Since the BSA is only concerned with business software, what they probably mean is that 41% of copies of MS Office on home computers are not legitimate copies, mostly copied from work. If those people didn't have a pirate copy of Office, that would probably be using OO.org or some other free equivalent, they wouldn't be paying for it.
(I guess a lot of people have academic versions of Office, and other app;ications like Adobe's suite, and they no longer are students so I guess that makes them pirates too.
Yes, I get upset when they compare objects (where the important dimension is mass (weight) and maybe volume,) to something that is clearly a measure of area at best.
There already exists a tool for measuring snow depth. Its called a ruler. There are imperial (yardstick) and metric varieties.
Another useful thing is a shovel, you can dig yourself out, and cut a path to the part of the road that has been plowed.
A cellphone is very useful too, you can call work and tell them you are stuck in a snowdrift and won't be in today. Don't forget to get out of the car before calling though, since in some places its illegal to use a cellphone in a car.
This sort of thing was made obsolete with the proliferation of ballistic missile submarines. Even if the first strike takes out all your land based missiles, a few typhoons and yankee class can retaliate and the USA would glow just as brightly as Russia.
Anyway a massive first strike would also render the rest of the northern hemisphere uninhabitable due to fallout and nuclear winter effects.
"When they factor in or go without the gallons of oil, pounds of coal, cubic feet of natural gas, amount of uranium or other fissile fuel"
Uranium is not a fossil fuel.
"wind turbine hours"
exactly - electricity can be generated from non carbon producing sources. (Including hydro, solar, tidal...
I hear that our local power company has pulled out of the Big Stone II coal fired project. Since they were the lead investor in it I think thats a dead duck...
Of course if you could have access to a 1541 drive with it, you could maybe play games...
(Typing in a gam in machine code from an old Compute! magazine is another possibty., but you'd probably run out of battery power before getting it typed in.
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Cars in the UK don't have a trunk - they have a boot.
I thought having a telepath there when you are 'meeting new life and new civilisations' was a good thing.
"and can be built almost anywhere."
NIMBY
And of course reconfigure it to emit a tachyon pulse.
I remember that song was sung by Tony Christie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Christie
Since the BSA is only concerned with business software, what they probably mean is that 41% of copies of MS Office on home computers are not legitimate copies, mostly copied from work. If those people didn't have a pirate copy of Office, that would probably be using OO.org or some other free equivalent, they wouldn't be paying for it.
(I guess a lot of people have academic versions of Office, and other app;ications like Adobe's suite, and they no longer are students so I guess that makes them pirates too.
Yes, I get upset when they compare objects (where the important dimension is mass (weight) and maybe volume,) to something that is clearly a measure of area at best.
Similarly hail should not be sized by coins.
"The Lion King "
I thought that was Elton John.
And then you end up with all the planets eaten up by stargate creating robots.
(If you make replicators, you'd better design them with an off switch)
if they ever catch this 'Anonymous Coward' guy, they will throw the book at him.
I think the new series started very well, though I don't know how long they will last with the good plots.
The Keno is cool, but if this is really Ancient ancient technology, why haven't they showed up in some other ancient places , like atlantis.
when are they going to sue ENZA then? They have an apple in their logo.
http://www.enza.co.nz/
There already exists a tool for measuring snow depth. Its called a ruler. There are imperial (yardstick) and metric varieties.
Another useful thing is a shovel, you can dig yourself out, and cut a path to the part of the road that has been plowed.
A cellphone is very useful too, you can call work and tell them you are stuck in a snowdrift and won't be in today. Don't forget to get out of the car before calling though, since in some places its illegal to use a cellphone in a car.
Obvious answer: Transparent aluminum. Its a lot stronger than glass, so you have less to worry about with storms.
"t's been proven in many studies that it's the distraction of the conversation that's the real threat"
They should also ban passengers in cars then, if its the conversation.
And definately ban children in the back seat, they are even more distracting.
It seems that the answer is to have smaller cars with only a seat for the driver. They would also be lighter and use less fuel.
Unless he dies in a duel, in which case the water belongs to the victor.
This sort of thing was made obsolete with the proliferation of ballistic missile submarines. Even if the first strike takes out all your land based missiles, a few typhoons and yankee class can retaliate and the USA would glow just as brightly as Russia.
Anyway a massive first strike would also render the rest of the northern hemisphere uninhabitable due to fallout and nuclear winter effects.
The SI definition of micro is one millionth. Its gonna take a lot of payments to add up to even 1 cent. I doubt that it would be economical.
Baha'i
You can use cursive writing on a computer, you just have to pick the right font.
"Space, the Final frontier...
Its last mission, to Boldly go where no man will go again.
So when NASA finally gets to Mars, they'll be able to test the water in the (chinese built) hotel and see if iits fit to drink.
"When they factor in or go without the gallons of oil, pounds of coal, cubic feet of natural gas, amount of uranium or other fissile fuel"
Uranium is not a fossil fuel.
"wind turbine hours"
exactly - electricity can be generated from non carbon producing sources. (Including hydro, solar, tidal...
I hear that our local power company has pulled out of the Big Stone II coal fired project. Since they were the lead investor in it I think thats a dead duck...
So is staying on this planet...
Film of recreation of the Chicxulub impact on the NatGeo, Science and History channels...
The only way to be sure of the long term survival of the human race is to get off this rock.
I think you had to use the command
LIST
after loading the directory.
Of course if you could have access to a 1541 drive with it, you could maybe play games...
(Typing in a gam in machine code from an old Compute! magazine is another possibty., but you'd probably run out of battery power before getting it typed in.