Actually, the larger, more expensive Gateway TVs are HD ready, which means that they will display a high-definition image, but do not include an HDTV tuner. It would be more correct to call them HD monitors, except that they do include a standard-resolution tuner, so that makes them "TV sets". To watch HDTV broadcasts, you would have to pay $300-$400 more for an external tuner. However, if you use cable or satellite, then an HD ready unit is just as good as an HDTV set.
Another example is Paul Newman. He was nominated for Best Actor for playing "Eddie Felson" in The Hustler, then twenty-five years later he won for playing the same character in The Color of Money.
For instance, when talking about the Mason symbols on the bill, showing an image would be necessary.
Are you talking about the eagle and the pyramid on the back of the one dollar bill? They weren't invented for the bill; they are the front and back of the Great Seal of the United States. (Hell, the bill even labels it as such.) I wish people would just call it the Great Seal instead of saying "the back of the dollar bill". That's like refering to the White House as "the mansion on the back of the twenty".
Advertisement goes back even further in arcade games. In 1982, the Japanese version of Pole Position had billboards for Pepsi, Marlboro, Champion, and others. The Atari version had advertisements for other Atari-manufactured games like Dig Dug and Centipede. In Midway's Tapper, from 1983, you served Budweiser, while a Japanese version had Suntory beer. They also made a version with root beer for the kiddies.
The founders of Exluna were accused by Pixar, their former employer, of misappropriation of trade secrets, copyright infringement and patent infringement. Exluna was able to settle the lawsuit by ending BMRT.
They aren't just looking for radio signals, they are also looking at visible and infrared light. It's called optical SETI. Look at Optical SETI at Berkeley, or Google for it.
There are items on your telephone bill that look like taxes, but aren't. According to this
article from Consumer Reports:
Such fees are not necessarily standard. Take the Universal Service Fee, a 7.2 percent federal levy imposed to help subsidize phone service for rural communities, low-income citizens, schools, and hospitals. All four major carriers charged more than than 7.2 percent for that fee. Such discrepancies arise from variations in the way companies apply the fee. Until recently, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has said that it has no authority to intervene if companies collect more than they need, but now the agency is considering a proposal to do just that.
Other charges look like they are government-mandated but aren't. Sprint, for example, uses a separate billing line for for property taxes it pays.
You jest, but one guy will actually include passengers in his simulator. The July 2003 of the Smithsonian's Air & Space magazine has a feature on home-brew simulators. One guy, Joseph Maldonado, is building his from the front section of a scrapped 727; it includes 15 feet of first class seating. "The Hatillo, Puerto Rico cardiologist plans on recreating the entire flying experience; when the simulator is finished, passengers will be able to watch scrolling terrain from their windows - or opt for an in-flight movie - as pilots fly the jet on a simulated route."
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Actually, the larger, more expensive Gateway TVs are HD ready, which means that they will display a high-definition image, but do not include an HDTV tuner. It would be more correct to call them HD monitors, except that they do include a standard-resolution tuner, so that makes them "TV sets". To watch HDTV broadcasts, you would have to pay $300-$400 more for an external tuner. However, if you use cable or satellite, then an HD ready unit is just as good as an HDTV set.
Another example is Paul Newman. He was nominated for Best Actor for playing "Eddie Felson" in The Hustler, then twenty-five years later he won for playing the same character in The Color of Money.
Advertisement goes back even further in arcade games. In 1982, the Japanese version of Pole Position had billboards for Pepsi, Marlboro, Champion, and others. The Atari version had advertisements for other Atari-manufactured games like Dig Dug and Centipede. In Midway's Tapper, from 1983, you served Budweiser, while a Japanese version had Suntory beer. They also made a version with root beer for the kiddies.
The founders of Exluna were accused by Pixar, their former employer, of misappropriation of trade secrets, copyright infringement and patent infringement. Exluna was able to settle the lawsuit by ending BMRT.
Here's a list of RenderMan-compliant renderers. Some of them, like AQSIS, are open source.
They aren't just looking for radio signals, they are also looking at visible and infrared light. It's called optical SETI. Look at Optical SETI at Berkeley, or Google for it.
You jest, but one guy will actually include passengers in his simulator. The July 2003 of the Smithsonian's Air & Space magazine has a feature on home-brew simulators. One guy, Joseph Maldonado, is building his from the front section of a scrapped 727; it includes 15 feet of first class seating. "The Hatillo, Puerto Rico cardiologist plans on recreating the entire flying experience; when the simulator is finished, passengers will be able to watch scrolling terrain from their windows - or opt for an in-flight movie - as pilots fly the jet on a simulated route."