The problem isn't that there are no firms capable of producing the CD's.
But Mandrake had intended, originally, to produce them overseas and ship them to the US.
Apparently a capacity issue at their overseas facility is what prompted them to move US production into the US, rather than wait for their overseas facility to begin turning out the CDs.
Stenography is shorthand. It's a method of quickly writing information down in an abbreviated form that's still fully comprehensible later.
Part of the problem with not recognizing stenography anymore is the fact that it's no longer really taught in schools. With the advent of compact tape recorders and dictaphones, the need for steno skills pretty much evaporated.
Anyone done this yet and compared them to the DVD releases of Dragon's Lair and Space Ace?
Technology doesn't turn planes into weapons
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Our New Pearl Harbor
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Men do. Sick, twisted individuals who are willing to kill and maim tens of thousands simply to give their ideals exposure in an international theater.
Justice isn't possible in this case. There's no way to make up for the loss of thousands of lives and the damage it will do to thousands more. What happens next is self preservation. Elimination of these people so that this will NEVER be repeated again. In our lifetime, or any other.
Those who planned, aided, and abbetted this heinous act have sown the wind. Now, for the sake of protecting the rest of humanity from these animals, the US will now become the whirlwind.
Cable: The neighborhood shares the local loop (usually 30-45Mbits).
DSL: Traffic is multiplexed at the head end (telco office) and the aggregate is pushed through another, higher bandwidth connection (depends on the provider).
The problem with your argument is: DSL is shared also.
Instead of everyone in the neighborhood sharing a 30-45Mbit local loop, all your traffic is aggregated at the head end (the telco office) then multiplexed and shot out a single connection.
Cable: The load is on the local loop.
DSL: The load is on the network gateway/peering point.
I, and just about every other user of the Internet are paying between $10 and $100 PER MONTH to view this content.
If I could find all this stuff meatside, I'd have almost no reason to be online!
Of course! It's a teenage hormone-tweaking movie. You can't tell me you were actually expecting some truly good plot and decent character development. Not when all that most people have seen of Lara so far are T&A and some gunplay (not necessarily in that order).
But, believe it or not, Roger Ebert LIKED the movie. Now THAT floored me.
Was he impressed by the plot? Not really.
Did he like the depth of the characters? Not even close.
It's what he called a "popcorn movie".
Basically it's a movie that gives you non-stop action almost from start to finish. And you're so busy watching the screen to see what pops up next that you don't really have time to care wether or not the plot is swiss cheese, or that the character development is more shallow than the cracks in a sidewalk.
If you went to see Tomb Raider for anything other than the T&A and the action, you went for the wrong reasons.
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The problem isn't that there are no firms capable of producing the CD's.
But Mandrake had intended, originally, to produce them overseas and ship them to the US.
Apparently a capacity issue at their overseas facility is what prompted them to move US production into the US, rather than wait for their overseas facility to begin turning out the CDs.
This thing comes with it's own video controller card.
This means that it's damn unlikely to work straight out with your GeForce3's.
The network admins/owners have a right to decide what does and does not cross their network.
How is publishing a list of known spammers, which people either opt to use or opt to NOT use a crime?
Can this suck for Joe Random User? Yeah. But he's not the one who has to pay for every bit of bandwidth sucked down by various spamhaus.
And with umpty-bajillion ISPs on the planet, it's not like he doesn't have choices in avoiding MAPS.
(*) Steve Job's behind.
Well. One more non-issue.
I'm just glad I dislike the Aqua interface and don't use Apple products to begin with.
C'mon! It wouldn't be EarlyTrek without those!
GOAW: GRRRR!
Scott: Oh boy!
Jadzia Dax: That's a Klingon?
C'mon people.
Star Trek: The Original: First season
-Wooden acting, hokey stories, lotsa work to be done.
Star Trek: TNG: First Season
-Wooden acting, hokey stories, lotsa work to be done (just watch some of them fer chrissakes!).
DS9: First Season:
-Wooden acting, hokey stories, lotsa work to be done.
Voyager: First season (and second, and third...)
-Wooden acting, hokey stories, lotsa work to be done.
Give the series a little time to put down some roots.
Sheesh.
Stenography
Steganography
Just take me out and shoot me.
WHAT?
Stenography is nothing of the sort!
Stenography is shorthand. It's a method of quickly writing information down in an abbreviated form that's still fully comprehensible later.
Part of the problem with not recognizing stenography anymore is the fact that it's no longer really taught in schools. With the advent of compact tape recorders and dictaphones, the need for steno skills pretty much evaporated.
Anyone done this yet and compared them to the DVD releases of Dragon's Lair and Space Ace?
Men do. Sick, twisted individuals who are willing to kill and maim tens of thousands simply to give their ideals exposure in an international theater.
Justice isn't possible in this case. There's no way to make up for the loss of thousands of lives and the damage it will do to thousands more. What happens next is self preservation. Elimination of these people so that this will NEVER be repeated again. In our lifetime, or any other.
Those who planned, aided, and abbetted this heinous act have sown the wind. Now, for the sake of protecting the rest of humanity from these animals, the US will now become the whirlwind.
You will deposit exactly $100,000,000,000 in the Bank of Erehwon by noon on the last day of September 2001!
If you fail in this, we shall ship all our children to your countries, hopped up on sugar and caffiene, and instruct them to jump up and down.
They will do this in one major city EACH DAY, until our demands ar met!
Ignore us at your own peril!
[Note for the terminally humor impaired] The preceeding was an attempt at HUMOR. Commonly known as a JOKE.
Hmm. From code snippet to the monster it is today.
*SNIFF*
You've come a long way baby! We're a little bit further along the development curve than any Microsoft OS was at the 10 year mark.
This is probably paving the way for shades of "Non-MS-DOS Incompatibilities".
.NET stuff will run faster (not that Java's all that sprightly to begin with sometimes).
Basically no truly platform-optimized VM, so OF COURSE
Billgatus set us up the bomb!
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Cable: The neighborhood shares the local loop (usually 30-45Mbits).
DSL: Traffic is multiplexed at the head end (telco office) and the aggregate is pushed through another, higher bandwidth connection (depends on the provider).
Cable: The load is on the local loop.
DSL: The load is on the head-end/peering point.
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THANK GOD!!!
The problem with your argument is: DSL is shared also.
Instead of everyone in the neighborhood sharing a 30-45Mbit local loop, all your traffic is aggregated at the head end (the telco office) then multiplexed and shot out a single connection.
Cable: The load is on the local loop.
DSL: The load is on the network gateway/peering point.
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It appears the power of Linux Hardware is no match for the power of a good, old-fashioned Slashdotting. ;)
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It's illegal to try to obtain proof that the broken jaw and strangulation bruises really come from the cops and aren't self inflicted.
Jeeze.
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You mentioned geeks who hated MS.
You mentioned competitors that really hate MS.
But what about geeky competitors who really REALLY hate MS?
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$500/line of code?
$2000/compile?
Gotta love the government dole!
Just kidding. I think this is a good thing that can only enhance the impact of open source software.
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I, and just about every other user of the Internet are paying between $10 and $100 PER MONTH to view this content. If I could find all this stuff meatside, I'd have almost no reason to be online!
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
Of course! It's a teenage hormone-tweaking movie. You can't tell me you were actually expecting some truly good plot and decent character development. Not when all that most people have seen of Lara so far are T&A and some gunplay (not necessarily in that order).
But, believe it or not, Roger Ebert LIKED the movie. Now THAT floored me.
Was he impressed by the plot? Not really.
Did he like the depth of the characters? Not even close.
It's what he called a "popcorn movie".
Basically it's a movie that gives you non-stop action almost from start to finish. And you're so busy watching the screen to see what pops up next that you don't really have time to care wether or not the plot is swiss cheese, or that the character development is more shallow than the cracks in a sidewalk.
If you went to see Tomb Raider for anything other than the T&A and the action, you went for the wrong reasons.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
I want icons as big as my head!
I want people to run away screaming as a rocket fills the entire screen in Quake3!
I want to be able to sit back half-a county away and still be able to read the text on the screen!
*Dances away to the tune of "Frank's 2000 Inch TV"*
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Then we're talking roughly 3500 x 2625 (9,187,500) (3502 x2626 = 9,196,252 is the closest you can come without exceeding 9.2 million).
Close enough. And probably accurate, since nobody in the industry actually posts real numbers anymore.
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Sorry, that should be:
any "MORE" violent than anything our fathers and grandfathers were exposed to.
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