so there really is a premise for Johnny Mnemonic then... data smuggler...
currently, you could bring your data in on SD cards wrapped in cling-film and jammed up your jacksey...
I'd like to see them try and do that type of search without probable cause...
"oh yeah... we caught him in customs with 40 SD cards of HQ ripped movies stuffed up his backside... tough guy, was 20 hours before he had a motion, and then we had the evidence..."
can it use existing runways?
is it any noisier than existing airliners?
does it use less fuel per passenger mile than existing airliners?
The only thing that now makes me laugh about this project is that it would mean you spend far longer queueing to get through the security checks than you actually do in flight...
If you want to improve travel times, start counting time spend checking in and the security checks and then work on getting those reduced...
1997??? It was fscking obvious back then... devices like that were discussed in the required reading for my OU course on information technology and society... the phrase "convergence" neatly covers the entire thing...
Once such a procedure was set, the plane would continue under automatic control until it reached an altitude of 250ft. Then a female computer voice would say, "Decide."
It's uncanny how they made the flight control system sound just like my wife.
he he...
On Eurofighter, they planned to use the pilot's relatives to provide the audio warnings... the reasoning being that a known voice would cut right through... however, things were thrown out when they realised that that could lead to having the pilot's daughter saying "pull out daddy... pull out"...
Kryten: [to Lister] Waste disposal unit armed and ready, sir. Rimmer: Kryten, will this work? Kryten: [to himself] Lie mode. [to Rimmer] Kryten: Of course it'll work, sir! No worries!
Something tells me the TV manufacturers will buy this company out and sit on the invention... as it will directly clash with their very profitable flat screen market that they've just spent gajillions of dollars on ramping up capacity for...
that the MPAA are not going to be impressed with it...
"It's a great for-use mode when it comes to spontaneously sharing content with your friends," said Russell Hannigan, Microvision's Director of Product Management for Consumer Projection Displays.
and that they'll insist on it being DRM'd to death
I took the hard disk out of my broken Packard Bell laptop (daughter had spilled cola over it and it refused to work again) and put it into my Sony VAIO laptop... started it up and it booted perfectly into KDE... absolutely no problems at all... and all the hardware was different... different mobo chipset, different processor, different graphics card.
We were able to rescue all her data and coursework that she'd been working on when the accident occurred...
Out of curiosity. when I tried to boot the windows XP on the other partition it blackscreened... with a cryptic FATAL error code...
Put another way, in the uk, you cannot buy one for love nor money at the moment, and probably not until mid April will there be sufficient stocks.
I beg to differ... I bought mine on Saturday at Toys-r-Us of all places... I was so surprised to see a pre-installed Linux PC up there directly competing with the windows boxes...
There are cracks appearing in the monopoly facade...
You can't get an equivalent windows machine for this price point unless you go second hand... even when that guy "hacked" his to be able to run XP, I bet he didn't pay for his XP license... that would have added loads to the price...
the cheapskate truckers are using GPS units they bought from Halfords etc. which are designed for cars... they aren't gonna shell out for a truck specific database, even if they knew they were available... and the vast majority of these stuck drivers are foreign, so even getting truck specific GPS units and databases onto the market in the UK won't help
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so there really is a premise for Johnny Mnemonic then... data smuggler...
currently, you could bring your data in on SD cards wrapped in cling-film and jammed up your jacksey...
I'd like to see them try and do that type of search without probable cause...
"oh yeah... we caught him in customs with 40 SD cards of HQ ripped movies stuffed up his backside... tough guy, was 20 hours before he had a motion, and then we had the evidence..."
can it use existing runways? is it any noisier than existing airliners? does it use less fuel per passenger mile than existing airliners? The only thing that now makes me laugh about this project is that it would mean you spend far longer queueing to get through the security checks than you actually do in flight... If you want to improve travel times, start counting time spend checking in and the security checks and then work on getting those reduced...
this proposed bill will make it unbelievably difficult to stop patent trolls...
1. Get stupidly obvious patent
2. Wait 1 year and a day
3. Sue everybody in sight
4. ??????
5. Profit...
I've got some seriously bad news for you then...
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http://home.comcast.net/~pegbowman/BritishSaints/CranmerThomas.htm
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all famous men, all martyred for their Beliefs... I just hope you were being ironic... as irony doesn't work very well in forum postings...
1997??? It was fscking obvious back then... devices like that were discussed in the required reading for my OU course on information technology and society... the phrase "convergence" neatly covers the entire thing...
that's not a carrot... that's a cattle prod...
McDonalds use in-game advertisements
which moderator was on crack this time... stupid troll mod...
Something tells me the TV manufacturers will buy this company out and sit on the invention... as it will directly clash with their very profitable flat screen market that they've just spent gajillions of dollars on ramping up capacity for...
and that they'll insist on it being DRM'd to death
to announce that they've licensed LANCOR's patent for use with the Windows version of the OLPC when it becomes available...
I took the hard disk out of my broken Packard Bell laptop (daughter had spilled cola over it and it refused to work again) and put it into my Sony VAIO laptop... started it up and it booted perfectly into KDE... absolutely no problems at all... and all the hardware was different... different mobo chipset, different processor, different graphics card.
We were able to rescue all her data and coursework that she'd been working on when the accident occurred...
Out of curiosity. when I tried to boot the windows XP on the other partition it blackscreened... with a cryptic FATAL error code...
Ubuntu Linux 1 : Microsoft XP 0
and the cost to purchase that license for XP???
I beg to differ... I bought mine on Saturday at Toys-r-Us of all places... I was so surprised to see a pre-installed Linux PC up there directly competing with the windows boxes...
There are cracks appearing in the monopoly facade...
You can't get an equivalent windows machine for this price point unless you go second hand... even when that guy "hacked" his to be able to run XP, I bet he didn't pay for his XP license... that would have added loads to the price...
has any judge not made an unauthorised copy of a copyrighted work?
We wuz cheated...
I have a solution for that... it's called a hammer...
same way I used to get my browser back in '93 before the bundling... on a disk with the modem or as part of a signup package...
and by the way, there is good old ftp available as well at the DOS Prompt...
The Navy is safe as long as they still have ships to fly the UAVs off... the Air Force has the problems proving that it still has a purpose...
the cheapskate truckers are using GPS units they bought from Halfords etc. which are designed for cars... they aren't gonna shell out for a truck specific database, even if they knew they were available... and the vast majority of these stuck drivers are foreign, so even getting truck specific GPS units and databases onto the market in the UK won't help
the American legal system, the best justice money can buy... stays bought...