Why sad? Which power company do you use? Was price a factor? Sure it was! When did you last change your phone company or plan? Got a better offer from a competitor?
People make choices on price every day, but if Linux was considered to not be ready for stable business use yet, the price would not entice. Call the economic downturn an extra incentive to take the plunge.
Perhaps there will be enough stable development in countries which have already or are in the process or adopting Linux in the important places. Schools. When kids use it at school, maybe go on to use it at work etc, that is what they will use at home and that will be the system that seems logical to them.
You could say that a generation is rising up in the developing world which will be almost Microsoft illiterate.
Something doesn't seem to add up. They've already indicated that slight modifications to trajectories can deteriorate an orbit, so some portion of the space junk caused by collisions must fail to remain in orbit. But they also say that collisions cause more junk, which causes more collisions, as though this were a never-ending cycle of feedback.
Collisions with big pieces of junk break it up into lots of just-as-dangerous-but-harder-to-spot small pieces of junk. No good. Releasing water however, like from a water cannon, also would result in a lot of tiny pieces of ice whizzing around read to puncture a space suit or solar array - or worse.
If a material of suitable strength could be found, perhaps a 'sky-net' could work? Sorta like a trash collector in a river. The net collects debris for 6 months to a year and then the whole thing gets dumped into the ocean.
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When the PC boots up in 3 seconds, has a monitor at least 24" or more across, is placed in the most comfortable room in the house (after the bedroom), has no associations with work, requires ZERO brain effort, switches channels at the touch of one button and can be operated with one hand via a small remote control while the other hand holds a beer or fishes in a packet of Salt'n'Vinegar crisps for the last crumbs...
Then the PC will win. Don't see it happening though.
TV still has an important advantage over the PC. It is not generally related to work at all, can be restricted to a pure entertainment level, requires no brain effort, has a remote control and is generally placed just in front of the most comfortable armchairs and sofas in the house...
Facial characteristics stored in a database? The Chinese have had voice recognition systems running in their airports since the '90s. Either the facial biometrics stuff is online by now or isn't far away...
If they get together with Amazon, we can have little iDentikindle cards with tasteful text ads beside our photos. Maybe the content could be matched with our profession or stage of life...
Google's option is pretty creepy. Any of my loved ones that dislike me enough to put my face to my personal details on a remote server are in trouble...
Now that is just cruel...
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Not only can the guy ahead of you drive at a pace that would get a snail bored, he can now remind you of how late he's making you!
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Why sad? Which power company do you use? Was price a factor? Sure it was! When did you last change your phone company or plan? Got a better offer from a competitor?
People make choices on price every day, but if Linux was considered to not be ready for stable business use yet, the price would not entice. Call the economic downturn an extra incentive to take the plunge.
Perhaps there will be enough stable development in countries which have already or are in the process or adopting Linux in the important places. Schools. When kids use it at school, maybe go on to use it at work etc, that is what they will use at home and that will be the system that seems logical to them.
You could say that a generation is rising up in the developing world which will be almost Microsoft illiterate.
are often free!
You mean that the office TROLL who cc's everything to everyone, wasting thousands of man-hours per year is to be encouraged?
Could it be that someone has finally produced hardware powerful enough to run Vista smoothly?
Pretty sure it was - months ago... nothing new here. Move along.
Something doesn't seem to add up. They've already indicated that slight modifications to trajectories can deteriorate an orbit, so some portion of the space junk caused by collisions must fail to remain in orbit. But they also say that collisions cause more junk, which causes more collisions, as though this were a never-ending cycle of feedback.
Collisions with big pieces of junk break it up into lots of just-as-dangerous-but-harder-to-spot small pieces of junk. No good. Releasing water however, like from a water cannon, also would result in a lot of tiny pieces of ice whizzing around read to puncture a space suit or solar array - or worse.
If a material of suitable strength could be found, perhaps a 'sky-net' could work? Sorta like a trash collector in a river. The net collects debris for 6 months to a year and then the whole thing gets dumped into the ocean.
When the PC boots up in 3 seconds, has a monitor at least 24" or more across, is placed in the most comfortable room in the house (after the bedroom), has no associations with work, requires ZERO brain effort, switches channels at the touch of one button and can be operated with one hand via a small remote control while the other hand holds a beer or fishes in a packet of Salt'n'Vinegar crisps for the last crumbs...
Then the PC will win. Don't see it happening though.
TV still has an important advantage over the PC. It is not generally related to work at all, can be restricted to a pure entertainment level, requires no brain effort, has a remote control and is generally placed just in front of the most comfortable armchairs and sofas in the house...
He couldn't even make a clean getaway!
I know I shouldn't feed, but this popular freetard fairy tale has been witnessed so often to move into the realms of reality!
It's the fact there is an international paper conference that made me scratch my head.
It's a huge, worldwide industry with a stack of money involved and various technologies applied. What's to scratch your head about?
Hey, it's better than those tazo cards isn't it?
Maybe he prefers his porn to be, er, in 'braille'.
..does it run on Linux?
Actually the mullet is kind of two hair styles - business at the front, party at the back.
Your post ignores:
1. Science
No. His narcberry's post excludes popular, forced-concensus, post-modernist science.
According to science though, CO2 does have another use and I'll name it. Plant food.
...uninformed comments about sentmental environmentalists and evolution are arguing in a factual vacum
Hehe. Anyone else find the irony of this typo amusing?
Thus confirming the thesis that all major questions of philosophy have been covered by 80s music.
Philosophy maybe, but that still leaves the ethical questions regarding their 80's hairstyles...
although there are a number of other perfectly valid reasons for why we should try and save the frogs from extinction
You're saying that they're good to eat or something?
Talking book machines for the blind is one thing, but isn't there something just totally wrong about a book that reads itself to you?
Facial characteristics stored in a database? The Chinese have had voice recognition systems running in their airports since the '90s. Either the facial biometrics stuff is online by now or isn't far away...
If they get together with Amazon, we can have little iDentikindle cards with tasteful text ads beside our photos. Maybe the content could be matched with our profession or stage of life...
Google's option is pretty creepy. Any of my loved ones that dislike me enough to put my face to my personal details on a remote server are in trouble...
Not only can the guy ahead of you drive at a pace that would get a snail bored, he can now remind you of how late he's making you!