Flying out past the coastal limit? What is that now for the US, 200 miles? I know they were talkin bout extending it from 7 miles, just not sure if it ever went into effect...
Hell, New Voyages even managed to find an actor with all the style & ego of Shatner to play Kirk.
The one fan show I'd love to see continue, Starship Exeter, is rumored to be closing down after its second episode is on the servers.
I also have extreme fondness for Hidden Frontier, shut down after its seventh season and which generated not one, but TWO spinoff series. Although most of HF's camera work could be considered cheesy as hell, you gotta remember that they had a budget of about 500 bucks an episode. I woulda loved to see this if they'd gotten any real money to play with; no more acting in front of a green screen...
And I've seen Episode 1 of Odessey (one of HF's spinoffs), it was great.
Conference organizer and infowar author Winn Schwartau said Wednesday's demonstration validates a threat he first tried to warn Congress about in 1991.
"They asked if I thought they should add HERF guns to the Brady Bill," Schwartau recalls.
Vista is NOT harder to use than XP. It's virtually the same, especially from the point of view of a non-power user. UAC might be a huge nuisance, but parents or whoever can just turn it off. I wouldn't give a 13-year-old admin privileges to a machine in the first place; you're just asking for trojans otherwise.
You're[Allow][Deny] absolutely[Allow][Deny][Allow][Deny] right[Allow][Deny], Vista is[Allow][Deny][Allow][Deny]perfect[Allow][Deny].
"Let's start with the end user. Your daughter saw a lot of value," said Ballmer.
Translation: We spent a lot of money packing it with bloat.
Translation: "Our Marketting Department spent 5 years changing the specs for the Engineering Department based on focus groups stuffed with hydrocephalic chimpanzees. We gotta get our money back before our stockholders show up with pitchforks & torches and lynch us."
"Users appreciate the value that we put into Vista," he said. But, as with earlier operating system releases, "there is always a tension between the value that end users see -- and frankly, that software developers see -- and the value that we can deliver to IT."
Translation: No matter how many versions we have, it's still one size fits all. The tension is generated because our developers don't lead normal lives and see things the way ordinary people do, which makes the end product obfuscated and confusing
Translation: "Our chimpanze focus groups are fickle as hell and constantly change their minds from minute to minute. This leads to developement team frustration, so we were forced to sedate them. That didn't work so well, so now we're trying lobotomies..."
"When we initially shipped, fewer device drivers were ready for Vista than I would have liked, but we constantly worked with the device vendors to get new drivers available and implemented through our Windows update service," he said.
Translation: We rushed it to market. If we had waited until it was really ready we would have seen our stock drop. The premature release was purely driven by profit motives rather than care for our customers.
Translation: "Our developers couldn't keep up with our changing specs. Don't blame us, blame the chimpanzes."
Personally, I'd go for the brand that includes a repeating electromagnetic pulse generator. Robots aren't too susceptible to chemicals unless you directly spray them on. Hitting a moving target with a chemical spray isn't gonna be easy...
Yeah, it would be cool to do an SCO on Microsoft, sue them for a few zillion with unspecified claims, no evidence, the whole SCO playbook, and settle out of court for a few mil.
Fortunately, the courts just don't work that way.
They're not that different in this particular issue. Estadounidense is a word understood by most all to mean "someone from the USA". The different Spanish variations are not too separated, they mostly diverge in nuances, and accents.
I learned Castillian Spanish in high school from a guy who had spent a few years living in Argentina. My accent is so bad that the local Mexican population where I grew up couldn't understand me at all, nor could I them. But I was listening to an Argentino newscast one day and I almost understood it, 30 years after graduating high school.
The last Canadian political party to suggest union with the US died a while back... it ain't gonna happen. More likely is that one or more US States will secede from the union and either petition to join Canada or be independent rather than stay in JebusLand.
Sure, it might be illegal under the US constitution, but so was the suspension of habeus corpus and posse comitas. The precedent has been set, so look forward to at least someof the US splintering off as it continues its economic decline and people vote to bail out of (as opposed to bailing out) the sinking ship.
Last time that happened was about 155 years ago. It didn't turn out that well, either.
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I'm thinking said senators & congresscritters won't be subject to it.
Paranoia is becoming the new American virtue. Only question being asked these days is, "Are you paranoid enough?'
Flying out past the coastal limit? What is that now for the US, 200 miles? I know they were talkin bout extending it from 7 miles, just not sure if it ever went into effect...
Makes you wonder how long it'd take Joe Sixpack to get off the list...
Give it time.
Maybe our grandkids will tell their grandkids about a time when you didn't need a permit to step out the front door.
Race ya to the patent office & the l*wy*rs...
You must be new here(tm). That's what mod points are for.
And no, the intraweb can't bring me coffee. My coffee maker ain't wired.
Tell that to Disney.
Oh, come on. We're not THAT lucky!!!!!!!!!!
I'm proud to have been a Trekkie since '67.
Hell, New Voyages even managed to find an actor with all the style & ego of Shatner to play Kirk.
The one fan show I'd love to see continue, Starship Exeter, is rumored to be closing down after its second episode is on the servers.
I also have extreme fondness for Hidden Frontier, shut down after its seventh season and which generated not one, but TWO spinoff series. Although most of HF's camera work could be considered cheesy as hell, you gotta remember that they had a budget of about 500 bucks an episode. I woulda loved to see this if they'd gotten any real money to play with; no more acting in front of a green screen...
And I've seen Episode 1 of Odessey (one of HF's spinoffs), it was great.
How long til they close down Radio Shack?
You're[Allow][Deny] absolutely[Allow][Deny][Allow][Deny] right[Allow][Deny], Vista is[Allow][Deny][Allow][Deny]perfect[Allow][Deny].
Translation: "Our Marketting Department spent 5 years changing the specs for the Engineering Department based on focus groups stuffed with hydrocephalic chimpanzees. We gotta get our money back before our stockholders show up with pitchforks & torches and lynch us."
Translation: "Our chimpanze focus groups are fickle as hell and constantly change their minds from minute to minute. This leads to developement team frustration, so we were forced to sedate them. That didn't work so well, so now we're trying lobotomies..."
Translation: "Our developers couldn't keep up with our changing specs. Don't blame us, blame the chimpanzes."
Personally, I'd go for the brand that includes a repeating electromagnetic pulse generator. Robots aren't too susceptible to chemicals unless you directly spray them on. Hitting a moving target with a chemical spray isn't gonna be easy...
Been done, I think...
Yeah, it would be cool to do an SCO on Microsoft, sue them for a few zillion with unspecified claims, no evidence, the whole SCO playbook, and settle out of court for a few mil. Fortunately, the courts just don't work that way.
Ah, but I'm a gringo. Around me, they started using a lotta slang, made it almost incomprehensible to me.
Next time, try harder to injure the l*wy*rs.
I learned Castillian Spanish in high school from a guy who had spent a few years living in Argentina. My accent is so bad that the local Mexican population where I grew up couldn't understand me at all, nor could I them. But I was listening to an Argentino newscast one day and I almost understood it, 30 years after graduating high school.
Last time that happened was about 155 years ago. It didn't turn out that well, either.
Hang onto it for a year & it'll be worth an American nickel.
Yeah, John Glenn already had his second ride.
Nuff said