sorry, I gotta say this...you learn that some meteors make it to 47,000 feet and hit planes hehehe. In fact, a lot of small ones hit the ground. Remember that one during that baseball game that hit that lady's car and her insurance didn't cover meteorites but she sold the meteorite to scientists for over a million and bought a new car. Yeah well a lot more meteors hit the ground (and thus become meteorites) during meteor showers
it's not as dangerous as you think cuz THIS JUST IN! Faraday wallet stocks went through the roof! But seriously once a couple people's get spoofed, nobody's going to buy them since apparently they're optional. Then 99% of people who use them are going to be drug runners, illegal immigrants, and terrorists so they're going to discontinue their distribution
I'm thinking the heat from the panels is somehow concentrated and used to heat and melt salt. Then when the sun isn't out, the salt gives off heat and turns the turbine so there's constant power. Sounds inefficient to me. Plus wouldn't they want to use something that ohhhhh you know stores and conducts heat well? You know like a giant block of metal instead of salt.
If it's an "open source" search engine and anyone can go and read the source of how it operates, everyone will know the secret to rigging their pages so that they show up in the top results. Google is extremely secretive of their algorithms and that's why there's relatively few rigged crap links.
but it sounds so much cooler. In fact, they should have counted it in bytes. I believe that would be 27 fuckingbigillion bytes. Now that sounds impressive!
I live in Wisconsin so believe me when I say putting warm water on a road to de-ice it is a very, very, very bad idea. Also if all the heated water tubes would be connected to a central area where they could turb a turbine, you'd lose so much heat from the transport (since the underground is cold) it wouldn't be cost effective. Now an actually good use would be hooking up people's waterheaters to the reverse radiation network of tubes under the road and let the road heat the water to supplement the water heater's job to save a lot of electricity or propane.
nooooo the traffic drops when they stop using the old Xbox and immediately rises when they start using the 360. In other words people bying 360's didn't do anything to traffic except when you account for the number of people who sold their original Xbox to people who didn't have one before and those people are now using Live.
wasn't everyone "supposed" to have caught the Y2K glitch too? Everyone was like "oh gee, it'll never have to go past 2 digits or roll over to 00." So I guess Apple thought they were safe from the Y2.008K bug. What a bunch of morons. Maybe they should have spent less time on those annoying ads (especially that stupid music!!!) and actually made sure the programming was less retarded.
but XP and Vista tried to be the everything computer and now it's a bulky, slow, not well written pile of crap that's stuck with piles of legacy support. If you try to do too much, it never ends well. But then again if you mean different distros of Linux doing specialized tasks well so Linux in general doing everything, that's a good idea.
I wanna see Linux turn into "the platform" for AI. I read something about it already becoming that so that'd be sweet. Right now you all know the famous categories. Windows is for business and other dumb stuff. Macs are apparently the thing to get for video and graphics work though I strongly disagree. And Linux is gonna be for anything with AI! Cuz AI programmers (and their programs) are smart enough to know that paying for an OS is stupid when you don't have to and you can't change much about the OS after you install it. And you don't need your AI creation freezing up while the OS makes a system restore point or crashing randomly (OS X and Windows). And in 2009 I hope a giant pengiun robot attacks Microsoft headquarters.
Most 360 users have an original Xbox so the traffic should drop then rise as they retire the old Xbox. I doubt traffic could go up more than 50%. Wanna know my theory? Their servers suck and the whole network isn't very scalable. Either that or it hit the maximum number of simultaneous screaming eleven year olds and the servers melted.
If someone's blood vessel is plugged up with cholesterol, wouldn't a snake get stuck and kill them? And if they break the chunk off that could easily cause a stroke. Plus a big snake stuck in your heart doesn't sound too safe either. And what if it doesn't want to get out and causes a hostage situation? Then what?
Btw wtf is everyone's problem with Roland? Maybe I haven't been around long enough but my only problem is I can't pronounce his retarded last name and he looks like a douche.
Why don't they just make a little box where you press some buttons (BUTTONS, NOT TOUCH SCREEN!) and it prints you a filled out ballot with Scantron abilities. It wipes its memory after it prints and you drop your ballot in the ballot box. Then they scan em in later with a scantron machine which would basically be 100% accuracy since they were all printed on the same paper from the same printer model in the same way. And there's your paper trail. It'd be like 3x faster and unhackable since it's still paper based.
exactly and the most important thing is nerve "repair." More like recharging but anyway I stayed up for 23 hours one time and my eyes hurt so bad, nothing but putting my optic nerves offline for 8 hours could make them feel better. It felt a lot like if I didn't get some sleep, I'd damage my nerves. It's completely impossible to use your optic nerves indefinitely without giving them a long time to rest. Plus, certain neurons can't stand up to indefinite use either. The reason they stop working as well is because they need to stop and take a break. If some drugs gets them revved up again, that's some brain damage eventually.
read my post below yours, it sums it all up. But yeah it's basically just offsite processing and they're pretending like this is the future no matter what you think and you better get used to it now to try and get it to catch on because they know it's a stupid idea. Sounds like something Apple would do.
That has got to be the stupidest "yep, it's gonna happen" post I've ever read in my entire life. So I wanna process something but can't do it on my comp so the app sends out the executable data to a server, executes it, and sends back the result faster than my PC could have done it. Well here's a little question I ask to the person saying this is gonna take off. What happens when I send some modified data to the your server farm to process and it's actually a replicating virus. I say thanks for the DOS headquarters, guys. And don't anyone dare say "oh, well they'll 100% protect it so only their code can run" cuz that's not gonna happen. Plus besides the obvious security nightmare, I can only imagine the cost for this type of software when you're basically renting a server. Either that or you can only use the app for a certain amount of time or they'll charge you more? Nobody's gonna put up with that kinda of business model. Oh and I don't think companies would feel comfortable sending their customer data and credit card transactions off to be processed somewhere else and just hope nobody records the data. Let's say MS Office 2010 lets you process your huge customer excel sheet mail merges and someone at the server place decides hmmm I'm gonna record everyone's data and sell it to spammers! I can think of like 10 other ideas why this is the stupidest software idea on Earth but I'm sick of typing.
They have so much DRM on their buyable vids, you're practically renting them right now. I think the change is that now they're actually going to call it renting and put a time limit on their DRM. Plus ISPs are gonna throttle and packet shape it.
Google Apps could disappear at any time. If you're gonna switch to something, switch to Open Office. Even if everyone in the project is suddenly killed by ninjas, you still have the original offline installer that can keep you going for quite some time.
well then lucky for you whenever there's a PC and a mac of the same price, the PC is always faster if it doesn't have Vista and sometimes even if it does. With apple you're paying more for what they think is stylish looks and a brand name. 2 people I know ordered $2000+ macs last year and I read the hardware spec list and was like "what the hell? This is it?!" You could have got the same parts in a PC for $1300-1500.
There's one problem though. If customers did it that way then they wouldn't get to act like a douche at the counter about the staff getting their 10 word drink correct nor would they get to feel all special ordering a 10 word drink out loud. One of my college teachers used to work at a Starbucks and trust me he said, "People really are like that. Every one of them." They don't want convenience and speed, they wanna walk in and act like the most self important dick in the world and pretend they're rich by spending like $8 on a coffee. If you take that away, they'll stop coming!
okay it says " not to edit files stored on their backup systems" so more like everyone should be asking why the hell would you edit files in a backup anyway. You back up files and then leave them there, not edit them with software. Anyone who edits the files in their backups directly is asking for trouble.
I think they're talking about how we're not gonna be able to handle sitting on our butts eating ramen and reading 6 e-mails instead of 3. I know I get pretty frazzled when that happens cuz then it's just anohter 3 minutes between me and Oblivion (the game) Seriously, if we're not infomation overloaded already with the insane amount of advertising everywhere plus the level of technology currently available then we're not going to be. If you don't want stock updates stalking you on your mobile phone, don't sign up for it. If you don't want to look up something on wikipedia, don't. Is it that hard?
what the hell are you talking about? Put the video on a high capacity plastic storage medium like HD DVDs or holographic disks (yes they exist) and stick em in the cold storage. How fucking hard is that? Plus, can't hard drives sit there and keep their data unpowered, out of a server, out of a datacenter, in the regrigerator for a long time too? Surely not as long as plastic but why would you even say that they'd be constantly live and powered in a server? There's absolutely no point to that
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sorry, I gotta say this...you learn that some meteors make it to 47,000 feet and hit planes hehehe. In fact, a lot of small ones hit the ground. Remember that one during that baseball game that hit that lady's car and her insurance didn't cover meteorites but she sold the meteorite to scientists for over a million and bought a new car. Yeah well a lot more meteors hit the ground (and thus become meteorites) during meteor showers
it's not as dangerous as you think cuz THIS JUST IN! Faraday wallet stocks went through the roof! But seriously once a couple people's get spoofed, nobody's going to buy them since apparently they're optional. Then 99% of people who use them are going to be drug runners, illegal immigrants, and terrorists so they're going to discontinue their distribution
I'm thinking the heat from the panels is somehow concentrated and used to heat and melt salt. Then when the sun isn't out, the salt gives off heat and turns the turbine so there's constant power. Sounds inefficient to me. Plus wouldn't they want to use something that ohhhhh you know stores and conducts heat well? You know like a giant block of metal instead of salt.
If it's an "open source" search engine and anyone can go and read the source of how it operates, everyone will know the secret to rigging their pages so that they show up in the top results. Google is extremely secretive of their algorithms and that's why there's relatively few rigged crap links.
but it sounds so much cooler. In fact, they should have counted it in bytes. I believe that would be 27 fuckingbigillion bytes. Now that sounds impressive!
I live in Wisconsin so believe me when I say putting warm water on a road to de-ice it is a very, very, very bad idea. Also if all the heated water tubes would be connected to a central area where they could turb a turbine, you'd lose so much heat from the transport (since the underground is cold) it wouldn't be cost effective. Now an actually good use would be hooking up people's waterheaters to the reverse radiation network of tubes under the road and let the road heat the water to supplement the water heater's job to save a lot of electricity or propane.
nooooo the traffic drops when they stop using the old Xbox and immediately rises when they start using the 360. In other words people bying 360's didn't do anything to traffic except when you account for the number of people who sold their original Xbox to people who didn't have one before and those people are now using Live.
wasn't everyone "supposed" to have caught the Y2K glitch too? Everyone was like "oh gee, it'll never have to go past 2 digits or roll over to 00." So I guess Apple thought they were safe from the Y2.008K bug. What a bunch of morons. Maybe they should have spent less time on those annoying ads (especially that stupid music!!!) and actually made sure the programming was less retarded.
but XP and Vista tried to be the everything computer and now it's a bulky, slow, not well written pile of crap that's stuck with piles of legacy support. If you try to do too much, it never ends well. But then again if you mean different distros of Linux doing specialized tasks well so Linux in general doing everything, that's a good idea.
I wanna see Linux turn into "the platform" for AI. I read something about it already becoming that so that'd be sweet. Right now you all know the famous categories. Windows is for business and other dumb stuff. Macs are apparently the thing to get for video and graphics work though I strongly disagree. And Linux is gonna be for anything with AI! Cuz AI programmers (and their programs) are smart enough to know that paying for an OS is stupid when you don't have to and you can't change much about the OS after you install it. And you don't need your AI creation freezing up while the OS makes a system restore point or crashing randomly (OS X and Windows). And in 2009 I hope a giant pengiun robot attacks Microsoft headquarters.
Most 360 users have an original Xbox so the traffic should drop then rise as they retire the old Xbox. I doubt traffic could go up more than 50%. Wanna know my theory? Their servers suck and the whole network isn't very scalable. Either that or it hit the maximum number of simultaneous screaming eleven year olds and the servers melted.
yeah, Canada! Didn't you get the e-mail? (yes it's mostly drug spam but some seriously is canadian medical procedure spam)
If someone's blood vessel is plugged up with cholesterol, wouldn't a snake get stuck and kill them? And if they break the chunk off that could easily cause a stroke. Plus a big snake stuck in your heart doesn't sound too safe either. And what if it doesn't want to get out and causes a hostage situation? Then what?
Btw wtf is everyone's problem with Roland? Maybe I haven't been around long enough but my only problem is I can't pronounce his retarded last name and he looks like a douche.
Why don't they just make a little box where you press some buttons (BUTTONS, NOT TOUCH SCREEN!) and it prints you a filled out ballot with Scantron abilities. It wipes its memory after it prints and you drop your ballot in the ballot box. Then they scan em in later with a scantron machine which would basically be 100% accuracy since they were all printed on the same paper from the same printer model in the same way. And there's your paper trail. It'd be like 3x faster and unhackable since it's still paper based.
At least they didn't try and auction off a functional replicator. You know Star Fleet's feelings on sharing technology like that lol.
exactly and the most important thing is nerve "repair." More like recharging but anyway I stayed up for 23 hours one time and my eyes hurt so bad, nothing but putting my optic nerves offline for 8 hours could make them feel better. It felt a lot like if I didn't get some sleep, I'd damage my nerves. It's completely impossible to use your optic nerves indefinitely without giving them a long time to rest. Plus, certain neurons can't stand up to indefinite use either. The reason they stop working as well is because they need to stop and take a break. If some drugs gets them revved up again, that's some brain damage eventually.
read my post below yours, it sums it all up. But yeah it's basically just offsite processing and they're pretending like this is the future no matter what you think and you better get used to it now to try and get it to catch on because they know it's a stupid idea. Sounds like something Apple would do.
That has got to be the stupidest "yep, it's gonna happen" post I've ever read in my entire life. So I wanna process something but can't do it on my comp so the app sends out the executable data to a server, executes it, and sends back the result faster than my PC could have done it. Well here's a little question I ask to the person saying this is gonna take off. What happens when I send some modified data to the your server farm to process and it's actually a replicating virus. I say thanks for the DOS headquarters, guys. And don't anyone dare say "oh, well they'll 100% protect it so only their code can run" cuz that's not gonna happen. Plus besides the obvious security nightmare, I can only imagine the cost for this type of software when you're basically renting a server. Either that or you can only use the app for a certain amount of time or they'll charge you more? Nobody's gonna put up with that kinda of business model. Oh and I don't think companies would feel comfortable sending their customer data and credit card transactions off to be processed somewhere else and just hope nobody records the data. Let's say MS Office 2010 lets you process your huge customer excel sheet mail merges and someone at the server place decides hmmm I'm gonna record everyone's data and sell it to spammers! I can think of like 10 other ideas why this is the stupidest software idea on Earth but I'm sick of typing.
They have so much DRM on their buyable vids, you're practically renting them right now. I think the change is that now they're actually going to call it renting and put a time limit on their DRM. Plus ISPs are gonna throttle and packet shape it.
Google Apps could disappear at any time. If you're gonna switch to something, switch to Open Office. Even if everyone in the project is suddenly killed by ninjas, you still have the original offline installer that can keep you going for quite some time.
well then lucky for you whenever there's a PC and a mac of the same price, the PC is always faster if it doesn't have Vista and sometimes even if it does. With apple you're paying more for what they think is stylish looks and a brand name. 2 people I know ordered $2000+ macs last year and I read the hardware spec list and was like "what the hell? This is it?!" You could have got the same parts in a PC for $1300-1500.
There's one problem though. If customers did it that way then they wouldn't get to act like a douche at the counter about the staff getting their 10 word drink correct nor would they get to feel all special ordering a 10 word drink out loud. One of my college teachers used to work at a Starbucks and trust me he said, "People really are like that. Every one of them." They don't want convenience and speed, they wanna walk in and act like the most self important dick in the world and pretend they're rich by spending like $8 on a coffee. If you take that away, they'll stop coming!
okay it says " not to edit files stored on their backup systems" so more like everyone should be asking why the hell would you edit files in a backup anyway. You back up files and then leave them there, not edit them with software. Anyone who edits the files in their backups directly is asking for trouble.
I think they're talking about how we're not gonna be able to handle sitting on our butts eating ramen and reading 6 e-mails instead of 3. I know I get pretty frazzled when that happens cuz then it's just anohter 3 minutes between me and Oblivion (the game) Seriously, if we're not infomation overloaded already with the insane amount of advertising everywhere plus the level of technology currently available then we're not going to be. If you don't want stock updates stalking you on your mobile phone, don't sign up for it. If you don't want to look up something on wikipedia, don't. Is it that hard?
what the hell are you talking about? Put the video on a high capacity plastic storage medium like HD DVDs or holographic disks (yes they exist) and stick em in the cold storage. How fucking hard is that? Plus, can't hard drives sit there and keep their data unpowered, out of a server, out of a datacenter, in the regrigerator for a long time too? Surely not as long as plastic but why would you even say that they'd be constantly live and powered in a server? There's absolutely no point to that