From what I've read on the subject, because you have a conductor that is always there, you would dissipate any charge before it got big enough to cause a lightning bolt.
Hollywood scriptwriters: Don't let the plausability of the above comment get in the way of that great sfx scene.
On the other hand, the $7B bill is mostly for elevator-building infrastructure, not the elevator itself. Once you've built one elevator the next will be much cheaper. By the time someone sufficiently bitter and twisted destroys the first elevator, it would be an annoyance rather than a tragedy.
Apollo was lame. Gemini was the real space capsule, with real pilot control, and - once docked to an Agena target vehicle - serious orbital maneuvering ability. Gemini could have gone to the moon, carried up to twelve passengers, and - with stubby wings - made gliding landings on runways.
Remember to switch opinion when the idea is adopted by the mainstream, cf: the mouse, WIMP interface, multiple monitor support, track pads, not beige, USB, etc.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you capsule fanatics? I have recently upgraded from an Apollo Command Module to a new Soyuz TMA-4 to help me at my freelance gig at the ISS where I needed to copy a 17 Meg file from my home network to a desktop folder. On the TMA-4 it took about 20 minutes. At home, on my STS Orbiter, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this capsule, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, my navigation computer will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even Safari is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various capsules, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a capsule that has run faster than its reusable spaceplane counterpart, despite the capsule's faster chip architecture. My Dyna-Soar is faster than this Soyuz at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the capsule is a superior machine.
Capsule addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a capsule over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
I think he's talking about pop-ups, which can plague Windows users. I only know this from playing America's Army and occasionally finding other players frozen while they try to close some spam. It's like shooting fish in a barrel.
The other commercial solutions are not offering MP3s because they cannot get labels to agree to distribute music in that format. Most of the others are going the Microsoft route, which does not support the iPod.
dressing up coworkers in their own suit and ties, and providing your own tech EQ will give it a better, less carbon-copy look.
You could be entertaining a false economy. Unless your cow orkers have signed release forms then you have no right to use their likeness. Get the release wrong and you are wide open to disgruntled-former-employee-goes-to-court hell.
One of the reasons people use stock is that all of the hassle is taken care of.
...I can buy a different motherboard with that on it, thank you very much.
Assuming you mean "without that on it", I think the problem is that DRM will evolve into a "feature". When Windows or DVD playback starts to require DRM hardware people will pay extra to get it.
Incidentally, "Digital Rights Management" is pretty poor marketing. It kind of suggests someone in a suit sitting behind me. Something like "Digital Freedom Key" would net more suckers.
Yes, my experience with VAT has been with those rules, so I was wrong about how it would affect SCO. Mea culpa.
This also makes me wonder how SCO is accounting for this in their forward-looking statements. It might not be a great deal of money, but they would have to account for it one way or another. If they tell their investors that there will be income from the invoices then they might be guilty of false accounting. If they don't, then they are accepting that the invoices are unenforceable.
That is so entirely wrong. You only have to pay VAT on receipt of payment, and only then after clawback (ie: deducting VAT on expenditures). And you have 30 days to pay it, after which they come and pull your teeth out.
I'd say SCOX is up because of the possibility of a buy-out from IBM, wheras before all of this started, SCO was just so much boom-fueled penny stock tech dreck.
I'd hold on to your short position right now, especially if insider sentiment is in your favor.
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From what I've read on the subject, because you have a conductor that is always there, you would dissipate any charge before it got big enough to cause a lightning bolt.
Hollywood scriptwriters: Don't let the plausability of the above comment get in the way of that great sfx scene.
On the other hand, the $7B bill is mostly for elevator-building infrastructure, not the elevator itself. Once you've built one elevator the next will be much cheaper. By the time someone sufficiently bitter and twisted destroys the first elevator, it would be an annoyance rather than a tragedy.
Apollo was lame. Gemini was the real space capsule, with real pilot control, and - once docked to an Agena target vehicle - serious orbital maneuvering ability. Gemini could have gone to the moon, carried up to twelve passengers, and - with stubby wings - made gliding landings on runways.
Dude, now the terrorists know about his bed.
Remember to switch opinion when the idea is adopted by the mainstream, cf: the mouse, WIMP interface, multiple monitor support, track pads, not beige, USB, etc.
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you capsule fanatics? I have recently upgraded from an Apollo Command Module to a new Soyuz TMA-4 to help me at my freelance gig at the ISS where I needed to copy a 17 Meg file from my home network to a desktop folder. On the TMA-4 it took about 20 minutes. At home, on my STS Orbiter, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this capsule, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, my navigation computer will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even Safari is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various capsules, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a capsule that has run faster than its reusable spaceplane counterpart, despite the capsule's faster chip architecture. My Dyna-Soar is faster than this Soyuz at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the capsule is a superior machine.
Capsule addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a capsule over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
You can easily simulate UPS service by simply throwing a computer downstairs a few times. No one should use it for breakable things.
Have we ever actually left the Earth's gravity well? Isn't the moon pretty much either in it or on its edge?
Either that or the moon really likes Earth.
I think he's talking about pop-ups, which can plague Windows users. I only know this from playing America's Army and occasionally finding other players frozen while they try to close some spam. It's like shooting fish in a barrel.
Why would anyone willingly pay so much more money for so much less?
Time for some deduction, Holmes.
Whats the point of function keys?
Thinking of this?
but it didn't catch fire like the original iMacs did
You're thinking of the PowerBook 5300.
Remember: coffee first, then post:
The other commercial solutions are not offering MP3s because they cannot get labels to agree to distribute music in that format. Most of the others are going the Microsoft route, which does not support the iPod.
dressing up coworkers in their own suit and ties, and providing your own tech EQ will give it a better, less carbon-copy look.
You could be entertaining a false economy. Unless your cow orkers have signed release forms then you have no right to use their likeness. Get the release wrong and you are wide open to disgruntled-former-employee-goes-to-court hell.
One of the reasons people use stock is that all of the hassle is taken care of.
...I can buy a different motherboard with that on it, thank you very much.
Assuming you mean "without that on it", I think the problem is that DRM will evolve into a "feature". When Windows or DVD playback starts to require DRM hardware people will pay extra to get it.
Incidentally, "Digital Rights Management" is pretty poor marketing. It kind of suggests someone in a suit sitting behind me. Something like "Digital Freedom Key" would net more suckers.
Well, if you had 1100 dual G5s how would you cluster them?
Yes, my experience with VAT has been with those rules, so I was wrong about how it would affect SCO. Mea culpa.
This also makes me wonder how SCO is accounting for this in their forward-looking statements. It might not be a great deal of money, but they would have to account for it one way or another. If they tell their investors that there will be income from the invoices then they might be guilty of false accounting. If they don't, then they are accepting that the invoices are unenforceable.
That is so entirely wrong. You only have to pay VAT on receipt of payment, and only then after clawback (ie: deducting VAT on expenditures). And you have 30 days to pay it, after which they come and pull your teeth out.
Unless SCO is bought out. You might find that in three years time you have underwater options to buy IBM.
I'd say SCOX is up because of the possibility of a buy-out from IBM, wheras before all of this started, SCO was just so much boom-fueled penny stock tech dreck.
I'd hold on to your short position right now, especially if insider sentiment is in your favor.
It makes raising and collecting taxes a little easier for the Gov't.
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I believe I speak for the majority of
MPICH is a freely available, portable implementation of MPI, the standard for message-passing libraries.
Isn't AltiVec just the new whizzy-word at Apple?
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They were using RISC as their wizzy-word a decade ago, and they seem to go through a few of them every few years.
Wow! George W Bush reads
Yes, in the future be more pleasant and less rude, as Acidic Diarrhea says.