They were *right* to be concerned when guns are involved - an overreaction would be ignoring them and doing nothing.
No, that's called an under reaction.
And I think they do need to be wary of guns if they're trespassing onto private property. In fact, if it is trespassing, the trespassing is probably the worse wrong vs. a rancher carrying a gun around their own property, depending on the situation and the laws of the area.
I don't think you explain it very well. Seven hours isn't enough? Or are you saying that the seven hours is fudged? Seven hours is still better than most notebooks available today.
I bought a Logitech set that did just that, I thikn with a better third party USB Bluetooth reciever. I managed to scroll the screen using a scroll wheel that's on a mouse 20m away and behind three walls. I was pretty impressed, though I really didn't think there was a good use for such a range other than to ensure a solid signal in a highly interfering environment.
Organic material coming here on comets and meteorites is perfectly plausible. But life coming from outside the solar system seems to be quite unlikely.
There was some paper released last year showing that gene degradation when exposed to cosmic rays happens at an astonishing rate. When compared to how long it would take a piece of rock to travel from even the nearest star, it just looks to be implausible at best. Not only that, it would assume that the life would be able to survive the impact and either be compatible, or adapt from the rock/ice quickly to the earth.
Even if panspermia was a viable idea, it would only say something about where life arose. It doesn't answer the question of how life arose. But if it arose here, then it would be easier to find the how. If life arose elsewhere, then we wouldn't know
Does iGoogle repost the entire article? If they are, they shouldn't be, they should at most be posting a relevant snippet, then if you want to read the story, then you can click through to get the story from a news source that subscribes to said wire service. All I've seen through iGoogle is a headline.
What I mean by large scale is not the size of the product, but the cost and number of them. Carbon fiber is used in a lot in aerospace, but that's because cost is a lot less of a factor than with automobiles. I've heard recently that the boom in aircraft carbon fiber use has caused a jump in the cost of the raw material itself, and this was before the recent increase in fuel prices.
I think it's an image thing. Somehow people feel less impressive in a minivan than an SUV. But not a lot of SUV owners really do a lot that a minivan can't.
But the McLaren is expensive. Carbon fiber is great for low production, but production is too slow and costly to scale up well. There are people working on that problem, but it will take a major investment to convert production as well.
The concerns are real, but I don't know if they're valid concerns when I looked at the actual crash stats. What I've seen in the stats is that SUVs and trucks were statistically more dangerous to ride & drive in than a mid-sized car.
It's the weight and the high center of gravity that play against the safety of the trucks. The mid-sized cars can swerve better and brake faster, and the cars are far less likely to roll over than trucks & SUVs. Basically, while trucks & SUVs can better protect the passengers in the event of a collision, they're more likely to get into collisions.
I don't think more colors steps are necessary, except to make a broader gamut. 10 bit color means 1024 steps from white to black rather than just 256. Banding in brightness can be very apparent.
1 for each developer/engineer for their primary machine = 2 licenses 1 for each developer/engineer for their home machine = 2 licenses 1 for each developer/engineer for their notebook = 2 licenses 1 for each test lab machine = 2 licenses
Does one individual dev really need to install the suite on three different computers when they can just install it on a notebook and be done with it?
And I suspect their bosses would be glad to be rid of these prima donnas. Nothing says "value" like "I refuse to learn!".
I don't think that's the only interpretation. Does the new tool really save time and money? Does the cost savings really offset the lost productivity in training & learning? Has that been properly investigated?
But... cast iron has the tensile strength on the order of concrete.
I think you might be two orders of magnitude off. Cast iron shows up as having around 130 to 200MPa (depending on your figures), concrete shows up at 3MPa. Having used it, cast iron can be pretty cheesy stuff. But I imagine that strength-to-weight is pretty good.
That's true, but often those people want as much as possible for free (hey, who doesn't, right?) That would make them less of an "unfulfilled market" as an "unfulfillable market".
I think that's the tough part. It doesn't matter how low the price is, unless it's free, there are going to be those that want it but don't want to pay. But those people aren't necessarily your customers.
The tough part of pricing is you're trying to strike a balance. Pricing has a hand in determining your customers. Sometimes it makes sense to cut the price, sometimes it doesn't.
DRM is a different issue, but I can sympathize with both sides. No one wants byzantine limits put on them, and the owners don't want to lose their product. It may be true that dropping the DRM makes the product more sellable rather than less, it's a very tough argument to sell.
He has been hoping for personal immortality through technology and takes over 200 anti-aging pills a day.
Which is pretty funny given that dietary supplements haven't been found to be very useful on a whole.
He really doesn't seem to look any younger or stay the same age either. He does look a bit better than smokers of his age, but not by a whole lot, in my opinion.
Dude, I'm not seeing the hate here. May be an eye of the beholder kind of thing.
I do have two concerns about the service, apart from the supposed outages.
One is that they don't seem to have any plan that can make money on their service. I suppose they are trying to build up a service that they can sell to Microsoft, Yahoo or Google, but how much of the user base is going to tolerate ads if any of them bought it as a platform to serve ads?
Another is that they are very quick to cancel passwords due to inactivity, requiring a request to get it reset. I don't know if it's one week or one month, but it's as if they don't want you at all if you don't log in at least once a week. However often they do it, I've not seen any other service do it so quickly.
Blu-Ray movies seem to be about as durable as DVDs. I've seen similar breakage rates, but I have yet to have to clean a Blu-Ray movie because of the anti-scratch coating.
2. You need high-def TVs to really enjoy blu-ray. That costs a boatload of cash.
I think that depends on your definition of "boatload of cash". Have you actually looked at pricing lately, or are you just remembering prices from two years ago? Ginormous (42" 1080p) flat panel TVs can be had for under $1000. That was about the cost of a 32" CRT TV five years ago. I recall seeing several HDTVs for $500 and under too.
Keep in mind that early DVD players had compatibility problems, and even three or four years after the format release there were still an occasional bug in players that needed to be fixed.
You mentioned some players had compatibility problems with AVCHD discs, did most of them happen to be Samsung? Except for Samsung players, Blu-Ray players are doing pretty well as far as compatibility issues.
It's easy to make HD DVD compatible because pretty much only one company designed the players, all the others were either using Toshiba's reference designs or were rebadged Toshiba players.
Part of it is that the basic phones seem to be heavily inflated list price so it seems like you're getting a good deal. It seems as if the $200 "discount" for signing up is all markup, meaning a "$260" device you're buying would really be a $60 device under normal market if it weren't for the lock-in, and that's what you're paying anyway.
I doubt that Google needs to remain anonymous anyway. I know there's always the inference of bias because Google is a competitor, but there is a similar, and possibly stronger inference of bias with anonymous statements because of the question of why they need to remain anonymous on this topic.
I can't help but imagine a much bigger outrage if Microsoft tried to anonymously complain about a competitor's anti-trust activities.
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They were *right* to be concerned when guns are involved - an overreaction would be ignoring them and doing nothing.
No, that's called an under reaction.
And I think they do need to be wary of guns if they're trespassing onto private property. In fact, if it is trespassing, the trespassing is probably the worse wrong vs. a rancher carrying a gun around their own property, depending on the situation and the laws of the area.
I don't think you explain it very well. Seven hours isn't enough? Or are you saying that the seven hours is fudged? Seven hours is still better than most notebooks available today.
I bought a Logitech set that did just that, I thikn with a better third party USB Bluetooth reciever. I managed to scroll the screen using a scroll wheel that's on a mouse 20m away and behind three walls. I was pretty impressed, though I really didn't think there was a good use for such a range other than to ensure a solid signal in a highly interfering environment.
Organic material coming here on comets and meteorites is perfectly plausible. But life coming from outside the solar system seems to be quite unlikely.
There was some paper released last year showing that gene degradation when exposed to cosmic rays happens at an astonishing rate. When compared to how long it would take a piece of rock to travel from even the nearest star, it just looks to be implausible at best. Not only that, it would assume that the life would be able to survive the impact and either be compatible, or adapt from the rock/ice quickly to the earth.
Even if panspermia was a viable idea, it would only say something about where life arose. It doesn't answer the question of how life arose. But if it arose here, then it would be easier to find the how. If life arose elsewhere, then we wouldn't know
Does iGoogle repost the entire article? If they are, they shouldn't be, they should at most be posting a relevant snippet, then if you want to read the story, then you can click through to get the story from a news source that subscribes to said wire service. All I've seen through iGoogle is a headline.
What I mean by large scale is not the size of the product, but the cost and number of them. Carbon fiber is used in a lot in aerospace, but that's because cost is a lot less of a factor than with automobiles. I've heard recently that the boom in aircraft carbon fiber use has caused a jump in the cost of the raw material itself, and this was before the recent increase in fuel prices.
I think it's an image thing. Somehow people feel less impressive in a minivan than an SUV. But not a lot of SUV owners really do a lot that a minivan can't.
But the McLaren is expensive. Carbon fiber is great for low production, but production is too slow and costly to scale up well. There are people working on that problem, but it will take a major investment to convert production as well.
The concerns are real, but I don't know if they're valid concerns when I looked at the actual crash stats. What I've seen in the stats is that SUVs and trucks were statistically more dangerous to ride & drive in than a mid-sized car.
It's the weight and the high center of gravity that play against the safety of the trucks. The mid-sized cars can swerve better and brake faster, and the cars are far less likely to roll over than trucks & SUVs. Basically, while trucks & SUVs can better protect the passengers in the event of a collision, they're more likely to get into collisions.
I don't think more colors steps are necessary, except to make a broader gamut. 10 bit color means 1024 steps from white to black rather than just 256. Banding in brightness can be very apparent.
1 for each developer/engineer for their primary machine = 2 licenses
1 for each developer/engineer for their home machine = 2 licenses
1 for each developer/engineer for their notebook = 2 licenses
1 for each test lab machine = 2 licenses
Does one individual dev really need to install the suite on three different computers when they can just install it on a notebook and be done with it?
And I suspect their bosses would be glad to be rid of these prima donnas. Nothing says "value" like "I refuse to learn!".
I don't think that's the only interpretation. Does the new tool really save time and money? Does the cost savings really offset the lost productivity in training & learning? Has that been properly investigated?
The time is the most expensive part.
But... cast iron has the tensile strength on the order of concrete.
I think you might be two orders of magnitude off. Cast iron shows up as having around 130 to 200MPa (depending on your figures), concrete shows up at 3MPa. Having used it, cast iron can be pretty cheesy stuff. But I imagine that strength-to-weight is pretty good.
100 patches in 9 years is about 1 patch every 5 weeks. The only thing that I can think of that might have more is Windows.
There has to be some good jokes there. I think some members here can come up with solid promo dialog for an MTV-style code-off.
Don't miss it! It's EXTREME!
That's true, but often those people want as much as possible for free (hey, who doesn't, right?) That would make them less of an "unfulfilled market" as an "unfulfillable market".
I think that's the tough part. It doesn't matter how low the price is, unless it's free, there are going to be those that want it but don't want to pay. But those people aren't necessarily your customers.
The tough part of pricing is you're trying to strike a balance. Pricing has a hand in determining your customers. Sometimes it makes sense to cut the price, sometimes it doesn't.
DRM is a different issue, but I can sympathize with both sides. No one wants byzantine limits put on them, and the owners don't want to lose their product. It may be true that dropping the DRM makes the product more sellable rather than less, it's a very tough argument to sell.
He has been hoping for personal immortality through technology and takes over 200 anti-aging pills a day.
Which is pretty funny given that dietary supplements haven't been found to be very useful on a whole.
He really doesn't seem to look any younger or stay the same age either. He does look a bit better than smokers of his age, but not by a whole lot, in my opinion.
Dude, I'm not seeing the hate here. May be an eye of the beholder kind of thing.
I do have two concerns about the service, apart from the supposed outages.
One is that they don't seem to have any plan that can make money on their service. I suppose they are trying to build up a service that they can sell to Microsoft, Yahoo or Google, but how much of the user base is going to tolerate ads if any of them bought it as a platform to serve ads?
Another is that they are very quick to cancel passwords due to inactivity, requiring a request to get it reset. I don't know if it's one week or one month, but it's as if they don't want you at all if you don't log in at least once a week. However often they do it, I've not seen any other service do it so quickly.
Blu-Ray movies seem to be about as durable as DVDs. I've seen similar breakage rates, but I have yet to have to clean a Blu-Ray movie because of the anti-scratch coating.
2. You need high-def TVs to really enjoy blu-ray. That costs a boatload of cash.
I think that depends on your definition of "boatload of cash". Have you actually looked at pricing lately, or are you just remembering prices from two years ago? Ginormous (42" 1080p) flat panel TVs can be had for under $1000. That was about the cost of a 32" CRT TV five years ago. I recall seeing several HDTVs for $500 and under too.
Keep in mind that early DVD players had compatibility problems, and even three or four years after the format release there were still an occasional bug in players that needed to be fixed.
You mentioned some players had compatibility problems with AVCHD discs, did most of them happen to be Samsung? Except for Samsung players, Blu-Ray players are doing pretty well as far as compatibility issues.
It's easy to make HD DVD compatible because pretty much only one company designed the players, all the others were either using Toshiba's reference designs or were rebadged Toshiba players.
Part of it is that the basic phones seem to be heavily inflated list price so it seems like you're getting a good deal. It seems as if the $200 "discount" for signing up is all markup, meaning a "$260" device you're buying would really be a $60 device under normal market if it weren't for the lock-in, and that's what you're paying anyway.
You say that as if inexpensively protecting food and package recycling are mutually exclusive ideals.
And what does that computer weigh, including both batteries?
I doubt that Google needs to remain anonymous anyway. I know there's always the inference of bias because Google is a competitor, but there is a similar, and possibly stronger inference of bias with anonymous statements because of the question of why they need to remain anonymous on this topic.
I can't help but imagine a much bigger outrage if Microsoft tried to anonymously complain about a competitor's anti-trust activities.