Isn't that what an event horizon is? At least when dealing with innovation. That is you couldn't predict how the Internet would revolutionize our life until the Internet was created/idealized.
I think it has more to do with the fact that this started in America but America was being left out of receiving laptops. It's still an international effort. Without America this project wouldn't even exist.
I'm with you in thinking that might be too much of an extreme. I might have a genetic disorder that has a 50% of being passed on to any of my children. If so, and genetic engineering can't correct it, I will more than likely not have children and will instead adopt. Obviously it's something one should discuss with their wife, or husband as the case might be, but I think it is selfish to have children when you have a genetic disorder.
I use text messaging all the time. There are some instances where sending a text message is better than calling. If you are in a noisy place, talking to more than one person at a time, short messages, things that need to be remembered, etc.
And it sees a lot of use now. I could hide the storage on a NAS in the loft, but that just moves the problem upstairs and leaves it vulnerable to squirrels
That's what I plan on doing. I rip all of my media to my desktop computer so I don't have to worry about losing the physical media or trying to find it when I want to watch it. With HD getting more popular though you need a significant amount more of space and with the current crop of drives it's just not feasible to fit them into the media center case and keep it quiet.
The new place I'm moving into is going to have a gigabit network which should be more than plenty to pump signals all over the house.
Because then they wouldn't be cars, they would be airplanes. On a more serious note though you do make a really good point, you can't treat airplanes with the same rules you apply to cars.
My thoughts exactly. Giving people something for nothing rarely ever makes them want to move forward. You could probably solve a significant amount of problems with welfare if you just required a minimum amount of community service hours in order to get it.
On of my first computers, me being 21 now and this being around when I was 8, had something similar to this. There was pass through on the power supply for you to plug your monitor into and when you either turned on or off your computer it did the same for the monitor. This was back in the Windows 95 days though when you had to physically turn off the computer though.
Actually that would probably have more to do with the fact that forms of entertainment have changed. It's the same reason that you see music and movie sales falling.
Yes but the maximum length that a person can be president for is 10 years. From the 22nd Amendment:
Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
I do soffit and fascia mostly. I spend a lot of time two stores up on an aluminum plank that's only one foot wide. The less things dragging me down the better.
Yeah and like you said you aren't a professional. I am and I swear by them. I'm still hoping that a company will come out with an electric 18 gauge stapler so I can stop dragging around an air hose.
If you only use them occasionally then you can't beat corded because the battery will always be dead when you need it.
I think Aristotle said it best, "To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill."
All right, that makes more sense. You wouldn't happen to know of anything I could check out to learn more about it would you? I've always been interested in learning what happens towards the end of the universe.
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as does everyone who drives on the NJ Turnpike. do I win?
On the rails??
*does not drive on the NJ Turnpike*
Isn't that what an event horizon is? At least when dealing with innovation. That is you couldn't predict how the Internet would revolutionize our life until the Internet was created/idealized.
Most woman think a man uses his tool as his brain...
I think it has more to do with the fact that this started in America but America was being left out of receiving laptops. It's still an international effort. Without America this project wouldn't even exist.
I'm with you in thinking that might be too much of an extreme. I might have a genetic disorder that has a 50% of being passed on to any of my children. If so, and genetic engineering can't correct it, I will more than likely not have children and will instead adopt. Obviously it's something one should discuss with their wife, or husband as the case might be, but I think it is selfish to have children when you have a genetic disorder.
Pay CEO's less and treat them like any employee... bad at your job, 'You're Fired'(tm).
Ben and Jerry's tried that, it doesn't work so well. The fact of the matter is running a business isn't easy, especially a large corporation.
I will wager anything that most of us work just as hard and will probably just break ONE million in our lives.
What's stopping you from being a CEO then?
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I use text messaging all the time. There are some instances where sending a text message is better than calling. If you are in a noisy place, talking to more than one person at a time, short messages, things that need to be remembered, etc.
And it sees a lot of use now. I could hide the storage on a NAS in the loft, but that just moves the problem upstairs and leaves it vulnerable to squirrels
That's what I plan on doing. I rip all of my media to my desktop computer so I don't have to worry about losing the physical media or trying to find it when I want to watch it. With HD getting more popular though you need a significant amount more of space and with the current crop of drives it's just not feasible to fit them into the media center case and keep it quiet.
The new place I'm moving into is going to have a gigabit network which should be more than plenty to pump signals all over the house.
That's what The Guild of Calamitous Intent is for.
They do, it's "coincidence"
Because then they wouldn't be cars, they would be airplanes. On a more serious note though you do make a really good point, you can't treat airplanes with the same rules you apply to cars.
My thoughts exactly. Giving people something for nothing rarely ever makes them want to move forward. You could probably solve a significant amount of problems with welfare if you just required a minimum amount of community service hours in order to get it.
On of my first computers, me being 21 now and this being around when I was 8, had something similar to this. There was pass through on the power supply for you to plug your monitor into and when you either turned on or off your computer it did the same for the monitor. This was back in the Windows 95 days though when you had to physically turn off the computer though.
Actually that would probably have more to do with the fact that forms of entertainment have changed. It's the same reason that you see music and movie sales falling.
Yes but the maximum length that a person can be president for is 10 years. From the 22nd Amendment:
Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
I do soffit and fascia mostly. I spend a lot of time two stores up on an aluminum plank that's only one foot wide. The less things dragging me down the better.
Why does that remind me of the early days of the computer industry?
Yeah and like you said you aren't a professional. I am and I swear by them. I'm still hoping that a company will come out with an electric 18 gauge stapler so I can stop dragging around an air hose.
If you only use them occasionally then you can't beat corded because the battery will always be dead when you need it.
It's more a convenience thing. It's just one less thing to have to worry about.
I think Aristotle said it best, "To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill."
All right, that makes more sense. You wouldn't happen to know of anything I could check out to learn more about it would you? I've always been interested in learning what happens towards the end of the universe.
Wallace and Gromit are working on that
Everything is non-renewable given a long enough time frame. Entropy is a bitch.
Wouldn't that violate the law of conservation of energy?
Not exactly. People would have a copyright on their software. So while you could implement it in your own fashion, you couldn't copy it directly.
The biggest problem with the patent system is they are allowing ideas to be patented instead of only solutions.