That is one thing you do nt get in Trek, however Product Placement was with Bond from the beginning and it came from Fleming himself rather than the modern scriptwriters. It was he, he decided that Bond should write with a Mont Blanc pen and so on and he didn't even get money for it.
OTOH, I believe that Fleming was probably the first British author to use this device to associate the character deliberately with a certain lifestyle.
You forgot, start with a bang. Visit about seven locations and end with an even bigger bang and Bond having a quiet R & R with the romantic female lead. The Tete-a-tete may be threatened by the reintroduction of a minor villain. Oh and what about the attempts to kill Bond, not only over elaborate as you say, but the villain must explain in detail how it works (while stroking a cat). None of them realise if you capture Bond, you kill him. Immediately, poss after serving him a dry martini, stirred not shaken.
The stories were mostly tosh, Flemming's original being updated beyond recognition. However they are all good fun. Bond films do not take themselves seriously, but they still do it with style. In the old days, a lot of the stunts and effects were cutting edge and set against a great background.
How many Bond films have their been? A broad audience keeps going back. We even gladly watch them on TV and buy the Video/DVD. The Trek franchise doesn't really have that. The films aren't as much fun and the writers take themselves far to seriously, that is except the best Trek film of all, Galaxy Quest.
It seems to me that perhaps the best answer would be for the ISP to run a super-node. It sounds strange, but the decrease in off-network bandwidth could more than compensate for the cost of running the node. Use of port filters can ensure that the only supernode seen by people on that network would be that of the ISP.
I guess the ISP would then be potentially in trouble from the RIAA even if they didn't store anything themselves.
You do not have to actively support an oppressive regime but if you do not coorperate at all, you will have certain problems. The first is that you lose your livelihood, the last is that you lose your live and that of all those around you.
It is possible to do the right thing in an oppressive situation, take for example, Oskar Schindler, but it isn't easy to be a saint. If you want to leave, who is going to accept you. There are already documented accounts where political dissidents were sent back from the UK to Africa to torture.
The US brand of freedom is a wonderful thing, but perhaps it would be nice if some persons din't exploit it.
I do not feel that the US goverment is trying to achieve anything out of this other than the mid-term elections. Quietly and cynically using this to cover up the fact various characters in the current administration have been associated with some very bad practices. None of them have served in the US forces that they want to send to Iraq.
Um also those people who were killed in Afghanistan, not because they voted for or supported the regime, but because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Lets us also mourn the freedoms lost to the average law abiding citizen around the world.
Since the first 3000 died, many more have died in other places such as Afghanistan. Some no doubt deserved it, but many others were innocent civillians caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.
However I'm glad you raised the point about the freedoms that have been lost. The US has become a little more like the non-free countries it is fighting with the government exploiting the opportunity to help hide its own inadequacies.
Yes, I have. If something is important enough, you test it properly before shipping (and that testing is refelected in the price). This is why hospital patient care systems don't fail, autopilots don't fail or even for example the engine management system in my car. On a more trivial level, I have yet to see the control processor in a domestic appliance like a microwave oven have serious problems.
Perhaps it is not bug-free (it usually isn't), but it is functionally correct. In my opinion, the companies concerned should be taken to the cleaners. If they won the contract by underbidding (or corruption - but that is another matter), they are still responsible for ensuring that the s/w is tested.
The point of OS is at least other people have a chance to audit the things (I guess the political parties would be interested).
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In the last 100 years no country has successfully invaded another. The world just doesn't take to kindly to that. There is a few possible exceptions (china and tibet),
I'm glad you remembered Tibet (it is afterall China we are talking about). If one means invasions sucessfully repulsed, there were not a lot of those. However, in a lot of places one nation was able to hold on to another from a few years (name any of the countries invaded by the Germans in WW2) to about 50 years for the DDR and even more for the countries comprising Soviet Russia. For example, some of the Central Asian countries were not associated with Russia until about 80 years ago.
In any case the PRC sees the ROC as part of China. They do not perceive it as another country, just a last bastion of power held by a regime chased out of the rest of the country. If they start to accept it as a separate country then there is a chance for long term peace.
To be serious Taiwan and China enjoy a very profitable business partnership and there are many in China who know this. However there are still a few hawks around (especially in the military) who perceive otherwise. Let us wait for the next People's Congress to see who gets in.
No, Clancy's post cold-war novels are now classified as they are used as briefing documents since his cooption by the Department of Homeland Insecurity.
Keep in mind, this is the state that introduced the revolutionary concept of Sunday trading only 5 weeks or so ago.
I was kind of surpised about this when I as last in Oz. Howver, I currently live in Germany and apart from a few bakers and florists there is very little open here on a Sunday.
Back to the film/tv series thing, I really don't understand why the write-offs are not permitted. You normally tax income rther than what was essentially a cost. Perhaps the state wasn't seeing enough of the post-production income before it was sent off-shore?
Actually, Enterprise is the methadone, it helps to eke things out till the real hard stuff becomes available again. I was pleasently suprised with Enterprise, if they weren't going to make a series out of Galaxy Quest, Enterprise was ok for trek. However, that only marked time until the next series of Farscape.
Um, why do they want to 'straighten the cash breaks'. Queensalnd has been a gold mine for the production companies and, most importantly everyone one that brings back money into the economy. To lose Farscape is a misfortune, but to lose all the other shows seems more than a little careless.
It may seem odd nominating these guys but their pronouncements and actions running Microsoft have probably done more to worry people enough to start running Open Source software. It isn't like other closed source companies are doing the same thing, but should they get to a dominant position, they too have the same powers to abuse their customers.
Seriously though, my vote would go to the Peruvian guy for writing such an eloquent argument!!
I would second that. I have Calc98 on my IPAQ and it works fine. It does do shift in programmer mode. It also has a timer/time calculator mode as well as finance and statistics modes. It also has matrix support. It isn't Open Source but it is freeware. The only thing that it isn't is programmable. Sometimes, it is useful to have a programmable programmer's calc, but usually it isn't a problem.
The only killer with using a PDA as a calculator is the appalling battery-life, This seems to have done a dive since the days of the Psion. I also have an HP 16C running off three button cells that lasts a couple of years (even with intensive use).
Awesome. I am really impressed with the image. Now I want to see a visual representation of M$Windows.
You mean you actually want to see the infamous goatse.cx troll? Actually, I believe that the kernel is probably quite clean, but as for the GUI, that would probably be about as tangled web of spaghetti code around.
In many countries, any publication must carry a contact address for the owner. This is done for a reason because amongst other things, if you want to say things about somebody that are untrue, they can take action against you (note this is civil rather than criminal so the police are not involved).
If you have a web page that does not demand a password, then it is publication. You are the publisher not the ISP. If it is 'just private stuff' then sorry, your contact details must be registered. I would however grant you as a private citizen operating a non-commercial site the ability to hide your telephone number but not your name and address.
They used to be a lot more expensive, at leats around the time of VMS V6.0 when I last had access to them. The listings were incredibly useful and with a little massaging, you could get source code. We couldn't use this in production, but we certainly could make some experiments during development.
The real joke was if the collar wasn't used properly when drilling the tap. In theory, the Vampire just touched the central conductor. Sometimes it went through it, bridging the gap so it appeared to be ok. That was, until you decided to move the tranceiver somewhere else. Your cable went open circuit and no proper LAN anymore.
What got a lot of people about the Harry Potter series is that they appealed on an almost unique level to children. It had children actually wanting to read rather than play video games or whatever. Everyone who likes books, looks with alarm at falling literacy rates. The author, J.K. Rowling, did everyone a service by making reading enjoyable for so many kids.
This is special that it goes beyond the myriads of children's book awards that she had already one and why she also wins in adult categories.
The Christian Science Monitor may be from a bunch a religious zealots originally, but it is one of the better newspapers these days, trying to be very even handed with the editorial.
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OTOH, I believe that Fleming was probably the first British author to use this device to associate the character deliberately with a certain lifestyle.
The stories were mostly tosh, Flemming's original being updated beyond recognition. However they are all good fun. Bond films do not take themselves seriously, but they still do it with style. In the old days, a lot of the stunts and effects were cutting edge and set against a great background.
How many Bond films have their been? A broad audience keeps going back. We even gladly watch them on TV and buy the Video/DVD. The Trek franchise doesn't really have that. The films aren't as much fun and the writers take themselves far to seriously, that is except the best Trek film of all, Galaxy Quest.
I guess the ISP would then be potentially in trouble from the RIAA even if they didn't store anything themselves.
It is possible to do the right thing in an oppressive situation, take for example, Oskar Schindler, but it isn't easy to be a saint. If you want to leave, who is going to accept you. There are already documented accounts where political dissidents were sent back from the UK to Africa to torture.
The US brand of freedom is a wonderful thing, but perhaps it would be nice if some persons din't exploit it.
Did he ver, ever fight in a war? The National Guard, sorry doesn't count unless he was helping fire fighters.
Forget the spelling, your point is well made!!!!
I do not feel that the US goverment is trying to achieve anything out of this other than the mid-term elections. Quietly and cynically using this to cover up the fact various characters in the current administration have been associated with some very bad practices. None of them have served in the US forces that they want to send to Iraq.
Lets us also mourn the freedoms lost to the average law abiding citizen around the world.
However I'm glad you raised the point about the freedoms that have been lost. The US has become a little more like the non-free countries it is fighting with the government exploiting the opportunity to help hide its own inadequacies.
Perhaps it is not bug-free (it usually isn't), but it is functionally correct. In my opinion, the companies concerned should be taken to the cleaners. If they won the contract by underbidding (or corruption - but that is another matter), they are still responsible for ensuring that the s/w is tested.
The point of OS is at least other people have a chance to audit the things (I guess the political parties would be interested).
I'm glad you remembered Tibet (it is afterall China we are talking about). If one means invasions sucessfully repulsed, there were not a lot of those. However, in a lot of places one nation was able to hold on to another from a few years (name any of the countries invaded by the Germans in WW2) to about 50 years for the DDR and even more for the countries comprising Soviet Russia. For example, some of the Central Asian countries were not associated with Russia until about 80 years ago.
In any case the PRC sees the ROC as part of China. They do not perceive it as another country, just a last bastion of power held by a regime chased out of the rest of the country. If they start to accept it as a separate country then there is a chance for long term peace.
To be serious Taiwan and China enjoy a very profitable business partnership and there are many in China who know this. However there are still a few hawks around (especially in the military) who perceive otherwise. Let us wait for the next People's Congress to see who gets in.
No, Clancy's post cold-war novels are now classified as they are used as briefing documents since his cooption by the Department of Homeland Insecurity.
I was kind of surpised about this when I as last in Oz. Howver, I currently live in Germany and apart from a few bakers and florists there is very little open here on a Sunday.
Back to the film/tv series thing, I really don't understand why the write-offs are not permitted. You normally tax income rther than what was essentially a cost. Perhaps the state wasn't seeing enough of the post-production income before it was sent off-shore?
Actually, Enterprise is the methadone, it helps to eke things out till the real hard stuff becomes available again. I was pleasently suprised with Enterprise, if they weren't going to make a series out of Galaxy Quest, Enterprise was ok for trek. However, that only marked time until the next series of Farscape.
Um, why do they want to 'straighten the cash breaks'. Queensalnd has been a gold mine for the production companies and, most importantly everyone one that brings back money into the economy. To lose Farscape is a misfortune, but to lose all the other shows seems more than a little careless.
Ok, just make sure someone sticks it up on a fileshare service. Uncut.
Seriously though, my vote would go to the Peruvian guy for writing such an eloquent argument!!
The only killer with using a PDA as a calculator is the appalling battery-life, This seems to have done a dive since the days of the Psion. I also have an HP 16C running off three button cells that lasts a couple of years (even with intensive use).
You mean you actually want to see the infamous goatse.cx troll? Actually, I believe that the kernel is probably quite clean, but as for the GUI, that would probably be about as tangled web of spaghetti code around.
If you have a web page that does not demand a password, then it is publication. You are the publisher not the ISP. If it is 'just private stuff' then sorry, your contact details must be registered. I would however grant you as a private citizen operating a non-commercial site the ability to hide your telephone number but not your name and address.
Seriously, everyone is going to have a boatload of these things on their shelves, unless some poor geeks can be persuaded to load them with Linux.
They used to be a lot more expensive, at leats around the time of VMS V6.0 when I last had access to them. The listings were incredibly useful and with a little massaging, you could get source code. We couldn't use this in production, but we certainly could make some experiments during development.
The real joke was if the collar wasn't used properly when drilling the tap. In theory, the Vampire just touched the central conductor. Sometimes it went through it, bridging the gap so it appeared to be ok. That was, until you decided to move the tranceiver somewhere else. Your cable went open circuit and no proper LAN anymore.
This is special that it goes beyond the myriads of children's book awards that she had already one and why she also wins in adult categories.
The Christian Science Monitor may be from a bunch a religious zealots originally, but it is one of the better newspapers these days, trying to be very even handed with the editorial.