At first I thought it would be a good idea, but I looked at it for a moment and I find it to be somewhat useless. Why not buy a sound card of some sort that has an optical out to a real reciever? The sound card they use on that motherboard is an AC97 sound card, pretty much bottom of the line basic sound card. They did do a lot of stuff it looks like to stop the noise problems, but does this sound chip put out clean enough signals in the first place?
I love stereo's, I used to be into car stereo's but now im more into home theater stuff. I enjoy a good system just as much as the next person. My computer right now is hooked up to a sony str-de825 receiver, paradigm phantom speakers, and a velodyne 12/15 sub. It thumps pretty good, and I can still hook my reciever up to my computer using an optical cable, but I need a pretty long one and they are expensive.
I tried looking at this motherboard to see how it all works, but it doesn't mention much. Does it just use headphone jacks for the speakers, or does it have some way of accepting speaker cable? They say the motherboard is about 215 bucks, without the tube amp it would probably be about 150 bucks im guessing, so its a cheaper way of getting sound out of your pc vs. the external reciever/amp route. Here is a quote from their site:
AOpen's hybrid AX4B-533Tube unquestionably is targeted to a very exclusive niche market - passionate audiophiles and extreme gamers who are interested in building their own ultimate entertaining PCs
Id say that most passionate audiophiles also have enough money to buy equipment that would satisfy a passionate audiophile. So, that is a 'very' exclusive market, broke passionate audiophiles. The same goes for extreme gamers who want to build an ultimate entertaining pc (whatever that is supposed to mean. To me this includes a real home theater system =)
Ah well, its something new, shouldn't knock it, its just not for me I don't think. Anyone here have the chance to see one of these in action?
A few banks are issuing single-use card numbers, which is a neat idea, and works better...
What banks are these? I had mentioned it on an earlier post that it would be a cool idea, id say its a more secure way of doing things then how they are done now. Id think of it similar to an electronic money order.
It might even been kinda cool to setup something like this:
I decide to buy something from website x.
I go to my bank website, shift some funds from my checking account into a one-time credit card. This generates me a number (im thinking we may have problems with numbers running out, not sure how credit card numbers work).
I take that number, go to website x, and buy whatever. When the order is finished, the website will spit out some sort of hash'd info.
I then go back to my bank website and enter that into their system, and when it is billed, if the hash's do not match up then they might know something is up. At this point you could be contacted, or the sale just doesn't go thru or something to that nature.
After typing all of that it seems that just having one time credit cards would just work fine, just as long as they worked similar to how they do now with normal credit cards to the store owner.
Well its an interesting problem nonetheless, i know i don't feel 100% safe and secure when I buy stuff online.. And ive only been asked once for that 4 digit code on my credit card.
I dont store your CC, Address, any of that. You buy something, give me some information, I verify, and bill you. I take the hash of your information and store it in my DB.
Up front, I dont know what im talking about. I had heard of other people in this thread mention that you had to keep records of a credit card sale for later use (to cross reference with credit card companies, or whatever it might end up being). Does yer system accomidate for this in any way, or is it untrue (about having to keep records), or do you not live in the us and its different there or what? I apologize in advance if its a dumb question im really sick today:-o.
Makes buying stuff with cash sound much better =) I think it would be nice if I could go to my bank website, enter my name and password, and issue a one time credit card that I could use on a website to buy something with. I would make it for the exact amount of the sale, and it would only be used that one time. If someone gets that number later, it wont matter.
My only thought to all that is this:
I buy something with a one time credit card issued from my bank or whatever.
I get a refund on said 'something'
The company I got a refund thru would send that info back to the bank, but could they securely trace that 'one-time' credit card back to my account?
I guess what im thinking is an FDIC insured paypal =).
And I thought it may have just been me. I just built a new system, and ive built a few for some friends, and everytime it comes to finding a blank floppy to make a boot disk, I have to go thru 5 of them before I find a new one. My new system doesn't have a floppy drive anymore (partly so I can stand up against the evil force of floppy disks, other part is that they are useless these days). Why use a floppy anymore when you have blank cds that cost about 50 cents a piece, and you can make boot cds from them if need be..
Fact: "The sample of this virus was sent on 14 Feb 2002 to fourteen different AV companies by the virus author"
If you call that a fact then I have some vacuum cleaners to sell you =). This info came from a web page, heck, for all we know, one of the AV companies created this thing and sent it to the other companies. Not sure why they would, but I doubt you have done your research yourself.
Bah. Please do some research before you spread FUD.
So, your saying that AV companies don't create virus's because you heard on a new story that a sample of some virus was sent at such and such date to 14 companies by the virus author.. Once again just corporate fluff designed for public consumption, and nothing more. This is what it sounds like to me when you boil it down:
AV Companies: We have released a new definition file for a new virus that came out. The virus was just created by frank here, and if you don't have our product / buy our product you just might get infected *evil laugh*.
I guess it all comes down to what you call many. The poster said that many people have suspected for years that virus companies manufacture viruses to sell their produts. I think that, ive thought it for a long time. The above poster thinks that as well, so thats 2, and im sure we can find more =).
They have a product called Streets and Trips. You can enter in your address, and find out what is within a 5 mile radius lets say. Sounds pretty much like what this guy did.
Star Wars: Episode III (2005) (executive producer) Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) (executive producer) ... aka Star Wars II (2002) (USA: promotional abbreviation)
Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service, The (1999) (V) (executive producer) Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Masks of Evil, The (1999) (V) (executive producer) Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Spring Break Adventure, The (1999) (V) (executive producer) Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Trenches of Hell, The (1999) (V) (executive producer) Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) (executive producer) ... aka Phantom Menace, The (1999) (USA: short title) ... aka Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace (1999) (USA: video box title) Young Indiana Jones and the Attack of the Hawkmen (1995) (TV) (executive producer) Young Indiana Jones and the Treasure of the Peacock's Eye (1995) (TV) (executive producer) Radioland Murders (1994) (executive producer) Young Indiana Jones and the Hollywood Follies (1994) (TV) (executive producer) Leprechaun (1993) (co-producer) (uncredited) "Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, The" (1992) TV Series (executive producer) Wow! (1990) (V) (executive producer)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) (executive producer) Land Before Time, The (1988) (executive producer) Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) (executive producer) Willow (1988) (executive producer) Star Tours (1987) (executive producer) Inside the Labyrinth (1986) (executive producer) Howard the Duck (1986) (executive producer) ... aka Howard: A New Breed of Hero (1986) Captain Eo (1986) (executive producer) Labyrinth (1986) (executive producer) "Droids" (1985) TV Series (executive producer) ... aka "Droids: The Adventures of R2D2 and C3PO" (1985) ... aka "Star Wars: Droids" (1985) "Ewoks" (1985) TV Series (executive producer) ... aka "All New Ewoks, The" (1986) (new title) ... aka "Ewoks & Droids Adventure Hour" (1986) (new title) ... aka "Star Wars: Ewoks" (1985) Latino (1985) (executive producer) (uncredited) Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (1985) (TV) (executive producer) Ewok Adventure, The (1984) (TV) (executive producer) ... aka Caravan of Courage (1984) (TV) ... aka Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure (1984) (TV) (UK: theatrical title) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) (executive producer) Twice Upon a Time (1983) (executive producer) Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) (executive producer) ... aka Return of the Jedi (1983) (USA: short title) ... aka Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi (1997) (USA: video box title) Body Heat (1981) (executive producer) (uncredited) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) (executive producer) ... aka Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) (USA: video title) Kagemusha (1980) (executive producer: international version) ... aka Double, The (1980) ... aka Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior) (1980) ... aka Kagemusha the Shadow Warrior (1980) ... aka Shadow Warrior (1980) Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) (executive producer) ... aka Empire Strikes Back, The (1980) (USA: short title) ... aka Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back (1997) (USA: video box title)
Star Wars (1977) (executive producer) ... aka Star Wars IV: A New Hope (1997) (USA: video box title) ... aka Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) (USA: new title)
Rain People, The (1969) (associate producer)
(sorry imdb the page this came from is here: http://us.imdb.com/Name?Lucas,+George).
He also had part to do with THX, which I am glad for. Ive liked all the star wars movies, and I loved ep2, I guess its all just up to how you feel about all of it..
If data is so resilient then I'd like to know why I can't just load up a program to triple my harddrive space with no compression.
Your hard drive also does not consist of a clean room with technicians in a bunny suit (think intel) taking apart your hard drive to read the data on the drive =)
Well, lets say you were a person who wanted to use email to coordinate the takeover of the world or something like that, first off, find a new way of communicating =). Second off, if I were serious about this, I would setup 1000 hotmail accounts a day, email an encrypted file with every account every day, yet only one have the real deal. By the time they figure out whats going on its too late.
Well, I am kinda hoping that the actual engine behind Freecraft is what most people are working on. A lot of gaming companies out there license an engine and create the art/music/sound for it, and maybe modify the engine a bit to accomidate anything special in their game. Look at the Quake3 engine, or the Unreal engine, sure, both those companies have games to back that engine up that look great, but when another game company license that engine from them, they are taking a large part out of the development process and getting straight to the 'goods' you could say.
Now, i don't know that much at all on how games work internally, but I would hope that Freecraft would support better looking tilesets and higher quality music. If thats all the engine can work with (and I hope I put that correctly, and im referring to the 'outdated' graphics and sound) then id say they have some problems =P..
Well, what happens when those big tankers sink, they release all that oil. Id imagine it would be an enviormentalists dream to have a bacteria or whatever to get rid of all that oil from the ocean's waters. That would be my guess..
Ya, id have to say its one of his best novels as well. The movie kinda sucks (just real old, still worth watching for any chrichton fan) but its still a great great book. Id probably head down to a local bookstore and buy the book over getting it on ebay though =P..
Hmm.. whats to be ashamed about readi1ng a Clive Cussler novel? They aren't the most in depth novels out there, but they are still a good read. I had saw him at first and thought that the books didn't sound that good, but he came out with Atlantis Found and I like stuff about atlantis, so I bought it. After that, I went thru his books at a rate of about a book in 3-4 days at most and then got another book.. quite addicting I guess you could say.
Another game that I can think of that was co-op multiplayer was Secret of Mana for Super Nintendo. I remember I rented that multitap thing (4 ports for controllers) and me and 2 other friends spent all weekend and we beat the game. Quite a lot of fun, but you do not see many games out there like that anymore...
Doubtful. You'll only teach them that computers are 'hard' and useful only in behind-the-scenes processing.
There will always be a group of people that think the above. These sort of folk really don't care about how the world works around them, just as long as it does, and they know who to contact when it doesn't.
Windows and Mac environments lead them to explore their creativity (Mac especially) without needing to fuck around with an OS that fights you at every turn.
Id somewhat agree with you on this. Im a fairly young person, 23 years old, I work in a large building doing support for windows machines. I used to sit on the frontline phones and take incoming calls on certain products on windows machines, and I got to the point where if the person had win98, I could sit there and navigate to any screen that you could get to in the os, without even looking at my compter at work. Anyway, we have a few products that work on macs, and today I sat in front of one and tried to figure it out a bit (mind you it was only like 10min or so). To tell you the truth the thing puzzles me. I can open up apps, use them, save, etc.. but trying to figure out where things go at times, its pretty bizarre. When it comes to sitting in front of a computer and becoming creative, im not too sure what your talking about. Here are the things that I think a fairly new user could use and be 'creative':
a - Paint type of program. You can run these types of programs on Linux, Windows or Mac and be equally creative I would say. Just as long as you can figure out what the buttons do, you can start drawing and such.
b - Word processing types of programs.. Same deal, you can type on any of these operating systems with equal ability.
To make this short, these kinds of programs do not differ that much when going across operating systems. None of them really make you have to go into the os much, the only time I can think of is to save and retrieve files. You tell someone where to save something and that clears up a lot of stuff.
Teach them Linux and watch the future of computers die.
So, you really think the future of computers lies in the hands of 2 companies, Microsoft (windows) and Apple. Apple has been in schools for a long time and they do fine there, they also seem very school / education friendly, in fact they are selling maine a bunch of ibooks for their 7th graders, and providing training to the teachers and such.. Of course they are getting paid but its the thought that counts.. Microsoft is a company that is more interested in money then customer satisfaction (this is in no way saying that microsoft does not have interest in the customer, as anyone that has worked in any of the support areas for them knows that it lies pretty high on the chart), but they do make descisions with money in mind over what the customer gets. Does microsoft really think that its in the best interests of the customer to hide information about how the OS works? Or do they do this because it is more profitable this way? Do they think that the customer will be harmed if IE isn't there at all times, or do they do this because it makes them larger in the market? It kinda makes me feel better about using something like Linux because I know there isn't a company there that is controlling how I operate my machine based on how much money that they can squeeze from me. I may not know how to interpret source code that well, but I am glad its available so I can ask someone that does.
On a cable modem im getting a blazing 364 bytes a second and I have about 63 more hours to download this 222mb file. This reminds me some ancient chinese torture of some sort =P..
No, but if MS knocks on the door, it will be very easy for them to say "Here look on our network, we only have windows machines on it". They then proceed to explain to MS that they only use windows machines, so they will not have to pay for an extra license for that Mac in the corner because they chose to go with this education license. BTW, im pretty sure that license makes you buy a copy of windows for every computer (excluding small computer stuff like watches and calculators, they are referring to personal computers like windows machines, macs, etc..). By taking them off the network it will make this audit go a lot smoother im sure..
So, in short, MS is not directly making schools use MS products, but in the roundabout way they are.. Im just suprised that they continue to do this type of stuff (licensing stuff, similar to above) when they are in trial..
This sounds a lot like that PDF that was on the NYTimes (i think) where they had a list of names of people, but they were blacked out. Someone with a slow connection or something like that was able to see the names at first, and then the black squares loaded after over the names..
And boy that just sucks, I have about 2200 results sent in from Seti, about 29,000 hrs of computer time (at least with my machines). This guy only has 92, and he was the winner..
Ahh well, no biggie, woulda been cool but oh well..
I don't even really see why this is an issue at all. Of course no one is forcing anyone to use anything really, thats not why they are in trouble.
The reason they are in trouble is mainly because of the OEM contracts that they essentially forced OEM's to agree to. See, the OEM's are really going to be the largest distributer of OS's that there is. This is basically how a lot of the contracts went:
OEM: We want to bundle Windows(tm) on our computers that we sell. MS: Sure, just sign this. OEM: But it says here that for every machine sold, I have to pay for a windows license. Currently most of our computers come with this other OS. MS: Thats too bad, we can maybe work out a deal but its going to cost you twice as much for each copy of windows.
This is the scenario that the OEM's were in. They had to decide what to do, and they went the Microsoft way. It probably got harder and harder for those oems to agree to something like this when microsoft is buying up the competition, or creating competition, and then including this into windows. This of course is not 'good' for competition, because Microsoft has a great leverage of the OS and how much they sell it for with the OEM's, and the ability to take out one sector at a time in the pc industry.
I am amazed even today, Microsoft doesn't seem to be altering their way of buisness whatsoever because of this lawsuit. Today, there was a story on slashdot linked from theregister.co.uk. Now, I don't know the whole picture im sure, but pretty much Microsoft has this new licensing scheme for educational facilities, where they would pay a yearly subscription to software. According to the story, the educational establishment would have to pay for this software for *every* computer at the said location. Even if it wasn't running microsoft software. Now, these places do have some more choices when it comes to that, but does it sound like a very competitive-type of way of doing buisness?
This is what I would like to see out of this whole thing. Id like to see windows come on 2 cds, one being an OS cd, and one being an Applications cd. When someone bought a new computer, it would come with the applications cd that the customer (and remember thats who we are trying to please) could then *chose* (there's that nasty word) to install that cd, and get IE, Windows Media Player, the Windows cd burning software, Outlook Express, and the list goes on. During the Windows setup, it could simply ask the customer, do you want the Microsoft Applications installed with Windows.
This seems fair, and you could simply use other applications from other vendors with not many problems. The problem is, Microsoft, in their 'embrace and extend' mentality, have essentially built a wall around XP with these things like IE, and Windows Media Player. They try to testify that its impossible to seperate the 2 without system instability. Your trying to tell me that my system is going to be more stable with this huge hunk of code (ie) that I may not even ever need or use? Thats a pile of crap, and anyone who has ever done much windows troubleshooting knows that a lot of problems stem from IE. I'd say that it would probably require a good amount of work to take IE and all the other stuff out of XP, but I wouldn't say impossible. The only, and this is important, reason that it would be tough is because Microsoft has made it that way. I know windows fairly well, I work someplace that involves windows troubleshooting for about 4 years now. With winxp, id say that IE isn't a needed item. Im pretty sure its used for the help system within XP, are you trying to tell us that this 'help' couldn't be accomplished any other way? You can pretty much look at anything in XP that IE does and find ways to not do it that way.
Well that turned into quite a lot, I just find it a drag when people bring up these 2 things about the trial:
a - No one is forcing you to use it b - Why punish a company for doing really good
That being said, try to understand that Microsoft has been legally found a monopoly. This means that they used anti-competitive practices, and along with their leverage in the industry, to build a wall around themselves and stay number one. One key factor to competing OS's is the ability to get it onto OEM machines (and preferrably a large one). If you can't, you really aren't able to compete on the same playing field, and microsoft gets to sit in their own area that no one can even touch.
What do you mean the Buran was not a knockoff of the American Shuttle. They had used its design when making it, but they had changed some things (left some features out, adding others like an ejection system that could be used at mach 4+).
How else can you explain that the Buran looks pretty much *exactly* like the U.S. Shuttle?
This site has more then enough info about the Buran (http://k26.com/buran/)
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I love stereo's, I used to be into car stereo's but now im more into home theater stuff. I enjoy a good system just as much as the next person. My computer right now is hooked up to a sony str-de825 receiver, paradigm phantom speakers, and a velodyne 12/15 sub. It thumps pretty good, and I can still hook my reciever up to my computer using an optical cable, but I need a pretty long one and they are expensive.
I tried looking at this motherboard to see how it all works, but it doesn't mention much. Does it just use headphone jacks for the speakers, or does it have some way of accepting speaker cable? They say the motherboard is about 215 bucks, without the tube amp it would probably be about 150 bucks im guessing, so its a cheaper way of getting sound out of your pc vs. the external reciever/amp route. Here is a quote from their site:
AOpen's hybrid AX4B-533Tube unquestionably is targeted to a very exclusive niche market - passionate audiophiles and extreme gamers who are interested in building their own ultimate entertaining PCs
Id say that most passionate audiophiles also have enough money to buy equipment that would satisfy a passionate audiophile. So, that is a 'very' exclusive market, broke passionate audiophiles. The same goes for extreme gamers who want to build an ultimate entertaining pc (whatever that is supposed to mean. To me this includes a real home theater system =)
Ah well, its something new, shouldn't knock it, its just not for me I don't think. Anyone here have the chance to see one of these in action?
What banks are these? I had mentioned it on an earlier post that it would be a cool idea, id say its a more secure way of doing things then how they are done now. Id think of it similar to an electronic money order.
It might even been kinda cool to setup something like this:
I decide to buy something from website x.
I go to my bank website, shift some funds from my checking account into a one-time credit card. This generates me a number (im thinking we may have problems with numbers running out, not sure how credit card numbers work).
I take that number, go to website x, and buy whatever. When the order is finished, the website will spit out some sort of hash'd info.
I then go back to my bank website and enter that into their system, and when it is billed, if the hash's do not match up then they might know something is up. At this point you could be contacted, or the sale just doesn't go thru or something to that nature.
After typing all of that it seems that just having one time credit cards would just work fine, just as long as they worked similar to how they do now with normal credit cards to the store owner.
Well its an interesting problem nonetheless, i know i don't feel 100% safe and secure when I buy stuff online.. And ive only been asked once for that 4 digit code on my credit card.
Up front, I dont know what im talking about. I had heard of other people in this thread mention that you had to keep records of a credit card sale for later use (to cross reference with credit card companies, or whatever it might end up being). Does yer system accomidate for this in any way, or is it untrue (about having to keep records), or do you not live in the us and its different there or what? I apologize in advance if its a dumb question im really sick today :-o.
Makes buying stuff with cash sound much better =) I think it would be nice if I could go to my bank website, enter my name and password, and issue a one time credit card that I could use on a website to buy something with. I would make it for the exact amount of the sale, and it would only be used that one time. If someone gets that number later, it wont matter.
My only thought to all that is this:
I buy something with a one time credit card issued from my bank or whatever.
I get a refund on said 'something'
The company I got a refund thru would send that info back to the bank, but could they securely trace that 'one-time' credit card back to my account?
I guess what im thinking is an FDIC insured paypal =).
And I thought it may have just been me. I just built a new system, and ive built a few for some friends, and everytime it comes to finding a blank floppy to make a boot disk, I have to go thru 5 of them before I find a new one. My new system doesn't have a floppy drive anymore (partly so I can stand up against the evil force of floppy disks, other part is that they are useless these days). Why use a floppy anymore when you have blank cds that cost about 50 cents a piece, and you can make boot cds from them if need be..
If you call that a fact then I have some vacuum cleaners to sell you =). This info came from a web page, heck, for all we know, one of the AV companies created this thing and sent it to the other companies. Not sure why they would, but I doubt you have done your research yourself.
Bah. Please do some research before you spread FUD.
So, your saying that AV companies don't create virus's because you heard on a new story that a sample of some virus was sent at such and such date to 14 companies by the virus author.. Once again just corporate fluff designed for public consumption, and nothing more. This is what it sounds like to me when you boil it down:
AV Companies: We have released a new definition file for a new virus that came out. The virus was just created by frank here, and if you don't have our product / buy our product you just might get infected *evil laugh*.
I guess it all comes down to what you call many. The poster said that many people have suspected for years that virus companies manufacture viruses to sell their produts. I think that, ive thought it for a long time. The above poster thinks that as well, so thats 2, and im sure we can find more =).
They have a product called Streets and Trips. You can enter in your address, and find out what is within a 5 mile radius lets say. Sounds pretty much like what this guy did.
Nah.. lets see what movies he has put out:
Star Wars: Episode III (2005) (executive producer)
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) (executive producer)
... aka Star Wars II (2002) (USA: promotional abbreviation)
Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service, The (1999) (V) (executive producer)
Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Masks of Evil, The (1999) (V) (executive producer)
Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Spring Break Adventure, The (1999) (V) (executive producer)
Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Trenches of Hell, The (1999) (V) (executive producer)
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) (executive producer)
... aka Phantom Menace, The (1999) (USA: short title)
... aka Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace (1999) (USA: video box title)
Young Indiana Jones and the Attack of the Hawkmen (1995) (TV) (executive producer)
Young Indiana Jones and the Treasure of the Peacock's Eye (1995) (TV) (executive producer)
Radioland Murders (1994) (executive producer)
Young Indiana Jones and the Hollywood Follies (1994) (TV) (executive producer)
Leprechaun (1993) (co-producer) (uncredited)
"Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, The" (1992) TV Series (executive producer)
Wow! (1990) (V) (executive producer)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) (executive producer)
Land Before Time, The (1988) (executive producer)
Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) (executive producer)
Willow (1988) (executive producer)
Star Tours (1987) (executive producer)
Inside the Labyrinth (1986) (executive producer)
Howard the Duck (1986) (executive producer)
... aka Howard: A New Breed of Hero (1986)
Captain Eo (1986) (executive producer)
Labyrinth (1986) (executive producer)
"Droids" (1985) TV Series (executive producer)
... aka "Droids: The Adventures of R2D2 and C3PO" (1985)
... aka "Star Wars: Droids" (1985)
"Ewoks" (1985) TV Series (executive producer)
... aka "All New Ewoks, The" (1986) (new title)
... aka "Ewoks & Droids Adventure Hour" (1986) (new title)
... aka "Star Wars: Ewoks" (1985)
Latino (1985) (executive producer) (uncredited)
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (1985) (TV) (executive producer)
Ewok Adventure, The (1984) (TV) (executive producer)
... aka Caravan of Courage (1984) (TV)
... aka Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure (1984) (TV) (UK: theatrical title)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) (executive producer)
Twice Upon a Time (1983) (executive producer)
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) (executive producer)
... aka Return of the Jedi (1983) (USA: short title)
... aka Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi (1997) (USA: video box title)
Body Heat (1981) (executive producer) (uncredited)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) (executive producer)
... aka Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) (USA: video title)
Kagemusha (1980) (executive producer: international version)
... aka Double, The (1980)
... aka Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior) (1980)
... aka Kagemusha the Shadow Warrior (1980)
... aka Shadow Warrior (1980)
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) (executive producer)
... aka Empire Strikes Back, The (1980) (USA: short title)
... aka Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back (1997) (USA: video box title)
Star Wars (1977) (executive producer)
... aka Star Wars IV: A New Hope (1997) (USA: video box title)
... aka Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) (USA: new title)
Rain People, The (1969) (associate producer)
(sorry imdb the page this came from is here:
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Lucas,+George).
He also had part to do with THX, which I am glad for. Ive liked all the star wars movies, and I loved ep2, I guess its all just up to how you feel about all of it..
Your hard drive also does not consist of a clean room with technicians in a bunny suit (think intel) taking apart your hard drive to read the data on the drive =)
Well, lets say you were a person who wanted to use email to coordinate the takeover of the world or something like that, first off, find a new way of communicating =). Second off, if I were serious about this, I would setup 1000 hotmail accounts a day, email an encrypted file with every account every day, yet only one have the real deal. By the time they figure out whats going on its too late.
Well, I am kinda hoping that the actual engine behind Freecraft is what most people are working on. A lot of gaming companies out there license an engine and create the art/music/sound for it, and maybe modify the engine a bit to accomidate anything special in their game. Look at the Quake3 engine, or the Unreal engine, sure, both those companies have games to back that engine up that look great, but when another game company license that engine from them, they are taking a large part out of the development process and getting straight to the 'goods' you could say.
Now, i don't know that much at all on how games work internally, but I would hope that Freecraft would support better looking tilesets and higher quality music. If thats all the engine can work with (and I hope I put that correctly, and im referring to the 'outdated' graphics and sound) then id say they have some problems =P..
Well, what happens when those big tankers sink, they release all that oil. Id imagine it would be an enviormentalists dream to have a bacteria or whatever to get rid of all that oil from the ocean's waters. That would be my guess..
Ya, id have to say its one of his best novels as well. The movie kinda sucks (just real old, still worth watching for any chrichton fan) but its still a great great book. Id probably head down to a local bookstore and buy the book over getting it on ebay though =P..
Hmm.. whats to be ashamed about readi1ng a Clive Cussler novel? They aren't the most in depth novels out there, but they are still a good read. I had saw him at first and thought that the books didn't sound that good, but he came out with Atlantis Found and I like stuff about atlantis, so I bought it. After that, I went thru his books at a rate of about a book in 3-4 days at most and then got another book.. quite addicting I guess you could say.
Another game that I can think of that was co-op multiplayer was Secret of Mana for Super Nintendo. I remember I rented that multitap thing (4 ports for controllers) and me and 2 other friends spent all weekend and we beat the game. Quite a lot of fun, but you do not see many games out there like that anymore...
There will always be a group of people that think the above. These sort of folk really don't care about how the world works around them, just as long as it does, and they know who to contact when it doesn't.
Windows and Mac environments lead them to explore their creativity (Mac especially) without needing to fuck around with an OS that fights you at every turn.
Id somewhat agree with you on this. Im a fairly young person, 23 years old, I work in a large building doing support for windows machines. I used to sit on the frontline phones and take incoming calls on certain products on windows machines, and I got to the point where if the person had win98, I could sit there and navigate to any screen that you could get to in the os, without even looking at my compter at work. Anyway, we have a few products that work on macs, and today I sat in front of one and tried to figure it out a bit (mind you it was only like 10min or so). To tell you the truth the thing puzzles me. I can open up apps, use them, save, etc.. but trying to figure out where things go at times, its pretty bizarre. When it comes to sitting in front of a computer and becoming creative, im not too sure what your talking about. Here are the things that I think a fairly new user could use and be 'creative':
a - Paint type of program. You can run these types of programs on Linux, Windows or Mac and be equally creative I would say. Just as long as you can figure out what the buttons do, you can start drawing and such.
b - Word processing types of programs.. Same deal, you can type on any of these operating systems with equal ability.
To make this short, these kinds of programs do not differ that much when going across operating systems. None of them really make you have to go into the os much, the only time I can think of is to save and retrieve files. You tell someone where to save something and that clears up a lot of stuff.
Teach them Linux and watch the future of computers die.
So, you really think the future of computers lies in the hands of 2 companies, Microsoft (windows) and Apple. Apple has been in schools for a long time and they do fine there, they also seem very school / education friendly, in fact they are selling maine a bunch of ibooks for their 7th graders, and providing training to the teachers and such.. Of course they are getting paid but its the thought that counts.. Microsoft is a company that is more interested in money then customer satisfaction (this is in no way saying that microsoft does not have interest in the customer, as anyone that has worked in any of the support areas for them knows that it lies pretty high on the chart), but they do make descisions with money in mind over what the customer gets. Does microsoft really think that its in the best interests of the customer to hide information about how the OS works? Or do they do this because it is more profitable this way? Do they think that the customer will be harmed if IE isn't there at all times, or do they do this because it makes them larger in the market? It kinda makes me feel better about using something like Linux because I know there isn't a company there that is controlling how I operate my machine based on how much money that they can squeeze from me. I may not know how to interpret source code that well, but I am glad its available so I can ask someone that does.
Yea, anyone have any mirrors?
On a cable modem im getting a blazing 364 bytes a second and I have about 63 more hours to download this 222mb file. This reminds me some ancient chinese torture of some sort =P..
No, but if MS knocks on the door, it will be very easy for them to say "Here look on our network, we only have windows machines on it". They then proceed to explain to MS that they only use windows machines, so they will not have to pay for an extra license for that Mac in the corner because they chose to go with this education license. BTW, im pretty sure that license makes you buy a copy of windows for every computer (excluding small computer stuff like watches and calculators, they are referring to personal computers like windows machines, macs, etc..). By taking them off the network it will make this audit go a lot smoother im sure..
So, in short, MS is not directly making schools use MS products, but in the roundabout way they are.. Im just suprised that they continue to do this type of stuff (licensing stuff, similar to above) when they are in trial..
This sounds a lot like that PDF that was on the NYTimes (i think) where they had a list of names of people, but they were blacked out. Someone with a slow connection or something like that was able to see the names at first, and then the black squares loaded after over the names..
Pretty strange stuff =P
And boy that just sucks, I have about 2200 results sent in from Seti, about 29,000 hrs of computer time (at least with my machines). This guy only has 92, and he was the winner..
Ahh well, no biggie, woulda been cool but oh well..
Zeno
I don't even really see why this is an issue at all. Of course no one is forcing anyone to use anything really, thats not why they are in trouble.
The reason they are in trouble is mainly because of the OEM contracts that they essentially forced OEM's to agree to. See, the OEM's are really going to be the largest distributer of OS's that there is. This is basically how a lot of the contracts went:
OEM: We want to bundle Windows(tm) on our computers that we sell.
MS: Sure, just sign this.
OEM: But it says here that for every machine sold, I have to pay for a windows license. Currently most of our computers come with this other OS.
MS: Thats too bad, we can maybe work out a deal but its going to cost you twice as much for each copy of windows.
This is the scenario that the OEM's were in. They had to decide what to do, and they went the Microsoft way. It probably got harder and harder for those oems to agree to something like this when microsoft is buying up the competition, or creating competition, and then including this into windows. This of course is not 'good' for competition, because Microsoft has a great leverage of the OS and how much they sell it for with the OEM's, and the ability to take out one sector at a time in the pc industry.
I am amazed even today, Microsoft doesn't seem to be altering their way of buisness whatsoever because of this lawsuit. Today, there was a story on slashdot linked from theregister.co.uk. Now, I don't know the whole picture im sure, but pretty much Microsoft has this new licensing scheme for educational facilities, where they would pay a yearly subscription to software. According to the story, the educational establishment would have to pay for this software for *every* computer at the said location. Even if it wasn't running microsoft software. Now, these places do have some more choices when it comes to that, but does it sound like a very competitive-type of way of doing buisness?
This is what I would like to see out of this whole thing. Id like to see windows come on 2 cds, one being an OS cd, and one being an Applications cd. When someone bought a new computer, it would come with the applications cd that the customer (and remember thats who we are trying to please) could then *chose* (there's that nasty word) to install that cd, and get IE, Windows Media Player, the Windows cd burning software, Outlook Express, and the list goes on. During the Windows setup, it could simply ask the customer, do you want the Microsoft Applications installed with Windows.
This seems fair, and you could simply use other applications from other vendors with not many problems. The problem is, Microsoft, in their 'embrace and extend' mentality, have essentially built a wall around XP with these things like IE, and Windows Media Player. They try to testify that its impossible to seperate the 2 without system instability. Your trying to tell me that my system is going to be more stable with this huge hunk of code (ie) that I may not even ever need or use? Thats a pile of crap, and anyone who has ever done much windows troubleshooting knows that a lot of problems stem from IE. I'd say that it would probably require a good amount of work to take IE and all the other stuff out of XP, but I wouldn't say impossible. The only, and this is important, reason that it would be tough is because Microsoft has made it that way. I know windows fairly well, I work someplace that involves windows troubleshooting for about 4 years now. With winxp, id say that IE isn't a needed item. Im pretty sure its used for the help system within XP, are you trying to tell us that this 'help' couldn't be accomplished any other way? You can pretty much look at anything in XP that IE does and find ways to not do it that way.
Well that turned into quite a lot, I just find it a drag when people bring up these 2 things about the trial:
a - No one is forcing you to use it
b - Why punish a company for doing really good
That being said, try to understand that Microsoft has been legally found a monopoly. This means that they used anti-competitive practices, and along with their leverage in the industry, to build a wall around themselves and stay number one. One key factor to competing OS's is the ability to get it onto OEM machines (and preferrably a large one). If you can't, you really aren't able to compete on the same playing field, and microsoft gets to sit in their own area that no one can even touch.
When I went to it, it took me to some generator page for about 2 seconds and then im at the nytimes artcle, worked great!
Yea, and his pic that he had of his garage with the strange doors, it would be interesting to see what other stuff did.
Id say its pretty slick, in fact his whole site is (+5 interesting)
Try raring up a 1k file, mine grew to 81k, this may be a good thing for the parent poster =)
What do you mean the Buran was not a knockoff of the American Shuttle. They had used its design when making it, but they had changed some things (left some features out, adding others like an ejection system that could be used at mach 4+).
How else can you explain that the Buran looks pretty much *exactly* like the U.S. Shuttle?
This site has more then enough info about the Buran (http://k26.com/buran/)