I have this mental scene for a comedy film where this middle eastern guy is getting his luggage inspected when the TSA guy pulls out a big bottle of nitroglycerine. The guys clutches his chest and says, "That's my heart medication". TSA inspector scowls and say, "But so much?", and they guys says, "It's a really bad heart condition" whereupon the TSA guys says, "Ok, but I'm going to have to confiscate this nail clipper".
Can Microsoft every recreate the excitement that accompanied releases like Windows 3 or 95? Back then a large segment of the population, at least in the US, was still transitioning from no or limited personal computing to having and using their own machine, and they usually ran about $2000 for a leading edge one. Nowadays, just about anybody who can cough up $600 to Dell can have one on their doorstep in a few days, up and running, internet connected, and have been there, done that either before or at work. I can remember some year in the late 80's they called the ms-dos christmas, probably about when 386sx's became affordable.
Since there's nothing really new, just more of the same, can Microsoft do ANYTHING to recreate the old stock pumping marketing splashes of yore?
He'll be getting a nasty-gram from the lawyers of the Hair Institute Association of America (HIAA) warning against unlicensend use of a copyrighted hair care formula.
This reminds me of an old cartoon, two pirates are burying a treasure chest on the beach. The pirate Captain is standing watch while holding a gun behind his back. The pirate crewman is down in the hole, digging. He looks up and says, "Just think cap'n, you and I will be the only ones who know where the treasue is buried!"
You know what Balmer needs, is one of those office chairs over a trap door, actuated by a button on his desk. Then, instead of flinging the things, if someone refuses a job offer he can just push the button and whoosh, they're off to the 'warehouse' for 'special persuasion'.
Here's how it works: News program has time to fill and ratings to keep up, produces a piece about pedophiles stalking children on MySpace. Grannie, who votes religiously like a real patriot, watches news.
Congressman running for office, addressing an audience with grannie in attendance, says, "And to protect the children of America, which are our future, I have introduced legislation to ban access to web sites frequented by predators and pedophiles in our public schools and libraries."
Lather, rinse, repeat and watch all our freedoms slowly spin down the drain.
Depends on the mobo, I've been told - I bought an Asus K8W (s2885) just for the seperate memory busses (as recommended by the Cinelerra folks). If you look at the block diagram, there are 4 seperate busses, two per cpu (with two cores each).
I think competition alone at this point would gaurentee net neurality.
It would! Now get me some competition. Where I'm at and my previous residence cable (Cox then Charter(now Suddenlink)) were the only options. How I'd *love* to get DSL, but NOOOOOO. Charter is fairly good for less than $50/mo, and by that I mean exactly $49.99/mo.
It occurs to me that all this attention to security detail will come to naught in the Star Trek future - they could just use the transporter and beam into any secure area, all they need are the coordinates and blammo, they're in.
Interesting how a noisy 'net can create variations, but it still can't tell good/bad shinola/crap true/false survivable/doomed etc. Looks like it's a great 'brainstorming' device for creating a lot of possibilities, some indeed novel, but it still takes a human to go through the output and find the few gems from the yards of dross.
Maybe another 'net trained to recognize good/bad would work to filter the output of the noisy 'net.
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Medicine is ok
I have this mental scene for a comedy film where this middle eastern guy is getting his luggage inspected when the TSA guy pulls out a big bottle of nitroglycerine. The guys clutches his chest and says, "That's my heart medication". TSA inspector scowls and say, "But so much?", and they guys says, "It's a really bad heart condition" whereupon the TSA guys says, "Ok, but I'm going to have to confiscate this nail clipper".
The computer directed me to round up all the neighborhood dogs - I'm just doing what it says, something about compensating for supply defeciency.
As Rockefeller once said, "If I want a PhD, I'll hire one".
Can Microsoft every recreate the excitement that accompanied releases like Windows 3 or 95? Back then a large segment of the population, at least in the US, was still transitioning from no or limited personal computing to having and using their own machine, and they usually ran about $2000 for a leading edge one. Nowadays, just about anybody who can cough up $600 to Dell can have one on their doorstep in a few days, up and running, internet connected, and have been there, done that either before or at work. I can remember some year in the late 80's they called the ms-dos christmas, probably about when 386sx's became affordable.
Since there's nothing really new, just more of the same, can Microsoft do ANYTHING to recreate the old stock pumping marketing splashes of yore?
No, God, if there is a God, No!
He'll be getting a nasty-gram from the lawyers of the Hair Institute Association of America (HIAA) warning against unlicensend use of a copyrighted hair care formula.
This reminds me of an old cartoon, two pirates are burying a treasure chest on the beach. The pirate Captain is standing watch while holding a gun behind his back. The pirate crewman is down in the hole, digging. He looks up and says, "Just think cap'n, you and I will be the only ones who know where the treasue is buried!"
Then there's the method used by Ed Bagley Jr. in "Amazon Women on the Moon".
You know what Balmer needs, is one of those office chairs over a trap door, actuated by a button on his desk. Then, instead of flinging the things, if someone refuses a job offer he can just push the button and whoosh, they're off to the 'warehouse' for 'special persuasion'.
Here's how it works: News program has time to fill and ratings to keep up, produces a piece about pedophiles stalking children on MySpace. Grannie, who votes religiously like a real patriot, watches news.
Congressman running for office, addressing an audience with grannie in attendance, says, "And to protect the children of America, which are our future, I have introduced legislation to ban access to web sites frequented by predators and pedophiles in our public schools and libraries."
Lather, rinse, repeat and watch all our freedoms slowly spin down the drain.
oh really?
Even better is birth-control and responsible parents who've decided they can afford to feed and shelter a child.
Depends on the mobo, I've been told - I bought an Asus K8W (s2885) just for the seperate memory busses (as recommended by the Cinelerra folks). If you look at the block diagram, there are 4 seperate busses, two per cpu (with two cores each).
and do a search on IE's Engine isloation from the OS
I think most of us are confused on this point due to Microsofts's insistence on it being just the opposite when in front of an anti-trust judge.
Other things to try are
1) Stake thru the heart
2) Garlic worn around the neck
3) Holy water
4) Crucifix
5) Sunlight
I think competition alone at this point would gaurentee net neurality.
It would! Now get me some competition. Where I'm at and my previous residence cable (Cox then Charter(now Suddenlink)) were the only options. How I'd *love* to get DSL, but NOOOOOO. Charter is fairly good for less than $50/mo, and by that I mean exactly $49.99/mo.
Hmm, I have Vista Beta 2 running under vm workstation 5.5.1 w/ no such bug.
Ah, you might have to assign more memory - it needs more than 256M, that will
cause an obscure error. 512 works.
Aha, I knew the Union Aerospace Corporation had something to do with it.
It occurs to me that all this attention to security detail will come to naught in the Star Trek future - they could just use the transporter and beam into any secure area, all they need are the coordinates and blammo, they're in.
Oh come on, it it were'nt for Thomas Edison and Marconi we'd all be driving microwave powered flying cars by now.
Interesting how a noisy 'net can create variations, but it still can't tell good/bad shinola/crap true/false survivable/doomed etc. Looks like it's a great 'brainstorming' device for creating a lot of possibilities, some indeed novel, but it still takes a human to go through the output and find the few gems from the yards of dross.
Maybe another 'net trained to recognize good/bad would work to filter the output of the noisy 'net.
Still - interesting.
Maybe they can build it on stuff from the Fifth Generation project.
Wolf to work with sheep on dinner.
Let's mark this tissue at risk for infarction
I don't think farc.com is very interested in brain tissue.