When Fedora Core 6 came out, the combination of FC6 and firefox was hideous. A site like nasdaq.com has dozens of links, each timing out in series. The result was pages that took 10 or 20 minutes to render.
From what I've been able to find, plasma units aren't competitive with CRTs. Plasma costs upwards of $1200 for 1920x1080 and the unit will have a 50" diagonal. A CRT with 2000x1500 resolution (which plasma can't match) costs less and has a diagonal of about 25". One big disadvantage of CRTs is distortion, so if you take measurements by pressing a ruler against the display, you want plasma or LCD.
Well, you've certainly shown your bias. The ACLU is the most egregious example; they almost always act in a manner to defend destruction; they usually act to increase government power at the expense of producers.
Excellent, except for the word OUR. You and I each own what we own, no more, no less, and everywhere else we're there only by the owner's permission (usually implicit). Aggression by a policeman deserves to be treated accordingly, alas, it seldom is.
In some states a policeman will pull a gun on you if you get out of your car when he pulls you over. THEY think it's aggressive behavior, likely because it's hard to draw a gun -- either you or he -- seated in a car.
I doubt very much the original intention was the driver's safety. Lawmakers don't give a damn about your safety, they want power.
The unions forced their absurd terms on the car companies. The failure of GM and Chrysler is more the fault of vicious unions than cowardly management. The idea that it's malicious action by management is absurd.
More to the point, expensive high-tech systems like night-vision are more cost-driven by development costs and low volume constraints than by the wages and benefits of production line workers.
This would have the added benefit of depopulating Connecticut, taking it below the minimum population requirement for statehood, and removing its votes from congress.
Bush II did try to fix a part of the problem that led to the housing collapse, but by the time he got there the Democrats (mostly in the person of Barney Frank) had enough power to prevent any reform. This is not to excuse Bush, who did more harm than good.
Federally chartered banks require US gov't permission to open new branches. If a bank wants to grow its business, it has to ass-kiss whatever political ideology is currently in power, and that means giving out loans to those who don't deserve them, like congressmen and other deadbeats.
Corrupt bankers may have pulled the trigger, but politicians provided the guns and bullets and said "Aim over there."
Hughes is limited by satellite bandwidth. It's a reality limitation and not something you can blame Hughes for, unless you expect them to pump away all the atmosphere so they can aim a laser at your house. Hughes is for places where there's no alternative, and if you didn't realise that, you weren't paying attention.
The thing people complain about w.r.t. Monsanto is GMO plants. Paranoids and Luddites complained that GMOs would spread pollen everywhere and thereby poison the whole world. So Monsanto included terminator genes so that the plants couldn't spread, and farmers and professional whiners screamed about that. At this point, nothing Monsanto does could please any of these people - surprise!
As I understand it, the 20 bit address restriction was an IBM choice based on making hardware cheap, rather than an Intel design decision. The segment register was an EXTERNAL piece of hardware, a 4 by 4 bit TTL "memory". The 8088/8086 knew nothing of segments, IBM had to add them to get a bigger addressing space. Intel incroporated IBM's hack into later versions of the X86 family.
The metric system is so advantageous because there are no alternate units for the same thing. I'm just dyne to hear of another metric unit for the newton. I gauss I'll just have to live with the Tesla.
According to Wikipedia, Perkin-Elmer made the mirror, and both Kodak and Itek made backup mirrors (nope, no money being wasted here!). Part of Perkin-Elmer's test equipment (the null corrector) was improperly assembled. Even though P-E had two other null correctors that indicated the main mirror was being ground incorrectly, P-E chose to believe the defective one, because it had been purpose-built to greater quality (or so it was thought.)
For all the money and time that went into it, the problem (in part) was inadequate oversight. The Challenger disaster delayed the launch so much that there were years available to check and recheck for errors, and it wasn't done.
I remember Motorola's ads from that period. Mot pointed out the evasions and lies in Intel's advertising, and then proceeded to make lies of their own in the same ad. Fun times, in retrospect.
Both glasses and steels come in a wide range of hardnesses. Generally their hardnesses are pretty close, but glasses are more brittle. Critical jet engine parts are likely to be titanium, not steel.
we had an election where we (overwhelmingly) voted for a party that touted HCR as a huge portion of its platform
CONTEXT! In the election, the leader of the opposing party said "ME TOO". It was a race between an evil old feeb and an oily, dynamic, even more evil shyster. There was no good choice here, just a large number of fools voting for the slicker package.
Don't forget that much of the election was a rejection of the inept Bush administration.
at least the government has a mandate to take care of YOU rather than some shareholders
Haha, fooled you. The U.S. Supreme court has ruled repeatedly that the government has no obligation to its inhabitants. There's no obligation to attempt to protect from foreign attack. No obligation to pay social security. The terms of the new healthcare law are pretty obvious in their provisions to deny help to anyone based on the decision of a committee, rather than any objective standards. If you want healthcare, pucker up those rosy lips...
It's completely different. When Intel started making good chipsets to go with their X86s, they didn't prevent competitors from making chipsets. Intel just had a more effective product.
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When Fedora Core 6 came out, the combination of FC6 and firefox was hideous. A site like nasdaq.com has dozens of links, each timing out in series. The result was pages that took 10 or 20 minutes to render.
From what I've been able to find, plasma units aren't competitive with CRTs. Plasma costs upwards of $1200 for 1920x1080 and the unit will have a 50" diagonal. A CRT with 2000x1500 resolution (which plasma can't match) costs less and has a diagonal of about 25". One big disadvantage of CRTs is distortion, so if you take measurements by pressing a ruler against the display, you want plasma or LCD.
Well, you've certainly shown your bias. The ACLU is the most egregious example; they almost always act in a manner to defend destruction; they usually act to increase government power at the expense of producers.
In an armed society there is a much-reduced need for police.
This is why a Prius is so wonderful. Floor a silent car with your keys in your pocket, and you take off.
Excellent, except for the word OUR. You and I each own what we own, no more, no less, and everywhere else we're there only by the owner's permission (usually implicit). Aggression by a policeman deserves to be treated accordingly, alas, it seldom is.
In some states a policeman will pull a gun on you if you get out of your car when he pulls you over. THEY think it's aggressive behavior, likely because it's hard to draw a gun -- either you or he -- seated in a car.
I doubt very much the original intention was the driver's safety. Lawmakers don't give a damn about your safety, they want power.
It's not troll, it's flamebait.
The unions forced their absurd terms on the car companies. The failure of GM and Chrysler is more the fault of vicious unions than cowardly management. The idea that it's malicious action by management is absurd.
More to the point, expensive high-tech systems like night-vision are more cost-driven by development costs and low volume constraints than by the wages and benefits of production line workers.
This would have the added benefit of depopulating Connecticut, taking it below the minimum population requirement for statehood, and removing its votes from congress.
Bush II did try to fix a part of the problem that led to the housing collapse, but by the time he got there the Democrats (mostly in the person of Barney Frank) had enough power to prevent any reform. This is not to excuse Bush, who did more harm than good.
Federally chartered banks require US gov't permission to open new branches. If a bank wants to grow its business, it has to ass-kiss whatever political ideology is currently in power, and that means giving out loans to those who don't deserve them, like congressmen and other deadbeats.
Corrupt bankers may have pulled the trigger, but politicians provided the guns and bullets and said "Aim over there."
Hughes is limited by satellite bandwidth. It's a reality limitation and not something you can blame Hughes for, unless you expect them to pump away all the atmosphere so they can aim a laser at your house. Hughes is for places where there's no alternative, and if you didn't realise that, you weren't paying attention.
By the way, you should fire your ESL teacher.
"Wall Street" companies and "financial services" are not monopolies anywhere - yet. The Obama administration is working to create this problem.
The thing people complain about w.r.t. Monsanto is GMO plants. Paranoids and Luddites complained that GMOs would spread pollen everywhere and thereby poison the whole world. So Monsanto included terminator genes so that the plants couldn't spread, and farmers and professional whiners screamed about that. At this point, nothing Monsanto does could please any of these people - surprise!
You only need 1 cable box per different program being watched at a time, a remote extender, and some extra wiring. Figure it out.
As I understand it, the 20 bit address restriction was an IBM choice based on making hardware cheap, rather than an Intel design decision. The segment register was an EXTERNAL piece of hardware, a 4 by 4 bit TTL "memory". The 8088/8086 knew nothing of segments, IBM had to add them to get a bigger addressing space. Intel incroporated IBM's hack into later versions of the X86 family.
The metric system is so advantageous because there are no alternate units for the same thing. I'm just dyne to hear of another metric unit for the newton. I gauss I'll just have to live with the Tesla.
According to Wikipedia, Perkin-Elmer made the mirror, and both Kodak and Itek made backup mirrors (nope, no money being wasted here!). Part of Perkin-Elmer's test equipment (the null corrector) was improperly assembled. Even though P-E had two other null correctors that indicated the main mirror was being ground incorrectly, P-E chose to believe the defective one, because it had been purpose-built to greater quality (or so it was thought.)
For all the money and time that went into it, the problem (in part) was inadequate oversight. The Challenger disaster delayed the launch so much that there were years available to check and recheck for errors, and it wasn't done.
You got it exactly wrong. Accuracy is degree of agreement with reality or specification, precision is degree of repeatability.
I remember Motorola's ads from that period. Mot pointed out the evasions and lies in Intel's advertising, and then proceeded to make lies of their own in the same ad. Fun times, in retrospect.
The air belongs to the people. People get to use the air with the permission of the people. The government represents the people.
So if you piss off some bureaucrat, he can shut off your air at his whim.
There are valid reasons for not flying near a volcano eruption, but your totalitarian argument is pure crap and deserves to be treated as such.
Both glasses and steels come in a wide range of hardnesses. Generally their hardnesses are pretty close, but glasses are more brittle. Critical jet engine parts are likely to be titanium, not steel.
CONTEXT! In the election, the leader of the opposing party said "ME TOO". It was a race between an evil old feeb and an oily, dynamic, even more evil shyster. There was no good choice here, just a large number of fools voting for the slicker package.
Don't forget that much of the election was a rejection of the inept Bush administration.
Haha, fooled you. The U.S. Supreme court has ruled repeatedly that the government has no obligation to its inhabitants. There's no obligation to attempt to protect from foreign attack. No obligation to pay social security. The terms of the new healthcare law are pretty obvious in their provisions to deny help to anyone based on the decision of a committee, rather than any objective standards. If you want healthcare, pucker up those rosy lips...
This is better than what we have now HOW?
It's completely different. When Intel started making good chipsets to go with their X86s, they didn't prevent competitors from making chipsets. Intel just had a more effective product.