I collect vintage 70's Sansui solid states, and I've noticed in many parts of the stereo world audiophile seems to no longer mean someone that loves their audio equiptment, but a group that perpetuates urban myths and outdated audio information.
My understanding was that poverty was a problem of food distribution, not lack of arable land, and genetically modified more efficient crops were mostly to make more profit, not feed more people.
My main problem with wind power is inconsistencies in wind generally necessitate extensive, ugly, expensive backup systems for keeping dips in power service from doing harm and the fact that the ecconomy of wind and solar power is an ecconomy where land area and production are equivilent, and a land dependent ecconomy leads to feudalism, not a direction we can so much go from here.
No, I believe that the degree to which we care about the suffering of another living thing is measured by how easily we sympathize with it. I certainly claim that plants are not any less alive than animals and don't see what a human concept of awareness matters much to them when they're dead.
I still don't get the whole "animals experience pain the same way we do, so their destruction is more sympathisable and therefore sadder than the ending of a plant's life" thing.
I admit most everybody I know that uses a laptop uses it on their bed (translation - GIANT overheat trap) about half the time. I think they would be fine if alwasys kept on a desk or other proper surface. However, even a lap is a prime overheating location, so most users I think eventually experience thermal strain on one or more motherboard components.
I consider anyting that powers down and powers up the hardware, therebye elminating hardware related failures, as a sort of booting. Hibernate and suspend are really saving the current running state and loading it on the next boot of the hardware.
I rarely have more than 15, counting IM, but most people I know use tabs for topics etc on the same page, or simular interests, and have every window they use an the entire internet open at once and just refresh. People with a bunch of different IM clients, which is getting more common, and a pile of different windows for each, have even more infestation.
To play devils advocate, I don't think much of anyone uses any significant ammount of their boot hard drive to possibly care about the install size of their OS at all.
"For a company like the one I worked at recently (100K employees), that $199 is just a drop in the bucket of the total upgrade cost."
I 100% believe this - and this, paired with microsoft giving some twisted version of suport for your new OS, is why most companies don's see the major savings expected from converting to linux.
Is the 2k computer a laptop? I'm sorry to say I've never seen a laptop stable long term, even running linux users almost always end up either 1) overheating or 2) needing to move the PC LONG before a boot is required.
Also, have to be honest here, I've never seen a laptop more than 2 years old without multiple hardware problems, mostly motherboard related.
I can't get pissed at XP for ANY of it's interface, honestly. However by my own adimission STUPID most of the "XP Candy" is, it's all easily disabled by someone with a good understanding of even a previous windows OS from win9x or later.
When you are working browsing the web, IMing, and using common home tasks, I find each instance of an app grouped to be a useful function. However, I think it would slow you down if the only windows you had open were actively in use for productive work. Most people I know who user their computer a lot have between 20 and 40 windows open at once, at which time even half a screen of taskbar is useless. I think how you use this feature depends primarily on how you use your computer.
PS - I have to agree that the picture and fax quickviever is one of the nicest software additions microsoft has made - it makes something everybody wants to work easily and quickly easy and quick.
I agree, I think windows XP is much more a package for home users, small business, and new businesses - windows XP has a robust packaged driver database, good for most home users without modern powerful hardware, most of which comes with XP drivers. I'm starting to think with how it operates XP is really the mature verson of 2k with added home simplicty and functionalities. For a corporate user with hardware already supported by 2k and a reasonable firewall and router, it's a waste of money to upgrade to XP.
Of course, everybody is getting dumber, especially now, as law protects people from stupidity - like not weating seatbelts, or helmets. Also, it's statistically shown that non college graduates are outbreeding college graduates several to one. This is part of the reason for the (to use a simpsons' word) dummening of the human population.
To play devils advocate - do you have statistics on "out of the box" thinking for different periods in history? I think the way modern progress is made, by teams and groups of researchers doing much more much faster in many differnt places all at once is making much, much faster progress than at any period in history - specifically becuase it does not depend on a "breakthough" by one specific amazing thinker. Perhaps modern advancement just requires so much more knowledge and work than a single person seeing things in a rush of insight is likely to have, and thus modern progress is accomplished differently.
We've already really done a number on most of the fish species we eat, just through the magic of the government subsidizing fishing and keeping fishermen in business when the number of fish in the water would have long made in unprofitable.
Testing each individual board an an industrial scale would add way more to the cost of the boards than shipping the same exact thing under two names with a single bit in the bios switching the extra stuff off.
It's an incredible performance enhancer - It improves not just muscle developement and reflexes, but mental accuity and judgement as well, vastly over those who use little or none of the enhancer. It's called FOOD!
I acctually delete the "recycler" file after disabling the recycle bin on my RAMdisk virtual HDD ram partition and it still works fine. This partition contains my paging file, adobe workspace, and browser cache.
Any attempt at securing the contents of audio will always fail from now until forever, period. If you can play it even once, any any audio player, it can be copied. Easily. Think anyone cares about one generation of re-recording degredation? Most people can't hear the difference between FM radio and a CD or 128kb mp3 and a CD, even a rerecording made at home using the line in an a decent sound card isn't that bad. Then, after one indetectable degrading copy, an infinent number of perfect digital copies can be made. Any music copyright scheme that lets you listen to the music you buy even once is insecureable. Give it up, this entire attempt is such a pathetic waste of money it boggles the mind.
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I collect vintage 70's Sansui solid states, and I've noticed in many parts of the stereo world audiophile seems to no longer mean someone that loves their audio equiptment, but a group that perpetuates urban myths and outdated audio information.
My understanding was that poverty was a problem of food distribution, not lack of arable land, and genetically modified more efficient crops were mostly to make more profit, not feed more people.
My main problem with wind power is inconsistencies in wind generally necessitate extensive, ugly, expensive backup systems for keeping dips in power service from doing harm and the fact that the ecconomy of wind and solar power is an ecconomy where land area and production are equivilent, and a land dependent ecconomy leads to feudalism, not a direction we can so much go from here.
No, I believe that the degree to which we care about the suffering of another living thing is measured by how easily we sympathize with it. I certainly claim that plants are not any less alive than animals and don't see what a human concept of awareness matters much to them when they're dead.
I still don't get the whole "animals experience pain the same way we do, so their destruction is more sympathisable and therefore sadder than the ending of a plant's life" thing.
I admit most everybody I know that uses a laptop uses it on their bed (translation - GIANT overheat trap) about half the time. I think they would be fine if alwasys kept on a desk or other proper surface. However, even a lap is a prime overheating location, so most users I think eventually experience thermal strain on one or more motherboard components.
I consider anyting that powers down and powers up the hardware, therebye elminating hardware related failures, as a sort of booting. Hibernate and suspend are really saving the current running state and loading it on the next boot of the hardware.
I rarely have more than 15, counting IM, but most people I know use tabs for topics etc on the same page, or simular interests, and have every window they use an the entire internet open at once and just refresh. People with a bunch of different IM clients, which is getting more common, and a pile of different windows for each, have even more infestation.
To play devils advocate, I don't think much of anyone uses any significant ammount of their boot hard drive to possibly care about the install size of their OS at all.
"For a company like the one I worked at recently (100K employees), that $199 is just a drop in the bucket of the total upgrade cost." I 100% believe this - and this, paired with microsoft giving some twisted version of suport for your new OS, is why most companies don's see the major savings expected from converting to linux.
Is the 2k computer a laptop? I'm sorry to say I've never seen a laptop stable long term, even running linux users almost always end up either 1) overheating or 2) needing to move the PC LONG before a boot is required. Also, have to be honest here, I've never seen a laptop more than 2 years old without multiple hardware problems, mostly motherboard related.
I can't get pissed at XP for ANY of it's interface, honestly. However by my own adimission STUPID most of the "XP Candy" is, it's all easily disabled by someone with a good understanding of even a previous windows OS from win9x or later.
When you are working browsing the web, IMing, and using common home tasks, I find each instance of an app grouped to be a useful function. However, I think it would slow you down if the only windows you had open were actively in use for productive work. Most people I know who user their computer a lot have between 20 and 40 windows open at once, at which time even half a screen of taskbar is useless. I think how you use this feature depends primarily on how you use your computer. PS - I have to agree that the picture and fax quickviever is one of the nicest software additions microsoft has made - it makes something everybody wants to work easily and quickly easy and quick.
I agree, I think windows XP is much more a package for home users, small business, and new businesses - windows XP has a robust packaged driver database, good for most home users without modern powerful hardware, most of which comes with XP drivers. I'm starting to think with how it operates XP is really the mature verson of 2k with added home simplicty and functionalities. For a corporate user with hardware already supported by 2k and a reasonable firewall and router, it's a waste of money to upgrade to XP.
Of course, everybody is getting dumber, especially now, as law protects people from stupidity - like not weating seatbelts, or helmets. Also, it's statistically shown that non college graduates are outbreeding college graduates several to one. This is part of the reason for the (to use a simpsons' word) dummening of the human population.
To play devils advocate - do you have statistics on "out of the box" thinking for different periods in history? I think the way modern progress is made, by teams and groups of researchers doing much more much faster in many differnt places all at once is making much, much faster progress than at any period in history - specifically becuase it does not depend on a "breakthough" by one specific amazing thinker. Perhaps modern advancement just requires so much more knowledge and work than a single person seeing things in a rush of insight is likely to have, and thus modern progress is accomplished differently.
We've already really done a number on most of the fish species we eat, just through the magic of the government subsidizing fishing and keeping fishermen in business when the number of fish in the water would have long made in unprofitable.
Testing each individual board an an industrial scale would add way more to the cost of the boards than shipping the same exact thing under two names with a single bit in the bios switching the extra stuff off.
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It's an incredible performance enhancer - It improves not just muscle developement and reflexes, but mental accuity and judgement as well, vastly over those who use little or none of the enhancer. It's called FOOD!
This is what I was going to point out.
Why not use cyclonic motion of air to remove all the particles like some vaccum cleaners do?
I acctually delete the "recycler" file after disabling the recycle bin on my RAMdisk virtual HDD ram partition and it still works fine. This partition contains my paging file, adobe workspace, and browser cache.
Any attempt at securing the contents of audio will always fail from now until forever, period. If you can play it even once, any any audio player, it can be copied. Easily. Think anyone cares about one generation of re-recording degredation? Most people can't hear the difference between FM radio and a CD or 128kb mp3 and a CD, even a rerecording made at home using the line in an a decent sound card isn't that bad. Then, after one indetectable degrading copy, an infinent number of perfect digital copies can be made. Any music copyright scheme that lets you listen to the music you buy even once is insecureable. Give it up, this entire attempt is such a pathetic waste of money it boggles the mind.
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