That all of the companies out there pooled all of the best resources together and came up with the ultimate solution that handled all of the performance demands, ease of use for those who like it that way, and the complexity for those who choose to come in the side entrances.
Are we really asking too much? Apple makes a good products. *NIX is superior. Microsoft is easy to use. Yet they all refuse to recognize each other on so many different levels. They can only play tug of war for so long before it gets old.
It's really time to think about creating something that mutually ties the whole thing together. It is the next step. To hell with the competition factor, I want answers not this shit we have to listen to and deal with every day about who's doing what better than the next guy. It's a civilized war that's not so civilized if you look at the principals behind the issue. Who pays? You do.
What if there is a plan to build this to transport all of the people from the US to Russia because there is imminent doom of the entire North American continent being covered in ice in a few short years?
It's a cool concept but it's not based around Microsofts main objective. Are they palnning a business shift. Will they spread them selves over many areas and not really maintain the stability of one? (all mishaps to date aside) I thought that as a company that has generally ruined it's reputation, or shall I say, put a dent in it's status in the course of the last year, would have more interest in making up for lost respect. Aren't there isues to be dealt with in terms of the future of the compasny and it's ability to stay in the OS market? Not that I think they could even re-write the book for a better out come, but they could damn sure try. Instead they are targeting a narrow segment of the population in order to establish itself as a magical mystical being in the eyes of kids who are too young to understand what kind of mess Microsoft has piled up around itself.
You are completely correct. I refered back to one of the Astronomy magazines that I originally saw the article about Ion Drives. It came out about a year+ ago. I was convinced that this was what's powering the Cassini. I stand corected. I did read that in experiments, the Ion Drive could top out about 39,000 miles an hour. What that translates to in F/P thrust I have no idea. And the tests have not been fully performed in a weightless environment where the maximum potetial momentum can be reached. The Ion Drive concept is the closest we've come to being able to establish the possibility for travel at the speed of light. It's all Physics from there.
If the Cassini is powered by an ion drive, and the atmosphere of Jupiter is predominantly methane gas, if the two were to come close enough to each other, where would be the best place be to view the fireworks from?
Nice pics, same as last time. More new ones! Though the resolution is prime. I often wonder how the atmosphere is so stabilized in it's current state, that it maintains such well divided regions of different types of gas clouds. It changes with the day, but the large spots have never moved.
Why would SCSI have some thing passed in this order of business and it go unflamed as this has? Is this because the majority of affected users are using IDE technology instead of others. Though this issue does not seem to be an issue of performance aspects (as per SCSI being superior) but more of a target for the rampant distribution of proprietary material found on readily replicable systems and hardware.
Toro makes a few good ones. Cheap too. A coupla' hundred dollars and you can throw show and other things as far as you'd like. Check out you local hardware store. Museums are good places to find Dinosaur Bones.
Yeah, I thought the same thing too. It was until I realized that I have seen stark weather changes, that I began to see the point. I unfortunately have not seen any "greys", so I'm with you on that. Good read, check it out any way.
There will be a spike in "summer" temperate environments. This will bring about the melting of polar caps and the re-routing of standard ocean currents. Once there is enough moisture in the atmosphere, the temperatures will steadily decline. As the years, months, even days roll by, humans will notice that in order to escape the deep arctic temperatures that will consume the northern hemisphere, they will need to move further south. That's not necessarily the best idea either. Warm currents from the south will blend with the arctic cold from the northern hemisphere, and create even larger storm systems that will blanket the equatorial section of the Earth.
Global warming does not mean that we'll be wearing shorts in January. What it does mean is that the seasons will be come more extreme and completely unpredictable. Eventually there will be no four seasons. One day will be 90 degrees and the next 10 below zero. Welcome to the fact that we have really screwed up. It is now time to pay.
The only way to bounce back is to shut the planet down and take about a 100 year rest from resource depletion, fossil fuel use, let the forrests re-grow, and all of the anti-global warming idoits out there to stop their "we aren't going to do any thing to the Earth's climate". Those who refuse to recognize the coming of a new global environment will be the ones who have no way to deal with it when it arrives.
I mean if people don't want traffic, then hey, no problem, you're off of my list. People should be proud to have their names on tiny little screens all around the world. Is it the art? Well, pay the designer more with the money you make from free linking. Is it the band width? Buy more servers with the money you make from free linking. Not selling enough product? Sell more by linking for free. Why can't people figure this one out?
But could we include the developers, the support staff, the production line workers, the people who box and ship, the sales people, the store help, where john q. public goes to get his new system? It takes a knowledgable staff to house the whole computer industry. Granted some of them don't know any thing about anything, so they get paid on what they know. Ultimately, I think the growth in the computer field should be extended to all parties who helped bring it there and will help to continue it's growth in the futrure.
I have worked in customer service for a dot com company. When people call, they automatically think that you're going to spit out a magic answer to all of the problems they have right there on the phone. Some times it's possible. Some times it's just not feasable in a few minutes on the phone. So immediately it becomes your fault. Every thing is your problem now, not the consumers, so what do they do? Crouch themselves right over the top of you and let go of a few personal issues on you. Is it fair? Hell no. Is it fair when a programmer gets shat upon by a project leader? Hell no. Are we expected to take it? Why, of course. That's the nature of the company mindset. Sit down, shut up, do your work, you get paid and that's why they pay you. Any thing outside of that and they act like you just asked if you could put it in their wife while they are away on the next business trip.
I realize that developers are who have brought us where we are. Every one who has worked in the computer industry has helped it get to where it is. People should be rewarded with what ever they see fit. Don't just hit them with one option. Let them choose from a list of kickbacks that the company is willing to dish out for added interest in the company and it's growth through development.
Hey, wasn't that HAL 9000? Not Al. It was bad sectors man! Dude was in there trying to drop new cartidges in and the thing lost it's mind!
And oh yeah, the movie came out like thirty + years ago. It was and still is so far ahead of it's time. it looks like Mission to Mars, albeit a great movie, was closely related to the story line of that book "...And the Moon Be Still As Bright"(study guide) by Ray Bradbury
I have a simple theory. What if we look at the Monolith as being representational of the confirmed existence of Dark Matter? I watched a show on Discovery Channel a few weeks ago that explained the fact that the universe is actually expanding at a propelled rate of speed. The cause: Dark Matter. What is it? No one knows. They beleive the Vacuum of space actuall takes a form that is completely colorless, has no physical properties what so ever, and cannot be detected by any current means. So how do they know? They feel it is the proverbial glue that holds the universe together and propels it essentially. It is the oppsite that is the negative. It is the dark and the light. it could very well be the beginning and the end. Yet it has no detectable presence. It's just there. It becomes more and more powerful and it's characteristics strengthened in the depths of deep space. Essentially, the further from the supposed source of all known beginning. (for those who subscribe to the big bang universe theory) it has also now been confirmed that there is no pattern in the universes axpansion. At one point they thought it to be relatively circular or should I say Globular. As most things in space are represented. They have no idea which way it's moving, at what rate, and where the destination may be. The obvious current answer most suited to the question: Dark Matter. Monolith.
A great many thanks to Kubrick and Clark for opening my eyes at the age of three or four when I first saw the movie. I didn't fully understand it then. Never would I claim to fully understand it now, but at least I can comprehend and Imagine as they did.
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What about cookies, aka temp internet files? Most internet activity inevitably is going to capture browsing and habitual information that can be used.
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That all of the companies out there pooled all of the best resources together and came up with the ultimate solution that handled all of the performance demands, ease of use for those who like it that way, and the complexity for those who choose to come in the side entrances.
Are we really asking too much? Apple makes a good products. *NIX is superior. Microsoft is easy to use. Yet they all refuse to recognize each other on so many different levels. They can only play tug of war for so long before it gets old.
It's really time to think about creating something that mutually ties the whole thing together. It is the next step. To hell with the competition factor, I want answers not this shit we have to listen to and deal with every day about who's doing what better than the next guy. It's a civilized war that's not so civilized if you look at the principals behind the issue. Who pays? You do.
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"Off-topic, what would Linux's vision statement be?"
To CONTINUE to write superior OSes for those who care to use them. For the rest, it's what you said, I guess.
Microsoft Happy Bake Ovens
Wow!
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What if there is a plan to build this to transport all of the people from the US to Russia because there is imminent doom of the entire North American continent being covered in ice in a few short years?
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It's a cool concept but it's not based around Microsofts main objective. Are they palnning a business shift. Will they spread them selves over many areas and not really maintain the stability of one? (all mishaps to date aside) I thought that as a company that has generally ruined it's reputation, or shall I say, put a dent in it's status in the course of the last year, would have more interest in making up for lost respect. Aren't there isues to be dealt with in terms of the future of the compasny and it's ability to stay in the OS market? Not that I think they could even re-write the book for a better out come, but they could damn sure try. Instead they are targeting a narrow segment of the population in order to establish itself as a magical mystical being in the eyes of kids who are too young to understand what kind of mess Microsoft has piled up around itself.
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"...but several plastic bottle-cap rings littered the ground, suggesting it was thirsty work for whoever installed it."
this is mysteriously similar to the findings of cigarette butts on the floor of a bar after closing. Hmmm.
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"That's one service I won't be getting anytime in the near future!"
...or the distant future for that matter.
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Yep. Works well. It's as simple as can be. Recognizes all of the major IMs but not AOL.
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Augment last post due to serious misinformation:
Deep Space I
Ion FAQ
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You are completely correct. I refered back to one of the Astronomy magazines that I originally saw the article about Ion Drives. It came out about a year+ ago. I was convinced that this was what's powering the Cassini. I stand corected. I did read that in experiments, the Ion Drive could top out about 39,000 miles an hour. What that translates to in F/P thrust I have no idea. And the tests have not been fully performed in a weightless environment where the maximum potetial momentum can be reached. The Ion Drive concept is the closest we've come to being able to establish the possibility for travel at the speed of light. It's all Physics from there.
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If the Cassini is powered by an ion drive
It is not.
What's this? Would that be Plutonium ion degeneration powering all of the RTG's
Okay so it's not your average Star Trekkin' warp factor niner, but it is a step in the right direction.
and the atmosphere of Jupiter is predominantly methane gas,
I don't think it is; rather hydrogen, but I could be wrong.
3000 (CH4) parts per million in a dominant 89% Hydrogen atmosphere isn't predominant as stated before.
if the two were to come close enough to each other,
Cassini has passed the point of closest approach. 10 million kilometers, give or take.
the key prerogative being if
where would be the best place be to view the fireworks from?
What fireworks?
I won't even begin to explain. Notice the Heading. Dumb Question. Capped off with a nice little fuzzy "I wonder" at the end.
Wouldn't it be nice if our cyclones persisted for centuries?
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they thought they were playing UT??
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If the Cassini is powered by an ion drive, and the atmosphere of Jupiter is predominantly methane gas, if the two were to come close enough to each other, where would be the best place be to view the fireworks from?
Nice pics, same as last time. More new ones! Though the resolution is prime. I often wonder how the atmosphere is so stabilized in it's current state, that it maintains such well divided regions of different types of gas clouds. It changes with the day, but the large spots have never moved.
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try the pre.17 holmes
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of the new frickin millenium for me! I don't care if this shit's off topic or not mod me all the hell you want! Happy New Year /. and friends!
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Why would SCSI have some thing passed in this order of business and it go unflamed as this has? Is this because the majority of affected users are using IDE technology instead of others. Though this issue does not seem to be an issue of performance aspects (as per SCSI being superior) but more of a target for the rampant distribution of proprietary material found on readily replicable systems and hardware.
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Toro makes a few good ones. Cheap too. A coupla' hundred dollars and you can throw show and other things as far as you'd like. Check out you local hardware store. Museums are good places to find Dinosaur Bones.
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Don't ask me, I'm half Irish and 1/4 German, 1/4 Spanish. I just thought I'd whip out a Seinfeld reference. Got you to reply didn't I?
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Yeah, I thought the same thing too. It was until I realized that I have seen stark weather changes, that I began to see the point. I unfortunately have not seen any "greys", so I'm with you on that. Good read, check it out any way.
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There will be a spike in "summer" temperate environments. This will bring about the melting of polar caps and the re-routing of standard ocean currents. Once there is enough moisture in the atmosphere, the temperatures will steadily decline. As the years, months, even days roll by, humans will notice that in order to escape the deep arctic temperatures that will consume the northern hemisphere, they will need to move further south. That's not necessarily the best idea either. Warm currents from the south will blend with the arctic cold from the northern hemisphere, and create even larger storm systems that will blanket the equatorial section of the Earth.
Global warming does not mean that we'll be wearing shorts in January. What it does mean is that the seasons will be come more extreme and completely unpredictable. Eventually there will be no four seasons. One day will be 90 degrees and the next 10 below zero. Welcome to the fact that we have really screwed up. It is now time to pay.
The only way to bounce back is to shut the planet down and take about a 100 year rest from resource depletion, fossil fuel use, let the forrests re-grow, and all of the anti-global warming idoits out there to stop their "we aren't going to do any thing to the Earth's climate". Those who refuse to recognize the coming of a new global environment will be the ones who have no way to deal with it when it arrives.
Read: The Coming Global Super Storm : Whitley Strieber
Be afraid...be very afraid.
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I mean if people don't want traffic, then hey, no problem, you're off of my list. People should be proud to have their names on tiny little screens all around the world. Is it the art? Well, pay the designer more with the money you make from free linking. Is it the band width? Buy more servers with the money you make from free linking. Not selling enough product? Sell more by linking for free. Why can't people figure this one out?
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But could we include the developers, the support staff, the production line workers, the people who box and ship, the sales people, the store help, where john q. public goes to get his new system? It takes a knowledgable staff to house the whole computer industry. Granted some of them don't know any thing about anything, so they get paid on what they know. Ultimately, I think the growth in the computer field should be extended to all parties who helped bring it there and will help to continue it's growth in the futrure.
I have worked in customer service for a dot com company. When people call, they automatically think that you're going to spit out a magic answer to all of the problems they have right there on the phone. Some times it's possible. Some times it's just not feasable in a few minutes on the phone. So immediately it becomes your fault. Every thing is your problem now, not the consumers, so what do they do? Crouch themselves right over the top of you and let go of a few personal issues on you. Is it fair? Hell no. Is it fair when a programmer gets shat upon by a project leader? Hell no. Are we expected to take it? Why, of course. That's the nature of the company mindset. Sit down, shut up, do your work, you get paid and that's why they pay you. Any thing outside of that and they act like you just asked if you could put it in their wife while they are away on the next business trip.
I realize that developers are who have brought us where we are. Every one who has worked in the computer industry has helped it get to where it is. People should be rewarded with what ever they see fit. Don't just hit them with one option. Let them choose from a list of kickbacks that the company is willing to dish out for added interest in the company and it's growth through development.
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Hey, wasn't that HAL 9000? Not Al. It was bad sectors man! Dude was in there trying to drop new cartidges in and the thing lost it's mind!
And oh yeah, the movie came out like thirty + years ago. It was and still is so far ahead of it's time. it looks like Mission to Mars, albeit a great movie, was closely related to the story line of that book "...And the Moon Be Still As Bright"(study guide) by Ray Bradbury
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I have a simple theory. What if we look at the Monolith as being representational of the confirmed existence of Dark Matter? I watched a show on Discovery Channel a few weeks ago that explained the fact that the universe is actually expanding at a propelled rate of speed. The cause: Dark Matter. What is it? No one knows. They beleive the Vacuum of space actuall takes a form that is completely colorless, has no physical properties what so ever, and cannot be detected by any current means. So how do they know? They feel it is the proverbial glue that holds the universe together and propels it essentially. It is the oppsite that is the negative. It is the dark and the light. it could very well be the beginning and the end. Yet it has no detectable presence. It's just there. It becomes more and more powerful and it's characteristics strengthened in the depths of deep space. Essentially, the further from the supposed source of all known beginning. (for those who subscribe to the big bang universe theory) it has also now been confirmed that there is no pattern in the universes axpansion. At one point they thought it to be relatively circular or should I say Globular. As most things in space are represented. They have no idea which way it's moving, at what rate, and where the destination may be. The obvious current answer most suited to the question: Dark Matter. Monolith.
A great many thanks to Kubrick and Clark for opening my eyes at the age of three or four when I first saw the movie. I didn't fully understand it then. Never would I claim to fully understand it now, but at least I can comprehend and Imagine as they did.
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