Ya know, I never thought much about who or what kinda person Taco is in real life cause, frankly, it really didn't matter that much. But, I decided to flip on the tube and catch the TechTV deal with Taco and Gamara, just cause it seemed kinda nifty after reading so much on/. . I hit a brick wall (or something along those lines) when Taco mentioned that in his attempt to play NWN, he had installed XP 12 times on a box... 12 times... twelve freaking times. ??? What was he doing? Smashing the HD with a hammer during the install process? I mean, come on. I thought this guy was supposed to be halfway intelligent, but he can't even figure out how to get XP working after even a couple installs? Heck, even I typically get 99% of the Windows boxes I set up going after the first try. XP is not hard to install at all (even with some really odd components, they just might not work right away) - MS has made it that way on purpose. I believe he mentioned a few hardware failures (something about having to replace the MB and perhaps another component), and this is all fine and dandy, but I find it hard to believe that in the process of setting up an XP machine he ran into 11 hardware failures. In all of the computers I have ever built and set up, I think I've run into maybe 2 or 3 hardware failures during even the first year of operation (which included at least 1, perhaps 2, failures due to power interuptions from the power company). Maybe he was trying to set up the box during a storm, outside, in the rain, with the covers off all the time, I might understand that. Anyhow, just thought I'd say something about that cause I found it rather ludicrous. For anyone who wasn't able to catch the episode, don't spend a whole lot of time trying to find some way to view it, there really wasn't much substance in the interview. A couple comments were made about a prototype of a new folding, pda-type gadget at LWCE were made (which looked rather cool) but no hands-on reviews were allowed by that company. And then they talked briefly about 64 bit stuff, but that was about it - nothing you can't find online without much effort.
Note: I've setup Windows, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and various Linux distro boxes before, and the only major install problems I ran into were with some of the Linux and Windows boxes not recognizing some hardware (some normal hardware with Linux, and some oddball stuff with Windows). And Taco, if you're really having all sorts of troubles setting up an XP box, just bring it over to my house, I can get it going for ya, and I'll let you slide on the labor costs this one time.
I was thinking that the whole way through reading the article (yes I read all 6 pages before deciding to post a comment,:P). Besides the fact that the Casinos are all owned and operated by huge conglomerate companies with Presidents, CEOs, and Chairmen that will still make more in a year than a card-counting team can win in a year, the Casinos will prolly make 10 times the winnings they dish out in any given night. Sure, this is all rationalization, but just move onto the actual semantics of the game and you don't have to rationalize anything. The game follows patterns, no matter how many decks are used, or the shuffling frequency of the decks, the game is simply made of patterns (although somewhat complex under certain circumstances). So why should someone be punished (even just barred) for watching the patterns and using them. It would be like a farmer being barred from the local market because he always decided to plant his fields in the Spring, realizing the pattern of weather to follow. It's ridiculous. Although the Casinos think this at heart, it is as if they are openly announcing that they are under practically no cirumstances willings to allow anyone to have a chance at winning anything... when they are a mecca gambling and supposedly random odds themselves.
Some things I found rather un-nerving though were this on the fourth page:
My first few days in Las Vegas, I get a small taste of the new paranoia. I awake one morning to discover that my laptop has been stolen out of my locked hotel room while I slept.
And this on the sixth page:
Lewis decided to go it on his own, forming an alliance with Jill Thomas and Andrew Tay. Then a few months later, someone broke into Thomas' apartment, stealing more than $50,000 in blackjack winnings from a safe in her bedroom. Although he has no proof, Lewis suspects that the robbery had something to do with the MIT team.
Pretty crazy stuff, almost like something out of an X-Files conspiracy episode or other equivalent conspiracy show/movie. I wouldn't imagine some Casino thugs ordering a break-in of someone's house to steal a measly $50k. But, I could imagine some Casino thugs ordering a break-in of someone's hotel room to steal some card counting trade secrets.
Ya know, I wonder if it would really be that hard for Taco if he were to spend $300 or $400 on a decent machine for Windows only, I'm sure he even has a capable machine sitting around. It doesn't take much, with an old 300 MHz (~$20) you could view Quicktime stuff just fine. And with a run-of-the-mill 1+ GHz (~$350) you could load up all sorts of Windows games and whatnot, at least for preview and mild playing purposes. Heck, I just put together two 1.47 GHz machines for two family members for about ~$500 each, with DDR, UATA 133, the whole deal. I think Taco is taking the 3V1L M$ thing too far. That, or he must be absolutely, positively, scrumdiddlyumptiously poor right now.
I'm sorry, but this just made me laugh my ass off...
The rich flavors of the vegetarian world are light-years ahead of the hunk of meat at your local butcher.
Gather all the professional chefs in the world, and for the heck of it include the amateurs as well, and I would find it hard to believe that even 1% would agree with what you said. Not that there aren't fine tasting vegetarian meals, but your downplay of the use of meat in meals it utterly ridiculous, although somewhat amusing.
Not to mention that if you try to use quasi-artificial vegetarian ingredients, vege meals will have that 'processed' taste to it. I'm talking about stuff that you can't just walk out into your garden and pick up to make a meal, ya know - all the various tomatoes, pickles, squashes, beets, onions, beans, etc. You can make some good side dishes out of that stuff for a meal with meat at its heart.
My point wasn't that vegetarians are doomed to die by time they're 20, or that they would be grapsing for their life in some sort of death struggle as they eat vegetarian meals, I know many people who try to stay vegetarian and they aren't dropping dead like flies. My point was that I have read various blurbs in scientific books are journals that describe the meat eating characteristics of the human body. Check this out for a short and sweet overview of the vegetarian/omnivore argument. If you actually take the time (or remember from HS or College) to study the digestive system of humans, you'll notice a lot of mechanisms with the specific task of digesting meat. What sense would it make to have these mechanisms so prevalently in place and not use them? It would be like a bird with wings that wouldn't fly... hundreds (thousands, tens of thousands?) of species of birds can fly... the penguin can't fly (well, through the air at least)... I don't think humans are the penguin of the hominines subfamily of the animal kingdom.
As well, I'm not saying that one should stay away from any plant matter, it's fine to eat salads, fruit bowls, vegetables, etc... in fact encouranged, because some of these plant materials provide nutrients (outside of the plant cells) that are good for you. What I am saying though is that people who try to argue that eating meat will kill you (while not being poised or whatnot), is some sort of disgusting habit, or will be the demise of us all are completely off their rockers, and it would do them some good to take down some BBQ ribs or a nice glazed honey ham (which I'm sure you can't find a good vegetarian equivalent for either of, and don't even try to say BBQ ribs taste like crap, cause you sir would be out of your mind).
It is even more than that. Humans, by nature, are designed to eat meat. We are carnivores, not vegetarians. A human attempting to be a vegetarian is akin to a pig trying to fly. Our digestive system is designed inside and out to digest meat thorougly while only digesting plant materials partially. From our jaw and teeth to the digestive juices in our stomach to the various chemicals secreted throughout the entire digestive process, we are meant to consume and digest meat on a regular basis. On the other hand, plant material does not fair so well in our digestive system. We can crush all sorts of material with our molars and pulverize it with stomach juices and stomach movements, but we can not digest plant material thoroughly because we lack the ability to break down plant cell walls, thereby refusing our digestive system access to the chemicals needed inside the cell. The only nutrients we can obtain from plants are those in between the plant cells, holding whatever structure of the plant together. Humans are supposed to eat meat, and should, as we can stay stronger and healthier that way.
Photovoltaic cells have moved along from the 3 to 5 percent efficiencies of years past, although not by a large amount. A student made a presentation at my college's undergraduate symposium in the spring, and I believe he reported current efficiency standards of around 18%, with experimental (i.e. costly) cells being able to achieve rates of around 30%. I didn't get the chance to ask the student why the rates were so low, but I would assume it has to do with the design, materials, etc. I think the big jump from the ~5% range to the +10% range was due to the use of a different material (or combination of materials) - involving silicon I believe. Another thing to remember when looking at statistic on solar energy received by Earth is that although an extremely large amount of energy comes from the Sun and hits Earth, only a small amount filters through the atmosphere to a level where we can harness (i.e. near the Earth's surface to be used by photovoltaic cells). I think I recall a theoretical physicist talking about humans placing energy collectors near the Sun, in the future, that could provide all the energy we need, and that the collectors would actually be fairly small - somewhere on the order of several thousand square kilometers or something. Anyhoo, I'm sure you can find a lot more exact info with a few google searches, just adding what I recall.
Have you ever even been around any construction/industrial equipment or machinery in your life? That thing is not loud by any means. In fact, until I watched the videos, the impression I was getting from all the loud comments was that this thing sounded like a jet engine or something (kinda like my comp sounds, heh). This thing is suprisingly quiet. I mean, if you listen closely as it walks, you can even hear the chains on its feet dangle and clank as the feet pads move. Sure, it isn't museum quiet, but your typically lawn mower is probably louder than this thing. I'll agree that it isn't all that fast, but I think the speed is almost just right for walking through forests, you don't wanna run into trees going too fast now.
I think people all over the country are being hit with blackouts due to the unseasonably hot and humid weather. Here in SE Michigan we have been routinely having 90%+ humidity levels on 90+ F days. People run their A/Cs non-stop and power consumption is extremely high overall. So far I think we have run into 10 or more blackouts over the last 2 to 3 months. I sweat like a fking pig out in the weather during the day (classes , plus I install and service A/Cs heh) so I crank my A/C down to 65 or 70 during the day depending on how I feel, and 65 or below during the night. Feels like winter when I wake up, but damn I sleep good!:P
Um this is good for the 16,000 people who have access to the 1 Gbps connections. Quite a large community that is plenty for moving data and live streams around. Heck, even some campuses block outside access now except for strict http traffic, yet p2p and games etc seem to run rampant there.
No, I was not trying to say that people will buy more because the fuel usage decreases for any given engine. I was saying that we are buying more and more cars anymore, anyhow. How many 16 year olds had cars back in the 1950s, none? How many 16 year olds have cars now, all of em? The local high school is jam packed with kids parking there anymore. I see kids driving beat up junkers that they picked up for a couple hundred bucks and other kids driving pimped cars that their parents bought for them. Again, back in the 1950s how many families had more than 1 or 2 cars? Not too many. How many families today have a car for every person in the family or more? Lots. Not only does everyone have their own, but nowadays a lot more people are driving cars just for fun, off-roading etc.
I was saying that every year people buy more and more cars, and cars are running more and more of the time, and that emissions released will actually still increase despite the fuel usage of engines being decreased. No economics here, just social trends.
Does anyone else see this as a general tech form of the illegal Cyber Squatting procedures? Someone buys a domain, possibly with the knowledge that the domain will soon be wanted by someone with deep pockets, holds out until the deep pockets offer to cough up enough cash, and then sells. Here we have a company that claims to have rights to a technology, attempts to spread the technology as a standard so deep pockets begin using the technology (deep pockets = the public and companies developing products for the public), holds out until enough pockets are using the technology, and then claims rights to the technology and asks everyone to cough up. The only problem they have is getting at the individual user, so they attack the companies that service the individual user... but then what happens? The companies just soak up the loss, right? No we soak up the loss in the form of higher prices. This patent claim is complete bull terds, and I hope that someone (some company) will be able to prove so, as I would rather soak up 5 million or so in attorney fees than 15 million or so for every major company that produces jpeg creation and manipulation software or components.
Um, a little optimistic without looking at the whole situation?
However, due to increases in technology in the area of combustion engines that allow them to use less fuel for the same amount of propulsion
I'm sure you knew that despite the technological advances in combustion engines, making them more efficient, we continue to consume more and more fuel every day? The point is that it doesn't matter if you have 1 engine and it consumes 1 unit of fuel and you modify it to only consume.5 units of fuel if you just turn around and sell 10 more engines... you are consuming 5 times as much fuel as before despite the technological improvement.
I guess it also helps that Japan only has about 377,000 square kilometers to cover, whereas the United States has about 9,600,000 square kilometers to cover, eh?
I know what you mean. I bought a 2.4 GHz phone to use around the house, and the thing was always getting static when I was any more than a couple feet away from the base. I don't even have a wireless network in my house, or any other 2.4 GHz wireless devices. And I hardly ever use my microwave. Must have been some interference from my neighbors or something, although I find it hard to believe that they have wireless networks. I returned the phone quickly and picked up a 900 MHz phone that works great.
Exactly what I though. I was okay with everything going on until Gandalf showed up, then I felt shivers down my spine. I mean, come on, there are a lot of people out there who watched FOTR before and haven't read TTT before, don't you wanna feel/hear/experience their shock/amazement/etc when Gandalf shows up? The only hope for this is that the scene was extremely short and Gandalf might look different enough (for an old wizard, I mean they all look the same anyhow, heh) for some people to not make the connection. Hopefully everyone will just be amazed and confused at a second LOTR movie and be baffled over the Two Towers title in spite of 9/11 lol:).
Many people seem to be noting that $750 million is a drop in the bucket for Microsoft, but I would tend to disagree. Last I read, Microsoft had $40 billion in liquid assets, with liquidity equal to or less than 1 year. And $750 million is.75 billion, almost 1 billion. Looking at these numbers, that is 1/40th of Microsoft's total liquid assets. Sure, it is over three years, but let us assume that in each additional year, Microsoft has another $40 billion in liquid assets available (although it could quite possible be less than that). Overall, that is still 1/120th of Microsoft's total liquid assets in the particular time period... almost 1%. That is quite a decent amount to be spending to supposedly 'help build' China's market for the good of it.
I shortened the sentence extremely for the purpose of the discussion, but if you notice, the sentence is not entirely complete. In all reality, if you wanted to examine the sentence to the very extremes, then there really are no verbs even present in the sentence. We have the subject, leaves, and a prepositonal phrase, on a tree. Both of which, together, do not form a sentence. Within the example though, I meant for there to be an inherent 'located' before the 'on' that would as the verb for the sentence and complete the sentence. However, the example sort of absorbed the verb into the 'on' heh.
Please, learn how to use an apostrophe and/or 's' for everyone's sake:
Usage: Possessive Example: Mary's coat.
Explanation: The apostrophe and 's' here are used to indicate that the coat belongs to mary. Leaving the apostrophe off would indicate that there are several Mary and they are some sort of coat, quite confusing if I might add.
Usage: Plural Example: Leaves on a tree.
Explanation: The 's' is used here to indicate that there are several leaves (more than one). Please note that there can not be an apostrophe on leaves, since the verb 'on' is usually not used possessively (as most verbs are not used possessively).
Usage: Contraction Example: It's a nice day today.
Explanation: Notice in this expample that if you think of the apostrophe 's' as a possessive usage, the sentence is quite confusing (the object 'it' has an 'a' which is then the object of 'nice day today' - huh?). The 'It's' is part of a special family of words called contractions in which two words are shortened into one word (for pronuciation purposes I believe - such as in Spanish and the combination of 'de el' into 'del'). Only certain combinations of words can be shortened under this contraction method, and generic nouns typically can not be shortened. I believe proper nouns such as AMD and Intel can never be contracted. Also not that when using a possessive 'it' the additional 's' does not include an apostrophe.
Your paragraph should have been:
A part is a part. Intel should be overselling its predictable sales by 100% if half the computers are jobbed. AMD is doing no better (and may be losing market share, meaning it's losing unit sales even faster than Intel).
These guys have no real competition.
So if the market is still so healthy, why can't they sell parts?
Exactly what I was thinking. MS Windows has a whole bunch of security flaws (and perhaps security woes, that aren't necessarily flaws yet), so what do we do? We plan on making everybody else change so that MS Windows can do whatever it wants, but this doesn't make any sense because Windows will still continue to suck. Every single problem they listed is simply a problem in software design. The hardware has nothing to do with any of those problems. Sure, you could go ahead and design a whole bunch of hardware to solve some of those problems, but what is the point when you could do it at 1% of the cost, but in software? The whole article (if you could call it that, sounded more like a MS PR release) sounded like a bunch of MS FUD trying to get the general public to believe that the reason computers have problems is because the hardware is poorly designed. I see it as just another way for MS to get ahead in a field that it is already #1 in (maybe not for long though). How much do you wanna bet that MS, et al would not release any of the specifications for this new 'technology', siting security fears, to anyone else (the public, third party companies, etc) in order to edge out the little guys who develop great alternatives (open source and closed source)? This whole thing looks like just a way to get other large corporations to join in on MS's monopoly so that they can form an oligopoly and not look so incriminating (although I'm sure time would tell even that, if it isn't too late and the United States of MicroSoft (USMS) haven't already formed a large army). Why else would billions of dollar be spent to disrupt a market in which a couple million could be spent by MS to fix 90% of the security problems?
The Mummy was alright if you realize that it wasn't actually supposed to be a serious Indiana Jones type movie. You can replace that with The Mummy Returns, since no movie like The Mummy should ever have a sequel.
That looks like great fun, wish I could come. Not too many dry lake beds out East for that sort of thing, heh. Do you guys mind visitors just coming out for the weekend? I might try to do that for one of the weekends this summer if possible.
Do you really expect amateurs of this nature to design, produce, implement, etc a liquid fuel system? Not that I am saying they are dumb or anything, these people are quite intelligent and have been able to work through their designs to produce an optimal configuration for their particular rocket. But the complexities of a liquid fuel system are enormous. Controlling flow rates, storing propellant under pressures, making sure connections can withstand the forces of being propelled to 3500 mph in under 15 seconds, controlling the liquid mixture at the point of ignition, etc. Liquid fuel systems typically require entire design teams with Phds or Ms in Aerospace or equivalent engineering. The solid fuel is horribly easy, just jam some propellant in there, make sure it is compact enough and held in tightly enough to not fall out, and bam you are done.
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Ya know, I never thought much about who or what kinda person Taco is in real life cause, frankly, it really didn't matter that much. But, I decided to flip on the tube and catch the TechTV deal with Taco and Gamara, just cause it seemed kinda nifty after reading so much on
Note: I've setup Windows, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and various Linux distro boxes before, and the only major install problems I ran into were with some of the Linux and Windows boxes not recognizing some hardware (some normal hardware with Linux, and some oddball stuff with Windows). And Taco, if you're really having all sorts of troubles setting up an XP box, just bring it over to my house, I can get it going for ya, and I'll let you slide on the labor costs this one time.
University of Michigan requires 16 credits in Humanities for C.Eng. and C.Sci. students.
I was thinking that the whole way through reading the article (yes I read all 6 pages before deciding to post a comment,
Some things I found rather un-nerving though were this on the fourth page:
My first few days in Las Vegas, I get a small taste of the new paranoia. I awake one morning to discover that my laptop has been stolen out of my locked hotel room while I slept.
And this on the sixth page:
Lewis decided to go it on his own, forming an alliance with Jill Thomas and Andrew Tay. Then a few months later, someone broke into Thomas' apartment, stealing more than $50,000 in blackjack winnings from a safe in her bedroom. Although he has no proof, Lewis suspects that the robbery had something to do with the MIT team.
Pretty crazy stuff, almost like something out of an X-Files conspiracy episode or other equivalent conspiracy show/movie. I wouldn't imagine some Casino thugs ordering a break-in of someone's house to steal a measly $50k. But, I could imagine some Casino thugs ordering a break-in of someone's hotel room to steal some card counting trade secrets.
Ya know, I wonder if it would really be that hard for Taco if he were to spend $300 or $400 on a decent machine for Windows only, I'm sure he even has a capable machine sitting around. It doesn't take much, with an old 300 MHz (~$20) you could view Quicktime stuff just fine. And with a run-of-the-mill 1+ GHz (~$350) you could load up all sorts of Windows games and whatnot, at least for preview and mild playing purposes. Heck, I just put together two 1.47 GHz machines for two family members for about ~$500 each, with DDR, UATA 133, the whole deal. I think Taco is taking the 3V1L M$ thing too far. That, or he must be absolutely, positively, scrumdiddlyumptiously poor right now.
I'm sorry, but this just made me laugh my ass off...
The rich flavors of the vegetarian world are light-years ahead of the hunk of meat at your local butcher.
Gather all the professional chefs in the world, and for the heck of it include the amateurs as well, and I would find it hard to believe that even 1% would agree with what you said. Not that there aren't fine tasting vegetarian meals, but your downplay of the use of meat in meals it utterly ridiculous, although somewhat amusing.
Not to mention that if you try to use quasi-artificial vegetarian ingredients, vege meals will have that 'processed' taste to it. I'm talking about stuff that you can't just walk out into your garden and pick up to make a meal, ya know - all the various tomatoes, pickles, squashes, beets, onions, beans, etc. You can make some good side dishes out of that stuff for a meal with meat at its heart.
My point wasn't that vegetarians are doomed to die by time they're 20, or that they would be grapsing for their life in some sort of death struggle as they eat vegetarian meals, I know many people who try to stay vegetarian and they aren't dropping dead like flies. My point was that I have read various blurbs in scientific books are journals that describe the meat eating characteristics of the human body. Check this out for a short and sweet overview of the vegetarian/omnivore argument. If you actually take the time (or remember from HS or College) to study the digestive system of humans, you'll notice a lot of mechanisms with the specific task of digesting meat. What sense would it make to have these mechanisms so prevalently in place and not use them? It would be like a bird with wings that wouldn't fly... hundreds (thousands, tens of thousands?) of species of birds can fly... the penguin can't fly (well, through the air at least)... I don't think humans are the penguin of the hominines subfamily of the animal kingdom.
As well, I'm not saying that one should stay away from any plant matter, it's fine to eat salads, fruit bowls, vegetables, etc... in fact encouranged, because some of these plant materials provide nutrients (outside of the plant cells) that are good for you. What I am saying though is that people who try to argue that eating meat will kill you (while not being poised or whatnot), is some sort of disgusting habit, or will be the demise of us all are completely off their rockers, and it would do them some good to take down some BBQ ribs or a nice glazed honey ham (which I'm sure you can't find a good vegetarian equivalent for either of, and don't even try to say BBQ ribs taste like crap, cause you sir would be out of your mind).
It is even more than that. Humans, by nature, are designed to eat meat. We are carnivores, not vegetarians. A human attempting to be a vegetarian is akin to a pig trying to fly. Our digestive system is designed inside and out to digest meat thorougly while only digesting plant materials partially. From our jaw and teeth to the digestive juices in our stomach to the various chemicals secreted throughout the entire digestive process, we are meant to consume and digest meat on a regular basis. On the other hand, plant material does not fair so well in our digestive system. We can crush all sorts of material with our molars and pulverize it with stomach juices and stomach movements, but we can not digest plant material thoroughly because we lack the ability to break down plant cell walls, thereby refusing our digestive system access to the chemicals needed inside the cell. The only nutrients we can obtain from plants are those in between the plant cells, holding whatever structure of the plant together. Humans are supposed to eat meat, and should, as we can stay stronger and healthier that way.
Photovoltaic cells have moved along from the 3 to 5 percent efficiencies of years past, although not by a large amount. A student made a presentation at my college's undergraduate symposium in the spring, and I believe he reported current efficiency standards of around 18%, with experimental (i.e. costly) cells being able to achieve rates of around 30%. I didn't get the chance to ask the student why the rates were so low, but I would assume it has to do with the design, materials, etc. I think the big jump from the ~5% range to the +10% range was due to the use of a different material (or combination of materials) - involving silicon I believe. Another thing to remember when looking at statistic on solar energy received by Earth is that although an extremely large amount of energy comes from the Sun and hits Earth, only a small amount filters through the atmosphere to a level where we can harness (i.e. near the Earth's surface to be used by photovoltaic cells). I think I recall a theoretical physicist talking about humans placing energy collectors near the Sun, in the future, that could provide all the energy we need, and that the collectors would actually be fairly small - somewhere on the order of several thousand square kilometers or something. Anyhoo, I'm sure you can find a lot more exact info with a few google searches, just adding what I recall.
Have you ever even been around any construction/industrial equipment or machinery in your life? That thing is not loud by any means. In fact, until I watched the videos, the impression I was getting from all the loud comments was that this thing sounded like a jet engine or something (kinda like my comp sounds, heh). This thing is suprisingly quiet. I mean, if you listen closely as it walks, you can even hear the chains on its feet dangle and clank as the feet pads move. Sure, it isn't museum quiet, but your typically lawn mower is probably louder than this thing. I'll agree that it isn't all that fast, but I think the speed is almost just right for walking through forests, you don't wanna run into trees going too fast now.
I think people all over the country are being hit with blackouts due to the unseasonably hot and humid weather. Here in SE Michigan we have been routinely having 90%+ humidity levels on 90+ F days. People run their A/Cs non-stop and power consumption is extremely high overall. So far I think we have run into 10 or more blackouts over the last 2 to 3 months. I sweat like a fking pig out in the weather during the day (classes , plus I install and service A/Cs heh) so I crank my A/C down to 65 or 70 during the day depending on how I feel, and 65 or below during the night. Feels like winter when I wake up, but damn I sleep good!
Um this is good for the 16,000 people who have access to the 1 Gbps connections. Quite a large community that is plenty for moving data and live streams around. Heck, even some campuses block outside access now except for strict http traffic, yet p2p and games etc seem to run rampant there.
No, I was not trying to say that people will buy more because the fuel usage decreases for any given engine. I was saying that we are buying more and more cars anymore, anyhow. How many 16 year olds had cars back in the 1950s, none? How many 16 year olds have cars now, all of em? The local high school is jam packed with kids parking there anymore. I see kids driving beat up junkers that they picked up for a couple hundred bucks and other kids driving pimped cars that their parents bought for them. Again, back in the 1950s how many families had more than 1 or 2 cars? Not too many. How many families today have a car for every person in the family or more? Lots. Not only does everyone have their own, but nowadays a lot more people are driving cars just for fun, off-roading etc.
I was saying that every year people buy more and more cars, and cars are running more and more of the time, and that emissions released will actually still increase despite the fuel usage of engines being decreased. No economics here, just social trends.
Does anyone else see this as a general tech form of the illegal Cyber Squatting procedures? Someone buys a domain, possibly with the knowledge that the domain will soon be wanted by someone with deep pockets, holds out until the deep pockets offer to cough up enough cash, and then sells. Here we have a company that claims to have rights to a technology, attempts to spread the technology as a standard so deep pockets begin using the technology (deep pockets = the public and companies developing products for the public), holds out until enough pockets are using the technology, and then claims rights to the technology and asks everyone to cough up. The only problem they have is getting at the individual user, so they attack the companies that service the individual user... but then what happens? The companies just soak up the loss, right? No we soak up the loss in the form of higher prices. This patent claim is complete bull terds, and I hope that someone (some company) will be able to prove so, as I would rather soak up 5 million or so in attorney fees than 15 million or so for every major company that produces jpeg creation and manipulation software or components.
Um, a little optimistic without looking at the whole situation?
However, due to increases in technology in the area of combustion engines that allow them to use less fuel for the same amount of propulsion
I'm sure you knew that despite the technological advances in combustion engines, making them more efficient, we continue to consume more and more fuel every day? The point is that it doesn't matter if you have 1 engine and it consumes 1 unit of fuel and you modify it to only consume
I guess it also helps that Japan only has about 377,000 square kilometers to cover, whereas the United States has about 9,600,000 square kilometers to cover, eh?
I know what you mean. I bought a 2.4 GHz phone to use around the house, and the thing was always getting static when I was any more than a couple feet away from the base. I don't even have a wireless network in my house, or any other 2.4 GHz wireless devices. And I hardly ever use my microwave. Must have been some interference from my neighbors or something, although I find it hard to believe that they have wireless networks. I returned the phone quickly and picked up a 900 MHz phone that works great.
Advice: Pick up and move North.
Exactly what I though. I was okay with everything going on until Gandalf showed up, then I felt shivers down my spine. I mean, come on, there are a lot of people out there who watched FOTR before and haven't read TTT before, don't you wanna feel/hear/experience their shock/amazement/etc when Gandalf shows up? The only hope for this is that the scene was extremely short and Gandalf might look different enough (for an old wizard, I mean they all look the same anyhow, heh) for some people to not make the connection. Hopefully everyone will just be amazed and confused at a second LOTR movie and be baffled over the Two Towers title in spite of 9/11 lol
Many people seem to be noting that $750 million is a drop in the bucket for Microsoft, but I would tend to disagree. Last I read, Microsoft had $40 billion in liquid assets, with liquidity equal to or less than 1 year. And $750 million is
I shortened the sentence extremely for the purpose of the discussion, but if you notice, the sentence is not entirely complete. In all reality, if you wanted to examine the sentence to the very extremes, then there really are no verbs even present in the sentence. We have the subject, leaves, and a prepositonal phrase, on a tree. Both of which, together, do not form a sentence. Within the example though, I meant for there to be an inherent 'located' before the 'on' that would as the verb for the sentence and complete the sentence. However, the example sort of absorbed the verb into the 'on' heh.
Please, learn how to use an apostrophe and/or 's' for everyone's sake:
Usage: Possessive
Example: Mary's coat.
Explanation: The apostrophe and 's' here are used to indicate that the coat belongs to mary. Leaving the apostrophe off would indicate that there are several Mary and they are some sort of coat, quite confusing if I might add.
Usage: Plural
Example: Leaves on a tree.
Explanation: The 's' is used here to indicate that there are several leaves (more than one). Please note that there can not be an apostrophe on leaves, since the verb 'on' is usually not used possessively (as most verbs are not used possessively).
Usage: Contraction
Example: It's a nice day today.
Explanation: Notice in this expample that if you think of the apostrophe 's' as a possessive usage, the sentence is quite confusing (the object 'it' has an 'a' which is then the object of 'nice day today' - huh?). The 'It's' is part of a special family of words called contractions in which two words are shortened into one word (for pronuciation purposes I believe - such as in Spanish and the combination of 'de el' into 'del'). Only certain combinations of words can be shortened under this contraction method, and generic nouns typically can not be shortened. I believe proper nouns such as AMD and Intel can never be contracted. Also not that when using a possessive 'it' the additional 's' does not include an apostrophe.
Your paragraph should have been:
A part is a part. Intel should be overselling its predictable sales by 100% if half the computers are jobbed. AMD is doing no better (and may be losing market share, meaning it's losing unit sales even faster than Intel).
These guys have no real competition.
So if the market is still so healthy, why can't they sell parts?
Exactly what I was thinking. MS Windows has a whole bunch of security flaws (and perhaps security woes, that aren't necessarily flaws yet), so what do we do? We plan on making everybody else change so that MS Windows can do whatever it wants, but this doesn't make any sense because Windows will still continue to suck. Every single problem they listed is simply a problem in software design. The hardware has nothing to do with any of those problems. Sure, you could go ahead and design a whole bunch of hardware to solve some of those problems, but what is the point when you could do it at 1% of the cost, but in software? The whole article (if you could call it that, sounded more like a MS PR release) sounded like a bunch of MS FUD trying to get the general public to believe that the reason computers have problems is because the hardware is poorly designed. I see it as just another way for MS to get ahead in a field that it is already #1 in (maybe not for long though). How much do you wanna bet that MS, et al would not release any of the specifications for this new 'technology', siting security fears, to anyone else (the public, third party companies, etc) in order to edge out the little guys who develop great alternatives (open source and closed source)? This whole thing looks like just a way to get other large corporations to join in on MS's monopoly so that they can form an oligopoly and not look so incriminating (although I'm sure time would tell even that, if it isn't too late and the United States of MicroSoft (USMS) haven't already formed a large army). Why else would billions of dollar be spent to disrupt a market in which a couple million could be spent by MS to fix 90% of the security problems?
The Mummy was alright if you realize that it wasn't actually supposed to be a serious Indiana Jones type movie. You can replace that with The Mummy Returns, since no movie like The Mummy should ever have a sequel.
That looks like great fun, wish I could come. Not too many dry lake beds out East for that sort of thing, heh. Do you guys mind visitors just coming out for the weekend? I might try to do that for one of the weekends this summer if possible.
Do you really expect amateurs of this nature to design, produce, implement, etc a liquid fuel system? Not that I am saying they are dumb or anything, these people are quite intelligent and have been able to work through their designs to produce an optimal configuration for their particular rocket. But the complexities of a liquid fuel system are enormous. Controlling flow rates, storing propellant under pressures, making sure connections can withstand the forces of being propelled to 3500 mph in under 15 seconds, controlling the liquid mixture at the point of ignition, etc. Liquid fuel systems typically require entire design teams with Phds or Ms in Aerospace or equivalent engineering. The solid fuel is horribly easy, just jam some propellant in there, make sure it is compact enough and held in tightly enough to not fall out, and bam you are done.