And that's the thing. Assume Squaresoft released a game that happens to offend many christians, for example by having the bad guy have an uncanny similarity to popular depictions of Jesus. Do you think that game or subsequent Squaresoft games would still sell well in countries like the USA? At the very least they'd get lots of negative PR in mainstream media. Lots of negative PR means lots of lost sales. Lots of lost sales means lots of lost money. Lots of lost money means the shareholders want to have a word with whoever's responsible for making the bad guy look like Jesus (and not catching that before release).
Free speech is nice and dandy - if you're a real person. If you're a corporation you can speak freely all you want as long as it doesn't negatively affect sales. If removing Qur'an chants from the game makes it more likely that the game will sell better in muslimic regions then removing Qur'an chants is most probably a good idea.
Knowledge is also the recipe for homemade explosives. Knowledge is also instructions for building a nailbomb. Knowledge is also what tells you which overland lines to destroy to take down the electrical or telecommunications grid.
With nothing but knowledge and a population to hide in you can ensure that a region will never see peace for decades. If there ever will be large-scale armed resistance against the US government all the nukes and Joint Strike Fighters in the world won't help them maintain public order. The rebels won't neccessarily win, but they won't neccessarily lose either.
Maybe a new port that combines network, Firewire-like DMA access and USB-like peripheral support. Essentially make the next generation of customer NICs a bit smarter and more versatile, give them a smaller connector and put six of then on each mainboard. If the same port can be used for mice and external storage the port should also be able to easily accomodate anything else besides power.
We're not going to see video cards using the thing but just about everything else could be consolidated. Might get a bit expensive, but one might define that devices don't neccessarily have to include a host, thus making simple peripherals a bit cheaper.
It's useful when you buy a new Mac - you can use it to easily populate one from the other's hard drive. Also, FireWire 800 (arguably never found on Apple's low-end notebooks) is vastly superior to USB for external storage. I know that eSATA exists but have never seen it working in reality and a NAS/SAN is even more expensive than a FW800 HDD.
To me it sounds like something from Megaman Battle Network. Actually, given the inanity of some of the laws recently passed in the USA it shouldn't suprise us to see Official Netbattler as a real job title soon...
However, while I'd like to think that the FBI has dozens of snotty kids with utterly professional and capable navis on its payroll, most likely all they have are a couple HealNavis with one MiniBomb J each.
It's nice that the American Star Trek: TOS opening has lyrics, but I was talking about the German Captain Future opening. So unless ST:TOS turns out to actualy be a Toei Animation production I don't think your post quite applies.
Other than that, nice pics; love the angry Spock one:-)
So do I, for an entirely different reason. There's a German spoof movie where the crew is exorbitantly gay, based on a series of skits in a comedy show. I don't think the spoof movie is all that funny but I do think it's funny that Spock really reminds me of his counterpart in the spoof movie in that shot. I can't tell whether he's choking or feeling up Kirk...
They didn't do (as in "rape") Captain Future yet. Although one could argue that the Japanese already did that to the literary figure.
Well, whatever they do, a Captain Future movie would be met with disapproval in Germany. We're used to having a version of Captain Future with our own special sound track (that, in my opinion, is vastly superior to the original one). In no way would we agree to a Captain Future movie with background music that doesn't sound like Feinde greifen an or Hurra, wir fliegen, not to mention Ken.
To give you an impression of the German soundtrack here's a link to Feinde greifen an ("Enemies attack"), essentially the action scene BGM. Oh, and the German opening; after having sat through the American one I'm suddenly very happy that the German version was contractually obliged to have no lyrics.
Yeah. Where is the accurate measurement of the consistentcy and the in-depth discussion of saltiness vs. umami? The poster mentioned a temperature differential between the outer and inner layers without ever describing the exact difference. There's no analysis of changes in the chemical composition over time - one'd assume that the time spent in the fridge would have changed the matter in some way. Not even a comparison to other well-known persons' bequeathments to be used as a reference point. The entire writeup is almost completely devoid of hard scientific data.
I'm sorry, but this publication has no chance of ever passing peer review.
If research turns up exactly zero installations of Foobat 1.x to 5.x, why should I assume that Foobat 5.3 is a real product?
And no, "the first five releases were internal" doesn't count. I'm not really comfortable paying thousands of Dollars (as TFQuestion stated) for some internal cobblework application that someone just happened to decide to sell externally.
However, the Slackware jump is (and was at the time) well-documented and there were prior versions to find information about. Someone searching for "Slackware 6" would immediately know what's up. That's not the case if there are no prior versions.
If someone came and tried to sell me version 7.0 of some product I'd look up that product online -- after all it's sane to expect a product with six prior releases to have gotten at least some kind of coverage on the net and the gripes people have with the latest version compared with the gripes they had with prior versions might give me insight into the application's development and bug handling.
If my search then turned up nothing at all I'd become very suspicious of this alleged "version 7.0" of the alleged "product" they're trying to sell me. The next search would probably be on the company and any shady dealings they might be involved in.
Considering the wy Windows occasionally treats the user "Windows Jackass" should also work just fine. It lso allows them to blame all BSODs on Johnny Knoxville.
If you read the summary, you'd see that Windows 7 is NT 6.1.
If you read the article you'd see that this is yet another backwards compatibility hack. Like Windows 95 was Windows 4 but identified itself as Windows 3.95 in order to not confuse old applications, Windows 7 is Windows 7 but identifies itself as Windows 6.1.
Yeah, Microsoft are really committed to keeping the poxt-XP Windowses conceptually clean.
No, it's Windows 7/9. Each release of this limited-edition operating system line is handcrafted and comes numbered and signed by the lead architect. It comes with a cerificate of authenticity unless you downloaded it off a P2P network.
Well, at least a lot of/.ers would cheer if Windows turned out to be limited to nine major kernel releases.
I'm not too uncomfortable with that adapter - it's less than half the size of what a Dell uses. However, of course I can't say how you feel about that.
I'm a university student. I use my MBP in the university for note-taking and work. A glossy screen would make it next to impossible to actually do anything because we have big wall-filling rows of windows everywhere, which have bad enough reflections that I can't see anything but the windows on glossy screens.
It'd be really nice if there was a laptop for people who actually need a mobile computer to work with instead of an oversized portable DVD player. "You can position laptops any way you want" is useless when virtually all positions you can face end up with the reflection of something bright blinding you (and a window on a sunny day is most probably brighter than the LCD backlight).
Quoth TFS: Still, the final legislation [CC] (PDF) creates new classes of felony criminal copyright infringement, adds civil forfeiture provisions that incorporate by reference parts of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, and directs the Copyright Czar to lobby foreign governments to adopt stronger IP laws.
Sorry guys, but it's getting far enough for me to really hope that the USA as an economic superpower collapse on themselves, even if that means 300 million people end up in relative poverty. I don't see why the rest of the world should suffer from the broken American democracy any longer.
I mean, it's not like your politicians only ruin your own country, they use trade agreements to push their bullshit legislation onto other countries as well. I don't want legislation without representation. Give Europe a couple dozen seats in Congress and we can talk about a little legal exchange, but I'm not keen about you buying laws over here with nothing but the promise of worthless US$.
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And that's the thing. Assume Squaresoft released a game that happens to offend many christians, for example by having the bad guy have an uncanny similarity to popular depictions of Jesus. Do you think that game or subsequent Squaresoft games would still sell well in countries like the USA? At the very least they'd get lots of negative PR in mainstream media. Lots of negative PR means lots of lost sales. Lots of lost sales means lots of lost money. Lots of lost money means the shareholders want to have a word with whoever's responsible for making the bad guy look like Jesus (and not catching that before release).
Free speech is nice and dandy - if you're a real person. If you're a corporation you can speak freely all you want as long as it doesn't negatively affect sales. If removing Qur'an chants from the game makes it more likely that the game will sell better in muslimic regions then removing Qur'an chants is most probably a good idea.
Knowledge is also the recipe for homemade explosives. Knowledge is also instructions for building a nailbomb. Knowledge is also what tells you which overland lines to destroy to take down the electrical or telecommunications grid.
With nothing but knowledge and a population to hide in you can ensure that a region will never see peace for decades. If there ever will be large-scale armed resistance against the US government all the nukes and Joint Strike Fighters in the world won't help them maintain public order. The rebels won't neccessarily win, but they won't neccessarily lose either.
Yes, it's a rather depressing prospect.
Just fine. Mission accomplished.
Maybe a new port that combines network, Firewire-like DMA access and USB-like peripheral support. Essentially make the next generation of customer NICs a bit smarter and more versatile, give them a smaller connector and put six of then on each mainboard. If the same port can be used for mice and external storage the port should also be able to easily accomodate anything else besides power.
We're not going to see video cards using the thing but just about everything else could be consolidated. Might get a bit expensive, but one might define that devices don't neccessarily have to include a host, thus making simple peripherals a bit cheaper.
50 without CPU overhead vs. 40 with CPU overhad, of course.
It's useful when you buy a new Mac - you can use it to easily populate one from the other's hard drive. Also, FireWire 800 (arguably never found on Apple's low-end notebooks) is vastly superior to USB for external storage. I know that eSATA exists but have never seen it working in reality and a NAS/SAN is even more expensive than a FW800 HDD.
These things were obviously designed as topical enemies for Plant Man's stage. Was, by chance, funding for them provided by a certain "Mr. X"?
To me it sounds like something from Megaman Battle Network. Actually, given the inanity of some of the laws recently passed in the USA it shouldn't suprise us to see Official Netbattler as a real job title soon...
However, while I'd like to think that the FBI has dozens of snotty kids with utterly professional and capable navis on its payroll, most likely all they have are a couple HealNavis with one MiniBomb J each.
It's nice that the American Star Trek: TOS opening has lyrics, but I was talking about the German Captain Future opening. So unless ST:TOS turns out to actualy be a Toei Animation production I don't think your post quite applies.
So do I, for an entirely different reason. There's a German spoof movie where the crew is exorbitantly gay, based on a series of skits in a comedy show. I don't think the spoof movie is all that funny but I do think it's funny that Spock really reminds me of his counterpart in the spoof movie in that shot. I can't tell whether he's choking or feeling up Kirk...
They didn't do (as in "rape") Captain Future yet. Although one could argue that the Japanese already did that to the literary figure.
Well, whatever they do, a Captain Future movie would be met with disapproval in Germany. We're used to having a version of Captain Future with our own special sound track (that, in my opinion, is vastly superior to the original one). In no way would we agree to a Captain Future movie with background music that doesn't sound like Feinde greifen an or Hurra, wir fliegen, not to mention Ken.
To give you an impression of the German soundtrack here's a link to Feinde greifen an ("Enemies attack"), essentially the action scene BGM. Oh, and the German opening; after having sat through the American one I'm suddenly very happy that the German version was contractually obliged to have no lyrics.
Yeah. Where is the accurate measurement of the consistentcy and the in-depth discussion of saltiness vs. umami? The poster mentioned a temperature differential between the outer and inner layers without ever describing the exact difference. There's no analysis of changes in the chemical composition over time - one'd assume that the time spent in the fridge would have changed the matter in some way. Not even a comparison to other well-known persons' bequeathments to be used as a reference point. The entire writeup is almost completely devoid of hard scientific data.
I'm sorry, but this publication has no chance of ever passing peer review.
If research turns up exactly zero installations of Foobat 1.x to 5.x, why should I assume that Foobat 5.3 is a real product?
And no, "the first five releases were internal" doesn't count. I'm not really comfortable paying thousands of Dollars (as TFQuestion stated) for some internal cobblework application that someone just happened to decide to sell externally.
However, the Slackware jump is (and was at the time) well-documented and there were prior versions to find information about. Someone searching for "Slackware 6" would immediately know what's up. That's not the case if there are no prior versions.
If someone came and tried to sell me version 7.0 of some product I'd look up that product online -- after all it's sane to expect a product with six prior releases to have gotten at least some kind of coverage on the net and the gripes people have with the latest version compared with the gripes they had with prior versions might give me insight into the application's development and bug handling.
If my search then turned up nothing at all I'd become very suspicious of this alleged "version 7.0" of the alleged "product" they're trying to sell me. The next search would probably be on the company and any shady dealings they might be involved in.
Considering the wy Windows occasionally treats the user "Windows Jackass" should also work just fine. It lso allows them to blame all BSODs on Johnny Knoxville.
Well, we can still tease them for being 2001 years late already. ;)
Sun loves this.
Java 1.0
Java 1.1
Java 2 (= Java 1.2)
Java 2 (= Java 1.3)
Java 2 (= Java 1.4)
Java 5 (= Java 2 (= Java 1.5))
Java 2 (= Java 1.6)
Tame. Bungie delivered Marathon, Marathon 2 and Marathon Infinity. Now that's a version leap.
If you read the article you'd see that this is yet another backwards compatibility hack. Like Windows 95 was Windows 4 but identified itself as Windows 3.95 in order to not confuse old applications, Windows 7 is Windows 7 but identifies itself as Windows 6.1.
Yeah, Microsoft are really committed to keeping the poxt-XP Windowses conceptually clean.
No, it's Windows 7/9. Each release of this limited-edition operating system line is handcrafted and comes numbered and signed by the lead architect. It comes with a cerificate of authenticity unless you downloaded it off a P2P network.
/.ers would cheer if Windows turned out to be limited to nine major kernel releases.
Well, at least a lot of
I'm not too uncomfortable with that adapter - it's less than half the size of what a Dell uses. However, of course I can't say how you feel about that.
There are USB 3G adaptors? I always thought they only come in PCMCIA and ExpressCard.
I'm a university student. I use my MBP in the university for note-taking and work. A glossy screen would make it next to impossible to actually do anything because we have big wall-filling rows of windows everywhere, which have bad enough reflections that I can't see anything but the windows on glossy screens.
It'd be really nice if there was a laptop for people who actually need a mobile computer to work with instead of an oversized portable DVD player. "You can position laptops any way you want" is useless when virtually all positions you can face end up with the reflection of something bright blinding you (and a window on a sunny day is most probably brighter than the LCD backlight).
Even though there is no Wikipedia article, Wikimedia Commons appears to have an annotated illustration:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Taylor_column_rising_ball.png
Quoth TFS: Still, the final legislation [CC] (PDF) creates new classes of felony criminal copyright infringement, adds civil forfeiture provisions that incorporate by reference parts of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, and directs the Copyright Czar to lobby foreign governments to adopt stronger IP laws.
Sorry guys, but it's getting far enough for me to really hope that the USA as an economic superpower collapse on themselves, even if that means 300 million people end up in relative poverty. I don't see why the rest of the world should suffer from the broken American democracy any longer.
I mean, it's not like your politicians only ruin your own country, they use trade agreements to push their bullshit legislation onto other countries as well. I don't want legislation without representation. Give Europe a couple dozen seats in Congress and we can talk about a little legal exchange, but I'm not keen about you buying laws over here with nothing but the promise of worthless US$.