People get gratification knowing its on its way to them. Anticipation is usualy more gratifying than actualy having the thing in your hands. You think, "I can't wait for it to get here! its going to be so awesome!" Then you get it and have it your hands, "Yay, now what?"
Okay exact was the wrong word. What I meant was if Apple makes big improvements to khtml and is being as uncooperative as possible on purpose then they are attempting the same kind of thing(embrace and extend).
Thats exactly what MS tried to do with java. They licensed a version and never really updated it, just changed it here and there, so it eventualy went out of date and incompatable with Sun's up to date java. Unfortunatly for Sun MS's old version was already installed on every desktop computer because it came with windows. Sun took 'em to court and won, which is why MS doesn't include any version of java with windows anymore.
Google print only lets you see a few pages of a book. So I don't see how that will ever be more useful than going to a library and getting access to the whole book.
Improbability does not equal impossibility. If it did, no one would be struck by lightning or win the lottery. Givin the size of the universe even an incredibly small probability of life occuring on any given planet equals a very high probability life will occur somewhere in the universe on atleast one of the planets.
The Theory of Evolution is not about wether evolution exists or not, it is about the process by which it occurs. It is a fact that evolution exists and happens, in the same way that gravity exists and various theories about gravity are not theories about the existence of gravity, but how it happens. The LAW of gravity does not state anything about what causes gravity, it simply describes the effect of gravity.
To me it seems like people are mostly switching to ununtu from debian because sarge is taking so long to go stable. Once that happens x.org and kde 3.4 and all that stuff will go into debian and I bet atleast some of them will switch back to debian. I'm not saying this is definitly how it is, but from what i've heard from people its how it looks to me.
If you use the new installer it "just works" just fine. No screwing with anything, just "apt-get install x-window-system kde" and a minute later it was up and running.
Just because a side is stronger doesn't mean they must use brute force. If the US was using brute force in Iraq right now they would be carpet bombing whole towns that gave them trouble.
That goes for gas power too. How much energy is used to pump the oil out of the ground? How much is used to ship it to the refinery? How much is used refining the oil into gas? How much is used to ship/truck the gas to the gas stations?
The beauty of electric powered vehicles is that the electricity can come from anywhere, making the transition to new & cleaner power generation easier. Sure right now alot of electricity comes mostly from dirty sources, but it could also come from cleaner sources in the future. The owner of the electric car doesn't have to change anything or buy anything new or different in order to take advantage of the newer source. Not only does the car owner not have to change anything but the whole electric infrastructure wouldn't have to change(other than increased capacity and such).
The gas car can only get power from oil and the infrastructure that provides the oil. So it will ALWAYS be dirty.
Who gives a damn about 'pound for pound' these days unless you are using an old computer? Its almost like wanting a crew of race horse jockeys on a container ship.
No, the atmosphere pretty much rotates with the earth. It only works if you are leaving the atmosphere. Nearly all orbital and interplanetary spacecraft launch eastwards from as close to the equator as possible, giving the spacecraft a free ~1000mph boost.
Evolution is simply change. It doesn't mean better or worse, more complex or primative, just change. If you want to say something is increasing in sophistication and specialization just say so. If you want to be sure you will be understood don't skimp on the words.
I haven't used Trillian for quite a while, but I remember the default skin was a huge ugly mess. I used a really tiny space saving skin. I use gaim these days and it isn't flexible enough to have those tiny skins but its still better than aim. You just need to turn off 'show buddy icons' in the buddy list options.
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People get gratification knowing its on its way to them. Anticipation is usualy more gratifying than actualy having the thing in your hands. You think, "I can't wait for it to get here! its going to be so awesome!" Then you get it and have it your hands, "Yay, now what?"
Okay exact was the wrong word. What I meant was if Apple makes big improvements to khtml and is being as uncooperative as possible on purpose then they are attempting the same kind of thing(embrace and extend).
Thats exactly what MS tried to do with java. They licensed a version and never really updated it, just changed it here and there, so it eventualy went out of date and incompatable with Sun's up to date java. Unfortunatly for Sun MS's old version was already installed on every desktop computer because it came with windows. Sun took 'em to court and won, which is why MS doesn't include any version of java with windows anymore.
Classic embrace and extend.
Some people only pay about $20.
Google print only lets you see a few pages of a book. So I don't see how that will ever be more useful than going to a library and getting access to the whole book.
Keep an eye out for an old dude with a sports almanac from the future!
Improbability does not equal impossibility. If it did, no one would be struck by lightning or win the lottery. Givin the size of the universe even an incredibly small probability of life occuring on any given planet equals a very high probability life will occur somewhere in the universe on atleast one of the planets.
Evolution has nothing to do with the origin of life, for that you want abiogenesis.
The Theory of Evolution is not about wether evolution exists or not, it is about the process by which it occurs. It is a fact that evolution exists and happens, in the same way that gravity exists and various theories about gravity are not theories about the existence of gravity, but how it happens. The LAW of gravity does not state anything about what causes gravity, it simply describes the effect of gravity.
Releasing their drivers open source would be nice, but it isn't needed. They just need to release the specs for the chips.
Anti aircraft guns maybe? They'll turn any general aviation plane into confetti in a few seconds.
To me it seems like people are mostly switching to ununtu from debian because sarge is taking so long to go stable. Once that happens x.org and kde 3.4 and all that stuff will go into debian and I bet atleast some of them will switch back to debian. I'm not saying this is definitly how it is, but from what i've heard from people its how it looks to me.
If you use the new installer it "just works" just fine. No screwing with anything, just "apt-get install x-window-system kde" and a minute later it was up and running.
Just because a side is stronger doesn't mean they must use brute force. If the US was using brute force in Iraq right now they would be carpet bombing whole towns that gave them trouble.
You can still get oil from plants, like they do to make biodiesel, and there's always thermal depolymerization.
That goes for gas power too. How much energy is used to pump the oil out of the ground? How much is used to ship it to the refinery? How much is used refining the oil into gas? How much is used to ship/truck the gas to the gas stations?
The beauty of electric powered vehicles is that the electricity can come from anywhere, making the transition to new & cleaner power generation easier. Sure right now alot of electricity comes mostly from dirty sources, but it could also come from cleaner sources in the future. The owner of the electric car doesn't have to change anything or buy anything new or different in order to take advantage of the newer source. Not only does the car owner not have to change anything but the whole electric infrastructure wouldn't have to change(other than increased capacity and such).
The gas car can only get power from oil and the infrastructure that provides the oil. So it will ALWAYS be dirty.
About 20USD, though they call them USB flash drives.
Who gives a damn about 'pound for pound' these days unless you are using an old computer? Its almost like wanting a crew of race horse jockeys on a container ship.
No, the atmosphere pretty much rotates with the earth. It only works if you are leaving the atmosphere. Nearly all orbital and interplanetary spacecraft launch eastwards from as close to the equator as possible, giving the spacecraft a free ~1000mph boost.
There's that high altitude solar powered plane, can stay up 24/7 IIRC.
A turbofan is a jet engine, it usualy refers to a high bypass jet engine.
Evolution is simply change. It doesn't mean better or worse, more complex or primative, just change. If you want to say something is increasing in sophistication and specialization just say so. If you want to be sure you will be understood don't skimp on the words.
I haven't used Trillian for quite a while, but I remember the default skin was a huge ugly mess. I used a really tiny space saving skin. I use gaim these days and it isn't flexible enough to have those tiny skins but its still better than aim. You just need to turn off 'show buddy icons' in the buddy list options.
Phishing is already used. I've never come across it myself, but i've heard about it and seen lots of notices posted about it by mmog companies.
I've never been paid to use a restroom.