Great - now I can crash my car even after I've already crashed it.
You could have it crash before it crashes.
Things to look forward to:
Reboot on the San Diego Freeway during rush
You turn off the ignition and it asks if you're sure you want to do that
You turn off ignition and it asks if you want to install patches before shutdown (then notice the next morning it's been stuck in a loop installing patches all night [this was the case with my laptop at work])
You can only hook up MS DRM stereos, installed by MCSE's
Blue Windscreen of Death
All the cars in the world get cracked and do syncronized driving or demo-derby
Yet another mandatory service you must have performed by a certified professional for $$$ (all repairs are insanely expensive now, if you haven't had wiring, eletronics, mechanicals, count yourself lucky!)
You keep getting passed by that commie nutjob in the the veedub running Linux, despite Ballmer insisting you should have more power.
Who actually monitors the 'daddypants' account anyway? I know the number of times I've bothered to report errors has been greater than the number of replies I've got or number of errors fixed (ie. none)
You daft bugger! Wasn't it obvious? They're both on the same core!
Anyway, um, lovely that Microsoft aren't charging for multicore licenses. I'm still amazed they even charge for SMP licenses.
I watched Episode V/DVD, and I thoroughly enjoyed it from start to finish. The ham handed CGI changes in IV and VI now make the overall quality of V stand out in sharp relief. The movie flows.
Pretty much my sentiments and about as far as picking at the movie as I get. The CGI added to the earlier films is about as awkward looking a house that's been half painted -- the old peeling paint has some sort of character, while the new paint draws sharp contrast. I don't think the idea in film is to draw contrast in your sets, but I'm not a bazillionaire.
Seems like nitpicking movie changes and details would require a string of bad weather, as I hope the authors/researchers don't sit in on a good day. Heck, I can even remember when I used to watch movies for enjoyment other than picking them apart.
Thursday and Intel says they are going to rely on approaches besides faster clock speed to improve the performance of chips. Engineers are working to add additional cores to a single chip and improving the efficiency in how the chips interact with the rest of the system.
Meanwhile management will be on patrol with whips, screaming such motivational phrases as "Don't you be letting my stock price drop", "We kick AMD's a** or I'll come back and kick your a**" and always a favorite "Yamhill! I mean, Yah Mule, get along there, keep working, that's the stuff *crack*"
What the article doesn't tell you is about Intel's pile of unsold processors. Hey, do what automakers did, sell out your future today, slash prices, provide %0 financing and move them little doggies out.
Not really. The tomatos are taking all the CO2 they need. More won't help, might actually hurt them, much like too much nitrogen will "burn" a plant.
I did the organic gardening thing for a couple years and found care in cultivation, gardening intelligently was more effective in plant and fruit growth than brute force (i.e. chemicals fertilizers, hybrid plants and pesticides) Under such ideal conditions plants will take in about as much food as you can give them. I had such a bumper crop I gave away a lot of roma tomatoes (and it's not hard to find takers of those babies!)
Trees have some excess capacity, but they're a temporary sink. In fact, speculation is that algae and rain forests have soaked up all the CO2 they can, and the rest is staying in the air, causing the accellerated rate of increase. I suspect it's got a lot to do with India and China's accellerated industrialization as well.
Not so much trees as forests, particularly as trees take time to adapt to changing conditions and many forests have been cleared in southeast asia for agriculture. Our sunsets were tinged with colors for about a year due to their burnings. China is getting more industrial, but not India.
The amount of waste produced by a nuclear power plant is fairly small, wheras the amount of CO2 produced is on the order of the amount of fuel it burns.
Nuclear waste is highly toxic, expensive to transport and store.
CO2 you could probably pump into greenhouses and embiggen* tomatoes.
How is this diffrent then toxic waste from nuclear plants being stored under ground.... if we continue storring all this wouldn't eventually run out of place to put it?
A friend who worked in the Hazardous Waste disposal industry lamented the ignorance of many protesters who came out to his site and harrassed the workers. They didn't know the difference between Hazardous and Toxic waste. CO2 is not toxic. In high concentrations it can be harmful (depending on the lifeform), but that is the definition of Hazardous. Toxic means it does harm even in small concentrations.
Example:
1,000 gallons of horse urine if dumped on a field would probably kill the grass, but if dilluted and spread over time it would not.
1 milligram of plutonium spread on a field would kill the grass, no matter how you dilluted it and grass wouldn't grow again for a long time.
I'm sure I didn't explain this as well as he could have, but I hope you get the gist of it.
Typical approach, sate the demand rather than reduce it. Once cheap new power is on line everyone will put a heavier draw on it and we'll be back where we are. Oh and the methane magically appears out of nowhere (which is a good thing, because there are expected
to be natural gas shortages this winter) and that CO2 sequestered underground* Sure would be a drag if we built up massive demand then finally ran out of energy, rather than weaning ourselves of it. Those rascals who live in self sufficient homes, they'll feel the
full fury of our wrath when they look at us all smug while we're stranded and frozen. Grrrr!
* Don't you just love that phrase? It's like 'solutions'. My waste solution is to sequester my used food wrappers and banana peels in the city dump. Hey, that does sound better than stinking up the environment with trash, doesn't it? OTOH the next time I serve jury duty, now that I know what 'sequestered' means I'll fight 'em tooth an nail.
When is it appropriate for a leader to change their opinion? Both sides have been accused of flip-flopping on important issues -...
President George Bush Responds:
President Bush declined to answer this question. - Editor
Such a decisive leader!
Seriously, that should have been a cinch to answer, but as Nader and Kerry indicate the current administration is fond of changing facts to support their answers. Anyone who claims not to ever have made mistakes is to be met with a great degree of skepticism.
I'm looking forward to tonights final debate, which would certainly be more interesting if Nader where there to show people an alternate view, but it's still fun to watch
these guys think on their feet.
BTW, was I the only one who caught that comment by Bush on Friday, regarding picking SCOTUS justices and hedging all over the place before finally saying, "besides, I want all of them to vote for me!" You don't say... like in 2000? You don't get nuggets like that
without putting them on their toes before a camera, without all their helpers.
Well, if you buy crappy media you'll have a lot of coasters you can use in the kitchen...
Contrary to popular belive DVD's and AOL CD's, etc. make lousy coasters as they don't absorb moisture. Maybe glue them to your car and make it look like big carp, yeah...
Is Sony being run by someone new? This from the same folks that brought us the MiniDisk? I don't believe it.
Careful...
Just because it's a neat idea doesn't mean they put quality into its components and/or construction. I've shyed away from buying things from Sony after reading many reviews of their spiraling (downward) quality. Different people in charge with different priorities. Akio, you are missed.
SCOTUS has declined to hear the case, effectively casting the Verizon opinion in stone. Wahoo! Part of DMCA shot down!"
Or is this simply until the RIAA frames their arguments differently. Those of us old enough and who read some history books in school remember the SCOTUS sometimes reversing decisions or simply throwing it back in the plaintiffs face and saying, "You didn't cross all your T's and dot all your I's, we'll be here if you'd like to have another go later on." The ball is merely in the RIAA's court while they choose another tack.
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You could have it crash before it crashes.
Things to look forward to:
Reboot on the San Diego Freeway during rush
You turn off the ignition and it asks if you're sure you want to do that
You turn off ignition and it asks if you want to install patches before shutdown (then notice the next morning it's been stuck in a loop installing patches all night [this was the case with my laptop at work])
You can only hook up MS DRM stereos, installed by MCSE's
Blue Windscreen of Death
All the cars in the world get cracked and do syncronized driving or demo-derby
Yet another mandatory service you must have performed by a certified professional for $$$ (all repairs are insanely expensive now, if you haven't had wiring, eletronics, mechanicals, count yourself lucky!)
You keep getting passed by that commie nutjob in the the veedub running Linux, despite Ballmer insisting you should have more power.
You daft bugger! Wasn't it obvious? They're both on the same core!
Anyway, um, lovely that Microsoft aren't charging for multicore licenses. I'm still amazed they even charge for SMP licenses.
Discount on bugs donchaknow.
Pretty much my sentiments and about as far as picking at the movie as I get. The CGI added to the earlier films is about as awkward looking a house that's been half painted -- the old peeling paint has some sort of character, while the new paint draws sharp contrast. I don't think the idea in film is to draw contrast in your sets, but I'm not a bazillionaire.
I blame MST3K
Mhz do not always = Sales.
By some accounts AMD and VIA have up to 40% of the global processor market now.
Meanwhile management will be on patrol with whips, screaming such motivational phrases as "Don't you be letting my stock price drop", "We kick AMD's a** or I'll come back and kick your a**" and always a favorite "Yamhill! I mean, Yah Mule, get along there, keep working, that's the stuff *crack*"
What the article doesn't tell you is about Intel's pile of unsold processors. Hey, do what automakers did, sell out your future today, slash prices, provide %0 financing and move them little doggies out.
I did the organic gardening thing for a couple years and found care in cultivation, gardening intelligently was more effective in plant and fruit growth than brute force (i.e. chemicals fertilizers, hybrid plants and pesticides) Under such ideal conditions plants will take in about as much food as you can give them. I had such a bumper crop I gave away a lot of roma tomatoes (and it's not hard to find takers of those babies!)
Trees have some excess capacity, but they're a temporary sink. In fact, speculation is that algae and rain forests have soaked up all the CO2 they can, and the rest is staying in the air, causing the accellerated rate of increase. I suspect it's got a lot to do with India and China's accellerated industrialization as well.
Not so much trees as forests, particularly as trees take time to adapt to changing conditions and many forests have been cleared in southeast asia for agriculture. Our sunsets were tinged with colors for about a year due to their burnings. China is getting more industrial, but not India.
Nuclear waste is highly toxic, expensive to transport and store.
CO2 you could probably pump into greenhouses and embiggen* tomatoes.
* A pefectly cromulent word.
A friend who worked in the Hazardous Waste disposal industry lamented the ignorance of many protesters who came out to his site and harrassed the workers. They didn't know the difference between Hazardous and Toxic waste. CO2 is not toxic. In high concentrations it can be harmful (depending on the lifeform), but that is the definition of Hazardous. Toxic means it does harm even in small concentrations.
Example:
1,000 gallons of horse urine if dumped on a field would probably kill the grass, but if dilluted and spread over time it would not.
1 milligram of plutonium spread on a field would kill the grass, no matter how you dilluted it and grass wouldn't grow again for a long time.
I'm sure I didn't explain this as well as he could have, but I hope you get the gist of it.
* Don't you just love that phrase? It's like 'solutions'. My waste solution is to sequester my used food wrappers and banana peels in the city dump. Hey, that does sound better than stinking up the environment with trash, doesn't it? OTOH the next time I serve jury duty, now that I know what 'sequestered' means I'll fight 'em tooth an nail.
Yeah, bombs will have to be dropped by the candidates themselves.
of course there could be a bomb that is triggered by a jammer jamming a signal.
I thought that was Rush Limbaugh...
Currently the USCG employes a pair of blimps "Fat Albert" on Cudjoe Key to watch for dope smugglers, air traffic, etc.
Ob: SovietRussia: For Soviet Russia YOU spy on the blimp!
"Cor! What about a citizen's right to privacy, flatfoot!"
"Congress and the Justice Department have given us our mandate. Your with us or your against us, ma'am."
3 tons of Jolt cola..
And 490 days of playing d00m, quake and all other sorts of video games.
"fragski, iz my turn take pictures of earth again? Bah!"
...
It wasn't written in purple crayon.
Look for an upcoming slashdot book review on My Pet Goat
Such a decisive leader!
Seriously, that should have been a cinch to answer, but as Nader and Kerry indicate the current administration is fond of changing facts to support their answers. Anyone who claims not to ever have made mistakes is to be met with a great degree of skepticism.
I'm looking forward to tonights final debate, which would certainly be more interesting if Nader where there to show people an alternate view, but it's still fun to watch these guys think on their feet.
BTW, was I the only one who caught that comment by Bush on Friday, regarding picking SCOTUS justices and hedging all over the place before finally saying, "besides, I want all of them to vote for me!" You don't say... like in 2000? You don't get nuggets like that without putting them on their toes before a camera, without all their helpers.
Contrary to popular belive DVD's and AOL CD's, etc. make lousy coasters as they don't absorb moisture. Maybe glue them to your car and make it look like big carp, yeah ...
Ah, a Video Toaster...(rimshot)
Prior Art and all that jazz
Careful...
Just because it's a neat idea doesn't mean they put quality into its components and/or construction. I've shyed away from buying things from Sony after reading many reviews of their spiraling (downward) quality. Different people in charge with different priorities. Akio, you are missed.
At first I thought this was something I'd have in the kitchen or laundry... still, sounds like a capital idea.
They can't hear any whining, they've got their MP3 players cranked up. Rumerhazzit Clarence Thomas listens to Dick Cheney singing.
Or is this simply until the RIAA frames their arguments differently. Those of us old enough and who read some history books in school remember the SCOTUS sometimes reversing decisions or simply throwing it back in the plaintiffs face and saying, "You didn't cross all your T's and dot all your I's, we'll be here if you'd like to have another go later on." The ball is merely in the RIAA's court while they choose another tack.
For now, it's certainly good stuff, but be wary.
Oh, sure, we'll peddle it on Afaghanistand and Iraq and nudge Iran to shape up, but the hell if we'll tolerate anything of that sort here.