You forgot Adaware. I have most all of those. I am not a big zonealarm fan but then I have a Linux based firewall at home so I don't really use a firewall on my PC. For my notebook I find the Windows Firewall works well enough. Yes My Windows PC is nice and clean but then I know what I am doing. My father on the other hand just doesn't want to keep messing with his computer. And I did tell him to get AVG.
My guess is that electric scooters maybe better vehicles for the police than a gas scooter or motorcycle. Think about the traffic situation in NYC. I know that in a lot of high traffic cities the police have been using bicycles because they are faster than cars in some situations. An Electric scooter will be faster then a bike and will probably be just as none intrusive. In other words a good solution.
Yes but if you don't build fences, houses, or furniture but you do do case modes, build models, or other small craft style jobs then the Dremel tool is a better tool for you! It probably includes Photoshop Elements and not full Photoshop. My wife is really into digital scrapbooking. She has both Photoshop Elements and Gimp. She actually likes Gimp more than Elements.
From what I have seen iLife is a good tool for the average user.
I hate to say it but I think that the Mac is a better solution for most people. I just told my father to get a Mac. He is tired of the security problems with his PCs. He has 3 PCs right now. One at his home here, one at his place in North Georgia, and a Laptop. All he uses his computer for is Email, digital pictures, and paying bills on line. I could set him up with Ubuntu but where would he find support for it when I am not around? I don't know how good Dell is at Ubuntu support and frankly he isn't the most technical person on the planet. Apple has figured out what most people want to do with a PC at home and produce a nice bundle that just works.
Yes there is a house. They take a percentage of each pot so they will always win. A few, a very few people may actually make some money playing poker on line. Most people will loose. So yes only if you are the house are you sure to win.
I have GPS on my phone and I love it. It is great. I hope that Google doesn't make the same mistakes that Palm did with the Centro. 1. Voice dialing. Really this is just too usful to live without. 2. Full Bluetooth support. My current phone seems to support just about every bluetooth profile around. 3. GPS. Again it is just too useful once you have it. 4. Support for large MicroSD cards. I have a 6 GB card in my phone. 5. A good media player. Apple has shown that it makes a big difference. 6. And this is the big one. It really needs to be a good phone!
I just got a Sanyo Katana DLX. It really is a great phone, good GPS, and an okay Media player. I would consider it a perfect phone if it has just a few additions. 1. Use a standard MicroUSB connector for charging and data. 2. A better camera, Yes I do use it as a camera.
I would love a good smart phone but none of them have wooed me yet.
Not to mention TV Shows, Movies, Pictures, Videos of the family, Podcasts.... Really there is a lot of media that is very cheap and or free that you can use to fill an IPod.
Okay just how often does joe blow PC user need remote access to his PC? There are a lot of options for remote access FreeNX, VNC, PCAnywhere, GotoMYPC... If you need them. However don't you think corrupting data is shared folders is a much bigger problem for the average PC user than remote Access? FreeNAS, OpenFiler, and hopefully Ubuntu Home Server seem to me to be better solutions for a home server than WHS is right now.
I just wish that we could put an end to the one answer myth. It is both. The phonograph is actually a prime example of the Great Man idea. No one was really working on the idea of recording sound until Edison invented the phonograph. The incandescent light bulb, the airplane, and radio where all inventions that where well on the way. The real answer is that sometimes it is a brilliant flash from the blue and other times it is a lot of great people working on a problem and one of them gets there first.
I would think that RTK would be more accurate than DGPS. If the Base system is at a known point only a few hundred feet from the rover then it should be a little more accurate than DGPS. From the Wikipedia. "The United States Federal Radionavigation Plan and the IALA Recommendation on the Performance and Monitoring of DGNSS Services in the Band 283.5-325 kHz cite the United States Department of Transportation's 1993 estimated error growth of 0.67 m per 100 km from the broadcast site but measurements of accuracy in Portugal suggest a degradation of just 0.22 m per 100 km.[2]" RTK bets DGPS in accuracy at the expense of speed.
I too was a teenager in the 80s. Even in the 80s I loved the Beatles, Jimmy Hendrix, Bowie, and even Buddy Holly. As to 80's Metal? Bleckk... Never did like it much unless you count Rush as metal. I think when your a teen you love your music because it seems like it speaks to you. When your a teen you think you are the first to notice everything. I think as you get older you come to realize that 90% of everything is crap. The thing is as time goes on you just remember the good stuff and the crap fades from memory. Of course the old stuff looks really good. We only remember the 5% of it that didn't suck.
"Batteries? Huh? First, solar electricity in California (not where I live, btw, but it is a state with very expensive electricity) can be sold back to the utility company; if you produce more than is required, it causes the meter to run backwards. And since the highest electricity demand is during the middle of the day, especially when people run air conditioning, that is when the rates are highest. If you sell energy back to the utility company when the rates are highest, then use electricity in the evenings when rates are lower, it's a win-win. And storage? Use the grid! Besides the advantage of selling excess energy, being connected to the grid eliminates battery and storage costs (not to mention inverters and other equipment). " That only works if a small part of your power is coming from solar. Power stations are not like your car. they do not have a super fast response time. Only gas turbines powered by natural gas and diesel generators can respond quickly to power demand. So yes you can use the grid if solar is only a small part of your power production. I don't how big a percentage of highly variable power the current grid can handle but I would guess it will be under 10%.
"In Hawaii, with rates 3X above what I used in my calculations, $1/W panels would pay for themselves in only 2-3 years. That's assuming you don't lose too much money getting them shipped to Hawaii, and that the panels are still only 25% efficient even so close to the equator." Okay what does how close you are to the equator have to do with how efficient the cells are? They convert only 25% of the power falling on time to electricity. That will not change if they are at the equator or Alaska.
"But the original ideas, the ones which really push new boundaries in technology - things like dbase, Lotus 1-2-3 - Microsoft has never been behind any of them.' But Lotus built on Visicalc. If you ever really used the original 123 and then took a look at Excel I think you would change your mind. Excel was a big leap and very innovative.
"Excel - Plagiarised from Lotus 1-2-3. The two were basically playing leapfrog in feature sets before 1-2-3 bit the dust." Excel no more plagarised from Lotus than Lotus did from Muliplan. Lotus fail to produce a usable Spreadsheet for the Mac. Microsoft made a HUGE leap forward with Excel. I was around back then. Microsoft Windows was just a toy back then that nobody really used. Lotus was the king of Spreadsheets and Microsoft made a better Spreadsheet than Lotus 1-2-3. This was back in the day when you tested if a PC was really PC compatible by seeing if it ran Flight Simulator and 123.
If you want a Wii right now and are willing to pay a higher price then you can get one off Ebay. For the most part I would say the shortage isn't hurting Nintendo much at all. They have doubled the output and are still selling all they can make. I wonder how many will be returned right after Christmas when they Don't sell on Ebay. for $500.
Okay let's be fair. I am a Linux user but Microsoft does have some innovative and very good products. The Flight Simulator line that they bought from SubLogic is actually very good. I love it and it is one of the reasons I keep Windows on my system. I remember Word way back when No one used Windows and WordStar and WordPerfect ruled. It required a mouse and no one used it because it was SO different. Excel was another really innovative product. It was so much better than Lotus123 that it made your head hurt. I wounder how many Mac where bought just to use Excel before It was ported to Windows. Visual Basic for all of it's proprietary nature did let a lot more people write code for Windows. Of course it let a lot of people that should have never been allowed to code to write code but that is another story. Visual Studio is a very good IDE. The calendaring features of Outlook/Exchange are very good. The XBox 360 seems to be the right balance of HD graphics and cost. XBox Live from what I hear is very good. So yea give the devil his due. The real truth is that everything is going to look like small beans compared to Windows and Office.
"It's just that I'm appalled that the cop has to nerve to gripe about those gosh-darn laser-pointing nuisances making it SO hard to fly over them, apparently not even realizing how big a nuisance HE is to them." Let me put it to you in simple terms. Noise from a police helicopter may be annoying but it isn't going to kill you. Hitting a pilot in the eyes with a laser isn't annoying it is dangerous. It could kill you, your family, the pilot, and the observer. In other words, what?????
I still have mine and got some games for it cheap. I find the graphics to be as good as the PS2s for the most part. The controllers... Well they where not so good. But yes it was a good system all the way around.
Christmas was only outlawed by the Puritans not all Americans. The Puritans where a bit much.
You may be what title you wish. I personally don't know if you must like Jewish food to be Jewish or support Israel politically on all things. I know that some Jewish groups felt that forming Israel was actually sacrilegious. They believed that Israel would only return when the Messiah came. Just like I wouldn't call someone not a real Christian for being pro-choice I wouldn't say you are not a real Jew but that is just me. Of course I had a friend that called me anti-semitic because I didn't like Steinfeld so what do I know?
"My personal experience was walking on hot coals that were hot enough to melt an aluminum can. I walked for 40 feet through the oak coals and not a burn on my feet.
Further use of intent is if you wanted to measure light as a particle then it would be a particle. If you wanted light to be a wave then it would be so.
These types of things work from an interdimensional energy that science has not yet grasped. Eventually they will from observation of things like firewalks or handling hot iron without being burned and understanding that intent is the power behind things occurring. " No. You didn't bet burned because you where walking and your feet where dry. Your feet didn't stay in contact with the coals long enough for the heat to be conducted to them. Coals are actually pretty poor conductors of heat. Had they put a steel plate over the coals and let it reach the same temperature you would have gotten badly burned. It wasn't your intent, magic, or some power. It was good old thermal dynamics.
"No it wouldn't, because the term was coined long before something like that would have been possible... in those dark days before the dawning of the digital age." And a computer used to mean a person that did math for a living so what? What would you call it when you profit by providing access to copyrighted material that you don't have the rights too? Are we going to have to invent a new word for it? Will it have to be a different words if it is on CD-Rs, memory cards, websites, emails, and or FTP sites? At this point you are playing games with semantics.
The Dreamcast was a very good system. Just as good as the PS/2 if the truth be told. The Dreamcast failed because a lot of developers got burned on the Saturn so they didn't write for the Dreamcast. That and people believed the hype that the PS/2 would bring Toystory quality graphics.
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You forgot Adaware.
I have most all of those. I am not a big zonealarm fan but then I have a Linux based firewall at home so I don't really use a firewall on my PC. For my notebook I find the Windows Firewall works well enough.
Yes My Windows PC is nice and clean but then I know what I am doing. My father on the other hand just doesn't want to keep messing with his computer.
And I did tell him to get AVG.
My guess is that electric scooters maybe better vehicles for the police than a gas scooter or motorcycle.
Think about the traffic situation in NYC. I know that in a lot of high traffic cities the police have been using bicycles because they are faster than cars in some situations. An Electric scooter will be faster then a bike and will probably be just as none intrusive.
In other words a good solution.
Yes but if you don't build fences, houses, or furniture but you do do case modes, build models, or other small craft style jobs then the Dremel tool is a better tool for you!
It probably includes Photoshop Elements and not full Photoshop.
My wife is really into digital scrapbooking. She has both Photoshop Elements and Gimp. She actually likes Gimp more than Elements.
From what I have seen iLife is a good tool for the average user.
I hate to say it but I think that the Mac is a better solution for most people.
I just told my father to get a Mac.
He is tired of the security problems with his PCs. He has 3 PCs right now. One at his home here, one at his place in North Georgia, and a Laptop.
All he uses his computer for is Email, digital pictures, and paying bills on line.
I could set him up with Ubuntu but where would he find support for it when I am not around? I don't know how good Dell is at Ubuntu support and frankly he isn't the most technical person on the planet.
Apple has figured out what most people want to do with a PC at home and produce a nice bundle that just works.
Yep GNU/FSF use the very same laws as the RIAA and MPAA but let's not ruin a good rant with truth and logic.
Yes there is a house. They take a percentage of each pot so they will always win.
A few, a very few people may actually make some money playing poker on line. Most people will loose.
So yes only if you are the house are you sure to win.
I have GPS on my phone and I love it. It is great.
I hope that Google doesn't make the same mistakes that Palm did with the Centro.
1. Voice dialing. Really this is just too usful to live without.
2. Full Bluetooth support. My current phone seems to support just about every bluetooth profile around.
3. GPS. Again it is just too useful once you have it.
4. Support for large MicroSD cards. I have a 6 GB card in my phone.
5. A good media player. Apple has shown that it makes a big difference.
6. And this is the big one. It really needs to be a good phone!
I just got a Sanyo Katana DLX. It really is a great phone, good GPS, and an okay Media player.
I would consider it a perfect phone if it has just a few additions.
1. Use a standard MicroUSB connector for charging and data.
2. A better camera, Yes I do use it as a camera.
I would love a good smart phone but none of them have wooed me yet.
Not to mention TV Shows, Movies, Pictures, Videos of the family, Podcasts....
Really there is a lot of media that is very cheap and or free that you can use to fill an IPod.
Okay just how often does joe blow PC user need remote access to his PC?
There are a lot of options for remote access FreeNX, VNC, PCAnywhere, GotoMYPC...
If you need them.
However don't you think corrupting data is shared folders is a much bigger problem for the average PC user than remote Access?
FreeNAS, OpenFiler, and hopefully Ubuntu Home Server seem to me to be better solutions for a home server than WHS is right now.
"Either online gambling is legalized and we win"
Only if you are the house. Otherwise you will loose eventually.
I just wish that we could put an end to the one answer myth.
It is both.
The phonograph is actually a prime example of the Great Man idea. No one was really working on the idea of recording sound until Edison invented the phonograph.
The incandescent light bulb, the airplane, and radio where all inventions that where well on the way.
The real answer is that sometimes it is a brilliant flash from the blue and other times it is a lot of great people working on a problem and one of them gets there first.
I would think that RTK would be more accurate than DGPS.
If the Base system is at a known point only a few hundred feet from the rover then it should be a little more accurate than DGPS. From the Wikipedia.
"The United States Federal Radionavigation Plan and the IALA Recommendation on the Performance and Monitoring of DGNSS Services in the Band 283.5-325 kHz cite the United States Department of Transportation's 1993 estimated error growth of 0.67 m per 100 km from the broadcast site but measurements of accuracy in Portugal suggest a degradation of just 0.22 m per 100 km.[2]"
RTK bets DGPS in accuracy at the expense of speed.
I too was a teenager in the 80s. Even in the 80s I loved the Beatles, Jimmy Hendrix, Bowie, and even Buddy Holly. As to 80's Metal? Bleckk... Never did like it much unless you count Rush as metal. I think when your a teen you love your music because it seems like it speaks to you. When your a teen you think you are the first to notice everything.
I think as you get older you come to realize that 90% of everything is crap. The thing is as time goes on you just remember the good stuff and the crap fades from memory.
Of course the old stuff looks really good. We only remember the 5% of it that didn't suck.
"Batteries? Huh? First, solar electricity in California (not where I live, btw, but it is a state with very expensive electricity) can be sold back to the utility company; if you produce more than is required, it causes the meter to run backwards. And since the highest electricity demand is during the middle of the day, especially when people run air conditioning, that is when the rates are highest. If you sell energy back to the utility company when the rates are highest, then use electricity in the evenings when rates are lower, it's a win-win. And storage? Use the grid! Besides the advantage of selling excess energy, being connected to the grid eliminates battery and storage costs (not to mention inverters and other equipment). "
That only works if a small part of your power is coming from solar.
Power stations are not like your car. they do not have a super fast response time. Only gas turbines powered by natural gas and diesel generators can respond quickly to power demand.
So yes you can use the grid if solar is only a small part of your power production.
I don't how big a percentage of highly variable power the current grid can handle but I would guess it will be under 10%.
"In Hawaii, with rates 3X above what I used in my calculations, $1/W panels would pay for themselves in only 2-3 years. That's assuming you don't lose too much money getting them shipped to Hawaii, and that the panels are still only 25% efficient even so close to the equator."
Okay what does how close you are to the equator have to do with how efficient the cells are?
They convert only 25% of the power falling on time to electricity. That will not change if they are at the equator or Alaska.
"But the original ideas, the ones which really push new boundaries in technology - things like dbase, Lotus 1-2-3 - Microsoft has never been behind any of them.'
But Lotus built on Visicalc.
If you ever really used the original 123 and then took a look at Excel I think you would change your mind.
Excel was a big leap and very innovative.
"Excel - Plagiarised from Lotus 1-2-3. The two were basically playing leapfrog in feature sets before 1-2-3 bit the dust."
Excel no more plagarised from Lotus than Lotus did from Muliplan.
Lotus fail to produce a usable Spreadsheet for the Mac. Microsoft made a HUGE leap forward with Excel. I was around back then. Microsoft Windows was just a toy back then that nobody really used. Lotus was the king of Spreadsheets and Microsoft made a better Spreadsheet than Lotus 1-2-3.
This was back in the day when you tested if a PC was really PC compatible by seeing if it ran Flight Simulator and 123.
If you want a Wii right now and are willing to pay a higher price then you can get one off Ebay.
For the most part I would say the shortage isn't hurting Nintendo much at all. They have doubled the output and are still selling all they can make.
I wonder how many will be returned right after Christmas when they Don't sell on Ebay. for $500.
Okay let's be fair. I am a Linux user but Microsoft does have some innovative and very good products.
The Flight Simulator line that they bought from SubLogic is actually very good. I love it and it is one of the reasons I keep Windows on my system.
I remember Word way back when No one used Windows and WordStar and WordPerfect ruled. It required a mouse and no one used it because it was SO different. Excel was another really innovative product. It was so much better than Lotus123 that it made your head hurt. I wounder how many Mac where bought just to use Excel before It was ported to Windows.
Visual Basic for all of it's proprietary nature did let a lot more people write code for Windows. Of course it let a lot of people that should have never been allowed to code to write code but that is another story.
Visual Studio is a very good IDE.
The calendaring features of Outlook/Exchange are very good.
The XBox 360 seems to be the right balance of HD graphics and cost.
XBox Live from what I hear is very good.
So yea give the devil his due.
The real truth is that everything is going to look like small beans compared to Windows and Office.
"It's just that I'm appalled that the cop has to nerve to gripe about those gosh-darn laser-pointing nuisances making it SO hard to fly over them, apparently not even realizing how big a nuisance HE is to them."
Let me put it to you in simple terms.
Noise from a police helicopter may be annoying but it isn't going to kill you.
Hitting a pilot in the eyes with a laser isn't annoying it is dangerous. It could kill you, your family, the pilot, and the observer.
In other words, what?????
I still have mine and got some games for it cheap. I find the graphics to be as good as the PS2s for the most part. The controllers... Well they where not so good. But yes it was a good system all the way around.
Christmas was only outlawed by the Puritans not all Americans. The Puritans where a bit much.
You may be what title you wish. I personally don't know if you must like Jewish food to be Jewish or support Israel politically on all things. I know that some Jewish groups felt that forming Israel was actually sacrilegious. They believed that Israel would only return when the Messiah came.
Just like I wouldn't call someone not a real Christian for being pro-choice I wouldn't say you are not a real Jew but that is just me.
Of course I had a friend that called me anti-semitic because I didn't like Steinfeld so what do I know?
Your right I had it backwards.
"My personal experience was walking on hot coals that were hot enough to melt an aluminum can. I walked for 40 feet through the oak coals and not a burn on my feet.
Further use of intent is if you wanted to measure light as a particle then it would be a particle. If you wanted light to be a wave then it would be so.
These types of things work from an interdimensional energy that science has not yet grasped. Eventually they will from observation of things like firewalks or handling hot iron without being burned and understanding that intent is the power behind things occurring.
"
No. You didn't bet burned because you where walking and your feet where dry. Your feet didn't stay in contact with the coals long enough for the heat to be conducted to them.
Coals are actually pretty poor conductors of heat.
Had they put a steel plate over the coals and let it reach the same temperature you would have gotten badly burned.
It wasn't your intent, magic, or some power. It was good old thermal dynamics.
"No it wouldn't, because the term was coined long before something like that would have been possible... in those dark days before the dawning of the digital age."
And a computer used to mean a person that did math for a living so what? What would you call it when you profit by providing access to copyrighted material that you don't have the rights too? Are we going to have to invent a new word for it? Will it have to be a different words if it is on CD-Rs, memory cards, websites, emails, and or FTP sites?
At this point you are playing games with semantics.
The Dreamcast was a very good system. Just as good as the PS/2 if the truth be told.
The Dreamcast failed because a lot of developers got burned on the Saturn so they didn't write for the Dreamcast.
That and people believed the hype that the PS/2 would bring Toystory quality graphics.