And normal weather patterns have exactly the same symptoms. I have no doubt that we are affecting the weather to a certain extent but it seems whatever weather we have is proof of "massive" changes, which I cannot buy into.
Back in 1880's - 1900's the environmentalists solution to smog was to raise the factories smokestacks higher into the air. While it did cure the smog problem it created acid rain and hurt the environment in ways they could not have fathomed. Of course they really did not take the time to.
It seems that no matter what happens it is the cause of global warming.
Lots of hurricanes, global warming. No hurricanes, global warming.
Big hurricanes, global warming. Small hurricanes, global warming.
Drought, global warming. Flooding, global warming.
Hot weather, global warming. Cold weather, global warming.
Different weather, global warming. Same weather, global warming.
Obviously the planet is warmer than it was 50,000 years ago and at least he in California it has been wetter and cooler in the last several thousand years than it has been before that. One super volcano or asteroid and we may be trying to warm the planet up or it will be very, very cold.
It might be a good idea show the RIAA the error of its ways. Sure I have downloaded a few songs from P2P networks but I have also downloaded some of those same songs from iTunes to have a better version of them than what was available on P2P networks.
If all P2P file traders could stop trading and buying music for one month the RIAA could see the loss in business and they would not have the networks to blame it on. They might not be so quick to sue the people that are buying their music....I doubt it but it would sure make their cases much harder to prove no matter how much they pay Howard Berman.
Unfortunately the equation does not fit. I was helped by all the republicans, yes they all happened to be male and was ignored by the democrats about 70 percent of which were female.
I gave both parties an equal attempt an answering me back...actually that is not true, the democrats actually got another chance since all the republicans answered the first time. The emails and letters were platform neutral and was done in the presence of a witness. All were either members of congress or representatives and for good measure members of the state assembly.
I thought I would at least get a canned response or form letter but I got nada. The first republican responded within one day of the email. None took longer than a week.
Living in California and have Diane Feinstein as one of our members of government I can tell you she only cares about herself and no one else.
I had a problem with social security and I wrote the same letter to all my representatives both democrats and republicans asking for help. We have some of the supposedly most caring democrats in the country, like Diane Feinstein, Barbara Boxer and Nancy Pelosi. Not one of them answered their email, so I sent a real letter to their offices which also went unanswered...not even a form letter. Yet every republican I emailed contacted my either in person or through a representative and were very helpful, pointing me in the right direction and even arranging meetings in my local community.
I have seen all the news articles and one thing Diane Feinstein does not offer is any kind of proof that this happened....she just said it did. Those in California my also remember how she said she helped San Francisco when she was mayor but how it was bankrupt when she left and how it barely pulled itself up from that debt.
Diane we here in California know you are long on words but woefully short on action.
The graphics look retarded and the don't have shit for songs. I tried looking up two discs that itunes does not carry but this place did not even have the artists at all let alone some of their earlier work.
What did turn up in my search were sound effects. 90 percent of the hits were sound effects. Is this the bulk of their 500,000 "songs"?
But his "PR Speak" usually cancels out what he just said. Real has sued anyone who has tried to reverse engineer their codecs. Even he said he would be happy if Apple licensed their technology when the question was reverse engineering.
I doubt he will be singing such a happy tune when Apple updates kill his "harmony".
Actually a Google search will turn up both facts for and against the fact they used passports. I guess which site you believe depends on whether you would believe they would do it or not, I think they would. I will concede this fact as I am sure I cannot find a link that would make everyone happy.
I have always said, it least in most of my posts, the neither party can claim they did the right thing with either Osama or Saddam. I have no problems with Moores movie being on TV. If people want to bitch about it being on TV, well, that is their right. I hate censorship no matter which party does it....and they both do in their own ways. I think they should show the national geographic special right after Moores movie at least to give voters all the facts. Moore is no dummy, at least I don't think he is, and he knew what to leave out of his movie to make his party look good. Both parties blew it, both should take the blame.
Yes, I know that Osama hated Saddam. Osama was really pissed when he went to the Saudis and offered to make Jihad on Saddam and was turned down in favor of the United States. still both would use each other in a second to further their causes, different though they may be. The thing I said was they got documents from Iraq. I still stand by that I was surprised, well not that surprised, that it was not in the report. If I gave you the link I trusted you would read it. Too often many people who ask for proof don't read it and would rather not know. I have even been told by some people that despite facts that show I am right the fact that majority rules means the facts don't matter. I could easily say to you show me documents that say they did not get documents from Iraq. There are plenty of Google links that point to what I said. The only facts I wanted to point out are the ones Moore did not want us to know, that the Clinton administration did as little to stop Bin Laden as the Bush administration did.
As I told another poster, catch what I think is the definitive documentary on the subject, they show it on the National Geographic channel. The documentary features people from around the world who are in the know about the subject including Osamas relatives. I have seen Moores movie and it reads like political ad compared to the National Geographic documentary.
Again let me say I am not supporting Bush. Bush and Clinton both blew it......badly.
They have a site called Google that works really well for this sort of thing.
BTW. As I said going after Iraq was not a good idea. Bush should have pursued Osama instead. Saddam was a Dick and he got what he deserved but this should have happened after Osama had been captured....not before.
Also Kerry, Clinton, Gore and most others believed that Saddam was helping them before 9/11....hint you can find their voting records via Google as well.
The National Geographic channel had a great show about bin laden and the lead up to and after 9/11. After Clinton told the CIA to bring in bin laden at all cost the Sudanese government contacted us and offered to turn him over to us. He was in Sudan at the time and they wanted him out.....badly. Clinton turned them down because the case was not totally airtight. Even after the case was proven there were three other occasions we could have called strikes in to wipe him out and maybe possibly capture him. Two were turned down because Clinton did not want to make it look like murder. The last one the son of a Saudi diplomat was visiting Osama and Clinton did not want to piss the Saudis off.
Clinton also let the Taliban have free reign in Afghanistan because of the pipeline Unocal wanted to put in. Neither administration has done enough to pursue bin laden in my book.
If you get a chance catch the show on the Nation Geographic channel, unlike Moores movie it covers this administration and the last one very well and the mistakes they both made. I consider it the best documentary on the subject.
All the worlds intelligence organizations. One, they were the real documents from the Kuwaiti government, not street knock-offs.
I do agree that Iraq was a low priority target, it still should have been a target, but Osama should have been first. Too bad Clinton let him go four times before 9/11.
It is well know that the 9/11 terrorist, who were Saudis all had Kuwaiti passport, stolen from Kuwait by Saddams forces.
Mikes movie is nothing but an ad for Kerry and should be treated as such. If Kerry wins I see another Tammany Hall getting started...I just don't know who will be Boss Tweed this time around....my moneys on Hillary.
Rob, What will you do when Apple breaks your downloaded files with an iPod update? Will you refund the customers money if the files do not play. Since you have burned your bridge in licensing fairplay what will happen when your reversing engineering rises to the level of code theft?
And as a side question, How come your company sued another company reverse engineering your codecs? Seems what should be good for the goose should be good for the gander.
I have actually heard about this but it was not what I was talking about. Coreimage and corevideo let you use real time effects on videos and still images or a mix of both and text layers all in real time. All effects are floating point and you can drag the effect or transition around the screen in real time with the video playing underneath. Transitions can be stopped half way through and dragged around the screen in real time. These are not in preview windows but the full screen, full data rate video. You really have to see it to appreciate it.
Actually I went retro on my PC and erased the drives and installed Windows 2000 pro. I am actually glad to be rid of XP Pro. Since most of my school work will center around 2000 pro that does not hurt either;-)
While it maybe bitmap based Quartz itself is based on the adobe PDF engine, which renders both vector and bitmap via the computers 3d card.
While it is all just eye candy the new imageunits or coregrahpic and corevideo are the really exciting things in tiger and which has no equal on the windows side. I am looking forward to Tiger for these features which should make any other platform for video look slow and clumsy. Catch the keynote video at the Apple quicktime site. This is truly amazing stuff. I expect a windows knock-off around 2007-2008.
Mollers flying car is supposed to fly this summer.
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from the moller site:
We plan to begin untethered flights when we have at least one additional M400 nearing completion. All flights will occur over a specially constructed lake. This lake is part of the Milk Farm development (see www.milkfarm.net), a commercial 60-acre development underway near the city of Dixon in California on Interstate 80. The lake will have an area of 5 to 6 acres and will be approximately 10 feet deep with a silt, rock free bottom. Most flights will occur at less than 50 feet altitude and will incorporate flotation gear attached to the Skycar.
: While not mentioned on the site the scuttlebutt is that the untethered lake flight will be this summer. If you live near the Sacramento/Davis area keep an eye on his site. If possible I plan to be there for the first flight since I am only 50 miles from the test site.
In the beginning Java was billed as all the things it was not at that time, fast, fully cross platform, stable. Most of those problems have been tackled and most Java programs are OK in my book. Some my still say it is slow but as an OS unto itself it loads much faster than a bulking Microsoft OS does.
I think Java would have been farther along and a lot cooler if Sun had not made a deal with Microsoft to screw over Java. MS has done more against Java than they ever did for it and sun took it in the ass on that deal. I think that Java is just now emerging as to what it was intended to be. A cross platform programming environment. I actually use several Java programs that are fast loading and they get the job done. Thanks to those using linux we now have decent Java programs. With more people turning to Unix everyday I look forward to more and better Java programs in the future.
If Microsoft says it enough maybe they will believe it. I saw a show on the history channel about Bill Gates and the person said that when me meets with his people he does his characteristic rocking back and forth and so everyone around him starts doing the same thing. Maybe in these efforts to "Be Bill" they go along with whatever he says no matter how ludicrous or untrue.
Bills rocking back and forth is usually a sign of:
1. Autism
2. Hyperactivity
3. Attention Deficit Disorder
or a combination of all three. For more information on Bill Gates condition try the following link.
http://members.aol.com/erichuf/Linux3.html
What is funny is that in all the discussion groups, newsgroups, etc. I frequent the liberals, notice I did not say democrats, constantly blame bush for everything....even for their irregularity. They blame republicans for using Nazi tactics, censorship and hundreds of other things that they do not do. It sounds like the paranoid ramblings of the John Birch society of the 50' & 60's.
When Sandy Berger was caught with his hands in the cookie jar, so to speak, even liberal democrat came out and dodged any questions about it being right or wrong and blamed bush for anything that would get the reporters off the subject.
What is worse is they always talk of freedom of speech but then in the same post say that republicans should not be allowed to talk or use their free speech. They state that republicans are Nazis and should have to wear patches to indicate in public that they are, that no one should do business with republican owned business and that republican should be kicked out of America so it will be the land of the free. Some radicals even talk of killing all republicans. I guess these liberals are unsure of the meaning of the word Nazi.
Wake up democrats! The liberals are going to make sure Kerry loses in November. I guarantee that if the liberals remain in control of the party they will insure a Bush win. Take your party back from these people or Bush will be here another 4 years.
I might support real on this matter but I don't because they shot themselves in the foot so many times, just on this issue, that they have no credibility.
The claim that this is all about freedom of choice but the real.com music store does not support Macs.....so much for that freedom of choice. Real has always been slow to offer any of its products on the Mac and some are not offered at all....again, so much for that freedom of choice. Real has continued to lose market share because their product which worked so well with old, slow dial up accounts looks horrid on broadband. Also most good content cost an arm and a leg to view. So much for Apple business model and their bitching about it.
Real has always sent out their 600 pound gorillas to stomp on anyone reverse engineering their intellectual property but they think it is OK to do it to Apple.
Real, get real, three strikes and you are out. I hope Apple sues you and puts the final nail in the coffin you have been laying in for years now.
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And normal weather patterns have exactly the same symptoms. I have no doubt that we are affecting the weather to a certain extent but it seems whatever weather we have is proof of "massive" changes, which I cannot buy into.
Back in 1880's - 1900's the environmentalists solution to smog was to raise the factories smokestacks higher into the air. While it did cure the smog problem it created acid rain and hurt the environment in ways they could not have fathomed. Of course they really did not take the time to.
It seems that no matter what happens it is the cause of global warming.
Lots of hurricanes, global warming. No hurricanes, global warming.
Big hurricanes, global warming. Small hurricanes, global warming.
Drought, global warming. Flooding, global warming.
Hot weather, global warming. Cold weather, global warming.
Different weather, global warming. Same weather, global warming.
Obviously the planet is warmer than it was 50,000 years ago and at least he in California it has been wetter and cooler in the last several thousand years than it has been before that. One super volcano or asteroid and we may be trying to warm the planet up or it will be very, very cold.
It might be a good idea show the RIAA the error of its ways. Sure I have downloaded a few songs from P2P networks but I have also downloaded some of those same songs from iTunes to have a better version of them than what was available on P2P networks.
If all P2P file traders could stop trading and buying music for one month the RIAA could see the loss in business and they would not have the networks to blame it on. They might not be so quick to sue the people that are buying their music....I doubt it but it would sure make their cases much harder to prove no matter how much they pay Howard Berman.
Unfortunately the equation does not fit. I was helped by all the republicans, yes they all happened to be male and was ignored by the democrats about 70 percent of which were female.
I gave both parties an equal attempt an answering me back...actually that is not true, the democrats actually got another chance since all the republicans answered the first time. The emails and letters were platform neutral and was done in the presence of a witness. All were either members of congress or representatives and for good measure members of the state assembly.
I thought I would at least get a canned response or form letter but I got nada. The first republican responded within one day of the email. None took longer than a week.
This is yet another reason I am an ex-democrat.
Living in California and have Diane Feinstein as one of our members of government I can tell you she only cares about herself and no one else.
I had a problem with social security and I wrote the same letter to all my representatives both democrats and republicans asking for help. We have some of the supposedly most caring democrats in the country, like Diane Feinstein, Barbara Boxer and Nancy Pelosi. Not one of them answered their email, so I sent a real letter to their offices which also went unanswered...not even a form letter. Yet every republican I emailed contacted my either in person or through a representative and were very helpful, pointing me in the right direction and even arranging meetings in my local community.
I have seen all the news articles and one thing Diane Feinstein does not offer is any kind of proof that this happened....she just said it did. Those in California my also remember how she said she helped San Francisco when she was mayor but how it was bankrupt when she left and how it barely pulled itself up from that debt.
Diane we here in California know you are long on words but woefully short on action.
The graphics look retarded and the don't have shit for songs. I tried looking up two discs that itunes does not carry but this place did not even have the artists at all let alone some of their earlier work.
What did turn up in my search were sound effects. 90 percent of the hits were sound effects. Is this the bulk of their 500,000 "songs"?
How about the people who ponied up the dollars to buy it! I bought RAM from crucial.com a division of Micron. Shouldn't I get some dollars back?
But his "PR Speak" usually cancels out what he just said. Real has sued anyone who has tried to reverse engineer their codecs. Even he said he would be happy if Apple licensed their technology when the question was reverse engineering.
I doubt he will be singing such a happy tune when Apple updates kill his "harmony".
Actually a Google search will turn up both facts for and against the fact they used passports. I guess which site you believe depends on whether you would believe they would do it or not, I think they would. I will concede this fact as I am sure I cannot find a link that would make everyone happy.
I have always said, it least in most of my posts, the neither party can claim they did the right thing with either Osama or Saddam. I have no problems with Moores movie being on TV. If people want to bitch about it being on TV, well, that is their right. I hate censorship no matter which party does it....and they both do in their own ways. I think they should show the national geographic special right after Moores movie at least to give voters all the facts. Moore is no dummy, at least I don't think he is, and he knew what to leave out of his movie to make his party look good. Both parties blew it, both should take the blame.
Yes, I know that Osama hated Saddam. Osama was really pissed when he went to the Saudis and offered to make Jihad on Saddam and was turned down in favor of the United States. still both would use each other in a second to further their causes, different though they may be. The thing I said was they got documents from Iraq. I still stand by that I was surprised, well not that surprised, that it was not in the report. If I gave you the link I trusted you would read it. Too often many people who ask for proof don't read it and would rather not know. I have even been told by some people that despite facts that show I am right the fact that majority rules means the facts don't matter. I could easily say to you show me documents that say they did not get documents from Iraq. There are plenty of Google links that point to what I said. The only facts I wanted to point out are the ones Moore did not want us to know, that the Clinton administration did as little to stop Bin Laden as the Bush administration did.
As I told another poster, catch what I think is the definitive documentary on the subject, they show it on the National Geographic channel. The documentary features people from around the world who are in the know about the subject including Osamas relatives. I have seen Moores movie and it reads like political ad compared to the National Geographic documentary.
Again let me say I am not supporting Bush. Bush and Clinton both blew it......badly.
How about:
www.9-11commission.gov
They have a site called Google that works really well for this sort of thing.
BTW. As I said going after Iraq was not a good idea. Bush should have pursued Osama instead. Saddam was a Dick and he got what he deserved but this should have happened after Osama had been captured....not before.
Also Kerry, Clinton, Gore and most others believed that Saddam was helping them before 9/11....hint you can find their voting records via Google as well.
The National Geographic channel had a great show about bin laden and the lead up to and after 9/11. After Clinton told the CIA to bring in bin laden at all cost the Sudanese government contacted us and offered to turn him over to us. He was in Sudan at the time and they wanted him out.....badly. Clinton turned them down because the case was not totally airtight. Even after the case was proven there were three other occasions we could have called strikes in to wipe him out and maybe possibly capture him. Two were turned down because Clinton did not want to make it look like murder. The last one the son of a Saudi diplomat was visiting Osama and Clinton did not want to piss the Saudis off.
Clinton also let the Taliban have free reign in Afghanistan because of the pipeline Unocal wanted to put in. Neither administration has done enough to pursue bin laden in my book.
If you get a chance catch the show on the Nation Geographic channel, unlike Moores movie it covers this administration and the last one very well and the mistakes they both made. I consider it the best documentary on the subject.
All the worlds intelligence organizations. One, they were the real documents from the Kuwaiti government, not street knock-offs.
I do agree that Iraq was a low priority target, it still should have been a target, but Osama should have been first. Too bad Clinton let him go four times before 9/11.
It is well know that the 9/11 terrorist, who were Saudis all had Kuwaiti passport, stolen from Kuwait by Saddams forces.
Mikes movie is nothing but an ad for Kerry and should be treated as such. If Kerry wins I see another Tammany Hall getting started...I just don't know who will be Boss Tweed this time around....my moneys on Hillary.
Rob, What will you do when Apple breaks your downloaded files with an iPod update? Will you refund the customers money if the files do not play. Since you have burned your bridge in licensing fairplay what will happen when your reversing engineering rises to the level of code theft?
And as a side question, How come your company sued another company reverse engineering your codecs? Seems what should be good for the goose should be good for the gander.
Sounds like he is breaking up Captain....He can't take much more of this. I can picture his obit:
"Actor James 'scotty" Doohan died on Sunday, he suffered an unreversable warp core breach."
Thankfully the original cast stopped doing movies, it was turning into geriatrek.
Joking aside, when they go, like Deforest Kelly did, they will be missed!
I have actually heard about this but it was not what I was talking about. Coreimage and corevideo let you use real time effects on videos and still images or a mix of both and text layers all in real time. All effects are floating point and you can drag the effect or transition around the screen in real time with the video playing underneath. Transitions can be stopped half way through and dragged around the screen in real time. These are not in preview windows but the full screen, full data rate video. You really have to see it to appreciate it.
;-)
Actually I went retro on my PC and erased the drives and installed Windows 2000 pro. I am actually glad to be rid of XP Pro. Since most of my school work will center around 2000 pro that does not hurt either
While it maybe bitmap based Quartz itself is based on the adobe PDF engine, which renders both vector and bitmap via the computers 3d card.
While it is all just eye candy the new imageunits or coregrahpic and corevideo are the really exciting things in tiger and which has no equal on the windows side. I am looking forward to Tiger for these features which should make any other platform for video look slow and clumsy. Catch the keynote video at the Apple quicktime site. This is truly amazing stuff. I expect a windows knock-off around 2007-2008.
from the moller site:
We plan to begin untethered flights when we have at least one additional M400 nearing completion. All flights will occur over a specially constructed lake. This lake is part of the Milk Farm development (see www.milkfarm.net), a commercial 60-acre development underway near the city of Dixon in California on Interstate 80. The lake will have an area of 5 to 6 acres and will be approximately 10 feet deep with a silt, rock free bottom. Most flights will occur at less than 50 feet altitude and will incorporate flotation gear attached to the Skycar.
: While not mentioned on the site the scuttlebutt is that the untethered lake flight will be this summer. If you live near the Sacramento/Davis area keep an eye on his site. If possible I plan to be there for the first flight since I am only 50 miles from the test site.
In the beginning Java was billed as all the things it was not at that time, fast, fully cross platform, stable. Most of those problems have been tackled and most Java programs are OK in my book. Some my still say it is slow but as an OS unto itself it loads much faster than a bulking Microsoft OS does.
I think Java would have been farther along and a lot cooler if Sun had not made a deal with Microsoft to screw over Java. MS has done more against Java than they ever did for it and sun took it in the ass on that deal. I think that Java is just now emerging as to what it was intended to be. A cross platform programming environment. I actually use several Java programs that are fast loading and they get the job done. Thanks to those using linux we now have decent Java programs. With more people turning to Unix everyday I look forward to more and better Java programs in the future.
I am going to call it Dickens Cider after the Bob & Tom skit. Because women always love a big Dickens Cider!
Maybe Epson could make an ink cartridge that last more than 30 pages of pictures if they weren't busy building flying machines of little use,
If Microsoft says it enough maybe they will believe it. I saw a show on the history channel about Bill Gates and the person said that when me meets with his people he does his characteristic rocking back and forth and so everyone around him starts doing the same thing. Maybe in these efforts to "Be Bill" they go along with whatever he says no matter how ludicrous or untrue.
Bills rocking back and forth is usually a sign of:
1. Autism
2. Hyperactivity
3. Attention Deficit Disorder
or a combination of all three. For more information on Bill Gates condition try the following link.
http://members.aol.com/erichuf/Linux3.html
What is funny is that in all the discussion groups, newsgroups, etc. I frequent the liberals, notice I did not say democrats, constantly blame bush for everything....even for their irregularity. They blame republicans for using Nazi tactics, censorship and hundreds of other things that they do not do. It sounds like the paranoid ramblings of the John Birch society of the 50' & 60's.
When Sandy Berger was caught with his hands in the cookie jar, so to speak, even liberal democrat came out and dodged any questions about it being right or wrong and blamed bush for anything that would get the reporters off the subject.
What is worse is they always talk of freedom of speech but then in the same post say that republicans should not be allowed to talk or use their free speech. They state that republicans are Nazis and should have to wear patches to indicate in public that they are, that no one should do business with republican owned business and that republican should be kicked out of America so it will be the land of the free. Some radicals even talk of killing all republicans. I guess these liberals are unsure of the meaning of the word Nazi.
Wake up democrats! The liberals are going to make sure Kerry loses in November. I guarantee that if the liberals remain in control of the party they will insure a Bush win. Take your party back from these people or Bush will be here another 4 years.
I might support real on this matter but I don't because they shot themselves in the foot so many times, just on this issue, that they have no credibility.
The claim that this is all about freedom of choice but the real.com music store does not support Macs.....so much for that freedom of choice. Real has always been slow to offer any of its products on the Mac and some are not offered at all....again, so much for that freedom of choice. Real has continued to lose market share because their product which worked so well with old, slow dial up accounts looks horrid on broadband. Also most good content cost an arm and a leg to view. So much for Apple business model and their bitching about it.
Real has always sent out their 600 pound gorillas to stomp on anyone reverse engineering their intellectual property but they think it is OK to do it to Apple.
Real, get real, three strikes and you are out. I hope Apple sues you and puts the final nail in the coffin you have been laying in for years now.