Well, it's not like they are filming the developers slouched over their beyboards, typing away for 9 hours straight. Haven't seen the video but there is strong possibility for all kinds of interplays, possible conflicts of ideas or prides, the competition between the young interns who envision this as their time to show their stuff, be on top, make it, leave a legacy, and other such cliches.
Studying black holes couldn't be more boring either -- most of it being based on theoretical mathematics and endless equations-- but with a proper presentation, a layperson can be introduced to a field and theory we'd otherwise pass on rather quickly.
Once while crossing the Polish-German border, we were stopped for customs. It was just after rain and the road was made from cobbled stone. So very slippery.
Inadvertantly, a Trabant slammed into the back of my family's Lada.
Our Lada had a very shallow, barely noticable 3" dent.
The Trabant was totaled. No, really. The whole front up to and including the windshield were beyond repair.
Later reports cited an investigation which revealed that the Hayabusa was being controlled by a squid in shorts and flip-flops, who was not properly licensed, and had his protective helmet perched atop his head in order to conduct a conversation on his cell phone. The squid's name had not been released to the press.
I've been downloading stuff off usenet for years now, and have yet to be infected with a single virus. I've never actively run any antivirus programs on any of my computers and from infrequent scans I can tell that I've never had a virus. Perhaps the ones that easily catch a virus off files downloaded on Usenet have a deeper issue to resolve besides what's available for download.
The companies that released crappy (bulky, unintuitive interfaces, small capacity) MP3 players before the iPod certainly did not manage to sour public opinion on such devices. If there is a market for an mp3 cell phone, once a decent product arrives, those who find a need for it will flock to it.
Perhaps Apple can exercise some control over the most fanatic of Apple fans, but I doubt they can direct the market for a product distinct from those they do offer.
Many, many services are already doing this, and the content holders are already well aware of Usenet. Just try posting a text message in a movie group from your DSL or cable line. You'll get a nice letter in a few short weeks warning you that one more such stunt and you're at the mercy of the content holders.
Newzbin doesnt archive everything posted on usenet, so you might be missing out on a lot of stuff. The only way to achieve a full archive would be through some sort of an automated process, as opposed to human editors newzbin relies on.
And you thought writing software to index headers, keeping that data in a database, maintaining the hardware and software, and running the servers in a datacenter would all trickle down to the consumer at no cost? Maybe your level of cynicism should get a nudge up.
I'd have to agree with you. It resembles images you find on a host of geeks' personal sites. The type of images that came from humble beginnings and had a myriad of generic GIMP/PhotoShop filters and effects to compensate for lack of originality or "catchiness."
Not trying to be a party pooper, just my impression.
I wonder whether they tried to use the machin while Firefox was opening up each of the 25 pages in their own tab. I have a group of of around 25 bookmarks that I "open in tabs" and it brings my desktop to its knees, but once opened, the machine is fine. The yshould have been clearer.
If you write a good story and it gets published somewhere worthwhile, the only thing you get out of it is the admiration of women (and homosexuals), and the disdain of pretentious snobs everywhere. And a crappy paycheck.
Tell that to Dan Brown! He took home a decent paycheck last year.
I know, I know... He's not indicative of the majority of fiction authors...
I didn't have a gameboy before the DS so I wasn't familiar. Looking at eBay auctions for the 3 GBA games now as they are must-haves, but some of them are flying pretty high nowadays.
Dawn of Sorrow is an excellent game and I'd highly recommend it for any DS owner. The final boss (note: NOT Dario) was excellent, and when he began his "transformation" I was blown away. They left the best for last, and this was the toughest boss of all. The music is great, the graphics and art are great, as are enemies that barely fit on the screen.
Anyone who's played the original Castlevania on the NES will also be very pleased with one section of the map which pays tribute to the first level in the classic release. I was smiling all through that section.
If you go through an alternate ending, you'll get the Julius play mode. I believe he was from an SNES release. But you get to play with the whip and the character is much quicker and responsive. The gameplay is a bit different -- with no seals, souls, or ability to use potions to regain health -- so it is like a separate game altogether.
I'm afraid that you have cancer. I am deeply sorry. However, with proper chemotherapy and a positive outlook, chances are high that you can beat this dis...... wait.. wait.... That discoloration on your chart looks to be a Cheeto from breakfast. Nevermind!
I ran OSx86 on my thinkpad, but apps would crash, and some installation programs (for Hogwasher, for example) would refuse to start. Some graphics were also glitchy, probably due to the high resolution I was running. I did see that there are patches available for the image, so I'll be trying out those soon. Hopefully it will run smoother this time around.
You can't run OSX on a Dell, and Windows stinks so much, I am thinking of dumping my ThinkPad for this PowerBook, as good as it is hardware wise.
As far as the resolution, I've always hoped they'd bump up the resolution. It isn't just about font size. The screens made movies and images look great, but text always looked a little blurry. Text on my Thinkpad's 1400 resolution looks much better than the old PowerBooks, and for me, the improved screen could be a good enough reason to jump the sinking Windows ship. I will miss the ThinkPad though -- it is a solid machine. If only IBM had an OS to support it.
There are barriers to entry in all industries. In telecom, cars, airplane manufacturing, etc, the barriers are pretty steep. Why should Verizon be forced to sublease below market value the lines they invested money into, digging up streets and putting up poles. Why should GM or Ford give some shmuck with a design cheap access to their manufacturing plants and experienced laborers to create a product that would directly compete with their own?
I have a feeling that broadband lines in Europe and Canada, like anything else there (cough, Airbus), are heavily government subsidized and regulated. I'd rather have my tax money not be used for fast broadband so that people can watch streaming music videos and download MP3s. I'm sure that billions of our taxes are misspent, but another place for it to be misspent firvolously is hardly necessary.
I know that broadband-for-everyone is supposed to somehow bring us up to a technological level in order to compete with the rest of the world in engineering and other sciences. But what are people with broadband supposed to achieve that they cannot on dialup? If I want to support a p2p download network, I'll donate to my torrent tracker of choice mysqlf. The politicians have a strong enough hold on my tax money.
Well, with half the Internet's population pondering day and night what apple will do next and discussing it in forums, and decyphering various clues like their job postings on the FreeBSD jobs mailing list, it is only a matter of time that this cluster of minds gets on the trail.
Level3's stock price is tanking, they are fighting for survival and the jobs of all their employees, from engineers to secretaries, while Cogent is undercutting the price of bandwidth by a factor of 3 while taking advantage of their peering with not many being able to compete on price, and you call Level3 greedy? C'mon.
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Well, it's not like they are filming the developers slouched over their beyboards, typing away for 9 hours straight. Haven't seen the video but there is strong possibility for all kinds of interplays, possible conflicts of ideas or prides, the competition between the young interns who envision this as their time to show their stuff, be on top, make it, leave a legacy, and other such cliches.
Studying black holes couldn't be more boring either -- most of it being based on theoretical mathematics and endless equations-- but with a proper presentation, a layperson can be introduced to a field and theory we'd otherwise pass on rather quickly.
What does using a third party (rdesktop, vnc, etc) or built-in (ssh, telnet) app to work on remote servers have to do with an environment manager?
Once while crossing the Polish-German border, we were stopped for customs. It was just after rain and the road was made from cobbled stone. So very slippery.
Inadvertantly, a Trabant slammed into the back of my family's Lada.
Our Lada had a very shallow, barely noticable 3" dent.
The Trabant was totaled. No, really. The whole front up to and including the windshield were beyond repair.
"The Hayabusa... apparently lost control"
Later reports cited an investigation which revealed that the Hayabusa was being controlled by a squid in shorts and flip-flops, who was not properly licensed, and had his protective helmet perched atop his head in order to conduct a conversation on his cell phone. The squid's name had not been released to the press.
I've been downloading stuff off usenet for years now, and have yet to be infected with a single virus. I've never actively run any antivirus programs on any of my computers and from infrequent scans I can tell that I've never had a virus. Perhaps the ones that easily catch a virus off files downloaded on Usenet have a deeper issue to resolve besides what's available for download.
I don't get the video. They bought an iPod and pummeled it with their boots? What is it that they were hoping to achieve?
One thing we do know for sure.
The companies that released crappy (bulky, unintuitive interfaces, small capacity) MP3 players before the iPod certainly did not manage to sour public opinion on such devices. If there is a market for an mp3 cell phone, once a decent product arrives, those who find a need for it will flock to it.
Perhaps Apple can exercise some control over the most fanatic of Apple fans, but I doubt they can direct the market for a product distinct from those they do offer.
Many, many services are already doing this, and the content holders are already well aware of Usenet. Just try posting a text message in a movie group from your DSL or cable line. You'll get a nice letter in a few short weeks warning you that one more such stunt and you're at the mercy of the content holders.
Newzbin doesnt archive everything posted on usenet, so you might be missing out on a lot of stuff. The only way to achieve a full archive would be through some sort of an automated process, as opposed to human editors newzbin relies on.
And you thought writing software to index headers, keeping that data in a database, maintaining the hardware and software, and running the servers in a datacenter would all trickle down to the consumer at no cost? Maybe your level of cynicism should get a nudge up.
I'd have to agree with you. It resembles images you find on a host of geeks' personal sites. The type of images that came from humble beginnings and had a myriad of generic GIMP/PhotoShop filters and effects to compensate for lack of originality or "catchiness."
Not trying to be a party pooper, just my impression.
I wonder whether they tried to use the machin while Firefox was opening up each of the 25 pages in their own tab. I have a group of of around 25 bookmarks that I "open in tabs" and it brings my desktop to its knees, but once opened, the machine is fine. The yshould have been clearer.
If you write a good story and it gets published somewhere worthwhile, the only thing you get out of it is the admiration of women (and homosexuals), and the disdain of pretentious snobs everywhere. And a crappy paycheck.
Tell that to Dan Brown! He took home a decent paycheck last year.
I know, I know... He's not indicative of the majority of fiction authors...
I didn't have a gameboy before the DS so I wasn't familiar. Looking at eBay auctions for the 3 GBA games now as they are must-haves, but some of them are flying pretty high nowadays.
Dawn of Sorrow is an excellent game and I'd highly recommend it for any DS owner. The final boss (note: NOT Dario) was excellent, and when he began his "transformation" I was blown away. They left the best for last, and this was the toughest boss of all. The music is great, the graphics and art are great, as are enemies that barely fit on the screen.
Anyone who's played the original Castlevania on the NES will also be very pleased with one section of the map which pays tribute to the first level in the classic release. I was smiling all through that section.
If you go through an alternate ending, you'll get the Julius play mode. I believe he was from an SNES release. But you get to play with the whip and the character is much quicker and responsive. The gameplay is a bit different -- with no seals, souls, or ability to use potions to regain health -- so it is like a separate game altogether.
Grat game all around.
I'm afraid that you have cancer. I am deeply sorry. However, with proper chemotherapy and a positive outlook, chances are high that you can beat this dis...... wait.. wait.... That discoloration on your chart looks to be a Cheeto from breakfast. Nevermind!
I ran OSx86 on my thinkpad, but apps would crash, and some installation programs (for Hogwasher, for example) would refuse to start. Some graphics were also glitchy, probably due to the high resolution I was running. I did see that there are patches available for the image, so I'll be trying out those soon. Hopefully it will run smoother this time around.
You can't run OSX on a Dell, and Windows stinks so much, I am thinking of dumping my ThinkPad for this PowerBook, as good as it is hardware wise.
As far as the resolution, I've always hoped they'd bump up the resolution. It isn't just about font size. The screens made movies and images look great, but text always looked a little blurry. Text on my Thinkpad's 1400 resolution looks much better than the old PowerBooks, and for me, the improved screen could be a good enough reason to jump the sinking Windows ship. I will miss the ThinkPad though -- it is a solid machine. If only IBM had an OS to support it.
There are barriers to entry in all industries. In telecom, cars, airplane manufacturing, etc, the barriers are pretty steep. Why should Verizon be forced to sublease below market value the lines they invested money into, digging up streets and putting up poles. Why should GM or Ford give some shmuck with a design cheap access to their manufacturing plants and experienced laborers to create a product that would directly compete with their own?
I have a feeling that broadband lines in Europe and Canada, like anything else there (cough, Airbus), are heavily government subsidized and regulated. I'd rather have my tax money not be used for fast broadband so that people can watch streaming music videos and download MP3s. I'm sure that billions of our taxes are misspent, but another place for it to be misspent firvolously is hardly necessary.
I know that broadband-for-everyone is supposed to somehow bring us up to a technological level in order to compete with the rest of the world in engineering and other sciences. But what are people with broadband supposed to achieve that they cannot on dialup? If I want to support a p2p download network, I'll donate to my torrent tracker of choice mysqlf. The politicians have a strong enough hold on my tax money.
> a transparency
A free PSP for every entering High Schoo student!
(Transparencies were heavily used in my calculus class in HS)
Well, with half the Internet's population pondering day and night what apple will do next and discussing it in forums, and decyphering various clues like their job postings on the FreeBSD jobs mailing list, it is only a matter of time that this cluster of minds gets on the trail.
Can you explain how obtaining a credit card for a young adult is forfeiting parenting altogether?
Level3's stock price is tanking, they are fighting for survival and the jobs of all their employees, from engineers to secretaries, while Cogent is undercutting the price of bandwidth by a factor of 3 while taking advantage of their peering with not many being able to compete on price, and you call Level3 greedy? C'mon.
They will, but for $500 per year for the license.
I'd probably hit you if you put it on my laptop. Anything but that ugly-ass Windows command line prompt. Ugh!