Oh, that's because of Star Trek and Star Wars. The general public won't get excited about star travel until we have a FTL drive and can go visit/kill aliens.
I wish that some one would produce a hit space series where it occurred all in our solar system. We don't need to see aliens to see strange things, and we don't need to get out of the neighborhood to have conflicts.
Your "small rural community" has a corner store and a couple of restaurants? We were lucky to get that stop light a few years ago....
Shh, rural restraurant guide. 1. That extremely local home made food place that only exists in that one place, 2. Mc. Donalds, which all the kids drag their parents to avoid 1. 3. Is Pizza Hut, which is considered the "high classed" food place where teens go and have to leave a tip on a date. Note. 1., 2., & 3. Are usually on the same street with a convience store/gas station. If you live here in Arkansas, you have a Walmart Supercenter, which includes gas, a McDonalds, and a huge department store. (For Arkansas, it is a huge department store.)
Living in California, if I so much as breathe a single word about God, I am immeadiately told to cease and desist.
You could aways say that you are excerising your first admendment right to say anything that you would want. You then say that they don't have to listen.
I had to go through public school in Arkansas. I've always wanted to shout at any idiot that says there is no religion in public schools. It was a daily lunch time occurance of trying to hide from those that attempt to witness to you. My best advice is to be quiet, nod your head every now and then, and never, ever argue or agree. On a side note, that skill got me through several not quiet sane college professors and advisors.
However I personally consider $25 on a game too much, so already there are many games I personally do not buy. As price goes up more and more people will cross that line. I know many people who would buy more games, but their wife keeps saying that is too much.
Oh you got it in one. The only reason that I would spend $50-$60 on a single game is that it is the lastest FF or Kingdom Hearts 2. My main reason for buying my PS2 was because I picked up almost all the FF for the PS1 and some of the older PS2 titles $15 each. I'll buy 4-5 titles at $15-20. Every game that I've ever spent over $50 on I've gotten burned on. I'll wait a year and pick it up for $20. Now that I've heard the next gen Nintendo console will be backwards compatiable, I'm thinking of buy 5-6 of the Game Cube classics, which sell for $20-$25.
I don't think people in the UK are quite aware of just how big an international PR medium the BBC is. Other countries can only dream of having a state controlled TV network that is watched by this kind of an international audience.
Who cares about British news? I like British comedy. British comedy generally requires 3/4 a brain to be funny. US comedy generally requires about 1/4 a brain to be funny. Lately alot of US comedy is around centered bodily functions. (I have an automatic ick-gross reaction to that and have been avoiding it like the plague.)
By ceasing use of CFCs, the chlorine derived from them will eventually go away, and the ozone layer will reestablish at the old equilibrium we used to know and love. Changing human behavior can fix this problem as well as cause it.
Just cause that's what we think will happen doesn't mean that is what would happen though. Of course anything else we through up there to remove CFCs or creat ozone will have side effects that we can't predict.
Because: # Those of us who have children are smarter than you.
I'll inform you that it takes zero smarts to reproduce. (Raising children that will survive to reproduce doesn't require smarts either.)
As one with children, I believe that it should be highly illegal for any form of broadcast or cable television, or radio should be made accessable to any household with children currently in it. The only content that is in my home is recorded media. (VHS and DVD) I own the seasons of shows my kids are allowed to watch... They can watch my entire collection of Robotech.
There that allows all others to be censor free. I and my kind can suffer through Barney, the Wiggles, and Sponge Bob.
O.k. I just wish that I could afford cable and cable internet.
Shouldn't a librarian have a better mastery of search engines than anyone? It's not as if his fingers are all worn from paging through the card catalog..
The director of the library I work in is better at googling than anyone (except for me, of course;)).. and my boyfriend's mother, a children's librarian, isn't half bad.
They have entire library science classes on the damned things now... I highly doubt this guy has trouble using google.
You have to recongize that librarians cheat... They don't use google because they already know the specialized search engines where you should look. They know about lexis/nexis and other products. Most people have no idea what other search tools than Google exist.
(Can you imagine a computer virus that literally spreads by touch?)
Can you imagine having to hook up passcards system to the virus scaning service to literally scan every employee as they come in the morning just incase that don't pick anything up at home? How about having to quarantee employees that are infected until IT staff can dis infect them? Gosh, I don't even want to think about data plagues. The good news is that really important information should be backed up on the server and tape.
The North Koreans have discovered how to recycle their waste - you convert it into weapons.
The reason we don't reprocess spent fuel is because it produces weapons grade fissionable material. Now that may seem like a trivial problem to you - but that's because you're a moron.
There has been a morotorium on reprocessing spent fuel in this country for several decades.
You didn't read the Wired article and are just an anti weapons person. I don't really care one way or another about more bombs. If you really care to listen. We set up that morotorium on reprocessing spent fuel because we and the USSR were the only countries for awhile that had any real nuclear tech. We were trying to control the weapons the rest of the world like Iraq has access to. (Could you imagine the chaos if every third world African country could build their own nukes?)
Recycling waste into weapons isn't what I want. The US can do that now. We have the tech. we may not have the plants to do it on a large scale. What you don't seem to understand is that we don't have to build bombs! We are wasting alot of energy by not recycling. We could make fuel air explosives with gasoline. Should we restrict all gasoline usage to government use only because it could be used for weapons?
Building bombs is always the easy step. Finding out how to use the force of a bomb to do something other than kill people isn't nearly as easy. You seem to think that by the US not recycling that no one else in the rest of the world will be able to build weapons. If you had read the Wired article and I'm sure the info is in other places, EVERY nuclear power except the US recycles their waste. Are you feeling better now?
You seem to not what to recycle because the main use that in some countries is making bombs. Well, we could have a morotorium on reprocessing spent fuel that makes sure that none of it goes into weapons production.
Dell, IBM, and HP aren't reputable enough companies for you? For products that we pay for the extra support, I've never had an issue with Dell or HP support. (O.k. I usually have to speak with Indians now and again with HP, but that's not a big issue for me.) I want to know what companies your business consider's reputable enough.
Still need to get rid of the waste, but at least meltdowns wouldn't be a problem.
No, No! NO!. We need to RECYCLE nuclear waste! Didn't you read the wired article? "Nuclear Waste" retains upto 95% of its energy! The only country in the world that doesn't recycle it is the US. Why? Because the process can also be used for making nuclear bombs.
(Some times I feel that it would have been nice to see the Soviet Russia solution to this political problem: Line those folks up and shoot 'em or ship 'em to Sibera and have them build a rail road or a nuclear power plant.)
If those folks were really Green, then they'd be demanding that the US recycle all its nuclear waste right now and build more nuclear reactors until the US didn't have to import any energy resources. That is the safest long term solution.
Lighthouse makers just need to move to a new "all-lawsuit" model of revenue like the music and movie industry has. GPS is denying lighthouse makers their constitutionally protected right to obscene amounts of profit. If you're using a GPS, you're stealing from lighthouses*. It's as simple as that.
* or, if you prefer, copyright infringing from lighthouses.
That's o.k. because lighthouses infringe on the prexisting patent for sailing by star light so it doesn't matter if GPS infringes on lighthouses.
Star Trek has been kept running on the popularity of the mythos, of the franchise. It has always been self-sustaining, through its own quality. If a Star Trek show is in such a bad state that it needs to rely on fan charity to survive... it isn't worth keeping.
Aren't you saying the same thing in just slightly different ways? Come on when has Star Trek ever had that much quaility? Mythos yes, quaility, No.
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Linux has been kept running on the popularity of the mythos, of the franchise. It has always been self-sustaining, through its own quality. If Linux is in such a bad state that it needs to rely on fan charity to survive... it isn't worth keeping.
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It's ALL OVER THE PLACE. CAD/CAM. Web design. Graphic arts. Video games. Taxes and book-keeping. Software engineering. Encoding MP3s. Playing DVDs, MP3s, DivX, MPG content. Building quilt patterns. Serving database content.
Please use examples that won't run acceptably on a PII. You can do all that on a PII. The catch is what software verison and speed. You can play dvds, divx and mp3s on a PII fine. You can encode mp3s fine as well just takes awhile. Video games work great on a PII. You can't play Warcraft III, but Warcraft II works just fine. Web design and graphic arts will work just fine. Notepad and dreamweaver 4 work great on a PII. Taxes and book-keeping work fine on a PI so don't get me started on that one. CAD/CAM will work, but you better stick to 2D and not 3D. Building quilt patterns. Come on wouldn't that just be a vector paint program or would it convert an image file to blocky sections? I can't believe that wouldn't run acceptablly on a PII. Software engineering will work fine on a PII. Linux and Win98 work on it. Serving database content is the only one that I'd say you shouldn't do with a PII. (But you can do it. Just not anything else.)
It actually can create 281,474,976,710,656 different colors 6 different colors: red green blue near infrared near ultraviolet and this very odd green color
Ahh, just what I've always wanted a tv that would show me outdoor scenes with infrared and ultraviolet.
If we had been assigning IPv6 addresses at a rate of 1 billion per second since the earth was formed, we would have by now used up less than one trillionth of the address space.
Yes, but what about those grandfather policies that grants 1/2 the IP range to education usage and 1/4 to be assigned among 20 multinatial companies?
Those are the "problems" with IP4. Most of the global population isn't in the US, but most of the IP4 address ranges are. I can easily see most of the IP6 address ranges assigned to entities and possessions and not people.
There are a lot of reasons for consumers to not want RFID tags.
There are a lots of reasons as a business would want to use the RFID tags without them ever leaving the store. 1. is that item isn't yours until you've paid for it. Just because you pick the item up and walk out of the store with it, doesn't mean you own the item.
It only makes "sense" if you are him: an employee of Microsoft who wants to imply, using open-ended questions and personal innuendo, that anything other than Microsoft is dangerous and risky.
Well, duh, he is a MS employee. Any product that competes with a MS version is dangerous and risky to MS.
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I'm surprised there isn't more coverage.
Oh, that's because of Star Trek and Star Wars. The general public won't get excited about star travel until we have a FTL drive and can go visit/kill aliens.
I wish that some one would produce a hit space series where it occurred all in our solar system. We don't need to see aliens to see strange things, and we don't need to get out of the neighborhood to have conflicts.
If the BlueGene/L can grant me any wish I want for collecting 7 of them, sign me up.
If your wish is a question of protein folding, it'll try to grant it for you with only 1 of 'em. I wouldn't hold my breath for anything else though.
Your "small rural community" has a corner store and a couple of restaurants? We were lucky to get that stop light a few years ago....
Shh, rural restraurant guide. 1. That extremely local home made food place that only exists in that one place, 2. Mc. Donalds, which all the kids drag their parents to avoid 1. 3. Is Pizza Hut, which is considered the "high classed" food place where teens go and have to leave a tip on a date. Note. 1., 2., & 3. Are usually on the same street with a convience store/gas station. If you live here in Arkansas, you have a Walmart Supercenter, which includes gas, a McDonalds, and a huge department store. (For Arkansas, it is a huge department store.)
Living in California, if I so much as breathe a single word about God, I am immeadiately told to cease and desist.
You could aways say that you are excerising your first admendment right to say anything that you would want. You then say that they don't have to listen.
I had to go through public school in Arkansas. I've always wanted to shout at any idiot that says there is no religion in public schools. It was a daily lunch time occurance of trying to hide from those that attempt to witness to you. My best advice is to be quiet, nod your head every now and then, and never, ever argue or agree. On a side note, that skill got me through several not quiet sane college professors and advisors.
However I personally consider $25 on a game too much, so already there are many games I personally do not buy. As price goes up more and more people will cross that line. I know many people who would buy more games, but their wife keeps saying that is too much.
Oh you got it in one. The only reason that I would spend $50-$60 on a single game is that it is the lastest FF or Kingdom Hearts 2. My main reason for buying my PS2 was because I picked up almost all the FF for the PS1 and some of the older PS2 titles $15 each. I'll buy 4-5 titles at $15-20. Every game that I've ever spent over $50 on I've gotten burned on. I'll wait a year and pick it up for $20. Now that I've heard the next gen Nintendo console will be backwards compatiable, I'm thinking of buy 5-6 of the Game Cube classics, which sell for $20-$25.
I thought that they'd have to completely start over to make full use of that hardware physics engine we heard about the other day.
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One day, I'm going to climb into the attic and check insulation. I may even put up weather stripping on my windows.
I don't think people in the UK are quite aware of just how big an international PR medium the BBC is. Other countries can only dream of having a state controlled TV network that is watched by this kind of an international audience.
Who cares about British news? I like British comedy. British comedy generally requires 3/4 a brain to be funny. US comedy generally requires about 1/4 a brain to be funny. Lately alot of US comedy is around centered bodily functions. (I have an automatic ick-gross reaction to that and have been avoiding it like the plague.)
By ceasing use of CFCs, the chlorine derived from them will eventually go away, and the ozone layer will reestablish at the old equilibrium we used to know and love. Changing human behavior can fix this problem as well as cause it.
Just cause that's what we think will happen doesn't mean that is what would happen though. Of course anything else we through up there to remove CFCs or creat ozone will have side effects that we can't predict.
Because:
# Those of us who have children are smarter than you.
I'll inform you that it takes zero smarts to reproduce. (Raising children that will survive to reproduce doesn't require smarts either.)
As one with children, I believe that it should be highly illegal for any form of broadcast or cable television, or radio should be made accessable to any household with children currently in it.
The only content that is in my home is recorded media. (VHS and DVD) I own the seasons of shows my kids are allowed to watch... They can watch my entire collection of Robotech.
There that allows all others to be censor free. I and my kind can suffer through Barney, the Wiggles, and Sponge Bob.
O.k. I just wish that I could afford cable and cable internet.
Shouldn't a librarian have a better mastery of search engines than anyone? It's not as if his fingers are all worn from paging through the card catalog..
;)).. and my boyfriend's mother, a children's librarian, isn't half bad.
The director of the library I work in is better at googling than anyone (except for me, of course
They have entire library science classes on the damned things now... I highly doubt this guy has trouble using google.
You have to recongize that librarians cheat... They don't use google because they already know the specialized search engines where you should look. They know about lexis/nexis and other products. Most people have no idea what other search tools than Google exist.
(Can you imagine a computer virus that literally spreads by touch?)
Can you imagine having to hook up passcards system to the virus scaning service to literally scan every employee as they come in the morning just incase that don't pick anything up at home? How about having to quarantee employees that are infected until IT staff can dis infect them? Gosh, I don't even want to think about data plagues. The good news is that really important information should be backed up on the server and tape.
Yeah, imagine; broadband using REAL BROADS!
Nah, I'd like to see the conferences where they pick the most attractive women to model the tech though.
The North Koreans have discovered how to recycle their waste - you convert it into weapons.
The reason we don't reprocess spent fuel is because it produces weapons grade fissionable material. Now that may seem like a trivial problem to you - but that's because you're a moron.
There has been a morotorium on reprocessing spent fuel in this country for several decades.
You didn't read the Wired article and are just an anti weapons person. I don't really care one way or another about more bombs. If you really care to listen. We set up that morotorium on reprocessing spent fuel because we and the USSR were the only countries for awhile that had any real nuclear tech. We were trying to control the weapons the rest of the world like Iraq has access to. (Could you imagine the chaos if every third world African country could build their own nukes?)
Recycling waste into weapons isn't what I want. The US can do that now. We have the tech. we may not have the plants to do it on a large scale. What you don't seem to understand is that we don't have to build bombs! We are wasting alot of energy by not recycling. We could make fuel air explosives with gasoline. Should we restrict all gasoline usage to government use only because it could be used for weapons?
Building bombs is always the easy step. Finding out how to use the force of a bomb to do something other than kill people isn't nearly as easy. You seem to think that by the US not recycling that no one else in the rest of the world will be able to build weapons. If you had read the Wired article and I'm sure the info is in other places, EVERY nuclear power except the US recycles their waste. Are you feeling better now?
You seem to not what to recycle because the main use that in some countries is making bombs. Well, we could have a morotorium on reprocessing spent fuel that makes sure that none of it goes into weapons production.
Dell, IBM, and HP aren't reputable enough companies for you? For products that we pay for the extra support, I've never had an issue with Dell or HP support. (O.k. I usually have to speak with Indians now and again with HP, but that's not a big issue for me.) I want to know what companies your business consider's reputable enough.
Only if he'd, say, tied him up and set fire to him, or shot him dead when he was running away.
You are allowed to use reasonable force to repel intruders, and always have been.
Those are reasonable force levels for intruders, telemarketers, and spamers.
Still need to get rid of the waste, but at least meltdowns wouldn't be a problem.
No, No! NO!. We need to RECYCLE nuclear waste! Didn't you read the wired article? "Nuclear Waste" retains upto 95% of its energy! The only country in the world that doesn't recycle it is the US. Why? Because the process can also be used for making nuclear bombs.
(Some times I feel that it would have been nice to see the Soviet Russia solution to this political problem: Line those folks up and shoot 'em or ship 'em to Sibera and have them build a rail road or a nuclear power plant.)
If those folks were really Green, then they'd be demanding that the US recycle all its nuclear waste right now and build more nuclear reactors until the US didn't have to import any energy resources. That is the safest long term solution.
Lighthouse makers just need to move to a new "all-lawsuit" model of revenue like the music and movie industry has. GPS is denying lighthouse makers their constitutionally protected right to obscene amounts of profit. If you're using a GPS, you're stealing from lighthouses*. It's as simple as that.
* or, if you prefer, copyright infringing from lighthouses.
That's o.k. because lighthouses infringe on the prexisting patent for sailing by star light so it doesn't matter if GPS infringes on lighthouses.
Star Trek has been kept running on the popularity of the mythos, of the franchise. It has always been self-sustaining, through its own quality. If a Star Trek show is in such a bad state that it needs to rely on fan charity to survive... it isn't worth keeping.
Aren't you saying the same thing in just slightly different ways? Come on when has Star Trek ever had that much quaility? Mythos yes, quaility, No.
I just had to do it:
Linux has been kept running on the popularity of the mythos, of the franchise. It has always been self-sustaining, through its own quality. If Linux is in such a bad state that it needs to rely on fan charity to survive... it isn't worth keeping.
It's ALL OVER THE PLACE. CAD/CAM. Web design. Graphic arts. Video games. Taxes and book-keeping. Software engineering. Encoding MP3s. Playing DVDs, MP3s, DivX, MPG content. Building quilt patterns. Serving database content.
Please use examples that won't run acceptably on a PII. You can do all that on a PII. The catch is what software verison and speed. You can play dvds, divx and mp3s on a PII fine. You can encode mp3s fine as well just takes awhile. Video games work great on a PII. You can't play Warcraft III, but Warcraft II works just fine. Web design and graphic arts will work just fine. Notepad and dreamweaver 4 work great on a PII. Taxes and book-keeping work fine on a PI so don't get me started on that one. CAD/CAM will work, but you better stick to 2D and not 3D. Building quilt patterns. Come on wouldn't that just be a vector paint program or would it convert an image file to blocky sections? I can't believe that wouldn't run acceptablly on a PII. Software engineering will work fine on a PII. Linux and Win98 work on it. Serving database content is the only one that I'd say you shouldn't do with a PII. (But you can do it. Just not anything else.)
Yea, damn Canadians. At least loyalty still means something in America.
Yeah, we have these neat loyalty cards we use everywhere to get discounts on products by giving up personnal information that is US loyalty.
It actually can create 281,474,976,710,656 different colors 6 different colors: red green blue near infrared near ultraviolet and this very odd green color
Ahh, just what I've always wanted a tv that would show me outdoor scenes with infrared and ultraviolet.
If we had been assigning IPv6 addresses at a rate of 1 billion per second since the earth was formed, we would have by now used up less than one trillionth of the address space.
Yes, but what about those grandfather policies that grants 1/2 the IP range to education usage and 1/4 to be assigned among 20 multinatial companies?
Those are the "problems" with IP4. Most of the global population isn't in the US, but most of the IP4 address ranges are. I can easily see most of the IP6 address ranges assigned to entities and possessions and not people.
There are a lot of reasons for consumers to not want RFID tags.
There are a lots of reasons as a business would want to use the RFID tags without them ever leaving the store. 1. is that item isn't yours until you've paid for it. Just because you pick the item up and walk out of the store with it, doesn't mean you own the item.
It only makes "sense" if you are him: an employee of Microsoft who wants to imply, using open-ended questions and personal innuendo, that anything other than Microsoft is dangerous and risky.
Well, duh, he is a MS employee. Any product that competes with a MS version is dangerous and risky to MS.