You should have played Grand Theft Auto 3 on your PS2.
My only wish for GT3 would have been for damage/performance degradation. It is too easy to use other cars in a race as "buffers" for doing silly things like entering a corner too fast with no repercussions on your car. Imagine rear-ending someone and then trying to drive with the hood flopping up and down.
Real race car drivers try to do it, so...
The Mac versions of the office components at one time were "better" than the Windows versions, because they were separate. Then, Office 4.x came out (Word 6, Excel 5.x), and the Mac version was based on the Windows code base with the required Macisms, with a user interface toolkit that approximated the Windows UI as much as it could. The (mac) audience was very underwhelmed, and more than one Word 6 for Mac was either removed for Word 5.1 or never installed...
And now they're back to the old ways again. Good enough.
Yes, my former boss (Hi, Chuck) is a HPR (High Powered Rocketry) fanatic. These rockets are close to small military-grade rockets in size, load and power.
As such, he has designed many of his own rockets, and had various software to help calculate important things like the aerodynamic center of gravity, how much mass you can carry in the length of tube vs. power of the rocket motor, etc.
And had some good stories of fins ripping off, totally destabilizing the rocket mid-launch, at which point it sort of convulsively self-destructs in the air. It is even scarier at launch when it happens...
Re:I was just wondering....
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the mouse detects optical surface defects ("noise"), and determines some sort of rate of noise change and direction to figure out where you're moving the mouse. Which is why they don't work on very smooth surfaces, like glass table or desktops.
Warren Buffett dropping $500 Million in pocket change isn't a big negative deal.
Bill Gates doing the same thing would definitely get everyone going. Seeing the problems that Microsoft has gotten itself into, Bill needs Warren to provide a smokescreen. Now, if Bill invests $200 million in Level 3, WorldCom/MCI or anyone else with languishing excess bandwidth, it's going to slip under most people's radar screens.
...not to mention the probability of this happening. Theoretically, we should all be able to quantum mechanically walk through walls. But the probability of us doing it is at least as small as 10^-38, if I remember my QM class correctly.
...yes, but it would probably have to be by a vendor unencumbered by also selling Windows machines, unless they got around the OEM snarls by only selling retail, shrink-wrap copies w/ their MS computers, since I think Microsoft still insists in OEMs paying X/box, whether the box ships with Windows on it or not.
No, you wouldn't have to remove it, just document the exported API used by the MSHTML COM object, and write a COM interface for Gecko, etc. to use, and allow them to register in the Registry where IE usually does. If you can do it with.DOC, you should be able to do it with a call to GetHTMLService api call.
If a "stripped" version of Windows will make PCs more expensive, what will happen then when Ralph Nader starts calling MS's bluff, asking why a software with less costs more (and it's arguably not a real product anyways!), while hardware costs have, what? dropped almost to silly levels, with the net effect that the SOFTWARE we buy actually has gotten more expensive (and, in real dollars paid, I think has anyways) relative to the total cost of the system? Where is the competition to keep Microsoft's costs in check so that their price to the consumer is kept low?
So you buy on-line with a credit card. Visa, MC, etc., along with the credit-reporting companies, are more than willing to sell back "profile" information of those who bought stuff from them via credit card.
...not only that, but also making money also selling proprietary stuff that sits ontop of, unencumbered by (except to use) all that L/GPL viral biohazard software.
If a given CIFS-appliance vendor doesn't want to be "restricted" by L/GPL, then they use the approved Microsoft implementation. Simple as that, no?
Will someone be able to eventually argue that MS, given its monopoly position, that its protocols, file formats, etc. now form a "common carrier", and that MS needs to not restrict (maybe not facilitate, but not restrict) interpreters of said protocols?
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they don't use Ti in the nacelles. Those are some other alloy. They DO use it for turbine and compressor blades, because it doesn't "creep" like steel-based alloys, especially in turbine blades.
No, it's usually "3/2" alloy. 6/4 is stronger than 3/2, but much harder to work. Most Ti frames are 3/2. Pure Ti isn't good at all to use for bike frames...
Re:Exactly! It sure rocks in aerospace though!
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You forgot the SR-71/A-12, which is ~90-95% Ti. Seeing as how it came out in the late 50's/early 60's...
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Hmm... It depends on the alloy.
"3/2" Ti alloy is what is usually used in bike tubes, unless it's a Lightspeed, which uses "6/4" alloy in some of its frames.
The Ti alloy for glasses is an alloy that doesn't stay bent.
And the Ti tubes in bike frames, especially road bikes, can be breathtakingly thin. Cycle Sport recently did an article on a bike that the downtube was almost as thin as a soda can, in the middle (the ends are internally butted, i.e, thicker), and flexible (i.e, you could push it in with your hand...). And the fitted out bike weighed 15 lbs, with all the lightest weight stuff they could put on it.
Bike frames are insane compared with where they were 10 or even 5 years ago, thanks to Cannondale, Trek, Kestrel, Klein, Lightspeed and Merlin, et al., not only with newer steel alloys, but also with the newer aluminum alloys, titanium, and carbon fiber.
...but what if you paid some not-under-contract local bands or the civic orchestra to record music for you to play? It's ambience music, so it doesn't have to even be a great recording, right?
Are you still going to be shaken down by the RIAA?
What if...some musician came out with a quick way to throw out Moby-like music, and sold it directly to restaurants (or provided a non-RIAA-sanctioned service similar to Muzak) for a small amount of money? Would the RIAA then try to shake the musician down, too?
MS has $40 billion cash to throw at things. Pretty much by force of will, they can make it profitable in 5 years.
If MS had a title like Gran Turismo 3, Metal Gear Solid 2, or Grand Theft Auto 3 (even though they are "franchises" established on previous systems) for the XBox, something that people WERE seriously drooling in anticipation for, maybe it would be doing better. The only game for the XBox that seemed to be this way was HALO. What is in the pipe now for XBox that has this going for it already?
I bet if they could get Take2 to only produce Duke Nukem Forever! for the XBox they'd build some serious "gotta get one" fever for the XBox, but DNF has been rumored for so long that it could be a Daikatana waiting to happen all over again, too, because expectations will be so high for the game that it can't live up to them, even if they bundled SGI Onyx systems for free with the game.
Microsoft is also good at manipulating "meme space", i.e., they're real good at marketing. Enough people look at MS as THE authority, so when MS says they're [more] secure now than ever, they eat it hook-line-and-sinker.
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You should have played Grand Theft Auto 3 on your PS2. My only wish for GT3 would have been for damage/performance degradation. It is too easy to use other cars in a race as "buffers" for doing silly things like entering a corner too fast with no repercussions on your car. Imagine rear-ending someone and then trying to drive with the hood flopping up and down. Real race car drivers try to do it, so...
The Mac versions of the office components at one time were "better" than the Windows versions, because they were separate. Then, Office 4.x came out (Word 6, Excel 5.x), and the Mac version was based on the Windows code base with the required Macisms, with a user interface toolkit that approximated the Windows UI as much as it could. The (mac) audience was very underwhelmed, and more than one Word 6 for Mac was either removed for Word 5.1 or never installed... And now they're back to the old ways again. Good enough.
Yes, my former boss (Hi, Chuck) is a HPR (High Powered Rocketry) fanatic. These rockets are close to small military-grade rockets in size, load and power. As such, he has designed many of his own rockets, and had various software to help calculate important things like the aerodynamic center of gravity, how much mass you can carry in the length of tube vs. power of the rocket motor, etc. And had some good stories of fins ripping off, totally destabilizing the rocket mid-launch, at which point it sort of convulsively self-destructs in the air. It is even scarier at launch when it happens...
the mouse detects optical surface defects ("noise"), and determines some sort of rate of noise change and direction to figure out where you're moving the mouse. Which is why they don't work on very smooth surfaces, like glass table or desktops.
Warren Buffett dropping $500 Million in pocket change isn't a big negative deal. Bill Gates doing the same thing would definitely get everyone going. Seeing the problems that Microsoft has gotten itself into, Bill needs Warren to provide a smokescreen. Now, if Bill invests $200 million in Level 3, WorldCom/MCI or anyone else with languishing excess bandwidth, it's going to slip under most people's radar screens.
...not to mention the probability of this happening. Theoretically, we should all be able to quantum mechanically walk through walls. But the probability of us doing it is at least as small as 10^-38, if I remember my QM class correctly.
Some server-to-OS/Server-to-server stuff is facilitated in Oracle with sockets, too.
then wear earplugs. Most HDs these days are incredibly quiet.
...yes, but it would probably have to be by a vendor unencumbered by also selling Windows machines, unless they got around the OEM snarls by only selling retail, shrink-wrap copies w/ their MS computers, since I think Microsoft still insists in OEMs paying X/box, whether the box ships with Windows on it or not.
MSN bought go.com from Disney. Disney was selling it off.
You could say the same about Disney-ABC a few years ago, and that hasn't happened, either.
No, you wouldn't have to remove it, just document the exported API used by the MSHTML COM object, and write a COM interface for Gecko, etc. to use, and allow them to register in the Registry where IE usually does. If you can do it with .DOC, you should be able to do it with a call to GetHTMLService api call.
If a "stripped" version of Windows will make PCs more expensive, what will happen then when Ralph Nader starts calling MS's bluff, asking why a software with less costs more (and it's arguably not a real product anyways!), while hardware costs have, what? dropped almost to silly levels, with the net effect that the SOFTWARE we buy actually has gotten more expensive (and, in real dollars paid, I think has anyways) relative to the total cost of the system? Where is the competition to keep Microsoft's costs in check so that their price to the consumer is kept low?
So you buy on-line with a credit card. Visa, MC, etc., along with the credit-reporting companies, are more than willing to sell back "profile" information of those who bought stuff from them via credit card.
...not only that, but also making money also selling proprietary stuff that sits ontop of, unencumbered by (except to use) all that L/GPL viral biohazard software.
If a given CIFS-appliance vendor doesn't want to be "restricted" by L/GPL, then they use the approved Microsoft implementation. Simple as that, no? Will someone be able to eventually argue that MS, given its monopoly position, that its protocols, file formats, etc. now form a "common carrier", and that MS needs to not restrict (maybe not facilitate, but not restrict) interpreters of said protocols?
they don't use Ti in the nacelles. Those are some other alloy. They DO use it for turbine and compressor blades, because it doesn't "creep" like steel-based alloys, especially in turbine blades.
No, it's usually "3/2" alloy. 6/4 is stronger than 3/2, but much harder to work. Most Ti frames are 3/2. Pure Ti isn't good at all to use for bike frames...
You forgot the SR-71/A-12, which is ~90-95% Ti. Seeing as how it came out in the late 50's/early 60's...
Hmm... It depends on the alloy.
"3/2" Ti alloy is what is usually used in bike tubes, unless it's a Lightspeed, which uses "6/4" alloy in some of its frames.
The Ti alloy for glasses is an alloy that doesn't stay bent.
And the Ti tubes in bike frames, especially road bikes, can be breathtakingly thin. Cycle Sport recently did an article on a bike that the downtube was almost as thin as a soda can, in the middle (the ends are internally butted, i.e, thicker), and flexible (i.e, you could push it in with your hand...). And the fitted out bike weighed 15 lbs, with all the lightest weight stuff they could put on it.
Bike frames are insane compared with where they were 10 or even 5 years ago, thanks to Cannondale, Trek, Kestrel, Klein, Lightspeed and Merlin, et al., not only with newer steel alloys, but also with the newer aluminum alloys, titanium, and carbon fiber.
Nike should have cobranded the Brio, or come out with a new basketball named "Brio" instead.
...but what if you paid some not-under-contract local bands or the civic orchestra to record music for you to play? It's ambience music, so it doesn't have to even be a great recording, right? Are you still going to be shaken down by the RIAA?
What if...some musician came out with a quick way to throw out Moby-like music, and sold it directly to restaurants (or provided a non-RIAA-sanctioned service similar to Muzak) for a small amount of money? Would the RIAA then try to shake the musician down, too?
MS has $40 billion cash to throw at things. Pretty much by force of will, they can make it profitable in 5 years.
If MS had a title like Gran Turismo 3, Metal Gear Solid 2, or Grand Theft Auto 3 (even though they are "franchises" established on previous systems) for the XBox, something that people WERE seriously drooling in anticipation for, maybe it would be doing better. The only game for the XBox that seemed to be this way was HALO. What is in the pipe now for XBox that has this going for it already?
I bet if they could get Take2 to only produce Duke Nukem Forever! for the XBox they'd build some serious "gotta get one" fever for the XBox, but DNF has been rumored for so long that it could be a Daikatana waiting to happen all over again, too, because expectations will be so high for the game that it can't live up to them, even if they bundled SGI Onyx systems for free with the game.
Microsoft is also good at manipulating "meme space", i.e., they're real good at marketing. Enough people look at MS as THE authority, so when MS says they're [more] secure now than ever, they eat it hook-line-and-sinker.