Logical. Driving recklessly is certainly not encouraged, and perhaps illegal. But that hardly seems like a problem, given that they are there to: a) Actually arrive at the scene, and b) Arrive there alive and well themselves.
Running red lights and dodging through bus- and tramlanes is only legal if they're showing lights and sounding sirens. Of course this is only valid for police, fire dept. and ambulance. I'm pretty sure other vehicles with sirens or 'zwaailichten' (swinglights? The revolving lights) need a license, or need to be city-property, or some such. Our version of the triple-A is out of luck.
What's wrong with PS/2? It's great to hook keyboard and mouse to, and that is their only use! I've got other things to plug into my USB ports, like a tablet, printer, scanner, joystick, and lots of other things I might buy in the future.
General purpose ports are nice and all, but I'll have a keyboard and mouse for many years to come. I keep the keyboard and mouse PS/2, and voila, two extra USB ports.
Why should we be careful? As I understand it, this means that you won't be able to make a case based on this principle and sell it to people. It doesn't prohibit you making a case like this for yourself, or for one or two of your friends.
Emergency vehicles have to stop at a red light? That's... stupid. Any People not giving their emergency services special privileges deserve whatever happens as a result of this.
Even regular cars are excused from driving through red if they need to shift to allow an ambulance through.
Are you really saying that ambulances, if needed, *wait* at an intersection?
$70 gets you one legal game and a cup of Starbucks coffee. So money isn't the problem for potential pirates. Having to keep a PC around is, of course, a slightly bigger problem.
To make this really interesting, maybe you could run 'em off of your hacked XBox?
Uhm, yes, that's actually the case. FSAA, Anisotropic filtering, pixel- and vertexshaders(!!); even a 9500pro comes close to (or surpasses) a 5900 ultra in these fields.
They're both duking it out at an equal level, with ATI in the lead due to performance with quality enhancment features.
If Be were to win, they'd get recognition and restitution, but given the 'war chests' of the two companies, this is unlikely.
Not accepting the 23 million would have been irresponsible of then in wrt their shareholders, who then might have had grounds to sue BeOS, I believe.
Publically traded companies are in the hands of people who are generally in the game for the money. That's how business works, and why I would rather companies didn't go public (Google, this means you. Don't even fucking think about it).
Vernor Vinge has also used devices like this in _A Deepness in the Sky_. The so-called 'localisers', providing information about their relative positions and surroundings, helping to provide a map of the surroundings.
The 1GHz Nehemiah core Epia's handle DivX of all shapes and sizes just fine, and is available up from the M-series Epia boards. The 1GHz Ezra core that previously powered the M10000, however, still had some problems with extremely high quality divx. In some benchmark showing, I believe, FPS, the Nehemiah pretty much doubled the figure the Ezra was churning out.
In short, the C3-cores are slower than even similar-speed celerons, but they're getting better, and a 1GHz Nehemiah is fast enough to do multimedia playback.
Well, as far as short-term changes, I'd have to say Homeworld: Cataclysm. Playing a hallucinatory battle with my alarm clock (setting it forward five minutes at a time for about five times) complete with seeing red and green dots has to count as my most crazy moment so far.
That's what you get after playing a game like that for about 12 hours straight two days in a row.
Of course, the dreamlet of Saddam congratulating me on winning a game of CnC:Generals from him (by tossing nukes on his construction center and biolabs, no less) was also pretty freaky.
But change the way I really look out at life? Hell no. These are games, and I enjoy them, but they don't change me much.
Besides giving me the odd dream/dreamlet, which I enjoy anyway.
As I recall reading somewhere, somewhen, a publically traded company has a duty to its owners (the stockholders) to maximize its stockvalues. If they don't, they can be sued by the stockholders.
I assume Americans can be arrested for crimes committed abroad, within some restrictions. Hence, in the past, some arrests of people who'd been to the Phillipines for sex with children, who'd been arrested and thus sent to Federal Pound-me-in-the-ass prison, where they belong.
At least, that's what happened here in the Netherlands, and of course the prison wasn't Federal, then.
The crime was committed in the Phillipines, but they were arrested and convicted upon their return.
Genetic mutations, interstellar travel, and comic book hero's have all been done to death, and been done crappily at that. The shows and movies you mentioned changed all that.
So it was with Buffy. IMO, the movie sucked (no pun), but the show is different altogether. It's a bit soapy (drama), it's a bit comedy, it's a bit horror.
You and the other children really *REALLY* need to get over yourselves. If you have actually tried to watch the show from a suitable entry point, and didn't like it, then fine.
But most of you haven't. You've never seen more than a few minutes at a time, probably just when the vampire appeared, or someone mentioned 'game face', or 'dust him', or perhaps even just during the less serious parts of the episode.
And if that's the case: STFU and learn some manners.
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Logical. Driving recklessly is certainly not encouraged, and perhaps illegal. But that hardly seems like a problem, given that they are there to:
a) Actually arrive at the scene, and
b) Arrive there alive and well themselves.
Running red lights and dodging through bus- and tramlanes is only legal if they're showing lights and sounding sirens. Of course this is only valid for police, fire dept. and ambulance. I'm pretty sure other vehicles with sirens or 'zwaailichten' (swinglights? The revolving lights) need a license, or need to be city-property, or some such. Our version of the triple-A is out of luck.
What's wrong with PS/2? It's great to hook keyboard and mouse to, and that is their only use! I've got other things to plug into my USB ports, like a tablet, printer, scanner, joystick, and lots of other things I might buy in the future.
General purpose ports are nice and all, but I'll have a keyboard and mouse for many years to come. I keep the keyboard and mouse PS/2, and voila, two extra USB ports.
Why should we be careful? As I understand it, this means that you won't be able to make a case based on this principle and sell it to people. It doesn't prohibit you making a case like this for yourself, or for one or two of your friends.
Emergency vehicles have to stop at a red light? That's... stupid. Any People not giving their emergency services special privileges deserve whatever happens as a result of this.
Even regular cars are excused from driving through red if they need to shift to allow an ambulance through.
Are you really saying that ambulances, if needed, *wait* at an intersection?
$70 gets you one legal game and a cup of Starbucks coffee. So money isn't the problem for potential pirates. Having to keep a PC around is, of course, a slightly bigger problem.
To make this really interesting, maybe you could run 'em off of your hacked XBox?
Fine, you call it "Super flat paperlike thing that your TV will become", I'll stick to "electronic paper".
I've learned a long time ago that simplicity trumps completeness, especially if you want to have a stab at marketshare.
Uhm, yes, that's actually the case. FSAA, Anisotropic filtering, pixel- and vertexshaders(!!); even a 9500pro comes close to (or surpasses) a 5900 ultra in these fields.
They're both duking it out at an equal level, with ATI in the lead due to performance with quality enhancment features.
If Be were to win, they'd get recognition and restitution, but given the 'war chests' of the two companies, this is unlikely.
Not accepting the 23 million would have been irresponsible of then in wrt their shareholders, who then might have had grounds to sue BeOS, I believe.
Publically traded companies are in the hands of people who are generally in the game for the money. That's how business works, and why I would rather companies didn't go public (Google, this means you. Don't even fucking think about it).
My brand new Jewel notebook (a Dutch brand, though) is supplied without OS (except for an MS-DOS bootdisk, which isn't installed to the harddrive)
It's one way they minimize their prices.
Maybe you're just looking in the wrong places.
Pah, 56k ought to be enough for anybody who's not doing anything illegal or immoral.
Now if you'll excuse me, Jenna Jameson just finished downloading.
Vernor Vinge has also used devices like this in _A Deepness in the Sky_. The so-called 'localisers', providing information about their relative positions and surroundings, helping to provide a map of the surroundings.
An interesting idea, to say the least.
And I thought 'hardware' was the bits you could kick. Damnit.
New (?) Hollywood saying:
"Don't screw us, we'll screw you."
Possible next mob event: hundreds of people purchase packet of chewing gum, all wait in line at the same register.
All of 'em customers.
The 1GHz Nehemiah core Epia's handle DivX of all shapes and sizes just fine, and is available up from the M-series Epia boards. The 1GHz Ezra core that previously powered the M10000, however, still had some problems with extremely high quality divx. In some benchmark showing, I believe, FPS, the Nehemiah pretty much doubled the figure the Ezra was churning out.
In short, the C3-cores are slower than even similar-speed celerons, but they're getting better, and a 1GHz Nehemiah is fast enough to do multimedia playback.
How about the Spider-Man movie? Making a 'digital overlay' was smacked down in court there, when the original advertiser complained.
While the venue may be different (movie + real-world, versus website), isn't the principle the same? That would make this a neat little contradiction.
Hotmail has the mailserver capacity to handle millions of subscribers all doing their thing at once. It is impressive hardware.
Also, Hotmail is solely administered by Microsoft.
So yes, blame for this particular snafu is all Microsoft's. Their long responsetime to fixing it is just damning themselves even further.
What would you suggest we do now then?
Google isn't forcing the market, except by excellence. Excellence draws in users. Not advertising, nor adware, nor any of a lot of bad means.
If Google goes bad, we'll use better means. So far, though, Google isn't bad, nor has it moved in such a direction (IMHO).
Well, as far as short-term changes, I'd have to say Homeworld: Cataclysm. Playing a hallucinatory battle with my alarm clock (setting it forward five minutes at a time for about five times) complete with seeing red and green dots has to count as my most crazy moment so far.
That's what you get after playing a game like that for about 12 hours straight two days in a row.
Of course, the dreamlet of Saddam congratulating me on winning a game of CnC:Generals from him (by tossing nukes on his construction center and biolabs, no less) was also pretty freaky.
But change the way I really look out at life? Hell no. These are games, and I enjoy them, but they don't change me much.
Besides giving me the odd dream/dreamlet, which I enjoy anyway.
As I recall reading somewhere, somewhen, a publically traded company has a duty to its owners (the stockholders) to maximize its stockvalues. If they don't, they can be sued by the stockholders.
Is this true?
Driving drunk is not a mistake, but a crime.
A lifelong prohibition from drinking, with random blood tests, would a good start.
Not for 7 years, but for life. That's what the victims get, after all.
Being a smalltime garage, modifying a customer's gasoline car so it runs on natural gas is illegal, too.
Oh wait, no it isn't. Nor should it be. Nor should modchips be.
Modchips have legitimate uses (running backups, turning xbox into cheap linux box, etc), which is more than you can say for some other legal devices.
I assume Americans can be arrested for crimes committed abroad, within some restrictions. Hence, in the past, some arrests of people who'd been to the Phillipines for sex with children, who'd been arrested and thus sent to Federal Pound-me-in-the-ass prison, where they belong.
At least, that's what happened here in the Netherlands, and of course the prison wasn't Federal, then.
The crime was committed in the Phillipines, but they were arrested and convicted upon their return.
Genetic mutations, interstellar travel, and comic book hero's have all been done to death, and been done crappily at that. The shows and movies you mentioned changed all that.
So it was with Buffy. IMO, the movie sucked (no pun), but the show is different altogether. It's a bit soapy (drama), it's a bit comedy, it's a bit horror.
You and the other children really *REALLY* need to get over yourselves. If you have actually tried to watch the show from a suitable entry point, and didn't like it, then fine.
But most of you haven't. You've never seen more than a few minutes at a time, probably just when the vampire appeared, or someone mentioned 'game face', or 'dust him', or perhaps even just during the less serious parts of the episode.
And if that's the case: STFU and learn some manners.