Okay, let's assume that Vista doesn't get that much better when SP1 ships out. Can we reasonably expect to see a larger market share of Apples? How about demand for and supply of Linux installed computers?
What have we been doing in the last 38 years? Not a whole lot. But we also have this little bit of trouble here: We have limited resources for science (the main being time. Monetary problems can be sorted out easily if we wanted,) and with the lack of any real space threat in the near-future, our scientists have been busy going off and doing research for things other than space exploration. Sure, we got the Hubble up in the sky, along with the International Space Station, but those were basically created "for the sake of science." We've never really done too much risky science "for the sake of science." And for a good reason: we value human life. So in the past 38 years, we've been working, primarily, on how to increase efficiency, be it through either maintaining current performance while using less resources, increasing performance while holding resources constant, or a combination of the two. Plus, equipment that goes in to space has to be significantly more robust than the equipment we use on Earth, primarily because it's so much more inconvenient to replace/repair something in space than it is on the ground. That's why the microprocessors that Honeywell uses in their satellite equipment and such is always a few generations slower than the stuff Intel, IBM, and AMD are pumping out.
But I do agree that we have had our priorities out of whack for a long time now. What I don't get is why we don't really have an interest in deep sea exploration and research. I'd really expect us to have an underwater habitat before we bother making one on another satellite or planet. In addition to researching stuff that is (arguably) more relevant to our lives, it doesn't take long at all to travel a few miles via an elevator or whatever compared to thousands or millions of miles with a space ship. Hell, the whole trip could take a fraction of the preparation time of launching a rocket or a shuttle.
You're missing the point of retail versions of Linux. Red Hat has both retail and FOSS versions of their operating systems on their website. The primary difference is that retail versions come with *paid support*, whereas the free ISO's you've downloaded don't. Other companies do the exact same thing. Moreover, many software companies allow you to purchase their software via:
A) Download B) Boxed discs C) Both Download and boxed discs
Making your software available in retail stores would also allow your company to get more customers who browse the shelves and go "This looks interesting." It's a sure way to get more traffic than to have someone mis-spell a URL and randomly arrive at your website.
if there were 3rd-party PS2 emulators that actually worked. As it is, I don't see why the hell there can't be a VMWare type setup for the PS3 to run PS2 games if the PS3 is as powerful as Sony is touting.
What about SouthPark? Cartman constantly uses fear to try to get people to do what he wants. E.g.: Cartoon Wars Part II
Cartman: I'll use this situation to get Family Guy cancelled. I use fear to manipulate people to do my bidding. Bart Simpson: Uh, isn't that like terrorism? Cartman: Dude, it's not like terrorism! It is terrorism!
The only time you have to register a copyright is if you want to be able to collect money from copyright infringements. Otherwise the copyright holder can seek a court order that would result in a cease and desist. Of course, if the copyright was registered, it would help out in terms of proving that there is copyright infringement; but like I said, it's not necessary.
I was told that I could listen to the radio at a reasonable volume from nine to eleven, I told Bill that if Sandra is going to listen to her headphones while she's filing then I should be able to listen to the radio while I'm collating so I don't see why I should have to turn down the radio because I enjoy listening at a reasonable volume from nine to eleven.
According to http://www.itfacts.biz/index.php?id=P723:
Linux desktop market share to reach 6% in 2007 Market researcher IDC expects to announce within weeks that Linux PC market share in 2003 hit 3.2%, overtaking Apple Computer Inc.'s MacOS. And the researcher expects Linux to capture 6% of this market by 2007. That's still tiny compared with Microsoft's 94% share.
Dark Helmet: What the hell am I looking at?... When does this happen in the movie? Colonel Sandurz: Now, You're looking at now sir...Everything that happens now is happening now. Dark Helmet: What happened to then? Colonel Sandurz: We passed it. Dark Helmet:When. Colonel Sandurz:Just now... We're at now now. Dark Helmet: Go back to then? Colonel Sandurz: When? Dark Helmet: Now. Colonel Sandurz: Now? Dark Helmet: Now. Colonel Sandurz:I can't Dark Helmet: Why? Colonel Sandurz: We missed it. Dark Helmet: When? Colonel Sandurz: Just now. Dark Helmet: When will then be now? Colonel Sandurz: Soon! Dark Helmet: How soon? Technician: Sir! Dark Helmet: What? Technician: We've identified their location! Dark Helmet: Where? Technician: It's the moon of Vega Colonel Sandurz: Good work. Set a course and prepare for our arrival Dark Helmet: When? Technician: Nineteen hundred hours, sir! Colonel Sandurz: By high noon tomorrow they will be our prisoners! Dark Helmet: WHO?!?!
I can relate with you there, but wouldn't a simple plugin like User Agent Switcher for Firefox work for you?
Some sites are just built horribly broken that they don't work for anything other than IE engines. Have you tried managing a Citibank credit card online with something other than IE? Sure, their site says that you can use Netscape or Safari, but it's horribly broken with Netscape, Firefox, and Opera, even though one is explicitly stated to work and another shares the same rendering engine as one listed.
Isn't that/.? I could've sworn half of the summaries are examples of just that. And that half of the articles linked are just as bad as their summaries. My god, does that make Zonk our own Chris Hansen?
While the reasoning for the title is disputed, the conspiracy theory I believe most is that Orwell wrote about his fears back when he was writing the book, and rather than naming it 1948, he titled it 1984. This, of course, is after the original title The Last Man in Europe was rejected.
On a serious note, I'd love to get both vinyl and CD. Granted, you can say "Well, you always could, they just weren't bundled," but finding vinyl readily available and at convenient locations is a rarity. Would this count as a single sale or a double sale though?
The phone looks interesting. The one thing that catches my eye about it, though, is that it uses the 2.4.19 kernel. According to kernel.org, the base for that version came out 03 August, 2002. Now I know that they've had to have patched it somewhat, but I still find that to be an incredibly old kernel. Then I noticed that it's missing the 850 band. Why their prices are in USD when it has the 900mhz band instead of the 850 is mindboggling.
Notice that you still have to use their special program to download full albums. That leaves out the (semi) vocal Linux and BSD crowds out in the cold.
I would think that the NSA should be on top of the serious stuff more than the FBI. I mean, why else would they be so secretive? How many other US agencies are there where you can't reveal your true identity to many people even after you retire?
Okay, so in order to play these games (which I don't, mostly because I have more fun hanging out with my friends face-to-face as opposed to on the computer, and I have too much to do when I'm not hanging out with them), I'd have to buy the game AND a web cam? Does this mean they're going to start bundling webcams with the game? Why wouldn't someone be able to just use a picture taken from a digital camera or scanned?
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Okay, let's assume that Vista doesn't get that much better when SP1 ships out. Can we reasonably expect to see a larger market share of Apples? How about demand for and supply of Linux installed computers?
Tell me how many 5 1/4" Floppies that is, or give me death!
What have we been doing in the last 38 years? Not a whole lot. But we also have this little bit of trouble here: We have limited resources for science (the main being time. Monetary problems can be sorted out easily if we wanted,) and with the lack of any real space threat in the near-future, our scientists have been busy going off and doing research for things other than space exploration. Sure, we got the Hubble up in the sky, along with the International Space Station, but those were basically created "for the sake of science." We've never really done too much risky science "for the sake of science." And for a good reason: we value human life. So in the past 38 years, we've been working, primarily, on how to increase efficiency, be it through either maintaining current performance while using less resources, increasing performance while holding resources constant, or a combination of the two. Plus, equipment that goes in to space has to be significantly more robust than the equipment we use on Earth, primarily because it's so much more inconvenient to replace/repair something in space than it is on the ground. That's why the microprocessors that Honeywell uses in their satellite equipment and such is always a few generations slower than the stuff Intel, IBM, and AMD are pumping out.
But I do agree that we have had our priorities out of whack for a long time now. What I don't get is why we don't really have an interest in deep sea exploration and research. I'd really expect us to have an underwater habitat before we bother making one on another satellite or planet. In addition to researching stuff that is (arguably) more relevant to our lives, it doesn't take long at all to travel a few miles via an elevator or whatever compared to thousands or millions of miles with a space ship. Hell, the whole trip could take a fraction of the preparation time of launching a rocket or a shuttle.
You're missing the point of retail versions of Linux. Red Hat has both retail and FOSS versions of their operating systems on their website. The primary difference is that retail versions come with *paid support*, whereas the free ISO's you've downloaded don't. Other companies do the exact same thing. Moreover, many software companies allow you to purchase their software via:
A) Download
B) Boxed discs
C) Both Download and boxed discs
Making your software available in retail stores would also allow your company to get more customers who browse the shelves and go "This looks interesting." It's a sure way to get more traffic than to have someone mis-spell a URL and randomly arrive at your website.
In order to have any service, you have to be in a gSpot.
if there were 3rd-party PS2 emulators that actually worked. As it is, I don't see why the hell there can't be a VMWare type setup for the PS3 to run PS2 games if the PS3 is as powerful as Sony is touting.
Cartman: I'll use this situation to get Family Guy cancelled. I use fear to manipulate people to do my bidding.
Bart Simpson: Uh, isn't that like terrorism?
Cartman: Dude, it's not like terrorism! It is terrorism!
The only time you have to register a copyright is if you want to be able to collect money from copyright infringements. Otherwise the copyright holder can seek a court order that would result in a cease and desist. Of course, if the copyright was registered, it would help out in terms of proving that there is copyright infringement; but like I said, it's not necessary.
I was told that I could listen to the radio at a reasonable volume from nine to eleven, I told Bill that if Sandra is going to listen to her headphones while she's filing then I should be able to listen to the radio while I'm collating so I don't see why I should have to turn down the radio because I enjoy listening at a reasonable volume from nine to eleven.
Linux desktop market share to reach 6% in 2007
Market researcher IDC expects to announce within weeks that Linux PC market share in 2003 hit 3.2%, overtaking Apple Computer Inc.'s MacOS. And the researcher expects Linux to capture 6% of this market by 2007. That's still tiny compared with Microsoft's 94% share.
I call FUD, Bullshit, &c. on Softpedia.
Meanwhile, http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php is reporting:
Windows XP 83.06%
2 Windows Vista 4.01%
3 Windows 2000 3.85%
4 Mac OS X 3.74%
5 Linux 1.38%
as of 1 October, 2007.
Dark Helmet: What the hell am I looking at?... When does this happen in the movie?
Colonel Sandurz: Now, You're looking at now sir...Everything that happens now is happening now.
Dark Helmet: What happened to then?
Colonel Sandurz: We passed it.
Dark Helmet:When.
Colonel Sandurz:Just now... We're at now now.
Dark Helmet: Go back to then?
Colonel Sandurz: When?
Dark Helmet: Now.
Colonel Sandurz: Now?
Dark Helmet: Now.
Colonel Sandurz:I can't
Dark Helmet: Why?
Colonel Sandurz: We missed it.
Dark Helmet: When?
Colonel Sandurz: Just now.
Dark Helmet: When will then be now?
Colonel Sandurz: Soon!
Dark Helmet: How soon?
Technician: Sir!
Dark Helmet: What?
Technician: We've identified their location!
Dark Helmet: Where?
Technician: It's the moon of Vega
Colonel Sandurz: Good work. Set a course and prepare for our arrival
Dark Helmet: When?
Technician: Nineteen hundred hours, sir!
Colonel Sandurz: By high noon tomorrow they will be our prisoners!
Dark Helmet: WHO?!?!
So he has 3 different people's DNA in him, big whoop? I wonder how many people's DNA Anna Nichole Smith had in her at any given time.
Some sites are just built horribly broken that they don't work for anything other than IE engines. Have you tried managing a Citibank credit card online with something other than IE? Sure, their site says that you can use Netscape or Safari, but it's horribly broken with Netscape, Firefox, and Opera, even though one is explicitly stated to work and another shares the same rendering engine as one listed.
You make it sound like cribbage is dead or antiquated for some reason.
Isn't that /.? I could've sworn half of the summaries are examples of just that. And that half of the articles linked are just as bad as their summaries. My god, does that make Zonk our own Chris Hansen?
While the reasoning for the title is disputed, the conspiracy theory I believe most is that Orwell wrote about his fears back when he was writing the book, and rather than naming it 1948, he titled it 1984. This, of course, is after the original title The Last Man in Europe was rejected.
I suppose they'd use the DMCA to argue that their customers can't remove rootkits installed on their computers due to some related argument.
How realistic would a $2 album be?
On a serious note, I'd love to get both vinyl and CD. Granted, you can say "Well, you always could, they just weren't bundled," but finding vinyl readily available and at convenient locations is a rarity. Would this count as a single sale or a double sale though?
The phone looks interesting. The one thing that catches my eye about it, though, is that it uses the 2.4.19 kernel. According to kernel.org, the base for that version came out 03 August, 2002. Now I know that they've had to have patched it somewhat, but I still find that to be an incredibly old kernel. Then I noticed that it's missing the 850 band. Why their prices are in USD when it has the 900mhz band instead of the 850 is mindboggling.
Notice that you still have to use their special program to download full albums. That leaves out the (semi) vocal Linux and BSD crowds out in the cold.
...for a siesta....
I would think that the NSA should be on top of the serious stuff more than the FBI. I mean, why else would they be so secretive? How many other US agencies are there where you can't reveal your true identity to many people even after you retire?
Rather than quitting support for XP, Microsoft plans on breaking everyone's XP systems, thus forcing them to either:
1) "Update" to Vista
2) Switch to Mac
3) Switch to Linux
If I bought something that's being intentionally broken by a company, how often would I want to buy something from that company again?
Okay, so in order to play these games (which I don't, mostly because I have more fun hanging out with my friends face-to-face as opposed to on the computer, and I have too much to do when I'm not hanging out with them), I'd have to buy the game AND a web cam? Does this mean they're going to start bundling webcams with the game? Why wouldn't someone be able to just use a picture taken from a digital camera or scanned?
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