Don't think we can jump to that conclusion given eyewitness reports from cnn.com:
NEW YORK (CNN) -- The crash of an American Airlines jet south of New York's John F. Kennedy airport started fires "all over the Rockaway peninsula," witnesses said.
Smoke poured from the crash site, near the beaches of New York's borough of Queens. The crash site was about five miles from the airport, where the jet had just taken off for the Dominican Republic's capital Santo Domingo.
The Airbus A300 carried 246 passengers and a crew of nine, federal authorities said. There was no immediate news of survivors.
Witnesses said they saw an explosion on the right side of the plane before the crash. Phyllis Paul, who lives near the crash site, said a "big, silvery piece of metal" fell behind her house before the plane went down.
"I was sitting having brekafast and I heard the engines very loud," she said. "They were loud and low, and because of what happened September 11, it gave me a chill... I looked out o the window to see if I could see where it was, and then I saw a big silvery piece of metal falling from the sky behind my house."
Paul, who was eating breakfast when she heard the plane, got her 10-year-old son and got out of the house.
"I didn't hear an explosion at first when I saw the metal fall. I heard an explosion about a minute and a half later," she said.
About 20 blocks away, David Saliro and his brother were in a car on a bridge on-ramp when the crash occurred. Saliro said the plane came down "at a flat trajectory, straight down flat."
"We were both shaking and didn't know what to do," he said.
Volunteer firefighters said a burning aircraft engine dropped into the back yard of a house, setting the house ablaze. No one was home at the time, one firefighter told CNN.
Since the September 11 terrorist attacks, U.S. warplanes have patrolled the airspace around New York. Susan Locke, who lives about five blocks away, said she thought the noise at first was a fighter jet.
"I looked out the window and saw a plane nosedive, straight down," she said.
Another woman described the neighborhood around the crash site as a scene of "complete and utter terror. Everybody is so distraught and upset and in shock," she said.
When the plane approached, "I thought it was like the Concorde and it was flying too low," she said. "Then it hit. It was like a bomb exploded."
"If they're the city of progress, why are they running Linux?", Brett jokes. "We're going in there to show them how much value exists in the Microsoft platform and take this win away from Linux!" Key in both accounts is the way Brett's team positions Microsoft's future.NET vision as well as providing great products like Windows 2000 to start building on that vision today.
I think Scott Adams was right when he placed the sign: "Two Drink Minimum" above the entrance to Marketing.
This may be an unpopular idea, but it seems that one of the only ways to preserve local cultures is to somehow limit the expressive possibilities of global media. i.e. limits on corporate or mass-marketed speech. This happens in France with its film industry to some extent, IIRC.
Is this what we really want? Are thoughts/images/ideas produced by U.S. media automatically suspect or hegemonic? Eventually you will have, in any given country, the government or "cultural review board" decreeing that ideas developed within to be preferable to ideas developed outside the borders.
Hopefully I'm not the only one who finds this disturbing.
Do 72% percent of people in this country even know what rot13 is? Let alone encryption? I can only assume they were told, "Terrorists used x to make their plans." Then they were asked, "Should the government have control of x?" What do you think they would say?
Caleb Carr's editorial in the NY Times is insightful. Perhaps these repressive regimes in Afghanistan and elsewhere recognize that twilight is upon them, and night must fall.
(b) Exception -- Subsection (a) does not apply to the offer for sale or provision of, or other trafficking in, any previously-owned interactive digital device, if such device was legally manufactured or imported, and sold, prior to the effective date of regulations adopted under section 104 and not subsequently modified in violation of subsection (a) or 103(a).
Sklyarov was indicted in America for participating in speech that would be free in Russia. With regards to history, this is both ironic and sad.
I'm ashamed to be an American at this moment.
I'll remember who started this also. I have to use Acrobat Reader to read some documents (it being a web standard and all), but never again will I purchase an Adobe product. Whether or not you do the same is your business.
Ignoring your hard disk rants, none of these things happened to the Dreamcast, which ran on WindowsCE. The reason desktop OSes are imcomplete is because M$ wants you to buy new versions. XBox will have an embedded OS, similar to Dreamcast and PDAs running CE. M$'s business model in these cases is based on selling PRODUCTS not SOFTWARE, so the product (of which the OS is a part) better work.
No, I'm no M$ cheerleader, but you need to recognize that not everything they touch turns to dust.
What is the cost of two games? About $100. So you could have an XBox and 15 games, or a GC/PS2 and 17 games. Not much of a difference is it? $100 is nothing compared to the whine of a kid who wants something...
Who is actually surprised by this? Did anyone actually expect Warcraft 3 to ship Q3 '01 when not too long ago they had only finished two of the races in the game, and hadn't done any unit balancing or multiplayer work? This is fine with me. I asked a Blizzard employee at a game convention years ago: "When will Starcraft ship?" He said, "When it's ready."
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Don't think we can jump to that conclusion given eyewitness reports from cnn.com:
... I looked out o the window to see if I could see where it was, and then I saw a big silvery piece of metal falling from the sky behind my house."
NEW YORK (CNN) -- The crash of an American Airlines jet south of New York's John F. Kennedy airport started fires "all over the Rockaway peninsula," witnesses said.
Smoke poured from the crash site, near the beaches of New York's borough of Queens. The crash site was about five miles from the airport, where the jet had just taken off for the Dominican Republic's capital Santo Domingo.
The Airbus A300 carried 246 passengers and a crew of nine, federal authorities said. There was no immediate news of survivors.
Witnesses said they saw an explosion on the right side of the plane before the crash. Phyllis Paul, who lives near the crash site, said a "big, silvery piece of metal" fell behind her house before the plane went down.
"I was sitting having brekafast and I heard the engines very loud," she said. "They were loud and low, and because of what happened September 11, it gave me a chill
Paul, who was eating breakfast when she heard the plane, got her 10-year-old son and got out of the house.
"I didn't hear an explosion at first when I saw the metal fall. I heard an explosion about a minute and a half later," she said.
About 20 blocks away, David Saliro and his brother were in a car on a bridge on-ramp when the crash occurred. Saliro said the plane came down "at a flat trajectory, straight down flat."
"We were both shaking and didn't know what to do," he said.
Volunteer firefighters said a burning aircraft engine dropped into the back yard of a house, setting the house ablaze. No one was home at the time, one firefighter told CNN.
Since the September 11 terrorist attacks, U.S. warplanes have patrolled the airspace around New York. Susan Locke, who lives about five blocks away, said she thought the noise at first was a fighter jet.
"I looked out the window and saw a plane nosedive, straight down," she said.
Another woman described the neighborhood around the crash site as a scene of "complete and utter terror. Everybody is so distraught and upset and in shock," she said.
When the plane approached, "I thought it was like the Concorde and it was flying too low," she said. "Then it hit. It was like a bomb exploded."
I think Scott Adams was right when he placed the sign: "Two Drink Minimum" above the entrance to Marketing.
Obviously these "defectors" haven't mastered hitscan weapons yet...
Does anyone have a link to the above? The latest info on the FAA site seems to suggest otherwise.
i wonder what kind of dance ballmer will do now? perhaps pelvic thrusting...
The hand that holds the iron rules the world.
The strategic battle for control of resources makes civ 3 a very interesting game.
This may be an unpopular idea, but it seems that one of the only ways to preserve local cultures is to somehow limit the expressive possibilities of global media. i.e. limits on corporate or mass-marketed speech. This happens in France with its film industry to some extent, IIRC.
Is this what we really want? Are thoughts/images/ideas produced by U.S. media automatically suspect or hegemonic? Eventually you will have, in any given country, the government or "cultural review board" decreeing that ideas developed within to be preferable to ideas developed outside the borders.
Hopefully I'm not the only one who finds this disturbing.
wrong. DOA3sp2 will come out first. :)
one movie ticket: $10 (NYC)
one tub of popcorn: $3
production of LoTR: $270,000,000
Gandalf v. Balrog onscreen: priceless
"Wherever you go, Oracle will be there."
Haunting, isn't it?
Do 72% percent of people in this country even know what rot13 is? Let alone encryption? I can only assume they were told, "Terrorists used x to make their plans." Then they were asked, "Should the government have control of x?" What do you think they would say?
Caleb Carr's editorial in the NY Times is insightful. Perhaps these repressive regimes in Afghanistan and elsewhere recognize that twilight is upon them, and night must fall.
but it's only a test. fun, though.
I can only assume that export of Applied Crypto and other similar tomes to certain countries would be illegal.
When was the last time that the United States or Israel flew a plane loaded with jet fuel into an office building full of civilians?
Hmmm, I can't remember. Can you?
another plane crashed near the pentagon. check your local newspapers' sites, as they will probably have AP mirrors.
All of you browsing ibm's pages have decreased my transfer rate to 2.3K/sec. Thanks.
Note this section:
Stock up on hard drives.
The date on the report is from two years ago, and the JDK used was 1.2?!
Intel strategy: market the product first and then build it. We've all seen how well this works.
AMD strategy: engineer solid product first and then come up with marketing scheme.
I really don't care what they do marketing-wise, as long as the chip is well-engineered, which it is. NetBurst anyone?
Sklyarov was indicted in America for participating in speech that would be free in Russia. With regards to history, this is both ironic and sad.
I'm ashamed to be an American at this moment.
I'll remember who started this also. I have to use Acrobat Reader to read some documents (it being a web standard and all), but never again will I purchase an Adobe product. Whether or not you do the same is your business.
Ignoring your hard disk rants, none of these things happened to the Dreamcast, which ran on WindowsCE. The reason desktop OSes are imcomplete is because M$ wants you to buy new versions. XBox will have an embedded OS, similar to Dreamcast and PDAs running CE. M$'s business model in these cases is based on selling PRODUCTS not SOFTWARE, so the product (of which the OS is a part) better work.
No, I'm no M$ cheerleader, but you need to recognize that not everything they touch turns to dust.
Middle-class buyers?
What is the cost of two games? About $100. So you could have an XBox and 15 games, or a GC/PS2 and 17 games. Not much of a difference is it? $100 is nothing compared to the whine of a kid who wants something...
Who is actually surprised by this? Did anyone actually expect Warcraft 3 to ship Q3 '01 when not too long ago they had only finished two of the races in the game, and hadn't done any unit balancing or multiplayer work? This is fine with me. I asked a Blizzard employee at a game convention years ago: "When will Starcraft ship?" He said, "When it's ready."
Not to mention the fact that intel is run by dancing blue aliens.