You see, in the 60's the idea was to get to the Moon. Today it's to exercise technology. Then technology was a means to and end. Today, technology IS the end
There is very specific end:
Design a spacecraft that will carry a bunch of people to the space station and back. Much simpler than going to the moon, IMHO...
What surprises me is that it took less than 10 years to go to the moon, with primitive 1960's technology. This project looks like it's going to take just as long... even longer... and this is with more advanced technology, plus all the experience of over 40 years of spaceflight.
So, someone please tell me how the RIAA has the right to sue, since they own no copyrights
Artists own the copyrights, but they assign the legal authority to protect the copyrights to the record companies, who, in turn, band together under the guise of the RIAA.
Your parents have a lot more to lose, like their house. If you get caught while using their internet connection, they're the ones who are going to pay the price.
It is marketing, but the RIAA knows the people who scare easiest are the ones with the most to lose.
Eighteen year old kids can afford to lose their life savings, because they can get it back in a week or two.
...and look at the mess they caused! I'd hate to have Slim Pickens at the controls of one of those hypersonic bomber thingies.
Why is it that kids these days need everything right away? When I was a kid, it took a lot longer than two hours to destroy the world... and we LIKED it that way.
It appears, winning a war is not a matter of throwing bombs alone, see Iraq, see Vietnam
You will ALWAYS need boots on the ground to win a war. Sadly, this is why we have a lot of dead GIs this year. Bombs alone will never work (unless they contain plutonuium, and even that is debatable)
Personally, I think this money is better spent elsewhere.
instead of having a pen and paper you have a graphics tablet and software.
I work in animation. No artist in their right mind would swap their 4B Lumograph pencil for a Wacom. Not gonna happen. The 50 cent pencil still has the better interface. Believe me, if it was drawn, they used pencils, china markers, colerase, etc...
So funny how everyone praises the technology. I'm sure they used at least one or two pencils to make that movie...
Sinbad was traditionally animated, which means a lot of people hunched over light tables, exactly the same way they did it in the 1920-30's. The ink and paint department may be gone, and the effects are a little bit better, but an animator from that time would still fit right in...
At the rate we're going, Ford won't be allowed to take apart Chevys to see how they work... McDonald's employees will be jailed when they eat at Burger King... and software engineers who look at competitor's interfaces will be blinded with hot irons.
Extra RAM is always nice, but we do just fine with 1-2GB per machine. If your geometry load is that heavy, your graphics card & interactivity will bog down long before the RAM gives up. Rendering might take more memory, but only for hires HDTV/Film stuff with *lots* of textures.
Computers hit a point a year or two ago where even the LOWEST end processor is more than sufficient for just about anything but high-end photo/video/3d stuff.
Absolutely right. We're running lots of Maya (and some After Effects/photoshop/etc) on a bunch of Dual Pentium III's at my studio. They work like a charm. Have no need (or desire) to upgrade.
I'm sure a 1.6Ghz G5 would be MORE than sufficient for most high-end apps. Besides, it's got 32 more bits!
Yeah, but loser pays means that if the other guy wins, YOU pay. Kinda scary when the RIAA hires lawyers by the dozen. You could be out millions paying their legal fees on the oft-chance that they prevail. Not very good odds, IMHO.
I doubt WalMart will carry anything with either nudity or controversy. I mean they just pulled Cosmo off their shelves because it was too tittilating. Being so 'family oriented' eliminates a *huge* proportion of the films out there.
I think NetFlix can survive simply on the fact that they can carry a wider selection of films...
The only thing I'd want to record these days is Harry Shearer, and he does it for me on his website.
This thing would be awesome if radio was halfway decent and had some variety. If I like a song on the radio, all I have to do is wait 15 minutes, and they'll play it again... and again... and again.
The shuttle is only partly reusable. The external tank burns up and the solid boosters need to be towed back from sea and retrofitted. Plus, the trip tears up the shuttle itself. It takes months to turn one around after a launch. That adds a lot of cost.
Disposable rockets dispose of, well, the rocket. That is also not a trivial expense. Imagine throwing away your car every time you took a trip. Gets kinda expensive, even if you buy really cheap cars.
In a truly reusable system, the only costs would be fuel and maintenance. It would be more like an aircraft than a car in terms of maintenance, but it would still be significantly cheaper. Inventing something like that is very expensive, but by amortizing it over many vehicles and many launches, it would make space much more acessible.
Many years ago, I used to work for a computer company headquarted in Boulder, so I was in that area a lot.
Back in the 80's, Longmont was the home of a company called Stoage Technolgies. They made drives for IBM mainframes and had a huge factory and employed lots of people. The mainframe business slowed, so many of these people broke out on their own in the early/mid 90's. Kinda the genisis of all the other drive companies there...
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I used Netscape since it came out, switched to Mozilla sometime shortly before 1.0
:
I still use it for a couple of reasons
I have 7-8 years worth of email archived in Netscape/Mozilla format. Too lazy to convert.
The Mozilla mail client gets rid of 95% of my spam (and after having the same email for 7-8 years, I get a LOT of spam)
It blocks popups.
I gotta be honest, I don't use tabbed browsing, but someday, maybe...
But if you can't bundle a browser, why can you bundle an FTP client?
I say type the code in by hand and compile it yourself. These OS add-ins just make it too darn easy!
now that AOL has to run themselves as a profit making concern
AOL made a LOT of profits when Steve Case was there. From what I remember, AOL was the one who bought Time Warner.
I think the baloon is headed straight for Patrick McGoohan...
You see, in the 60's the idea was to get to the Moon. Today it's to exercise technology. Then technology was a means to and end. Today, technology IS the end
There is very specific end:
Design a spacecraft that will carry a bunch of people to the space station and back. Much simpler than going to the moon, IMHO...
What this has to do with mainframes eludes me.
What surprises me is that it took less than 10 years to go to the moon, with primitive 1960's technology. This project looks like it's going to take just as long... even longer... and this is with more advanced technology, plus all the experience of over 40 years of spaceflight.
Something is seriously wrong...
Don't live with them?
Then share till your hard disk turns blue, baby!
So, someone please tell me how the RIAA has the right to sue, since they own no copyrights
Artists own the copyrights, but they assign the legal authority to protect the copyrights to the record companies, who, in turn, band together under the guise of the RIAA.
Kinda like a pyramid scheme...
Your parents have a lot more to lose, like their house. If you get caught while using their internet connection, they're the ones who are going to pay the price.
It is marketing, but the RIAA knows the people who scare easiest are the ones with the most to lose.
Eighteen year old kids can afford to lose their life savings, because they can get it back in a week or two.
Yeah... harsher penalties... hee hee... HA... HA... sorry... can't stop... LAUGHING!
(chuckles)
...and look at the mess they caused! I'd hate to have Slim Pickens at the controls of one of those hypersonic bomber thingies.
Why is it that kids these days need everything right away? When I was a kid, it took a lot longer than two hours to destroy the world... and we LIKED it that way.
Ummm... perhaps you should re-read the post:
It appears, winning a war is not a matter of throwing bombs alone, see Iraq, see Vietnam
You will ALWAYS need boots on the ground to win a war. Sadly, this is why we have a lot of dead GIs this year. Bombs alone will never work (unless they contain plutonuium, and even that is debatable)
Personally, I think this money is better spent elsewhere.
instead of having a pen and paper you have a graphics tablet and software.
I work in animation. No artist in their right mind would swap their 4B Lumograph pencil for a Wacom. Not gonna happen. The 50 cent pencil still has the better interface. Believe me, if it was drawn, they used pencils, china markers, colerase, etc...
Can't beat the classics.
"The first movie created entirely with Linux"
So funny how everyone praises the technology. I'm sure they used at least one or two pencils to make that movie...
Sinbad was traditionally animated, which means a lot of people hunched over light tables, exactly the same way they did it in the 1920-30's. The ink and paint department may be gone, and the effects are a little bit better, but an animator from that time would still fit right in...
That's the classic 0x610f0769 bug.
Increment by 1 so it reads 0x610f0770.
Results may vary.
At the rate we're going, Ford won't be allowed to take apart Chevys to see how they work... McDonald's employees will be jailed when they eat at Burger King... and software engineers who look at competitor's interfaces will be blinded with hot irons.
Extra RAM is always nice, but we do just fine with 1-2GB per machine. If your geometry load is that heavy, your graphics card & interactivity will bog down long before the RAM gives up. Rendering might take more memory, but only for hires HDTV/Film stuff with *lots* of textures.
Computers hit a point a year or two ago where even the LOWEST end processor is more than sufficient for just about anything but high-end photo/video/3d stuff.
Absolutely right. We're running lots of Maya (and some After Effects/photoshop/etc) on a bunch of Dual Pentium III's at my studio. They work like a charm. Have no need (or desire) to upgrade.
I'm sure a 1.6Ghz G5 would be MORE than sufficient for most high-end apps. Besides, it's got 32 more bits!
Instead of passing notes in class, the students can use instant messenger to call you names behind your back.
Of course, with a good packet sniffer, you can snatch the notes from their grasp and read them aloud. Just like with paper!
Yeah, but loser pays means that if the other guy wins, YOU pay. Kinda scary when the RIAA hires lawyers by the dozen. You could be out millions paying their legal fees on the oft-chance that they prevail. Not very good odds, IMHO.
The page has already been changed, but google still has the cache
Grab it while you can!
I doubt WalMart will carry anything with either nudity or controversy. I mean they just pulled Cosmo off their shelves because it was too tittilating. Being so 'family oriented' eliminates a *huge* proportion of the films out there.
I think NetFlix can survive simply on the fact that they can carry a wider selection of films...
The only thing I'd want to record these days is Harry Shearer, and he does it for me on his website.
This thing would be awesome if radio was halfway decent and had some variety. If I like a song on the radio, all I have to do is wait 15 minutes, and they'll play it again... and again... and again.
Thanks, ClearChannel...
The shuttle is only partly reusable. The external tank burns up and the solid boosters need to be towed back from sea and retrofitted. Plus, the trip tears up the shuttle itself. It takes months to turn one around after a launch. That adds a lot of cost.
Disposable rockets dispose of, well, the rocket. That is also not a trivial expense. Imagine throwing away your car every time you took a trip. Gets kinda expensive, even if you buy really cheap cars.
In a truly reusable system, the only costs would be fuel and maintenance. It would be more like an aircraft than a car in terms of maintenance, but it would still be significantly cheaper. Inventing something like that is very expensive, but by amortizing it over many vehicles and many launches, it would make space much more acessible.
Many years ago, I used to work for a computer company headquarted in Boulder, so I was in that area a lot.
Back in the 80's, Longmont was the home of a company called Stoage Technolgies. They made drives for IBM mainframes and had a huge factory and employed lots of people. The mainframe business slowed, so many of these people broke out on their own in the early/mid 90's. Kinda the genisis of all the other drive companies there...