That's what I thought. Why the Tzero which has questionable styling, and an interior that looks both spartan and very ugly? You can just take an already ultralight, beautiful Elise and drop an electric motor in it.
I drive a gas-powered one every day, and you can't beat the pure driving enjoyment. I wouldn't mind plugging it in instead of filling it up, except I'd miss the engine sounds.
You're right in that the terrorists aren't about to go against hard targets. They like easy ones like civilian buildings and ships in dock.
What we have to worry about is the green protesters. These "pro-environment" idiots in Germany were cutting sections of track ahead of a train carrying nuclear waste. They complained about the possibility of accidents, and then tried to cause one themselves! You want the shipment to be safe? Then stay the hell out of the way and let the train go in peace.
Back in the 80s when I first heard of these storage ideas, they'd already employed linguists, etc., to design various language-independent warning symbols that would make it obvious to any intelligent civilizations what lies buried at the site.
Burning lots of fuel to change course to the debris, more to slow down upon approach
Burning HUGE amounts of fuel to slow down the combined mass enough to put both objects into a decaying orbit
Burning more fuel to put the capture device back into stable orbit again after release
You use lots of fuel (that has to be lifted into orbit) and take out only one object. You could attach little computer controlled rocket/gyro kits to pieces to send them down by themselves. That would eliminate the fuel needed for the capture device to regain orbit, but it's still a lot.
Maybe if the designers learned to program... instead of just using Frontpage for everything, we wouldn't necessarily have this problem.
Web designers do not use Frontpage.
However, home-brewed amateur sites ("Oooh, quilting circle will love this site.") and sites made by worker bees ("Jones, make a department web site.") may be done with FP.
Some famine is political in nature, but the much of the problem comes from areas that are simple overpopulated and have insufficent infastructure to support relief efforts. Frequently both factors are combined and you have areas with no food, no roads, and a government hostile to foreign aid.
The point is that the Earth can support these people. In the past, they just moved to better pastures. Look at a current example in Zimbabwe, which is currently in the middle of a drought, and there is widespread famine.
But neighboring, poorer Zambia is doing okay under the same drought. The only difference is a government that ruined the means of food production and distribution.
You can pretty-much ignore the producer list. A producer or *-producer can be anyone, either someone directly involved with production, someone who lended a bit of influence to get the show going then bowed-out, or even just someone to whom the real producer owed a favor so put him in as an executive producer even though he has nothing to do with the show.
The problem got so bad that a while ago they had to set a rule restricting the number of producers you could put in the credits.
The point is that MS and other software companies are trying to deny they are suppliers of goods. That would imply a sale, which would give the consumer rights under law, and they don't want that. They are instead saying they are implementing a licensing program where there is a license (contract) between the consumer and the vendor to use the software. They are therefore contractors.
This actually falls within one of the parts of TCO that I've heard mention here. A careful company would have the lawyers review every EULA very carefully for every piece of software installed by every employee. The reason being that an employee would be entering the company into a legal contract (click-wrap) without prior legal review.
Microsoft is probably not a direct contractor to the county,
MS likes to think its EULAs are binding contracts. Therefore, if the EULAs are valid, then there is a contract between the county and MS. Conclusion: Whenever someone in the county installs any MS product, MS is de facto a contractor.
Alternate conclusion: MS wants its products used, and has to admit the EULAs aren't binding contracts in order to not be considered a contractor. All EULAs are then admitted by Microsoft to be invalid.
Why not a conversion to Apple? Gartner just showed a very low TCO in a study in Australia, and they're a lot easier for mediocre admins to keep straight.
Actually, by virtue of that post, you are a copyright holder.
Looking at the congressman's statement, this isn't too bad. In theory, all it does is allow the copyright holders to try to trip up, fool, or pollute the P2P networks the same way as happens with satellite pirates. You know that it won't take long for the networks to get around this and we'll end up with better networks because of it. It also has a narrowly-defined safe harbor of that copyright holders can do, and harsh penalties if they step outside that harbor.
At least that's what it is in theory before the *AA lobbyists get on it a bit more.
Wait a minute, wasn't the RIAA not too long ago trying to get a ruling allowing them to not have to bother getting permission from the copyright holder songwriters on the songs they want to broadcast online? Now they want others to run around getting that individual permission.
Back when the Atari 8-bits were out, there was a race between companies that would copy-protect their disks (through bad sectors, etc.), and companies that would produce drives that would copy them. IIRC, after this had gone on for a while, someone produced an almost uncopyable disk. Turns out it was using an old copy protection format not built into the last couple generations of copying drives.
Exactly when did the gov't switch to Word; I thought they used Wordperfect for everything...
They were mainly using WordPerfect and MultiMate Advantage when I left government in late '93, but they were mostly MS when I brushed by them again in '95.
Assuming that this is true, and Alderaan is armed to the teeth and crawling with terrorists, the indiscriminate slaughter of every man, woman, and child on an entire planet would be an act of evil greater than anything we've ever seen. Much worse than Nazi Germany, Maoist China, and Stalin combined.
Or it's just the galactic-era version of a nuke. Same thing, just a larger scale. Just as a nuke's simply a larger scale version of the bombs we use that we know will be taking out civilians no matter how precise we try to make them.
You'd think this would be like Hollings' SSSCA where he really only invited the *AAs to testify, with one token technology person to abuse in front of them ("yes massas, isa earning my payoffs"). Instead they're actually inviting many concerned parties from all sides.
Woman's body, woman's choice. There is nothing I have seen, read, or be taught that shows me abortion is wrong.
In opposition to the latter part of your statement, I do think it's wrong. But that's my personal opinion, which is nicely trumped by the first part of your statement, leaving me pro choice as you are.
That's why it's pro-choice, not pro-abortion as we are often mislabeled by the pro-life crowd.
They didn't cut any corners. That's a 400+ MHz customized PowerPC with a custom graphics chip by ArtX (since bought by ATI). Add a good amount of memory and serious bandwidth, and you have a hell of a system for something that went into development two years ago.
Aside from that, I really can't see adding another huge console to my cabinet just for games. The Cube fits nicely right next to my TV (width & depth aren't much wider than a CD, and it's even shorter than than).
Also, it's the only one that's remotely portable (even a handle on it) and you can buy an LCD top and car adapter to make it a real portable game machine for car trips.
I used a Roland wide format printer and an Epson 3000, both of which took physically the same ink cartridge. The boss ordered cheap refills to save money (the 200ml Roland cartridges were $250 each).
Next thing you know, the Epson can't print very good quality anymore, and neither can the Roland. We ended up having to replace three heads and an ink line (cracked open, ink everywhere) on the Roland for over $2,000 apparently because of the bad chemical composition of the cheap ink and that it dries too fast.
The Roland's been on good quality ink for a couple years now with no problems at all, but I think the Epson's trashed.
Who cares about Linux use (or BSD, etc.) under this argument. Say I just wanted new hardware to move my old copy of Windows over to.
Microsoft's license gestappo may be able to intimidate small vendors with their "if it's not Windows, it's piracy" policy, but there's no way Microsoft (total assets $59 billion) can go up against Wal-Mart (more than 3x that in sales alone last year).
That looks infringing. Of course, Corel could have simply licensed it from Adobe. Actually, this Adobe vs. Macromedia case is strange because the usual game is to claim infringement, do a counter-claim, and then cross-license.
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That's what I thought. Why the Tzero which has questionable styling, and an interior that looks both spartan and very ugly? You can just take an already ultralight, beautiful Elise and drop an electric motor in it.
I drive a gas-powered one every day, and you can't beat the pure driving enjoyment. I wouldn't mind plugging it in instead of filling it up, except I'd miss the engine sounds.
but if not Yucca Mountain, then where? South Dakota? Florida? Canada?
The Capitol Building? Put it where it'll actually do some good.
You're right in that the terrorists aren't about to go against hard targets. They like easy ones like civilian buildings and ships in dock.
What we have to worry about is the green protesters. These "pro-environment" idiots in Germany were cutting sections of track ahead of a train carrying nuclear waste. They complained about the possibility of accidents, and then tried to cause one themselves! You want the shipment to be safe? Then stay the hell out of the way and let the train go in peace.
Back in the 80s when I first heard of these storage ideas, they'd already employed linguists, etc., to design various language-independent warning symbols that would make it obvious to any intelligent civilizations what lies buried at the site.
- Finding the debris
- Burning lots of fuel to change course to the debris, more to slow down upon approach
- Burning HUGE amounts of fuel to slow down the combined mass enough to put both objects into a decaying orbit
- Burning more fuel to put the capture device back into stable orbit again after release
You use lots of fuel (that has to be lifted into orbit) and take out only one object. You could attach little computer controlled rocket/gyro kits to pieces to send them down by themselves. That would eliminate the fuel needed for the capture device to regain orbit, but it's still a lot.Maybe if the designers learned to program ... instead of just using Frontpage for everything, we wouldn't necessarily have this problem.
Web designers do not use Frontpage.
However, home-brewed amateur sites ("Oooh, quilting circle will love this site.") and sites made by worker bees ("Jones, make a department web site.") may be done with FP.
Some famine is political in nature, but the much of the problem comes from areas that are simple overpopulated and have insufficent infastructure to support relief efforts. Frequently both factors are combined and you have areas with no food, no roads, and a government hostile to foreign aid.
The point is that the Earth can support these people. In the past, they just moved to better pastures. Look at a current example in Zimbabwe, which is currently in the middle of a drought, and there is widespread famine.
But neighboring, poorer Zambia is doing okay under the same drought. The only difference is a government that ruined the means of food production and distribution.
You can pretty-much ignore the producer list. A producer or *-producer can be anyone, either someone directly involved with production, someone who lended a bit of influence to get the show going then bowed-out, or even just someone to whom the real producer owed a favor so put him in as an executive producer even though he has nothing to do with the show.
The problem got so bad that a while ago they had to set a rule restricting the number of producers you could put in the credits.
The point is that MS and other software companies are trying to deny they are suppliers of goods. That would imply a sale, which would give the consumer rights under law, and they don't want that. They are instead saying they are implementing a licensing program where there is a license (contract) between the consumer and the vendor to use the software. They are therefore contractors.
This actually falls within one of the parts of TCO that I've heard mention here. A careful company would have the lawyers review every EULA very carefully for every piece of software installed by every employee. The reason being that an employee would be entering the company into a legal contract (click-wrap) without prior legal review.
MS likes to think its EULAs are binding contracts. Therefore, if the EULAs are valid, then there is a contract between the county and MS. Conclusion: Whenever someone in the county installs any MS product, MS is de facto a contractor.
Alternate conclusion: MS wants its products used, and has to admit the EULAs aren't binding contracts in order to not be considered a contractor. All EULAs are then admitted by Microsoft to be invalid.
Why not a conversion to Apple? Gartner just showed a very low TCO in a study in Australia, and they're a lot easier for mediocre admins to keep straight.
Actually, by virtue of that post, you are a copyright holder.
Looking at the congressman's statement, this isn't too bad. In theory, all it does is allow the copyright holders to try to trip up, fool, or pollute the P2P networks the same way as happens with satellite pirates. You know that it won't take long for the networks to get around this and we'll end up with better networks because of it. It also has a narrowly-defined safe harbor of that copyright holders can do, and harsh penalties if they step outside that harbor.
At least that's what it is in theory before the *AA lobbyists get on it a bit more.
Wait a minute, wasn't the RIAA not too long ago trying to get a ruling allowing them to not have to bother getting permission from the copyright holder songwriters on the songs they want to broadcast online? Now they want others to run around getting that individual permission.
Back when the Atari 8-bits were out, there was a race between companies that would copy-protect their disks (through bad sectors, etc.), and companies that would produce drives that would copy them. IIRC, after this had gone on for a while, someone produced an almost uncopyable disk. Turns out it was using an old copy protection format not built into the last couple generations of copying drives.
Exactly when did the gov't switch to Word; I thought they used Wordperfect for everything...
They were mainly using WordPerfect and MultiMate Advantage when I left government in late '93, but they were mostly MS when I brushed by them again in '95.
I had the same thought as you. But at least it lasted thousands of years, while no democracy has lasted even close to that time.
Assuming that this is true, and Alderaan is armed to the teeth and crawling with terrorists, the indiscriminate slaughter of every man, woman, and child on an entire planet would be an act of evil greater than anything we've ever seen. Much worse than Nazi Germany, Maoist China, and Stalin combined.
Or it's just the galactic-era version of a nuke. Same thing, just a larger scale. Just as a nuke's simply a larger scale version of the bombs we use that we know will be taking out civilians no matter how precise we try to make them.
You'd think this would be like Hollings' SSSCA where he really only invited the *AAs to testify, with one token technology person to abuse in front of them ("yes massas, isa earning my payoffs"). Instead they're actually inviting many concerned parties from all sides.
Cool, something good may actually come of this.
Woman's body, woman's choice. There is nothing I have seen, read, or be taught that shows me abortion is wrong.
In opposition to the latter part of your statement, I do think it's wrong. But that's my personal opinion, which is nicely trumped by the first part of your statement, leaving me pro choice as you are.
That's why it's pro-choice, not pro-abortion as we are often mislabeled by the pro-life crowd.
They didn't cut any corners. That's a 400+ MHz customized PowerPC with a custom graphics chip by ArtX (since bought by ATI). Add a good amount of memory and serious bandwidth, and you have a hell of a system for something that went into development two years ago.
Aside from that, I really can't see adding another huge console to my cabinet just for games. The Cube fits nicely right next to my TV (width & depth aren't much wider than a CD, and it's even shorter than than).
Also, it's the only one that's remotely portable (even a handle on it) and you can buy an LCD top and car adapter to make it a real portable game machine for car trips.
I used a Roland wide format printer and an Epson 3000, both of which took physically the same ink cartridge. The boss ordered cheap refills to save money (the 200ml Roland cartridges were $250 each).
Next thing you know, the Epson can't print very good quality anymore, and neither can the Roland. We ended up having to replace three heads and an ink line (cracked open, ink everywhere) on the Roland for over $2,000 apparently because of the bad chemical composition of the cheap ink and that it dries too fast.
The Roland's been on good quality ink for a couple years now with no problems at all, but I think the Epson's trashed.
Who cares about Linux use (or BSD, etc.) under this argument. Say I just wanted new hardware to move my old copy of Windows over to.
Microsoft's license gestappo may be able to intimidate small vendors with their "if it's not Windows, it's piracy" policy, but there's no way Microsoft (total assets $59 billion) can go up against Wal-Mart (more than 3x that in sales alone last year).
That looks infringing. Of course, Corel could have simply licensed it from Adobe. Actually, this Adobe vs. Macromedia case is strange because the usual game is to claim infringement, do a counter-claim, and then cross-license.
It securely held a can of warm Mountain Dew through a trip, and even got it ice cold on the way because the holder is right in front of the A/C vent.
Admittedly, the graphics editing one I haven't had time to fully understand, and may have merit.
But the ones for editing waveforms I swear I was doing on my Atari 1040 ST in 1987.