Next RIAA tactic -- sue all honary citizens of Sealand
They'd have to do that in Sealand court, and I don't think there is one. The only inhabitants are the royal family, which makes it a little top heavy on the executive branch side of things.
Sean Connery is 76. As mentioned, Harrison Ford is 64... That you bought the illusion that Sean Connery could be Harrison Ford's father means they're actors!
Or a time warp sent them back from the modern inner city. Yeah, that's the ticket. Sorry to spoil the plot of the new movie already.
No. OS/2 died because no one high enough up the corporate command structure lived or died by OS/2's success. The head of personal software was only a VP of a division of the company. Now let's look at Vista. Microsoft's operating system offering is the flagship product that identifies them in the marketplace. The ENTIRE COMPANY thrives or fades to obscurity based on sales and acceptance of the OS. They will do whatever it takes, at all levels, to make it succeed. If that means better marketing, rushing out a new version, etc, they'll do it. Meanwhile, at IBM OS/2 was a small side line.
No, scraping along in a skid is the fastest way to stop, although of course you have no steering control. That of course is what ABS provides. But the original post claimed that ABS would dramatically reduce braking distance and my point is that ABS is NOT the fastest way to stop.
I live in Denver, so my 'local' Fed bank is the one in Kansas City. According to its annual report, $10 million was paid in dividends to the member banks while $572 million was paid to the Treasury as interest (You've got the bit about who pays who interest backwards in your rant). http://www.kansascityfed.org/publicat/annreprt/200 5/2005AR.pdf (see page 49, statement of income)
As for who are the members, any bank that calls itself 'National Bank of...' is a FR member. Also, most banks that call themselves 'State Bank of [state name]' or 'First/Second/Nth Bank of [state name]' are members. They usually have stickers on the door next to the 'FDIC Member' stickers. Search your bank's website or ask the local branch manager. It's not the big nasty secret you seem to think it is.
Surely hot Helium will have even more lifting power than regular helium.
Not bloody much...you'd get about a six percent improvement
The Akron, the largest helium filled dirigible, had a lift capacity of 182,000 pounds. Plus or minus six percent is a whopping 11,000 lb variance depending on whether the sun was shining on it. Hot helium DOES make a difference.
The fact is the booger is huge, there is no excusing this fact.
Are you kidding? It's only 100 feet long. The Hindenburg was over 800. You, and everyone else complaining about 'practicality' have missed the point of these craft in the modern age: they're cruise ships in the sky. They are leisurely travel for people on leisure time. Just like people take cruise ships on vacation instead of jets to get from one island to another, except these things are cruise ships that can go from London to New York to Las Vegas. Hopefully the 100 foot toy size is a proof of concept. You need an 800 foot job to economically carry enough passengers and have nice enough accomodations.
...because they don't want you to get a bad case of sticker shock. If texas memory systems (http://www.texmemsys.com/) is any guide, these things won't be comparable to platter drives in cost per GB per performance. Maybe they've figured out a way to manufacture the things not too expensively per GB but the performance will be wretched. And even though most apps will not care unless you have a stopwatch people will look at the raw numbers and shy away. Just see all the trouble AMD had with the Pentium 4 vs Athlon XP CPU GHz wars.
we as a species have evolved beyond killing unbelievers and beheading infidels/heretics
Apparently you haven't seen the news lately. It's nice to live in a country where these things are so remote they don't even exist for you. Meanwhile it's a regular occurrance for way too many people in distant lands.
Sure, things like WaterCop are great but if the house is going to be unoccupied for that much time then why leave the water turned on in the first place? Get the plumbing system winterized and don't worry about it.
Most impressive! Not only did you not read the article, you didn't even read the summary that clearly states this is for "companies and other entities involved in federal litigation."
A lot of them use Windows 2000 for the extra speed over XP
Sure and that's worked due to dx9 being available for 2k as well as xp. dx10 is Vista only. Crysis for one, and I'm sure there are plenty more, will only really shine under dx10. So, yes, many of the gamers are going to switch.
Either way, he made that money fair and square in my opinion (after taxes withheld by the sticky-fingered state of course)
He made it failry in terms of his customers got what they paid for but the authorities are mad because he DIDN'T pay income taxes on it; he was a foriegn exchange student and wasn't supposed to be making any income in the first place.
My laptop would be flying across the room by that point, no longer on my lap
If you're in economy class when that happens then across the room would just delay the inevitable. Might as well just keep it on your lap and get it over with.
even throwing the trash in the direction of the Earth
You don't throw something toward the Earth to get it to go down from orbit unless you have an extremely strong firing mechanism. The correct method is to throw it directly behind the ISS. Then it will be moving too slow for that orbital height. That's how to make things fall from orbit.
The problem is that while some people are clueless and don't secure their wireless, other people have a sharing nature and leave theirs open on purpose. How the heck do you tell the difference?
Fish in the open sea are a classic example of a Boston Commons type problem. The problem is that no one owns the fish stocks but everyone takes from them. So its in each player's best interest to pillage as many fish as possible before the other players can get to it. Until someone owns the fish, this problem will only accellerate. For more info, see game theory in mathematics or the B.C. problem in economic theory.
truecrypt allows you to create a double encrypted volume
Not just two; you can layer on as many encrypted drives as you can remember the passwords. Your only limit is your CPU that's grinding through all the algorythms per block read from disk.
I thought of all people, the President would have better access to spy satellites
Since he was pining for a vacation to his ranch I'm rather impressed that he resorts to Google Earth instead of re-routing a billion dollar spy satellite for his personal viewing pleasure.
Are you kidding? With only a single Radeon x1800 you'd be put to shame by anyone with Clevo's 19" that sports SLI 7900's.
This machine is the result of Dell buying Alienware
No, the first revision was introduced before that buyout. But that does lead to a more interesting question: Now that Dell, whose laptops are ODMed by Compal, owns AW is Clevo still going to remain the ODM?
Futhermore I've seen 'this year is the peak and oil is going to decline now' predictions for at least as long as I've seen 'the Moller skycar will hit the market in just another year or so'.
You've correctly identified the problem. Now for the solution: Abolish corporate taxes. They're the worst of all the layers of stupid taxes. Corporations PAY ZERO IN TAXES. CUSTOMERS (you and me) pay corporate taxes for them as part of the prices for their goods.
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Next RIAA tactic -- sue all honary citizens of Sealand
They'd have to do that in Sealand court, and I don't think there is one. The only inhabitants are the royal family, which makes it a little top heavy on the executive branch side of things.
Sean Connery is 76. As mentioned, Harrison Ford is 64 ... That you bought the illusion that Sean Connery could be Harrison Ford's father means they're actors!
Or a time warp sent them back from the modern inner city. Yeah, that's the ticket. Sorry to spoil the plot of the new movie already.
"So is Vista going to see the same fate as OS/2?"
No. OS/2 died because no one high enough up the corporate command structure lived or died by OS/2's success. The head of personal software was only a VP of a division of the company. Now let's look at Vista. Microsoft's operating system offering is the flagship product that identifies them in the marketplace. The ENTIRE COMPANY thrives or fades to obscurity based on sales and acceptance of the OS. They will do whatever it takes, at all levels, to make it succeed. If that means better marketing, rushing out a new version, etc, they'll do it. Meanwhile, at IBM OS/2 was a small side line.
No, scraping along in a skid is the fastest way to stop, although of course you have no steering control. That of course is what ABS provides. But the original post claimed that ABS would dramatically reduce braking distance and my point is that ABS is NOT the fastest way to stop.
and with panic braking plus ABS it would be far, far lower
Except that ABS increases braking distance.
I live in Denver, so my 'local' Fed bank is the one in Kansas City. According to its annual report, $10 million was paid in dividends to the member banks while $572 million was paid to the Treasury as interest (You've got the bit about who pays who interest backwards in your rant). http://www.kansascityfed.org/publicat/annreprt/200 5/2005AR.pdf (see page 49, statement of income)
As for who are the members, any bank that calls itself 'National Bank of...' is a FR member. Also, most banks that call themselves 'State Bank of [state name]' or 'First/Second/Nth Bank of [state name]' are members. They usually have stickers on the door next to the 'FDIC Member' stickers. Search your bank's website or ask the local branch manager. It's not the big nasty secret you seem to think it is.
Surely hot Helium will have even more lifting power than regular helium.
Not bloody much...you'd get about a six percent improvement
The Akron, the largest helium filled dirigible, had a lift capacity of 182,000 pounds. Plus or minus six percent is a whopping 11,000 lb variance depending on whether the sun was shining on it. Hot helium DOES make a difference.
The fact is the booger is huge, there is no excusing this fact.
Are you kidding? It's only 100 feet long. The Hindenburg was over 800. You, and everyone else complaining about 'practicality' have missed the point of these craft in the modern age: they're cruise ships in the sky. They are leisurely travel for people on leisure time. Just like people take cruise ships on vacation instead of jets to get from one island to another, except these things are cruise ships that can go from London to New York to Las Vegas. Hopefully the 100 foot toy size is a proof of concept. You need an 800 foot job to economically carry enough passengers and have nice enough accomodations.
...because they don't want you to get a bad case of sticker shock. If texas memory systems (http://www.texmemsys.com/) is any guide, these things won't be comparable to platter drives in cost per GB per performance. Maybe they've figured out a way to manufacture the things not too expensively per GB but the performance will be wretched. And even though most apps will not care unless you have a stopwatch people will look at the raw numbers and shy away. Just see all the trouble AMD had with the Pentium 4 vs Athlon XP CPU GHz wars.
we as a species have evolved beyond killing unbelievers and beheading infidels/heretics
Apparently you haven't seen the news lately. It's nice to live in a country where these things are so remote they don't even exist for you. Meanwhile it's a regular occurrance for way too many people in distant lands.
Sure, things like WaterCop are great but if the house is going to be unoccupied for that much time then why leave the water turned on in the first place? Get the plumbing system winterized and don't worry about it.
...and to a chef pi aren't square; pi are round.
Vista though I'm sure I will get a free copy next time I buy a PC
Where did you hear anyone was handing out free copies of Vista with new PCs? China?
Most impressive! Not only did you not read the article, you didn't even read the summary that clearly states this is for "companies and other entities involved in federal litigation."
A lot of them use Windows 2000 for the extra speed over XP
Sure and that's worked due to dx9 being available for 2k as well as xp. dx10 is Vista only. Crysis for one, and I'm sure there are plenty more, will only really shine under dx10. So, yes, many of the gamers are going to switch.
Either way, he made that money fair and square in my opinion (after taxes withheld by the sticky-fingered state of course)
He made it failry in terms of his customers got what they paid for but the authorities are mad because he DIDN'T pay income taxes on it; he was a foriegn exchange student and wasn't supposed to be making any income in the first place.
My laptop would be flying across the room by that point, no longer on my lap
If you're in economy class when that happens then across the room would just delay the inevitable. Might as well just keep it on your lap and get it over with.
even throwing the trash in the direction of the Earth
You don't throw something toward the Earth to get it to go down from orbit unless you have an extremely strong firing mechanism. The correct method is to throw it directly behind the ISS. Then it will be moving too slow for that orbital height. That's how to make things fall from orbit.
The problem is that while some people are clueless and don't secure their wireless, other people have a sharing nature and leave theirs open on purpose. How the heck do you tell the difference?
Fish in the open sea are a classic example of a Boston Commons type problem. The problem is that no one owns the fish stocks but everyone takes from them. So its in each player's best interest to pillage as many fish as possible before the other players can get to it. Until someone owns the fish, this problem will only accellerate. For more info, see game theory in mathematics or the B.C. problem in economic theory.
truecrypt allows you to create a double encrypted volume
Not just two; you can layer on as many encrypted drives as you can remember the passwords. Your only limit is your CPU that's grinding through all the algorythms per block read from disk.
I thought of all people, the President would have better access to spy satellites
Since he was pining for a vacation to his ranch I'm rather impressed that he resorts to Google Earth instead of re-routing a billion dollar spy satellite for his personal viewing pleasure.
It's designed to be lugged to LAN parties
Are you kidding? With only a single Radeon x1800 you'd be put to shame by anyone with Clevo's 19" that sports SLI 7900's.
This machine is the result of Dell buying Alienware
No, the first revision was introduced before that buyout. But that does lead to a more interesting question: Now that Dell, whose laptops are ODMed by Compal, owns AW is Clevo still going to remain the ODM?
Futhermore I've seen 'this year is the peak and oil is going to decline now' predictions for at least as long as I've seen 'the Moller skycar will hit the market in just another year or so'.
corporate property with a tax liability of $900M
You've correctly identified the problem. Now for the solution: Abolish corporate taxes. They're the worst of all the layers of stupid taxes. Corporations PAY ZERO IN TAXES. CUSTOMERS (you and me) pay corporate taxes for them as part of the prices for their goods.