Depending on where you are, you might be able to hook up with a long range WiFi company. I currently use a company called PrairieINet here in Central Illinois and get my 802.11b signal from their tower 8 miles away. I then distribute it within the house with my own 802.11b router. I'd look into those providers around your area.
What a load of crap! The/. descriptions says clubbers in Barcelona are getting drunk and being implanted on site with RFID chips which maks it sound like the club is tagging passed out patrons with a chip without their consent. In fact the bar is sponsoring the chip implants and people can sign up for them. I'm not saying that it makes the idea OK, but it's a heck of a lot better than a story about waking up with an ID embedded in your arm. Let's try to tell it like it is a little more, even if it is/.
This may be slightly off topic, but can someone tell me which is the better burner/media to get, the +R or the -R? Also, I've seen some media that says +R and the RW but it's only write once. What is the skinny on all of these R's?
OK, back to the topic at hand of games. Games would fall into the category of unrealistic pretty much every time. As much as you want to say that 14(ish) kids can distinguish from real and a game or movie, repeated exposre to it is just not good. I'm not sure if you agree with me or if you're just trying to come off as some better-than-though liberal.
Every time a new medium is introduced - whether it be movies, television or rock-and-roll - there will always be generations who aren't accustomed to it, don't understand it and, in a way, fear its success and popularity with younger generations.
This is just plain stupid. It's not the medium that people are concerned with, it's the content of some games in this new medium. I am 29, and I still don't want my kids to see blood splattered all over their monitor when playing games. That just doesn't seem like a healthy thing for 14 year olds to be exposed to more than is neccessary. Even if they no it's not real, it de-sensitizes them to it and makes it more acceptible. If the only argument this guy can come up can be boiled down to "Old people suck!", then it's really not worth listening to.
In addition to a calendar, a contact manager that can interface with both the calendar and the email app is desperatly needed on Windows. I'm trying to convice people in the office to move away from MS and the big pitfall is a PIM to replace Outlook. Who is working on something like this? Anyone?
2 $2 isn't tha much, people pay more then this for a bottle of water.
What the hell kind of logic is that? People don't pay $2 a gallon for water in the quantities that they consume gasoline in. Let's assume that a normal person has a 30 mile commute. Then let's be generous and say that their car gets 30 miles/gallon (more likely it averages out around 18). So, this person will use 2 gallons just going to work and coming home. I don't know anyone that goes through 2 gallons of Evian a day. It's just a plain stupid comparison. The use of water and gasoline aren't even close.
Sheesh I can't believe I just spent 2 minutes replying to that.
If this is meant to defend against balistic missles fired at the US mainland, wouldn't the planes have to be in the air all the time? Seems pretty wasteful for the low likely hood of attack.
A better use of this would be as a battlefield deployment. Something like the first Gulf War and defense against SCUDs. Not sure what the range is on this laser, so you might have to be pretty close to the source which might make this impractical.
I hadn't checked out the airports before. They want $300 for this?! $200 for the basic one. I can get an 802.11g for half this price although granted it won't have the spiffy case, but who cares? Is there something else great about this that would make me crazy enough to buy this?
I listen to my iPod more during the week and less during the weekend. I find that it loses it's place after sitting over the weekend and I start over I know that it's random so it shouldn't matter, but I find myself thinking that there are certainly songs that I never get to listen to becuase I can't make it through the whole collection.
I'm no scientist, but it seems kind of obvious that the universe would appear to have this shape? If the universe is constantly expanding, and if as we look further away from earth we're actually looking further back in time because of the time that it takes light to reach us, then what these guys are seeing is a smaller universe in some areas which would have been the case at the point in time that the light we are seeing now was generated. So in theory you could say that the funnel points toward the big bang or whatever sarted the universe expanding.
Maybe we should scrap social security and force people to have a little more self reliance and stop making me send my money to people who are too dumb to realize that they don't bring money in after they retire.
For Apple, keeping the list of proprietary formats small is good. It will only become a problem when some big distribution studio goes exclusive on another proprietary format, and they are less likely to do that if the #1 portable player doesn't support it. Apple may not be in control now, but they certainly have more power than if they opened up and supported everyone. IMHO
Why does the DOJ need to make any comment on this issue? It seems like they are only doing this to show support for MS. I would think that with the DOJ currently in an oversight role with regards to MS it should refrain from making any comment at all on what its counter part in the EU does to MS. Doesn't give me a lot of confidence that new stateside abuses will be policed very well.
Gee, where were you with your 20/20 hindsight vision when the Shuttle was being developed? It's very easy to make these kinds of statements now, 25 years after the fact. At the time though, there was a lot of pressure to make space flight cheap and prevalent and looking at that kind of volume a reuseable craft makes much more sense. Please don't treat the early shuttle designers as though they were money grubbing morons. There were many good reasons to do what they did, and there are many things, like Hubble, that would have been much harder to launch and maintain without the shuttle.
This is no killer app. This is a toy. It may let people organize their desktop better, and it's cool to look at, but you are not going to get businesses to pony up for the switch to Linux so their employees can make their windows transparent. A "killer app" must have real and recognizable benefits to influence a shift of this magnitude.
ahhh, I believe that Apple has some of the highest margins in the OEM market. Not that that's saying a whole lot, but if anyone can afford to restock a computer it's Apple.
I develope all my pages in Mozilla first, one because that's the browser I use all day, two because it has the best css support. Third is beacuse it comes with tools that allow me to diagnose a page much better than anything from MS. The DOM inspector, JavaScript Console, and the JavaScript Debugger are indispensible when building any kind of DHTML site that relies on CSS for display. After I bulid the site in Mozilla I make some corrections for IE and that's pretty much it. I don't bother with testing on Opera or Safari because it's just not worth the time for the few people that come to my site and use those browsers. So, that's my $.02 with about 10 years of development and real-world experience.
Are there enforcable requirements that satelites be disposed of responsibly? What is to keep a company that goes bankrupt to allow their satelites to crash into terra firma any-old where?
I'm not familiar with the economics. Is it enough cheaper to launch to a lower orbit that you could save money by launching to lower orbits and paying to have them boosted by a "premanent" tug that could move between lower and higher orbits? If the savings from going to a lower orbit could pay for the boosting charge there might be a market here. Assuming of course that such a tug could be built. Another opportunity that I would think could have even more possibilities would be simple refueling. Some others have posted that the main reason sattelites are junked is becasue they deplete their fuel. If you could refule several satelites on one launch you might be able to recoup your loses. If you could offer that service at a considerable savings to launching a new satelite, you might convince companies to get some more mileage out of their old birds even if it were just for backup purposes.
I see that vCard support has been added, but there doesn't seem to be any UI for it. Can anyone tell me how to open a vCard that is sent to me from Outlook?
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Depending on where you are, you might be able to hook up with a long range WiFi company. I currently use a company called PrairieINet here in Central Illinois and get my 802.11b signal from their tower 8 miles away. I then distribute it within the house with my own 802.11b router. I'd look into those providers around your area.
I have looked at the torrent list, and all of the files are close to 2GB. What am I missing?
I don't yet have a fancy DVD writer. Where can I get some sub-700 MB isos?
What a load of crap! The /. descriptions says clubbers in Barcelona are getting drunk and being implanted on site with RFID chips which maks it sound like the club is tagging passed out patrons with a chip without their consent. In fact the bar is sponsoring the chip implants and people can sign up for them. I'm not saying that it makes the idea OK, but it's a heck of a lot better than a story about waking up with an ID embedded in your arm. Let's try to tell it like it is a little more, even if it is /.
This may be slightly off topic, but can someone tell me which is the better burner/media to get, the +R or the -R? Also, I've seen some media that says +R and the RW but it's only write once. What is the skinny on all of these R's?
OK, back to the topic at hand of games. Games would fall into the category of unrealistic pretty much every time. As much as you want to say that 14(ish) kids can distinguish from real and a game or movie, repeated exposre to it is just not good. I'm not sure if you agree with me or if you're just trying to come off as some better-than-though liberal.
Every time a new medium is introduced - whether it be movies, television or rock-and-roll - there will always be generations who aren't accustomed to it, don't understand it and, in a way, fear its success and popularity with younger generations.
This is just plain stupid. It's not the medium that people are concerned with, it's the content of some games in this new medium. I am 29, and I still don't want my kids to see blood splattered all over their monitor when playing games. That just doesn't seem like a healthy thing for 14 year olds to be exposed to more than is neccessary. Even if they no it's not real, it de-sensitizes them to it and makes it more acceptible. If the only argument this guy can come up can be boiled down to "Old people suck!", then it's really not worth listening to.
In addition to a calendar, a contact manager that can interface with both the calendar and the email app is desperatly needed on Windows. I'm trying to convice people in the office to move away from MS and the big pitfall is a PIM to replace Outlook. Who is working on something like this? Anyone?
2 $2 isn't tha much, people pay more then this for a bottle of water.
What the hell kind of logic is that? People don't pay $2 a gallon for water in the quantities that they consume gasoline in. Let's assume that a normal person has a 30 mile commute. Then let's be generous and say that their car gets 30 miles/gallon (more likely it averages out around 18). So, this person will use 2 gallons just going to work and coming home. I don't know anyone that goes through 2 gallons of Evian a day. It's just a plain stupid comparison. The use of water and gasoline aren't even close.
Sheesh I can't believe I just spent 2 minutes replying to that.
If this is meant to defend against balistic missles fired at the US mainland, wouldn't the planes have to be in the air all the time? Seems pretty wasteful for the low likely hood of attack.
A better use of this would be as a battlefield deployment. Something like the first Gulf War and defense against SCUDs. Not sure what the range is on this laser, so you might have to be pretty close to the source which might make this impractical.
I hadn't checked out the airports before. They want $300 for this?! $200 for the basic one. I can get an 802.11g for half this price although granted it won't have the spiffy case, but who cares? Is there something else great about this that would make me crazy enough to buy this?
I fyou read the whole of revelations 13 I think you'll see that Rev 13:16-17 is actually referring to Balmer. ;-)
I listen to my iPod more during the week and less during the weekend. I find that it loses it's place after sitting over the weekend and I start over I know that it's random so it shouldn't matter, but I find myself thinking that there are certainly songs that I never get to listen to becuase I can't make it through the whole collection.
Maybe it's just me though.
I'm no scientist, but it seems kind of obvious that the universe would appear to have this shape? If the universe is constantly expanding, and if as we look further away from earth we're actually looking further back in time because of the time that it takes light to reach us, then what these guys are seeing is a smaller universe in some areas which would have been the case at the point in time that the light we are seeing now was generated. So in theory you could say that the funnel points toward the big bang or whatever sarted the universe expanding.
Of course, I could be completely off.
Maybe we should scrap social security and force people to have a little more self reliance and stop making me send my money to people who are too dumb to realize that they don't bring money in after they retire.
For Apple, keeping the list of proprietary formats small is good. It will only become a problem when some big distribution studio goes exclusive on another proprietary format, and they are less likely to do that if the #1 portable player doesn't support it. Apple may not be in control now, but they certainly have more power than if they opened up and supported everyone. IMHO
Why does the DOJ need to make any comment on this issue? It seems like they are only doing this to show support for MS. I would think that with the DOJ currently in an oversight role with regards to MS it should refrain from making any comment at all on what its counter part in the EU does to MS. Doesn't give me a lot of confidence that new stateside abuses will be policed very well.
Gee, where were you with your 20/20 hindsight vision when the Shuttle was being developed? It's very easy to make these kinds of statements now, 25 years after the fact. At the time though, there was a lot of pressure to make space flight cheap and prevalent and looking at that kind of volume a reuseable craft makes much more sense. Please don't treat the early shuttle designers as though they were money grubbing morons. There were many good reasons to do what they did, and there are many things, like Hubble, that would have been much harder to launch and maintain without the shuttle.
This is no killer app. This is a toy. It may let people organize their desktop better, and it's cool to look at, but you are not going to get businesses to pony up for the switch to Linux so their employees can make their windows transparent. A "killer app" must have real and recognizable benefits to influence a shift of this magnitude.
ahhh, I believe that Apple has some of the highest margins in the OEM market. Not that that's saying a whole lot, but if anyone can afford to restock a computer it's Apple.
I develope all my pages in Mozilla first, one because that's the browser I use all day, two because it has the best css support. Third is beacuse it comes with tools that allow me to diagnose a page much better than anything from MS. The DOM inspector, JavaScript Console, and the JavaScript Debugger are indispensible when building any kind of DHTML site that relies on CSS for display. After I bulid the site in Mozilla I make some corrections for IE and that's pretty much it. I don't bother with testing on Opera or Safari because it's just not worth the time for the few people that come to my site and use those browsers. So, that's my $.02 with about 10 years of development and real-world experience.
I actually had a therapist tell me one time "Of course you have trouble making ends meet! You hardly make any money!"
What she should have said was. "Of course you have trouble making ends meet! You employ a therapist!"
Are there enforcable requirements that satelites be disposed of responsibly? What is to keep a company that goes bankrupt to allow their satelites to crash into terra firma any-old where?
I'm not familiar with the economics. Is it enough cheaper to launch to a lower orbit that you could save money by launching to lower orbits and paying to have them boosted by a "premanent" tug that could move between lower and higher orbits? If the savings from going to a lower orbit could pay for the boosting charge there might be a market here. Assuming of course that such a tug could be built.
Another opportunity that I would think could have even more possibilities would be simple refueling. Some others have posted that the main reason sattelites are junked is becasue they deplete their fuel. If you could refule several satelites on one launch you might be able to recoup your loses. If you could offer that service at a considerable savings to launching a new satelite, you might convince companies to get some more mileage out of their old birds even if it were just for backup purposes.
I see that vCard support has been added, but there doesn't seem to be any UI for it. Can anyone tell me how to open a vCard that is sent to me from Outlook?