Stealth Fighters - the F-117A, were cheap. 15-20 million each. That's because they used alot of off the shelf parts.
Stealth Bombers - the B-2A, were expensive. Mostly because the money spent on 21 was the same sum that could have bought 72, but Congress only wanted 21.
Stealth Fighters - the F-22A, are expensive, about 90-200 million, depending on the structure of the contract.
MS could buy and support 2 Nimitz class Aircraft Carriers for 50 years with 44 billion dollars.
People will always point to price as a reason why PCs are a better buy than a Macintosh.
Here is some of my experiance.
I have a Beige G3 Tower from Apple, I've upgraded it to 512 MB of RAM (it came with 32), Firewire/USB card, 40 GB HD (it came with 4) and an ATI Radeon card. Total price for the machine over 4 years and 4 months, $2900 US.
In the same time, at work, I've been through 3 PCs that were bought for $1800, $1550, and $1060 dollars or $4410 US.
Take iMacs, a 2nd rev "Flavored" 266-333 MHz iMac with a 6GB drive will fetch around 400 dollars, while a 266MHz P2 tower is worth about 150 dollars.
Apples may be more expensive up front, but they do last longer than the majority of PCs.
I would argue that now is the time to fight the BSA.
Why? Because the majority of software companies come from Democrat states (California, New York, Washington) leap to mind. That's why if you want to fight the BSA and the RIAA do it when the Republicans are in office. Both the RIAA and BSA gained thier strength between 1993 and 2001, the Clinton years.
If you want the power to protect your house and property from the "IP Spooks". Buy a gun, join the NRA, or if you are really into it, join Gun Owners United of America.
The whole deal in the Constitution about guns was, they knew if the people were armed, then the government couldn't do what the United Kingdom had tried to do from 1770-1781.
I'm not trolling, or that, but doesn't it stike anyone as odd that the same subculture that wants firearms banned or limited in the US is part of the same subculture that wants copy protections?
Hollywood and the entertainment industry as a whole want firearms limited and copy protection.
"1. (20 pts.) Bob and Joe are standing on a street corner. God loves each an equal amount L. Bob then accelerates to.9c. In Joe's rest frame, how much does God now love Bob? "
That's not how the NRA works, that's how Gun Owners United work.
I'm an NRA member BTW.
The NRA has 7 million people that fork over money, they are thus a powerful organization that uses that money to advertise and influence the local, state and national elected officals.
All the stories in Time and Newsweek and sigs on Slashdot about things like the Copyright Bill and the DMCA don't get the attention of people like the buzz of a large political organization IMO.
I might join an Organization that is a Tech PAC. And even pay money.
I'll register with MS Passport when they pry my Springfield M-1 Main Battle Rifle out of my cold, dead hands.
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I have Titanium silverware.
I got a set of Ti sporks, great for pasta and anything with rice or slippery seafood in it.
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One can not compare the AD and MAD thinking of deterrance the same way as the Roman Empire's "defensive" war thinking and Nazi Germany's expansion for living space.
The power to destroy armies, cities and entire cultures within a day didn't exsist until the mid 1950s when the Soviet Union, United States and United Kingdom developed fleets of long range manned bombers and later, ICBMs that could rain megatons of explosives at the push of a button.
MAD, did bring a period of realative peace in the sense there was not another fullscale war in Europe or the Pacific.
It's been since the World moved out of the bi-polar Super Power model that things have been less stable.
Defense through deterrence served alot more than the "ruling nations/classes".
This post might be a joke, but alot of the time I watch TV (55 Mitusbishi HD) from the right, where my computers are, and I can't get my Replay TV remote to hit the box from anything past about 15 degrees to the right or the left.
The towers were designed to survive a single 707 strike, because when the structural engineering work was done, it was the biggest and most common commercial jet in service.
They also thought since it was going to be an accident, it would be a glancing blow, not a dead on center strike at full speed. Or in the case of the second strike, at near V-Max.
My opinion is that anytime a large structure or construct fails, no matter what the reason, it should be seriously studied so that we know what works and what doesn't so that future structures can incorperate the helpful features and remove the extra features so that stucture can be build cheaper, faster, better and quicker.
Reports like this may lead to better fire systems in tall buildings, better alloys and all around safer buildings. Because the next tall building disaster could be in London, Paris, KL, Osaka, Shanghi or Mexico City. It's not an America exclusive danger.
It's not about lingering on the event, or saying enough about it, because it would be wrong to forget events like 9-11, Hiroshima, Dresden, the Death Camps, and the list goes on and on, because if we forget, the horrible things will happen again.
It can happen in the US, it could happen anywhere, tall buildings, wealth and crazy people willing to kill anyone isn't just and American thing.
I thought Bayer, the good people that brought us Heroin, lost the trademark for Aspirin following World War One when the US found out they had made chemcial weapons for Germany, they lost Aspirin in the US, and only recently bought it back, so Bayer Aspirin is once again really from Bayer I.G.
Because I like to single click, to grab it, or to move it, or to single click for a Get Info.
If you added "hover" to the whole single, double paradigm, all you will do is confuse users.
All those people sitting at desks in the Corporate and Education world have learned to single and double click, and woe to anyone that changes the system now.
There was a story here back when the MS Intellihance Explorer mouse came out, and there was a link to a dude's homepage at HP, where he stated he worked on things you will never be able to buy.
There was a picture of what is now the first MS IE mouse, and he went on to explain how it'd not been marketed by HP and would prbly never be sold.
Of course I can't find the story link, because Simpsons are on, it was there.
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Stealth Fighters - the F-117A, were cheap. 15-20 million each. That's because they used alot of off the shelf parts.
Stealth Bombers - the B-2A, were expensive. Mostly because the money spent on 21 was the same sum that could have bought 72, but Congress only wanted 21.
Stealth Fighters - the F-22A, are expensive, about 90-200 million, depending on the structure of the contract.
MS could buy and support 2 Nimitz class Aircraft Carriers for 50 years with 44 billion dollars.
Dark City is good, but it is a remake.
Of Metropolis.
I liked the Superman/Firestorm/Iceman cartoons.
Hulk was alright too, but not as cool as Spiderman.
The old 32 part Flash Gordon cartoon was the best.
I don't recall clicking on an Agree button when I first bought my TV or got Cable.
Using my ReplayTV to move 30 seconds ahead through commercials is no different than channel surfing through commericals like I used to do.
If Tuner wants to keep it up, I'll block thier channels from my Replay, not like I'm missing much.
I wonder if the ability to block channels is also theft, or maybe it's vandalism.
People will always point to price as a reason why PCs are a better buy than a Macintosh.
Here is some of my experiance.
I have a Beige G3 Tower from Apple, I've upgraded it to 512 MB of RAM (it came with 32), Firewire/USB card, 40 GB HD (it came with 4) and an ATI Radeon card. Total price for the machine over 4 years and 4 months, $2900 US.
In the same time, at work, I've been through 3 PCs that were bought for $1800, $1550, and $1060 dollars or $4410 US.
Take iMacs, a 2nd rev "Flavored" 266-333 MHz iMac with a 6GB drive will fetch around 400 dollars, while a 266MHz P2 tower is worth about 150 dollars.
Apples may be more expensive up front, but they do last longer than the majority of PCs.
I would argue that now is the time to fight the BSA.
Why? Because the majority of software companies come from Democrat states (California, New York, Washington) leap to mind. That's why if you want to fight the BSA and the RIAA do it when the Republicans are in office. Both the RIAA and BSA gained thier strength between 1993 and 2001, the Clinton years.
Heres the deal on that.
If you want the power to protect your house and property from the "IP Spooks". Buy a gun, join the NRA, or if you are really into it, join Gun Owners United of America.
The whole deal in the Constitution about guns was, they knew if the people were armed, then the government couldn't do what the United Kingdom had tried to do from 1770-1781.
I'm not trolling, or that, but doesn't it stike anyone as odd that the same subculture that wants firearms banned or limited in the US is part of the same subculture that wants copy protections?
Hollywood and the entertainment industry as a whole want firearms limited and copy protection.
Has anyone gotten to run on OS 9 or X with Virtual PC 4 or 5?
http://www.ironycentral.com/archives/theoexam.html
.9c. In Joe's rest frame, how much does God now love Bob? "
"1. (20 pts.) Bob and Joe are standing on a street corner. God loves each an equal amount L. Bob then accelerates to
That's not how the NRA works, that's how Gun Owners United work.
I'm an NRA member BTW.
The NRA has 7 million people that fork over money, they are thus a powerful organization that uses that money to advertise and influence the local, state and national elected officals.
All the stories in Time and Newsweek and sigs on Slashdot about things like the Copyright Bill and the DMCA don't get the attention of people like the buzz of a large political organization IMO.
I might join an Organization that is a Tech PAC. And even pay money.
I'll register with MS Passport when they pry my Springfield M-1 Main Battle Rifle out of my cold, dead hands.
I have Titanium silverware.
I got a set of Ti sporks, great for pasta and anything with rice or slippery seafood in it.
One can not compare the AD and MAD thinking of deterrance the same way as the Roman Empire's "defensive" war thinking and Nazi Germany's expansion for living space.
The power to destroy armies, cities and entire cultures within a day didn't exsist until the mid 1950s when the Soviet Union, United States and United Kingdom developed fleets of long range manned bombers and later, ICBMs that could rain megatons of explosives at the push of a button.
MAD, did bring a period of realative peace in the sense there was not another fullscale war in Europe or the Pacific.
It's been since the World moved out of the bi-polar Super Power model that things have been less stable.
Defense through deterrence served alot more than the "ruling nations/classes".
I bet they come out with it for OS X Standard before the Server, since the updates usually come out for it about a week or two before Server.
I bet it breaks Tenon's iTools though, really bad.
The only thing I don't get are the people that bitch when Apple releases updates.
Not to long ago, you had to wait months for little things like fixed TCP/IP.
My money is...it'll be out by the 15th of April.
I get nothing with the Replay remote past about 15 degrees to either side. Can't bounce, can't do nothing. Even with fresh batteries.
This post might be a joke, but alot of the time I watch TV (55 Mitusbishi HD) from the right, where my computers are, and I can't get my Replay TV remote to hit the box from anything past about 15 degrees to the right or the left.
RF remotes are really nice.
The towers were designed to survive a single 707 strike, because when the structural engineering work was done, it was the biggest and most common commercial jet in service.
They also thought since it was going to be an accident, it would be a glancing blow, not a dead on center strike at full speed. Or in the case of the second strike, at near V-Max.
My opinion is that anytime a large structure or construct fails, no matter what the reason, it should be seriously studied so that we know what works and what doesn't so that future structures can incorperate the helpful features and remove the extra features so that stucture can be build cheaper, faster, better and quicker.
Reports like this may lead to better fire systems in tall buildings, better alloys and all around safer buildings. Because the next tall building disaster could be in London, Paris, KL, Osaka, Shanghi or Mexico City. It's not an America exclusive danger.
It's not about lingering on the event, or saying enough about it, because it would be wrong to forget events like 9-11, Hiroshima, Dresden, the Death Camps, and the list goes on and on, because if we forget, the horrible things will happen again.
It can happen in the US, it could happen anywhere, tall buildings, wealth and crazy people willing to kill anyone isn't just and American thing.
I thought Bayer, the good people that brought us Heroin, lost the trademark for Aspirin following World War One when the US found out they had made chemcial weapons for Germany, they lost Aspirin in the US, and only recently bought it back, so Bayer Aspirin is once again really from Bayer I.G.
He might play Warcraft 2 and Starcraft on it.
And Diablo 1.
That's about it, no Tribes 2 on that beast.
It's just a Pentium 200 MMX, It shouldn't overheat too bad.
Because I like to single click, to grab it, or to move it, or to single click for a Get Info.
If you added "hover" to the whole single, double paradigm, all you will do is confuse users.
All those people sitting at desks in the Corporate and Education world have learned to single and double click, and woe to anyone that changes the system now.
I got mod'ed as a troll for stating the truth.
There was a story here back when the MS Intellihance Explorer mouse came out, and there was a link to a dude's homepage at HP, where he stated he worked on things you will never be able to buy.
There was a picture of what is now the first MS
IE mouse, and he went on to explain how it'd not been marketed by HP and would prbly never be sold.
Of course I can't find the story link, because Simpsons are on, it was there.
I wonder what nasty side-effects that will cause in the ocean.
You just can't take energy out of a system without a side-effect.
Of course, it will only be an issue if it is ever scaled up.
MS didn't invent thier Optical Mouse, it was designed and made by HP.