They do a huge amount of business selling products that treat the user like a five year old (and many of those products aren't even intended for five year olds).
Licensing and insurance both kick in after the fact; anyone who can find a car, find the keys to the car and then make the car go can do whatever a licensed, insured driver can do, they are just exposing themselves to greater legal difficulties than a licensed, insured driver.
Astraweb lets a person test the NNTP waters for $10, with no additional fees (That $10 only buys 25 GB of transfer, so the low commitment makes for a (relatively) high rate).
Other pointed out that you are misunderstanding the nature of the plutonium being used, but it is also worth pointing out that reactors produce many tons of plutonium each year, while NASA is consuming a few pounds. The NASA activity isn't even a rounding error on the plutonium coming out of reactors.
We aren't talking about me slapping a bumper sticker on a car that I don't own, we are talking about the guy who created this website slapping an Oracle logo on a story about OpenOffice.org. Presumably he must think are somehow associated now.
Well gee. I don't know why you latched onto my comment for this screed, the OP seemed to think it was strange that someone interested in profit to make a change in an attempt to make a profit. I pointed out that this is merely expected behavior from someone interested in profit, complaining about the continued existence of newspapers never entered into it (Murdoch isn't complaining either, he is abandoning something he doesn't think is worth doing, which is what all those potters eventually did).
I doubt that it is only American, I think it is just a variant.
Of course, there are probably more English speaking people living outside of the United States, Canada, Australia and UK than there are people living inside of those countries (and then there are countries like India and Nigeria). At some point, the rules in a particular country aren't going to matter anymore.
There is a reason people change. At the moment, on this system, XP is using about $18 worth of Ram (and that price has since come down) and less than 2% of the 3 year old processor.
I guess there is the argument that those are really high and not worth the added features of XP, but I don't agree that those values are high, and just the somewhat better hardware support is worth it.
For a while, I had feared that you had devolved into mindless trolling, but this post ends all of that, it is a shining example of you living up to your name.
The second half of your comment is the answer to the first. If it is man made, our actions can probably have a bigger impact, meaning that it may make more sense to take costly actions.
Only sort of. I mean, it is factually true, but human energy utilization is on the order of 20 terawatts, while the solar radiation that ends up heating Earth and the atmosphere is on the order of 100 petawatts, meaning we add something like 0.02% of the solar input (that some human activity involves moving solar energy around isn't particularly relevant).
If you figure that over a given period of time a roughly equivalent amount of energy is also being radiated away from Earth, that 0.02% amounts to some tiny little fraction of the temperature difference between Earth and the surrounding space.
Global warming isn't a potential problem because heat is slowly building up, it is a potential problem because the thermal properties of the planet are changing, lowering the instantaneous amount of heat radiated away, which means that equilibrium is reached at a higher temperature.
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Yes, much like people buy hotdogs from the guy with the wiener cart, except when he is giving them away.
Have you walked through a Wal*mart? Ever?
They do a huge amount of business selling products that treat the user like a five year old (and many of those products aren't even intended for five year olds).
Or even, Moore's investment rule of thumb.
More money might not have sped progress up, but it might have.
So, going by Futurama, there is some monster living in a cave somewhere, and that monster has delicious, flaky, skin.
Licensing and insurance both kick in after the fact; anyone who can find a car, find the keys to the car and then make the car go can do whatever a licensed, insured driver can do, they are just exposing themselves to greater legal difficulties than a licensed, insured driver.
Yep.
It's only really a problem when you are trying to sell hookers and blow.
I disagree. "How come Kirk ate the hippopotamus?" is clearly a stupid question.
Astraweb lets a person test the NNTP waters for $10, with no additional fees (That $10 only buys 25 GB of transfer, so the low commitment makes for a (relatively) high rate).
I put dates in file names all the time.
Other pointed out that you are misunderstanding the nature of the plutonium being used, but it is also worth pointing out that reactors produce many tons of plutonium each year, while NASA is consuming a few pounds. The NASA activity isn't even a rounding error on the plutonium coming out of reactors.
Take the day off.
We aren't talking about me slapping a bumper sticker on a car that I don't own, we are talking about the guy who created this website slapping an Oracle logo on a story about OpenOffice.org. Presumably he must think are somehow associated now.
There isn't any rule to make it wrong. You can disagree with it, but that doesn't establish that it is wrong, just that you disagree with it.
Well gee. I don't know why you latched onto my comment for this screed, the OP seemed to think it was strange that someone interested in profit to make a change in an attempt to make a profit. I pointed out that this is merely expected behavior from someone interested in profit, complaining about the continued existence of newspapers never entered into it (Murdoch isn't complaining either, he is abandoning something he doesn't think is worth doing, which is what all those potters eventually did).
Gilligan's Island started from the premise that none of it was believable. Complaining about it is like trying to breath water.
Usage varies in the U.S.; I only ever ask about copying something on a copier, I don't normally use Xerox or photocopier.
I doubt that it is only American, I think it is just a variant.
Of course, there are probably more English speaking people living outside of the United States, Canada, Australia and UK than there are people living inside of those countries (and then there are countries like India and Nigeria). At some point, the rules in a particular country aren't going to matter anymore.
(Most) Online newspapers aren't making money. That is malfunctioning in the minds of most 'business' people.
Not even for $500 and an obsolete drive?
There is a reason people change. At the moment, on this system, XP is using about $18 worth of Ram (and that price has since come down) and less than 2% of the 3 year old processor.
I guess there is the argument that those are really high and not worth the added features of XP, but I don't agree that those values are high, and just the somewhat better hardware support is worth it.
For a while, I had feared that you had devolved into mindless trolling, but this post ends all of that, it is a shining example of you living up to your name.
The second half of your comment is the answer to the first. If it is man made, our actions can probably have a bigger impact, meaning that it may make more sense to take costly actions.
Surely there is some secret military program that makes DNF look like a feeble attempt to waste money.
Only sort of. I mean, it is factually true, but human energy utilization is on the order of 20 terawatts, while the solar radiation that ends up heating Earth and the atmosphere is on the order of 100 petawatts, meaning we add something like 0.02% of the solar input (that some human activity involves moving solar energy around isn't particularly relevant).
If you figure that over a given period of time a roughly equivalent amount of energy is also being radiated away from Earth, that 0.02% amounts to some tiny little fraction of the temperature difference between Earth and the surrounding space.
Global warming isn't a potential problem because heat is slowly building up, it is a potential problem because the thermal properties of the planet are changing, lowering the instantaneous amount of heat radiated away, which means that equilibrium is reached at a higher temperature.
A very small chance. Even our solar system is mostly empty.