Personally, I'm still waiting on finding out why the GITS:TV Kusanagi insists on wearing that stupid one-piece all the time. Everyone else seems to just wear fairly normal clothing; why she dresses so bizarrely, I haven't a clue.
A friend of mine commented that if he worked for Section 9, he wouldn't get anything DONE with Maj. Kusanagi walking around in that thing all the time. That may be part of it.
Maybe she's an exhibitionist or something. I mean, she's a full-body-replacement cyborg who apparently was designed for maximum eye candy factor, and she wants to show it off. We don't get a lot of insight into her (unlike some of the others - like Batou in the 'Jungle Cruise' ep).
If they didn't, I wouldn't have had to file claims for lost packages three times in 2002.
However, your metaphor still works! Because, after all, while the package got lost, I still got something from UPS. (Admittedly, they didn't want to give me the checks, but no one can be happy all the time.)
This made the front page because a company, arguably the largest US end-user Internet Service Provider, is using their software to do it without telling anyone. Some people see this as an analogue to the kind of hacking that people get arrested and sued for.
That's all this is now. Netscape as we knew it is dead.
(I remember supporting 1.1 and 1.2, and the training to support 2.0, with these new advances, Java and Javascript... all those things are lost, like tears in the rain.)
...the original decision would have allowed the equivalent of a Clear Channel situation nationwide for television and newspapers, as well as outright crosspollination between the two. Which could mean you'd get the Fox News Washington Post and the CNNew York Times, and lead to an even greater polarization in news reporting between the moderates and the right. (There's no real 'liberal press' anymore.)
There's no real impetus to create that broad spectrum of events - the general intent seems to be to create a single nationally-acceptable product and show it everywhere, in order to sell more ad time and make money.
The only place we're really getting any 'diversity' is in the pay channels, which aren't dependent on commercials and therefore can take chances. So if they want to make something different like 'Queer as Folk', or 'The Sopranos', or 'Dead Like Me', they can, and if people watch it, it was a good experiment.
The more diversity in channels, the better it is. If you have three news channels like CNN, Fox and MSNBC, you have three different points of view, and therefore possibly a better chance of getting an idea about what's REALLY going on.
Actually, back in the beginning, in addition to making the Apple I, he also gave away the schematics for it, as well as a lot of the OS code.
I still have my Apple ][+ manual, and it has the completely schematics for the computer in the manual, and the code for the Apple OS. The Disk ][ manual also came with schematics and code.
They wanted people to love their computers inside and out. I think they succeeded. I still have my ][+ and pull it out every so often to play some of the games on it. After a horrible smackdown in NeverWinter Nights, nothing is as much fun as pulling out Wizardry (the very original) and taking down the Wizard in grand style.
K-Y Jelly or Vaseline for your ass and all the things we're going to stick up there if you want to buy anything from us. Bend Over and Grease Up, and get ready to squeal like Ned Beatty!
AT least, it claims it will work with the Nomad Jukebox 3.
It did put a popup up that it wouldn't work unless you had WMP9, and I was wondering if, since the machine I'm currently on doesn't, it would refuse to load at all.
It's slow as all hell, though, right now. and I'm not sure I like the way they broke up the selections, but still... It'll be interesting to see how this does, since it seems to be set up as a competitor to iMusic.
It is almost like somebody saying - I wanted to study cartography because I already know something about cars.
Bloody hell. That's the most perfect metaphor I've ever heard for it. Brilliant!
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The current W3C approved release of it is, I believe, currently referred to as ECMAScript, in an attempt to separate the two. (The ECMA is a European governing body on standards, and I do not recall what it stands for at this time).
I wouldn't mind seeing them separated like that - it would make more sense and minimize confusion, as well as the interleaving of books in bookstores. "Java... Javascript... hell, they must be the same thing!"
There's a Toshiba that runs with that resolution, too.
The things that Toshiba had that made me pick them when I got my laptop seem to be going away: the slot that you can put a SmartMedia card into and use as the D: drive (it's just SD Media now); the entirely-too-neat-as-far-as-I'm-concerned cPad (touchpad with a LCD under it that allows it to serve multiple functions).
On the other hand, if you DO get a Toshiba, I will recommend you get the 3-year Depot Express Systemguard warrantee. My laptop had a Suiciding Fujistu HD in it, and it died very suddenly two weeks before Christmas. I had that particular warrantee, and they sent me a shipping box for my laptop, picked it up, replaced the HD (and put in a note that one of the speaker wires was loose, so they fixed that, too), and sent it back to me. I got it back a week after receiving the box.
But back to original point: Toshiba does have a UXGA LCD laptop (more than one - mine was the first gen, the 5105-S607), and I can only think that the reason they didn't go for a huge pixel count on this one was the price.
I have a Toshiba Satellite 5105-S607, and it's got a 15" screen that can do 1600x1200. This 17" does 1400x900? Strikes me as very odd that it's got a LOWER resolution, unless they're using a lowered-bitprint LCD to keep costs down. It would be interesting to see if they go to a higher resolution screen in a few months with a higher price.
I also miss the cPad that my S607 has - the touchpad has a small LCD under it that can be used for things like changing the logo under it, as well as used as a keypad, a calculator, a signature capture device and (with a download) a theramin simulator. It's sufficiently odd as to be very amusing, and can be very useful in some situations.
Except, of course, that for free you could get on the developer's list and get what you needed to develop your own Springboard devices, and the fact that Handspring was willing to help with promoting your stuff and giving technical assistance....
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No, it wasn't a Palm spin-off. It was two of the founders of Palm, who got shuffled out after Palm was bought by 3Com, starting their own company.
I'm going to miss Handspring - I still have and use my Visor Deluxe daily, although the screen's starting to go and it'll have to be replaced soon. I refuse, however, to give in to farting around with those damn thumboards on the Treos. Looks like it may be a Sony for me, or just go PocketPC.
Just to follow up, the creator of Lupin III, who uses the name 'Monkey Punch', did once note that Fujiko was named after Fujiyama (better known to us foreign devils as Mount Fuji), the largest peak in Japan. Because, well, she had... large peaks herself.
Listen, the only way in hell that you'll get a piece of spam mail is if you register or use your email address at pornography sites.
Considering that I've gotten spam in an email account mere hours after posting something in Usenet with it, I think you're wrong.
And the time in IRC when a bot bounced in then out of the channel, and I started getting spam to an account.
(Full Disclosure: this was my old Hotmail account, which amused me, as it showed me both the speed some of these lusers harvest addresses and the sheer lack of spam protection at Hotmail.)
Well, he was libeled by the press, abused by the federal justice system, and used as one of the reasons for a number of draconic laws against cracking being passed.
Basically, he's the poster child for a techie getting sodomized, as well as the It Can Happen To You example.
I'd consider Transformers anime at this point. 'Robots in Disguise' was shown in Japan as 'Car Robots'; there were more episodes shown in Japan than in the US; the Transformers STARTED in Japan, for heaven's sake, as a way for Takara to get rid of a toy line that went pfui for a foreign company that died before delivery.
So yes, Transformers is Anime. I'd love to see them bring over stuff like the Headmasters and Targetmasters series at some point.
When that comes up, expand 'Services and Applications', and click on Services.
Scroll down to find "Messenger". Right-click and go to Properties. Set 'Startup Type' to 'Disabled'. Hit 'STop' to stop the service. Click OK. Close Computer Management.
Done. You're now clear.
(Many people won't need this. But I'm sure at least one person will.)
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Personally, I'm still waiting on finding out why the GITS:TV Kusanagi insists on wearing that stupid one-piece all the time. Everyone else seems to just wear fairly normal clothing; why she dresses so bizarrely, I haven't a clue.
A friend of mine commented that if he worked for Section 9, he wouldn't get anything DONE with Maj. Kusanagi walking around in that thing all the time. That may be part of it.
Maybe she's an exhibitionist or something. I mean, she's a full-body-replacement cyborg who apparently was designed for maximum eye candy factor, and she wants to show it off. We don't get a lot of insight into her (unlike some of the others - like Batou in the 'Jungle Cruise' ep).
Well, in the first episode, Maj. Kusanagi blows a guy's foot off, but that's about a 2-second cut.
Most of the stuff you see in GitS:SAC will, I thing, be pretty much easy for them to cut.
(And I want the shiny DVDs!)
UPS already randomly throws things into the void.
If they didn't, I wouldn't have had to file claims for lost packages three times in 2002.
However, your metaphor still works! Because, after all, while the package got lost, I still got something from UPS. (Admittedly, they didn't want to give me the checks, but no one can be happy all the time.)
Those people that go to the bathroom and want to pause it are violating the MPAA's IP rights!
Technically, I thin we could argue that the MPAA is intruding on YOUR pee rights with that.
This made the front page because a company, arguably the largest US end-user Internet Service Provider, is using their software to do it without telling anyone. Some people see this as an analogue to the kind of hacking that people get arrested and sued for.
pimp:whore.
That's all this is now. Netscape as we knew it is dead.
(I remember supporting 1.1 and 1.2, and the training to support 2.0, with these new advances, Java and Javascript... all those things are lost, like tears in the rain.)
...the original decision would have allowed the equivalent of a Clear Channel situation nationwide for television and newspapers, as well as outright crosspollination between the two. Which could mean you'd get the Fox News Washington Post and the CNNew York Times, and lead to an even greater polarization in news reporting between the moderates and the right. (There's no real 'liberal press' anymore.)
There's no real impetus to create that broad spectrum of events - the general intent seems to be to create a single nationally-acceptable product and show it everywhere, in order to sell more ad time and make money.
The only place we're really getting any 'diversity' is in the pay channels, which aren't dependent on commercials and therefore can take chances. So if they want to make something different like 'Queer as Folk', or 'The Sopranos', or 'Dead Like Me', they can, and if people watch it, it was a good experiment.
The more diversity in channels, the better it is. If you have three news channels like CNN, Fox and MSNBC, you have three different points of view, and therefore possibly a better chance of getting an idea about what's REALLY going on.
Get a little compassion for your fellow geeks, pal. . .
Compassion isn't a 'Family Value'.
Actually, back in the beginning, in addition to making the Apple I, he also gave away the schematics for it, as well as a lot of the OS code.
I still have my Apple ][+ manual, and it has the completely schematics for the computer in the manual, and the code for the Apple OS. The Disk ][ manual also came with schematics and code.
They wanted people to love their computers inside and out. I think they succeeded. I still have my ][+ and pull it out every so often to play some of the games on it. After a horrible smackdown in NeverWinter Nights, nothing is as much fun as pulling out Wizardry (the very original) and taking down the Wizard in grand style.
AT least, it claims it will work with the Nomad Jukebox 3.
It did put a popup up that it wouldn't work unless you had WMP9, and I was wondering if, since the machine I'm currently on doesn't, it would refuse to load at all.
It's slow as all hell, though, right now. and I'm not sure I like the way they broke up the selections, but still... It'll be interesting to see how this does, since it seems to be set up as a competitor to iMusic.
It is almost like somebody saying - I wanted to study cartography because I already know something about cars.
Bloody hell. That's the most perfect metaphor I've ever heard for it. Brilliant!
The current W3C approved release of it is, I believe, currently referred to as ECMAScript, in an attempt to separate the two. (The ECMA is a European governing body on standards, and I do not recall what it stands for at this time).
I wouldn't mind seeing them separated like that - it would make more sense and minimize confusion, as well as the interleaving of books in bookstores. "Java... Javascript... hell, they must be the same thing!"
There's a Toshiba that runs with that resolution, too.
The things that Toshiba had that made me pick them when I got my laptop seem to be going away: the slot that you can put a SmartMedia card into and use as the D: drive (it's just SD Media now); the entirely-too-neat-as-far-as-I'm-concerned cPad (touchpad with a LCD under it that allows it to serve multiple functions).
On the other hand, if you DO get a Toshiba, I will recommend you get the 3-year Depot Express Systemguard warrantee. My laptop had a Suiciding Fujistu HD in it, and it died very suddenly two weeks before Christmas. I had that particular warrantee, and they sent me a shipping box for my laptop, picked it up, replaced the HD (and put in a note that one of the speaker wires was loose, so they fixed that, too), and sent it back to me. I got it back a week after receiving the box.
But back to original point: Toshiba does have a UXGA LCD laptop (more than one - mine was the first gen, the 5105-S607), and I can only think that the reason they didn't go for a huge pixel count on this one was the price.
I have a Toshiba Satellite 5105-S607, and it's got a 15" screen that can do 1600x1200. This 17" does 1400x900? Strikes me as very odd that it's got a LOWER resolution, unless they're using a lowered-bitprint LCD to keep costs down. It would be interesting to see if they go to a higher resolution screen in a few months with a higher price.
I also miss the cPad that my S607 has - the touchpad has a small LCD under it that can be used for things like changing the logo under it, as well as used as a keypad, a calculator, a signature capture device and (with a download) a theramin simulator. It's sufficiently odd as to be very amusing, and can be very useful in some situations.
Except, of course, that for free you could get on the developer's list and get what you needed to develop your own Springboard devices, and the fact that Handspring was willing to help with promoting your stuff and giving technical assistance....
No, it wasn't a Palm spin-off. It was two of the founders of Palm, who got shuffled out after Palm was bought by 3Com, starting their own company.
I'm going to miss Handspring - I still have and use my Visor Deluxe daily, although the screen's starting to go and it'll have to be replaced soon. I refuse, however, to give in to farting around with those damn thumboards on the Treos. Looks like it may be a Sony for me, or just go PocketPC.
and kick them in the heads a lot, until they actually WAKE THE HELL UP and stop thinking it's funny to post the same thing four times?
And then kick them more.
Just to follow up, the creator of Lupin III, who uses the name 'Monkey Punch', did once note that Fujiko was named after Fujiyama (better known to us foreign devils as Mount Fuji), the largest peak in Japan. Because, well, she had... large peaks herself.
This has been your totally useless trivia moment.
Listen, the only way in hell that you'll get a piece of spam mail is if you register or use your email address at pornography sites.
Considering that I've gotten spam in an email account mere hours after posting something in Usenet with it, I think you're wrong.
And the time in IRC when a bot bounced in then out of the channel, and I started getting spam to an account.
(Full Disclosure: this was my old Hotmail account, which amused me, as it showed me both the speed some of these lusers harvest addresses and the sheer lack of spam protection at Hotmail.)
It would be, but CowbowNeal's out of town tomorrow, so he posted it early.
Well, he was libeled by the press, abused by the federal justice system, and used as one of the reasons for a number of draconic laws against cracking being passed.
Basically, he's the poster child for a techie getting sodomized, as well as the It Can Happen To You example.
...last night on the way home.
BIG poster in the NYC subway advertising Futurama.
You don't spring for that kind of ad unless yes, they are going to be showing it.
I'd consider Transformers anime at this point. 'Robots in Disguise' was shown in Japan as 'Car Robots'; there were more episodes shown in Japan than in the US; the Transformers STARTED in Japan, for heaven's sake, as a way for Takara to get rid of a toy line that went pfui for a foreign company that died before delivery.
So yes, Transformers is Anime. I'd love to see them bring over stuff like the Headmasters and Targetmasters series at some point.
Start -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management
When that comes up, expand 'Services and Applications', and click on Services.
Scroll down to find "Messenger". Right-click and go to Properties. Set 'Startup Type' to 'Disabled'. Hit 'STop' to stop the service. Click OK. Close Computer Management.
Done. You're now clear.
(Many people won't need this. But I'm sure at least one person will.)