Suggesting that Star Trek the franchise is better off dead because some (although he argues all) of its incarnations are of inferior quality when compared to currently available television programming is foolish. Just because a program is tagged with the Star Trek moniker doesn't mean that it can't be good television too. The problems with current Trek programming (i.e. Enterprise) are not specifically related to the franchise's past and they can't necessarily be attributed to the "Star Trek" title. It's the specifics that people are tired of, not the underlying concept.
At least Card didn't throw a Jesus pitch in there somewhere.
It's not just TigerDirect the mail-order sales company, but TigerDirect the mail-order computer hardware/software/accessories sales company. If you're not well versed and you're out looking for one of these Tigers, it's very likely that the other will confuse you.
This is to say nothing of who is right, wrong or the owner of whatever trademark, just that there does appear to be a legitimate cause for friction here.
No, you're right. I suspect that's why they have those otherwise blank-appearing frames at the beginning of the clip instead of just showing the few frames with the large dust devil in the foreground.
Has either of you ever opened up one of those handheld computers that come with Meade and Celestron telescopes? I'd be interested to know what sort of CPU's inside. Probably a Z80 or some other 8-bit microcontroller like a PIC.
Maybe they should just shut it down right now. Clearly, "Indy" "artists" are cutting into their members' sales by producing music that is luring away members of the teenage demographic target market and does not generate profit for... Anyone? This erosion of the teenage demographic's core values of purchasing and consuming represents a serious threat to member record labels, enterprise at large, America and the entire world! Nefarious uses of a so-called P2P "sharing" scheme are of secondary concern.
SAVE THE MUSIC! Share your favorite music by buying it for a friend!
Why not use software that encrypts everything written to the HDD? I'm no security expert, but you could probably rest easier when retiring/returning HDDs if you're using Pointsec. All of the laptops where I work have Pointsec on them so that if they are lost or stolen, the data on them is probably safe.
No studies, I'm afraid, but examples exist in abundance. Here's the first result Google pulled up: Yucca Mountain. Granted, it's not the best example because it involves government agencies instead of independent labs, but it's one that clearly shows how various organizations can come up with whatever results they want by applying pressure in the right places.
It depends on who you ask. There are volumes of studies to both support and deny the assertion that video game violence trickles out into real life.
Whereas private money used to fund research, it has now become research. Scientists and researchers, being that they are still human beings, are typically as close-minded as any fundies out there and they are as easily influenced by money, power, prestige and the need to protect that which they have achieved as the most corrupt politician.
The scientific method is high school fodder. The new scienfitic method is as easily purchased as a loaf of bread.
They have a say because they have tens of millions of customers and they're buying potentially millions of phones. When you're ordering major quantities, you get what you want or something pretty close to it. It's not even unusual for a mobile phone manufacturer like Nokia to make a phone that only one customer like Verizon will be buying. In that case, it would be exactly what the customer wants. These operators aren't exactly the judges of what manufacturers construct, but they are the judges of what they will buy. A company that's looking to sell mobile phones would do well to accomodate its customers. Nokia is a major innovator in the standards field and some people speculate that its reluctance to accomodate customers who wanted their standards (i.e. Picture Messaging from Sprint) on phones exclusively in place of more widely accepted standards (i.e. MMS to Sprint's Picture Messaging, for example) is what cost them market share in 2004.
Verizon is particularly fussy about its hardware and software requirements and because it's a CDMA customer you can't really swap phones around with any great ease. You couldn't use your 7650 on North American networks because it uses the wrong frequency bands but if you had a supported phone and it wasn't locked to some other network, I don't think Cingular or any other GSM operator would object to selling you a SIM card and a plan. Whether or not they have standard data services like MMS and stuff is another matter. I don't know.
As a matter of fact it did have an MP3 player, video player and all kinds of frivolous goodies. Yeah, the battery business was a little lame, but if you're willing to give up the MP3 player and radio (you still keep the video playing capabilities and other frivolous goodies and you can always install third party MP3 software because the Symbian OS is more flexible than a Russian gymnast) you can get the N-Gage QD, which allows you to hot-swap games.
If you want everything on your terms only, I'm afraid you're liable to end up with nothing.
People wanting MP3 playback and advanced telephony in a package that doesn't sacrifice one for the other needn't worry. This product will surely exist in a highly marketable form within the next year and if it's no thanks to Apple, then that's all the better for consumers because you won't have to deal with iTMS copy protection and you won't have to install special software to copy music to your MP3 phone.
We've heard from all the major manufacturers where next-generation MP3 phones are concerned except Nokia, who just so happens to have a publicly announced contract with Loudeye. Loudeye, in turn, has signed a deal to provide a music store to O2. Read the press releases these companies have put out in the past few months and connect the dots here, people! The fact that the most powerful mobile phone manufacturer in the world isn't saying much probably means that it's coming to the party with sleeves full of aces!
Samsung is already on its second generation hard drive MP3 phone. The first was an unmitigated disaster and the second's not too bad! You can bet that the third will be a winner.
The world will move forward without Apple and Motorola.
When two "little people" have children, it's not unusual for that child to be of normal height. How does what is observed in the plants differ from the anecdotal observations of a similar nature in humans? Is this exciting because the plants have been modified or selected to specifically exclude any normal-plant characteristics wheras "little people" have not been?
Can you tell that I elected to ignore all studies of biology starting at the eleventh grade?
Nobody is copying anybody. AMD and Intel have a crosslicencing agreement and they have had one in place for as long as I can remember. In effect, they each have things the other wants and it makes better business sense to flat out trade everything than it does to licence each and every thing. AMD gets to use the x86 instruction set and Intel's hokey alphabet soup of mumbo-jumbo whatchamacallits and Intel gets... Something worth their while, I'm sure. After all, they keep renewing the agreement.
I believe AMD owns key Hyperthreading patents, and we all know that Hyperthreading is an Intel marketing juggernaut. Now there's the whole x86-64 business too, which Intel wasn't interested in until AMD proved that it was commercially viable and that people really did want it.
The fluid was probably Fluorinert (manufactured by 3M). Cray, among others I'm sure, used direct-die Fluorinert cooling for a while and may still in some models. I have a video clip where they show off the system. Basically, they have a jacket with nozzles in it that sprays a fine mist of Fluorinert directly onto their multi-die CPUs. A manifold then collects the evaporated Fluorinert for condensation and reuse.
Ultimately, something has to cool the Fluorinert so I doubt that fans, pumps and the like can be entirely eliminated. They're just moved elsewhere.
The car is eight years old and has traveled over 100Mm. By no means a great deal of wear, but nothing to scoff at considering that the car hasn't had anything changed on it nor any work done to it outside of regular maintenance and one minor recall since being driven off the lot.
Where the child lock is concerned I don't have children and I very infrequently have passengers in the back seat. The car is worth more to me in service than being serviced for this minor issue.
The brake squeaking stops after the brakes have warmed up (i.e. once they have been applied at normal driving speed). The efficacy of the braking is not affected and since I'm going to have to change the pads soon anyway (they're down to around 20% in the front), it's hardly worth looking into until then.
I don't demand absolute perfection so I truly may not be the most demanding of customers, but the fact remains that the car has proven its reliability. There's no reason that it won't drive me around for another 100Mm. My point was simply that my personal experience with Chrysler/Dodge automobiles has been overwhelmingly positive whereas my experience with their service has been quite the opposite.
Samsung released a phone with a 1.5GB HDD last year (Info) and it's nothing short of awful. It's fat, heavy, only supports some silly proprietary format and has to check drive consistency when you copy any file onto it. If you want to copy numerous files, like say a collection of music, it checks after every single file not after all of them have been copied. They also recalled it before re-releasing it due to reliability issues. Fortunately, only Koreans will ever have to deal with it.
I certainly hope Samsung has learned a few important lessons since its last foray into this field.
For what it's worth, I have nothing but wonderful things to say about my Chrysler Cirrus LXi. Except for a few minor quibbles like squeaky brakes and a child lock that will not unlock on the rear passenger side, the car has performed flawlessly since purchase and has not required any service outside of regular maintenance. I'm still riding the original brake pads, tires, battery, timing belt, etc. The stuff just doesn't die... That or it's planning to die all at once.
I 100% agree with you, though, that their five stars are absolutely no guarantee of quality service. I went from dealer to dealer in my town for scheduled maintenance and eventually gave up and started doing it myself. There's no way an oil and filter change takes half a day. Especially when I have to make an appointment a week in advance. The squeaky brakes and child lock that would not disengage? "Fixed" numerous times by various five star service centers.
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Rocky the dog makes a fine corporate workplace companion. I could spend all day clicking the "Animate!" option on him.
Or what else would I have to do at work today?
Suggesting that Star Trek the franchise is better off dead because some (although he argues all) of its incarnations are of inferior quality when compared to currently available television programming is foolish. Just because a program is tagged with the Star Trek moniker doesn't mean that it can't be good television too. The problems with current Trek programming (i.e. Enterprise) are not specifically related to the franchise's past and they can't necessarily be attributed to the "Star Trek" title. It's the specifics that people are tired of, not the underlying concept.
At least Card didn't throw a Jesus pitch in there somewhere.
Does the Hong Kong Boys Scouts Association have a drifting and automobile customization patch?
It's not just TigerDirect the mail-order sales company, but TigerDirect the mail-order computer hardware/software/accessories sales company. If you're not well versed and you're out looking for one of these Tigers, it's very likely that the other will confuse you.
This is to say nothing of who is right, wrong or the owner of whatever trademark, just that there does appear to be a legitimate cause for friction here.
No, you're right. I suspect that's why they have those otherwise blank-appearing frames at the beginning of the clip instead of just showing the few frames with the large dust devil in the foreground.
Has either of you ever opened up one of those handheld computers that come with Meade and Celestron telescopes? I'd be interested to know what sort of CPU's inside. Probably a Z80 or some other 8-bit microcontroller like a PIC.
It absolutely does, minus the 184 million dollar legal fee the lawyers get for enabling justice on your behalf, of course.
Maybe they should just shut it down right now. Clearly, "Indy" "artists" are cutting into their members' sales by producing music that is luring away members of the teenage demographic target market and does not generate profit for... Anyone? This erosion of the teenage demographic's core values of purchasing and consuming represents a serious threat to member record labels, enterprise at large, America and the entire world! Nefarious uses of a so-called P2P "sharing" scheme are of secondary concern.
SAVE THE MUSIC! Share your favorite music by buying it for a friend!
Why not use software that encrypts everything written to the HDD? I'm no security expert, but you could probably rest easier when retiring/returning HDDs if you're using Pointsec. All of the laptops where I work have Pointsec on them so that if they are lost or stolen, the data on them is probably safe.
No studies, I'm afraid, but examples exist in abundance. Here's the first result Google pulled up: Yucca Mountain. Granted, it's not the best example because it involves government agencies instead of independent labs, but it's one that clearly shows how various organizations can come up with whatever results they want by applying pressure in the right places.
It depends on who you ask. There are volumes of studies to both support and deny the assertion that video game violence trickles out into real life.
Whereas private money used to fund research, it has now become research. Scientists and researchers, being that they are still human beings, are typically as close-minded as any fundies out there and they are as easily influenced by money, power, prestige and the need to protect that which they have achieved as the most corrupt politician.
The scientific method is high school fodder. The new scienfitic method is as easily purchased as a loaf of bread.
They have a say because they have tens of millions of customers and they're buying potentially millions of phones. When you're ordering major quantities, you get what you want or something pretty close to it. It's not even unusual for a mobile phone manufacturer like Nokia to make a phone that only one customer like Verizon will be buying. In that case, it would be exactly what the customer wants. These operators aren't exactly the judges of what manufacturers construct, but they are the judges of what they will buy. A company that's looking to sell mobile phones would do well to accomodate its customers. Nokia is a major innovator in the standards field and some people speculate that its reluctance to accomodate customers who wanted their standards (i.e. Picture Messaging from Sprint) on phones exclusively in place of more widely accepted standards (i.e. MMS to Sprint's Picture Messaging, for example) is what cost them market share in 2004.
Verizon is particularly fussy about its hardware and software requirements and because it's a CDMA customer you can't really swap phones around with any great ease. You couldn't use your 7650 on North American networks because it uses the wrong frequency bands but if you had a supported phone and it wasn't locked to some other network, I don't think Cingular or any other GSM operator would object to selling you a SIM card and a plan. Whether or not they have standard data services like MMS and stuff is another matter. I don't know.
As a matter of fact it did have an MP3 player, video player and all kinds of frivolous goodies. Yeah, the battery business was a little lame, but if you're willing to give up the MP3 player and radio (you still keep the video playing capabilities and other frivolous goodies and you can always install third party MP3 software because the Symbian OS is more flexible than a Russian gymnast) you can get the N-Gage QD, which allows you to hot-swap games.
If you want everything on your terms only, I'm afraid you're liable to end up with nothing.
People wanting MP3 playback and advanced telephony in a package that doesn't sacrifice one for the other needn't worry. This product will surely exist in a highly marketable form within the next year and if it's no thanks to Apple, then that's all the better for consumers because you won't have to deal with iTMS copy protection and you won't have to install special software to copy music to your MP3 phone.
We've heard from all the major manufacturers where next-generation MP3 phones are concerned except Nokia, who just so happens to have a publicly announced contract with Loudeye. Loudeye, in turn, has signed a deal to provide a music store to O2. Read the press releases these companies have put out in the past few months and connect the dots here, people! The fact that the most powerful mobile phone manufacturer in the world isn't saying much probably means that it's coming to the party with sleeves full of aces!
Samsung is already on its second generation hard drive MP3 phone. The first was an unmitigated disaster and the second's not too bad! You can bet that the third will be a winner.
The world will move forward without Apple and Motorola.
Same idea but with a big Fresnel lens: Remember?
When two "little people" have children, it's not unusual for that child to be of normal height. How does what is observed in the plants differ from the anecdotal observations of a similar nature in humans? Is this exciting because the plants have been modified or selected to specifically exclude any normal-plant characteristics wheras "little people" have not been?
Can you tell that I elected to ignore all studies of biology starting at the eleventh grade?
Nobody is copying anybody. AMD and Intel have a crosslicencing agreement and they have had one in place for as long as I can remember. In effect, they each have things the other wants and it makes better business sense to flat out trade everything than it does to licence each and every thing. AMD gets to use the x86 instruction set and Intel's hokey alphabet soup of mumbo-jumbo whatchamacallits and Intel gets... Something worth their while, I'm sure. After all, they keep renewing the agreement.
I believe AMD owns key Hyperthreading patents, and we all know that Hyperthreading is an Intel marketing juggernaut. Now there's the whole x86-64 business too, which Intel wasn't interested in until AMD proved that it was commercially viable and that people really did want it.
Candlemakers report unseasonally high profits this quarter thanks to a very unusual birthday...
Shaw in Canada temporarily disconnects customers whose computers are operating as bots.
The fluid was probably Fluorinert (manufactured by 3M). Cray, among others I'm sure, used direct-die Fluorinert cooling for a while and may still in some models. I have a video clip where they show off the system. Basically, they have a jacket with nozzles in it that sprays a fine mist of Fluorinert directly onto their multi-die CPUs. A manifold then collects the evaporated Fluorinert for condensation and reuse.
Ultimately, something has to cool the Fluorinert so I doubt that fans, pumps and the like can be entirely eliminated. They're just moved elsewhere.
The car is eight years old and has traveled over 100Mm. By no means a great deal of wear, but nothing to scoff at considering that the car hasn't had anything changed on it nor any work done to it outside of regular maintenance and one minor recall since being driven off the lot.
Where the child lock is concerned I don't have children and I very infrequently have passengers in the back seat. The car is worth more to me in service than being serviced for this minor issue.
The brake squeaking stops after the brakes have warmed up (i.e. once they have been applied at normal driving speed). The efficacy of the braking is not affected and since I'm going to have to change the pads soon anyway (they're down to around 20% in the front), it's hardly worth looking into until then.
I don't demand absolute perfection so I truly may not be the most demanding of customers, but the fact remains that the car has proven its reliability. There's no reason that it won't drive me around for another 100Mm. My point was simply that my personal experience with Chrysler/Dodge automobiles has been overwhelmingly positive whereas my experience with their service has been quite the opposite.
Samsung released a phone with a 1.5GB HDD last year (Info) and it's nothing short of awful. It's fat, heavy, only supports some silly proprietary format and has to check drive consistency when you copy any file onto it. If you want to copy numerous files, like say a collection of music, it checks after every single file not after all of them have been copied. They also recalled it before re-releasing it due to reliability issues. Fortunately, only Koreans will ever have to deal with it.
I certainly hope Samsung has learned a few important lessons since its last foray into this field.
For what it's worth, I have nothing but wonderful things to say about my Chrysler Cirrus LXi. Except for a few minor quibbles like squeaky brakes and a child lock that will not unlock on the rear passenger side, the car has performed flawlessly since purchase and has not required any service outside of regular maintenance. I'm still riding the original brake pads, tires, battery, timing belt, etc. The stuff just doesn't die... That or it's planning to die all at once.
I 100% agree with you, though, that their five stars are absolutely no guarantee of quality service. I went from dealer to dealer in my town for scheduled maintenance and eventually gave up and started doing it myself. There's no way an oil and filter change takes half a day. Especially when I have to make an appointment a week in advance. The squeaky brakes and child lock that would not disengage? "Fixed" numerous times by various five star service centers.
What you don't know can't hurt you, and likewise its corollary: ignorance is bliss. What are their French equivalents?