The only reason they're "discovering" this now is because it provides a conveniant excuse should Bush decide to carpet bomb Afghanistan or Iraq into the Indian Ocean...
Reporter: Mr. President, why haven't we heard from Bin Laden or Sadam Hussein in three weeks?
I actually believe Sony did do this very same thing last year (before Nintendo did, I might add), but it seems as if (a) there weren't any takers, or (b) the project(s) are still in the works.
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Actually I would prefer X10 ads - as another/. reader pointed out, X10 ads can be turned off for 30 days at a time.
Keep in mind that the Stinger has a flight ceiling upwards of 31,000 ft (10,000 meters), and thus poses a credible threat to the bomber in question - in theory at least. Granted, aiming could prove to be difficult, and as you mentioned, that's with the latest revision of the weapons system, but comparing feet with meters gives an obviously distorted view of exactly how effective the Stinger *could* be.
"Sen. ``Fritz'' Hollings (D-S.C.) received more than $250,000 from the banking, insurance and securities industries during that same period. He was -- coincidentally? -- the only Democrat to vote for a bill that would eliminate the firewall between banks, insurance and securities companies and water down laws requiring banks to serve low-income communities."
"South Carolina Republican Party Chairman Henry McMaster says lack of disclosure laws there has allowed three big long-distance telephone companies to give stealth contributions of $50,000 each to the state's Democrats a few weeks ago to help the re-election campaign of Sen. Ernest ''Fritz'' Hollings, at Hollings' behest.
"Hollings is one politician the long-distance companies can't ignore. He is the top Democrat on the Commerce Committee, which controls telecommunications policy. The phone companies' money has helped Democrats flood the airwaves with ''issue ads'' supporting Hollings."
How coincidental... the New York Times is reporting that "studies found that basic grammatical errors in/. headlines were, on average, 40 percent more effective than the banner ad."
I agree that by all means software developers should promote ingenuity and feature advancement, even at the expense of some of the older PC setups.
That's not the issue at hand.
Myst III says ON THE BOX that it will support __________ (insert 16-bit graphics accel's, all CD-ROM drives, et cetera).
That, my friend, is an all-out lie. I will not tolerate something like that, and I know you certainly wouldn't (if in the situation) either.
While yes, there is no law requiring software engineers to produce software supporting every possible hardware platform in existence, there are laws requiring software engineers to support every hardware platform they promise to support on the box.
[IANAL, but I believe fraudlency laws govern such promises, correct?]
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The only reason they're "discovering" this now is because it provides a conveniant excuse should Bush decide to carpet bomb Afghanistan or Iraq into the Indian Ocean...
Reporter: Mr. President, why haven't we heard from Bin Laden or Sadam Hussein in three weeks?
Dubya: They were hit by a... meteor.
I actually believe Sony did do this very same thing last year (before Nintendo did, I might add), but it seems as if (a) there weren't any takers, or (b) the project(s) are still in the works.
Actually I would prefer X10 ads - as another /. reader pointed out, X10 ads can be turned off for 30 days at a time.
Keep in mind that the Stinger has a flight ceiling upwards of 31,000 ft (10,000 meters), and thus poses a credible threat to the bomber in question - in theory at least. Granted, aiming could prove to be difficult, and as you mentioned, that's with the latest revision of the weapons system, but comparing feet with meters gives an obviously distorted view of exactly how effective the Stinger *could* be.
Yep, there's a sword up for $700 right now.
I'd imagine a similar real sword would fetch less than that.
It appears that our Mr. Hollings is easily swayed by corporate soft money donations:
from http://www.ariannaonline.com/columns/files/101899. html:
"Sen. ``Fritz'' Hollings (D-S.C.) received more than $250,000 from the banking, insurance and securities industries during that same period. He was -- coincidentally? -- the only Democrat to vote for a bill that would eliminate the firewall between banks, insurance and securities companies and water down laws requiring banks to serve low-income communities."
from http://www.usatoday.com/news/index/finance/ncfin31 5.htm:
"South Carolina Republican Party Chairman Henry McMaster says lack of disclosure laws there has allowed three big long-distance telephone companies to give stealth contributions of $50,000 each to the state's Democrats a few weeks ago to help the re-election campaign of Sen. Ernest ''Fritz'' Hollings, at Hollings' behest."Hollings is one politician the long-distance companies can't ignore. He is the top Democrat on the Commerce Committee, which controls telecommunications policy. The phone companies' money has helped Democrats flood the airwaves with ''issue ads'' supporting Hollings."
Sounds like scum to me.
According to the specs:
71 mph * 5280 ft/m = 374880 fph
374880 fph / 60 m/h = 6248 feet per minute
The diameter of the rotor assembly is 5 ft, and thus the circumference is 5 * pi = 15.708 ft
Therefore 6248 fpm / 15.708 ft = 397.759 RPM
Yeah, sure is annoying.
That's not the issue at hand.
Myst III says ON THE BOX that it will support __________ (insert 16-bit graphics accel's, all CD-ROM drives, et cetera).
That, my friend, is an all-out lie. I will not tolerate something like that, and I know you certainly wouldn't (if in the situation) either.
While yes, there is no law requiring software engineers to produce software supporting every possible hardware platform in existence, there are laws requiring software engineers to support every hardware platform they promise to support on the box.
[IANAL, but I believe fraudlency laws govern such promises, correct?]