Theory says "stellar" black holes over 10 cannot form, galactic core black holes follow a different evolution path and their physics are still pretty much unknown.
Luca
No, it's more like it's very intrusive and slooooooow even on a powerful machine.
I like to follow the old saying "If it's not broken, don't fix it" and Microsoft has done the opposite, they fixed something that was working ok (XP) and now it's worse.
It took me forever to figure out a way to get rid of the annoying message that pops up every time you start any kind of application. Yesterday I was transferring my setting from my old laptop to my new tablet with Vista and after 2 hours Vista decided that there was no wireless router nearby (and yet, my other 2 computers with XP were still seeing the router and connected to the internet); it took me an hour and several reboot to finally make it go back to normal operations. The old "repair" on XP is quick and works almost every time, on Vista is complicated and full of useless questions that you don't care for.
Start-up is very slow, if was only acceptably faster with the brand new computer before installing anything else. Everywhere there are millions of settings that don't make your life better, just make it more complicated. Hey, don't get me wrong, my first computer was a Commodore 64, I've anything from Vic 20 to SGI Onyx 2 stations and I love tweaking stuff, but I don't see the purpose of this. If it wasn't for the major software that I need I'd be on Linux full time already.
Sorry to say, but after one week with Vista I had enough already. I got plenty more but I'd have to sit here all day typing and I don't have the time.
My desktop is also new (6 months old now) but on that one I managed to get XP Professional and they gave me a Vista Premium upgrade DVD which I have no plan on using. One annoying OS in the house is enough.
Luca
I just bought a tablet PC and unfortunately I couldn't get it with XP Tablet Edition, instead it came with Vista Home Premium and after one week I already hate it (Actually I hated it after one day). Its random behavior, its intrusiveness and its theft of resources are just a few of the things that are driving me crazy.
I just bought a tablet PC and unfortunately I couldn't get it with XP Tablet Edition, instead it came with Vista Home Premium and after one week I already hate it (Actually I hated it after one day). It's random behavior, it's intrusiveness and it's theft of resources are just a few of the things that are driving me crazy.
>This is the man who claimed OS4 was on schedule to be released in 1999.
Yes, that's the same man who was lied to by Hyperion's manager who claimed a full staff was working on OS4 and then turned out to be only two people. Bill is not responsible for all the crap that happened in the Amiga world.
You know who I am.
Haha, yes it's true. In the U.S. we have strict privacy rules on medical matters but we have no right to privacy at all when it comes to everything else. Someone I know just recently forwarded me the URL of a website where they collect private data and they had all the addresses I have lived at in the past 10 years including the current one. That pisses me off majorly.
Aww, will you stop being and A$$hole? You call me a retard, admit to being wrong, and you want me to tell you how cool you are? Get a grip on life. I've been on the internet for over a decade and your trolling skills are nothing new, trust me.
I don't know where you got those fictious numbers from, I have two friends who are HIV+ and none of them pays anywhere near that much, as a matter of fact one even get totally free medicines.
To buy a PS3:
Blue-Ray DVD. But by Christmas prices of internal BD-RW will drop and I'll get one for less than the cost of a PS3 to play BD Movies on my Gateway 24" 1080p monitor (better than my TV). So... really no reason to buy a PS3.
To buy an XBOX360:
HALO 3. That simple. Don't buy into HD-DVD, I think it will die eventually as Blue-Ray gains more and more support. But damn, I really want to play Halo3.
...well, first of all as far as I'm concerned Charlie Stross is just another blogger so his opinion is worth just as much as two U.S. Cents (not even 2 Euro Cents); second, I really laugh at people who speak in absolutes as if they have been in the future and seen what will happen. We have a very sketchy idea, to say the least, as to what technology will be like in 100 years, let alone 1000 or even a million years from now.
Imagine telling people in the early 1980's with their Commodore 64 and Sinclair ZX that in the not too far future households would have computers powered by quadruple core processors capable of billion operations per second which not even NASA or the Pentagon had? Just science-fiction... back then, a mere 20+ years ago.
If anybody wants to read good science fiction read the books related to the Xeelee Sequence by Steven Baxter, I don't think any other sci-fi writer current and past has been so capable of describing where humanity might be one billion years from now and further.
For all I know Colonizing the Galaxy could be impossible as well as highly probable and anything in between. That's a little more realistic approach.
It's just "physical" bias, just like seeing only bigger planets.
These planets are detected because of the lensing effect and probably having elliptical orbits and being large are some of the reasons why we can detect them. Who knows, with the Hubble substitute with might be able to see under different requirements. Only 15 years ago people where doubting the very existence of planets outside of our solar system.
I purchased a new PC less than 2 months ago and I requested Windows XP. They also sent Windows Vista Premium DVD as free upgrade, which I have not used and I won't use for another year until at least SP1 comes out. I'm sure lots of people are in the same situation.
Vista is not popular, it's just being dumped on people, not the same thing.
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Theory says "stellar" black holes over 10 cannot form, galactic core black holes follow a different evolution path and their physics are still pretty much unknown. Luca
Tell it to the millions of laptops that DO NOT HAVE a GPU.
No, it's more like it's very intrusive and slooooooow even on a powerful machine. I like to follow the old saying "If it's not broken, don't fix it" and Microsoft has done the opposite, they fixed something that was working ok (XP) and now it's worse. It took me forever to figure out a way to get rid of the annoying message that pops up every time you start any kind of application. Yesterday I was transferring my setting from my old laptop to my new tablet with Vista and after 2 hours Vista decided that there was no wireless router nearby (and yet, my other 2 computers with XP were still seeing the router and connected to the internet); it took me an hour and several reboot to finally make it go back to normal operations. The old "repair" on XP is quick and works almost every time, on Vista is complicated and full of useless questions that you don't care for. Start-up is very slow, if was only acceptably faster with the brand new computer before installing anything else. Everywhere there are millions of settings that don't make your life better, just make it more complicated. Hey, don't get me wrong, my first computer was a Commodore 64, I've anything from Vic 20 to SGI Onyx 2 stations and I love tweaking stuff, but I don't see the purpose of this. If it wasn't for the major software that I need I'd be on Linux full time already. Sorry to say, but after one week with Vista I had enough already. I got plenty more but I'd have to sit here all day typing and I don't have the time. My desktop is also new (6 months old now) but on that one I managed to get XP Professional and they gave me a Vista Premium upgrade DVD which I have no plan on using. One annoying OS in the house is enough. Luca
I just bought a tablet PC and unfortunately I couldn't get it with XP Tablet Edition, instead it came with Vista Home Premium and after one week I already hate it (Actually I hated it after one day). Its random behavior, its intrusiveness and its theft of resources are just a few of the things that are driving me crazy.
I just bought a tablet PC and unfortunately I couldn't get it with XP Tablet Edition, instead it came with Vista Home Premium and after one week I already hate it (Actually I hated it after one day). It's random behavior, it's intrusiveness and it's theft of resources are just a few of the things that are driving me crazy.
>This is the man who claimed OS4 was on schedule to be released in 1999. Yes, that's the same man who was lied to by Hyperion's manager who claimed a full staff was working on OS4 and then turned out to be only two people. Bill is not responsible for all the crap that happened in the Amiga world. You know who I am.
Haha, yes it's true. In the U.S. we have strict privacy rules on medical matters but we have no right to privacy at all when it comes to everything else. Someone I know just recently forwarded me the URL of a website where they collect private data and they had all the addresses I have lived at in the past 10 years including the current one. That pisses me off majorly.
Cheaper price, being able to listen to my songs anywhere I want on as many devices as I want... Amazon to me beats Apple hands down. Luca
>but being swallowed by a fish and then regurgitated after 3 days is not? That's not religion, that's Pinocchio, a fairy tale. :)
Microsoft has learned...? This is not the first time something like that happens. It will happen again with the future release of Windows.
Aww, will you stop being and A$$hole? You call me a retard, admit to being wrong, and you want me to tell you how cool you are? Get a grip on life. I've been on the internet for over a decade and your trolling skills are nothing new, trust me.
hmmm great, you can't get your facts straight and you call me a retard. Maybe growing up will do you some good, troll!
You got it all wrong, try again. Oh, and by the way... Zero Point Energy exists (off topic, but then again, so were you)
I don't know where you got those fictious numbers from, I have two friends who are HIV+ and none of them pays anywhere near that much, as a matter of fact one even get totally free medicines.
To buy a PS3: Blue-Ray DVD. But by Christmas prices of internal BD-RW will drop and I'll get one for less than the cost of a PS3 to play BD Movies on my Gateway 24" 1080p monitor (better than my TV). So... really no reason to buy a PS3. To buy an XBOX360: HALO 3. That simple. Don't buy into HD-DVD, I think it will die eventually as Blue-Ray gains more and more support. But damn, I really want to play Halo3.
...well, first of all as far as I'm concerned Charlie Stross is just another blogger so his opinion is worth just as much as two U.S. Cents (not even 2 Euro Cents); second, I really laugh at people who speak in absolutes as if they have been in the future and seen what will happen. We have a very sketchy idea, to say the least, as to what technology will be like in 100 years, let alone 1000 or even a million years from now. Imagine telling people in the early 1980's with their Commodore 64 and Sinclair ZX that in the not too far future households would have computers powered by quadruple core processors capable of billion operations per second which not even NASA or the Pentagon had? Just science-fiction... back then, a mere 20+ years ago. If anybody wants to read good science fiction read the books related to the Xeelee Sequence by Steven Baxter, I don't think any other sci-fi writer current and past has been so capable of describing where humanity might be one billion years from now and further. For all I know Colonizing the Galaxy could be impossible as well as highly probable and anything in between. That's a little more realistic approach.
It's just "physical" bias, just like seeing only bigger planets. These planets are detected because of the lensing effect and probably having elliptical orbits and being large are some of the reasons why we can detect them. Who knows, with the Hubble substitute with might be able to see under different requirements. Only 15 years ago people where doubting the very existence of planets outside of our solar system.
GO DIXIE CHICKS! Since their political statement I like them even more!!
I purchased a new PC less than 2 months ago and I requested Windows XP. They also sent Windows Vista Premium DVD as free upgrade, which I have not used and I won't use for another year until at least SP1 comes out. I'm sure lots of people are in the same situation. Vista is not popular, it's just being dumped on people, not the same thing.