Apple doesn't sell upgrades, they sell full versions. After you buy Panther, you can sell Jaguar, toss the disk, whatever, and still be able to reinstall Panther should you need to.
The X in OS X is a word play. It has a double meaning. It means 10 in Roman numerals, thus signifying the next big release after OS 9, and a revolutionary release. It is also an X as in uniX and advertises that OS X is a uniX operating system. There's more to the name than just changing to a Roman numeral numbering scheme.
OS X is the name of the operating system. The number afterward is the version.
Could they have gone with OS X 1.0? Yeah, and I think that would have been better, but, I'm not paid by Apple to make the big decisions.
Actually, the Twin Towers WERE originally designed to withstand the heat of burning aluminum (it wasn't the jet fuel that burned hot enough to bring down the girders, it was the burning aluminum from the plane fuselage.
Unfortunately, the materials they were going to use (asbestos) to protect against the heat were deemed environmentally unsafe and the builders were banned from using them.
Except that the warmer the air is, the more vapor it can hold, and the process of water condensing and falling out of the sky is usually associated with violent weather systems.
The point: Fuel cells are NOT non-polluting. Quit saying they are.
Personally, I prefer getting rid of the stupid it's either the environment OR progress mentality that enviro-nazis have indoctrinated people into believing.
No explanation necessary. You are right. The cost is still ridiculously high. Also note that the price is averaged out over a 20-year life. How ridiculous is that?
It's all smoke and mirrors put up by enviro types who are convinced fossil fuels are going to run out tomorrow after they turn our world into Venus II.
Geothermal sources remain largely untapped because your local environmentalist lobby slaps a lawsuit on any company that tries to harness the energy from all those "pretty, irreplacable, and endangered geysers."
*The current infrastructure is failing. It is failing because the basic engineering tenants of managed service and growth have been undercut by neo-free market economics.*
This is so TOTALLY off the mark, it is not even funny. The grid is falling apart because environmental lawsuits have effectively KILLED any and ALL attempts to modernize it.
Case in point. Tuscon Power is attempting to update it's grid infrastructure in SW Arizona. Environmentalists immediately slapped a lawsuit on the company claiming that some stupid sage brush would be impacted by the building of the power line transmission towers. The lawsuit failed, so the same groups immediately petitioned to have the plant declared endangered so that the EPA could stop the project by simple bureaucratic decree.
That is NOT free markets destroying our power grid, it's enviro-nazi anti-capitalists.
The first part of the solution is correctly identifying the problem.
Just because he's an enormous fan doesn't mean he knows what the heck the books are about.
I think most people (and I agree with them) are not upset because Jackson has made changes, but because the changes run contrary to the theme and vision of the book, and literally re-write characters in the story. Aragorn becomes some stereotypical cliche of reluctant king. Frodo is a sniveling coward, Faramir is just slimy and petty, Theoden is confused and indecisive, even after his rescue from Saruman's influence, etc.
It's one thing to adapt a book to the screen, it's another to completely re-write the book.
The scenes you make fun of show how little you understand how literature can be translated to the screen. The scene with Faramir can be very powerfully done. The viewer already knows what Boromir was like, and here comes Faramir, his brother. People EXPECT him to be like Boromir. The whole scene in the book is classic Hitchcock "bomb under the table" suspense. It WOULD keep people on the edge of their seats.
Ditto with the scene with the King of the Nazgul. Remember the decision Gandalf has to make. Also keep in mind the scene surrounding that confrontation. The horror of the presence of the King of the Nazgul on the surrounding people can be tremendously powerful, also that Gandalf is afraid. He doe NOT know that he can beat this king, and the king of the Nazgul is tremendously confident that he will have Gandalf for lunch.
It's called TENSION, and it's something that neither you nor Jackson, who is, at heart, nothing more than an action film director, can get. Like you, Jackson's idea of subtlety is an arrow through the heart instead of a sword lopping off a head.
It's generally understood that an adaptation will stay true to the theme and vision of the book, while making allowances for the realities of film verses print.
A more accurate description of what Jackson has done is make a fantasy film inspired by the books of JRR Tolkien.
The French were more interested in smashing British Imperial power than helping out America. The genius of Franklin is that he turned that to our advantage.
Then how do we make Plutonium? Last I checked, we don't routinely create supernovae on Earth.
The fact is, Plutonium is very easily made by firing neutrons into Uranium 238. That's what Fast Breeder reactors do.
Since decaying Uranium is a neutron emitter, Plutonium can be created in nature when the concentration of Uranium is high enough. Trace amounts of Plutonium are found routinely in nature.
True. His argument was weak. The goal is not to prove the Earth a certain age, but to demonstrate that it is completely unreasonable to definitively declare the earth to be 4-6 billion years old.
You then proceed to show the problems inherent in radiometric dating, the geologic column, and then go on to show that the reason the number 4 billion is so strongly touted is because that's the minimum time for evolutionary processes to produce today's biosphere. (although, if you take the cost of negative mutations into account, you actually need about 40 billion years).
You do realize that the power to interpret constitutionality is not granted to courts in the Constitution? The US supreme court took that power unto itself in a ruling from the bench in the 1830s I believe.
That was a dangerous precedent to my mind, because it gave an awful lot of power to the judicial branch, and they've abused it regularly ever since.
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The power industry has never been de-regulated. What was called de-regulation was nothing more than re-regulation.
Why should I listen to a thing the author says when he can't even get this simple a concept right?
Apple doesn't sell upgrades, they sell full versions. After you buy Panther, you can sell Jaguar, toss the disk, whatever, and still be able to reinstall Panther should you need to.
Another nice thing: No product activation.
I'm surprised this still comes up.
The X in OS X is a word play. It has a double meaning. It means 10 in Roman numerals, thus signifying the next big release after OS 9, and a revolutionary release. It is also an X as in uniX and advertises that OS X is a uniX operating system. There's more to the name than just changing to a Roman numeral numbering scheme.
OS X is the name of the operating system. The number afterward is the version.
Could they have gone with OS X 1.0? Yeah, and I think that would have been better, but, I'm not paid by Apple to make the big decisions.
Actually, the Twin Towers WERE originally designed to withstand the heat of burning aluminum (it wasn't the jet fuel that burned hot enough to bring down the girders, it was the burning aluminum from the plane fuselage.
Unfortunately, the materials they were going to use (asbestos) to protect against the heat were deemed environmentally unsafe and the builders were banned from using them.
Question: What kind of developer thinks that making an easy install is NOT part of a development project?
A) A lazy one
B) A stupid one
C) A Linux elitist one
D) All of the above
Except that the warmer the air is, the more vapor it can hold, and the process of water condensing and falling out of the sky is usually associated with violent weather systems.
The point: Fuel cells are NOT non-polluting. Quit saying they are.
Personally, I prefer getting rid of the stupid it's either the environment OR progress mentality that enviro-nazis have indoctrinated people into believing.
It'll never happen. There just isn't enough energy density in the sunlight striking the surface of the earth.
Oh, man, where are the mod points? I'd give you all five of mine.
No explanation necessary. You are right. The cost is still ridiculously high. Also note that the price is averaged out over a 20-year life. How ridiculous is that?
It's all smoke and mirrors put up by enviro types who are convinced fossil fuels are going to run out tomorrow after they turn our world into Venus II.
Geothermal sources remain largely untapped because your local environmentalist lobby slaps a lawsuit on any company that tries to harness the energy from all those "pretty, irreplacable, and endangered geysers."
What's most annoying to programmer egos is that the users are right.
Ah, the fallacy of ad homeniem, or kill the messenger.
Yes. That water vapor. It's the most powerful greenhouse gas known.
No, the voters did not. The environmentalist groups used lawsuits to shut down any attempts to build new power plants.
You do realize that water vapor, the byproduct of fuel cells, is at least ten times more powerful a greenhouse gas than CO2, right?
*The current infrastructure is failing. It is failing because the basic engineering tenants of managed service and growth have been undercut by neo-free market economics.*
This is so TOTALLY off the mark, it is not even funny. The grid is falling apart because environmental lawsuits have effectively KILLED any and ALL attempts to modernize it.
Case in point. Tuscon Power is attempting to update it's grid infrastructure in SW Arizona. Environmentalists immediately slapped a lawsuit on the company claiming that some stupid sage brush would be impacted by the building of the power line transmission towers. The lawsuit failed, so the same groups immediately petitioned to have the plant declared endangered so that the EPA could stop the project by simple bureaucratic decree.
That is NOT free markets destroying our power grid, it's enviro-nazi anti-capitalists.
The first part of the solution is correctly identifying the problem.
No, the first step is to make energy so cheap and abundant, that we can waste as much as we want.
I refuse to lower my standard of living so you can feel better about yourself.
Just because he's an enormous fan doesn't mean he knows what the heck the books are about.
I think most people (and I agree with them) are not upset because Jackson has made changes, but because the changes run contrary to the theme and vision of the book, and literally re-write characters in the story. Aragorn becomes some stereotypical cliche of reluctant king. Frodo is a sniveling coward, Faramir is just slimy and petty, Theoden is confused and indecisive, even after his rescue from Saruman's influence, etc.
It's one thing to adapt a book to the screen, it's another to completely re-write the book.
The scenes you make fun of show how little you understand how literature can be translated to the screen. The scene with Faramir can be very powerfully done. The viewer already knows what Boromir was like, and here comes Faramir, his brother. People EXPECT him to be like Boromir. The whole scene in the book is classic Hitchcock "bomb under the table" suspense. It WOULD keep people on the edge of their seats.
Ditto with the scene with the King of the Nazgul. Remember the decision Gandalf has to make. Also keep in mind the scene surrounding that confrontation. The horror of the presence of the King of the Nazgul on the surrounding people can be tremendously powerful, also that Gandalf is afraid. He doe NOT know that he can beat this king, and the king of the Nazgul is tremendously confident that he will have Gandalf for lunch.
It's called TENSION, and it's something that neither you nor Jackson, who is, at heart, nothing more than an action film director, can get. Like you, Jackson's idea of subtlety is an arrow through the heart instead of a sword lopping off a head.
It's generally understood that an adaptation will stay true to the theme and vision of the book, while making allowances for the realities of film verses print.
A more accurate description of what Jackson has done is make a fantasy film inspired by the books of JRR Tolkien.
The French were more interested in smashing British Imperial power than helping out America. The genius of Franklin is that he turned that to our advantage.
*Remember, heavy elements are made in supernovae*
Then how do we make Plutonium? Last I checked, we don't routinely create supernovae on Earth.
The fact is, Plutonium is very easily made by firing neutrons into Uranium 238. That's what Fast Breeder reactors do.
Since decaying Uranium is a neutron emitter, Plutonium can be created in nature when the concentration of Uranium is high enough. Trace amounts of Plutonium are found routinely in nature.
*Don't mistake "self-governing" with democratic. A self-governing nation is any nation which is free to govern itself on its own terms.*
Fallacy of overprecision, thus your point is meaningless.
The word you're looking for is dictatorship.
True. His argument was weak. The goal is not to prove the Earth a certain age, but to demonstrate that it is completely unreasonable to definitively declare the earth to be 4-6 billion years old.
You then proceed to show the problems inherent in radiometric dating, the geologic column, and then go on to show that the reason the number 4 billion is so strongly touted is because that's the minimum time for evolutionary processes to produce today's biosphere. (although, if you take the cost of negative mutations into account, you actually need about 40 billion years).
You do realize that the power to interpret constitutionality is not granted to courts in the Constitution? The US supreme court took that power unto itself in a ruling from the bench in the 1830s I believe.
That was a dangerous precedent to my mind, because it gave an awful lot of power to the judicial branch, and they've abused it regularly ever since.