. . . dispite recent history. I'd like to see this finally convince Viacom that they need to do something about the eroding franchise. Of course, it's equally likely that they'd just use this as another excuse to abandon it all together. Given that they lost money on the last movie, the TV show's ratings are less than stellar, and now a licencee is suing them, they may vary well want to get rid of it all together. If so, I just hope they sell it to someone who'd do justice to what little dignity it has left.
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The MRI concept was inspired by Dr McCoy's diagnostic beds in sickbay. I read an article that NASA was working on an Ion Engine, which makes up two thirds of a TIE fighter. And in my opinion, flip phones look a lit like communicators . . . .
Microsoft didn't kill anyone with IE. Netscape lost the browser wars because they had an inferior product (after v3.0) while Internet Explorer continued to improve. I was a Netscape Supporter to the last, but even I got tired of waiting for them to catch up. Microsoft beat Netscape, but we can't hardly blame them for that. That's what competition is all about.
I'm a Canadian, and I used to live in one of the Telus-dominated areas of the country. When I moved out of their service area, I called and asked them to cancel my service, but they didn't. In fact, they continued to bill me for four months on a number that wasn't in use. I didn't know until a collection agency called me trying to round up $250 dollars in back charges. I told them to $#%@ off, then sent a letter to Telus about it, but I don't expect them to do anything about. They're no Micro$soft, but they've got a firm enough hold on the market that customer service is a luxury they don't need to offer. They might as well spell their name Telu$.
Maybe this publicity will create some market for a security product to be used for wireless. A lot of companies don't realize that wireless networks allow potential hackers an easy way around a firewall, and as such, there's little demand for a product to prevent such a breach. If the SS can bring that to light with their Pringles can, maybe that will change. And maybe Pringles will get into network hardware too. That'd be ironic.
This reminds me of the time Voyager had to form an aliance with the Borg. I mean, I'm all for using viruses as tools, and I appreciate the irony of using one of our species traditional enemy, (forgive the melodrama,) but what stops these viruses from mutating into something other than what there were meant for. I don't even mean something dangerous, nescessarily, just that viruses have a way of changing when you least expect it.
Yeah, actually it does look different. All that lightning, (plasma, whatever you want to call it) inside the CD leaves burn marks in the disc. It creates a cool sort of erratic patteren that looks a bit like the Galactic Empire symbol. I doubt if it would read in a CD player . . . .
Grab a coster or an AOL CD and give that microwave thing a try. The pictures on the site are cool, but they don't do it justice. A few words of advice though; don't leave it in for very long. Five or ten seconds will do fine. It won't damage the microwave if you leave it longer, but cleaning melted CD off the tray isn't so cool. It also looks better if you do it in the dark. Flick the lights off, start the microwave, and enjoy the show!
Maybe this is just a step in the right direction for Apple: first they start using standardized video formats, (we can hope,) and eventually they'll release an Linux-Based Mac OS. If they went open source, they might gain the edge they need to become a serious competitor on the OS market again.
This has been long over due. I'm sick of NTFS, Linux was close but not quite there, and don't get me started on Fat32. Anyway, I guy has to wonder if it will include and API to allow us to query it directly using SQL.
I agree that Jar Jar Binks is the most annoying Star Wars character ever, possibly the most annoying fictional character in history. It's for that reason that he cannot die in Episode II; There's no one worthy of slaying the most annoying character ever. Not Obi-wan, not Jabba the Hutt, not Palpatine, not even Boba Fett, (although Fett is pretty close). No one in Episode II is worthy. Of course, in Episode III . . .
I'm almost afraid to watch teasers for Episode II. Two days before Episode I hit then theatres, I saw a track called Qui-Gon's Noble End on the soundtrack. Spoilers lake that can take away for one's enjoyment of a movie, especially and epic-style flick like Star Wars.
At the risk of being called a Troll, shouldn't anyone who is really interested in hearing The Woz talk about Apple have Quicktime installed?
Maybe they're trying to win over us Linux geeks.
We should make a clone of Einstein. All most every physicist in the last 50 years has used his work as a basis. If we made a few dozen more of him, think of the technology we could have in another fifty years.
Technology makes war visible, meaning that we can watch it on TV. Last week TNN showed a Star Trek marathon, this week CNN has a war. So far, this has been the best television season ever!
So all I have to do is buy that time machine on ebay, go back to 1971, and kill the people who invented it.
Then I'll never hear "you've got mail" again. Totally worth it.
The best game I've played in a month was Bridgebuilder. You can find it at http://www.bridgebuilder-game.com/.
It's not overly educational in and of itself, (unless you want to build bridges in a two dimentional universe for a living,) but it developes skills which are transfurable to real engineering, math, programming, etc. A real gem, in my humble opinion.
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. . . dispite recent history. I'd like to see this finally convince Viacom that they need to do something about the eroding franchise. Of course, it's equally likely that they'd just use this as another excuse to abandon it all together. Given that they lost money on the last movie, the TV show's ratings are less than stellar, and now a licencee is suing them, they may vary well want to get rid of it all together. If so, I just hope they sell it to someone who'd do justice to what little dignity it has left.
The MRI concept was inspired by Dr McCoy's diagnostic beds in sickbay. I read an article that NASA was working on an Ion Engine, which makes up two thirds of a TIE fighter. And in my opinion, flip phones look a lit like communicators . . . .
Microsoft didn't kill anyone with IE. Netscape lost the browser wars because they had an inferior product (after v3.0) while Internet Explorer continued to improve. I was a Netscape Supporter to the last, but even I got tired of waiting for them to catch up. Microsoft beat Netscape, but we can't hardly blame them for that. That's what competition is all about.
I'm a Canadian, and I used to live in one of the Telus-dominated areas of the country. When I moved out of their service area, I called and asked them to cancel my service, but they didn't. In fact, they continued to bill me for four months on a number that wasn't in use. I didn't know until a collection agency called me trying to round up $250 dollars in back charges. I told them to $#%@ off, then sent a letter to Telus about it, but I don't expect them to do anything about. They're no Micro$soft, but they've got a firm enough hold on the market that customer service is a luxury they don't need to offer. They might as well spell their name Telu$.
Maybe this publicity will create some market for a security product to be used for wireless. A lot of companies don't realize that wireless networks allow potential hackers an easy way around a firewall, and as such, there's little demand for a product to prevent such a breach. If the SS can bring that to light with their Pringles can, maybe that will change. And maybe Pringles will get into network hardware too. That'd be ironic.
This reminds me of the time Voyager had to form an aliance with the Borg. I mean, I'm all for using viruses as tools, and I appreciate the irony of using one of our species traditional enemy, (forgive the melodrama,) but what stops these viruses from mutating into something other than what there were meant for. I don't even mean something dangerous, nescessarily, just that viruses have a way of changing when you least expect it.
but Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Joyous Quanza, and other non-denominational holiday greetings to all \.
Yeah, actually it does look different. All that lightning, (plasma, whatever you want to call it) inside the CD leaves burn marks in the disc. It creates a cool sort of erratic patteren that looks a bit like the Galactic Empire symbol. I doubt if it would read in a CD player . . . .
I'd kill myself too. Slashdot would be a suicide cult.
apperently he broke a few ribs in a motercycle accident. No worries though, he said in a press release that he'll be up and around by Christmas
Grab a coster or an AOL CD and give that microwave thing a try. The pictures on the site are cool, but they don't do it justice. A few words of advice though; don't leave it in for very long. Five or ten seconds will do fine. It won't damage the microwave if you leave it longer, but cleaning melted CD off the tray isn't so cool. It also looks better if you do it in the dark. Flick the lights off, start the microwave, and enjoy the show!
A geek can dream.
Maybe this is just a step in the right direction for Apple: first they start using standardized video formats, (we can hope,) and eventually they'll release an Linux-Based Mac OS. If they went open source, they might gain the edge they need to become a serious competitor on the OS market again.
This has been long over due. I'm sick of NTFS, Linux was close but not quite there, and don't get me started on Fat32. Anyway, I guy has to wonder if it will include and API to allow us to query it directly using SQL.
I agree that Jar Jar Binks is the most annoying Star Wars character ever, possibly the most annoying fictional character in history. It's for that reason that he cannot die in Episode II; There's no one worthy of slaying the most annoying character ever. Not Obi-wan, not Jabba the Hutt, not Palpatine, not even Boba Fett, (although Fett is pretty close). No one in Episode II is worthy. Of course, in Episode III . . .
I'm almost afraid to watch teasers for Episode II. Two days before Episode I hit then theatres, I saw a track called Qui-Gon's Noble End on the soundtrack. Spoilers lake that can take away for one's enjoyment of a movie, especially and epic-style flick like Star Wars.
At the risk of being called a Troll, shouldn't anyone who is really interested in hearing The Woz talk about Apple have Quicktime installed? Maybe they're trying to win over us Linux geeks.
We should make a clone of Einstein. All most every physicist in the last 50 years has used his work as a basis. If we made a few dozen more of him, think of the technology we could have in another fifty years.
Technology makes war visible, meaning that we can watch it on TV. Last week TNN showed a Star Trek marathon, this week CNN has a war. So far, this has been the best television season ever!
This is the kind of thing that might be able to break 128 bit encryption in months rather than years, so sell your RSA stock.
So all I have to do is buy that time machine on ebay, go back to 1971, and kill the people who invented it. Then I'll never hear "you've got mail" again. Totally worth it.
The best game I've played in a month was Bridgebuilder. You can find it at http://www.bridgebuilder-game.com/. It's not overly educational in and of itself, (unless you want to build bridges in a two dimentional universe for a living,) but it developes skills which are transfurable to real engineering, math, programming, etc. A real gem, in my humble opinion.