This reminds me of those Sci Fi flicks where scientists really want to create creatures from scratch. So they come up with a bunch of "super creatures" which they'll use to perform tasks better than their human counter parts. Of course, said "super creatures" turn on them and start killing them or rebelling against mankind. You know what I mean, think... Resident Evil? [the movie for example]
I wouldnt be surprised if they were back and on the ball by the end of 2003. Challenger was a shock; columbia is returning to familiar ground for many of the people who were around when the first catastrophe happened, and I expect it to move along much faster because of their experience in the latter.
I could see the true reason for this being to compensate for losses. Regardless of the Star Wars name, there is still a chance they might end up with a lose from one of these pseudocompany's products. Putting them all together helps prevent the possibility one of them might go under in the same way that AOL [&] Time Warner is losing $100 Billion on AOL, but has big movies that even it out to $11.8 Billion revenue.
View predicted weather and road conditions
monitor the potential for deteriorating road conditions.
Predict the impact of upcoming weather on specific road segments.
Assess treatment recommendations based on proven rules of practice.
Devise a plan for anti-icing, deicing, plowing, or other road treatment.
If you ask me, it still looks like they have to physically go out there and do something if it snows. It appears it will only be of major use if the roads are too dangerous to drive on and they can close the roads, or if travelers actually check predicted road conditions before they go traveling.
Regardless, they still have to anti-ice, d-ice, plow, etc. So this wont do any good to the traveler who is already on the road approaching said segment of highway/freeway/road to no where.
Altho I do think its a wonderful way to monitor many different roadways and see which ones need to be treated and which ones dont, which in the long run could save money and lives anyway.
Take it as you will.
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Haha the Irony! I was just reading your post on the poll and I look at the replies to my posts and there you are. heh, even the internet is a small world.
I'm with Jefu on this one. I think it should be a tax that increases over time. At first I thought a proportion of the income from a particular copyright... but then I started thinking if it never was a hinderance why would they ever stop paying the tax and renewing the copyright?
Obviously an increasing burden would be needed to prevent companies from keeping copyrights in their hands for an unlimited number of renewals. Although at the same time, a tax that increased but not in relation to the company's margins of income is not reasonable. Smaller businesses would never be able to afford a second copyright renewal. So the course of action would be closer to taking their income from said copyright, and then starting with a base tax of say, 3%, and every x years that tax doubles. Something of that sort. this way after 7x years, the tax would be 21% of the income from said copyright. X could either be a portion of a renewal period, or the renewal period itself.
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I fear you fail to see the sarcasm. I have to agree with him on this one. The ant is said to be capable of lifting 10 times its own body weight, so why would the students predict that the ants would tunnel slower in space than on earth?
I could only attribute this to concepts based on hinderences to human's movements in space. They probably assumed that since Humans have a harder time coordinating while in space suits on different worlds that Ants would have a harder time coordinating in small tunnels in a controled environment.
This of course has so far been proved false, because the Ants have several legs and movement through said tunnels would probably be easier with lower gravity in the same way humans could probably move faster in tunnels on the moon than we could here on earth. Think of it this way, we could jump down a cooridor on the moon far faster than we could walk run or crawl through it on earth.
You're right, look at this:
http://www.pcgamereview.com/reviews/video_cards/mo reinfo_622.asp
That seems to say it was released in 1999, which in most ways seems a bit late, although I was using a V3 3000 from about 2000 - 2002 anyway, So it doesnt seem all that far off.
"Mohan said the decision to award the contract to a vendor deploying PostgreSQL vindicates the database as a reliable, stable management system."
No, it simply means that its going to be tested in a larger environment and if it does well then they get to party and say "woohoo it worked!" and if it flops they're all gonna feel really stupid. It doesnt mean its stable at all. The common practice of paraphrasing "LOOK!! Someone is using our product so it MUST work perfectly." is actually quite disturbing.
Why is building your own transmitter illegal? Because when the aliens attack we want to charge them an hourly fee for communicating with eachother for the last 70 eons, putting them in financial ruin, which makes it impossible to run their armies of aliens, therefore thwarting the attack. We are the Victor!
Who decided that any government "owns" the radio spectrum? The people who want to thwart the alien's attacks!!!
Who gives this organization such power to control the "airwaves"? What they really want to do is charge you money or lock you up! That way they have prior cases to back up their suit against the attacking aliens!
/strangeness...
No really, I have no idea why. Maybe because they're capitalists and therefore they're evil at heart because they're driven by money. [greed]
I own a cell phone and a radio! I must be a terrorist! OHH and Truckers have radios too! Some of them have laptops with wireless, are they terrorists too?
Well its easier for moderators, or even bots that check links, to sort through this than it would be all the.com sites. If you had a bot that searched through all the various.kids.us sites, then all the bot would have to do is check to see if its not a.kids.us link, unfortunately, like slashdot.org.
If it only had links to.kids.us suffixes, then it'd be ok, if it had links to other stuff, it'd be easy for a bot to report it to a moderator.
This is one of those few good moves that I appreciate. I'm about that age where I will be having kids in the near future, and it makes a big difference to me what kinds of things they're exposed to. Something like this would make myself feel very safe letting my kids roam the internet, and I'm pretty sure most other parents or soon to be parents feel this way too. I would know that if they're on a Disney site, a site about children's shows, or even a local news site, its very unlikely they will accidentally end up on some sexist, racist, or drug related website.
True, I doubt that ammount will be awarded. Assuming Bonzi loses, they will probably be slapped with a fine or fee that is large enough to convince their company that such practices are not ok. Depending on their companies wealth and revenue, that could be hundreds of thousands, millions, even tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. I dont think it will ever be close to a billion dollars... unless this company is making several million dollars in revenue every day, like McDonalds.
I took a year long programming course, and the only "gaming" related material was to code a game of pacmac for the rest of the class to goof around with.
And in the US you've got TPL which I went to. It was a great deal of fun but no where near the size of this.:) Must.... find... another 500 man[and woman] lan!
Unforunately the TPL site appears to be down though:-/ It was a 500 person lan event in portland oregon on may 22nd 2002.
P2P is alive and kicking. Kazaa, Morpheus if its still going, WinMX, Kazaalite, blah blah blah. Its all still out there. People are still sharing files. But there are other forms of P2P. Gaming companies are now creating P2P downloads so they can alleviate bandwidth issues by pointing you to another person who has the same file, instead of their overloaded servers.
Secondly, Buhahaha state the obvious! Go Cringely Go!
"Forgetting for the moment that some of these media people are greedy pond dwellers, let's ask the important question -- how are peer-to-peer file sharing systems going to replace $100 million movies? Peer-to-peer systems can share such movies, but since there is no real peer-to-peer business model that can generate enough zeroes, such systems are unlikely to finance any epic films.
Well, right there we have a problem. People LIKE epic films, but even with the best editing and animation software, there is no way some kid with a hopped-up Mac or PC is going to make "Terminator 4." One can only guess, then, that people will continue to go to movies and eat popcorn and watch on the big screen despite how many copies of Divx there are in the world."
Thats it right there. What are they worried about if they're still selling 47 Million $ in Box Office Ticket Sales on the first 3 days of Harry Potter, or whichever movie it was that had made some tremendous ammount of cash... Why spend so much money fighting P2P when they could embrace it for completely different Ideas like gaming companies and even some slash movie websites have done.
If a woman can win a case against McDonalds for making coffee too hot and not warning her properly, why cant a State win a case against Microsoft for this? This, in my opinion, is FAR worse then not warning me my hot coffee might be too hot.
The reason why they use 19 is related to musical content. If you divided it into 48, or even 24 even pieces, then you might accidentally stop it in the middle of a brilliant musical motion.
In other words, whoever broke it up into sections was more worried about musical value and meaning, than file size and numerical sense. Think of your favorite piece of music from any genre, you wouldnt want it to, take a break, RIGHT in the middle of your favorite stanza, verse, etc.
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This reminds me of those Sci Fi flicks where scientists really want to create creatures from scratch. So they come up with a bunch of "super creatures" which they'll use to perform tasks better than their human counter parts. Of course, said "super creatures" turn on them and start killing them or rebelling against mankind. You know what I mean, think... Resident Evil? [the movie for example]
I wouldnt be surprised if they were back and on the ball by the end of 2003. Challenger was a shock; columbia is returning to familiar ground for many of the people who were around when the first catastrophe happened, and I expect it to move along much faster because of their experience in the latter.
I could see the true reason for this being to compensate for losses. Regardless of the Star Wars name, there is still a chance they might end up with a lose from one of these pseudocompany's products. Putting them all together helps prevent the possibility one of them might go under in the same way that AOL [&] Time Warner is losing $100 Billion on AOL, but has big movies that even it out to $11.8 Billion revenue.
View predicted weather and road conditions monitor the potential for deteriorating road conditions.
Predict the impact of upcoming weather on specific road segments.
Assess treatment recommendations based on proven rules of practice.
Devise a plan for anti-icing, deicing, plowing, or other road treatment.
If you ask me, it still looks like they have to physically go out there and do something if it snows. It appears it will only be of major use if the roads are too dangerous to drive on and they can close the roads, or if travelers actually check predicted road conditions before they go traveling.
Regardless, they still have to anti-ice, d-ice, plow, etc. So this wont do any good to the traveler who is already on the road approaching said segment of highway/freeway/road to no where.
Altho I do think its a wonderful way to monitor many different roadways and see which ones need to be treated and which ones dont, which in the long run could save money and lives anyway.
Take it as you will.
Haha the Irony! I was just reading your post on the poll and I look at the replies to my posts and there you are. heh, even the internet is a small world.
Obviously an increasing burden would be needed to prevent companies from keeping copyrights in their hands for an unlimited number of renewals. Although at the same time, a tax that increased but not in relation to the company's margins of income is not reasonable. Smaller businesses would never be able to afford a second copyright renewal. So the course of action would be closer to taking their income from said copyright, and then starting with a base tax of say, 3%, and every x years that tax doubles. Something of that sort. this way after 7x years, the tax would be 21% of the income from said copyright. X could either be a portion of a renewal period, or the renewal period itself.
I could only attribute this to concepts based on hinderences to human's movements in space. They probably assumed that since Humans have a harder time coordinating while in space suits on different worlds that Ants would have a harder time coordinating in small tunnels in a controled environment.
This of course has so far been proved false, because the Ants have several legs and movement through said tunnels would probably be easier with lower gravity in the same way humans could probably move faster in tunnels on the moon than we could here on earth. Think of it this way, we could jump down a cooridor on the moon far faster than we could walk run or crawl through it on earth.
You're right, look at this: http://www.pcgamereview.com/reviews/video_cards/mo reinfo_622.asp
That seems to say it was released in 1999, which in most ways seems a bit late, although I was using a V3 3000 from about 2000 - 2002 anyway, So it doesnt seem all that far off.
Does anyone else who can barely get to MOO's Page after a good slashdotting, think its ... a joke? ...
No, it simply means that its going to be tested in a larger environment and if it does well then they get to party and say "woohoo it worked!" and if it flops they're all gonna feel really stupid. It doesnt mean its stable at all. The common practice of paraphrasing "LOOK!! Someone is using our product so it MUST work perfectly." is actually quite disturbing.
Isnt that how the country's been run for generations though?
but at least we might see a few less of those 72 hour lanners passing out and dying while playing various games back to back for 36+ hours.
What happens when the battery dies? Do we loose all that information about cumulative radiation?
Why? Because the aliens are coming...
/strangeness...
Why is building your own transmitter illegal? Because when the aliens attack we want to charge them an hourly fee for communicating with eachother for the last 70 eons, putting them in financial ruin, which makes it impossible to run their armies of aliens, therefore thwarting the attack. We are the Victor!
Who decided that any government "owns" the radio spectrum? The people who want to thwart the alien's attacks!!!
Who gives this organization such power to control the "airwaves"? What they really want to do is charge you money or lock you up! That way they have prior cases to back up their suit against the attacking aliens!
No really, I have no idea why. Maybe because they're capitalists and therefore they're evil at heart because they're driven by money. [greed]
Isnt that kind of the side effect of monopolization? Has anyone ever considered that they dont have any *competition*?
I own a cell phone and a radio! I must be a terrorist! OHH and Truckers have radios too! Some of them have laptops with wireless, are they terrorists too?
If it only had links to .kids.us suffixes, then it'd be ok, if it had links to other stuff, it'd be easy for a bot to report it to a moderator.
This is one of those few good moves that I appreciate. I'm about that age where I will be having kids in the near future, and it makes a big difference to me what kinds of things they're exposed to. Something like this would make myself feel very safe letting my kids roam the internet, and I'm pretty sure most other parents or soon to be parents feel this way too. I would know that if they're on a Disney site, a site about children's shows, or even a local news site, its very unlikely they will accidentally end up on some sexist, racist, or drug related website.
True, I doubt that ammount will be awarded. Assuming Bonzi loses, they will probably be slapped with a fine or fee that is large enough to convince their company that such practices are not ok. Depending on their companies wealth and revenue, that could be hundreds of thousands, millions, even tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. I dont think it will ever be close to a billion dollars... unless this company is making several million dollars in revenue every day, like McDonalds.
I took a year long programming course, and the only "gaming" related material was to code a game of pacmac for the rest of the class to goof around with.
Unforunately the TPL site appears to be down though :-/ It was a 500 person lan event in portland oregon on may 22nd 2002.
I do know what I'm talking about. Thanks for the other link tho :) I like it. :)
P2P is alive and kicking. Kazaa, Morpheus if its still going, WinMX, Kazaalite, blah blah blah. Its all still out there. People are still sharing files. But there are other forms of P2P. Gaming companies are now creating P2P downloads so they can alleviate bandwidth issues by pointing you to another person who has the same file, instead of their overloaded servers.
Secondly, Buhahaha state the obvious! Go Cringely Go!
"Forgetting for the moment that some of these media people are greedy pond dwellers, let's ask the important question -- how are peer-to-peer file sharing systems going to replace $100 million movies? Peer-to-peer systems can share such movies, but since there is no real peer-to-peer business model that can generate enough zeroes, such systems are unlikely to finance any epic films.
Well, right there we have a problem. People LIKE epic films, but even with the best editing and animation software, there is no way some kid with a hopped-up Mac or PC is going to make "Terminator 4." One can only guess, then, that people will continue to go to movies and eat popcorn and watch on the big screen despite how many copies of Divx there are in the world."
Thats it right there. What are they worried about if they're still selling 47 Million $ in Box Office Ticket Sales on the first 3 days of Harry Potter, or whichever movie it was that had made some tremendous ammount of cash... Why spend so much money fighting P2P when they could embrace it for completely different Ideas like gaming companies and even some slash movie websites have done.
If a woman can win a case against McDonalds for making coffee too hot and not warning her properly, why cant a State win a case against Microsoft for this? This, in my opinion, is FAR worse then not warning me my hot coffee might be too hot.
In other words, whoever broke it up into sections was more worried about musical value and meaning, than file size and numerical sense. Think of your favorite piece of music from any genre, you wouldnt want it to, take a break, RIGHT in the middle of your favorite stanza, verse, etc.