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It doesn't gain anything, it's a business. It's not like they are a group of researchers who have concluded that space 'burial' is better than land burial. They're just there to cater to relatively well-off people who either just like the idea of being a celestial body or are somehow religious and think that they are being 'buried' closer to god.
As for the mass on earth question, I wouldn't think the mass we've shot into space is anything to worry about. The earth is big and we aren't to the point where we can cheaply send tons of stuff into space. Even if everyone on earth were to be 'buried' there, it wouldn't cause any significant impact.
As an aside, what's with calling it a space burial anyway? I guess it's better on the marketing than just saying they'll shoot your lifeless body into nothingness where you'll cook on one side and freeze on the other.
That is an interesting idea, yeah... but definitely our technology would have to greatly improve to be able to make the diamond a certain shape like that, probably to the extent that it wouldn't be worth it to do it in the first place. If we had the technology to cut a single-piece spacecraft hull out of a diamond, we'd probably have something else we could use that'd be better.
The thing is, Peter Jackson is only really a genious in filming battle scenes... the rest of the movie was fine, but nothing a huge budget couldn't do for any competent director.
The battle scenes though... they're breathtaking, simply put.
Now, the question is how this style of filmmaking is going to translate to King Kong... obviously it's not going to be a many vs. many situation, so it will be interesting to see if he can make magic out of that too.
Nobody would bother going to space for diamonds, because there are already too many of them down here. We're just supposed to believe that there aren't many so that we can pay a higher price for them.
Really, how is "nearly enough" useful anyway? Either you are short a bit of power, or have to have two, in which case you've got way too much.
I guess this is only meant to augment our current distribution system and not replace it. It's unfortunate, since we've been promised fuel cells in homes for a long time now...
Sure, but unfortunately the linux+mac team would have to be pretty damn good at few vs. many situations... or if the team sizes are forced balance, there will obviously be a whole load more windows users to pick the best players from.
I don't get to write as much as I'd like to but I've found I very much enjoy doing it and I am sure I never would of started if it was not for the ability to post them online even though no one will read them but a couple friends who I could have given them to anyway.
Slashdot still needs to help you with run-on sentences, apparently...:)
I had no idea what it meant, but then again it never occurred to me that clicking on it might help me find out, so I guess the whole business doesn't say much for my intelligence:)
It would be difficult to produce disks that the thing can read, but I would think the connection between the optical disk and the rest of the innards would be where any storage mechanism would have to go. There wouldn't be any built-in functionality to allow an extra storage interface. I'm guessing that the generic expansion ports would be on the slow side for that usage also...
That's the thing though. In general, it isn't clock-for-clock slower than Northwood, giving generally equivalent performance at 3.2 GHz.
This is what amazes me about the chip... Intel has done a really good job improving branch prediction and other parts of the core to keep the pipeline filled as much as possible. Being able to increase the pipeline length by over 50% and not have a large decrease in IPC is just amazing.
And when you consider that a 3.2 GHz processor runs up to at least 3.8 on air cooling now, you just know this thing is gonna ramp up to 5 GHz next year.
Well, it's a bit different... legitimate gun owners shouldn't mind having to jump through a few more hoops provided that it helps keep guns out of the hands of the people that would use them for harm. Of course, I'm not commenting on whether these measures actually work or not...
There is a difference between Windows in the wrong hands and a gun in the wrong hands, you know what I mean?
That's what we have, but with one problem... We haven't been able to find software that will work through her NAT. Right now we just use it for voice to save on the phone bills.
Does anyone know a video chat program that should automatically work with a NAT? And no, I don't have access to her router.
My comment was not intended to talk about what the rules actually are...
My point was that because he has gone after only MS, it will be easier for MS to convince the government to throw out the patent, since it will be easier for them to convince the authorities that it is a bogus patent, since the holder is only using it to punish the company he doesn't like.
It has nothing about what people are allowed to do, but everything about what is likely going to happen in the complicated machine that is corporate America.
He specifically stated that he would like to see the Mozilla project+Netscape+Others have a 'leg up' on Microsoft....and this is why he'll probably lose the case. If he were to just apply the patent to everyone, that's in the American spirit: tough business. In this case, it's a personal vendetta against a company with strong links to government... I'm afraid it doesn't look too good for the professor.
I do see what you are saying here, but I'm not sure if the Mac/Windows thing matches up exactly with guitars.
I mean, when there are only two major options (I'm assuming linux would be a bit over her level), it's different than when there are many. Perhaps most importantly, there are a lot of cheap knock-offs when talking about something like musical instruments.
However, that's not really the case with OSes. You can't go out and buy a cheaper knock-off of Windows or Mac OS and have it run the same programs only worse in some way. Same goes with the doctor example... it's not really the same, because we're not dealing with such a small number of choices.
Basically I just wish that everybody could see the good points of one OS and the good points of another. It is perfectly reasonable to feel like the good points of one outweigh the good points of the other, but that doesn't mean people who feel the same way about the other side are wrong and should be punished.
The other reason why I pointed it out is that it seems very unlikely to me that it was the only reason she was dumped... there were likely other circumstances. What is disturbing in that case is that the article writes that without bothering to make it sound abnormal, like it is something all of the MS Mac employees might do.
From the article:...they recounted with pride such tales as the colleague who broke up with a girlfriend who bought a Windows PC.
This kind of statement really doesn't help the Mac cause... To a non-Mac user, it freaks me out, to tell you the truth. It seems too cult for my tastes.
At my school, it's no different as far as textbook prices go, but my profs are quite good in that they never require the students to get the textbooks... They are instead listed as recommended reading in certain sections. As a bonus, there are usually a couple of copies on reserve at the library so we don't have to buy them.
Actually, businesses could do better if they sold gas in liters instead of gallons, since it would be such a lower number on the sign.
I know plenty of times when Americans have commented in Canada about how cheap the gas is because they didn't realize the price was for about a quarter of a gallon.
Who's going to try to go to Microsoft.com and end up typing MikeRoweSoft.com? There wouldn't be any accidental traffic to his site, and his site wouldn't come up on any searches for MS either.
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It doesn't gain anything, it's a business. It's not like they are a group of researchers who have concluded that space 'burial' is better than land burial. They're just there to cater to relatively well-off people who either just like the idea of being a celestial body or are somehow religious and think that they are being 'buried' closer to god.
As for the mass on earth question, I wouldn't think the mass we've shot into space is anything to worry about. The earth is big and we aren't to the point where we can cheaply send tons of stuff into space. Even if everyone on earth were to be 'buried' there, it wouldn't cause any significant impact.
As an aside, what's with calling it a space burial anyway? I guess it's better on the marketing than just saying they'll shoot your lifeless body into nothingness where you'll cook on one side and freeze on the other.
That is an interesting idea, yeah... but definitely our technology would have to greatly improve to be able to make the diamond a certain shape like that, probably to the extent that it wouldn't be worth it to do it in the first place. If we had the technology to cut a single-piece spacecraft hull out of a diamond, we'd probably have something else we could use that'd be better.
The thing is, Peter Jackson is only really a genious in filming battle scenes... the rest of the movie was fine, but nothing a huge budget couldn't do for any competent director.
The battle scenes though... they're breathtaking, simply put.
Now, the question is how this style of filmmaking is going to translate to King Kong... obviously it's not going to be a many vs. many situation, so it will be interesting to see if he can make magic out of that too.
Nobody would bother going to space for diamonds, because there are already too many of them down here. We're just supposed to believe that there aren't many so that we can pay a higher price for them.
Really, how is "nearly enough" useful anyway? Either you are short a bit of power, or have to have two, in which case you've got way too much.
I guess this is only meant to augment our current distribution system and not replace it. It's unfortunate, since we've been promised fuel cells in homes for a long time now...
Sure, but unfortunately the linux+mac team would have to be pretty damn good at few vs. many situations... or if the team sizes are forced balance, there will obviously be a whole load more windows users to pick the best players from.
What you fail to realize is it's the meek who are the problem!
I don't get to write as much as I'd like to but I've found I very much enjoy doing it and I am sure I never would of started if it was not for the ability to post them online even though no one will read them but a couple friends who I could have given them to anyway.
:)
Slashdot still needs to help you with run-on sentences, apparently...
I had no idea what it meant, but then again it never occurred to me that clicking on it might help me find out, so I guess the whole business doesn't say much for my intelligence :)
It would be difficult to produce disks that the thing can read, but I would think the connection between the optical disk and the rest of the innards would be where any storage mechanism would have to go. There wouldn't be any built-in functionality to allow an extra storage interface. I'm guessing that the generic expansion ports would be on the slow side for that usage also...
That's the thing though. In general, it isn't clock-for-clock slower than Northwood, giving generally equivalent performance at 3.2 GHz.
This is what amazes me about the chip... Intel has done a really good job improving branch prediction and other parts of the core to keep the pipeline filled as much as possible. Being able to increase the pipeline length by over 50% and not have a large decrease in IPC is just amazing.
And when you consider that a 3.2 GHz processor runs up to at least 3.8 on air cooling now, you just know this thing is gonna ramp up to 5 GHz next year.
I'm not sure how much the future of P2P hinges on a US court decision... there are people in other countries using P2P too you know.
Even if it became outright illegal to do anything with P2P in the US, it wouldn't mean the end of P2P networks.
Anybody who presses the 'Search' button on a logitech keyboard should get google by default, so in some cases it can be helpful.
:P
Of course, MS keyboards would do the opposite
Well, it's a bit different... legitimate gun owners shouldn't mind having to jump through a few more hoops provided that it helps keep guns out of the hands of the people that would use them for harm. Of course, I'm not commenting on whether these measures actually work or not...
There is a difference between Windows in the wrong hands and a gun in the wrong hands, you know what I mean?
That's what we have, but with one problem... We haven't been able to find software that will work through her NAT. Right now we just use it for voice to save on the phone bills.
Does anyone know a video chat program that should automatically work with a NAT? And no, I don't have access to her router.
My comment was not intended to talk about what the rules actually are...
My point was that because he has gone after only MS, it will be easier for MS to convince the government to throw out the patent, since it will be easier for them to convince the authorities that it is a bogus patent, since the holder is only using it to punish the company he doesn't like.
It has nothing about what people are allowed to do, but everything about what is likely going to happen in the complicated machine that is corporate America.
He specifically stated that he would like to see the Mozilla project+Netscape+Others have a 'leg up' on Microsoft. ...and this is why he'll probably lose the case. If he were to just apply the patent to everyone, that's in the American spirit: tough business. In this case, it's a personal vendetta against a company with strong links to government... I'm afraid it doesn't look too good for the professor.
I do see what you are saying here, but I'm not sure if the Mac/Windows thing matches up exactly with guitars.
I mean, when there are only two major options (I'm assuming linux would be a bit over her level), it's different than when there are many. Perhaps most importantly, there are a lot of cheap knock-offs when talking about something like musical instruments.
However, that's not really the case with OSes. You can't go out and buy a cheaper knock-off of Windows or Mac OS and have it run the same programs only worse in some way. Same goes with the doctor example... it's not really the same, because we're not dealing with such a small number of choices.
Basically I just wish that everybody could see the good points of one OS and the good points of another. It is perfectly reasonable to feel like the good points of one outweigh the good points of the other, but that doesn't mean people who feel the same way about the other side are wrong and should be punished.
The other reason why I pointed it out is that it seems very unlikely to me that it was the only reason she was dumped... there were likely other circumstances. What is disturbing in that case is that the article writes that without bothering to make it sound abnormal, like it is something all of the MS Mac employees might do.
From the article: ...they recounted with pride such tales as the colleague who broke up with a girlfriend who bought a Windows PC.
This kind of statement really doesn't help the Mac cause... To a non-Mac user, it freaks me out, to tell you the truth. It seems too cult for my tastes.
At my school, it's no different as far as textbook prices go, but my profs are quite good in that they never require the students to get the textbooks... They are instead listed as recommended reading in certain sections. As a bonus, there are usually a couple of copies on reserve at the library so we don't have to buy them.
But it's Disney, so what do you expect?
Adams on this subject in The Salmon of Doubt:
"The Hollywood process is like trying to grill a steak by having a succession of people coming into the room and breathing on it."
No, $125,000 would be 50%. Parent suggested .50% :)
Survivor's done OK, though it isn't as good as the original IMHO.
Actually, businesses could do better if they sold gas in liters instead of gallons, since it would be such a lower number on the sign.
I know plenty of times when Americans have commented in Canada about how cheap the gas is because they didn't realize the price was for about a quarter of a gallon.
Who's going to try to go to Microsoft.com and end up typing MikeRoweSoft.com? There wouldn't be any accidental traffic to his site, and his site wouldn't come up on any searches for MS either.