4x4 refers to 4 steering wheels and 4 powered wheels, not 4 wheels alone
Er, no. It refers to a vehicle that has four wheels, all of which are powered. When I was a kid, my dad moonlighted driving a 6x6 towtruck - two powered wheels in front, and four more in the back. It didn't have six wheels all under control of the steering wheel.
The Radio Shack near me still sells electronic components. None of the employees know anything about them, and they're very overpriced, but they're still there in the back.
Fry's tends to have a bigger selection (although *what* they have in stock seems to be completely random), but the component aisles are more of a catch-all where you might find the same thing two aisles apart, and neither place is where it should be.
I think the problem isn't that stores don't carry the parts, but that they aren't willing to pay for even one salesperson per shift who knows anything about them. The last time I went to Fry's, I got blank stares from everyone I asked about where I could find BNC connectors. Obviously it's not even worth bothering asking about a particular type of IC.
Then explain the incredibly slow adoption of DVDs for PC gaming.
A lot of PC gamers refused to buy DVD drives, even when they hit the $30 mark. I don't know why this was, but I saw post after post on publishers' forums about how they wouldn't buy a game that was on DVD-ROM.
I couldn't figure out how people who could afford e.g. a $150-$250 video card couldn't find the cash to get a $20-$30 DVD-ROM drive, but apparently there were/are a lot of them. I even saw a post recently by someone who was complaining that he couldn't get the new Tomb Raider on CD-ROM instead of DVD-ROM.
but there is really no reason to buy this movie if you own one of the others.
If you take a little while to research this, you'll find that the new version is something that Ridley Scott has been working on for some time. There was a *ton* of unused footage for the film.
So yes, there is a good reason to buy it - it could be very different than either version we're familiar with.
If by the book you mean "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" it's a very different story than the film, and can't really be taken as a guide to what transpired in the film.
If there's some novelization *of* the film, then those frequently deviate from the "canon" of the film. E.g. in the Star Trek film novelizations, the Federation of the Enterprise-A era have cloaking devices on all or most of their ships.
I'm having trouble understanding the meaning of what appears to be a jab at me, but anyway. Depending on the law is exactly how non-DRM'd systems work. So I'm not seeing how adding DRM into the mix is any better. The people who refuse to pay for anything still will.
But does this law cover software-only designs, or just hardware? Everything I've been reading says hardware.
Maybe I'm missing your point, but even if it were about hardware, it's a simple process to take the hardware documentation and use it to come up with a software (or software/hardware) system that doesn't enforce the restrictions.
How about some evidence for your claim that Office doesn't run in a limited user account, buddy? Before you get too far ahead of yourself. I have it on 250 computers, all running as a limited user account (and no, no domain-- we're Netware), and I've never encountered any problems related to permissions.
I'll see your 250 computers with no domain and raise you 10,000+ 2000 SP4 and XP Pro SP2 machines on a domain with non-admin users running Office 2000 and 2003 with no issues related to the lack of admin rights.
GGP is correct - MS is *very* good at making sure their modern apps follow the guidelines for working for non-admins. Almost every other "enterprise" software company is not.
Um, why? It isn't like secondhand goods are black market - Sony already got paid the first time, and trading used goods is a good way to save money. Why are you so intent in giving Sony your money?
For media, I always buy new as well. I tend to like games/movies/music that aren't wildly popular, where the future production of them depends on how many new copies are sold. Eidos, for example, doesn't care if a Legacy of Kain game are sold used a billion times, because they don't see a dime of it.
Furthermore:
- I hate getting used CDs/DVDs and finding out they're scratched or otherwise have problems. and - I refuse to contribute to the strategy of e.g. EB/Gamestop/Blockbuster, where they buy something used and then turn around and sell it for much more. If I *have* to buy something used, it's always from an individual.
Seeing as though cartridge based wasn't part of the oringinal comment I counter that Pong was THE first console, released before the Fairchild Channel F.
Even in terms of cartridge-based systems, the Magnavox Odyssey came first, although its cartridges were more like fancy ways of setting DIP switches.
Yes, the screen is small, but since I sit close to it (the whole machine being compact), it's not a problem for me in practice.
We're also a bit spoiled.
If this was the first computer you'd ever had, the screen probably wouldn't seem small. I grew up using an Apple IIe with a 13" monitor at 320x240, and it was fine at the time.
It should be considered normal or even mandatory to have admin rights in order to INSTALL software.
Not really. It makes sense on Windows because it still has a lot of vestigal bits from being a single-user system.
Unix has had the capability of non-admins "installing" (e.g. compiling) apps in their personal folders for a *long* time. Back before SLIP/PPP was affordable, my friends and I on dialup shell accounts would either compile premade apps or develop our own all the time.
The collection should be kept whole and rented out to people and groups who want to make low-budget Star Trek movies.
See the post immediately below yours.
With *very* few exceptions (e.g. Lord of the Rings), film and television companies build things as cheaply as possible. They are designed to last only just long enough to get through filming, and only just good enough to look convincing on screen.
I used to work for an ex-Hollywood prop master. He had one of the screen-used hoverboards from Back to the Future II. I could barely contain my glee at holding it, since they are one of my most favourite pieces of fictional technology ever. However, it was also the perfect example of the difference between seeing something on-screen and seeing it in real life. The body of the hoverboard was a chunk of styrofoam painted neon pink. On top was the Mattel logo and an abstract pattern either printed on plastic or laminated paper. The "hover" equipment on the bottom was cast resin (I think? This was awhile ago) painted to look like metal.
Even if Paramount *could* make money renting out Star Trek props (which is unlikely), they wouldn't stand up to the beating. The best place for them is in a display case, which is exactly where this auction will make sure they end up.
If you look closely at the auction, it's the mass-market Ertl model, it's just been studio-painted for use in shots where they didn't need the big hero model.
Some of the other stuff is pretty cool, but obviously the prices will be too high for anyone except those who are both very rich *and* very dorky. I mean, even the Babylon 5 props on eBay awhile ago went for about ten times what I would have been willing to pay.
If you ever need a dilithium crystal there's really no substitute.
"Here in the engine room of the starship Enterprise, we've secretly replaced the dilithium crystals with new Folger's Crystals. Let's see if anyone notices the difference."
I really do not understand the overwhelmingly negative response from normally-anti-establishment Slashdotters on this topic.
*All* of the data provided about it is suspect because it's from people who allegedly suffer from the condition. Have you ever met someone with a psychotic disorder? They will go to incredible lengths to convince you that their delusions are real.
1) The fibers do NOT come from fabric
I couldn't find any documentation on what they're allegedly made out of - only pictures that look *exactly* like synthetic fiber from fabric. They can get SEM images of them but not a chemical analysis? More like they got the chemical analysis and it supported the theory that they're from fabric.
2) Not everyone with this has the associated psychological symptoms
One of the primary symptoms of psychosis is the inability to recognize that you have any mental problems.
3) Not everyone with the fibers has the open sores
Then why aren't there *any* photos of someone with the fibers emerging from their skin? If so many people supposedly have them, why are the only photos of sores with no fibers, or a clump of fibers completely detached from a person? Occam's Razor.
Somewhere's the Internet, and they'll go look up the drugs you gave them and come screaming back that you gave them psych drugs when they need magic worm killing pills.
Mod parent up.
People with psychosis can still be very intelligent - although the ones I've met have had their effective intelligence reduced because their mind was so busy inventing delusions - and the paranoia they tend to have means that if they even *suspect* something is up, they will bail out of there in a split second.
I hate the idea of forced psychiatric treatment, but for most cases I can't imagine an effective alternative to it for the conditions that cause psychosis. Since modern treatment is drug based (IE no forced electroshock therapy), and atypical antipsychotics have fairly benign (or no) side effects, I think it makes the most sense that when someone is discovered with obvious symptoms, they be institutionalized for a couple of months and given e.g. Seroquel for that period. At the end of it, they can - rationally and logically - choose to continue the treatment or not.
The healthcare professionals (Doctors/etc) should really not be turning these people away quite so easily imho.
It's very difficult to properly treat someone who is delusional. In most of the US, patients cannot be forced into treatment unless they are actively suicidal or homicidal. In my experience, it's not that doctors turn them away, it's that they refuse to accept what's really going on and leave on their own.
The *sensation* they have is "real", not to sound like Morpheus: feels like bugs in skin.
Yes, this is (IMO) one of the more bizarre aspects of psychosis - it's not just the the people suffering from it *believe* in things that aren't true, they actually experience some of them directly.
I've known a couple of people with schizophrenia, and while it's a terrible condition, it gave me a lot of respect for the power of our minds.
I started up IE to view the site instead of Firefox, and it seemed to have some editorializing of its own to do. I didn't have the Japanese language pack installed, so all the non-English characters were replaced by squares. On my task manager, it looked like it was yelling "MS Nooooooooooooooooo," Anakin Skywalker-style.
Klingons - black skin, brutish, unintelligent, hyper-aggressive, extremely athletic and possessed of a mystical earthy wisdom that's a direct rip of the "magic negro" phenomenon. They're a condensed version of every stereotype about Africans.
That's funny, I always thought the were a condensed version of every stereotype about the Soviets, with some quasi-Chinese weaponry and mysticism and feudal Japan-esque philosophy thrown in for flavour.
Furthermore, of the actors I associate with the major Klingon roles (David Warner, Christopher Lloyd, Christopher Plummer, and Michael Dorn), only one of them is black.
Romulans - intelligent, devious, amoral, harsh semi-collectivist government, yellow skin, slanty features, related to 'emotionless' creatures. Condensed version of every stereotype about Asians.
The Romulans always reminded me of WWII-era Germans - particularly the less-than-subtle substitution of the cloaking device for the U-boat. Germans with bad haircuts.
I think you are projecting your own preconceptions onto these fictional characters more than seeing something that they were genuinely based on.
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4x4 refers to 4 steering wheels and 4 powered wheels, not 4 wheels alone
Er, no. It refers to a vehicle that has four wheels, all of which are powered. When I was a kid, my dad moonlighted driving a 6x6 towtruck - two powered wheels in front, and four more in the back. It didn't have six wheels all under control of the steering wheel.
Radio shack only sells cellphones now.
The Radio Shack near me still sells electronic components. None of the employees know anything about them, and they're very overpriced, but they're still there in the back.
Fry's tends to have a bigger selection (although *what* they have in stock seems to be completely random), but the component aisles are more of a catch-all where you might find the same thing two aisles apart, and neither place is where it should be.
I think the problem isn't that stores don't carry the parts, but that they aren't willing to pay for even one salesperson per shift who knows anything about them. The last time I went to Fry's, I got blank stares from everyone I asked about where I could find BNC connectors. Obviously it's not even worth bothering asking about a particular type of IC.
VB = 6 is unadulterated crap. VB.NET isn't half bad, although I much prefer C#.
Then explain the incredibly slow adoption of DVDs for PC gaming.
A lot of PC gamers refused to buy DVD drives, even when they hit the $30 mark. I don't know why this was, but I saw post after post on publishers' forums about how they wouldn't buy a game that was on DVD-ROM.
I couldn't figure out how people who could afford e.g. a $150-$250 video card couldn't find the cash to get a $20-$30 DVD-ROM drive, but apparently there were/are a lot of them. I even saw a post recently by someone who was complaining that he couldn't get the new Tomb Raider on CD-ROM instead of DVD-ROM.
Had they been trapped in the glass elevantor at the top of the lift (street level) during a 90 degree day in NYC, they could have fried.
It *is* made of glass. If their lives had really been in danger there is a fairly straightforward way to get them out in a hurry.
but there is really no reason to buy this movie if you own one of the others.
If you take a little while to research this, you'll find that the new version is something that Ridley Scott has been working on for some time. There was a *ton* of unused footage for the film.
So yes, there is a good reason to buy it - it could be very different than either version we're familiar with.
Actually, in the book
If by the book you mean "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" it's a very different story than the film, and can't really be taken as a guide to what transpired in the film.
If there's some novelization *of* the film, then those frequently deviate from the "canon" of the film. E.g. in the Star Trek film novelizations, the Federation of the Enterprise-A era have cloaking devices on all or most of their ships.
The exact same law you love so much.
I'm having trouble understanding the meaning of what appears to be a jab at me, but anyway. Depending on the law is exactly how non-DRM'd systems work. So I'm not seeing how adding DRM into the mix is any better. The people who refuse to pay for anything still will.
But does this law cover software-only designs, or just hardware? Everything I've been reading says hardware.
Maybe I'm missing your point, but even if it were about hardware, it's a simple process to take the hardware documentation and use it to come up with a software (or software/hardware) system that doesn't enforce the restrictions.
You can have DRM, you just have to tell other industry players how to interoperate with it.
If anyone can make a program that plays DRM-protected files, what's to stop someone from making one that outputs the file in an unencrypted format?
Furthermore, I assume Apple is concerned about losing their de facto monopoly on players that can play DRM'd music from ITMS.
Personally I think France's plan is awesome. Consumer choice is more important than protecting crappy DRM technology.
How about some evidence for your claim that Office doesn't run in a limited user account, buddy? Before you get too far ahead of yourself. I have it on 250 computers, all running as a limited user account (and no, no domain-- we're Netware), and I've never encountered any problems related to permissions.
I'll see your 250 computers with no domain and raise you 10,000+ 2000 SP4 and XP Pro SP2 machines on a domain with non-admin users running Office 2000 and 2003 with no issues related to the lack of admin rights.
GGP is correct - MS is *very* good at making sure their modern apps follow the guidelines for working for non-admins. Almost every other "enterprise" software company is not.
Um, why? It isn't like secondhand goods are black market - Sony already got paid the first time, and trading used goods is a good way to save money. Why are you so intent in giving Sony your money?
For media, I always buy new as well. I tend to like games/movies/music that aren't wildly popular, where the future production of them depends on how many new copies are sold. Eidos, for example, doesn't care if a Legacy of Kain game are sold used a billion times, because they don't see a dime of it.
Furthermore:
- I hate getting used CDs/DVDs and finding out they're scratched or otherwise have problems.
and
- I refuse to contribute to the strategy of e.g. EB/Gamestop/Blockbuster, where they buy something used and then turn around and sell it for much more. If I *have* to buy something used, it's always from an individual.
Seeing as though cartridge based wasn't part of the oringinal comment I counter that Pong was THE first console, released before the Fairchild Channel F.
Even in terms of cartridge-based systems, the Magnavox Odyssey came first, although its cartridges were more like fancy ways of setting DIP switches.
Yes, the screen is small, but since I sit close to it (the whole machine being compact), it's not a problem for me in practice.
We're also a bit spoiled.
If this was the first computer you'd ever had, the screen probably wouldn't seem small. I grew up using an Apple IIe with a 13" monitor at 320x240, and it was fine at the time.
It should be considered normal or even mandatory to have admin rights in order to INSTALL software.
Not really. It makes sense on Windows because it still has a lot of vestigal bits from being a single-user system.
Unix has had the capability of non-admins "installing" (e.g. compiling) apps in their personal folders for a *long* time. Back before SLIP/PPP was affordable, my friends and I on dialup shell accounts would either compile premade apps or develop our own all the time.
Do the right thing. Destroy those illegal copies you made.
WTF? It's not like he was selling them. They probably were never even offered for sale if they were made by student artists.
The collection should be kept whole and rented out to people and groups who want to make low-budget Star Trek movies.
See the post immediately below yours.
With *very* few exceptions (e.g. Lord of the Rings), film and television companies build things as cheaply as possible. They are designed to last only just long enough to get through filming, and only just good enough to look convincing on screen.
I used to work for an ex-Hollywood prop master. He had one of the screen-used hoverboards from Back to the Future II. I could barely contain my glee at holding it, since they are one of my most favourite pieces of fictional technology ever. However, it was also the perfect example of the difference between seeing something on-screen and seeing it in real life. The body of the hoverboard was a chunk of styrofoam painted neon pink. On top was the Mattel logo and an abstract pattern either printed on plastic or laminated paper. The "hover" equipment on the bottom was cast resin (I think? This was awhile ago) painted to look like metal.
Even if Paramount *could* make money renting out Star Trek props (which is unlikely), they wouldn't stand up to the beating. The best place for them is in a display case, which is exactly where this auction will make sure they end up.
The Enterprise NCC-1701-A from Star Trek 5 and 6.
If you look closely at the auction, it's the mass-market Ertl model, it's just been studio-painted for use in shots where they didn't need the big hero model.
Some of the other stuff is pretty cool, but obviously the prices will be too high for anyone except those who are both very rich *and* very dorky. I mean, even the Babylon 5 props on eBay awhile ago went for about ten times what I would have been willing to pay.
If you ever need a dilithium crystal there's really no substitute.
"Here in the engine room of the starship Enterprise, we've secretly replaced the dilithium crystals with new Folger's Crystals. Let's see if anyone notices the difference."
I really do not understand the overwhelmingly negative response from normally-anti-establishment Slashdotters on this topic.
*All* of the data provided about it is suspect because it's from people who allegedly suffer from the condition. Have you ever met someone with a psychotic disorder? They will go to incredible lengths to convince you that their delusions are real.
1) The fibers do NOT come from fabric
I couldn't find any documentation on what they're allegedly made out of - only pictures that look *exactly* like synthetic fiber from fabric. They can get SEM images of them but not a chemical analysis? More like they got the chemical analysis and it supported the theory that they're from fabric.
2) Not everyone with this has the associated psychological symptoms
One of the primary symptoms of psychosis is the inability to recognize that you have any mental problems.
3) Not everyone with the fibers has the open sores
Then why aren't there *any* photos of someone with the fibers emerging from their skin? If so many people supposedly have them, why are the only photos of sores with no fibers, or a clump of fibers completely detached from a person? Occam's Razor.
Somewhere's the Internet, and they'll go look up the drugs you gave them and come screaming back that you gave them psych drugs when they need magic worm killing pills.
Mod parent up.
People with psychosis can still be very intelligent - although the ones I've met have had their effective intelligence reduced because their mind was so busy inventing delusions - and the paranoia they tend to have means that if they even *suspect* something is up, they will bail out of there in a split second.
I hate the idea of forced psychiatric treatment, but for most cases I can't imagine an effective alternative to it for the conditions that cause psychosis. Since modern treatment is drug based (IE no forced electroshock therapy), and atypical antipsychotics have fairly benign (or no) side effects, I think it makes the most sense that when someone is discovered with obvious symptoms, they be institutionalized for a couple of months and given e.g. Seroquel for that period. At the end of it, they can - rationally and logically - choose to continue the treatment or not.
The healthcare professionals (Doctors/etc) should really not be turning these people away quite so easily imho.
It's very difficult to properly treat someone who is delusional. In most of the US, patients cannot be forced into treatment unless they are actively suicidal or homicidal. In my experience, it's not that doctors turn them away, it's that they refuse to accept what's really going on and leave on their own.
The *sensation* they have is "real", not to sound like Morpheus: feels like bugs in skin.
Yes, this is (IMO) one of the more bizarre aspects of psychosis - it's not just the the people suffering from it *believe* in things that aren't true, they actually experience some of them directly.
I've known a couple of people with schizophrenia, and while it's a terrible condition, it gave me a lot of respect for the power of our minds.
2) IE 6 Only.
I started up IE to view the site instead of Firefox, and it seemed to have some editorializing of its own to do. I didn't have the Japanese language pack installed, so all the non-English characters were replaced by squares. On my task manager, it looked like it was yelling "MS Nooooooooooooooooo," Anakin Skywalker-style.
Klingons - black skin, brutish, unintelligent, hyper-aggressive, extremely athletic and possessed of a mystical earthy wisdom that's a direct rip of the "magic negro" phenomenon. They're a condensed version of every stereotype about Africans.
That's funny, I always thought the were a condensed version of every stereotype about the Soviets, with some quasi-Chinese weaponry and mysticism and feudal Japan-esque philosophy thrown in for flavour.
Furthermore, of the actors I associate with the major Klingon roles (David Warner, Christopher Lloyd, Christopher Plummer, and Michael Dorn), only one of them is black.
Romulans - intelligent, devious, amoral, harsh semi-collectivist government, yellow skin, slanty features, related to 'emotionless' creatures. Condensed version of every stereotype about Asians.
The Romulans always reminded me of WWII-era Germans - particularly the less-than-subtle substitution of the cloaking device for the U-boat. Germans with bad haircuts.
I think you are projecting your own preconceptions onto these fictional characters more than seeing something that they were genuinely based on.