These chiselers long ago ceased to be the great techology purveyors we knew them as when we were kids with our first scientific calculators.
They are now simple criminals selling cheap crap and defrauding the public with stunts like this one. Think of Detroit in the lat '70s, making cars that fell apart ASAP after the warranty expired (back when warranties were 12 months or 10K miles and excluded most non-drivetrain components).
Vote with your dollars. Their competitors' products sell for the same price or a few % more at worst, and you won't be supporting a pirated empire.
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In-cab system: 2 fares available. Cabbie: Cab. Show names. In-cab system: 1. Gupta. 2. Beckham. Cabbie: Cab. Kill-file all with same name as 1. Show route to 2.
In-cab system: 2 fares available Cabbie: Cab. Show phones. In-cab system: 1. Motorola Micro-TAC. 2. Sony Ericsson P800. Cabbie: Cab. Delete 1. Show route to 2. ...
I've done some.NET work, and it's apparent that it's designed with security in mind (how cleanly only time will tell).
Accordingly, it omits many simple functions that you'll find in other Microsoft libraries that access the machine.
Try changing your screen resolution from within a.NET program. Try just writing the program to do it. Then tell me how you did it, because I couldn't find the API.
The original strip was the parody, taking a character out of context for the sake of humor.
AG was right to send its lawyers to make a show of aggressively protecting its trademarks so that actual trademark infringers won't use PA's parody as evidence they don't (which would nullify their trademark), but PA was wrong to buckle.
The new strip is clearly libelous, spreading a blatant lie about AG's corporate culture in order to interfere with their revenues.
They're going to get reamed in court, and I wish I was AG's lawyer. IAN even AL, but I can see the vaseline flying from here.
They've got Obi-Wan, Anakin, and eventually Leia and Luke to tie the series together.
They're throwing in Chewie because:
a) Lucas ran out of ideas a long damn time ago. b) Characters from the original trilogy sell better than characters from this one. c) Hey. Don't complain. Could have been Ewoks...
Moving parts are part of just about every photographic system ever, so that won't be the deciding factor.
Blue-laser DVDs will hold tens of gigabytes of data, and are feasible now. Memory chips in the same form factor won't even come close to that for a decade at least.
For a trailer, that was pretty weak, especially around the dialogue. But the sound was mixed oddly (Audigy and Klipsch/THX 4.1, so don't blame my gear, or my ear). Maybe what it needs is Senssurround.
And the CGI, from this distance, looks like it might be PS2 quality. Worse than the bad CGI in Spider-Man. How they can take a computer generated 9-foot guy and make him look like a 3-inch model keyed into the frame is beyond me.
This should be an excellent way to damp noise from vibrating machinery, but you need somewhere to dump the electricity, e.g. a light bulb. So "loud" would become "bright".
P.S. You can't recharge the battery fully from a vibrating phone, because some of the vibration has to exit the phone to tell you it's ringing, and because of the 2d law of Thermodynamics and the fact that it's your battery that's causing the vibration in the first place.
It's fine that nobody's looking. No posturing going on.
We're not disagreeing on the deconstruction of the text. I've always argued that the author loses control of the work once he places it before an audience.
But I've never believed that subliminal messages didn't exist just because most of the audience failed to recognize them. That part of the audience that does recognize them infers the author's real intent. You probably already have read it, but check out The Annotated Alice, a thorough essay on the backstory of Alice in Wonderland. Also look up the real meanings of The Wizard of Oz. The author's intent in those two works became obscured partly because the references were obscure in scope, but also because they were artfully shrouded. Card's allegory doesn't hardly try, but because most SF audiences are somewhat ignorant of religion and politics and real-world war, it ends up being obscurant.
Ender's Game and its sequels have an ulterior motive. Card may have meant it to be more clear, but he got lucky and made a bunch of money instead.
If it's due to the ignorance of the author, that's valid. If it's due to the ignorance of the audience, then the author has gotten away with the literary equivalent of a trojan horse, hiding his message in a work that is getting popular on surreptitious means.
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These chiselers long ago ceased to be the great techology purveyors we knew them as when we were kids with our first scientific calculators.
They are now simple criminals selling cheap crap and defrauding the public with stunts like this one. Think of Detroit in the lat '70s, making cars that fell apart ASAP after the warranty expired (back when warranties were 12 months or 10K miles and excluded most non-drivetrain components).
Vote with your dollars. Their competitors' products sell for the same price or a few % more at worst, and you won't be supporting a pirated empire.
In-cab system: 2 fares available.
Cabbie: Cab. Show names.
In-cab system: 1. Gupta. 2. Beckham.
Cabbie: Cab. Kill-file all with same name as 1. Show route to 2.
In-cab system: 2 fares available
Cabbie: Cab. Show phones.
In-cab system: 1. Motorola Micro-TAC. 2. Sony Ericsson P800.
Cabbie: Cab. Delete 1. Show route to 2.
...
I've done some .NET work, and it's apparent that it's designed with security in mind (how cleanly only time will tell).
.NET program. Try just writing the program to do it. Then tell me how you did it, because I couldn't find the API.
Accordingly, it omits many simple functions that you'll find in other Microsoft libraries that access the machine.
Try changing your screen resolution from within a
The original strip was the parody, taking a character out of context for the sake of humor.
AG was right to send its lawyers to make a show of aggressively protecting its trademarks so that actual trademark infringers won't use PA's parody as evidence they don't (which would nullify their trademark), but PA was wrong to buckle.
The new strip is clearly libelous, spreading a blatant lie about AG's corporate culture in order to interfere with their revenues.
They're going to get reamed in court, and I wish I was AG's lawyer. IAN even AL, but I can see the vaseline flying from here.
They needed to "tie the series together?"
They've got Obi-Wan, Anakin, and eventually Leia and Luke to tie the series together.
They're throwing in Chewie because:
a) Lucas ran out of ideas a long damn time ago.
b) Characters from the original trilogy sell better than characters from this one.
c) Hey. Don't complain. Could have been Ewoks...
Certainly.
Here's the key to writing married people:
Everything the man says revolves around wanting more and better sex, justifying his choice of woman.
Everything the woman says revolves around wanting more money and security, justifying her choice of man.
There may be digressions to an Umberto Eco degree, but thematically, this is what it's about.
Water. Sure.
It's about the oil.
Moving parts are part of just about every photographic system ever, so that won't be the deciding factor.
Blue-laser DVDs will hold tens of gigabytes of data, and are feasible now. Memory chips in the same form factor won't even come close to that for a decade at least.
And pcmcia cards aren't all that durable.
I can recall DL'ing photos of hot chicks (Lena, natch) from the PLATO system in 1979.
For a trailer, that was pretty weak, especially around the dialogue. But the sound was mixed oddly (Audigy and Klipsch/THX 4.1, so don't blame my gear, or my ear). Maybe what it needs is Senssurround.
And the CGI, from this distance, looks like it might be PS2 quality. Worse than the bad CGI in Spider-Man. How they can take a computer generated 9-foot guy and make him look like a 3-inch model keyed into the frame is beyond me.
This should be an excellent way to damp noise from vibrating machinery, but you need somewhere to dump the electricity, e.g. a light bulb. So "loud" would become "bright".
P.S. You can't recharge the battery fully from a vibrating phone, because some of the vibration has to exit the phone to tell you it's ringing, and because of the 2d law of Thermodynamics and the fact that it's your battery that's causing the vibration in the first place.
The Matrix is a piece of crap.
It has no theme and no continuity.
You could find in it justification for defining the Big Bang as the combination of two grease molecules in a stain on a Jack in the Box bag.
Don't mod this as flamebait. The article was flamebait.
Call it "Aohell Nutscrape".
I don't think the current owners would mind.
Link it to a 3-D sim, and you can "play" the war in real-time.
Add a joystick and some electric "prods" in the soldiers' uniforms, and you can literally play the war.
--Ender
Oh yeah.
A headhunting company was predicting 1.5 million new tech jobs by the end of the year.
In February, 2002.
Christ. Who's that gullible?
Good parents will check the system and find out they have good kids.
Bad parents won't check the system and it won't help them fix their broken kids.
This could slightly increase the disparity between the bad ones and the good ones, but it's not going to help the bad ones become good ones.
How about a system that allows the neighborhood to check up on how a parent is doing his job? It'd prevent a lot of graffiti.
I could tell you, but then I'd have to bill you.
99%.
90% of all "computer scientists" are really code monkeys with cagy managers.
The other 9% are merely not as smart as Von Neumann.
It's fine that nobody's looking. No posturing going on.
We're not disagreeing on the deconstruction of the text. I've always argued that the author loses control of the work once he places it before an audience.
But I've never believed that subliminal messages didn't exist just because most of the audience failed to recognize them. That part of the audience that does recognize them infers the author's real intent. You probably already have read it, but check out The Annotated Alice, a thorough essay on the backstory of Alice in Wonderland. Also look up the real meanings of The Wizard of Oz. The author's intent in those two works became obscured partly because the references were obscure in scope, but also because they were artfully shrouded. Card's allegory doesn't hardly try, but because most SF audiences are somewhat ignorant of religion and politics and real-world war, it ends up being obscurant.
Ender's Game and its sequels have an ulterior motive. Card may have meant it to be more clear, but he got lucky and made a bunch of money instead.
If it's due to the ignorance of the author, that's valid. If it's due to the ignorance of the audience, then the author has gotten away with the literary equivalent of a trojan horse, hiding his message in a work that is getting popular on surreptitious means.
Semantics and pragmatics are separate, but even if the text is misunderstood by many, the intent exists, and can be inferred by many more.
The author knew who John Locke was, and lionized him in the book.
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