Way back when, they bought Softimage so that they would be seen as a player in the 3D and effects market. As soon as the market was established, they sold it off again.
I believe the use of ECHELON required (and got) warrants from FISA for its work...
do please correct me if you know this not to be true...
[ramble] quis custodiet custodes is the phrase I think I'm looking for... though my memory is a less than it ought...
Being the 'good guy' is almost always a losing proposition, except in Hayes code movies and Comics code comics. There is always someone who will say "look at that sucker..." and take advantage of some possibility for profit when they think they 'can get away with it' which these days seems to be the general equivalent in many minds for 'legal' which it seems so many do not realize is not synonymous with 'right' [/ramble]
btw, as far as kool-aid goes, we talking leary or jones? I generally thought that 'drinking the kool-aid' as a way of indicating sheep-hood was referencing jonestown, where 'drinking the kool-aid' as a way of indicating loopy ideas was referencing 'the electric kool-aid acid test' and the 60's
good point... I was on a flight with a guy who worked at a failure analysis company in mountain view back in 2000. As we were talking, we were discussing what he did for a living and in order to demonstrate, he showed me a bunch of the simulations they had done for the military. quite a large number of the analysis animations that he showed me were plane crashes.
According to the simulations he showed me of cargo planes ramming bunkers, what happens is basically this: 1. front of plane accordions until the wings make contact with the surface. 2. when the leading edge of the wings make contact, the rest of the plane stops. The impact of the wings is distributed over the much larger profile, and as a result, do a much better job of braking than the relatively small area of the front profile of the fuselage. 3, the rear of the plane would crumple somewhat due to momentum, but would generally remain the original shape.
Going by his simulations, I would have expected the wings to remain behind... of course the simulations I saw were of an empty cargo plane hitting an armored bunker, rather than a passenger plane with luggage stuffed* into the belly hitting a low lying office building... (*which would provide a certain amount of extra structural integrity.)
all in all a fun thing to watch on a plane just before takeoff...
I am choosing to believe that the populace of the current administration are stupid, selfish, venal, paranoid, evil, money-grubbing, dissembling, vile, lying, irresponsible and incompentent jackasses. I don't currently believe that they actually planned these events. (did I leave anything out?)
Apple makes a nice product and uses marketing to inform people that it exists.
Microsoft makes a product and uses marketing to inform people that they really need it.
My reaction to the marketing from each of the companies is generally that when apple makes a product, the marketing is trying to make it look 'cool', 'fun' and a 'neat thing to have', but rarely as 'you must have this', 'you need this', 'you can't live without this'.
Apple's marketing is generally geared towards "isn't this a cool thing." Microsoft's seemed to be more "wouldn't owning this make you cooler."
sorry for the repetition, it's early and the internal editor hasn't kicked in yet...
I don't know about dreamweaver in particular, but I can move about to dropdowns every where else... whether or not a control is open to system events, is up to the application developer, not the OS.
It's not Apples fault that Macromedia left a control out of the tab index. but with the accessibility options turned on, nearly every control should be available to keyboard input.
The video game market seems to roll in cycles, A large number of people are going to have a console for a year or so and then by the 'next big thing' why release a product just when everyone has bought a product that will last a year or so.
If I were them I would make the release perfect, set up a bunch of not-too-be-missed games and release when the gleam on the xbox has worn off. if you time it right, you could probably alternate with the other manufacturer, and both make out like bandi... good businessmen...
but hell, if I knew what I was talking about I'd be a wealthy businessman...
Yes but at the moment, because this country has elected leaders on the basis that they "know business," they don't really lack the profit motive.
(W aside, he's a (bad) figurehead, (think zaphod (in the sense of distracting attention(the bigger an ass he makes of himself, the more we should look at everyone else in the government))) [yes, I like lisp]
This is at both the state and national level.
It never fails to amaze me, that people who know that the most successful business people are not judged by how well they run a business, but by how much money they can wring out of one, will still think its a good idea to elect one to run the country. An entity that at worst (best?) should be run as a break-even concern, but should be run at a loss.
hmmm, I will restrain myself from pedantry, I will restrain myself from pedantry...
oh what the hell... I think there is some confusion going on about the age of the religion and the age of the prophet in question... jeshua ben joseph, (popularly known as jesus h christ) was born ~2000 years ago (give or take a few, 6 last I checked), the religion didn't start until sometime later (at least 30 years, the bible IIRC doesn't pick up on his life again until he was in his late 20s, very early 30s. with mohammed (sp?) the birth was somewhere around 572 (d. 632) which would probably put Islam at around (assuming you start from around age 30) 1400 years ago.
for the most part, I don't think it really matters. I think much of the complaints are regarding the association of arab==muslim which is not valid point in either direction.
story has it that come the second season of batman, they weren't given the scripts until just before shooting, so another reason they spoke like that is that they had had no time to rehearse...
ah batman, one of the greatest examples of implied sets...
people will continue to do it with thoughts like this in their minds:
"well they were just idiots..." "I bet they were lying..." "It won't happen if I make just this one little call..." "I bet the plane won't really crash..." "hey, they didn't actually take the phone away, so if we crash it'll be their fault... "... and I can sue!"
how many common rationalizations can you think of that people commonly use to avoid responsibility or make the convenient not illegal?
I'm pretty sure you're wrong, but it's possible the sesame street episode followed a warner bros. cartoon. I recall the sesame street cartoon, involving a young child being sent to the store for that shopping list, and as he went to the store he passed a few distractions, (I remember a fire truck being one) and by the time he got to the store he had completely forgotten what to get.
I don't remember how it concluded, except for the fact that he eventually did remember and brought the groceries home to mother... I think it was intended as a lesson in ways to remember things,
I remember the family in the cartoon as being black, anyone else remember? and the animation a fairly loose watercolor style... It's interesting to think about the unlikeliness of a similar situation occurring today. (i.e. often where you would find a corner store, you might be unlikely to send your kid to it alone. (if for nothing else, the possibility of a child endangerment lawsuit...))
a genoa jib is a headail that extends beyond the mast, (the rigid structure that holds the sails up) and and now it's topsail? a sail that is above the mast.
am I reaching too far to see the mast as a metaphor for law?
I just switched to other podcasts, and listen to franken live if I have the chance... I'm actually less likely to listen to his show now... (ring of fire is a good one, very coherent sounding hosts. and well produced comedy. (assuming you are left wing))
hear that content deliverers! on demand is a good thing! I don't even really mind the ads if you make links that are viewable/linkable in the music player, but I really like to listen on *my* schedule.
When balthasar came out it was a pretty big thing for a short bit, you could generate 'rich-media' (read flash movie) online without having to buy a flash authoring license. it was a bit limited as a service, and I don't remember whether or not the end result had to be hosted on their server for an additional fee...
the patent in this case is specifically for the creation of rich media work over an internet connection.
whether or not anyone challenges this will have a lot to do with whether or not balthasar's income make it look attractive. anyone know how balthasar is doing at the moment?
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it does run on a 12" powerbook... cramped but usable...
this is one of the better points to be made...
(though perhaps you might have included all the rest of the mammals too... y'know, just to be inclusive...)
Way back when, they bought Softimage so that they would be seen as a player in the 3D and effects market. As soon as the market was established, they sold it off again.
I believe the use of ECHELON required (and got) warrants from FISA for its work...
do please correct me if you know this not to be true...
[ramble]
quis custodiet custodes is the phrase I think I'm looking for... though my memory is a less than it ought...
Being the 'good guy' is almost always a losing proposition, except in Hayes code movies and Comics code comics. There is always someone who will say "look at that sucker..." and take advantage of some possibility for profit when they think they 'can get away with it' which these days seems to be the general equivalent in many minds for 'legal' which it seems so many do not realize is not synonymous with 'right'
[/ramble]
btw, as far as kool-aid goes, we talking leary or jones? I generally thought that 'drinking the kool-aid' as a way of indicating sheep-hood was referencing jonestown, where 'drinking the kool-aid' as a way of indicating loopy ideas was referencing 'the electric kool-aid acid test' and the 60's
good point...
I was on a flight with a guy who worked at a failure analysis company in mountain view back in 2000. As we were talking, we were discussing what he did for a living and in order to demonstrate, he showed me a bunch of the simulations they had done for the military. quite a large number of the analysis animations that he showed me were plane crashes.
According to the simulations he showed me of cargo planes ramming bunkers, what happens is basically this:
1. front of plane accordions until the wings make contact with the surface.
2. when the leading edge of the wings make contact, the rest of the plane stops. The impact of the wings is distributed over the much larger profile, and as a result, do a much better job of braking than the relatively small area of the front profile of the fuselage.
3, the rear of the plane would crumple somewhat due to momentum, but would generally remain the original shape.
Going by his simulations, I would have expected the wings to remain behind... of course the simulations I saw were of an empty cargo plane hitting an armored bunker, rather than a passenger plane with luggage stuffed* into the belly hitting a low lying office building... (*which would provide a certain amount of extra structural integrity.)
all in all a fun thing to watch on a plane just before takeoff...
I am choosing to believe that the populace of the current administration are stupid, selfish, venal, paranoid, evil, money-grubbing, dissembling, vile, lying, irresponsible and incompentent jackasses. I don't currently believe that they actually planned these events. (did I leave anything out?)
the latter video is just a small scale variation on this
note they refer to it as a 'virtual' force field.
off to take a shower now...
nicely put,
Apple makes a nice product and uses marketing to inform people that it exists.
Microsoft makes a product and uses marketing to inform people that they really need it.
My reaction to the marketing from each of the companies is generally that when apple makes a product, the marketing is trying to make it look 'cool', 'fun' and a 'neat thing to have', but rarely as 'you must have this', 'you need this', 'you can't live without this'.
Apple's marketing is generally geared towards "isn't this a cool thing."
Microsoft's seemed to be more "wouldn't owning this make you cooler."
sorry for the repetition, it's early and the internal editor hasn't kicked in yet...
Aren't they the phones that were in "V for Vendetta"?
I don't know about dreamweaver in particular, but I can move about to dropdowns every where else... whether or not a control is open to system events, is up to the application developer, not the OS.
It's not Apples fault that Macromedia left a control out of the tab index. but with the accessibility options turned on, nearly every control should be available to keyboard input.
those are all fully licensed copies of windows right?
why? he asks, into the screaming wind...
The video game market seems to roll in cycles, A large number of people are going to have a console for a year or so and then by the 'next big thing' why release a product just when everyone has bought a product that will last a year or so.
If I were them I would make the release perfect, set up a bunch of not-too-be-missed games and release when the gleam on the xbox has worn off. if you time it right, you could probably alternate with the other manufacturer, and both make out like bandi... good businessmen...
but hell, if I knew what I was talking about I'd be a wealthy businessman...
Yes but at the moment, because this country has elected leaders on the basis that they "know business," they don't really lack the profit motive.
(W aside, he's a (bad) figurehead, (think zaphod (in the sense of distracting attention(the bigger an ass he makes of himself, the more we should look at everyone else in the government))) [yes, I like lisp]
This is at both the state and national level.
It never fails to amaze me, that people who know that the most successful business people are not judged by how well they run a business, but by how much money they can wring out of one, will still think its a good idea to elect one to run the country. An entity that at worst (best?) should be run as a break-even concern, but should be run at a loss.
I think a big one for Real is that the nfl streams all their games on real. just think of all the fantasy football leagues there are...
obviously not from california... most of the grass there is a rather nasty shade of pale brown...
hmmm, I will restrain myself from pedantry, I will restrain myself from pedantry...
oh what the hell... I think there is some confusion going on about the age of the religion and the age of the prophet in question... jeshua ben joseph, (popularly known as jesus h christ) was born ~2000 years ago (give or take a few, 6 last I checked), the religion didn't start until sometime later (at least 30 years, the bible IIRC doesn't pick up on his life again until he was in his late 20s, very early 30s. with mohammed (sp?) the birth was somewhere around 572 (d. 632) which would probably put Islam at around (assuming you start from around age 30) 1400 years ago.
for the most part, I don't think it really matters. I think much of the complaints are regarding the association of arab==muslim which is not valid point in either direction.
isn't it? that what I was told...
mozilla children okay, but safari just sits there and goes "loading, loading, loading, loading, loading, loading, "
curiously, it's a lot better looking on a mac running camino than it is on an xp machine running IE... go figure...
If we all look like we're taking part in a democracy, good things will happen...
re:If I were a US citizen I'd _demand_ that all the people involved in supplying or approving crappy election systems be charged for _TREASON_.
no, that's only if you get a blowjob. actual crimes against humanity are now simple misdemeanors.
story has it that come the second season of batman, they weren't given the scripts until just before shooting, so another reason they spoke like that is that they had had no time to rehearse...
ah batman, one of the greatest examples of implied sets...
people will continue to do it with thoughts like this in their minds:
"well they were just idiots..."
"I bet they were lying..."
"It won't happen if I make just this one little call..."
"I bet the plane won't really crash..."
"hey, they didn't actually take the phone away, so if we crash it'll be their fault...
"... and I can sue!"
how many common rationalizations can you think of that people commonly use to avoid responsibility or make the convenient not illegal?
I'm pretty sure you're wrong, but it's possible the sesame street episode followed a warner bros. cartoon. I recall the sesame street cartoon, involving a young child being sent to the store for that shopping list, and as he went to the store he passed a few distractions, (I remember a fire truck being one) and by the time he got to the store he had completely forgotten what to get.
I don't remember how it concluded, except for the fact that he eventually did remember and brought the groceries home to mother... I think it was intended as a lesson in ways to remember things,
I remember the family in the cartoon as being black, anyone else remember? and the animation a fairly loose watercolor style... It's interesting to think about the unlikeliness of a similar situation occurring today. (i.e. often where you would find a corner store, you might be unlikely to send your kid to it alone. (if for nothing else, the possibility of a child endangerment lawsuit...))
a genoa jib is a headail that extends beyond the mast, (the rigid structure that holds the sails up) and and now it's topsail? a sail that is above the mast.
am I reaching too far to see the mast as a metaphor for law?
I just switched to other podcasts, and listen to franken live if I have the chance... I'm actually less likely to listen to his show now... (ring of fire is a good one, very coherent sounding hosts. and well produced comedy. (assuming you are left wing))
hear that content deliverers! on demand is a good thing! I don't even really mind the ads if you make links that are viewable/linkable in the music player, but I really like to listen on *my* schedule.
does anyone make a 'stream ripper' of some sort?
When balthasar came out it was a pretty big thing for a short bit, you could generate 'rich-media' (read flash movie) online without having to buy a flash authoring license. it was a bit limited as a service, and I don't remember whether or not the end result had to be hosted on their server for an additional fee...
the patent in this case is specifically for the creation of rich media work over an internet connection.
whether or not anyone challenges this will have a lot to do with whether or not balthasar's income make it look attractive. anyone know how balthasar is doing at the moment?