My rebuttal is "what is apt?". I do know what apt is. However, I don't think mac users loose sleep because they because they don't have a one stop shop for all their needs. If we need it, we know how to get it. Even if Apple added something like that, I don't think Adobe or Microsoft would allow software to be distributed without some draconian measures akin to music distribution on the Mac.
I know I certainly don't care one way or the other. I know the Macbook was upgraded recently without so much a whisper from Apple or the enthusiast community. Leopard seems at best to get a lukewarm welcome. I have lost my enthusiasm for new tech toys especially since they are longer designed for quality but rather planned obsolescense and limitation. I getting the feeling that the novelty of Apple is wearing off.
Don't forget to add, that the CO2 levels were also predicted to be higher as Pangea was breaking up and the resulting vulcanism released large amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The climate in that region was more closer to tropical- something akin to the climate in Miami.
I support temporarily banning NASA from making any efforts toward sending any manned mission to Mars. Modern spaceflight is just to damn primitive. For one, we need a new space shuttle. One that is design for 21st century space flight because there is a lot more hazards up there than were in 1970's. Second, we need better propulsion systems. It takes to much effort to get humans into orbit much less sending them to the moon or any planets. Moreover, modern spaceflight is still a complex precise pagent that does not forgive error. There is no room for improvisation if something goes wrong on the trip to Mars.
82,188 were murdered in the United States in the years ranging from 2001-2006. 2,883 have been kill on US soil since on 2001. Because those 2,883 got more media attention than those 82,188, we have to surrender our privacy to overreacting government. The irony is that none of this will work actually stop terrorists. If they can't keep 3.7 million illegal aliens out of this country entering since 2000, they certainly can't keep a hand full of terrorists from crossing illegally and not reporting a thing. Statistics tell a different story. I question my government's priorities and their methods.
The Earth and Moon arguably form a binary planetary system.Only if the barycenter lies above the surface of both objects. Otherwise, one is the planet and the other is the moon.
The key word is hypothesis. A hypothesis is a statement without any supporting scientific evidence. Scientist no very little about the nature of life to give Rare Earth Hypothesis any more credence than a galaxy teeming with life. This was an actual experiment done that can be scrutinize later. Proving that the moon is rare would essentially give the first experimental support. But it would still be far from proving it.
A non-compact real form of the E8 Lie algebra has G2 and F4 subalgebras which break down to strong su(3), electroweak su(2) x u(1), gravitational so(3,1), the frame-Higgs, and three generations of fermions related by triality
Subalgebras, lie algebra!!! What class do you get that math? WTF is his definition of exceptionally hard?!
That is an oddity. I remember Inkwell being touted as high end feature for Jaguar and then it fell off the map in Panther and Tiger. I guess it wasn't buzz-worthy so Apple stop working on it.
They say that meteor hit 300,000 years before the KT extinction. That would mean that they are able to date the rocks in the KT layer and samples from the crater to within 0.4% error (300,000/65,000,000). I don't know of any radioactive dating techniques that are used to date in the 10's million of years. Even with those, the accuracy will vary from researcher to researcher and sample to sample. If they are analyzing the the thickness of sediment layers on the side of a cliff, I can't see how they could claim that resolution. Consequently, the argument is semantic without that resolution because a meteor strike of that magnitude and volcanism in Deccan can both singly devastate massives species like the dinosaurs. Smaller animals are favored in those situations. In fact, I seriously question whether the humans as a species could survive such events.
I am confused here. Are there any prooducts released free of bugs? The need for warranties seem suggest that bugs in products are common place. Cars sometimes get recalled, toasters sometimes catch fire, and pharmacueticals sometimes kill people! Just be happy that Apple can released a patch that fixes the problem in the time it takes to download and install. That is one of the perks of selling software.
Not really. We are only killing ourselves. The earth and life have survived far worse catastrophic events. Massive freezing, massive volcanism, and massive meteors have all taken their shots. Yet, the Earth and life is still here and it will survive the catastrophe that is man. I suggest you watch How the Earth was Made.
The Microsoft monopoly does it again. Microsoft will push it licenses to the point of extortion because the institutions are stuck in the "Windows culture". This is the problem with monopolies is that are inherently abusive. Microsoft is executing good business practices (yet not ethical) but there is no competitor that can check its excesses. There is no free market for operating systems. Government should either regulate MS as a monopoly or lay down a law to govern these licenses for the whole software industry covering OEM, personal, and institutional deployment. In lieu of that, customers must protect themselves and to take measures to break the "Windows culture".
Ok, Apple gets kickback from AT&T. That was obvious due to the exclusivity of the contract. If you are just selling a phone, you don't reduce your customer pool. AT&T probably negotiated it as a way to get the edge over the competition. If you don't like the deal, don't buy the phone. There are alternatives that are more mature and in ways are better. Moreover, Apple drop the price $200 in two months. Last, it is a corporation!! They are not known as bastions of morality. They maximize profits period. It is just good business and not necessarily anything else.
I am in the same boat. I got a BS in Physics and working towards a Master's. I need to find a career that probably won't be in anything related to Physics. However, I would love nothing more right now than to hole myself up somewhere and crack open a Quantum Mechanics textbook, but no one is going to pay me to do it or to use what I learn from it. Judging by the cutbacks in NSF, that reality won't change anytime soon. The article is right in that the government has to create the demand. There are certainly problems that need solving.
One of the primary criteria of terrorist success is to "succeed in spreading fear into the population". By that criteria the terrorists have clearly won against our governments on every single count.
It probably wouldn't be so if politicians would not insist on feeding that fear just to get elected
Microsoft has been doing this for years with XP. Now, it seems the company has taken it to the next level with Vista and make it more annoying. Activation is really just a nuisance, but one that illustrates the relationship MS has with its customer. Namely, everyone is a pirate and must be controlled and customers start to believe it themselves! At my school, I need to rebuild the XP Pro on a school computer but I don't have the media. I call the schools IT department and they told me that Microsoft has told them that too many computers have the same license and are hesitant to give me the media. However, the computer came with Windows XP Pro and has a sticker right on the side. Should it really matter under what license the OS is installed? When a company treats you like a criminal and constricts your productivity with draconian policies, its is time to look for an alternative. Let's hope you are lucky enough to not need Windows.
If this person had hacked Microsoft and posted the Windows source code online you would all be heralding him as a true freedom fighter. However because he hacked someone you like you say what he did was wrong.
Not really. There is nothing valuable in the Windows Source Code./P>
Foreign persons outside of the United States DO NOT get these protections. You may think they do (you'd be wrong), or think they should (laudable, but laughable, idealism), but the fact of the matter is, they do not.
Do you think America will win this "war" by locating every terrorist and dropping a bomb on them? Will that deter the next one? Terrorism fundamental idea is that people will bend to the fear of death and by extension have no rights. In contrast, we believe that every human is born with unalienable rights that cannot be violated by any entity. I believe that the more people believe the latter in the Middle East- the less terrorism we will have. That laughable idealism maybe our only salvation.
Oh course. They bought Windows for that reason! I must say that Windows is way ahead of Mac OSX in that regard. They jump from 95 to 98, which was a jump 3-not the usual 1. But then, they got innovative jump to a whole 2000- an increased of 1,908! Then, they switch gears and used two letters-oh my!! They truly outdid themselves recently by giving the latest version a whole word!!! I can't till come out with the sentence.
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My rebuttal is "what is apt?". I do know what apt is. However, I don't think mac users loose sleep because they because they don't have a one stop shop for all their needs. If we need it, we know how to get it. Even if Apple added something like that, I don't think Adobe or Microsoft would allow software to be distributed without some draconian measures akin to music distribution on the Mac.
Because it has "Extreme in name!!!
I know I certainly don't care one way or the other. I know the Macbook was upgraded recently without so much a whisper from Apple or the enthusiast community. Leopard seems at best to get a lukewarm welcome. I have lost my enthusiasm for new tech toys especially since they are longer designed for quality but rather planned obsolescense and limitation. I getting the feeling that the novelty of Apple is wearing off.
Don't forget to add, that the CO2 levels were also predicted to be higher as Pangea was breaking up and the resulting vulcanism released large amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The climate in that region was more closer to tropical- something akin to the climate in Miami.
I support temporarily banning NASA from making any efforts toward sending any manned mission to Mars. Modern spaceflight is just to damn primitive. For one, we need a new space shuttle. One that is design for 21st century space flight because there is a lot more hazards up there than were in 1970's. Second, we need better propulsion systems. It takes to much effort to get humans into orbit much less sending them to the moon or any planets. Moreover, modern spaceflight is still a complex precise pagent that does not forgive error. There is no room for improvisation if something goes wrong on the trip to Mars.
82,188 were murdered in the United States in the years ranging from 2001-2006. 2,883 have been kill on US soil since on 2001. Because those 2,883 got more media attention than those 82,188, we have to surrender our privacy to overreacting government. The irony is that none of this will work actually stop terrorists. If they can't keep 3.7 million illegal aliens out of this country entering since 2000, they certainly can't keep a hand full of terrorists from crossing illegally and not reporting a thing. Statistics tell a different story. I question my government's priorities and their methods.
The Earth and Moon arguably form a binary planetary system.Only if the barycenter lies above the surface of both objects. Otherwise, one is the planet and the other is the moon.
The key word is hypothesis. A hypothesis is a statement without any supporting scientific evidence. Scientist no very little about the nature of life to give Rare Earth Hypothesis any more credence than a galaxy teeming with life. This was an actual experiment done that can be scrutinize later. Proving that the moon is rare would essentially give the first experimental support. But it would still be far from proving it.
"An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything"
A non-compact real form of the E8 Lie algebra has G2 and F4 subalgebras which break down to strong su(3), electroweak su(2) x u(1), gravitational so(3,1), the frame-Higgs, and three generations of fermions related by triality
Subalgebras, lie algebra!!! What class do you get that math? WTF is his definition of exceptionally hard?!
That is an oddity. I remember Inkwell being touted as high end feature for Jaguar and then it fell off the map in Panther and Tiger. I guess it wasn't buzz-worthy so Apple stop working on it.
They say that meteor hit 300,000 years before the KT extinction. That would mean that they are able to date the rocks in the KT layer and samples from the crater to within 0.4% error (300,000/65,000,000). I don't know of any radioactive dating techniques that are used to date in the 10's million of years. Even with those, the accuracy will vary from researcher to researcher and sample to sample. If they are analyzing the the thickness of sediment layers on the side of a cliff, I can't see how they could claim that resolution. Consequently, the argument is semantic without that resolution because a meteor strike of that magnitude and volcanism in Deccan can both singly devastate massives species like the dinosaurs. Smaller animals are favored in those situations. In fact, I seriously question whether the humans as a species could survive such events.
I am confused here. Are there any prooducts released free of bugs? The need for warranties seem suggest that bugs in products are common place. Cars sometimes get recalled, toasters sometimes catch fire, and pharmacueticals sometimes kill people! Just be happy that Apple can released a patch that fixes the problem in the time it takes to download and install. That is one of the perks of selling software.
Not really. We are only killing ourselves. The earth and life have survived far worse catastrophic events. Massive freezing, massive volcanism, and massive meteors have all taken their shots. Yet, the Earth and life is still here and it will survive the catastrophe that is man. I suggest you watch How the Earth was Made.
To be a leader, you actually have to leave the house and interact with other human beings once in awhile.
If we weren't on the top of the food chain, I would certainly be an advocate of mass extinction! (till we were on top, of course)
The Microsoft monopoly does it again. Microsoft will push it licenses to the point of extortion because the institutions are stuck in the "Windows culture". This is the problem with monopolies is that are inherently abusive. Microsoft is executing good business practices (yet not ethical) but there is no competitor that can check its excesses. There is no free market for operating systems. Government should either regulate MS as a monopoly or lay down a law to govern these licenses for the whole software industry covering OEM, personal, and institutional deployment. In lieu of that, customers must protect themselves and to take measures to break the "Windows culture".
Ok, Apple gets kickback from AT&T. That was obvious due to the exclusivity of the contract. If you are just selling a phone, you don't reduce your customer pool. AT&T probably negotiated it as a way to get the edge over the competition. If you don't like the deal, don't buy the phone. There are alternatives that are more mature and in ways are better. Moreover, Apple drop the price $200 in two months. Last, it is a corporation!! They are not known as bastions of morality. They maximize profits period. It is just good business and not necessarily anything else.
I am in the same boat. I got a BS in Physics and working towards a Master's. I need to find a career that probably won't be in anything related to Physics. However, I would love nothing more right now than to hole myself up somewhere and crack open a Quantum Mechanics textbook, but no one is going to pay me to do it or to use what I learn from it. Judging by the cutbacks in NSF, that reality won't change anytime soon. The article is right in that the government has to create the demand. There are certainly problems that need solving.
Does circling the drain mean anything? Oh wait, that is us. No, they are expected to evaporate eons eons eons into the future.
One of the primary criteria of terrorist success is to "succeed in spreading fear into the population". By that criteria the terrorists have clearly won against our governments on every single count.
It probably wouldn't be so if politicians would not insist on feeding that fear just to get elected
Agreed! I live in Baltimore, terrorists are the last on my mind.
Microsoft has been doing this for years with XP. Now, it seems the company has taken it to the next level with Vista and make it more annoying. Activation is really just a nuisance, but one that illustrates the relationship MS has with its customer. Namely, everyone is a pirate and must be controlled and customers start to believe it themselves! At my school, I need to rebuild the XP Pro on a school computer but I don't have the media. I call the schools IT department and they told me that Microsoft has told them that too many computers have the same license and are hesitant to give me the media. However, the computer came with Windows XP Pro and has a sticker right on the side. Should it really matter under what license the OS is installed? When a company treats you like a criminal and constricts your productivity with draconian policies, its is time to look for an alternative. Let's hope you are lucky enough to not need Windows.
If this person had hacked Microsoft and posted the Windows source code online you would all be heralding him as a true freedom fighter. However because he hacked someone you like you say what he did was wrong.
Not really. There is nothing valuable in the Windows Source Code./P>
Foreign persons outside of the United States DO NOT get these protections. You may think they do (you'd be wrong), or think they should (laudable, but laughable, idealism), but the fact of the matter is, they do not.
Do you think America will win this "war" by locating every terrorist and dropping a bomb on them? Will that deter the next one? Terrorism fundamental idea is that people will bend to the fear of death and by extension have no rights. In contrast, we believe that every human is born with unalienable rights that cannot be violated by any entity. I believe that the more people believe the latter in the Middle East- the less terrorism we will have. That laughable idealism maybe our only salvation.
Oh course. They bought Windows for that reason! I must say that Windows is way ahead of Mac OSX in that regard. They jump from 95 to 98, which was a jump 3-not the usual 1. But then, they got innovative jump to a whole 2000- an increased of 1,908! Then, they switch gears and used two letters-oh my!! They truly outdid themselves recently by giving the latest version a whole word!!! I can't till come out with the sentence.