Given that the last time I saw Nosher, he was tearing an electric wheelchair apart to get at a drive motor, I suspect that he'd welcome the chance to have team members who bring their own spare parts (-: .
I suppose that RDF will be changing the rules of the show a little. It is now forbidden to use parts of your team-members' prosthetic aids in your contraptions.
Umm, Don Cheadle in Ocean's Eleven did a passable cockney accent. At least, I was trying to figure out which if the black actors in Snatch he had been.
But then, of course, there's Dick van Dyke in Mary Poppins whose "cockney" accent sounded like Gollum with a head-cold.
I'm curious how all this would survive an EMP attack of some kind. I'm sure that the electronics would be moderately case-hardened, but I'd always figured that an EMP coming through an antenna would have a dubious effect on whatever was attached to that antenna.
Of course, by the time they're throwing nukes around, this may be the least of the problems...
I've spent most of the day playing Fallout (why not, it's raining, I like the game...) and I love the retro-tech look of it all.
I've been noodling around with the thought of finding some sort of computer interface device (terminal, full-fledged case mod) based on a typewriter with a small LCD or CRT screen above it, with lots of 1950's looking metal.
I think it is fairly well accepted by now that we went to the moon because we believed that the Soviets were better equipped in space than the Americans. This was at the height of the Cold War, remember, and American politicians really were upset at the thought of going to sleep "by the light of a Communist Moon". (There are references to this in the Tom Wolfe book "The RIght Stuff", as well as passing mention in various other books about the Apollo missions).
Well, the Russians and Americans were more or less neck-and-neck for a while, but once the Americans had "Won the Space Race", interest sort-of dropped. It is somewhat arguable (not just by conspiracy theorists) that the CIA was feeding inflated data to the US government about the Soviet ability to put a man on the moon, especially given that the Soviets never made it there.
This is the same CIA (under the leadership of Bush the Elder and later Bill Casey) who inflated estimates of the Soviet nuclear potential to keep the Defence Budget cooking, and to provide a need for some of the more unusual programs coming out of Washington. So it all comes down to politics, and there is no compelling political need for a US space station right now.
(Obligatory conspiracy theory footnote) And now the CIA (or one of the other three letter agencies) is telling the government that Iraq has weapons which no-one can find. Hmmmm. Maybe the way to get back into Space is to have Iraq announce a plan to build a space station...
Question: Is that significantly different from other Submission Release forms?
I'm not an artist, but I've done low-budget/no-budget film and video (no, not pr0n damn it!), and some of the disclaimers/releases/whatever that I or my team-mates have received have sounded a lot like that.
So is this Lucas being evil (ha, you'll be telling me that Disney is evil next), or is this more or less standard boiler-plate in the art world?
Wasn't that "Looker"(1981), one of the few films in which Susan Dey took off her clothes? It's a Michael Crichton movie about a mysterious corporation developing a sinister new technology.
I vaguely remember them plugging Albert Finney into a machine which measured where his eye focussed when they showed commercials.
A degree can get you through the door in some cases. As a hiring Manager (well, I would be if I had any reqs, but you know what I mean), every job posting I've written has some line in it like:
BS in CS or 3-4 years experience in commercial software development
So if you are starting off in the field and have little or no relevant experience, then I might use the presence or absence of a degree as an indicator of whether I will talk to you. OK, I might be missing out on hiring the next Bill Gates (imagine how wealthy he'd be if he'd finished his degree...) but that's a price I'm willing to pay.
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Heck, you would have been manoeuvrable enough to steer round the moose.
Or, looking at the picture again, you could go UNDER the moose. Just make sure you don't whack the tender parts of the moose with the radio antenna, or you might get to test the acceleration too.
Couple this with the recent attempts to merge the War on Drugs with the War on Terror, the American disdain for the International Court ("well, someone might accuse us of committing war crimes...") and the reappearance of several cockroaches from the first Bush administration (Poindexter being merely the latest turd-burger to show up on the radar).
I'm no tin-foil-hatted conspiracy theorist, but I have to wonder what is going on. I think we're seeing the birth of the American Empire (colonies across the world, "pax Americana", "land of the free if you agree") and it will continue until the weak band together and fight the common foe. Only this time, the common foe will be the USA.
Once people started buying these 386's and what not en masse, demand for more powerful software increased, which demands more powerful hardware, etc etc etc.
Thank you for acknowledging the positive contribution which Microsoft made to our world. Bill Gates' early vision of "A computer on every desk" is what got us to where we are now. I remember reading some of Corbato's papers from Multics where he talked (early to mid 60s) of a future where every home had a computer terminal in it; Corbato et al predicted that people would use that terminal to buy and sell things, to communicate with nieghbors and family and so forth. (I can't dig out the details right now, because the paper is in a book which I have in the basement at home...) He was off by a couple of decades, but that's pretty much where we are.
Gates' software vision (well, OK, and his sleazy, er I mean, determined marketing practice)drove the microcomputer/home computer/PC to the point where it is a commodity.
I'd argue that every innovatinve major corporation has used "questionable" business pracxtices to be successful. General Motors bought and closed out many light rail/tram systems so they could sell busses; the phone company used to be an evil monopoly; hell, IBM was the evil empire for a while -- some of their business practices on big iron in the 60s and 70s make Microsoft look like Mr Rogers.
And now it's fashionable to blame Microsoft for everything. But they probably did more to get us to the point where we can have this argument than any other company.
And now I have a network at home on which I can run Windows, Linux, or anything I want to cobble together myself. Heck, I've got a TRS-80 down there which one day I'm going to turn into something other than a paperweight!
I shall now don my asbestos underwear and await the masses.
(1) In my spare time, I do theater light design for a couple of community and low-paying professional theatres. I've been looking for a tablet-sized device for sketching the stage, making notes, annotating lighting grid designs and so forth for years!
Right now, I use a notepad (the paper kind) and innumerable fading photocopies of the stage, the lighting grid and the stage drawings. Then I get to transfer my drawings (covered with notes, annotations, scribbled erasures, coffee-stains and donut-skid-marks) to the desktop PC at home.
I would give serious money for a tablet-sized device which I could use instead. Small matter of programming, and I could probably find a way of generating files for the lightboard straight from my drawings.
(2) In the day job, I spend a lot of time scribbling on whiteboards, figuring things out and then transfering the information into a computer. The PDA isn't big enough, and I've already worn holes on the PDA screen just for scrolling around a "drawing canvas" (well, OK, playing iRogue on the bus might have contributed too). I could probably tie a full-sized graphics tablet to the PC at work, but that's not terribly portable.
Dell should have gone with the SPIRIT of the contract, not the letter
NO!
By going with the letter of the contract, Michael Dell can demonstrate in court that he is in compliance and Microsoft has no basis for any legal action. Being able to say, "We are exactly meeting our obligation under Section 14, Paragraph 12, bullet 3" has a lot more weight than saying, "Well, we think the customer should be free to install their own OS -- damn the contract anyway."
Can you say injunction avoidance?
I knew you could...
I'd say that Dell is going with the spirit of the contract, while still being able to say that they followed the letter of the contract.
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I suppose that RDF will be changing the rules of the show a little.
It is now forbidden to use parts of your team-members' prosthetic aids in your contraptions.
No, she's not related to Cathy (all hail Cathy).
Lisa -- note that the show is called "Scrapheap Challenge" in the UK.
But then, of course, there's Dick van Dyke in Mary Poppins whose "cockney" accent sounded like Gollum with a head-cold.
Of course, by the time they're throwing nukes around, this may be the least of the problems...
I've spent most of the day playing Fallout (why not, it's raining, I like the game...) and I love the retro-tech look of it all. I've been noodling around with the thought of finding some sort of computer interface device (terminal, full-fledged case mod) based on a typewriter with a small LCD or CRT screen above it, with lots of 1950's looking metal.
So where can I get one?
I think it is fairly well accepted by now that we went to the moon because we believed that the Soviets were better equipped in space than the Americans. This was at the height of the Cold War, remember, and American politicians really were upset at the thought of going to sleep "by the light of a Communist Moon". (There are references to this in the Tom Wolfe book "The RIght Stuff", as well as passing mention in various other books about the Apollo missions).
Well, the Russians and Americans were more or less neck-and-neck for a while, but once the Americans had "Won the Space Race", interest sort-of dropped. It is somewhat arguable (not just by conspiracy theorists) that the CIA was feeding inflated data to the US government about the Soviet ability to put a man on the moon, especially given that the Soviets never made it there.
This is the same CIA (under the leadership of Bush the Elder and later Bill Casey) who inflated estimates of the Soviet nuclear potential to keep the Defence Budget cooking, and to provide a need for some of the more unusual programs coming out of Washington. So it all comes down to politics, and there is no compelling political need for a US space station right now.
(Obligatory conspiracy theory footnote) And now the CIA (or one of the other three letter agencies) is telling the government that Iraq has weapons which no-one can find. Hmmmm. Maybe the way to get back into Space is to have Iraq announce a plan to build a space station...
I'm not an artist, but I've done low-budget/no-budget film and video (no, not pr0n damn it!), and some of the disclaimers/releases/whatever that I or my team-mates have received have sounded a lot like that.
So is this Lucas being evil (ha, you'll be telling me that Disney is evil next), or is this more or less standard boiler-plate in the art world?
It's still making better progress than GNU/Hurd... Karma? Bah, who needs it?
I vaguely remember them plugging Albert Finney into a machine which measured where his eye focussed when they showed commercials.
BS in CS or 3-4 years experience in commercial software development
So if you are starting off in the field and have little or no relevant experience, then I might use the presence or absence of a degree as an indicator of whether I will talk to you.
OK, I might be missing out on hiring the next Bill Gates (imagine how wealthy he'd be if he'd finished his degree...) but that's a price I'm willing to pay.
Heck, you would have been manoeuvrable enough to steer round the moose.
Or, looking at the picture again, you could go UNDER the moose. Just make sure you don't whack the tender parts of the moose with the radio antenna, or you might get to test the acceleration too.
Haley Joel Osment as Tin-Tin
Robin Williams in a hilarious double casting as The Thompson Twins
Harrison Ford as Captain Haddock
Richard Attenborough as the Professor
And of course, a CGI "Snowy".
I can't wait!
I always read books about air disasters when riding on aircraft.
it's interesting
it keeps the people in the adjacent seats quiet
the plane is less likely to crash, because the gods of flying have a sense of humor
Couple this with the recent attempts to merge the War on Drugs with the War on Terror, the American disdain for the International Court ("well, someone might accuse us of committing war crimes...") and the reappearance of several cockroaches from the first Bush administration (Poindexter being merely the latest turd-burger to show up on the radar).
I'm no tin-foil-hatted conspiracy theorist, but I have to wonder what is going on. I think we're seeing the birth of the American Empire (colonies across the world, "pax Americana", "land of the free if you agree") and it will continue until the weak band together and fight the common foe. Only this time, the common foe will be the USA.
Christ, I do not want to be behind this guy going through airport security...
Shouldn't that be GNU/tse.cx?
Sort of the software analog to vinyl?
Thank you for acknowledging the positive contribution which Microsoft made to our world. Bill Gates' early vision of "A computer on every desk" is what got us to where we are now. I remember reading some of Corbato's papers from Multics where he talked (early to mid 60s) of a future where every home had a computer terminal in it; Corbato et al predicted that people would use that terminal to buy and sell things, to communicate with nieghbors and family and so forth. (I can't dig out the details right now, because the paper is in a book which I have in the basement at home...) He was off by a couple of decades, but that's pretty much where we are.
Gates' software vision (well, OK, and his sleazy, er I mean, determined marketing practice)drove the microcomputer/home computer/PC to the point where it is a commodity.
I'd argue that every innovatinve major corporation has used "questionable" business pracxtices to be successful. General Motors bought and closed out many light rail/tram systems so they could sell busses; the phone company used to be an evil monopoly; hell, IBM was the evil empire for a while -- some of their business practices on big iron in the 60s and 70s make Microsoft look like Mr Rogers.
And now it's fashionable to blame Microsoft for everything. But they probably did more to get us to the point where we can have this argument than any other company.
And now I have a network at home on which I can run Windows, Linux, or anything I want to cobble together myself. Heck, I've got a TRS-80 down there which one day I'm going to turn into something other than a paperweight!
I shall now don my asbestos underwear and await the masses.
Right now, I use a notepad (the paper kind) and innumerable fading photocopies of the stage, the lighting grid and the stage drawings. Then I get to transfer my drawings (covered with notes, annotations, scribbled erasures, coffee-stains and donut-skid-marks) to the desktop PC at home.
I would give serious money for a tablet-sized device which I could use instead. Small matter of programming, and I could probably find a way of generating files for the lightboard straight from my drawings.
(2) In the day job, I spend a lot of time scribbling on whiteboards, figuring things out and then transfering the information into a computer. The PDA isn't big enough, and I've already worn holes on the PDA screen just for scrolling around a "drawing canvas" (well, OK, playing iRogue on the bus might have contributed too). I could probably tie a full-sized graphics tablet to the PC at work, but that's not terribly portable.
No! As the saying goes, "Philately will get you nowhere"
I mean, I've been pursuing a couple of million dollars for several years now...
Well, the Constitution says you can pursue happiness, but nowhere are you guaranteed to catch it!
Minor note: Last I checked, France uses SECAM not PAL as a video standard.
Here is some more info.
NO!
By going with the letter of the contract, Michael Dell can demonstrate in court that he is in compliance and Microsoft has no basis for any legal action. Being able to say, "We are exactly meeting our obligation under Section 14, Paragraph 12, bullet 3" has a lot more weight than saying, "Well, we think the customer should be free to install their own OS -- damn the contract anyway."
Can you say injunction avoidance? I knew you could...
I'd say that Dell is going with the spirit of the contract, while still being able to say that they followed the letter of the contract.