If they would move past "Infotainment" and got back to writing good "News" instead of creating "Crisis" and attacking an administration simply to raise advertising funding I'd be inclined to buy a newspaper to read.
I don't like this any more than you but come on, the newspapers are folding because people are reading their news online...for free. It's as simple as that.
It's not crapware in the sense that it's extraneous crap you don't need. But it's crapware in the sense that you don't need to have all those EXEs in memory at startup. Windows is perfectly capable of loading the appropriate items into memory as they are needed.
I wrote a simulated world back in the 90's where this was possible. With just a handful of simple rules that can mutate from generation to generation, you can reproduce this behavior. In my game, the creature that could eat the most reproduced the most. Each generation mutates slightly. Eventually you get a mutation in a creature that warns away it's peers and then it gets all the food and makes lots of copies of itself. I don't have any idea whether I evolved such a creature...but it seems pretty likely to happen.
Also when I insert a usb disk in windows 7 it comes up immediately
Yes, but try using a usb drive with something on it. You go into a directory with a lot of files in it (my source code folders, mp3s, etc) and it is slow as a dog. And (I'm not sure if Win7 has this problem yet) Vista always freaking misidentifies the content in a particular folder. When I go a visual studio project directory, explorer displays columns more appropriate for a media file directory. I'm given the opportunity to select a 1 to 5 star rating for my source code. And when I change the view, it won't save the settings. It's just a lot of little annoying stuff like this. Overall, it's been a stable platform for me...just slow...and annoying. Windows 7 seems to be just as slow. Maybe they fixed the annoying parts though.
In a way it does. Many sightings are of triangular shaped craft moving too slow to be an airplane (notably, the close encounter that made Art Bell believe). For years I've been arguing that this isn't evidence of alien life or advanced technology. You can make a triangular shaped dirigible. You can easily make it unmanned. What purpose could it possibly serve? It it would function perfectly as a surveillance craft.
There it is.
Why would any human want to permanently go to another planet/moon/whatever? It's not like there are many places in our current solarsystem that most humans would consider a nice place to live.
The Americas weren't nice places to live either. It was a good place to get yourself killed. But people came anyway. People always flock to frontiers whether they're seeking adventure, an escape from an oppressive government or religion, or just a chance to get ahead in life. That is what drove us out of Africa into Europe and Asia. That is what drove us to the Americas. It's in our nature.
And yes, I would go live on another planet/moon/whatever.
and that makes me worry if there isn't some local debris cloud from the Oort cloud or Kuiper belt that is passing through the system currently. Does anyone know?
No, but such an event would be huge news and I'm sure we'd know about it by now. The people who insist that extinction events occur regularly due to some astronomical cycle would be screaming their heads off insisting that Sol's companion star has returned to pelt the earth with comets.
just because there are a few dishonest dealers out there does not mean the entire industry is filled with them.
A few? You've got to be kidding. I know several people who work in the industry (car sales) and the stories they tell me about what happens at auto dealerships are appalling. I had no idea humans could be so cruel.
There is no such thing as an honest car dealer, there's just varying degrees of dishonest.
I think it's more accurate to say Americans are so busy fighting for their respective political parties that they don't realize they're getting fucked by both political parties.
The Saturn V could lift more than double the shuttle's cargo capacity (maybe triple, it's been a while since I researched this) and achieve escape velocity at the same time.
The SRBs are actually shaped internally to REDUCE thrust during flight to prevent overstressing of the Shuttle hardware.
+1 to that . I think (some not all ) educators need to get off there high horses and start being more innovative. Instead of always re-running assignment X for the past 5 years.
Why should they have to do this? That doesn't make any sense. It's like your employer telling you to rewrite your code every year (actually, I might like that). It's a waste of time. If you don't like the way a teacher asks you to do something...just quit bitching and do it. That's the way it is in the real world. Grow up. Teachers are just people like you and me. You may be convinced you'd do it all differently if roles were reversed. But chances are you'd have plenty of students who didn't like the way you operate either. This is an age old conflict that recurs in all walks of life: students and teachers, children and parents, employee and employer, citizen and politician. Quit being a baby, it's life.
It's because there are still some who recognize that innovation doesn't necessarily come from the belly of gigantic corporations...that it used to come from hobbyists in their garage before the US government started regulating everything to death.
People forget that the Apollo project killed off the much more reasonable X-plane development, one of which by 1962 was already flying at an altitude of sixty miles. Progression to space travel was seen as the logical next step. But when JFK decided "HOLY FUCK WE GOTTA GO TO THE MOON!", and the developers told him it might be possible to do deep space stuff by the seventies, he opted to kill the project and go for Wernher von Braun's batshit insane rockets instead.
Um, reasonable in what way? It certainly wasn't useful for putting cargo in orbit. The most efficient and practical way (currently) to put anything into space is an engine strapped to gigantic gas tank strapped to a little bit of cargo. Adding additional stuff like wings, landing gears, rudder (and a frame to support it all) only detracts from the amount of cargo you can launch and seems to have negligible reuse benefits as demonstrated by the space shuttle.
That is why death has to be meaningful....and by that I mean permadeath or excessive skill loss. If you're a dick in the game, people can hunt you down and punish you. This isn't possible if you can just die and resume the game as if nothing happened.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but 13,000mph isn't fast enough for any kind of stable orbit.
If they would move past "Infotainment" and got back to writing good "News" instead of creating "Crisis" and attacking an administration simply to raise advertising funding I'd be inclined to buy a newspaper to read.
I don't like this any more than you but come on, the newspapers are folding because people are reading their news online...for free. It's as simple as that.
It's not crapware in the sense that it's extraneous crap you don't need. But it's crapware in the sense that you don't need to have all those EXEs in memory at startup. Windows is perfectly capable of loading the appropriate items into memory as they are needed.
I wrote a simulated world back in the 90's where this was possible. With just a handful of simple rules that can mutate from generation to generation, you can reproduce this behavior. In my game, the creature that could eat the most reproduced the most. Each generation mutates slightly. Eventually you get a mutation in a creature that warns away it's peers and then it gets all the food and makes lots of copies of itself. I don't have any idea whether I evolved such a creature...but it seems pretty likely to happen.
You don't need an add on for this. Just press Alt-Space, then M. Then you can move the window with the arrow keys.
Also when I insert a usb disk in windows 7 it comes up immediately
Yes, but try using a usb drive with something on it. You go into a directory with a lot of files in it (my source code folders, mp3s, etc) and it is slow as a dog. And (I'm not sure if Win7 has this problem yet) Vista always freaking misidentifies the content in a particular folder. When I go a visual studio project directory, explorer displays columns more appropriate for a media file directory. I'm given the opportunity to select a 1 to 5 star rating for my source code. And when I change the view, it won't save the settings. It's just a lot of little annoying stuff like this. Overall, it's been a stable platform for me...just slow...and annoying. Windows 7 seems to be just as slow. Maybe they fixed the annoying parts though.
It's not just you, but it's almost just you. Most Americans, including me, are satisfied with their health care as it is.
If you're happy with it, you probably haven't been trying to use it that much.
I figure by 2100 in many areas of Texas, New Mexico and California, English will be taught as a second language.
Because our primary language will be Chinese.
In a way it does. Many sightings are of triangular shaped craft moving too slow to be an airplane (notably, the close encounter that made Art Bell believe). For years I've been arguing that this isn't evidence of alien life or advanced technology. You can make a triangular shaped dirigible. You can easily make it unmanned. What purpose could it possibly serve? It it would function perfectly as a surveillance craft. There it is.
Why would any human want to permanently go to another planet/moon/whatever? It's not like there are many places in our current solarsystem that most humans would consider a nice place to live.
The Americas weren't nice places to live either. It was a good place to get yourself killed. But people came anyway. People always flock to frontiers whether they're seeking adventure, an escape from an oppressive government or religion, or just a chance to get ahead in life. That is what drove us out of Africa into Europe and Asia. That is what drove us to the Americas. It's in our nature.
And yes, I would go live on another planet/moon/whatever.
I can tell you how to do that right now...without spending a dime. Limit population growth. Problem solved. Now, back to the moon.
and that makes me worry if there isn't some local debris cloud from the Oort cloud or Kuiper belt that is passing through the system currently. Does anyone know?
No, but such an event would be huge news and I'm sure we'd know about it by now. The people who insist that extinction events occur regularly due to some astronomical cycle would be screaming their heads off insisting that Sol's companion star has returned to pelt the earth with comets.
just because there are a few dishonest dealers out there does not mean the entire industry is filled with them.
A few? You've got to be kidding. I know several people who work in the industry (car sales) and the stories they tell me about what happens at auto dealerships are appalling. I had no idea humans could be so cruel.
There is no such thing as an honest car dealer, there's just varying degrees of dishonest.
Good luck taking the government by force with your handguns versus their stealth bombers.
...because guerrilla warfare never works...does it?
I think it's more accurate to say Americans are so busy fighting for their respective political parties that they don't realize they're getting fucked by both political parties.
The SRBs are actually shaped internally to REDUCE thrust during flight to prevent overstressing of the Shuttle hardware.
The Saturn V boosters were detuned as well.
Oh wait, they *have* all done it. So how come they can, but for the US it's just too hard?
No, I think it's because too few people care, so politicians don't care...and it never gets done. Simple as that.
We motorcyclists just love gravel. What with the dust, the bad traction, it's just wonderful!
Really? If I had any idea it was so easy to get all the Harley's out of my neighborhood I would have proposed this years ago.
+1 to that . I think (some not all ) educators need to get off there high horses and start being more innovative. Instead of always re-running assignment X for the past 5 years.
Why should they have to do this? That doesn't make any sense. It's like your employer telling you to rewrite your code every year (actually, I might like that). It's a waste of time. If you don't like the way a teacher asks you to do something...just quit bitching and do it. That's the way it is in the real world. Grow up. Teachers are just people like you and me. You may be convinced you'd do it all differently if roles were reversed. But chances are you'd have plenty of students who didn't like the way you operate either. This is an age old conflict that recurs in all walks of life: students and teachers, children and parents, employee and employer, citizen and politician. Quit being a baby, it's life.
So, that's twice in one century. Maybe there's too many people on the planet.
It's because there are still some who recognize that innovation doesn't necessarily come from the belly of gigantic corporations...that it used to come from hobbyists in their garage before the US government started regulating everything to death.
People forget that the Apollo project killed off the much more reasonable X-plane development, one of which by 1962 was already flying at an altitude of sixty miles. Progression to space travel was seen as the logical next step. But when JFK decided "HOLY FUCK WE GOTTA GO TO THE MOON!", and the developers told him it might be possible to do deep space stuff by the seventies, he opted to kill the project and go for Wernher von Braun's batshit insane rockets instead.
Um, reasonable in what way? It certainly wasn't useful for putting cargo in orbit. The most efficient and practical way (currently) to put anything into space is an engine strapped to gigantic gas tank strapped to a little bit of cargo. Adding additional stuff like wings, landing gears, rudder (and a frame to support it all) only detracts from the amount of cargo you can launch and seems to have negligible reuse benefits as demonstrated by the space shuttle.
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That is why death has to be meaningful....and by that I mean permadeath or excessive skill loss. If you're a dick in the game, people can hunt you down and punish you. This isn't possible if you can just die and resume the game as if nothing happened.
It would be nice if they did. Something has to keep politicians interested in funding science.