I'd build a city that floats on clouds. It would be called, oh, lets say Stratus. We'd enslave those who remained on the earth to mine the minerals we would need to survive (always a good idea).
Oh, and the women would wear these top thingies that looked like the bandoliers on Mexican bandits.
when we wanted to make a phone call while away from home, we had to find a phone booth on a busy street corner. A dime was then placed into a slot and then, get this, using a dial that had holes punched in it, we had to insert a finger into a hole representing one of the digits, turn the dial, and the release it. Once it returned to its original position, this was repeated until the phone number was entered.
Retro? Bah! You young 'uns don't know how good you have it today.
Phoning home each minute with a new fix? Was he with Verizon? I understand that they have a plan where they give 1000 free stalking minutes each month. Yes, the GPS receiver is included.
I got it on a 4 DVD set and have watched several times now. Watching the Apollo 11 episode chokes me up each time I see it. I saw it on TV in 1969 and it still is one of the most memorable moments of my life. The other great episodes are the one about the Apollo 1 fire (the scene where Frank Borman testifies before congress and basically saves the program is as powerful as it gets) and the one documenting construction of the LEM. As an engineer, I can relate to this one directly.
Actually, Gene Kranz (who wrote "Failure is not an option") was the Flight Controller for the Apollo missions. Kraft was Flight for the Mercury and Gemini missions.
Say you build and sell a widget that you wish to maintain complete control over. Under this ruling, it seems to me, it wouldn't be necessary to go to the trouble of applying passwords and keys and other sophisticated mechanisms to keep people out of your widget. Simply place a piece of tape over the cover and declare that removing this tape violates DCMA. A 3rd party comes along, removes the tape from the widget under permission of the owner (licensee?), and, bam!, you take 'em to court for violation of DCMA.
Better yet, only claim the tape is there. You save even that cost.
Whats the difference here?
I bought Word 6 for the mac at the college bookstore. It came on 24 floppy disks. Once I finally had it loaded, I ran it and it took almost a minute to finally start. I typed a few characters and clicked on the tool bar to set a tab and the program crashed.
De-installing it took me much less time than the time it took to start.
I read a book once written by an ex-Hot Shot smoke jumper. He commented that they used to joke that to fight a wildfire, you throw money at it until the rains come.
This sounds like a perfect example.
Jeepers, Wally, I remember arguments about what calculators were the coolest when I was in school 30 years ago. Its good to see todays generation of aspiring engineers haven't changed at all. Just remember, kids, then as now, having the most buttons hanging on your belt still won't get you that date with the cheerleader.
On a first order approximation, I'd take what the original moon landing program cost and then adjust for inflation. Its gotta be several hundreds of billions anyway.
I mean, a trillion here, a billion there, pretty soon you're talking about some real money.
Like their PDAs, MS keeps bloating their products with every feature so that they can sell it as the swiss army knife of technology.
The only difference is that the knife is useful.
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What would you get if they really don't like you -- 6 months?
If loss of all music means I don't have to listen to Seasons in the Sun again, it might be worth it.
How many cupholders does it have?
Explore strange new worlds, my ass!
I'd build a city that floats on clouds. It would be called, oh, lets say Stratus. We'd enslave those who remained on the earth to mine the minerals we would need to survive (always a good idea).
Oh, and the women would wear these top thingies that looked like the bandoliers on Mexican bandits.
when we wanted to make a phone call while away from home, we had to find a phone booth on a busy street corner. A dime was then placed into a slot and then, get this, using a dial that had holes punched in it, we had to insert a finger into a hole representing one of the digits, turn the dial, and the release it. Once it returned to its original position, this was repeated until the phone number was entered. Retro? Bah! You young 'uns don't know how good you have it today.
Phoning home each minute with a new fix? Was he with Verizon? I understand that they have a plan where they give 1000 free stalking minutes each month. Yes, the GPS receiver is included.
But Roxio claims that they will make it up on volume. Just like all the other dot-gones did.
Will the capacity be figured in Megaflops?
Its a great package.
Actually, Gene Kranz (who wrote "Failure is not an option") was the Flight Controller for the Apollo missions. Kraft was Flight for the Mercury and Gemini missions.
Say you build and sell a widget that you wish to maintain complete control over. Under this ruling, it seems to me, it wouldn't be necessary to go to the trouble of applying passwords and keys and other sophisticated mechanisms to keep people out of your widget. Simply place a piece of tape over the cover and declare that removing this tape violates DCMA. A 3rd party comes along, removes the tape from the widget under permission of the owner (licensee?), and, bam!, you take 'em to court for violation of DCMA. Better yet, only claim the tape is there. You save even that cost. Whats the difference here?
I guess those mail order lessons from "Learn to be a Master Criminal in Only 2 Hours" didn't take.
For gawd's sake, bury it already. This thing is hanging on longer than Reagan's funeral.
I bought Word 6 for the mac at the college bookstore. It came on 24 floppy disks. Once I finally had it loaded, I ran it and it took almost a minute to finally start. I typed a few characters and clicked on the tool bar to set a tab and the program crashed. De-installing it took me much less time than the time it took to start.
I read a book once written by an ex-Hot Shot smoke jumper. He commented that they used to joke that to fight a wildfire, you throw money at it until the rains come. This sounds like a perfect example.
I certainly hope they were those 1-by-2 pieces and not the 6-by-2. Otherwise, OUCH!
Jeepers, Wally, I remember arguments about what calculators were the coolest when I was in school 30 years ago. Its good to see todays generation of aspiring engineers haven't changed at all. Just remember, kids, then as now, having the most buttons hanging on your belt still won't get you that date with the cheerleader.
At least the picture does't show the builder in a spandex body suit.
You take off the glasses and I defy you to tell the difference between him and Jeff Bridges. I mean, other than the hair.
when I see the first SCO lawsuit.
On a first order approximation, I'd take what the original moon landing program cost and then adjust for inflation. Its gotta be several hundreds of billions anyway. I mean, a trillion here, a billion there, pretty soon you're talking about some real money.
Like their PDAs, MS keeps bloating their products with every feature so that they can sell it as the swiss army knife of technology. The only difference is that the knife is useful.