It's called the 'Excursion.' It's really the ultimate battle vehicle:
- It is HUGE. This strikes fear into the hearts of your bravest enemies
- Because of the size, it can ram anything off the road, even Suburbans
- It has bars that pop down from underneath it when you try to run something over, just in case your enemy saw Speed and wants to go under you
- The ultimate Gas Embargo: rather than helping you cut off a nation's supply of gas, it simply uses it up before they can
- Built for modern war, this is a real suburban assault vehicle
- Large enough to smuggle small european nations in the back
Thes things are going fast! Buy now!
And for the ultimate in biological warfare, check out the Aztek: Ugly enough to cause enemies to vomit upon seeing it.
How says it has to be captured before it is compressed? You'd think that someone with, say, a dual G4 could do that with no problem - compress it real time, so that a 75GB HD is never needed during the process.
Then again, why are we complaining? Maybe JVC is just trying to appease the industry idiots while keeping the informed happy?
What is really significant about these new machines is the faster bus speed. While PCs have been humming along with 133mhz+ busses, the G4s have been hindered by (100mhz?) busses. But even more so, the dual G4s have been hindered. Apple has shown than plunking two G4s into a box instead of one is easy, so future machines (spring? summer?) may even feature two 733mhz (1ghz?) G4s in them.
Given just how hard it seems to be for humans to define what is 'porn' and 'incdecent', how the heck could a computer program do it? It's like an illiterate teaching someone to read.
I do..net and.org sure do mean a lot these days, right? TLDs have become meaningless. To rectify this, it would mean regular checking of the sites to make sure that no one made a.kids site into a porn site.
Sony is NOT making money for nothing: they spent tons of their money developing, manufacturing, and distributing the PS2. Without Sony, there would be no platform for the developers to develop for. Duh. In essence, Sony created both a market and a demand for the games these developers make.
Without Ford making cars, who would buy car tires?
Near me the cost is $8.75 and rising fast. And as a substitute for salt, they pour this Premium Cinema crap on my wounds. That, and I haven't liked a movie since American Beauty. (or was it Fightclub? whichever I saw 2nd)
>How about one of the poor victimized corporation suing or getting criminal charges filed?
This is what Apple did (and what they had every right to do). It didn't help them much, did it? It would seem that these corporations are suddenly powerless to stop things like this from happening. If they act to stop these actions (which they have the right to do),/.-ish people bring out the tar and feathers; if they do nothing they lose the money which keeps them alive.
These coporations are built on making profit - this isn't open source where the developers have nothing to lose.
Given the extremely complex nature of Formula One cars and their development, this would seem to be a very human oriented competition. In this race I think the computer driver will have very very little to do with who wins. How can a group come out of nowhere and beat Ferrari at their own game?
One solution would be equal cars. This gives the human an advantage, because it takes away the computer's main advantage: it can be placed anywhere on/in the car, and thus the car can assume a more efficient shape.
A highly mechanical competition like this just isn't much of a game. Something more like tennis or chess is more fair - a superior machine is not enough to win.
Still, it is an interesting idea, as long as I don't have to pay for it.
This patent applies to that which is new, was new, or will be new. An evolving (State Of The Art) definition of State Of The Art will help to avoid confusion as to infringement. Of note to potential infringers is that to develop a State Of The Art definition of State Of The Art is a violation of our patent.
Freedom to innovate will be granted on a per-project basis and royalties for use of this patent are expected.
See also related patents on Obsolesence and Relevance.
One thing you are forgetting is that time spent online is one of the many stats that ISPs keep (or can easily calculate) anyway. Also, counting seconds is far easier than calculating distance. Besides, my computer can calculate more in one second than the average city could in Babbage's day.
The e-mail you received was an invitation from Microsoft Monopoly Expander, sent at the behest of a former user who changed their e-mail address and does not want any more spam. Thank you.
It isn't the marketing department, it is the advertising agency (Chiat Day, I believe). If the marketing department were at fault, I would have a different reaction.
If a RedHat employee starts telling people to buy Microsoft software and to support the mentality, what do/.ers say? It's one bad employee and really has nothing to do with RedHat.
Apply the logic here. The advertising agency, an Apple employee (*not* Apple), does not want its copyrighted work to appear on websites which focus on Apple products that don't exist. It's one bad employee and has nothing to do with Apple.
Now, go put away your tar and the feathers.
--Jeff
MacWEEK reporter David Read also spoke with Andy Hertzfeld of Eazel, a member of the original Mac development team, who agrees with Raymond that Linux is having a more profound influence on the industry than Apple.
This shows just how unaware or selectively aware these linux developers are. Example: Before the iMac, everything is beige. After the iMac, everything is fruity colored. And I do mean everything, even appliances. How is that for changing an industry?
Linux, on the other hand, hasn't really changed a thing. It has given us an alternative, and a good one at that. However, for the vast majority of users, it is not a viable platform and will not be for several years.
This ruling seems to say that sticking one's head in the sand is enough to make problems go away. Not being permitted to link to things which are illegal is the same as denying their existance. This is Ostrich-like behavior.
Now that linking is illegal, what are the ramifications for print materials? This seems to say that a writer writing a book about a fictional drug dealer is unable to go speak with real ones. That is the real life equivalent of linking. A sports writer writing about the effects of certain kinds of steroids will be unable to list his sources, because listing a source is the print equivalent of a link.
How many levels of linkage does this ruling apply to? If my Japanese counterpart makes a page of links to illegal things, and then I link to that page, is that illegal? What if someone links to my page? Are they responsible, too?
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I guess it must be pretty easy to pour a black & tan in zero-grav, no?
...enormous do everything trucks are a far cry from the BMW 750iL, not to mention the smaller cars like Z3 or Z8.
It's called the 'Excursion.' It's really the ultimate battle vehicle:
- It is HUGE. This strikes fear into the hearts of your bravest enemies
- Because of the size, it can ram anything off the road, even Suburbans
- It has bars that pop down from underneath it when you try to run something over, just in case your enemy saw Speed and wants to go under you
- The ultimate Gas Embargo: rather than helping you cut off a nation's supply of gas, it simply uses it up before they can
- Built for modern war, this is a real suburban assault vehicle
- Large enough to smuggle small european nations in the back
Thes things are going fast! Buy now!
And for the ultimate in biological warfare, check out the Aztek: Ugly enough to cause enemies to vomit upon seeing it.
...I'll finally have a reason to go to the library.
How the f*ck did this get modded up?
How says it has to be captured before it is compressed? You'd think that someone with, say, a dual G4 could do that with no problem - compress it real time, so that a 75GB HD is never needed during the process.
Then again, why are we complaining? Maybe JVC is just trying to appease the industry idiots while keeping the informed happy?
If you have to wait for AE to render three seconds of footage, perhaps you should try Final Cut Pro or buy a Toaster. Both are a better solution.
What is really significant about these new machines is the faster bus speed. While PCs have been humming along with 133mhz+ busses, the G4s have been hindered by (100mhz?) busses. But even more so, the dual G4s have been hindered. Apple has shown than plunking two G4s into a box instead of one is easy, so future machines (spring? summer?) may even feature two 733mhz (1ghz?) G4s in them.
Maybe the tortoise is catching the rabbit?
Given just how hard it seems to be for humans to define what is 'porn' and 'incdecent', how the heck could a computer program do it? It's like an illiterate teaching someone to read.
>I DO NOT understand their logic at all.
.net and .org sure do mean a lot these days, right? TLDs have become meaningless. To rectify this, it would mean regular checking of the sites to make sure that no one made a .kids site into a porn site.
I do.
Besides, what would kiddie porn fall under?
If a mime falls from 165,000 feet, does it make a sonic boom?
Sony is NOT making money for nothing: they spent tons of their money developing, manufacturing, and distributing the PS2. Without Sony, there would be no platform for the developers to develop for. Duh. In essence, Sony created both a market and a demand for the games these developers make.
Without Ford making cars, who would buy car tires?
$8 for a movie?! Where do you live?
Near me the cost is $8.75 and rising fast. And as a substitute for salt, they pour this Premium Cinema crap on my wounds. That, and I haven't liked a movie since American Beauty. (or was it Fightclub? whichever I saw 2nd)
>How about one of the poor victimized corporation suing or getting criminal charges filed?
/.-ish people bring out the tar and feathers; if they do nothing they lose the money which keeps them alive.
This is what Apple did (and what they had every right to do). It didn't help them much, did it? It would seem that these corporations are suddenly powerless to stop things like this from happening. If they act to stop these actions (which they have the right to do),
These coporations are built on making profit - this isn't open source where the developers have nothing to lose.
>(hint: what you described is _not_ strategy)
hint: that was the joke
I always thought the First Post game was rather weak.
Then again, I've never liked strategy games...
Given the extremely complex nature of Formula One cars and their development, this would seem to be a very human oriented competition. In this race I think the computer driver will have very very little to do with who wins. How can a group come out of nowhere and beat Ferrari at their own game?
One solution would be equal cars. This gives the human an advantage, because it takes away the computer's main advantage: it can be placed anywhere on/in the car, and thus the car can assume a more efficient shape.
A highly mechanical competition like this just isn't much of a game. Something more like tennis or chess is more fair - a superior machine is not enough to win.
Still, it is an interesting idea, as long as I don't have to pay for it.
--Jeff
I do hereby pantent the State Of The Art.
This patent applies to that which is new, was new, or will be new. An evolving (State Of The Art) definition of State Of The Art will help to avoid confusion as to infringement. Of note to potential infringers is that to develop a State Of The Art definition of State Of The Art is a violation of our patent.
Freedom to innovate will be granted on a per-project basis and royalties for use of this patent are expected.
See also related patents on Obsolesence and Relevance.
One thing you are forgetting is that time spent online is one of the many stats that ISPs keep (or can easily calculate) anyway. Also, counting seconds is far easier than calculating distance. Besides, my computer can calculate more in one second than the average city could in Babbage's day.
--Jeff
Translation courtesy of BabelFish.
--Jeff
>If the marketing department has this as a policy
It isn't the marketing department, it is the advertising agency (Chiat Day, I believe). If the marketing department were at fault, I would have a different reaction.
--Jeff
If a RedHat employee starts telling people to buy Microsoft software and to support the mentality, what do /.ers say? It's one bad employee and really has nothing to do with RedHat.
Apply the logic here. The advertising agency, an Apple employee (*not* Apple), does not want its copyrighted work to appear on websites which focus on Apple products that don't exist. It's one bad employee and has nothing to do with Apple.
Now, go put away your tar and the feathers.
--Jeff
This shows just how unaware or selectively aware these linux developers are. Example: Before the iMac, everything is beige. After the iMac, everything is fruity colored. And I do mean everything, even appliances. How is that for changing an industry?
Linux, on the other hand, hasn't really changed a thing. It has given us an alternative, and a good one at that. However, for the vast majority of users, it is not a viable platform and will not be for several years.
--Jeff
This ruling seems to say that sticking one's head in the sand is enough to make problems go away. Not being permitted to link to things which are illegal is the same as denying their existance. This is Ostrich-like behavior.
Now that linking is illegal, what are the ramifications for print materials? This seems to say that a writer writing a book about a fictional drug dealer is unable to go speak with real ones. That is the real life equivalent of linking. A sports writer writing about the effects of certain kinds of steroids will be unable to list his sources, because listing a source is the print equivalent of a link.
How many levels of linkage does this ruling apply to? If my Japanese counterpart makes a page of links to illegal things, and then I link to that page, is that illegal? What if someone links to my page? Are they responsible, too?
--Jeff
With chips like this, we can fear only one thing: the marketing campaign. Intel's was bad enough, even without a name like V-Groove.
--Jeff