I wonder how many millions of people in the world live within say 20 feet of sea level? While it's silly to think the world would be under water, even a 1 meter increase in sea level would probably displace millions of people.
One area where I think Windows and OSX may never compare to BeOS is the performance. I was just thinking about this the other day when I tried to move Windows Media Player around on my screen while I was playing a medium sized video on a fairly high end desktop machine. It started dropping frames and the video itself was having trouble catching up to where WMP was on the screen. If you've ever played around with BeOS or seen the demo where they play 6 videos on the sides of a cube while the cube can be rotated with the mouse (on hardware 5 years ago no less) it's hard to understand why Windows XP and Mac OS X (I have a Powerbook too which is a little better though Mac OS X apparently has some real threading problems) have trouble sometimes playing just 1 video and doing anything else. Performance like that isn't just a feature you can tack on to an existing operating system as a marketing bullet for the next release, it has to be built in from the ground up.
I can't speak for steal but in software all of the development tools must be American. For things like open source projects they do a pretty thorough check on all the developers listed on the project etc. For example during a project I worked on as a defense contractor I wanted to use IntelliJ but evidently JetBrains is from the Czech Republic so I was stuck with JBuilder, and that's just for the IDE to build the software with, imagine how picky they are about electronics and such.
Book's in the movie, it's interesting how he's absent in the trailer and the other movie propaganda I've seen so far (like posters and other things, I saw one of the previews a while back).
11: It is easier for my 2-year-old to choose a movie by looking at physical cases than by browsing things virtually in a computer.
I had the same issue when my kids were a little younger, but by the time one of my kids was 3 and 1/2 though he was already starting to read. His main motivation for doing so? He wanted to be able to find his favorite cartoons in the program guide on our satellite receiver. It's important for kids to learn the freedom that being able to read gives them above and beyond just being able to read books (reading signs, packages of food, text on the television etc...), it helps give them that extra little motivation to learn their letters and numbers and begin to recognize words.
It's always difficult explaining to foreigners that come to the US that you can't bribe the police here (at least it would prohibitively expensive to do so). In places like India and Thailand $5 US will get you out of most traffic violations. My wife's cousin damn near went to jail here in the US when he tried to bribe his way out of a speeding ticket, he's from Thailand, it's standard practice over there.
I'm guessing a 16% drop in the earths oxygen levels represents a massive loss in plant life on the earth, so what are we animals supposed to eat while we're taking more breaths.
I just went through SFO's International Terminal last week and it was a complete cluster fuck, after several international flights (I was on a 747 from Tokyo) landed at the same time. I ended up missing my domestic flight after spending a couple of hours getting through SFO's high-capacity Federal Inspection Service.
Biodiesel is refined from plant matter that removed CO2 from the atmosphere very recently. Unlike traditional fuels refined from oil (which actually increase CO2 levels by releasing carbon that was buried under the ground), biodiesel simply recycles CO2 that is already in the air. Having said that I'm not sure we can grow enough corn and turkeys and everything else they can refine into fuel to power every vehicle in the US and still have enough left over to feed everybody too.
Actually the company I work for puts a lot of it's corporate training material (for things like ethics training, safety etc) on internal websites using media player. They could just as easily use a different codec but it's still a windows world for the most part except for a few developers...
Probably one of the more accurate accounts of installed base for various operating systems was Google itself on the old Google Zeigeist pages. Unfortionately Google didn't like people using their Zeitgeist pages to infer market share so they stopped doing it last July, but June 2004 shows Linux accounting for 1% of Google searches and MacOS 3%. Certainly Google still tracks this information internally and the fact that they are releasing a MacOS version of their desktop tool says a lot about how MacOS is doing in the market.
Yeh I was still hearing the sound too, I had to close all Java applications and Firefox to get it too stop. By any chance are you using Java 5 RC1? It has the semi VM sharing in it (on windows at least you can open up a bunch of Java applications and you'll only see one java.exe in the task manager ), I wonder if that has something to do with the sound not stopping?
More than just a supporter HP is heavily invested in the Itanium. HP designed the Itanium 2 and at least co-designed the Itanium 1 with Intel. HP has no doubt learned to hedge it's bets like IBM has and will sell their customers whatever they want but at some level they have to push the Itanium stuff (as IBM does it's G5 servers, though at least IBM has Apple to sell some G5s as well).
I blame the whole situation with Unix in the late 70's and 80's for the reason DOS and later Windows became the dominate desktop operating system. Unix was simply too expensive for the home/small business user. Anyone know how much a copy of Microsoft's Xenix cost back in the day? I assume if MS could have sold it cheaply they would have stuck with Xenix instead of moving to DOS. I also blame the cost of Unix for the screwed up DOS command line syntax. I assume DOS (based off of CP/M?) was made just different enough (ie '\' instead of '/' etc) from Unix to not incure a Unix license fee from whoever had the rights to Unix back then.
eVC++ is Embedded Visual C++ for Windows CE and Pocket PC etc. According to this site was published 12/29/2003 and probably wouldn't qualify as "older developer software".
I've had Comcast cable and internet for years and I finally cancelled the cable and got a dish but kept my cable modem about a year ago. They never started charging me the +$10/month I should be paying for not being a cable subscriber. You can also sometimes call and threaten to cancel your cable modem (I'm getting DSL!) and they'll give you 6 months for $20 or some such.
Not to mention if some popular apps start shipping and/or requiring Mozilla more people will have it installed on their machines and may choose to use it over IE.
Here's an updated list I think based on Consumer Report's more realisitic testing of mileage and the top 10 cars they tested (these are their tested numbers for 2004 models not EPA estimates): Top 10 fuel efficient cars. The VW turbo diesels fared pretty well but not a whole lot different than the hybrids, and certainly not even close to 60 mpg. I want to believe some of claims I keep hearing from Europe about 80 mpg diesels and such but the TDI VW's we have in the states now (Jetta, Golf) while putting up respectable numbers, are not exactly blowing away the compitition when it comes to fuel economy. I know our diesel fuel here sucks but it can't be that bad. But hey diesel's cheaper right now though so it probably is still more economical.
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I wonder how many millions of people in the world live within say 20 feet of sea level? While it's silly to think the world would be under water, even a 1 meter increase in sea level would probably displace millions of people.
One area where I think Windows and OSX may never compare to BeOS is the performance. I was just thinking about this the other day when I tried to move Windows Media Player around on my screen while I was playing a medium sized video on a fairly high end desktop machine. It started dropping frames and the video itself was having trouble catching up to where WMP was on the screen. If you've ever played around with BeOS or seen the demo where they play 6 videos on the sides of a cube while the cube can be rotated with the mouse (on hardware 5 years ago no less) it's hard to understand why Windows XP and Mac OS X (I have a Powerbook too which is a little better though Mac OS X apparently has some real threading problems) have trouble sometimes playing just 1 video and doing anything else. Performance like that isn't just a feature you can tack on to an existing operating system as a marketing bullet for the next release, it has to be built in from the ground up.
I can't speak for steal but in software all of the development tools must be American. For things like open source projects they do a pretty thorough check on all the developers listed on the project etc. For example during a project I worked on as a defense contractor I wanted to use IntelliJ but evidently JetBrains is from the Czech Republic so I was stuck with JBuilder, and that's just for the IDE to build the software with, imagine how picky they are about electronics and such.
Book's in the movie, it's interesting how he's absent in the trailer and the other movie propaganda I've seen so far (like posters and other things, I saw one of the previews a while back).
11: It is easier for my 2-year-old to choose a movie by looking at physical cases than by browsing things virtually in a computer.
I had the same issue when my kids were a little younger, but by the time one of my kids was 3 and 1/2 though he was already starting to read. His main motivation for doing so? He wanted to be able to find his favorite cartoons in the program guide on our satellite receiver. It's important for kids to learn the freedom that being able to read gives them above and beyond just being able to read books (reading signs, packages of food, text on the television etc...), it helps give them that extra little motivation to learn their letters and numbers and begin to recognize words.
It's always difficult explaining to foreigners that come to the US that you can't bribe the police here (at least it would prohibitively expensive to do so). In places like India and Thailand $5 US will get you out of most traffic violations. My wife's cousin damn near went to jail here in the US when he tried to bribe his way out of a speeding ticket, he's from Thailand, it's standard practice over there.
I'm guessing a 16% drop in the earths oxygen levels represents a massive loss in plant life on the earth, so what are we animals supposed to eat while we're taking more breaths.
I just went through SFO's International Terminal last week and it was a complete cluster fuck, after several international flights (I was on a 747 from Tokyo) landed at the same time. I ended up missing my domestic flight after spending a couple of hours getting through SFO's high-capacity Federal Inspection Service.
Biodiesel is refined from plant matter that removed CO2 from the atmosphere very recently. Unlike traditional fuels refined from oil (which actually increase CO2 levels by releasing carbon that was buried under the ground), biodiesel simply recycles CO2 that is already in the air. Having said that I'm not sure we can grow enough corn and turkeys and everything else they can refine into fuel to power every vehicle in the US and still have enough left over to feed everybody too.
Actually the company I work for puts a lot of it's corporate training material (for things like ethics training, safety etc) on internal websites using media player. They could just as easily use a different codec but it's still a windows world for the most part except for a few developers...
Probably one of the more accurate accounts of installed base for various operating systems was Google itself on the old Google Zeigeist pages. Unfortionately Google didn't like people using their Zeitgeist pages to infer market share so they stopped doing it last July, but June 2004 shows Linux accounting for 1% of Google searches and MacOS 3%. Certainly Google still tracks this information internally and the fact that they are releasing a MacOS version of their desktop tool says a lot about how MacOS is doing in the market.
Google Zeitgeist June, 2004Or better yet get their parents to adopt you.
Russia's not on there...
Use it to split the water into hydrogen and oxygen...of course storing massive quantities of hydrogen might be a little dangerous.
Yeh I was still hearing the sound too, I had to close all Java applications and Firefox to get it too stop. By any chance are you using Java 5 RC1? It has the semi VM sharing in it (on windows at least you can open up a bunch of Java applications and you'll only see one java.exe in the task manager ), I wonder if that has something to do with the sound not stopping?
More than just a supporter HP is heavily invested in the Itanium. HP designed the Itanium 2 and at least co-designed the Itanium 1 with Intel. HP has no doubt learned to hedge it's bets like IBM has and will sell their customers whatever they want but at some level they have to push the Itanium stuff (as IBM does it's G5 servers, though at least IBM has Apple to sell some G5s as well).
The moller skycar will supposedly get 28 miles to the gallon with a cruising speed of 350+ mph, that's a little bit better than a suburban.
Buy a 900MHz phone if you can still find one, they're cheap and work fine.
Actually Mitochondria have DNA, it's right there in your parent poster's link. Otherwise an interesting thought...
I blame the whole situation with Unix in the late 70's and 80's for the reason DOS and later Windows became the dominate desktop operating system. Unix was simply too expensive for the home/small business user. Anyone know how much a copy of Microsoft's Xenix cost back in the day? I assume if MS could have sold it cheaply they would have stuck with Xenix instead of moving to DOS. I also blame the cost of Unix for the screwed up DOS command line syntax. I assume DOS (based off of CP/M?) was made just different enough (ie '\' instead of '/' etc) from Unix to not incure a Unix license fee from whoever had the rights to Unix back then.
eVC++ is Embedded Visual C++ for Windows CE and Pocket PC etc. According to this site was published 12/29/2003 and probably wouldn't qualify as "older developer software".
That is some really cool stuff. I had trouble with the link there, here's the article I think you are refering too:
Riding the Highways of LightI've had Comcast cable and internet for years and I finally cancelled the cable and got a dish but kept my cable modem about a year ago. They never started charging me the +$10/month I should be paying for not being a cable subscriber. You can also sometimes call and threaten to cancel your cable modem (I'm getting DSL!) and they'll give you 6 months for $20 or some such.
Not to mention if some popular apps start shipping and/or requiring Mozilla more people will have it installed on their machines and may choose to use it over IE.
Here's an updated list I think based on Consumer Report's more realisitic testing of mileage and the top 10 cars they tested (these are their tested numbers for 2004 models not EPA estimates): Top 10 fuel efficient cars. The VW turbo diesels fared pretty well but not a whole lot different than the hybrids, and certainly not even close to 60 mpg. I want to believe some of claims I keep hearing from Europe about 80 mpg diesels and such but the TDI VW's we have in the states now (Jetta, Golf) while putting up respectable numbers, are not exactly blowing away the compitition when it comes to fuel economy. I know our diesel fuel here sucks but it can't be that bad. But hey diesel's cheaper right now though so it probably is still more economical.