Indeed. We really go to see starwars for the nostalgia of Episode IV and special effects and sword fights than the movie. Industrial Light and Magic is all Lucas has going for him, since he has long since proven himself a failure as a story teller. I liked "A New Hope" and "The Empire Strikes Back" but "Return of the Jedi" was a real disappointment for me. I waited for the video to watch episode 1, and it was also a disappointment. I refused to watch "Clone Wars" because I'd had enough. My nephews insisted, so we compromised and they only showed me the good parts. That's right, we fast forwarded to the Yoda knife fight. That was it. The arena sequence was nothing. I am also going to skip this one, and just watch the sword fight highlight reel in a year or so. Good day to you.
Oh, and Han shot first. That is the way it should be. I'm never going to get the remix. Jabba was more menacing when we don't really know who he is.
...by adopting an official life cycle that it uses to develop secure software...
it sounds like they end of life software that just can't be secured, and intend to be more dilligent in the future. Hopefully longhorn will be a reasonably secure OS (though I will never buy it). For example, windows 98 and NT have been end of lifed, and windows 2000 will not be supported many more years.
you mention electrostrictive gels, I'll have to google for papers on that, but the name sounds like it is similar to the chromophores on mollusks. That is also what I would like to see win the low power persistant display race, although whatever tech turns out to be the best is fine with me... I can't wait to have a REAL tablet computer, one that I can scribble on (digitizer/e-paper) and read text with ease in all light levels, like real paper.
I like the integral fast reactor idea best, since the amount of high level radioactive waste is recycled and used as fuel. But there is still another innovative meltdown-proof design that is worth looking into.
In Galena Alaska there is proposed a reactor with a sub-critical cylinder of fuel, with a neutron-reflective sleeve that slides along it as the fuel is spent. Only the part of the fuel encased in the sleeve reacts, and if it is not moved periodically the reaction will cease. If it gets too hot and the sleeve melts, the reaction will cease.
I see your point now. I didn't before because I read the article title merely as a description of the contents of the book, not as the title of a separate book with that title. I'm thinking it is coincidence.
letsee: $1300 for the mac, or $800 (minus a 15" LCD, whatever that would have cost back then) for a bitchin AMD game rig. $150 for a hardware bound license of xppro. (prices are approximate--what I remember from a price comparison last year)
Hmmm... I spent and extra $350 to not pay Bill, and guess what? I actually have fun with the damn thing, no constant fighting with the OS, no constant rebooting, no constant spyware/adware/virus scrubbing, no running programs with admin rights because for some reason it will not run in a user or even poweruser account.
Is getting your life back worth a $350 apple tax? It was for me, especially since I still have to deal with all the MS baggage at work. When I get home I just want to relax.
Macs just work. Windows just seems to work... at first. Anyway, my original point is that Bill will not get any more money from me.
Also you could get some printers to play music (of a sort).
I have a CD from the experimental surf group "Man or Astroman" called "A Spectrum of Infinite Scale."
There is a tune on it called "A Simple Text File" which is a dot matrix printer producing music.
I agree. There is a reason soccer players (should) wear shin guards and (really should wear) cups. By replacing bruisable and breakable flesh and bone with plastic and steel, they should heavily pad the robots for the protection of the human players.
The examples given in the article seem extreme and contrived (although I've never played K.D.) and is reminiscent of the whole FPS games cause violence uproar--games banned in certain countries, rating systems in others.
But there is one class of game which is intended to be completely immersive, and to influence the player's behavior in the real world: Simulators.
Military and commercial flight simulators for weather and failure scenarios, the shoot/don't shoot situational simulators I've used in the military and that are used by police, even student driver driving simulators.
Is it so strange that in subtle ways or for extreme personalities, mass market video games would influence perception or behavior in the real world?
How does it deal with the accoustics of bone instead of air? In my head, my voice sounds like a sexy baritone, but when I hear my voice in voicemail, it sounds tinny and whiney. My point is that sounds coming through the air sound a whole lot different than sounds that resonate in your head.
I put white out on the keys, and forced myself to use the closest finger instead of the two-finger hunt and peck. Even so, I was "hunting" on the blank keys for a week or so, but eventually I got over it. I did not have nearly as much success as you, but I did raise my typing speed by these efforts from around 30 wpm to 45. Now I need to break myself of the habit of backspacing over entire words to change a typo, and instead do the editing on the second pass.
I always imagine that after SCO loses to IBM and folds, when the SEC starts asking Mr. McB. what the hell was he thinking when he charted a course to run his company onto the rocks, that in the spirit of C.Y.A. he will roll over on whatever companies were bankrolling this, complete with smoking gun memos and docs from (let us speculate: microsoft)
Maybe there are grounds for a class action? (IANAL) Convicted monopolist makes secret changes to its service to force paying customers who already bought a license to buy a new license to continue using the service they paid for.
Of course, I would never suggest using a warez outlook 2003.
The Feds saw Klingons and knew what they looked like in classic S.T. In the movies they looked quite different. When Mr. Worf participated in the reprise of "Trouble With Tribbles," he merely commented that Klingons do not speak of those things.
Glaring discontinuity is nothing new in the star trek universe.
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so when it starts to degrade, someone can make another copy if necessary.
don't let the nattering neybobs of negativism here at /. get you down
/. carborundum?" (No, I don't know any Latin. Someone please correct.)
"nattering nabobs of negativism" -- Spiro Agnew
Or did you mean "Non illegitimi
Indeed. We really go to see starwars for the nostalgia of Episode IV and special effects and sword fights than the movie. Industrial Light and Magic is all Lucas has going for him, since he has long since proven himself a failure as a story teller. I liked "A New Hope" and "The Empire Strikes Back" but "Return of the Jedi" was a real disappointment for me. I waited for the video to watch episode 1, and it was also a disappointment. I refused to watch "Clone Wars" because I'd had enough. My nephews insisted, so we compromised and they only showed me the good parts. That's right, we fast forwarded to the Yoda knife fight. That was it. The arena sequence was nothing. I am also going to skip this one, and just watch the sword fight highlight reel in a year or so. Good day to you.
Oh, and Han shot first. That is the way it should be. I'm never going to get the remix. Jabba was more menacing when we don't really know who he is.
...by adopting an official life cycle that it uses to develop secure software...
it sounds like they end of life software that just can't be secured, and intend to be more dilligent in the future. Hopefully longhorn will be a reasonably secure OS (though I will never buy it). For example, windows 98 and NT have been end of lifed, and windows 2000 will not be supported many more years.
you mention electrostrictive gels, I'll have to google for papers on that, but the name sounds like it is similar to the chromophores on mollusks. That is also what I would like to see win the low power persistant display race, although whatever tech turns out to be the best is fine with me... I can't wait to have a REAL tablet computer, one that I can scribble on (digitizer/e-paper) and read text with ease in all light levels, like real paper.
I like the integral fast reactor idea best, since the amount of high level radioactive waste is recycled and used as fuel. But there is still another innovative meltdown-proof design that is worth looking into.
In Galena Alaska there is proposed a reactor with a sub-critical cylinder of fuel, with a neutron-reflective sleeve that slides along it as the fuel is spent. Only the part of the fuel encased in the sleeve reacts, and if it is not moved periodically the reaction will cease. If it gets too hot and the sleeve melts, the reaction will cease.
interesting.
I see your point now. I didn't before because I read the article title merely as a description of the contents of the book, not as the title of a separate book with that title. I'm thinking it is coincidence.
While she mentions two other books with the same subject, her actual review then starts with the line:
"Goldstein's Missing Manual fills this gap with coverage of the current Mac OS 10.3 (Panther) release of AppleScript..."
So my guess is no, she did not change her mind, though I hear that is a woman's prerogative.
I did a search for horny Asian wives in my town, and it found squat.
one good troll deserves another, I guess.
letsee: $1300 for the mac, or $800 (minus a 15" LCD, whatever that would have cost back then) for a bitchin AMD game rig. $150 for a hardware bound license of xppro. (prices are approximate--what I remember from a price comparison last year)
Hmmm... I spent and extra $350 to not pay Bill, and guess what? I actually have fun with the damn thing, no constant fighting with the OS, no constant rebooting, no constant spyware/adware/virus scrubbing, no running programs with admin rights because for some reason it will not run in a user or even poweruser account.
Is getting your life back worth a $350 apple tax? It was for me, especially since I still have to deal with all the MS baggage at work. When I get home I just want to relax.
Macs just work. Windows just seems to work... at first. Anyway, my original point is that Bill will not get any more money from me.
"Microsoft's income is about the same as New York State receives in taxes - below California, and well above the other 48 states."
I stopped paying the microsoft tax last year when I bought my first Mac.
Also you could get some printers to play music (of a sort).
I have a CD from the experimental surf group "Man or Astroman" called "A Spectrum of Infinite Scale."
There is a tune on it called "A Simple Text File" which is a dot matrix printer producing music.
I agree. There is a reason soccer players (should) wear shin guards and (really should wear) cups. By replacing bruisable and breakable flesh and bone with plastic and steel, they should heavily pad the robots for the protection of the human players.
The examples given in the article seem extreme and contrived (although I've never played K.D.) and is reminiscent of the whole FPS games cause violence uproar--games banned in certain countries, rating systems in others.
But there is one class of game which is intended to be completely immersive, and to influence the player's behavior in the real world: Simulators.
Military and commercial flight simulators for weather and failure scenarios, the shoot/don't shoot situational simulators I've used in the military and that are used by police, even student driver driving simulators.
Is it so strange that in subtle ways or for extreme personalities, mass market video games would influence perception or behavior in the real world?
Insightful, yes, but I think you should have gotten at least one funny for that. goo djob.
How does it deal with the accoustics of bone instead of air? In my head, my voice sounds like a sexy baritone, but when I hear my voice in voicemail, it sounds tinny and whiney. My point is that sounds coming through the air sound a whole lot different than sounds that resonate in your head.
Sometimes I think the only reason we haven't annexed Canada yet is that the Republicans are afraid of adding all those socialist electoral votes.
I thought the reason we haven't annexed Canada was the war of 1812
...I can't imagine a human-powered helicopter getting high enough for this to be a major concern.
I respectfully submit that a 3 meter fall on an aluminum seat post would be a major concern for me. They had better make the saddle damn sturdy.
I put white out on the keys, and forced myself to use the closest finger instead of the two-finger hunt and peck. Even so, I was "hunting" on the blank keys for a week or so, but eventually I got over it. I did not have nearly as much success as you, but I did raise my typing speed by these efforts from around 30 wpm to 45. Now I need to break myself of the habit of backspacing over entire words to change a typo, and instead do the editing on the second pass.
could this be an effort to influence google's IPO, by showing that google is not an invulnerable giant?
Amen, brother! I couldn't do a search on Google, and I couldn't remember any other search engines.
I always imagine that after SCO loses to IBM and folds, when the SEC starts asking Mr. McB. what the hell was he thinking when he charted a course to run his company onto the rocks, that in the spirit of C.Y.A. he will roll over on whatever companies were bankrolling this, complete with smoking gun memos and docs from (let us speculate: microsoft)
Maybe there are grounds for a class action? (IANAL) Convicted monopolist makes secret changes to its service to force paying customers who already bought a license to buy a new license to continue using the service they paid for. Of course, I would never suggest using a warez outlook 2003.
The Feds saw Klingons and knew what they looked like in classic S.T. In the movies they looked quite different. When Mr. Worf participated in the reprise of "Trouble With Tribbles," he merely commented that Klingons do not speak of those things. Glaring discontinuity is nothing new in the star trek universe.
Key loggers.