Well, technically the batteries weigh the same while on Earth as they do while orbiting it, they're just falling at the same rate as the shuttle, astronauts and Hubble, so they appear weightless. Are you "weightless" while skydiving?
Not exactly. Weight=Mass*Gravity, therefore as gravity decreases weight decreases (assuming the mass of the batteries didn't change).
I created the secure wiping policy for my department. It involves an axe. I get to use it on anyone who tries selling old drives instead of having them shredded.
The UK is just putting together the biggest porn database in the history of the world to provide a search engine along with relevant advertising to bring in some extra cash.
I've been in the small/medium sized business support for a while and I'm here to tell you that "Good Enough Computers" are the standard. You'll have a few engineers and designers (along with a boss or two that is a wannabe nerd) that have the latest and greatest but the vast majority of users in those businesses have had good enough computers for a long time. Sally Dataentryspecialist has a computer that she can type up Word documents on. Jimmy Executive has a laptop that's just good enough to browse porn and play DVDs. This includes home computers. They never ask about some brand new state of the art system (see exceptions above), it's always about the eMachine or Gateway that their dear grandmother left them when she died, and the only use it saw before they had it was traveling to church websites on Sunday.
I like that word. It reminds me of my first girlfriend....a cute young girl from Idaho with a husky, manly voice named Jim. YES I'M SURE IT WAS A WOMAN! STOP LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT!!!
An unconfirmed rumor also developed this weekend of an OS that is so carefully and explicitly restricted that consumers interaction with it is limited to attempting to install it; as the rumor goes, completing the installation requires permissions that users simply do not have available to them. Such an operating system would provide the ultimate consumer safety net. When asked to comment, both Jobs and Torvalds derided the rumor as being propaganda. Both OS mavens insisted that technology wasn't up to such a challenge yet. The rumor, however, persists.
Until a few months ago, I thought this was how Gentoo was designed.
Voting with your feet assumes that the market is healthy enough to have other carriers that don't practice the exact same thing you're trying to get away from. I'm not in Europe, so the outcome of this does not DIRECTLY affect me. I just like playing devil's advocate some days.
Not always. Especially if you factor in support contracts or the average salary of someone who actually knows how to administer the software in an effective manner. Open Source does not equal free beer. Just ask Stallman. However, if you write a good open source program I may buy you a free beer.
Yeah, Google's toolbar is the only one I can stomach and I don't like it very much either. I just set Firefox up so that I can search Google from the address bar.
It's too bad really. They will do everything they can to keep any actual competition from showing up in a market. They're just making the customers of the smaller ISPs suffer out of spite.
It's how we used to heat the offices neighboring our server room (and I'm sure many many people did it before I did). Glad to see them using it on a larger scale to save a bit of dosh.
A few years ago they were talking about how "in a few years" nanotube TVs would replace LCDs and rear projection televisions. I think the media was a bit optimistic about how long it would take to make them cheaply. I'd just like to know what "in a few years" means because I want my nanotube TV. SED TVs didn't make CES this year, even though there was a prototype nearly 4 years ago (may be 4 years ago now, can't remember exactly). I'm glad they can split them into ribbons, but I would love to see a practical example of nanotubes in action. It's exciting that they were able to do this but I'm impatient and want to see some of the great things the media promised me in 2005.
On a side note, approximately how many nanotubes are there in a kilogram?
Do you mean without advertisements, or without accounts for Coke, Pepsi, and Torgo's Executive Powder? It would be a neat idea to put it in the TOS that companies cannot have a profile for marketing/spamming purposes, but who the hell has the time to approve something once it became as big as MySpace/Facebook?
Powerpoint - I want a slideshow, not a thing to plug an appliance into.
Excel - WTF? Oh, the spreadsheet program.
Access - Erm, yeah, like the Aston-Tate Database competitor. Riiiiight.
Hypercard - Nope. No idea. Maybe Steve had shared his stash with the marketing department?
Visual Studio - for editing source code. So it's like, visual.
Outlook - Look out?
Safari - got Explorer envy?
The.NET framework - because I really want to search for a technology that happens to share the name of a TOP LEVEL DOMAIN. LIKE;.NET ALREADY TAKEN GUYS. What could be stupider than using a name that matches a large fraction of the internet?
com - as above.
Kazaar, Bittorrent, Limewire, Napster - do they get together to make a really big robot monster?
Oh, and my favorite - Windows.
I asked my friend who knows nothing about computers these questions (except for Kazaa, Bittorrent, Limewire, Napster) and I realized something. The M$ Office programs are all named in such a way as to make you feel like it's opening your computer up to a whole new world or giving you something that you never had (Powerpoint is going to give your computer more power which makes it run faster). She said she'd never run Gimp because it sounds like it would mess up her computer.
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Well, technically the batteries weigh the same while on Earth as they do while orbiting it, they're just falling at the same rate as the shuttle, astronauts and Hubble, so they appear weightless. Are you "weightless" while skydiving?
Not exactly. Weight=Mass*Gravity, therefore as gravity decreases weight decreases (assuming the mass of the batteries didn't change).
Nope. I tend to use my phone when I'm at home.
Wish I could ignore it. Unfortunately my grandfather is illiterate. It really puts a damper on his texting and emailing abilities.
I created the secure wiping policy for my department. It involves an axe. I get to use it on anyone who tries selling old drives instead of having them shredded.
Here is the comparison. The indemnity is listed. Sun's Comparison
The UK is just putting together the biggest porn database in the history of the world to provide a search engine along with relevant advertising to bring in some extra cash.
Yes, but 18 seconds is long enough for some people around here...........
I would have had the first post, but damn this 1200 baud modem.
I've been in the small/medium sized business support for a while and I'm here to tell you that "Good Enough Computers" are the standard. You'll have a few engineers and designers (along with a boss or two that is a wannabe nerd) that have the latest and greatest but the vast majority of users in those businesses have had good enough computers for a long time. Sally Dataentryspecialist has a computer that she can type up Word documents on. Jimmy Executive has a laptop that's just good enough to browse porn and play DVDs. This includes home computers. They never ask about some brand new state of the art system (see exceptions above), it's always about the eMachine or Gateway that their dear grandmother left them when she died, and the only use it saw before they had it was traveling to church websites on Sunday.
This is especially true in small town America.
I like that word. It reminds me of my first girlfriend....a cute young girl from Idaho with a husky, manly voice named Jim. YES I'M SURE IT WAS A WOMAN! STOP LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT!!!
An unconfirmed rumor also developed this weekend of an OS that is so carefully and explicitly restricted that consumers interaction with it is limited to attempting to install it; as the rumor goes, completing the installation requires permissions that users simply do not have available to them. Such an operating system would provide the ultimate consumer safety net. When asked to comment, both Jobs and Torvalds derided the rumor as being propaganda. Both OS mavens insisted that technology wasn't up to such a challenge yet. The rumor, however, persists.
Until a few months ago, I thought this was how Gentoo was designed.
Voting with your feet assumes that the market is healthy enough to have other carriers that don't practice the exact same thing you're trying to get away from. I'm not in Europe, so the outcome of this does not DIRECTLY affect me. I just like playing devil's advocate some days.
and for open source, the price point is zero.
Not always. Especially if you factor in support contracts or the average salary of someone who actually knows how to administer the software in an effective manner. Open Source does not equal free beer. Just ask Stallman. However, if you write a good open source program I may buy you a free beer.
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Homo: any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage
Yeah, Google's toolbar is the only one I can stomach and I don't like it very much either. I just set Firefox up so that I can search Google from the address bar.
It's too bad really. They will do everything they can to keep any actual competition from showing up in a market. They're just making the customers of the smaller ISPs suffer out of spite.
It's how we used to heat the offices neighboring our server room (and I'm sure many many people did it before I did). Glad to see them using it on a larger scale to save a bit of dosh.
A few years ago they were talking about how "in a few years" nanotube TVs would replace LCDs and rear projection televisions. I think the media was a bit optimistic about how long it would take to make them cheaply. I'd just like to know what "in a few years" means because I want my nanotube TV. SED TVs didn't make CES this year, even though there was a prototype nearly 4 years ago (may be 4 years ago now, can't remember exactly). I'm glad they can split them into ribbons, but I would love to see a practical example of nanotubes in action. It's exciting that they were able to do this but I'm impatient and want to see some of the great things the media promised me in 2005.
On a side note, approximately how many nanotubes are there in a kilogram?
Do you mean without advertisements, or without accounts for Coke, Pepsi, and Torgo's Executive Powder? It would be a neat idea to put it in the TOS that companies cannot have a profile for marketing/spamming purposes, but who the hell has the time to approve something once it became as big as MySpace/Facebook?
Maybe I misunderstood your whole post.
Powerpoint - I want a slideshow, not a thing to plug an appliance into. Excel - WTF? Oh, the spreadsheet program. Access - Erm, yeah, like the Aston-Tate Database competitor. Riiiiight. Hypercard - Nope. No idea. Maybe Steve had shared his stash with the marketing department? Visual Studio - for editing source code. So it's like, visual. Outlook - Look out? Safari - got Explorer envy? The .NET framework - because I really want to search for a technology that happens to share the name of a TOP LEVEL DOMAIN. LIKE; .NET ALREADY TAKEN GUYS. What could be stupider than using a name that matches a large fraction of the internet?
com - as above.
Kazaar, Bittorrent, Limewire, Napster - do they get together to make a really big robot monster?
Oh, and my favorite - Windows.
I asked my friend who knows nothing about computers these questions (except for Kazaa, Bittorrent, Limewire, Napster) and I realized something. The M$ Office programs are all named in such a way as to make you feel like it's opening your computer up to a whole new world or giving you something that you never had (Powerpoint is going to give your computer more power which makes it run faster). She said she'd never run Gimp because it sounds like it would mess up her computer.
It was me.
Spartacus Spartacusson? Is that you?
I don't see why this was modded Funny. Whether the excrement was spewed from the mouth/fingertips or someone's backside, it is still just crap.
I love the ones that rhyme. If it rhymes it must be true.