The Personal Systems Group generates much more revenue and gross profit than IBM's entire Technologies Group (which includes microprocessors). It's not even close.
Now, if you're talking percentage PTI, you probably have a point.
I believe the average sentence for murder in America is about eight years.
It would have to be a belief, since it's not based in fact.
I couldn't find the actual time served, but Bureau of Justice Statistics indicates that the "sentence imposed" was slightly over 20 years. The average time servered is less, due to the death penalty, prison murders and parole. I wonder how the account for Life sentences in this stat. Possibly factored as 40 or 50 years?
Remember that old movie with Christopher Walken? Just put a "walkman" on your heah and you're jacked in...rather than having a spike shoved into your brain.
Ruger
Since we're taking about 20, 3-minute episodes, I'm guessing the first one will be available for download on fan sites and Usenet only minutes after it airs. I think I'll just wait for that.
If your assumuption was correct then you should be able to beat Quake III on the hardest level with little difficulty, after all others can do it - and so if it takes no skill why would you find it difficult when they do not?
It does require skill and some dedication to play games, but only a moderate amount...especially compared to any sport or real skill like playing a musical instrument. No one excells at the piano after only months of practice, while the average game can me mastered in that much time or less.
Whaa, whaa, whaa. This loser is so typical of the so many MMO Gamers when he talks about how, âoe⦠in A. O. you can really let your true character out. If I want to be a pervert, I am able to do that in A. O. and be a pervert right off the bat." Thatâ(TM)s total BS. The only reason he can be that way online is because there are no consequences. Heâ(TM)s safe and sound, sitting at his keyboard pretending to be something he doesnâ(TM)t have the gonads for in real life.
Is there any other character from TNG (other than maybe Data) that had the potential for a more interesting future than that of Wesley!?!? He apparently had the ability to become a "Traveler," which opens up a ton of possibilities. Wil Wheaton is a decent actor and there's no reason to think a 20 something Wesley would be anything like a teen Wesley. I think Berman has screwed the pooch by not exploting the Wesley character in the TNG movies.
A good Flat Panel already cost more than the computer it's hooked up too. When is someone going to come up with a technology that drives the price of flat panels down? IBM announced this new process last year, which I understood would be a more cost effective way to make LCDs that the velvet rub. Is anyone using this process yet in manufacturing?
Spoken like someone who's...
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...never piloted an aircraft. The glide characteristics of most airplanes do not allow for "miles" of unpowered flight. A Cessna has a glide ratio of about 9:1 @ 90 KIAS. That means you can go forward 9 feet for every foot you drop. 1,000 feet up equals 9,000 feet forward. Hardly miles! Also, without power your control surfaces do not work as well and a stall is a fairly typical result...unless you've spent a lot of time training for engine failure.
As someone pointed out below, in a helo you have a lot of energy stored in your wings (the rotors) when you loose engine power and helos don't stall in flight. As you "drop like a rock" you can increase the "power" in your wings and use that power as you approach the ground you can trade that power for lift and reduce your rate of descent...landing at a very survivable rate. I've practiced 100's of these and experienced one real one. We landed hard but the bird and the crew were unhurt.
You're comparing a car to an aircraft?
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Well of course it assumes a few things...like the rotors are intact...but let's deal with only one emergency at a time. The truth is that it's extremely rare to loose a rotor. Much more likely is the loss of engine power, or hydraulics, or maybe a dynamic component malfunction. I've practiced 100's of autorotations without incident and suffered one intermediate gearbox malfunction. The gearbox malfunction resulted in a crash.
As far as a place to land is concerned, any parking lot, large backyard, baseball diamond or other area large enough to accommodate the length of the bird is sufficient...something you can't say about any airplane. Also, helos glide pretty well. So finding a spot to set down isn't that hard unless you're in some really rugged terrain. If you're in flight flying low (nap of the earth) in anything and loose power you're toast (unless you have an ejection seat...not available on most civilian aircraft), but a good pilot doesn't need much altitude to successfully auotrotate and walk away from the landing.
And there's no way you can compare loosing power in a car with loosing power in an aircraft...unless it's comparison out of ignorance.
I work in PC marketing and I can tell you first hand that M$ dictates the relationship. They dictate advertising...M$ logo must be in the upper half of all ads, logo must be as big or bigger than your logo, you must say that Company XYZ "recommends M$ Windows XP Home edition." They do this a couple of ways. They establish very strong high level relationships within the company who are advocated for them. Also, they provide you with significant amounts of marketing funding. This allows you to advertise your products more and of course theirs at the same time.
...work for the FBI they'd tell him to take a hike?!?! Granted, Hawking's expertise wouldn't be applicable to FBI work, but you get the point. There are a lot of poeple with physical disabilities who excell in the various fields of technology that the FBI would be lucky to get...if it weren't for their ridiculous physical standards.
I've been reading about this for years now, but for one reason or another companies have not been able to make this technology work outside the lab. If they could, the potential bandwidth would be measured in the giga or terabit per second, rather than the meager megabits DSL and Cable can provide.
I'll start making plans for it when a get a piece of Junk mail from CP&L (my power company) offering 1 month free access to their new ISP service. Until then I'll remain very sceptical
...(or easy) don't you think private industry would be flying there and setting up shop? If it was profitable, you'd see a conglomeration of Martin Marietta, 3M, and Lockhead Martin (or some other aerospace company) establishing a Lunar shuttle service with monthly flights to their off world research and mining facilities as you suggest.
The fact is that flying to the moon is really hard and expensive. Chances are fairly good that India won't succeed. I suspect, however, as one poster already suggested, India really only wants to prove that they can launch a large missle that can make it into space.
...home built on my street. Now the damn neighbors are hogging my bandwidth...approx. 1-1.3Mbps now. I'm talking RR and I'm paying $45 USD per month.
What I want to know is why RR and other cable companies providing BB restrict bandwidth?!? As I understand it, we could be getting 5Mbps or more as the bandwidth is there and unused.
"The plant also will be the first to mass produce circuits thinner than 0.1 micron..." I think the key here is "mass produce."
It also states, [the]"140,000-square-foot facility currently makes the prototype cutting-edge chips and was expected to reach full production by February 2003." I take that to mean producing chips "=>.1" at that time.
Intel P4 chips are still produced at both.13 &.18.
...you have to follow the rules closely or you have no game. It would be like letting a guy run down the court with the ball tucked under his arm...that wouldn't be basketball anymore.
And as for the LG comments... Anyone can be Chaotic, being Lawful (Good, Evil, whatever) is a much more challenging alignment to play. 20 years ago when I used to play AD&D it was so fun to DM a game and try to push a Lawful character outside their alignment...make them do something totally selfish. One Lawful Good character, IMO, was a must for almost any party...they tended to be the glue.
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Check IBM's latest financial statement.
The Personal Systems Group generates much more revenue and gross profit than IBM's entire Technologies Group (which includes microprocessors). It's not even close.
Now, if you're talking percentage PTI, you probably have a point.
Ruger
Because "Tim Beauchamp" isn't having a multi-million dollar IPO. Kasner isn't mentioned anywhere on the page.
The BusinessWeek take on the announcement. They make a point that IBM's timing of this release is in some part due to the the delay in the "Longhorn."
I believe the average sentence for murder in America is about eight years.
It would have to be a belief, since it's not based in fact.
I couldn't find the actual time served, but Bureau of Justice Statistics indicates that the "sentence imposed" was slightly over 20 years. The average time servered is less, due to the death penalty, prison murders and parole. I wonder how the account for Life sentences in this stat. Possibly factored as 40 or 50 years?
Ruger
Remember that old movie with Christopher Walken? Just put a "walkman" on your heah and you're jacked in...rather than having a spike shoved into your brain. Ruger
...but the guys aren't getting paid to play, afaik.
Ruger
...on a site?
Since we're taking about 20, 3-minute episodes, I'm guessing the first one will be available for download on fan sites and Usenet only minutes after it airs. I think I'll just wait for that.
Ruger
At least two of them make sense...
Howard Berman, D-Calif; = Movie Industry Lackey
John Conyers, D-Mich = Recording Industry Lackey
But who's paying for this guy?
Lamar Smith, R-Texas;
...Service Pack with this thing. Real life processor benchmarks:
Time to load bloated Office Apps
Time to load ridiculously large email cache
Time to load a half gigabyte MPEG
Ruger
You can read it here yourself. Basically, IBM is going to work this issue through the courts.
Ruger
If your assumuption was correct then you should be able to beat Quake III on the hardest level with little difficulty, after all others can do it - and so if it takes no skill why would you find it difficult when they do not?
It does require skill and some dedication to play games, but only a moderate amount...especially compared to any sport or real skill like playing a musical instrument. No one excells at the piano after only months of practice, while the average game can me mastered in that much time or less.
Ruger
Whaa, whaa, whaa. This loser is so typical of the so many MMO Gamers when he talks about how, âoe⦠in A. O. you can really let your true character out. If I want to be a pervert, I am able to do that in A. O. and be a pervert right off the bat." Thatâ(TM)s total BS. The only reason he can be that way online is because there are no consequences. Heâ(TM)s safe and sound, sitting at his keyboard pretending to be something he doesnâ(TM)t have the gonads for in real life.
Ruger
Or the ultimate WAN party. Have the guys at G4 planned the first event yet?
Ruger
Is there any other character from TNG (other than maybe Data) that had the potential for a more interesting future than that of Wesley!?!? He apparently had the ability to become a "Traveler," which opens up a ton of possibilities. Wil Wheaton is a decent actor and there's no reason to think a 20 something Wesley would be anything like a teen Wesley. I think Berman has screwed the pooch by not exploting the Wesley character in the TNG movies.
Ruger
Everyone remember that hoax? Wired: What If Cold Fusion Is Real?
A good Flat Panel already cost more than the computer it's hooked up too. When is someone going to come up with a technology that drives the price of flat panels down? IBM announced this new process last year, which I understood would be a more cost effective way to make LCDs that the velvet rub. Is anyone using this process yet in manufacturing?
...never piloted an aircraft. The glide characteristics of most airplanes do not allow for "miles" of unpowered flight. A Cessna has a glide ratio of about 9:1 @ 90 KIAS. That means you can go forward 9 feet for every foot you drop. 1,000 feet up equals 9,000 feet forward. Hardly miles! Also, without power your control surfaces do not work as well and a stall is a fairly typical result...unless you've spent a lot of time training for engine failure.
As someone pointed out below, in a helo you have a lot of energy stored in your wings (the rotors) when you loose engine power and helos don't stall in flight. As you "drop like a rock" you can increase the "power" in your wings and use that power as you approach the ground you can trade that power for lift and reduce your rate of descent...landing at a very survivable rate. I've practiced 100's of these and experienced one real one. We landed hard but the bird and the crew were unhurt.
Well of course it assumes a few things...like the rotors are intact...but let's deal with only one emergency at a time. The truth is that it's extremely rare to loose a rotor. Much more likely is the loss of engine power, or hydraulics, or maybe a dynamic component malfunction. I've practiced 100's of autorotations without incident and suffered one intermediate gearbox malfunction. The gearbox malfunction resulted in a crash.
As far as a place to land is concerned, any parking lot, large backyard, baseball diamond or other area large enough to accommodate the length of the bird is sufficient...something you can't say about any airplane. Also, helos glide pretty well. So finding a spot to set down isn't that hard unless you're in some really rugged terrain. If you're in flight flying low (nap of the earth) in anything and loose power you're toast (unless you have an ejection seat...not available on most civilian aircraft), but a good pilot doesn't need much altitude to successfully auotrotate and walk away from the landing.
And there's no way you can compare loosing power in a car with loosing power in an aircraft...unless it's comparison out of ignorance.
I work in PC marketing and I can tell you first hand that M$ dictates the relationship. They dictate advertising...M$ logo must be in the upper half of all ads, logo must be as big or bigger than your logo, you must say that Company XYZ "recommends M$ Windows XP Home edition." They do this a couple of ways. They establish very strong high level relationships within the company who are advocated for them. Also, they provide you with significant amounts of marketing funding. This allows you to advertise your products more and of course theirs at the same time.
Ruger
...work for the FBI they'd tell him to take a hike?!?! Granted, Hawking's expertise wouldn't be applicable to FBI work, but you get the point. There are a lot of poeple with physical disabilities who excell in the various fields of technology that the FBI would be lucky to get...if it weren't for their ridiculous physical standards.
I've been reading about this for years now, but for one reason or another companies have not been able to make this technology work outside the lab. If they could, the potential bandwidth would be measured in the giga or terabit per second, rather than the meager megabits DSL and Cable can provide.
He's some history on this subject as told by the media:
Here's an article from 3.5 years ago claiming, "U.S. Gets Ready For Internet Over Power Lines."
Here's another only 2+ year old suggesting, "Internet access over power lines nears reality."
Another only 1 year old saying,"Internet access via power lines reborn in Europe."
I'll start making plans for it when a get a piece of Junk mail from CP&L (my power company) offering 1 month free access to their new ISP service. Until then I'll remain very sceptical
...(or easy) don't you think private industry would be flying there and setting up shop? If it was profitable, you'd see a conglomeration of Martin Marietta, 3M, and Lockhead Martin (or some other aerospace company) establishing a Lunar shuttle service with monthly flights to their off world research and mining facilities as you suggest.
The fact is that flying to the moon is really hard and expensive. Chances are fairly good that India won't succeed. I suspect, however, as one poster already suggested, India really only wants to prove that they can launch a large missle that can make it into space.
Ruger
...home built on my street. Now the damn neighbors are hogging my bandwidth...approx. 1-1.3Mbps now. I'm talking RR and I'm paying $45 USD per month.
What I want to know is why RR and other cable companies providing BB restrict bandwidth?!? As I understand it, we could be getting 5Mbps or more as the bandwidth is there and unused.
"The plant also will be the first to mass produce circuits thinner than 0.1 micron..." I think the key here is "mass produce."
.13 & .18.
It also states, [the]"140,000-square-foot facility currently makes the prototype cutting-edge chips and was expected to reach full production by February 2003." I take that to mean producing chips "=>.1" at that time.
Intel P4 chips are still produced at both
...you have to follow the rules closely or you have no game. It would be like letting a guy run down the court with the ball tucked under his arm...that wouldn't be basketball anymore.
And as for the LG comments...
Anyone can be Chaotic, being Lawful (Good, Evil, whatever) is a much more challenging alignment to play. 20 years ago when I used to play AD&D it was so fun to DM a game and try to push a Lawful character outside their alignment...make them do something totally selfish. One Lawful Good character, IMO, was a must for almost any party...they tended to be the glue.