The accountants are in charge these days. Modern jets have better engines which use less fuel and are quieter. The new Airbus is larger than previous jets - not as exciting as Concorde, maybe, but a lot cheaper to run per passenger.
Jet fighters are becoming limited by the ability of the pilot to cope; it's quite possible to build a plane that would pull 20G in a turn and cause the pilot to lose consciousness. Pilots are also expensive to train and there is much wailing and gnashing of teeth from the folks back home when one is killed, so I'd expect future military development to be targeted at drones and missiles.
If you look carefully at the Kittyhawk photographs you can see the shadow of two different light sources AND they forgot to put stars in the sky! Obviously the whole thing was shot on a Hollywood sound stage and Man has never flown!
Silly analogy of the day: I suppose we should be teaching our kids not to share sweets and toys these days, in case they get sued by Mars and Mattel. Make the little critters buy their own stuff to eat and play with so some fat CEO can have that heated driveway he's got his eye on.
It follows logically from "music piracy is theft" - if the pigopolists are going to equate IP with physical goods.
Novelist Christopher Brookmyre dedicated his last-but-one novel to his Quake II clan, POTZW. I could tell you the name of his online persona but you'd only look it up on CLQ and embarrass him;-)
*nix people aren't scared of the shell, Microsoft hoped they'd killed off the command line with DOS. They've buried it even deeper in Windows XP (it's now in Programs...Accessories rather than just Programs).
That, or the fact that all the slashes go the wrong way in DOS/Windows because MS decided to use "/" as a switch rather than a directory separator.
Because even people with 512K broadband (OK, you may have an l33t 2 MBit pipe) may balk at the prospect of 50MB per song. Granted, 256k and 384k MP3s are becoming more popular with faster connections.
It couldn't be anything else really. Despite a demo by billg, the release date has slipped from 2004 to 2009!.
It's Minority Report come true!
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And Tom Cruise ignored the ads too. I was thinking the other day; I'm not sure I've ever bought *anything* on the basis of an advert. However, I've avoided certain products and services because I find their ads so incredibly annoying.
Once we have finally achieved wall-to-wall adverts on every possible medium - and we're nearly there - the backlash will begin. It's like the PFY who comes up to you in an electrical store and starts trying to sell you stuff...why do I always want to punch him?
On the bright side, if they really are "TV style" ads, that means the box has reasonable multimedia capabilities and should be up to a game of Quake 3. Mind you, imagine the adware dialog popping up and defocusing the Quake window when you're 1 frag from winning q3dm17:-( I think it's going to be a loser.
Gollum meets Frodo at Mount Doom and tells him "I am your father". Frodo exclaims "No, it's not true!" as Gollum bites his arm off, then plunges into the chasm where he is rescued by the Millennium Eagle. Meanwhile Sam is encased in carbonite and taken to Orthanc where he becomes a wall ornament for Saruman. In the final battle, Gandalf and the Gondor Alliance discover that the defences of Barad-dur can be penetrated by a small hobbit and that there is an exhaust port leading directly to the main Eye of Sauron. Skilfully evading the TIE Nazguls, Frodo throws the ring into the exhaust port, destroying Barad-dur, after his friends have blown up the field generator at Minas Morgul. Aragorn discovers that Arwen is actually Frodo's twin sister, and Frodo has an emotionally-charged scene where he cremates his dead father Gollum, who appears in ghost form as Smeagol Baggins at the final party.
This just describes most male personalities. if you're not a computer nerd, you may be a car nerd, a gardening nerd or a cycling nerd (believe me, cyclists can truly out-nerd IT techies when it comes to the weight of various bits of shiny anodized aluminium). It's a general syndrome typified by an encyclopaedic knowledge of things J.Random Public doesn't know or care about, and a fascination with the minutiae of such things - so Tolkien nerds know the entire ancestry of Aragorn, bike nerds know the exact weight of their seatpost and car nerds know their ignition timing to the nearest degree BTDC.
Apparently the astronauts will have a "patch kit" for holes up to 14" in diameter. That's a pretty big hole; how big do they think the hole on Columbia was (before it fell apart, obviously)?
If this was the type of card you just flash at an underpaid, gum-chewing security guard, the authors of the article didn't have to go to much effort to produce a fake.
As part of physical security testing, my colleagues have successfully gained access to premises using
a white sachet of tartare sauce
a square-cut jam sandwich
It's difficult enough getting security guards to turn up for work on the minimum wage, let alone actually *challenge* people.
Out of interest, how many states mandate the wearing of helmets? I've always envied American bikers who don't have to wear them - just a pair of shades and the wind in your hair.
Tim Berners-Lee must be kicking himself for not patenting the WWW. Or are there actually some decent altruistic people out there who want to make the world a better place?
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Jet fighters are becoming limited by the ability of the pilot to cope; it's quite possible to build a plane that would pull 20G in a turn and cause the pilot to lose consciousness. Pilots are also expensive to train and there is much wailing and gnashing of teeth from the folks back home when one is killed, so I'd expect future military development to be targeted at drones and missiles.
If you look carefully at the Kittyhawk photographs you can see the shadow of two different light sources AND they forgot to put stars in the sky! Obviously the whole thing was shot on a Hollywood sound stage and Man has never flown!
I'd be a tad concerned if my bank was running on an unsupported operating system :-P
It follows logically from "music piracy is theft" - if the pigopolists are going to equate IP with physical goods.
Novelist Christopher Brookmyre dedicated his last-but-one novel to his Quake II clan, POTZW. I could tell you the name of his online persona but you'd only look it up on CLQ and embarrass him ;-)
Or does Lee Ji-hun, pictured in the article, look like he's wearing one of Five Star's costumes circa 1986?
That, or the fact that all the slashes go the wrong way in DOS/Windows because MS decided to use "/" as a switch rather than a directory separator.
Is there a repeat of THAT scene in the rain where Kirsten Dunst's bra appears to have been stolen by the Green Goblin?
An EMC frame made of these things. It could sit on your desk! Mmmmm, terabytes.
Because even people with 512K broadband (OK, you may have an l33t 2 MBit pipe) may balk at the prospect of 50MB per song. Granted, 256k and 384k MP3s are becoming more popular with faster connections.
Where's the added value? At least they could offer you a "buy 5 get 1 free" deal, or maybe unreleased tracks.
Return To Castle Wolfenstein has a bit more gameplay though, and is the one I'd recommend.
It couldn't be anything else really. Despite a demo by billg, the release date has slipped from 2004 to 2009!.
Once we have finally achieved wall-to-wall adverts on every possible medium - and we're nearly there - the backlash will begin. It's like the PFY who comes up to you in an electrical store and starts trying to sell you stuff...why do I always want to punch him?
For when you find a Middle Eastern despot hiding under your lawn ;-)
On the bright side, if they really are "TV style" ads, that means the box has reasonable multimedia capabilities and should be up to a game of Quake 3. Mind you, imagine the adware dialog popping up and defocusing the Quake window when you're 1 frag from winning q3dm17 :-( I think it's going to be a loser.
Or something like that.
This just describes most male personalities. if you're not a computer nerd, you may be a car nerd, a gardening nerd or a cycling nerd (believe me, cyclists can truly out-nerd IT techies when it comes to the weight of various bits of shiny anodized aluminium). It's a general syndrome typified by an encyclopaedic knowledge of things J.Random Public doesn't know or care about, and a fascination with the minutiae of such things - so Tolkien nerds know the entire ancestry of Aragorn, bike nerds know the exact weight of their seatpost and car nerds know their ignition timing to the nearest degree BTDC.
Apparently the astronauts will have a "patch kit" for holes up to 14" in diameter. That's a pretty big hole; how big do they think the hole on Columbia was (before it fell apart, obviously)?
As part of physical security testing, my colleagues have successfully gained access to premises using
- a white sachet of tartare sauce
- a square-cut jam sandwich
It's difficult enough getting security guards to turn up for work on the minimum wage, let alone actually *challenge* people.Out of interest, how many states mandate the wearing of helmets? I've always envied American bikers who don't have to wear them - just a pair of shades and the wind in your hair.
Seriously, that's a good example of the proper use of a patent - for ingenious hardware widgets. IP patents, on the other hand, are downright evil.
Tim Berners-Lee must be kicking himself for not patenting the WWW. Or are there actually some decent altruistic people out there who want to make the world a better place?
I think if you gave most Net users the choice, they'd like the senders of "legitimate" spam to FOAD with the rest of them.
Well, it would be as effective as any of the laws being passed right now ;-)