M$ were probably quoting from their own internal price lists and given the true worth of M$ Office, that $2000 worth probably amounts to several hundred shrinkwrapped boxes of Office XP professional!
Well no, but personally, the sooner the USA can't afford to maintain carrier battlegroups and fund development of the next generation of weapons technology, the better for the entire planet, even if it does mean that people have to shed a few pounds from their flabby bloated guts.
Actually, it'd be good for them to have to spend their money on cheap but healthy food. For a change.
If its being centrally managed by people who know their stuff, plus lots of storage for images to roll back at a moments notice in case something goes wrong *plus* running this stuff on virtual machines which can themselves be very simply copied, backed up etc... I reckon it could work.
and home users (just *normal* people, k, not geeks) should be able to have no actual personal computer at home;
Imagine a world where those that want nothing to do with maintaining their PC can run applications remotely on a supercomputer; the 'office' suite is maintained for them remotely, as is all the other PC infrastructure (security, virus checking, updates etc). And most importantly they don't get to BREAK anything.
A blissful world where IT support people don't have users ringing up and yelling "MY PC IS BROKEN WORD WONT START I INSIST YOU DROP WHATEVER YOU ARE DOING AND COME AND FIX IT RIGHT THIS INSTANT! WAAAAHHHHHH *SOB*"
You know, the sort of things that drive desktop support people totally insane (unless they take inordinate amounts of recreational pharmaceuticals).
Om peace peace:) Go IBM, go. So long as those that *want* a PC can have one without paying IBM for my own CPU cycles...
I don't really give a crap, the original dragonball is hilarious regardless of the editing.
It just puzzles me that someone went to a LOT of trouble to modify it.
Seems absurd to me.
The quip at the end was really about why the heck would they change it?? Its not as if the european audience is *really* that sensitive or dumb, look at Cow and Chicken for example. Some very 'under the radar' adult comments in that...
Admittedly no 'animated tight teenage ass' tho. Just a big fat 8 year old cow with huge udders. And a red guy that never wears trousers and is sometimes a woman with names like Mrs Beaver.
Well, they *did* edit Dragonball (referring to the original series as opposed to DBZ).
Eg when Bulma gets the dragonball from Roshi, in the original she flashes her pussy at him and we get to see her butt. Seriously.
In the Cartoon Network one she flashes her 'belly button'. and we don't get to see anything...
Theres also plenty of dialog that got re-voiced over for the Cartoon Network series, like when Roshi asks Bulma for a date in the original, in the Cartoon network version, Roshi asks Bulma for a date with one of Bulmas mothers friends...
I guess some things just had to be toned down for sensitive viewers...
is filth! No, not pr0n, filth as in mould and other miscellaneous cruft.
I hope these guys also provide something to clean the media! Otherwise there are folk who are going to fork out big bucks for this widget only to find that the huge stack of old floppies they were hoping to be able to read are useless! due to mould!! and stuff!!!
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These capacitor bombs are obviously a ploy by radical elements in the IT industry to sow murder and mayhem! Well ok maybe not murder.
:-|
What I want to know is when is George Dubbaya going to nuke Taiwan for this?
Is Taiwan just going to have to line up and wait its turn?
I mean first they tell the USA to go swivel over copyright, now this! Pah!
Isn't the question 'worst for who?'
I mean I bet the US voting system is absolutely fabulous for *some*. Question is who?
M$ were probably quoting from their own internal price lists and given the true worth of M$ Office, that $2000 worth probably amounts to several hundred shrinkwrapped boxes of Office XP professional!
Well no, but personally, the sooner the USA can't afford to maintain carrier battlegroups and fund development of the next generation of weapons technology, the better for the entire planet, even if it does mean that people have to shed a few pounds from their flabby bloated guts.
Actually, it'd be good for them to have to spend their money on cheap but healthy food. For a change.
If its being centrally managed by people who know their stuff, plus lots of storage for images to roll back at a moments notice in case something goes wrong *plus* running this stuff on virtual machines which can themselves be very simply copied, backed up etc... I reckon it could work.
and home users (just *normal* people, k, not geeks) should be able to have no actual personal computer at home;
:)
Imagine a world where those that want nothing to do with maintaining their PC can run applications remotely on a supercomputer;
the 'office' suite is maintained for them
remotely, as is all the other PC infrastructure
(security, virus checking, updates etc).
And most importantly they don't get to BREAK anything.
A blissful world where IT support people don't have users ringing up and yelling
"MY PC IS BROKEN WORD WONT START I INSIST YOU DROP WHATEVER YOU ARE DOING AND COME AND FIX IT RIGHT THIS INSTANT! WAAAAHHHHHH *SOB*"
You know, the sort of things that drive desktop support people totally insane (unless they take inordinate amounts of recreational pharmaceuticals).
Om peace peace
Go IBM, go.
So long as those that *want* a PC can have one without paying IBM for my own CPU cycles...
Someones already done it.l
Sorta.
http://www.trygve.com/furbeowulf.htm
I bet you never knew they had a furbechannel interface...
Ok so you've got a 100KW laser pointed at me,
but aha! I've got a mirror that reflects
95% of the light.
So, uh, my mirror has to absorb 5KW of the unreflected laser energy,
but dude, thats 95KW of laser being reflected RIGHT BACK AT YOU!!!
Just think about that.
all fancied up ;)
Now I have to search for a movie file of Curse of the Blood Rubies :)
I didn't want to point the finger at yanks specifically, so I chose 'european'.
:)
The yanks get enough stick as it is and I didn't want to seem like I was picking on them.
But yeah...
I don't really give a crap, the original dragonball is hilarious regardless of the editing.
It just puzzles me that someone went to a LOT of trouble to modify it.
Seems absurd to me.
The quip at the end was really about why the heck would they change it?? Its not as if the european audience is *really* that sensitive or dumb, look at Cow and Chicken for example. Some very 'under the radar' adult comments in that...
Admittedly no 'animated tight teenage ass' tho.
Just a big fat 8 year old cow with huge udders.
And a red guy that never wears trousers and is sometimes a woman with names like Mrs Beaver.
The thing that really puzzles me is the way the story line must have been mixed around.
;)
In the original scene where she flashes Roshi,
Oolong is present.
While in the version on CN, Oolong doesn't appear until about 2 episodes after the flash.
Also, the outfit Bulma is wearing in the original flash scene, and her hairstyle are totally different from the CN version.
So someone has done some serious editing not to mention re-animation... uh I don't mean raising the dead
Ie a *lot* of work has been done changing the toon... for what? Make it palatable for sensitive european tastes or something?
Well, they *did* edit Dragonball (referring to the original series as opposed to DBZ).
Eg when Bulma gets the dragonball from Roshi, in the original she flashes her pussy at him and we get to see her butt. Seriously.
In the Cartoon Network one she flashes her 'belly button'. and we don't get to see anything...
Theres also plenty of dialog that got re-voiced over for the Cartoon Network series, like when Roshi asks Bulma for a date in the original, in the Cartoon network version, Roshi asks Bulma for a date with one of Bulmas mothers friends...
I guess some things just had to be toned down for sensitive viewers...
Why don't we feed it three hams?
It'll only take three hams to kill it.
Three hams!!!
You guys got another one called Zorak?
is filth!
No, not pr0n, filth as in mould and other miscellaneous cruft.
I hope these guys also provide something to clean the media! Otherwise there are folk who are going to fork out big bucks for this widget only to find that the huge stack of old floppies they were hoping to be able to read are useless! due to mould!! and stuff!!!
So that spammers will have to pay the tax or have the IRS on their case?
Personally, I'd love to see spammers being chased by the IRS!!!
For what?
To save the lives of soldiers?
Nuking hospitals & kindergartens?
If thats not a crime against humanity *nothing* is.
Its a paradigm example of a crime against humanity.
for typical companies in NZ with high speed internet access.
So no, its no surprise whatsoever that they'd want to avoid employees downloading gigs of movies, music etc.
20c a meg, thats $200NZ per gig.
Of what? Is this chargable to clients?
I doubt it
If you did this with a p4, it would
achieve consciousness.
For a coupla minutes;
http://totl.net/Eunuch/
Pah, I spit on your puny -7C
and minescule performance increase!
"if you cut down my roses, i get to kill your firstborn in a satanic ritual - well, that's just not enforcable."
oh thats enforcable alright... just not *legally* enforcable. In most parts of the world.
For the whole TDMA or whatever the darn hardware enforcement of the DMCA is called, for that to work users would have to be part of the system too.
You couldn't buy a computer that you could use without an implant.
Thats the one.
Now if only there were more similarities between the two.
I hope the author hasn't planned a holiday in the land of the free!
Some in america is *bound* to be using this to protect copyright material.