handle process queues (Process Scheduling) Handle disk I/O Handle user inputs(keyboard/mouse) Interface directly with hardware Amongst other things
You would need a least some sort of US kernel to handle this stuff. Yes, a browser could be the only user interface that loads, but you WILLstill need an OS.
Coffee is a lot healthier than Cola as long as you drink it black. I believe Coffee has litte or no caloric content, whilst Cola has tons of high fructose corn syrup which in my opinion is what is causing the fattening of America.
There are actual many benefits from the nicotine in tabacco. Nicotine is thought to be a congnitive enchancer, and it is also thought to improve short term memory (so is barley, go figure...). Additionally it seems that nicotine may help prevent Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. Additionally people with IBD and digestive problems such as Chrons Disease and Colitis claim that nicotine and tabacco use can help to prevent flareups and outbreaks. Of course the lung cancer is an issue, but if the nicotine could be manufactured in a safe manner it may have some medical uses which are being stymied due to the current method of ingestion.
You are correct sir. You can identify which chips were made in Israel because they are named after Israeli cities (Banias, Dothan, Yonah, and Merom). I don't recall the P-4 cores internal name, but it was not a city in Israel.
Motive? I don't think a dislike of the RIAA is enough to damage one's own reputation. I could understand if it suddenly came out at the same time that a number of companies had done something like this, but I don't think Sony would do it on their own, knowing that it may drive people who actual listen to music to simply buy from other labels.
Of historical note, the actual quote is "That's one small step for a man one giant leap for mankind." however the "a" was lost in the radio transmition.
It is likely then, that the Warden will simply detect the Sony BMG software and ban all users who have played such copy protected CD's on their machines.
They design their own hardware, write their own OS (*), develop their own apps, do their own marketing
I'm not quite sure what you mean by saying "So the the thing that makes MS bad", if you read the comment clearly you will see that MS fails 1 of the 4 things mentioned (yes, that is 25%). MS "does not" typically make the hardware that runs their OS or applications. Yes, MS does make some hardware (mice, xbox, joysticks, etc.) but not the machines that you see sitting on every office desk. By controling the hardware (both the macintosh, and the ipod), Apple covers huge holes in the quality control line, and this ultimately leads to a better experience for the user IMHO. Of course one of the things that made MS successful in the first place was that it ran on IBM compatible computers. Had IBM been the only supplier of IBM compatible hardware, it's likely we would still see many popular computing systems in the market (think amiga, commadore, tandy, ibm, apple, dec, etc.) all with their own hardware and software. Anyhow, I digress so I will end this post.
I am not a pro astronomer or anything, but I am always fascinated by this stuff. Particulary in this case, although I don't have any emperical data, if I had to guess I would say Pluto/Charon + moons started as a single Kupier object or planet, but some catastrophic impact caused the original object to shatter into these pieces, so technically it would all be one object right? Anyhow my thought process for this theory is that an object with a mass as small as what Pluto has is unlikely to have gathered the material to form an acreation disk in which moons may have formed. My other theory would be that Pluto had just enough mass to capture these objects as the came by, this second theory may also account for the inclination of Pluto's orbit to the rest of the planets orbiting the sun, and also the highly elipitical orbit the object exhibits. If Charon is only slightly less massive than Pluto, and Pluto captured it in this manner, the orbit would certainly be altered significantly, so if Pluto formed in the acreation disk of the sun and then captured these objects later, it may just have ended up in its current state.
In true zero G if the tether starts out pulled straight, and no outside forces act on it, shouldn't it stay straight? I don't think any other forces, tidal or otherwise, would be needed to keep the tether straight.
Does the deceleration have a significant effect on crystal formation, or any other experimentation for that matter? If not, im not sure I understand the benefit of true 0G. Maybe you could explain further? Like I said, IANARS (although I wish I was).
This is why the ISS should have been built in Geosynchronous Orbit. True it takes more fuel/complex ships to get there, but the benefits of avoiding a possible catastrophe and the ease of launch cycles would far outweigh those problems IMHO. Of course IANARS so far be it from me to say, but LEO does not seem to be an appropriate place to establish semi-permenent habitation in Earths orbit.
Seriously though, shouldn't the religious fundementalists be up in arms about this? This could be a great opportunity for them to do something good for the community.
Why is it that your comment about apple not releasing a product so soon after the nano becuase it would piss of consumers who bought the nano gets modded insightful, while my grandparent comment which was esentially the same got modded troll (when it was clearly opinion not troll)and overrated??? Slashdot I do not understand you!
A new 40GB or so IPod is plausible, but the big announcement is likely not Ipod related (Although I do recall from watching Steve Jobs's Keynote at the last announcement that he said there is more Ipod news to come this year). This will probably be some other apple product not directly related to Ipod, with the Ipod announcement probably coming before christmas.
I concur, apple is not stupid enough to release a video ipod and piss of all the people who just bought a nano but would have gotten a video ipod instead. Granted they are two different markets but I just got a nano as my first ipod and would most likely have prefered a video ipod if one was done well.
Isn't Netscape a dying product (to be replaced by firefox, sunbird, thunderbird, etc...), and if so why are they installing this product instead of firefox. I understand they are both gecko based, but doesn't Netscape contain a lot of other cruft?
I agree with your comments however It must not load with the awful gray square or gratuitous Sun/Java logos. is not such a great point. Go to maps.google.com (one of your examples no less) and although it loads quite quickly, there clearly is an awful grey square prior to the map tiles being d/led.
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I think Billy West is busy trying to bring back Ren & Stimpy.
A browser cannot:
handle process queues (Process Scheduling)
Handle disk I/O
Handle user inputs(keyboard/mouse)
Interface directly with hardware
Amongst other things
You would need a least some sort of US kernel to handle this stuff. Yes, a browser could be the only user interface that loads, but you WILLstill need an OS.
Coffee is a lot healthier than Cola as long as you drink it black. I believe Coffee has litte or no caloric content, whilst Cola has tons of high fructose corn syrup which in my opinion is what is causing the fattening of America.
There are actual many benefits from the nicotine in tabacco. Nicotine is thought to be a congnitive enchancer, and it is also thought to improve short term memory (so is barley, go figure...). Additionally it seems that nicotine may help prevent Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. Additionally people with IBD and digestive problems such as Chrons Disease and Colitis claim that nicotine and tabacco use can help to prevent flareups and outbreaks. Of course the lung cancer is an issue, but if the nicotine could be manufactured in a safe manner it may have some medical uses which are being stymied due to the current method of ingestion.
You are correct sir. You can identify which chips were made in Israel because they are named after Israeli cities (Banias, Dothan, Yonah, and Merom). I don't recall the P-4 cores internal name, but it was not a city in Israel.
Motive? I don't think a dislike of the RIAA is enough to damage one's own reputation. I could understand if it suddenly came out at the same time that a number of companies had done something like this, but I don't think Sony would do it on their own, knowing that it may drive people who actual listen to music to simply buy from other labels.
Your post has been recorded and will be used as evidence in our trial.
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I've been duped, time to commit Hari-Kari.
Of historical note, the actual quote is "That's one small step for a man one giant leap for mankind." however the "a" was lost in the radio transmition.
are you suggesting we take the old 16-bit Apollo computers out of mothballs and re-use them?
Nah, why should we bring out the old 16-bit Apollo computers when we can just buy a bunch of commodity Dells and emulate them with this!
It is likely then, that the Warden will simply detect the Sony BMG software and ban all users who have played such copy protected CD's on their machines.
They design their own hardware, write their own OS (*), develop their own apps, do their own marketing
I'm not quite sure what you mean by saying "So the the thing that makes MS bad", if you read the comment clearly you will see that MS fails 1 of the 4 things mentioned (yes, that is 25%). MS "does not" typically make the hardware that runs their OS or applications. Yes, MS does make some hardware (mice, xbox, joysticks, etc.) but not the machines that you see sitting on every office desk. By controling the hardware (both the macintosh, and the ipod), Apple covers huge holes in the quality control line, and this ultimately leads to a better experience for the user IMHO. Of course one of the things that made MS successful in the first place was that it ran on IBM compatible computers. Had IBM been the only supplier of IBM compatible hardware, it's likely we would still see many popular computing systems in the market (think amiga, commadore, tandy, ibm, apple, dec, etc.) all with their own hardware and software. Anyhow, I digress so I will end this post.
I am not a pro astronomer or anything, but I am always fascinated by this stuff. Particulary in this case, although I don't have any emperical data, if I had to guess I would say Pluto/Charon + moons started as a single Kupier object or planet, but some catastrophic impact caused the original object to shatter into these pieces, so technically it would all be one object right? Anyhow my thought process for this theory is that an object with a mass as small as what Pluto has is unlikely to have gathered the material to form an acreation disk in which moons may have formed. My other theory would be that Pluto had just enough mass to capture these objects as the came by, this second theory may also account for the inclination of Pluto's orbit to the rest of the planets orbiting the sun, and also the highly elipitical orbit the object exhibits. If Charon is only slightly less massive than Pluto, and Pluto captured it in this manner, the orbit would certainly be altered significantly, so if Pluto formed in the acreation disk of the sun and then captured these objects later, it may just have ended up in its current state.
Yes, its decoding on non-MS platforms that causes a problem.
In true zero G if the tether starts out pulled straight, and no outside forces act on it, shouldn't it stay straight? I don't think any other forces, tidal or otherwise, would be needed to keep the tether straight.
Does the deceleration have a significant effect on crystal formation, or any other experimentation for that matter? If not, im not sure I understand the benefit of true 0G. Maybe you could explain further? Like I said, IANARS (although I wish I was).
This is why the ISS should have been built in Geosynchronous Orbit. True it takes more fuel/complex ships to get there, but the benefits of avoiding a possible catastrophe and the ease of launch cycles would far outweigh those problems IMHO. Of course IANARS so far be it from me to say, but LEO does not seem to be an appropriate place to establish semi-permenent habitation in Earths orbit.
That gives new meaning to the term "derivative works".
Seriously though, shouldn't the religious fundementalists be up in arms about this? This could be a great opportunity for them to do something good for the community.
This really only applies if the are ASP or Python programers.
Why is it that your comment about apple not releasing a product so soon after the nano becuase it would piss of consumers who bought the nano gets modded insightful, while my grandparent comment which was esentially the same got modded troll (when it was clearly opinion not troll)and overrated??? Slashdot I do not understand you!
A new 40GB or so IPod is plausible, but the big announcement is likely not Ipod related (Although I do recall from watching Steve Jobs's Keynote at the last announcement that he said there is more Ipod news to come this year). This will probably be some other apple product not directly related to Ipod, with the Ipod announcement probably coming before christmas.
I concur, apple is not stupid enough to release a video ipod and piss of all the people who just bought a nano but would have gotten a video ipod instead. Granted they are two different markets but I just got a nano as my first ipod and would most likely have prefered a video ipod if one was done well.
Isn't Netscape a dying product (to be replaced by firefox, sunbird, thunderbird, etc...), and if so why are they installing this product instead of firefox. I understand they are both gecko based, but doesn't Netscape contain a lot of other cruft?
I agree with your comments however It must not load with the awful gray square or gratuitous Sun/Java logos. is not such a great point. Go to maps.google.com (one of your examples no less) and although it loads quite quickly, there clearly is an awful grey square prior to the map tiles being d/led.