...Because there's lots of rich young black men...Who loot pension funds?
Maybe there's lots of rich black men running around, but they don't care about pensions--most of their worries seem to include getting huge rims on their new Escalade and sound systems that will asplode heads the heads of small animals.
Yeah, I-40 through Tennessee is probably some of the the curviest interstate down there. It's quite a relief, actually, after going though Arkansas and I-85 between Durham and Richmod.. I think those are some of the lamest stretches of highway anywhere... Including anything Kansas, Texas and New Mexico have to offer.
I have no problem shooting up canyon roads in the rockies at 40-50mph if there's nobody around--not that I'd ever try to take a corner that fast, that's just crazy. Possible if you didn't have to worry about the blind corner, but crazy still. But 50 on an interstate is just lame. I really like TN, though. Nice land, dosen't have the bad vibe some southern states have (Arkansas is cursed ground, I swear. I can never get through there fast enough), and everyone's really friendly.
Yeah, that speed limit thing has been gone a long time now.
Remember that thing about Montana, and how basically there were no speed limits for a few years? I so wish I could've taken a Ferrari around there, but I have a feeling the roads suck.
Speeds on most rural interstates are at least 75MPH. Except in southern states apparently. Arkansas to Virginia on I-40 is the slowest. Ugh. 55mph practically all the way. Going I-70 coast to coast would be faster, even considering the several hundred miles you have to make up.
That would have zippo impact on a dedicated attacker with a brain, it's not like you can send and receive encrypted information via http or anything, is it?.
Better block out all the windows and make sure *NO* radio waves come or go while you're at it. All it takes is someone with a remote on the gound, and it would be a helluva lot easier to do than some convoluted encrypted internet bomb.
What difference is it going to make if your stuff is encrypted? Oh, so you're going to be a suspected terrorist if you open an SSH session.
Nice. If terrorists wanted to wirelessly detonate bombs, they could go about it in literally a hundred different ways not at all involving the internet, and at any rate, 10 minutes is way too long of a time to make any difference. Might as well not do it at all. If they want people dead, they'll be dead.
No, instead, the best use this will ever have is busting people who shop for pot via the internet whilst on airplanes. That's obviously worth billions.
Judging by his obsession with furries--of mediocre quality (oh shit, am I scrutinizing furries?! That's just wrong), including furrie pron--well he just needs to get the hell outside and stop worrying about anthropomorphism.
Just being facetious, but also remembering the "puck" mouse, and earlier models. I found them to be quite terrible. I think the new long mouse is probably okay, but I don't have one that I use personally.
I certianly can't argue about control key context menus, etc... It works. I use a powerbook, so I'm used to it also. Besides being quick, It's probably more ergonomic in the long run, too. After using the powerbook for a while, I honestly don't see what the fuss is about Apple mice, but what can one do?
There's always bound to be some jerk that's never even used an Apple to bitch about the mouse--just because. I always think that if they're so smart, they deserve to be on the board of directors, or on the design staff:P
However, with that said, if that were the case, Apple could pick up extra sales to PC buyers if their Bluetooth mouse were of the two button + scroll wheel variety. Which is the point I was getting at with the original post.
Yeah, maybe they would pick up a few mouse customers, but would it be enough for them to even notice?
The way I see it, to have that much of an impact you've either got to be first, do whatever it is you do better than everyone else, or do it nearly as well as everyone else at a lower price.
There's plenty of multi-buttoned scrolling bluetooth mice out there, relative to demand anyhow. Apple would have to pull some serious magic out of their hat to do to the Apple mouse what they did to the iPod: make everyone want one. At least part of that is out of their control: while all their power line has BT installed, not many non-Apple laptops have it, which means a stupid dongle.
Even if they really wanted it to happen, I just don't see it.
Who cares, honestly--and more to the point, who actually uses those RSI inducing apple mice for more than a few days? Grandmas, and people who want their mouse to look like their Apple. Think about it... It's true!
Why do they need to go right clicking about when they have a hard enough time double clicking (witness Windows XP)? That's right, they don't, and even if they did, they wouldn't be sure how to go about it.
Nobody bitches about Dell or Gateway giving away relatively cheap, underfeatured mouses by default... And even if Apple did make some uber-mouse that is the bestest of the best in every respect, there'd still be people complaining about it, how it adds a hundred-fifty bucks to their computer price, and how it dosen't do what they want, or how the design makes their hand fall off, or how they like trackballs or tablets, or those little nubby things better for whatever reason.
It's just better to let people get what they want on the free market--where users drive innovation--than to constantly invest huge resources making a product that tries to be everything to everyone.
Having the ability of saying "Neener Neener Neener I told you so!" to adherent biblical creationists? That alone has to be worth what, a few billion or so?
Maybe (s)he could romp around and create another cinema masterpeice with Pauly Shore--or become a Senator?!
Obviously, speed and carrying capacity are correlated...
I mean, it's not like drivers going 80MPH are going to be directly on eachother's asses--although I have to admit some are. If drivers follow the 1 car length/10 MPH rule--or the 3 second rule, then cars will be spaced much farther apart at higher speeds. Finding the highest throughput at the highest speed assuming certian condidions should be a easy enough to find.
That said, I've known several factors to increase the liklihood of congestion--I'm no planner either: the location of the sun in relation to the road, the fact that people for whatever reason *cannot* maintain speed going up any slope > 1, cellphone use, the minivan quotient (soccer moms yelling at their kids and old ladies just generally driving and reacting slowly), the ricer quotient (for whatever reason they like to accelerate up to and brake hard when they get to traffic), poor timing of red lights (Las Vegas is horrid, I'm glad I only visit occasionally), and about a hundred more minor traffic influences.
I know enough to say that describing and predicting traffic flow is a damn hard problem. You guys need a program that compares the locations of all the elementry schools, retirement homes, hospitals, drug stores, dinner buffets, etc. to simulate your traffic patterns--i.e. figure out where they're likely to want to go. I understand that traffic is currently simulated like a gas flow, maybe it could be a gas flow with a mixture of different gasses.
if anyone dares put any historical or political context around 9/11, they are shouted down.
Totally. People all too often can't put themselves into someone else's shoes--either they don't care, or they don't want to know the truth as someone else sees it--so it's come as no suprise to me, though it is still depressing.
Heh, yeah I thought it was pretty good. Thanks for the Uri Geller suggestion--I didn't get to see him when he was on the Tonight Show, but I just downloaded a clip from wikipedia... There's one way to describe it: Owned!
That's like people saying that each B2 bomber cost $4 Billion (or whatever) to produce. They're right in a way, but that line of thinking completely ignores developments made during R&D that will affect the rest of the industry, or even the world.
Perhaps (hypothetically speaking) Lockheed developed some lightweight materials (or some other widget) for use in the bomber that will eventually find themselves in automobiles. Bonus for us. If that saves a few billion a year in fuel, it's all worth it, huh?
Sony wants to use their Cell processor stuff in other electronics, and they hope that their high density DVD format will take over the universe. It's exactly the same as the hypothetical bomber situation.
That works for me, but it just dosen't have the explosives and big kinetic energy that I crave. But it is quite high on the evil quotient, I guess it's about even:D
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...Because there's lots of rich young black men...Who loot pension funds?
Maybe there's lots of rich black men running around, but they don't care about pensions--most of their worries seem to include getting huge rims on their new Escalade and sound systems that will asplode heads the heads of small animals.
Oh, snap. Who's stereotyping now, biatch?!
Yeah, I-40 through Tennessee is probably some of the the curviest interstate down there. It's quite a relief, actually, after going though Arkansas and I-85 between Durham and Richmod.. I think those are some of the lamest stretches of highway anywhere... Including anything Kansas, Texas and New Mexico have to offer.
I have no problem shooting up canyon roads in the rockies at 40-50mph if there's nobody around--not that I'd ever try to take a corner that fast, that's just crazy. Possible if you didn't have to worry about the blind corner, but crazy still. But 50 on an interstate is just lame. I really like TN, though. Nice land, dosen't have the bad vibe some southern states have (Arkansas is cursed ground, I swear. I can never get through there fast enough), and everyone's really friendly.
Yeah, that speed limit thing has been gone a long time now.
Remember that thing about Montana, and how basically there were no speed limits for a few years? I so wish I could've taken a Ferrari around there, but I have a feeling the roads suck.
Speeds on most rural interstates are at least 75MPH. Except in southern states apparently. Arkansas to Virginia on I-40 is the slowest. Ugh. 55mph practically all the way. Going I-70 coast to coast would be faster, even considering the several hundred miles you have to make up.
My uncle-in law is one of those conservatives. He makes it sould like watergate was just good clean fun.
Fucking idiot. Breaking and entering, unlawful trespass and wire tapping.. Yeah, real innocent. Maybe he was a bank robber in his youth.
That would have zippo impact on a dedicated attacker with a brain, it's not like you can send and receive encrypted information via http or anything, is it?.
Better block out all the windows and make sure *NO* radio waves come or go while you're at it. All it takes is someone with a remote on the gound, and it would be a helluva lot easier to do than some convoluted encrypted internet bomb.
What difference is it going to make if your stuff is encrypted? Oh, so you're going to be a suspected terrorist if you open an SSH session.
Nice. If terrorists wanted to wirelessly detonate bombs, they could go about it in literally a hundred different ways not at all involving the internet, and at any rate, 10 minutes is way too long of a time to make any difference. Might as well not do it at all. If they want people dead, they'll be dead.
No, instead, the best use this will ever have is busting people who shop for pot via the internet whilst on airplanes. That's obviously worth billions.
Judging by his obsession with furries--of mediocre quality (oh shit, am I scrutinizing furries?! That's just wrong), including furrie pron--well he just needs to get the hell outside and stop worrying about anthropomorphism.
Goddamn freaky people.
Exactly! Being very empathetic can score you chicks, but it's just as likely to gain shopping partners.
Yeah, no doubt. The ones that play stupid seem to make it to high office!
It's probably all in the lawyers to get the thing approved by the FDA/whatever.
Stupid lawyers make everything cost more.
Just being facetious, but also remembering the "puck" mouse, and earlier models. I found them to be quite terrible. I think the new long mouse is probably okay, but I don't have one that I use personally.
:P
I certianly can't argue about control key context menus, etc... It works. I use a powerbook, so I'm used to it also. Besides being quick, It's probably more ergonomic in the long run, too. After using the powerbook for a while, I honestly don't see what the fuss is about Apple mice, but what can one do?
There's always bound to be some jerk that's never even used an Apple to bitch about the mouse--just because. I always think that if they're so smart, they deserve to be on the board of directors, or on the design staff
However, with that said, if that were the case, Apple could pick up extra sales to PC buyers if their Bluetooth mouse were of the two button + scroll wheel variety. Which is the point I was getting at with the original post.
Yeah, maybe they would pick up a few mouse customers, but would it be enough for them to even notice?
The way I see it, to have that much of an impact you've either got to be first, do whatever it is you do better than everyone else, or do it nearly as well as everyone else at a lower price.
There's plenty of multi-buttoned scrolling bluetooth mice out there, relative to demand anyhow. Apple would have to pull some serious magic out of their hat to do to the Apple mouse what they did to the iPod: make everyone want one. At least part of that is out of their control: while all their power line has BT installed, not many non-Apple laptops have it, which means a stupid dongle.
Even if they really wanted it to happen, I just don't see it.
Who cares, honestly--and more to the point, who actually uses those RSI inducing apple mice for more than a few days? Grandmas, and people who want their mouse to look like their Apple. Think about it... It's true!
Why do they need to go right clicking about when they have a hard enough time double clicking (witness Windows XP)? That's right, they don't, and even if they did, they wouldn't be sure how to go about it.
Nobody bitches about Dell or Gateway giving away relatively cheap, underfeatured mouses by default... And even if Apple did make some uber-mouse that is the bestest of the best in every respect, there'd still be people complaining about it, how it adds a hundred-fifty bucks to their computer price, and how it dosen't do what they want, or how the design makes their hand fall off, or how they like trackballs or tablets, or those little nubby things better for whatever reason.
It's just better to let people get what they want on the free market--where users drive innovation--than to constantly invest huge resources making a product that tries to be everything to everyone.
Having the ability of saying "Neener Neener Neener I told you so!" to adherent biblical creationists? That alone has to be worth what, a few billion or so?
Maybe (s)he could romp around and create another cinema masterpeice with Pauly Shore--or become a Senator?!
Don't foget the cost of the keyboard, the physical injury (that so totally burns) and emotional distress!
Obviously, speed and carrying capacity are correlated...
I mean, it's not like drivers going 80MPH are going to be directly on eachother's asses--although I have to admit some are. If drivers follow the 1 car length/10 MPH rule--or the 3 second rule, then cars will be spaced much farther apart at higher speeds. Finding the highest throughput at the highest speed assuming certian condidions should be a easy enough to find.
That said, I've known several factors to increase the liklihood of congestion--I'm no planner either: the location of the sun in relation to the road, the fact that people for whatever reason *cannot* maintain speed going up any slope > 1, cellphone use, the minivan quotient (soccer moms yelling at their kids and old ladies just generally driving and reacting slowly), the ricer quotient (for whatever reason they like to accelerate up to and brake hard when they get to traffic), poor timing of red lights (Las Vegas is horrid, I'm glad I only visit occasionally), and about a hundred more minor traffic influences.
I know enough to say that describing and predicting traffic flow is a damn hard problem. You guys need a program that compares the locations of all the elementry schools, retirement homes, hospitals, drug stores, dinner buffets, etc. to simulate your traffic patterns--i.e. figure out where they're likely to want to go. I understand that traffic is currently simulated like a gas flow, maybe it could be a gas flow with a mixture of different gasses.
if anyone dares put any historical or political context around 9/11, they are shouted down.
Totally. People all too often can't put themselves into someone else's shoes--either they don't care, or they don't want to know the truth as someone else sees it--so it's come as no suprise to me, though it is still depressing.
*sigh*
Heh, yeah I thought it was pretty good. Thanks for the Uri Geller suggestion--I didn't get to see him when he was on the Tonight Show, but I just downloaded a clip from wikipedia... There's one way to describe it: Owned!
That works for me!
I think of this, and I wonder where there is a suitable body of water to throw our routers into.
Exactly right!
That's like people saying that each B2 bomber cost $4 Billion (or whatever) to produce. They're right in a way, but that line of thinking completely ignores developments made during R&D that will affect the rest of the industry, or even the world.
Perhaps (hypothetically speaking) Lockheed developed some lightweight materials (or some other widget) for use in the bomber that will eventually find themselves in automobiles. Bonus for us. If that saves a few billion a year in fuel, it's all worth it, huh?
Sony wants to use their Cell processor stuff in other electronics, and they hope that their high density DVD format will take over the universe. It's exactly the same as the hypothetical bomber situation.
Justifying the computer shouldn't be all that hard--it's getting the three phase 480v 200A to run all of your toys that might be difficult...
"I'll tell you where you can put that transformer!!"
That works for me, but it just dosen't have the explosives and big kinetic energy that I crave. But it is quite high on the evil quotient, I guess it's about even :D
I think someone needs to stick a Cannon up these industry shitheads' asses and pull the trigger.
No, I'm pretty sure that also applies to datacanter, especially if it belongs to the government, and even more especially if it belongs to the NSA!