This kind of like Skylab all over again, isn't it?
Skylab was never intended to be abandonned permanantly. The shuttle program was supposed to be done in time to boost Skylab's orbit and reoccupy America's first "space station." But budgets and schedules being what they are... The shuttle launched late, and Skylab's orbit decayed early.
So, when they say they're going to "temporarily" un-man ISS, I woner how temporary that would be...
Too many people keep saying "this is the last film."
I don't think there's any reason to believe that to be the case, as long as the film makes money.
I think maybe people are reading the film's tag line, but not reading the whole thing. The tagline is:
A Generation's Final Journey...
Begins
(emphasis mine)
See... the tagline doesn't say that this is the end. If anything it says that this film is only the beginning of the end. And if it's only the beginning, that all but promises that there'll be another movie!
...the RIAA are once again lobbying Congress for the right to sabotage P2P networks...
The next (il)logical step would be to allow bill collectors to hack into your bank accounts to collect on past-due accounts.
Re:MSNBC article not about MS is surprising?
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I find it suprising not because of the "MS" part of MSNBC, but because AOL/TIME/WARNER generally tends to promote in-house before releasing out of house. Thus I would have expected this story to first run on CNN or Time or someother AOL-owned news outlet before being picked-up by MSNBC.
I don't see it as a slam on MS/MSNBC in anyway--just suprise that AOL didn't run it in-house first.
Apparently they are getting some other script writer to finish off Douglas Adams final installment (I pessimistically wonder how awful this will make it.)
To be fair... that might make it better! A decade or so ago when I was reading the radio scripts that the books were based on, I discovered that some of the parts I liked best (the entry for the universe for one) weren't written by Doug Adams at all!
It seems that when he was doing the radio show, the Dr. Who people called him to finish some episodes he had been contracted to do. During that time someone else (whose name escapes me) wrote several of the episodes.
Does reporter ignorance really equal "ploys"?
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So, I read the article, the bulk of which was that the reporter's 17 ppm printer had a throughput of significantly less than that when printing a trio of single pages.
No kidding. The problem here isn't that the printer manufacturers are trying to pull a fast one on the consumer. The problem here was that the consumer in question was ignorant about what the rating meant.
I bought my first laser printer back in the 1980's. Back then it was only computer geeks buying these toys, and we all knew that when a printer was rated at 6 ppm, that meant that the printer engine itself was rated at 6 ppm. The engine speed didn't account for the time the printer's processor took to render the PS or PCL code into a laser raster. We all knew that in order to get 6 ppm you would have to set the printer to print 6 (or 12 or whatever) copies of the same page. That way the printer's CPU only had to parse the PS/PCL file once and just start spewing forth paper.
Back then, when most home use dot-matrix printers were printing at about 100 cps (roughly 1.1 ppm if my math is right), this seemed like a fair and equitable way to rate laser printers.
So it's not that the printer manufacturers are trying evil ploys to up their PPM ratings. It's simply that times have changed, and that consumers no longer bother to educate themselves before making a purchase.
At least that's how I see it. It's a free Internet--you can disagree if you want.
My favorite part of the EULA is where you can not reveal the results of any benchmark tests of the.NET framework unless Microsoft gives you permission to do so.
What does that tell us about.NET?
I wonder if saying something like "I would like to tell you exactly how slow the.NET framework is, but then Microsoft would sue me" would be ok.
Interestingly enough, though...you only have to accept the EULA if you use the Windows Update feature of IE. If you just download the fix from TechNet, no EULA is mentioned.
Isn't it a Federal felony to read the post card if you're not King Geoge? Never mind scanning and posting someone else's mail on the web without their permission!:)
Personally, the best pop-under blocker (and flash killer, cookie stopper, java de-scripter, etc) I've come across for the Windows platform is The Proxomitron. As if all the options weren't enough--it's even scriptable!
...the CPU becomes one of the most critical components in the design...
Isn't this a basic truism for all computer design? After all, no amount of support circuit wizardry is going make an old 4004 run any modern OS at acceptable performance levels...
The two-dollar bill is still in circulation. In fact whenever I get cash from the bank (amazingly rare since I got a check card), I always ask the teller for all the 2's she can give me.
I just love watching people's faces when I spend them! They range from "Wow! I have to buy this out of the draw at the end of my shift" to a very perplexed look as they realize that they have no partition for 2's in their drawer.
I've always built my own. Typically I find that it actually costs a little more then a mass market PC, but I get exactly the options (video card, PC card, etc) I want, and don't have to pay for any bundled stuff I didn't want.
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This kind of like Skylab all over again, isn't it?
Skylab was never intended to be abandonned permanantly. The shuttle program was supposed to be done in time to boost Skylab's orbit and reoccupy America's first "space station." But budgets and schedules being what they are... The shuttle launched late, and Skylab's orbit decayed early.
So, when they say they're going to "temporarily" un-man ISS, I woner how temporary that would be...
Too many people keep saying "this is the last film."
I don't think there's any reason to believe that to be the case, as long as the film makes money.
I think maybe people are reading the film's tag line, but not reading the whole thing. The tagline is:
(emphasis mine)
See... the tagline doesn't say that this is the end. If anything it says that this film is only the beginning of the end. And if it's only the beginning, that all but promises that there'll be another movie!
Does this mean that the RIAA will be seeking royalties for each item I stick in my sound-powered fridge?
It's a joke--you're supposed to laugh now.But isn't it about time the Next Gen crew went off into quiet retirement and someone else got a shot at a Trek movie?
Surely you can't mean Star Trek: Voyager: The Motion Picture!!!
*Runs away screaming*
How effective can an ad be if it's unobtrusive? And if an ad is ineffective, the who would pay for it?
I suspect that this will become a method to obtrusively transmit advertisements.
Ummm... Taco? Could you please stop eating my display?
The next (il)logical step would be to allow bill collectors to hack into your bank accounts to collect on past-due accounts.
I find it suprising not because of the "MS" part of MSNBC, but because AOL/TIME/WARNER generally tends to promote in-house before releasing out of house. Thus I would have expected this story to first run on CNN or Time or someother AOL-owned news outlet before being picked-up by MSNBC.
I don't see it as a slam on MS/MSNBC in anyway--just suprise that AOL didn't run it in-house first.
Apparently they are getting some other script writer to finish off Douglas Adams final installment (I pessimistically wonder how awful this will make it.)
To be fair... that might make it better! A decade or so ago when I was reading the radio scripts that the books were based on, I discovered that some of the parts I liked best (the entry for the universe for one) weren't written by Doug Adams at all!
It seems that when he was doing the radio show, the Dr. Who people called him to finish some episodes he had been contracted to do. During that time someone else (whose name escapes me) wrote several of the episodes.
So, I read the article, the bulk of which was that the reporter's 17 ppm printer had a throughput of significantly less than that when printing a trio of single pages.
No kidding. The problem here isn't that the printer manufacturers are trying to pull a fast one on the consumer. The problem here was that the consumer in question was ignorant about what the rating meant.
I bought my first laser printer back in the 1980's. Back then it was only computer geeks buying these toys, and we all knew that when a printer was rated at 6 ppm, that meant that the printer engine itself was rated at 6 ppm. The engine speed didn't account for the time the printer's processor took to render the PS or PCL code into a laser raster. We all knew that in order to get 6 ppm you would have to set the printer to print 6 (or 12 or whatever) copies of the same page. That way the printer's CPU only had to parse the PS/PCL file once and just start spewing forth paper.
Back then, when most home use dot-matrix printers were printing at about 100 cps (roughly 1.1 ppm if my math is right), this seemed like a fair and equitable way to rate laser printers.
So it's not that the printer manufacturers are trying evil ploys to up their PPM ratings. It's simply that times have changed, and that consumers no longer bother to educate themselves before making a purchase.
At least that's how I see it. It's a free Internet--you can disagree if you want.
could at least just put it in a slashback.
They will.
Twice. :-)
My favorite part of the EULA is where you can not reveal the results of any benchmark tests of the .NET framework unless Microsoft gives you permission to do so.
What does that tell us about .NET?
I wonder if saying something like "I would like to tell you exactly how slow the .NET framework is, but then Microsoft would sue me" would be ok.
Interestingly enough, though...you only have to accept the EULA if you use the Windows Update feature of IE. If you just download the fix from TechNet, no EULA is mentioned.
Isn't it a Federal felony to read the post card if you're not King Geoge? Never mind scanning and posting someone else's mail on the web without their permission! :)
Wow--A serial drive! is it true the the project's code name was Commdore 1541? :)
Personally, the best pop-under blocker (and flash killer, cookie stopper, java de-scripter, etc) I've come across for the Windows platform is The Proxomitron. As if all the options weren't enough--it's even scriptable!
Isn't this a basic truism for all computer design? After all, no amount of support circuit wizardry is going make an old 4004 run any modern OS at acceptable performance levels...
The two-dollar bill is still in circulation. In fact whenever I get cash from the bank (amazingly rare since I got a check card), I always ask the teller for all the 2's she can give me.
I just love watching people's faces when I spend them! They range from "Wow! I have to buy this out of the draw at the end of my shift" to a very perplexed look as they realize that they have no partition for 2's in their drawer.
Plus I love the picture on the back
I've always built my own. Typically I find that it actually costs a little more then a mass market PC, but I get exactly the options (video card, PC card, etc) I want, and don't have to pay for any bundled stuff I didn't want.
I typically price all my parts through Pricewatch