This is going to be worse than useless in such circumstances. If the police are going to be in a position to use this they'd surely be able to use spike strips to take out the tires. If a foot officer saw a stolen car and was in a position to tag it but is it worth carrying the weight. Shades of Snowcrash loogie guns.
To make spike strips useful you have to deploy them IN FRONT of the vehicle. You can shoot this ball of fun from BEHIND the vehicle (partner in the passenger seat of the police car could do it) and as long as you were close enough or it shot faster than the chased vehicle was moving (and most likely it was actually faster) it would catch up to the vehicle and stick to it. Basically, the new toy can be used from anywhere and you don't have to worry about deploying the spike strips ahead of the criminal, not to mention the spike strips don't always stop the vehicle.
Running from the police is a lot harder these days. If you really want to get away from the cops, buy a motorcycle. Even the dinkiest motorcycles can out-accelerate and out-corner a Police Interceptor Crown-Vic.
I agree but one problem with your statement. I don't think it would be easy to buy a motorcycle and ride it at the same time they are driving the car they stole assuming it's a police chase due to a stolen vehicle. Or if they stole merchandise they won't be able to haul too much using a backpack and motorcycle. Now if they *stole* the motorcycle then they have a good escape vehicle *and* they are on top of their stolen merchandise at the same time. I just hope they can ride it good enough to come out alive and not behind bars (as long as it isn't mine that they steal).
C#, if done well, is already portable -- and what's more, has Java's "Compile once, run anywhere", to some extent -- look at Mono.
Mono covers the Linux platform. Is there anything for HP-UX, AIX, or even SGI that makes C# run on those platforms or by portable do you mean Windows, Windows, Windows, and Linux?
[referring to Aladdin] It may not be award winning cinema, but it's probably a bit more predictable than regular TV cartoons, and less likely to contain violent or inappropriate content.
I assume this is neglecting the fact that Disney puts subliminal messages in their kid movies? In the scene in Aladdin 1 where he goes up to the castle tower (for the first time I believe) where the princess is you can hear very faintly (even with the volume up really high) the phrase "good teenagers take off their clothes". I heard rumors that Lion King had another subliminal mesg (dust spelling out "sex") but didn't have the movie to test it but we did have Aladdin and confirmed that phrase that sneaked in. So w/o that then yeah , you could say there is no inappropriate content but that's like saying if you take out the killing in Die Hard then there is no violence. Not to say all Disney movies are like that but Disney also released Color of Night (with Bruce Willis).
I agree VMware is really nice and you could even split the initial cost for the application with some friends and then take advantage of VMWare's vmplayer which plays back any pre-created virtual machine file. So once you buy VMvware and split it with 5 people ($40 a piece approx.), make a bare virtual machine file, give it to all 5 people, and they can use vmplayer to actually play it back. If anything happens to it just give them the original bare vm file. VMplayer by the way is free and it also reads VirtualPC files (but I believe it ends up creating a vmware file to coincide with it). VMware is also distributing a browser virutal machine that is about 900 megs uncompressed that is a linux distro (ubuntu I think) in the virtual machine and has firefox (or mozilla, i forget) installed so you can browse the net within the vm like you said you do already. By the way, with all the VMs you said you have I hope you have a lot of memory because each one probably requires a minimum of 200MB of RAM. I run at most 3 VMs at one time and they use up the majority of my gig of RAM.
Have you seen Google vs King Kong? Oh it was awesome, must-rent movie of the year (despite there being 11 months left but that's what the film critics always say).
There is a difference between hiding it and commercializing it. The US commercializes it because that's all they seem to know how to do with the subject which is why we try to hide it since it shouldn't be used to make a profit. It's ironic that I post that given this article topic but it's the truth.
So, that you know, I am not a crackpot scientist. English is not my native language, have patience.
You are obviously very smart if you are in physics so I'll give you a lot of credit for that but something you said (quote above) made me think about a joke: English is not the native language of most of the US population *sarcasm*
but due to the short intense burst, the side effects would likely be nil. contrary to anything you may have heard about bruce bannon, the incredible hulk.
Actually his name was bruce banner but I did find a site that said that writers of the comics/tv series would have him use aliases in various towns he was in and he would use david bannon as one of them.
I learned of this when I recently had a job interview with IBM. They had already signed a $2 million contract with a government agency to build a computational data center, but had no available staff to allocate to the contract. The interviewer was completely candid with me when I asked about why they would sign a contract they couldn't fulfill. He said it happens all the time and is standard operating procedure. They simply hire contractors as needed. I turned the job down.
Lockheed Martin does similar practices with gov't contracts and when the contract is awarded they tell their subcontractors what positions are available and the subs go find employees to do the work. That is what happened to me and I'm in the last 6 months of a 4 year contract and a new contract was awarded to LM and my employment will continue with my company doing work for LM but on the new contract so I'll still have a job, in theory. I'm not bashing LM. I'm just saying that's how they do their work. For all I know every gov't contractor does the same thing and that still doesn't make it right (if it's even wrong to begin with). I'm just stating facts.
When you tax me, regulate me and force me to monitor what your children are doing, you are putting the brunt of parenting on me. I don't want it. I'm responsible and have no had kids before I was ready. Don't ask me to help you, I don't want to.
The parents are still there and still have to do their job. They have the brunt of the work, despite your whining about you getting it. They have people targeting their kids from every angle and have to protect their kids from a lot of sources and what do you worry about? All you have is your business and you have plenty of people you can target. It's nice to know you can give so much advice about parenting. Maybe a parent should give you advice about marketing. I'm sure no parent would want you to raise their child because you would spam them to death. They want their kids protected but that is becoming increasingly harder because people who target them don't care who they target and believe they have no responsibility to care in the first place. You want free rein to do whatever you want just so you don't have to worry about doing something you shouldn't. Show some your responsiblity for once. If the parents can then you can too. No one is asking the parents to not care and to give up and move all responsiblity to YOU, they just want you to show some responsiblity just like they are. It's a many to one relationship to protect their kids from marketers and the "many" side keeps growing while the parent side remains at 2 (usually) in order to protect their children. It's all driven by money and parents are losing the battle.
You may have been modded funny (and you may already know what about I'm about to say but just in case you don't..) but a funny crack like that got the cops in Canton, Ohio to arrest a high school student for telling his fellow classmates to do just that very thing to the school's site. The story was on/. yesterday I believe. So you saying your comment is coincidence or you saw the similar story yesterday.
New technology should make the DL disc price plummet so you will get the rock bottom price of DL discs and the new blu-ray discs at the same time. What a deal!
I use ATI software to record at DVD compliant settings (MPEG2 @ 720x480) and I use a variable bitrate with the target at 6000kbps and a max of 8000kbps for the video bitrate. My audio bitrate is only 96kbps and I use MPEG 1 Audio Layer II (16bit stereo at 24hz sampling). An hour long show is approx. 3 gigabytes and once 18 minutes worth of commercials are removed the resulting file is approx. 1.9 gigabytes. Based on those numbers, switching to HD resolution would require a lot more than 2 gigabytes of data and for most shows you would probably want to up the audio quality as well however that wouldn't be a substantial increase unlike the video storage increase (due to higher resolution).
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This is going to be worse than useless in such circumstances. If the police are going to be in a position to use this they'd surely be able to use spike strips to take out the tires. If a foot officer saw a stolen car and was in a position to tag it but is it worth carrying the weight. Shades of Snowcrash loogie guns.
To make spike strips useful you have to deploy them IN FRONT of the vehicle. You can shoot this ball of fun from BEHIND the vehicle (partner in the passenger seat of the police car could do it) and as long as you were close enough or it shot faster than the chased vehicle was moving (and most likely it was actually faster) it would catch up to the vehicle and stick to it. Basically, the new toy can be used from anywhere and you don't have to worry about deploying the spike strips ahead of the criminal, not to mention the spike strips don't always stop the vehicle.
Running from the police is a lot harder these days. If you really want to get away from the cops, buy a motorcycle. Even the dinkiest motorcycles can out-accelerate and out-corner a Police Interceptor Crown-Vic.
I agree but one problem with your statement. I don't think it would be easy to buy a motorcycle and ride it at the same time they are driving the car they stole assuming it's a police chase due to a stolen vehicle. Or if they stole merchandise they won't be able to haul too much using a backpack and motorcycle. Now if they *stole* the motorcycle then they have a good escape vehicle *and* they are on top of their stolen merchandise at the same time. I just hope they can ride it good enough to come out alive and not behind bars (as long as it isn't mine that they steal).
C#, if done well, is already portable -- and what's more, has Java's "Compile once, run anywhere", to some extent -- look at Mono.
Mono covers the Linux platform. Is there anything for HP-UX, AIX, or even SGI that makes C# run on those platforms or by portable do you mean Windows, Windows, Windows, and Linux?
Why is the distinction needed? Both warez (software piracy) and movie piracy are illegal for the same reason: copyright infringement.
[referring to Aladdin] It may not be award winning cinema, but it's probably a bit more predictable than regular TV cartoons, and less likely to contain violent or inappropriate content.
I assume this is neglecting the fact that Disney puts subliminal messages in their kid movies? In the scene in Aladdin 1 where he goes up to the castle tower (for the first time I believe) where the princess is you can hear very faintly (even with the volume up really high) the phrase "good teenagers take off their clothes". I heard rumors that Lion King had another subliminal mesg (dust spelling out "sex") but didn't have the movie to test it but we did have Aladdin and confirmed that phrase that sneaked in. So w/o that then yeah , you could say there is no inappropriate content but that's like saying if you take out the killing in Die Hard then there is no violence. Not to say all Disney movies are like that but Disney also released Color of Night (with Bruce Willis).
I agree VMware is really nice and you could even split the initial cost for the application with some friends and then take advantage of VMWare's vmplayer which plays back any pre-created virtual machine file. So once you buy VMvware and split it with 5 people ($40 a piece approx.), make a bare virtual machine file, give it to all 5 people, and they can use vmplayer to actually play it back. If anything happens to it just give them the original bare vm file. VMplayer by the way is free and it also reads VirtualPC files (but I believe it ends up creating a vmware file to coincide with it). VMware is also distributing a browser virutal machine that is about 900 megs uncompressed that is a linux distro (ubuntu I think) in the virtual machine and has firefox (or mozilla, i forget) installed so you can browse the net within the vm like you said you do already. By the way, with all the VMs you said you have I hope you have a lot of memory because each one probably requires a minimum of 200MB of RAM. I run at most 3 VMs at one time and they use up the majority of my gig of RAM.
This judge got out of hand. If the guy has a descent lawyer, it'll be appealed. The guy may end up walking which would be sad.
He already did appeal. That's what this story is about, and the court upheld the verdict that he is guilty.
Have you seen Google vs King Kong? Oh it was awesome, must-rent movie of the year (despite there being 11 months left but that's what the film critics always say).
Actually, in theory, prices should drop since they will be able to get more chips out of the same size wafer and thus waste less wafer material.
I find myself constantly challenged to actually turn on the TV to watch Family Guy
That's funny you mention that since I feel the same towards the whole Comedy Central station.
Does she use IE too?
There is a difference between hiding it and commercializing it. The US commercializes it because that's all they seem to know how to do with the subject which is why we try to hide it since it shouldn't be used to make a profit. It's ironic that I post that given this article topic but it's the truth.
So, that you know, I am not a crackpot scientist. English is not my native language, have patience.
You are obviously very smart if you are in physics so I'll give you a lot of credit for that but something you said (quote above) made me think about a joke: English is not the native language of most of the US population *sarcasm*
but due to the short intense burst, the side effects would likely be nil. contrary to anything you may have heard about bruce bannon, the incredible hulk.
Actually his name was bruce banner but I did find a site that said that writers of the comics/tv series would have him use aliases in various towns he was in and he would use david bannon as one of them.
Based on that, the mainstream media fails to pass the most simple factchecks.
And most Americans fail to pass the most simple FATchecks. Obesity AND lying run rampant here.
I learned of this when I recently had a job interview with IBM. They had already signed a $2 million contract with a government agency to build a computational data center, but had no available staff to allocate to the contract. The interviewer was completely candid with me when I asked about why they would sign a contract they couldn't fulfill. He said it happens all the time and is standard operating procedure. They simply hire contractors as needed. I turned the job down.
Lockheed Martin does similar practices with gov't contracts and when the contract is awarded they tell their subcontractors what positions are available and the subs go find employees to do the work. That is what happened to me and I'm in the last 6 months of a 4 year contract and a new contract was awarded to LM and my employment will continue with my company doing work for LM but on the new contract so I'll still have a job, in theory. I'm not bashing LM. I'm just saying that's how they do their work. For all I know every gov't contractor does the same thing and that still doesn't make it right (if it's even wrong to begin with). I'm just stating facts.
When you tax me, regulate me and force me to monitor what your children are doing, you are putting the brunt of parenting on me. I don't want it. I'm responsible and have no had kids before I was ready. Don't ask me to help you, I don't want to.
The parents are still there and still have to do their job. They have the brunt of the work, despite your whining about you getting it. They have people targeting their kids from every angle and have to protect their kids from a lot of sources and what do you worry about? All you have is your business and you have plenty of people you can target. It's nice to know you can give so much advice about parenting. Maybe a parent should give you advice about marketing. I'm sure no parent would want you to raise their child because you would spam them to death. They want their kids protected but that is becoming increasingly harder because people who target them don't care who they target and believe they have no responsibility to care in the first place. You want free rein to do whatever you want just so you don't have to worry about doing something you shouldn't. Show some your responsiblity for once. If the parents can then you can too. No one is asking the parents to not care and to give up and move all responsiblity to YOU, they just want you to show some responsiblity just like they are. It's a many to one relationship to protect their kids from marketers and the "many" side keeps growing while the parent side remains at 2 (usually) in order to protect their children. It's all driven by money and parents are losing the battle.
Kind of hard to NOT use it (win98) when it was pre-installed on every PC that was sold during the life of the OS.
Those geeks who motorcycle as well as play video games ...
Is that like people who car to work everyday?
Second, TFA says more than 20 million CD's with MediaMax were sold.
Nothing that the CDs possessed were sold. It was the CDs themselves.
You may have been modded funny (and you may already know what about I'm about to say but just in case you don't..) but a funny crack like that got the cops in Canton, Ohio to arrest a high school student for telling his fellow classmates to do just that very thing to the school's site. The story was on /. yesterday I believe. So you saying your comment is coincidence or you saw the similar story yesterday.
Wow, do you get any mail at all?
He does, 3 days after it was sent.
New technology should make the DL disc price plummet so you will get the rock bottom price of DL discs and the new blu-ray discs at the same time. What a deal!
I use ATI software to record at DVD compliant settings (MPEG2 @ 720x480) and I use a variable bitrate with the target at 6000kbps and a max of 8000kbps for the video bitrate. My audio bitrate is only 96kbps and I use MPEG 1 Audio Layer II (16bit stereo at 24hz sampling). An hour long show is approx. 3 gigabytes and once 18 minutes worth of commercials are removed the resulting file is approx. 1.9 gigabytes. Based on those numbers, switching to HD resolution would require a lot more than 2 gigabytes of data and for most shows you would probably want to up the audio quality as well however that wouldn't be a substantial increase unlike the video storage increase (due to higher resolution).