It is the year 2081. Because of Amendments 211, 212, and 213 to the Constitution, every American is fully equal, meaning that no one is smarter, better-looking, stronger, or faster than anyone else.
The Handicapper General and a team of agents ensure that the laws of equality are enforced. The government forces citizens to wear "handicaps" (a mask if they are too handsome or beautiful, earphones with deafening radio signals to make intelligent people unable to concentrate and form thoughts, and heavy weights to slow down those who are too strong or fast).
My guess is that with Win 8 Metro interface Microsoft might try to move not just into tablets, but also into TV market.
Think about it for a minute:
Win 8 will stop being x86 exclusive, and will move on ARM too (Win 8 RT),
MS might start fully supporting Kinect to control Win 8 metro interface,
MS and partner TV manufacturers begin installing ARM processors and Win 8 RT on TVs, adding ability to connect Kinect through USB (or maybe even produce TVs with Kinect already installed),
MS app store is now on many TVs in many living rooms,
Profit..?
Purely speculation on my side, but might be the logical next step for MS.
No, if I owned a property in my home country, I would be considered a resident and I would have to pay income tax on all my income, even the one I made outside of the country.
In many countries, if you move outside, even for more than 6 months, you are still considered resident (and also required to pay taxes) under certain conditions.
For example, you might still pay taxes if you have personal interests in you country of origin, like if you own property or if you significant other and children still live there.
It is different from country to country. In my case, I am expat from European country living in the middle east more than 5 years already, and I would still have to pay income tax back home in case i owned any property there. I don't, BTW.:/
Perhaps you should take a closer look at the map. That area is not flat terrain, it is full of huge mountain ranges.
Digging a canal through that terrain would be almost impossible, and for sure prohibitively expensive.
Off course, I guess that a value of human life is more than just how much they can produce (or perhaps we should all agree just to kill our grandparents and parents as soon they retire to stop them from being a burden on our economy, Philip Morris style).
1. How can an airplane be allowed to carry passengers when the margin to airframe disintegration is so narrow? I can understand falling out of the sky if it stalls, but to be able to tear the airplane apart in level flight? What happened to margin of safety in airframe construction -- or is that whole concept now obsolete?
The load limits for A330 (and i believe for all other modern big passenger aircraft) are from -1g to +2.5g.
The ultimate loads, leading to rupture, are 1.5 times the load factor limits. Same for Boeing. Yes you might increase it to 2.0, or 3.0. Same as you could drive a tank instead of a car - costs and risks would probably outweigh the benefits.
If the aircraft stalled because of significant overspeed and consequent loss of lift, the loads might cross the ultimate load limits. Not so in normal flight conditions, specially because A330 computers restrict the aircraft load within -1g to +2.5 limits. Even with full pilot input, the load would not cross those limits.
I don't need to spend half an hour of my time that I've allocated for playing games trudging at whatever stupidly slow speed a game's decided to impose upon me. There is no good reason, whatsoever, to not just let me be there.
You are paying, let's say, $15 per month for the privilege of playing a game?
Gee, I wonder why the game designers would want to make you spend more time playing their game...
The thing about UAC is that it doesn't make it more secure if all you have to do is press allow, users will just click allow each time because it requires no effort
Well, I for one think that UAC is a small improvement. Yes, it does pop up from time to time, but it is not too often to be annoying.
Same as if you have a firewall or anti-virus software, you get a window that you can read or just blindly click approve. But the point is that you have a bit more information of what is going on with your system and one more option to help you identify suspicious activity.
As for the "users who just click allow", well if you are lazy enough to read one sentence than no UAC or anything else will help. But people like that probably have bunch of malware running on their system already, since they trained themselves to blindly approve everything. One just needs a bit of common sense.:\
So in this case the weakest link was not Vista. A bigger problem was Kaspersky AV not recognizing the trojans. The biggest problem was a teenage girl who didn't think it mattered if she downloaded britney.mp3 or britney.exe
Didn't read the book, but it sounds it doesn't give any advantages over a regular sword. A car^h^h^h gun analogy maybe works better, what is a difference between damage done with one actual shot and damage done by infinite number of shots averaged into one?
My solution to global warming: Eat more steak and mushrooms and less vegetables.
I know you're trying to be funny, but it's worth noting here that the production of the steak will use far more vegetable resources than eating the protein-equivalent directly in vegetables.
Simple, feed the animals with steak. It's steaks all the way down.
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Impossible? No. Economical? I don't see how, if it were why isn't the power company doing this centrally?
Oh but the power company is doing it centrally. Only it's cheaper not to use batteries on that scale.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricity
It is the year 2081. Because of Amendments 211, 212, and 213 to the Constitution, every American is fully equal, meaning that no one is smarter, better-looking, stronger, or faster than anyone else.
The Handicapper General and a team of agents ensure that the laws of equality are enforced.
The government forces citizens to wear "handicaps" (a mask if they are too handsome or beautiful, earphones with deafening radio signals to make intelligent people unable to concentrate and form thoughts, and heavy weights to slow down those who are too strong or fast).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron
Think about it for a minute:
Purely speculation on my side, but might be the logical next step for MS.
Well, apparently you don't care. But I am sure many other people do care.
No, if I owned a property in my home country, I would be considered a resident and I would have to pay income tax on all my income, even the one I made outside of the country.
Not true.
:/
In many countries, if you move outside, even for more than 6 months, you are still considered resident (and also required to pay taxes) under certain conditions.
For example, you might still pay taxes if you have personal interests in you country of origin, like if you own property or if you significant other and children still live there.
It is different from country to country. In my case, I am expat from European country living in the middle east more than 5 years already, and I would still have to pay income tax back home in case i owned any property there. I don't, BTW.
The biggest benefit of VLC, AFAIK, is the fact that it does not install a bunch of different codecs, everything is included in the player.
Maybe they think that email spam is just plain old http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(food).
Perhaps you should take a closer look at the map. That area is not flat terrain, it is full of huge mountain ranges.
Digging a canal through that terrain would be almost impossible, and for sure prohibitively expensive.
And BTW, it's Oman, not Omar.
There was a cost-benefit analysis done by Philip Morris for the Czech government that showed economical "benefit" of smoking.
It is not unbiased, but it is interesting to read about it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Finance_Balance_of_Smoking_in_the_Czech_Republic
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1442555.stm
Off course, I guess that a value of human life is more than just how much they can produce (or perhaps we should all agree just to kill our grandparents and parents as soon they retire to stop them from being a burden on our economy, Philip Morris style).
1. How can an airplane be allowed to carry passengers when the margin to airframe disintegration is so narrow? I can understand falling out of the sky if it stalls, but to be able to tear the airplane apart in level flight? What happened to margin of safety in airframe construction -- or is that whole concept now obsolete?
The load limits for A330 (and i believe for all other modern big passenger aircraft) are from -1g to +2.5g.
The ultimate loads, leading to rupture, are 1.5 times the load factor limits. Same for Boeing. Yes you might increase it to 2.0, or 3.0. Same as you could drive a tank instead of a car - costs and risks would probably outweigh the benefits.
If the aircraft stalled because of significant overspeed and consequent loss of lift, the loads might cross the ultimate load limits. Not so in normal flight conditions, specially because A330 computers restrict the aircraft load within -1g to +2.5 limits. Even with full pilot input, the load would not cross those limits.
I don't need to spend half an hour of my time that I've allocated for playing games trudging at whatever stupidly slow speed a game's decided to impose upon me. There is no good reason, whatsoever, to not just let me be there.
You are paying, let's say, $15 per month for the privilege of playing a game?
Gee, I wonder why the game designers would want to make you spend more time playing their game...
Silicon Valley is special to me because of its cultural diversity. ... They must hate my home, Silicon Valley.
Peace.
Maybe they just don't appreciate you keeping all the smug for yourself.
"English system" is "standard"? Yes, in US, Liberia and Myanmar. I guess lumberjack and liquid dividers' lobby is still too strong.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Metric_system.png
Sounds like Bill started flirting a bit there at the end. How does it end?
How would the phone work in zero-G?
Is that your usual prerequisite when purchasing a mobile phone?
I suggest "The goggles! They do nothing!" for your next spelling nazi rant.
Easy.
1. All downloads will be delivered via snail mail.
2. NY delivery address - taxes added.
3. Profit
No need to even include "???".
only the oddball document that doesn't open right in OOo, he opens and converts on his own notebook, the only one in the company that have MS stuff.
So he kept the good stuff for himself only, eh?
(P.S. How can I make my posts to be by Anonymous Coward)
The thing about UAC is that it doesn't make it more secure if all you have to do is press allow, users will just click allow each time because it requires no effort
Well, I for one think that UAC is a small improvement. Yes, it does pop up from time to time, but it is not too often to be annoying. :\
Same as if you have a firewall or anti-virus software, you get a window that you can read or just blindly click approve. But the point is that you have a bit more information of what is going on with your system and one more option to help you identify suspicious activity.
As for the "users who just click allow", well if you are lazy enough to read one sentence than no UAC or anything else will help. But people like that probably have bunch of malware running on their system already, since they trained themselves to blindly approve everything. One just needs a bit of common sense.
So in this case the weakest link was not Vista.
A bigger problem was Kaspersky AV not recognizing the trojans.
The biggest problem was a teenage girl who didn't think it mattered if she downloaded britney.mp3 or britney.exe
In Germany the cameras blur the person on the right seat.
And then one can do this: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1081607/Speeding-puppet-seat-British-car-makes-muppets-German-police.html
Didn't read the book, but it sounds it doesn't give any advantages over a regular sword. A car^h^h^h gun analogy maybe works better, what is a difference between damage done with one actual shot and damage done by infinite number of shots averaged into one?
...every swing you make projects all the other swings you could have made. The more likely the swing, the more damaging the cut.
With infinite number of swings being ones where you chop your other hand off, I can see the advantages a weapon like that would provide.
My solution to global warming: Eat more steak and mushrooms and less vegetables.
I know you're trying to be funny, but it's worth noting here that the production of the steak will use far more vegetable resources than eating the protein-equivalent directly in vegetables.
Simple, feed the animals with steak. It's steaks all the way down.