How long has Compaq been making magnets?
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I really don't see why Compaq, Sony and every other tech manufacturer you can name should be sued because they're using the 'illegal' magnets in their products, unless they are actually manufacturing them. How much responsibility should a company have to audit their supplier? How can anyone be expected to make something if they have to keep going over their suppliers books?
Why stop here? What happens if I work for Compaq's Magnet Supplier, and I get sexually harassed while on the job. Shouldn't I be able to sue Compaq? Aren't they somehow responsible for... well, something?
If it's a valid case, sue the magnet manufacturers, not the 'end users' such as Compaq and Sony.
Acutally, that's the whole point of the AIMster proggy - it does the 'encryption' of the file name for you. You never need to know how to spel...
My question is, what happens if I download Oingo Boingo from you as 'ingoo oingob'? Will my Aimster 'encrypter' then display it as 'ngooi ingobi' for the next person to search for? How will it know that a filename has already been 'encrypted'?
IBM opened up their specs, allowing everybody to make PCs, and by doing so, they virtually wiped Apple off of the map. Have you ever wondered why there's a proliferation of PC clones, and no Mac clones currently being produced? It's not because the PC was such a great platform that everybody wanted to emulate.
A couple of years back, Apple licensed their boxes to serveral clone manufacturers, Motorola among them, to make 'clones'. When Jobs got back in power, one of his first moves was to get rid of the 3rd party manufacturers. He then went on to build bright blue one piece boxes, and star in several successful Broadway productions before being tragically burnt passing out in front of a bonfire.
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How much does a basic PC cost these days? Not a whole lot more than the G3, right? How long will it be before video card manufacturers are throwing in a free PC with the purchase of one of their cards?
Some of us live in the third world where the cost of closed software is prohibitively high.
Seems like it would be tough to come up with a computer to run Win98 on in the first place then, doesn't it? Buying a low end computer will run you about 10x the cost of a Win license, so you're spending 11 months wages instead of 10 for your initial purchase.
Not that anyone should ever buy from MS, mind you - it just encourages them. My point is that if buying a computer isn't prohibitively expensive, buying the OS shouldn't be either.
it only takes 165 seconds (or 16km) to reach 430km/h
Heh. Ok, so it takes 16km to reach top speed. How long does it take to stop from it's top speed? I'd hope it takes less than 4km, otherwise they're never going to reach top speed in China, what with their 20km track and all.
Hey, why stop at Pluto? Doesn't someone announce the discovery of a 10th planet on practically an annual basis? Why not stop by and visit one of them too?
Reading through some of the above posts, I get the impression that people are still thinking about Applets when they think 'Java'. Applets have been dead and buried for years. Nobody uses Applets anymore. They sucked then, they suck now.
Where Java shines is on the server side. Download Tomcat from the Apache site (or Jserv), write a couple of servlets, and then comment.
If you were going to write a post putting down Java, and your last experience with Java was writing a little crApplet 3 years ago, stop and think 'am I qualified to comment on this?'
Today, we have Polaris, which sits pretty much exactly on the polar axis. Back then, they didn't have such a star. So Spence reasoned they might have used a couple of the closest bright stars to the pole, which was two stars in Ursa Minor
So by your reasoning, (and I am neither an Egyptologist, nor an astronomer), she went back an abitrary amount of time, found two arbitrary stars which lined up, and that proves something? What I'm saying is that, due to the wobble in the earth's rotation, if she went back 2500 years, not 4500, she could have probably found two stars which have the exact same characteristics when used to orient objects mapped to a location on the ground. Would this provide any more proof of the age of the pyramids? What if she chose Polaris and ??? (rembemer IANAA) to explain the alignment? Would that mean that the pyramids are less than 500 years old? Of course not.
For more information on the controversy raging in the archaeological community (as much as anything can rage within the archaeological community - 'raging' is pretty relative) the age of the pyramids, take a look at http://ds.dial.pipex.com/ritson/qu est/sphinx/
The fundamental method of science is real simple: come up with an idea, check what else has been said, and look for new evidence that tests your idea.
Right! Exactly! My point is that the whole 'check what else has been said', and finding evidence that tests your evidence is missing.
What we're seeing here (if we go back far enough) is someone reading that Khuffu (sp?) built the pyramids (which is based on a single hastily painted cartouche of dubious origins), tracing Khuffu's reign back to 4500 years ago, and then everyone else trying to line up all other evidence to match those dates. If you do some reading on the subject, you'll find that there are a lot of questions regarding the age of the pyramids. The people who are questioning the age of the pyramids have their own astrological explanations, but they also have geological explanations, such as the weathering patterns on the Sphinx. A Google search found the following http://ds.dial.pipex.com/ritson/que st/ sphinx/. Read all about it.
We'll leave the questions of the builders out of this for now...
Your post, as it follows mine, seems to indicate that you believe the above methodology to be ok. If you do, then logically, you'd believe the flat earth to be the center of the universe, and that heavy things fall faster than light things.
When was the last time anyone had trouble building big buildings? The medieval cathedrals are larger than the pyramids
- nobody has trouble believing that human technology was insufficient for that. Anyone have any doubts as to whether
the office towers in big cities around the world are constructed by humans or aliens
I really have no idea if the medieval cathedrals are bigger than the pyramids, but as soon as a cathedral reaches at least 4500 years in age, we'll talk again. Same goes for office buildings.
When you're measuring 'bigness', are you talking about volume, or mass? I'm pretty sure I could put together an aluminum shell of a building that had a much larger volume than any pyramid, with a work force of less than 50 people.
Putting together the same volume with huge blocks of limestone on the other hand...
There is apparently one crane in the world which could lift the biggest blocks of limestone found in ancient monuments.
It seems to me that Spence took a look at the 'accepted' age of the pyramids, decided that the pyramid alignments were celestial in nature, and voila, here's a couple of stars which lined up 4500 years ago. Why did they choose Kochab and Mizar? I bet that a competent atronomer could come up with an alignment of two other stars which 'proves' that the pyramids are 35,000 years old.
This article has absolutely no 'proof' anywhere, and is just another in a long line of pyramid dating schemes. So far, the best dating of the monuments in the region comes from measuring the wind and rain erosion of the Sphinx, which I believe puts it at around the 10-12,000 year old range. Everything else boils down to archeologists trying to fit their new data around the theories they were taught in school.
One of the others in the cartoon had designed the $20 bill, and had put a provision in his contract that he would always be able to buy copies his art for 50% of the 'list' price.
Some of the patents we've seen lately fit in nicely with the gags I was reading close to 20 years ago.
This reminds me of Yggdrasil's Linux Bible. Anyone else buy that? It was basically a dead-tree compilation of all of the FAQs and how-to's floating around at the time.
Now that it's easy to get your home Linux box connected to the internet, having paper versions of all of the docs might seem silly, but 5 or 6 years ago, when I was sitting at home with my 486 25sx, it was a god send.
How come it's always Christian extremists who post this crap? How come there's no Budhist extremists posting here? Why don't we have people screaming about Allah? Or Baal or Ra, or even Thor? Oops, my apologies. Some might feel that I'm trivializing someone's religion by saying 'even Thor'. I'd go back and correct that, but I already hit 'Submit'.
Where's the religious equality and representation on/.? I demand religious rants by other groups, even if someone (someone who is not me, that is) has to write a Bot of some sort to get things started!
In the scene when they're looking outside, and Xavier's doing the voiceover thing... the camera flashes past a big dark-haired kid with a sketchpad, drawing.
A-ha! I do believe you are right. Thank you. I knew they lingered on that scene for some reason, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it.
It's stuff like these 'cameos' that really make the movie for the fans.
As for the worst part of the movie.. when Storm tried to make a wisecrack or i don't even know what that was.. (the part when she's fightin toad).. that should go down in history as one of the gayest lines ever
Aargh! Yes, that was definitely a low point in the movie. It went something like this
"Know what happens when a Toad gets hit by lightening?"
Pregnant on-screen pause while the audience prepares itself for a really cool line
"Same thing that happens to everything else"
Audience members exchange quizzical looks, ask people near them if they heard correctly. We'd waited so long to hear Storm say anything, and we were ripped off. Actually, Storm's character seemed pretty weak. In the comics, she's seen as being very... imperial. In the movie, she faded into the background. Or at least as much as a white haired Halle Barry in tight spandex can fade into the background.
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I really don't see why Compaq, Sony and every other tech manufacturer you can name should be sued because they're using the 'illegal' magnets in their products, unless they are actually manufacturing them. How much responsibility should a company have to audit their supplier? How can anyone be expected to make something if they have to keep going over their suppliers books?
Why stop here? What happens if I work for Compaq's Magnet Supplier, and I get sexually harassed while on the job. Shouldn't I be able to sue Compaq? Aren't they somehow responsible for... well, something?
If it's a valid case, sue the magnet manufacturers, not the 'end users' such as Compaq and Sony.
Not to be redundant, but that's great!
How long until we see a reference to Windows CE/ME/NT in the media?
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Dude - I think you missed the Pig Latin post by a couple of hours
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Acutally, that's the whole point of the AIMster proggy - it does the 'encryption' of the file name for you. You never need to know how to spel...
My question is, what happens if I download Oingo Boingo from you as 'ingoo oingob'? Will my Aimster 'encrypter' then display it as 'ngooi ingobi' for the next person to search for? How will it know that a filename has already been 'encrypted'?
Ok, you're wrong.
IBM opened up their specs, allowing everybody to make PCs, and by doing so, they virtually wiped Apple off of the map. Have you ever wondered why there's a proliferation of PC clones, and no Mac clones currently being produced? It's not because the PC was such a great platform that everybody wanted to emulate.
A couple of years back, Apple licensed their boxes to serveral clone manufacturers, Motorola among them, to make 'clones'. When Jobs got back in power, one of his first moves was to get rid of the 3rd party manufacturers. He then went on to build bright blue one piece boxes, and star in several successful Broadway productions before being tragically burnt passing out in front of a bonfire.
Just checking to see if you're paying attention
How much does a basic PC cost these days? Not a whole lot more than the G3, right? How long will it be before video card manufacturers are throwing in a free PC with the purchase of one of their cards?
Wow, you've cut through the clutter of the article, and really got to the meat of the matter, haven't you?
Say, aren't you the one who was arguing for motherhood a couple of days ago?
Some of us live in the third world where the cost of closed software is prohibitively high.
Seems like it would be tough to come up with a computer to run Win98 on in the first place then, doesn't it? Buying a low end computer will run you about 10x the cost of a Win license, so you're spending 11 months wages instead of 10 for your initial purchase.
Not that anyone should ever buy from MS, mind you - it just encourages them. My point is that if buying a computer isn't prohibitively expensive, buying the OS shouldn't be either.
it only takes 165 seconds (or 16km) to reach 430km/h
Heh. Ok, so it takes 16km to reach top speed. How long does it take to stop from it's top speed? I'd hope it takes less than 4km, otherwise they're never going to reach top speed in China, what with their 20km track and all.
Dumb? Check. Stupid? Check. Moronic? Check
It looks like I'm going to have to return the Thesaurus I was going to give you for Christmas.
New! Now available on Slashdot - WinTroll 2000!
Actually, Windows comes w/too much worthless shit *even if* you choose the custom install...
Hey, why stop at Pluto? Doesn't someone announce the discovery of a 10th planet on practically an annual basis? Why not stop by and visit one of them too?
What's the term for this? When you pretend to have an issue worth debating when you really don't?
Fighting a straw opponent? It's straw something or other. Help me out here.
Reading through some of the above posts, I get the impression that people are still thinking about Applets when they think 'Java'. Applets have been dead and buried for years. Nobody uses Applets anymore. They sucked then, they suck now.
Where Java shines is on the server side. Download Tomcat from the Apache site (or Jserv), write a couple of servlets, and then comment.
If you were going to write a post putting down Java, and your last experience with Java was writing a little crApplet 3 years ago, stop and think 'am I qualified to comment on this?'
Today, we have Polaris, which sits pretty much exactly on the polar axis. Back then, they didn't have such a star. So Spence reasoned they might have used a couple of the closest bright stars to the pole, which was two stars in Ursa Minor
/sphinx/
So by your reasoning, (and I am neither an Egyptologist, nor an astronomer), she went back an abitrary amount of time, found two arbitrary stars which lined up, and that proves something? What I'm saying is that, due to the wobble in the earth's rotation, if she went back 2500 years, not 4500, she could have probably found two stars which have the exact same characteristics when used to orient objects mapped to a location on the ground. Would this provide any more proof of the age of the pyramids? What if she chose Polaris and ??? (rembemer IANAA) to explain the alignment? Would that mean that the pyramids are less than 500 years old? Of course not.
For more information on the controversy raging in the archaeological community (as much as anything can rage within the archaeological community - 'raging' is pretty relative) the age of the pyramids, take a look at http://ds.dial.pipex.com/ritson/qu est
The fundamental method of science is real simple: come up with an idea, check what else has been said, and look for new evidence that tests your idea.
Right! Exactly! My point is that the whole 'check what else has been said', and finding evidence that tests your evidence is missing.
What we're seeing here (if we go back far enough) is someone reading that Khuffu (sp?) built the pyramids (which is based on a single hastily painted cartouche of dubious origins), tracing Khuffu's reign back to 4500 years ago, and then everyone else trying to line up all other evidence to match those dates. If you do some reading on the subject, you'll find that there are a lot of questions regarding the age of the pyramids. The people who are questioning the age of the pyramids have their own astrological explanations, but they also have geological explanations, such as the weathering patterns on the Sphinx. A Google search found the following http://ds.dial.pipex.com/ritson/que st/ sphinx/. Read all about it.
We'll leave the questions of the builders out of this for now...
Your post, as it follows mine, seems to indicate that you believe the above methodology to be ok. If you do, then logically, you'd believe the flat earth to be the center of the universe, and that heavy things fall faster than light things.
When was the last time anyone had trouble building big buildings? The medieval cathedrals are larger than the pyramids
- nobody has trouble believing that human technology was insufficient for that. Anyone have any doubts as to whether
the office towers in big cities around the world are constructed by humans or aliens
I really have no idea if the medieval cathedrals are bigger than the pyramids, but as soon as a cathedral reaches at least 4500 years in age, we'll talk again. Same goes for office buildings.
When you're measuring 'bigness', are you talking about volume, or mass? I'm pretty sure I could put together an aluminum shell of a building that had a much larger volume than any pyramid, with a work force of less than 50 people.
Putting together the same volume with huge blocks of limestone on the other hand...
There is apparently one crane in the world which could lift the biggest blocks of limestone found in ancient monuments.
It seems to me that Spence took a look at the 'accepted' age of the pyramids, decided that the pyramid alignments were celestial in nature, and voila, here's a couple of stars which lined up 4500 years ago. Why did they choose Kochab and Mizar? I bet that a competent atronomer could come up with an alignment of two other stars which 'proves' that the pyramids are 35,000 years old.
This article has absolutely no 'proof' anywhere, and is just another in a long line of pyramid dating schemes. So far, the best dating of the monuments in the region comes from measuring the wind and rain erosion of the Sphinx, which I believe puts it at around the 10-12,000 year old range. Everything else boils down to archeologists trying to fit their new data around the theories they were taught in school.
Had to be done.
I remember reading a gag on the 'Richest People You Never Hear About' in a Mad or Cracked magazine wayyyy back (early 80's?). One guy had copyrighted the © symbol, so anyone who used it had to pay him a fee.
One of the others in the cartoon had designed the $20 bill, and had put a provision in his contract that he would always be able to buy copies his art for 50% of the 'list' price.
Some of the patents we've seen lately fit in nicely with the gags I was reading close to 20 years ago.
This reminds me of Yggdrasil's Linux Bible. Anyone else buy that? It was basically a dead-tree compilation of all of the FAQs and how-to's floating around at the time.
Now that it's easy to get your home Linux box connected to the internet, having paper versions of all of the docs might seem silly, but 5 or 6 years ago, when I was sitting at home with my 486 25sx, it was a god send.
How come it's always Christian extremists who post this crap? How come there's no Budhist extremists posting here? Why don't we have people screaming about Allah? Or Baal or Ra, or even Thor? Oops, my apologies. Some might feel that I'm trivializing someone's religion by saying 'even Thor'. I'd go back and correct that, but I already hit 'Submit'.
/.? I demand religious rants by other groups, even if someone (someone who is not me, that is) has to write a Bot of some sort to get things started!
Where's the religious equality and representation on
Is it just me, or does this headline seem like some sort of failled Haiku attempt?
In the scene when they're looking outside, and Xavier's doing the voiceover thing ... the camera flashes past a big dark-haired kid with a sketchpad, drawing.
A-ha! I do believe you are right. Thank you. I knew they lingered on that scene for some reason, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it.
It's stuff like these 'cameos' that really make the movie for the fans.
As for the worst part of the movie.. when Storm tried to make a wisecrack or i don't even know what that was.. (the part
when she's fightin toad).. that should go down in history as one of the gayest lines ever
Aargh! Yes, that was definitely a low point in the movie. It went something like this
"Know what happens when a Toad gets hit by lightening?"
Pregnant on-screen pause while the audience prepares itself for a really cool line
"Same thing that happens to everything else"
Audience members exchange quizzical looks, ask people near them if they heard correctly. We'd waited so long to hear Storm say anything, and we were ripped off. Actually, Storm's character seemed pretty weak. In the comics, she's seen as being very... imperial. In the movie, she faded into the background. Or at least as much as a white haired Halle Barry in tight spandex can fade into the background.
Other than that, it was quite enjoyable