It's an interesting idea, but there are several problems with the overall design.
For one, it looks like the seating position is fairly agressive, like a sportbike, so you probably aren't going to want to go 180 miles or more on this thing. The seat itself looks tiny and uncomfortable.
For another, 0-60 in 6 seconds on a motorcycle is pretty slow, especially one that looks like it's supposed to be a sport bike.
Lasty, I speculate that such a small (~250 cc) direct injection diesel combined with an electric motor is going to have serious surging issues, which are no fun (ride an "unfixed" BMW F650GS and you'll see what I mean). Direct injection diesel might not do too well here in the states either due to a slightly different formulation.
And really, motorcycles are already pretty fuel efficient. If you really want to do some good IMHO, develop fuel efficient SUVs, pickups, 18 wheelers, buses, and marine engines.
You must have misinterpreted the ad. Clearly, it was meant to show how the PATRIOT act protects red-blooded, illiterate TV watching Americans from horrible book reading terrorists.
...at the Mall of Georgia IMAX, right when the movie first came out. Of course, it was merely the normal print shown on an IMAX projector, but it was still pretty nice. They play alot of geeky movies on the IMAX screen there. I also saw Fellowship of the Ring, XXX, and Spiderman on the IMAX screen, and I look forward to seeing The Two Towers, the next James Bond, and the next Star Trek flicks on it. And no, the pixels weren't a foot tall.
...if you were to create an virtual machine\emulator of this OS\Media Player\Abomination that ignored or altered the functioning of the DRM hardware\software suite?(Other than a blatant violation of the DMCA, that is...) There is no system that can't be cracked, especially where MS is concerned. Suits will never out-geek the geeks.
Actually an entire generation of American youth living primarily in the inner cities has already learned the metric system quite well thanks to the "War on Drugs". Many can even discern quantities of weight as low as half a gram by hand. (-8
The article points out that, in fact, freedom and democracy were strengthened by technological innovations, and addresses its affect on Stalinism and Nazism.
That's exactly what THEY want you to think. The trouble with paranoia is that you can never be paranoid enough to outwit reality. The trouble with totalitarianism is that no conspiracy is without internal conspiracies.
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Philip K. Dick could write a helluva lot better than Spielburg can ever direct.
The key to perceived continued existence is the slow transfer of your consciousness into another body, with clear departure from the old one. The copy operation (cp) is not good enough, you need the move (mv) here.
The key to percieved continuity of conciousness is memory. Think about it: if your memory were wiped clean and replaced with a completely different history instantaneously, you'd never realize that you used to be someone\something else.
Presupposing that we are possessed of a soul, what makes you think that it is tied to your body? Couldn't the soul be distributed in some way? Could each of our souls be a part (or maybe whole) of the universe and everything in it?
For that matter, think about this: the you that existed only a moment ago no longer exists. You no longer consist of the same cells, atoms, etc as you did before. Did that previous instance of you have a soul? If it did, where did its soul go when the moment ended?
Neither have I, but I do see alot of smaller antennaes mounted at the tops of trees, and the retired CIA-guy that lives in my neighborhood has some sort of satellite dish at the top of one of the trees in his backyard (it faces west-southwest, if that means anything)...
...try maybe writing a script that runs locally on each machine, checking the timestamp on every file, and uploads all files created or modified that day to a separate directory for each machine (and maybe a subdirectory for each day\week\interval) on the server. Set the script to run as often as you believe appropriate (I'd go for a minimum of once every 3 days; daily would be better) at ~2am.
If you want to be a little more efficient about it, lock down the majority of the local disks and only have the script check the directories they have write permissions to.
Do they honestly believe this is going to have any impact at all in preventing future terrorist attacks? All it is likely to do is cause terrorists to hide deeper while causing public resentment (though probably not until 5-10 years down the line when 9/11 is a more distant memory and the surrendering of liberty resulting from the "War on Terror" is seen for the horrible mistake it is by John Q.).
I just like that Episode II finally proves incontrovertably that Jar Jar is EVIL... It's all his fault: the empire, the storm troopers, vader, everything! It was his vote...
It's nearly impossible to have any gauge at all of how much (if any) MS is losing on hardware sales, and here's why:
MS is not naieve, they are a software company before anything else so they contracted the hardware out. The X-Box is being manufactured for MS by a company called Selectronics at facilities in Guadalajara. MS has already "bought in" to have a certain number of units manufactured at (what is likely to be) a ridiculously low price by garunteeing Selectronics a certain amount of business. MS doesn't need to worry about the price of the parts, labor, or anything else really - they're all Selectronics' concerns.
If the X-Box is going to fail, it'll be in a year or two when MS has to renegotiate its contract with Selectronics (whom I suspect are eating alot of this cost). Of course, by then Moore's Law really SHOULD have kicked in and (MS and Selectronics should hope) demand will be higher for the hardware.
... ~$300 (after adding the DVD pack and the Advanced AV pack) you get a highly capable DVD player that outperforms many similarly priced standalone units (ask Sound & Vision magazine), a HDD based music jukebox (standalone units cost $500+), and a powerful gaming system complete with network play, Dolby Digital 5.1 & DTS, and component video.
Granted the game library is smaller than PS2, but many of the titles are absolutly amazing (Halo, Rallisport Challenge, Morrowind, Munch's Oddysey, Jet Set Radio Future, DOA3, Project Gotham...)
I recieved an Xbox about 2 months ago as a graduation present have been nothing but impressed with it. Hate on it all you want for that MS logo, it's wonderful technology and a damn good value. For
You can have your PS2 and your anti-MS rhetoric, I'll cast my lot with the better games, the better technology, and the better value and enjoy my Xbox.
Okay, so I've heard over and over again how "this should really be seen projected digitally" and "there are only [20|30] theatres in the country equipped to show it this way"... Anyone have a list of these theatres? I tried googling it, but there just aren't very good search terms to choose from, "digital projectors" or "digital theatres" yield lots of projection equipment manufacturers, but little else...
Granted, I don't know a whole lot about the amount of electricity generated by the average consumer-grade solar panel, but it would seem that if our energy requirements were significantly lowered by using WLEDs for lighting, alternative energy sources like solar and wind would be far more practical.
We, however, have been a democratic republic since 1776.
Actually, we were then and still are (technically speaking), a Constitutional Republic. In fact, up until the 1920s the US Govmnt's official position on democracy was that is was dangerous and unstable (check a WWI army field manual that describes the forms of government a grunt might find abroad).
This country (the US) never has (officially) been a democracy. Originally, the only federal level officials you voted for were members of the House of Representatives. Senators were typically appointed by the state's legislature and (if I remember right) the President was decided strictly by the Electoral College (which is still true, but back in the early days the method for selecting the members of a state's Electoral College was left completely up to the individual state and didn't necessarily have anything to do with popular sentiment).
My point is that we aren't the same country we were when we were founded. No, we haven't had any bloody mass revolutions (unless you count the Civil War as a revolution) since our founding, but we've certainly had plenty of smaller revolutions: the abolition of slavery, women's suffrage, expansion across most of a continent (through near-genocide of native populations), industrial and now information revolutions, women's liberation, popular elections, the civil rights movement, temperance (along with it's destruction and the continued anachronistic abomination that is the drug war), social security and welfare, etc, etc.
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(if you know what the EF in EFnet stands for, you know this isn't a troll)
It's an interesting idea, but there are several problems with the overall design. For one, it looks like the seating position is fairly agressive, like a sportbike, so you probably aren't going to want to go 180 miles or more on this thing. The seat itself looks tiny and uncomfortable. For another, 0-60 in 6 seconds on a motorcycle is pretty slow, especially one that looks like it's supposed to be a sport bike. Lasty, I speculate that such a small (~250 cc) direct injection diesel combined with an electric motor is going to have serious surging issues, which are no fun (ride an "unfixed" BMW F650GS and you'll see what I mean). Direct injection diesel might not do too well here in the states either due to a slightly different formulation. And really, motorcycles are already pretty fuel efficient. If you really want to do some good IMHO, develop fuel efficient SUVs, pickups, 18 wheelers, buses, and marine engines.
You must have misinterpreted the ad. Clearly, it was meant to show how the PATRIOT act protects red-blooded, illiterate TV watching Americans from horrible book reading terrorists.
...perhaps DRM will lead to a new renaissance in reading. Books, you know? Nice, analog, books. No mod chip required.
Thought so...
...at the Mall of Georgia IMAX , right when the movie first came out. Of course, it was merely the normal print shown on an IMAX projector, but it was still pretty nice. They play alot of geeky movies on the IMAX screen there. I also saw Fellowship of the Ring, XXX, and Spiderman on the IMAX screen, and I look forward to seeing The Two Towers, the next James Bond, and the next Star Trek flicks on it. And no, the pixels weren't a foot tall.
...if you were to create an virtual machine\emulator of this OS\Media Player\Abomination that ignored or altered the functioning of the DRM hardware\software suite?(Other than a blatant violation of the DMCA, that is...) There is no system that can't be cracked, especially where MS is concerned. Suits will never out-geek the geeks.
Actually an entire generation of American youth living primarily in the inner cities has already learned the metric system quite well thanks to the "War on Drugs". Many can even discern quantities of weight as low as half a gram by hand. (-8
That's exactly what THEY want you to think. The trouble with paranoia is that you can never be paranoid enough to outwit reality. The trouble with totalitarianism is that no conspiracy is without internal conspiracies.
Philip K. Dick could write a helluva lot better than Spielburg can ever direct.
Presupposing that we are possessed of a soul, what makes you think that it is tied to your body? Couldn't the soul be distributed in some way? Could each of our souls be a part (or maybe whole) of the universe and everything in it?
For that matter, think about this: the you that existed only a moment ago no longer exists. You no longer consist of the same cells, atoms, etc as you did before. Did that previous instance of you have a soul? If it did, where did its soul go when the moment ended?
Neither have I, but I do see alot of smaller antennaes mounted at the tops of trees, and the retired CIA-guy that lives in my neighborhood has some sort of satellite dish at the top of one of the trees in his backyard (it faces west-southwest, if that means anything)...
...try maybe writing a script that runs locally on each machine, checking the timestamp on every file, and uploads all files created or modified that day to a separate directory for each machine (and maybe a subdirectory for each day\week\interval) on the server. Set the script to run as often as you believe appropriate (I'd go for a minimum of once every 3 days; daily would be better) at ~2am.
If you want to be a little more efficient about it, lock down the majority of the local disks and only have the script check the directories they have write permissions to.
..if I get there first, it's MINE. I dare you to come and arrest me for violating your pitiful treaty earthling!
(-8
Do they honestly believe this is going to have any impact at all in preventing future terrorist attacks? All it is likely to do is cause terrorists to hide deeper while causing public resentment (though probably not until 5-10 years down the line when 9/11 is a more distant memory and the surrendering of liberty resulting from the "War on Terror" is seen for the horrible mistake it is by John Q.).
I fear for my country...
I just like that Episode II finally proves incontrovertably that Jar Jar is EVIL... It's all his fault: the empire, the storm troopers, vader, everything! It was his vote...
Selectronics = Flextronics
It's nearly impossible to have any gauge at all of how much (if any) MS is losing on hardware sales, and here's why:
MS is not naieve, they are a software company before anything else so they contracted the hardware out. The X-Box is being manufactured for MS by a company called Selectronics at facilities in Guadalajara. MS has already "bought in" to have a certain number of units manufactured at (what is likely to be) a ridiculously low price by garunteeing Selectronics a certain amount of business. MS doesn't need to worry about the price of the parts, labor, or anything else really - they're all Selectronics' concerns.
If the X-Box is going to fail, it'll be in a year or two when MS has to renegotiate its contract with Selectronics (whom I suspect are eating alot of this cost). Of course, by then Moore's Law really SHOULD have kicked in and (MS and Selectronics should hope) demand will be higher for the hardware.
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... ~$300 (after adding the DVD pack and the Advanced AV pack) you get a highly capable DVD player that outperforms many similarly priced standalone units (ask Sound & Vision magazine), a HDD based music jukebox (standalone units cost $500+), and a powerful gaming system complete with network play, Dolby Digital 5.1 & DTS, and component video.
After "For" insert the following:
Granted the game library is smaller than PS2, but many of the titles are absolutly amazing (Halo, Rallisport Challenge, Morrowind, Munch's Oddysey, Jet Set Radio Future, DOA3, Project Gotham...)
Okay continue statement...
I recieved an Xbox about 2 months ago as a graduation present have been nothing but impressed with it. Hate on it all you want for that MS logo, it's wonderful technology and a damn good value. For
You can have your PS2 and your anti-MS rhetoric, I'll cast my lot with the better games, the better technology, and the better value and enjoy my Xbox.
Okay, so I've heard over and over again how "this should really be seen projected digitally" and "there are only [20|30] theatres in the country equipped to show it this way"... Anyone have a list of these theatres? I tried googling it, but there just aren't very good search terms to choose from, "digital projectors" or "digital theatres" yield lots of projection equipment manufacturers, but little else...
Granted, I don't know a whole lot about the amount of electricity generated by the average consumer-grade solar panel, but it would seem that if our energy requirements were significantly lowered by using WLEDs for lighting, alternative energy sources like solar and wind would be far more practical.
We, however, have been a democratic republic since 1776.
Actually, we were then and still are (technically speaking), a Constitutional Republic. In fact, up until the 1920s the US Govmnt's official position on democracy was that is was dangerous and unstable (check a WWI army field manual that describes the forms of government a grunt might find abroad).
This country (the US) never has (officially) been a democracy. Originally, the only federal level officials you voted for were members of the House of Representatives. Senators were typically appointed by the state's legislature and (if I remember right) the President was decided strictly by the Electoral College (which is still true, but back in the early days the method for selecting the members of a state's Electoral College was left completely up to the individual state and didn't necessarily have anything to do with popular sentiment).
My point is that we aren't the same country we were when we were founded. No, we haven't had any bloody mass revolutions (unless you count the Civil War as a revolution) since our founding, but we've certainly had plenty of smaller revolutions: the abolition of slavery, women's suffrage, expansion across most of a continent (through near-genocide of native populations), industrial and now information revolutions, women's liberation, popular elections, the civil rights movement, temperance (along with it's destruction and the continued anachronistic abomination that is the drug war), social security and welfare, etc, etc.