon.
...but i actualy have to support MS on this one, because a plugin is a pretty obvious progression in web browser technology. I mean this is a pretty BS pattent. If it were secret corprate technology, or stolen source code, I'd be the first person with a torch and pitchfork at Bill Gates door, but it's not. If this holds up in court imagine the possibilites for other lawsuits. Imagine how much the first person to walk and chew bubble gum at the same time would receive.
I know this is kinda redundant... but does anyone know how much a phone call really costs? Here in the states we pay way more than most other countries... Traviling abroad showed me that. In fact calling home (Texas) from Greece, or Spain, is cheaper than calling from austin to san antonio... I mean really halfway around the world cheaper than a couple hundred miles. The only reason why it's so expensive here is that we have more regulations than other countries, and fewer telcoms. If the price was lowered to next to nothing, at least somewhere within the ballpark of what the costs are, then the govenment could reap large amounts of money, not from the high taxes but from high use...
The SSN Parche the boat that the carter is replacing did the exact same thing with copper lines. They would land on the phone line, attatch a recording box, and leave it there, then return after it was full. There is even one of the boxes in the cold war museum in germany (because the USSR finnaly figured out it's line was comprimised and sent divers down the length). Only the US would plant a covert listening device and have in big white stenciled letters "PROPERTY OF THE US GOVENMENT". But back to my point, the fact that the navy is investing into taping phone lines and the carter is designed to do it shouldn't be a shock, new technology same old tricks.
Why did micro$oft stop with computers... Some typewriters run O.S.s and all the big calculators do too! What about dumb terminals, they have a prompt too. C'mon has microsoft slipped so far that they cant still take blatently insane to the next level. Forshame borg gates, why steal the kids lunch money when you can steal the lunches from the kids that dont have money, and then re-market them to anyone who has any money left(Bag Lunch 4.1?).
Now they will be able to prove with computer simulations what the weather will be like tommorow and still be wrong... Gosh what a marvle of modern technology. I wouldn't be such a cynic except there are so many variables that go into weather predictions that any attempt is still a guess...
I think the real advancement here is the possibility for quantum computing as soon as we learn to harness interference paterns. With this technology, creating pathways for coherent light to be channeled, combined, interfere, give and end result, and then be re-channeled recombined and so on ad infinitum... untill an end result is met. This allows for a computing cycle that is as short as t=C*L where L is the entire path length. The cycle would by necesity be slightly longer than that to allow the result to be recorded, but it need not be much longer. The only thing that is stoping us now is our lack of knowledge of photon interactions, and that is growing quickly. When this is finaly harnessed it will blow everything we could have dreamed of out of the water, then again it might take 100 years to work out the science and build the damn thing... but at the rate of advancement I doubt it.
Writen "Education Process" read "Brainwashing" Just like josie and the pussy cats, the company will begin brainwashing consumers to think that CDs are bulky and these new things are cool... there will be commercials with cute 20 year old girls using these things, and while the geek comunity laughs, joe six pack will begin believing what he sees on TV... Ok, so I'm a cynic, at least I'm not an asshole!
I think this could have very deffinate aplication, because nomatter what branch of the service there comes a time when something has to be done in a certain ammount of time, there are only a handfull of people to do it, and lives depend on it. The navy trains specificaly so that you can do a full day of work, work all night and then do annother full day of work. With a drug like this, the inherant fatigue and incompetence that comes from sleep dep could be averted allowing the job to get done better and faster
Anyone who's ever installed a decent radio in an old car knows that the ignition system causes a lot of noise, even the article states this. For this reason i seriously doubt the usefullness of this as a transmision device because the noise is not just on one band, but on many, very many. It's the same way on some comutator motors. So, unless your willing to give up all other radio capabilities this product is not for you!
But Quimby promised if he got elected as president he would HELP global warming so that we could turn antartica into a tropic paradise and also we could have all the fried fish we wanted from the gulf of mexico... I voted for him for president, why didnt you?
...people will go for this, because they dont know any better and because it's cheap. I just hope this doesnt become industry standard, because it will mean a step backwards instead of forwards, and because this is an obvious ploy by microsoft to push their domination of the OS market, anyone who's ever tried to install a winmodem in linux knows that. Oh well, thats my 2c.
I personaly must dissagree because although Evangelion seems to fit the steriotype at first, it does not in the long run. The major difference is that throughout the series there is nothing that makes the plot unbelievable, in fact quite the oposite. Although children are piloting "cyborgs" (not a fitting term at all... but I cant think of one better) to fight evil, there is a very specific reason why the pilots must be children. Add to this the fact that the Evas were not human creations, although they were created with genetic engineering the basis was not created by man. Therefore they have many flaws which are inherently obvious. This is the true beauty of Evangelion, it is realistic in human reaction and use of the tools at hand, and it brings an unbelievable idea to believablility by the use logical information and at many times the lack of information (yet still they manage to make the remaining information fit together). I have watched the series many times and it's easy to tell that the pieces aren't just thrown together to confuse, there is a order to it; however, you must discover this order yourself because the writers didn't spoon feed it to you.
At least this new tactic isnt as bad as what porn sites are doing, offering free downloads of excecutables which supposedly show a movie or something but do this by dialing a 1-900 number with your modem. I almost killed my roomate when he asked me "why wont this program work?". It was giving an "Error no modem found" message. I am so glad I dont have a modem installed, because anyone foolish enough to install a program from an untrusted sourse or something you didn't try to download deserves what they get......unless they are using their roomates computer.
One of my favorite games "Strike Commander" (Everyone bow to Chris Roberts) Was the first flight simulator/combat game to have very realistic terrain, this made it a pleasure to play and still amazes me today because it was all done on a 486; however, although the graphics were what made it palitable it was the plot that kept me playing for hours on end, and still brings me back to play from time to time. (Any game that causes me to use a boot disk that took a day to perfect is a good game) The key to it's plot is, it was both outragious and believable. It created a perfect fantasy world which was different enough for you to know it was all fantasy, but realistic enough to say "that figures" whenever something happened in the plot. A good example is that in the game the IRS is the world larges terrorist orginization giving an audit a whole new meaning. What I'm saying is this: If we continue to focus on getting games more photo realistic and otherwise realistic, while giving up on Original (pun intended) plots, the only games that will come out will be works of art that please the eyes but leave the mind and soul empty and thus get played a couple times and then forgoten. I would rather a game with a plot that keeps you playing and sucky gameplay than a game that has all the bells and whistles yet fails to play a tune.
Well, guess now is a good time to reprogram my V.C.R. since I dont want to miss this, and I'm gonna be out tonight. Then again the blinking 12:00 always put me right to sleep... hypnotic isn't it?
Now If they only can come out with the lazybowl. A toilet with a morning paper holder, a beer fridge, a built in remote, and high speed internet access...
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Doing better than microsoft ever could? I dunno there was a time when microsoft was considering introducing it's own flavor of linux. Then all Bill Gates would have to say is "We did our best to re-engineer this wayward operating system, but our windows still beat it."
I mean really if any software engineers can bloat something into barely working it's those professionals at microsoft.
Real role players can play anywhere and everywhere. Sure dice dont work so well in theater seats, but a pda with a random number generator works well. Also theres the problem of seeing, but there is a simple solution glowsticks. And yes, some of the other people might complain but just answer them in character, they will soon leave you alone. In fact others might join. Ok so the ushers might get upset... haven't figured that out yet, but soon.
...but i actualy have to support MS on this one, because a plugin is a pretty obvious progression in web browser technology. I mean this is a pretty BS pattent. If it were secret corprate technology, or stolen source code, I'd be the first person with a torch and pitchfork at Bill Gates door, but it's not. If this holds up in court imagine the possibilites for other lawsuits. Imagine how much the first person to walk and chew bubble gum at the same time would receive.
What the any key is for... duh!
I know this is kinda redundant... but does anyone know how much a phone call really costs? Here in the states we pay way more than most other countries... Traviling abroad showed me that. In fact calling home (Texas) from Greece, or Spain, is cheaper than calling from austin to san antonio... I mean really halfway around the world cheaper than a couple hundred miles. The only reason why it's so expensive here is that we have more regulations than other countries, and fewer telcoms. If the price was lowered to next to nothing, at least somewhere within the ballpark of what the costs are, then the govenment could reap large amounts of money, not from the high taxes but from high use...
Hey lucy I'm online!
The SSN Parche the boat that the carter is replacing did the exact same thing with copper lines. They would land on the phone line, attatch a recording box, and leave it there, then return after it was full. There is even one of the boxes in the cold war museum in germany (because the USSR finnaly figured out it's line was comprimised and sent divers down the length). Only the US would plant a covert listening device and have in big white stenciled letters "PROPERTY OF THE US GOVENMENT". But back to my point, the fact that the navy is investing into taping phone lines and the carter is designed to do it shouldn't be a shock, new technology same old tricks.
Why did micro$oft stop with computers... Some typewriters run O.S.s and all the big calculators do too! What about dumb terminals, they have a prompt too. C'mon has microsoft slipped so far that they cant still take blatently insane to the next level. Forshame borg gates, why steal the kids lunch money when you can steal the lunches from the kids that dont have money, and then re-market them to anyone who has any money left(Bag Lunch 4.1?).
Now they will be able to prove with computer simulations what the weather will be like tommorow and still be wrong... Gosh what a marvle of modern technology. I wouldn't be such a cynic except there are so many variables that go into weather predictions that any attempt is still a guess...
I think the real advancement here is the possibility for quantum computing as soon as we learn to harness interference paterns. With this technology, creating pathways for coherent light to be channeled, combined, interfere, give and end result, and then be re-channeled recombined and so on ad infinitum... untill an end result is met. This allows for a computing cycle that is as short as t=C*L where L is the entire path length. The cycle would by necesity be slightly longer than that to allow the result to be recorded, but it need not be much longer. The only thing that is stoping us now is our lack of knowledge of photon interactions, and that is growing quickly. When this is finaly harnessed it will blow everything we could have dreamed of out of the water, then again it might take 100 years to work out the science and build the damn thing... but at the rate of advancement I doubt it.
Software Piracy== Anything that microsoft doesent get money for.
Audio Piracy== Anything the RIAA doesnt get money for.
When you look at it that way everything makes sense!
Can you Imagain a beowolf cluster of... wait they did that...
Can you imagina a beowolf cluster of 727s?!
Writen "Education Process" read "Brainwashing"
Just like josie and the pussy cats, the company will begin brainwashing consumers to think that CDs are bulky and these new things are cool... there will be commercials with cute 20 year old girls using these things, and while the geek comunity laughs, joe six pack will begin believing what he sees on TV... Ok, so I'm a cynic, at least I'm not an asshole!
I think this could have very deffinate aplication, because nomatter what branch of the service there comes a time when something has to be done in a certain ammount of time, there are only a handfull of people to do it, and lives depend on it. The navy trains specificaly so that you can do a full day of work, work all night and then do annother full day of work. With a drug like this, the inherant fatigue and incompetence that comes from sleep dep could be averted allowing the job to get done better and faster
Anyone who's ever installed a decent radio in an old car knows that the ignition system causes a lot of noise, even the article states this. For this reason i seriously doubt the usefullness of this as a transmision device because the noise is not just on one band, but on many, very many. It's the same way on some comutator motors. So, unless your willing to give up all other radio capabilities this product is not for you!
But Quimby promised if he got elected as president he would HELP global warming so that we could turn antartica into a tropic paradise and also we could have all the fried fish we wanted from the gulf of mexico... I voted for him for president, why didnt you?
...people will go for this, because they dont know any better and because it's cheap. I just hope this doesnt become industry standard, because it will mean a step backwards instead of forwards, and because this is an obvious ploy by microsoft to push their domination of the OS market, anyone who's ever tried to install a winmodem in linux knows that. Oh well, thats my 2c.
I personaly must dissagree because although Evangelion seems to fit the steriotype at first, it does not in the long run. The major difference is that throughout the series there is nothing that makes the plot unbelievable, in fact quite the oposite. Although children are piloting "cyborgs" (not a fitting term at all... but I cant think of one better) to fight evil, there is a very specific reason why the pilots must be children. Add to this the fact that the Evas were not human creations, although they were created with genetic engineering the basis was not created by man. Therefore they have many flaws which are inherently obvious. This is the true beauty of Evangelion, it is realistic in human reaction and use of the tools at hand, and it brings an unbelievable idea to believablility by the use logical information and at many times the lack of information (yet still they manage to make the remaining information fit together). I have watched the series many times and it's easy to tell that the pieces aren't just thrown together to confuse, there is a order to it; however, you must discover this order yourself because the writers didn't spoon feed it to you.
... Godly Plate of the whale and the lawyers sword of truth .
I think the're using goblin sappers.... think "KABOOM"
At least this new tactic isnt as bad as what porn sites are doing, offering free downloads of excecutables which supposedly show a movie or something but do this by dialing a 1-900 number with your modem. I almost killed my roomate when he asked me "why wont this program work?". It was giving an "Error no modem found" message. I am so glad I dont have a modem installed, because anyone foolish enough to install a program from an untrusted sourse or something you didn't try to download deserves what they get... ...unless they are using their roomates computer.
...now if i can only find one to repair my X-wing
One of my favorite games "Strike Commander" (Everyone bow to Chris Roberts) Was the first flight simulator/combat game to have very realistic terrain, this made it a pleasure to play and still amazes me today because it was all done on a 486; however, although the graphics were what made it palitable it was the plot that kept me playing for hours on end, and still brings me back to play from time to time. (Any game that causes me to use a boot disk that took a day to perfect is a good game) The key to it's plot is, it was both outragious and believable. It created a perfect fantasy world which was different enough for you to know it was all fantasy, but realistic enough to say "that figures" whenever something happened in the plot. A good example is that in the game the IRS is the world larges terrorist orginization giving an audit a whole new meaning. What I'm saying is this: If we continue to focus on getting games more photo realistic and otherwise realistic, while giving up on Original (pun intended) plots, the only games that will come out will be works of art that please the eyes but leave the mind and soul empty and thus get played a couple times and then forgoten. I would rather a game with a plot that keeps you playing and sucky gameplay than a game that has all the bells and whistles yet fails to play a tune.
Well, guess now is a good time to reprogram my V.C.R. since I dont want to miss this, and I'm gonna be out tonight. Then again the blinking 12:00 always put me right to sleep... hypnotic isn't it?
Now If they only can come out with the lazybowl. A toilet with a morning paper holder, a beer fridge, a built in remote, and high speed internet access...