No, most didn't, but that was only by a margin of a few thousand people out of 250 million. That's a small enough number of your population to let the world know that *half* of Americans wanted this current president. It seems hypocritical of people to talk about how "most people didn't vote for this president" since an overwhealming number did vote for him.
I've seen the shape the US wants us in and that shape is obese. By the time you guys are finished "shaping" your country your're all going to look like Marlon Brando on a bad day.
point is: if you dont have something constructive to say that helps the person asking the question they are posing to you, butt out and let people who are actually interested in the specific topic in question to help add productive comments to the thread.
Good attitude, now, who wants to point me to a source of information on torturing kittens and blowing the heads off dogs with homemade explosives? If someone also has a source of sarin gas I can use that would be jubbly.
I lived opposite a hill that was definitely more than 30 degree incline whilst living on the Gold Coast. It was a definite danger to the lives of anyone who drove up it, and I know of five people that have been killed coming down it. This hill is so steep that if your car comes out of gear then you are likely to die since your breaks can't handle the load of the vehicle on the way down and it would careen out of control and hit the bank at the front of our property. Trust me, a scooter isn't getting up a 30 degree incline.
If they don't really care about the weight loss and the fitness factor then they should just buy a scooter or a motorcycle instead. Why bother with all that troublesome peddling unless you're looking for some health benefits. Motor cycles are incredibly fuel efficient and great for nipping around traffic, plus you can go for pleasant mountain rides on the weekends.
There are plenty of options. For one, a lot of DVDROM players have hacks to change their region any number of times and can be set to region 0 too. Another option is to rip your films to DIVX format and then either store them on the hard drive or burn them to a CD/DVD. You can fit a decent copy of a full length movie on a single CDROM if you encode it well.
As an Aussie who moved to London I went through this hassle an age ago. If you had electronic gear then simply cut the plugs off the end and put an Aussie plug on instead. If you thought to bring your powerboards with you, you could simply do this to the powerboard and plug up to eight British devices into it (depending on powerboard size).
Not so. Feed this spam harvest into the bayes classifier for SpamAssassin or another filter system and train it to recognise that as all spam. This will seriously increase the quality of it's spam checking in future. I fed about 12,000 into mine, the result of about five months worth of harvesting.
Not sure if this is current still, but since MS used to charge a licence fee to schools for every machine they had, Macs included, and since OEM's had to pay a Windows licence even for machines that didn't ship with Windows I'd say the word tax is a fair description.
No need for the hub with only 2 NICs, just use a crossover cable until you have at least 3 machines. So, total cost, a crossover cable and two NICS, possibly off e-bay. Shouldn't cost more than about $20USD if done like that.
Or we will see a huge rise in the number of viruses asking you to insert a blank formatted floppy, wait a minute while it copies some files, then take it to your mate's place and boot his machine off it.
Companies still have the option to actually innovate and improve their products. Case example, first person shooter games. There are tons of these games out there, probably a couple of hundred released each year, but only a few truly stand out and get the big dollars spent on them. These are the ones that companies have either innovated on, or polished so they shine like a gem in the muck. For example, Id Sithware has innovated in the tech field by providing a brilliant game engine in the form of Doom III, with a game attached no less. Valve are providing what many hope to be an immersive and well scripted gaming experience. Both companies will move a lot of product without the need of a patent.
Patents have their place and their value, but the software industry is not the right place to be deploying them.
It's a different world since that mis-quote was made, now it's more like "nobody would ever need more than a 640 megabyte patch"...at least until next year.
They use digital restoration and colouring techniques to restore prints made from the original masters. These can be colour balanced, and have contrast, brightnesss, etc all adjusted to really suit the better range of the DVD format (over VHS). But even if they didn't do all this, the DVD's should always look better than VHS in any case since they are a better format.
There's a solution to that problem, but most people aren't going to like it. I've begun studying Japanese (nihongo) and one of the reasons is to be able to enjoy all their excellent cinema without the subtitles. The other is so I can live there:-)
I don't really mind subtitling, since I've been reading it for maybe 20 years now, it's hard to even notice. You just need to learn to read it nice and quick. Flick your eyes down to the subtitles and let the image burn into your mind, but don't try and "read" it. Now, read the image in your mind instead, you should have the gist of what was said, and you should get this within a flash i.e. you should be able to get a two liner subtitle in less than half a second. It's speed reading, but speed reading just a short line or two at a time.
I'm pretty sure I saw Akira first, then GITS and Ninja Scroll, but it's a long time ago now, so it's hard to be sure. It's possible it was Alita, Battle Angel first (or Nausicaa), then the others. In any case, those three will always have a special spot in my DVD collection.
--QUOTE-- Do you have any lined up for the future?
They're going to continue to be around the scenarios that customers say are important -- TCO, security and reliability.
--END QUOTE--
Well, one out of three aint bad. MS don't have a super reputation for either reliability or security and even their TCO studies in favour of MS are very suspect. I guess these must be future goals for the company.
Or a scary new lifeform that is an insane mix of the two, henceforth to be known as MicroBush. MicroBush is a particularly dangerous tech company with the ability to wage real war against it's competitors.
Civilian deaths are a known and unavoidable consequence of war. When you call for a war you are implicitly signing off on those deaths. Bush called for a war. There is nothing obtuse about the statement I am making here.
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No, most didn't, but that was only by a margin of a few thousand people out of 250 million. That's a small enough number of your population to let the world know that *half* of Americans wanted this current president. It seems hypocritical of people to talk about how "most people didn't vote for this president" since an overwhealming number did vote for him.
I've seen the shape the US wants us in and that shape is obese. By the time you guys are finished "shaping" your country your're all going to look like Marlon Brando on a bad day.
Good attitude, now, who wants to point me to a source of information on torturing kittens and blowing the heads off dogs with homemade explosives? If someone also has a source of sarin gas I can use that would be jubbly.
I lived opposite a hill that was definitely more than 30 degree incline whilst living on the Gold Coast. It was a definite danger to the lives of anyone who drove up it, and I know of five people that have been killed coming down it. This hill is so steep that if your car comes out of gear then you are likely to die since your breaks can't handle the load of the vehicle on the way down and it would careen out of control and hit the bank at the front of our property. Trust me, a scooter isn't getting up a 30 degree incline.
If they don't really care about the weight loss and the fitness factor then they should just buy a scooter or a motorcycle instead. Why bother with all that troublesome peddling unless you're looking for some health benefits. Motor cycles are incredibly fuel efficient and great for nipping around traffic, plus you can go for pleasant mountain rides on the weekends.
As an Aussie who moved to London I went through this hassle an age ago. If you had electronic gear then simply cut the plugs off the end and put an Aussie plug on instead. If you thought to bring your powerboards with you, you could simply do this to the powerboard and plug up to eight British devices into it (depending on powerboard size).
Not so. Feed this spam harvest into the bayes classifier for SpamAssassin or another filter system and train it to recognise that as all spam. This will seriously increase the quality of it's spam checking in future. I fed about 12,000 into mine, the result of about five months worth of harvesting.
...because they hadn't invented DVD the first two times around.
Not sure if this is current still, but since MS used to charge a licence fee to schools for every machine they had, Macs included, and since OEM's had to pay a Windows licence even for machines that didn't ship with Windows I'd say the word tax is a fair description.
No need for the hub with only 2 NICs, just use a crossover cable until you have at least 3 machines. So, total cost, a crossover cable and two NICS, possibly off e-bay. Shouldn't cost more than about $20USD if done like that.
Or we will see a huge rise in the number of viruses asking you to insert a blank formatted floppy, wait a minute while it copies some files, then take it to your mate's place and boot his machine off it.
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Patents have their place and their value, but the software industry is not the right place to be deploying them.
...and the French just called, they want that Freedom Statue (tm) back again, so please box it up with the bridge.
It's a different world since that mis-quote was made, now it's more like "nobody would ever need more than a 640 megabyte patch"...at least until next year.
There is a special place in hell for us all, book now to get a good seat.
They use digital restoration and colouring techniques to restore prints made from the original masters. These can be colour balanced, and have contrast, brightnesss, etc all adjusted to really suit the better range of the DVD format (over VHS). But even if they didn't do all this, the DVD's should always look better than VHS in any case since they are a better format.
I don't really mind subtitling, since I've been reading it for maybe 20 years now, it's hard to even notice. You just need to learn to read it nice and quick. Flick your eyes down to the subtitles and let the image burn into your mind, but don't try and "read" it. Now, read the image in your mind instead, you should have the gist of what was said, and you should get this within a flash i.e. you should be able to get a two liner subtitle in less than half a second. It's speed reading, but speed reading just a short line or two at a time.
I'm pretty sure I saw Akira first, then GITS and Ninja Scroll, but it's a long time ago now, so it's hard to be sure. It's possible it was Alita, Battle Angel first (or Nausicaa), then the others. In any case, those three will always have a special spot in my DVD collection.
Do you have any lined up for the future?
They're going to continue to be around the scenarios that customers say are important -- TCO, security and reliability.
--END QUOTE--
Well, one out of three aint bad. MS don't have a super reputation for either reliability or security and even their TCO studies in favour of MS are very suspect. I guess these must be future goals for the company.
Or a scary new lifeform that is an insane mix of the two, henceforth to be known as MicroBush. MicroBush is a particularly dangerous tech company with the ability to wage real war against it's competitors.
Please point out some clear examples of this speculation rather than constantly alluding to it, overwise you have nothing to debate about.
Only if it was a SQL joke, it's clearly a shellscript/perl joke ;->
Is that a US billion or an English billion? Perhaps the scientific notation is looking tempting again?
Civilian deaths are a known and unavoidable consequence of war. When you call for a war you are implicitly signing off on those deaths. Bush called for a war. There is nothing obtuse about the statement I am making here.