Its a L-o-n-g read through the document at MS or...
Well, in five years time YOU will either be using x86, LOCKED into MS and.NET, with MS in control of your Data or..... You MAY have made the shift to PPC with the OS ( or OSs ) of your personal choise.
It is really up to YOU; being a drone or a free person! .
(from The Courier-Mail, Brisbane newspaper 1/04/03)
"MINI introduces VPL Introducing a revolutionary new technology from MINI.
The world's first Vertical Parking Locator (VPL). With VPL the MINI will be the first car in the world to be able to be parked vertically.
This technological breakthrough is the result of nine years of extensive research.
The technology works with the existing traction control (ASC+T), which electronically controls wheel spin under acceleration. VPL provides an extra sensory element which enables the tyres and wheels to literally cling to the side of designated buildings.
The Park Distance Control (PDC), a sonar device which allows the driver to know how far they are from other objects when they are parking, will be as effective whether the car is parked vertically or horizontally. Altitude will in no way inhibit the accuracy of the device.
MINI is working in conjunction with local councils and architectural heritage trusts to lease the sides of buildings for exclusive parking.
The new parking spaces will be electronically linked to the MINI satellite navigation system (GPS). Which, along with navigating drivers throughout the country and metropolitan areas will also be able to find these execlusive parks.
More specific information about VPL is available from Dr. Uve Beenhad at MINI Australia. Please note that the purchase of VPL is only available on April 1. So hurry to your nearist MINI Garage, you'd be a fool to miss out."
"like the workstation crowd was laughing at you during the 80's, and the rest of the industry laughed at you in the 90's and 00's. So the Amiga had a cool gfx card once..."
No - mostly they just slunk away, when they realised that they couldn't come close... for ten times the money!
For your info, the standard Amiga had up to 12Bit colour without a GFX card. DMA, with its OWN RAM for Sound, Vision and THE FLOPPY DRIVE CONTROL, was standard. Multitasking in 256k. Autoconfigure- TEN YEARS before Plug-n-Play!
According to your specs; Commodore was on the right track, over 12 years ago, with their CDTV!
Designed to look somewhat similar to a VCR- IR Controller- Ugradeable with Micro IR Keyboard and Hard Drive........ It was initally positioned AWAY from computers in retail stores, but failed because:- It was poorly marketed. It was priced too high. There was a lack of *Quality* Software, and.... The general public didn't know WHAT it was! .
On the top shelf of my book and software case are:
Commodore 128 Reference Guide for Programmers Amiga Basic (from *icrosoft) The Official Book for the Commodore 128 Personal Computer COMPUTE'S 128 Programmer's Guide Commodore 128 System Guide
and there are numerous C64 books around, incl a C64 Programmer's Manual somewhere. .
The heavy cratering on Mars (and elsewhere in our Solar System) and its change of Rotational Speed can be explained by the bombardment after planet Five went to pieces! Planet Five may, in fact, have been smaller in mass than Mars.
-- Everyone knows that Death Stars were the biggest destroyers of planets, UNTIL the crew of the 'Dark Star' set off on their twenty-year mission of unstable planet destruction.------
CORRECTED VERSION of MARS' HISTORY:
Does anyone recall the fact that the mass of Phobos is TOO low for it to be a solid body?
Now think, if Long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away the Empire built a THIRD Death-star but had to hide it because Luke and Hans kept blowing those things up......... then, when they thought it was safe to use it - no one remembered where they put it?!
and of course, the skeleton crew manning it HAD to try out the BIG Weapon so they took a shot at the Fifth Planet - BAMM! Blown to asteroids, making the inhabitants of FOURTH Planet (where they had parked it in orbit ) extremely edgey!
(They had to run around for a time avoiding a fantastic large-scale meteor bombardment which caused a great deal of damage!)
"I hear a great tremour in the Force - as of a million voices crying out in fear and then, suddenly, nothing at all!"
"You're imagining things Luke!"
"Perhaps I am - it seems so far, far away - it would have to be in another galaxy infact."
So, the inhabitants of the FOURTH Planet transmitted an ultimatum to the crew of the orbitting THIRD Death-star - that they would have to allow an inspection of ALL Weapons-of-mass-destruction.... in particular, a Planet-destroying Death Ray!
"Or what?" asked the Death-star Crew.
"Or we'll strike your space-station with our Barsoom V3 Super-gun!" they answered!
So, what do YOU think happened millions of years ago?
They had a VERY BIG gun battle between the Planet-destroying Death Ray and the Barsoom V3 Super-gun.........
So what happened?
Well, it was an atmosphere blown off that planet and big pieces blown out of the Death-star......... everyone suffocated on that planet, and the skeleton crew manning the THIRD Death-star suffered terminal decompression! .
I recall that some members of the audience choffed during the chase scene as dust seemed to float over their heads.
ALL 3D movies seemed to delight in shooting (guns, arrows, flames) straight at the audience!
A TV Station in Brisbane, Australia had a 3D screening session some 15 (or more) years back and broadcast "Fort Ti(?)" & the Three Stooges one. I taped the broadcast and I was able to view the cassette with Red-Green specs. Trouble is - the cassette is Betamax!!! .
How about sending a goodly group of Very Talented/.'ers, with supplies, tools and a couple of mini-reactors, to Phobos?
They could find out for certain if it really is 'the lost third Deathstar'. Then, its only a short matter of time for them to get its 'planet-buster Ion cannon' up and running....... target that rogue asteroid and blow it to dust particles!
NOW, THAT would be more convincing than two titanium plated space shuttles carrying hard-core oil drillers! .
I only have TWO Pages of my Irregular Illustrated Story on my page: Avatar Wars, which is a story of TEXT and IMAGES that basically takes all that to lead up to the final panel gag.
Its based on a period when several Posters to the Forum at Amiga.org were producing modified versions of certain Poster's Avatar Images! There are some bits (I hope funny) in the text that likely don't connect with folk unfamilar with the Amiga Platform.
Someday I MAY continue this 'Computer-generated' Story. .
at home! I've used Win at Tec College, Employment Service, and at my Brother-in-Law's.
At home I've used Amiga (WB/OS) since 1988. 3 months back I was given a AMD k5 by my Brother-in-Law and installed Storm on it. But there was nothing to hold my attention there.
Wow! You've already figured what Bin Laden's death-squads have planned for 2004 - everyone be on the look-out for frentic silent men of arabic appearance wanting astronaut training without the landing lessons! .
Granted that you answered a valid question (ie. on "what you would think about "terrorist websites"); didn't you pause to consider that the WHOLE original article was, to use your words, "a red herring"?
Australian politicians tend to bluster on some issues without understanding the whole story, particulary involving technology. I've read other 'anti-Aussie' lead stories on SlashDot, and (say, mainly) US comments taking it VERY SERIOUSLY.
For instance, in the/. header where the Author compared Australia to China! Any US citizens who think that Australia is even remotely similar to China??? They should ask one of their relatives who were stationed here in the War...................As I stated in a different post (pointing out a big difference between China and Australia) in China the military drove a tank over a citizen, while in Australia a citizen can pay to drive a tank! .
The answer to "not very smart, are you" (if that's a question) is Smart enough to be aware that I was neither writing in favour of Web-censorship, nor of being against Web-censorship.
If you re-read my post, you should see that NOT ONCE did I: Attack your level of intelligence (and consequentially I wonder why you attack mine). Declare a preference 'for/or against' Web-censorship.
I ONLY wondered why no one mentioned the topic included in the Original Story of False Slander on a Website that caused great harm to two fine teachers, and their careers.
In conclusion, (since I don't usually 'read' other than what is written into meanings) I'd have to answer: "Smart enough"! - Please do not assume as to 'where I stand'! .
In China the military might drive a tank over a citizen. In Australia, a citizen can drive a tank for fun. "Macho Madness!
Are you looking for a corporate event with a difference that would appeal to your clients or top achievers? Then let us organise a day of serious fun combining rally driving on a forest stage, riding and driving a 56 Tonne Centurian Tank..." .
In the '70s, the Qld state parliament was basically under the dictatorial control of one man; the state Premier Jo Bejelkie-Petersen. Well, he had got upset by what happened in protest marches, so he had legislation passed requiring the organizer's of a planned march to apply for a police permit.
Are you seeing where THIS led? What usually happened was that NO police permits were issued.
The ULTIMATE protest to this state of affairs was that a lone farmer announced to the press that he would be marching, accompanied by his dog, at midnight, down an isolated dirt road. So, he marched with his dog - watched by a couple of TV News Cameras and..... a full squad of Qld police.
to digest the part about a Website that falsely slandered two high school teachers, and 100ed of emails that pointed parents to it?
What would you think of websites used to plan Terriorist Attacks, or airliner hijackingings?
I was amused by the Story-Post author trying to compare Australia to China. In China the military might drive a tank over a citizen. In Australia, a citizen can drive a tank. "Macho Madness!
Are you looking for a corporate event with a difference that would appeal to your clients or top achievers? Then let us organise a day of serious fun combining rally driving on a forest stage, riding and driving a 56 Tonne Centurian Tank..." .
Actually, I have a hard time believing that the USA really exists!
I ask you; a (?)civilized(?) nation of over 200 million that allows ANY kook to own a handgun?
Where I live we have Road-rage, School-rage, and Employment-rage but serious disputes might lead to fist-fights, NOT the other person being blown away.
(Any fool knows that, in a MORE civilized age, the LIGHT-SABRE is a MORE elegant weapon) .
Slashdot Mirror
Its a L-o-n-g read through the document at ...
.NET, with MS in control of your Data or .....
MS or
Well, in five years time YOU will either be using x86, LOCKED into MS and
You MAY have made the shift to PPC with the OS ( or OSs ) of your personal choise.
It is really up to YOU; being a drone or a free person!
.
(from The Courier-Mail, Brisbane newspaper 1/04/03)
"MINI introduces VPL
Introducing a revolutionary new technology from MINI.
The world's first Vertical Parking Locator (VPL). With VPL
the MINI will be the first car in the world to be able to
be parked vertically.
This technological breakthrough is the result of nine
years of extensive research.
The technology works with the existing traction control
(ASC+T), which electronically controls wheel spin under
acceleration. VPL provides an extra sensory element
which enables the tyres and wheels to literally cling to
the side of designated buildings.
The Park Distance Control (PDC), a sonar device which
allows the driver to know how far they are from other
objects when they are parking, will be as effective
whether the car is parked vertically or horizontally.
Altitude will in no way inhibit the accuracy of the device.
MINI is working in conjunction with local councils
and architectural heritage trusts to lease the sides
of buildings for exclusive parking.
The new parking spaces will be electronically linked
to the MINI satellite navigation system (GPS). Which,
along with navigating drivers throughout the country
and metropolitan areas will also be able to find these
execlusive parks.
More specific information about VPL is available from
Dr. Uve Beenhad at MINI Australia. Please note that the
purchase of VPL is only available on April 1. So hurry to
your nearist MINI Garage, you'd be a fool to miss out."
Is it just me, or has the first day of April come early this year?
.
"like the workstation crowd was laughing at you during the 80's, and the rest of the industry laughed at you in the 90's and 00's. So the Amiga had a cool gfx card once..."
... for ten times the money!
No - mostly they just slunk away, when they realised that they couldn't come close
For your info, the standard Amiga had up to 12Bit colour without a GFX card. DMA, with its OWN RAM for Sound, Vision and THE FLOPPY DRIVE CONTROL, was standard. Multitasking in 256k. Autoconfigure- TEN YEARS before Plug-n-Play!
"Where's my Amiga now?"
Why, right here connected to this Amiga Keyboard!
According to your specs; Commodore was on the right track, over 12 years ago, with their CDTV!
........ ....
Designed to look somewhat similar to a VCR- IR Controller- Ugradeable with Micro IR Keyboard and Hard Drive
It was initally positioned AWAY from computers in retail stores, but failed because:-
It was poorly marketed.
It was priced too high.
There was a lack of *Quality* Software, and
The general public didn't know WHAT it was!
.
On the top shelf of my book and software case are:
Commodore 128 Reference Guide for Programmers
Amiga Basic (from *icrosoft)
The Official Book for the Commodore 128 Personal Computer
COMPUTE'S 128 Programmer's Guide
Commodore 128 System Guide
and there are numerous C64 books around, incl a C64 Programmer's Manual somewhere.
.
And you ay be able to reclaim obsolete data storage mediums for decades to come!
.
Don't try to strip-search Dr. Bruce Banner or he might get angry! .....
and when HE gets angry
.
The heavy cratering on Mars (and elsewhere in our Solar System) and its change of Rotational Speed can be explained by the bombardment after planet Five went to pieces! Planet Five may, in fact, have been smaller in mass than Mars.
.........
.... in particular, a Planet-destroying Death Ray!
.........
......... everyone suffocated on that planet, and the skeleton crew manning the THIRD Death-star suffered terminal decompression!
-- Everyone knows that Death Stars were the biggest destroyers of planets, UNTIL the crew of the 'Dark Star' set off on their twenty-year mission of unstable planet destruction.------
CORRECTED VERSION of MARS' HISTORY:
Does anyone recall the fact that the mass of Phobos is TOO low for it to be a solid body?
Now think, if Long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away the Empire built a THIRD Death-star but had to hide it because Luke and Hans kept blowing those things up
then, when they thought it was safe to use it - no one remembered where they put it?!
and of course, the skeleton crew manning it HAD to try out the BIG Weapon so they took a shot at the Fifth Planet - BAMM! Blown to asteroids, making the inhabitants of FOURTH Planet (where they had parked it in orbit ) extremely edgey!
(They had to run around for a time avoiding a fantastic large-scale meteor bombardment which caused a great deal of damage!)
"I hear a great tremour in the Force - as of a million voices crying out in fear and then, suddenly, nothing at all!"
"You're imagining things Luke!"
"Perhaps I am - it seems so far, far away - it would have to be in another galaxy infact."
So, the inhabitants of the FOURTH Planet transmitted an ultimatum to the crew of the orbitting THIRD Death-star - that they would have to allow an inspection of ALL Weapons-of-mass-destruction
"Or what?" asked the Death-star Crew.
"Or we'll strike your space-station with our Barsoom V3 Super-gun!" they answered!
So, what do YOU think happened millions of years ago?
They had a VERY BIG gun battle between the Planet-destroying Death Ray and the Barsoom V3 Super-gun
So what happened?
Well, it was an atmosphere blown off that planet and big pieces blown out of the Death-star
.
I recall that some members of the audience choffed during the chase scene as dust seemed to float over their heads.
ALL 3D movies seemed to delight in shooting (guns, arrows, flames) straight at the audience!
A TV Station in Brisbane, Australia had a 3D screening session some 15 (or more) years back and broadcast "Fort Ti(?)" & the Three Stooges one. I taped the broadcast and I was able to view the cassette with Red-Green specs. Trouble is - the cassette is Betamax!!!
.
What of the REAL minority OS users?
( using an A2000HD since '91 )
.
I wonder if you retain your seriously out-of-date legs? Cars have made legs redundant, don't you know?
I, myself, retain my legs for no-drive zones.
.
and Latin types would figure how to make it bounce up-n-down as it went along!
I get the impression that it would loose a traffic light derby drag race when taking on a 'chopper!
.
How about sending a goodly group of Very Talented /.'ers, with supplies, tools and a couple of mini-reactors, to Phobos?
....... target that rogue asteroid and blow it to dust particles!
They could find out for certain if it really is 'the lost third Deathstar'. Then, its only a short matter of time for them to get its 'planet-buster Ion cannon' up and running
NOW, THAT would be more convincing than two titanium plated space shuttles carrying hard-core oil drillers!
.
I only have TWO Pages of my Irregular Illustrated Story on my page:
Avatar Wars, which is a story of TEXT and IMAGES that basically takes all that to lead up to the final panel gag.
Its based on a period when several Posters to the Forum at Amiga.org were producing modified versions of certain Poster's Avatar Images! There are some bits (I hope funny) in the text that likely don't connect with folk unfamilar with the Amiga Platform.
Someday I MAY continue this 'Computer-generated' Story.
.
at home! I've used Win at Tec College, Employment Service, and at my Brother-in-Law's.
At home I've used Amiga (WB/OS) since 1988. 3 months back I was given a AMD k5 by my Brother-in-Law and installed Storm on it. But there was nothing to hold my attention there.
My next machine is to be a G4 800Mhz mid-range 'M' System AmigaOne.
(Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted! 'divider')
"Once seduced by the Dark Side, forever will it rule your life!"
.
Wow! You've already figured what Bin Laden's death-squads have planned for 2004 - everyone be on the look-out for frentic silent men of arabic appearance wanting astronaut training without the landing lessons!
.
So, you can not tell the difference between an aircraft-dropped bomb and a ballistic missle?
Remond me never to ask you to pass the sauce!
.
Granted that you answered a valid question (ie. on "what you would think about "terrorist websites"); didn't you pause to consider that the WHOLE original article was, to use your words, "a red herring"?
/. header where the Author compared Australia to China! ..................As I stated in a different post (pointing out a big difference between China and Australia) in China the military drove a tank over a citizen, while in Australia a citizen can pay to drive a tank!
Australian politicians tend to bluster on some issues without understanding the whole story, particulary involving technology. I've read other 'anti-Aussie' lead stories on SlashDot, and (say, mainly) US comments taking it VERY SERIOUSLY.
For instance, in the
Any US citizens who think that Australia is even remotely similar to China???
They should ask one of their relatives who were stationed here in the War.
.
The answer to "not very smart, are you" (if that's a question) is
Smart enough to be aware that I was neither writing in favour of Web-censorship, nor of being against Web-censorship.
If you re-read my post, you should see that NOT ONCE did I:
Attack your level of intelligence (and consequentially I wonder why you attack mine).
Declare a preference 'for/or against' Web-censorship.
I ONLY wondered why no one mentioned the topic included in the Original Story of False Slander on a Website that caused great harm to two fine teachers, and their careers.
In conclusion, (since I don't usually 'read' other than what is written into meanings) I'd have to answer:
"Smart enough"!
- Please do not assume as to 'where I stand'!
.
In China the military might drive a tank over a citizen. In Australia, a citizen can drive a tank for fun.
"Macho Madness!
Are you looking for a corporate event with a difference that would appeal to your clients or top achievers? Then let us organise a day of serious fun combining rally driving on a forest stage, riding and driving a 56 Tonne Centurian Tank..."
.
In the '70s, the Qld state parliament was basically under the dictatorial control of one man; the state Premier Jo Bejelkie-Petersen.
..... a full squad of Qld police.
Well, he had got upset by what happened in protest marches, so he had legislation passed requiring the organizer's of a planned march to apply for a police permit.
Are you seeing where THIS led? What usually happened was that NO police permits were issued.
The ULTIMATE protest to this state of affairs was that a lone farmer announced to the press that he would be marching, accompanied by his dog, at midnight, down an isolated dirt road.
So, he marched with his dog - watched by a couple of TV News Cameras and
Need I add that he was NOT arrested?
.
to digest the part about a Website that falsely slandered two high school teachers, and 100ed of emails that pointed parents to it?
What would you think of websites used to plan Terriorist Attacks, or airliner hijackingings?
I was amused by the Story-Post author trying to compare Australia to China. In China the military might drive a tank over a citizen. In Australia, a citizen can drive a tank.
"Macho Madness!
Are you looking for a corporate event with a difference that would appeal to your clients or top achievers? Then let us organise a day of serious fun combining rally driving on a forest stage, riding and driving a 56 Tonne Centurian Tank..."
.
A large group of Polish folk, with a lot of iron in their diet, were seen doing headstands.
Scientists were not sure what was causing this.
They were heard chanting:"We want to be Down-under, where women glow and men chunder!
Do you hear, do you hear the thunder?"
Members of the Australian '70-80s Rock-group "Men at work" were unavailable for comment.
.
Actually, I have a hard time believing that the USA really exists!
I ask you; a (?)civilized(?) nation of over 200 million that allows ANY kook to own a handgun?
Where I live we have Road-rage, School-rage, and Employment-rage but serious disputes might lead to fist-fights, NOT the other person being blown away.
(Any fool knows that, in a MORE civilized age, the LIGHT-SABRE is a MORE elegant weapon)
.