The total energy imparted to the planet by the asteroid would remain the same, but it would be spread over a greater area.
Exactly. Force spread out over a larger area is always better. This is why people can lay on a bed of nails, whereas if they were to stand up, the nails would puncture. Plus the asteroid would have a greater surface area (like crushed ice), which means more of it (if not all of it) would burn up on entry.
Computer repair in the present consists largely of replacing cards and/or peripherials. I don't see the need for that, especially in large corporations, going away any time soon. The term "component replacement" has evolved to mean swapping out a hard drive rather than replacing a failed or dirty head, but at some level repairs will always be required. And there are still people who troubleshoot specialized computers down to the component level, because it's still more cost effective to spend 16 hours hunting down a faulty capacitor than replacing a $10,000 board. Or, in some cases, systems are simply obsolete and no board replacement is possible, and no system has been designed to replace the functionality of the equipment which is no longer manufactured. True, a larger skillset is almost always beneficial in the long term, and may make it easier to find a job; however some people may give a higher priority to finding satisfaction from their work than the possible monetary benefits. As programmers and engineers are becoming more and more ubiquitous, this is philosophy is seen more and more in things like OSS.
Ability for travellers to self-police. If some guy is driving 60mph+ over the speed limit, likely you could have people report this driver.. Enough complaints and an officer will know where to respond.
Speed alone is, by far, the least common cause of accidents. However, inattention, making abrupt lane changes, not signaling, fatigue, intoxication, mechanical failure (usually due to poor maintenance habits), poor visibility are all far more likely causes. The speed the vehicle was traveling when this root cause occurred is secondary. Unfortunately, speed limits are much easier to enforce, so that's what lawmakers focus on.
is for a way to communicate with the vehicle in front of me. Is that so much to ask? If people could actually talk to the person in front of them, there'd be a lot less high beaming, horn honking, etc.
"Would you mind getting over please? There are about 20 cars behind you and you've been driving the same speed as the car next to you for the past 5 miles."
Of course when they reply with, "I know! HAHAHAHAHA," that should be free license to shoot out their tires and/or eyes.
Don't be such a pious jackass. Aside from your questionable use of the past tense in reference to the future.. Simply because someone picks a different career path or has a different vision of what they want out of life than your own, doesn't make their future bad. Not everyone has the luxury of picking a trade with future job security -- some people just need jobs, now. If people weren't teaching your children, paving your roads, constructing your buildings, fixing your car, or whatever other occupation you consider to lead to a "bad future," you'd be doing these things yourself or going without.
also, why spend time trying to break into one car that has its windows rolled up.. when its sitting in a parking lot full of cars with their windows down and keys in the ignition
The one left running is a decoy. As soon as you get in, all the doors and windows lock, and the ignition shuts off. Haven't you ever watched Cops?
Twenty or thirty years from now, I'd bet a flat-screen TV can be had for the equivalent of a few hundred bucks.
I doubt it will be longer than 5 years before they're cheaper than CRTs. Now if they'd just figure out how to make the refresh rate (or whatever you want to call it) not suck.
Don't forget to put the right spin on it: if BitTorrent wasn't available the developers of X-Plane would have to pay more for bandwidth, so having BitTorrent is good for commerce
I fail to see how shifting the costs is good for commerce. It's not like the cost of bandwidth magically disappears just because you're downloading from another source; it's just spread out among ISPs' subscribers instead of a company paying for it directly. It might be good for startup companies, and more startups might benefit society and commerce as a whole (or might be costing us billions, depressing the whole world's economy), but it's a much more complicated argument than the direct cause:effect you suggest.
So I can't be thrown into jail, or be fined. (Of course, since they weren't required to show me the evidence against me (I'm still appalled at that!), then I suppose they could convict me with the same "level" of evidence, in which case I could easily end up in jail or with heavy fines...)
You're confusing civil and criminal law. If the MPAA sues you, they only have to prove it's "more likely than not," that you're responsible. If the FBI knocks on your door, they have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt. In the former, you pay reparations. In the latter, you pay fines/jail time. The FBI has better things to do than track down filesharing individuals. The MPAA sees it as protecting their livelihood, so they're naturally willing to devote considerably more energy.
* I know that very smart people have given the proof careful critical readings.
Although, if everyone makes the assumption that someone *else* read it for them, you're back to square one. As far as the kernel, yes, it's reviewed by higher authority.. but all the other crap that goes into a typical install? It's a crapshoot. Maybe you've heard of a little security problem called sendmail?
I didn't see any satellite that spanned the Atlantic with its signal.
That's because, as was recently discovered, the earth is round. And as it turns out, there is not a large demand for satellite TV in the middle of the ocean. I'm fairly certain that the only network which targets the middle of oceans is AFN.
Do you have any idea how much space 100k+ pics would take up
100k+ pics? Are you printing them out and flipping through them to simulate animation? Just download videos man. You get to keep your hands free that way too.
It came with a sample packet of lube that I assume contains antiseptic.
I think you mean anesthetic. Although antiseptic probably wouldn't be a bad idea either.
Honestly though, the whole thing is pretty redundant... If anything, they should be putting something to make things MORE sensitive to compensate for the fact that you have a piece of latex wrapped around your willy.
The Chinese news agency Xinhua stated that, "in China the radiation effect is always positive, leading to bigger and better vegetables that will revolutionise agriculture."
Heck, a lot of people don't even separate the "web browser" as something that is distinct. They think of the web as the Internet, their monitor as their computer, their case as their hard drive, etc
True, but the definition of "a lot," has changed, well, a lot in recent years. Most of my co-workers know about the discreet components of a computer, even if they misuse the units of measure (I have a 3 gigabyte CPU). Lots of them even download movies, burn them to VCD, DVD, etc. There are still many many people who don't know about, or care to know about, what a computer is, or can do. But that's changing more quickly than most people realize. As computers are becoming more integrated, affordable, and the children of last year become the adults of today, the amount of knowledgable people is increasing dramatically. It seems like half the people I meet nowadays -- bartenders, diving buddies, salesmen, neighbors -- are geeks at heart.
And by the way, "boring" testimonials are highly effective marketing tools.
I'm sure that I don't represent the majority here, but any time I see a testimonial, I automatically assume it's made up, altered, paraphrased, or otherwise compromised to misrepresent the facts. Testamonials are worthless to me. Give me facts about the product, show it to me, demonstrate your claims, and then I'll decide.
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Personally, i'd rather be blindsided by a sixteen-wheeler, than sit by and see it head towards me for hours/days/weeks.
No way. If for no other reason than the end-of-the-world parties would put New Years 2000 to shame.
The total energy imparted to the planet by the asteroid would remain the same, but it would be spread over a greater area.
Exactly. Force spread out over a larger area is always better. This is why people can lay on a bed of nails, whereas if they were to stand up, the nails would puncture. Plus the asteroid would have a greater surface area (like crushed ice), which means more of it (if not all of it) would burn up on entry.
Since they say that Paint.NET is the Anti-GIMP, if I install both this software and The GIMP at the same time, will my laptop explode?
Not explode, no. It will simply cease to exist.
Computer repair in the present consists largely of replacing cards and/or peripherials. I don't see the need for that, especially in large corporations, going away any time soon. The term "component replacement" has evolved to mean swapping out a hard drive rather than replacing a failed or dirty head, but at some level repairs will always be required. And there are still people who troubleshoot specialized computers down to the component level, because it's still more cost effective to spend 16 hours hunting down a faulty capacitor than replacing a $10,000 board. Or, in some cases, systems are simply obsolete and no board replacement is possible, and no system has been designed to replace the functionality of the equipment which is no longer manufactured. True, a larger skillset is almost always beneficial in the long term, and may make it easier to find a job; however some people may give a higher priority to finding satisfaction from their work than the possible monetary benefits. As programmers and engineers are becoming more and more ubiquitous, this is philosophy is seen more and more in things like OSS.
It's not speed that kills so much as people driving at different speeds that causes accidents which kill.
That's not entirely true either. Speed differential means a more traumatic impact, yes, but it's never been shown to be a common cause of accidents.
Ability for travellers to self-police. If some guy is driving 60mph+ over the speed limit, likely you could have people report this driver.. Enough complaints and an officer will know where to respond.
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Speed alone is, by far, the least common cause of accidents. However, inattention, making abrupt lane changes, not signaling, fatigue, intoxication, mechanical failure (usually due to poor maintenance habits), poor visibility are all far more likely causes. The speed the vehicle was traveling when this root cause occurred is secondary. Unfortunately, speed limits are much easier to enforce, so that's what lawmakers focus on.
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http://www.motorists.com/issues/speed/Making_Sens
http://www.safespeed.org.uk/speed-doesnt-kill.pdf (PDF)
is for a way to communicate with the vehicle in front of me. Is that so much to ask? If people could actually talk to the person in front of them, there'd be a lot less high beaming, horn honking, etc.
"Would you mind getting over please? There are about 20 cars behind you and you've been driving the same speed as the car next to you for the past 5 miles."
Of course when they reply with, "I know! HAHAHAHAHA," that should be free license to shoot out their tires and/or eyes.
Don't be such a pious jackass. Aside from your questionable use of the past tense in reference to the future.. Simply because someone picks a different career path or has a different vision of what they want out of life than your own, doesn't make their future bad. Not everyone has the luxury of picking a trade with future job security -- some people just need jobs, now. If people weren't teaching your children, paving your roads, constructing your buildings, fixing your car, or whatever other occupation you consider to lead to a "bad future," you'd be doing these things yourself or going without.
also, why spend time trying to break into one car that has its windows rolled up..
when its sitting in a parking lot full of cars with their windows down and keys in the ignition
The one left running is a decoy. As soon as you get in, all the doors and windows lock, and the ignition shuts off. Haven't you ever watched Cops?
Twenty or thirty years from now, I'd bet a flat-screen TV can be had for the equivalent of a few hundred bucks.
I doubt it will be longer than 5 years before they're cheaper than CRTs. Now if they'd just figure out how to make the refresh rate (or whatever you want to call it) not suck.
Since the church owns the copyright there are no legal encumbrences to this distribution.
Great, now Jesus is copyrighted. I knew it was only a matter of time.
Don't forget to put the right spin on it: if BitTorrent wasn't available the developers of X-Plane would have to pay more for bandwidth, so having BitTorrent is good for commerce
I fail to see how shifting the costs is good for commerce. It's not like the cost of bandwidth magically disappears just because you're downloading from another source; it's just spread out among ISPs' subscribers instead of a company paying for it directly. It might be good for startup companies, and more startups might benefit society and commerce as a whole (or might be costing us billions, depressing the whole world's economy), but it's a much more complicated argument than the direct cause:effect you suggest.
So I can't be thrown into jail, or be fined. (Of course, since they weren't required to show me the evidence against me (I'm still appalled at that!), then I suppose they could convict me with the same "level" of evidence, in which case I could easily end up in jail or with heavy fines...)
You're confusing civil and criminal law. If the MPAA sues you, they only have to prove it's "more likely than not," that you're responsible. If the FBI knocks on your door, they have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt. In the former, you pay reparations. In the latter, you pay fines/jail time. The FBI has better things to do than track down filesharing individuals. The MPAA sees it as protecting their livelihood, so they're naturally willing to devote considerably more energy.
* I know that very smart people have given the proof careful critical readings.
Although, if everyone makes the assumption that someone *else* read it for them, you're back to square one. As far as the kernel, yes, it's reviewed by higher authority.. but all the other crap that goes into a typical install? It's a crapshoot. Maybe you've heard of a little security problem called sendmail?
I didn't see any satellite that spanned the Atlantic with its signal.
That's because, as was recently discovered, the earth is round. And as it turns out, there is not a large demand for satellite TV in the middle of the ocean. I'm fairly certain that the only network which targets the middle of oceans is AFN.
I think you are selling yourselves short by not calling it Canadian bacon.. We call our cheese "American," and it's barely even a dairy product.
Besides, we still consume lots of US movies, music and television programming (among other things)
Do they call it Canadian bacon in Canada, or just bacon? And if so, what do you call the real bacon? You crazy Canuks.
Do you have any idea how much space 100k+ pics would take up
100k+ pics? Are you printing them out and flipping through them to simulate animation? Just download videos man. You get to keep your hands free that way too.
It came with a sample packet of lube that I assume contains antiseptic.
I think you mean anesthetic. Although antiseptic probably wouldn't be a bad idea either.
Honestly though, the whole thing is pretty redundant... If anything, they should be putting something to make things MORE sensitive to compensate for the fact that you have a piece of latex wrapped around your willy.
In Korea, only old people irradiate.
The Chinese news agency Xinhua stated that, "in China the radiation effect is always positive, leading to bigger and better vegetables that will revolutionise agriculture."
I can hear the jokes already..
In China, the Slashdot effect is always positive.
Can you really expect to run two of the world's largest economic blocks on missles, movies, and life insurance?
Seems to be working so far.
Micro Soft started out making devices to change streetlights if I remember correctly.
Heck, a lot of people don't even separate the "web browser" as something that is distinct. They think of the web as the Internet, their monitor as their computer, their case as their hard drive, etc
True, but the definition of "a lot," has changed, well, a lot in recent years. Most of my co-workers know about the discreet components of a computer, even if they misuse the units of measure (I have a 3 gigabyte CPU). Lots of them even download movies, burn them to VCD, DVD, etc. There are still many many people who don't know about, or care to know about, what a computer is, or can do. But that's changing more quickly than most people realize. As computers are becoming more integrated, affordable, and the children of last year become the adults of today, the amount of knowledgable people is increasing dramatically. It seems like half the people I meet nowadays -- bartenders, diving buddies, salesmen, neighbors -- are geeks at heart.
And by the way, "boring" testimonials are highly effective marketing tools.
I'm sure that I don't represent the majority here, but any time I see a testimonial, I automatically assume it's made up, altered, paraphrased, or otherwise compromised to misrepresent the facts. Testamonials are worthless to me. Give me facts about the product, show it to me, demonstrate your claims, and then I'll decide.