This is all well and good but you left out the rest of the comment.
With the reactor, you still need fuel, and it produces waste. Both of which are radioactive. Then, there is the cost of containing and disposing of that waste.
If there is one thing that Australia has lots of, it's dry, hot generally useless land. 125 acres is nothing. We only have 20 million people (the population of New York State) on a land mass about the size of the continental USA.
Even if it does cost 2.5 million per megawatt, it has little to no running costs and no extremely dangerous waste material.
I can't for the life of me remember the name for it, but back in the days of MacOS 9, Apple had some software that would parse any text on the screen and present you with a contextual menu that would be full of links to various things you could do with it.
It would be able to recognize a physical address and present you with a map. It could recognize email and web addresses in any application. It would add dates to your calendar and any number of other definable things.
For as long as I can remember the meanings were something along the lines of...
Delta - Very early development. Planning phase. Alpha - Still adding features. Doing basic testing. Beta - Features frozen. Only fixing bugs. Lots of heavy testing.
If MS feels threatened by iWorks, they'll just kill Office for OS X. And then Apple has lost one of their best marketing reasons to go Mac instead of Linux.
You do know that the MacBU (guys who make Mac Office) is one of Microsoft's most profitable businesses. It brings in about a billion dollars a quarter, or something stupid like that. MacOffice isn't going anywhere soon.
Microsoft realised a long time ago that Mac users will never switch, so they may as well make some money off them. Bill Gates was once quoted as saying that MS made more money from every Mac sold than Apple did. I would say that probably still true.
If nothing else, iWork will force MS to compete... which is good for everyone.
The way to do it, would be to try that on someone like WalMart. Then you would need to work out a way for Microsoft to be involved in the case as well and get to two to fight each other in court.
WalMart won't want to lose as it will cost them to much. Microsoft won't want to lose because it will invalidate all of their EULA's.
Problem is that cell fones are typically loss leaders for SOMEBODY, and we all know the iTMS is barely profitable, so I just don't see where the money would be coming from here.
Only in the US.
Here in Australia you can buy any GSM (we only use CDMA for rural networks) phone from any store and use it on whatever network you are subscribed to. There are some pre-paid packs that are locked to a network but a lot of the time, people buy the phone they want and then subscribe the network they want.
Oh, and when we change networks, our phone number comes with us.
The US is so far behind the rest of the world when it comes to mobile phones that it is actually quite funny.
If you grew up in the US, then that means that for the first 18-22 years of your life (at least) you weren't helping to pay for the infrastructure you took advantage of, either -- and, since you probably went to public school, you were taking much more advantage of it than they are.
Nice try, but unfortunately you didn't have much of a say in that did you. You didn't ask to be born and you didn't ask to be brought up the way you were.
How the hell do you expect to multiply after dividing her legs if you don't give her a good square root?
Then again, a root kit is something entirely different here in Australia.
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AIDS/HIV is one of the few major diseases/viruses that is helping to keeps the worlds population down. With that gone, I guess we can expect something more potent next time round.
Apple fans WANT something to fret about because thats what makes thing better. The worst thing that could happen to the industry is for no one to bother challenging Apple.
See what happened when no one challenged Microsoft?
Apple fans WANT some one to beat the pants off Apple, 'cause it means that after Apple has gotten up off the floor and brushed itself off, it is going to come up with something freakin amazing to get back into the game.
There are at least two major reasons why there is little to no spymac for Linux or for the Mac.
1. The broken windows syndrome. There was an article on slashdot a while ago about how if a broken window in a neighborhood doesn't get fixed immediately, pretty soon there will be more and more broken windows because people won't care.
Linux and Mac users care about their community so if there is some nasty software out there, it get identified pretty much immediately and is avoided like the plague.
Windows users just accept the nasty software as normal.
2. You can't hide software on Linux and Mac.
There is only two places on a Mac where software can be started automatically at boot or login (three, if you are really smart). If the software is not listed in one of these visible places, it won't start. Spyware has no where to hide on a Mac so it doesn't last very long.
There are LOTS of places that software can be started at boot in Windows. It is also very easy to hide stuff. Therefore, Spyware is very common.
Who ever said anything about tin-foil hats? I would just call it common sense.
If someone comes storming in to your place and takes all your computers without telling you anything, and then brings them back a week later with a big smile and still doesn't tell you anything, would that not suggest that something just ain't right?
there is so much food that it is not the richest people who are the fattest, but the poorest.
I would say that it on the right track, but a not quite there. The fattest people are not the richest, nor are they the poorest. They are the middle class. The people who 'get by'.
The problem is that humans are basically obsoleting themselves.
There will come a time (maybe in my lifetime. I'm 23) where technology is such, that humans as a race won't have to work. As farfetched as they seem now, things like the food-replicators from StarTrek will eventually be feasible. Why should I work when I can just press a button for food?
Earth would essentially become a zoo where humans are free to do as they wish. Robots and machines would look after basic needs for us. Shelter, food, water etc... It would allow humans to focus on other things such as bettering themselves and learning new things, instead of having to work to pay the bills.
Granted, the above scenario would require a cultural change on a global scale, and there will be many people that would fight tooth-and-nail against it. The people that fight it would be those that stand to lose the most. (The rich and powerful).
It would also bring up new issues such as birth control. Nature normally takes care of the population through mechanisms like scarcity and disease. With those two issues removed, humans would have self-regulate so as to not cover every square inch of the planet with people.
Obviously this is one of many possible futures for the human race. (We could blow the planet to hell tomorrow if we wanted). Still, these certainly are interesting times to be alive.
I never understood why the government didn't fund more projects like this.
Because the last thing that any government wants is a well educated population to question their actions. Large groups of simple people can be controlled very easily. Various religions have been doing it for centuries.
The more a population can think for themselves, the harder they are to control.
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This is all well and good but you left out the rest of the comment.
With the reactor, you still need fuel, and it produces waste. Both of which are radioactive. Then, there is the cost of containing and disposing of that waste.
If there is one thing that Australia has lots of, it's dry, hot generally useless land. 125 acres is nothing. We only have 20 million people (the population of New York State) on a land mass about the size of the continental USA.
Even if it does cost 2.5 million per megawatt, it has little to no running costs and no extremely dangerous waste material.
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I can't for the life of me remember the name for it, but back in the days of MacOS 9, Apple had some software that would parse any text on the screen and present you with a contextual menu that would be full of links to various things you could do with it.
It would be able to recognize a physical address and present you with a map. It could recognize email and web addresses in any application. It would add dates to your calendar and any number of other definable things.
Thats the name...
Apple Data Detectors.
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Would this not be exactly what the SmartTags patent is all about?
For as long as I can remember the meanings were something along the lines of...
Delta - Very early development. Planning phase.
Alpha - Still adding features. Doing basic testing.
Beta - Features frozen. Only fixing bugs. Lots of heavy testing.
Doesn't this mean anything to anyone any more?
If MS feels threatened by iWorks, they'll just kill Office for OS X. And then Apple has lost one of their best marketing reasons to go Mac instead of Linux.
You do know that the MacBU (guys who make Mac Office) is one of Microsoft's most profitable businesses. It brings in about a billion dollars a quarter, or something stupid like that. MacOffice isn't going anywhere soon.
Microsoft realised a long time ago that Mac users will never switch, so they may as well make some money off them. Bill Gates was once quoted as saying that MS made more money from every Mac sold than Apple did. I would say that probably still true.
If nothing else, iWork will force MS to compete... which is good for everyone.
The way to do it, would be to try that on someone like WalMart. Then you would need to work out a way for Microsoft to be involved in the case as well and get to two to fight each other in court.
WalMart won't want to lose as it will cost them to much.
Microsoft won't want to lose because it will invalidate all of their EULA's.
Anyone got an idea as to how to start this?
Problem is that cell fones are typically loss leaders for SOMEBODY, and we all know the iTMS is barely profitable, so I just don't see where the money would be coming from here.
Only in the US.
Here in Australia you can buy any GSM (we only use CDMA for rural networks) phone from any store and use it on whatever network you are subscribed to. There are some pre-paid packs that are locked to a network but a lot of the time, people buy the phone they want and then subscribe the network they want.
Oh, and when we change networks, our phone number comes with us.
The US is so far behind the rest of the world when it comes to mobile phones that it is actually quite funny.
Yes but those grown up immigrants that have not used the benefits of the US infrastructure make a choice to go to the US and start working.
Someone who was born in the US, and uses the infrastructure generally didn't have a choice in that matter. Their parents made that decision for them.
In that light, you cannot throw the "You had all the benefits the US provides" card, in the face of someone who was born there.
Likewise, the top 0.1% of Americans probably pay no tax at all.
If you grew up in the US, then that means that for the first 18-22 years of your life (at least) you weren't helping to pay for the infrastructure you took advantage of, either -- and, since you probably went to public school, you were taking much more advantage of it than they are.
Nice try, but unfortunately you didn't have much of a say in that did you. You didn't ask to be born and you didn't ask to be brought up the way you were.
How the hell do you expect to multiply after dividing her legs if you don't give her a good square root?
Then again, a root kit is something entirely different here in Australia.
AIDS/HIV is one of the few major diseases/viruses that is helping to keeps the worlds population down. With that gone, I guess we can expect something more potent next time round.
Nature knows best...
I have not read the article yet.
That said, I would hazard a guess that this guy is talking about the technology being ignored, not the car itself.
What are you talking about?
Apple fans WANT something to fret about because thats what makes thing better. The worst thing that could happen to the industry is for no one to bother challenging Apple.
See what happened when no one challenged Microsoft?
Apple fans WANT some one to beat the pants off Apple, 'cause it means that after Apple has gotten up off the floor and brushed itself off, it is going to come up with something freakin amazing to get back into the game.
Thats what makes healthy competition great.
Ummm... My sarcasm detector must not be working, but isn't Bonno speaking Italian?
In which case...
Un - One
Due - Two
Tre - Three
Quattro - Four
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There are at least two major reasons why there is little to no spymac for Linux or for the Mac.
1. The broken windows syndrome. There was an article on slashdot a while ago about how if a broken window in a neighborhood doesn't get fixed immediately, pretty soon there will be more and more broken windows because people won't care.
Linux and Mac users care about their community so if there is some nasty software out there, it get identified pretty much immediately and is avoided like the plague.
Windows users just accept the nasty software as normal.
2. You can't hide software on Linux and Mac.
There is only two places on a Mac where software can be started automatically at boot or login (three, if you are really smart). If the software is not listed in one of these visible places, it won't start. Spyware has no where to hide on a Mac so it doesn't last very long.
There are LOTS of places that software can be started at boot in Windows. It is also very easy to hide stuff. Therefore, Spyware is very common.
Who ever said anything about tin-foil hats? I would just call it common sense.
If someone comes storming in to your place and takes all your computers without telling you anything, and then brings them back a week later with a big smile and still doesn't tell you anything, would that not suggest that something just ain't right?
I would be treating the entire computer as hacked... not just the hard drive.
Who knows what kind of traffic / key loggers have been installed.
(And yes, I realize that a hardware key logger is next to useless on a headless server.)
"Unnamed children's safety group"
is that what they are calling the National Safety Authority nowadays?
I'll choose the one that Apple sticks in my next computer.
Seriously, Apple seem to have a knack for popularizing new technologies. Why should this be any different?
there is so much food that it is not the richest people who are the fattest, but the poorest.
I would say that it on the right track, but a not quite there. The fattest people are not the richest, nor are they the poorest. They are the middle class. The people who 'get by'.
Have you ever seen a fat Ethiopian?
The problem is that humans are basically obsoleting themselves.
There will come a time (maybe in my lifetime. I'm 23) where technology is such, that humans as a race won't have to work. As farfetched as they seem now, things like the food-replicators from StarTrek will eventually be feasible. Why should I work when I can just press a button for food?
Earth would essentially become a zoo where humans are free to do as they wish. Robots and machines would look after basic needs for us. Shelter, food, water etc... It would allow humans to focus on other things such as bettering themselves and learning new things, instead of having to work to pay the bills.
Granted, the above scenario would require a cultural change on a global scale, and there will be many people that would fight tooth-and-nail against it. The people that fight it would be those that stand to lose the most. (The rich and powerful).
It would also bring up new issues such as birth control. Nature normally takes care of the population through mechanisms like scarcity and disease. With those two issues removed, humans would have self-regulate so as to not cover every square inch of the planet with people.
Obviously this is one of many possible futures for the human race. (We could blow the planet to hell tomorrow if we wanted). Still, these certainly are interesting times to be alive.
I guess Duke won't be getting a RIAA enforced subscription to Napster then.
It will be interesting to see how this pans out.
they are educated (usually in the U.S.) religious zealots
Heh.. For a second there, I thought you were talking about Bush and Ashcroft.
Public schools certainly turn out the brightest minds in the country don't they.
Governments spend money on education because they want to get re-elected. Not because they want a country full of smart people.
I never understood why the government didn't fund more projects like this.
Because the last thing that any government wants is a well educated population to question their actions. Large groups of simple people can be controlled very easily. Various religions have been doing it for centuries.
The more a population can think for themselves, the harder they are to control.