Afraid of being sued? I would argue they are allegedly true. That most famous "hippo leg" photo I thought was faked by two boys, and the expose' even showed the picture from the book they cut out, an actual dino drawing head, and it matched perfectly.
Enjoy waiting on your government waiting list to be issued a PC that makes a TRS-80 look like a Beowulf cluster of 200GHz 65,536-processor massively parallel computers.
That is, assuming the local politician in power "allows" private people to have it. He has, of course, his payoffs to consider and his interactions with the official government computer makers, who produce 1/1000 of what is needed because they aren't capitalist, and in that land of need, the pie (don't know why it's so darned small!) has many other people who want a cut before something frivolous like a home PC.
> A mother raising children is not considered "a
> worker." She is treated as if she has no input
> or productivity to contribute to the "real
> economy".
I'd be careful if I were you. You'll stir up a liberal politician who will try to force such stay-at-homes to pay taxes as if they were working at 2x minimum wage (or whatever a "maidservant" is paid according to a "feminist".) Vacuum? Pay taxes. Paint house on weekend? Pay taxes.
The one article mentioned MS had done away with the desktop icons (any of them?) Which release is this? What's there now, just your desktop picture?
AOL should just add a few tens of thousands of lines of code (a month for a couple of decent programmers) and turn Netscape into a virtual OS, then just put it out for free DL on the Internet.
> (2) Usenet distribution takes a number of forms,
> some of which are time-delayed (for a while
> there was Usenet distribution by backup
> tape to sites that didn't have network
> connectivity, for one extreme example)
And let's not forget that when they sign up tons of businesses, as they will because they're huge, they start doing the old "Hey, why don't you drop other Internet payment services like Paypal and we'll give you a profit bonus per transaction?" followed six months later by "If you don't drop Paypal, we'll drop you."
> The government of Ontario has a very
> pro-authoritarian, anti-democratic [bent.]
You mean pro-authoritarian, anti-freedom bent.
Democracy, historically, has been mostly pro-authoritarian. It's been over 200 years since politicians gained power by convincing the masses they would lessen the power of government.
Doom was just a graphics improvement over Wolf 3D. Indeed, as someone who started out on Wolf 3D, Doom was cool, but wasn't the uberfantastic thing a lot of people make it out to be. Duke Nukem was the real improvement, not in graphics or sound, but rather in interactivity and humor. I had better be able to play that slot machine in Duke 4ever.
If your country were taken over by power hungry thugs who raise the populace into a nationalistic frenzy, leading to your country being mowed down by the rest of the world twice this century, you'd probably consider banning those symbols, too.
It's easy for us to sit in the US and pooh-pooh banning Nazis in newly-non-Nazi countries, or banning communism in newly non-communist countries, but none of the powerful parties in the US will, as a matter of open, obvious fact, end elections should they gain power.
I remember these situations as being particularly immersive:
1. Thief (and Thief II), played on hardest mode such that you couldn't kill anyone. (BTW, you're a thief, there's no reason you should be able to kill a guard in a swordfight. Thank goodness one game FINALLY got the thief character correct, at least on hardest mode.)
2. Duke Nukem, running through the mountains with the eerie alien siren/engines wailing (don't know which.) That went on for hours and really got you feeling despaired.
Saying "gaim" is not confusingly similar to "aim" seems a bit of a stretch. I couldn't get very far selling a cola called "Acoca Cola" or "Moca cola", hey, Mocha Cola(TM) My lawyers, my lawyers, a thousand TM's for a lawyer!
It's clear *aim names that are instant messangers, especially those that work with AIM, are taking advantage of AIM's name.
We should archive this for when we look back on these as the quaint old days. "Look how we couldn't even wait for lame old 200GHz processors! My watch has a 300THz processor in it!"
> Note that this is only an 80% improvement. That
> means current transistors are over 100GHz. So
> why aren't processors this fast?
Actually, pipelining and superscalar architectures allow them to achieve processing rates of greater than one instruction per Hz. We probably haven't seen this on the desktop because the "production-ready" bleeding edge is what sits in a supercooled big iron box somewhere, with desktops following many years later.
Nah, Quake will easily eat up all that power. When I can get a 3D helmet with viewscreens that cover my entire visual field at, say, 160 fps, with full, accurate, multisource lighting, mirrors and reflections, and 6000x6000 resolution per eye, then I will be happy.
At that point, 3D games and porn may merge into one.
But your subjective perceptual experience IS just another physical phenomena, and there's no reason to assume, as philosophers do, that, just because there is no way for someone else to experience your experiences -- yet --- that this implies the conscious mind is some kind of mystical, atomic, solipist entity that ne'er shall be visited by another.
The typical New-Ager can raise several levels of consciousness and will still be well behind where I am now. Hell, they can drink Arizona Iced Tea Memory Brain Enhance mix, complete with a picture of Einstein on the label, and I can have a hemispherectomy with 30 seconds to recover, complete with a fifth of vodka, and they'd still lose.
Regarding the wear and tear on the sphynx, it's been shown in plenty of places large rains carrying sand and gravel can wear away a ton of hard rock very quickly. I recall National Geographic showing a small dam suspended 30 feet in the air because a huge storm wore away the rock underneath it, which was much softer than the cement of the dam. Their point was that the usual concept of riverbeds wearing through stone on a geologic scale may be in error, with the bulk of the work been done in occasional very large storms.
One good storm in Egypt washing sand around could have carved up the sphynx "real goodlike".
I'm sure the ancient Egyptians were well aware of this.
I remember learning about a wave of slaughter that went through Europe from the east thousands of years before written records. In one century's layer are houses and cities, the next destruction.
The wave continued accross the Mediterranean, where finally the Egyptians were able to stop it. Not a single word of what battles actually went on survived anywhere.
Slashdot Mirror
> In fact, they are allegedly fake.
Afraid of being sued? I would argue they are allegedly true. That most famous "hippo leg" photo I thought was faked by two boys, and the expose' even showed the picture from the book they cut out, an actual dino drawing head, and it matched perfectly.
Enjoy waiting on your government waiting list to be issued a PC that makes a TRS-80 look like a Beowulf cluster of 200GHz 65,536-processor massively parallel computers.
That is, assuming the local politician in power "allows" private people to have it. He has, of course, his payoffs to consider and his interactions with the official government computer makers, who produce 1/1000 of what is needed because they aren't capitalist, and in that land of need, the pie (don't know why it's so darned small!) has many other people who want a cut before something frivolous like a home PC.
> A mother raising children is not considered "a
> worker." She is treated as if she has no input
> or productivity to contribute to the "real
> economy".
I'd be careful if I were you. You'll stir up a liberal politician who will try to force such stay-at-homes to pay taxes as if they were working at 2x minimum wage (or whatever a "maidservant" is paid according to a "feminist".) Vacuum? Pay taxes. Paint house on weekend? Pay taxes.
The one article mentioned MS had done away with the desktop icons (any of them?) Which release is this? What's there now, just your desktop picture?
AOL should just add a few tens of thousands of lines of code (a month for a couple of decent programmers) and turn Netscape into a virtual OS, then just put it out for free DL on the Internet.
If you're one of those writers with a ton of stuff in a major paper's database, you can get rich.
1. Wait until they do pay-per-view on articles (they can track this, and it will be cheaper overall for ancient crap.)
2. Pump-and-dump, without the dump. Spam saying, "Hey, did you read article ? It answers your questions!"
3. Cash checks
Well, that's what one would do, if one were unscrupulous.
Don't be messin' with Britney, man. I will F U up.
> (2) Usenet distribution takes a number of forms,
> some of which are time-delayed (for a while
> there was Usenet distribution by backup
> tape to sites that didn't have network
> connectivity, for one extreme example)
Damn, I'll bet the Quake lag was terrible there.
> I'm working full-time (40 hours) as a software
> engineer and I'm making $400 per week
$400 per week?!?!?
I always wanted to meet someone who graduated from the Sally Struthers school of Computer Programming, VCR Repair, and Key Punch Operators.
And let's not forget that when they sign up tons of businesses, as they will because they're huge, they start doing the old "Hey, why don't you drop other Internet payment services like Paypal and we'll give you a profit bonus per transaction?" followed six months later by "If you don't drop Paypal, we'll drop you."
> The government of Ontario has a very
> pro-authoritarian, anti-democratic [bent.]
You mean pro-authoritarian, anti-freedom bent.
Democracy, historically, has been mostly pro-authoritarian. It's been over 200 years since politicians gained power by convincing the masses they would lessen the power of government.
If they suspect you of a crime, why do they need to check your ID? Why don't they just arrest you?
Doom was just a graphics improvement over Wolf 3D. Indeed, as someone who started out on Wolf 3D, Doom was cool, but wasn't the uberfantastic thing a lot of people make it out to be. Duke Nukem was the real improvement, not in graphics or sound, but rather in interactivity and humor. I had better be able to play that slot machine in Duke 4ever.
If your country were taken over by power hungry thugs who raise the populace into a nationalistic frenzy, leading to your country being mowed down by the rest of the world twice this century, you'd probably consider banning those symbols, too.
It's easy for us to sit in the US and pooh-pooh banning Nazis in newly-non-Nazi countries, or banning communism in newly non-communist countries, but none of the powerful parties in the US will, as a matter of open, obvious fact, end elections should they gain power.
I remember these situations as being particularly immersive:
1. Thief (and Thief II), played on hardest mode such that you couldn't kill anyone. (BTW, you're a thief, there's no reason you should be able to kill a guard in a swordfight. Thank goodness one game FINALLY got the thief character correct, at least on hardest mode.)
2. Duke Nukem, running through the mountains with the eerie alien siren/engines wailing (don't know which.) That went on for hours and really got you feeling despaired.
Quakeworld and everything after it never felt quite right. Client-side prediction sounds good in principle, but just felt wrong.
Saying "gaim" is not confusingly similar to "aim" seems a bit of a stretch. I couldn't get very far selling a cola called "Acoca Cola" or "Moca cola", hey, Mocha Cola(TM) My lawyers, my lawyers, a thousand TM's for a lawyer!
It's clear *aim names that are instant messangers, especially those that work with AIM, are taking advantage of AIM's name.
We should archive this for when we look back on these as the quaint old days. "Look how we couldn't even wait for lame old 200GHz processors! My watch has a 300THz processor in it!"
> So how does this differ from Intel's annoucement
> that they will reach 20GHz by 2007?
It's sitting in the garbage can next to the mid-90's stock advertisement claiming they'd be doing 2 billion instructions per second by the year 2000.
> Note that this is only an 80% improvement. That
> means current transistors are over 100GHz. So
> why aren't processors this fast?
Actually, pipelining and superscalar architectures allow them to achieve processing rates of greater than one instruction per Hz. We probably haven't seen this on the desktop because the "production-ready" bleeding edge is what sits in a supercooled big iron box somewhere, with desktops following many years later.
Nah, Quake will easily eat up all that power. When I can get a 3D helmet with viewscreens that cover my entire visual field at, say, 160 fps, with full, accurate, multisource lighting, mirrors and reflections, and 6000x6000 resolution per eye, then I will be happy.
At that point, 3D games and porn may merge into one.
But your subjective perceptual experience IS just another physical phenomena, and there's no reason to assume, as philosophers do, that, just because there is no way for someone else to experience your experiences -- yet --- that this implies the conscious mind is some kind of mystical, atomic, solipist entity that ne'er shall be visited by another.
The typical New-Ager can raise several levels of consciousness and will still be well behind where I am now. Hell, they can drink Arizona Iced Tea Memory Brain Enhance mix, complete with a picture of Einstein on the label, and I can have a hemispherectomy with 30 seconds to recover, complete with a fifth of vodka, and they'd still lose.
Regarding the wear and tear on the sphynx, it's been shown in plenty of places large rains carrying sand and gravel can wear away a ton of hard rock very quickly. I recall National Geographic showing a small dam suspended 30 feet in the air because a huge storm wore away the rock underneath it, which was much softer than the cement of the dam. Their point was that the usual concept of riverbeds wearing through stone on a geologic scale may be in error, with the bulk of the work been done in occasional very large storms.
One good storm in Egypt washing sand around could have carved up the sphynx "real goodlike".
I'm sure the ancient Egyptians were well aware of this.
I remember learning about a wave of slaughter that went through Europe from the east thousands of years before written records. In one century's layer are houses and cities, the next destruction.
The wave continued accross the Mediterranean, where finally the Egyptians were able to stop it. Not a single word of what battles actually went on survived anywhere.
> The Israelite written record was probably
> created about 580BC. Before that, it was an oral
> history, which could have been embellished.
That's like saying Angelina Jolie's big lips could have been injected with ass fat.