McDonalds powers their trucks with the old oil for the fries here in NL. I calculated that you don't have to use any extra diesel to get the truck to all the McDonalds's here to pick up their trash. Very cool concept.
An Apple netbook is something I might want to buy, but if Apple pulls the App store trick with this thing again they lost me as a customer. I want to run what I want to run on my computer, not what Apple thinks is good for their market position in one way or another.
I'd like to add to that that big changes usually are sparked by few people who KNOW there is a better way to do/handle things than the established way and are willing to fight for it.
Oh boy that must be the worst abstract ever. I couldn't make anything of it. It's about dinosaurs who want to preserve images of their bottoms, an one of them put its hands closer together? I have to read the fine article to find out what this is all about. I guess this is a scheme concocted by Taco to get more people to read the articles.
You left out my remark that XP is very stable. I almost never have problems with XP, neither at work nor at home. I've never experienced an automatic reboot as far as I can remember.
I haven't seen a BSOD on my computer for many years, at work where I use Windows exclusively as well as at home, where my Mac is often tortured by running Windows on it for playing games. XP is very stable.
I've said it before: this case is probably not about the patents at all. MS have been mapping the Earth in great detail during the past years, and now they want to take over the navigation business. What better way than to first eliminate their competition, either by buying it or, if that doesn't work, by suing it into oblivion?
I can't find it right now but I'm quite sure I saw something like this 10 years or more ago already on a micromechanics conference. The improvement MIT made is that they used different materials than silicon.
It's a perfect way to squat irritating competition, that's for sure. MS doesn't even have to win. They just have to keep the keep the process going until the opponent goes belly-up.
I don't think this is about FAT at all. MS has been mapping the Earth in great detail for the past how many years now? I think they want to enter the navigation business and a good way to start is to take out their biggest competitor even before they enter the market. But I'm not sure what the status of software patents in Europe is (TomTom is a Dutch company), so maybe the only thing they can achieve is the elimination of TomTom from the American market. Anyway, I am surprised that the free software community hasn't come up with a good alternative for FAT because this whole issue was in the pipeline for years.
is it still evolution when it is no longer utterly random?
Darwin himself gave the breeding of certain types of animals (cats, dogs, pigeons etc.) as an example of non-random evolution. Here the organisms that most suit the needs of the breeder have the most offspring.
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Even if it may be inhuman, unethical or whatever, people will want this. It's a new step in human evolution. There is a plus on the ethical side of this: many genetic diseases can hopefully be prevented.
And that means the title of the abstract is all wrong. I admit I read the article after I posted but still I am right: the guns were not very special. It's the way they were used that was special.
I don't see anything special about those guns. We Dutch had the same guns on our trade- and war ships in that time. They can shoot a cannonball to a distance of about a kilometer I'm told, so I'm not surprised that they can pulverize a wooden ship at 100 m distance.
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Oops I should have used the preview button. What I wanted to say was: LinkedIn shows to potential employers the professionals you know, which is valuable information to them. They can choose you above someone else because of the people you know, and will be incorporated in the company's network by hiring you.
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I know many people for whom LinkedIn was important in getting a new job. Not only can people see what you have done, but more importantly, LinkedIn shows potential employers who you know, which is valuable information to them. They can choose you above someone else because of the people they know, and will be incorporated in the company's network by hiring you.
I swear I am going finally crack and kick the snot out of the next person who gives me a printout of PowerPoint slides in lieu of an actual document.
I wouldn't say it that way but I agree with you wholeheartedly. I also abhor the explanatary videos that are so popular these days. They take about ten times as much time to get through as a piece of text that describes the procedure just as well in most cases.
I see where the problem lies now. With 'text document' I did not mean an ASCII file, but a document that contains text. It can be made using a word processor like OpenOffice. Adding pictures is no problem. I also add as many pictures as I feel is necessary.
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McDonalds powers their trucks with the old oil for the fries here in NL. I calculated that you don't have to use any extra diesel to get the truck to all the McDonalds's here to pick up their trash. Very cool concept.
An Apple netbook is something I might want to buy, but if Apple pulls the App store trick with this thing again they lost me as a customer. I want to run what I want to run on my computer, not what Apple thinks is good for their market position in one way or another.
I'd like to add to that that big changes usually are sparked by few people who KNOW there is a better way to do/handle things than the established way and are willing to fight for it.
Oh boy that must be the worst abstract ever. I couldn't make anything of it. It's about dinosaurs who want to preserve images of their bottoms, an one of them put its hands closer together? I have to read the fine article to find out what this is all about. I guess this is a scheme concocted by Taco to get more people to read the articles.
That reminds me I still have to download 'Sicko' somehwere and watch it.
10.3.9 ran quite well on my G3 iMac. But that's a long time ago.
You'd like that wouldn't you? Some people have too much faith in MS as the Devil.
You left out my remark that XP is very stable. I almost never have problems with XP, neither at work nor at home. I've never experienced an automatic reboot as far as I can remember.
I haven't seen a BSOD on my computer for many years, at work where I use Windows exclusively as well as at home, where my Mac is often tortured by running Windows on it for playing games. XP is very stable.
That reminds me of a story I wrote long ago.
I've said it before: this case is probably not about the patents at all. MS have been mapping the Earth in great detail during the past years, and now they want to take over the navigation business. What better way than to first eliminate their competition, either by buying it or, if that doesn't work, by suing it into oblivion?
I can't find it right now but I'm quite sure I saw something like this 10 years or more ago already on a micromechanics conference. The improvement MIT made is that they used different materials than silicon.
It's a perfect way to squat irritating competition, that's for sure. MS doesn't even have to win. They just have to keep the keep the process going until the opponent goes belly-up.
I don't think this is about FAT at all. MS has been mapping the Earth in great detail for the past how many years now? I think they want to enter the navigation business and a good way to start is to take out their biggest competitor even before they enter the market. But I'm not sure what the status of software patents in Europe is (TomTom is a Dutch company), so maybe the only thing they can achieve is the elimination of TomTom from the American market. Anyway, I am surprised that the free software community hasn't come up with a good alternative for FAT because this whole issue was in the pipeline for years.
is it still evolution when it is no longer utterly random?
Darwin himself gave the breeding of certain types of animals (cats, dogs, pigeons etc.) as an example of non-random evolution. Here the organisms that most suit the needs of the breeder have the most offspring.
Even if it may be inhuman, unethical or whatever, people will want this. It's a new step in human evolution. There is a plus on the ethical side of this: many genetic diseases can hopefully be prevented.
And that means the title of the abstract is all wrong. I admit I read the article after I posted but still I am right: the guns were not very special. It's the way they were used that was special.
I don't see anything special about those guns. We Dutch had the same guns on our trade- and war ships in that time. They can shoot a cannonball to a distance of about a kilometer I'm told, so I'm not surprised that they can pulverize a wooden ship at 100 m distance.
Oops I should have used the preview button. What I wanted to say was: LinkedIn shows to potential employers the professionals you know, which is valuable information to them. They can choose you above someone else because of the people you know, and will be incorporated in the company's network by hiring you.
I know many people for whom LinkedIn was important in getting a new job. Not only can people see what you have done, but more importantly, LinkedIn shows potential employers who you know, which is valuable information to them. They can choose you above someone else because of the people they know, and will be incorporated in the company's network by hiring you.
Yeah let's scrap all research that doesn't have to do with cancer. Great idea.
I swear I am going finally crack and kick the snot out of the next person who gives me a printout of PowerPoint slides in lieu of an actual document.
I wouldn't say it that way but I agree with you wholeheartedly. I also abhor the explanatary videos that are so popular these days. They take about ten times as much time to get through as a piece of text that describes the procedure just as well in most cases.
I see where the problem lies now. With 'text document' I did not mean an ASCII file, but a document that contains text. It can be made using a word processor like OpenOffice. Adding pictures is no problem. I also add as many pictures as I feel is necessary.
There's nothing against adding pictures to the text document.