Don't be ridiculous. What is more important RIGHT NOW - getting off the planet because it will be engulfed by The Sun in 5 billion years or saving vast tracts of the population from starvation when we already have more than enough food to feed them all!
Sure we may want to leave at some point, but if you are talking about saving humanity, there is an awful lot of humanity that needs saving right here first.
You call someone a "small minded demon of impotence" because you would rather save your own ancestors than the millions who will die this year alone due to intransigence on the part of rich nations? Well gee I guess the selfish gene is alive and well in your pool.
Yes but it doesnt have to be those countries that stand up to them. The consuming countries can do it just as effectively. The US and/or Europe alone could do it by simply saying "Show us an audited trail of how you produced these chips. For every gram of crud you produce thats an extra 10% sales tax".
The manufacturers need these markets. If the markets dont like the manufacturers methodds, they can force them to change.
The only thing that you can do - tax those who do not clean up their act. A large company will allways try and producs cheaply . If it becomes too expensive to produce chips using "Dirty" methods you an just bet they will find "Clean" methods to reduce their margins.
I'm allways suspicious of a writer "completing" the work of anothers - or writing stories in someonelses universe. I find all the Star Wars fiction (Zahn, etc) toe curlingly bad, for example.
This sounds interesting though. I'm a fan of the original Dune books but they had there ups and downs (first one up, last two up, rest down). So, anyone who has read the non - Frank Herbet ones think they compare?
SOunds like interesting tech. What I find interesting is that they have to join several of there elements together to make a "pixel" - presumably this is to avoid having to scrap every video driver in the known universe. BUT it also means they could run at much higher definition if each element is controled seperatley. Combien that with the more paper like look and you have somthing much much easier to read.
Question though - I may have missed htis but how efficient is the manufacturing process? Isnt the main problem with LCDs that the manufacturing process is incredably inefficient?
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I wear a suit and tie every day to work. I have also had jobs IT where I did not wear a suit and tie. I have to say I prefer wearing the suit. When I get home, I can take off my suitm and there is a demarcation between work and home which can really help you relax.
I eat cheesy-poofs. I drink an unhealthy amount of coffee. Hopefully my code is pretty good. My suit in no way reflects on this.
Well I think I can dismiss conspiracy theories here - it also doesnt find text in *.vb files - just searched for "overrides" in a project dir and found nothing with "FilterFilesWithUnknownExtensions" key set to 0 and the files I would expect with it at 1.
How odd. I'm running XP Pro, I just created a text file "wibble.java" and searched for it, found it no problem. I believe by default XP hides binary files - heck it discourages you from browsing your hard drive. Could I have turnes somthing off/on that you havent?
Robert Novak is representing himself in this lawsuit, and thus it is effectively costing him nothing to persue this campaign of harassment.
Surely this only applies till he loses to someone like Google - who then get costs awarded to them? Then he's looking down the long road to bancruptcyville.
That would explain it. Just rad the article and thought "why are they not talking about RGB through SCART?"
I am a sad muppet and bought a tv which has RGB-monitor capability for my original PS - it does nicely for my PS2 as well!
So they solve data rates, they solve porcessor speed, they solve image quality - now I can really quickly download high quality images for the 10 minutes my battery lasts!
I mean, these are not new - we have had one sat on our receptionists desk for ages - months at least. I fail to see anything here that is
a) news.
b) stuff that matters.
Ack! The Zahn Sequels were terrible! When I read a book I'd like to hear the writers style, not him desperatley trying to repeat someone else's. He wasnt even writing in the style of Lucas's writing - he was writing in the style of the films - the visual style. Every time I read "Han upper lip curled upwards" I cringed. I cringed a lot during those books.
... with the new star wars films is nostalgia. We look back on the original three films with rose-tinted glasses, when really the dialogue sucked, the plots were generic, and acting not up to scratch. The only new crime of the new trilogy is the over-reliance on CGI.
PS this isnt a troll I actually love Star Wars:-)
Its not on the windows update site yet (at least, not last time I checked), but it is STILL the 9th you know.
The download is 137mb and has been "leaked" in the customary MS stylee. I found it here.
Having installed it I am somewhat underwhelmed. It rolls up security patches which I allready have, and adds an icon to my startup bar which lets me swap my Microsoft web browser for, uhh... nothing else. It either hasnt noticed or has totally ignored my Mozilla install.
Oh and it re-added an IE and Outlook bloody Express icon to my programs menu.
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Don't be ridiculous. What is more important RIGHT NOW - getting off the planet because it will be engulfed by The Sun in 5 billion years or saving vast tracts of the population from starvation when we already have more than enough food to feed them all!
Sure we may want to leave at some point, but if you are talking about saving humanity, there is an awful lot of humanity that needs saving right here first.
You call someone a "small minded demon of impotence" because you would rather save your own ancestors than the millions who will die this year alone due to intransigence on the part of rich nations? Well gee I guess the selfish gene is alive and well in your pool.
Yes but it doesnt have to be those countries that stand up to them. The consuming countries can do it just as effectively. The US and/or Europe alone could do it by simply saying "Show us an audited trail of how you produced these chips. For every gram of crud you produce thats an extra 10% sales tax".
The manufacturers need these markets. If the markets dont like the manufacturers methodds, they can force them to change.
The only thing that you can do - tax those who do not clean up their act.
A large company will allways try and producs cheaply . If it becomes too expensive to produce chips using "Dirty" methods you an just bet they will find "Clean" methods to reduce their margins.
I'm allways suspicious of a writer "completing" the work of anothers - or writing stories in someonelses universe. I find all the Star Wars fiction (Zahn, etc) toe curlingly bad, for example.
This sounds interesting though. I'm a fan of the original Dune books but they had there ups and downs (first one up, last two up, rest down). So, anyone who has read the non - Frank Herbet ones think they compare?
SOunds like interesting tech. What I find interesting is that they have to join several of there elements together to make a "pixel" - presumably this is to avoid having to scrap every video driver in the known universe. BUT it also means they could run at much higher definition if each element is controled seperatley. Combien that with the more paper like look and you have somthing much much easier to read.
Question though - I may have missed htis but how efficient is the manufacturing process? Isnt the main problem with LCDs that the manufacturing process is incredably inefficient?
I wear a suit and tie every day to work. I have also had jobs IT where I did not wear a suit and tie. I have to say I prefer wearing the suit. When I get home, I can take off my suitm and there is a demarcation between work and home which can really help you relax.
I eat cheesy-poofs. I drink an unhealthy amount of coffee. Hopefully my code is pretty good. My suit in no way reflects on this.
I do find it quite ironic that I just had an ad for vs.net in this thread...
But thats what people want - BillG says so.
Looks more like he should be a QPR or Reading supporter with that shirt!
Well I think I can dismiss conspiracy theories here - it also doesnt find text in *.vb files - just searched for "overrides" in a project dir and found nothing with "FilterFilesWithUnknownExtensions" key set to 0 and the files I would expect with it at 1.
:-)
Hey ho you learn somthing every day
In retrospect, with thanks to the AC, that is in fact true. And setting that key alters it.
I will read posts fully,
I will read posts fully,
I will read posts fully,
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Hmm - I can unfortunatley nto confirm this behaviour! That key is set to 0... I dont have JBuilder - I do have VS.NET but I dont have j#. :-/
How odd. I'm running XP Pro, I just created a text file "wibble.java" and searched for it, found it no problem. I believe by default XP hides binary files - heck it discourages you from browsing your hard drive. Could I have turnes somthing off/on that you havent?
in cheaper than software you have to pay for shocker!
Robert Novak is representing himself in this lawsuit, and thus it is effectively costing him nothing to persue this campaign of harassment.
Surely this only applies till he loses to someone like Google - who then get costs awarded to them? Then he's looking down the long road to bancruptcyville.
That would explain it. Just rad the article and thought "why are they not talking about RGB through SCART?"
I am a sad muppet and bought a tv which has RGB-monitor capability for my original PS - it does nicely for my PS2 as well!
So they solve data rates, they solve porcessor speed, they solve image quality - now I can really quickly download high quality images for the 10 minutes my battery lasts!
I mean, these are not new - we have had one sat on our receptionists desk for ages - months at least. I fail to see anything here that is
a) news.
b) stuff that matters.
Bizzare.
..is there to allow us to make lame "Bud.... Weis....Err" jokes?
I mean, the acting will never be Braveheart quality
If that is the standard by which you judge quality acting, I rest my case.
Ack! The Zahn Sequels were terrible! When I read a book I'd like to hear the writers style, not him desperatley trying to repeat someone else's. He wasnt even writing in the style of Lucas's writing - he was writing in the style of the films - the visual style.
Every time I read "Han upper lip curled upwards" I cringed.
I cringed a lot during those books.
... with the new star wars films is nostalgia. We look back on the original three films with rose-tinted glasses, when really the dialogue sucked, the plots were generic, and acting not up to scratch. :-)
The only new crime of the new trilogy is the over-reliance on CGI.
PS this isnt a troll I actually love Star Wars
And inevitabley... 6) ??? 7) Profit!
I was just about to patent the smiley. I guess this is prior art.
Its not on the windows update site yet (at least, not last time I checked), but it is STILL the 9th you know.
The download is 137mb and has been "leaked" in the customary MS stylee. I found it here.
Having installed it I am somewhat underwhelmed. It rolls up security patches which I allready have, and adds an icon to my startup bar which lets me swap my Microsoft web browser for, uhh... nothing else. It either hasnt noticed or has totally ignored my Mozilla install.
Oh and it re-added an IE and Outlook bloody Express icon to my programs menu.