It's a combination of both. A company who started off by delivering what the market wanted and over time, found itself with agressive business models that took advantage of their position to further their market dominance.
Indeed, it was Windows that gave Microsoft the monopoly. It's very difficult to build a monopoly on applications, but designing a GUI for a prevalent OS where its success is more or less dependent on being universally adopted? Yeah, you're going to take some pretty ballsy steps to ensure that happens.
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I started with an Atari 800 WITH tape drive. I still remember the first game I bought for that thing...it was called Captivity, or something like that. A first-person 3D maze game. Took 9 minutes to load from tape. Kinda cool thing about the Atari tape drive was that it only used one channel, so this game had recorded guitar music that played while the game loaded. Rather a bizaare choice...listening to a folksy guitar piece when you are in the "technological age" using one of the first home computers.
Thread on Kari w/o a single link to pics ("for those who may not be familiar"), and yet thread on Blendo? pic links galore! ("for those who may not be familiar")
Interesting... now aren't the Cockatoos tropical, and therefore non-migratory? It would be interesting to see if lifespans of non-migratory birds were longer than those that did migrate, assuming that non-migratory birds would be less dependent on magnetic north.
Just had a scary vision of multiple Superman movies all being released at once, one for every "Fake Superman" just like the comics did. Some of the movie could be duplicated I guess "Doomsday/All the Fake Supermen" and "Return of Superman"
Scary? Or better? It would at least be a new use for filming multiple movies at the same time.
They have been merged from the release of City of Villains. There are three PvP zones where Heroes and Villains can duke it out; Siren's Call, Bloody Bay, and Warburg. All three zones available from either CoH or CoV.
The reason being that eventually, most if not all digital methods of transmittal will be controlled by DRM, and thus, the industry already has control of that. After that, it will still be possible to make copies via analog methods, and they want to make sure those copies don't wind up in some other digital, albeit slightly quality-degraded form.
There's no reason to believe they have been trained to shoot the lasers underwater. Anyone who has ever visited SeaWorld can attest that dolphins can come up out the water. Underwater travel makes them much more difficult to detect. Once they have reached their target, they can either lift their heads out of the water (assuming the lasers are indeed head-mounted) or jump fully out of the water to fire their weaponry.
Not only can you trigger various Expose features in OS X 10.4 from the corners, but just *clicking* in the top left and right corners activates the Apple menu and Spotlight menu respectively.
Quarter the resolution of a computer monitor, maybe, but not a televison screen. At most, a television image has 240 lines of resolution (closer to 200 after VBI and closed captioning lines), so the resolution of these glasses should be pretty close to broadcast television.
Somewhere I read a good guideline for adjusting your side mirrors...
For the left mirror, place your ear next to the driver's side window and adjust the mirror so that you *just* see the side of your vehicle in the left mirror.
For the right mirror, place your head close to the center of the vehicle and adjust the mirror so that you just see the right side in the right mirror.
The end result should be that you can see approaching cars in the rearview mirror. As they pass you and leave the range of vision in the rearview mirror, you should be able to see them in the side mirrors, and as they leave the side mirror view, you'll see them with your peripheral vision. Therefore, you should always be able to see any car around you by using the mirrors, not by turning your head.
Seems to me that, if the universe is 28 ly across but only 14 ly old, if we look at the universe starting from the center and expanding outward, then it is only 14 ly distant from any direction from center.
Better than what my wife does...she'll be half asleep and jolt awake when I'm passing something huge like a semi, then she'll overreact, thinking I'm falling asleep and attempt to grab at the steering wheel. Happened more than once.
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It's a combination of both. A company who started off by delivering what the market wanted and over time, found itself with agressive business models that took advantage of their position to further their market dominance.
Indeed, it was Windows that gave Microsoft the monopoly. It's very difficult to build a monopoly on applications, but designing a GUI for a prevalent OS where its success is more or less dependent on being universally adopted? Yeah, you're going to take some pretty ballsy steps to ensure that happens.
I started with an Atari 800 WITH tape drive. I still remember the first game I bought for that thing...it was called Captivity, or something like that. A first-person 3D maze game. Took 9 minutes to load from tape. Kinda cool thing about the Atari tape drive was that it only used one channel, so this game had recorded guitar music that played while the game loaded. Rather a bizaare choice...listening to a folksy guitar piece when you are in the "technological age" using one of the first home computers.
Interesting...
Thread on Kari w/o a single link to pics ("for those who may not be familiar"), and yet thread on Blendo? pic links galore! ("for those who may not be familiar")
Interesting... now aren't the Cockatoos tropical, and therefore non-migratory? It would be interesting to see if lifespans of non-migratory birds were longer than those that did migrate, assuming that non-migratory birds would be less dependent on magnetic north.
Know what's even funnier? Click on Google's spell-corrected search string and see how many hits you get!
I haven't seen it yet, but as a movie title, March of the Penguins makes much more sense now!
Just had a scary vision of multiple Superman movies all being released at once, one for every "Fake Superman" just like the comics did. Some of the movie could be duplicated I guess "Doomsday/All the Fake Supermen" and "Return of Superman"
Scary? Or better? It would at least be a new use for filming multiple movies at the same time.
Don't forget another symptom ... mostly cyclical periods of unconciousness.
They have been merged from the release of City of Villains. There are three PvP zones where Heroes and Villains can duke it out; Siren's Call, Bloody Bay, and Warburg. All three zones available from either CoH or CoV.
The reason being that eventually, most if not all digital methods of transmittal will be controlled by DRM, and thus, the industry already has control of that. After that, it will still be possible to make copies via analog methods, and they want to make sure those copies don't wind up in some other digital, albeit slightly quality-degraded form.
Ahhh! You had me for a moment! Stupid viral marketing!
This is all really to promote the plot for the next season of 24, right?
There's no reason to believe they have been trained to shoot the lasers underwater. Anyone who has ever visited SeaWorld can attest that dolphins can come up out the water. Underwater travel makes them much more difficult to detect. Once they have reached their target, they can either lift their heads out of the water (assuming the lasers are indeed head-mounted) or jump fully out of the water to fire their weaponry.
Not only can you trigger various Expose features in OS X 10.4 from the corners, but just *clicking* in the top left and right corners activates the Apple menu and Spotlight menu respectively.
And because we are mostly carbon, we can do cool stuff like this with our loved ones after they have passed on.
I think he just covered his real furniture in the boxes. Granted, FedEx slipcovers are not nearly as cool as FedEx furniture.
"Apple = Intel"
Okay, did anyone else just shudder when they read this?
Zoe: "Preacher, don't the Bible have some pretty specific things to say about killing?
Book: "Quite specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps."
Quarter the resolution of a computer monitor, maybe, but not a televison screen. At most, a television image has 240 lines of resolution (closer to 200 after VBI and closed captioning lines), so the resolution of these glasses should be pretty close to broadcast television.
"convicted monopophile" sounds even better.
And when was the last time he EVER hit a target date? Like Longhorn, I see his retirement continuously delayed.
There's much more damage to be done that just bleeding. Cauterizing would do nothing for damaged or severed muscles or tendons.
Somewhere I read a good guideline for adjusting your side mirrors...
For the left mirror, place your ear next to the driver's side window and adjust the mirror so that you *just* see the side of your vehicle in the left mirror.
For the right mirror, place your head close to the center of the vehicle and adjust the mirror so that you just see the right side in the right mirror.
The end result should be that you can see approaching cars in the rearview mirror. As they pass you and leave the range of vision in the rearview mirror, you should be able to see them in the side mirrors, and as they leave the side mirror view, you'll see them with your peripheral vision. Therefore, you should always be able to see any car around you by using the mirrors, not by turning your head.
Seems to me that, if the universe is 28 ly across but only 14 ly old, if we look at the universe starting from the center and expanding outward, then it is only 14 ly distant from any direction from center.
Wouldn't that explain it?
Better than what my wife does...she'll be half asleep and jolt awake when I'm passing something huge like a semi, then she'll overreact, thinking I'm falling asleep and attempt to grab at the steering wheel. Happened more than once.
Professional courtesy.