While their latest digital slr had some nice features such as the built in anti shake feature, they were only ever 2nd or 3rd best to canon and nikon in this department, and as far as their film goes, it is really as 2nd teir as agfa etc. The saddest day for film will be when fuji stops making Velvia and the likes, and of course the sad day for digital has already come,... all these people with top of the line digital SLRs that have no clue how to use them
My first thought was that it was a shame they didnt choose to put the latest build of firefox on all the HP machines instead, but then I realised Netscape would be best for the opensource movement in general because
a) more gecko compliant browsers means more pressure for standard compliant code
b) installing several million extra copies of a single spesific build of firefox would encourage more exploits targeted at the one build, factionalising the gecko based browsers out there makes a single exploit for the whole group much harder to make
thats just my opinoin anyway...
I always understood that a gram was one cubic centimetre of water at 4C as that is when water is at its heaviest,.. Surely the measurement for a centimetre has not been shrinking??
For one thing, they pumped snow out on 2 seperate 12 hour shifts, just on closed trails during the day, But I do beleive they drained the pipes out when not in use and just flushed them out with air.
The ski resort I worked at did not heat their pipes, they simply had water flowing through them fast enough for it to *mostly* not freeze, they were a foot in diamater and we generally ran 80-120 snow guns a night. If a pipe did freeze, you had 10+ snow makers out there at the frozen point heating the pipe with 10 blow torches, not very fun, only happened like twice in the 3 months I worked there
I worked as a snow maker for 3 months a couple years back and what I know is that using water treated with snow enducing bacteria and using air compressed on a set of pumps that used as much electicity as a small town, on snow guns with commercial heads, you really needed it to be below 30 degrees F. To do the equivilant home made style you would need a LOT as well as very high water pressure and very cold temperatures seeing as you would not have the snow enducing bacteria.
Thanks, I acutally got my first post modded to 5 (that didnt get modded back down to 4) just yesterday, for a one liner of all things. Another game that never got off the ground that really should have was Master of Magic 2, although they say that if MOO3 is succesful they may revisit MOM2, another case of a good game depending on the game buying public to validate it, hopefully MOO3 will be a showcase of game over glitz and not the other way around.
Games fail because the game buying public have failed,.. What people have supported with their $$$ over the years has led the game designers to have to put their investment into the flashy graphics using the latest 3D cards and such before gameplay and origionality,.. Before the age when 3D cards were the mainstay we get things like Star Control 2, Quest for Glory, Civilization and the likes,.. New and origional concepts were coming out all the time, granted you can do only so much new stuff it does not seem so much the trend these days,.. as for 3D over gameplay, look at what happened to Star Control 3, it was an absolubte joke, #2 is still playable now, #3 wasnt even fun when it first game out.
Seems fair enough to me if scenes are cut and the tape tells you that it has been done so, it is another issue if the company places a digital beard on captian kirk for the hell of it, that is simply confusing the intellectual property of the owners. On a side note, I noticed in the awards section for/. there hasnt been an award for/. in 2 years, could it be these repeating stories?
Anybody who falls for these scams deserves what they get, not only due to the nature of the scam but the amount of publicity it has received also. Naturally the scammers also need to get burnt, Sociotey has laws for a reason, use them!
I also HAVE the m100, thats enough for a full word processer (Quickword is fully functional, fonts, italics, bold, selecting, dictionary [ok, dictionary dont fit into the 2 meg setup], and the like), games, and a heck of a lot of doccuments (I could type notes from lectures on it [I also have the keyboard] for weeks without having to off load them onto my computer), tell me thats not usefull.
the palm m100 is only a year old and that also had 2 megs of memory, that is plenty to include a full featured word processor, ala QuickWord (even use true type fonts) and solataire,.. Leaves space for about 1+ megs of compressed documents too, Id say thats plenty of usefulness.
When will they start making PDAs with electronic paper for the moniters making them more natural to read, LCD screens arent all that nice to look at for too long, especially at palm size.
Junkyard Wars (aka scrapheap) is a much more entertaining series in the mechanical sport genre in my opinion, it has room for varity in the different channelges they get given and the like, I wouldnt mind seeing a corperate robot wars style program however, such a Fuji made robot Vs a Sony one and so on,.. That would be pretty cool.
This article says the law is no cellphones in public performances, most movie theatres Ive been to are privately owned!?! how big does your TV screen have to be at home before you have to tell your visitors to turn their cellphones off around it?? Sometimes I just dont get the states.
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While their latest digital slr had some nice features such as the built in anti shake feature, they were only ever 2nd or 3rd best to canon and nikon in this department, and as far as their film goes, it is really as 2nd teir as agfa etc. The saddest day for film will be when fuji stops making Velvia and the likes, and of course the sad day for digital has already come,... all these people with top of the line digital SLRs that have no clue how to use them
AOL does not have financial ties to any other browser, this will be a paid off add tie in with AOL I am guessing
My first thought was that it was a shame they didnt choose to put the latest build of firefox on all the HP machines instead, but then I realised Netscape would be best for the opensource movement in general because
a) more gecko compliant browsers means more pressure for standard compliant code
b) installing several million extra copies of a single spesific build of firefox would encourage more exploits targeted at the one build, factionalising the gecko based browsers out there makes a single exploit for the whole group much harder to make
thats just my opinoin anyway...
lord of the rings was a top 10 seller for the year in the US, not that is any indication as to the game being good.
I always understood that a gram was one cubic centimetre of water at 4C as that is when water is at its heaviest,.. Surely the measurement for a centimetre has not been shrinking??
well, we would just use the same blow torches that we thaw the pipe out with I guess ;)
For one thing, they pumped snow out on 2 seperate 12 hour shifts, just on closed trails during the day, But I do beleive they drained the pipes out when not in use and just flushed them out with air.
The ski resort I worked at did not heat their pipes, they simply had water flowing through them fast enough for it to *mostly* not freeze, they were a foot in diamater and we generally ran 80-120 snow guns a night. If a pipe did freeze, you had 10+ snow makers out there at the frozen point heating the pipe with 10 blow torches, not very fun, only happened like twice in the 3 months I worked there
I worked as a snow maker for 3 months a couple years back and what I know is that using water treated with snow enducing bacteria and using air compressed on a set of pumps that used as much electicity as a small town, on snow guns with commercial heads, you really needed it to be below 30 degrees F. To do the equivilant home made style you would need a LOT as well as very high water pressure and very cold temperatures seeing as you would not have the snow enducing bacteria.
It is the hydrophillic stuff you have to watch out for, that stuffs creepy.
heck, its a good time to be a lawyer isnt it,.. How long until Microsoft starts suing Microsoft I wonder.
Thanks, I acutally got my first post modded to 5 (that didnt get modded back down to 4) just yesterday, for a one liner of all things. Another game that never got off the ground that really should have was Master of Magic 2, although they say that if MOO3 is succesful they may revisit MOM2, another case of a good game depending on the game buying public to validate it, hopefully MOO3 will be a showcase of game over glitz and not the other way around.
Games fail because the game buying public have failed,.. What people have supported with their $$$ over the years has led the game designers to have to put their investment into the flashy graphics using the latest 3D cards and such before gameplay and origionality,.. Before the age when 3D cards were the mainstay we get things like Star Control 2, Quest for Glory, Civilization and the likes,.. New and origional concepts were coming out all the time, granted you can do only so much new stuff it does not seem so much the trend these days,.. as for 3D over gameplay, look at what happened to Star Control 3, it was an absolubte joke, #2 is still playable now, #3 wasnt even fun when it first game out.
Wire this thing poorly and you might just get yourself a Firewall.
It is a good thing it doesnt run windows, because every year they would have Science Appliance Compliance issues, with updates and $$$
Anybody know if this is a reference to Pink Floyd, if so then I appreciate this team all the more :)
Seems fair enough to me if scenes are cut and the tape tells you that it has been done so, it is another issue if the company places a digital beard on captian kirk for the hell of it, that is simply confusing the intellectual property of the owners. On a side note, I noticed in the awards section for /. there hasnt been an award for /. in 2 years, could it be these repeating stories?
Anybody who falls for these scams deserves what they get, not only due to the nature of the scam but the amount of publicity it has received also. Naturally the scammers also need to get burnt, Sociotey has laws for a reason, use them!
Just incase some of you have not seen examples of electronic paper before, an example of what I had in mind can be seen at http://eink.com/
I also HAVE the m100, thats enough for a full word processer (Quickword is fully functional, fonts, italics, bold, selecting, dictionary [ok, dictionary dont fit into the 2 meg setup], and the like), games, and a heck of a lot of doccuments (I could type notes from lectures on it [I also have the keyboard] for weeks without having to off load them onto my computer), tell me thats not usefull.
How could your average consumer know that their high tech gizmo phone could text message or not if it didnt have a keyboard?!?
the palm m100 is only a year old and that also had 2 megs of memory, that is plenty to include a full featured word processor, ala QuickWord (even use true type fonts) and solataire,.. Leaves space for about 1+ megs of compressed documents too, Id say thats plenty of usefulness.
When will they start making PDAs with electronic paper for the moniters making them more natural to read, LCD screens arent all that nice to look at for too long, especially at palm size.
Junkyard Wars (aka scrapheap) is a much more entertaining series in the mechanical sport genre in my opinion, it has room for varity in the different channelges they get given and the like, I wouldnt mind seeing a corperate robot wars style program however, such a Fuji made robot Vs a Sony one and so on,.. That would be pretty cool.
This article says the law is no cellphones in public performances, most movie theatres Ive been to are privately owned!?! how big does your TV screen have to be at home before you have to tell your visitors to turn their cellphones off around it?? Sometimes I just dont get the states.