Check out Clavius if you've ever wondered about the many conspiracy theories swirling around the Apollo missions.
It addresses each point with facts and science, containing many fascinating descriptions and explanations of how things work up there on the moon.
When I flip on the web there are as many channels as there are websites. If I want a channel I register my domain name and set up hosting - BOOM - direct to consumer "channel" that I completely control.
Technology and savvy consumers have leapfrogged television concepts.
Medicare rules require all digital claim information to be submitted in ALL CAPS for processing. Lowercase alpha characters get claim reimbursement requests rejected.
Ask the Japanese if they should get rid of hiragana since they have katakana, or get rid of kanji since they can simply spell phonetically. Uppercase characters are still important to data processing and the proper use of the English language.
I haven't worn Levi's since my mom stopped shopping for me.
I have two pair of jeans now that I bought at Target because they're cooler, and cut to fit just right - important since I'm NOT a fat guy. Target is fashion for the Everyman, like a cheaper Gap of Banana republic. Levi's and all the other Wal-Mart/JCPenny/Sears jeans are cut for rednecks and fat people. I can't find sizes that both fit my waist and wear comfortable. 5'11" and 145 lbs.
I don't want to live like Israel, fighting militant Muslims round every corner. The problem of Muslim extremists exists and needs to be dealt with, not encouraged by invading innocent countries and waging war on people who have done nothing to deserve it. I want my children to grow up in a world free from military oppression and I want a government that understands that the wars of the future are guerrilla ones which can never be won, even if they are waged for noble purposes (which theirs never are).
You just completely contradicted yourself in the same paragraph. You don't want the threat, but you don't want to do anything about it, and you want your children to grow up in a militarized world, and you want your government to default to surrender because it can't allow itself to fight guerrilla tactics because somehow they are impossible to employ in the persuit of victory? After such blatant and simple to unravel contradiction, where you are speaking crosswise to yourself without pausing to take a breath, why should we listen to anything else you have to say?
The world is fu*cked up enough as it is. The food chain has been poisoned so badly the average human is full of chemicals normally found in plastics and toxic waste. I'm sick of global warning and environmental damage to the planet and the fact the all this time the greenies were right. I'm sick of America being the biggest wilful contributor to the pollution of the planet.
America is not the biggest polluter, intentional or otherwise: China and Russia are, followed by many of their previous holdings in Africa and South America. People just go after America though. It's uncanny.
I'm 24 years old. I don't want to go through the next 50 years of my life living in an international air of worry and uncertainty.
Whether you worry or not is your choice. Grow up. We all have to be adults here and face the real world. A world where like it or not, be at peace or not, people are just going to come out of the woodwork and try and kill you. This is NOT a "live and let live" world. You think it is? Talk to Neville Chamberlain.
The threat is not dumb Americans you pompous arrogant condescending coward, it's terrorists who want to fecking kill us. You know how we fix this problem? We MUST destroy BOTH their ability and desire to wage war with us, and we don't stop until those have been absolutely achieved. The Japanese were a far more brave and zealous enemy than the fascist militant Islamics are, and we won. Our current enemy is far more dangerous because of their tactics and capability. Wishing for the threat of new attacks to go away will not take them away. Myself and hundreds of millions of other American citizens are not going to let snide "armchair quarterback" academics try and reason-away responsibilities. We're not going to let them establish moral equivilance between the U.S. and it's current aggressors, brutal murderous terrorists.
Other than those things, you did have some decent rants about the sillyness of modern living. But TRUST ME! Those silly "cultural behavioral patterns" are not at all limited to the U.S.A.
I don't want to live like Israel, fighting militant Muslims round every corner. The problem of Muslim extremists exists and needs to be dealt with, not encouraged by invading innocent countries and waging war on people who have done nothing to deserve it. I want my children to grow up in a world free from military oppression and I want a government that understands that the wars of the future are guerrilla ones which can never be won, even if they are waged for noble purposes (which theirs never are).
You just completely contradicted yourself in the same paragraph. You don't want the threat, but you don't want to do anything about it, and you want your children to grow up in a militarized world, and you want your government to default to surrender because it can't allow itself to fight guerrilla tactics because somehow they are impossible to employ in the persuit of victory? After such blatant and simple to unravel contradiction, where you are speaking crosswise to yourself without pausing to take a breath, why should we listen to anything else you have to say?
The world is fu*cked up enough as it is. The food chain has been poisoned so badly the average human is full of chemicals normally found in plastics and toxic waste. I'm sick of global warning and environmental damage to the planet and the fact the all this time the greenies were right. I'm sick of America being the biggest wilful contributor to the pollution of the planet.
America is not the biggest polluter, intentional or otherwise: China and Russia are, followed by many of their previous holdings in Africa and South America.
I'm 24 years old. I don't want to go through the next 50 years of my life living in an international air of worry and uncertainty.
Whether you worry or not is your choice. Grow up. We all have to be adults here and face the real world. A world where like it or not, be at peace or not, people are just going to come out of the woodwork and try and kill you. This is NOT a "live and let live" world. You think it is? Talk to Neville Chamberlain.
The threat is not dumb Americans you pompous arrogant condescending coward, it's terrorists who want to fecking kill us. You know how we fix this problem? We MUST destroy BOTH their ability and desire to wage war with us, and we don't stop until those have been absolutely achieved. The Japanese were a far more brave and zealous enemy than the fascist militant Islamics are, and we won. Our current enemy is far more dangerous because of their tactics and capability. Wishing for the threat of new attacks to go away will not take them away. Myself and hundreds of millions of other American citizens are not going to let snide "armchair quarterback" academics try and reason-away responsibilities. We're not going to let them establish moral equivilance between the U.S. and it's current aggressors, brutal murderous terrorists.
Other than those things, you did have some decent rants about the sillyness of modern living. But TRUST ME! Those silly "cultural behavioral patterns" are not at all limited to the U.S.A.
In a way, since Microsoft runs these mailservers, the spammers will be paying for the server bandwidth consumption their spam blasts are incurring. This is no more pleasant a thing, but not different than people filling up your mailbox with junk flyers and coupons.
Where you're going to see people making trouble is at the borders of Microsoft's network in terms of SMTP relays. Those people are going to be processing this for-profit spam traffic and getting nothing out of it.
Even if two-thousand people marched, it would be a tiny fraction of the population protesting. Who cares if twenty-five people protest?
Even if 99% of the population marched to defend their right to take your work and copy it without paying you, would it make it right? No.
How many times have we argued this issue? At this point it has been resolved hundreds of times here on Slashdot, and many thousands of times in editorial write-ups elsewhere.
YOU CANNOT FORK OPEN-SOURCE CODE, people can do whatever the hell they want to with it, including back-porting features... BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO SHARE THE SOURCE.
What is so complicated about that? The entire concept of a "FORK" requires secret proprietary source code and copyrighted functions and pantented methods.
Fastest falling? Maybe (Looks aerodynamic...) Fastest obsolescence? Fastest at one particular kind of mathematical operation? Fastest mobo latency? Fastest design and fab process? Fastest repairs? (Easy access panel...)
Heh. Who the hells knows what any ads are REALLY about these days. Lies, Damn Lies, and Advertising. I'm not a Mac-hater, writing this from my lovely 12" iBook G4.
Just because you don't see people around you doing it doesn't mean it isn't happening.::smiles::
Video games are a good medium for storytelling or otherwise entertaining diversions. The back and forth format is much more compelling than the non-interactive format of Television or movies. Movies are better than broadcast/cable because with movies the content is prepaid for and there are no commercial breaks wasting your time and polluting your concious.
The advent of movies and video games as storytelling mechanisms, combined with the internet as a reference tool comingled with art and business sharing social networks, drives a hard bargain for our time with printed books. The good news though is that some printed books are actually still worth reading. Why? Content!
People are still going to be reading the Lord of the Rings sixty years from now, but I doubt they'll be watching the Peter Jackson distillation. People are still going to be reading the gospels in sixty years, but I doubt they'll be watching The Passion as a replacement. Why? The original text has too much content to film or make a video game out of.
Words mean things, they refer to ideas and abstracts. Visuals have to refer to concretes (unless the visual is a picture of a word) and through the manipulation of concretes an idea is implied. It is a LOT more effective to start with words to begin with when there is a lot to be communicated. Like the printed prologue in a video game manual or the dialoge between a couple characters.
My Apple iBook G4 12" w/802.11b/g + Bluetooth is small enough anyway. It's the size of s sheet of paper and it weighs four and a half pounds. Meanwhile, it can burn CDs, play DVDs, and sync with my cell phone.
If I really cared about sync'ing with a lousy palm I've got Virtual PC on my iBook already.
If this is true then we'll be seeing a LOT more games on the Mac! It won't be a "foreign port" anymore since developers will be targeting the G5 already.
The reason iPods wer eused is because the "last mile" cabling to Jackson's apartment, where he was working on the film's music, didn't exist. Nobody could afford to wait so they just started sending runners from the end of their secure digital pipe a mile or so away. AFAIK the iPods were not used to go all around the world.
Why use iPods? Small, inconspicuous, ready-to-go off the shelf, reliable. Nobody's going to raise an eyebrow if you go jogging by every day with an iPod. A guy walking through a residential section with a briefcase housing a firewire HD bay might (1)provoke people to beat him b/c he's a solicitor or (2)invite more coordinated mugging.
Do you remember when Slashdot became a pay site? One of there announcements was that they would start taking paid articles while staying true to the community. All the play Apple gets around here may be just that, but the world will never know. Like "The Giver" said... "You may lie."
Anyway: good for Apple. I'm glad MS, and even Linux, is not the only game in town. Choice is wonderful. I chose to buy an iPod and iBook last week - first time I've ever bought Apple stuff in my life.:)
...in fact the PS1 did the same thing, if you recall. It didn't have impressive statistics but somehow programmers "reached into its guts" as you so eloquently said it and produced good games. Like FF8 vs FF7, looked so much better and on the same platform. MGS1... I've no clue how the pulled those graphics out of such meager hardware.
The PS2 gives people a lot of canvas to paint on, and an excellent set of brushes. Everything from variable-pressure-sensitive buttons on the controllers, to a graphics pipe that is highly hackable for all kinds of graphics effects. People can really get creative with the PS2's offerings and deliver great games.
Dreamcast and XBox give the programmers little PCs in a box so designers fall into the patterns and expectations they are used to.
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Check out Clavius if you've ever wondered about the many conspiracy theories swirling around the Apollo missions. It addresses each point with facts and science, containing many fascinating descriptions and explanations of how things work up there on the moon.
When I flip on the web there are as many channels as there are websites. If I want a channel I register my domain name and set up hosting - BOOM - direct to consumer "channel" that I completely control. Technology and savvy consumers have leapfrogged television concepts.
Medicare rules require all digital claim information to be submitted in ALL CAPS for processing. Lowercase alpha characters get claim reimbursement requests rejected.
Ask the Japanese if they should get rid of hiragana since they have katakana, or get rid of kanji since they can simply spell phonetically. Uppercase characters are still important to data processing and the proper use of the English language.
I haven't worn Levi's since my mom stopped shopping for me. I have two pair of jeans now that I bought at Target because they're cooler, and cut to fit just right - important since I'm NOT a fat guy. Target is fashion for the Everyman, like a cheaper Gap of Banana republic. Levi's and all the other Wal-Mart/JCPenny/Sears jeans are cut for rednecks and fat people. I can't find sizes that both fit my waist and wear comfortable. 5'11" and 145 lbs.
I don't want to live like Israel, fighting militant Muslims round every corner. The problem of Muslim extremists exists and needs to be dealt with, not encouraged by invading innocent countries and waging war on people who have done nothing to deserve it. I want my children to grow up in a world free from military oppression and I want a government that understands that the wars of the future are guerrilla ones which can never be won, even if they are waged for noble purposes (which theirs never are).
You just completely contradicted yourself in the same paragraph. You don't want the threat, but you don't want to do anything about it, and you want your children to grow up in a militarized world, and you want your government to default to surrender because it can't allow itself to fight guerrilla tactics because somehow they are impossible to employ in the persuit of victory? After such blatant and simple to unravel contradiction, where you are speaking crosswise to yourself without pausing to take a breath, why should we listen to anything else you have to say?
The world is fu*cked up enough as it is. The food chain has been poisoned so badly the average human is full of chemicals normally found in plastics and toxic waste. I'm sick of global warning and environmental damage to the planet and the fact the all this time the greenies were right. I'm sick of America being the biggest wilful contributor to the pollution of the planet.
America is not the biggest polluter, intentional or otherwise: China and Russia are, followed by many of their previous holdings in Africa and South America. People just go after America though. It's uncanny.
I'm 24 years old. I don't want to go through the next 50 years of my life living in an international air of worry and uncertainty.
Whether you worry or not is your choice. Grow up. We all have to be adults here and face the real world. A world where like it or not, be at peace or not, people are just going to come out of the woodwork and try and kill you. This is NOT a "live and let live" world. You think it is? Talk to Neville Chamberlain.
The threat is not dumb Americans you pompous arrogant condescending coward, it's terrorists who want to fecking kill us. You know how we fix this problem? We MUST destroy BOTH their ability and desire to wage war with us, and we don't stop until those have been absolutely achieved. The Japanese were a far more brave and zealous enemy than the fascist militant Islamics are, and we won. Our current enemy is far more dangerous because of their tactics and capability. Wishing for the threat of new attacks to go away will not take them away. Myself and hundreds of millions of other American citizens are not going to let snide "armchair quarterback" academics try and reason-away responsibilities. We're not going to let them establish moral equivilance between the U.S. and it's current aggressors, brutal murderous terrorists.
Other than those things, you did have some decent rants about the sillyness of modern living. But TRUST ME! Those silly "cultural behavioral patterns" are not at all limited to the U.S.A.
I don't want to live like Israel, fighting militant Muslims round every corner. The problem of Muslim extremists exists and needs to be dealt with, not encouraged by invading innocent countries and waging war on people who have done nothing to deserve it. I want my children to grow up in a world free from military oppression and I want a government that understands that the wars of the future are guerrilla ones which can never be won, even if they are waged for noble purposes (which theirs never are). You just completely contradicted yourself in the same paragraph. You don't want the threat, but you don't want to do anything about it, and you want your children to grow up in a militarized world, and you want your government to default to surrender because it can't allow itself to fight guerrilla tactics because somehow they are impossible to employ in the persuit of victory? After such blatant and simple to unravel contradiction, where you are speaking crosswise to yourself without pausing to take a breath, why should we listen to anything else you have to say? The world is fu*cked up enough as it is. The food chain has been poisoned so badly the average human is full of chemicals normally found in plastics and toxic waste. I'm sick of global warning and environmental damage to the planet and the fact the all this time the greenies were right. I'm sick of America being the biggest wilful contributor to the pollution of the planet. America is not the biggest polluter, intentional or otherwise: China and Russia are, followed by many of their previous holdings in Africa and South America. I'm 24 years old. I don't want to go through the next 50 years of my life living in an international air of worry and uncertainty. Whether you worry or not is your choice. Grow up. We all have to be adults here and face the real world. A world where like it or not, be at peace or not, people are just going to come out of the woodwork and try and kill you. This is NOT a "live and let live" world. You think it is? Talk to Neville Chamberlain. The threat is not dumb Americans you pompous arrogant condescending coward, it's terrorists who want to fecking kill us. You know how we fix this problem? We MUST destroy BOTH their ability and desire to wage war with us, and we don't stop until those have been absolutely achieved. The Japanese were a far more brave and zealous enemy than the fascist militant Islamics are, and we won. Our current enemy is far more dangerous because of their tactics and capability. Wishing for the threat of new attacks to go away will not take them away. Myself and hundreds of millions of other American citizens are not going to let snide "armchair quarterback" academics try and reason-away responsibilities. We're not going to let them establish moral equivilance between the U.S. and it's current aggressors, brutal murderous terrorists. Other than those things, you did have some decent rants about the sillyness of modern living. But TRUST ME! Those silly "cultural behavioral patterns" are not at all limited to the U.S.A.
This is just an example of how America is AGIANST globalization!
Here are links to the photos from the flight directly off their servers. Shot of earch in background... Apogee
Everyone pay down your credit cards, it's time to hit dell.com!
In a way, since Microsoft runs these mailservers, the spammers will be paying for the server bandwidth consumption their spam blasts are incurring. This is no more pleasant a thing, but not different than people filling up your mailbox with junk flyers and coupons. Where you're going to see people making trouble is at the borders of Microsoft's network in terms of SMTP relays. Those people are going to be processing this for-profit spam traffic and getting nothing out of it.
Even if two-thousand people marched, it would be a tiny fraction of the population protesting. Who cares if twenty-five people protest? Even if 99% of the population marched to defend their right to take your work and copy it without paying you, would it make it right? No.
If everyone was a pirate, what would they steal?
How many times have we argued this issue? At this point it has been resolved hundreds of times here on Slashdot, and many thousands of times in editorial write-ups elsewhere.
YOU CANNOT FORK OPEN-SOURCE CODE, people can do whatever the hell they want to with it, including back-porting features... BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO SHARE THE SOURCE.
What is so complicated about that? The entire concept of a "FORK" requires secret proprietary source code and copyrighted functions and pantented methods.
Fastest at what? (No, seriously...)
Fastest selling? TRUE!
Fastest falling? Maybe (Looks aerodynamic...)
Fastest obsolescence?
Fastest at one particular kind of mathematical operation?
Fastest mobo latency?
Fastest design and fab process?
Fastest repairs? (Easy access panel...)
Heh. Who the hells knows what any ads are REALLY about these days. Lies, Damn Lies, and Advertising. I'm not a Mac-hater, writing this from my lovely 12" iBook G4.
Just because you don't see people around you doing it doesn't mean it isn't happening. ::smiles::
Video games are a good medium for storytelling or otherwise entertaining diversions. The back and forth format is much more compelling than the non-interactive format of Television or movies. Movies are better than broadcast/cable because with movies the content is prepaid for and there are no commercial breaks wasting your time and polluting your concious.
The advent of movies and video games as storytelling mechanisms, combined with the internet as a reference tool comingled with art and business sharing social networks, drives a hard bargain for our time with printed books. The good news though is that some printed books are actually still worth reading. Why? Content!
People are still going to be reading the Lord of the Rings sixty years from now, but I doubt they'll be watching the Peter Jackson distillation. People are still going to be reading the gospels in sixty years, but I doubt they'll be watching The Passion as a replacement. Why? The original text has too much content to film or make a video game out of.
Words mean things, they refer to ideas and abstracts. Visuals have to refer to concretes (unless the visual is a picture of a word) and through the manipulation of concretes an idea is implied. It is a LOT more effective to start with words to begin with when there is a lot to be communicated. Like the printed prologue in a video game manual or the dialoge between a couple characters.
They outsourced his job to a Rent-A-Zilla from India.
...so we can TURN IT OFF.
"And in other news, gravity continues to pull things together!"
Use the fully-integrated iSync. Still... the parent is right, palms are underpowered and overpriced.
My Apple iBook G4 12" w/802.11b/g + Bluetooth is small enough anyway. It's the size of s sheet of paper and it weighs four and a half pounds. Meanwhile, it can burn CDs, play DVDs, and sync with my cell phone.
If I really cared about sync'ing with a lousy palm I've got Virtual PC on my iBook already.
If this is true then we'll be seeing a LOT more games on the Mac! It won't be a "foreign port" anymore since developers will be targeting the G5 already.
The reason iPods wer eused is because the "last mile" cabling to Jackson's apartment, where he was working on the film's music, didn't exist. Nobody could afford to wait so they just started sending runners from the end of their secure digital pipe a mile or so away. AFAIK the iPods were not used to go all around the world.
:)
Why use iPods? Small, inconspicuous, ready-to-go off the shelf, reliable. Nobody's going to raise an eyebrow if you go jogging by every day with an iPod. A guy walking through a residential section with a briefcase housing a firewire HD bay might (1)provoke people to beat him b/c he's a solicitor or (2)invite more coordinated mugging.
Do you remember when Slashdot became a pay site? One of there announcements was that they would start taking paid articles while staying true to the community. All the play Apple gets around here may be just that, but the world will never know. Like "The Giver" said... "You may lie."
Anyway: good for Apple. I'm glad MS, and even Linux, is not the only game in town. Choice is wonderful. I chose to buy an iPod and iBook last week - first time I've ever bought Apple stuff in my life.
...in fact the PS1 did the same thing, if you recall. It didn't have impressive statistics but somehow programmers "reached into its guts" as you so eloquently said it and produced good games. Like FF8 vs FF7, looked so much better and on the same platform. MGS1... I've no clue how the pulled those graphics out of such meager hardware.
The PS2 gives people a lot of canvas to paint on, and an excellent set of brushes. Everything from variable-pressure-sensitive buttons on the controllers, to a graphics pipe that is highly hackable for all kinds of graphics effects. People can really get creative with the PS2's offerings and deliver great games.
Dreamcast and XBox give the programmers little PCs in a box so designers fall into the patterns and expectations they are used to.
That was intentional to make it sound like a lofi radio signal, such as a CB Radio or cheap walkie-talkies.
I wouldn't be suprised if they had to "fuzz it up" after recording at a higher quality.
Good point.
Same happens w/politics here though. There is a sort of "editorializing" that happens... you would have never seen a poll with an option of:
SuperChicken: The Cock Rockin' Exploits of Bill Clinton
But we get a poll option smearing two Republicans.
Inspired by the recent article, I bought myself a full-featured SLR camera!
The Canon Rebel K2 Kit and extra Battery Pack.