Ummm, your beloved Creative has been releasing products by the bushel since 2001. The only difference between Apple's offerings and Creative's is that Creative's are more numerous (in terms of model count) and less popular (units sold).
Nobody's coming to your house to take away your JB2 or whatever. Nobody's making you upgrade anything. Take a deep breath.
My SO's music collection is larger than the largest available iPod, so she opted for the 4gb mini. She uses smart playlists, and fools with it every week or so to re-jigger the contents. Seems to work fine for her.
Me, I've got a smaller collection that fits on my 40gb, but not for long. Certainly not when I figure out how to glom our collections together...
"why not make like a jet engine and get oxygen from the atmosphere?"
Because the intake of the jet engine is big.
Rocketry is all about frontal area. Things with small frontal areas are easier to accelerate than things with large frontal areas.
I'm going to make up some numbers. Say I've got a rocket with 1 meter sq. frontal area. Say in order to do my mission, I need to be able to generate 1000 N of net thrust (engine thrust minus drag), which the engine in my 1 m^2 rocket can achieve. In order to get similar thrust from a jet, I need lots more frontal area. Since wave drag (the largest, but not the only, drag factor in supersonic flight) varies as the square of frontal area, making a larger air intake dramatically increases the drag on my air frame, which
Yes, I don't have to carry my oxidizer with me, but I also can't accelerate as fast. Increased mass decreases the net acceleration in a linear fashion, but increased drag decreases the net acceleration in a quadratic (squared) fashion.
You demonstrate ignorance of the effect the Catholic Church on learning. You remember, the ones that put Galileo under house arrest?
If you think Christianity as practiced in the Dark Ages was good for science in general, you're pretty silly.
Yes, there were some Christians who were scientists. (Staggeringly enough, that's still true today.) But to argue that the Christian power structure was pro-science is absurd.
Maybe those people don't think that the "leftover embryos" shouldn't be discarded.
Me, I think it's kinda irresponsible to have people spending zillions on fertility treatments when there are lots of kids (real, living, meat-based children) who need good homes.
I don't think that my predilections should be codified in law, but I do think you're perhaps being a little prejudiced...
I'm condemning a judge for denying anybody...ANYBODY...their inalienable right to due process. Judges absolutely should not be allowed to do that, under any circumstances, ever.
If the judge thinks the person is a dangerous psychopath, there are mechanisms in place (again: due process) to prevent them from harming others. Just locking them up without bail indefinitely is not, ever, a valid solution, under any circumstances, ever. This principle applies even if the person in question is suspected of being a terrorist, never mind a low-grade computer intrusion punk.
Have I made myself sufficiently clear, or do I need to start reading from the Constitution?
That's silly. If I say the word "psychopath" to somebody else, and they know what I'm talking about, then the word "psychopath" conveys meaning. If I use it to describe an object (IE: I define this object as "a psychopath"), then there does exist a psychopath.
Now, you might mean that "psychopath" is not a valid descriptive diagnosis used by professional psychologists. By that definition, there are no "crazy people". And you know what? There are crazy people.
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Copy the files?
Easy.
Preserve my metadata?
Less easy.
What's the problem? Apple is releasing another product that doesn't appeal to you. So what? Why the rant?
Ummm, your beloved Creative has been releasing products by the bushel since 2001. The only difference between Apple's offerings and Creative's is that Creative's are more numerous (in terms of model count) and less popular (units sold).
Nobody's coming to your house to take away your JB2 or whatever. Nobody's making you upgrade anything. Take a deep breath.
My SO's music collection is larger than the largest available iPod, so she opted for the 4gb mini. She uses smart playlists, and fools with it every week or so to re-jigger the contents. Seems to work fine for her.
Me, I've got a smaller collection that fits on my 40gb, but not for long. Certainly not when I figure out how to glom our collections together...
"why not make like a jet engine and get oxygen from the atmosphere?"
Because the intake of the jet engine is big.
Rocketry is all about frontal area. Things with small frontal areas are easier to accelerate than things with large frontal areas.
I'm going to make up some numbers. Say I've got a rocket with 1 meter sq. frontal area. Say in order to do my mission, I need to be able to generate 1000 N of net thrust (engine thrust minus drag), which the engine in my 1 m^2 rocket can achieve. In order to get similar thrust from a jet, I need lots more frontal area. Since wave drag (the largest, but not the only, drag factor in supersonic flight) varies as the square of frontal area, making a larger air intake dramatically increases the drag on my air frame, which
Yes, I don't have to carry my oxidizer with me, but I also can't accelerate as fast. Increased mass decreases the net acceleration in a linear fashion, but increased drag decreases the net acceleration in a quadratic (squared) fashion.
That's why air breathing space flight is hard.
If you take a second and think it through, you'll understand how dumb that idea is.
Get a pencil. Go ahead, I'll wait...
"He didn't realise the historic importance of the event, and so didn't bother to have any photographs taken of his machine flying,"
Whaaaaa?
I call bullshit.
Spelling is important. If somebody told you different, they were wrong.
In this particular case, several spelling errors combined to cause the speaker's intent to be completely lost in the noise.
Microsoft's software sucks.
Googles software does not suck.
I don't really care about the evilness...I care about the pervasiveness of crappy software. That's why I don't like Microsoft.
I've got a handle on the history, thanks. I'm trying to parse the sentence, and it's not working.
"We're the Astronauts pilots even though a monkey made thier flights first"
Huh?
You demonstrate ignorance of the effect the Catholic Church on learning. You remember, the ones that put Galileo under house arrest?
If you think Christianity as practiced in the Dark Ages was good for science in general, you're pretty silly.
Yes, there were some Christians who were scientists. (Staggeringly enough, that's still true today.) But to argue that the Christian power structure was pro-science is absurd.
Whoops. Tripped on my negatives. First sentence should read:
Perhaps those people think that those 'leftover embryos' shouldn't be discarded.
Maybe those people don't think that the "leftover embryos" shouldn't be discarded.
Me, I think it's kinda irresponsible to have people spending zillions on fertility treatments when there are lots of kids (real, living, meat-based children) who need good homes.
I don't think that my predilections should be codified in law, but I do think you're perhaps being a little prejudiced...
I bet they'll take marketing lessons from that guy over at Creative. He's been making big headway...
Only if you plug in an ATM Machine and type in your PIN number.
And you know this...how?
Ummm...so?
Why stop at felony charges that will effectively prevent them from ever seeking gainful employment? Why not just execute them?
Just checkin' my boundaries here. Don't mind me. : )
Let's apply the same analysis to the monopoly phone companies, shall we?
What about GAY puppies?
Stupid FACTS. Ruined a perfectly good argument...
I'm condemning a judge for denying anybody...ANYBODY...their inalienable right to due process. Judges absolutely should not be allowed to do that, under any circumstances, ever.
If the judge thinks the person is a dangerous psychopath, there are mechanisms in place (again: due process) to prevent them from harming others. Just locking them up without bail indefinitely is not, ever, a valid solution, under any circumstances, ever. This principle applies even if the person in question is suspected of being a terrorist, never mind a low-grade computer intrusion punk.
Have I made myself sufficiently clear, or do I need to start reading from the Constitution?
" There is no such thing as a psychopath"
That's silly. If I say the word "psychopath" to somebody else, and they know what I'm talking about, then the word "psychopath" conveys meaning. If I use it to describe an object (IE: I define this object as "a psychopath"), then there does exist a psychopath.
Now, you might mean that "psychopath" is not a valid descriptive diagnosis used by professional psychologists. By that definition, there are no "crazy people". And you know what? There are crazy people.