Jay Leno has one of those Allison-powered bikes. One of the bike rags -- forget which one now, but it might have been Motor Cyclist -- did a really cool story about some of his more spectacular bikes a few months back.
NB: a motorcycle will go really really fast in a straight line. Two tires vs. four, though, limits its cornering ability pretty severely. I didn't believe it either, until I saw a bike (I think a Gixxer 1000 or Yamaha R1) raced against a bone-stock Porsche 911 Carrera 4 around a British racing circuit. The Porsche kicked the bike's ass in the corners because it has literally four or five times the contact patch.
But I'd have way more fun on the bike than in the Bugatti, too.;)
You see, there is a completely different sort of person out there who feels they don't need the configurability or blazing-speed performance of a desktop, and much prefer to have a computer that they can bring to work with them, over to a friends, out on vacation, on a business trip, out in the great outdoors doing whatever it is you want to do.
...which is precisely why I bought a laptop, rather than a desktop, two years ago. It's waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay easier to take everything with me -- just toss it in a backpack and I'm good to go.
I have a 40 GB internal, and right now, it's mostly plenty big, but hey, 100 GB drives will drive down the cost of smaller drives and help drive up standard internal HD sizes, so I'm all for it. When they get up to 250 GB, maybe I'll upgrade...
If you have the capability to build a self-replicating factory and then send it across interstellar distances in the first place, designing one smart enough to fight a war on its own wouldn't be very hard.
Maybe not.
But you might also have the problem that these smart machines would decide to wage war on their creators instead...and we all know that only Neo can save humanity then!
Does this mean that the number one group of Office applications doesn't have to work with the number two operating system?
Yer damn tootin' it does.
And good riddance to that buggy piece of crap. If M$ pulls Office off the Mac, Apple will, within six months, have an office suite available on OS X that not only matches Office feature-for-feature, but absolutely puts its UI to shame, costs $200 less, and has complete interoperability with Office documents.
The only two things Apple is really missing to do this *right now* are a serious word processor and a spreadsheet app. Keynote already shames PowerPoint. OpenOffice or StarOffice as a back end with a true Apple GUI on the front of it would be dead easy for the in-house folks.
Something I haven't seen addressed here yet is this:
Is it possible that Apple is doing this to cover their own butts? I don't think there's any question that the industry would take their ball and go home, so to speak, if Apple were to effectively ignore such a program, but worse yet, could Apple actually be sued for allowing PlayFair to exist unmolested?
IANAL, but I'd like to know unofficial legal opinions from SOYWAL (some of you who are lawyers).
Yes, there are the music videos. Music videos are generally made for the purpose of having people buy that artist's CD. While some bands have creative direction on their music videos, most of them do not. I do NOT see it as creativity. I see it as marketing.
Doubly so because you don't get a copy of the music video on the CD. No, for that, you have to buy the artist's -- and I use the term loosely, although most of the artists that would fall into this category are pretty talented -- newest DVD too.
Joke 1: Do you think the RIAA also has "big-guy" issues, even though they're "not that big?"
Joke 2: When I skimmed through your post the first time, I thought I saw "RIAA...cash on demand," and I started thinking, "Heh, just give the RIAA money whenever it asks for it...yeah, that sounds about like their ideal situation. Mine too, you money-grubbing bastards. Now go make a real living like the rest of us!"
What about business people, doctors, police, etc. who need these devices to work?
Gee, whatever did these people do before the cellular telephone? I can't possibly imagine. Heaven forbid that someone in these professions should have to use a telephone with WIRES, or tell someone where they're going to be for the next couple of hours.
Besides, doctors still use pagers, policemen aren't typically "on-call" when they're at the movies, and "business people" who "need these devices to work" can go conduct their business somewhere else, thank you very much. You wouldn't bring your laptop to the movies to work on a bit of code during boring parts, so why should it be OK to conduct disruptive business on your cell fone?
And talk about lawsuit material. Someone gets hurt, but can't call 911 on their cell phone because it is being jammed by this (or a similar) device.
Gimme a break. Anyone who needs to call 911 on his cell but can't because he's in a "no service" area inside of a movie theatre, concert hall, etc. is going to have approximately 200 people in the immediate vicinity who can come to his aid and/or go fetch the paramedics USING A LANDLINE.
If you had been modded* "funny" I wouldn't have replied, but since you were modded* "insightful," I had to say something.
Do you seriously think there are Slashdotters who don't enjoy a tantalizing problem like this one?
Yes, I do. Look at all the arguments about religion/God/etc. up above the grandparent post. Those people don't care about why this is happening. They only care about fighting with other people about whether or not there's a God.
*I know this is through no fault of your own, but if we assume *all* the moderators are idiots, moderations become meaningless. I choose to accept that the majority of moderations are fair unless there's evidence otherwise.
This happened pretty recently in Colorado, too. Some genius in a hot-air balloon decided it would be fun to try to set an altitude record without bothering to tell the FAA he would be drifting through Denver International Airport restricted airspace.
Assuming you (grandparent poster) *had* a pilot's licence that would make it legal for you to operate a manned rocket, you *wouldn't* have it after you got done with that little stunt.
You mean like what Steve Jobs and Phil Schiller have done at basically every Macworld Expo since 1998, and at last year's WWDC when the G5 was introduced?
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So why is NASA cancelling this program in particular? Are we (under Bush's program) sacrificing everything to plant a flag on Mars and not making space flight practical?
I'm not entirely clear what you were asking here, but I don't think a scramjet is going to help make space flight practical anyway. A scramjet still requires oxygen to burn its fuel, and there isn't much of that in space.;)
If you were referring to the cancellation of a different program, my apologies.
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All of which I'd rather have than the Bugatti, because all of them look better, and all of them, except for the McLaren, cost substantially less.
Heck, you could almost have two Enzos or Carrera GTs for that price.
Or one Enzo/Carrera GT and 10 Ducati 999Rs.
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Jay Leno has one of those Allison-powered bikes. One of the bike rags -- forget which one now, but it might have been Motor Cyclist -- did a really cool story about some of his more spectacular bikes a few months back.
;)
NB: a motorcycle will go really really fast in a straight line. Two tires vs. four, though, limits its cornering ability pretty severely. I didn't believe it either, until I saw a bike (I think a Gixxer 1000 or Yamaha R1) raced against a bone-stock Porsche 911 Carrera 4 around a British racing circuit. The Porsche kicked the bike's ass in the corners because it has literally four or five times the contact patch.
But I'd have way more fun on the bike than in the Bugatti, too.
p
You see, there is a completely different sort of person out there who feels they don't need the configurability or blazing-speed performance of a desktop, and much prefer to have a computer that they can bring to work with them, over to a friends, out on vacation, on a business trip, out in the great outdoors doing whatever it is you want to do.
...which is precisely why I bought a laptop, rather than a desktop, two years ago. It's waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay easier to take everything with me -- just toss it in a backpack and I'm good to go.
I have a 40 GB internal, and right now, it's mostly plenty big, but hey, 100 GB drives will drive down the cost of smaller drives and help drive up standard internal HD sizes, so I'm all for it. When they get up to 250 GB, maybe I'll upgrade...
p
The curriculums aren't as tough as they should be
;)
Obviously, or you would have known the proper spelling is "curricula."
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If you have the capability to build a self-replicating factory and then send it across interstellar distances in the first place, designing one smart enough to fight a war on its own wouldn't be very hard.
Maybe not.
But you might also have the problem that these smart machines would decide to wage war on their creators instead...and we all know that only Neo can save humanity then!
p
Copied and pasted...with a link to the original post.
A bit sneaky, but not exactly "trollish." Karma-whore would be applicable, but this person posted as AC, so what's the big deal?
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Does this mean that the number one group of Office applications doesn't have to work with the number two operating system?
Yer damn tootin' it does.
And good riddance to that buggy piece of crap. If M$ pulls Office off the Mac, Apple will, within six months, have an office suite available on OS X that not only matches Office feature-for-feature, but absolutely puts its UI to shame, costs $200 less, and has complete interoperability with Office documents.
The only two things Apple is really missing to do this *right now* are a serious word processor and a spreadsheet app. Keynote already shames PowerPoint. OpenOffice or StarOffice as a back end with a true Apple GUI on the front of it would be dead easy for the in-house folks.
p
Something I haven't seen addressed here yet is this:
Is it possible that Apple is doing this to cover their own butts? I don't think there's any question that the industry would take their ball and go home, so to speak, if Apple were to effectively ignore such a program, but worse yet, could Apple actually be sued for allowing PlayFair to exist unmolested?
IANAL, but I'd like to know unofficial legal opinions from SOYWAL (some of you who are lawyers).
p
If I post this article at work, we'll lose 10 people tomorrow.
Great! Do it, and let those of us far more responsible, far less gullible, and currently unemployed have their jobs!
Where did you say you worked, BTW? So I know where to send my resume...
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Yes, there are the music videos. Music videos are generally made for the purpose of having people buy that artist's CD. While some bands have creative direction on their music videos, most of them do not. I do NOT see it as creativity. I see it as marketing.
Doubly so because you don't get a copy of the music video on the CD. No, for that, you have to buy the artist's -- and I use the term loosely, although most of the artists that would fall into this category are pretty talented -- newest DVD too.
p
Joke 1: Do you think the RIAA also has "big-guy" issues, even though they're "not that big?"
Joke 2: When I skimmed through your post the first time, I thought I saw "RIAA...cash on demand," and I started thinking, "Heh, just give the RIAA money whenever it asks for it...yeah, that sounds about like their ideal situation. Mine too, you money-grubbing bastards. Now go make a real living like the rest of us!"
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(Both strip off their clothes and have sex with pigs on a huge pile of cash.)
And this is different from their having sex with each other on said pile of cash...how, exactly?
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Johnny Cash is dead...Pirate his stuff. He doesn't need the money anymore.
No, he doesn't.
But his heirs might, you insensitive clod.
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What about business people, doctors, police, etc. who need these devices to work?
Gee, whatever did these people do before the cellular telephone? I can't possibly imagine. Heaven forbid that someone in these professions should have to use a telephone with WIRES, or tell someone where they're going to be for the next couple of hours.
Besides, doctors still use pagers, policemen aren't typically "on-call" when they're at the movies, and "business people" who "need these devices to work" can go conduct their business somewhere else, thank you very much. You wouldn't bring your laptop to the movies to work on a bit of code during boring parts, so why should it be OK to conduct disruptive business on your cell fone?
And talk about lawsuit material. Someone gets hurt, but can't call 911 on their cell phone because it is being jammed by this (or a similar) device.
Gimme a break. Anyone who needs to call 911 on his cell but can't because he's in a "no service" area inside of a movie theatre, concert hall, etc. is going to have approximately 200 people in the immediate vicinity who can come to his aid and/or go fetch the paramedics USING A LANDLINE.
p
If you had been modded* "funny" I wouldn't have replied, but since you were modded* "insightful," I had to say something.
Do you seriously think there are Slashdotters who don't enjoy a tantalizing problem like this one?
Yes, I do. Look at all the arguments about religion/God/etc. up above the grandparent post. Those people don't care about why this is happening. They only care about fighting with other people about whether or not there's a God.
*I know this is through no fault of your own, but if we assume *all* the moderators are idiots, moderations become meaningless. I choose to accept that the majority of moderations are fair unless there's evidence otherwise.
p
This happened pretty recently in Colorado, too. Some genius in a hot-air balloon decided it would be fun to try to set an altitude record without bothering to tell the FAA he would be drifting through Denver International Airport restricted airspace.
Assuming you (grandparent poster) *had* a pilot's licence that would make it legal for you to operate a manned rocket, you *wouldn't* have it after you got done with that little stunt.
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I have said that *1000* times and been moded a troll every last time. ...and this time, too, just for good measure.
Because you're still a troll. How you say something is at least as important as what you have to say.
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Also the perfect name for a Bond coworker-turned-villain.
/rolls eyes.
And since Gates was recently knighted by Her Majesty...does anyone ELSE smell a conspiracy here? Or, at the very least, another 007 plot?
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Apparently none of the moderators around here have ever seen "The Italian Job."
Morons.
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The correct quote is actually
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"Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it."
Just FYI
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"You'll never shut down the REAL Napster!"
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You mean like what Steve Jobs and Phil Schiller have done at basically every Macworld Expo since 1998, and at last year's WWDC when the G5 was introduced?
p
So why is NASA cancelling this program in particular? Are we (under Bush's program) sacrificing everything to plant a flag on Mars and not making space flight practical?
;)
I'm not entirely clear what you were asking here, but I don't think a scramjet is going to help make space flight practical anyway. A scramjet still requires oxygen to burn its fuel, and there isn't much of that in space.
If you were referring to the cancellation of a different program, my apologies.
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ORRIN HATCH: You, Mr. Kettle, are most decidedly black.
KETTLE: Funny you should say that, Mr. Hatch. So are you.
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See for yourself.
Dead as of this comment posting.
Looks like yanking their revenue stream actually worked. Good job, guys, and thanks to Webclients for doing the right thing and pulling the ads.
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