They're only incompetent if the objective was to win. If the objective was to hold off corporate Linux adoption until Vista's release, they succeeded brilliantly. Lesser lawyers wouldn't have caused this much delay and expense to IBM (e.g. the CMVC wild goose chase), or held off summary judgment this long.
Bear in mind that Boies Schiller Flexner, SCO's law firm, is really, really good. They're the firm that defeated Microsoft in the antitrust trial. The fact that they've been able to drag this case out as long as they have with no evidence whatsoever is testament to that.
But IBM has some fantastic lawyers as well, and they are not going to take Microsoft intimidating and/or suing their customers lying down. The nightmare scenario is IBM, MS, and Novell collaborating on a plan to monetize Linux, but with Red Hat already having line in the sand, and Sun and most of the developers unlikely to play ball, that could end well, too.
That's odd, the compositing/NLE apps I've dealt with (Vegas, Combustion and Fusion) farm out different frames to different render nodes. I had assumed AE did the same. I also think something might have been wrong with your Xeon box (hyperthreading on, perhaps?)
For the price, I'd rather have 2 dual Woodcrest 2.6 Mac Pros to get 8 cores. A lot of rendering-intensive apps have diminishing returns per core after 4-way SMP, anyhow.
OK, so you saved $1500/year. Well under 5% of your income. That's nothing, in both absolute and relative terms, compared to the impact on a rich family of the abolishment of the estate tax and the other massive cuts at the high end. I maintain that "all the benefits" is an accurate assessment using your numbers.
Not that I care that much about gays, but they truely are trying to force the acceptance of gays into a religious vows. That you are required to accept them and that it is illegal to not accept them. It's not about forcing marriage, it's about forcing thought.
Additionally my wife has cronic pain, and while I'd *love* to have things paid for (for the last 3 years I've averaged >$12k in medical bills, we weren't married and she was unable to work, she only had major medical no perscription/doctor visit) she wouldn't be able to get to the specialists she needs constantly.
No, it's about letting them get their partners onto their health coverage the same way you did when you married your wife. Besides, most of these 'anti gay marriage' measures were actually laws excluding any domestic partner arrangement (that means straight ones, too!) from being recognized by doctors/insurance companies/probate courts/etc.
The sacredness of the institution is your church's business, not your government's (besides, who ever got divorced because somebody elsegot married?). It's the legal and economic implications of marriage that have been of primary importance for the last 100 years or so, and that gay couples seek to avail themselves of.
The whole POINT is that they're made of code instead of pixels. Since Photoshop is a bitmap editor, the answer is no to the plugin (Gradient layers in PS are procedural textures for example, but exporting a gradient as a gradient is more in the realm of what a vector-based resolution-independent app like Illustrator or Flash is good at.)
Artist-friendly procedural texture makers exist, though, check out Darktree for an excellent (albeit slow-rendering) example.
So you're saying a Gore administration and a D-majority congress would have handled 9/11, Katrina, and the economy the same way? We'd be stuck in Iraq with a record deficit and OBL on the loose either way?
One problem is that the legal underpinnings of the court decision guaranteeing abortion rights in America rely on there being a right to privacy enshrined in the constitution. Since privacy is not mentioned explicitly anywhere in the document, this is one of the weak points anti-abortion groups go after. In other words, USA political discussions of "the right to privacy" are actually about abortion, making it very difficult to make any headway on actual privacy rights.
How long ago was that suburb built? That's true of developments up to the late 80's to mid 90's most places, but the basic McMansion airdrop plan these days appears to be:
1. Grade away all topsoil from some farm. 2. Lay out a system of curved streets and cul-de-sacs so as to maximize the paved area and set the identical houses at different angles so it takes 5 seconds longer for a casual observer to realize they're all alike. 3. After a year or so of construction, lay down the cheapest sod you can find and a few half-dead seedlings from Home Depot. 4. Act shocked when any grade over 5% erodes out from under the sod, driveways, foundations, etc. 5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 until homeowners either sue or lay in some erosion prevention themselves.
Yes. I also saw Syria, Iran, Libya, and other arab countries reach out in solidarity and support. 9/11 was terrible for the jihadists' image in most of the arab world. The administration's response, however, restored it. Bush Jr. had a chance to turn arab opinion around, and he absolutely blew it.
The Red Steel gameplay footage I've seen does feature this, although it seems limited to 2 or 3 canned motions. Cooler is the gimmick that your pistol matches the roll angle of the controller in your hand, so mid '90s John Woo style stances are possible, but only if you want them.
The real fun begins when Lucasarts gets a lightsaber game released.
Plus the fact that the WTC 7 building which collapsed much later had no jet fuel of any kind in or on it. Have you any explanation of what collapsed that building?
Yeah, the giant fucking tanks of diesel fuel (>40,000 gallons) for the NYC emergency command post generator.
How is that different from phishing a login to the classified network in general? And you still need physical access to log in, which means that the mole likely has their own credentials already.
DoD computer stuff is taken pretty seriously, as I beleive there are criminal penalties attached to screwing it up, as well as being evicted from your sweet spot at the government teat.
Machines with clearance to view this are not allowed to be connected to the public internet. Only other machines with similar clearance would receive those broadcasts.
When somebody wraps it in a neat little bow, makes it available for download, and maintains it through the escalation of the arms race, sure. See also Peerguardian, keygens, DVD ripping, etc.
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They're only incompetent if the objective was to win. If the objective was to hold off corporate Linux adoption until Vista's release, they succeeded brilliantly. Lesser lawyers wouldn't have caused this much delay and expense to IBM (e.g. the CMVC wild goose chase), or held off summary judgment this long.
But IBM has some fantastic lawyers as well, and they are not going to take Microsoft intimidating and/or suing their customers lying down. The nightmare scenario is IBM, MS, and Novell collaborating on a plan to monetize Linux, but with Red Hat already having line in the sand, and Sun and most of the developers unlikely to play ball, that could end well, too.
It's the overhead of maintaining communication between cores and the shared cache.
That's odd, the compositing/NLE apps I've dealt with (Vegas, Combustion and Fusion) farm out different frames to different render nodes. I had assumed AE did the same. I also think something might have been wrong with your Xeon box (hyperthreading on, perhaps?)
For the price, I'd rather have 2 dual Woodcrest 2.6 Mac Pros to get 8 cores. A lot of rendering-intensive apps have diminishing returns per core after 4-way SMP, anyhow.
I eventually told him I was gay to get him to stop calling me, and even then he wanted to hear it from my parents.
He's probably confusing their billable rate and what they actually make.
OK, so you saved $1500/year. Well under 5% of your income. That's nothing, in both absolute and relative terms, compared to the impact on a rich family of the abolishment of the estate tax and the other massive cuts at the high end. I maintain that "all the benefits" is an accurate assessment using your numbers.
Additionally my wife has cronic pain, and while I'd *love* to have things paid for (for the last 3 years I've averaged >$12k in medical bills, we weren't married and she was unable to work, she only had major medical no perscription/doctor visit) she wouldn't be able to get to the specialists she needs constantly.
No, it's about letting them get their partners onto their health coverage the same way you did when you married your wife. Besides, most of these 'anti gay marriage' measures were actually laws excluding any domestic partner arrangement (that means straight ones, too!) from being recognized by doctors/insurance companies/probate courts/etc.
The sacredness of the institution is your church's business, not your government's (besides, who ever got divorced because somebody elsegot married?). It's the legal and economic implications of marriage that have been of primary importance for the last 100 years or so, and that gay couples seek to avail themselves of.
Well, Dan Perlin, Jim Blinn, and others were doing it in '84, but not on the desktop or in anything like realtime.
Artist-friendly procedural texture makers exist, though, check out Darktree for an excellent (albeit slow-rendering) example.
So you're saying a Gore administration and a D-majority congress would have handled 9/11, Katrina, and the economy the same way? We'd be stuck in Iraq with a record deficit and OBL on the loose either way?
One problem is that the legal underpinnings of the court decision guaranteeing abortion rights in America rely on there being a right to privacy enshrined in the constitution. Since privacy is not mentioned explicitly anywhere in the document, this is one of the weak points anti-abortion groups go after. In other words, USA political discussions of "the right to privacy" are actually about abortion, making it very difficult to make any headway on actual privacy rights.
1. Grade away all topsoil from some farm.
2. Lay out a system of curved streets and cul-de-sacs so as to maximize the paved area and set the identical houses at different angles so it takes 5 seconds longer for a casual observer to realize they're all alike.
3. After a year or so of construction, lay down the cheapest sod you can find and a few half-dead seedlings from Home Depot.
4. Act shocked when any grade over 5% erodes out from under the sod, driveways, foundations, etc.
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 until homeowners either sue or lay in some erosion prevention themselves.
Trinity's aged a lot better than AMFV, which oozes with 70's futurism - The movie version would undoubtedly feature Charleton Heston
Yes. I also saw Syria, Iran, Libya, and other arab countries reach out in solidarity and support. 9/11 was terrible for the jihadists' image in most of the arab world. The administration's response, however, restored it. Bush Jr. had a chance to turn arab opinion around, and he absolutely blew it.
What about last week's entire episode of South Park being a commercial for the Wii?
The real fun begins when Lucasarts gets a lightsaber game released.
Yeah, the giant fucking tanks of diesel fuel (>40,000 gallons) for the NYC emergency command post generator.
And deformation is all you need to bring down the building from its own weight. Kinetic energy supplied the rest of the heat.
How is that different from phishing a login to the classified network in general? And you still need physical access to log in, which means that the mole likely has their own credentials already.
DoD computer stuff is taken pretty seriously, as I beleive there are criminal penalties attached to screwing it up, as well as being evicted from your sweet spot at the government teat.
Machines with clearance to view this are not allowed to be connected to the public internet. Only other machines with similar clearance would receive those broadcasts.
When somebody wraps it in a neat little bow, makes it available for download, and maintains it through the escalation of the arms race, sure. See also Peerguardian, keygens, DVD ripping, etc.