I'm sorry, but what was it about Internet Explorer/Explorer and Windows that the United States Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional, and that Microsoft is continuing to appeal?
The only thing, though, is that the user profile has to be automagically created when the drive is mounted, something which is different than merely automounting a drive for a pre-existing user.
No, it really isn't. You're basically trading one bad (more greenhouse gases) for another bad. The production of Ethanol requires significant amounts of water, the vast majority of which (especially in places like Minnesota, where ethonal is becoming more and more popular) comes from groundwater. Groundwater is already a scarce resource, and with a dramatic spike in usage because of ethanol refineries places like the Midwest will turn into deserts.
The best power sources that are feasible right now are true renewables like wind and solar. The next best are nuclear, both fission (because that's all we have right now) and fusion (think ITER.) Hydroelectric power is devastating on the environment because of the drastic changes over the extremely short amount of time, which can (and does) severely disrupt the ecosystems for both the areas upstream as well as downstream. One of the most recent examples of this is in China, where they just finished/are building the largest dam to date.
If ISP's have their way, plans like these could seriously backfire. Especially if the ISP's begin to be more strict on how much people are exceeding bandwidth quotas. Yes, I know that right now quotas are not that common; however, for the likes of the people on my network, we are only allowed 5GB of data, from a combined upload and download, per any given 7 consecutive days. Needless to say, if I turn on and off my computer daily (and we'll keep it simple at once a day,) and I have to download Word, Excel, and Outlook every day, that doesn't leave me with much more data remaining for activites such as watching internet video streams or listening to audio over the internet at a decent bitrate, both of which are applications that many analysts say are likely to boom in the coming years (however, I tend to view this to actually boom once DN:F comes out, but I actually do like to listen to some radio stations from across the world, such as Minnesota Public Radio's The Current.)
The only way we could have applications be truly web-based is if ISP's don't impose quotas, or those quotas are set at such a high level that they are meaningless.
1) The article says that you can upload data from the card to the hard drive. Are we able to save data from the hard drive onto the memory card?
2) Is the memory card reader bundled with the premium bundle of the PS3?
2a) If not, why not?
3) Does the movie controller require a special dongle?
4) Regardless of a special dongle, are the movie controllers IR or bluetooth?
5) If the controllers are IR controllers, can I use another controller (e.g. a universal remote, or a remote for my Sony receiver) for movie playback?
Unfortunately, my intuition is saying the following answers:
1) No
2) No
2a) Because "the demand is not there" for the long-run
3) Not for official the SonyTM remote, but possibly for Logitec, MadCatz, etc - Sony will be bluethooth, other companies are at their discretion
4) See Answer 3
5) We don't know, it's up to the dongle manufacturers
Actually, I would love to have a small flash drive to boot from, so I could completely devote my disks to LVM.
Actually, it's possible now, as long as your computer can boot from a USB drive. I'm in the process of making a firewall and multimedia center computer. The only time it's going to use a hard drive with platters is when it's doing the multimedia functions. Otherwise, I can put a firewall (as well as many other things, possibly even Myth and all of its components) on a USB flash disc. The capabilities area available now, just not practical for storing your media on them
how about http://www.microsoft.com/products/? Sure, you can't instantly install the programs there, but neither can you if you go to www.gentoo-portage.com. Hell, even with some programs (e.g. Maya,) you still can't do "emerge maya" or click "Emerge" with Porthole, and something makes me thing that the same situation exists with Yum and Apt.
Don't get me wrong, I love Linux and use it for my computing whenever I'm not doing things that are currently much easier to do under Windows, or things that can only be done under Windows. Hell, just two days ago I got a BSOD when all I was doing was looking at www.economist.com and ripping some movies. Speaking of BSOD's, I've been getting quite a few of them lately, and I know I don't have any viruses....
I could see potential gambling abuse with this system. Say you buy an add-on car and race it online. You lose to somebody else in a race, you lose your car. End result: you spend more *real* money on the car you just lost. Rinse and repeat.
I do believe it's better business practice to run out of the product you're selling and backorder instead of not being able to sell what's on the shelf. That is, unless for every unit of something you sell, you're losing (net long-run) money rather than gaining money.
Wake up, Sherlock, illiterate people have just as much right to choose who represents them as literate people do.
Yes, but can you honestly say that you believe that they will make informed decisions? Granted, I know of many more-or-less literate people, but as a whole, I'd have to believe that literate people would make more informed decisions.
They state a rediculously low price. How about an estimate for everything; case, PSU, memory (both for RAM and disk space), VGA heatsink, video card, etc?
It sounds fantastic, but also, I would not be able to have a functioning computer with only 8GB of disk space. Possibly if I had it running solely as a client, but then I wouldn't even need any disk space, only lots of ram.
Besides, who can honestly fit all of their porn onto 8GB these days?
slow boot time, then really slow login time (relative to OSX, at least; I'm really not familiar with windows boot time)
For me, my computer boots up quicker under Linux than it does under Windows. I don't have specific times, but I'm guessing that my habits are habitual enough that I don't happen to take a longer time to do something off the computer while Linux is loading as opposed to Windows. For me, Windows had a quicker boot speed, but once I installed an antivirus program, firewall, and disc emulation software and have them all load on boot, the system takes noticibly longer to finish loading than Linux.
I suppose if I didn't have a firewall or virus protection the computer would boot more quickly....
As far as login time once the system is loaded, once again, I can log in much more quickly under Linux as opposed to Windows. But then again, it could also be all of the programs that are a pain in the ass to prevent loading in the system tray rather than Windows itself (although several of the programs are bundled with XP and require a specific run-command to uninstall)
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Huh? Why not a roomba?
I'm sorry, but what was it about Internet Explorer/Explorer and Windows that the United States Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional, and that Microsoft is continuing to appeal?
The only thing, though, is that the user profile has to be automagically created when the drive is mounted, something which is different than merely automounting a drive for a pre-existing user.
All your base are belong to us
No, it really isn't. You're basically trading one bad (more greenhouse gases) for another bad. The production of Ethanol requires significant amounts of water, the vast majority of which (especially in places like Minnesota, where ethonal is becoming more and more popular) comes from groundwater. Groundwater is already a scarce resource, and with a dramatic spike in usage because of ethanol refineries places like the Midwest will turn into deserts. The best power sources that are feasible right now are true renewables like wind and solar. The next best are nuclear, both fission (because that's all we have right now) and fusion (think ITER.) Hydroelectric power is devastating on the environment because of the drastic changes over the extremely short amount of time, which can (and does) severely disrupt the ecosystems for both the areas upstream as well as downstream. One of the most recent examples of this is in China, where they just finished/are building the largest dam to date.
We had people voting against Kerry that agreed with his platform on the sole basis that he's Catholic.
Remember the last time we had a non-Protestant president? He was assasinated!
We can't even have Samantha Bee in there because she's a woman.
That leaves Mo Rocca and Steve Carell as the two obvious candidates
Now that you mention it, it might be best not to taint it, but to leave the lingering aftertaste with The Last Crusade
If ISP's have their way, plans like these could seriously backfire. Especially if the ISP's begin to be more strict on how much people are exceeding bandwidth quotas. Yes, I know that right now quotas are not that common; however, for the likes of the people on my network, we are only allowed 5GB of data, from a combined upload and download, per any given 7 consecutive days. Needless to say, if I turn on and off my computer daily (and we'll keep it simple at once a day,) and I have to download Word, Excel, and Outlook every day, that doesn't leave me with much more data remaining for activites such as watching internet video streams or listening to audio over the internet at a decent bitrate, both of which are applications that many analysts say are likely to boom in the coming years (however, I tend to view this to actually boom once DN:F comes out, but I actually do like to listen to some radio stations from across the world, such as Minnesota Public Radio's The Current.)
The only way we could have applications be truly web-based is if ISP's don't impose quotas, or those quotas are set at such a high level that they are meaningless.
2) Is the memory card reader bundled with the premium bundle of the PS3?
2a) If not, why not?
3) Does the movie controller require a special dongle?
4) Regardless of a special dongle, are the movie controllers IR or bluetooth?
5) If the controllers are IR controllers, can I use another controller (e.g. a universal remote, or a remote for my Sony receiver) for movie playback?
Unfortunately, my intuition is saying the following answers:
1) No
2) No
2a) Because "the demand is not there" for the long-run 3) Not for official the SonyTM remote, but possibly for Logitec, MadCatz, etc - Sony will be bluethooth, other companies are at their discretion
4) See Answer 3
5) We don't know, it's up to the dongle manufacturers
Actually, I would love to have a small flash drive to boot from, so I could completely devote my disks to LVM.
Actually, it's possible now, as long as your computer can boot from a USB drive. I'm in the process of making a firewall and multimedia center computer. The only time it's going to use a hard drive with platters is when it's doing the multimedia functions. Otherwise, I can put a firewall (as well as many other things, possibly even Myth and all of its components) on a USB flash disc. The capabilities area available now, just not practical for storing your media on them
...I manage to get a BSOD on it, like I've been getting about weekly on Windows XP lately.... (and no, I know for a fact that I dont' have a virus)
At least people will know that it's not a dumptruck. Granted, they won't know that it really is a series of tubes, either....
how about http://www.microsoft.com/products/? Sure, you can't instantly install the programs there, but neither can you if you go to www.gentoo-portage.com. Hell, even with some programs (e.g. Maya,) you still can't do "emerge maya" or click "Emerge" with Porthole, and something makes me thing that the same situation exists with Yum and Apt.
Don't get me wrong, I love Linux and use it for my computing whenever I'm not doing things that are currently much easier to do under Windows, or things that can only be done under Windows. Hell, just two days ago I got a BSOD when all I was doing was looking at www.economist.com and ripping some movies. Speaking of BSOD's, I've been getting quite a few of them lately, and I know I don't have any viruses....
It's as if our electric grid can handle year-round demand. Bring on a drastic increase in demand of electricity!
Sorry, but until we get ITER up and running, this thing is never going to fly.
I could see potential gambling abuse with this system. Say you buy an add-on car and race it online. You lose to somebody else in a race, you lose your car. End result: you spend more *real* money on the car you just lost. Rinse and repeat.
I do believe it's better business practice to run out of the product you're selling and backorder instead of not being able to sell what's on the shelf. That is, unless for every unit of something you sell, you're losing (net long-run) money rather than gaining money.
Well, I can guess where they're going to put 3 of these in every car they do on Pimp My Ride
That'd be great. Then all I'd have to do is invent what Ali G and Ralph Nader thought of: a way to harness farts!
Turn right! No, your other right!
Yes, but can you honestly say that you believe that they will make informed decisions? Granted, I know of many more-or-less literate people, but as a whole, I'd have to believe that literate people would make more informed decisions.
They state a rediculously low price. How about an estimate for everything; case, PSU, memory (both for RAM and disk space), VGA heatsink, video card, etc?
It sounds fantastic, but also, I would not be able to have a functioning computer with only 8GB of disk space. Possibly if I had it running solely as a client, but then I wouldn't even need any disk space, only lots of ram.
Besides, who can honestly fit all of their porn onto 8GB these days?
For me, my computer boots up quicker under Linux than it does under Windows. I don't have specific times, but I'm guessing that my habits are habitual enough that I don't happen to take a longer time to do something off the computer while Linux is loading as opposed to Windows. For me, Windows had a quicker boot speed, but once I installed an antivirus program, firewall, and disc emulation software and have them all load on boot, the system takes noticibly longer to finish loading than Linux.
I suppose if I didn't have a firewall or virus protection the computer would boot more quickly....
As far as login time once the system is loaded, once again, I can log in much more quickly under Linux as opposed to Windows. But then again, it could also be all of the programs that are a pain in the ass to prevent loading in the system tray rather than Windows itself (although several of the programs are bundled with XP and require a specific run-command to uninstall)
Surely, they've got to have something better than Laserdisc versions. Hell, I bet the Smithsonian has a film reel or two.
'nough said
Check it out! With the new batteries they're using, even your PSP will catch on fire!