Wrong! Here we go, another human-centric person believing that life on the earth began the day man came into existance.
Microbes have been developing resistance to toxins and other harmful factors in the environment for billions of years before humans ever appeared. It's something called EVOLUTION. How do think thermophilic bacteria came into being? Thru mutation! After millions of generations one little bacteria developed a mutation that allowed it to survive in a hotspring. It survived, and multiplied, mutated, multiplied, mutated, and now there are numerious kinds of thermophillic bacteria. Same way that some bacteria that can survice in high salt concentrations that kill everything else? Same way some bacteria prefer higher concentrations of CO2, but others are retarded by it. Same way some bacteria have become resistant to toxins that plants produce, yet other bacteria are killed by them. This cycle of toxins-resistance-toxins-resistance has been going on from the beginning of time on this planet, and did not start when doctors "discovered" antibiotics. We simply sped it up a hundredfold in the time since penicillin was discovered.
It amazes me that people still think Doctors and scientists know everthing. 25 years ago they were removing tonsils from most people until they started realizing that tonsils are part of the immune system and when they are swollen they are actually doing their job! 50 years ago because of antibiotics doctors proclaimed that the fight against disease is over-seems they were wrong about that too.
Microbiology shows that if you supress a microbiological infection to the point where the body takes care of it it's self (not finishing a perscription) you completely kill the colony and there is ZERO chance of a mutation
Wrong again! That maybe works in a petri dish but that is far from the real world. That would work if the body kills 100% of all pathogens, but unfortunately that is rarely the case. Just because you are not feeling sick does not mean you are not infected. We injest thousands if not millions of microbes every day from what we eat, drink, breathe and our body is constantly working to rid our bodies of these invaders. Only when an microbe gets the upper hand and reproduces out of control is when we feel symptoms. After we develop acquired immunity and recover we often end up being carriers of that same organism that caused infection; rarely are they 100% destroyed. If you don't think so then look up all the tribes that were wiped out by disease that Europeans were carrying, and immune to, when they were exploring the world.
To make your mouse look as cool? as all those Fast and the Furious wannabe cars you see driving around weekend nights with that eerie blue glow coming from underneath the chassis.
Going from winning combat exercises to transporting troops halfway around the world, sustaining them, and protecting these soldiers by land sea and air is quite a stretch.
And as a previous poster mentioned, we can't even provide our soldiers proper desert camouflage.
Considering that the Logitech keyboard and mouse only work within 6 feet or so of the receiver,what is the chance of 100 people using these keyboards being within 6 feet of each other?
Feel lucky that you were never subjected to "The Starlost" down under like we were up here in Canada.
What, never heard of it? Most ppl that did tried to forget it. It was a 'Noah's Ark in space' because Earth became uninhabitable, the ship was launched hundreds of years earlier so everyone on the ship forgot it was really a spaceship, and the 'heros' were these Amish-like characters, all filmed on a budget that could not have been more than $10,000; I think the FX were filmed with some guys camcorder.
This is also the argument against Star Trek transporters. You die each time you use one but a new person is created at the other end that thinks it's you. You don't know anything about this, of course, you've just been disintegrated!
Pssst....reality check time! Star Trek aint real-it's just a TV show and those are just actors.
ANd I feel free to drive my large (but suprisingly fuel efficient) SUv as much as I want. In fact, it gives me great pleasure to do so, since so many idiots think it is wrong.
And so you should. All cars pollute whether it's a n Explorer, Jetta, or Camry, and anyone that thinks that they're doing the world a favor because they drive a vehicle that puts only 400 pounds of pollutants into the atmosphiere every year while a big bad SUV puts 600 pounds is fooling themselves.
Every day on the way to and from work I end up following some old rusted out minivan or Pontiac 6000 from 1988 that has a blue smoke coming out of the exaust when it accererates, stinks like he's using rotten eggs as a fuel additive, and the stench is so strong that it makes my eyes water and throat irritated! These vehicles probably pollute more in one day than a dozen SUV's do in a week, and these are the ones that should be either serviced or banned.
Consumers only switched to CD because of the whole digital = better misconception
I for one switched to CD because of the following reasons: 1) I got tired of having my cassette tape being eaten by the player. 2) I got tired of the 'hissssssssssssss' that the casettes produce. 3) I got tired of the 'tic-tic-tic-tic' effects added to music when LP's get the slightest scratch. 4) You don't need a suitcase to carry around 25 CD's 5) Held at the right angle, the 'rainbow effect' a CD produces was a pretty cool thing in 1992. 6) You can easily rip a CD to wav format, play it backwards, and listen for satanic messages from 80's metal bands.
Yep, but back then, ANYTHING with a GUI expecially one that allowed you to use a mouse was cool.
Remember GEOS for the Commodore 64? Very cool if you didn't mind waiting 4 minutes for the thing to load, then another 2 minutes for it to load GEOS-Write or whatever it was called. A perfect example of being POTENTIALLY cool, but in practice it sucked"
As for User Interfaces Apple and Microsoft have upgraded their User Interfaces considerably, but they need to give due credit to Amiga for pioneering UI-based operating systems, from which they obviously ripped off.
Considering that the Mac came out a year earlier than the Amiga, and the Apple Lisa came out a year before the Mac, unless Apple had a time machine in the early 80's I don't see how they could have ripped off the Amiga UI.
It's possible they could have used McFly's Flux Capacitor though...
The first Amiga version was overpriced compared to the competition, specifically the Atart 520ST, which was around $500-$1000 cheaper for the computer, drive, an extra 256KB memory, and monitor-and I think Atari even threw in a printer for free. Hard to justify an Amiga when you can get something similar for alot less.
I remember reading an article in RUN Magazine (or was it Compute!?) about a year after the Amiga came out and the author lamblasted Commodore for not lowering the price. Commodore's reasoning was something like "It's a business computer. IBM makes business computers and they don't lower prices so neither should we." and "IBM doesn't advertise the PC and ppl but it so ppl will buy the Amiga even if we don't advertise because it is more advanced than any other computer"
They finally did lower prices when the Amiga 500 came out and it sold better but Commodore really mis-marketed the Amiga in the beginning.
Again, back in 1976 I was working on minicomputers. Very reliable, very secure, very expensive. They were secure back then because they had expremely limited access compared to today. To use them you had to apply for an account, given a time to access them, and you had to access them typically from a terminal in the same building, if you were lucky enough to have a terminal-punch cards were still used back then. They weren't exposed to 300 million potential hackers/crackers from a hundred countries as any PC that is connected to the internet is today!
Yep. Too often Star Trek, Star Wars,B5, and so many others get lumped in the same boat simply because of their space setting and that bugs me. It's like saying Titanic, Jaws, and The Perfect Storm are the same because they take place on the ocean.
On thing that B5 did differently than the other "space" sci-fi was that it showed that there is no "up" in space. That made for some battle scenes the best that was ever made.
Maybe I'll give Firefly a look-see. The previews I saw on TV didn't impress me but what I read here it sounds like it may be a winner.
Hmmm....if there are slowdowns then I think it more of a problem that the ISP doesn't have enuff stuff! I remember having slowdowns, busy signals, dropped connections during peak times when I had dialup, and that was in the pre-napster era before every tom, dick, and harry knew about file-sharing. And our local cable internet connections have only gotten better since they left @home, yet in that time filesharing and the amount of data transmitted has definitely increased.
Instead of blocking ports all an ISP has to do is implement a data cap it and that would clear up the congestion pretty quick. Someone who is transferring 80GB/month will certainly curtail his habit if there is a $20 gig limit with $2/gig overuse charge.
Oh PLEASE! If I had a dime for everytime a mininformed soul said something like "if you share mp3's the poor artist will not get any money and will starve", I'd have a hell of alot more dimes.
Most bands make from zilch to next to zilch when you buy a CD. A few lucky few maybe a few dimes per cd sale. Bands are given lump sum payments to make a record, and from that amount they have to pay ALL their expenses from renting the recording studio, paying the producer, director,editor, burning the CD, marketing, etc,etc. Whether the CD flops or sells a million copies most bands do not see much of a difference. Touring and promotion is where bands make their $$. If the CD sells well and their contract is up then they can use that as leverage for a better contract. That's about it.
Cutting off the bandwidth hogs is going to result in faster service, at no extra cost, to the remainder of the people using the service.
Well Sympatico just implemented a 5GB/month cap. Does that mean that my speed will now double, eventhough it is remains capped at 1Mbit/sec? Does this mean that my cost will decrease, even though on the same day as the cap they raised prices by $4/month? You certainly are making a leap of faith if you think any corporation will pass savings onto its customers instead of using them to pad their own books. Silly rabbit!
Nice rant about companies persuing profit. How about the profit the "pirates" are making. Songs that would have cost them thousands of dollars. If they can download $100.00 worth of songs a day or $3000.00 a month that gives them a profit of $2,950.00 after paying the ISP's bill.
Nice analogy, but using logic like that means that everytime I drink tap water instead of buying bottled water, I am stealing. Or when I carpool I am stealing money from the local bus company. Or if I skip commercials when watching TV I am stealing from the network. Not!
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Wrong! Here we go, another human-centric person believing that life on the earth began the day man came into existance.
Microbes have been developing resistance to toxins and other harmful factors in the environment for billions of years before humans ever appeared. It's something called EVOLUTION. How do think thermophilic bacteria came into being? Thru mutation! After millions of generations one little bacteria developed a mutation that allowed it to survive in a hotspring. It survived, and multiplied, mutated, multiplied, mutated, and now there are numerious kinds of thermophillic bacteria. Same way that some bacteria that can survice in high salt concentrations that kill everything else? Same way some bacteria prefer higher concentrations of CO2, but others are retarded by it. Same way some bacteria have become resistant to toxins that plants produce, yet other bacteria are killed by them. This cycle of toxins-resistance-toxins-resistance has been going on from the beginning of time on this planet, and did not start when doctors "discovered" antibiotics. We simply sped it up a hundredfold in the time since penicillin was discovered.
It amazes me that people still think Doctors and scientists know everthing. 25 years ago they were removing tonsils from most people until they started realizing that tonsils are part of the immune system and when they are swollen they are actually doing their job! 50 years ago because of antibiotics doctors proclaimed that the fight against disease is over-seems they were wrong about that too.
Microbiology shows that if you supress a microbiological infection to the point where the body takes care of it it's self (not finishing a perscription) you completely kill the colony and there is ZERO chance of a mutation
Wrong again! That maybe works in a petri dish but that is far from the real world. That would work if the body kills 100% of all pathogens, but unfortunately that is rarely the case. Just because you are not feeling sick does not mean you are not infected. We injest thousands if not millions of microbes every day from what we eat, drink, breathe and our body is constantly working to rid our bodies of these invaders. Only when an microbe gets the upper hand and reproduces out of control is when we feel symptoms. After we develop acquired immunity and recover we often end up being carriers of that same organism that caused infection; rarely are they 100% destroyed. If you don't think so then look up all the tribes that were wiped out by disease that Europeans were carrying, and immune to, when they were exploring the world.
After Enron, WorldCom, the MS judgement, just to name a few, it is really suprising that ppl do unethical things for the all mighty $$?
So you can't browse the web with MSN explorer?
Because it would resolve the man in the moon, a feature similar to the Face of Mars.
To make your mouse look as cool? as all those Fast and the Furious wannabe cars you see driving around weekend nights with that eerie blue glow coming from underneath the chassis.
Going from winning combat exercises to transporting troops halfway around the world, sustaining them, and protecting these soldiers by land sea and air is quite a stretch.
And as a previous poster mentioned, we can't even provide our soldiers proper desert camouflage.
Old news...where do you think our current Naval vessels come from?
Considering that the Logitech keyboard and mouse only work within 6 feet or so of the receiver,what is the chance of 100 people using these keyboards being within 6 feet of each other?
Or five people for that matter?
Feel lucky that you were never subjected to "The Starlost" down under like we were up here in Canada.
What, never heard of it? Most ppl that did tried to forget it. It was a 'Noah's Ark in space' because Earth became uninhabitable, the ship was launched hundreds of years earlier so everyone on the ship forgot it was really a spaceship, and the 'heros' were these Amish-like characters, all filmed on a budget that could not have been more than $10,000; I think the FX were filmed with some guys camcorder.
"I thought surely my stance of thinking both the RIAA and the Religious Right were both wrong..."
You know the saying: two wrongs make a right.
This is also the argument against Star Trek transporters. You die each time you use one but a new person is created at the other end that thinks it's you. You don't know anything about this, of course, you've just been disintegrated!
Pssst....reality check time! Star Trek aint real-it's just a TV show and those are just actors.
ANd I feel free to drive my large (but suprisingly fuel efficient) SUv as much as I want. In fact, it gives me great pleasure to do so, since so many idiots think it is wrong.
And so you should. All cars pollute whether it's a n Explorer, Jetta, or Camry, and anyone that thinks that they're doing the world a favor because they drive a vehicle that puts only 400 pounds of pollutants into the atmosphiere every year while a big bad SUV puts 600 pounds is fooling themselves.
Every day on the way to and from work I end up following some old rusted out minivan or Pontiac 6000 from 1988 that has a blue smoke coming out of the exaust when it accererates, stinks like he's using rotten eggs as a fuel additive, and the stench is so strong that it makes my eyes water and throat irritated! These vehicles probably pollute more in one day than a dozen SUV's do in a week, and these are the ones that should be either serviced or banned.
I dunno, from the photograph from the top it looks more like something Queen Amidala would fly on her way to Corsucant.
Consumers only switched to CD because of the whole digital = better misconception
I for one switched to CD because of the following reasons:
1) I got tired of having my cassette tape being eaten by the player.
2) I got tired of the 'hissssssssssssss' that the casettes produce.
3) I got tired of the 'tic-tic-tic-tic' effects added to music when LP's get the slightest scratch.
4) You don't need a suitcase to carry around 25 CD's
5) Held at the right angle, the 'rainbow effect' a CD produces was a pretty cool thing in 1992.
6) You can easily rip a CD to wav format, play it backwards, and listen for satanic messages from 80's metal bands.
Yep, but back then, ANYTHING with a GUI expecially one that allowed you to use a mouse was cool.
Remember GEOS for the Commodore 64? Very cool if you didn't mind waiting 4 minutes for the thing to load, then another 2 minutes for it to load GEOS-Write or whatever it was called. A perfect example of being POTENTIALLY cool, but in practice it sucked"
As for User Interfaces Apple and Microsoft have upgraded their User Interfaces considerably, but they need to give due credit to Amiga for pioneering UI-based operating systems, from which they obviously ripped off.
Considering that the Mac came out a year earlier than the Amiga, and the Apple Lisa came out a year before the Mac, unless Apple had a time machine in the early 80's I don't see how they could have ripped off the Amiga UI.
It's possible they could have used McFly's Flux Capacitor though...
That's a comparison of Windows vs native Linux. Here's the results of Windows vs WineX.
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The first Amiga version was overpriced compared to the competition, specifically the Atart 520ST, which was around $500-$1000 cheaper for the computer, drive, an extra 256KB memory, and monitor-and I think Atari even threw in a printer for free. Hard to justify an Amiga when you can get something similar for alot less.
I remember reading an article in RUN Magazine (or was it Compute!?) about a year after the Amiga came out and the author lamblasted Commodore for not lowering the price. Commodore's reasoning was something like "It's a business computer. IBM makes business computers and they don't lower prices so neither should we." and "IBM doesn't advertise the PC and ppl but it so ppl will buy the Amiga even if we don't advertise because it is more advanced than any other computer"
They finally did lower prices when the Amiga 500 came out and it sold better but Commodore really mis-marketed the Amiga in the beginning.
Again, back in 1976 I was working on minicomputers. Very reliable, very secure, very expensive.
They were secure back then because they had expremely limited access compared to today. To use them you had to apply for an account, given a time to access them, and you had to access them typically from a terminal in the same building, if you were lucky enough to have a terminal-punch cards were still used back then. They weren't exposed to 300 million potential hackers/crackers from a hundred countries as any PC that is connected to the internet is today!
Yep. Too often Star Trek, Star Wars,B5, and so many others get lumped in the same boat simply because of their space setting and that bugs me. It's like saying Titanic, Jaws, and The Perfect Storm are the same because they take place on the ocean.
On thing that B5 did differently than the other "space" sci-fi was that it showed that there is no "up" in space. That made for some battle scenes the best that was ever made.
Maybe I'll give Firefly a look-see. The previews I saw on TV didn't impress me but what I read here it sounds like it may be a winner.
Now that Star Wars is nothing more than a marketing tool for crappy fast food meals and stupid action figures,
As if any other big movie doesn't market itself heavily.
I for one am really looking forward to seeing Clones on an IMAX screen, though it will make the DVD seem pretty crappy.
I resent you saying there's nothing important in Saskatoon...he may hit the Co-op store!
If he goes off course I can see the headlines now..."French Skydiver lands in Moose Jaw!"
Hmmm....if there are slowdowns then I think it more of a problem that the ISP doesn't have enuff stuff!
I remember having slowdowns, busy signals, dropped connections during peak times when I had dialup, and that was in the pre-napster era before every tom, dick, and harry knew about file-sharing. And our local cable internet connections have only gotten better since they left @home, yet in that time filesharing and the amount of data transmitted has definitely increased.
Instead of blocking ports all an ISP has to do is implement a data cap it and that would clear up the congestion pretty quick. Someone who is transferring 80GB/month will certainly curtail his habit if there is a $20 gig limit with $2/gig overuse charge.
They don't give a damn about the Artist...
Oh PLEASE! If I had a dime for everytime a mininformed soul said something like "if you share mp3's the poor artist will not get any money and will starve", I'd have a hell of alot more dimes.
Most bands make from zilch to next to zilch when you buy a CD. A few lucky few maybe a few dimes per cd sale. Bands are given lump sum payments to make a record, and from that amount they have to pay ALL their expenses from renting the recording studio, paying the producer, director,editor, burning the CD, marketing, etc,etc. Whether the CD flops or sells a million copies most bands do not see much of a difference. Touring and promotion is where bands make their $$. If the CD sells well and their contract is up then they can use that as leverage for a better contract. That's about it.
Cutting off the bandwidth hogs is going to result in faster service, at no extra cost, to the remainder of the people using the service.
Well Sympatico just implemented a 5GB/month cap. Does that mean that my speed will now double, eventhough it is remains capped at 1Mbit/sec? Does this mean that my cost will decrease, even though on the same day as the cap they raised prices by $4/month? You certainly are making a leap of faith if you think any corporation will pass savings onto its customers instead of using them to pad their own books. Silly rabbit!
Nice rant about companies persuing profit. How about the profit the "pirates" are making. Songs that would have cost them thousands of dollars. If they can download $100.00 worth of songs a day or $3000.00 a month that gives them a profit of $2,950.00 after paying the ISP's bill.
Nice analogy, but using logic like that means that everytime I drink tap water instead of buying bottled water, I am stealing. Or when I carpool I am stealing money from the local bus company. Or if I skip commercials when watching TV I am stealing from the network. Not!
I could have sworn it was Casio that made these! Maybe they came out with one too?