I was about to mention the Chicago Musuem of Science and Industry but someone beat me to it. One of the best musuems I've ever visited. I think of it as a humongous real life version of "how stuff works". Their website is at http://www.msichicago.org/ .
Read some history, not fuzzy-cute-kittens middle school history textbook history but real accounts of life in early America (and the rest of the world). There never was a time when people didnt care about the "almighty dollar". Before we had money we argued and fought over food and shiny shells. American values have always been a pipe dream (and I'm an American). In reality we are currently in a position our ancestors would have dreamed of. It is now difficult but possible for someone born into a poor family to claw their way up into the upper classes. It is downright easy to go from the middle-class into the upper class. It used to be the people born with money had all the power and that was that. Even in America people who had no property were not even allowed to vote. If wireless access at a ball park thousands of people can go to whenever they please for the sole sake of the pleasure it gives them is our biggest concern I'd say we are doing a hell of a lot better then the generations before us.
Lossless compression still requires a lot of cpu power. Think how long it takes to unzip a large file like an iso even on a fast computer. Furthermore the more compression lossless compression achieves the more processing power required to de-compress it, while getting diminishing returns. Hard Drive space and bandwidth are becoming so inexpensive I doubt lossless compression will play that large of a part in the future.
Journaling File System. Real support for multiple users. You obviously dont understand what active directory is if you throw it in with system utilities (Active Directory has completely changed the way windows networks are run for the better). 95's USB support is total crap. Take on of those keychain usb drives and try walking up to a win95 machines, plugging it in, and be using it 10 seconds later like you can on any win2k or XP system. You sir are just a troll or so blinded by your irrational hatred of MS you feel you have to make up reasons to dislike them when so many real ones already exist.
All the Cowboy Bebop episodes have song titles for their name, and the song ussually finds its way into the episode. They could've at least kept it as a subtitle, seeing as how everyone will just call ti the Cowboy Bebop anyway. On another note, the movie is highly dissapointing when compared to the high standards of the episodes.
I am a high school student in South Florida (pretty far from Maine but thats not important) and our school has gotten a lot of iBooks. I'm not a mac user at home, I prefer to build my own pc's, but I was loaned one of the extra iBook's from the school (as were many other of the tehnically inclined students) and have to say they are a dream. To put this in contrast I have also had at various times a generic pc laptop, an Apple Powerbook G3 (the black one with the white apple logo), a Dell Latitude, a Titanium G4, and the iBook I have now. My favorite by far is the iBook. They are small, light and compact. They are much more comfortable to work on then their larger and hotter pc counterparts. Everyone who's gotten them has fallen in love with them. My only complaint is the speakers on the iBooks are horribly underpowered. I work with our technicians doing IT work, and the iBooks are much easier to maintain. There are no removable drives or other parts to be easily lost or broken. When something breaks it's a simple matter to stick it in the box Apple provides and ship it back for warranty repair. They come with Appleworks which is an elegant and feature rich Office compatible word processing suite. Mac OS X also includes built in Windows Networking support, so they play nice on our network. The PC world does not yet provide a cost effective solution as well suited for education as the iBooks. I think Maine made a good choice in the iBooks, especially over custom hardware.
ex-post facto doesn't apply. The taxes are already owed. The problem is the states have no way to collect the tax's owed them. From what I understand technically you are supposed to self report the taxes, but noone ever does. I doubt they would try to pull a "back-taxes" deal, however, because it'd meet great public outcry and would crush the online retailers.
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The problem is, most of the heat would probably have radiated out of the water on the long trip to the toilet (unless your comp is in the bathroom). It'd still heat up your house. Furthermore, the long distance the tubes have to travel increases the risk of failure. It would also make it harder to notice when something goes wrong. If your water supply fails you can lose your processor and burn out the pump. I see no benefits you wouldn't get from a very small radiator mounted out of sight on your desk.
The actual purpose of the My Documents folder is to have a place to store documents that follows your user around on a domain. For example, at school I can log into any computer I desire and my settings and files follow me. Even one non-networked computers with multiple users it comes in handy, because other users can't access it (by default).
Microsoft makes loads of money from their proprietary libraries. In order to get them you have to buy Windows. Microsoft makes these libraries so people can make programs that run under Windows. An OS is only as good as the apps it can run. Microsoft profits everytime someone makes an app using their libraries.
The wired article is laughable. Miyamoto (and Nintendo as a whole) have consistently made amazing games. Since when does blood and sex make a "Mature" game. If you want nudity, go rent some porn. If you want blood and gore go rent Hannibal. Nintendo realizes games are about the gameplay, not the shiny graphics or violence. Look what seperates two "mature" games, GTA3 and BMX XXX from smash-hit to lame gimmick. GTA3 has unique and innovative gameplay. It is fun and polished. It has guns and explosions and hookers. Look at BMX XXX. It has even more guns and explosions and hookers. But noone cares, because beneath it all is a poor bicycle game. The only people who think a game needs guns and hookers to be suitable for adults are people too stuck up on their machoism and hormones to realize what fun is. Nintendo is not perfect, but as long as they keep pumping out games that are different from the norm I'll be buying.
"Now the rednecks and hillbillies will have a government approved reason for hunting defenseless animals for entertainment." I am not a hunter, but believe it or not, controlled hunting is neccesary. Most of the natural predators of deer have been killed by humans, because they threaten cattle. Deer are voracious eaters, and without predators to heck their population will decimate their enviroment. Controlled and limited (and legal) hunting is the only way to clean up the mess we made in killing off all the larger predators. Some people enjoy hunting, and often pay for the priviledge. Hunters did not need a goverment approved reason, they already had one. Furthermore, deer are far from defenseless, and in an unarmed fight would probably win against a human. Hunter's use rifles or arrows because thats what we are best at.
I got a chance to ride one at a FIRST competition (FIRST is the robotics competition run by Dean Kamen) for a brief period, I'd like to say that 99% of you are completely wrong. The segway is amazingly easy to drive. It takes advantage of your body's natural balancing ability. I didn't get to take it up to full speed, but it sure seemed fast enough to me. The "ignition" is tied to an encrypted key making it pretty hard to steal. they may not revolutionize the world, but they are the perfect thing for anyone that needs to get around faster then walking, but needs more mobility then a car.
There's no denying, Windows used to be a mess. During Windows growing pains (also known as before competition forced it to improve) I used a mac. I started using the Windows 2000 at school, and realized Windows had come a long way. My next computer was a pc, and my OS of choice was windows 2000. I've tried Linux and haven't been overly impressed. The philosophy behind open source is great. I usually look for an open source solution first to any problem. But I like to play games, and I like to use a computer with a consistent interface, and the ability to run pretty much anything. I got tired of drooling at the stuff across the fence with mac,I'm not going back there. Windows has it's share of problems, but its not as bad as the zealots would have you believe. A properly configured windows 2000 machine (and to a lesser extent XP) with quality hardware (with quality drivers) should never crash. The few times my machine has crashed it has been directly my fault. The only distro that is slightly tempting is Lindows. Give me a distro with a decent GUI (both Gnome and KDE feel like hack jobs slapped on top to me) and the ability to run all my windows apps out of the box, and signifigant IMPROVEMENTS over Windows, and I switch. I don't want to run dual-boot, so to get me to switch Linux has to offer me something Windows can't. I don't care much for Microsoft, but I already own Win 2k anyway. Just because it's open source doesnt make it better in practical terms. To get people to relearn a new operating system, you have to offer them something better then what they've got. I just don't see that.
The energy comes from the radioactive material breaking down into stable (read harmless) elements. The batteries would actually be less dangerous after they've reached the end of their life. The big problem I see is that when you upgrade your cellphone/pda/laptop you generally wind up tossing out the battery to.
I didn't mean to imply that first editions are worthless for study. Apparently there were quite signifigant corrections between the first and second editions. However, copies have been made. If we have accurate reproductions of the 1st edition's text available, the original is more of a showpeice. The exception to this rule would be a copy like the one at Cambridge another poster mentioned, which was the personal property of Newton. This text is invaluable, and an important piece for study. Even if it were scanned with the best possible accuracy available, there is potential for new discovery from the original text. You do make good points, however, and I consider it just further evidence books like this belong in libraries and not in the hands of greedy collectors.
This is a rare first edition, not a hand written manuscript. Although these selfish thieves have deprived Russian students of a rare and valuable text, it is not unique. A quick google search revealed that among other universities, Georgia Tech owns not only a first edition identical to the one being stolen (although the russian copy may have been in better condition, the article doesn't say) they also have a rare second and a rare third edition(http://gtalumni.org/StayInformed/magazine/ sum99/newton.html). Some other results also credited the University of Cambridge for having the most complete collection of Newton's papers. Rare first editions are mainly for bragging rights anyway. I don't see why this should be an international incident as the story suggests. Very few people outside of Russia would have ever seen it anyway, as there are other copies available in mroe convenient places anyway.
I also live in Florida and have watched the same thing happen with DDR. The amazing thing is adding DDR machines have saved many arcades here in Florida. Before DDR any arcades I went to where run down and desolate. They seemed doomed. When they added DDR machines, they seemed to come back to life. Konami's series of motion games draw people into arcades because its an experience you just can't get at home. The arcade near me now has 4 DDR machines and is packed every night. Arcades have finally realized to get gamers to get off their PS2 or Xbox and actually come to arcades you have to offer an experience which is impossible to have at home(unless you are Gates).
You missed my point. I was saying that some pc's arent designed to conserve battery life. If you get one that is, they can match the performance of Apple laptops. All the anecdotal "I can watch 3 dvds back to back on my mac!" evidence doesn't matter when you are comparing a little iBook to a 2ghz Dell latitude with a 17" monitor. They are different laptops designed for different purposes.
I have daily experience with hundreds of apple and PC laptops (about 50/50) and honestly the apple's batteries dont last much longer then a quality pc laptop. Apple designs with battery power in mind from the start, many consumer and high performance pc laptops couldn't care less. Some of these will have battery life's 30 minutes. When compared with similiar laptops the Apple battery life isn't anytihng to write home about. I still think the case designs on the Apple laptops are worlds ahead of their pc counterpart.
This is not quite true. The Earth is pulling on the ISS just like it pulls on everything else. The pull might be slightly diminished by the distance, but not by much. The reason satelites stay in orbit (and appear weightless) is because they are moving fast enough around the earth to maintain their orbit. A basic physics book can explain it much better then I can. Slow down the ISS enough and it'll fall like a 200,000 lb brick.
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I was about to mention the Chicago Musuem of Science and Industry but someone beat me to it. One of the best musuems I've ever visited. I think of it as a humongous real life version of "how stuff works". Their website is at http://www.msichicago.org/ .
Read some history, not fuzzy-cute-kittens middle school history textbook history but real accounts of life in early America (and the rest of the world). There never was a time when people didnt care about the "almighty dollar". Before we had money we argued and fought over food and shiny shells. American values have always been a pipe dream (and I'm an American). In reality we are currently in a position our ancestors would have dreamed of. It is now difficult but possible for someone born into a poor family to claw their way up into the upper classes. It is downright easy to go from the middle-class into the upper class. It used to be the people born with money had all the power and that was that. Even in America people who had no property were not even allowed to vote. If wireless access at a ball park thousands of people can go to whenever they please for the sole sake of the pleasure it gives them is our biggest concern I'd say we are doing a hell of a lot better then the generations before us.
Lossless compression still requires a lot of cpu power. Think how long it takes to unzip a large file like an iso even on a fast computer. Furthermore the more compression lossless compression achieves the more processing power required to de-compress it, while getting diminishing returns. Hard Drive space and bandwidth are becoming so inexpensive I doubt lossless compression will play that large of a part in the future.
Journaling File System. Real support for multiple users. You obviously dont understand what active directory is if you throw it in with system utilities (Active Directory has completely changed the way windows networks are run for the better). 95's USB support is total crap. Take on of those keychain usb drives and try walking up to a win95 machines, plugging it in, and be using it 10 seconds later like you can on any win2k or XP system. You sir are just a troll or so blinded by your irrational hatred of MS you feel you have to make up reasons to dislike them when so many real ones already exist.
Use MAME, or any number of emulators. A google search for choplifter brought up the rom as well. Sweet! I cant wait for you to get a sense of humor!
All the Cowboy Bebop episodes have song titles for their name, and the song ussually finds its way into the episode. They could've at least kept it as a subtitle, seeing as how everyone will just call ti the Cowboy Bebop anyway. On another note, the movie is highly dissapointing when compared to the high standards of the episodes.
I am a high school student in South Florida (pretty far from Maine but thats not important) and our school has gotten a lot of iBooks. I'm not a mac user at home, I prefer to build my own pc's, but I was loaned one of the extra iBook's from the school (as were many other of the tehnically inclined students) and have to say they are a dream. To put this in contrast I have also had at various times a generic pc laptop, an Apple Powerbook G3 (the black one with the white apple logo), a Dell Latitude, a Titanium G4, and the iBook I have now. My favorite by far is the iBook. They are small, light and compact. They are much more comfortable to work on then their larger and hotter pc counterparts. Everyone who's gotten them has fallen in love with them. My only complaint is the speakers on the iBooks are horribly underpowered. I work with our technicians doing IT work, and the iBooks are much easier to maintain. There are no removable drives or other parts to be easily lost or broken. When something breaks it's a simple matter to stick it in the box Apple provides and ship it back for warranty repair. They come with Appleworks which is an elegant and feature rich Office compatible word processing suite. Mac OS X also includes built in Windows Networking support, so they play nice on our network. The PC world does not yet provide a cost effective solution as well suited for education as the iBooks. I think Maine made a good choice in the iBooks, especially over custom hardware.
ex-post facto doesn't apply. The taxes are already owed. The problem is the states have no way to collect the tax's owed them. From what I understand technically you are supposed to self report the taxes, but noone ever does. I doubt they would try to pull a "back-taxes" deal, however, because it'd meet great public outcry and would crush the online retailers.
The problem is, most of the heat would probably have radiated out of the water on the long trip to the toilet (unless your comp is in the bathroom). It'd still heat up your house. Furthermore, the long distance the tubes have to travel increases the risk of failure. It would also make it harder to notice when something goes wrong. If your water supply fails you can lose your processor and burn out the pump. I see no benefits you wouldn't get from a very small radiator mounted out of sight on your desk.
The actual purpose of the My Documents folder is to have a place to store documents that follows your user around on a domain. For example, at school I can log into any computer I desire and my settings and files follow me. Even one non-networked computers with multiple users it comes in handy, because other users can't access it (by default).
Microsoft makes loads of money from their proprietary libraries. In order to get them you have to buy Windows. Microsoft makes these libraries so people can make programs that run under Windows. An OS is only as good as the apps it can run. Microsoft profits everytime someone makes an app using their libraries.
" An average of 14 people a year are killed by wild lions."
I'd just like to ask, where exactly are all these lions coming from? Only so many can escape from zoos you know.
The wired article is laughable. Miyamoto (and Nintendo as a whole) have consistently made amazing games. Since when does blood and sex make a "Mature" game. If you want nudity, go rent some porn. If you want blood and gore go rent Hannibal. Nintendo realizes games are about the gameplay, not the shiny graphics or violence. Look what seperates two "mature" games, GTA3 and BMX XXX from smash-hit to lame gimmick. GTA3 has unique and innovative gameplay. It is fun and polished. It has guns and explosions and hookers. Look at BMX XXX. It has even more guns and explosions and hookers. But noone cares, because beneath it all is a poor bicycle game. The only people who think a game needs guns and hookers to be suitable for adults are people too stuck up on their machoism and hormones to realize what fun is. Nintendo is not perfect, but as long as they keep pumping out games that are different from the norm I'll be buying.
"Now the rednecks and hillbillies will have a government approved reason for hunting defenseless animals for entertainment."
I am not a hunter, but believe it or not, controlled hunting is neccesary. Most of the natural predators of deer have been killed by humans, because they threaten cattle. Deer are voracious eaters, and without predators to heck their population will decimate their enviroment. Controlled and limited (and legal) hunting is the only way to clean up the mess we made in killing off all the larger predators. Some people enjoy hunting, and often pay for the priviledge. Hunters did not need a goverment approved reason, they already had one. Furthermore, deer are far from defenseless, and in an unarmed fight would probably win against a human. Hunter's use rifles or arrows because thats what we are best at.
Thanks Hacktivismo, I almost released my Nuclear Missle Dev Kit under the BSD license! Thank you for showing me the light!
I got a chance to ride one at a FIRST competition (FIRST is the robotics competition run by Dean Kamen) for a brief period, I'd like to say that 99% of you are completely wrong. The segway is amazingly easy to drive. It takes advantage of your body's natural balancing ability. I didn't get to take it up to full speed, but it sure seemed fast enough to me. The "ignition" is tied to an encrypted key making it pretty hard to steal. they may not revolutionize the world, but they are the perfect thing for anyone that needs to get around faster then walking, but needs more mobility then a car.
There's no denying, Windows used to be a mess. During Windows growing pains (also known as before competition forced it to improve) I used a mac. I started using the Windows 2000 at school, and realized Windows had come a long way. My next computer was a pc, and my OS of choice was windows 2000. I've tried Linux and haven't been overly impressed. The philosophy behind open source is great. I usually look for an open source solution first to any problem. But I like to play games, and I like to use a computer with a consistent interface, and the ability to run pretty much anything. I got tired of drooling at the stuff across the fence with mac,I'm not going back there. Windows has it's share of problems, but its not as bad as the zealots would have you believe. A properly configured windows 2000 machine (and to a lesser extent XP) with quality hardware (with quality drivers) should never crash. The few times my machine has crashed it has been directly my fault. The only distro that is slightly tempting is Lindows. Give me a distro with a decent GUI (both Gnome and KDE feel like hack jobs slapped on top to me) and the ability to run all my windows apps out of the box, and signifigant IMPROVEMENTS over Windows, and I switch. I don't want to run dual-boot, so to get me to switch Linux has to offer me something Windows can't. I don't care much for Microsoft, but I already own Win 2k anyway. Just because it's open source doesnt make it better in practical terms. To get people to relearn a new operating system, you have to offer them something better then what they've got. I just don't see that.
"They won't sue dell for shipping computers with ethernet connections, just because they facilitate downloading music."
Yet.
The energy comes from the radioactive material breaking down into stable (read harmless) elements. The batteries would actually be less dangerous after they've reached the end of their life. The big problem I see is that when you upgrade your cellphone/pda/laptop you generally wind up tossing out the battery to.
I didn't mean to imply that first editions are worthless for study. Apparently there were quite signifigant corrections between the first and second editions. However, copies have been made. If we have accurate reproductions of the 1st edition's text available, the original is more of a showpeice. The exception to this rule would be a copy like the one at Cambridge another poster mentioned, which was the personal property of Newton. This text is invaluable, and an important piece for study. Even if it were scanned with the best possible accuracy available, there is potential for new discovery from the original text. You do make good points, however, and I consider it just further evidence books like this belong in libraries and not in the hands of greedy collectors.
This is a rare first edition, not a hand written manuscript. Although these selfish thieves have deprived Russian students of a rare and valuable text, it is not unique. A quick google search revealed that among other universities, Georgia Tech owns not only a first edition identical to the one being stolen (although the russian copy may have been in better condition, the article doesn't say) they also have a rare second and a rare third edition(http://gtalumni.org/StayInformed/magazine/ sum99/newton.html). Some other results also credited the University of Cambridge for having the most complete collection of Newton's papers. Rare first editions are mainly for bragging rights anyway. I don't see why this should be an international incident as the story suggests. Very few people outside of Russia would have ever seen it anyway, as there are other copies available in mroe convenient places anyway.
I also live in Florida and have watched the same thing happen with DDR. The amazing thing is adding DDR machines have saved many arcades here in Florida. Before DDR any arcades I went to where run down and desolate. They seemed doomed. When they added DDR machines, they seemed to come back to life. Konami's series of motion games draw people into arcades because its an experience you just can't get at home. The arcade near me now has 4 DDR machines and is packed every night. Arcades have finally realized to get gamers to get off their PS2 or Xbox and actually come to arcades you have to offer an experience which is impossible to have at home(unless you are Gates).
You missed my point. I was saying that some pc's arent designed to conserve battery life. If you get one that is, they can match the performance of Apple laptops. All the anecdotal "I can watch 3 dvds back to back on my mac!" evidence doesn't matter when you are comparing a little iBook to a 2ghz Dell latitude with a 17" monitor. They are different laptops designed for different purposes.
I have daily experience with hundreds of apple and PC laptops (about 50/50) and honestly the apple's batteries dont last much longer then a quality pc laptop. Apple designs with battery power in mind from the start, many consumer and high performance pc laptops couldn't care less. Some of these will have battery life's 30 minutes. When compared with similiar laptops the Apple battery life isn't anytihng to write home about. I still think the case designs on the Apple laptops are worlds ahead of their pc counterpart.
This is not quite true. The Earth is pulling on the ISS just like it pulls on everything else. The pull might be slightly diminished by the distance, but not by much. The reason satelites stay in orbit (and appear weightless) is because they are moving fast enough around the earth to maintain their orbit. A basic physics book can explain it much better then I can. Slow down the ISS enough and it'll fall like a 200,000 lb brick.