well, Ace Ventura was a really, really successful movie (the first Jim Carrey vehicle), she was the second biggest character, and it came out in the same year as Friends started. Masters and Family Ties had a gap of about 7 years and featured her in bit parts. at the time, i'm sure more people knew/remembered her for Ace Ventura than for those other roles.
it should be far easier to port existing code than to start from scratch, so saying "during that time your competitors who had less code to port and test get a head start" is an overstatement. unless most of your lines of code are dedicated to handling the quirks of the old operating system, your ahead of the game on a lot of feature implementations and general polish.
At the time of the show's start, Courney Cox was far and away the most recognizable celebrity on the show, due to her recent stint on the failed CBS drama "China Beach", and the fact that she was the girl who danced with Springsteen in that music video. Almost nobody remembered that Jenifer Aniston was in "Leprechan."
China Beach was Dana Delany, Courtney Cox was famous because of Ace Ventura. the Springsteen thing was the sort of thing that people found out later i think
it's not really about protecting us. it's about having a reason to issue contracts to the same companies that would be producing items for our military if we still had a credible opposing superpower. i for one feel a little warm fuzzy that they even bother to come up with these flimsy excuses. they wouldn't lie to us if they didn't care what we thought
i have a 12" Powerbook and a HP/Compaq NC6000. i'll pull out a long movie and make sure that i'm not on crack about the battery life, but batteries come in various qualities even for the same model of machine.
all that aside, don't you think that the 4 hours on this P[i]MP is pretty meager? $600 is a lot of money for a dedicated media player
i would think that the two shadows would be a lot less noticeable than the one single shadow that you'd get on Earth, except in the region that is shaded from both light sources. he should have been more upset that the existing shadow was larger, darker and the wrong shape
I think most Slashdotters still haven't gotten over the idea that someone would waste a year, writing in a non-permanant ink, on dried animal parts, just to have a copy of a book they could pick up for a few bucks at any Borders.
i dunno, they quickly got over the idea of a 3 Mhz computer that took a year to build, when the owner could have bought a better one just as easily
A friend of mine does robotics work at CMU. He was building a "autonomous search and rescue vehicle" for the DoD, went through all the vision and mapping and what-have-you work and was appalled when he was supplied with the final control system and discovered that it sported a big red "Weapon" button.
yup, i saw Real Genius too
it's a much smaller political step to request funding for improvements to "help ensure that none of our boys get accidentally shot"
you're pretty caught up in your viewpoint here, but i thought i'd point out that the vehicle doesn't have to be autonomous to be unmanned. Wired had a recent article describing how the Air Force is requiring that vehicles like the predator be flown by trained pilots, so it'd seem to be moving in the other direction if they were suddenly this much more miserly about the resources operating their vehicles.
otoh, throw some level of autonomy onto a vehicle that is being piloted remotely for the most part and you've got the ability to continue operation past the point where you're communications are jammed. the knowhow that goes into operating autonomously could also be used as a system to doublecheck the actions of the operator.
anyway, these killbots already exist, it's just that there's someone with a little joystick operating them now. there will probably always be someone targetting their weapons.
they did a study a while back of people's irritation at other commuters talking on cellphones on a subway. the results basically showed that even at the same conversational volume, people talking on cellphones seem more annoying because you naturally pay more attention to conversations that you can only hear one side of (i.e. you unconsciously spend time trying to figure out what the other side of the conversation must be)
afaik, Taurus/Camry/Accord are the three most sold cars in america, and there numbers aren't as good as that Focus (which, like most underpowered compact cars gets decent mileage). i also wonder how the roads of today compare to the ones that the Model T was driving on, and how that is affecting the reported mpg
well, i said "approach". i have two laptops that can get nearly 3 hours, which i would call fairly close to the mark. the point is that this thing isn't spinning a DVD, it should get a lot more life shouldn't it? don't those little dedicated DVD players (that are also spinning the disc) get something on the order of 8 hours of life?
and if people want to watch video they're going to need better battery life than :
Up to 30 hours for music. (TBC) Up to 4 hours for video on built-in LCD. (TBC)
Removable battery (additional battery optional)
that's pretty bad, most laptops approach that duration even when they're spinning a DVD drive. i guess the formfactor of this machine isn't allowing for a very substantial battery
a porsche is less average than an SUV which would get even lower mpg. it seems like you specifically chose a non-average car so that your mpg listing for it would be unhelpful. i'm not sure why you didn't pick something that you would call average, like a camry (22/33 mpg), accord (25/33) or taurus (20/27 mpg)
i suppose one could take full advantage of the techniques that cause this IE memory leak and eventually the IE users would stop coming to your site on their own
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hell, people can write Outlook viruses that can do most of the things that an Exchange administrator would be able to do
fortunately, since the medium is email, shouldn't they be very interoperable if only some of your people want to switch?
well, Ace Ventura was a really, really successful movie (the first Jim Carrey vehicle), she was the second biggest character, and it came out in the same year as Friends started. Masters and Family Ties had a gap of about 7 years and featured her in bit parts. at the time, i'm sure more people knew/remembered her for Ace Ventura than for those other roles.
it should be far easier to port existing code than to start from scratch, so saying "during that time your competitors who had less code to port and test get a head start" is an overstatement. unless most of your lines of code are dedicated to handling the quirks of the old operating system, your ahead of the game on a lot of feature implementations and general polish.
it's not really about protecting us. it's about having a reason to issue contracts to the same companies that would be producing items for our military if we still had a credible opposing superpower. i for one feel a little warm fuzzy that they even bother to come up with these flimsy excuses. they wouldn't lie to us if they didn't care what we thought
don't do it, it's a trap!
clearly they're spending the extra time and energy choosing the perfect font
an advertisement for an Alpha product no less
i have a 12" Powerbook and a HP/Compaq NC6000. i'll pull out a long movie and make sure that i'm not on crack about the battery life, but batteries come in various qualities even for the same model of machine. all that aside, don't you think that the 4 hours on this P[i]MP is pretty meager? $600 is a lot of money for a dedicated media player
can someone who RTFA clear up the Wookies on Endor conundrum?
i would think that the two shadows would be a lot less noticeable than the one single shadow that you'd get on Earth, except in the region that is shaded from both light sources. he should have been more upset that the existing shadow was larger, darker and the wrong shape
that's one example. another might be some place like the Middle East that only seems to be less willing to live-and-let-live as time passes
evidently it was believed by the same people that like to click on banner ads, so websites said it again and again
i dunno, they quickly got over the idea of a 3 Mhz computer that took a year to build, when the owner could have bought a better one just as easily
yup, i saw Real Genius too
you're pretty caught up in your viewpoint here, but i thought i'd point out that the vehicle doesn't have to be autonomous to be unmanned. Wired had a recent article describing how the Air Force is requiring that vehicles like the predator be flown by trained pilots, so it'd seem to be moving in the other direction if they were suddenly this much more miserly about the resources operating their vehicles.
otoh, throw some level of autonomy onto a vehicle that is being piloted remotely for the most part and you've got the ability to continue operation past the point where you're communications are jammed. the knowhow that goes into operating autonomously could also be used as a system to doublecheck the actions of the operator.
anyway, these killbots already exist, it's just that there's someone with a little joystick operating them now. there will probably always be someone targetting their weapons.
they did a study a while back of people's irritation at other commuters talking on cellphones on a subway. the results basically showed that even at the same conversational volume, people talking on cellphones seem more annoying because you naturally pay more attention to conversations that you can only hear one side of (i.e. you unconsciously spend time trying to figure out what the other side of the conversation must be)
they'll charge you $3 for the earplugs and make money on both sides of the deal
afaik, Taurus/Camry/Accord are the three most sold cars in america, and there numbers aren't as good as that Focus (which, like most underpowered compact cars gets decent mileage). i also wonder how the roads of today compare to the ones that the Model T was driving on, and how that is affecting the reported mpg
well, i said "approach". i have two laptops that can get nearly 3 hours, which i would call fairly close to the mark. the point is that this thing isn't spinning a DVD, it should get a lot more life shouldn't it? don't those little dedicated DVD players (that are also spinning the disc) get something on the order of 8 hours of life?
a porsche is less average than an SUV which would get even lower mpg. it seems like you specifically chose a non-average car so that your mpg listing for it would be unhelpful. i'm not sure why you didn't pick something that you would call average, like a camry (22/33 mpg), accord (25/33) or taurus (20/27 mpg)
i suppose one could take full advantage of the techniques that cause this IE memory leak and eventually the IE users would stop coming to your site on their own
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