Except if you live in a town serviced by one airline. If I want to fly anywhere without first driving two-and-a-half hours my first flight of the trip is guaranteed to be American Eagle to the airport I would be driving to. It isn't until I get to the hub that I'm free to choose a different airline.
This is why I have a hard time reading Slashdot. Somebody will say something and then someone else will start arguing something related to that post but not the actual story. Why isn't this entire thread marked "Offtopic"?
Studies done in Europe have shown that animals that ate cloned meat developed tumors, cancer, and several other diseases after several months.
Studies have also shown that 99% of homosexuals text-message with their thumbs. I could put together a study right now showing that bread is extremely lethal. Everybody that has eaten bread has died or will die sometime in the next few decades.
"Installing Vista onto an older system? There's a good chance that your graphics card, sound card, and some of your older software won't work properly."
Really? If you try to install Windows 98 on an old enough machine it might not work! That's what happens. Technology marches on. The old must be left behind eventually or the new will get too bogged down to move forward.
Why Outlook 2003? I have it and I have no problems with it. It always loads quickly and is always responsive. Perhaps the only annoying thing about it is the balloon that says,"Outlook is not responding." Yes it is! Have more than a 1/4s of patience.
USB does work fine. My Creative Labs Sound Blaster Extigy is a 96-bit/24kHz/100dB SNR external soundcard from about 4 years ago. The manual states it can provide a 5.1 surround sound environment while simultaneously processing a full duplex recording session.
Since you are such a fan of ASN, surely you noticed there were 1,059 fatalities in 2005 compared to 3X that in the state of Texas alone for the same year? Is it not enough for you that millions of people fly daily without incident? Nothing you have come up with occurs regularly. I suppose you don't drive for fear that you'll have a blowout. Those happen all the time, you know. Flying is easily the safest mode of transportation. You are just being irrational.
Neither of those are ready for prime time? Is it still 1993? Hellooo! It is now 14 years later. Carbon fiber and fly-by-wire are more than ready for prime time. Carbon fiber doesn't have the problems it used to and computers for fly-by-wire have gotten immensely more powerful. They are both in common use. What was the last airplane you flew on? I'll take miles of wires that just sit there over miles of hydraulic tubing trying to leak at every opportunity.
What would be the analog equivalent to two monitors? A wider desk. Is a desk with room for a book to take notes out of and the sheet of paper on which to write the notes better than a desk only wide enough for the book and paper to be stacked on each other?
Clearly SOMEONE hasn't taken anything beyond Comp Sci 101. You are correct in stating all those operations are done by addition but it is kind of hard, no, impossible, to add a number to itself 5 times within a single clock cycle. One can use bitshifts or addition loops to multiply faster than the mulitplication command in some cases. It still stands that mulitplication in general by anything other than a power of two is slower than addition.
Let's see... Off the top of my head I came up with arranging files/folders in stacks within a folder. It will also let you load frequently used programs faster. It will let you use a USB drive as RAM. Does XP do that right out of the box?
Obviously, you buy the one that just adds numbers. I'm just showing that adding features and maintaining or reducing size is very hard if not impossible.
That would make perfect sense for them to show Aero. What company doesn't showcase their high-end products instead of their low-end ones? Car companies advertise their best-looking cars, food companies advertise their best-looking food, even Intel advertises its best processors. A company must never show mediocrity in its advertisements or it will suffer a huge hit in sales and possibly fail.
If I write a program that can multiply numbers in addition to the previous program that could only add numbers, it would necessarily take more space. Would you call that a step backward?
Slight problem with your "problem": most people don't use 300-1000 megabytes. The only reason I do is because I've uploaded multi-megabyte files. I only have about 15MB of actual email.
My brother and I played Unreal Tournament CTF on God-like difficulty and insta-kill. Holy crap. You had to shoot almost as soon as you saw aa enemy. If you missed, you wouldn't get another shot before you got killed. Sometimes you wouldn't even get your first shot off in time.
Sounds like my university, except I only had to pay $10 when I bought Office 2003. I'm still waiting on them to start selling Vista and Office 2007 for cheap. It'll be nice to upgrade everything for only another $15-$20.
The only training I was required to do was for digit dialing. I can put a new person's work/home/mobile number in my phone and immediately voice dial it. It even seems to work with non-English names like Juan and Nguyen. It is really amazing.
I've used my phone's voice dialing in my pretty loud car and amazingly it still works. If you get the right system it is amazing what voice control can do.
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It started out 3D, why not keep it 3D? I do understand your sentiment. The experience was somewhat...lacking.
Except if you live in a town serviced by one airline. If I want to fly anywhere without first driving two-and-a-half hours my first flight of the trip is guaranteed to be American Eagle to the airport I would be driving to. It isn't until I get to the hub that I'm free to choose a different airline.
You think you're so funny, don't you? I came here to read people's comments on RIAA's actions, not religion.
This is why I have a hard time reading Slashdot. Somebody will say something and then someone else will start arguing something related to that post but not the actual story. Why isn't this entire thread marked "Offtopic"?
Studies have also shown that 99% of homosexuals text-message with their thumbs. I could put together a study right now showing that bread is extremely lethal. Everybody that has eaten bread has died or will die sometime in the next few decades.
"Installing Vista onto an older system? There's a good chance that your graphics card, sound card, and some of your older software won't work properly."
Really? If you try to install Windows 98 on an old enough machine it might not work! That's what happens. Technology marches on. The old must be left behind eventually or the new will get too bogged down to move forward.
Why Outlook 2003? I have it and I have no problems with it. It always loads quickly and is always responsive. Perhaps the only annoying thing about it is the balloon that says,"Outlook is not responding." Yes it is! Have more than a 1/4s of patience.
USB does work fine. My Creative Labs Sound Blaster Extigy is a 96-bit/24kHz/100dB SNR external soundcard from about 4 years ago. The manual states it can provide a 5.1 surround sound environment while simultaneously processing a full duplex recording session.
Since you are such a fan of ASN, surely you noticed there were 1,059 fatalities in 2005 compared to 3X that in the state of Texas alone for the same year? Is it not enough for you that millions of people fly daily without incident? Nothing you have come up with occurs regularly. I suppose you don't drive for fear that you'll have a blowout. Those happen all the time, you know. Flying is easily the safest mode of transportation. You are just being irrational.
How much are you willing to pay to sit in the quiet zone? You know the airlines are going to charge extra for that.
Neither of those are ready for prime time? Is it still 1993? Hellooo! It is now 14 years later. Carbon fiber and fly-by-wire are more than ready for prime time. Carbon fiber doesn't have the problems it used to and computers for fly-by-wire have gotten immensely more powerful. They are both in common use. What was the last airplane you flew on? I'll take miles of wires that just sit there over miles of hydraulic tubing trying to leak at every opportunity.
What would be the analog equivalent to two monitors? A wider desk. Is a desk with room for a book to take notes out of and the sheet of paper on which to write the notes better than a desk only wide enough for the book and paper to be stacked on each other?
Real smart. He asked for an ad-free copy of of the website, not a bunch of software.
Clearly SOMEONE hasn't taken anything beyond Comp Sci 101. You are correct in stating all those operations are done by addition but it is kind of hard, no, impossible, to add a number to itself 5 times within a single clock cycle. One can use bitshifts or addition loops to multiply faster than the mulitplication command in some cases. It still stands that mulitplication in general by anything other than a power of two is slower than addition.
Let's see... Off the top of my head I came up with arranging files/folders in stacks within a folder. It will also let you load frequently used programs faster. It will let you use a USB drive as RAM. Does XP do that right out of the box?
Obviously, you buy the one that just adds numbers. I'm just showing that adding features and maintaining or reducing size is very hard if not impossible.
That would make perfect sense for them to show Aero. What company doesn't showcase their high-end products instead of their low-end ones? Car companies advertise their best-looking cars, food companies advertise their best-looking food, even Intel advertises its best processors. A company must never show mediocrity in its advertisements or it will suffer a huge hit in sales and possibly fail.
If I write a program that can multiply numbers in addition to the previous program that could only add numbers, it would necessarily take more space. Would you call that a step backward?
Mine died literally the day after the warranty expired. I really enjoyed playing it, too.
Slight problem with your "problem": most people don't use 300-1000 megabytes. The only reason I do is because I've uploaded multi-megabyte files. I only have about 15MB of actual email.
My brother and I played Unreal Tournament CTF on God-like difficulty and insta-kill. Holy crap. You had to shoot almost as soon as you saw aa enemy. If you missed, you wouldn't get another shot before you got killed. Sometimes you wouldn't even get your first shot off in time.
"Click to enlarge". Ok. That's all you got? I was hoping for larger.
I always look for the Print Article button. Thanks for finding it for me.
Sounds like my university, except I only had to pay $10 when I bought Office 2003. I'm still waiting on them to start selling Vista and Office 2007 for cheap. It'll be nice to upgrade everything for only another $15-$20.
The only training I was required to do was for digit dialing. I can put a new person's work/home/mobile number in my phone and immediately voice dial it. It even seems to work with non-English names like Juan and Nguyen. It is really amazing.
I've used my phone's voice dialing in my pretty loud car and amazingly it still works. If you get the right system it is amazing what voice control can do.