Those who do highlight this as "hateful" are simply misinterpreting it, taking it out of context. Ironically, those radical Islamists are making exactly the same mistake - it's a misinterpretation made by those who take the word of the Koran entirely too literally.
The Bible is also full of controversial passages that are open to misinterpretation if taken at face value:
I propose we take our most popular specimens like Tom Cruise, Ke$ha, Will Smith and Robert Downey Jr. and chain them down in a random field for sampling by aliens.
Would you really want those four people to be the alien's first direct being-to-being contact with the human race?
I'm very much looking forward to The Hobbit (very skeptical about the "original" sequel).
When I read the Lord of the Rings as a youngster, I was able to picture all the major scenes, and the characters, the locations... then to see Peter Jackson's films as an adult was just astonishing; they obviously had the same ideas as I had.
Yes, I know there were some differences between book and film (the Ring going to Osgiliath, and the omission of the Scouring of the Shire, in particular), but I still loved the films, and felt they were a lot more faithful to the original story than some other big budget Hollywood productions have been.
I hope the same is true for the Hobbit. Any word on who will play Bilbo?
Cisco already has a number of low-end own-brand products; Catalyst Express is the name they give to their more basic (but still well-featured) switches. Also, previously, they had the Cisco SOHO-series routers (which have been replaced by the 800/850/870-series).
I think they'll just drop the Linksys name and call it something like "Cisco Home", personally. That way, they add a little distance between their enterprise-class and home-user products; no tight-fisted bean-counting penny-pinching manager should mistakenly buy a home-branded product for their enterprise.
Incidentally, Cisco definitely does have brand recognition amongst home users. My mum and dad both know the Cisco name, and did so long before I got into the IT trade.
"Windows NT 3.51 added support for the PowerPC processor in 1995, specifically PReP-compliant systems such as the IBM Power Series desktops/laptops and Motorola PowerStack series."
The IBM Power Series had a different BIOS than the PowerMac (which was available as of 1994), and therefore NT 3.51 would apparently not have worked on the Mac without a serious rewrite. PowerPC support, along with official MS support for Alpha and MIPS processors, was dropped from NT during development of Windows NT 4.
Only on Slashdot could some 17-year-old amateur nuclear physicist create a fusion reaction in his basement, and still receive "Meh" as a response...:-(
Good on him, even if it has been done before. I wasn't even allowed to burn white spirits in my chemistry set. Nuclear fusion was therefore totally out of the question.
You mention blaming the competition as the easy way out. The movie industry does this quite a lot, going as far as setting the release dates for their movies for specific weekends when other major blockbusters are to be released (i.e. you wouldn't release your mid-range budget kids movie on the same weekend as the latest Harry Potter film is slated to if you actually wanted a financial return).
I wonder if there's any of that sort of thing going on in the games industry, and if not, maybe there should be? "Beyond Good and Evil" was nice (I only played the demo, but never bought the full game because my PC just can't handle it), and I think that it may have done better had it been released at a different time.
if they fail whilst in flight, you die. This is probably why we're not all flying around in helicopters.
Are you implying that helicopters are unsafe? Or that the general public should not be allowed to have helicopters without proper flight tuition?
Helicopters, whilst being incredibly complex machines, are built with safety in mind. This jetpack idea is just unworkable without some way of carrying more fuel, and without having some form of safety device (such as a parachute) built in.
Single-engined aircraft can glide to the ground because the airframe is designed to aerodynamic. Helicopters have autorotate, which slows descent to a more survivable rate, and works by using the helicopters own rotors (which are aerodynamic shapes).
Humans are not aerodynamic, and don't generally take too kindly to free-falling a hundred (or more) feet to the ground. The FAA are unlikely to approve this as a commercial venture.
I know I shouldn't feed the trolls, but still... This definitely needed correction.
British Aerospace (before they became BAe Systems) used to build a range of high-wing STOL jet airliners, the BAe 146 series, which was developed into the Avro Regional Jet. Their short-field performance is unparalleled; the 146 and Avro RJ are the largest jet transport aircraft certified to land at London City airport, a 4,300ft runway in the very centre of London's docklands.
This line of jet aircraft was the last commercial aircraft constructed in the United Kingdom. 221 of the 145 series and 170 of the Avro RJ series were built, many of which are still used worldwide (Sabena, British Airways, Air France, NorthWest Airlines, United Airlines, Aer Lingus, etc etc)
In addition to the jetliners, British Aerospace also manufactured the highly-successful Jetstream series of small turboprop aircraft. Around 480 of these aircraft were built, and a large number of these are still in use globally.
EasyJet, a UK-based LCC airline, has a turnaround time of 30-minutes on its fleet of Airbus A319 and Boeing 737 aircraft. Their entire business model revolves around very low turnaround time, so that they can use the same aircraft as many times a day as is possible.
So presumably the burden of proof in this case is laid upon SCO? How will they prove that IBM deleted source code?
It's certainly just another ploy to buy them more time in court, but to what end is this a means? It's got to be costing them an enormous amount of money, and we still haven't even had a complete list of all the alleged IP infringements SCO have accused IBM of in the first place.
Agreed; Photopia (http://www.adamcadre.ac/, then go to 'Interactive Fiction') is fantastic - without trying to give too much away, you definitely can't stop the tragedy, no matter how hard you try. Really moving, from start to finish. Adam is very good at sculpting a believable character.
The Hitch-Hikers' Guide to the Galaxy is the only one of Infocom's titles that I ever completed, and it took me a decade to do, thanks to its' non-obvious puzzle design. Loved it to bits though. Don't play it unless you like bashing your head off the wall (or drinking more than three Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters; whichever hurts more).
Seriously, the Amiga has come and gone, fouled by incredibly inept marketing and parent-company management. The operating system was light, customisable, efficient, and the whole system was capable of multitasking from the ground up, even on the original 16-bit MC68000 systems. AmigaOS 3.1 was the last version I used, and it was very nice. I really miss the days when I could look forward to a new Amiga system being released, and everyone hung out on Slashdot slagging off Microsoft for the delays in their new forthcoming operating system.
I've never played Black and White 2, but The Movies seems to have a fair community - I bought the game for my stepson, and he's spent countless hours making movies to go on TheMoviesGame.com's community site, and even more time than that watching other people's movies and rating them.
It's really quite an interesting title; I'm yet to play it myself, but it's just the sort of innovative game I'd expect from someone like Peter. Not sure why it hasn't sold all that well. Shame.
If the "table"/screen is large enough, and the touch-screen is sensitive and accurate enough, this could be an excellent tool for CAD work, enabling you to use standard drawing tools (protractors, rulers etc) and a fine-point stylus to "draw" directly onto your blueprint as you might have done using a pen and paper (none of this faffing around with graphics tablets/trackballs.
Quite right; some earlier Nokia handsets (3310, 8210, plus some others) had a "chat" function. I didn't see the point; SMS messages are fine for quick transmission of a short message. For anything else, you're just going to end up sore fingers and a higher phone bill than you would have if you called the other person and spoke to them.
I don't know which other Nokia handsets had them; I moved over to Sony Ericsson phones once my Nokia 6210's contract expired. I don't think that Nokia's chat facility was compatible with other manufacturer's handsets.
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Sorry, am I right in thinking you've just said the Koran is "a hateful book"?
Have you ever read it? Or tried to?
It's not that different from the Bible really. The only part of the Koran people seem to highlight as "hateful" is the sura titled "Muhammad":
Quran Explorer - [Sura : 47, Verse : 1 - 38]
Those who do highlight this as "hateful" are simply misinterpreting it, taking it out of context. Ironically, those radical Islamists are making exactly the same mistake - it's a misinterpretation made by those who take the word of the Koran entirely too literally.
The Bible is also full of controversial passages that are open to misinterpretation if taken at face value:
http://rasroots.com/essays/biblecontra.htm
I can sneeze without a Facebook account and get 60k people involved
Do you have a horribly virulent airborne pathogen? You should call an epidemiologist about that.
I propose we take our most popular specimens like Tom Cruise, Ke$ha, Will Smith and Robert Downey Jr. and chain them down in a random field for sampling by aliens.
Would you really want those four people to be the alien's first direct being-to-being contact with the human race?
I know I certainly wouldn't ...
I'm very much looking forward to The Hobbit (very skeptical about the "original" sequel).
When I read the Lord of the Rings as a youngster, I was able to picture all the major scenes, and the characters, the locations... then to see Peter Jackson's films as an adult was just astonishing; they obviously had the same ideas as I had.
Yes, I know there were some differences between book and film (the Ring going to Osgiliath, and the omission of the Scouring of the Shire, in particular), but I still loved the films, and felt they were a lot more faithful to the original story than some other big budget Hollywood productions have been.
I hope the same is true for the Hobbit. Any word on who will play Bilbo?
The teenies (yes, even though that won't start until 2013)
Guitar Hero does not require the guitar controller - it will play just fine using the regular control pad.
It's just not as much fun.
Dunno about Rock Band though.
You're not meant to use THOSE more than once, y'know...
Cisco already has a number of low-end own-brand products; Catalyst Express is the name they give to their more basic (but still well-featured) switches. Also, previously, they had the Cisco SOHO-series routers (which have been replaced by the 800/850/870-series).
I think they'll just drop the Linksys name and call it something like "Cisco Home", personally. That way, they add a little distance between their enterprise-class and home-user products; no tight-fisted bean-counting penny-pinching manager should mistakenly buy a home-branded product for their enterprise.
Incidentally, Cisco definitely does have brand recognition amongst home users. My mum and dad both know the Cisco name, and did so long before I got into the IT trade.
Agreed! Damn, I hate that one.
From Wikipedia :
"Windows NT 3.51 added support for the PowerPC processor in 1995, specifically PReP-compliant systems such as the IBM Power Series desktops/laptops and Motorola PowerStack series."
The IBM Power Series had a different BIOS than the PowerMac (which was available as of 1994), and therefore NT 3.51 would apparently not have worked on the Mac without a serious rewrite. PowerPC support, along with official MS support for Alpha and MIPS processors, was dropped from NT during development of Windows NT 4.
Only on Slashdot could some 17-year-old amateur nuclear physicist create a fusion reaction in his basement, and still receive "Meh" as a response... :-(
Good on him, even if it has been done before. I wasn't even allowed to burn white spirits in my chemistry set. Nuclear fusion was therefore totally out of the question.
She must be a Sims 2 player and thought you'd said you'd "Woohoo!"ed her.
You mention blaming the competition as the easy way out. The movie industry does this quite a lot, going as far as setting the release dates for their movies for specific weekends when other major blockbusters are to be released (i.e. you wouldn't release your mid-range budget kids movie on the same weekend as the latest Harry Potter film is slated to if you actually wanted a financial return).
I wonder if there's any of that sort of thing going on in the games industry, and if not, maybe there should be? "Beyond Good and Evil" was nice (I only played the demo, but never bought the full game because my PC just can't handle it), and I think that it may have done better had it been released at a different time.
Are you implying that helicopters are unsafe? Or that the general public should not be allowed to have helicopters without proper flight tuition?
Helicopters, whilst being incredibly complex machines, are built with safety in mind. This jetpack idea is just unworkable without some way of carrying more fuel, and without having some form of safety device (such as a parachute) built in.
Single-engined aircraft can glide to the ground because the airframe is designed to aerodynamic. Helicopters have autorotate, which slows descent to a more survivable rate, and works by using the helicopters own rotors (which are aerodynamic shapes).
Humans are not aerodynamic, and don't generally take too kindly to free-falling a hundred (or more) feet to the ground. The FAA are unlikely to approve this as a commercial venture.
I know I shouldn't feed the trolls, but still... This definitely needed correction.
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British Aerospace (before they became BAe Systems) used to build a range of high-wing STOL jet airliners, the BAe 146 series, which was developed into the Avro Regional Jet. Their short-field performance is unparalleled; the 146 and Avro RJ are the largest jet transport aircraft certified to land at London City airport, a 4,300ft runway in the very centre of London's docklands.
This line of jet aircraft was the last commercial aircraft constructed in the United Kingdom. 221 of the 145 series and 170 of the Avro RJ series were built, many of which are still used worldwide (Sabena, British Airways, Air France, NorthWest Airlines, United Airlines, Aer Lingus, etc etc)
http://www.airdolomiti.it/upload/immagini/Air%20D
In addition to the jetliners, British Aerospace also manufactured the highly-successful Jetstream series of small turboprop aircraft. Around 480 of these aircraft were built, and a large number of these are still in use globally.
EasyJet, a UK-based LCC airline, has a turnaround time of 30-minutes on its fleet of Airbus A319 and Boeing 737 aircraft. Their entire business model revolves around very low turnaround time, so that they can use the same aircraft as many times a day as is possible.
So presumably the burden of proof in this case is laid upon SCO? How will they prove that IBM deleted source code?
It's certainly just another ploy to buy them more time in court, but to what end is this a means? It's got to be costing them an enormous amount of money, and we still haven't even had a complete list of all the alleged IP infringements SCO have accused IBM of in the first place.
Agreed; Photopia (http://www.adamcadre.ac/, then go to 'Interactive Fiction') is fantastic - without trying to give too much away, you definitely can't stop the tragedy, no matter how hard you try. Really moving, from start to finish. Adam is very good at sculpting a believable character.
The Hitch-Hikers' Guide to the Galaxy is the only one of Infocom's titles that I ever completed, and it took me a decade to do, thanks to its' non-obvious puzzle design. Loved it to bits though. Don't play it unless you like bashing your head off the wall (or drinking more than three Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters; whichever hurts more).
Well, let's just say that he's not likely to be on Bill's Christmas card list anymore...
I love Amigas!
Fear me!
Seriously, the Amiga has come and gone, fouled by incredibly inept marketing and parent-company management. The operating system was light, customisable, efficient, and the whole system was capable of multitasking from the ground up, even on the original 16-bit MC68000 systems. AmigaOS 3.1 was the last version I used, and it was very nice. I really miss the days when I could look forward to a new Amiga system being released, and everyone hung out on Slashdot slagging off Microsoft for the delays in their new forthcoming operating system.
Wait...
Yamaha XG-MIDI is pretty damned nice as an extension to what MIDI can do.
Even a cheap XG tone generator is a great add-on to your PC, and makes even GM-MIDI files actually sound quite nice.
The extra XG commands and effects bring MIDI up to speed.
I've never played Black and White 2, but The Movies seems to have a fair community - I bought the game for my stepson, and he's spent countless hours making movies to go on TheMoviesGame.com's community site, and even more time than that watching other people's movies and rating them.
It's really quite an interesting title; I'm yet to play it myself, but it's just the sort of innovative game I'd expect from someone like Peter. Not sure why it hasn't sold all that well. Shame.
In what way were the graphical failings of the King Kong game for the X-Box 360 any fault of Peter Jackson?
If the "table"/screen is large enough, and the touch-screen is sensitive and accurate enough, this could be an excellent tool for CAD work, enabling you to use standard drawing tools (protractors, rulers etc) and a fine-point stylus to "draw" directly onto your blueprint as you might have done using a pen and paper (none of this faffing around with graphics tablets/trackballs.
Quite right; some earlier Nokia handsets (3310, 8210, plus some others) had a "chat" function. I didn't see the point; SMS messages are fine for quick transmission of a short message. For anything else, you're just going to end up sore fingers and a higher phone bill than you would have if you called the other person and spoke to them.
I don't know which other Nokia handsets had them; I moved over to Sony Ericsson phones once my Nokia 6210's contract expired. I don't think that Nokia's chat facility was compatible with other manufacturer's handsets.