Maybe they do have a very low per capita incidince of HIV, but it's been shown that the rate of infection is increasing at a rate more than any other country. Combined with the sheer number of people, infected and not, the virus is set to explode. Sorry, I can't find the particular article in which I read this at this moment, but when I do find it, I'll be happy to share. Everywhere I've read, it's extremely taboo for Indians to discuss sex and AIDS.
I don't think the numbers you link to tell the story very well. It's like trying to say that Luxemborg has a larger economy than the US because thier GDP per capita is 60% higher than ours, which is obviously not the case. Compare China and India. They're the only two countries that are close enough to be comparable in popluation and economic status. The CIA world factbook (the source of information that Nationmaster uses) says that 0.9% of Indians are infected, that 0.6% of US citizens are infected, and that 0.1% of Chinese are infected, and that there are about six times the number of Indians infected as there are Chinese, despite China having a third of a million more people (i.e. approximately one United States more people than India).
My point to the poster I replied to was that Indians get it on like nobody's business. I stand by it.
You've obviously never seen electrical linemen work. They take lag bolts and hammer them into the telephone poles when needed. It works pretty well, too. They work just like really huge ring shank nails, with the benefit that they can be unscrewed at a later date--which would be infinitely easier than trying to pull it like a nail, especially after many years of the wood expanding and contracting.
I've done it with drywall screws, too. It's often easier to just hammer a couple nails in a piece when you're working on rows of drywall instead of trying to juggle a drywall screw gun, and a huge chunk of drywall. One day I forgot to pick up the nails which I usually use for that purpose, and I said "why not", and proceeded with hammering in my regular drywall screws. Works like a charm, though I imagine some screws would simply break when trying this (like long, thin deck screws)
Oh, so are those strong cultural values the reason that India has one of the fastest growing AIDS infection rates in the world, and the largest population infected with AIDS? Are strong values the reason that an ever growing number of monogamous and loyal wives are becoming infected with AIDS by their husbuands? Are strong values the reason for the ever increasing use of drugs in India?
You know what India is? It's a nation of denial and cultural repression. You all can foam about the mouths because of what I said, but I don't give a shit. You might think we "Westeners" are fucked up, but you've got some pretty good problems also.
I have had the opportunity to drive an Elise, and they're not really scary--until you see every damn minivan driver turned around backwards yelling at their kids whilst simultaneously dictating the grocery list on the cellphone. Driving an Elise like being on a motorcycle, but a thousand times better since you don't have to worry about it falling over.
They're really not all that bad, except that driving on a rough road is somewhat like the experience you'd receive if you had your ass-end mauled by a jet engine powered jackhammer. So, it's just not a natural thing to have in a city with really bumpy roads. Anyone that has an Elise in New York city simply has to have buttocks of steel.
The great thing is that nobody's ever seen one... Seriously. You didn't see an Elise, you just hallucinated the whole experience. Not even Elise owners have seen an Elise, they're just that crazy. One day in the distant future there will be a branch of quantum physics that will describe that one cannot know both the velocity and location of an Elise at any given time! And because of that they attract more attention than Porsches or Ferraris usually do, despite costing less in every way. So, if you're one for being noticed, and you don't care about the injuries your posterior may sustain, then it is the car for you, bar none.
They're pretty neat, seriously. I'd love to take one to a track!
Right, like the other guy said, they're prototypes, but not far from a producable model, I think. I didn't mean to imply that they were in production, and I forgot to elaborate further. They had a hybrid based on the 3L drivetrain in Shanghai a while back and it was thought that it might break 100MPG barrier... But then again, I understand that Toyota is also working on a similar concept, and they'll probably be to market with it first because they have the experience in producing hybrids--and hopefully that will make VW stop being lazy.
The best thing about a hybrid/diesel drivetrain, as the article illustrates, is quicker acceleration. We already know diesels can have great economy, but you've got to lay on the accelerator if you want to go anywhere. The diesel/electric combo is a winner for sure, and I'm looking forward to production cars. I would have been very impressed indeed if these students had managed to integrate even a much smaller electric motor directly with the diesel, so that it worked somewhat automatically--and it would have probably been easier (and cheaper) than what they did.
But it's just a 1.8L VW diesel with a hybrid drive, it's nothing revolutionary. My mom has the same engine in her Jetta, and I must say that it's not a great ball of fire... So they put 200HP electric motor in the front and they went with it... Of course, they neglect to say that the motor is borrowed from a $200,000 electric supercar and that it's all wrapped up in a lightweight shell with only minimal concerns for safety...
VW makes a diesel hybrid... It dosen't have a 200HP electric motor to back it up, it dosen't top 60 in four seconds, but it does get 70+mpg. The reason we don't have it in the US? Safety laws, primarily. There's all kinds of economical cars around that aren't imported or produced because it's too expensive or impossible to comply with our laws. It's possible to get exceptions, like Lotus did with the Elise, but it ain't gonna fly if anyone tries to operate on the production levels of companies like Ford or GM. We could have electric vehicles, very light hybrids--all sorts of cool things, but there is every incentive not to make them on a large scale.
But it's stll pretty neat, I have to admit. You've got to give them credit, at least they're doing something.
Wow, that's pretty fucking crazy. She looks (and acts) more like Satan (as I'd imagine him) than any Wiccian, goth, astrologer, psychic, or gargoyle that I've ever met. I think Jesus might try to do his best to slap her sane, but despite being perfect and all I'm afraid he'd fail.
Seriously though, gargoyles are supposed to be so ugly as to scare evil away. That's a good thing, right? Someone needs to sit that fat ass down and make her watch this series
When the MythTV guys get the frontend to work on the Intel Macs, the mini should work very reasonably for non-HD playback, as many people have done with the G4 minis.
The big difference, as far as I can see, is that the Intel graphics chipset should support high definition resolution MPEG2 decoding, at least according to Intel's site... So, even if the CPU dosen't have enough horsepower to decode HD, the graphics should. The PPC mini, on the other hand, could not decode MPEG2 at HD resolutions fast enough to be enjoyable. This might make the mini a very attractive part to have in a geek's home theatre when combined with an HD capable MythTV backend server--it's small and damned near silent... Plus, it could be perfectly silent if the mini was net-booted from the Myth server... One shouldn't even need the dual core model.
Good for you, buddy. I, myself, not being a Christian (I'm agnostic...for now:D), have recently developed a strong interest in both Latin and ancient Greek--for some unknown reason. I'm slowly learning bits of both, and I think it would be an interesting exercise to go through various ancient texts myself. I doubt I'll go after Hebrew, because I'm just not that interested, but you never know.
It's so true what you say, most everyone takes the words which they've been told at face value... I can't help but think what a horrible error that could be... And if nothing especially fruitful comes of it, at least I might gain the ability to insult people in a dead language. That alone is worth quite a bit:)
Yeah, that's about what I figured it was for, but the site wasn't especially clear. They said that it was about reducing costs and all, but one had to read between the lines on the front page. They need a concice summary on their home page, insead of burying those details in links.
If they simply said it was for distributing RSS feeds across a peer-to-peer network to take load off of servers hosting RSS content, that would have been much clearer. Even if they said that it would allow you to host a very popular web feed from a skimpy DSL connection, or that it would allow your client to poll feeds more often without getting banned, for example, that would have been very much more helpful.
After reading about it more, through the docs and whatnot, it does sound really neat. I'm going to give it a shot. Coupled with a torrent client that can understand RSS, this sounds mighty powerful especially for those who push videocasts and podcasts.
It's clear that you've never encountered users who "Click out of a file", which seems to be most of them. I'm still not quite sure how that one is supposed to work, but I've also known my share of users who "Exit a file", which they apparently took from File->Exit. Anyway...
check out uTorrent. The beta version has the option to check RSS feeds from any site, and it will automatically add the torrets to the client. It even has the option of filtering out torrents with simple expressions, and even offers you the ability to save your files in other folders for oranization purposes. It works really well for downloading TV shows off of some sites, for example.
Naturally, because it's bittorrent, it's great at downloading b-i-g files, whereas FeedTree sounds like it's more about distributing web pages, and perhaps small video or audio segments, or perhaps it's a sort of distributed RSS... The article isn't especially clear on how this is all supposed to work. Sounds interesting though, too bad the documentation is unresponsive to me at the moment. Maybe they should have used Coral:)
Why not? On US network TV I've probably seen thousands of people over the years gunned down and vaporized with thermal vision from some aircraft or submarine many miles away.
Even if you can't really see it happen, it dosen't make what happened any less violent. Even if you can't see it happen, it dosen't mean a bunch of people didn't get exploded, be they innocent or not.
It's war, buddy, and you know what that means? Anything goes. You can't be a fucking bitch about a couple people getting whacked on video when you're the one that spamed 2,000lb bombs all over the place... At the very least, that attitude is poor gamesmanship. They've got their weapons and we've got ours. Why should we not expect them to use their weapons to the greatest effect they can? That's what it's all about. Don't like it? Don't be in a fucking war!
But that's the thing. A good niche market is a goldmine. It's incredibly super easy to get a nich market on your side Marketers know this. Apple knows this, and they're exploiting their goldmine very well, which tells me they've got very good marketing strategy. Because of their niche market they DO NOT, by definition compete with Dell or Microsoft, or rather, Microsoft and Dell can't compete with them, because they don't let it happen!
You don't even have to SELL to a niche market, because if you do what you do well, your current customers will sing praise about your business to their friends, and you've got a very good chance of picking them as customers as well. This is what I'm talking about, with Microsoft and Dell being not able to compete with them. Remember when Apple started really producing some cool stuff--basically anything after the G4/OSX combination was birthed. Tons of geeks bought Macs, where they wouldn't have previously. They were attraced to the unixy goodness and the shiny GUI. Microsoft can't compete with that, and it was really an ingenious move by Apple.
But here's the real brain racker: The geeks realized this was pretty cool, it worked well, was easy to use, wasn't dumbed down to a radical degree, looked pretty, and most importantly: it was much more secure to the Internet than anything else that also did all of the above... And that means the geek dosen't have to fix it when it breaks, because it just dosen't... And that's a relief. Because of this, they told the people in their lives who aren't as proficient in computers to go buy a Mac--it would do everything they wanted it to do, and it wouldn't break. This is where they make their killing. Because the geeks know and trust Apple to treat them well, they reccomed their product. Apple dosen't even have to put TV ads out, and they move their product, and not because Apple isn't the only choice in town. This is why they have experienced record profitability recently, despite the higher initial investment of Apple hardware and software compared to other vendors!
If Apple sold their OS to anyone who wanted to buy it seperately, they would be instantaneously in direct competition with MS, with every other PC builder, including Dell, and even the PC guy on the corner. Who would buy a Mac if they could buy OSX anywhere? Nobody. They DO NOT want to be there unless their product was so mind blowingly superior that all of those manufacturers which use MS products would drop Windows, and so mind blowingly superior that anyone would buy it over Windows, even if it cost more. It's nice, good software, but let's face it... It's not mindblowingly superior to most people, whereas the platform is superior enough in many ways to even a relative few people to make it worth the extra cost, tangible or not. They trust Apple because of their family. That's all the advantage Apple needs.
I bet your son takes his VW to the dealership to have service done at a 500% markup over that of an unaffiliated professional mechanic, too. I know people who do this. It's nearly $500 for an oil change, oil filter, and a car wash from most VW dealers... And people pay it because they can't be arsed to call around and ask some questions. As long as you have the receipts from a qualified mechanic when scheduled maintenance is done, your warranty is preserved! Imagine that! It's not like a Ferrari, where they can tell of you used non-official Ferrari oil!
If he's old enough to be in college he's old enough to have the smarts to do some basic research, have some responsibility for his fundage, and he should have the balls to say "no" when someone lays on the pressured sales tactics. You don't need to be an expert in any particular thing, or even have a particularly high IQ for a certain part in your brain to turn on and say "Something aint' right here, buddy." My granny might have been a computer idiot, but she still had common sense. If by this time he doesn't have those skills, he's either a victim of Asperger's disorder or a victim of bad parenting--whatever it is, he needs to learn to overcome it, because people who don't have a big "sucker" sign on their foreheads that everyone else but they can see... So don't blame Apple that they saw it... It's not like they scammed him, they said "Here's our price".
Welding cable is a helluva lot more flexible than your normal 1/0 gauge, too. I've pulled enough of it to know that I'd certianly rather be fussing with welding wire with itty bitty strands!
Anyway, the NEC specified bending radius for 1/0 is something like 10 inches, IIRC. I'd just love to see someone work that into their house, especially with some 50A switch boxes and a giant gutter. It would look..very industrial...
Wow, I think I might have been there for that. Was it an HL2 DM game on Island 17 (the one with the lighthouse) maybe sometime around Thanksgiving? This is sounding way too familiar to be coincidence. I definitely remember playing with sand nigger and I also remember someone lampooning him over the sand part of his name--and then he went crazy over it.
It's a small world, I guess:) Just so you know, I know someone who knows someone who was Kevin Bacon's stunt double in some movie which I presently forget!
Damn, that brings back memories... What an awesome game. I wonder if they've fixed how the game was timed on the CPU's frequency. I remember when I sopwith on a 386, it suddenly became very challenging, and then I upgraded to a 486 33 machine... It was quite impossible!
True... However, I find the cropping to be even worse than the stretching. So, people look a little fatter and circles look like ovals. I suspect that when I upgrade to a DLP front/rear projection unit I'll be happier playing in 4:3 mode, but I'm pretty happy with my rear projection 42" TV... I don't think I'll be upgrading in the next 5 years unless something very revolutionary happens with TV technology (and prices)-or I move to a larger house that has a space that would work as a dedicated theatre...
I am seriously thinking about doing an HD MythTV box, though. My only particular worry is how the TV will play with the computer because it's a component HD set; no VGA or DVI imputs, which is a bummer. Supposedly my 6600GT card supports component out, and it even includes a dongle, but my worry is timing. It's a bitch being an early adopter I guess:(
The bars on many TVs can be adjusted between grey and black, but grey is plain annoying, and it dosen't solve the problem in the first place. I don't really mind 4:3 stretched to 16:9 most of the time, but I'm not a hardcore HDTV person, and most broadcasts in my area still aren't HDTV, and the bars annoy me. Big deal.
Freedom Motors is part of Moller International. Moller got his start with the famous Supertrapp engine muffler system, and he started Freedom Motors as an R&D firm for Wankel engines, mostly for his Skycar project. They also build engines for watercraft and military applications. '
The Sopwith's engine wasn't a rotary engine like a wankel (which uses a rotor, not pistons), but it was called a radial rotary engine because the crankshaft was in fact fixed, and the cylinders, pistons, heads, manifolds, propeller--everything rotated around the crankshaft. As a matter of fact, the propeller was mounted to the engine itself!
In effect, the rest of the engine became the flywheel. Because it didn't need an external flywheel, these engines had better power to weight ratios, which is obviously very important in WWI biplanes. There was also a French airplane, which, IIRC made dual use of the crankshaft as a gun barrel... So bullets fired straight through the center of the engine, and the barrel was very effectively oil cooled if you can imagine!
They're wrong, however, saying that Mazda makes the only Wankel engine, because of course, Moller international also makes them, and they're going to be used in their much anticipated VTOL Skycar.
Of course any good supervillian with electrodes in his brain will be paranoid enough to build a faraday cage around his head with no more than aluminum foil and dental floss if need be.
Well, they could make money from Chinese even if they weren't registered in China... I'm sure many advertisers don't really care where someone is when they look at their add, so long as that person can understand it and be able to act on the advertisement. For example, I've bought certain things from the UK that I wouldn't have found if it weren't for an ad on a British site. In a perfectly capitalistic world, advertisers would purchase ads from Google no matter the location of the company, if Google was popular amongst the Chinese for one reason or another... But it's quite clear that China has no qualms using the full advantages of capitalism whilst suppressing any perceived threat.
The real deal is this: Google complies with the Chinese government's whims because they would just firewall Google's servers from the Chinese people. If the rest of the search engines prostrated themselves at China and Google didn't, the others would have an incredible advantage, and one foot in the door of a giant and rapidly growing economy.
This is why all of these companies are going at this full steam. It's like nuclear warfare: Mutually Assured Destruction to their shareholders' stocks if every respective company doesn't go after China with both barrels... It's sad, and it sucks for everyone involved, especially the Chinese people...but in a way the companies don't really have a choice. Even if all of the big search engines banded together and said they weren't going to capitulate to China, anyone else without the moral fortitude could potentially get the opportunity to make billions there... So, they say, "Someone's going to do it, it might as well be us." Such is the way of capitalism, be it good or bad.
I agree about McCain, but thats precisely the reason he'll never make it--because he probably would do a good job, and be an upstanding individiual and an informed leader... What neoconservative would elect such a person? They wouldn't--unless they thought he could be corrupted once he was on the inside.
Also, re: Kerry; I can certianly understand people not voting for this guy, even if they thought Bush was a jackass, likewise for Gore. Yawn.
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Maybe they do have a very low per capita incidince of HIV, but it's been shown that the rate of infection is increasing at a rate more than any other country. Combined with the sheer number of people, infected and not, the virus is set to explode. Sorry, I can't find the particular article in which I read this at this moment, but when I do find it, I'll be happy to share. Everywhere I've read, it's extremely taboo for Indians to discuss sex and AIDS.
I don't think the numbers you link to tell the story very well. It's like trying to say that Luxemborg has a larger economy than the US because thier GDP per capita is 60% higher than ours, which is obviously not the case. Compare China and India. They're the only two countries that are close enough to be comparable in popluation and economic status. The CIA world factbook (the source of information that Nationmaster uses) says that 0.9% of Indians are infected, that 0.6% of US citizens are infected, and that 0.1% of Chinese are infected, and that there are about six times the number of Indians infected as there are Chinese, despite China having a third of a million more people (i.e. approximately one United States more people than India).
My point to the poster I replied to was that Indians get it on like nobody's business. I stand by it.
You've obviously never seen electrical linemen work. They take lag bolts and hammer them into the telephone poles when needed. It works pretty well, too. They work just like really huge ring shank nails, with the benefit that they can be unscrewed at a later date--which would be infinitely easier than trying to pull it like a nail, especially after many years of the wood expanding and contracting.
I've done it with drywall screws, too. It's often easier to just hammer a couple nails in a piece when you're working on rows of drywall instead of trying to juggle a drywall screw gun, and a huge chunk of drywall. One day I forgot to pick up the nails which I usually use for that purpose, and I said "why not", and proceeded with hammering in my regular drywall screws. Works like a charm, though I imagine some screws would simply break when trying this (like long, thin deck screws)
Oh, so are those strong cultural values the reason that India has one of the fastest growing AIDS infection rates in the world, and the largest population infected with AIDS? Are strong values the reason that an ever growing number of monogamous and loyal wives are becoming infected with AIDS by their husbuands? Are strong values the reason for the ever increasing use of drugs in India?
You know what India is? It's a nation of denial and cultural repression. You all can foam about the mouths because of what I said, but I don't give a shit. You might think we "Westeners" are fucked up, but you've got some pretty good problems also.
I have had the opportunity to drive an Elise, and they're not really scary--until you see every damn minivan driver turned around backwards yelling at their kids whilst simultaneously dictating the grocery list on the cellphone. Driving an Elise like being on a motorcycle, but a thousand times better since you don't have to worry about it falling over.
They're really not all that bad, except that driving on a rough road is somewhat like the experience you'd receive if you had your ass-end mauled by a jet engine powered jackhammer. So, it's just not a natural thing to have in a city with really bumpy roads. Anyone that has an Elise in New York city simply has to have buttocks of steel.
The great thing is that nobody's ever seen one... Seriously. You didn't see an Elise, you just hallucinated the whole experience. Not even Elise owners have seen an Elise, they're just that crazy. One day in the distant future there will be a branch of quantum physics that will describe that one cannot know both the velocity and location of an Elise at any given time! And because of that they attract more attention than Porsches or Ferraris usually do, despite costing less in every way. So, if you're one for being noticed, and you don't care about the injuries your posterior may sustain, then it is the car for you, bar none.
They're pretty neat, seriously. I'd love to take one to a track!
Right, like the other guy said, they're prototypes, but not far from a producable model, I think. I didn't mean to imply that they were in production, and I forgot to elaborate further. They had a hybrid based on the 3L drivetrain in Shanghai a while back and it was thought that it might break 100MPG barrier... But then again, I understand that Toyota is also working on a similar concept, and they'll probably be to market with it first because they have the experience in producing hybrids--and hopefully that will make VW stop being lazy.
The best thing about a hybrid/diesel drivetrain, as the article illustrates, is quicker acceleration. We already know diesels can have great economy, but you've got to lay on the accelerator if you want to go anywhere. The diesel/electric combo is a winner for sure, and I'm looking forward to production cars. I would have been very impressed indeed if these students had managed to integrate even a much smaller electric motor directly with the diesel, so that it worked somewhat automatically--and it would have probably been easier (and cheaper) than what they did.
But it's just a 1.8L VW diesel with a hybrid drive, it's nothing revolutionary. My mom has the same engine in her Jetta, and I must say that it's not a great ball of fire... So they put 200HP electric motor in the front and they went with it... Of course, they neglect to say that the motor is borrowed from a $200,000 electric supercar and that it's all wrapped up in a lightweight shell with only minimal concerns for safety...
VW makes a diesel hybrid... It dosen't have a 200HP electric motor to back it up, it dosen't top 60 in four seconds, but it does get 70+mpg. The reason we don't have it in the US? Safety laws, primarily. There's all kinds of economical cars around that aren't imported or produced because it's too expensive or impossible to comply with our laws. It's possible to get exceptions, like Lotus did with the Elise, but it ain't gonna fly if anyone tries to operate on the production levels of companies like Ford or GM.
We could have electric vehicles, very light hybrids--all sorts of cool things, but there is every incentive not to make them on a large scale.
But it's stll pretty neat, I have to admit. You've got to give them credit, at least they're doing something.
Wow, that's pretty fucking crazy. She looks (and acts) more like Satan (as I'd imagine him) than any Wiccian, goth, astrologer, psychic, or gargoyle that I've ever met. I think Jesus might try to do his best to slap her sane, but despite being perfect and all I'm afraid he'd fail.
Seriously though, gargoyles are supposed to be so ugly as to scare evil away. That's a good thing, right? Someone needs to sit that fat ass down and make her watch this series
When the MythTV guys get the frontend to work on the Intel Macs, the mini should work very reasonably for non-HD playback, as many people have done with the G4 minis.
The big difference, as far as I can see, is that the Intel graphics chipset should support high definition resolution MPEG2 decoding, at least according to Intel's site... So, even if the CPU dosen't have enough horsepower to decode HD, the graphics should. The PPC mini, on the other hand, could not decode MPEG2 at HD resolutions fast enough to be enjoyable. This might make the mini a very attractive part to have in a geek's home theatre when combined with an HD capable MythTV backend server--it's small and damned near silent... Plus, it could be perfectly silent if the mini was net-booted from the Myth server... One shouldn't even need the dual core model.
Good for you, buddy. I, myself, not being a Christian (I'm agnostic...for now :D), have recently developed a strong interest in both Latin and ancient Greek--for some unknown reason. I'm slowly learning bits of both, and I think it would be an interesting exercise to go through various ancient texts myself. I doubt I'll go after Hebrew, because I'm just not that interested, but you never know.
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It's so true what you say, most everyone takes the words which they've been told at face value... I can't help but think what a horrible error that could be... And if nothing especially fruitful comes of it, at least I might gain the ability to insult people in a dead language. That alone is worth quite a bit
Yeah, that's about what I figured it was for, but the site wasn't especially clear. They said that it was about reducing costs and all, but one had to read between the lines on the front page. They need a concice summary on their home page, insead of burying those details in links.
If they simply said it was for distributing RSS feeds across a peer-to-peer network to take load off of servers hosting RSS content, that would have been much clearer. Even if they said that it would allow you to host a very popular web feed from a skimpy DSL connection, or that it would allow your client to poll feeds more often without getting banned, for example, that would have been very much more helpful.
After reading about it more, through the docs and whatnot, it does sound really neat. I'm going to give it a shot. Coupled with a torrent client that can understand RSS, this sounds mighty powerful especially for those who push videocasts and podcasts.
It's clear that you've never encountered users who "Click out of a file", which seems to be most of them. I'm still not quite sure how that one is supposed to work, but I've also known my share of users who "Exit a file", which they apparently took from File->Exit. Anyway...
check out uTorrent. The beta version has the option to check RSS feeds from any site, and it will automatically add the torrets to the client. It even has the option of filtering out torrents with simple expressions, and even offers you the ability to save your files in other folders for oranization purposes.
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It works really well for downloading TV shows off of some sites, for example.
Naturally, because it's bittorrent, it's great at downloading b-i-g files, whereas FeedTree sounds like it's more about distributing web pages, and perhaps small video or audio segments, or perhaps it's a sort of distributed RSS... The article isn't especially clear on how this is all supposed to work. Sounds interesting though, too bad the documentation is unresponsive to me at the moment. Maybe they should have used Coral
Why not? On US network TV I've probably seen thousands of people over the years gunned down and vaporized with thermal vision from some aircraft or submarine many miles away.
Even if you can't really see it happen, it dosen't make what happened any less violent. Even if you can't see it happen, it dosen't mean a bunch of people didn't get exploded, be they innocent or not.
It's war, buddy, and you know what that means? Anything goes. You can't be a fucking bitch about a couple people getting whacked on video when you're the one that spamed 2,000lb bombs all over the place... At the very least, that attitude is poor gamesmanship. They've got their weapons and we've got ours. Why should we not expect them to use their weapons to the greatest effect they can? That's what it's all about. Don't like it? Don't be in a fucking war!
But that's the thing. A good niche market is a goldmine. It's incredibly super easy to get a nich market on your side Marketers know this. Apple knows this, and they're exploiting their goldmine very well, which tells me they've got very good marketing strategy. Because of their niche market they DO NOT, by definition compete with Dell or Microsoft, or rather, Microsoft and Dell can't compete with them, because they don't let it happen!
You don't even have to SELL to a niche market, because if you do what you do well, your current customers will sing praise about your business to their friends, and you've got a very good chance of picking them as customers as well. This is what I'm talking about, with Microsoft and Dell being not able to compete with them. Remember when Apple started really producing some cool stuff--basically anything after the G4/OSX combination was birthed. Tons of geeks bought Macs, where they wouldn't have previously. They were attraced to the unixy goodness and the shiny GUI. Microsoft can't compete with that, and it was really an ingenious move by Apple.
But here's the real brain racker: The geeks realized this was pretty cool, it worked well, was easy to use, wasn't dumbed down to a radical degree, looked pretty, and most importantly: it was much more secure to the Internet than anything else that also did all of the above... And that means the geek dosen't have to fix it when it breaks, because it just dosen't... And that's a relief.
Because of this, they told the people in their lives who aren't as proficient in computers to go buy a Mac--it would do everything they wanted it to do, and it wouldn't break. This is where they make their killing. Because the geeks know and trust Apple to treat them well, they reccomed their product. Apple dosen't even have to put TV ads out, and they move their product, and not because Apple isn't the only choice in town. This is why they have experienced record profitability recently, despite the higher initial investment of Apple hardware and software compared to other vendors!
If Apple sold their OS to anyone who wanted to buy it seperately, they would be instantaneously in direct competition with MS, with every other PC builder, including Dell, and even the PC guy on the corner. Who would buy a Mac if they could buy OSX anywhere? Nobody. They DO NOT want to be there unless their product was so mind blowingly superior that all of those manufacturers which use MS products would drop Windows, and so mind blowingly superior that anyone would buy it over Windows, even if it cost more. It's nice, good software, but let's face it... It's not mindblowingly superior to most people, whereas the platform is superior enough in many ways to even a relative few people to make it worth the extra cost, tangible or not. They trust Apple because of their family. That's all the advantage Apple needs.
I bet your son takes his VW to the dealership to have service done at a 500% markup over that of an unaffiliated professional mechanic, too. I know people who do this. It's nearly $500 for an oil change, oil filter, and a car wash from most VW dealers... And people pay it because they can't be arsed to call around and ask some questions. As long as you have the receipts from a qualified mechanic when scheduled maintenance is done, your warranty is preserved! Imagine that! It's not like a Ferrari, where they can tell of you used non-official Ferrari oil!
If he's old enough to be in college he's old enough to have the smarts to do some basic research, have some responsibility for his fundage, and he should have the balls to say "no" when someone lays on the pressured sales tactics. You don't need to be an expert in any particular thing, or even have a particularly high IQ for a certain part in your brain to turn on and say "Something aint' right here, buddy." My granny might have been a computer idiot, but she still had common sense. If by this time he doesn't have those skills, he's either a victim of Asperger's disorder or a victim of bad parenting--whatever it is, he needs to learn to overcome it, because people who don't have a big "sucker" sign on their foreheads that everyone else but they can see... So don't blame Apple that they saw it... It's not like they scammed him, they said "Here's our price".
Welding cable is a helluva lot more flexible than your normal 1/0 gauge, too. I've pulled enough of it to know that I'd certianly rather be fussing with welding wire with itty bitty strands!
Anyway, the NEC specified bending radius for 1/0 is something like 10 inches, IIRC. I'd just love to see someone work that into their house, especially with some 50A switch boxes and a giant gutter. It would look..very industrial...
Wow, I think I might have been there for that. Was it an HL2 DM game on Island 17 (the one with the lighthouse) maybe sometime around Thanksgiving? This is sounding way too familiar to be coincidence. I definitely remember playing with sand nigger and I also remember someone lampooning him over the sand part of his name--and then he went crazy over it.
:) Just so you know, I know someone who knows someone who was Kevin Bacon's stunt double in some movie which I presently forget!
It's a small world, I guess
Damn, that brings back memories... What an awesome game. I wonder if they've fixed how the game was timed on the CPU's frequency. I remember when I sopwith on a 386, it suddenly became very challenging, and then I upgraded to a 486 33 machine... It was quite impossible!
Ahh, good times.
True... However, I find the cropping to be even worse than the stretching. So, people look a little fatter and circles look like ovals. I suspect that when I upgrade to a DLP front/rear projection unit I'll be happier playing in 4:3 mode, but I'm pretty happy with my rear projection 42" TV... I don't think I'll be upgrading in the next 5 years unless something very revolutionary happens with TV technology (and prices)-or I move to a larger house that has a space that would work as a dedicated theatre...
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I am seriously thinking about doing an HD MythTV box, though. My only particular worry is how the TV will play with the computer because it's a component HD set; no VGA or DVI imputs, which is a bummer. Supposedly my 6600GT card supports component out, and it even includes a dongle, but my worry is timing. It's a bitch being an early adopter I guess
The bars on many TVs can be adjusted between grey and black, but grey is plain annoying, and it dosen't solve the problem in the first place. I don't really mind 4:3 stretched to 16:9 most of the time, but I'm not a hardcore HDTV person, and most broadcasts in my area still aren't HDTV, and the bars annoy me. Big deal.
Freedom Motors is part of Moller International. Moller got his start with the famous Supertrapp engine muffler system, and he started Freedom Motors as an R&D firm for Wankel engines, mostly for his Skycar project. They also build engines for watercraft and military applications.
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The Sopwith's engine wasn't a rotary engine like a wankel (which uses a rotor, not pistons), but it was called a radial rotary engine because the crankshaft was in fact fixed, and the cylinders, pistons, heads, manifolds, propeller--everything rotated around the crankshaft. As a matter of fact, the propeller was mounted to the engine itself!
In effect, the rest of the engine became the flywheel. Because it didn't need an external flywheel, these engines had better power to weight ratios, which is obviously very important in WWI biplanes. There was also a French airplane, which, IIRC made dual use of the crankshaft as a gun barrel... So bullets fired straight through the center of the engine, and the barrel was very effectively oil cooled if you can imagine!
They're wrong, however, saying that Mazda makes the only Wankel engine, because of course, Moller international also makes them, and they're going to be used in their much anticipated VTOL Skycar.
Of course any good supervillian with electrodes in his brain will be paranoid enough to build a faraday cage around his head with no more than aluminum foil and dental floss if need be.
Well, they could make money from Chinese even if they weren't registered in China... I'm sure many advertisers don't really care where someone is when they look at their add, so long as that person can understand it and be able to act on the advertisement. For example, I've bought certain things from the UK that I wouldn't have found if it weren't for an ad on a British site. In a perfectly capitalistic world, advertisers would purchase ads from Google no matter the location of the company, if Google was popular amongst the Chinese for one reason or another... But it's quite clear that China has no qualms using the full advantages of capitalism whilst suppressing any perceived threat.
The real deal is this: Google complies with the Chinese government's whims because they would just firewall Google's servers from the Chinese people. If the rest of the search engines prostrated themselves at China and Google didn't, the others would have an incredible advantage, and one foot in the door of a giant and rapidly growing economy.
This is why all of these companies are going at this full steam. It's like nuclear warfare: Mutually Assured Destruction to their shareholders' stocks if every respective company doesn't go after China with both barrels... It's sad, and it sucks for everyone involved, especially the Chinese people...but in a way the companies don't really have a choice. Even if all of the big search engines banded together and said they weren't going to capitulate to China, anyone else without the moral fortitude could potentially get the opportunity to make billions there... So, they say, "Someone's going to do it, it might as well be us." Such is the way of capitalism, be it good or bad.
I agree about McCain, but thats precisely the reason he'll never make it--because he probably would do a good job, and be an upstanding individiual and an informed leader... What neoconservative would elect such a person? They wouldn't--unless they thought he could be corrupted once he was on the inside.
Also, re: Kerry; I can certianly understand people not voting for this guy, even if they thought Bush was a jackass, likewise for Gore. Yawn.