I have to ask, what happens if you leave your laptop outside in the winter? I've have people leave their laptops in their car all the time. So what would happen this winter?
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It would offer universal connectivity. Ideally, it would use IPv6 as the network bases. It would be a separate network but still have built in gateways to the old internet (IPv4). That way you could preserve the function of old network while building the new network.
Everyone will simply apply for a free bank of IP#'s that follows them anywhere they go(111.222.33.44.XXX.XXX). XM radio already can transmit to terrestrial sources. Digital cell phone technology could be modified to transmit to the same celestial sources. Ideally a unique biological identifier would be used to associate your bank of IP number's with your identity.
Do you play top 40 songs on local FM stations or short-wave?
Short-wave has an international standard. Everyone can get a short-wave radio. Everyone could also build a short-wave radio and stick a tower out to pick it up a station. So, why go to trouble to get a scratchy signal that will take twice the time and effort to pick up?
People have FM radios are similar to people who have IE. Fm radios and IE are both easy to get a hold of. They do not want to go to extra effort of switching to another âuniversalâ(TM) standard. What they have no is just fine.
Microsoft has gone outside the standards box and has created a piece of software that can do more, in more respects, then current standards. If any open source company did the same 'build a better mouse trap' thinking and created something better standard then what was already out there this forum would be praising that company to the heavens. Look at Mosiac compared to LINX? How about Linux to Unix? How about USB to RS-232 serial? How about ribbon cable to ATA Serial? How about 3.5' to 8' floppy disks? Eacfh was a good standard but something came along that had features the other did not have and was superceded.
Do most people have IE? Yes
Is IE easier to script for? Yes
Does IE offer more abilities and effects with little to no overhead? Yes
Does IE offer tighter integration into the OS for application such as CMS and program updates? Yes
Is there a Basic-based scripting engine out now for Non-IE browsers? No
Why take the extra time to build a universal standard that isnâ(TM)t as flexible as the prevailing standard?
Also as an aside, I did a census from Alexia on your two standards following sites. They came up ranked at about 1,100,000:1. That means that only 1 out of every 1 million people are visiting those sites.
Job 34:26 He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others;
If the browser and search engine was setup properly they could read the tag and ignore the link(s) on the page or give a page is unavalible security zone warning.
I Corinthians 6:1 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?
last time I tried the tulip driver failed to function on my Kingston ethernet card (a computer without access to the internet is pretty fricking useless these days).
In the article:Detective Beavers said the users under investigation are a mix of high school students and adults. Some of the users communicated with each other and shared their knowledge on how to hack the system to enhance their personal computer use, he said.
I live and work in the Toledo area. EVERYTHING is over the top here.
Ever since 9-11 every mayor in the nation has gotten some sort of death threat. Our current mayor, Jack Ford (lovingly called J-Fo by the local radio stations), now will now long do in-person interviews. Everything is done via phone. He also has a 24-7 bodyguard, paid for by the city of course.
A new mall was coming into the area so the city began a huge smear campaign against it because they're afraid of it will take jobs away from the 2 of the failing malls in the area.
The same situation arose from a pending arena complex.
It takes a minimum of 2 to 6 months to get a T1 put into your office in Toledo.
We recently lost a big Microsoft R&D contract for Toledo to a little town to the south of us simply because we would not return calls because no one locally knew who was in charge.
None of this surprises me, not even calling the FBI for a simple TOS violation.
What next, phoning Homeland Security when a women who has a towel on her leaves dog pop on your door step? For the love of Pete, its terry clothe, not a Middle East wrap.
So is the Dept. of Justice(DOJ) or Home Land Security(HSL) talk to you? In partictular, are you(google.com) being asked to track certian 'security' queries(bombs, antrax, Command Taco, ect.) of your system?
DVD - Great quality, doesn't really do HDTV well, can't recoder without hefty PC setup. HDD Recorders - Great quality and compasity, not protable. dVHS - Great quality, similar compasity to product already in market, design for HDTV, extremely portable[pack the tape and go], backwards compatable with VHS.
Gee, ya think the world would be coming to an end. Here's an article about how much oil we really have:
Potential oil supply refill?
by Bruce Bartlett
On April 16, Newsday, the Long Island newspaper, published a startling report that old oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico were somehow being refilled. That is, new oil was being discovered in fields where it previously had not existed.
Scientists, led by Mahlon Kennicutt of Texas A&M University, speculate that the new oil is surging upward from deposits well below those currently in production. "Very light oil and gas were being injected from below, even as the producing was going on," he said.
Although it is not yet known whether this is a worldwide phenomenon or commercially important, the new discovery suggests there may be far more oil and gas within the Earth's core than previously thought.
Mr. Kennicutt is not the first to suggest that vast hydrocarbon deposits may lie well below those currently known. In 1995, the New York Times reported that geochemist Jean Whelan of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts had also found evidence that oil was moving upward into reservoirs from somewhere far deeper.
With growing improvements in technology that are making possible oil drilling at greater and greater depths, it may soon be economically feasible to explore and produce oil from these deep deposits.
The existence of oil much farther below the surface than it was previously thought to exist raises new questions about the origins of oil and natural gas. It has commonly been thought they are the decayed remains of long dead plants and animals. However, as hydrocarbons are found at extreme depths, this explanation becomes increasingly implausible.
Astronomer Thomas Gold of Cornell University has long been dissatisfied with the dead dinosaur theory of oil's origins. He argues that oil and gas are in fact the remains of methane left over from the Earth's origin. Methane, he points out, is one of the most common minerals in the universe. When the stars and planets were formed eons ago, it was one of the central building blocks from which matter formed.
If Mr. Gold's theory is true, it makes sense we would continue to find hydrocarbons everywhere within the Earth's core, and not just at the surface, where plants and animals exist. Thus the new research is at least consistent with Mr. Gold's theory, even if it still remains to be proven.
The new scientific evidence that energy supplies may be vastly greater than previously imagined is only the latest blow to the doomsayers. Such people have been around for 200 years, preaching that mankind has reached the limit to growth because we have found all the oil there is to be found. For at least a century, for example, the U.S. Geological Survey has consistently reported that America had only about 10 years worth of oil left.
In defense of the Geological Survey, it was referring only to proven reserves. These are fields that have been explored, and where estimates have been made regarding their size and production potential. But of course, exploration is a continuing process, so that new reserves are discovered all the time.
Economist Julian Simon long made the point that the size of proven reserves cannot be divorced from the price of oil. At current price levels, only about 40 percent of oil can be extracted from existing fields. The remaining 60 percent, which is known to exist, cannot be produced economically and is therefore not included in proven reserve estimates. However, higher prices and advanced technology can easily make it profitable to expand production in existing fields.
Higher prices also encourage exploration into areas that geologists strongly suspect to have oil, but where drilling costs are too high at present. Only a small portion of the Earth's surface has ever been explored for oil, and there is no reason to believe there are not many large deposits yet to be discovered.
If oil were really becoming more scarce, we would expect to see prices rising over time. But in fact, the real price of oil, adjusted for inflation, has been remarkably stable at around $15 per barrel. Temporary price spikes by OPEC have not proved sustainable because they brought forth new supplies, encouraged substitution of oil with coal or gas, and stimulated conservation by consumers and businesses.
In short, even if the new scientific evidence about oil is wrong, one can still say the world will never run out of it. Higher prices will always bring new supplies to market. As Bjorn Lomberg points out in his new book, "The Skeptical Environmentalist" (Cambridge University Press), $40 per barrel oil will immediately increase world reserves from a 40 years supply to 250 years because vast known oil shale deposits will become economically viable.
Of all the things we have to worry about in this day and age, running out of oil should not be one of them.
If I'm not mistaken this is exactly what Gundam Wing was preaching against. Robots doing the fighting for men. Men no long saw war for the bloody engagements war is. War became no more then pushing a few button to get their way.
Art imitating life or life imitating art? I love anime.
I think we all know about MS's plan for XBOX. It wasn't necessarly to get a biggest share of the gaming market yet. It was get a market base for a new series of set-top PC's for the HD TV market. HD TV are practilcaly huge computer monitors waiting for someone to tap into them.
XBOX 1.0 was created to get a feel for how the market works. If it took some market share from Sony or Nintendo so be it.
We know that XBOX 2 will have a bigger hard drive, slightly better graphics, and shortly after release an Office suite targeted to 'college kids'.
Also look for an MSN-like information service to be the default for the broadband service. MSN search, not Google, or Yahoo will come up for all your searches.
Haven't you wondered why MS hasn't shut down all those XBOX hacker sites on the internet? They want people to hack this version of XBOX so they can make a mega system for 2.0 or 3.0.
1.0 is never the market grabber for MS. It's always 2 or 3.0 that sets the market standard.
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Someone else may have published this but this would force people towards a better overall standard.
Also isn't there an open JPEG2000 standard coming out soon?
I have to ask, what happens if you leave your laptop outside in the winter? I've have people leave their laptops in their car all the time. So what would happen this winter?
FYI: OpenOffice 1.01 is out now.
Well that isn't a new DVD standard for HDTV yet so your idea may not be that far off. About a new movie media, and the kid.
It would be a killer to the new dVHS as well.
Did they ever say if these lil' guy were re-writable yet?
From the article: 12-cm-CD-size disc, with 100Mbps - 1Gbps transfer rate
From the previous poster: Solid state storage I want for speed, sure optical disc's are great for capacity at the expense of speed.
From me: My network at work can't do a sustained 100Mbp. What the heck do you mean optical can't do speed?
Radio Shack has an exclusive contract with Digital, I mean Compaq, I mean HPAQ. Oh heck I'm not sure who it is anymore.
Why not set up a universal satellite network?
It would offer universal connectivity. Ideally, it would use IPv6 as the network bases. It would be a separate network but still have built in gateways to the old internet (IPv4). That way you could preserve the function of old network while building the new network.
Everyone will simply apply for a free bank of IP#'s that follows them anywhere they go(111.222.33.44.XXX.XXX). XM radio already can transmit to terrestrial sources. Digital cell phone technology could be modified to transmit to the same celestial sources. Ideally a unique biological identifier would be used to associate your bank of IP number's with your identity.
Do you play top 40 songs on local FM stations or short-wave?
Short-wave has an international standard. Everyone can get a short-wave radio. Everyone could also build a short-wave radio and stick a tower out to pick it up a station. So, why go to trouble to get a scratchy signal that will take twice the time and effort to pick up?
People have FM radios are similar to people who have IE. Fm radios and IE are both easy to get a hold of. They do not want to go to extra effort of switching to another âuniversalâ(TM) standard. What they have no is just fine.
Microsoft has gone outside the standards box and has created a piece of software that can do more, in more respects, then current standards. If any open source company did the same 'build a better mouse trap' thinking and created something better standard then what was already out there this forum would be praising that company to the heavens. Look at Mosiac compared to LINX? How about Linux to Unix? How about USB to RS-232 serial? How about ribbon cable to ATA Serial? How about 3.5' to 8' floppy disks? Eacfh was a good standard but something came along that had features the other did not have and was superceded.
- Do most people have IE? Yes
- Is IE easier to script for? Yes
- Does IE offer more abilities and effects with little to no overhead? Yes
- Does IE offer tighter integration into the OS for application such as CMS and program updates? Yes
- Is there a Basic-based scripting engine out now for Non-IE browsers? No
Why take the extra time to build a universal standard that isnâ(TM)t as flexible as the prevailing standard?Also as an aside, I did a census from Alexia on your two standards following sites. They came up ranked at about 1,100,000:1. That means that only 1 out of every 1 million people are visiting those sites.
Job 34:26 He striketh them as wicked men in the open sight of others;
I Corinthians 6:1
Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?
Someone mentioned earlier about running out of disc space. Will we be able to plug in a USB hard drive to add a few hours of record time?
It would be cool to offer a way to carry your movies(and games) to friend's house and play them.
FYI: Xbox uses a modified USB port for all external devices. Thus a USB device could be used as a travel device.
Are they using SlashCode or PHPNuke on this portal?
I wonder if WebTV users will get a $200 rebate to upgrade to the new Freon system, with a 3 year subscription to MSN?
I thought it was that guy named C. Taco.
last time I tried the tulip driver failed to function on my Kingston ethernet card (a computer without access to the internet is pretty fricking useless these days).
Yeah, but think of the security.
In the article: Detective Beavers said the users under investigation are a mix of high school students and adults. Some of the users communicated with each other and shared their knowledge on how to hack the system to enhance their personal computer use, he said.
I live and work in the Toledo area. EVERYTHING is over the top here.
Ever since 9-11 every mayor in the nation has gotten some sort of death threat. Our current mayor, Jack Ford (lovingly called J-Fo by the local radio stations), now will now long do in-person interviews. Everything is done via phone. He also has a 24-7 bodyguard, paid for by the city of course.
A new mall was coming into the area so the city began a huge smear campaign against it because they're afraid of it will take jobs away from the 2 of the failing malls in the area.
The same situation arose from a pending arena complex.
It takes a minimum of 2 to 6 months to get a T1 put into your office in Toledo.
We recently lost a big Microsoft R&D contract for Toledo to a little town to the south of us simply because we would not return calls because no one locally knew who was in charge.
None of this surprises me, not even calling the FBI for a simple TOS violation.
What next, phoning Homeland Security when a women who has a towel on her leaves dog pop on your door step? For the love of Pete, its terry clothe, not a Middle East wrap.
Could this mean you could legally start up your own tv station as long as its under 5 watts and has a digital data stream?
So is the Dept. of Justice(DOJ) or Home Land Security(HSL) talk to you? In partictular, are you(google.com) being asked to track certian 'security' queries(bombs, antrax, Command Taco, ect.) of your system?
Dreamcast can play DIVX and standard MPEG4.
Check out PocketDIVX at Project Mayo
The old 700 mhz frequency is coming open with the FCC soon. Why not set that aside for data transmission?
DVD - Great quality, doesn't really do HDTV well, can't recoder without hefty PC setup.
HDD Recorders - Great quality and compasity, not protable.
dVHS - Great quality, similar compasity to product already in market, design for HDTV, extremely portable[pack the tape and go], backwards compatable with VHS.
As to price, how much did the first DVD's cost?
-nuff said
Source: Washington Times
If I'm not mistaken this is exactly what Gundam Wing was preaching against. Robots doing the fighting for men. Men no long saw war for the bloody engagements war is. War became no more then pushing a few button to get their way.
Art imitating life or life imitating art? I love anime.
It's not a virus, its an undocumented feature.
I think we all know about MS's plan for XBOX. It wasn't necessarly to get a biggest share of the gaming market yet. It was get a market base for a new series of set-top PC's for the HD TV market. HD TV are practilcaly huge computer monitors waiting for someone to tap into them.
XBOX 1.0 was created to get a feel for how the market works. If it took some market share from Sony or Nintendo so be it.
We know that XBOX 2 will have a bigger hard drive, slightly better graphics, and shortly after release an Office suite targeted to 'college kids'.
Also look for an MSN-like information service to be the default for the broadband service. MSN search, not Google, or Yahoo will come up for all your searches.
Haven't you wondered why MS hasn't shut down all those XBOX hacker sites on the internet? They want people to hack this version of XBOX so they can make a mega system for 2.0 or 3.0.
1.0 is never the market grabber for MS. It's always 2 or 3.0 that sets the market standard.