microsoft has been after india for a while now, intent on getting the whole country hooked on ms products. I think the most insulting part was when Bill Gates donated all that money for AIDS research in India.
from the page: Namib-Naukluft National Park is an ecological preserve in Namibia's vast Namib Desert. Coastal winds create the tallest sand dunes in the world here, with some dunes reaching 980 feet (300 meters) in height.
I think this, and the "Windows" debacle earler this week, are an example of what I consider a flaw in the current laws. I dont think a company should be able to use just some random noun as their company/product name. Noun combinations are another issue, but naming something "Apple" or "Windows" is ridiculous.
"Apple Computer" should be considered the full name, and if some guy wants to make "Apple Teleco," thats a completely different company, and I defy you to find more than 1% of people who would make the mistake.. and even if they did make the mistake, what does that hurt? "Hi, I want to buy one of those new ibooks" 'oh, no thats Apple Computer. www.apple.com.'
Again, along with things like corporations operating sweatshops in other countries, big companies have WAY too much power. I don't think the founders had the postmodern era in mind 230 years ago, when industry was still relatively local and nascent. I think two things need to happen: a) analysis and updating of current laws, b) multi-national corporations/companies need to be held up to OUR laws, not the laws of the target nation (which is essentially a colony to the corporation by current laws). Part (b) is also another way we can start to "grow up" and face globalization, and be less hypocritical when we say we're an advanced culture.
forgive me, but while Im reading the preface/overview of the book, I cant help but think of the radio interview/commercials on gra:vice city, where the guy is selling books/tapes with titles like "think, hold that thought, complete," and "learn, start, doing" ("where I explain the mysteries of starting!"). The book does seem interesting - I'm going to check it out at bn today. thanks for pointing it out
yea, this is touched on in a number of sci-fi works, including "super-toys last all summer long," the short story that inspired the movie AI. For a more dudical approach, check out Terminator 2.
wow, what a magical world you must live in, where no-one ever does anything evil with knowledge. Does Dostoevsky exist over there?
How long do you honestly think it will be before scientists start messing with clones? "Organ farms" I believe they call them. Yea, Im sure that will go off without a hitch.
Don't get me wrong, I think things like stem cell research can help us take great strides in genetic research, but Im not so naive that I can't see where a "first step" could lead, in the wrong hands.
Is it resonsible, moral, or ethical to create life when the planet is as overcrowded as it is?
the planet is overcrowded? sounds like someone's never looked down from a plane.
ironically, the segway costs as much as a used civic (and, if you haggle, a glass pack).
dont forget the carbon fiber handlegrips! +$500 and comes with free amazon.com chaps and spurs.
It will be interesting to see how popular this will become over the next few years (and subsequent price drops). Remember when push-scooters first started to become fashionable? People looked on at the owners, and thought "What a ridiculous concept"
yea, remember when those five thousand dollar scooters came out? and everbody said "wow, what a practical, affordable toy."? and when I say "everyone" I mean children and people who work for microsoft (this isnt flaming - for some reason everyone has a scooter.. and a porsche, it seems).
Im running a gf3 on an athlon 950 with 384mb of ram (non-ddr), and I'd estimate I got about 5-10fps max.. once the motion blur starts, that number drops considerably, to probably about 2-3. It's almost as if its software rendering. This is the e3 demo, which was compiled, at the latest, about 5 months ago. So who knows where it is now.
From the videos I've seen, and from what I've played, it just seems like doom with pretty graphics, which isn't very interesting at all. These are just demos, however, and what's really in the game could be hidden.
Incidentally.. I didnt check for a cfg file for the controls, but here are the defaults:
a: backward s: strafe left d: strafe right mouse secondary: forward mouse primary : fire weapon mouse scroll : weapon change
it couldnt possible be because 18 is an underwhelming album, could it? good, old fashioned critical analysis is right out the window?
Im sick of people blaming mp3s on declining music sales. I dont know if any of you have noticed, but 95% of popular music is insufferable, and CDs are like 16 bucks. I know for me at least, MP3s have only prompted me to buy more cds, because MP3s give me access to phenomenal music that happens to be under the radar. Also, Ive read at least one study that concluded that mp3s have polarized buying habits, if anything.
Why do people buy less cds? because todays popular music sucks, to put it quite frankly.
The kind of logic Moby is exhibiting is the kind of correct-on-the-surface logic that people bashing open-source software believe in. I'm interested to see more research on the effects of mp3s
this observation was made years back by a scientist named podkletnov in Europe (hey, I said it was a while ago;-). He used a super-cooled YBCO (yttrium boron carbon oxygen I believe) superconductor and was able to "reduce the mass of" (ie affect the gravitational effect on) objects. They actually ran an article in wired on him way back when (96-98 sometime). The "gravity society" had a website at www.gravity.org, but currently I cant reach it.
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microsoft has been after india for a while now, intent on getting the whole country hooked on ms products. I think the most insulting part was when Bill Gates donated all that money for AIDS research in India.
I heard a rumor theyre going to open-source LCARS in 400 years. I'll just wait for that
from the page: Namib-Naukluft National Park is an ecological preserve in Namibia's vast Namib Desert. Coastal winds create the tallest sand dunes in the world here, with some dunes reaching 980 feet (300 meters) in height.
::spits out milk:: *pfff!!* 980 feet??
the article mentions that the sounds cannot escape the heating/cooling chamber, because they can only be achieved with the altered pressure inside.
wheres my hoverboard?
I think this, and the "Windows" debacle earler this week, are an example of what I consider a flaw in the current laws. I dont think a company should be able to use just some random noun as their company/product name. Noun combinations are another issue, but naming something "Apple" or "Windows" is ridiculous.
"Apple Computer" should be considered the full name, and if some guy wants to make "Apple Teleco," thats a completely different company, and I defy you to find more than 1% of people who would make the mistake.. and even if they did make the mistake, what does that hurt? "Hi, I want to buy one of those new ibooks" 'oh, no thats Apple Computer. www.apple.com.'
Again, along with things like corporations operating sweatshops in other countries, big companies have WAY too much power. I don't think the founders had the postmodern era in mind 230 years ago, when industry was still relatively local and nascent. I think two things need to happen: a) analysis and updating of current laws, b) multi-national corporations/companies need to be held up to OUR laws, not the laws of the target nation (which is essentially a colony to the corporation by current laws). Part (b) is also another way we can start to "grow up" and face globalization, and be less hypocritical when we say we're an advanced culture.
My $0.02
hes right! remember when all other OSes copied microsoft by adding GUIs and threading and secure filesystems. oh wait..
someone contact microsoft corp and tell them to rename windows media player. some people might think its distributed with windows!
forgive me, but while Im reading the preface/overview of the book, I cant help but think of the radio interview/commercials on gra:vice city, where the guy is selling books/tapes with titles like "think, hold that thought, complete," and "learn, start, doing" ("where I explain the mysteries of starting!"). The book does seem interesting - I'm going to check it out at bn today. thanks for pointing it out
"wa#$tson, co@(me h@#ere! I nee#(d y@($u!!" Ping done. Reliability: 1
yea, this is touched on in a number of sci-fi works, including "super-toys last all summer long," the short story that inspired the movie AI. For a more dudical approach, check out Terminator 2.
wow, what a magical world you must live in, where no-one ever does anything evil with knowledge. Does Dostoevsky exist over there?
How long do you honestly think it will be before scientists start messing with clones? "Organ farms" I believe they call them. Yea, Im sure that will go off without a hitch.
Don't get me wrong, I think things like stem cell research can help us take great strides in genetic research, but Im not so naive that I can't see where a "first step" could lead, in the wrong hands.
yea, remember how long it took to create the atomic bomb? man, that took forever
Is it resonsible, moral, or ethical to create life when the planet is as overcrowded as it is? the planet is overcrowded? sounds like someone's never looked down from a plane.
why do we always ask the moral questions after we do it?
I wish slashdot would simply stop posting links.
ironically, the segway costs as much as a used civic (and, if you haggle, a glass pack). dont forget the carbon fiber handlegrips! +$500 and comes with free amazon.com chaps and spurs.
It will be interesting to see how popular this will become over the next few years (and subsequent price drops). Remember when push-scooters first started to become fashionable? People looked on at the owners, and thought "What a ridiculous concept"
yea, remember when those five thousand dollar scooters came out? and everbody said "wow, what a practical, affordable toy."? and when I say "everyone" I mean children and people who work for microsoft (this isnt flaming - for some reason everyone has a scooter.. and a porsche, it seems).
Im running a gf3 on an athlon 950 with 384mb of ram (non-ddr), and I'd estimate I got about 5-10fps max.. once the motion blur starts, that number drops considerably, to probably about 2-3. It's almost as if its software rendering. This is the e3 demo, which was compiled, at the latest, about 5 months ago. So who knows where it is now.
From the videos I've seen, and from what I've played, it just seems like doom with pretty graphics, which isn't very interesting at all. These are just demos, however, and what's really in the game could be hidden.
Incidentally.. I didnt check for a cfg file for the controls, but here are the defaults:
a: backward
s: strafe left
d: strafe right
mouse secondary: forward
mouse primary : fire weapon
mouse scroll : weapon change
it couldnt possible be because 18 is an underwhelming album, could it? good, old fashioned critical analysis is right out the window? Im sick of people blaming mp3s on declining music sales. I dont know if any of you have noticed, but 95% of popular music is insufferable, and CDs are like 16 bucks. I know for me at least, MP3s have only prompted me to buy more cds, because MP3s give me access to phenomenal music that happens to be under the radar. Also, Ive read at least one study that concluded that mp3s have polarized buying habits, if anything. Why do people buy less cds? because todays popular music sucks, to put it quite frankly. The kind of logic Moby is exhibiting is the kind of correct-on-the-surface logic that people bashing open-source software believe in. I'm interested to see more research on the effects of mp3s
this observation was made years back by a scientist named podkletnov in Europe (hey, I said it was a while ago ;-). He used a super-cooled YBCO (yttrium boron carbon oxygen I believe) superconductor and was able to "reduce the mass of" (ie affect the gravitational effect on) objects. They actually ran an article in wired on him way back when (96-98 sometime). The "gravity society" had a website at www.gravity.org, but currently I cant reach it.