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Many scienist are rethinking their ideas that TRex's were hunters. Many now believe that the t-rex was a scavenger that searched for carrion. Actually, that's the minority opinion. The majority is holding to the belief that Rex was a hunter.

yeah but the raptors that escaped on the boat and made it to the mainland started eating animals and things that had that specidic amino acid. It's been years since I read the first book, but I remember wondering why the author didn't continue along this storyline, rather than go with the lame stuff for the Lost World. Chicken and rice, I think. And the amino acid was lysene.

the aquisition of the dino DNA wasnt too unrealistic, but filling in the DNA gaps with frog DNA was kinda dumb, why not collect multipe samples of DNA of the same dinosaur until you have a complete DNA strand? Actually, the aquisition of DNA was kinda silly. Tree sap doesn't stop biological processes. The blood would break down in the little bastage's stomach. And in the book, they spliced in the DNA of the modern animal that most closely matched the area around the gap, instead of just using one animal. Only 5 species had the frog, and thus only 5 species were breeding.

Shoot slugs. A shotgun slug will go through damn near anything. </mild-exaggeration>

I will play Greedo. And as I die, I will shout "BUT I SHOT FIRST!"

This was somehow expected cuz in general a consumer want to upgrade his/her current machines and not fully change to an new system and its format, IMO this could be a smart move by MS. Its like in the 80`s Betamax vs. VHS . Except Beta/VHS didn't have any legacy to deal with. It was fought solely on merit. ... How did VHS win?

What, bestiality is more acceptable? EVERYTHING is more acceptable than ManFaye, except the Goatse Guy.

EVERYONE EDIT OUT MANFAYE AND EDIT IN PUPPIES! NOW!

YES!

That was a subset of the Transformers, I believe.

This thread reminds me of the Insectors, or whatever the heck they were called. People riding giant bugs. All I remember was the spider toy was mounted on top of a glove, and your fingers were the spider legs.

Sheesh. Quit bragging about your awesome porn and SHARE!

I think that ManFaye shot may be a tad counter-productive. Now you've got a bunch of sad lonely sci-fi perverts associating reasonably mature girls with ManFaye wedgies. The potential psychological damage could be severe.

Join the club.

Interesting read. But... DRM isn't supposed to be a feature on the Pentium D.

I enjoyed Crest of the Stars. Never seen Banner of the Stars, though.

YEAH! Take me for example. I've got a nice collection of lesbian orgy Sailor Moon pics. I don't know why anyone would be that interested in Hentai stuff, but it's not for me to judge anyone. I for myself like big-boobed anime chicks......annnnd real women too. (whew.. that was a close one) SUUUURE you like real women... we believe you. If you believe that, I've got a used spacefortress to sell ya. Low mileage, a real fixer-up. It's parked in the South Pacific with a sweet anti-theft device. XD *checks wallet* I'll give ya 2$ for it. You pay shipping.

Ummm, no. Altair 8800: 1975. Apple 1: 1976. Apple 2: 1977. IBM PC 5150: 1981. IBM invented the IBM PC ARCHITECTURE, which is the basis for the mdoern IBM-compatible PC. They did NOT invent the personal computer.

From what I'd heard, the Itanium was a quite nice processor... when running in native mode. It totally sucked for x86 code, unarguably, but I'd heard Itanium code kicked ass. I do feel obliged to point out that just because Apple uses an x86 doesn't necessarily mean it will use an IBM-compatible architecture. At this point I couldn't possibly venture a guess as to whether they will, though. Jobs leaves that responsibility to the developers hands since the OSX is "processor independent" as Steve would put it. Since OSX's incarnation 5 years ago they developed the OSX to run on either processor. It is left for the developers to write code for either the PowerPC and/or Intel architecture in a move that Jobs has stated as "universal binaries" on Xcode. Is that directed to the IA64 part or the IBM-compatible architecture part?

From what I'd heard, the Itanium was a quite nice processor... when running in native mode. It totally sucked for x86 code, unarguably, but I'd heard Itanium code kicked ass. I do feel obliged to point out that just because Apple uses an x86 doesn't necessarily mean it will use an IBM-compatible architecture. At this point I couldn't possibly venture a guess as to whether they will, though.

YEAH! Take me for example. I've got a nice collection of lesbian orgy Sailor Moon pics. I don't know why anyone would be that interested in Hentai stuff, but it's not for me to judge anyone. I for myself like big-boobed anime chicks......annnnd real women too. (whew.. that was a close one) SUUUURE you like real women... we believe you.

And it's official, they're changing architectures. Making my chatter meaningless. ... But it doesn't say if it's x86 or IA64! GO ITANIUM! </hopeless_dream>

More along the lines of whatever's "best". The original Macs used 68000s. And they blew the doors off of anything in the x86 family at the time. When they moved to PowerPC, it was a similar situation. PPC blew the 68k away, as well as the competing x86 chips. Modern x86 chips are roughly equal to the G5s Apple uses, which is why I don't think they're going for another architecture swap. But the x86 chips are cheaper...

How? MacOS is compiled to run on a PowerPC, which is non-x86. Before that, it was compiled to run on a 68000, which is ALSO non-x86. If you stuff an Athlon 64 into a G5 tower, you get... a big non-fuctional cheese-grater. If you stuff a MacOS X disk into a IBM-compatible PC you get... a big non-functional beige box. It's like expecting Playstation 2 sofware and GameCube software to work in the same system. Most likely theory I've seen is that IBM's failed to meet promised deliveries lately, so they're gonna have Intel manufacturing their processors, but they'll still use the PowerPC family. Less likely, but far juicier, is Itanium-based Macs. I seriously doubt they're moving to x86.

It's beta from when they move out of alpha until it's finalized. Beta covers a VERY wide range of products. I'd bet people DID burn some copies. And public betas aren't anything new. Among other things, it gets a wider variety of testers. In-house testing only gets you so far, eventually you have to turn it loose to the masses and see what they can find. Not that I know of. Odds are good that the data's compressed. You'd need to be able to identify what compression scheme is being used, which requires a fair bit of technical knowledge(I don't have it).