Here in central NJ, everyone store I visited is out of gamecube stuff. Couple of friends at work who live in different areas also said that they couldn't find any gamecube stuff. When I asked staff about gamecubes, they said come back next week. Next week comes, "come back next week." Repeat.
As for the xbox, I found a few stores that have them on sale! When I asked why they were already on sale, the first response I got was in preparation for the holidays. When I pressed a little more, I got "we just can't sell these things." I couldn't get them to elaborate further.
At least in my area, no one wants the xbox and everyone wants the gamecube. Don't know why, but there it is.
Ignoring all the obvious jokes that ACs are going to post...
14xSun is no big deal. The hypothetical central black hole in each galaxy has been ranged from 100-100,000 xSun mass, 10k being a nice round figure.
Also, considering that modern theory says that a sun needs to be anywhere from 10x to 100x our sun's mass, even considering the mass blown off during contraction, 7x sun mass is just a wrong number. 14x would be somewhere along the minimum mass to generate a black hole.
Of course, if worldwide consensus has now switched in the last 12 hours, everything above I said is wrong. Cold fusion, anyone?
I have had the chance to meet Bruce twice, and got to ask some of the same questions.
As for the busy part- the first time I got to speak with him, he had flown out that afternoon for the 8PM or so show and stayed till 3AM talking and signing autographs. He then had a 7AM flight out. At the time he was in between seasons of Xena, so he wasn't at peak operating tempo. So I can se him being rather busy, plus he is not a huge computer guy, and he does tend to do things off the cuff.
At that time, Autolocus was his favorite character- kinda offbeat, trying to be a bad guy but not quite pulling it off all the way. He also claimed that his horse from Brisco County really was that smart... but he had a firm smirk when he said it, so take it or leave it.
As for Evil Dead 1 & 2- the official word (from the commentary off ED2 Special Edition) is that Ash was dumb enough to go back to the same cabin after the first slaughter. Yes, it's similar, but it is not a remake.
As for his "buy the book" comments... this is part of his livlihood. If someone interviewed you about your consulting practices (assuming you are a consultant), would you freely give out all your experiences learned or would you tell them to hire you? Remember, he's not in the $20Mil actor's club.
Another interesting bit for you horror fans- Bruce is actively being courted to play a lead part in Phantasm 5(6?). The plot is a Romero/Phantasm combo that forgets about the last couple of abominations of Phantasm sequels.
As for Chris's transcription- tough break. Try and get Bruce back sometime with email or a recorded conversation to clarify, and also use this as a learning experience for future interviews.
As for the second time I met Bruce.... well, he tried to dissuade my (then fiancee) from marrying me. Luckily it didn't work! I'm still not sure how serious he was, but he did have that smirk going....
No, I don't read comics online. It seems like everyone who responded to me on this subject spends much more time online than I do. Again, sorry I don't have the time to spend investigating your little niche of the world. From my own, limited experience, I haven't seen PNG much.
Now for all you folks who had a grand time pointing out all their little websites that use PNG, feel free to tell me the topology of the National Guard's national network infrastructure. (This is not directed at the direct parent of this post, but rather to everyone replying to my main post.)
Assuming you pay through a credit card, call up your cc company and complain. They tend to be pretty good at satisfying their customers.
Register is the standard $35/year, but they have been responsive to my questions and inquiries. Even through email I got a 2 day response. I'm not saying they are the best or anything, just solid and pretty straight forward.
Could MS have made a mistake here? Basically, they are putting a (stipped down) PC into a console package. With the console selling less than WinXP (depending on, well a lot of stuff) what is to prevent everyone from re-tooling the Box into a cheap-ass PC? Not to hard even for novices at this point, I'd think.
I would hate to know that he would be pissed to find out that an incomplete work was being published.
There, that's on topic.
I can't believe my previous post was modded off-topic, I respond to someone who talks about Adams (meaning I'm talking about Adams' beliefs), but I get modded down?
Time to include an IQ test to allow moderation privledges.
I was just trying to convey the feeling I have about the people who are making these decisions. On a grand scale, I DO believe that information should be always available. I also believe that these measures should be temporary.
I wanted to point out that/. seems to view issues in absolutes; all information should be available, government and corporations are always bad, open source is the best, etc. But in real life there are mitigating circumstances that make the absolute right thing wrong. You want full info flow- give out the plans to nuke bombs, your companies network architecture, the PIN # of your ATM card. Yes, these are absurd and taken to the extreme, but your interpretation of what is the proper level of info flow may differ from the next person's. Who is to say what info you want released is right, rather than what your neighbor wants released?
To bring it together, there are people who believe that the level of info out there is too much. You may disagree, but I may disagree about what you want to keep private.
I am currently working on a homeland security project involving military forces. Yes, there are very good reasons why some of this info is being pulled. No, it is not a good thing to pull this info, but as I said there are reasons for this.
As for you Orwell, F451 folks, no one I've dealt with (up to the General level) has any interest in censorship or any of that nonsense. These people are extremely pissed off and want to go kick someone ass, but since they're techies they need to stay in the US and do some tasks here.
As for the top politicos in Washington, I have no first hand knowledge, but 3rd or 4th hand knowledge tends to support the belief that they are concerned with securing our country, not a bunch of Mr. Burns' holding their hands saying "Excellent!" while contemplating implementing censorship.
I wish I could go into more detail, but I can't. Of course, all of you now think I'm a lackey of the establishment anyway. Oh well, I tried.
And you, sir, are an idiot. I have copied below my response to the parent post so you may acquire some knowledge.
When a meltdown occurs the fissile material can no longer be kept safely cool. When this happens, the nuclear material will detonate. A nuclear explosion is what happened at Chernobyl, sending radiation over hundreds of miles.
Ah, bullshit. A meltdown is when the nuclear material gets too hot to control, and then melts through the floor, basically. Nothing man has ever made can contain 5000 degree material. But it will never, ever dentonate because you need extreme pressure to create what is called "critical mass". Fission (current nuke plants) never happen in nature. Fusion (like the sun) only happen in suns. To create a fission bomb (ie. "detonate") requires serious explosives placed in precise places around the fission material. Just making it hot doesn't do shit.
Also, Chernobyl was NOT, NOT, a nuclear explosion, you ass monkey. It was a pressure explosion caused by an incorrect reactor design, one that the US always knew was a bad design because it could explode like Chernobyl did- and never built a reactor like that one. The Soviets/Russians did because it is a cheaper design. Yes, radiation was spread around, but it was NOT a nuke explosion, and it was caused by a KNOWN bad design.
You do not know your facts. I would also bet that you are an anti-nuke person, and just bash anyone who is pro-nuke without even learning the facts.
When a meltdown occurs the fissile material can no longer be kept safely cool. When this happens, the nuclear material will detonate. A nuclear explosion is what happened at Chernobyl, sending radiation over hundreds of miles.
Ah, bullshit. A meltdown is when the nuclear material gets too hot to control, and then melts through the floor, basically. Nothing man has ever made can contain 5000 degree material. But it will never, ever dentonate because you need extreme pressure to create what is called "critical mass". Fission (current nuke plants) never happen in nature. Fusion (like the sun) only happen in suns. To create a fission bomb (ie. "detonate") requires serious explosives placed in precise places around the fission material. Just making it hot doesn't do shit.
Also, Chernobyl was NOT, NOT, a nuclear explosion, you ass monkey. It was a pressure explosion caused by an incorrect reactor design, one that the US always knew was a bad design because it could explode like Chernobyl did- and never built a reactor like that one. The Soviets/Russians did because it is a cheaper design. Yes, radiation was spread around, but it was NOT a nuke explosion, and it was caused by a KNOWN bad design.
You do not know your facts. I would also bet that you are an anti-nuke person, and just bash anyone who is pro-nuke without even learning the facts.
Yeah right. Back in the 80's when illegal dumping of toxic waste was big, fines for those companies were like $50k/day- a value smaller than the amount of money the companies saved by dumping illegally.
So now we are going to fine MS "stiffly?" How much would this be- 1/10 the value of breaking the rules? MS has a history of breaking these kind of agreements, and I don't see this changing anytime soon.
Didn't Connectix reverse engineer the Playstation so the games could be played on a Mac? (I forget what the name of the product was). They were sued, but won. So what's to prevent this company from doing the same thing with the xbox.
Also, is MS going to have games released [b]only[/b] on the xbox, and NOT on Windows xxxx?
So what, really? PNG was supposed to replace GIF because (Unisys?) was going to uphold patents on GIF, but... never happened because it all blew over.
Has anyone even seen a PNG file online? I think I ran across a grand total of 1. Of course there could have been inline graphics that I didn't notice, but really?
And IF Apple tried to enforce this, and PNG was widely used, what would they do? Get on Google and start at website 1 and go through 2,000,000 sequentially?
Methinks that someone is blowing this out of proportion while misreading in the first place.
Ok, sorry about that, I was going by info I got from the telecom guys. When they said "the building was destroyed, I thought they meant the actual building, not just the CO. Silly kids.
to the United Subsidieries of the United Coportation of Microsoft. And to the rules of the EULA, for which I agree to never pirate or copy any intellectual property, I Company, under Corporation, for which privacy fails, and laws abound, for lawyers.
I was/am in the middle of converting a federal agency in 26 Federal Bldg (about 6 blocks away from WTC) from analog to ISDN phones. We had half a floor converting on 9/13- needless to say, it has been postponed. 26 Fed has about 16000 phone lines, some ISDN, some analog. Analog service is being restored quicker, but almost no ISDN lines have been restored. Overall, Verizon is restoring about 200 lines a day in the building. 3 major problems with telecom after the attacks: 1) There were COs in the WTC and the Amex building, both of which are totally destroyed. 2) The Verizon CO building was damaged, including water and shock damage (I wonder how well an E5 switch handles water). 3) Several major trunk lines were cut to downtown Manhattan. Basically, too many COs were too close together, and every CO in the bottom half of Manhattan have their circuits maxed out, so numbers can only be restored when trunk lines are re-connected. This disaster has shown how vulnerable our infrastructure can be, especially in metropolitan areas.
With that many transistors running at X GHz, will Intel be providing a fusion plant to run this thing? With some small duct works, you could even use it to heat your house!
Seriously, though, who knows what other kind of breakthroughs are going to be made that may obsolete this? There are advances being made in optical and even quantum computing all the time. Someone is even working on a biological hard drive using DNA strands!
What I meant by "disregard the billions put in since then", I meant disregard the billion of dollars the US has put in since the Internet was created. Meaning all the inter-oceanic fiber we have put down, all the upgrades we have made in the US network, all the investment money we have given to other countries to support their networks. I didn't mean disregard the money other countries have put in. I meant once other countries have met our ORIGINAL (ie, 1970) investment, maybe we show start listening to their complaints, even if we ignore every dollar the US has invested since 1970 (and how much do you think that is?)
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Here in central NJ, everyone store I visited is out of gamecube stuff. Couple of friends at work who live in different areas also said that they couldn't find any gamecube stuff. When I asked staff about gamecubes, they said come back next week. Next week comes, "come back next week." Repeat.
As for the xbox, I found a few stores that have them on sale! When I asked why they were already on sale, the first response I got was in preparation for the holidays. When I pressed a little more, I got "we just can't sell these things." I couldn't get them to elaborate further.
At least in my area, no one wants the xbox and everyone wants the gamecube. Don't know why, but there it is.
Reading the 2 main replies to my post, I did confuse a bunch of issues and situations into one event.
Just wanted to point out that these guys/gals know some info which I paraphrased and/or glossed over, and that they have good point which I missed.
Ignoring all the obvious jokes that ACs are going to post...
14xSun is no big deal. The hypothetical central black hole in each galaxy has been ranged from 100-100,000 xSun mass, 10k being a nice round figure.
Also, considering that modern theory says that a sun needs to be anywhere from 10x to 100x our sun's mass, even considering the mass blown off during contraction, 7x sun mass is just a wrong number. 14x would be somewhere along the minimum mass to generate a black hole.
Of course, if worldwide consensus has now switched in the last 12 hours, everything above I said is wrong. Cold fusion, anyone?
I have had the chance to meet Bruce twice, and got to ask some of the same questions.
As for the busy part- the first time I got to speak with him, he had flown out that afternoon for the 8PM or so show and stayed till 3AM talking and signing autographs. He then had a 7AM flight out. At the time he was in between seasons of Xena, so he wasn't at peak operating tempo. So I can se him being rather busy, plus he is not a huge computer guy, and he does tend to do things off the cuff.
At that time, Autolocus was his favorite character- kinda offbeat, trying to be a bad guy but not quite pulling it off all the way. He also claimed that his horse from Brisco County really was that smart... but he had a firm smirk when he said it, so take it or leave it.
As for Evil Dead 1 & 2- the official word (from the commentary off ED2 Special Edition) is that Ash was dumb enough to go back to the same cabin after the first slaughter. Yes, it's similar, but it is not a remake.
As for his "buy the book" comments... this is part of his livlihood. If someone interviewed you about your consulting practices (assuming you are a consultant), would you freely give out all your experiences learned or would you tell them to hire you? Remember, he's not in the $20Mil actor's club.
Another interesting bit for you horror fans- Bruce is actively being courted to play a lead part in Phantasm 5(6?). The plot is a Romero/Phantasm combo that forgets about the last couple of abominations of Phantasm sequels.
As for Chris's transcription- tough break. Try and get Bruce back sometime with email or a recorded conversation to clarify, and also use this as a learning experience for future interviews.
As for the second time I met Bruce.... well, he tried to dissuade my (then fiancee) from marrying me. Luckily it didn't work! I'm still not sure how serious he was, but he did have that smirk going....
No, I don't read comics online. It seems like everyone who responded to me on this subject spends much more time online than I do. Again, sorry I don't have the time to spend investigating your little niche of the world. From my own, limited experience, I haven't seen PNG much.
Now for all you folks who had a grand time pointing out all their little websites that use PNG, feel free to tell me the topology of the National Guard's national network infrastructure. (This is not directed at the direct parent of this post, but rather to everyone replying to my main post.)
Thought so.
Yes, I make sure to hit every 2 billion web sites every week, even yours!
I check maybe a dozen sites regularly a week, plus maybe 2 dozen more that pop into my awareness, sorry that yours hasn't.
I guess unlike you, I have real work to do and can't spend all my time looking up hundreds of websites.
Sorry.
for my domain.
Assuming you pay through a credit card, call up your cc company and complain. They tend to be pretty good at satisfying their customers.
Register is the standard $35/year, but they have been responsive to my questions and inquiries. Even through email I got a 2 day response. I'm not saying they are the best or anything, just solid and pretty straight forward.
Could MS have made a mistake here? Basically, they are putting a (stipped down) PC into a console package. With the console selling less than WinXP (depending on, well a lot of stuff) what is to prevent everyone from re-tooling the Box into a cheap-ass PC? Not to hard even for novices at this point, I'd think.
Perhaps more is not better this time?
I would hate to know that he would be pissed to find out that an incomplete work was being published.
There, that's on topic.
I can't believe my previous post was modded off-topic, I respond to someone who talks about Adams (meaning I'm talking about Adams' beliefs), but I get modded down?
Time to include an IQ test to allow moderation privledges.
I was just trying to convey the feeling I have about the people who are making these decisions. On a grand scale, I DO believe that information should be always available. I also believe that these measures should be temporary.
/. seems to view issues in absolutes; all information should be available, government and corporations are always bad, open source is the best, etc. But in real life there are mitigating circumstances that make the absolute right thing wrong. You want full info flow- give out the plans to nuke bombs, your companies network architecture, the PIN # of your ATM card. Yes, these are absurd and taken to the extreme, but your interpretation of what is the proper level of info flow may differ from the next person's. Who is to say what info you want released is right, rather than what your neighbor wants released?
I wanted to point out that
To bring it together, there are people who believe that the level of info out there is too much. You may disagree, but I may disagree about what you want to keep private.
Hope this helps clarify my position.
I am currently working on a homeland security project involving military forces. Yes, there are very good reasons why some of this info is being pulled. No, it is not a good thing to pull this info, but as I said there are reasons for this.
As for you Orwell, F451 folks, no one I've dealt with (up to the General level) has any interest in censorship or any of that nonsense. These people are extremely pissed off and want to go kick someone ass, but since they're techies they need to stay in the US and do some tasks here.
As for the top politicos in Washington, I have no first hand knowledge, but 3rd or 4th hand knowledge tends to support the belief that they are concerned with securing our country, not a bunch of Mr. Burns' holding their hands saying "Excellent!" while contemplating implementing censorship.
I wish I could go into more detail, but I can't. Of course, all of you now think I'm a lackey of the establishment anyway. Oh well, I tried.
And you, sir, are an idiot. I have copied below my response to the parent post so you may acquire some knowledge.
When a meltdown occurs the fissile material can no longer be kept safely cool. When this happens, the nuclear material will detonate. A nuclear explosion is what happened at Chernobyl, sending radiation over hundreds of miles.
Ah, bullshit. A meltdown is when the nuclear material gets too hot to control, and then melts through the floor, basically. Nothing man has ever made can contain 5000 degree material. But it will never, ever dentonate because you need extreme pressure to create what is called "critical mass". Fission (current nuke plants) never happen in nature. Fusion (like the sun) only happen in suns. To create a fission bomb (ie. "detonate") requires serious explosives placed in precise places around the fission material. Just making it hot doesn't do shit.
Also, Chernobyl was NOT, NOT, a nuclear explosion, you ass monkey. It was a pressure explosion caused by an incorrect reactor design, one that the US always knew was a bad design because it could explode like Chernobyl did- and never built a reactor like that one. The Soviets/Russians did because it is a cheaper design. Yes, radiation was spread around, but it was NOT a nuke explosion, and it was caused by a KNOWN bad design.
You do not know your facts. I would also bet that you are an anti-nuke person, and just bash anyone who is pro-nuke without even learning the facts.
Bah.
When a meltdown occurs the fissile material can no longer be kept safely cool. When this happens, the nuclear material will detonate. A nuclear explosion is what happened at Chernobyl, sending radiation over hundreds of miles.
Ah, bullshit. A meltdown is when the nuclear material gets too hot to control, and then melts through the floor, basically. Nothing man has ever made can contain 5000 degree material. But it will never, ever dentonate because you need extreme pressure to create what is called "critical mass". Fission (current nuke plants) never happen in nature. Fusion (like the sun) only happen in suns. To create a fission bomb (ie. "detonate") requires serious explosives placed in precise places around the fission material. Just making it hot doesn't do shit.
Also, Chernobyl was NOT, NOT, a nuclear explosion, you ass monkey. It was a pressure explosion caused by an incorrect reactor design, one that the US always knew was a bad design because it could explode like Chernobyl did- and never built a reactor like that one. The Soviets/Russians did because it is a cheaper design. Yes, radiation was spread around, but it was NOT a nuke explosion, and it was caused by a KNOWN bad design.
You do not know your facts. I would also bet that you are an anti-nuke person, and just bash anyone who is pro-nuke without even learning the facts.
Bah.
Yeah right. Back in the 80's when illegal dumping of toxic waste was big, fines for those companies were like $50k/day- a value smaller than the amount of money the companies saved by dumping illegally.
So now we are going to fine MS "stiffly?" How much would this be- 1/10 the value of breaking the rules? MS has a history of breaking these kind of agreements, and I don't see this changing anytime soon.
Didn't Connectix reverse engineer the Playstation so the games could be played on a Mac? (I forget what the name of the product was). They were sued, but won. So what's to prevent this company from doing the same thing with the xbox.
Also, is MS going to have games released [b]only[/b] on the xbox, and NOT on Windows xxxx?
If one even assumed this was true....
So what, really? PNG was supposed to replace GIF because (Unisys?) was going to uphold patents on GIF, but... never happened because it all blew over.
Has anyone even seen a PNG file online? I think I ran across a grand total of 1. Of course there could have been inline graphics that I didn't notice, but really?
And IF Apple tried to enforce this, and PNG was widely used, what would they do? Get on Google and start at website 1 and go through 2,000,000 sequentially?
Methinks that someone is blowing this out of proportion while misreading in the first place.
* Monopoly
* Competition
* Streamlined (as in code)
* Stability
* Useability
* Cheesy poofs
(oh relax, the above is a joke)
I agree, though I'll add the following:
The only people that will bitch about the (potential) subscription cost are the same ones who will never pay for it anyway.
Sorry I didn't meet your funny meter.
To each his own, I guess.
Ok, sorry about that, I was going by info I got from the telecom guys. When they said "the building was destroyed, I thought they meant the actual building, not just the CO. Silly kids.
Good point out.
to the United Subsidieries of the United Coportation of Microsoft. And to the rules of the EULA, for which I agree to never pirate or copy any intellectual property, I Company, under Corporation, for which privacy fails, and laws abound, for lawyers.
-Daily morning speech for employees
I was/am in the middle of converting a federal agency in 26 Federal Bldg (about 6 blocks away from WTC) from analog to ISDN phones. We had half a floor converting on 9/13- needless to say, it has been postponed. 26 Fed has about 16000 phone lines, some ISDN, some analog. Analog service is being restored quicker, but almost no ISDN lines have been restored. Overall, Verizon is restoring about 200 lines a day in the building. 3 major problems with telecom after the attacks: 1) There were COs in the WTC and the Amex building, both of which are totally destroyed. 2) The Verizon CO building was damaged, including water and shock damage (I wonder how well an E5 switch handles water). 3) Several major trunk lines were cut to downtown Manhattan. Basically, too many COs were too close together, and every CO in the bottom half of Manhattan have their circuits maxed out, so numbers can only be restored when trunk lines are re-connected. This disaster has shown how vulnerable our infrastructure can be, especially in metropolitan areas.
With that many transistors running at X GHz, will Intel be providing a fusion plant to run this thing? With some small duct works, you could even use it to heat your house!
Seriously, though, who knows what other kind of breakthroughs are going to be made that may obsolete this? There are advances being made in optical and even quantum computing all the time. Someone is even working on a biological hard drive using DNA strands!
My 1/50 $ (US)
Ok:
#1 is NY
2 of 5 is US
3 of 7 is US
4 of 8 is US
5 of 9 is US
5 of 10 is US
or 5 US, 4 Europe, 1 Asia- nope, you fail (unless Tokyo somehow became European recently- nice try on the stats, though)
And these are international hubs. Howabout intra-continental traffic?
What I meant by "disregard the billions put in since then", I meant disregard the billion of dollars the US has put in since the Internet was created. Meaning all the inter-oceanic fiber we have put down, all the upgrades we have made in the US network, all the investment money we have given to other countries to support their networks. I didn't mean disregard the money other countries have put in. I meant once other countries have met our ORIGINAL (ie, 1970) investment, maybe we show start listening to their complaints, even if we ignore every dollar the US has invested since 1970 (and how much do you think that is?)
Sorry I was unclear on that point, my fault.