I can garauntee you that where lawyers are concerned the lawyers that could work on iTMS Europe are completely different from the ones that would file US Patents. Your's is a very common mistake for people to make when looking at things from the outside. A similar example would be along the lines of this:
A trade show structure company has a stainless steel 100 ft tall load bearing structure it needs to weld. This project will take 300 man hours and the company is behind schedule. Since one man hour == one man hour and the IT department has finished their projects for the week lets move 8 of them to the stailess steel project for Thursday and Friday and they can do 128 Man hours of work on it right? Wrong, of course stainless steel welding takes special training and the mistakes the IT team would most likely make would put the project further behind. In the same way European Business and IP lawyers have very different training, experience and practices than US IP/Patent lawyers.
Ebola is not spread anywhere nearly as easily as the common cold. To quote the CDC
Other factors are easily identified. Like that of many infectious diseases, the distribution of Ebola outbreaks is tied to regional trade networks and other evolving social systems. And, like those of most infectious diseases, Ebola explosions affect, researchers aside, certain groups (people living in poverty, health care workers who serve the poor) but not others in close physical proximity. Take, for example, the 1976 outbreak in Zaire, which affected 318 persons. Although respiratory spread was speculated, it has not been conclusively demonstrated as a cause of human cases. Most expert observers thought that the cases could be traced to failure to follow contact precautions, as well as to improper sterilization of syringes and other paraphernalia, measures that in fact, once taken, terminated the outbreak (15). On closer scrutiny, such an explanation suggests that Ebola does not emerge randomly: in Mobutu's Zaire, one's likelihood of coming into contact with unsterile syringes is inversely proportional to one's social status. Local élites and sectors of the expatriate community with access to high-quality biomedical services (viz., the European and American communities and not the Rwandan refugees) are unlikely to contract such a disease.
The common cold however is airborne and can live outside the human body and away from moisture for extended periods of time.
Going by your argument then he should drop emulation and just do the "no brainer" since darwin already runs on x86. Further carbon, cocoa and all that other crap as you so eloquently put it are not going to be easy by any stretchteh fact is that Cocoa, Aqua, Quartz and QT could all be fully ported to x86 (Quicktime on the PC is NOT the same as Quicktime on the Mac no matter what anyone might lead you to believe) without needing emulation. I do app[laud teh gentlemans effort to create a ppc emu but the proc does not make a mac, that is my point.
A preparing installation screen is by no means proof that it is working with OS X. In fact since the emu is 1/500 th speed of the native system you can be certain it will be a while before an actual install can fully occur even without the issues of the other hardware bits.
You are in fact corect they are both property of Marvel. The first and only episode of Mutant X I ever watched left me with the thought "Someone is going to get so sued by Marvel it isn't funny" so I stayed until the end just to see who it would be, suprisingly up came marvel's logo. Interestingly there is a lawsuit in teh LA Superior civil court about this issue rigthnow.. as can-west is suing Tribune for not having rights to X-Men.. go figure.
the following is a direct copy of text found in the 2003 Form 10-K (investor information) of Tribune entertainment Page 17 bottom of the page states: Television: Shows Seasons Produced(1) Seasons Commitment(2) No.of U.S. Markets % of U.S. Households Beastmaster"(3) 1999-2002 163 91% Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda" 2000-2004 2004-2005 190 98 % Mutant X" 2001-2004 2004-2005 179 97 %
(1)Represents seasons produced by Tribune Entertainment. (2)Represents future seasons Tribune Entertainment has committed to produce. Tribune Entertainment has ordered production of 2004/2005 seasons of Andromeda and Mutant X and exercised contractual options requiring its financial partner to provide funding, however, Tribune Entertainment's financial partner has commenced litigation which seeks a determination is not obligated to participate in the further financing or production of either series.
Emphesis mine Grrr stupid lameness filter and formatting....
From: JeremyTII Apr-21 7:51 pm To: Rayhana (27 of 56) 11360.27 in reply to 11360.26
While I cannot answer every question everyone has about the issues discussed in this thread, I believe I can offer some encouraging information.
From speaking with TPTB, I can tell you this: Mutant X and Andromeda have not been written off; Tribune very much wants to produce another season (meaning S4 and S5, respectively) of both shows.
Beyond that, I really don't know many details.  Bottom line: You, the viewers, want the shows to come back.  Tribune is trying very hard to make sure that happens, I assure you.
On another note, Marta is no longer with Tribune.  In the interest of preventing future rumor-mongering, I will say that she was not fired or laid off; she left voluntarily, and on good terms. She may log in here again sometime, but that's up to her.
Hang in there, folks; we're tryin' our hardest.    Jeremy D. Horowitz    Website Producer/Moderator    Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda
This kind of moderation is why I do not moderate anymore. Here is a suggestion... how about the ability to track who moderated what as what it certainly would shed someinteresting light on things.
And when the Bible have been "proven" to be wrong... well later investigation has shown that the proof has been faulty. As to your final statement, well if you haven't figured that out yet then email me and we can talk about it.
Not having had time to read and research your entire post I will simply start my noting the very first problem. With the city of Ai, there are 2 different but nearby sites which have long been suspected of being AI, Khirbet et-Tell and Khirbet Nisya the second is currently under excavation but does look promising. As forthe reading of teh rst of your post , since it is immediately available on this page.. well the veracity of your claims is somewhat lacking.. I would suggest you go back and do more research.
Your citation really isn't granular enough IMNSHO. While it does state what you are saying, they do not present any signifigant evidence of their statements. It is one thing to say that the US has the highest percentage of prison populace, but without comparable and citable figures from other industrialized nations we have no way of comparing and thus verifying the veracity of their claims. Understand that I am not saying they are wrong, meely untennable in their present condition. The best citation I could come up with in a short time is still not very good U.S. prisoner rate leads world. Other sites I found claimed other locals, so I would still cal the matter in dispute.
Everyone repeat after me: Cyberman Did it have some problems with implementation? Sure it could have been manufactuired better and even better designed, but it worked. Full access to 6 axis of movement and if you were really crazy you could use one in each hand and have 12 axis of rotation ( I used to do this for movement and zoom in VRML apps)
Supposedly one of the groups that bought the ICE IP what 2 years ago now is planing on using PM as teh basis of a game but I will have to check Gemstone III out thanks for the heads up.
Some weapons will do more than one damage type. (Krush, puncture slice etc.) The player doesn't need this, thats for the GM
Club attacker is either A) an NPC in which case its GM or GM Asst. B) another PC in which case they handle it or C) a paranoid Schizophrenic Player who is obviously the exception not the rule and is either really dextrous or playing 2 chars.
GM has Maneuver table char doesnt need it..., same with fumble etc
Therefore I stand by my previous assesment player needs 1 table for each weapon if non magic user.
I think I need to clear this up... If you play a simple fighter char with 3 weapons the most charts you will most likely ever see is 3 one for each of your weapons. Mage/cleric types need one or 2 charts for each of their spell lists and 1 for each different weapon / element thats it. we joke about it but there really are not that many charts or rules. Want charts and rules.. go play the original edition of Star Fleet Battles and use all of its addenda.
Actually the problem was Chris Tolkein, he wanted a long tonne of cash for the rights to his father's works. ICE had already invested to much into CCGs and Tolkein products assuming they would get a reasonable renewal for the IP, they didn't. As for MERP well I always considered it to be RM lite. Loosing a character faster than creating one, sure in fact I have seen chars die during creation and/ or travel to the initial Starting point. It happens and to me is part of teh charm of the game. Oh and RMSS well I wont talk about that I am an RM2nd player:)
Makes me wonder what "a good long time" means to you. Obviously Stalking is an active activity whereas hiding is a passive activity. As for GM fudging you imply thats even if only going by the dice the GM has to let anyone else know what they rolled. We always spent far more time on interaction and storytelling than combat or actions.
Actually I found that with rolemaster the rules really set you free to roleplay. It is easy to get lost in charts if looking at a whole, but it really is not like that at all. Is there a chart for almost everything? Certainly seems so, but I gaurantee you that you will not spend 15 minutes arguing as to weither or not it is possible to do something. It all comes down to it is this difficult, and you have this skill and that bonus: roll and check the maneuver chart. Roll badly and you may become a puddle of a former character, roll superbly and you may dazzle your opponents. But seriously it is a great system just be sure that you play it it is with an experienced GM and you will be hooked for life. Only thing that comes close is Harnmaster.
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I can garauntee you that where lawyers are concerned the lawyers that could work on iTMS Europe are completely different from the ones that would file US Patents. Your's is a very common mistake for people to make when looking at things from the outside. A similar example would be along the lines of this:
A trade show structure company has a stainless steel 100 ft tall load bearing structure it needs to weld. This project will take 300 man hours and the company is behind schedule. Since one man hour == one man hour and the IT department has finished their projects for the week lets move 8 of them to the stailess steel project for Thursday and Friday and they can do 128 Man hours of work on it right? Wrong, of course stainless steel welding takes special training and the mistakes the IT team would most likely make would put the project further behind. In the same way European Business and IP lawyers have very different training, experience and practices than US IP/Patent lawyers.
Going by your argument then he should drop emulation and just do the "no brainer" since darwin already runs on x86. Further carbon, cocoa and all that other crap as you so eloquently put it are not going to be easy by any stretchteh fact is that Cocoa, Aqua, Quartz and QT could all be fully ported to x86 (Quicktime on the PC is NOT the same as Quicktime on the Mac no matter what anyone might lead you to believe) without needing emulation. I do app[laud teh gentlemans effort to create a ppc emu but the proc does not make a mac, that is my point.
A preparing installation screen is by no means proof that it is working with OS X. In fact since the emu is 1/500 th speed of the native system you can be certain it will be a while before an actual install can fully occur even without the issues of the other hardware bits.
Agreed there is far more integration of hardware than just the processor.
To be honest I really wouldn't know. I figured you were trying to be funny but I thought I would throw some social comentary in for S&Gs
According to a TechTV In the glory days of film, only about 100 new adult titles were made every year. With the handheld camcorder, porn directors could complete an entire film in one day with a small production budget. Today, more than 10,000 adult films are produced every year in America alone. So I am guessing 100 DVDs would only fit about a month's worth not every title ever made.
Now we know how Rod got his ride, his parents really did drive to the Bahamas
We come in peace! (shoot to kill)
You are in fact corect they are both property of Marvel. The first and only episode of Mutant X I ever watched left me with the thought "Someone is going to get so sued by Marvel it isn't funny" so I stayed until the end just to see who it would be, suprisingly up came marvel's logo. Interestingly there is a lawsuit in teh LA Superior civil court about this issue rigthnow .. as can-west is suing Tribune for not having rights to X-Men .. go figure.
the following is a direct copy of text found in the 2003 Form 10-K (investor information) of Tribune entertainment Page 17 bottom of the page states:
....
Television:
Shows Seasons Produced(1) Seasons Commitment(2) No.of U.S. Markets % of U.S. Households
Beastmaster"(3) 1999-2002 163 91%
Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda" 2000-2004 2004-2005 190 98 %
Mutant X" 2001-2004 2004-2005 179 97 %
(1)Represents seasons produced by Tribune Entertainment.
(2)Represents future seasons Tribune Entertainment has committed to produce. Tribune Entertainment has ordered production of 2004/2005 seasons of Andromeda and Mutant X and exercised contractual options requiring its financial partner to provide funding , however, Tribune Entertainment's financial partner has commenced litigation which seeks a determination is not obligated to participate in the further financing or production of either series.
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Grrr stupid lameness filter and formatting
This kind of moderation is why I do not moderate anymore. Here is a suggestion... how about the ability to track who moderated what as what it certainly would shed someinteresting light on things.
which I am doing ... your point?
Because my point was simply with a very small amount of research I was able to find falicy in his
And when the Bible have been "proven" to be wrong ... well later investigation has shown that the proof has been faulty. As to your final statement, well if you haven't figured that out yet then email me and we can talk about it.
Not having had time to read and research your entire post I will simply start my noting the very first problem. With the city of Ai, there are 2 different but nearby sites which have long been suspected of being AI, Khirbet et-Tell and Khirbet Nisya the second is currently under excavation but does look promising. As forthe reading of teh rst of your post , since it is immediately available on this page .. well the veracity of your claims is somewhat lacking .. I would suggest you go back and do more research.
Your citation really isn't granular enough IMNSHO. While it does state what you are saying, they do not present any signifigant evidence of their statements. It is one thing to say that the US has the highest percentage of prison populace, but without comparable and citable figures from other industrialized nations we have no way of comparing and thus verifying the veracity of their claims. Understand that I am not saying they are wrong, meely untennable in their present condition. The best citation I could come up with in a short time is still not very good U.S. prisoner rate leads world. Other sites I found claimed other locals, so I would still cal the matter in dispute.
Everyone repeat after me: Cyberman Did it have some problems with implementation? Sure it could have been manufactuired better and even better designed, but it worked. Full access to 6 axis of movement and if you were really crazy you could use one in each hand and have 12 axis of rotation ( I used to do this for movement and zoom in VRML apps)
Supposedly one of the groups that bought the ICE IP what 2 years ago now is planing on using PM as teh basis of a game but I will have to check Gemstone III out thanks for the heads up.
Some weapons will do more than one damage type. (Krush, puncture slice etc.) The player doesn't need this, thats for the GM
Club attacker is either
A) an NPC in which case its GM or GM Asst.
B) another PC in which case they handle it or
C) a paranoid Schizophrenic Player who is obviously the exception not the rule and is either really dextrous or playing 2 chars.
GM has Maneuver table char doesnt need it ..., same with fumble etc
Therefore I stand by my previous assesment player needs 1 table for each weapon if non magic user.
Its that Men are drawn to particular types of women and so game designers put those kinds of women in games.
I think I need to clear this up ... .. go play the original edition of Star Fleet Battles and use all of its addenda.
If you play a simple fighter char with 3 weapons the most charts you will most likely ever see is 3 one for each of your weapons. Mage/cleric types need one or 2 charts for each of their spell lists and 1 for each different weapon / element thats it. we joke about it but there really are not that many charts or rules. Want charts and rules
Actually the problem was Chris Tolkein, he wanted a long tonne of cash for the rights to his father's works. ICE had already invested to much into CCGs and Tolkein products assuming they would get a reasonable renewal for the IP, they didn't. :)
As for MERP well I always considered it to be RM lite. Loosing a character faster than creating one, sure in fact I have seen chars die during creation and/ or travel to the initial Starting point. It happens and to me is part of teh charm of the game. Oh and RMSS well I wont talk about that I am an RM2nd player
Makes me wonder what "a good long time" means to you. Obviously Stalking is an active activity whereas hiding is a passive activity. As for GM fudging you imply thats even if only going by the dice the GM has to let anyone else know what they rolled. We always spent far more time on interaction and storytelling than combat or actions.
Actually I found that with rolemaster the rules really set you free to roleplay. It is easy to get lost in charts if looking at a whole, but it really is not like that at all. Is there a chart for almost everything? Certainly seems so, but I gaurantee you that you will not spend 15 minutes arguing as to weither or not it is possible to do something. It all comes down to it is this difficult, and you have this skill and that bonus: roll and check the maneuver chart. Roll badly and you may become a puddle of a former character, roll superbly and you may dazzle your opponents. But seriously it is a great system just be sure that you play it it is with an experienced GM and you will be hooked for life. Only thing that comes close is Harnmaster.