Who do you know that honestly thinks the security theater is working? We tolerate it but I almost no one encourages it.
The only reason this passed is the same reason we have the TSA in the first place, they're pork contracts designed to siphon money into selected pocketbooks and everyone with any power is in on it.
Sidewalk is a specific type of pavement, in that it is on the side of the road for use by pedestrians (and arguably bicycles). Pavement is pretty much any type of concrete or blacktop surface.
I hear you, I was just thinking this the other day. My last two phones have been touchscreen only, the Nexus 1 and now a Captivate (ATT Galaxy S). I switched from sliding qwerty when I got my first Android phone and did it mostly because at the time that was really the only option. Now that there are more choices I have been looking for a sliding Android because I have never been that great with the on-screen keyboard compared to a real keyboard.
Sure, there are plenty of ways to make money in this new environment but it's nowhere near the level they were once making. Who wants to compete when you can just shut out all the competition?
Very interesting and thanks for taking the time to explain it. I'm familiar with the falsification idea but I don't think I've heard of the induction problem before. +1 enlightenment
Thanks for making the point more clear. We can't predict the future so we can't know if in ten feet the road will vanish beneath me or that my electrons won't go flying off into space. Fair enough.
Haven't we proven enough of our theories about this world that we know for certain things are stable to a known degree? Or is it like the "law" of gravity, not proven but correct according to a large body of evidence? Do you mean to say that we know no absolutes?
I don't understand this, I don't need faith to believe there is order in the universe. It's been proven that there is a certain amount of order and I can reproduce those measurements if I wanted to see for myself. Causality is equally provable. We don't know how everything works yet but the stuff we are sure about I don't need faith to believe. The other stuff we make our best guess while reserving the right to change our mind pending further data.
Orbit to ground bombing (AKA "Rods from God") has been explored by the science fiction writer Jerry Pournelle. Project Thor is just a concept for now but it seems like it would work at least in theory. Here are a couple pictures, pic 1, pic 2, and a second article The Rods from God.
The radio that came with my 99 Grand Am has an incandescent bulb to light up the display. No way to easily replace it, in order to fix it I had to pull the whole radio apart. Tell me that's not planned obsolescence. Oh and if I ever find the guy that designed the headlights I'm going to kick him square in the nuts.
A Core 2 Duo that can handle even Crysis costs well below $300. If you need more power than that chances are you aren't going to throw a desktop OS on that machine anyways.
It's their OS and they can price it however they want but it's clear from the pricing that OEM partners are the only channels that really bring in money for their OS.
Open source software and plummeting hardware costs have upset the business model MS has enjoyed for so long. MS needs to make a radical shift in how they do business or face liquidation. Ballmer needs to go.
It's true you can't please everyone, but $300 for the full featured OS is just ridiculous. $300 will buy me a CPU, Motherboard and a couple gigs of RAM. Add in a case and drives (which I have laying around but the average person can just re-use what's in their current computer) and you have a whole new computer. Let's see, what do I want more? A new computer or a basically meaningless OS upgrade?
The only reason MS can price things this way is because they have a monopoly on the OEM desktop market.
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You wonder? I have far more reason to trust the hackers than Symantec at this point.
Who do you know that honestly thinks the security theater is working? We tolerate it but I almost no one encourages it. The only reason this passed is the same reason we have the TSA in the first place, they're pork contracts designed to siphon money into selected pocketbooks and everyone with any power is in on it.
Why the fuck do I give a shit about your gaddamn captcha. It's not a fucking fortune cookie you stupid bint.
Sidewalk is a specific type of pavement, in that it is on the side of the road for use by pedestrians (and arguably bicycles). Pavement is pretty much any type of concrete or blacktop surface.
I hear you, I was just thinking this the other day. My last two phones have been touchscreen only, the Nexus 1 and now a Captivate (ATT Galaxy S). I switched from sliding qwerty when I got my first Android phone and did it mostly because at the time that was really the only option. Now that there are more choices I have been looking for a sliding Android because I have never been that great with the on-screen keyboard compared to a real keyboard.
But then who would run the country?
What? They totally made a client for Windows. I used it 1999 - 2001 ish.
Sure, there are plenty of ways to make money in this new environment but it's nowhere near the level they were once making. Who wants to compete when you can just shut out all the competition?
Does it run Linux?
Mint flavored birth control pills.
It was also surprisingly unconvincing.
Says who? Everyone knows they don't have a good reason to keep it secret.
Very interesting and thanks for taking the time to explain it. I'm familiar with the falsification idea but I don't think I've heard of the induction problem before. +1 enlightenment
Thanks for making the point more clear. We can't predict the future so we can't know if in ten feet the road will vanish beneath me or that my electrons won't go flying off into space. Fair enough.
Haven't we proven enough of our theories about this world that we know for certain things are stable to a known degree? Or is it like the "law" of gravity, not proven but correct according to a large body of evidence? Do you mean to say that we know no absolutes?
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I don't understand this, I don't need faith to believe there is order in the universe. It's been proven that there is a certain amount of order and I can reproduce those measurements if I wanted to see for myself. Causality is equally provable. We don't know how everything works yet but the stuff we are sure about I don't need faith to believe. The other stuff we make our best guess while reserving the right to change our mind pending further data.
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From the title I thought TFA was about the Toyota i-Real. Way cooler, it's basically a powered arm chair.
Orbit to ground bombing (AKA "Rods from God") has been explored by the science fiction writer Jerry Pournelle. Project Thor is just a concept for now but it seems like it would work at least in theory. Here are a couple pictures, pic 1, pic 2, and a second article The Rods from God .
I find it ironic that not too long ago payola was a serious problem, and now we have this.
Who said anything about payola not being a serious problem anymore? It still goes on just as much as it used to, they just got better at hiding it.
Really? All the performance reviews that I have seen have shown it's slightly faster than Vista but still slower than XP.
The radio that came with my 99 Grand Am has an incandescent bulb to light up the display. No way to easily replace it, in order to fix it I had to pull the whole radio apart. Tell me that's not planned obsolescence. Oh and if I ever find the guy that designed the headlights I'm going to kick him square in the nuts.
A Core 2 Duo that can handle even Crysis costs well below $300. If you need more power than that chances are you aren't going to throw a desktop OS on that machine anyways.
It's their OS and they can price it however they want but it's clear from the pricing that OEM partners are the only channels that really bring in money for their OS.
Open source software and plummeting hardware costs have upset the business model MS has enjoyed for so long. MS needs to make a radical shift in how they do business or face liquidation. Ballmer needs to go.
It's true you can't please everyone, but $300 for the full featured OS is just ridiculous. $300 will buy me a CPU, Motherboard and a couple gigs of RAM. Add in a case and drives (which I have laying around but the average person can just re-use what's in their current computer) and you have a whole new computer. Let's see, what do I want more? A new computer or a basically meaningless OS upgrade?
The only reason MS can price things this way is because they have a monopoly on the OEM desktop market.
There's a gym that did that and the energy generated is actually pretty tiny. More of a marketing gimmick than anything.