Not to start a flame war, but I think divestiture was probably a good thing. Does anyone think we would have 1Mb pipes to our homes if we still had Ma Bell?
It is interesting to see a movie that contains a leat one digital artifact in every shot or sequence simply overwhelm the awards. When will we see the effects groups have a category?
Oh yes, Bill Murray should have one for best actor. No doubt.
Apple's Official Rules for the promotion state that the, "Maximum number of valid Codes per email address/person that can be entered at the Web Site is 10 per day and 200 total throughout the Promotion Period." I wonder how these guys are going to get around that?
I love Dr. Who, but the first four minutes of episode 1, the Shambala or whatever, was really really bad. And not the good campy bad. Just not good. As in bad. Oh well, I guess it is back to my old video tapes of Dr. Who from PBS in the mid-80s. Now where is my BetaMax?
How about reducing the population? The Economist magazine had an apropo cover story a few months ago entitles, "Can the World Afford 500 Million Americans?" The article went on to explain that by 2060, the U.S. population would exceed 500 million and given current consumption trends, what that would mean for the rest of the world. Not to bash Americans, but what is the optimal population (or carrying capacity) for the Earth? A rhetorical question, sure, but one that needs more serious study than the oft neglected WHO reports.
Sometime reading Slashdot makes me feel like I am playing Alpha Centauri, but in real life. Where is my singularity drive?
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Google has added a calculator function to it's primary search page. Simply type in 4*6 or (9+13)/7 into the search box and out pops the answer. Unit conversions (i.e. "how many inches in a lightyear") are performed as well. And if that wasn't enough, simply type in "the answer to life, the universe and everything" for a calculation that takes significantly less time than seven and a half million years. A nice plug for Google's computing power being equivalent to Deep Thought of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Upper East side - no power Upper West side - power on at 6:10AM Below the park - on to 42nd street then off until you hit 14th St. Can't say about the financial district although the village is back up.
Wierd. I was going to post something similar. My sub ran out about 6 months ago and now when I skim it at Barnes and Nobel, I usually set it down after about a minute. The technical and medical articles are still good, but the cover and the filler copy tends to be a little too flashy for my taste. Maybe I am getting old....
What? 2 x 10^118 probablity of the protons matching up in a hubble space. The problem with this type of math in cosmology is no one knows where to set the baseline numbers. The fact that the COBE discovered 1/100,000 K difference in temperatures seperated across the survey accounts for theory of distribution accross our observable region only.
You might as well say that heaven exists X meters from here because of the probability that there is an equivalent 100 ly radius of space where I exist but my puppy dog is still alive and their is no war and I eat ice-cream everyday.
I think Redmond is playing the card of trying to keep non-MS approved (i.e. open source and other ISV) software off of retail shelves. However, with retail giants like Wal-Mart only concerned with cost and sales, this could prove a losing strategy....especially outside of the U.S.
The Atari version had support for four players w/paddles. That was where the fun was at, out bidding and selling your friends. Man, I still have my copy, probably the only Atari 800 game I still own apart from Zork.
Man, I remember putting a SB16 into my 486 dx2 just to play doom. Same reason I installed a NIC into it for the first time too. Head to head on a couple 486 boxen. No audigy for me, I got my $200 odd bucks saved for a 100GB drive.....
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and my brand spankin' new Powerbook. God bless Steve Jobs and his maniacal intensity ;)
Yet another IT service being outsourced overseas........
Write your congressperson and demand that SPAM jobs be kept at home!
When you compare the price of a Powerbook to a Dell, that this is a UNIX laptop.
Unless you run Linux, of course.
"Finally, the Fishkill operation is so hip that the server room runs exclusively on Linux."
I didn't think it was possible to use the words "Fishkill" and "hip" in the same sentence with a straight face.
Fallout boy meet fallout girl. God I loved that game and Wasteland too.....her photojournal is making me long for the Vault.
Not to start a flame war, but I think divestiture was probably a good thing. Does anyone think we would have 1Mb pipes to our homes if we still had Ma Bell?
It is interesting to see a movie that contains a leat one digital artifact in every shot or sequence simply overwhelm the awards. When will we see the effects groups have a category?
Oh yes, Bill Murray should have one for best actor. No doubt.
I wonder if this pushes back the PS9 to 2034. I mean, c'mon, I saw the commercials for that over a year and a half ago.
Ed. by Hartwell & Cramer. Yeah, I know it was published in 2002, but it is truly a great anthology.
Apple's Official Rules for the promotion state that the, "Maximum number of valid Codes per email address/person that can be entered at the Web Site is 10 per day and 200 total throughout the Promotion Period." I wonder how these guys are going to get around that?
but enter "linux on windows" and you receive over 9 million results. Hmmm.....
I love Dr. Who, but the first four minutes of episode 1, the Shambala or whatever, was really really bad. And not the good campy bad. Just not good. As in bad. Oh well, I guess it is back to my old video tapes of Dr. Who from PBS in the mid-80s. Now where is my BetaMax?
I remember Worms the EA game for the C-64. Apart from that, I have diarrhea.
Yuck.
How about reducing the population? The Economist magazine had an apropo cover story a few months ago entitles, "Can the World Afford 500 Million Americans?" The article went on to explain that by 2060, the U.S. population would exceed 500 million and given current consumption trends, what that would mean for the rest of the world. Not to bash Americans, but what is the optimal population (or carrying capacity) for the Earth? A rhetorical question, sure, but one that needs more serious study than the oft neglected WHO reports.
Sometime reading Slashdot makes me feel like I am playing Alpha Centauri, but in real life. Where is my singularity drive?
Google has added a calculator function to it's primary search page. Simply type in 4*6 or (9+13)/7 into the search box and out pops the answer. Unit conversions (i.e. "how many inches in a lightyear") are performed as well. And if that wasn't enough, simply type in "the answer to life, the universe and everything" for a calculation that takes significantly less time than seven and a half million years. A nice plug for Google's computing power being equivalent to Deep Thought of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Northwestern outranked U of C. Now I can sleep better at night. Ha.
OK, Manhattan
Upper East side - no power
Upper West side - power on at 6:10AM
Below the park - on to 42nd street then off until you hit 14th St.
Can't say about the financial district although the village is back up.
What a great day in the city!
Is the smallest quantized unit of space the Planck distance?
Wierd. I was going to post something similar. My sub ran out about 6 months ago and now when I skim it at Barnes and Nobel, I usually set it down after about a minute. The technical and medical articles are still good, but the cover and the filler copy tends to be a little too flashy for my taste. Maybe I am getting old....
What? 2 x 10^118 probablity of the protons matching up in a hubble space. The problem with this type of math in cosmology is no one knows where to set the baseline numbers. The fact that the COBE discovered 1/100,000 K difference in temperatures seperated across the survey accounts for theory of distribution accross our observable region only.
You might as well say that heaven exists X meters from here because of the probability that there is an equivalent 100 ly radius of space where I exist but my puppy dog is still alive and their is no war and I eat ice-cream everyday.
Man, I am going to have to sleep on this one...
It's the University of Chicago. Where the first controled fission raction took place.
Chicago University teaches business skills to high school dropouts.
I should know....
Red Hat 9.0 anyone?
OpenOffice anyone?
I think Redmond is playing the card of trying to keep non-MS approved (i.e. open source and other ISV) software off of retail shelves. However, with retail giants like Wal-Mart only concerned with cost and sales, this could prove a losing strategy....especially outside of the U.S.
My two cents.
The Atari version had support for four players w/paddles. That was where the fun was at, out bidding and selling your friends. Man, I still have my copy, probably the only Atari 800 game I still own apart from Zork.
Man, I remember putting a SB16 into my 486 dx2 just to play doom. Same reason I installed a NIC into it for the first time too. Head to head on a couple 486 boxen. No audigy for me, I got my $200 odd bucks saved for a 100GB drive.....