> PalmOne switched from using directly > addressable storage, to storage addressed in > 512 Byte blocks. This has caused many files to > swell in size - up to 500% in some cases (such > as the address book). Users, already flustered > with the small 23 MB of available memory, when > trying to sync their old data onto the new > device are discovering that their old data > does not fit on the new Treo.
If there is a galactic civilization and if it's anything like current developments on earth, you can expect ungodly numbers of regulations as some 10^^11 representatives to the Galactic Congress, all full-time, constantly sponser more and more laws.
Galactic Thomas Jefferson: Any galactic civilization with over 10 thousand billion laws makes a mockery of the rule of law.
Galactic Libertarian: And we have over 60 thousand billion laws, with over 40 thousand new ones per day. And thanks to the invention of the time machine (rolls all 3 of his eyes) the tax freedom date for this year is actually six and a half years in the future.
Anyhoo, what I want to know is how can something that small (12" diameter magnet) weigh 2 and a half tons. Even if it's a foot and a half high, it must be made of some very dense element.
Yeah, but don't let facts get in the way of a good rage-on for class warfare! Stick it to the man! Authorize me the power to beat the rich Jewish, sorry, generic businessman's head, and I'll make your life better. I promise!:rollseyes
> Yesterday, a team of Chinese explorers set > out from Fremantle, Australia to reach Dome A > and set up a robotic weather station which > will monitor the local conditions for up to > five years. The team is expected to arrive at > Dome A in early 2005."
The story continues: Their arrival in 2005 will be filmed by cameramen who will be helicoptered in the evening before.
I just wanna know if I can use the technology to increase the amount of sex in a movie...
You know, like adding back in the deleted lesbo scenes from Bound or Fatal Instinct, or the cut scene in The Haunting where Catherine Zeta Jones sucks Lili Taylor's toes?
Kirsty Alley as Saavik (especially the waist-length hair shot) is one of the two most gorgeous female moments in my mind in all of movie history. The other is Charlize Theron in certain scenes in Devil's Advocate.
So when they replace her with an underfed school ma'arm, well, they should have just had a different character instead of just a different actress.
Hmmmmm...communication satellite jamming equipment...coming online just before the election...where the president has a 50% chance of loss...move along now...nothing to see here.
One scientist first described the surface as "smooth as a young woman's ass", but had to change the description when other scientists had no referrants as to what he was talking about.
I'm just wondering why they needed that much CPU power.
A dust spec is on one frame. Therefore it's not on frames before nor after. Therefore, some mpeggish variation should detect a massive change, and erase it, filling in the middle chunk mpeggishly.
Hardly computationally intensive, compared to what one computer can do. Maybe it's needed for all the disc storage space.
I still don't know how people can seriously claim Linux wouldn't have gaping holes poked in it were it to be used by 100 million+ users, with all kinds of spyware hackers looking to profit.
I'm disturbed to admit it, but finally an issue I'm old enough to see through all the youngster memes floating around.
Star Wars was definitely PG at the time. He must be thinking of PG-13. More accurately, he may be thinking ratings in general, with meme alteration from "introduction of PG-13" to introduction of PG/ratings via sloppy word of mouth or typing.
PG-13 was introduced in response to two films: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and one one other that slips my mind at the moment.
Of course, movies like Old Yeller and Bambi arguably are so psychologically traumatic for lil' kids they should get that rating, too. I remember watching Wizard of Oz and being absolutely out of my gourd with terror if the Tin Woodsman would chop thru the door and rescue Dorothy at the time. Adults forget these experiences can be traumatic.
It's highly unlikely that 10 years after the fact, they'd be concerned about a backwards step in the ratings. To put it bluntly, he isn't concerned about this.
More likely than not, he is pushing the series slightly G-ward to attract a marginally larger audience. After all, the tail wags the dog in the movie industry. Huge films (such as the prequels, in theory) might take in 2-300 million in gross receipts. Compare this to the estimated [b]2 billion dollars[/b] of merchandising rights Lucas sold for the first prequel alone.
And who buys all those lil' dollies, sorry, action figures? Children (via parents.)
> Ant writes "Fast Company's article mentions > that networks of amateurs are displacing the > pros and spawning some of the greatest > innovations from from astronomy to computing. >... > These far-flung developments have all been > driven by Pro-Ams -- committed, networked > amateurs working to professional standards. Pro- > Am workers, their networks and movements, will > help reshape society in the next two decades."
The article continues:
"Nowhere has this amature influence been more felt than with Internet pornography.
In the late 1970's, pornography entered a dead zone with the ending of the hairy bush. For the next twenty years nothing much happened.
Then, the late 1990's witnessed the coming of vigorous Internet lesbian amateur pornography, energetic, rich, and slobbering intimacy and deep lengual probing of all orifices.
Specialty areas arose, such as Japanese lesbian tongue sucking where full-lipped Asians..."
> "...the music industry is now determined to > vent its wrath on helpless men, women and > children who can't hope to stand up to it with > its tremendous political and financial power.'"
Helpless? A handful of people lob the equivalent of a nuclear bomb at an industry trying to rightly profit from its own intellectual property?
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> PalmOne switched from using directly
> addressable storage, to storage addressed in
> 512 Byte blocks. This has caused many files to
> swell in size - up to 500% in some cases (such
> as the address book). Users, already flustered
> with the small 23 MB of available memory, when
> trying to sync their old data onto the new
> device are discovering that their old data
> does not fit on the new Treo.
"Yes, but the Treo is very neat!"
If there is a galactic civilization and if it's anything like current developments on earth, you can expect ungodly numbers of regulations as some 10^^11 representatives to the Galactic Congress, all full-time, constantly sponser more and more laws.
Galactic Thomas Jefferson: Any galactic civilization with over 10 thousand billion laws makes a mockery of the rule of law.
Galactic Libertarian: And we have over 60 thousand billion laws, with over 40 thousand new ones per day. And thanks to the invention of the time machine (rolls all 3 of his eyes) the tax freedom date for this year is actually six and a half years in the future.
Nailed a fat, ugly girl....
Zzzzzzzz
That redheadded guy from Love Potion No. 9 wailed on Sandra Bullock for a few years, then wailed on Jennifer Aniston for a few years.
What's next, the guys build their own crystal radio?
> but the thrill was not that it worked but that
> I built it. I would not have been thrilled one
> bit less if it hadn't of worked at all.
So it's...not like the other usual hobby of nerdlings?
Hehe,
Jesus
heheh some people
Anyhoo, what I want to know is how can something that small (12" diameter magnet) weigh 2 and a half tons. Even if it's a foot and a half high, it must be made of some very dense element.
Yeah, but don't let facts get in the way of a good rage-on for class warfare! Stick it to the man! Authorize me the power to beat the rich Jewish, sorry, generic businessman's head, and I'll make your life better. I promise! :rollseyes
Oh my god. All those poor people living tens of thousands of years ago, who are going to Hell because they never accepted Jesus.
> Yesterday, a team of Chinese explorers set
> out from Fremantle, Australia to reach Dome A
> and set up a robotic weather station which
> will monitor the local conditions for up to
> five years. The team is expected to arrive at
> Dome A in early 2005."
The story continues: Their arrival in 2005 will be filmed by cameramen who will be helicoptered in the evening before.
Yeah, whatever.
I just wanna know if I can use the technology to increase the amount of sex in a movie...
You know, like adding back in the deleted lesbo scenes from Bound or Fatal Instinct, or the cut scene in The Haunting where Catherine Zeta Jones sucks Lili Taylor's toes?
It's a good thing my...friend didn't have access to a wringer as a child. Something else would have been permanently bent at a right angle.
Kirsty Alley as Saavik (especially the waist-length hair shot) is one of the two most gorgeous female moments in my mind in all of movie history. The other is Charlize Theron in certain scenes in Devil's Advocate.
So when they replace her with an underfed school ma'arm, well, they should have just had a different character instead of just a different actress.
She was hideous; not much of a controversy.
Ahhh, political science.
The only science that finds it ethical to perform experiments on unwilling people.
Hmmmmm...communication satellite jamming equipment...coming online just before the election...where the president has a 50% chance of loss...move along now...nothing to see here.
One scientist first described the surface as "smooth as a young woman's ass", but had to change the description when other scientists had no referrants as to what he was talking about.
I'm just wondering why they needed that much CPU power.
A dust spec is on one frame. Therefore it's not on frames before nor after. Therefore, some mpeggish variation should detect a massive change, and erase it, filling in the middle chunk mpeggishly.
Hardly computationally intensive, compared to what one computer can do. Maybe it's needed for all the disc storage space.
No weight, technically, but his own microgravity, if it even needs the micro-, might cause problems for the onboard equipment.
> Today I can actually peruse newsgroups that
> have less than a 1% troll/spam ratio.
Not the "good" groups, if you know what I mean.
And, hanging out on Slashdot, I'm sure you do.
I still don't know how people can seriously claim Linux wouldn't have gaping holes poked in it were it to be used by 100 million+ users, with all kinds of spyware hackers looking to profit.
Morpheus: You're...living in a dreamworld.
Not to mention being able to zoom in on the wrinkles in the nipple of a girl on the beaches of Europe.
I'm disturbed to admit it, but finally an issue I'm old enough to see through all the youngster memes floating around.
Star Wars was definitely PG at the time. He must be thinking of PG-13. More accurately, he may be thinking ratings in general, with meme alteration from "introduction of PG-13" to introduction of PG/ratings via sloppy word of mouth or typing.
PG-13 was introduced in response to two films: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and one one other that slips my mind at the moment.
Of course, movies like Old Yeller and Bambi arguably are so psychologically traumatic for lil' kids they should get that rating, too. I remember watching Wizard of Oz and being absolutely out of my gourd with terror if the Tin Woodsman would chop thru the door and rescue Dorothy at the time. Adults forget these experiences can be traumatic.
It's highly unlikely that 10 years after the fact, they'd be concerned about a backwards step in the ratings. To put it bluntly, he isn't concerned about this.
More likely than not, he is pushing the series slightly G-ward to attract a marginally larger audience. After all, the tail wags the dog in the movie industry. Huge films (such as the prequels, in theory) might take in 2-300 million in gross receipts. Compare this to the estimated [b]2 billion dollars[/b] of merchandising rights Lucas sold for the first prequel alone.
And who buys all those lil' dollies, sorry, action figures? Children (via parents.)
Idiots.
:rollseyes
They will be protected by the space company which is not in the business of killing its passengers.
As if, without the government, they'll stay in business long killing 1/4 from high G and 2/4 from exploding or crashing rocket planes.
As for suing if it hits your house, well, how are you going to sue if the crashing plane hits your house?
Whaaaa? Very few planes hit houses? And those that get hit have relatives that sue?
People are suing the airlines because of the terrorist attack "got through".
It would be relevant if the Interstate Commerce Clause was intended for a purpose other than preventing states from getting in each other's way.
> Ant writes "Fast Company's article mentions
> that networks of amateurs are displacing the
> pros and spawning some of the greatest
> innovations from from astronomy to computing.
>...
> These far-flung developments have all been
> driven by Pro-Ams -- committed, networked
> amateurs working to professional standards. Pro-
> Am workers, their networks and movements, will
> help reshape society in the next two decades."
The article continues:
"Nowhere has this amature influence been more felt than with Internet pornography.
In the late 1970's, pornography entered a dead zone with the ending of the hairy bush. For the next twenty years nothing much happened.
Then, the late 1990's witnessed the coming of vigorous Internet lesbian amateur pornography, energetic, rich, and slobbering intimacy and deep lengual probing of all orifices.
Specialty areas arose, such as Japanese lesbian tongue sucking where full-lipped Asians..."
> "...the music industry is now determined to
> vent its wrath on helpless men, women and
> children who can't hope to stand up to it with
> its tremendous political and financial power.'"
Helpless? A handful of people lob the equivalent of a nuclear bomb at an industry trying to rightly profit from its own intellectual property?