Microsoft is going to kill Google the way they killed Netscape. The only difference is that last decade they were able to cheat, by giving-away their browser free-of-charge whereas Netscape didn't have that option (they had to charge $30 or else have no income). It will be interesting to see what Microsoft does to beat Google.
On the other hand they might fail. They tried to beat the Sony PS2 - failed. Then they tried to beat the PS3, which they succeeded in doing but now they're getting trounced by the Wii. Maybe with the Xbox 3 they'll finally beat both Sony and Nintendo.
How come the world temprature has dropped half a degree since 2000? Even the Climate Change Congress now acknowledges this (quote: "temperature has plateaud"). Why?
And how are world leaders likely to respond if the temperature drops during the 2010s?
I have no idea what impact +100 ppm CO2 will have on the planet, and neither do most people. I still remember sitting in school and being lectured about Global Cooling, and how we needed to stop driving cars to reduce the amount of "dust" in the air.
>>>59% of all Windows machines on the Internet being infected with malware and under the control of botnets. >>>Windows:Mac:Linux virus proportions at approximately 100%:0%:0% >>>
What's that? J/K. That maintenance I can deal with but the annual inspections just so garages can look for something to repair really piss me off. I miss my old state that had no inspections (at point-of-sale and that was it).
>>>Science demands a boundless imagination to explore the inner and outer limits of existence.
Precisely. I believe flies spontaneously generate from rotting meat, and I don't care how many times scientists tell me I'm wrong -that flies comes from eggs- I just don't accept that.
>>>In the same way, Sylar just has to push in the other direction.
Yes but he's doing the equivalent of throwing a 200 pound bowling ball. That would exceed the amount of friction between his shoes and the floor, and he'd slide backwards. .
>>>He could be influencing some other object (again, likely air) to exert a force against his victims
I don't hear any "whooshes" of hurricane force air throwing the victim across the room, so no, that isn't it. I think the difference between me and the other posters is I drew a FBD, and I can see the amount of force against Sylar would push him backwards. The rest of ye have not taken the time to do that.
Well if you stood perfectly still (as Sylar does when he does his 'throw person across room' trick), the force you impart to the bowling ball has to be counteracted by an opposite force. That force is the friction between your shoes and the floor.
My point is what Sylar is doing is equivalent to throwing a ~200 pound ball. If a bowler did that he's slide backwards, and likewise Sylar should be sliding backwards.
It always amazes me how fanatics (especially Trekkies) bend-over backwards and kiss their own ass in order to justify a show that is CLEARLY false science. The amount of force that would be needed move a ~200 pound human body horizontally and across the room would exceed the amount of friction provided by Sylar's sneakers. He would quite literally slide backwards. Do a fucking Free Body Diagram, and you can verify that for yourself .
>>>telekinesis is pure fantasy.
This is what I've been saying all along. You can't justify what Sylar does with science, so why do you keep trying?
Anon. Coward wrote: No one gives a flying fuck about your toy OS, oldfag.I could say the same about Linux or Mac or Windows. But I'm not a little kid anymore, and don't feel the need to insult people. Let us all know when you grow up little coward. --
Like a DVR but instead of a hard drive, it uses magnetic tape (similar to data storage backup). A VCR also has the ability to ignore Digital Rights Management and just record whatever it sees.
Yes. Here's what the earth looks like over 65 and 500+ million years. Both graphcs show that we are actually in a COOL period and have been for some time:
>>>with a recent survey showing 59% of all Windows machines on the Internet being infected with malware and under the control of botnets. >>>telling Mac and Linux users that they were every bit as susceptible to viruses and Trojans, despite the Windows:Mac:Linux virus proportions in the wild continuing at approximately 100%:0%:0% >>>
I just upgraded from 6 to 7 around two months ago.
I guess it's time to hop to 8. I'm tired of constantly upgradng everything. I drive an old car built in 1997, and I don't understand why I can't keep running the same browser at least a few years. Yeah I know - constant updating keeps programmers employed.
For example when I review the WHO's stats, I don't see negative numbers for the United States. I see that we Americans are ahead of the Europeans and the Russians and the Chinese. How? Simple. When I treat the European Union as a single united government under a single president (because that's what they are now that Lisbon Treaty has passed), I see this:
(1) San Marino (2) Andorra (3) Singapore (4) Oman (5) Japan (6) Colombia (7) Saudi Arabia (8) USA (9) Israel (10) Morocco (11) Canada (12) Australia (13) Chile (14) Dominica (15) Costa Rica (16) United States (17) Cuba (the have government healthcare; why aren't they higher?) (18) Brunei (19) EUROPEAN UNION (20) New Zealand... (115) Russia...
>>>Yeah, because the World Health Organization bases its studies on opinion.
Yes. Just the same way the supposedly "unbaised" scientists lied about their climate results - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125883405294859215.html?mod=googlenews_wsj ("A partial review of the emails shows that in many cases, climate scientists revealed that their own research wasn't always conclusive. In others, they discussed ways to paper over differences among themselves in order to present a "unified" view"). EVERYBODY has a bias or agenda even the folks over at the WHO (who are pro-government-provided healthcare). You can not trust them. As I said before, don't just swallow the WHO's opinion. Look at the data and draw you own conclusions.
I have. I decided if I get cancer or otherwise ill, I'd rather be in the United States. My odds of (1) detection and (2) survivial are higher HERE than anywhere else in the world.
>>>Please excuse me if I'm not impressed.
Well then why don't you provide alternate data that shows how UK hospitals (for example) makes people more well than Americans. And don't quote unrelated stats like lifespan, which are caused by lifestyle (americans live dangerous somewhat accident-prone lives), and nothing to do with the quality of the hospitals.
Which is stupid. Corporations will simply continue their bad behavior if they are not punished. Like the Ford Pinto case: Ford decided it was cheaper to pay-off dead victims, than to reengineer the car so it doesn't explode. The government's issuance of punative damages tilt the equation so the company decides it's cheaper to fix the car, rather than be punished.
More recent exchanges centered on requests by independent climate researchers for access to data used by British scientists for some of their papers. The hacked folder is labeled "FOIA," a reference to the Freedom of Information Act requests made by other scientists for access to raw data used to reach conclusions about global temperatures.
Many of the email exchanges discussed ways to decline such requests for information, on the grounds that the data was confidential or was intellectual property.
And people claim copyright/IP laws cause no harm. Science is worthless if you can't have review of the data and verifiability
A partial review of the emails shows that in many cases, climate scientists revealed that their own research wasn't always conclusive. In others, they discussed ways to paper over differences among themselves in order to present a "unified" view on climate change.
On at least one occasion, climate scientists were asked to "beef up" conclusions about climate change and extreme weather events because environmental officials in one country were planning a "big public splash."
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Microsoft is going to kill Google the way they killed Netscape. The only difference is that last decade they were able to cheat, by giving-away their browser free-of-charge whereas Netscape didn't have that option (they had to charge $30 or else have no income). It will be interesting to see what Microsoft does to beat Google.
On the other hand they might fail. They tried to beat the Sony PS2 - failed. Then they tried to beat the PS3, which they succeeded in doing but now they're getting trounced by the Wii. Maybe with the Xbox 3 they'll finally beat both Sony and Nintendo.
+1 informative. Next question:
How come the world temprature has dropped half a degree since 2000? Even the Climate Change Congress now acknowledges this (quote: "temperature has plateaud"). Why?
And how are world leaders likely to respond if the temperature drops during the 2010s?
That's not bad. The 512 gig SSD is only 30 times more expensive than the 512 gig HDD I bought at staple last week.
I have no idea what impact +100 ppm CO2 will have on the planet, and neither do most people.
I still remember sitting in school and being lectured about Global Cooling, and how we needed to stop driving cars to reduce the amount of "dust" in the air.
>>>59% of all Windows machines on the Internet being infected with malware and under the control of botnets.
>>>Windows:Mac:Linux virus proportions at approximately 100%:0%:0%
>>>
Please provide proof or retract. Thanks.
Maintenance?
What's that? J/K. That maintenance I can deal with but the annual inspections just so garages can look for something to repair really piss me off. I miss my old state that had no inspections (at point-of-sale and that was it).
I said a *few* years..... as in more than one. Not 90.
>>>Science demands a boundless imagination to explore the inner and outer limits of existence.
Precisely. I believe flies spontaneously generate from rotting meat, and I don't care how many times scientists tell me I'm wrong -that flies comes from eggs- I just don't accept that.
>>>In the same way, Sylar just has to push in the other direction.
Yes but he's doing the equivalent of throwing a 200 pound bowling ball. That would exceed the amount of friction between his shoes and the floor, and he'd slide backwards.
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>>>He could be influencing some other object (again, likely air) to exert a force against his victims
I don't hear any "whooshes" of hurricane force air throwing the victim across the room, so no, that isn't it. I think the difference between me and the other posters is I drew a FBD, and I can see the amount of force against Sylar would push him backwards. The rest of ye have not taken the time to do that.
Well if you stood perfectly still (as Sylar does when he does his 'throw person across room' trick), the force you impart to the bowling ball has to be counteracted by an opposite force. That force is the friction between your shoes and the floor.
My point is what Sylar is doing is equivalent to throwing a ~200 pound ball. If a bowler did that he's slide backwards, and likewise Sylar should be sliding backwards.
It always amazes me how fanatics (especially Trekkies) bend-over backwards and kiss their own ass in order to justify a show that is CLEARLY false science. The amount of force that would be needed move a ~200 pound human body horizontally and across the room would exceed the amount of friction provided by Sylar's sneakers. He would quite literally slide backwards. Do a fucking Free Body Diagram, and you can verify that for yourself
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>>>telekinesis is pure fantasy.
This is what I've been saying all along. You can't justify what Sylar does with science, so why do you keep trying?
>>>I'm pretty sure that's hydrogen fuel cell cars, not compressed hydrogen gas cars.
No difference
Anon. Coward wrote:
No one gives a flying fuck about your toy OS, oldfag.I could say the same about Linux or Mac or Windows. But I'm not a little kid anymore, and don't feel the need to insult people. Let us all know when you grow up little coward.
--
Like a DVR but instead of a hard drive, it uses magnetic tape (similar to data storage backup). A VCR also has the ability to ignore Digital Rights Management and just record whatever it sees.
Not wearing my watch is what kept it looking new.
Yes. But then I'm looking at this chart: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:65_Myr_Climate_Change.png
And this chart shows the Earth is at its coldest point in the last 500 million years:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phanerozoic_Climate_Change.png
Yes. Here's what the earth looks like over 65 and 500+ million years. Both graphcs show that we are actually in a COOL period and have been for some time:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:65_Myr_Climate_Change.png
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phanerozoic_Climate_Change.png
>>>with a recent survey showing 59% of all Windows machines on the Internet being infected with malware and under the control of botnets.
>>>telling Mac and Linux users that they were every bit as susceptible to viruses and Trojans, despite the Windows:Mac:Linux virus proportions in the wild continuing at approximately 100%:0%:0%
>>>
Please provide proof or retract. Thanks.
I just upgraded from 6 to 7 around two months ago.
I guess it's time to hop to 8. I'm tired of constantly upgradng everything. I drive an old car built in 1997, and I don't understand why I can't keep running the same browser at least a few years. Yeah I know - constant updating keeps programmers employed.
For example when I review the WHO's stats, I don't see negative numbers for the United States. I see that we Americans are ahead of the Europeans and the Russians and the Chinese. How? Simple. When I treat the European Union as a single united government under a single president (because that's what they are now that Lisbon Treaty has passed), I see this:
(1) San Marino ... ...
(2) Andorra
(3) Singapore
(4) Oman
(5) Japan
(6) Colombia
(7) Saudi Arabia
(8) USA
(9) Israel
(10) Morocco
(11) Canada
(12) Australia
(13) Chile
(14) Dominica
(15) Costa Rica
(16) United States
(17) Cuba (the have government healthcare; why aren't they higher?)
(18) Brunei
(19) EUROPEAN UNION
(20) New Zealand
(115) Russia
(129) China
>>>Yeah, because the World Health Organization bases its studies on opinion.
Yes. Just the same way the supposedly "unbaised" scientists lied about their climate results - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125883405294859215.html?mod=googlenews_wsj ("A partial review of the emails shows that in many cases, climate scientists revealed that their own research wasn't always conclusive. In others, they discussed ways to paper over differences among themselves in order to present a "unified" view"). EVERYBODY has a bias or agenda even the folks over at the WHO (who are pro-government-provided healthcare). You can not trust them. As I said before, don't just swallow the WHO's opinion. Look at the data and draw you own conclusions.
I have. I decided if I get cancer or otherwise ill, I'd rather be in the United States. My odds of (1) detection and (2) survivial are higher HERE than anywhere else in the world.
>>>Please excuse me if I'm not impressed.
Well then why don't you provide alternate data that shows how UK hospitals (for example) makes people more well than Americans. And don't quote unrelated stats like lifespan, which are caused by lifestyle (americans live dangerous somewhat accident-prone lives), and nothing to do with the quality of the hospitals.
Okay. How about this then? I don't see any insurance companies listed here. Where are all those windfall insurance profits you spoke about?
Billions
45 Exxon-Mobile
20 Chevron
17 Microsoft
15 GE
13 Walmart
12 Johnson & Johnson
11 AT&T
10 IBM
9 Proctor
7 HP
Which is stupid. Corporations will simply continue their bad behavior if they are not punished. Like the Ford Pinto case: Ford decided it was cheaper to pay-off dead victims, than to reengineer the car so it doesn't explode. The government's issuance of punative damages tilt the equation so the company decides it's cheaper to fix the car, rather than be punished.
More recent exchanges centered on requests by independent climate researchers for access to data used by British scientists for some of their papers. The hacked folder is labeled "FOIA," a reference to the Freedom of Information Act requests made by other scientists for access to raw data used to reach conclusions about global temperatures.
Many of the email exchanges discussed ways to decline such requests for information, on the grounds that the data was confidential or was intellectual property.
And people claim copyright/IP laws cause no harm. Science is worthless if you can't have review of the data and verifiability
A partial review of the emails shows that in many cases, climate scientists revealed that their own research wasn't always conclusive. In others, they discussed ways to paper over differences among themselves in order to present a "unified" view on climate change.
On at least one occasion, climate scientists were asked to "beef up" conclusions about climate change and extreme weather events because environmental officials in one country were planning a "big public splash."
Wow. The scientists are acting like politicians.