This breaks down as soon as you try and automate something, which is about 99% of how modern office workers are being replaced - by computers. My 00:00am in Dallas needs to be the same as 00:00am as New Orleans if you have banks in both areas and are posting daily totals. If New Orleans is 15 minutes ahead of Dallas, things go haywire with automation and your accountants are going to come screaming at you the next morning. Don't forget any banks in between placed at arbitrary points, or if the bank changes location in the town, etc.
The only compromise you could have that I can see is more localized time zones, in 10 or 15 minute increments. Once you get in to Pakistan, India etc you start seeing time zones that are 15, 30, 45 minutes apart.
Pretty much. We want to move to a new version of Super Enterprise Software 5.0 which has a web browser interface (made by a Microsoft-sized company) but the vendor only supports IE9 and Firefox 16. Newer versions of than firefox 16 "may cause unintended results". We've banned firefox from the network and IE9 apparently will eat up a gig of ram on version 5.0 of this software. And nobody is exactly interested in being stuck three (soon to be four) versions behind.
They're a billion dollar distribution company, the largest distribution company in a market larger than, and growing faster than the motion picture market. With a near monopoly on the PC market, and expanding in to the console market.
You can safely hold a lump of the stuff (scientific samples) with your bare hands. It's warm, but otherwise completely safe because it only emits alpha or beta particles (I forget which). You wouldn't want to eat it or breathe in dust from a machining process, however.
You get what you pay for. This is a metal case (vs plastic on most laptops, or cardboard+ if you're buying HP) with an absurdly bright (400 nit vs 200-250), high res IPS screen (TN is what you see in laptops bought at best buy, terrible viewing angles, etc). The only thing this laptop doesn't have is a Thinkpad style clit-mouse (trackpoint) and drainage holes in the keyboard (Thinkpad and HP enterprise grade laptops). Looking at the construction this laptop should last you a long, long time even as a travel user.
Technically, the family of GPUs that the xbox 360 launched with weren't available to PC users until the quarter after the console launched. Which is more or less why BF3 will run at all on an 8800gtx.
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Sony going x86 makes a very strong argument for Valve building their Steam Box. I'm surprised nobody else has pointed this out here yet. Assuming Unreal and iDTech5/6 have linux support (Unity already does) most developers will only need a recompile if their code is relatively clean. I'm curious which direction Microsoft will choose for their CPU. Right now Valve's Steam Box offering is sounded pretty level headed.
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If you can't make your point WITHOUT putting various words in all caps you might NOT have a very strong argument.
It's going to look grossly outdated in six years, if the pattern of console development holds true for the third time. Some sort of Haswell powered super-i7 is still going to look mediocre in three years of PC time, so you need to buy in big now to minimize losses later.
The purchasing power of the average american was about 20% higher than it is today, particularly for males. Decline of the middle class isn't a myth, it's a fact.
The radiation wouldn't kill the astronauts, not even on the return trip. The biggest immediate problem to their health is providing some sort of partial-G environment to prevent their bones from turning to dust. Now as for the radiation issues, you're almost certainly going to lose most of your sight within 10 years of returning home, and probably die of leukemia or some other horrible type of incurable cancer. It's a high continuous dosage of radiation, but it's not enough to dramatically weaken, let alone kill you. Unless you get stuck in a CME, in which case you're boned no matter what:)
The ISS has been such a resounding success that the Russians said they're taking their toys with them and moving to a different (and higher) orbit starting in 2021-2022. Hopefully we'll have a manned spaceflight program again by then (Orion is supposed to have a single test flight in 2019 and Dragon hasn't officially started it's human-rated certification yet). Right now we're renting seats on the Russian's Soyuz to the tune of $60 million a pop.
While it's great that GIMP has had that functionality for yeas in the form of a plug in, it's useless if the community doesn't know about it, and worse that it's still stuck in purgatory as a PITA 33rd party plugin rather than part of the core program (as it should be). I've used gimp for over 5 years and have never bothered to install a plugin, most tutorials will assume the same.
The "smart autofill" function is effectively magic; that wasn't added in until at least 2010. If you were hanging out on CS1 or CS2 that would be an easy incentive to upgrade.
To be fair, we had the tech to put a base on the moon starting around 1979. The ISS (with landing gear) would do just fine on the surface of the moon (except, ya know, the whole 15 days in the shade part).
Google Translate is great for general knowledge, informational websites like wikipedia, Sally's blog about her puppy, or whatever. I use it all the time, and helps me make sense of the large Russian portion of Livejournal.
But Google Translate is completely useless when it comes to navigating foreign travel sites. It just completely fails at understanding a website with time tables and ticket prices, different classes of seats etc. I've tried many times and failed many times to buy bus or airplane tickets in Spanish from multiple carriers in many countries.
Absolutely. That's not to say that they don't have a private encrypted line straight to the mega datacenter the NSA (CIA?) just set up in Utah, who knows what happens to that copy of the data.
According to their privacy statement, at least the last time I read it, they purge your data after 90 days, and then purge their cold backups after 180 days.
Having a high fidelity input device like a keyboard is one of the defining factors of a PC, yes. Some wrist watches have more computing power than the nav computer on the Apollo lander, but they only have 2-3 buttons to program them with, I would not call that a PC. If you can hook up a BT keyboard to that and run Lynx or emacs on the watch's 80x40 pixel display then you might be able to change my mind.
Tablets and other primary touch devices seem to be content consumption devices (email, web, video...games?) while a "PC" generally 30% or more of the work you do on it is input of some sort (email, office apps, program manipulation, etc).
Someone else suggested that if they include Tablets as PCs, then they should also include gaming consoles and smart TVs... I tend to agree with them on this point.
The case alone costs about $12 to buy the raw materials, cast, and precision machine. The only difference between the 250GB and 1TB version is the number of platters, quality of platters and model of read/write heads. The profit margin on the 250GB is probably about 15%, just the same as the model with the high end 1TB platters & read/write heads. Eventually you run in to a price floor, which is based on the physical reality that the drive is made from high grade machined aluminum.
BoeingCalc was the first spreadsheet that had worksheets that were interconnected. The user interface was terrible (terrible) but if you're an excel wizard, you'll have a rough idea of what you're looking at. The very first version supported files up to 32mb in size. In 1982! Imagine that. I actually "inherited" a copy of BoeingCalc on old 5 1/2" floppies, but they're so old I wasn't able to retrieve the files (only the directory listing) off them, and as far as I know I'm the only amateur computer historian with a (possibly) functional copy/physical disk of the stuff.
If anyone is able to help/assist, my website and boeingcalc info is in my sig below.
Wouldn't Titan's ultra-dense atmosphere have something to do with this? Most meteors come in at a high angle of incidence, meaning they graze the atmosphere, then fall in as they're slowed down to a capture speed.
Titan's atmosphere is something like what, three times as dense as Earth's atmosphere? It's up there with Venus, not Mars or Io, so shouldn't we be comparing it to planets, not moons? Keep in mind that visually, Titan is only about 8% smaller than Mars, and quite a bit larger than Earth's moon.
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This breaks down as soon as you try and automate something, which is about 99% of how modern office workers are being replaced - by computers. My 00:00am in Dallas needs to be the same as 00:00am as New Orleans if you have banks in both areas and are posting daily totals. If New Orleans is 15 minutes ahead of Dallas, things go haywire with automation and your accountants are going to come screaming at you the next morning. Don't forget any banks in between placed at arbitrary points, or if the bank changes location in the town, etc.
The only compromise you could have that I can see is more localized time zones, in 10 or 15 minute increments. Once you get in to Pakistan, India etc you start seeing time zones that are 15, 30, 45 minutes apart.
Pretty much. We want to move to a new version of Super Enterprise Software 5.0 which has a web browser interface (made by a Microsoft-sized company) but the vendor only supports IE9 and Firefox 16. Newer versions of than firefox 16 "may cause unintended results". We've banned firefox from the network and IE9 apparently will eat up a gig of ram on version 5.0 of this software. And nobody is exactly interested in being stuck three (soon to be four) versions behind.
Go read any of the ten page manifestos Valve has written on the subject. Or google this. Or talk to anyone who played TF2 before 2010.
They're a billion dollar distribution company, the largest distribution company in a market larger than, and growing faster than the motion picture market. With a near monopoly on the PC market, and expanding in to the console market.
You can safely hold a lump of the stuff (scientific samples) with your bare hands. It's warm, but otherwise completely safe because it only emits alpha or beta particles (I forget which). You wouldn't want to eat it or breathe in dust from a machining process, however.
You get what you pay for. This is a metal case (vs plastic on most laptops, or cardboard+ if you're buying HP) with an absurdly bright (400 nit vs 200-250), high res IPS screen (TN is what you see in laptops bought at best buy, terrible viewing angles, etc). The only thing this laptop doesn't have is a Thinkpad style clit-mouse (trackpoint) and drainage holes in the keyboard (Thinkpad and HP enterprise grade laptops). Looking at the construction this laptop should last you a long, long time even as a travel user.
Technically, the family of GPUs that the xbox 360 launched with weren't available to PC users until the quarter after the console launched. Which is more or less why BF3 will run at all on an 8800gtx.
Sony going x86 makes a very strong argument for Valve building their Steam Box. I'm surprised nobody else has pointed this out here yet. Assuming Unreal and iDTech5/6 have linux support (Unity already does) most developers will only need a recompile if their code is relatively clean. I'm curious which direction Microsoft will choose for their CPU. Right now Valve's Steam Box offering is sounded pretty level headed.
If you can't make your point WITHOUT putting various words in all caps you might NOT have a very strong argument.
It's going to look grossly outdated in six years, if the pattern of console development holds true for the third time. Some sort of Haswell powered super-i7 is still going to look mediocre in three years of PC time, so you need to buy in big now to minimize losses later.
The purchasing power of the average american was about 20% higher than it is today, particularly for males. Decline of the middle class isn't a myth, it's a fact.
The radiation wouldn't kill the astronauts, not even on the return trip. The biggest immediate problem to their health is providing some sort of partial-G environment to prevent their bones from turning to dust. Now as for the radiation issues, you're almost certainly going to lose most of your sight within 10 years of returning home, and probably die of leukemia or some other horrible type of incurable cancer. It's a high continuous dosage of radiation, but it's not enough to dramatically weaken, let alone kill you. Unless you get stuck in a CME, in which case you're boned no matter what :)
The ISS has been such a resounding success that the Russians said they're taking their toys with them and moving to a different (and higher) orbit starting in 2021-2022. Hopefully we'll have a manned spaceflight program again by then (Orion is supposed to have a single test flight in 2019 and Dragon hasn't officially started it's human-rated certification yet). Right now we're renting seats on the Russian's Soyuz to the tune of $60 million a pop.
UMA is wifi calling for blackberries, at least on T-Mobile
While it's great that GIMP has had that functionality for yeas in the form of a plug in, it's useless if the community doesn't know about it, and worse that it's still stuck in purgatory as a PITA 33rd party plugin rather than part of the core program (as it should be). I've used gimp for over 5 years and have never bothered to install a plugin, most tutorials will assume the same.
The "smart autofill" function is effectively magic; that wasn't added in until at least 2010. If you were hanging out on CS1 or CS2 that would be an easy incentive to upgrade.
To be fair, we had the tech to put a base on the moon starting around 1979. The ISS (with landing gear) would do just fine on the surface of the moon (except, ya know, the whole 15 days in the shade part).
Google Translate is great for general knowledge, informational websites like wikipedia, Sally's blog about her puppy, or whatever. I use it all the time, and helps me make sense of the large Russian portion of Livejournal.
But Google Translate is completely useless when it comes to navigating foreign travel sites. It just completely fails at understanding a website with time tables and ticket prices, different classes of seats etc. I've tried many times and failed many times to buy bus or airplane tickets in Spanish from multiple carriers in many countries.
Absolutely. That's not to say that they don't have a private encrypted line straight to the mega datacenter the NSA (CIA?) just set up in Utah, who knows what happens to that copy of the data.
According to their privacy statement, at least the last time I read it, they purge your data after 90 days, and then purge their cold backups after 180 days.
Having a high fidelity input device like a keyboard is one of the defining factors of a PC, yes. Some wrist watches have more computing power than the nav computer on the Apollo lander, but they only have 2-3 buttons to program them with, I would not call that a PC. If you can hook up a BT keyboard to that and run Lynx or emacs on the watch's 80x40 pixel display then you might be able to change my mind.
Tablets and other primary touch devices seem to be content consumption devices (email, web, video...games?) while a "PC" generally 30% or more of the work you do on it is input of some sort (email, office apps, program manipulation, etc).
Someone else suggested that if they include Tablets as PCs, then they should also include gaming consoles and smart TVs... I tend to agree with them on this point.
The case alone costs about $12 to buy the raw materials, cast, and precision machine. The only difference between the 250GB and 1TB version is the number of platters, quality of platters and model of read/write heads. The profit margin on the 250GB is probably about 15%, just the same as the model with the high end 1TB platters & read/write heads. Eventually you run in to a price floor, which is based on the physical reality that the drive is made from high grade machined aluminum.
BoeingCalc was the first spreadsheet that had worksheets that were interconnected. The user interface was terrible (terrible) but if you're an excel wizard, you'll have a rough idea of what you're looking at. The very first version supported files up to 32mb in size. In 1982! Imagine that. I actually "inherited" a copy of BoeingCalc on old 5 1/2" floppies, but they're so old I wasn't able to retrieve the files (only the directory listing) off them, and as far as I know I'm the only amateur computer historian with a (possibly) functional copy/physical disk of the stuff.
If anyone is able to help/assist, my website and boeingcalc info is in my sig below.
Wouldn't Titan's ultra-dense atmosphere have something to do with this? Most meteors come in at a high angle of incidence, meaning they graze the atmosphere, then fall in as they're slowed down to a capture speed.
Titan's atmosphere is something like what, three times as dense as Earth's atmosphere? It's up there with Venus, not Mars or Io, so shouldn't we be comparing it to planets, not moons? Keep in mind that visually, Titan is only about 8% smaller than Mars, and quite a bit larger than Earth's moon.