At the golf driving range we all target the ball-retriever machines/attendants when they go to get the balls... and , hey this is Texas we are talking about!
Great. Now all we need is some decent programs to record. I don't think there has been 700 hours of quality television in the history of the medium. (called a medium because it is neither rare nor well done - ba-dum-chhh!)
IANASSE (Solar Sail Expert), but 15m sounds a little small. I mean we are talking about pushing a satellite around with *photons*. I guess the amount of energy required to move a spacecraft in orbit is miniscule. I remember reading an article about early space efforts that said something like "the smallest rocket motors are little more than cap-gun ammunition but, they are sufficient to nudge a spacecraft in orbit"
is that this situation is caused by FAX.COM breaking the law. Let me repeat that. FAX.COM is breaking the law.
The people who have been on the receiving end of this lawlessness have been given a direct route by which to punish the lawbreaker. Eminently sensible in my opinion.
To me it seems that this is the ideal application of sensible real-world law. Forbes sees it as an attack on a legitimate business. Bollocks.
the person who lead it, "Bomber" Harris should have been tried as a war criminal
Generally speaking, you only get tried for war-crimes if you are on the losing side when hostilities subside. The line between war-hero and war-criminal is just as dependent on point of view as the distinction between terrorist and freedom-fighter
We would have TCP/IP (....where the IP stands for Internet Pigeon)
Each one would be tattooed with the appropriate packet type and given a little bag to hold a punched card of data.
You would just number your pigeons, give them their cards and let them go. Routers would just be called "lofts" and the full message could be put together once all the pigeons had arrived by whatever route they felt was necessary.
Requesting a re-transmission of a dropped packet (damned rednecks and their shotguns) would be a hassle though.
By the looks of the photo the machine has a built in browser (full screen and keyboard). I think it just does the cash-to-bytes thing when you get somewhere that requires a payment.
If you pay cash for your (legitimate?) music/movie/pr0n download, does the machine have a CD/DVD burner and a disc pops out, or does it have to re-direct the download stream to an e-mail account (thereby identifying the user, damn!).
Some more details on capability would be cool. Google here I come.
I don't think he quite understood how fanatical LOTR fans can be...
The car was removed from subsequent prints.
I went to see LOTR:FOTR three times in the theater. First two showings the car was there. Third showing (with bonus LOTR:TTT trailer at the end), no car.
Some of the films you mentioned (LOTR:TTT etc) were certainly not physically filmed in H'Wood but they were made with money from Hollywood studios. Lord George of Marin is an exception in that he finances his own movies. Most other big budget productions go through at least one (if not three) Hollywood studios to get financing. In some ways this does make them Hollywood movies.
I.T. has certainly lost its glamour superstar status, but that is a different issue than what is posited by the author of the root article.
I know that my company has not stopped spending on I.T. at all. The difference is that now the spending must be accompanied by a very rigorous economics based justification. Our clients see us a provider of services and if we can show that an I.T. spend is required to meet those client requirements, then we do it.
Admittedly the practice of saying "We need cash to upgrade X because something new has come along. Just give it to us. Trust us, we know what we are doing" is finished. But our I.T. spend is still a significant portion of our expenditure because the company sees value in that investment.
It does mean that we don't always get the latest toys. But the skills of the I.T. department are certainly still seen as a key pathway to overall business success - and we like that.
The way it worked down under is that they had applicants submit a flying machine design and due to time constraints, picked the "most interesting" 40 to compete. Most interesting seemed to be a mixture of which ones would probably fly and which ones would make the best spectacle. Hence the entry which was actually a red bull sculpted from Polystyrene which spouted fire extinguiser smoke from its nostrils and butt. It just fell into the water, but because it was so cool, it won a big prize.
Unfortunately, the launch day was very windy and the launch platform was fixed so that all competitors had to take off with a stiff tailwind. As you would expect most just could not achieve the necessary launch velocity and just plunged into the water in less than 10m. Some really interesting lightweight, professional looking gliders never got to take to the air due to the tailwind blowing them over and breaking them.
The winner actually flew over 20m before his wing folded and dumped him. Apparently the world record for a flugtag is 86m. How the hell they did that I have no idea.
The rules also state that no stored mechanical energy devices are permitted (springs, air-rams, rubber bands and RATO packs are strictly verboten). You can use pulleys and gears as force multipliers but the base energy source must be human muscle.
In Auckland, the winner had an ingeniuous system of pulleys that actually got him up to a reasonable launch velocity and he did actually fly. He spent NZ$8000 on his machine (carbon fibre and mylar construction) and won $10,000 for his troubles. Big risk, big reward.
Perhaps when Rhys reaches puberty he will suddenly develop super powers which will enable him to swing from tree to tree like a gibbon. "Bubble Boy" becomes "Monkey Man".
That would be cool (as long as he only uses his powers for good)
Is there any indication of whether we po' l'il DVD region 4'ers ( Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands ) will get the same features and release date?
Quite often we get a reduced extra feature set from the goodies on the Region 1 discs.
I know everyone says, "Just buy Region 1 discs and hack your DVD player..". That's just a work-around. I would prefer a fix.
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An attendant will pick up the shot animals!!!
WTF?
Who wants that job?
At the golf driving range we all target the ball-retriever machines/attendants when they go to get the balls... and , hey this is Texas we are talking about!
Great. Now all we need is some decent programs to record. I don't think there has been 700 hours of quality television in the history of the medium. (called a medium because it is neither rare nor well done - ba-dum-chhh!)
Now if we can just get all of Al Qaeda signed up to this, we'll know where they are ( and how we can avoid them)
IANASSE (Solar Sail Expert), but 15m sounds a little small. I mean we are talking about pushing a satellite around with *photons*. I guess the amount of energy required to move a spacecraft in orbit is miniscule. I remember reading an article about early space efforts that said something like "the smallest rocket motors are little more than cap-gun ammunition but, they are sufficient to nudge a spacecraft in orbit"
I got mine on EBay. Real Cheap. The seller had listed it as ante-matter.
is that this situation is caused by FAX.COM breaking the law.
Let me repeat that.
FAX.COM is breaking the law.
The people who have been on the receiving end of this lawlessness have been given a direct route by which to punish the lawbreaker. Eminently sensible in my opinion.
To me it seems that this is the ideal application of sensible real-world law. Forbes sees it as an attack on a legitimate business. Bollocks.
Generally speaking, you only get tried for war-crimes if you are on the losing side when hostilities subside.
The line between war-hero and war-criminal is just as dependent on point of view as the distinction between terrorist and freedom-fighter
Aerial photographs of their servers being "slashbombed" and crashing in flames.
enter this design in the X-prize competition and win themselves $10 million.
I hate it when someone funnier than me has already had and exploited an idea that I thought was quite original...
{sigh} Is there really nothing new under the sun...
Pigeons is the answer.
....where the IP stands for Internet Pigeon)
We would have TCP/IP (
Each one would be tattooed with the appropriate packet type and given a little bag to hold a punched card of data.
You would just number your pigeons, give them their cards and let them go.
Routers would just be called "lofts" and the full message could be put together once all the pigeons had arrived by whatever route they felt was necessary.
Requesting a re-transmission of a dropped packet (damned rednecks and their shotguns) would be a hassle though.
By the looks of the photo the machine has a built in browser (full screen and keyboard). I think it just does the cash-to-bytes thing when you get somewhere that requires a payment.
If you pay cash for your (legitimate?) music/movie/pr0n download, does the machine have a CD/DVD burner and a disc pops out, or does it have to re-direct the download stream to an e-mail account (thereby identifying the user, damn!).
Some more details on capability would be cool. Google here I come.
Nazi's can certainly be included.
Have the Nazi forces searching for some ancient relic that will cause Hitler to rise again in the 1950's. Its up to Indy to stop them.
Weak, I know, but then I'm not really a screenwriter.
I'm just saying that Nazi's still existed after WWII. They just didn't wave the flag in public.
We're talking about CPU umph that makes even ME envious (and I had what I _believed_ was "supercomputer" access)!
So you had an Apple PowerMac G4? (Hey, no laughing!! That's what the Apple ads say!!)
Peter Jackson has admitted that it was actually a car and was left in the original print in the (vain) hope that "no-one would notice".
! !!
HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA
I don't think he quite understood how fanatical LOTR fans can be...
The car was removed from subsequent prints.
I went to see LOTR:FOTR three times in the theater. First two showings the car was there. Third showing (with bonus LOTR:TTT trailer at the end), no car.
Some of the films you mentioned (LOTR:TTT etc) were certainly not physically filmed in H'Wood but they were made with money from Hollywood studios.
Lord George of Marin is an exception in that he finances his own movies. Most other big budget productions go through at least one (if not three) Hollywood studios to get financing. In some ways this does make them Hollywood movies.
Just as long as the bionic eye doesn't make that "do-doo-do-doot" funny noise everytime you use it. That would drive me nuts.
That's chaotic, with a lambda on the order of a few days
When I first read the comment my mind processed "lambda" as "lambada".
It seemed strange to me to be measuring chaos effects in units of "The Forbidden Dance". I guess the hip-grinding IS pretty chaotic.
I.T. has certainly lost its glamour superstar status, but that is a different issue than what is posited by the author of the root article.
I know that my company has not stopped spending on I.T. at all. The difference is that now the spending must be accompanied by a very rigorous economics based justification. Our clients see us a provider of services and if we can show that an I.T. spend is required to meet those client requirements, then we do it.
Admittedly the practice of saying "We need cash to upgrade X because something new has come along. Just give it to us. Trust us, we know what we are doing" is finished. But our I.T. spend is still a significant portion of our expenditure because the company sees value in that investment.
It does mean that we don't always get the latest toys. But the skills of the I.T. department are certainly still seen as a key pathway to overall business success - and we like that.
The way it worked down under is that they had applicants submit a flying machine design and due to time constraints, picked the "most interesting" 40 to compete. Most interesting seemed to be a mixture of which ones would probably fly and which ones would make the best spectacle. Hence the entry which was actually a red bull sculpted from Polystyrene which spouted fire extinguiser smoke from its nostrils and butt. It just fell into the water, but because it was so cool, it won a big prize.
Unfortunately, the launch day was very windy and the launch platform was fixed so that all competitors had to take off with a stiff tailwind. As you would expect most just could not achieve the necessary launch velocity and just plunged into the water in less than 10m. Some really interesting lightweight, professional looking gliders never got to take to the air due to the tailwind blowing them over and breaking them.
The winner actually flew over 20m before his wing folded and dumped him. Apparently the world record for a flugtag is 86m. How the hell they did that I have no idea.
The rules also state that no stored mechanical energy devices are permitted (springs, air-rams, rubber bands and RATO packs are strictly verboten). You can use pulleys and gears as force multipliers but the base energy source must be human muscle.
In Auckland, the winner had an ingeniuous system of pulleys that actually got him up to a reasonable launch velocity and he did actually fly. He spent NZ$8000 on his machine (carbon fibre and mylar construction) and won $10,000 for his troubles. Big risk, big reward.
Cardboard, Glue and Imagination that is...
Bruce Simpson of Aardvark thinks that Freon© is an attempt to put MS in the position of being the worldwide arbiter of digital media rights.
Read about his thoughts
...the plot for the latest "Spiderman" movie.
Perhaps when Rhys reaches puberty he will suddenly develop super powers which will enable him to swing from tree to tree like a gibbon. "Bubble Boy" becomes "Monkey Man".
That would be cool (as long as he only uses his powers for good)
This news about LOTR on DVD is way, way cool.
Is there any indication of whether we po' l'il DVD region 4'ers ( Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands ) will get the same features and release date?
Quite often we get a reduced extra feature set from the goodies on the Region 1 discs.
I know everyone says, "Just buy Region 1 discs and hack your DVD player..".
That's just a work-around. I would prefer a fix.