I had a 1978 Dodge Omni that got 36 to 38 mpg when it was out of tune and half dead, it got much better mileage new. I'm not talking EPA I'm talking real world miles. Based on the revised EPA estimates that 30 year old technology would compete with the hybrids. Something is seriously wrong here. For all the R&D they are going backwards.
Talk about beating a dead horse. I know there are still devoted fans out there but it would take a herculean effort to get the OS semi modern and even then it's pointless. What made it unique was the combination of OS and chipset. If they want to resurrect the spirit of Amiga they need to develope chips that had a similar approach to graphics intergration. Anything else is feeding off nostalga and is completely pointless. You might as well get excited because some one was bringing back DOS. There actually would be a reason for that. Not to the average user but it was far easier to program devices on DOS. There are motion control machines still running DOS. Although they have largely gone the way of the dinosaur there would be need for an updated DOS but without the hardware to go with Amiga is pointless. If they are simply adapting it to an AMD or P4 chip it'd make as much sense as putting a modern engine in a model T. One day you just have to accept it's dead and move on. I just wish one of the chip makers would team up with some one like a Linux developer and come up with a system that used the same approach. Could you imagine an OS with targeted graphios all on seperate cores? Even parts of the OS embeded into the chip architecture for processing graphics within the chip itself. There's no way a traditional approach to computer design could come close. The laws of physics would prevent it. Transferring data will always cost you speed so localizing functions will always be faster. Quantum computers may change that but I probably won't live to see that.
Actually it's a stunning model of a facists society. Look at all the facists governments for the last hundred years. Most seem to have patterned their governments off 1984 like Christianity has been patterned off the Bible. The way the government manipulated the people was far more profound than the over the shoulder big brother aspects.
Alright I hate wadding into this debate because it's pointless and no one is ever going to change their mind but when I hear Communist China being seen as a bastian of freedom because they think communist get free shit I have to weigh in. There is one great universal truth in economics, there's no such thing as a free lunch. If you take capitalism out of the mix several things happen. Yes you may have access to some things "free" that you used to pay for but it's not that simple. First off the magic media fairy doessn't provide it to the government it gets paid for by tax dollars. Guess who pays taxes? Ah but the content will be more plentiful and better. Wrong! The government exists largely to support itself. They'll provide the minimum they can get away with and it will all be government approved so free speech and the latest rap ablum won't be on the list. China can provide free content because they are stealing it from the rest of the world. Take the rest of the world out of the picture and you get episode twelve of the life story of Mao. Yes there will be some entertainment content but it will all be pro government and heavily controlled. Most of the more interesting films coming out of China were backed by Europe and or the US. What you get out of a true communist government is control of every aspect of your life and a subsistence living. You may have a guaranteed job and free entertainment but both will be minimal. I grew up in the latter years of the red scare. I'm not as anticommunist as most that grew up then but it's hardly an idea system. Look what happened when West and Eastern Germany reunited. It devasted the economy of western Germany which before unification was one of the very strongest in the world. China has had to allow some capitalism which is causing explosive growth. Eventually to maintain that growth they'll have to start protecting rights or they'll become a victim like they have been victimizing the rest of the world. How good do you feel paying $10 to see a movie so the Chinese can pay a $1 for a DVD? Your money is paying for their entertainment. Ha Ha you don't pay you download. Well guess what the ones that do pay are paying for your entertainment.
Mod it troll it's normally what happens but it really makes me sick hearing that a country that executes political prisoners is more free than the US because they look the other way on copyright laws. They aren't looking out for the needs of their citizens they are leaching off the rest of the world, period. You don't need free entertainment you want it. There's a massive difference. Remember no free lunch? If you don't want to pay and I get sick of paying for you there simply won't be any new entertainment. Pray to the magic media fairy all you want. Money drives entertainment and when the money goes away the investors will all go back to realistate and the stock market.
Should have been more specific, the screen protector cracked not the LCD. They are the toughest made since they are meant for industrial and military use. The downsides are they tend to be old technology and slower than newer machines and they are very heavy. They're more of a portable than a laptop. Also they are very expensive.
I've seen test videos and they are amazing. You can drive car over them and all that happens is the screen cracks, they are still useable. Also seen them dropped down a flight of concrete stairs and they still worked.
It could be a nice story point that while they are desperately trying to save the world their XP computer starts constantly warning them that they need to update their system. It's not really a joke because I used to have my XP machine plugged into the internet. Well about a month ago I was in the middle of an important render when it decided it didn't want to wait any longer to install an update. It kept prompting me that it was about to reboot. I spent two hours every five minutes telling it not to reboot until the render finished. I immediately yanked the internet connection and haven't updated it since. I can see a hero trying to enter the code to stop a nuclear attack when the windows machine tells him it's going to reboot to update his system.
I do understand what they were driving at but the whole point of drastically advanced technology is that it would require less effort and input. You didn't hear them verbally entering code they were always asking for a complex taste to be performed. That task might require a dozen people normally but the computer is able to do it without assistence. When they performed more intensive tasks they did use a manual interface. Voice is inefficent for data entry but if the system is designed to run on it's own then the most efficent method is voice. Which takes longer writing an email to a coworker in the next cubical to ask if they have performed a task or ask them about it verbally? The computer wasn't a computer as we think of them it was a crewmember replacing dozens if not hundreds of crewmembers.
I worked for Disney years ago and they used to like clockwork go through layoffs before the end of the fiscal year to make balance sheet look better then they'd hire new people, at a lower wage, shortly after the beginning of the new fiscal year. It was part of their house cleaning to avoid paying retirement in a lot of cases. I remember the head of the sculpture department who went back to the Disney days got fired three months before his retirement kicked in. He sued them and won. I hope the company got better but back during the height of the Eisner Reich the company was pretty cold blooded and nepotism was pretty much the rule of law. If you ran onto anyone completely incompetent you could gaurantee they were second or third generation mouse.
The company would give away two $100 gift cards--to two of the brave souls who would commit to work 80 hours between Dec. 18 and Dec. 31. As our correspondent noted: "Hey, if you work Christmas, we'll put you in a pool of 2,000 other folks to maybe win a hundred bucks."'"
It's the thought that counts..........Now that I think about it bite me.
Paper is potentially one of the more enviromentally friendly materials availible. The problem is with how the environment is abused with the current system. Farmed trees contribute oxygen and clean polution from the air. Plain bookstyle paper is one of the easiest things to recycle. Cutting down old growth trees for paper is obscene. The timber industry is traditional similar mineral mining. They prefer the scorched earth approch because it's more profitable. Why spend $5 planting a tree when you can cut down existing ones for free. In a lot of areas the government actually builds roads for the timber companies to more easily cut down trees on public land. Paper and lumber can be grown and harvested responsibly. The timber industry will only do it kicking and screaming though. I heard one actually trying to defend clear cutting as good for a forest. Might as well say extinction is good for species. Even todays "selective cutting" involves cutting down all commercial sized trees. Except for the great plains and the deserts of the southwest the country used to be one large forest. In a couple of hundred years we've managed cut down nearly all the old growth trees. Only a few percent remain and the timber industry is fighting to cut down that last few percent.
Less is said about an alternative test called Schrödinger's lawyer. The test involved the gun discharging no matter what state the particle was in. Schrödinger himself admitted the proposed test was pointless but much more satisfying and humane than the cat test.
They are going to have trouble winning this since Wargames is a existing term and the bloody sites sells war related games. I say they should have grabbed the domain 15 years ago. Folks the horse is not only out of the barn but he's out of sight and several states over. The judge should have no sympathy and laugh it out of court. If it's that critical to marketing pay the company a fortune for their website otherwise deal with it. They figure it's cheaper to bully the them. They should file a harrassment countersuit.
The researchers blindfolded college students who crawled through grass to sniff out a chocolate-scented trail.
Most women can follow a chocolate scented trail, oddly enough the scent trail left by diamonds and currency works just as well. On the flip side most men are able to scent track women so I guess there's balance in nature.
It gets attention because it's a western country with an above average interest in technology. I lived for seven months in New Zealand and six months in France, I'm a Yank myself. I found New Zealand on pare with France and England and the US as far as access and interest in technology. A lot of those 121 countries lack the access to technology that New Zealand, Europe and the US have. Not surprising there's a lot of references to New Zealand. I'm sure english speaking doesn't hurt as well. Even in Europe english speakers aren't as common as you'd think. When I was in Spain I found when they realized It didn't speak Spainish well they'd try French or Italian but few spoke english. English may be considered the current world language but a large number of people still speak little or no english. People forget but at one time French was considered the world language. One day I'm sure it'll be something else. When Slashdot is mostly Chinese they'll still be wondering why there are so many New Zealand references.
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I had a 1978 Dodge Omni that got 36 to 38 mpg when it was out of tune and half dead, it got much better mileage new. I'm not talking EPA I'm talking real world miles. Based on the revised EPA estimates that 30 year old technology would compete with the hybrids. Something is seriously wrong here. For all the R&D they are going backwards.
Talk about beating a dead horse. I know there are still devoted fans out there but it would take a herculean effort to get the OS semi modern and even then it's pointless. What made it unique was the combination of OS and chipset. If they want to resurrect the spirit of Amiga they need to develope chips that had a similar approach to graphics intergration. Anything else is feeding off nostalga and is completely pointless. You might as well get excited because some one was bringing back DOS. There actually would be a reason for that. Not to the average user but it was far easier to program devices on DOS. There are motion control machines still running DOS. Although they have largely gone the way of the dinosaur there would be need for an updated DOS but without the hardware to go with Amiga is pointless. If they are simply adapting it to an AMD or P4 chip it'd make as much sense as putting a modern engine in a model T. One day you just have to accept it's dead and move on. I just wish one of the chip makers would team up with some one like a Linux developer and come up with a system that used the same approach. Could you imagine an OS with targeted graphios all on seperate cores? Even parts of the OS embeded into the chip architecture for processing graphics within the chip itself. There's no way a traditional approach to computer design could come close. The laws of physics would prevent it. Transferring data will always cost you speed so localizing functions will always be faster. Quantum computers may change that but I probably won't live to see that.
Only if the deer comes on to the hunter. If you see a deer in hotpants and high heels standing on a corner don't shoot it.
Actually it's a stunning model of a facists society. Look at all the facists governments for the last hundred years. Most seem to have patterned their governments off 1984 like Christianity has been patterned off the Bible. The way the government manipulated the people was far more profound than the over the shoulder big brother aspects.
"Sir please close the raincoat and move along, you're scaring the pidgeons."
Alright I hate wadding into this debate because it's pointless and no one is ever going to change their mind but when I hear Communist China being seen as a bastian of freedom because they think communist get free shit I have to weigh in. There is one great universal truth in economics, there's no such thing as a free lunch. If you take capitalism out of the mix several things happen. Yes you may have access to some things "free" that you used to pay for but it's not that simple. First off the magic media fairy doessn't provide it to the government it gets paid for by tax dollars. Guess who pays taxes? Ah but the content will be more plentiful and better. Wrong! The government exists largely to support itself. They'll provide the minimum they can get away with and it will all be government approved so free speech and the latest rap ablum won't be on the list. China can provide free content because they are stealing it from the rest of the world. Take the rest of the world out of the picture and you get episode twelve of the life story of Mao. Yes there will be some entertainment content but it will all be pro government and heavily controlled. Most of the more interesting films coming out of China were backed by Europe and or the US. What you get out of a true communist government is control of every aspect of your life and a subsistence living. You may have a guaranteed job and free entertainment but both will be minimal. I grew up in the latter years of the red scare. I'm not as anticommunist as most that grew up then but it's hardly an idea system. Look what happened when West and Eastern Germany reunited. It devasted the economy of western Germany which before unification was one of the very strongest in the world. China has had to allow some capitalism which is causing explosive growth. Eventually to maintain that growth they'll have to start protecting rights or they'll become a victim like they have been victimizing the rest of the world. How good do you feel paying $10 to see a movie so the Chinese can pay a $1 for a DVD? Your money is paying for their entertainment. Ha Ha you don't pay you download. Well guess what the ones that do pay are paying for your entertainment. Mod it troll it's normally what happens but it really makes me sick hearing that a country that executes political prisoners is more free than the US because they look the other way on copyright laws. They aren't looking out for the needs of their citizens they are leaching off the rest of the world, period. You don't need free entertainment you want it. There's a massive difference. Remember no free lunch? If you don't want to pay and I get sick of paying for you there simply won't be any new entertainment. Pray to the magic media fairy all you want. Money drives entertainment and when the money goes away the investors will all go back to realistate and the stock market.
Should have been more specific, the screen protector cracked not the LCD. They are the toughest made since they are meant for industrial and military use. The downsides are they tend to be old technology and slower than newer machines and they are very heavy. They're more of a portable than a laptop. Also they are very expensive.
Does it come with the loan application?
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I've seen test videos and they are amazing. You can drive car over them and all that happens is the screen cracks, they are still useable. Also seen them dropped down a flight of concrete stairs and they still worked.
It could be a nice story point that while they are desperately trying to save the world their XP computer starts constantly warning them that they need to update their system. It's not really a joke because I used to have my XP machine plugged into the internet. Well about a month ago I was in the middle of an important render when it decided it didn't want to wait any longer to install an update. It kept prompting me that it was about to reboot. I spent two hours every five minutes telling it not to reboot until the render finished. I immediately yanked the internet connection and haven't updated it since. I can see a hero trying to enter the code to stop a nuclear attack when the windows machine tells him it's going to reboot to update his system.
I do understand what they were driving at but the whole point of drastically advanced technology is that it would require less effort and input. You didn't hear them verbally entering code they were always asking for a complex taste to be performed. That task might require a dozen people normally but the computer is able to do it without assistence. When they performed more intensive tasks they did use a manual interface. Voice is inefficent for data entry but if the system is designed to run on it's own then the most efficent method is voice. Which takes longer writing an email to a coworker in the next cubical to ask if they have performed a task or ask them about it verbally? The computer wasn't a computer as we think of them it was a crewmember replacing dozens if not hundreds of crewmembers.
I worked for Disney years ago and they used to like clockwork go through layoffs before the end of the fiscal year to make balance sheet look better then they'd hire new people, at a lower wage, shortly after the beginning of the new fiscal year. It was part of their house cleaning to avoid paying retirement in a lot of cases. I remember the head of the sculpture department who went back to the Disney days got fired three months before his retirement kicked in. He sued them and won. I hope the company got better but back during the height of the Eisner Reich the company was pretty cold blooded and nepotism was pretty much the rule of law. If you ran onto anyone completely incompetent you could gaurantee they were second or third generation mouse.
It's the thought that counts..........Now that I think about it bite me.
Paper is potentially one of the more enviromentally friendly materials availible. The problem is with how the environment is abused with the current system. Farmed trees contribute oxygen and clean polution from the air. Plain bookstyle paper is one of the easiest things to recycle. Cutting down old growth trees for paper is obscene. The timber industry is traditional similar mineral mining. They prefer the scorched earth approch because it's more profitable. Why spend $5 planting a tree when you can cut down existing ones for free. In a lot of areas the government actually builds roads for the timber companies to more easily cut down trees on public land. Paper and lumber can be grown and harvested responsibly. The timber industry will only do it kicking and screaming though. I heard one actually trying to defend clear cutting as good for a forest. Might as well say extinction is good for species. Even todays "selective cutting" involves cutting down all commercial sized trees. Except for the great plains and the deserts of the southwest the country used to be one large forest. In a couple of hundred years we've managed cut down nearly all the old growth trees. Only a few percent remain and the timber industry is fighting to cut down that last few percent.
was actually Playstation .00001
Punch card Pong was a bit boring but gaming had to start somewhere.
It was originally called "Harry Potter Laughes All The Way To The Bank". But the publisher convinced her to change the title.
The day my coffee maker demands every third Sunday off is Judgemnet Day!
I hear it's thought humans can master 500 hundred commands but the whales tend to get a bit impatient and give up after a few years.
Less is said about an alternative test called Schrödinger's lawyer. The test involved the gun discharging no matter what state the particle was in. Schrödinger himself admitted the proposed test was pointless but much more satisfying and humane than the cat test.
I'm waiting for some one to have an epileptic fit from all the flashing banners on some sites.
Cool!
They are going to have trouble winning this since Wargames is a existing term and the bloody sites sells war related games. I say they should have grabbed the domain 15 years ago. Folks the horse is not only out of the barn but he's out of sight and several states over. The judge should have no sympathy and laugh it out of court. If it's that critical to marketing pay the company a fortune for their website otherwise deal with it. They figure it's cheaper to bully the them. They should file a harrassment countersuit.
Most women can follow a chocolate scented trail, oddly enough the scent trail left by diamonds and currency works just as well. On the flip side most men are able to scent track women so I guess there's balance in nature.
It gets attention because it's a western country with an above average interest in technology. I lived for seven months in New Zealand and six months in France, I'm a Yank myself. I found New Zealand on pare with France and England and the US as far as access and interest in technology. A lot of those 121 countries lack the access to technology that New Zealand, Europe and the US have. Not surprising there's a lot of references to New Zealand. I'm sure english speaking doesn't hurt as well. Even in Europe english speakers aren't as common as you'd think. When I was in Spain I found when they realized It didn't speak Spainish well they'd try French or Italian but few spoke english. English may be considered the current world language but a large number of people still speak little or no english. People forget but at one time French was considered the world language. One day I'm sure it'll be something else. When Slashdot is mostly Chinese they'll still be wondering why there are so many New Zealand references.