I think Nympho.info would be a great name for a web site. It was available as of 5 minutes ago. I don't want to bother with it, but one of you guys might. Go for it.
Your post made me think to myself, "Yeah, that titanium powerbook is a damn nice computer. I wonder what one of those bastards costs?" So I went to the apple.com store to look. The 500MHz version is 3500 bucks! Creeping zombie Jesus that's a lot of money.
Rotary phones are still great for one thing- waking up people who sleep like logs. I have a red plastic rotary phone on my nightstand that is loud enough to wake the dead. On my other nightstand I have a cordless phone that I actually use. When people ask about the rotary, I tell them that's how Commisioner Gordon gets a hold of me.
The article mentions that IBM is setting up a grid of nine research centers accross Britain. I immediately thought of another network that traces its origins to a handfull of research centers. The internet grew beyond the bounds of what its founders ever imagined. Maybe this will too. As for grid connected PCs, I would be willing to bet that by the time any grid is ready to accept PCs, that dial-up connections will be a fuzzy memory.
GT3 is the best looking game I've ever seen, hands down. The rally racing section alone is worth the price of the game. But I think the wheel is terrible. If anyone out there is thinking about dropping $105 on the wheel, try it out first. I borrowed one from a guy that hated his. If you like it, you can probably find one secondhand cheap.
The rich interaction problem isn't that hard. All I want is a 10" 800X600 display that can run for 18 hours on one battery and fit in my front pants pocket. If they can also put a full size keyboard and mouse in the same pocket, I would be willing to pay 6 or 7 more dollars.
The Samsung 3500 in my pocket has all the features I need. 1) Clear phone calls 2) Good address book 3) Integrated vibrating ringer. That's it.
"The PS2 doesn't have enough dynamic storage or networking ability to make it into a nice PC-like or net appliance unit, does it?"
Nope. The thing only has 32 megs of RAM in it. It's built from the ground up as a machine to play non-networked 3D games. It does that amazingly well (GT3 is stunning). They left ports to bolt on hard drives and networking, but they're hardly the focus of the design. If you want to run Linux cheap, go buy an old PC. If you want cutting edge stand alond 3D games, buy a PS2.
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With DVDs officially a "mainstream" technology (meaning that Blockbuster rents them), how many companies are going to continue producing laser discs? When the two choices where cheap crappy VHS and expensive high quality laser discs, there was certainly a niche there. Now with three choices, you have cheap crappy VHS, fairly cheap high quality DVDs, and expensive slightly higher quality (says you) laser discs. Laser discs may be the medium of choice now, but basic economics are going to make them a medium of the past very soon.
With a fission reactor, if there is a problem, you drop the control rods and everything comes to a halt.
With a fusion reactor, what would happen if you completely lost power to the magnetic fields? Would it blow up like a H-bomb or at least level the building? People aren't going to allow these kinds of plants to be built unless they are as safe or safer than fission plants.
There are a whole bunch of other routers out there. Cisco just makes the best ones and has the best customer service. As good textbook capitalism predicts, they completely dominate the market.
That's not true. Americans know better. Canadians and Mexicans have the priveledge of living very close to us and get to absorb our amazing culture the most.
Could any other country in the world have produced Rocky IV?
Many things that I've read have indicated that the Japanese mainstream truly believes that the internet is entirely pornography and is a complete waste of time.
If you look like the guy on the wanted poster (actually look like him, not just the same race), then the cop has probable cause to check your ID. Walking down a street is not probable cause.
I am certainly no lawyer either. But I was under the impression that any court and toss out any facet of a lower court ruling, finding of fact, finding of law, damages, verdict...anything.
My understanding is that AMD's 64bit CPUs will run old code beautifully. This may be the deciding factor against Intel's Itanium, which by all the accounts I've seen, runs 32 bit code terribly slow.
The short version is that what we call India was called Hindustan back then. Columbus came back to Spain (being an Italian guy that didn't speak great Spanish) and told the court he had found "Una gente in Dios," a people in God. "In dios" became "Indian".
Anglo-Saxons had the technology to acomplish the exterminations that many other ethnic groups had attempted.
Modern US history books make American Indians out to be these doe eyed pacifists that got slaughtered. Certain tribes did some truly vicious things to white settlers and other tribes. Did white people commit atrocities in the name of civilization and manifest destiny? Absolutely. But it wasn't a one way street.
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I think Nympho.info would be a great name for a web site. It was available as of 5 minutes ago. I don't want to bother with it, but one of you guys might. Go for it.
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Your post made me think to myself, "Yeah, that titanium powerbook is a damn nice computer. I wonder what one of those bastards costs?" So I went to the apple.com store to look. The 500MHz version is 3500 bucks! Creeping zombie Jesus that's a lot of money.
-B
Rotary phones are still great for one thing- waking up people who sleep like logs. I have a red plastic rotary phone on my nightstand that is loud enough to wake the dead. On my other nightstand I have a cordless phone that I actually use. When people ask about the rotary, I tell them that's how Commisioner Gordon gets a hold of me.
-B
According to NASA escape velocity is 11.2 km/sec or 25038.72 mph. But what do they know, they're stupid American rocket scientists.
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The article mentions that IBM is setting up a grid of nine research centers accross Britain. I immediately thought of another network that traces its origins to a handfull of research centers. The internet grew beyond the bounds of what its founders ever imagined. Maybe this will too. As for grid connected PCs, I would be willing to bet that by the time any grid is ready to accept PCs, that dial-up connections will be a fuzzy memory.
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MegaFLOP-hours. It would work almost exactly like the power grid.
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GT3 is the best looking game I've ever seen, hands down. The rally racing section alone is worth the price of the game. But I think the wheel is terrible. If anyone out there is thinking about dropping $105 on the wheel, try it out first. I borrowed one from a guy that hated his. If you like it, you can probably find one secondhand cheap.
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You apparently don't put the high monetary value on "envy of your friends" that I do.
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The rich interaction problem isn't that hard. All I want is a 10" 800X600 display that can run for 18 hours on one battery and fit in my front pants pocket. If they can also put a full size keyboard and mouse in the same pocket, I would be willing to pay 6 or 7 more dollars.
The Samsung 3500 in my pocket has all the features I need. 1) Clear phone calls 2) Good address book 3) Integrated vibrating ringer. That's it.
-B
"The PS2 doesn't have enough dynamic storage or networking ability to make it into a nice PC-like or net appliance unit, does it?"
Nope. The thing only has 32 megs of RAM in it. It's built from the ground up as a machine to play non-networked 3D games. It does that amazingly well (GT3 is stunning). They left ports to bolt on hard drives and networking, but they're hardly the focus of the design. If you want to run Linux cheap, go buy an old PC. If you want cutting edge stand alond 3D games, buy a PS2.
-B
With DVDs officially a "mainstream" technology (meaning that Blockbuster rents them), how many companies are going to continue producing laser discs? When the two choices where cheap crappy VHS and expensive high quality laser discs, there was certainly a niche there. Now with three choices, you have cheap crappy VHS, fairly cheap high quality DVDs, and expensive slightly higher quality (says you) laser discs. Laser discs may be the medium of choice now, but basic economics are going to make them a medium of the past very soon.
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Screw the children. I was thinking about myself.
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With a fission reactor, if there is a problem, you drop the control rods and everything comes to a halt.
With a fusion reactor, what would happen if you completely lost power to the magnetic fields? Would it blow up like a H-bomb or at least level the building? People aren't going to allow these kinds of plants to be built unless they are as safe or safer than fission plants.
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That's what I was thinking about too. The nano-bots where injected into Skinner. Krycek controlled them with his Palm Pilot of Death.
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You are so wrong. There were tons of succesful games that used R.O.B. the robot and the PowerGlove. Oh wait...nevermind.
Cool NES accessories page
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There are a whole bunch of other routers out there. Cisco just makes the best ones and has the best customer service. As good textbook capitalism predicts, they completely dominate the market.
-B
"Don't forget: North Americans Know Better!"
That's not true. Americans know better. Canadians and Mexicans have the priveledge of living very close to us and get to absorb our amazing culture the most.
Could any other country in the world have produced Rocky IV?
Many things that I've read have indicated that the Japanese mainstream truly believes that the internet is entirely pornography and is a complete waste of time.
Anyone in Japan want to comment on that?
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If you look like the guy on the wanted poster (actually look like him, not just the same race), then the cop has probable cause to check your ID. Walking down a street is not probable cause.
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I am certainly no lawyer either. But I was under the impression that any court and toss out any facet of a lower court ruling, finding of fact, finding of law, damages, verdict...anything.
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I think the Anne Tomlinson post was a particularly brilliant troll.
A quick Google search for "Anne Tomlinson" returns an orchestra conductor and someone in a retirement community.
If it was a real post, CmdrTaco probably would have ignored it. His good humored response makes me think it was a troll.
Is there any evidence that it was real?
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My understanding is that AMD's 64bit CPUs will run old code beautifully. This may be the deciding factor against Intel's Itanium, which by all the accounts I've seen, runs 32 bit code terribly slow.
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I'll refer to my personal hero, George Carlin, on this one:
Carlin on the word "Indian"
The short version is that what we call India was called Hindustan back then. Columbus came back to Spain (being an Italian guy that didn't speak great Spanish) and told the court he had found "Una gente in Dios," a people in God. "In dios" became "Indian".
-B
Anglo-Saxons had the technology to acomplish the exterminations that many other ethnic groups had attempted.
Modern US history books make American Indians out to be these doe eyed pacifists that got slaughtered. Certain tribes did some truly vicious things to white settlers and other tribes. Did white people commit atrocities in the name of civilization and manifest destiny? Absolutely. But it wasn't a one way street.
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Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those things.
It'll suck the paint off your house and give your family a permanent orange afro.
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