If they worked with the guys at RealDoll they'd have the mots successful park in the history of the world. At least with lonely men and computer geeks.
If you don't like the restriction of the liscence, don't buy the damned things! We're not talking about PCs, we're talking about consoles. Systems intentionally built with a limited amount of flexability. You don't like the fact that MS doesn't allow you to boot Linux on your XBox, then you shouldn't have bought the XBox. You should have saved your money and gotten a computer.
Every console has a Magazine for it with these cute little things called Demo Discs. They come with demos of new and soon to be released games. Sure, subscriptions to the magazines cost about $29.00 (US) a year, but so what? You get to play demoes and find out if you like a game or not without shelling out $49.00 (US) for the game itself. My subscription to XBox Magazine has saved me a lot of money in games I didn't end up buying, and has turned me on to games I hadn't known about.
The problem here is that The Lord of The Rings is fiction and admits it openly. It is not trying to pass itself off as fact.
Lotsa stuff happens at these places.
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Area 51 is simply a military test site for skunkworks aircraft. Sure, there are UFO's all over that place. They're not alien spacecraft, but simply unidentified flying objects, super-secret military aircraft.
And the whole "alien spacecraft" meme is about the best cover story the Air Force could ever want. If everyine is trying to figure out what planet all of these weird looking UFOs are coming from, no one is trying to figure out what black-book aircraft they really are. AND the speculation has caused the former USSR to waste millions and millions of dollars researching the possibility that alien spacecraft are here.
The beauty of this is amazing.
They might already be dead.
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It's not really that simple. We always seem to assume that intellegent life will be living in our galaxy at the same time we do. Other than the "first biillion year limit" (there simply wasn't enough heavy elements in the universe for the first billion years to support technological societies), there is no reason to assume that any alien intellegent species will be alive today.
Homo sapiens sapiens have trod upon this planet for some 70,000 years. In a universe 15 billion years old that is less than the blink of an eye. Tenns of millions of intellegent spieces may have risen and fallen into extinction long before we arose.
We may also be the first intellegent species to ever make it this far (not likely, but you never know). Consider that life has slithered across this planet for the last 3.5 - 4 billion years and we have only been around for 70,000 of those years.
A someone else mentioned, they did "lobster in a sealed mason jar" tests with octopi. Octopi averages less that 30 minutes to figure out how to get the jar open and get the lobster. They did another, even more amazing test: they put two tanks side by side, one with an octopous that had learned how to open the jar and in the other tank a octopus that had never seen a jar before. They gave the lobster in a jar to the experienced octopus and it opened the jar in 30 seconds. The other octopus watched this event with interest (probably wanted that yummy lobster!). They then gave a lobster in a jar to the new optopus. He opened it in less than five minutes, mimicking the technique used by the experienced octopus.
This is one of the very few repeatable cases of a non-mammalian life form learning from the experience of others.
The octopus (and its close kin) are among the most intellegent non-mammals on the planet. Rivaled only by the corvids (ravens, crows, magpies, etc...).
Are you saying that unpublished/unreleased designs are NIOT trade secrets? Ford, Chevy, BMW, et al think very differently. Any information used by a company to do business that is not public can be labeled a trade secret. You don't have to agree with that designation, but your opinion doesn't matter. Only the opinion of the trade secret's owner matters.
I mean, the "teachings" of The Church (hahaha!) of Scientology are legally considered trade secrets.
Microsoft does this all the time. They just don't get the press that Apple does. And to be honest, Apple pretty much begged for this story to be high-profile. And I'd say the same thing to the dimwit who leaked MS secretsa as I did to this boob: "You screwed up pal. Big time."
Sure, the Anti-Micro$h!t Linux-Uber-Alles geeks might rant like mad, but they are also taking Apple to task for this right now.
Are gateway and dell (I'm guessing they would be considered Apple competitors) going to change their strategic plans because of a list of specs given on an Apple rumor site? Probably not, I doubt that really care about Apple as a competitor, besides using their designs.
Irrelivant. It doesn't matter what your competitors do with the leaked information. That makes as much difference as defending the willful violation of someone's copyright by saying that you didn't make any money doing it.
What matters is that this information was a secret and he signed an agreement to keep those secrets. The law doesn't care what Dell would or would not do with the leaked information. The law only cares that confidential information was leaked.
I've used Opera 4, 5, 6, and 7b1 on Windows 98, 2K and XP systems with MS, Logitech and Kensignton mice and trackballs an the scroll wheel has worked in every install I've ever done. I don't even have to tell it to use it.
With 7b1 you sometimes have to click the focus into teh frame you want to scroll, but it does work.
I don't know about Linux or OS X, so YMMV in those environs.
That's just Klerck or one of his wanna-bes. Ignore him. He likes to harp on the whole Two Towers thing as a joke to piss people off. He's the guy who did the "Rename The Two Towers" online petition last year.
I bet Allen Dean Foster does a great job on the novelization! He did such a great job on the novelization of "Thomas The Tank Engine And TEH Magic Railroad"!
It wasn't AOL themselves that had the bad rap on the Internet, it was their users. The problem was that AOL had sheltered it's users from almost everything even remotely naughty. The poor AOL users damn-near gave themsevles brain hemorrages when they found such tasty newsgroups as alt.sex.hamster.duct.tape alt.binraies.pictures.dognoses.
Yep. I've seen five movies in the theatres in the last two years. I'll bee seeing only one more this year: The Two Towers. I won't be seeing Nemesis as I do not feel the need to throw my money away to see third-rate bilge.
Most movies these days are garbage because, as you said, people don;t seem to want good movies. All critisisms of movies are refuted with a "Dude, get a life! It's just a movie!". These people who put up with the constant flow of "XXX", "Charie's Angels", "Batman And Robin", etc... are the ones responcible for the total lack of worthwhile movies out there.
40 hour Tivo: $200.00, plus either $249.00 lifetime startup fee or $12.95 a month fee.
4 hour Replay 4540 or 5040: $300.00, minus $50.00 rebate, plus either $250.00 lifetime fee or $9.95 month fee.
Price diference: $50.00 with the lifetime. If you go with the monthly fee the Replay matches the Tivo in 17 months and saves you money from that point on.
Klerck was responcible for that. Klerck is a well known troll who enjoys getting people panties in a twist. He likes baiting Slashdotters and used to hang out at Shacknews until he got banned for life.
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If they worked with the guys at RealDoll they'd have the mots successful park in the history of the world. At least with lonely men and computer geeks.
Use some old macrame' plant hangers (your parents might still have some)! And don't forget the avacado green fondue pot!
"I can see why they made this guy their king."
This guy is a serious fanboy! "GRR! Death to SonAY! Death to XBAWX! GRRR!" HAHAHAHAHAHA!
If you don't like the restriction of the liscence, don't buy the damned things! We're not talking about PCs, we're talking about consoles. Systems intentionally built with a limited amount of flexability. You don't like the fact that MS doesn't allow you to boot Linux on your XBox, then you shouldn't have bought the XBox. You should have saved your money and gotten a computer.
Every console has a Magazine for it with these cute little things called Demo Discs. They come with demos of new and soon to be released games. Sure, subscriptions to the magazines cost about $29.00 (US) a year, but so what? You get to play demoes and find out if you like a game or not without shelling out $49.00 (US) for the game itself. My subscription to XBox Magazine has saved me a lot of money in games I didn't end up buying, and has turned me on to games I hadn't known about.
Or worse: "There is no Trinity. There is only Zuul!"
The problem here is that The Lord of The Rings is fiction and admits it openly. It is not trying to pass itself off as fact.
Area 51 is simply a military test site for skunkworks aircraft. Sure, there are UFO's all over that place. They're not alien spacecraft, but simply unidentified flying objects, super-secret military aircraft.
And the whole "alien spacecraft" meme is about the best cover story the Air Force could ever want. If everyine is trying to figure out what planet all of these weird looking UFOs are coming from, no one is trying to figure out what black-book aircraft they really are. AND the speculation has caused the former USSR to waste millions and millions of dollars researching the possibility that alien spacecraft are here.
The beauty of this is amazing.
It's not really that simple. We always seem to assume that intellegent life will be living in our galaxy at the same time we do. Other than the "first biillion year limit" (there simply wasn't enough heavy elements in the universe for the first billion years to support technological societies), there is no reason to assume that any alien intellegent species will be alive today.
Homo sapiens sapiens have trod upon this planet for some 70,000 years. In a universe 15 billion years old that is less than the blink of an eye. Tenns of millions of intellegent spieces may have risen and fallen into extinction long before we arose.
We may also be the first intellegent species to ever make it this far (not likely, but you never know). Consider that life has slithered across this planet for the last 3.5 - 4 billion years and we have only been around for 70,000 of those years.
A someone else mentioned, they did "lobster in a sealed mason jar" tests with octopi. Octopi averages less that 30 minutes to figure out how to get the jar open and get the lobster. They did another, even more amazing test: they put two tanks side by side, one with an octopous that had learned how to open the jar and in the other tank a octopus that had never seen a jar before. They gave the lobster in a jar to the experienced octopus and it opened the jar in 30 seconds. The other octopus watched this event with interest (probably wanted that yummy lobster!). They then gave a lobster in a jar to the new optopus. He opened it in less than five minutes, mimicking the technique used by the experienced octopus.
This is one of the very few repeatable cases of a non-mammalian life form learning from the experience of others.
The octopus (and its close kin) are among the most intellegent non-mammals on the planet. Rivaled only by the corvids (ravens, crows, magpies, etc...).
Are you saying that unpublished/unreleased designs are NIOT trade secrets? Ford, Chevy, BMW, et al think very differently. Any information used by a company to do business that is not public can be labeled a trade secret. You don't have to agree with that designation, but your opinion doesn't matter. Only the opinion of the trade secret's owner matters.
I mean, the "teachings" of The Church (hahaha!) of Scientology are legally considered trade secrets.
Microsoft does this all the time. They just don't get the press that Apple does. And to be honest, Apple pretty much begged for this story to be high-profile. And I'd say the same thing to the dimwit who leaked MS secretsa as I did to this boob: "You screwed up pal. Big time."
Sure, the Anti-Micro$h!t Linux-Uber-Alles geeks might rant like mad, but they are also taking Apple to task for this right now.
Irrelivant. It doesn't matter what your competitors do with the leaked information. That makes as much difference as defending the willful violation of someone's copyright by saying that you didn't make any money doing it.
What matters is that this information was a secret and he signed an agreement to keep those secrets. The law doesn't care what Dell would or would not do with the leaked information. The law only cares that confidential information was leaked.
Soory, but this movie looks like it's going to be a festering pile of dung.
I've used Opera 4, 5, 6, and 7b1 on Windows 98, 2K and XP systems with MS, Logitech and Kensignton mice and trackballs an the scroll wheel has worked in every install I've ever done. I don't even have to tell it to use it.
With 7b1 you sometimes have to click the focus into teh frame you want to scroll, but it does work.
I don't know about Linux or OS X, so YMMV in those environs.
That's just Klerck or one of his wanna-bes. Ignore him. He likes to harp on the whole Two Towers thing as a joke to piss people off. He's the guy who did the "Rename The Two Towers" online petition last year.
I bet Allen Dean Foster does a great job on the novelization! He did such a great job on the novelization of "Thomas The Tank Engine And TEH Magic Railroad"!
It wasn't AOL themselves that had the bad rap on the Internet, it was their users. The problem was that AOL had sheltered it's users from almost everything even remotely naughty. The poor AOL users damn-near gave themsevles brain hemorrages when they found such tasty newsgroups as alt.sex.hamster.duct.tape alt.binraies.pictures.dognoses.
Yep. I've seen five movies in the theatres in the last two years. I'll bee seeing only one more this year: The Two Towers. I won't be seeing Nemesis as I do not feel the need to throw my money away to see third-rate bilge.
Most movies these days are garbage because, as you said, people don;t seem to want good movies. All critisisms of movies are refuted with a "Dude, get a life! It's just a movie!". These people who put up with the constant flow of "XXX", "Charie's Angels", "Batman And Robin", etc... are the ones responcible for the total lack of worthwhile movies out there.
Right concept. Wrong man. Gene L. Coon was what made the original Star Trek shine.
The Roddenbury years of Next Gen are utter garbage.
Um, that should be "40 hour Replay". Sorry about that. A 4-hour PVR would be useless!
40 hour Tivo: $200.00, plus either $249.00 lifetime startup fee or $12.95 a month fee.
4 hour Replay 4540 or 5040: $300.00, minus $50.00 rebate, plus either $250.00 lifetime fee or $9.95 month fee.
Price diference: $50.00 with the lifetime.
If you go with the monthly fee the Replay matches the Tivo in 17 months and saves you money from that point on.
Well said!
Klerck was responcible for that. Klerck is a well known troll who enjoys getting people panties in a twist. He likes baiting Slashdotters and used to hang out at Shacknews until he got banned for life.