fruit today is MUCH larger than it was when I was a kid. Have you seen the size of Bananas in U.S. supermarkets compared with some other countries? This is a GOOD thing
This leads to another point. "genetic engineering" has been going on for hundreds of years--via hybrids. The only differences now are that we can mix genes from completely different plants, (instead of being limited by traits already present in some specific strain of the species) and that we can do so much more precisely. It's the difference between using a tack hammer and a twenty-pound sledge. And it is NOT a bad thing.
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I've thought about this too, and that's the same conclusion that I came to (invent new symbols/names for hex A-F).
The only problem it would take some doing to memorize these new symbols, and it would make it more difficult for new programmers, etc. to learn how to use hex...
Exactly. If I'm not mistaken wild oregano is referred in the Bible as hissop, and was used in many purification rituals (and in other religions too probably). And now we discover that it does a great job of keeping you healthy by killing bacteria... go figure.
While this looks like a great boon to people's immune systems, it's been known for some time that certain spices such as wild oregano oil (normal oregano is much milder) have very strong bacteria-fighting properties. Unfortunately, wild oregano is very rare, gorws only on mountains, and is illegal (!) to remove from those mountains... People really should look into getting ahold of some wild oregano and try growing it in bulk elsewhere or even try engineering it to strengthen its bacteria-fighting properties... now that would be useful.
The thing about litestep is that it is designed specifically to be a windows shell, not a port from *nix... As such it is designed to integrate with windows (and will show any tasks windows shows, to answer your question). There are many user-made module dll's available and you can either download a premade theme (which will use certain modules) or brew your own. All it takes is a little bit of graphic skill and a text editor.
For example, in my self-made theme I have (screenshot) the Popup Menu, a calendar, clock, VWM, winamp 2.x integration, a systray with another module to put tasks in the tray, and more.
Thats the beauty of Litestep--it is whatever you want it to be. You can build your own theme to suit your needs, or look around online to find minimalistic themes, gnome-like themes, kde-like themes, eyecandy themes, or just about any other kind you could want. I highly reccommend that anybody still using explorer as their windows shell give litestep a spin. Theres a bit of a learning curve if you want to make your own theme (which is ultimately the best way to go, since you will have a theme that's exactly the way YOU want it to be), but believe me, it is WELL worth it.
A start menu divided by Program Type (graphics, sounds, internet, etc) and then containing just individual programs makes much more sense.
That's exactly how I have my litestep popup set up; I only venture into my overbloated Start Menu with its unwashed masses of subfolders when I need to copy a shortcut from a new program and paste it into the proper popup category...
This combines general category concept of progman with the elegance and simplicity of litestep. Why the hell they let the Start Menu get so out of control in the 9x explorer shell is beyond me... all they needed to do was make a menuing interface to progman to simplify program access.
Granted, this topic is geared towards nix shells, but when you're stuck with windows no shell comes close to rivaling the power and flexibility of LiteStep.
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>The majority of Americans did not want Bush to be >the president.
Newsflash, neither did the majority of voters cast their ballot for Clinton. And if not for Perot, H.W. Bush would have been reelected by a very comfortable margin. Unfortunately the same electoral system that let Bush "steal" the election from Gore (who by the way didnt get a majority either, thanks to Nader) is a sword that cuts both ways.
If you still think they're being censored, then take a moment to ask yourself who is stopping them from recording whatever they please inside the war zone then running the tape to a safe area to transmit?
Granted, they may not be able to do live transmissions, but nobody is stopping them from transmitting at all.
"I was told by a senior officer in the Pentagon, that if uplinks --that is the television signals out of... Bhagdad, for example-- were detected by any planes... they'd be fired down on... they've been warned."
Again, it was not a threat, it was a warning. We are using RADAR-seeking missiles to disable Iraqi intelligence and communications, and those missiles have no way of telling what they are going to hit--only that it is a strong radio source. Thus journalists have been duly warned of this, for their own safety, but Adie appears content to spin this warning into supposed 'censorship by death'. Read the news then THINK; simply reguritating whatever spin you've heard isn't going to get you anywhere.
_Partially_ true. Nobody "threatened to attack" journalists, but they were warned that broadcasting from somewhere behind enemy lines can make you a target. This is only because of the new RADAR-seeking missiles that are being used to destroy Iraqi radar and communication installations...
A missile isn't smart enough to tell the difference between a high-power television transmission and a radar dish of the same power... RTFA people, this isn't censoring of the media, they're simply trying to keep the reporters from getting themselves killed.
The diamond market is already overwhelmed by vast volumes of earth diamonds, as diamonds themselves are neither rare or valuable in reality.
The entire concept of rare and valuable diamonds is a result of the most successful advertising/social engineering campaign ever devised; even now DeBeers and other diamond companies resrict the supply while telling you how rare diamonds are--they've been profiting from this strategy for some 70-80 years now, and they aren't about to stop now...
The only difference with a diamond asteroid being mined would be that the reality of worthless, plentiful diamonds would become blatantly obvious to the public.
Nuclear waste can also be glassed via high-energy incinerators, or recycled in breeder reactors.
Also, keep in mind that the small amount of radioactive waste produced by a nuke plant is nothing compared to the vast amounts of radioactive particles and carcinogens produced by coal plants (and expelled straight into the atmosphere), which still produce a large part of America's power...
Not only are Athlons far more inexpensive than P4s, but just about any benchmarks will show you that while Athlons are 50/50 ahead/behind comarable P4s in gaming, the Athlons ALWAYS beat the P4s hands-down in the business app benchmarks.... So, you would think you would see more Athlons in 'business' notebooks, but noooo...
Unfortunately the small amount of extra power from their solar cells isn't going to be enough to generate an appeciable amount of fuel hydrogen...
Thats problem with adopting hydrogen as fuel--it takes too much energy to create it from water.
The only reason that this is a problem though is because the people looking at it aren't looking at it right. You see, instead of spending billions of dollars trying to reduce the cost of the hydrogen production process, we SHOULD be concentrating on what we already know how to do--simply reduce the cost of the large amounts of power needed in the process.
What's the best way to reduce the cost of electricity you ask? Simple. Harness the power of the atom. The trouble is, while a nuclear power plant is a clean and very powerful energy source when kept within safety guidelines, there are many environmentalists out there who fear the very minute possibility of a nuclear accident (of which only one of any real severity has ever happened, due entirely to the stupidity of the people who built and ran it).
But now we come to another problem; while one VERY good reason for adopting hydrogen power is self-sufficency, hydrogen power is also strongly supported by environmentalists. These very people who support hydrogen power in the interest of helping keep the environment clean are in essence kicking themselves in the face by opposing nuclear power, which is the simplest, cleanest way to produce bulk energy (which not only can make hydrogen power more feasible, thus reducing or eliminating oil dependency, but also by eliminating coal and gas dependency by making older power plants unneccessary).
The moral of the story? Nuclear power can solve all of our fossil fuel problems if only people will give it a real chance.
"And??? Anti-trust/monopoly laws were established to keep monopolies from harming consumers, not their competition. How does having the market value of a media player equaling 0 hurt the consumer?"
The problem with a media player having "zero" market value is that it doesn't. Were it not for the excessive integrated bundlebloat such as IE and WMP, MS would be able to build new versions of windows more quickly, more cheaply, and more easily. In turn, they would be able to lower their prices while maintaining the a hefty profit margin.
There is really no logical reason why they should build and integrate programs such as these with the OS, when they could save themselves the developmental costs and pass those savings on to consumers in turn, who can download whichever app they want to use.
The only possible motivations for bundling these programs when there is no significant profit involved is to use the method to push competition by the wayside; once this is accomplished, later versions of their OS will cost more, and Joe Public will pay it because he doesn't want to lose the fuzzy, stupifyingly 'user-friendly' apps that he had bundled into the last version...
The bottom line: if MS had to stop bundling and provide their bundle-apps as free downloads ONLY, then the browser/media divisions of MS would begin leaking money just like all the other non OS/Office divisions, and MS would have to charge less for Windows due to lower perceived value.
This results in a win for consumers, who pay less for their OS and learn to get better apps themselves for free; MS then loses money on the apps and possibly cuts them (more likely though pounding money into them ala XBOX just to kill competition) but may gain more OS customers due to reduced prices.
So while MS may only break even, cutting bundled apps would be a big win for consumers.
The reason people use paper plates is simply because you don't have to wash them and you can just throw them away... wooden plates would need to be washed and reused; If you want people to cut waste by not using paper plates, just get them to use and wash the pyrex/ceramic ones they already have...
Imagine space as a rubber sheet with a grid of dots (atoms/particles/etc) on it; as space expands ( you stretch the sheet in all directions) all of the dots get farther from each other. My understanding is that matter itself isn't really flying outward, but space itself is stretching so that everything seems to be growing farther apart (so no matter where you're looking from, light gets redshifted). Recent studies lead to the conclusion that eventually the rubber sheet of space will be stretched so much that the dots (atoms/particles/etc) will be so far apart that the attractive forces cannot bind them any longer; at that point the universe undergoes the "Big Rip" and everything disintegrates into nothingness....
Actually the earth is slowing down regardless of weather phenomena, etc.
It is a known fact that the earth is slowly transferring its axial momentum to the moon. The earth is spinning slower and slower (granted by extremely minute amounts) while the moon orbits faster and farther away (also by exremely minute amounts)...
No, but if I'm not mistaken, in the interview he mentioned that new releases were not to enhance _stability_ either (can't confirm due to/. effect on site).
Keeping in mind that this interview is from 1995 (leaving one to wonder how this is just now being discussed), I look back to the ad campaigns preceding and even the "read this propaganda while windows installs" messages in XP. Anyone who remembers them will know. The single biggest selling point of winXP was "Windows XP is the most stable version of windows ever!"
So much for stability not being a reason to make a new version, Uncle Bill... If this interview were more recent we could call you a hypocrite, but we'll just be nice and chalk this one up to forgetfulness.
I had that idea once.. too expensive though to send it to the sun. All that really matters is that you get it outward bound from the solar system and its not a problem anymore... Also you could make a reusable system that jettisons the garbage once it gets far enough from earth then returns for reuse... all sorts of ideas like this, but not any real chance at viability until we get a space elevator:P
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This leads to another point. "genetic engineering" has been going on for hundreds of years--via hybrids. The only differences now are that we can mix genes from completely different plants, (instead of being limited by traits already present in some specific strain of the species) and that we can do so much more precisely. It's the difference between using a tack hammer and a twenty-pound sledge. And it is NOT a bad thing.
I've thought about this too, and that's the same conclusion that I came to (invent new symbols/names for hex A-F).
The only problem it would take some doing to memorize these new symbols, and it would make it more difficult for new programmers, etc. to learn how to use hex...
Exactly. If I'm not mistaken wild oregano is referred in the Bible as hissop, and was used in many purification rituals (and in other religions too probably). And now we discover that it does a great job of keeping you healthy by killing bacteria... go figure.
While this looks like a great boon to people's immune systems, it's been known for some time that certain spices such as wild oregano oil (normal oregano is much milder) have very strong bacteria-fighting properties. Unfortunately, wild oregano is very rare, gorws only on mountains, and is illegal (!) to remove from those mountains... People really should look into getting ahold of some wild oregano and try growing it in bulk elsewhere or even try engineering it to strengthen its bacteria-fighting properties... now that would be useful.
A very thick, very wet blanket... And uncle Bill will tuck you in with plenty of cozy cinderblocks to hold it down...
The thing about litestep is that it is designed specifically to be a windows shell, not a port from *nix... As such it is designed to integrate with windows (and will show any tasks windows shows, to answer your question). There are many user-made module dll's available and you can either download a premade theme (which will use certain modules) or brew your own. All it takes is a little bit of graphic skill and a text editor.
For example, in my self-made theme I have (screenshot) the Popup Menu, a calendar, clock, VWM, winamp 2.x integration, a systray with another module to put tasks in the tray, and more.
Thats the beauty of Litestep--it is whatever you want it to be. You can build your own theme to suit your needs, or look around online to find minimalistic themes, gnome-like themes, kde-like themes, eyecandy themes, or just about any other kind you could want. I highly reccommend that anybody still using explorer as their windows shell give litestep a spin. Theres a bit of a learning curve if you want to make your own theme (which is ultimately the best way to go, since you will have a theme that's exactly the way YOU want it to be), but believe me, it is WELL worth it.
This combines general category concept of progman with the elegance and simplicity of litestep. Why the hell they let the Start Menu get so out of control in the 9x explorer shell is beyond me... all they needed to do was make a menuing interface to progman to simplify program access.
Granted, this topic is geared towards nix shells, but when you're stuck with windows no shell comes close to rivaling the power and flexibility of LiteStep.
>The majority of Americans did not want Bush to be
>the president.
Newsflash, neither did the majority of voters cast their ballot for Clinton. And if not for Perot, H.W. Bush would have been reelected by a very comfortable margin. Unfortunately the same electoral system that let Bush "steal" the election from Gore (who by the way didnt get a majority either, thanks to Nader) is a sword that cuts both ways.
If you still think they're being censored, then take a moment to ask yourself who is stopping them from recording whatever they please inside the war zone then running the tape to a safe area to transmit?
Granted, they may not be able to do live transmissions, but nobody is stopping them from transmitting at all.
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... they'd be fired down on... they've been warned."
"I was told by a senior officer in the Pentagon, that if uplinks --that is the television signals out of... Bhagdad, for example-- were detected by any planes
Again, it was not a threat, it was a warning. We are using RADAR-seeking missiles to disable Iraqi intelligence and communications, and those missiles have no way of telling what they are going to hit--only that it is a strong radio source. Thus journalists have been duly warned of this, for their own safety, but Adie appears content to spin this warning into supposed 'censorship by death'. Read the news then THINK; simply reguritating whatever spin you've heard isn't going to get you anywhere.
_Partially_ true. Nobody "threatened to attack" journalists, but they were warned that broadcasting from somewhere behind enemy lines can make you a target. This is only because of the new RADAR-seeking missiles that are being used to destroy Iraqi radar and communication installations...
A missile isn't smart enough to tell the difference between a high-power television transmission and a radar dish of the same power... RTFA people, this isn't censoring of the media, they're simply trying to keep the reporters from getting themselves killed.
No DOS programs get sound on XP.. has to do with the HAL if I'm not mistaken, since DOS progs expect direct hardware access...
As soon as I bought my Gravis Pad back in the day, I just threw the little stick back in the box and used the gamepad as, well, a GAMEPAD!!
I still have it today and it still works just great...
The diamond market is already overwhelmed by vast volumes of earth diamonds, as diamonds themselves are neither rare or valuable in reality.
The entire concept of rare and valuable diamonds is a result of the most successful advertising/social engineering campaign ever devised; even now DeBeers and other diamond companies resrict the supply while telling you how rare diamonds are--they've been profiting from this strategy for some 70-80 years now, and they aren't about to stop now...
The only difference with a diamond asteroid being mined would be that the reality of worthless, plentiful diamonds would become blatantly obvious to the public.
Nuclear waste can also be glassed via high-energy incinerators, or recycled in breeder reactors.
Also, keep in mind that the small amount of radioactive waste produced by a nuke plant is nothing compared to the vast amounts of radioactive particles and carcinogens produced by coal plants (and expelled straight into the atmosphere), which still produce a large part of America's power...
Conspiracy? Possibly.
Not only are Athlons far more inexpensive than P4s, but just about any benchmarks will show you that while Athlons are 50/50 ahead/behind comarable P4s in gaming, the Athlons ALWAYS beat the P4s hands-down in the business app benchmarks.... So, you would think you would see more Athlons in 'business' notebooks, but noooo...
Unfortunately the small amount of extra power from their solar cells isn't going to be enough to generate an appeciable amount of fuel hydrogen...
Thats problem with adopting hydrogen as fuel--it takes too much energy to create it from water.
The only reason that this is a problem though is because the people looking at it aren't looking at it right. You see, instead of spending billions of dollars trying to reduce the cost of the hydrogen production process, we SHOULD be concentrating on what we already know how to do--simply reduce the cost of the large amounts of power needed in the process.
What's the best way to reduce the cost of electricity you ask? Simple. Harness the power of the atom. The trouble is, while a nuclear power plant is a clean and very powerful energy source when kept within safety guidelines, there are many environmentalists out there who fear the very minute possibility of a nuclear accident (of which only one of any real severity has ever happened, due entirely to the stupidity of the people who built and ran it).
But now we come to another problem; while one VERY good reason for adopting hydrogen power is self-sufficency, hydrogen power is also strongly supported by environmentalists. These very people who support hydrogen power in the interest of helping keep the environment clean are in essence kicking themselves in the face by opposing nuclear power, which is the simplest, cleanest way to produce bulk energy (which not only can make hydrogen power more feasible, thus reducing or eliminating oil dependency, but also by eliminating coal and gas dependency by making older power plants unneccessary).
The moral of the story? Nuclear power can solve all of our fossil fuel problems if only people will give it a real chance.
"And??? Anti-trust/monopoly laws were established to keep monopolies from harming consumers, not their competition. How does having the market value of a media player equaling 0 hurt the consumer?"
The problem with a media player having "zero" market value is that it doesn't. Were it not for the excessive integrated bundlebloat such as IE and WMP, MS would be able to build new versions of windows more quickly, more cheaply, and more easily. In turn, they would be able to lower their prices while maintaining the a hefty profit margin.
There is really no logical reason why they should build and integrate programs such as these with the OS, when they could save themselves the developmental costs and pass those savings on to consumers in turn, who can download whichever app they want to use.
The only possible motivations for bundling these programs when there is no significant profit involved is to use the method to push competition by the wayside; once this is accomplished, later versions of their OS will cost more, and Joe Public will pay it because he doesn't want to lose the fuzzy, stupifyingly 'user-friendly' apps that he had bundled into the last version...
The bottom line: if MS had to stop bundling and provide their bundle-apps as free downloads ONLY, then the browser/media divisions of MS would begin leaking money just like all the other non OS/Office divisions, and MS would have to charge less for Windows due to lower perceived value.
This results in a win for consumers, who pay less for their OS and learn to get better apps themselves for free; MS then loses money on the apps and possibly cuts them (more likely though pounding money into them ala XBOX just to kill competition) but may gain more OS customers due to reduced prices.
So while MS may only break even, cutting bundled apps would be a big win for consumers.
The reason people use paper plates is simply because you don't have to wash them and you can just throw them away... wooden plates would need to be washed and reused; If you want people to cut waste by not using paper plates, just get them to use and wash the pyrex/ceramic ones they already have...
Imagine space as a rubber sheet with a grid of dots (atoms/particles/etc) on it; as space expands ( you stretch the sheet in all directions) all of the dots get farther from each other. My understanding is that matter itself isn't really flying outward, but space itself is stretching so that everything seems to be growing farther apart (so no matter where you're looking from, light gets redshifted). Recent studies lead to the conclusion that eventually the rubber sheet of space will be stretched so much that the dots (atoms/particles/etc) will be so far apart that the attractive forces cannot bind them any longer; at that point the universe undergoes the "Big Rip" and everything disintegrates into nothingness....
Actually the earth is slowing down regardless of weather phenomena, etc.
It is a known fact that the earth is slowly transferring its axial momentum to the moon. The earth is spinning slower and slower (granted by extremely minute amounts) while the moon orbits faster and farther away (also by exremely minute amounts)...
If the radar gun has ALREADY been pointed at you, its too late to slow down anyway...
"New releases aren't for bug fixes."
/. effect on site).
No, but if I'm not mistaken, in the interview he mentioned that new releases were not to enhance _stability_ either (can't confirm due to
Keeping in mind that this interview is from 1995 (leaving one to wonder how this is just now being discussed), I look back to the ad campaigns preceding and even the "read this propaganda while windows installs" messages in XP. Anyone who remembers them will know. The single biggest selling point of winXP was "Windows XP is the most stable version of windows ever!"
So much for stability not being a reason to make a new version, Uncle Bill... If this interview were more recent we could call you a hypocrite, but we'll just be nice and chalk this one up to forgetfulness.
I had that idea once.. too expensive though to send it to the sun. All that really matters is that you get it outward bound from the solar system and its not a problem anymore... Also you could make a reusable system that jettisons the garbage once it gets far enough from earth then returns for reuse... all sorts of ideas like this, but not any real chance at viability until we get a space elevator :P