I mean, this *is* the agency that blew up a space probe because they couldn't remember to use metric or imperial units, and crashed that other probe becuse they installed the parachute sensor upside down.
So, what are the changes that NASA is wrong, and this thing *is* going to go smak into the pacific ocean? (or better yet, land on Redmond Washington).
Man, I gotta brush up on that important stuff. Who knows when it'll be needed on some game show?
All you have to do to understand how stupid America is, is to listen to when Howard Stern interviews some stripper and he asks her a question like "Who's the President of the United States?" AND SHE DOESN'T KNOW!!!!!!
Hurray! Ah, that brings back the memories... Yes, Wildstar found his brother's ship on Titan...
But how did Alex manage to travel all the way to Iscandar without the help of FTL drive, or warp technology? It took the Star Force the better part of year to get there.
Also, if Apple were to sell 10 million of these things, that's a $1 billion loss, but what if people love the cheap price and they "accidentally" sell 50 million of them? That's a $5 billion loss and now he's almost bankrupted the company.
If Apple "accidentally" sold 50 million computers, they'd own 50% of the entire computer market by themselves , making them the single biggest computer manufacturer on the planet, and their stock alone would be worth $250 per share. They'd lose $6 billion in cash and make $100 billion in stock value.
But Apple (or any other company for that matter) rarely does anything "accidentally", to their detriment. Let's say they predict, based on existing sales figures at the 5 milion mark that they will sell 50 million -- all they have to do is then re-engineer the product so it can be manufactured even more cheaply, and sell the ones past 10 million that way and start making a profit on each box.
Sony, for example, did that with the Playstation -- each revision of the motherboard was created for the purpose of cheaper fabrication, using less parts. If Apple sees the trend, they will react by making a much more integrated product. Also, consider that they must buy HD's from a supplier. The price they are getting for 10 million units is higher than if they were buying 40 million more units.
Point is, where there's a will, there's a way. If you KNOW you're going to sell the first 10 million at a loss, you figure out how to sell the next 40 million at a profit, without changing the price of the unit for the consumer.
That's how people get rich. Duh.
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Google may believe that they can teach good programming methods, but they can't teach insight or intuition.
Funny you should mention this, as it reminds me of Disney's hiring practices in the "golden age" of animation.
Back in the days I was in art school, it was well known that Disney's animation unit was looking for people who could draw. I was in the animation program at SVA at the time, and mistook that being an animator was the same thing as knowing how to draw. I was wrong.
Disney was looking for people who could draw anything, and that included everything technical diagrams, human anatomy, to furry bunnies and cartoon characters.
Disney's attitude was "We'll teach you to animate, but you have to be a genius with a pencil and straight-edge."
As I had already done animation (and made my own film), they considered me "tainted" and I was not called back. Go figure. Sometimes a particular company doesn't realize when they pass over a good thing. But to be fair, my illustration ability wasn't as strong as other people. But, I probably would have been a good director (although nobody at Disney "starts out" in such a position, so que-sera-sera...)
Not sour grapes. A long time ago. And their animation unit has been killed by Pixar anyhow, and the fact that Disney at this point, couldn't make a good movie if their lives depended upon it.
Point is -- One day Google may find themselves in the same position as Disney -- which is that they have too many people that "think" exactly the same way, because they are all "Google trained" and that will kill them internally.
Am I the only one here old enough to remember Bulletin Boards and the 0-day-warez BBS's that cracked C=64 games on the day they were released?
In those days you had to be ElYte! to download at 1200 baud and you had the famous upload/download ratios.
And their system was usually even more secure and secret than what these so-called hackers have now -- usually because you had to know the sysop personally to get on those BBS systems.
However, if you were a decent social engineer, or just a decent chatter, you could usually talk you way into those places.
So really, what is the difference between now and then? The downloads are larger, the bandwidth is higher, the networks are more connected, but that's about it. It's basically the same stuff that been going on since the mid-80's and even before that (when people copied paper tape).
Why does "Wired" have to play it up like it's some cool new thing? Because piracy now is mainstream, and everyone wants to get into the action?
It's only a matter of time before we have a reality-TV show about this kind of lifestyle. But what the real dummies don't understand is that this is the same culture that has existed for decades.
Just think of the possibilities. You could build a asteroid-proof shelter in your backyard, and then, when it's clear that the human race has only hours left to live, you invite all the cute chicks from your neighborhood into your shelter, so that can... ehem... repopulate the Earth.
Finally, slashdot readers get laid.
This would almost make it worth wiping out civilization as we know it.
Now, they say the SLOWEST rotation is 1 per hour, so, the fastest rotation is what? Fast enough to make it your own workout track? Part apartment, part nordic track? Can I run in place?
Consider that if retired, you won't be running all that fast, and hey, a geek to start with, so probably overweight and somewhat slothy to start with... Maybe you could keep up with the building.
Hey, how fast was Frank Poole running in the Discovery in 2001? How funny is it that I'm now talking about a SCI-FI film that takes place in the past?
Most of the small studios I have worked in used the venerable Commodore 64 as a teleprompter (to this day, many are still in use).
Using teleprompter software that was developed for the system, the C=64 had the advantage to being able to output to any NTSC screen, making it a cheap and reliable method of putting text on the screen.
You simply typed in your script, and ran the software, which would display the text one line at a time and you could go fowards, backwards, etc. The monitor was then bounced into the glass in front of the camera, so the person speaking could look directly into the camera and see the text reflected.
Although ironically, we're the last to get the really good Japanese gadgets, and for some reason, American TV shows premeire in the UK before they air on American TV. Go figure....
Just like the 80's when Ethopia needed food, or those Willy Nelson Farm-Aid concerts, we can get a group of singers to make a song about Xmas and feeding those in space!
"Feed the world! And Space Station guys too!"
Where's Michael Jackson when you need him?
The Alternate idea is to make Space Station Survior and turn it into a reality TV show. The problem is -- there aren't enough whackos on the station -- we need to add a few more "aggressive personalities" to liven up the show.
Although a few hot-babes wrestling with each other in Zero-Gee should be interesting TV, that's for sure.
Anybody remember an anime by AKIRA creator Katsuhiro Otomo called Roujin Z?
It was basically about a robot bed that cares for an elderly patient -- anyhow the bed kinda goes a little haywire and pretends it's his dead wife, and takes the old guy to the beach.
It's up to a nurse-in-training to resuce him and protect him (and the bed) from the pursuit of the army and the lab technicians trying to cover up their ineptitude.
"When I was in fourth grade, my teacher once made the class grade each other's papers. As she read off answers, I stared in horror at the paper I had been given from the girl next to me. Every answer was wrong. Every one. By the time I had ticked off the 30th incorrect answer, I was practically in tears. I felt responsible, somehow, for the problems on the page. It would not be her fault that she failed, but rather my own fault for calling attention to her flaws. I felt ashamed. I felt awful. That was twenty years ago.
She still couldn't pass that test today, but that's okay because she's a model or a SCORES dancer, earning hundreds an hour, leaving guys with their tongues hanging out, and having more sex than you ever will.
And here you are reviewing a D&D book.
Which proves that education is nothing and looks are everything in this world.
One thing you can do is temp elsewhere. A common thing to do is you work "X" hours (day or night) for your regular job, and then you sign up with any one of a number of IT temp firms, which then have you working one day (or night) for some other company doing something as simple as changing tapes to doing server management or taking part in nightly maintenance or upgrade projects.
Some firms don't need a 24/7 support staff. Others need extra people when they are doing disaster recovery tests or performing large scale upgrades to their infrastructure.
These types of companies seek extra people through these temping agencies, and hooking up with those companies can get you some sideline work.
If your regular job conflicts with when they need you, you can turn the job down based on your being needed elsewhere. If you make it clear to the temp agency upfront that you're using them just for extra pocket money, they will understand, and compensate for that if your resume is good enough.
If it's a one-day gig, you can always call in sick on that day on your regular job.
I do stuff like that, but I'm also teaching myself auto-body work, and welding. I intend to have a sideline business of doing auto-body. Or, it might be my main line of business when this IT thing totally dries up.
I think my favorite experience was when our Party was having a sea battle -- and the ship we were on, which was trying to escape the town, had no weapons.
We did however, have our horses and some very strong men, oil, and torches.
I think you can guess what happened next.
We had the DM in hysterics, trying to figure out if you could sink the vessel by throwing a horse, ON FIRE, at the enemy ship.
Trying to envision such a scene had us all gasping for breath.
PETA would have murdered us, but we thought it was as funny as hell. To this day, all I have to do is get on the phone, call my friend and say "burning horse damage table" -- and that private joke will leave us in stitches....
First of all, any book that doesn't cover "Dragon" Magazine and "What's New with Phil and Dixie" (essentially, the MegaTokyo of it's time) automatically doesn't really cover what was so cool about D&D.
And what about the wacky and wonderful Marvel/Toei animated series that used to be on Saturday AM?
Overall, I'd say this review was smart and on-target, and will probably prevent me from wasting cash on this book, although, as someone who knows Chris Prynoski, I'll defend his work to the death.
I was thinking the same thing -- that it looks like a military vehicle as designed by Syd Mead.
I think it's the oversized tires with the armor plating on the sides that gives us the visual cues that make us think of the troop carrier from Aliens...
Personally, I can't wait until GM offers us the "civillan" version of the Aliens APC, but styled as a mini-van.
The economy is on the way up and unemployment has seen a decrease in every month this year.
The new jobs created each month barely keep up with the expanding size of the population. Bush has a 1.6 million net job loss during his presidency. The first president with that dubious honor since Herbert Hoover.
Please prove to me the economy is one the way 'up'. I don't see it. You wanna tell that to the people losing their manufacturing jobs and having buger-flipping jobs offered to them in replacement? You ever try to raise a family making minimum wage?
As far as "wiping his ass with the constitution" I can't think of any President that has actually believed in spreading freedom and democracy to the world like Bush.
Whether they want it or not.
The purpose of going into Afghanistan was to get Al Queda, not to spread democracy (which, considering Bush wasn't even elected in the first place, I find highly ironic).
The purpose of invading Iraq was to quell a non-existant threat of WMDs, not to spread freedom to the Iraqi people.
There are problems that the American people have to face over the next four years, but Kerry doesn't have any solutions for those problems. Bush has shown that he does.
What, that he's "workin' hard", that he gets up every morning trying to think of how he can harm the American people? Bush has shown that he cares more about Iraq than America. And I can only assume that such myopia is spawned by greed. It's clear that some people are getting massively wealthy under Bush's rule. Every member of his cabinet has a stake in oil companies, and guess what, oil is now $55 a barrel.
Can you really trust a president who hears the voice of god in his head telling him to Invade Iraq, and because god's on his side, there wouldn't be any casualties?
Can you trust a president who seems to have no clue regarding *any* issue that he hasn't been prepped on, a man who as been shielded from press conferences, a man who only stands on the stump in front of hand selected crowds (and dissenters are moved a mile away), a man who, frankly, comes off as the village idiot whenever he opens his mouth? Is that the kind of person you can TRUST?
Whether you like his politic or not, at least you know where Bush stands.
Really? Where does Bush stand? I've never been able to figure that out.
He claims he wants to get the terroists, but he's buddies with the Bin Laden family, he FAILED to capture Osama Bin Laden, and doesn't seem to be intent on capturing him at all, and seems to change the reason we went into Iraq on a nearly weekly basis.
On domestic issues, he hasn't said a word about what will happen in the next 4 more years. Will he be changing *any* of his policies so that the economy doesn't completely tank and we are reduced to the status of a third world nation?
Is he going to do *anything* about the serious lack of jobs in the country?
The problem with the Bush supporters is that they claim they know where Bush stands -- but yet, they can't tell me anything about any of his policies. Where does he stand?
The only thing I can say about Bush's stands is that he seems to be clear about his antipathy for the average American, he seems to be clear in giving large corporations money and freedoms the rest of us will never have, and he seems to be intent on destroying our credibility within the eyes of the world.
So, what "stands" were you talking about? Because I just don't see giving my vote to someone who's squandering everything this country stands for and is wiping his ass with the constitution.
In terms of "marketing speak", this is a good opportunity for Sparc and PowerPC chips to catch up to the X86 architecture.
Thanks to Intel's own marketing, most users are used to seeing that Mhz = power, and Apple suffers from the fact that the G5 tops out at 2.5Ghz, while Intel chips cruise along at 3+Ghz. Sun's SPARC architecture suffers from the same illusion, although comparably, both the Sparc and PPC architectures are quite close to X86 in terms of actual horsepower (not so much with Sparc, but Sun's true power is total throughput and reliablity and scalability, not flops).
With Intel "stuck" at around 4Ghz, IBM/Apple could figure out how to ramp up the G5 (or it's successor) to 4+Ghz, and beat Intel at it's own marketing game.
Similarly, this bump in the roadmap for Intel could be the opportunity for other/alternative CPU architectures to gain some marketshare.
(Posted as someone very, very tired of the Wintel Monopoly)
Multiple monitors were available on the Macintosh since the Mac II (1987 I think), and were used quite extensively by those developing multimedia. The authorware program Macromind Director (the predecessor of Macromedia Flash) required two monitors if you actually wanted to get anything done. You had the presentation running in one screen and the "score" window in the second.
Later, we would develop using three screens, as the screen for the Lingo code would also require it's own monitor.
These multiple monitor setups became handy when the web appeared, as you could edit your HTML in one screen and see your results on the other monitor running the browser.
As for watching TV while coding, this was solved with a single monitor back in the days of the Amiga. The purchase of the Amiga "genlock" allowed you overlay the amiga screen onto live video feeds (for doing things like subtitling anime) -- however, it also allowed you to watch TV while coding -- all on one monitor, because your text editor, running against color zero would display the text over the TV feed.
Frankly, for anyone that has worked with a variety of platforms over the years, this is hardly news. It's just now that the PC is catching up to what other, more powerful and multimedia friendly computers had in the early and mid-90's.
I still wish modern PC's would allow me to pull down the desktop and display a screen behind it with an entirely different resolution, like the Amiga did.
(and frankly, I'm sill looking for a dynamic ramdisk program for the PC, to emulate the Amiga's really, really cool ramdisk)....
Oh, and if anybody remembers the Macintosh game F-18 Hornet -- that game allowed a multiple monitor Mac to display the front, sides, and rear view of your cockpit, and the updating was pretty impressive.....
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In the USA, the last year for the Beetle was '79.
;)
If I was to see a 1980 VW Beetle pushed out of a garage here, I *would* be excited.
But then again, I like Beetles.
NASA could have their figures wrong...
I mean, this *is* the agency that blew up a space probe because they couldn't remember to use metric or imperial units, and crashed that other probe becuse they installed the parachute sensor upside down.
So, what are the changes that NASA is wrong, and this thing *is* going to go smak into the pacific ocean? (or better yet, land on Redmond Washington).
Man, I gotta brush up on that important stuff. Who knows when it'll be needed on some game show?
All you have to do to understand how stupid America is, is to listen to when Howard Stern interviews some stripper and he asks her a question like "Who's the President of the United States?" AND SHE DOESN'T KNOW!!!!!!
Hurray! Ah, that brings back the memories... Yes, Wildstar found his brother's ship on Titan...
But how did Alex manage to travel all the way to Iscandar without the help of FTL drive, or warp technology? It took the Star Force the better part of year to get there.
Also, if Apple were to sell 10 million of these things, that's a $1 billion loss, but what if people love the cheap price and they "accidentally" sell 50 million of them? That's a $5 billion loss and now he's almost bankrupted the company.
If Apple "accidentally" sold 50 million computers, they'd own 50% of the entire computer market by themselves , making them the single biggest computer manufacturer on the planet, and their stock alone would be worth $250 per share. They'd lose $6 billion in cash and make $100 billion in stock value.
But Apple (or any other company for that matter) rarely does anything "accidentally", to their detriment. Let's say they predict, based on existing sales figures at the 5 milion mark that they will sell 50 million -- all they have to do is then re-engineer the product so it can be manufactured even more cheaply, and sell the ones past 10 million that way and start making a profit on each box.
Sony, for example, did that with the Playstation -- each revision of the motherboard was created for the purpose of cheaper fabrication, using less parts. If Apple sees the trend, they will react by making a much more integrated product. Also, consider that they must buy HD's from a supplier. The price they are getting for 10 million units is higher than if they were buying 40 million more units.
Point is, where there's a will, there's a way. If you KNOW you're going to sell the first 10 million at a loss, you figure out how to sell the next 40 million at a profit, without changing the price of the unit for the consumer.
That's how people get rich. Duh.
Google may believe that they can teach good programming methods, but they can't teach insight or intuition.
Funny you should mention this, as it reminds me of Disney's hiring practices in the "golden age" of animation.
Back in the days I was in art school, it was well known that Disney's animation unit was looking for people who could draw. I was in the animation program at SVA at the time, and mistook that being an animator was the same thing as knowing how to draw. I was wrong.
Disney was looking for people who could draw anything, and that included everything technical diagrams, human anatomy, to furry bunnies and cartoon characters.
Disney's attitude was "We'll teach you to animate, but you have to be a genius with a pencil and straight-edge."
As I had already done animation (and made my own film), they considered me "tainted" and I was not called back. Go figure. Sometimes a particular company doesn't realize when they pass over a good thing. But to be fair, my illustration ability wasn't as strong as other people. But, I probably would have been a good director (although nobody at Disney "starts out" in such a position, so que-sera-sera...)
Not sour grapes. A long time ago. And their animation unit has been killed by Pixar anyhow, and the fact that Disney at this point, couldn't make a good movie if their lives depended upon it.
Point is -- One day Google may find themselves in the same position as Disney -- which is that they have too many people that "think" exactly the same way, because they are all "Google trained" and that will kill them internally.
Just my 2 cents...
He's found the plagarist.
Am I the only one here old enough to remember Bulletin Boards and the 0-day-warez BBS's that cracked C=64 games on the day they were released?
In those days you had to be ElYte! to download at 1200 baud and you had the famous upload/download ratios.
And their system was usually even more secure and secret than what these so-called hackers have now -- usually because you had to know the sysop personally to get on those BBS systems.
However, if you were a decent social engineer, or just a decent chatter, you could usually talk you way into those places.
So really, what is the difference between now and then? The downloads are larger, the bandwidth is higher, the networks are more connected, but that's about it. It's basically the same stuff that been going on since the mid-80's and even before that (when people copied paper tape).
Why does "Wired" have to play it up like it's some cool new thing? Because piracy now is mainstream, and everyone wants to get into the action?
It's only a matter of time before we have a reality-TV show about this kind of lifestyle. But what the real dummies don't understand is that this is the same culture that has existed for decades.
How lame.
Just think of the possibilities. You could build a asteroid-proof shelter in your backyard, and then, when it's clear that the human race has only hours left to live, you invite all the cute chicks from your neighborhood into your shelter, so that can ... ehem... repopulate the Earth.
Finally, slashdot readers get laid.
This would almost make it worth wiping out civilization as we know it.
Help Jane, stop this crazy thing!
Now, they say the SLOWEST rotation is 1 per hour, so, the fastest rotation is what? Fast enough to make it your own workout track? Part apartment, part nordic track? Can I run in place?
Consider that if retired, you won't be running all that fast, and hey, a geek to start with, so probably overweight and somewhat slothy to start with... Maybe you could keep up with the building.
Hey, how fast was Frank Poole running in the Discovery in 2001? How funny is it that I'm now talking about a SCI-FI film that takes place in the past?
Most of the small studios I have worked in used the venerable Commodore 64 as a teleprompter (to this day, many are still in use).
Using teleprompter software that was developed for the system, the C=64 had the advantage to being able to output to any NTSC screen, making it a cheap and reliable method of putting text on the screen.
You simply typed in your script, and ran the software, which would display the text one line at a time and you could go fowards, backwards, etc. The monitor was then bounced into the glass in front of the camera, so the person speaking could look directly into the camera and see the text reflected.
Pretty simple and very very reliable.
Although ironically, we're the last to get the really good Japanese gadgets, and for some reason, American TV shows premeire in the UK before they air on American TV. Go figure....
To help those starving astronauts!
Just like the 80's when Ethopia needed food, or those Willy Nelson Farm-Aid concerts, we can get a group of singers to make a song about Xmas and feeding those in space!
"Feed the world! And Space Station guys too!"
Where's Michael Jackson when you need him?
The Alternate idea is to make Space Station Survior and turn it into a reality TV show. The problem is -- there aren't enough whackos on the station -- we need to add a few more "aggressive personalities" to liven up the show.
Although a few hot-babes wrestling with each other in Zero-Gee should be interesting TV, that's for sure.
Man Builds 7-Foot Tall Grandfather From Lego ?
Now *that* would be impressive!
Anybody remember an anime by AKIRA creator Katsuhiro Otomo called Roujin Z?
It was basically about a robot bed that cares for an elderly patient -- anyhow the bed kinda goes a little haywire and pretends it's his dead wife, and takes the old guy to the beach.
It's up to a nurse-in-training to resuce him and protect him (and the bed) from the pursuit of the army and the lab technicians trying to cover up their ineptitude.
"When I was in fourth grade, my teacher once made the class grade each other's papers. As she read off answers, I stared in horror at the paper I had been given from the girl next to me. Every answer was wrong. Every one. By the time I had ticked off the 30th incorrect answer, I was practically in tears. I felt responsible, somehow, for the problems on the page. It would not be her fault that she failed, but rather my own fault for calling attention to her flaws. I felt ashamed. I felt awful. That was twenty years ago.
She still couldn't pass that test today, but that's okay because she's a model or a SCORES dancer, earning hundreds an hour, leaving guys with their tongues hanging out, and having more sex than you ever will.
And here you are reviewing a D&D book.
Which proves that education is nothing and looks are everything in this world.
The ironies of life...
One thing you can do is temp elsewhere. A common thing to do is you work "X" hours (day or night) for your regular job, and then you sign up with any one of a number of IT temp firms, which then have you working one day (or night) for some other company doing something as simple as changing tapes to doing server management or taking part in nightly maintenance or upgrade projects.
Some firms don't need a 24/7 support staff. Others need extra people when they are doing disaster recovery tests or performing large scale upgrades to their infrastructure.
These types of companies seek extra people through these temping agencies, and hooking up with those companies can get you some sideline work.
If your regular job conflicts with when they need you, you can turn the job down based on your being needed elsewhere. If you make it clear to the temp agency upfront that you're using them just for extra pocket money, they will understand, and compensate for that if your resume is good enough.
If it's a one-day gig, you can always call in sick on that day on your regular job.
I do stuff like that, but I'm also teaching myself auto-body work, and welding. I intend to have a sideline business of doing auto-body. Or, it might be my main line of business when this IT thing totally dries up.
I think my favorite experience was when our Party was having a sea battle -- and the ship we were on, which was trying to escape the town, had no weapons.
We did however, have our horses and some very strong men, oil, and torches.
I think you can guess what happened next.
We had the DM in hysterics, trying to figure out if you could sink the vessel by throwing a horse, ON FIRE, at the enemy ship.
Trying to envision such a scene had us all gasping for breath.
PETA would have murdered us, but we thought it was as funny as hell. To this day, all I have to do is get on the phone, call my friend and say "burning horse damage table" -- and that private joke will leave us in stitches....
First of all, any book that doesn't cover "Dragon" Magazine and "What's New with Phil and Dixie" (essentially, the MegaTokyo of it's time) automatically doesn't really cover what was so cool about D&D.
And what about the wacky and wonderful Marvel/Toei animated series that used to be on Saturday AM?
Overall, I'd say this review was smart and on-target, and will probably prevent me from wasting cash on this book, although, as someone who knows Chris Prynoski, I'll defend his work to the death.
I was thinking the same thing -- that it looks like a military vehicle as designed by Syd Mead.
I think it's the oversized tires with the armor plating on the sides that gives us the visual cues that make us think of the troop carrier from Aliens...
Personally, I can't wait until GM offers us the "civillan" version of the Aliens APC, but styled as a mini-van.
The economy is on the way up and unemployment has seen a decrease in every month this year.
The new jobs created each month barely keep up with the expanding size of the population. Bush has a 1.6 million net job loss during his presidency. The first president with that dubious honor since Herbert Hoover.
Please prove to me the economy is one the way 'up'. I don't see it. You wanna tell that to the people losing their manufacturing jobs and having buger-flipping jobs offered to them in replacement? You ever try to raise a family making minimum wage?
As far as "wiping his ass with the constitution" I can't think of any President that has actually believed in spreading freedom and democracy to the world like Bush.
Whether they want it or not.
The purpose of going into Afghanistan was to get Al Queda, not to spread democracy (which, considering Bush wasn't even elected in the first place, I find highly ironic).
The purpose of invading Iraq was to quell a non-existant threat of WMDs, not to spread freedom to the Iraqi people.
There are problems that the American people have to face over the next four years, but Kerry doesn't have any solutions for those problems. Bush has shown that he does.
What, that he's "workin' hard", that he gets up every morning trying to think of how he can harm the American people? Bush has shown that he cares more about Iraq than America. And I can only assume that such myopia is spawned by greed. It's clear that some people are getting massively wealthy under Bush's rule. Every member of his cabinet has a stake in oil companies, and guess what, oil is now $55 a barrel.
Can you really trust a president who hears the voice of god in his head telling him to Invade Iraq, and because god's on his side, there wouldn't be any casualties?
Can you trust a president who seems to have no clue regarding *any* issue that he hasn't been prepped on, a man who as been shielded from press conferences, a man who only stands on the stump in front of hand selected crowds (and dissenters are moved a mile away), a man who, frankly, comes off as the village idiot whenever he opens his mouth? Is that the kind of person you can TRUST?
Whether you like his politic or not, at least you know where Bush stands.
Really? Where does Bush stand? I've never been able to figure that out.
He claims he wants to get the terroists, but he's buddies with the Bin Laden family, he FAILED to capture Osama Bin Laden, and doesn't seem to be intent on capturing him at all, and seems to change the reason we went into Iraq on a nearly weekly basis.
On domestic issues, he hasn't said a word about what will happen in the next 4 more years. Will he be changing *any* of his policies so that the economy doesn't completely tank and we are reduced to the status of a third world nation?
Is he going to do *anything* about the serious lack of jobs in the country?
The problem with the Bush supporters is that they claim they know where Bush stands -- but yet, they can't tell me anything about any of his policies. Where does he stand?
The only thing I can say about Bush's stands is that he seems to be clear about his antipathy for the average American, he seems to be clear in giving large corporations money and freedoms the rest of us will never have, and he seems to be intent on destroying our credibility within the eyes of the world.
So, what "stands" were you talking about? Because I just don't see giving my vote to someone who's squandering everything this country stands for and is wiping his ass with the constitution.
In terms of "marketing speak", this is a good opportunity for Sparc and PowerPC chips to catch up to the X86 architecture.
Thanks to Intel's own marketing, most users are used to seeing that Mhz = power, and Apple suffers from the fact that the G5 tops out at 2.5Ghz, while Intel chips cruise along at 3+Ghz. Sun's SPARC architecture suffers from the same illusion, although comparably, both the Sparc and PPC architectures are quite close to X86 in terms of actual horsepower (not so much with Sparc, but Sun's true power is total throughput and reliablity and scalability, not flops).
With Intel "stuck" at around 4Ghz, IBM/Apple could figure out how to ramp up the G5 (or it's successor) to 4+Ghz, and beat Intel at it's own marketing game.
Similarly, this bump in the roadmap for Intel could be the opportunity for other/alternative CPU architectures to gain some marketshare.
(Posted as someone very, very tired of the Wintel Monopoly)
Multiple monitors were available on the Macintosh since the Mac II (1987 I think), and were used quite extensively by those developing multimedia. The authorware program Macromind Director (the predecessor of Macromedia Flash) required two monitors if you actually wanted to get anything done. You had the presentation running in one screen and the "score" window in the second.
Later, we would develop using three screens, as the screen for the Lingo code would also require it's own monitor.
These multiple monitor setups became handy when the web appeared, as you could edit your HTML in one screen and see your results on the other monitor running the browser.
As for watching TV while coding, this was solved with a single monitor back in the days of the Amiga. The purchase of the Amiga "genlock" allowed you overlay the amiga screen onto live video feeds (for doing things like subtitling anime) -- however, it also allowed you to watch TV while coding -- all on one monitor, because your text editor, running against color zero would display the text over the TV feed.
Frankly, for anyone that has worked with a variety of platforms over the years, this is hardly news. It's just now that the PC is catching up to what other, more powerful and multimedia friendly computers had in the early and mid-90's.
I still wish modern PC's would allow me to pull down the desktop and display a screen behind it with an entirely different resolution, like the Amiga did.
(and frankly, I'm sill looking for a dynamic ramdisk program for the PC, to emulate the Amiga's really, really cool ramdisk)....
Oh, and if anybody remembers the Macintosh game F-18 Hornet -- that game allowed a multiple monitor Mac to display the front, sides, and rear view of your cockpit, and the updating was pretty impressive.....
You'd have Steve Ballmer on stage, jumping around and screaming "Altitude, Altitude, Altitude, Altitude!"
Thank goodness it's only Paul Allen.