By the time you're finished making it the technology will be last decade. Well given you can only work with proven items, this decade's technology is probably too new...
The Tresurer of The United States is directed to pay, tax free, the sum of TEN BILLION DOLLARS to the first American Company to keep thirty Americans alive and well on the surface of the moon for Three Years and A Day.
I would have thought getting thirty Americans to the Moon alive and then keeping them there well on the surface of the moon for almost 1000 days would cost far in excess of 10 thousand million dollars. It would be like £100 rebate on a £20,000 car, so I can't see it being any sort of incentive to anyone who isn't already doing it.
That said, what happens if they fail? I mean, there are a lot of lives at stake. Are they allowed to lose a bunch of non-Americans as they only have to keep 30 Americans alive.
Okay, that makes more sense, but then all the Windows ones have been dropped when the actually release came around, haven't they?
Apple are still being a little odd in my view to make 'Tiger' the main aspect. I just like my numbers, I suppose. Kind of the opposite of The Prisoner. Be seeing you...
The full-screen version is the same one as the hi-res but with black bars top and bottom and the certain knowledge that your boss will notice you watching it. Certainly I stopped bothering with them ages ago.
I don't go near the Quicktime site any more: I just wait for Dave's Trailer Page to put a link up so I can download them...which is where I grabbed this from just now.:D
Personally I want to know why Apple have to calle 10.4 'Tiger'. I guess the last three significant releases were things like Cougar, Panther ahd Jaguar.
But let's be clear here: We use 10.4 so we know it's a later release than 10.3. If it made more sense to consumers to name your software releases after animals then we'd all be doing it. It's a stupid "have to be different" thing from Apple, as far as I can see. iBooks, iPods and the like are examples of good ideas/design. This is just reaching.
Though to be fair H2G2 is fairly weird. It always USED to be HHGTTG back when I were a nipper!:D
It didn't help that I was wondering how anyone COULDN'T know what H2G2 referred to even if it was the wrong sort of numbers and letters so leading me to wonder if he was being sarcy about the wrong ordering or something. Okay. Right. That's that muddied. What the fuck am I rambling about. Double 'offtopic' and 'redundant' I feel. Bleurgh...Time to go and listen to really really fucking loud music in Camden...
So the real question is: If Slashdot provides a portal to websites that then instantly fall over from all the traffic: What's so good about Slashdot that it never falls over from too much traffic.
And: Why doesn't everyone just host with Slashdot.
It's like the old "Why don't they make planes out of the stuff they make the black box recorder out of?" question.
While I have very little hope Episode III will be any good, its trailers are fucking fantastic, as is this Serenity one, though the Serenity SFX didn't look like they could compare to the space shots in Ep III.
Personally I'll see both. The thought of a tenner lasting between May and September with all those pubs and chocolate bars out there seems unlikely.:-/
RealNetworks' RealPlayer has become an embarrassment to even try installing
Unfortunately, because the BBC and Amazon UK both only provide their audio services in RealPlayer streamed versions, I am forced to install the gitting thing.
It irritates me that there isn't a non-branded alternative availalble to the BBC. It is also annoying to note that Amazon US have WMP and browser-based audio stream on their site, not to mention streams of every track if they offer any. Why Amazon UK can't simply have links to the same media is beyond me.
Do they take into account the wage spread, though. I mean I don't want to come off like the pinko leftie that I am, but I know for a fact there are a lot of people in London on wages around the £12-£14K level, and they're not cleaning toilets or immigrants. A lot of them are serving people in shops like Monsoon that charge £80 for a jumper.
I guess the point I'm making is that that sort of wage is on the poverty line. The problem with the UK is we have a lot of people paid stupid money and that totally screws up the balance. Who's to blame? Thatcher.
The problem is that they count Nescafé and other instant coffees as, well, coffee, when quite clearly they taste like the scrapings from the inside of an oven
If you compare REAL coffee purchasing to tea (none of which is instant) then you'd get a different story, I'm sure.
Incidentally, the reason I was told for the switch to coffee was down to advert breaks as making tea in the uk 50 years ago was a slow process compared to instant coffee. It's still slower even when you brew it in a cup.
I'm somewhat amazed you didn't know the UK is one of the most expensive countries in the world. I'd hazard it might be THE most expensive since given the huge wage disparities here.
CDs are expensive, though on line they should be cheaper. Even that's being clamped down on, though.
We do care about the price but when you need chocolate you need it. HOwever, if you want a song off iTunes you will always find a way to get it cheaper;)
Well cheers. I guess my point is, how on earth would something on a large scale be able to mimic something on such a small scale? That's the thing - why make huge models?
I'm serious. Is it made of lego or something? I mean, given what the PDF says - and as a physicist can I just say how goddam fucking sexy these nanotubes sound in a practical sense - I just can't understand why you would WANT to make this model.
Can anyone shed any light on it? What does it show us, because from the description we have a long tube made up of repeating C-60 type patterns of molecules?
While I understand the concept of making it so big because they can, they must surely have started from a practical beginning where a model was of some use. But like a garden hose (say) a section 10cm long is surely as useful for judging what it can do as one 1m long?
Sorry, I'm probably just being thick. Can someone give us a 5, Informative post on these things?:-D
I agree with what you've said but I presume the essence of the guy's flippant comment was that MS simply get to a point and ship stuff and then have to deal with the problems found by users.
However, this is what you have to do with all software (my company's included). You can only test so much and it's only ever going to be real-world situations that really show if you've done things right or not.
You can buy them on CD or even MP3 CD from the BBC. And you can also read the books, though the first two phases are different from the first two books.
"I don't have to pay for it if I don't want to patronize their advertisers."
No BBC service has any advertisers so it's still different, isn't it? Or does HBO have no adverts also?
I thought it was still £110 pounds.
Technically Radio is 'free'. If you don't own a TV licence they won't require you buy a licence just because you are listening on a radio.
Maybe it would give those companies legal rights to produce Star Trek things in the future, a-la the two James Bond franchises that were threatened (or maybe made?) at one point, courtesy of the Thunderball script being in Connery's hands?
Where did all the irony go? Perhaps people need to re-read what was posted and realise the '29 or so' thing was obviously a joke. "Hello? McFly?"
The point that was so eloquently made was that 15 is an age where you can be as adult or as stupid as when you're 25. Yes, there are somethings you don't have experience of but fundamentally you can't just sit there letting the state and others pay for someone else's stupidity until an arbitrary cut-off where you say "Well we've taught you all we can. Any gross stupidity from now on is your own look out."
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By the time you're finished making it the technology will be last decade. Well given you can only work with proven items, this decade's technology is probably too new...
The Tresurer of The United States is directed to pay, tax free, the sum of TEN BILLION DOLLARS to the first American Company to keep thirty Americans alive and well on the surface of the moon for Three Years and A Day.
I would have thought getting thirty Americans to the Moon alive and then keeping them there well on the surface of the moon for almost 1000 days would cost far in excess of 10 thousand million dollars. It would be like £100 rebate on a £20,000 car, so I can't see it being any sort of incentive to anyone who isn't already doing it.
That said, what happens if they fail? I mean, there are a lot of lives at stake. Are they allowed to lose a bunch of non-Americans as they only have to keep 30 Americans alive.
Okay, that makes more sense, but then all the Windows ones have been dropped when the actually release came around, haven't they?
Apple are still being a little odd in my view to make 'Tiger' the main aspect. I just like my numbers, I suppose. Kind of the opposite of The Prisoner. Be seeing you...
The full-screen version is the same one as the hi-res but with black bars top and bottom and the certain knowledge that your boss will notice you watching it. Certainly I stopped bothering with them ages ago.
:D
I don't go near the Quicktime site any more: I just wait for Dave's Trailer Page to put a link up so I can download them...which is where I grabbed this from just now.
Personally I want to know why Apple have to calle 10.4 'Tiger'. I guess the last three significant releases were things like Cougar, Panther ahd Jaguar.
But let's be clear here: We use 10.4 so we know it's a later release than 10.3. If it made more sense to consumers to name your software releases after animals then we'd all be doing it. It's a stupid "have to be different" thing from Apple, as far as I can see. iBooks, iPods and the like are examples of good ideas/design. This is just reaching.
Though to be fair H2G2 is fairly weird. It always USED to be HHGTTG back when I were a nipper! :D
It didn't help that I was wondering how anyone COULDN'T know what H2G2 referred to even if it was the wrong sort of numbers and letters so leading me to wonder if he was being sarcy about the wrong ordering or something. Okay. Right. That's that muddied. What the fuck am I rambling about. Double 'offtopic' and 'redundant' I feel. Bleurgh...Time to go and listen to really really fucking loud music in Camden...
Ah I see, I've seen h2g2 before but when I read it back I was thinking, "Fuck, what's the 2 stand for" hence my thinking HG2G??? :-D Cheers
So the real question is: If Slashdot provides a portal to websites that then instantly fall over from all the traffic: What's so good about Slashdot that it never falls over from too much traffic.
And: Why doesn't everyone just host with Slashdot.
It's like the old "Why don't they make planes out of the stuff they make the black box recorder out of?" question.
HG2G = Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
H2G2 = Fuck knows...
I remember hearing that they'd radically changed the file system to make things faster and more efficient. Has that fallen by the wayside, then?
Star Wars: The new Slashdot Microsoft?
;-)
:-/
Well, maybe not quite.
While I have very little hope Episode III will be any good, its trailers are fucking fantastic, as is this Serenity one, though the Serenity SFX didn't look like they could compare to the space shots in Ep III.
Personally I'll see both. The thought of a tenner lasting between May and September with all those pubs and chocolate bars out there seems unlikely.
RealNetworks' RealPlayer has become an embarrassment to even try installing
Unfortunately, because the BBC and Amazon UK both only provide their audio services in RealPlayer streamed versions, I am forced to install the gitting thing.
It irritates me that there isn't a non-branded alternative availalble to the BBC. It is also annoying to note that Amazon US have WMP and browser-based audio stream on their site, not to mention streams of every track if they offer any. Why Amazon UK can't simply have links to the same media is beyond me.
Do they take into account the wage spread, though. I mean I don't want to come off like the pinko leftie that I am, but I know for a fact there are a lot of people in London on wages around the £12-£14K level, and they're not cleaning toilets or immigrants. A lot of them are serving people in shops like Monsoon that charge £80 for a jumper.
I guess the point I'm making is that that sort of wage is on the poverty line. The problem with the UK is we have a lot of people paid stupid money and that totally screws up the balance. Who's to blame? Thatcher.
BECAUSE HE'S ENGLISH
:-D
Tea and milk were born for each other. They rock.
Tea. Earl Gray. Hot. Oh and some milk too, please!
The problem is that they count Nescafé and other instant coffees as, well, coffee, when quite clearly they taste like the scrapings from the inside of an oven
If you compare REAL coffee purchasing to tea (none of which is instant) then you'd get a different story, I'm sure.
Incidentally, the reason I was told for the switch to coffee was down to advert breaks as making tea in the uk 50 years ago was a slow process compared to instant coffee. It's still slower even when you brew it in a cup.
I'm somewhat amazed you didn't know the UK is one of the most expensive countries in the world. I'd hazard it might be THE most expensive since given the huge wage disparities here.
;)
CDs are expensive, though on line they should be cheaper. Even that's being clamped down on, though.
We do care about the price but when you need chocolate you need it. HOwever, if you want a song off iTunes you will always find a way to get it cheaper
Well cheers. I guess my point is, how on earth would something on a large scale be able to mimic something on such a small scale? That's the thing - why make huge models?
I'm serious. Is it made of lego or something? I mean, given what the PDF says - and as a physicist can I just say how goddam fucking sexy these nanotubes sound in a practical sense - I just can't understand why you would WANT to make this model.
:-D
Can anyone shed any light on it? What does it show us, because from the description we have a long tube made up of repeating C-60 type patterns of molecules?
While I understand the concept of making it so big because they can, they must surely have started from a practical beginning where a model was of some use. But like a garden hose (say) a section 10cm long is surely as useful for judging what it can do as one 1m long?
Sorry, I'm probably just being thick. Can someone give us a 5, Informative post on these things?
I agree with what you've said but I presume the essence of the guy's flippant comment was that MS simply get to a point and ship stuff and then have to deal with the problems found by users.
However, this is what you have to do with all software (my company's included). You can only test so much and it's only ever going to be real-world situations that really show if you've done things right or not.
You can buy them on CD or even MP3 CD from the BBC. And you can also read the books, though the first two phases are different from the first two books.
Check amazon...
"I don't have to pay for it if I don't want to patronize their advertisers." No BBC service has any advertisers so it's still different, isn't it? Or does HBO have no adverts also?
I thought it was still £110 pounds. Technically Radio is 'free'. If you don't own a TV licence they won't require you buy a licence just because you are listening on a radio.
Someone should mod this one up to 'informative'...
Maybe it would give those companies legal rights to produce Star Trek things in the future, a-la the two James Bond franchises that were threatened (or maybe made?) at one point, courtesy of the Thunderball script being in Connery's hands?
Where did all the irony go? Perhaps people need to re-read what was posted and realise the '29 or so' thing was obviously a joke. "Hello? McFly?"
The point that was so eloquently made was that 15 is an age where you can be as adult or as stupid as when you're 25. Yes, there are somethings you don't have experience of but fundamentally you can't just sit there letting the state and others pay for someone else's stupidity until an arbitrary cut-off where you say "Well we've taught you all we can. Any gross stupidity from now on is your own look out."