Wow, $50 profit per laptop! Lesse, I could probably stuff a couple dozen into my luggage (have to pad the luggage well, of course, as luggage handlers are not typically gentle). So 24*$50=$1200! That's almost enough for airfare one way! Here I come, Thailand...
I'm not sure which govenment you're talking about, but if you're talking about the Bush/Cheney/Ashcroft government that let MS off the hook with a slap on the wrist, I'd say MS has nothing at all to worry about. Of course, if Ashcroft finds out Bill is involved in distributing (gasp!) condoms in Africa as part of his charitable work to fight AIDS there, things may change in that regard;)
um, the soot came from people heating their homes with coal. autos had nothing at all to do with the elimination of this practice. or are you laboring under the delusion that hundreds of thousands of people did their daily commuting on steam locomotives?
If crime went up exponentially, say, every 5 years, the city would be completely populated with criminals within a generation. Why didn't this happen in the 1890s in the US?
Have you tried Firebird(or Phoenix, whatever)? I don't have a Mac, but on my old 350 PII box it Firebird loads much faster than Moz (and NS 7). Not as fast as Operas and IE, but it doesn't take forever.
Actually, I didn't have a justification for humans being used as a power source, just an explanaiton why sheep and trees are not. Then again, I coulda been talking outta my ass. Who cares? It's a fucking kung-fu movie. Suspend some disbelief, eat some popcorn, and allow your jaw to drop periodically. Or perhaps we should all argue about the feasibility of the Return of the King when that comes out, too;)
Actually, none of those examples are "plot holes", which generally means an error in continuity or logic in the story. It did have a couple, but on the whole, for being as convoluted as it was, it was pretty internally consistent.
Why use humans at all? If all you need is a powersource, stick in sheep? Less troublesome by half
a) There're no sheep left after the war between humans and machines, presumably;
and 2) Your brain produces enough electricity to power a microwave. I'm not sure how other mammals compare in this regard, but I doubt they fare much better.
The caloric efficiency of using bodies as massive networked energy sources is a concept I don't buy. Cripes. Burning wood has to be more efficient.
Yeah, the efficiency thing bugged me too. You can't just keep feeding dead people to new people without losing at least the body heat of the living in the process. Perhaps there's another unexplained food source, maybe algae or something. As for trees, the sky has been 'burnt', so no solar energy gets through (which would've been the optimal solution anyway, at least until the machines develop some other source of energy based of fusion or something).
Moreover, who cares what people in the matrix think? If they revolt, so what?
Actually, I think the preceding two points you made answer this one nicely, if we consider the Matrix a stop-gap measure used by the machines to perpetuate themselves until such a time as they no longer need humans. They may even be using human scientists within the Matrix to provide solutions to problems which they, as machines, haven't the creative insight to solve for themselves. Approached from this point of view, the eventual extermination of the human race by the machines becomes an inevitablility if the humans to not wake up and overthrow them.
Lastly, this is a nitpick I know, but bullets travel at well over the speed of sound. I don't care how fast you pull the trigger, with the action of a semi-automatic, the bullets will likely be 100 feet apart between shots.
That's true if you or I are firing the gun. If an Agent inside the Matrix is firing the gun, however, the results may be somewhat different.
Of course, you still have to jump through a lot of suspension-of-disbelief hoops to buy the premise of the movie, so if you don't appreciate crazy scifi kung-fu stoner philosophy flicks with Carrie-Anne Moss in skin-tight leather outfits, you're more than welcome to spend your movie dollar seeing The Lizzie McGuire Movie
Compared what? The 'distro' of Linux someone put on their box by compiling it from scratch and deciding exactly what they wanted on that box? Your question makes no sense, as this is not a standard distribution. Everyone who does this is going to have a different outcome, so there's no basis for comparison.
I hate to be obvious, but he'd buy it because he can. It's fair to assume that Mr. Robertson is in this for the money, not because he has any high-minded ideals about free software. Granted, it may be awhile before Lindows has gained the kind of mainstream attention that Microsoft might actually find threatening to their desktop monopoly, but it seems to me that Lindows is the most successful distro to date at marketing iself as a Windows replacement to the non-geek crowd.
How much would Bill have to pay you to get you to sell Lindows to him?
I don't expect you to answer this question, but I am intriguied to know if offers have been made...
You think that's bad! The other day I tried going to mozilla.org with ie, and it timed out. Fired up Moz and it opened just fine. Tried ie again, still no dice. Hmmmmm.....
Well, the site does load quickly for me (on a 56k dial-up), so that is a definite bonus. It just doesn't seem to have a unique aesthetic to it. Then again, look at google, simple as it gets. And I will definitely remember the name. I'll be checking it out periodically, hope it works out for you!
How is this any better than musicians setting up their own site and using paypal (which takes out a lower percentage for credit card charges)?
Many people don't use paypal, and setting up your own account to process credit cards is expensive, time-consuming, and nearly impossible if you're just some unknown musician who isn't incorporated and can demonstrate a long and flawless credit history.
I think this is a pretty good idea in theory, but in practice... we'll see. I think they could stand to have a bit more professional look to the site, and "fat chuck's" isn't a name that exactly fills me with confidence.
I'm not sure which parallel universe you're posting from, but in this one every episode of Star Trek has been in syndication continually since at least the early 70s.
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Wow, $50 profit per laptop! Lesse, I could probably stuff a couple dozen into my luggage (have to pad the luggage well, of course, as luggage handlers are not typically gentle). So 24*$50=$1200! That's almost enough for airfare one way! Here I come, Thailand...
I'm not sure which govenment you're talking about, but if you're talking about the Bush/Cheney/Ashcroft government that let MS off the hook with a slap on the wrist, I'd say MS has nothing at all to worry about. Of course, if Ashcroft finds out Bill is involved in distributing (gasp!) condoms in Africa as part of his charitable work to fight AIDS there, things may change in that regard ;)
um, the soot came from people heating their homes with coal. autos had nothing at all to do with the elimination of this practice. or are you laboring under the delusion that hundreds of thousands of people did their daily commuting on steam locomotives?
If crime went up exponentially, say, every 5 years, the city would be completely populated with criminals within a generation. Why didn't this happen in the 1890s in the US?
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# Source Code is Publicly Available.
And I have never paid for sex in my life. You must be one ugly bastard.
Have you tried Firebird(or Phoenix, whatever)? I don't have a Mac, but on my old 350 PII box it Firebird loads much faster than Moz (and NS 7). Not as fast as Operas and IE, but it doesn't take forever.
Actually, I didn't have a justification for humans being used as a power source, just an explanaiton why sheep and trees are not. Then again, I coulda been talking outta my ass. Who cares? It's a fucking kung-fu movie. Suspend some disbelief, eat some popcorn, and allow your jaw to drop periodically. Or perhaps we should all argue about the feasibility of the Return of the King when that comes out, too ;)
Actually, I heard that on the radio (NPR), so I just googled it and came up with 10 watts. I'll take neither of these answers as definitive ;)
Why use humans at all? If all you need is a powersource, stick in sheep? Less troublesome by half
a) There're no sheep left after the war between humans and machines, presumably;
and 2) Your brain produces enough electricity to power a microwave. I'm not sure how other mammals compare in this regard, but I doubt they fare much better.
The caloric efficiency of using bodies as massive networked energy sources is a concept I don't buy. Cripes. Burning wood has to be more efficient.
Yeah, the efficiency thing bugged me too. You can't just keep feeding dead people to new people without losing at least the body heat of the living in the process. Perhaps there's another unexplained food source, maybe algae or something. As for trees, the sky has been 'burnt', so no solar energy gets through (which would've been the optimal solution anyway, at least until the machines develop some other source of energy based of fusion or something).
Moreover, who cares what people in the matrix think? If they revolt, so what?
Actually, I think the preceding two points you made answer this one nicely, if we consider the Matrix a stop-gap measure used by the machines to perpetuate themselves until such a time as they no longer need humans. They may even be using human scientists within the Matrix to provide solutions to problems which they, as machines, haven't the creative insight to solve for themselves. Approached from this point of view, the eventual extermination of the human race by the machines becomes an inevitablility if the humans to not wake up and overthrow them.
Lastly, this is a nitpick I know, but bullets travel at well over the speed of sound. I don't care how fast you pull the trigger, with the action of a semi-automatic, the bullets will likely be 100 feet apart between shots.
That's true if you or I are firing the gun. If an Agent inside the Matrix is firing the gun, however, the results may be somewhat different.
Of course, you still have to jump through a lot of suspension-of-disbelief hoops to buy the premise of the movie, so if you don't appreciate crazy scifi kung-fu stoner philosophy flicks with Carrie-Anne Moss in skin-tight leather outfits, you're more than welcome to spend your movie dollar seeing The Lizzie McGuire Movie
Compared what? The 'distro' of Linux someone put on their box by compiling it from scratch and deciding exactly what they wanted on that box? Your question makes no sense, as this is not a standard distribution. Everyone who does this is going to have a different outcome, so there's no basis for comparison.
I didn't know Yugo was responsible for IIS, that explains a lot.
Why would Bill want to buy Lindows?
I hate to be obvious, but he'd buy it because he can. It's fair to assume that Mr. Robertson is in this for the money, not because he has any high-minded ideals about free software. Granted, it may be awhile before Lindows has gained the kind of mainstream attention that Microsoft might actually find threatening to their desktop monopoly, but it seems to me that Lindows is the most successful distro to date at marketing iself as a Windows replacement to the non-geek crowd.
If it's compiling automatically, then you're probably not reading it to check for trojans or virii.
How much would Bill have to pay you to get you to sell Lindows to him? I don't expect you to answer this question, but I am intriguied to know if offers have been made...
You think that's bad! The other day I tried going to mozilla.org with ie, and it timed out. Fired up Moz and it opened just fine. Tried ie again, still no dice. Hmmmmm.....
Well, the site does load quickly for me (on a 56k dial-up), so that is a definite bonus. It just doesn't seem to have a unique aesthetic to it. Then again, look at google, simple as it gets. And I will definitely remember the name. I'll be checking it out periodically, hope it works out for you!
Many people don't use paypal, and setting up your own account to process credit cards is expensive, time-consuming, and nearly impossible if you're just some unknown musician who isn't incorporated and can demonstrate a long and flawless credit history.
I think this is a pretty good idea in theory, but in practice... we'll see. I think they could stand to have a bit more professional look to the site, and "fat chuck's" isn't a name that exactly fills me with confidence.
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Maybe this is what cygwin is for ;)
Gotta be Bill Gates for them to be able to get that kind of money from one guy.
/. cred? ;)
What the fuck, man? You trying to ruin my
I'm not sure which parallel universe you're posting from, but in this one every episode of Star Trek has been in syndication continually since at least the early 70s.
I cannot think of one good comic to movie translation, not one.
Come on, there must be a tiny glimmer of admiration for the first Batman movie somewhere in your heart...
OK, so when are you going to sell out Carnegie Hall with your mad GUI navigation skills? ;)
... that the music of Don Ho would ever yield any practical engineering application.
According to quantum theory, there is no 'read only' mode of observation.