The harder part is frequently for the apartment dwellers, I get stuck with heating/cooling bills that cost a fortune, and have no way to ad either insulation, solar panels, or even just a more efficient air conditioner.
Insulation, incidentally, will do nearly as much as solar panels, since it will drop air conditioning costs, and even remove heating bills altogether in most of the country.
I will accept that a supreme being exists, if you can defend why you believe that said supreme being matches, or even comes close, to what you think of as God.
From wiki, the prediction is describes as:
Blind people navigate and read text using machines that can visually recognize features of their environment. Which is not quite the same as what he has, but no neural interfaces are mentioned either. He also promised as robot cars and viable automatic translators in the same book, so I'm not terribly impressed at his accuracy.
Kurzweil also makes a lot of assumptions tabout our ability to continue improving computers, despite the limits of silicon technology and the current lack of a viable replacement.
The deal with Novell gives Microsoft a great deal of power, but in a subtle way. By encouraging the Linux servers to be as compatible as possible with Windows, Microsoft is able to hedge their bets against a time if/when Linux is the dominant server, by reducing any desire to get Windows off the desktop just to avoid headaches in the server room. They also reduce resistance to technologies like Silverlight if there are compatible versions of them, but because they make the main version of it, they continue to stay in control.
Not having used one much, let me ask how, exactly, you are supposed to deal with 'keys' that are substantially smaller than a fingertip and have no tactile feedback to boot? Everyone I know who uses one still has trouble getting it to input the letter they want.
The really annoying thing is, it would probably be great for writing with a stylus, but that does not (last I checked) work on an iPhone.
I'm inclined to disagree, a good voice actor in a story intensive game contributes as much as any other good actor. But the truth is, there are a lot of good actors out there, and with (almost) no customers caring (or even knowing) who does the acting, you simply don't get to have the ridiculous contracts movie stars get. Michael Hollick is also hardly either a well recognized actor, or a very good one judging by GTA IV (of course, its a crap role for acting skills too, the cousin got all the best lines).
I don't know that they will do all that, I'm going to be sending people ODF documents once this kicks in (cause its a pita to make stuff office compliant right now), and if every time someone gets a odf file it takes 10 minutes to load it makes office look bad to the users that don't understand formats, and Microsoft look bad to the ones that do
While Linux does use caching, it also de allocates the cache if something else needs it, the big problem with Vista (as I said earlier) is that it tries to hold onto the cache even when active programs need the memory.
So instead we can get all sorts of conflicting curricula across the country. That's definitely the better alternative. Hell yes it is, as it stands the entire country is failing, if everybody did their own thing, somebody might stumble across an affordable solution that works. *Then* we can standardize.
If it was effective it wouldn't continue to do caching to the point that active application have to run off of page memory. And yes, Vista *does* do this, get a system with 1 gig (or half) of ram and boot vista, then take a look, the 'cache' will be using up memory even though the paging file is active. If it was done efficiently, where the cache give up allocation when needed, Vista would run just fine on a single gig of memory, somehow this simple fix never occurred to Microsoft though (or rather did, but was one of a long list of useful features that was scrapped prior to the beta release).
He is not fast enough to meet the Olympic qualifying times.
There may be some sort of advantage over 'normal' legs, but nobody who meets those times is normal. Until they start making unpowered prosthetics that are strong enough to produce somebody who can compete with people who do have legs, the idea of an unfair advantage is kindof silly.
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I've switched banks twice in the last year.
The last time I changed my browser was when it was still Firefox 1.5
Guess which one has more momentum?
Also keep in mind that a switch to IE would require an entire operating system overhaul.
So basically, if I get you right, you're pissed because they left Israel out. But also because they are not denying the existence of Palestine?
You really need to do a better job screening the candidates in the primaries if they keep doing the opposite of what the party is after.
Bush is hardly a tightwad, keep in mind, with one exception (stem cell bill) he never vetoed a spending bill before the Democrats took control.
The harder part is frequently for the apartment dwellers, I get stuck with heating/cooling bills that cost a fortune, and have no way to ad either insulation, solar panels, or even just a more efficient air conditioner.
Insulation, incidentally, will do nearly as much as solar panels, since it will drop air conditioning costs, and even remove heating bills altogether in most of the country.
I will accept that a supreme being exists, if you can defend why you believe that said supreme being matches, or even comes close, to what you think of as God.
Kurzweil also makes a lot of assumptions tabout our ability to continue improving computers, despite the limits of silicon technology and the current lack of a viable replacement.
The deal with Novell gives Microsoft a great deal of power, but in a subtle way. By encouraging the Linux servers to be as compatible as possible with Windows, Microsoft is able to hedge their bets against a time if/when Linux is the dominant server, by reducing any desire to get Windows off the desktop just to avoid headaches in the server room. They also reduce resistance to technologies like Silverlight if there are compatible versions of them, but because they make the main version of it, they continue to stay in control.
My kingdom for an edit button.
Not having used one much, let me ask how, exactly, you are supposed to deal with 'keys' that are substantially smaller than a fingertip and have no tactile feedback to boot? Everyone I know who uses one still has trouble getting it to input the letter they want.
The really annoying thing is, it would probably be great for writing with a stylus, but that does not (last I checked) work on an iPhone.
There needs to be a +1 terrifying,
I'm inclined to disagree, a good voice actor in a story intensive game contributes as much as any other good actor. But the truth is, there are a lot of good actors out there, and with (almost) no customers caring (or even knowing) who does the acting, you simply don't get to have the ridiculous contracts movie stars get.
Michael Hollick is also hardly either a well recognized actor, or a very good one judging by GTA IV (of course, its a crap role for acting skills too, the cousin got all the best lines).
I don't know that they will do all that, I'm going to be sending people ODF documents once this kicks in (cause its a pita to make stuff office compliant right now), and if every time someone gets a odf file it takes 10 minutes to load it makes office look bad to the users that don't understand formats, and Microsoft look bad to the ones that do
I'm pretty sure the comments are the *only* reason people come to Slashdot, given that half the commenters don't read the summary, much less TFA.
While Linux does use caching, it also de allocates the cache if something else needs it, the big problem with Vista (as I said earlier) is that it tries to hold onto the cache even when active programs need the memory.
Check your sarcasm detector please, it seems to be out of whack.
That has got to be one of the greatest console dumps I've ever seen.
It redirected me to the 'right' URL for one of the files a dozen times, then finally failed to provide even a redirect. I may need to frame this.
That's different, we really are the good guys.
Sorry but, effectively?
If it was effective it wouldn't continue to do caching to the point that active application have to run off of page memory. And yes, Vista *does* do this, get a system with 1 gig (or half) of ram and boot vista, then take a look, the 'cache' will be using up memory even though the paging file is active. If it was done efficiently, where the cache give up allocation when needed, Vista would run just fine on a single gig of memory, somehow this simple fix never occurred to Microsoft though (or rather did, but was one of a long list of useful features that was scrapped prior to the beta release).
So that's the secret to making Red Hat usable, nice.
Also kindof scary to see how many things I use on a day to day basis that are in the third party repos...
He is the worlds fastest double amputee.
He is not fast enough to meet the Olympic qualifying times.
There may be some sort of advantage over 'normal' legs, but nobody who meets those times is normal. Until they start making unpowered prosthetics that are strong enough to produce somebody who can compete with people who do have legs, the idea of an unfair advantage is kindof silly.
At 80x25 you can fit 4 of them onto one display though.
Loose video cards and ancient drivers never happen in OEM machines?
Shit, I've been doing my job wrong all this time.