I can't help noticing that these were made with Gallium Arsnide. Since our current prefered semiconductor technology is sillicon and so intractably entrenched I'll be holding off on my prediction of the onset of the Diamond Age.
While the technology is certainly amazing I think the only place we're likely to see it is on TRW's fine products, at least for the near future. Had they fabricated their device in sillicon I'd be more hopeful.
Naturally I don't have any proof their number 2, just a guess. Between people exploiting their sites, and their products, they're a huge worldwide target. Ammusingly enough some of the Nimda stuff I've seen comes from small buisness owners who know essentially nothing about computers setting up small networks and leaving them wide open on DSL. Then the stuff some of the users would do.... I hardly can blame Microsoft when they make a fairly complex family of products that are so intuitive that people can make small networks without really knowing anything about what they're doing.
I would also make the observation that marketing serves an important purpose. It helps keep the public informed about their dazzeling array of choices. It's even ok that most of it is bullshit, because the intent of the advertisement is clear, we can usually fillter out what the truth is. But it helps the market more quickly sort out where the money should go. Course, that's just how I see the world.
You might be surprised to learn under some circumstances DNS replication under windows can be more secure that its UNIX kin, and in software so early in its life too. I suspect UNIX will be better for a couple more years, though MS does have an advantage or two, but everyone who has had a head start on MS has fallen by the wayside when MS decided to compete with them. But with all things it's never about how bad or how good something is. It's whether it's good enough and how popular, something MS seems to understand better than anyone else.
I don't know who told you I squat to pee, but they were lying.
And to the moderators: "Feel free to mod me down, it's going to take a while to get rid of my +1 bonus, cheers."
While most of what you say sounds like preaching to the chior, one thing really caught my eye: "problem with Microsoft is that they only have experience with huge, homogenous networks; they were blindsided by the internet; they thought remote admin was a bad idea until recently; their network hacks (netbios, for instance) stink on large networks. "
You might be interested to know that Microsoft has an active directory with over 2 million objects in it. Microsoft might have been caught off guard by the internet, but reducing their network expertise to a remark about netbios is shockingly ignorant, even for slashdot. More over the US government is probably the biggest target for those cracking into computers, Microsoft is probably number two. No one else faces problems on the scale microsoft does. IBM likes to pretend, they'll even send you a free book about "What Hackers Don't Want You To Know", and they certainly have experience, but not like microsoft. It's a matter of scale.
You think so little of Microsoft's accumen. I invite you to take a look around. Microsoft, as you rightly point out, was nearly last on the internet bandwagon, a scant decade later where are they? For better or for worse they have beat down, out competed, and embarised their competition. The free market made its decision. Obviously marketing had something to do with it, but if their products weren't at least good enough Adam Smith would be proved wrong and we'd eating Borsht.
Don't even pretend to whine about anti-competitive tactics. My tax dollars helped pay for Mosaic, Microsoft got access to the source for free.... And don't get me started on ticketmaster.
He didn't seem overly concerned with performance. Why not save a few bucks with a software RAID? Under win2k it's almost trivial to setup, and probably possible with linux too. Then there is the matter of what all he wants to back up. I'd personally do images of the systems installed with whatever software I wanted them to have, maybe 1 image if they're sufficently similar on CD, the data I'd put in a software raid in a file server I'd build out of scraps. To the raid I'd throw off occasional system state backups. It depends, but in his particular boat I'd lean towards a software raid.
They'll probably hire him at some think tank so he can go on Fox news and talk about how we'll all have zero point energy generators in our homes within 5 years.
Am I the only one who remembers a while back when a certain african american gentelman "accidently" mispelled Niger (adding an extra 'g') and sued Microsoft over the distress this event caused him? So far as I know his case was thrown out, I haven't been inclined to look for an old news story. But now Microsoft will never have to worry about this kind of thing again, and won't need to worry about someone hitting lawsuit lotto jackpot on their dime (at least as far as this story is concerned).
Every now and then, being well read refers to the newspapers in your basement and not the books on your shelf.
I think periods of upeaval in our information gathering system is good. It helps re-tune everyone's bullshit detectors. Sure, there's a lot of crap out there, but that's always been. Maybe it's a little worse now that there is a real potential for personal impact, especially if you're a postal worker. It just seems every now and then there is a "big lie" that reshapes how people interperate and authenticate what they see. From War of the Worlds, to Quiz Shows, to the Nixon administration and dot-gones, we've learned that being generous with our trust isn't always a good thing. Maybe it's time for another big lie.
I think this Anthrax scare isn't it. While there has been a lot of missinformation, even some that might get you killed if followed, it's certainly not the stupidest garbage to make it on under the guise of news. Why once on Fox News (and I realize this admission has cost me any credibility I might have once had) I saw a gentalman from a "think tank" say that we would have "zero point energy" generators in our homes in 4 to 5 years, if the big oil companies didn't interfere. This is probably one of the stupider things I've ever heard in public, and they decided to put him on TV.
To me the great thing about capitalism is it brings the information and resources together so increadibly quickly. But at some point people factor in, and before more money is sunk into poor development models for ethereal companies who have a logo looking for a product, it might be nice if we tuned up everyone's bullshit detector.
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For Starcon 3 you might want to check the disco bins. I got mine from a disco bin at an Office Depot of all things for like $5.99. That said it was no where near the game Starcon 2 was. Although I did like the new ships in versus mode.
It's also worth checking out some abandonware sites, one of them may have it for download.
Best place to start looking for abandonware, that I've found, is the Abandonware ring. Maybe you'll find starcon 3. But I would say it is skipable.
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I finished all 3, I dimmly remember how the 2nd one ended, the 3rd took so long to finish that I'll probably never forget it.
I'm assuming you're refering to the 3rd one, as the others I found more or less easy, though not by today's game standards.
In the end, your party members become Gods. By the time you get to the final battle you've got so much power that's it's pretty trivial unless you're unlucky enough to get hit with attacks that kill instantly.
But damn. Some of those riddles were pretty tough.
I was required to take 30 "humanities" credits, and this is the first opportunity I've had to put this "valuable" knowledge to use, so please excuse me.
I seem to vaguely remember something in Psychology 101 about how people would prefer something that was reliably unreliable to an alternative that seemed to violate a their conception of how reliable it was. In short: a system of unreliable reward modifies behavior with greater effect than a system of reliable reward.
That said I've had my share of HD's, only the Maxtors have failed under their listed mean time before failure (my bad luck YMMV). But they've always replaced them, of course I fell asleep while on hold waiting for a person once.
It's also worth noting that your Celeron doesn't have the benefit of Intel's speedstep technology, and wastes power running at 700 MHz all the time. Secondly it's not part of the lower voltage line of P III M chips. Just one of those things.
Dude. They'd be 'sampling'. So not only would they owe a royalty for the use of the original 'phone number' but a fee to Puff 'Sean Diddy' Daddy for licensing his buisness method patent.
Like it or lump it. If other people don't like the crowd a certain someone hangs with, those people are free to be as judgemental as *they* feel inclined to be. This goes for companies too. It's the curse of free markets around the world; people get to choose who they deal with. It hardly rises to the level of extortion, but who am I to interupt bad analogy theater?
Maybe one bad apple spoils the bunch, or maybe one shouldn't throw the baby out with bath water. But who is anyone, to tell anyone else, who they MUST associate with, and what odious behavior they MUST endure in the process?
In short: "Negative Ghostrider, the pattern is pull."
I think that certainly explains the static force of friction F sub s, but what of F sub k? Why should F sub K typically be so much higher than F sub s?
I suppose one might argue that a surface that experiences an F sub k might be assumed to have previously been at rest, and nestled firmly in the lowest state, or the trough if one likes, but why would this be SO much higher (typically)? Interaction between electrons at the surfaces? If there is a limited amount of interaction taking place, or the formation of weak bonds, why not view it as analogous to a crack (a very well understood phenomina)?
But back to F sub s, the static force of friction, wouldn't the surface fall foreward into the troughs of the supporting surface some of the time providing a slightly accelerating force of friction which would then turn decelerating as the atoms being supported tried to move up out of the trough against the force of gravity? Of course, that's not what we see, so it can't be the complete picture.
Why not move back to the formation of tenuious bonds between the surfaces (for a moment). If these bonds are being made occasionally, then stretched and broken, it would seem to my mind's eye that for a macro sized object F sub s would likely be a near constant (surface irregularities, pressure, whatnot would all play a part). Since the breaking of these bonds in a sence does change the surface properties, why not view it as a moving crack if it is convienent? Certainly we all except greater abstractions than this in our everyday life, if some scientists find it a helpful model is it worth belittling? Sometimes abstractions like this, reguardless of their accuracy, can be surprisingly useful. For my part, it is consistant with what I know to be true and seems to do a better job of explaining, at least for me, better than a classical speed bump theory. Your milage might vary; but so might theirs.
I can't believe no one has mentioned Bandit Kings of Ancient China yet. That game ruled all in stunning EGA glory. Courtesy of Koei 1989. It's about the only game I play semi-regularly, and, along with Stars! and Scorched Earth, the only one I've kept on my systems over the years.
I know everyone one must be desperate to know who I play. Wu Song, the hairy priest, who else?
On CNN, Guliani, at a press conference, said that people around him had guessed about 10,000 people have lost their lives. He stressed that this was just a guess.
Traditionally, Americans have been by far the most vicious and ruthless when it comes to defending their own. I know MY history. It might be worthwhile to note that prominent leaders such as Kissinger, to say nothing of those who's futures hang in the balance, favor painting with a borad brush. It's not just the assholes who hijacked the planes, it's not the assholes who told them to, it's not the assholes who trained them, it's not the assholes who provided the financing, it's not just the assholes who provided shelter, it's not just the assholes who turned a blind eye, it's all of them. When it comes to killing, no one knows how to do it better than Americans, this they will learn.
When we find the whos, and we will, anything this big leaves a trail, then the time of retribution will be at hand. Believe me, it would be an ignorant if not suicidal move to stand between US and revenge. Right or wrong as it may be, "If you're not part of the solution, you are part of the problem." Notice how quick the Taliban responded, they know what they allowed to happened. They have a dim idea of what the consequences may be. I can only assume that the comparisons to Pearl Harbor, and the eventual fate of Japan translate into their native tongue. It would behoove those who consider themselves enemies of the West to reflect on what happened to the last nation to attack American soil. I, for one, will lose no sleep over any lives lost should we decide to show those who traffic in terror, what it is to fear. They can hijack planes, we can wipe their cities from the face of the earth.
But hey, we're a representative oligarchy, and in this instance, I'm more than happy to let the rich representatives, who've lost a lot, make a strong point by spilling blood in my name.
I remember when I was about 10 being on the observation deck of one of the WTC, and looking down at all the people. I remember how impossibly huge those buildings seem. Now, those are gone. Maybe a little kid not so different from me was experiencing that still familiar sense of awe. It seems unlikely that anyone in such a situation would have been able to escape (thankfully many others have, seemingly most). What was their sin? If they can be killed in the name of a "benevolent" diety, then my "corrupt" government has my blessing to proceed with any retribution that can be described as "indescribable."
They're talking about a clump of matter in the accretion disk that isn't quite ready to go down. But yes, we would never see the moment the clump actually crossed the event horizion. We would get to see it get closer and closer to the event horizon at lower and lower frequencies, but never cross.
Nokia tends to designate their models in a way that 8200 is to describe the form factor, and the 60, or what have you describes the service. 8290 would be Voicestream for instance.
But the future of US cell service might be a little short changed else where in the thread. Sprint for instance has the wide band version of CDMA, which might provide users with a megabit or more for their phone. Which would seem to be plenty for most toys that could fit on a phone. The biggest obsticals to phones working the same everywhere has more to do with the bands not occuring at the same frequency in every country. For the people who really give a shit, they can fork over the extra money or rent a phone. I don't see a compelling reason that those of us who don't care if our cell phones work in europe, should be forced to change or do anything for the precious few who do care.
Microsoft seems to be slowly folding speech recognition into the OS. Of course there are a couple pretty good add ons Via Voice, and Dragon, the later being better IMO. But if you've see the microsoft wizards on windows ME some, if not many support Text to speech, and limited speech to text for a limited ablility to command them. They even have a MS press book to advise one how to best write an agent. (ISBN 0-7356-0567-x Microsoft Agent Software Development Kit 49.99 or 10 bucks at a used book store). I've only skimmed it as of yet. Assuming I get the itch to do it, I've noticed that agents ment to be helpful end up annoying me, so I've though about writting one meant to be annoying to see if it'd be helpful. Specifically, the bit from Tron. (It would respond to anything spoken with yes, no, yes yes yes, no no no, maybe at random.)
But chalk up another vote for dragon, assuming you just dictate with it. And I wouldn't be surprised to see whatever comes after XP to come with voice recognition.
What's almost worse is when they do come to your city, but the independet theater chain buys exclusive engagements for their horribly crappy, over-priced, out of the way, with no parking near them, theaters.
I missed seeing The Road Home because I couldn't get it together for an excursion. I also missed Series 7: The Contenders as I thought it was called The Contenders, and the exclusively engaged theater only noted it as Series 7. Memento on the other hand didn't go for that exclusive engagement crap (and may still be in theaters near me), so it was no effort at all. The Princess and The Warrior was good too.:) Just throwin that in.
Do you find it more objectionable when leaders make poor descisions based on personal and political agendas, or when they do so and pretend that it was a difficult descision that they carefully considered with much soul searching?
Personally, if someone makes a bad choice, it's not really a big deal. Barring some irreversible errors, anything broke can be later fixed. Maybe not as advantagious as doing right the first time, but not an atrocity. In the later case...I'm much not quite as charitable. The person in question has a good indication of what the better course of action is, and then decides to do the opposite because it's easier, and then lie about it (badly). Obviously I'm speaking about someone specifically. But if they instead of consulting a higher power for guidance, just said, "Look these ideas, as promising as they seem, conflict with my faith in ways I find moraly objectionable. But more importantly in ways my political base will not tolerate, so we won't be funding them federally."
Of course what would Jesus say about not lifting a finger to save a man from death, reguardless of that man's character? I would think if you're going to be prolife you would have to do it all the way. It seems dishonest to be prolife for a speck of undifferentiated cells, but not a whole person who might not be an admirable individual, but real none the less. I don't think asking people to be internally consistant is too much.
Normally, I'd protect and horde my Karma by posting AC, but I'd like to see other peoples thoughts without having to hunt for them.:)
I care little for anything brandishing a shiny new Star Wars logo. I care little for the continued unoriginal adventures of link. As a general rule I don't even like RTS. Hmm.
I long to recapture the joy I found in Bandit Kings of Ancient China, and have considered picking up a PS2 just for this reason. I would love to play a game spectacular enough to be worthy of the Macross title. I liked Crazy Taxi, GTA2 was moderately entertaining. A Ranma 1/2 fighting game would probably be fun with friends. But most of all, I long for a truly excellent football (USA centric version) game with which I can lead the Seattle Seahawks to their richly deserved glory. (Yes I know they'll probably go 8-8 this year).
Nintendo has shown no intrest in MY intrests. I know, I even had a piece of shit N64. Hell I still have it. They really only care about the kids. Why not. They decided not to focus on me, and to instead focus on the parents of pre and early teens. Sega and Sony seem to want my buisness more. Maybe Microsoft will. But honestly, Rogue Squadron, while the graphics are pretty is far from revolutionary. As for Zelda, if I want to play a cartoon, I'll play one done with a snazzy post process filter where you can tag attack helicopters outta the air. Jet Grind Radio? Damn skippy.
I saw a news story about GameCube a week or so ago, and they said it supported HDTV at 1080 out of the box, and Microsoft will have HDTV support as an extra add on. That said. I'll never waste my money on another Nintendo product. I don't know yet if I'll waste it on one from Microsoft. But MS, if ya hadn't noticed has acquire a few game companies in the past couple of years. More over they've developed some brands of their own, Age of Empires, their sports series. Not to mention Sega will be developing games for all three of the boxes. I've seen stuff about Xbox getting a new grand theft auto, and crazy taxi. That sure as hell appeals more to me than anything with Mario.
The killer app I would buy either of them for on the spot would be a tight Macross game.
Well I for one. I haven't pirated any software, as there really isn't any worth pirating. That and I have plenty of NFR copies of whatever. I own almost all my music on CD and LP. The few that are mp3, are from either the bands sites [www.minibosses.com] or other venues bands use to release mp3's (mtv and whatnot). Oh my hobbie? Aside from upgrading my hardware as cheaply as possible (I'm a very cheap guy), I like to make models and render them (badly). But lately I've been writing simple savegame editors for old KOEI games (hows that for too much time).
I bet a guy like you is all ready with the stock answer: The Exception Proves The Rule. This might even be true, but it doesn't mean shit. The recording industry doesn't really care about piracy. They use exceptionally poor assumptions about buying habbits to make all manner of outragious claims that go unchallenged in more typical media outlets. They care only about the bottom line; as well they should being a buisness and all. But like all the monopolies that came before them, they care nothing for their customers, little if at all for their employees. They want to see shareholders profits grow, so they can one day leave via golden boot or paracute. They don't care how. If they must lie, they will lie. If they must beg the government to prop up their hidiously profitable monopoly with a special tax, they will. They'll buy congressmen, they'll lie, they'll tell Tipper they'll make warning lables on music bigger. It has nothing to do with piracy. That's an excuse. When everyone owns and buys your product how do you grow your market? Make it so they must purchase multiples of your product? Whine to the government, that the few people who steal your product are artificially shrinking your market? (As anyone who listens to any mp3 even once would surely have bought the album that spawned it.) The RIAA argues that these few, are really a great many, and their acts are so pervasive only a special tax on EVERYONE can rectify the situation. None of this makes them different from any other large company, but most importantly, this fact doesn't make them right.
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I can't help noticing that these were made with Gallium Arsnide. Since our current prefered semiconductor technology is sillicon and so intractably entrenched I'll be holding off on my prediction of the onset of the Diamond Age.
While the technology is certainly amazing I think the only place we're likely to see it is on TRW's fine products, at least for the near future. Had they fabricated their device in sillicon I'd be more hopeful.
Naturally I don't have any proof their number 2, just a guess. Between people exploiting their sites, and their products, they're a huge worldwide target. Ammusingly enough some of the Nimda stuff I've seen comes from small buisness owners who know essentially nothing about computers setting up small networks and leaving them wide open on DSL. Then the stuff some of the users would do.... I hardly can blame Microsoft when they make a fairly complex family of products that are so intuitive that people can make small networks without really knowing anything about what they're doing.
I would also make the observation that marketing serves an important purpose. It helps keep the public informed about their dazzeling array of choices. It's even ok that most of it is bullshit, because the intent of the advertisement is clear, we can usually fillter out what the truth is. But it helps the market more quickly sort out where the money should go. Course, that's just how I see the world.
You might be surprised to learn under some circumstances DNS replication under windows can be more secure that its UNIX kin, and in software so early in its life too. I suspect UNIX will be better for a couple more years, though MS does have an advantage or two, but everyone who has had a head start on MS has fallen by the wayside when MS decided to compete with them. But with all things it's never about how bad or how good something is. It's whether it's good enough and how popular, something MS seems to understand better than anyone else.
I don't know who told you I squat to pee, but they were lying.
And to the moderators: "Feel free to mod me down, it's going to take a while to get rid of my +1 bonus, cheers."
You might be interested to know that Microsoft has an active directory with over 2 million objects in it. Microsoft might have been caught off guard by the internet, but reducing their network expertise to a remark about netbios is shockingly ignorant, even for slashdot. More over the US government is probably the biggest target for those cracking into computers, Microsoft is probably number two. No one else faces problems on the scale microsoft does. IBM likes to pretend, they'll even send you a free book about "What Hackers Don't Want You To Know", and they certainly have experience, but not like microsoft. It's a matter of scale.
You think so little of Microsoft's accumen. I invite you to take a look around. Microsoft, as you rightly point out, was nearly last on the internet bandwagon, a scant decade later where are they? For better or for worse they have beat down, out competed, and embarised their competition. The free market made its decision. Obviously marketing had something to do with it, but if their products weren't at least good enough Adam Smith would be proved wrong and we'd eating Borsht.
Don't even pretend to whine about anti-competitive tactics. My tax dollars helped pay for Mosaic, Microsoft got access to the source for free.... And don't get me started on ticketmaster.
He didn't seem overly concerned with performance. Why not save a few bucks with a software RAID? Under win2k it's almost trivial to setup, and probably possible with linux too. Then there is the matter of what all he wants to back up. I'd personally do images of the systems installed with whatever software I wanted them to have, maybe 1 image if they're sufficently similar on CD, the data I'd put in a software raid in a file server I'd build out of scraps. To the raid I'd throw off occasional system state backups. It depends, but in his particular boat I'd lean towards a software raid.
If is sounds like a duck, it's probably a quack.
They'll probably hire him at some think tank so he can go on Fox news and talk about how we'll all have zero point energy generators in our homes within 5 years.
Am I the only one who remembers a while back when a certain african american gentelman "accidently" mispelled Niger (adding an extra 'g') and sued Microsoft over the distress this event caused him? So far as I know his case was thrown out, I haven't been inclined to look for an old news story. But now Microsoft will never have to worry about this kind of thing again, and won't need to worry about someone hitting lawsuit lotto jackpot on their dime (at least as far as this story is concerned).
Every now and then, being well read refers to the newspapers in your basement and not the books on your shelf.
I think periods of upeaval in our information gathering system is good. It helps re-tune everyone's bullshit detectors. Sure, there's a lot of crap out there, but that's always been. Maybe it's a little worse now that there is a real potential for personal impact, especially if you're a postal worker. It just seems every now and then there is a "big lie" that reshapes how people interperate and authenticate what they see. From War of the Worlds, to Quiz Shows, to the Nixon administration and dot-gones, we've learned that being generous with our trust isn't always a good thing. Maybe it's time for another big lie.
I think this Anthrax scare isn't it. While there has been a lot of missinformation, even some that might get you killed if followed, it's certainly not the stupidest garbage to make it on under the guise of news. Why once on Fox News (and I realize this admission has cost me any credibility I might have once had) I saw a gentalman from a "think tank" say that we would have "zero point energy" generators in our homes in 4 to 5 years, if the big oil companies didn't interfere. This is probably one of the stupider things I've ever heard in public, and they decided to put him on TV.
To me the great thing about capitalism is it brings the information and resources together so increadibly quickly. But at some point people factor in, and before more money is sunk into poor development models for ethereal companies who have a logo looking for a product, it might be nice if we tuned up everyone's bullshit detector.
For Starcon 3 you might want to check the disco bins. I got mine from a disco bin at an Office Depot of all things for like $5.99. That said it was no where near the game Starcon 2 was. Although I did like the new ships in versus mode.
It's also worth checking out some abandonware sites, one of them may have it for download.
Best place to start looking for abandonware, that I've found, is the Abandonware ring. Maybe you'll find starcon 3. But I would say it is skipable.
I finished all 3, I dimmly remember how the 2nd one ended, the 3rd took so long to finish that I'll probably never forget it.
I'm assuming you're refering to the 3rd one, as the others I found more or less easy, though not by today's game standards.
In the end, your party members become Gods. By the time you get to the final battle you've got so much power that's it's pretty trivial unless you're unlucky enough to get hit with attacks that kill instantly.
But damn. Some of those riddles were pretty tough.
I was required to take 30 "humanities" credits, and this is the first opportunity I've had to put this "valuable" knowledge to use, so please excuse me.
I seem to vaguely remember something in Psychology 101 about how people would prefer something that was reliably unreliable to an alternative that seemed to violate a their conception of how reliable it was. In short: a system of unreliable reward modifies behavior with greater effect than a system of reliable reward.
That said I've had my share of HD's, only the Maxtors have failed under their listed mean time before failure (my bad luck YMMV). But they've always replaced them, of course I fell asleep while on hold waiting for a person once.
It's also worth noting that your Celeron doesn't have the benefit of Intel's speedstep technology, and wastes power running at 700 MHz all the time. Secondly it's not part of the lower voltage line of P III M chips. Just one of those things.
Dude. They'd be 'sampling'. So not only would they owe a royalty for the use of the original 'phone number' but a fee to Puff 'Sean Diddy' Daddy for licensing his buisness method patent.
Like it or lump it. If other people don't like the crowd a certain someone hangs with, those people are free to be as judgemental as *they* feel inclined to be. This goes for companies too. It's the curse of free markets around the world; people get to choose who they deal with. It hardly rises to the level of extortion, but who am I to interupt bad analogy theater?
Maybe one bad apple spoils the bunch, or maybe one shouldn't throw the baby out with bath water. But who is anyone, to tell anyone else, who they MUST associate with, and what odious behavior they MUST endure in the process?
In short: "Negative Ghostrider, the pattern is pull."
I think that certainly explains the static force of friction F sub s, but what of F sub k? Why should F sub K typically be so much higher than F sub s?
I suppose one might argue that a surface that experiences an F sub k might be assumed to have previously been at rest, and nestled firmly in the lowest state, or the trough if one likes, but why would this be SO much higher (typically)? Interaction between electrons at the surfaces? If there is a limited amount of interaction taking place, or the formation of weak bonds, why not view it as analogous to a crack (a very well understood phenomina)?
But back to F sub s, the static force of friction, wouldn't the surface fall foreward into the troughs of the supporting surface some of the time providing a slightly accelerating force of friction which would then turn decelerating as the atoms being supported tried to move up out of the trough against the force of gravity? Of course, that's not what we see, so it can't be the complete picture.
Why not move back to the formation of tenuious bonds between the surfaces (for a moment). If these bonds are being made occasionally, then stretched and broken, it would seem to my mind's eye that for a macro sized object F sub s would likely be a near constant (surface irregularities, pressure, whatnot would all play a part). Since the breaking of these bonds in a sence does change the surface properties, why not view it as a moving crack if it is convienent? Certainly we all except greater abstractions than this in our everyday life, if some scientists find it a helpful model is it worth belittling? Sometimes abstractions like this, reguardless of their accuracy, can be surprisingly useful. For my part, it is consistant with what I know to be true and seems to do a better job of explaining, at least for me, better than a classical speed bump theory. Your milage might vary; but so might theirs.
I can't believe no one has mentioned Bandit Kings of Ancient China yet. That game ruled all in stunning EGA glory. Courtesy of Koei 1989. It's about the only game I play semi-regularly, and, along with Stars! and Scorched Earth, the only one I've kept on my systems over the years.
I know everyone one must be desperate to know who I play. Wu Song, the hairy priest, who else?
On CNN, Guliani, at a press conference, said that people around him had guessed about 10,000 people have lost their lives. He stressed that this was just a guess.
Traditionally, Americans have been by far the most vicious and ruthless when it comes to defending their own. I know MY history. It might be worthwhile to note that prominent leaders such as Kissinger, to say nothing of those who's futures hang in the balance, favor painting with a borad brush. It's not just the assholes who hijacked the planes, it's not the assholes who told them to, it's not the assholes who trained them, it's not the assholes who provided the financing, it's not just the assholes who provided shelter, it's not just the assholes who turned a blind eye, it's all of them. When it comes to killing, no one knows how to do it better than Americans, this they will learn.
When we find the whos, and we will, anything this big leaves a trail, then the time of retribution will be at hand. Believe me, it would be an ignorant if not suicidal move to stand between US and revenge. Right or wrong as it may be, "If you're not part of the solution, you are part of the problem." Notice how quick the Taliban responded, they know what they allowed to happened. They have a dim idea of what the consequences may be. I can only assume that the comparisons to Pearl Harbor, and the eventual fate of Japan translate into their native tongue. It would behoove those who consider themselves enemies of the West to reflect on what happened to the last nation to attack American soil. I, for one, will lose no sleep over any lives lost should we decide to show those who traffic in terror, what it is to fear. They can hijack planes, we can wipe their cities from the face of the earth.
But hey, we're a representative oligarchy, and in this instance, I'm more than happy to let the rich representatives, who've lost a lot, make a strong point by spilling blood in my name.
I remember when I was about 10 being on the observation deck of one of the WTC, and looking down at all the people. I remember how impossibly huge those buildings seem. Now, those are gone. Maybe a little kid not so different from me was experiencing that still familiar sense of awe. It seems unlikely that anyone in such a situation would have been able to escape (thankfully many others have, seemingly most). What was their sin? If they can be killed in the name of a "benevolent" diety, then my "corrupt" government has my blessing to proceed with any retribution that can be described as "indescribable."
They're talking about a clump of matter in the accretion disk that isn't quite ready to go down. But yes, we would never see the moment the clump actually crossed the event horizion. We would get to see it get closer and closer to the event horizon at lower and lower frequencies, but never cross.
Nokia tends to designate their models in a way that 8200 is to describe the form factor, and the 60, or what have you describes the service. 8290 would be Voicestream for instance.
But the future of US cell service might be a little short changed else where in the thread. Sprint for instance has the wide band version of CDMA, which might provide users with a megabit or more for their phone. Which would seem to be plenty for most toys that could fit on a phone. The biggest obsticals to phones working the same everywhere has more to do with the bands not occuring at the same frequency in every country. For the people who really give a shit, they can fork over the extra money or rent a phone. I don't see a compelling reason that those of us who don't care if our cell phones work in europe, should be forced to change or do anything for the precious few who do care.
But chalk up another vote for dragon, assuming you just dictate with it. And I wouldn't be surprised to see whatever comes after XP to come with voice recognition.
I missed seeing The Road Home because I couldn't get it together for an excursion. I also missed Series 7: The Contenders as I thought it was called The Contenders, and the exclusively engaged theater only noted it as Series 7. Memento on the other hand didn't go for that exclusive engagement crap (and may still be in theaters near me), so it was no effort at all. The Princess and The Warrior was good too.
Personally, if someone makes a bad choice, it's not really a big deal. Barring some irreversible errors, anything broke can be later fixed. Maybe not as advantagious as doing right the first time, but not an atrocity. In the later case...I'm much not quite as charitable. The person in question has a good indication of what the better course of action is, and then decides to do the opposite because it's easier, and then lie about it (badly). Obviously I'm speaking about someone specifically. But if they instead of consulting a higher power for guidance, just said, "Look these ideas, as promising as they seem, conflict with my faith in ways I find moraly objectionable. But more importantly in ways my political base will not tolerate, so we won't be funding them federally."
Of course what would Jesus say about not lifting a finger to save a man from death, reguardless of that man's character? I would think if you're going to be prolife you would have to do it all the way. It seems dishonest to be prolife for a speck of undifferentiated cells, but not a whole person who might not be an admirable individual, but real none the less. I don't think asking people to be internally consistant is too much.
Normally, I'd protect and horde my Karma by posting AC, but I'd like to see other peoples thoughts without having to hunt for them.
I long to recapture the joy I found in Bandit Kings of Ancient China, and have considered picking up a PS2 just for this reason. I would love to play a game spectacular enough to be worthy of the Macross title. I liked Crazy Taxi, GTA2 was moderately entertaining. A Ranma 1/2 fighting game would probably be fun with friends. But most of all, I long for a truly excellent football (USA centric version) game with which I can lead the Seattle Seahawks to their richly deserved glory. (Yes I know they'll probably go 8-8 this year).
Nintendo has shown no intrest in MY intrests. I know, I even had a piece of shit N64. Hell I still have it. They really only care about the kids. Why not. They decided not to focus on me, and to instead focus on the parents of pre and early teens. Sega and Sony seem to want my buisness more. Maybe Microsoft will. But honestly, Rogue Squadron, while the graphics are pretty is far from revolutionary. As for Zelda, if I want to play a cartoon, I'll play one done with a snazzy post process filter where you can tag attack helicopters outta the air. Jet Grind Radio? Damn skippy.
I saw a news story about GameCube a week or so ago, and they said it supported HDTV at 1080 out of the box, and Microsoft will have HDTV support as an extra add on. That said. I'll never waste my money on another Nintendo product. I don't know yet if I'll waste it on one from Microsoft. But MS, if ya hadn't noticed has acquire a few game companies in the past couple of years. More over they've developed some brands of their own, Age of Empires, their sports series. Not to mention Sega will be developing games for all three of the boxes. I've seen stuff about Xbox getting a new grand theft auto, and crazy taxi. That sure as hell appeals more to me than anything with Mario.
The killer app I would buy either of them for on the spot would be a tight Macross game.
I bet a guy like you is all ready with the stock answer: The Exception Proves The Rule. This might even be true, but it doesn't mean shit. The recording industry doesn't really care about piracy. They use exceptionally poor assumptions about buying habbits to make all manner of outragious claims that go unchallenged in more typical media outlets. They care only about the bottom line; as well they should being a buisness and all. But like all the monopolies that came before them, they care nothing for their customers, little if at all for their employees. They want to see shareholders profits grow, so they can one day leave via golden boot or paracute. They don't care how. If they must lie, they will lie. If they must beg the government to prop up their hidiously profitable monopoly with a special tax, they will. They'll buy congressmen, they'll lie, they'll tell Tipper they'll make warning lables on music bigger. It has nothing to do with piracy. That's an excuse. When everyone owns and buys your product how do you grow your market? Make it so they must purchase multiples of your product? Whine to the government, that the few people who steal your product are artificially shrinking your market? (As anyone who listens to any mp3 even once would surely have bought the album that spawned it.) The RIAA argues that these few, are really a great many, and their acts are so pervasive only a special tax on EVERYONE can rectify the situation. None of this makes them different from any other large company, but most importantly, this fact doesn't make them right.