Sports can lead to people worrying about stuff that's not important whatsoever to their real lives, it can cause frustration, humiliation, and teach vengeance and reward cruelty if taught improperly.
Health and exercise is important, but how one decides to have fun and/or attempt to attract the opposite sex should not have sway in their being a 'loser'.
Finally, many atheletes do worse things than smoking in the form of drugs to improve performance because winning has become their lives.
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It's certainly not just 'computer geeks' that must live as outsider's in mainstream society. Just about any group of behavior, tech related or not, that does not participate in norm behaviors are easy to ostracize. In lieu of a classic 'geek', there will always be someone different enough to take the fall.
In South Park Cartman represents, among other things, the ignorance of the American public, so I wouldn't go looking for help from Matt Stone or Trey Parker while you're trying to justify greed and selfishness.
"Butterfly uses a "grid computing" approach, in which multiple servers work together as a virtual supercomputer, seamlessly shifting processing tasks among individual machines."
The biggest problems with Civ III were the ten minute turns of 50 tanks slowly moving across the continent to your enemy, and that minute amount of resources availiable. (Not to mention the shoddy AI as usual, and countless other problems). So I don't think the games are that similar, although I've yet to play MOO3.
Didn't seem/.ed to me, but others were complaining..
MANHASSET, N.Y. -- Samsung SDI Co. has partnered with Vitex Systems Inc. to market displays based on organic light emitting diodes that the two companies claim are 50 percent lower in weight and thickness than any other commercially available display. Samsung, which has been pursuing OLEDs volume production, will provide funding for the specialized design and engineering activities of Vitex's Barrier Engineering Program. Samsung said its goal is to explore whether the technology can be produced for encapsulation of full-color, active-matrix OLEDs.
Vitex's proprietary Barix thin-film coating is designed to enable manufacturing of thinner, lighter displays for the mobile device market, said Ho-Kyoon Chung, Samsung's senior vice president. "We believe that Vitex's Barrier Engineering Program holds the potential to be the fastest, most cost-effective way for Samsung SDI to achieve a thin-film encapsulation solution for our OLED displays," he said.
Broad adoption of OLEDs has been impeded to some extent by a key manufacturing challenge: the organic matter's sensitivity to moisture and oxygen, which can quickly destroy an OLED display if unprotected.
Vitex's thin-film technology creates a moisture and oxygen barrier that is potentially as effective as a sheet of glass, without the added bulk, according to the company. Using Vitex's Barix encapsulation, display manufacturers can deposit, in situ, a thin-film coating directly on top of the OLED material on a glass substrate.
The procedure would eliminate the need for a glued-on-metal can or extra sheet of glass. The resulting thinner, lighter display is expected to deliver higher reliability at a significantly reduced manufacturing cost.
"The Barix technology developed by Vitex has significant potential to help further propel widespread industry adoption of OLEDs, which have emerged as a promising candidate in the production of zero-border, super-thin displays," said Ross Young, president of DisplaySearch (Austin, Texas). The market research firm projects that global sales of OLEDs will grow from $112 million in 2002 to $3.1 billion by 2007.
"Working closely with Samsung SDI will enable us to create a customized solution that best suits their production needs. This will in turn allow Samsung to cost-effectively provide mobile device OEMs with extremely thin, lightweight, high-quality OLED displays," said Michael Sullivan, president of Vitex (San Jose, Calif.).
Vitex, a spin-off of advanced research laboratory Battelle Memorial Institute, has been involved in the development of Barix encapsulation for the past three years. Through its Barrier Engineering Program, Vitex said it could customize the Barix coating for the specific performance requirements of an individual manufacturer's OLED displays.
Another product by AOL aimed at the poor masses who don't understand that most of these services are free and/or can be found at cheaper prices. (Although only with AOL can you hear an exciting 'You've got music!' sound, so that's a plus.)
I used to work at Rite-Aid, and we attached small security chips tag, which would set off the alarm if they left the door, to our most tempting products. This is why most stores 'demagnitize' products already. This may not be as advanced, but it's a similar concept ethically, since the store is using electronics, often unseen, to protect their merchandise from Bob Stickyfingers.
Makes you wonder if they are planning to challenge google as the search supreme
'The acquisition, combined with the recent purchase of search engine AltaVista, is designed to help Overture "create the most powerful and comprehensive search capability on the Internet," the company said in a release.'
Slashdot Mirror
In phase one, the only details that will be entered are name, address and Meter Point Asset Number
TK-421! Why aren't you at you post?
We invite you to come over and give our spammers a royal smacking, and then deport them to Austrialia.
While keeping news of the issue from leaking to those who might exploit the vulnerability.
Free flow of information > Security
Why oh why didn't I buy the blue drive.
I love sendmail!! I forgive any security holes it may have. I even have it's picture framed on my desk.
For a minute I thought this story was about S&M, and I didn't want to meet whoever 'Java' was...
One thing is clear, however, spammers will not listen to reason.
Well, how can you refuse their great deals!?! They must think we're crazy.
The guy's a journalist. He obvoiusly likes to write in that way, regardless. Chill dude.
Sports are not more important than people.
Sports can lead to people worrying about stuff that's not important whatsoever to their real lives, it can cause frustration, humiliation, and teach vengeance and reward cruelty if taught improperly.
Health and exercise is important, but how one decides to have fun and/or attempt to attract the opposite sex should not have sway in their being a 'loser'.
Finally, many atheletes do worse things than smoking in the form of drugs to improve performance because winning has become their lives.
It's certainly not just 'computer geeks' that must live as outsider's in mainstream society. Just about any group of behavior, tech related or not, that does not participate in norm behaviors are easy to ostracize. In lieu of a classic 'geek', there will always be someone different enough to take the fall.
To quote Cartman, "Damn hippies."
In South Park Cartman represents, among other things, the ignorance of the American public, so I wouldn't go looking for help from Matt Stone or Trey Parker while you're trying to justify greed and selfishness.
Seems the citizens were forced to obtain pirated copies due to the high cost
This is a problem most people under 24 seem to have...
Don't you love that word.
Guess it's time to get out the red tape and seal up any hopes of low cost DSL.
No.
Some would say it's not.
"Butterfly uses a "grid computing" approach, in which multiple servers work together as a virtual supercomputer, seamlessly shifting processing tasks among individual machines."
How is this different from Parallel computing?
Universities have enough to deal with concerning their students, before they start wasting their money policing filesharing.
Just let them teach the classes. Let the students worry about the law.(or lack thereof)
I'll remember him for starring in the hit comedy 'That's My Bush'.
The biggest problems with Civ III were the ten minute turns of 50 tanks slowly moving across the continent to your enemy, and that minute amount of resources availiable. (Not to mention the shoddy AI as usual, and countless other problems). So I don't think the games are that similar, although I've yet to play MOO3.
Didn't seem /.ed to me, but others were complaining..
MANHASSET, N.Y. -- Samsung SDI Co. has partnered with Vitex Systems Inc. to market displays based on organic light emitting diodes that the two companies claim are 50 percent lower in weight and thickness than any other commercially available display.
Samsung, which has been pursuing OLEDs volume production, will provide funding for the specialized design and engineering activities of Vitex's Barrier Engineering Program. Samsung said its goal is to explore whether the technology can be produced for encapsulation of full-color, active-matrix OLEDs.
Vitex's proprietary Barix thin-film coating is designed to enable manufacturing of thinner, lighter displays for the mobile device market, said Ho-Kyoon Chung, Samsung's senior vice president. "We believe that Vitex's Barrier Engineering Program holds the potential to be the fastest, most cost-effective way for Samsung SDI to achieve a thin-film encapsulation solution for our OLED displays," he said.
Broad adoption of OLEDs has been impeded to some extent by a key manufacturing challenge: the organic matter's sensitivity to moisture and oxygen, which can quickly destroy an OLED display if unprotected.
Vitex's thin-film technology creates a moisture and oxygen barrier that is potentially as effective as a sheet of glass, without the added bulk, according to the company. Using Vitex's Barix encapsulation, display manufacturers can deposit, in situ, a thin-film coating directly on top of the OLED material on a glass substrate.
The procedure would eliminate the need for a glued-on-metal can or extra sheet of glass. The resulting thinner, lighter display is expected to deliver higher reliability at a significantly reduced manufacturing cost.
"The Barix technology developed by Vitex has significant potential to help further propel widespread industry adoption of OLEDs, which have emerged as a promising candidate in the production of zero-border, super-thin displays," said Ross Young, president of DisplaySearch (Austin, Texas). The market research firm projects that global sales of OLEDs will grow from $112 million in 2002 to $3.1 billion by 2007.
"Working closely with Samsung SDI will enable us to create a customized solution that best suits their production needs. This will in turn allow Samsung to cost-effectively provide mobile device OEMs with extremely thin, lightweight, high-quality OLED displays," said Michael Sullivan, president of Vitex (San Jose, Calif.).
Vitex, a spin-off of advanced research laboratory Battelle Memorial Institute, has been involved in the development of Barix encapsulation for the past three years. Through its Barrier Engineering Program, Vitex said it could customize the Barix coating for the specific performance requirements of an individual manufacturer's OLED displays.
Another product by AOL aimed at the poor masses who don't understand that most of these services are free and/or can be found at cheaper prices. (Although only with AOL can you hear an exciting 'You've got music!' sound, so that's a plus.)
It's sick of all the nagging
Hey Boss, we're not gonna make the deadline.
...I guess it would be a good motivational tool...
Boss: How about if I give you five thousand deadlines!
I used to work at Rite-Aid, and we attached small security chips tag, which would set off the alarm if they left the door, to our most tempting products. This is why most stores 'demagnitize' products already. This may not be as advanced, but it's a similar concept ethically, since the store is using electronics, often unseen, to protect their merchandise from Bob Stickyfingers.
Makes you wonder if they are planning to challenge google as the search supreme
'The acquisition, combined with the recent purchase of search engine AltaVista, is designed to help Overture "create the most powerful and comprehensive search capability on the Internet," the company said in a release.'
I would wager that's the plan.