There are 762% of the roid hitting the oceans and therefore creating a massive Tsunami. Being on the "other side" of the planet from the point of impact wont help you if that happens to be Hawai. You'd rather be at the top of Kilimangero or someplace like this. Preferably where tea and coffe is grown (since you're going to get all that wather, You might as well drink some of it).
C'mon. Watch something else than CNN and Fox News. Read around the world's new site. You'll get some more light.
The war on Iraq wasn't a mistake. It's a calculated coup to redirect millions of dollars into both ailing companies and their pollitical ties they have with current "rulers" or America (and I use the term Rulers non trivialy).
Who cares about those 200 billion. They get millions out of it for themselves. And they dont give a phoque about the soldier's lives. That's what they enlisted for.
Except maybe for the national guards.
And that 70-year old retiree that got drafted back in.
Here are a few interesting addresses for your perusal:
And for a nearly-as-slanted-but-opposite look on news: http://www.aljazeera.com/home.asp They, at least, will show you the real photos of what's going on in Iraq.
Case to the point: in his first season (1996), Jacques Villeneuve pounded Shummy repeatedly and nearly took the championship, with 4 points behind Shummy. His first season! William cars were great in those years.
The very next year, Shummy lost to Villeneuve. The following year, Shummy came back in front. But was pounded by McLaren. Hard.
Then, Ferraries became much better and each year, they've increased their lead.
As for Villeneuve, he left William to join his friends at a new builder: BAR. The car sucked more each year and the great driver that Villeneuve is took a plunge in the points.
Watch him come back next year: he's with Sauber now.
The car DOES make a difference.
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2000 songs isn't unusual.
It's got 2100 songs in my music library. They're from 174 albums I've collected over the years. This excludes any LPs and tapes I also have. All legal. And I know people with twice that many.
Not because you own two dozen legal albums that anyone having more is an automatic crook.
(Oh, and two ITMS songs... but I personoally know someone with more than 150: all in two weeks of ITMS being in Canada)
The US is more keen on using technologies, even if less advanced or refined, if it itself can control it's use and development rather than relying on other countries.
Just look at cell phones. CDMA (American tech) phones (like mine) typically suck feature-wise and in what they can do as compared with GSP (mostly european) phones.
I've chosen CDMA carrier myself because it (Bell Canada) has far better coverage than GSM-based offerings around here (Fido/Microcell). But the GSM phones are way better in most respect (bluetooth sync etc).
Although the potential of infection of AIDS is scary, it's nowhere near as dangerous as it is hyped to be.
For years, AIDS has been used to categorize and victimize specific groups (mostly gay men and coloured people in general). This created a lot of hype and pushed AIDS to the top of the chart of [scary font] DeSeAsEs To FeAr [/scary font].
The truth however, is that AIDS still manage to kill a relative minority of people, compared to other deseases.
A quick chart from Canadian residents can be found here: StatCan. I use this chart because it was easy to consult but these numbers are quite in line with those for the US: CDC
To summarize, Cancer should be given the scariest font and perhaps even the blink tag too. It scores a whoping 27% of desease-related deaths in Canada.
Compare this with 0.3% (yes, "zero point three") for HIV infection.
Hearth deseases come in 2nd with 26% and then the numbers drop sharply to 7% for cerebrovascular deseases.
Suicides score a whoping 1.7%. Still far more than HIV.
If I worked for WHO, my recomendations would be these: screw responsibly and slack off on smoking and the super-sized fries. Enjoy life. Be happy.
More machines are being sold (provided Apple delivers themmm but that's another story). But in terms of market share, it's gone down drasticaly recently (it's overing just around 2% from 4% five years ago).
This means that the number of PC unis being sold (Dell, Gateway etc) has risen more than Apple.
There are more Mac users. But the market share hasn't increased.
Apple survives because SOME people, albeit a minory, are willing to pay high price for high-end equipment that works. The added bonus is that they're designed like someting you'd want to own.
Nobody bought Yugo cars precicelly they weren't that: nice and functional.
Same old FUD. Get yerself a Wintel box that as well equipped as a Mac (right down to bus speed and everything) and you'll end up with a machine that's as expensive and in some case, more expensive.
iPods are kind of an exception to this. They're pricey (too much for even a hard core Mac user like me) but they provide what other players dont: and easy, hassle free usage workflow, from importing music in iTunes down to syncing with their iPods, with the added bonus of a permissive, thought-free and cost-consinstsnt and license-consistent online music store.
In 1991, I was passenger in my friend's car driving from Montréal to Boston for MacWorld expo.
I didn't have a driver's license back then. The US Customs officer asked me for IDs of some kind (no passport required back then).
When I tended him my papers, he asked: Where's your driver's license?
I answered I didn't have one (I was 21), cause I didn't need one: I lived and worked in the same city and used public transport. The officer replied with a question:
What? Are you anti-American?
I was not able to answer so much I was flabbergasted.
I'm sorry but the stone being held up just looks like a rock that spent 50,000 years in the dirt.
Geez. Given enough time, anything clunky and unorderly can be made to ressemble something that's manufactured and well thought-out given enough time to fool the eyes.
Huh... dang. All these years waiting for the movie to come out and now I realize I'll have to wait for the Director's Cut.
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Too funny and pathetic (on my part) for this reply thread.
I'll accept the +5 Ignorant. For arguing about Quartz/DisplayPDF. But DisplayPDF was what Apple now refers to Quartz (or at least, CoreGraphics). This is how it got introduced as when they got rid of DisplayPostScript.
On other fronts;
It's been said that OpenSTEP on PPC hardware was demonstrated to Apple as a proof of concept (man it's hard to find web pages dating back 1996... was it from FirePOWER, the company that was formed with, basically, the haxed out NeXT hardware division? Was it PREP or CHRP? Can't remember.)
In 1992 they began porting their software package to run on new PowerPC designs, as well as existing 486 PCs. Plans to produce any new custom hardware were killed shortly afterward, and the company renamed itself NeXT Software, shelved the PowerPC port and introduced NextStep/486 as an operating system alternative for PC users.
This is the port that was reportedly demonstrated (presumably, somewhat modified too), to Amelio, wich basically killed the deal for Gassé.
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You're opaque to facts, mpaque.
The Power macintosh 6100 was introduced in March 1994.
NeXT had ported NeXTSTEP to Power Mac hardware well before they were acquired and is what tilted the balance. That and the fact that Gassé wanted 400 million for BeOS, wich was nowhere near as complete as NeXTSTEP was at the time.
Display PDF is a rendering engine that displays PDF. What Quartz does is raster graphical commands (actually, the same calls that Cocoa had for Display PostScript, what was eventually dubbed CoreGraphics and then, as a whole, Quartz 2D), plus bells and whistles for OpenGL acceleration (further enhanced with Quartz Extreme) to build up these images and pass-em on to the underlying PDF rasteriser.
In Quartz Extreme, provided hardware supports it, these rastered images are sent as textures in the OpenGL video hardware for final composition on screen.
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More BS:
Apple set to work porting OPENSTEP to Apple hardware, and removing licensed technologies like Display Postscript in favor of license free technologies like Quartz.
1) The port to Apple hardware was already done by NeXT before Apple acquired it. They merely completed the drivers, added AppleTalk, ADB and a couple of other software layers to complement the immediate needs.
2) in favor of free technologies like Quartz Now. They rewrote Display PostScript as Display PDF. THEN added Quartz on top, wich is something they've developed for this specific purpose. It wasn't free. They made it. And it's hosted on top of Display PDF.
3) Unlike Mac OS X Server, the Classic applications would be able to run alongside one eachother. Mac OS X Server ran Classic apps just as well, thank you.
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You probably want to move inland.
There are 762% of the roid hitting the oceans and therefore creating a massive Tsunami. Being on the "other side" of the planet from the point of impact wont help you if that happens to be Hawai. You'd rather be at the top of Kilimangero or someplace like this. Preferably where tea and coffe is grown (since you're going to get all that wather, You might as well drink some of it).
That's because Apple already owns the domain.
It's been reported countless times already is was/is the foundation for the rumored Apple-branded phone.
This "official" announcment is nothing that rumor-mongers haven't laid out already.
You still think it was a mistake?
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C'mon. Watch something else than CNN and Fox News. Read around the world's new site. You'll get some more light.
The war on Iraq wasn't a mistake. It's a calculated coup to redirect millions of dollars into both ailing companies and their pollitical ties they have with current "rulers" or America (and I use the term Rulers non trivialy).
Who cares about those 200 billion. They get millions out of it for themselves. And they dont give a phoque about the soldier's lives. That's what they enlisted for.
Except maybe for the national guards.
And that 70-year old retiree that got drafted back in.
Here are a few interesting addresses for your perusal:
http://worldnews.com/
http://news.google.com/?
And for a nearly-as-slanted-but-opposite look on news:
http://www.aljazeera.com/home.asp
They, at least, will show you the real photos of what's going on in Iraq.
I bet you havent seen those pictures on CNN:
http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/news_service/m
Case to the point: in his first season (1996), Jacques Villeneuve pounded Shummy repeatedly and nearly took the championship, with 4 points behind Shummy. His first season! William cars were great in those years.
The very next year, Shummy lost to Villeneuve. The following year, Shummy came back in front. But was pounded by McLaren. Hard.
Then, Ferraries became much better and each year, they've increased their lead.
As for Villeneuve, he left William to join his friends at a new builder: BAR. The car sucked more each year and the great driver that Villeneuve is took a plunge in the points.
Watch him come back next year: he's with Sauber now.
The car DOES make a difference.
2000 songs isn't unusual.
It's got 2100 songs in my music library. They're from 174 albums I've collected over the years. This excludes any LPs and tapes I also have. All legal. And I know people with twice that many.
Not because you own two dozen legal albums that anyone having more is an automatic crook.
(Oh, and two ITMS songs... but I personoally know someone with more than 150: all in two weeks of ITMS being in Canada)
the real loser if Eolas wins is the end user
Indeed. This is the one case I don't want MS to loose.
Couldn't we argue that application programs are merely plug-ins of the operating system and thus prior art would destroy the case?
More to do with protectionism.
The US is more keen on using technologies, even if less advanced or refined, if it itself can control it's use and development rather than relying on other countries.
Just look at cell phones. CDMA (American tech) phones (like mine) typically suck feature-wise and in what they can do as compared with GSP (mostly european) phones.
I've chosen CDMA carrier myself because it (Bell Canada) has far better coverage than GSM-based offerings around here (Fido/Microcell). But the GSM phones are way better in most respect (bluetooth sync etc).
You only need to see how votes are counted in certain states to comprehend why the US rates relatively poorly in math.
Their aint no prouf.
Oh wise up folks. These are no more robots than your typical RC car.
They're just slightly more lethal.
It's the grunt holding the joystick that's the real robot and he couldn't care less with Asimov's laws.
Oh, and before I'm trolled -1 for totally ignoring other countries, I did consult the World Heath Organization web site.
Worldwide, according to WHO, 8000 people die of AIDS every day. That's 2.9 million people (2,920,000). That's.
Nearly 1 million people die of hearth diseases in the US alone. Yearly.
Although the potential of infection of AIDS is scary, it's nowhere near as dangerous as it is hyped to be.
For years, AIDS has been used to categorize and victimize specific groups (mostly gay men and coloured people in general). This created a lot of hype and pushed AIDS to the top of the chart of [scary font] DeSeAsEs To FeAr [/scary font].
The truth however, is that AIDS still manage to kill a relative minority of people, compared to other deseases.
A quick chart from Canadian residents can be found here: StatCan. I use this chart because it was easy to consult but these numbers are quite in line with those for the US: CDC
To summarize, Cancer should be given the scariest font and perhaps even the blink tag too. It scores a whoping 27% of desease-related deaths in Canada.
Compare this with 0.3% (yes, "zero point three") for HIV infection.
Hearth deseases come in 2nd with 26% and then the numbers drop sharply to 7% for cerebrovascular deseases.
Suicides score a whoping 1.7%. Still far more than HIV.
If I worked for WHO, my recomendations would be these: screw responsibly and slack off on smoking and the super-sized fries. Enjoy life. Be happy.
Apple's market share has been steadily increasing
Uh... hrm.. maybe not.
More machines are being sold (provided Apple delivers themmm but that's another story). But in terms of market share, it's gone down drasticaly recently (it's overing just around 2% from 4% five years ago).
This means that the number of PC unis being sold (Dell, Gateway etc) has risen more than Apple.
There are more Mac users. But the market share hasn't increased.
Well according to Blamer, it was MORE than 228.
Meaning either 229, or 228 for wich they have half of a case for and any number for wich they're trying to "prove".
BS
Apple survives because SOME people, albeit a minory, are willing to pay high price for high-end equipment that works. The added bonus is that they're designed like someting you'd want to own.
Nobody bought Yugo cars precicelly they weren't that: nice and functional.
Same old FUD. Get yerself a Wintel box that as well equipped as a Mac (right down to bus speed and everything) and you'll end up with a machine that's as expensive and in some case, more expensive.
iPods are kind of an exception to this. They're pricey (too much for even a hard core Mac user like me) but they provide what other players dont: and easy, hassle free usage workflow, from importing music in iTunes down to syncing with their iPods, with the added bonus of a permissive, thought-free and cost-consinstsnt and license-consistent online music store.
58% of statistics are made up.
37% of americans know that.
Talk about zero emissions.
You only need twice the amount of batteries than other electric cars. And twice the tires.
Who care asbout air polution if we can polute right down to earth.
I totally agree. Nobody, NOBODY will ever get laid in this car.
Wich makes it a good cab car though.
I thought atomic clocks were much larger.
The Hewlett Packard 5071A mentioned above surprised me a lot.
Can anyone give a rundown of how they work?
Public transport, this is America.
Not what I was told at customs once.
In 1991, I was passenger in my friend's car driving from Montréal to Boston for MacWorld expo.
I didn't have a driver's license back then. The US Customs officer asked me for IDs of some kind (no passport required back then).
When I tended him my papers, he asked: Where's your driver's license?
I answered I didn't have one (I was 21), cause I didn't need one: I lived and worked in the same city and used public transport. The officer replied with a question:
What? Are you anti-American?
I was not able to answer so much I was flabbergasted.
I'm sorry but the stone being held up just looks like a rock that spent 50,000 years in the dirt.
Geez. Given enough time, anything clunky and unorderly can be made to ressemble something that's manufactured and well thought-out given enough time to fool the eyes.
Compare Windows XP.
Many versions of the Bible?
Huh... dang. All these years waiting for the movie to come out and now I realize I'll have to wait for the Director's Cut.
Too funny and pathetic (on my part) for this reply thread.
I'll accept the +5 Ignorant. For arguing about Quartz/DisplayPDF. But DisplayPDF was what Apple now refers to Quartz (or at least, CoreGraphics). This is how it got introduced as when they got rid of DisplayPostScript.
On other fronts;
It's been said that OpenSTEP on PPC hardware was demonstrated to Apple as a proof of concept (man it's hard to find web pages dating back 1996... was it from FirePOWER, the company that was formed with, basically, the haxed out NeXT hardware division? Was it PREP or CHRP? Can't remember.)
All I could find for now is this: link.
In 1992 they began porting their software package to run on new PowerPC designs, as well as existing 486 PCs. Plans to produce any new custom hardware were killed shortly afterward, and the company renamed itself NeXT Software, shelved the PowerPC port and introduced NextStep/486 as an operating system alternative for PC users.
This is the port that was reportedly demonstrated (presumably, somewhat modified too), to Amelio, wich basically killed the deal for Gassé.
You're opaque to facts, mpaque.
The Power macintosh 6100 was introduced in March 1994.
NeXT had ported NeXTSTEP to Power Mac hardware well before they were acquired and is what tilted the balance. That and the fact that Gassé wanted 400 million for BeOS, wich was nowhere near as complete as NeXTSTEP was at the time.
Display PDF: read up, bob: some intro info here
Display PDF is a rendering engine that displays PDF. What Quartz does is raster graphical commands (actually, the same calls that Cocoa had for Display PostScript, what was eventually dubbed CoreGraphics and then, as a whole, Quartz 2D), plus bells and whistles for OpenGL acceleration (further enhanced with Quartz Extreme) to build up these images and pass-em on to the underlying PDF rasteriser.
In Quartz Extreme, provided hardware supports it, these rastered images are sent as textures in the OpenGL video hardware for final composition on screen.
More BS:
Apple set to work porting OPENSTEP to Apple hardware, and removing licensed technologies like Display Postscript in favor of license free technologies like Quartz.
1) The port to Apple hardware was already done by NeXT before Apple acquired it. They merely completed the drivers, added AppleTalk, ADB and a couple of other software layers to complement the immediate needs.
2) in favor of free technologies like Quartz Now. They rewrote Display PostScript as Display PDF. THEN added Quartz on top, wich is something they've developed for this specific purpose. It wasn't free. They made it. And it's hosted on top of Display PDF.
3) Unlike Mac OS X Server, the Classic applications would be able to run alongside one eachother. Mac OS X Server ran Classic apps just as well, thank you.