The worst part is, the Jury is supposed to be a passive box that just absorbs whatever information the lawyers wish to provide. If you use your brain and start coming up with questions of your own, well, tough because you're not allowed to ask them. Even if one of the lawyers is completely incompetent and missing all sorts of obvious points, you're not allowed to do anything. It is your duty to hang that fellow just because his public defender barely even knows his name, much less his case.
For those of you who are thinking that deadly spider poison is some sort of elixir of mobility I have some bad news. Basically what happened is that he got sent to the hospital and the doctors noticed that his legs were in better shape than he thought, and with some physical therapy he was able to get them working again.
Maybe they were just concerned that the title was inaccurate since 75% of their content is terrible low budget horror films and retarded stuff like Ghost Hunters? I can't imagine the kind of person that is going to be "fooled" by the new title (OMG, I think I saw a spaceship on that channel! They tricked me! I thought it was a channel for people who like sticking 'y' in inappropriate places! Isn't that right my little Madysyn?"
Adaptec killed themselves with that 19160. New back in the day you could find it for $120, and it was an amazing card. These days it's still a fine piece of work. To this day, my system still lists:
ahc0: port 0x8400-0x84ff mem 0xcfdfe000-0xcfdfefff irq 18 at device 10.0 on pci2. Too bad the only drive on it anymore is an older 80GB model. SATA drives picked up all of the tricks that used to be the domain of SCSI drives and got considerably more development dollars. SCSI drives these days feel like MIPS processors, great back in the day, but you just couldn't compete with Intel's 86 RD budget.
Also, your answer (75%) was counted as wrong for this survey (they were looking for 70%). You would have been counted in the larger "almost right" category though.
It boggles my mind how many people don't apparently know what a year is.
Some would argue that power is ultimately about managing scarce resources. If you make resources less scarce you reduce the need/effectiveness of power.
While it's true that many legendary people were not well rounded, it is also true that there are a great many people who discover that they have no purpose in society because they overspecialized in something. Even if their primary skill is generally considered useful, it's no good if the person cannot communicate well or has so little knowledge of the past that they're forever reinventing the wheel.
Also, I think you'll find that several of the legendary greats who you think were not well rounded, were in fact much better writers/orators/etc... than you know. People just don't talk about it because it's not as interesting as the thing they are known for.
Overspecialization is a risky gambit, and is one that produces a lot more losers than winners.
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My guess is that if Valve failed to release the no-DRM tool when they went under, then the cracking community would take over and release their own tool. It's these sorts of morally justified situations where you almost invariably see the tool come out.
It also depends on how it hits the ground. If it lands on the corner of the screen you're going to be in a lot more trouble than if it lands flat on its back.
So this is what some anonymous guy on the internet thinks might happen? Granted, he has a lot of material in there, but in the end it's all just guesswork. Apparently he's a big fan of cheaper lower end video cards as well, and is hoping that ATI releases one.
On the other hand, one thing NATO has been uniformly excellent at is overestimating the capabilities of Russian war equipment. The MiG 25 someone else mentioned is an excellent example of this, as NATO had assumed it was far more sophisticated and with a much longer flight time than it actually had.
If we've lost the ability to cast those huge shells, it's just because the Navy couldn't be bothered to keep the last supplier in business. I doubt we've lost any of the necessary technology to build one. On the off chance we ever need them again there are dozens of manufacturers around the country that could fabricate them.
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Try going to a competent theater (they exist), and don't buy a drink or popcorn. If the clientele at one theater talks a lot, stop going there and try one across town instead.
My impression was that the EV1 crowd was like the Amiga crowd. Or to put it more bluntly: the smaller the fanbase for something is, the more vocal they become. Basically, GM didn't sell anywhere near enough EV1s to make the economies of scale work out. The supporters will probably argue "and they didn't even try!", but it was clear from the get-go that GM didn't think they would be viable and wouldn't have built them at all except for the tax breaks.
That's not how most music contracts work though. In the music world, you pay for the production costs and touring costs and everything else and give your rights to the music away forever. In return the label will allow you access to the distribution channel (music stores, MTV, Clearchannel venues, etc...). They will also give you a loan to help with the various upfront expenses.
Presumably bands that attempt to negotiate better deals are just dropped for another less-savvy band. Only established big name acts have the leverage to demand better terms (but it was through their poor negotiation skills that they got the gig in the first place, so don't count on it).
On the other hand, it's hard to get any slower than Intel GMA graphics. There are some cases where it is faster to use software rendering instead of the Intel chip.
Of course back in those days house fires were a major concern too. These days it is downright rare for a house to burn down, mostly because we've moved away from hazards like kerosene lamps.
So the problem was that the interface was too user friendly for the Japanese? Apple needs to fix it by adding layers of incomprehensible menus like most of the other smartphones on the market? Ouch.
One thing to consider: Is that new technology there for showing off, or is it actually useful? Maglev trains have been tried a few times in the US, but they've always been considered too impractical for mass production. One thing you have to remember is that just because a technology looks cool and futuristic doesn't mean that it's necessarily better.
The iPhones claim to fame was never the feature list. You could buy phones with a much more impressive feature list well before it came out. The claim to fame was that it did away with the horrible terrible symbian based interfaces that most smartphones are saddled with.
I think you hit the nail on the head here. Phone companies haven't been keeping the super advanced Japanese phones out of our market because they think we're plebeians who couldn't possibly handle the power of such a device. They aren't brought over to the US because they are expensive and have features that just don't sell over here. I mean who actually wants a 3" TV crammed into their cellphone? Especially one that drains the battery in 30 minutes and is saddled with a crappy control UI?
I swear there is a weird form of cultural bigotry though, where the very concept that you don't want a phone with a crap UI means you're just an unsophisticated Yankee that can't figure out a simple 17 layer menu system and aren't good enough to handle having a slow and constrained JVM on your phone. For some reason "Ergonomically designed interface" just doesn't seem to be as important a bullet point on the packaging as "5 Megapixel Full Motion Video Capture".
This extends beyond phones too. Even simple home appliances show a similar design aesthetic. In the US, a washing machine has basically 4 settings, you turn the knob to the correct one and press go. The European ones I've worked with have about 40 different modes, menu systems, and complex error conditions that can occur if you program it incorrectly. It also required that you hit the buttons in a particular order and didn't give you an indication of what the next selection you needed to make was. I'm hoping it did a better job of washing with all of the extra information I had to program into it, but I really couldn't tell the difference.
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The worst part is, the Jury is supposed to be a passive box that just absorbs whatever information the lawyers wish to provide. If you use your brain and start coming up with questions of your own, well, tough because you're not allowed to ask them. Even if one of the lawyers is completely incompetent and missing all sorts of obvious points, you're not allowed to do anything. It is your duty to hang that fellow just because his public defender barely even knows his name, much less his case.
The article said 8 months, not 5 days.
For those of you who are thinking that deadly spider poison is some sort of elixir of mobility I have some bad news. Basically what happened is that he got sent to the hospital and the doctors noticed that his legs were in better shape than he thought, and with some physical therapy he was able to get them working again.
Maybe they were just concerned that the title was inaccurate since 75% of their content is terrible low budget horror films and retarded stuff like Ghost Hunters? I can't imagine the kind of person that is going to be "fooled" by the new title (OMG, I think I saw a spaceship on that channel! They tricked me! I thought it was a channel for people who like sticking 'y' in inappropriate places! Isn't that right my little Madysyn?"
Adaptec killed themselves with that 19160. New back in the day you could find it for $120, and it was an amazing card. These days it's still a fine piece of work. To this day, my system still lists: ahc0: port 0x8400-0x84ff mem 0xcfdfe000-0xcfdfefff irq 18 at device 10.0 on pci2. Too bad the only drive on it anymore is an older 80GB model. SATA drives picked up all of the tricks that used to be the domain of SCSI drives and got considerably more development dollars. SCSI drives these days feel like MIPS processors, great back in the day, but you just couldn't compete with Intel's 86 RD budget.
Also, your answer (75%) was counted as wrong for this survey (they were looking for 70%). You would have been counted in the larger "almost right" category though.
It boggles my mind how many people don't apparently know what a year is.
Some would argue that power is ultimately about managing scarce resources. If you make resources less scarce you reduce the need/effectiveness of power.
While it's true that many legendary people were not well rounded, it is also true that there are a great many people who discover that they have no purpose in society because they overspecialized in something. Even if their primary skill is generally considered useful, it's no good if the person cannot communicate well or has so little knowledge of the past that they're forever reinventing the wheel.
Also, I think you'll find that several of the legendary greats who you think were not well rounded, were in fact much better writers/orators/etc... than you know. People just don't talk about it because it's not as interesting as the thing they are known for.
Overspecialization is a risky gambit, and is one that produces a lot more losers than winners.
My guess is that if Valve failed to release the no-DRM tool when they went under, then the cracking community would take over and release their own tool. It's these sorts of morally justified situations where you almost invariably see the tool come out.
It also depends on how it hits the ground. If it lands on the corner of the screen you're going to be in a lot more trouble than if it lands flat on its back.
It's basically using your video card as a general purpose processor. You might think such an acronym would be hard to find on google, but it turns it it isn't.
So this is what some anonymous guy on the internet thinks might happen? Granted, he has a lot of material in there, but in the end it's all just guesswork. Apparently he's a big fan of cheaper lower end video cards as well, and is hoping that ATI releases one.
On the other hand, one thing NATO has been uniformly excellent at is overestimating the capabilities of Russian war equipment. The MiG 25 someone else mentioned is an excellent example of this, as NATO had assumed it was far more sophisticated and with a much longer flight time than it actually had.
If we've lost the ability to cast those huge shells, it's just because the Navy couldn't be bothered to keep the last supplier in business. I doubt we've lost any of the necessary technology to build one. On the off chance we ever need them again there are dozens of manufacturers around the country that could fabricate them.
Try going to a competent theater (they exist), and don't buy a drink or popcorn. If the clientele at one theater talks a lot, stop going there and try one across town instead.
My impression was that the EV1 crowd was like the Amiga crowd. Or to put it more bluntly: the smaller the fanbase for something is, the more vocal they become. Basically, GM didn't sell anywhere near enough EV1s to make the economies of scale work out. The supporters will probably argue "and they didn't even try!", but it was clear from the get-go that GM didn't think they would be viable and wouldn't have built them at all except for the tax breaks.
I thought those guys hated Scientology.
That's not how most music contracts work though. In the music world, you pay for the production costs and touring costs and everything else and give your rights to the music away forever. In return the label will allow you access to the distribution channel (music stores, MTV, Clearchannel venues, etc...). They will also give you a loan to help with the various upfront expenses.
Presumably bands that attempt to negotiate better deals are just dropped for another less-savvy band. Only established big name acts have the leverage to demand better terms (but it was through their poor negotiation skills that they got the gig in the first place, so don't count on it).
On the other hand, it's hard to get any slower than Intel GMA graphics. There are some cases where it is faster to use software rendering instead of the Intel chip.
Of course back in those days house fires were a major concern too. These days it is downright rare for a house to burn down, mostly because we've moved away from hazards like kerosene lamps.
Has anybody tried the Netflix service in Moonlight?
So the problem was that the interface was too user friendly for the Japanese? Apple needs to fix it by adding layers of incomprehensible menus like most of the other smartphones on the market? Ouch.
One thing to consider: Is that new technology there for showing off, or is it actually useful? Maglev trains have been tried a few times in the US, but they've always been considered too impractical for mass production. One thing you have to remember is that just because a technology looks cool and futuristic doesn't mean that it's necessarily better.
The iPhones claim to fame was never the feature list. You could buy phones with a much more impressive feature list well before it came out. The claim to fame was that it did away with the horrible terrible symbian based interfaces that most smartphones are saddled with.
I think you hit the nail on the head here. Phone companies haven't been keeping the super advanced Japanese phones out of our market because they think we're plebeians who couldn't possibly handle the power of such a device. They aren't brought over to the US because they are expensive and have features that just don't sell over here. I mean who actually wants a 3" TV crammed into their cellphone? Especially one that drains the battery in 30 minutes and is saddled with a crappy control UI?
I swear there is a weird form of cultural bigotry though, where the very concept that you don't want a phone with a crap UI means you're just an unsophisticated Yankee that can't figure out a simple 17 layer menu system and aren't good enough to handle having a slow and constrained JVM on your phone. For some reason "Ergonomically designed interface" just doesn't seem to be as important a bullet point on the packaging as "5 Megapixel Full Motion Video Capture".
This extends beyond phones too. Even simple home appliances show a similar design aesthetic. In the US, a washing machine has basically 4 settings, you turn the knob to the correct one and press go. The European ones I've worked with have about 40 different modes, menu systems, and complex error conditions that can occur if you program it incorrectly. It also required that you hit the buttons in a particular order and didn't give you an indication of what the next selection you needed to make was. I'm hoping it did a better job of washing with all of the extra information I had to program into it, but I really couldn't tell the difference.