They need to drain the city to get the power back on, they need power to drive the pumps to drain the city...
I've heard some officials speculating that New Orleans could be under water for weeks or even months. My heart goes out to everyone affected by this tragedy.
I always thought that the biggest hazard to New Orleans was the Mississippi overflowing, since they had two 100-year flood seasons back to back in the last decade.
Many of us are on here to have intelligent discussions and debates
Including yourself in that category is a bit of a stretch. You're far too emotional to participate in a reasoned debate, which is why I just tweak you for fun.
Your could be my intellectual equal -- if I ever suffer a severe head injury.
Why would you expect a head injury to suddenly increase your mental capacity?
I'm not familiar with the units, so is the difference in hardness of 49 Gpa a lot?
I remember reading that the difference in hardness from Tungsten Carbide to Diamond was greater than the difference from Tungsten Carbide to Talc (the softest mineral). Could somebody give us a hint here?
A company can't simply make a profit, they must make a growing profit.
That may be true for many or even most publicly-traded companies, but the vast majority of business in the USA aren't that big. Family-owned businesses, and businesses in mature markets like durable goods manufacturing are often quite content to merely be consistently profitable.
That it will, particularly when you consider what just happened in Japan. Apple launched the iTMS without Sony, and some of Sony's musicians are jumping ship to join a label that will put them on the iTMS.
apple would see their iPod sales (which account for something like 35% of their total revenue) decimated
Nope.
The iPod was already a major hit before the iTMS existed, and if any label is dumb enough to pull there stuff from the store, people will just find it on a P2P network and put MP3s on their iPod instead of the protected AAC file.
What the labels are failing to understand is that their choices are 1) sell music online the way that Apple does, or 2) give up on making any money from online distribution. The alternative to the iTMS isn't Napster or any of the WMA-based also-rans, it's the P2P apps.
People tend to panic when all the PCs around them are crashing every few minutes instead of every few hours or days like normal
That's hilarious, in a sad-but-true kind of way. I talk to people all the time who've made the windoze-to-mac switch within the last year, and they marvel at the stability. It's amazing just how low the expectations are among the general population.
They sure are.. I can't believe that so many hotels still expect people to spring for ten bucks a day for internet access. Most of the places I stay in San Francisco when I go up there for trade shows are clueful, and offer free service in the rooms, but a lot of places back east still think it's 1998.
Hey, kudos to Intel for coming up with this stuff, but I suspect that the majority of people who buy a wi-fi router in the next five years will still not bother to even change the default admin password.
Sorry, I was lumping the "Great Leap Forward" and the "Cultural Revolution" together. Whichever way you allocate the body count, the Red Dynasty killed many more Chinese than the Japanese Imperial Army ever did.
All the mobs in the world, since the beginning of organized crime, probably have a body count in the low thousands. The Red Dynasty killed about thirty million people in the Cultural Revolution alone.
Who benefits from this 'unprecented economic growth'?
Everyone who participates in the transactions that constitute it. Chinese peasants are streaming into the cities to find work at wages that you and I find appallingly low, and they're doing so because it's better than staying at home on the farm. Nobody's putting a gun to their heads to make them do factory work.
We need to close the borders to all trade
Oh, brilliant. I'd love to see you explain that to all the American workers whose jobs depend on selling their products outside the USA.
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They need to drain the city to get the power back on, they need power to drive the pumps to drain the city...
I've heard some officials speculating that New Orleans could be under water for weeks or even months. My heart goes out to everyone affected by this tragedy.
I always thought that the biggest hazard to New Orleans was the Mississippi overflowing, since they had two 100-year flood seasons back to back in the last decade.
-jcr
They could fly away for the storm then fly back shortly afterwards.
If they're operating at a high enough altitude, they wouldn't even need to move during the storm. 60,000 feet should do it.
-jcr
So because Apple failed to patent its own interface, then that means the first one to the Patent Office doors gets to patent it?
Getting a patent issued, and proving it valid in court are two very different things. I wouldn't worry about it.
-jcr
Coming from someone who screamed like a teenage girl
See, there you go again with your overblown, emotional nonsense. I didn't "scream" at all, I just told you to never call me again.
you hardly have room to call me "emotional."
I call you emotional because of the tantrums you regularly throw when someone doesn't do as you say.
You are not as intelligent as I am.
In your dreams, kid.
If I were to have a severe head injury
I'm sure it would improve your personality considerably.
-jcr
So the difference is 11 %.
If it's a linear scale. Do you know if it is?
-jcr
Many of us are on here to have intelligent discussions and debates
Including yourself in that category is a bit of a stretch. You're far too emotional to participate in a reasoned debate, which is why I just tweak you for fun.
Your could be my intellectual equal -- if I ever suffer a severe head injury.
Why would you expect a head injury to suddenly increase your mental capacity?
-jcr
I'm not familiar with the units, so is the difference in hardness of 49 Gpa a lot?
I remember reading that the difference in hardness from Tungsten Carbide to Diamond was greater than the difference from Tungsten Carbide to Talc (the softest mineral). Could somebody give us a hint here?
-jcr
I wonder how big an OS X Office install will be now.
Based on how it was in NeXTSTEP, approximately 30%.
-jcr
Actually, I think Clarus x86 may say "ofMo", but I'd have to check...
-jcr
Special dual-use Macintosh motherboards can be designed to work with an Intel chip, a PowerPC chip, or both.
Umm... Are you trying for a "funny" mod?
Having a big-endian and a little-endian processor trying to share memory sounds like a recipe for disaster to me.
-jcr
AllofMp3 does not pay a single cent to the labels or artists. how can you call that legal?
They have no duty under Russian law to pay those royalties, apparently. Since they're in a country where it isn't prohibited, it's legal, QED.
It's probably illegal for someone outside of Russia to use their service, but that doesn't make their operation illegal.
-jcr
A company can't simply make a profit, they must make a growing profit.
That may be true for many or even most publicly-traded companies, but the vast majority of business in the USA aren't that big. Family-owned businesses, and businesses in mature markets like durable goods manufacturing are often quite content to merely be consistently profitable.
-jcr
because apple could have told them to go to fucking hell
How do you know they haven't?
-jcr
Gonna be a damned interesting fight indeed.
That it will, particularly when you consider what just happened in Japan. Apple launched the iTMS without Sony, and some of Sony's musicians are jumping ship to join a label that will put them on the iTMS.
-jcr
apple would see their iPod sales (which account for something like 35% of their total revenue) decimated
Nope.
The iPod was already a major hit before the iTMS existed, and if any label is dumb enough to pull there stuff from the store, people will just find it on a P2P network and put MP3s on their iPod instead of the protected AAC file.
What the labels are failing to understand is that their choices are 1) sell music online the way that Apple does, or 2) give up on making any money from online distribution. The alternative to the iTMS isn't Napster or any of the WMA-based also-rans, it's the P2P apps.
-jcr
People tend to panic when all the PCs around them are crashing every few minutes instead of every few hours or days like normal
That's hilarious, in a sad-but-true kind of way. I talk to people all the time who've made the windoze-to-mac switch within the last year, and they marvel at the stability. It's amazing just how low the expectations are among the general population.
-jcr
All those open WAPs are so convenient.
They sure are.. I can't believe that so many hotels still expect people to spring for ten bucks a day for internet access. Most of the places I stay in San Francisco when I go up there for trade shows are clueful, and offer free service in the rooms, but a lot of places back east still think it's 1998.
-jcr
Your inability to debate the points is all the convincing that I need.
If you were half as smart as you think you are, it wouldn't be so easy to push your buttons.
-jcr
Hey, kudos to Intel for coming up with this stuff, but I suspect that the majority of people who buy a wi-fi router in the next five years will still not bother to even change the default admin password.
-jcr
Sorry, I was lumping the "Great Leap Forward" and the "Cultural Revolution" together. Whichever way you allocate the body count, the Red Dynasty killed many more Chinese than the Japanese Imperial Army ever did.
-jcr
They could find new jobs.
Sure, there'd be plenty of opportunity in the smuggling trade.
-jcr
The Chinese government is a mafia.
Not hardly.
All the mobs in the world, since the beginning of organized crime, probably have a body count in the low thousands. The Red Dynasty killed about thirty million people in the Cultural Revolution alone.
-jcr
Oh, please.. Since when has anybody needed MS's source code to crack windoze?
-jcr
Who benefits from this 'unprecented economic growth'?
Everyone who participates in the transactions that constitute it. Chinese peasants are streaming into the cities to find work at wages that you and I find appallingly low, and they're doing so because it's better than staying at home on the farm. Nobody's putting a gun to their heads to make them do factory work.
We need to close the borders to all trade
Oh, brilliant. I'd love to see you explain that to all the American workers whose jobs depend on selling their products outside the USA.
-jcr
I wonder what the re-entry strategy will be for an orbital version. Somehow, I can't imagine Rutan going with thermal tiles.
-jcr