Which is to say: unless and until all phone networks are interoperable, the iPhone is not going to penetrate very far. Even if I wanted one, and even if it were cheap, I wouldn't switch cellular providers just for an iPhone.
I've had a Canon pixma 4000 for a couple years now. I'd say we print something less than once a week, and even more rarely in color. I can still queue up a photo and photo-glossy paper and get a perfect print out. Maybe my house as just the right humidity:-) but clogging has not been a problem.
No, I really didn't want to start the flame war about artificial gravity generators (not the centrifuge kind of spaceship). I was thinking more of scifi movies and the occasinal STTNG where someone can move thru solid matter because of some sort of quantum or temporal phase shift. So, if he can walk thru walls, how come the deck holds him up?
in the scene in The Matrix which TFA presumably refers to (gal kicking a guy across a room), Trinity has left the ground and doesn't begin her kick until she is suspended in mid-air. Therefore she should have been propelled backward as she kicked him. In the "real world," I think there are two types of airborn kicks. The first involves the attacker running and jumping forward, thus starting out w/ a gob of momentum. The second is more of a ballet move, in which the attacker kicks forward w/ one leg and backwards with the other, thus balancing total momentum and keeping himself more or less stationary.
I am most certainly not going to test these moves myself.:-)
Well, it's a pretty long boat trip! We do now that people from Indonesia (or rather SE-Asia by way of Indonesia) island hopped all the way to Hawaii and Easter Island, but it took them until around 500 AD to get there.
Then again, read last week's New Yorker artical about those 3 Mexican fishermen who drifted for 9 months, ending up in the Phillipines. They did a good job of developing survival techniques, and I'll grant you the present-day drift patterns might not support a drift from West to East, but it does demonstrate that once in a while some humans can cross the Pacific. And it only takes a few of each sex to start a colony:-)
GUIs come and GUIs go. But w/ Office 2007 going to a Microsoft-proprietary version of XML for its file formats, trouble will break out everywhere. There'll be a zillion 2007 docs (from idiot companies that insist on upgrading) sent to a zillion users who can't open the documents. Even if you don't subscribe to the conspiracy theory, i.e. that Msoft did this to screw OO.o, it's just horrifying that Msoft is rolling out a full set of proprietary document formats. Just imagine trying to explain to everyone in your company about "Save As Office 2003 format," and when to click yes or no when Office2007 tells you it's converting older documents to the new format.
I read a couple articles in TNY a few years back about the massive engines used by coal-carrying trains here in the USA. The author stated that hybrid engines, basically diesels generating the electric power for the electric motors (one per wheel) were the only type that could provide enough power to pull the 2-3 mile long trains in use. So: is it really a power-to-wieght (or size) problem? Otherwise I would have to wonder why the locomotives are hybrid but this here monster is pure diesel.
Backuplist+, available at the usual search engines in your neighborhood:-), is a pretty nice gui frontend to several backup options. You can select Finder-like copy/backup, rsync, ditto, and cpio IIRC. It's free/donationware, so I'd recommend at least reading thru the documentation to see if it'll do all you need.
For example: if I just want a quick "coffee break" at home or at work, I enjoy stuff like MineSweeper. It's quick to play and requires just the right number of brain cells to be active:-) . I can think of many other situations for which a short (under 5 minutes, or under 30 minutes) game is just right. BTW, my favorite games are pinball sims -- plug here for VPinMAME --, which depending on your skill level can last 30 seconds or half an hour.
Unmentioned so far: what to do with the leftover salt. Unless you wait for 100% of the water to evaporate, you end up with highly salinized waste water. IIRC there are some desalinization plants in the Middle East or India, and significant "dead zones" in the ocean nearby. None of the indigenous aquatic life can tolerate raised salt levels.
I'm not really sure how a firmware update fixes a heat issue, but it did for me. Well, I know on the Dell Inspiron I have, when I ran a firmware updater (from Dell), the fan came on more often and at a subjectively lower case temperature. I would imagine MacBook fan control could be under firmware control as well as layered software control
Pinball Space Cadet? Good grief. Go quickly and Google "Visual Pinball" or go to vpinmame.com and vpforums.com to learn what pinball can really be like on your PC. For that matter, go to eBay and get a nice cheap CD of the ProPinball collection (The Web, Big Race USA, TimeShock, Fantastic Journey). You'll never go back.
"God" said no such thing. God made us a certain way and we should respect that - not change it. Even for those among you who think there's a god, this is spectacularly stupid. By your reasoning, not only is plastic surgery out, but so are makeup, hair coloring, sunscreen, and for that matter clothing. It's not too hard to read your statement as disallowing medicine as well. Sheesh.
Or, as Msoft Word calls it, "Normal View." I've been pleading w/ the OO.o design team (via there bug/feature trackers) to implement this with no luck whatsoever. It's an incredible waste of screen space (not to mention scrolling time) to display each and every page with its headers&footers, not to mention the blank background between pages. When you're writing and editing the content of a document, all you want or need to see is the text itself. Page formatting comes later.
I know Christa McAuliffe was well trained and had mission responsibilities, but she was for all practical purposes a tourist (and a NASA public relations stunt).
I like to throw my boat on the roof and go where few can go. And just why do you feel the need to *drive* there? All you've done is left hydrocarbons and dead underbrush for miles in the middle of some quiet forest. Next time, use an existing launch site or parking lot and try boating or hiking to this "few can go" location.
AFAIK where I come from, players are required to have face shields. It seems it's still not mandated in the NHL..
It's worse than that. The NHL bans full face shields (with exceptions for players recovering from broken cheekbones,jawbones, etc). It's an incredibly stupid rule.
A fellow happens to be sitting next to a priest at a boxing match. Before the first bell, he notices one of the boxers crossing himself. So he asks the priest, "Will that help him win the fight?" The priest says, "Not if he can't box."
So, yeah, computer analysis has been around for ages in many sports. Take the mega-infield shift teams put on for Big Papi, for example. Still doesn't help if the team doesn't have sufficient skill to use the information.
Ok, so you meant to say 451. Unless you actually are too young to know who Ray Bradbury is, in which case start doing some research so you'll understand the reasons MM chose the name of his movie.
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Isn't it really a helical ramp? It sounds more like a conical helix than a spiral, and wikipedia agrees with me.
Which is to say: unless and until all phone networks are interoperable, the iPhone is not going to penetrate very far. Even if I wanted one, and even if it were cheap, I wouldn't switch cellular providers just for an iPhone.
I've had a Canon pixma 4000 for a couple years now. I'd say we print something less than once a week, and even more rarely in color. I can still queue up a photo and photo-glossy paper and get a perfect print out. Maybe my house as just the right humidity :-) but clogging has not been a problem.
No, I really didn't want to start the flame war about artificial gravity generators (not the centrifuge kind of spaceship). I was thinking more of scifi movies and the occasinal STTNG where someone can move thru solid matter because of some sort of quantum or temporal phase shift. So, if he can walk thru walls, how come the deck holds him up?
in the scene in The Matrix which TFA presumably refers to (gal kicking a guy across a room), Trinity has left the ground and doesn't begin her kick until she is suspended in mid-air. Therefore she should have been propelled backward as she kicked him.
:-)
In the "real world," I think there are two types of airborn kicks. The first involves the attacker running and jumping forward, thus starting out w/ a gob of momentum. The second is more of a ballet move, in which the attacker kicks forward w/ one leg and backwards with the other, thus balancing total momentum and keeping himself more or less stationary.
I am most certainly not going to test these moves myself.
Well, it's a pretty long boat trip! We do now that people from Indonesia (or rather SE-Asia by way of Indonesia) island hopped all the way to Hawaii and Easter Island, but it took them until around 500 AD to get there.
:-)
Then again, read last week's New Yorker artical about those 3 Mexican fishermen who drifted for 9 months, ending up in the Phillipines. They did a good job of developing survival techniques, and I'll grant you the present-day drift patterns might not support a drift from West to East, but it does demonstrate that once in a while some humans can cross the Pacific. And it only takes a few of each sex to start a colony
"qit is better."
I vote for "qute," pronounced like the way you'd describe your girlfriend if you had one.
GUIs come and GUIs go. But w/ Office 2007 going to a Microsoft-proprietary version of XML for its file formats, trouble will break out everywhere. There'll be a zillion 2007 docs (from idiot companies that insist on upgrading) sent to a zillion users who can't open the documents. Even if you don't subscribe to the conspiracy theory, i.e. that Msoft did this to screw OO.o, it's just horrifying that Msoft is rolling out a full set of proprietary document formats. Just imagine trying to explain to everyone in your company about "Save As Office 2003 format," and when to click yes or no when Office2007 tells you it's converting older documents to the new format.
I read a couple articles in TNY a few years back about the massive engines used by coal-carrying trains here in the USA. The author stated that hybrid engines, basically diesels generating the electric power for the electric motors (one per wheel) were the only type that could provide enough power to pull the 2-3 mile long trains in use. So: is it really a power-to-wieght (or size) problem? Otherwise I would have to wonder why the locomotives are hybrid but this here monster is pure diesel.
Backuplist+, available at the usual search engines in your neighborhood :-), is a pretty nice gui frontend to several backup options. You can select Finder-like copy/backup, rsync, ditto, and cpio IIRC. It's free/donationware, so I'd recommend at least reading thru the documentation to see if it'll do all you need.
For example: if I just want a quick "coffee break" at home or at work, I enjoy stuff like MineSweeper. It's quick to play and requires just the right number of brain cells to be active :-) . I can think of many other situations for which a short (under 5 minutes, or under 30 minutes) game is just right.
BTW, my favorite games are pinball sims -- plug here for VPinMAME --, which depending on your skill level can last 30 seconds or half an hour.
Unmentioned so far: what to do with the leftover salt. Unless you wait for 100% of the water to evaporate, you end up with highly salinized waste water. IIRC there are some desalinization plants in the Middle East or India, and significant "dead zones" in the ocean nearby. None of the indigenous aquatic life can tolerate raised salt levels.
I'm not really sure how a firmware update fixes a heat issue, but it did for me.
Well, I know on the Dell Inspiron I have, when I ran a firmware updater (from Dell), the fan came on more often and at a subjectively lower case temperature. I would imagine MacBook fan control could be under firmware control as well as layered software control
Pinball Space Cadet? Good grief. Go quickly and Google "Visual Pinball" or go to vpinmame.com and vpforums.com to learn what pinball can really be like on your PC.
For that matter, go to eBay and get a nice cheap CD of the ProPinball collection (The Web, Big Race USA, TimeShock, Fantastic Journey). You'll never go back.
"God" said no such thing. God made us a certain way and we should respect that - not change it.
Even for those among you who think there's a god, this is spectacularly stupid. By your reasoning, not only is plastic surgery out, but so are makeup, hair coloring, sunscreen, and for that matter clothing.
It's not too hard to read your statement as disallowing medicine as well.
Sheesh.
Or, as Msoft Word calls it, "Normal View." I've been pleading w/ the OO.o design team (via there bug/feature trackers) to implement this with no luck whatsoever.
It's an incredible waste of screen space (not to mention scrolling time) to display each and every page with its headers&footers, not to mention the blank background between pages. When you're writing and editing the content of a document, all you want or need to see is the text itself. Page formatting comes later.
I know Christa McAuliffe was well trained and had mission responsibilities, but she was for all practical purposes a tourist (and a NASA public relations stunt).
But "Snakes on a Plane" isn't a complete sentence, either.
:-) .
It is if you insert an apostrophe just before the second "s"
I like to throw my boat on the roof and go where few can go.
And just why do you feel the need to *drive* there? All you've done is left hydrocarbons and dead underbrush for miles in the middle of some quiet forest.
Next time, use an existing launch site or parking lot and try boating or hiking to this "few can go" location.
I can drive 800 miles and not leave Texas. :-)
Try straightening out the steering wheel now and then
I can drive 800 miles and not leave my cul-de-sac, too....
I got 2 out of 25. Far worse than guessing would predict.
So obviously (but I'm still posting it
AFAIK where I come from, players are required to have face shields. It seems it's still not mandated in the NHL..
It's worse than that. The NHL bans full face shields (with exceptions for players recovering from broken cheekbones,jawbones, etc). It's an incredibly stupid rule.
Sorry if this is a late dupe, but Northrop Grumman patented a thing they called Switchblade back in 1999.
Guess that version didn't pan out.
A fellow happens to be sitting next to a priest at a boxing match. Before the first bell, he notices one of the boxers crossing himself. So he asks the priest, "Will that help him win the fight?" The priest says, "Not if he can't box."
So, yeah, computer analysis has been around for ages in many sports. Take the mega-infield shift teams put on for Big Papi, for example. Still doesn't help if the team doesn't have sufficient skill to use the information.
Ok, so you meant to say 451.
Unless you actually are too young to know who Ray Bradbury is, in which case start doing some research so you'll understand the reasons MM chose the name of his movie.