Why is #2 always a completely weird game for nintendo, where they completely go off track from what they did in the rest of the series. Think about SMB2, Legend of Zelda 2, and well, I'm sure there was others.
Thanks to Virtual Console, on the Wii, a whole generation of new gamers will get to enjoy Super Mario Bros. 2. And a lot of people who played SMB2 ages ago, are still enjoying it.
Isn't there a difference between sharing idea's, and sharing millions of lines of source code that it took thousands of man-hours to type out, test, fix, test, fix, and market? I mean, sharing ideas is fine. But you can't just pretend that the software just came into being because somebody had an idea. I have lots of ideas for good software. The actual implementation is the hard work that people should be rewarded for. Even most of the open source projects have donation bins and appreciate getting actual cash for their hard work.
Well, lets look at laws about murder. Just because you kill someone doesn't mean you have committed murder. If it is in self defence, we as a society have decided that it is not defined as murder, as defined by law, and not something you should be arrested for. In the same way, if we decide that sharing music, movies, and software for non profit isn't theft, then it isn't theft. Laws have been wrong in the past and they have changed. It's not that theft wouldn't be theft anymore. But that certain aspects which could be interpreted as theft wouldn't be recognized as illegal in a court of law.
You're assuming the content providers even want to make a deal with Youtube. If the content providers really wanted their stuff on Youtube so that people could easily view it, they would have approached Youtube with the idea, instead of just sending out thousands of takedown notices. Instead, they insist on sticking with their dieing business model, of selling their shows to broadcast TV stations.
I'm not saying it would be better suited to the purpose. All I was refuting was the fact that Xenon is the heaviest noble gas. I don't think Radon would be the best thing to use, but that doesn't disprove that fact that there are heavier noble gases than Xenon.
What about Radon. According to my periodic table Radon would be the heaviest noble gas. Not countijng Ununoctium of course, but that's a synthetic element.
Well, if you have 40 kg of fuel being propelled at 40,000 m/s out the back of the spaceship, then assuming and equal force pushing the fuel backwards pushes the spaceship forwards, this would mean that a 5000 KG spaceship would be travelling at 320 m/s, which is 1152 KM/h, which is just under Mach 1. Of course, this assumes that everything is 100% efficient.
Please feel free to correct me. I am not a physicist, and I'm probably completely wrong about this.
I guess it really depends on how much free space you have on the device. If you have an 64 GB device (just for example), and 32 GB is filled with apps, those will never be overwritten, and will always stay in the same place. Now you only have 32 other GB in which your other data that is constantly changing to be written. Look at it this way. If you have 10 MB free, and want to write 1 MB, then there's only 10 choices for each byte it writes of where to put it. That could wear out your drive quite quickly.
If you don't have any need for specific windows applications, you might want to just install Linux on it. I have a 1.6 Pentium M, with 512 MB of RAM, and it has no problems with speed. I mostly use it for browsing the web, with a little web development, and some light photo editing. As a comparison, it came with Vista, which is unusably slow.
Using server side CGI scripts (or ASP, PHP, JSP, etc.) says nothing about whether the page uses Javascript at all. You do understand the difference between server side and client side scripting, don't you?
You don't usually accidentally type rm -rf/~ by accident, without really noticing what you are doing. It's very easy to breeze through the sql server install and not even realize that you should have entered a password, or that it was a really good idea to do so.
Which once again proves Sturgeon's Law which states that 90% of everything is crap. Or 92.3% in this case. Luckily for me gMail is pretty good at filtering the crap, son I only see about 1 spam for every 10 real emails. However, if I look in my junk folder, and compare that to the number of valid emails I receive, I would say that 99% of it is spam.
Could the grid handle everyone pumping electricity back into the grid, especially with such a technology as wind, where the amount of power generated tends to be "bursty". Could this backfire a large percentage (> 25%) of homes started doing this?
Yes, you can do this in a photo editing program. The point is you shouldn't have to open a photo editing program to put an image on your desktop, and not have it be all messed up.
There's probably a lot of other things you could do with the same money, like put in a ground-loop heating/cooling system. Of course, it wouldn't be as showy, and none of the neighbors would know you had it, so it's not the best way to show off how eco friendly you are, but would probably benefit you quite a bit more.
Couldn't they actually get more customers if they didn't load the machine up with crapware? I know this is why I still assemble my own desktop machines. So that I know what goes into it, and what gets installed on it. If I could do it with a laptop, I would, but the selection of laptops that come with out crap installed is infinitesimally small. So it's easier to just buy whatever and just wipe it. I know I would start buying from big OEMs if they started shipping the machine without a ton of crap on it.
Does windows let you stretch (or shrink) an image and put it on your wallpaper without messing up the aspect ratio? No, well, until it does, it's not ready for the masses. We can probably all name a hundred things that are wrong with either Windows, Linux, or Mac. The question is whether or not most users are affected by it, and if they can cope with the problems they are experiencing. You may not be able to run Linux on every hardware configuration out there, but you really can't do that with Windows either. If you bought a computer specifically configured to work with Linux, and already preconfigured like you would with a Windows machine, you would have not problems getting everything to work properly.
Actually, we (the web) have had problems with this before. Web accellerators started following links on pages before you clicked them. If the link happened to link to an action deleting something, it would delete it just by visiting a page with the delete link on it. Granted you should never do anything destructive with a get request, but now Google is starting to submit forms. I wonder how much stuff they will end up deleting with their program that automatically submits forms with values it think should be correct.
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I do that all the time when I'm waiting for my computer to boot up.
Why is #2 always a completely weird game for nintendo, where they completely go off track from what they did in the rest of the series. Think about SMB2, Legend of Zelda 2, and well, I'm sure there was others.
Thanks to Virtual Console, on the Wii, a whole generation of new gamers will get to enjoy Super Mario Bros. 2. And a lot of people who played SMB2 ages ago, are still enjoying it.
Isn't there a difference between sharing idea's, and sharing millions of lines of source code that it took thousands of man-hours to type out, test, fix, test, fix, and market? I mean, sharing ideas is fine. But you can't just pretend that the software just came into being because somebody had an idea. I have lots of ideas for good software. The actual implementation is the hard work that people should be rewarded for. Even most of the open source projects have donation bins and appreciate getting actual cash for their hard work.
Well, lets look at laws about murder. Just because you kill someone doesn't mean you have committed murder. If it is in self defence, we as a society have decided that it is not defined as murder, as defined by law, and not something you should be arrested for. In the same way, if we decide that sharing music, movies, and software for non profit isn't theft, then it isn't theft. Laws have been wrong in the past and they have changed. It's not that theft wouldn't be theft anymore. But that certain aspects which could be interpreted as theft wouldn't be recognized as illegal in a court of law.
Looks like it's pretty easy to get Gilligan's Island on DVD.
You're assuming the content providers even want to make a deal with Youtube. If the content providers really wanted their stuff on Youtube so that people could easily view it, they would have approached Youtube with the idea, instead of just sending out thousands of takedown notices. Instead, they insist on sticking with their dieing business model, of selling their shows to broadcast TV stations.
I'm not saying it would be better suited to the purpose. All I was refuting was the fact that Xenon is the heaviest noble gas. I don't think Radon would be the best thing to use, but that doesn't disprove that fact that there are heavier noble gases than Xenon.
What about Radon. According to my periodic table Radon would be the heaviest noble gas. Not countijng Ununoctium of course, but that's a synthetic element.
Well, if you have 40 kg of fuel being propelled at 40,000 m/s out the back of the spaceship, then assuming and equal force pushing the fuel backwards pushes the spaceship forwards, this would mean that a 5000 KG spaceship would be travelling at 320 m/s, which is 1152 KM/h, which is just under Mach 1. Of course, this assumes that everything is 100% efficient.
Please feel free to correct me. I am not a physicist, and I'm probably completely wrong about this.
I guess it really depends on how much free space you have on the device. If you have an 64 GB device (just for example), and 32 GB is filled with apps, those will never be overwritten, and will always stay in the same place. Now you only have 32 other GB in which your other data that is constantly changing to be written. Look at it this way. If you have 10 MB free, and want to write 1 MB, then there's only 10 choices for each byte it writes of where to put it. That could wear out your drive quite quickly.
If you don't have any need for specific windows applications, you might want to just install Linux on it. I have a 1.6 Pentium M, with 512 MB of RAM, and it has no problems with speed. I mostly use it for browsing the web, with a little web development, and some light photo editing. As a comparison, it came with Vista, which is unusably slow.
Using server side CGI scripts (or ASP, PHP, JSP, etc.) says nothing about whether the page uses Javascript at all. You do understand the difference between server side and client side scripting, don't you?
Was that site designed by one of the 10 year olds that plays on the soccer team?
You don't usually accidentally type rm -rf /~ by accident, without really noticing what you are doing. It's very easy to breeze through the sql server install and not even realize that you should have entered a password, or that it was a really good idea to do so.
Which once again proves Sturgeon's Law which states that 90% of everything is crap. Or 92.3% in this case. Luckily for me gMail is pretty good at filtering the crap, son I only see about 1 spam for every 10 real emails. However, if I look in my junk folder, and compare that to the number of valid emails I receive, I would say that 99% of it is spam.
It was the only version of SQL server available until 2005 came out, only 3 year ago. And even then, many companies are still using SQL server 2000.
Could the grid handle everyone pumping electricity back into the grid, especially with such a technology as wind, where the amount of power generated tends to be "bursty". Could this backfire a large percentage (> 25%) of homes started doing this?
Yes, you can do this in a photo editing program. The point is you shouldn't have to open a photo editing program to put an image on your desktop, and not have it be all messed up.
There's probably a lot of other things you could do with the same money, like put in a ground-loop heating/cooling system. Of course, it wouldn't be as showy, and none of the neighbors would know you had it, so it's not the best way to show off how eco friendly you are, but would probably benefit you quite a bit more.
Works much better than MS's famous "the default sa password is empty string".
There's other ways to get viruses then through the browser.
Couldn't they actually get more customers if they didn't load the machine up with crapware? I know this is why I still assemble my own desktop machines. So that I know what goes into it, and what gets installed on it. If I could do it with a laptop, I would, but the selection of laptops that come with out crap installed is infinitesimally small. So it's easier to just buy whatever and just wipe it. I know I would start buying from big OEMs if they started shipping the machine without a ton of crap on it.
Does windows let you stretch (or shrink) an image and put it on your wallpaper without messing up the aspect ratio? No, well, until it does, it's not ready for the masses. We can probably all name a hundred things that are wrong with either Windows, Linux, or Mac. The question is whether or not most users are affected by it, and if they can cope with the problems they are experiencing. You may not be able to run Linux on every hardware configuration out there, but you really can't do that with Windows either. If you bought a computer specifically configured to work with Linux, and already preconfigured like you would with a Windows machine, you would have not problems getting everything to work properly.
Actually, we (the web) have had problems with this before. Web accellerators started following links on pages before you clicked them. If the link happened to link to an action deleting something, it would delete it just by visiting a page with the delete link on it. Granted you should never do anything destructive with a get request, but now Google is starting to submit forms. I wonder how much stuff they will end up deleting with their program that automatically submits forms with values it think should be correct.