I have access to my corporate portal for Microsoft Select License downloads. Don't worry, I have it on order from newegg and will have it well before the 30 days is up w/o activation:)
So far I've seen a lot of improvements over Vista, which I moved to recently as well. I didn't find Vista all that annoying except in one minor aspect - you do anything and the search components would go into overload and it'd reindex everything, making the whole system sluggish. 7 is a lot better in that regard.
I've also not noticed a whole lot of other over the top improvements, other than just simple junk like adding a frequent-files/sites/etc to a start menu object, which is kind of neat but it doesn't work with any consistency with something like IE.
One other annoyance that I found was that firewire support isn't "right" - I have a pair of Presonus Firestudio devices that I use with it, and the driver it loaded would not allow them to sync. Changing it to a "legacy" driver (included with OS) resolved the issue there, though, I've not recorded with it yet.
Oh, and my AV software wouldn't work - but i got a free version upgrade since my subscription is current.
Everything else I ran on Vista runs fine on 7.
Maybe it's just me, but, I would think the moon would be THE best place to put a solar array.
We know the distance, we know it's movements, and it doesn't involve putting up more floating space junk, it's surface is always facing the sun (which unlike a synchronous satalite, would be our of the sun for at least a few hours (depending on distance) - and it's far enough that's visible from the poles, which is where I'd put the recieving stations - the sending stations would be on the moon's poles, so power coudl be recieved even with a "new moon" - the only exception would be in the case of a lunar eclipse...
I'd also make sure there was a way to turn it off...quickly...from someone near the equator, just in case!
A co-worker has one, in my department, in the office adjacent to mine.
I think he gets something out of how makes him sound busier by clicking at double his typing rate...and as a programmer, looking busy (vs actually being busy) is of the utmost importance!
His isn't the old IBM style, it's like a wierd hybrid of a ergo and an old flat - it has the split, but it is a flat keyboard.
When it dies, I wonder if I'll miss it...knowing him, he's probably got a spare...lol
If we had WW-III on our hands, those ships would be out of mothballs and put back into service within a few weeks/months. There are a few "retired" battleships that are basically floating museums now that fit that criteria.
I drill holes in the HDD's from work. If they have glass platters, they shatter, done deal. If they are metal, they get a hole all the way through every platter.
My thoughts - if someone goes through the effort of trying to retrieve data from a drive in that condition, they've "earned" it.
Maybe I'm ignorant to how some data recoverey techniques are used, but, as far as I understand it, it has to be read from a head while the platter spins. When the head comes across a 1/2" hole, good-bye heads...
I know a lot of bikers (being a musican and biker myself), including a few that are members of the "1%er" clubs - so, when I read the part about "to stop that gang member and literally take the jacket right off his back" - that caused a moment of pause, because with several of the ones I know, that if anyone tell them to take it off, or tries to take it off for them, that is grounds for a brawl that could lead to very serious injury or worse.
Granted, this is relating to cops instead of other bikers or just regular-joes, but, I can imagine there are several bikers that wouldn't give a **** who tells them to take it off, they are going to have to be beaten down and not breathing before they'll let that happen.
So, either we'll see a lot of pointless taser-based arrests, or, officers getting injured, or, yet another law that will get ignored (like loud pipes - which I am happy with my quite-a-bit-louder-than-stock-but-still-less-than-most pipes)
AC can't be stored, DC can...every house have a 10,000 fared capacitor (or larger, I'm just tossing a number out there). All of them connected. Have a neighborhood lightning rod. Each house connected to the cap, which is then connected to the grid....
What version Linux kernal are most of you running? I remember running Mandrake 8.0, and the kernal wasn't even close to that version - 2.3 or something...don't remember!
That's only because we can't make it obvious about our true agenda, and have a political leash on our military - I mean...look at what we have in the whitehouse.
Seriously though, we have the most powerful military in the world. If war were to happen between us and the other largest military - China, China would probably ultimately win just due to sheer numbers, but not without a LOT of casualties - and that's without using the nuclear option.
Seems there was a TV Show on the History channel or something like it, relating to the Bush Election and how those machines could be duped by stacking the data in favor of one candidate or the other, before voting could take place, but the city (might have been this one) went ahead and approved the purchase of the machines.
I thought in the vaccum of space, there is no temperature - only where there is an atmosphere to retain heat, is there a temperature?
For example, I think I read on here about a new body-fitting space-suit (similar to the one Seven of Nine wears on Voyager, but with an S&M Mask/Helmet), a person could go out of a space ship, and be in the vaccum of space without an actual pressure suit - the same article suggested that we wouldn't need a pressure suit at all, since our skin is resilient enough to withstand the lack of pressure (we would need a source to air), again, the same article suggested that it's not the "cold" of space that is the problem it's keeping the people in space cool because we radiate so much heat, and with a small atmosphere around us, it acts as thermal barrier for dissipation.
So, take that into context, you have an object flying at the Sun. Said object would be stripped of it's local atmosphere by solar winds, therefore, heat might not be as big of a problem as we thought?
Seems that the sun works mostly off gravity, that it creates pressures so high that atoms heat up and fuse together, and the resulting energy presses against gravity and forces particles outward. (remember, gravity is a fairly weak force), so, while we can assume the temperature at the sun is XYZ-K, with there not being any thermal loss between the sun and the earth, could it be that our predictions are wrong - that perhaps the sun as as large as it is because it's dissipating so much energy that it's blowing itself outwards (cooling as it goes by conducting heat to surrounding particles by impact) to it's size, only to have the particles fall back inward?
and 98% of it we could get rid of due to it being ads, spam, and files from employees that are over 15 years old and/or are not relevant to the business.
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I have access to my corporate portal for Microsoft Select License downloads. Don't worry, I have it on order from newegg and will have it well before the 30 days is up w/o activation :)
So far I've seen a lot of improvements over Vista, which I moved to recently as well. I didn't find Vista all that annoying except in one minor aspect - you do anything and the search components would go into overload and it'd reindex everything, making the whole system sluggish. 7 is a lot better in that regard.
I've also not noticed a whole lot of other over the top improvements, other than just simple junk like adding a frequent-files/sites/etc to a start menu object, which is kind of neat but it doesn't work with any consistency with something like IE.
One other annoyance that I found was that firewire support isn't "right" - I have a pair of Presonus Firestudio devices that I use with it, and the driver it loaded would not allow them to sync. Changing it to a "legacy" driver (included with OS) resolved the issue there, though, I've not recorded with it yet.
Oh, and my AV software wouldn't work - but i got a free version upgrade since my subscription is current.
Everything else I ran on Vista runs fine on 7.
Maybe it's just me, but, I would think the moon would be THE best place to put a solar array. We know the distance, we know it's movements, and it doesn't involve putting up more floating space junk, it's surface is always facing the sun (which unlike a synchronous satalite, would be our of the sun for at least a few hours (depending on distance) - and it's far enough that's visible from the poles, which is where I'd put the recieving stations - the sending stations would be on the moon's poles, so power coudl be recieved even with a "new moon" - the only exception would be in the case of a lunar eclipse... I'd also make sure there was a way to turn it off...quickly...from someone near the equator, just in case!
So, you mean they'll copy off all the space-porn to a central repository and do nothing?
Until they figure out how to implement Wireless PoE for VoIP Phone Systems...I don't see why anyone could say that wireless will replace copper.
You can't "copy" cigarettes, but you can (but not legally in most cases) with digital media.
If said digital media has a "tax" on it, and someone makes a copy, then could that be made into an additional crime of tax evasion?
Sunspot activity obviously has a lot to do with "global warming"...
A co-worker has one, in my department, in the office adjacent to mine.
I think he gets something out of how makes him sound busier by clicking at double his typing rate...and as a programmer, looking busy (vs actually being busy) is of the utmost importance!
His isn't the old IBM style, it's like a wierd hybrid of a ergo and an old flat - it has the split, but it is a flat keyboard.
When it dies, I wonder if I'll miss it...knowing him, he's probably got a spare...lol
If we had WW-III on our hands, those ships would be out of mothballs and put back into service within a few weeks/months. There are a few "retired" battleships that are basically floating museums now that fit that criteria.
All consentual sexual relationships are a form of prostitution when you get to the basics of it...be it money, food, protection...
What about the wife that won't have sex with her husband until he does some chore?
Isn't that prostitution?
I drill holes in the HDD's from work. If they have glass platters, they shatter, done deal. If they are metal, they get a hole all the way through every platter.
My thoughts - if someone goes through the effort of trying to retrieve data from a drive in that condition, they've "earned" it.
Maybe I'm ignorant to how some data recoverey techniques are used, but, as far as I understand it, it has to be read from a head while the platter spins. When the head comes across a 1/2" hole, good-bye heads...
"standing right...in the middle of the spray of particles"
Random thoughts:
Might be a bit warm...and tingly.
Dey just makin it rain bro.
I know a lot of bikers (being a musican and biker myself), including a few that are members of the "1%er" clubs - so, when I read the part about "to stop that gang member and literally take the jacket right off his back" - that caused a moment of pause, because with several of the ones I know, that if anyone tell them to take it off, or tries to take it off for them, that is grounds for a brawl that could lead to very serious injury or worse.
Granted, this is relating to cops instead of other bikers or just regular-joes, but, I can imagine there are several bikers that wouldn't give a **** who tells them to take it off, they are going to have to be beaten down and not breathing before they'll let that happen.
So, either we'll see a lot of pointless taser-based arrests, or, officers getting injured, or, yet another law that will get ignored (like loud pipes - which I am happy with my quite-a-bit-louder-than-stock-but-still-less-than-most pipes)
Convert everything to DC.
Given my very limited electronic's knowledge:
AC can't be stored, DC can...every house have a 10,000 fared capacitor (or larger, I'm just tossing a number out there). All of them connected. Have a neighborhood lightning rod. Each house connected to the cap, which is then connected to the grid....
Problem solved.
What version Linux kernal are most of you running? I remember running Mandrake 8.0, and the kernal wasn't even close to that version - 2.3 or something...don't remember!
That's only because we can't make it obvious about our true agenda, and have a political leash on our military - I mean...look at what we have in the whitehouse. Seriously though, we have the most powerful military in the world. If war were to happen between us and the other largest military - China, China would probably ultimately win just due to sheer numbers, but not without a LOT of casualties - and that's without using the nuclear option.
Seems there was a TV Show on the History channel or something like it, relating to the Bush Election and how those machines could be duped by stacking the data in favor of one candidate or the other, before voting could take place, but the city (might have been this one) went ahead and approved the purchase of the machines.
Here's an article about it from 2006:
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11391
Even earlier - 2005:
http://www.wesh.com/news/5542983/detail.html
Heck it was even posted and discussed on Slashdot:
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/31/1646246
Unfortunately, I can't find the TV show that I watched, where some City was presented evidence and went ahead anyway and purchased it.
I'm not a fond of the old Prince of Persia game(s?), the side scrolling and difficulty I have controlling the dude bothers me - lol.
But, the series like Sands of Time, and the likes, I enjoyed quite a lot. The combat was mostly pointless, but, the puzzle aspect was entertaining.
Just what we need, more laws, when GOOD parenting is what is needed.
Seems there was a whole slew of Pentium processors back in the day that had issues calculating numbers.
It really is all about the Pentiums.
Funny, I don't recall Carlin's style to involve personal attacks? He objectified things, but never once that I know of, insult anyone directly.
George Carlin did not pass away. George Carlin Died.
Ironic that we had just watched that HBO special two nights ago...
I loved his word-play and oddball stuff...
I thought in the vaccum of space, there is no temperature - only where there is an atmosphere to retain heat, is there a temperature?
For example, I think I read on here about a new body-fitting space-suit (similar to the one Seven of Nine wears on Voyager, but with an S&M Mask/Helmet), a person could go out of a space ship, and be in the vaccum of space without an actual pressure suit - the same article suggested that we wouldn't need a pressure suit at all, since our skin is resilient enough to withstand the lack of pressure (we would need a source to air), again, the same article suggested that it's not the "cold" of space that is the problem it's keeping the people in space cool because we radiate so much heat, and with a small atmosphere around us, it acts as thermal barrier for dissipation.
So, take that into context, you have an object flying at the Sun. Said object would be stripped of it's local atmosphere by solar winds, therefore, heat might not be as big of a problem as we thought?
Seems that the sun works mostly off gravity, that it creates pressures so high that atoms heat up and fuse together, and the resulting energy presses against gravity and forces particles outward. (remember, gravity is a fairly weak force), so, while we can assume the temperature at the sun is XYZ-K, with there not being any thermal loss between the sun and the earth, could it be that our predictions are wrong - that perhaps the sun as as large as it is because it's dissipating so much energy that it's blowing itself outwards (cooling as it goes by conducting heat to surrounding particles by impact) to it's size, only to have the particles fall back inward?
Long post, just some thoughts I have on it...
What's going to lose, honestly?
Scientology is a sue-happy scum-sucking bunch of lunatics.
South Park did such a wonderful job portraying them in one of their episodes...
But, my point is, the kid is a teen - what does he have to lose in all of this?
and 98% of it we could get rid of due to it being ads, spam, and files from employees that are over 15 years old and/or are not relevant to the business.