You hit the nail right on the head.... but you forgot to mention all the crap OEM's install on their computers (HP/Compaq, im looking at you). Despite the additional overhead of running XP vs. 98, A BRAND-EFFIN'-NEW COMPUTER SHOULD NOT RUN AS FAST AS ONE 10 YEARS OLDER, nor should the crap software pre-installed bug me to immediatly register it with screen-filling boxes with no X to close them, especially when said software is only a 30 day trial!!! Shit, i've been wondering for months why anyone with half a brain would want to slow down the perfectly good new computers they're selling, but it just dawned on me-- They're speeding up the "I don't understand why my computer is slow, but i guess i have to buy a new one" effect. HP may be the worst, but i can't think of a single OEM that doesn't do this.
Yeah... nothing like fake lesbian teens pretending to enjoy kissing and sticking their tounges out at(but not actually licking) the others vagina. Woohoo.
Lesbian sex is my favorite kind of porn, but the hardest kind to find any convincing examples of.
He notes as a 'problem to be solved' the fact that the faster the engine goes, the less thrust it produces.
This is where relativity comes in, as forward traveling photons get red-shifted and are less energetic, and reverse traveling photos are blue-shifted/more energetic (as seen by an 'outside' observer). This wouldn't be a problem for the proposed application of orbit maintenance for satellites.
Anyone familiar with the story of flight 93 knows that cell phones work at the cruising altitude of commericial jet aircraft.
anyone familiar with the story of flight 93 should try it themselves. Some people have. Results available on the internet for any not drinking the kool-aid.
Nova 1 featured some simple, off-the-shelf technology. This included GSM text messaging as well as radio for communications and an ordinary 5 megapixel camera.
1. eBay.com -- didn't change the Internet so much as it saved it from the dot.com crash.
2. wikipedia.com -- delivered the information utopia that was fraudulantly advertized as existing 15 years previous.
3. napster.com -- they had a website?
4. youtube.com -- sort of like video.google.com, or a dozen other sites i can't think of right now because i don't care.
5. blogger.com -- anyone who thinks blogging is an important part of the Internet just lost all street cred.
6. friendsreunited.com (School reunion site) -- so revolutionary I've never heard of it.
7. drudgereport.com (News site) -- I'll give em that one.
8. myspace.com -- see #5
9. amazon.com -- see #1
10. slashdot.org -- another computer news recycler. no hardOCP? no tomshardware? no planetquake? no theregister?
11. salon.com (Online magazine and media company) -- i think the true significance of online news is online alternative news.
12. craigslist.org (A centralised network of online urban communities) -- sort of like Yahoo a decade ago?
13. google.com (Popular search engine) -- so popular its #13. seriously, no #1 for the big G?
14. yahoo.com -- agreed.
15. easyjet.com (Budget airline) -- see #1
And hydrogen is not energy, it is a way to transport / store energy. Hydrogen won't solve all our problems.
Right, and that still leaves the question of where the energy comes from. The hippes don't want nuclear energy, cause nuclear waste is "like, bad for the environment, and stuff"..... they don't want to deal with the reality that tidal energy isn't feasable... they think wind power is great, but bitch when birds die.... fossil fuels, and generally anything else that burns things is evil.... and im pretty sure they don't want us clear cutting billions of acres of wildlife habitat to build the ammount of solar collection arrays that would be nessicary to fuel the world.... so where the fuck is the energy supposed to come from?
I remember reading somewhere that cold fusion was first acheived, by accident, as a result of heavy electrons (mesons) leaking out of a particle collision experiment and into a deuterium gas chamber, in the 1950's.
short of finding a way to synthesize a stable or semi-stable mu-meson (which doesn't seem likely any time soon), the idea is probably unworkable.
Because parents aren't deciding based on the labeling, they're deciding based on their child bitching and moaning and whining, and for (non-)parents who don't have the backbone to say "no" to their 8 year old, the only solution is to make sure games with themes they find objectionable (sex, violence, atheism, etc.) don't exist, because if they do exist, little Fucknugget Jr. is going to want it, and Mr and Ms Fucknugget just came home from a long day at work and don't want to be hassled.
This is the same shit we see with television censorship. The V Chip has been in all TVs 13 inches or larger since 2000, why the fuck do i still hear shit about television content??? If you don't want to see certain types of content, fucking disable it!!! Then again, this may be too much to ask of the baby-boomer generation that can barely figure out how to get the 12:00 to stop blinking on the VCR.
[blockquote]Every intelligence agency in the world agreed Sadaam had WMD[/blockquote]
It must be true because Bush said so on TV.
The reality is that that every intelligence agency in the world agreed that Sadaam was no threat, and that Bush's motives were suspect.
I don't think linux and user friendly belong in the same sentence. Troll mod me if you must, but the last time I tried to install Mandriva the sound was broken, the last time i tried to install Ubuntu the installer crashed due to lack of PCI express support, and the last time I tried to install Gentoo i get all sorts of wierd udev shit on boot about/dev/hdc3 not being a valid device. Maybe I'm retarded, but is it even possible to screw things up with genkernel+coldplug+ReadingTheFuckingManual while installing? I think i'll wait untill devfs becomes (more?) depricated before i try installing Gentoo again.
I don't even think that is the issue. I think its more along the lines of whether Skype came to this decision on their own (and they have every right to make their own determinations as to what hardware should be required for certain features), of if Intel cut Skype a check.
I seem to recall something about Intel bribing webmasters to host multimedia content so that their MMX technology would be seen as a nessicary feature back in the Pentium® days.
Intel is innocent until proven guilty.... but c'mon. You know they did it.
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You hit the nail right on the head.... but you forgot to mention all the crap OEM's install on their computers (HP/Compaq, im looking at you). Despite the additional overhead of running XP vs. 98, A BRAND-EFFIN'-NEW COMPUTER SHOULD NOT RUN AS FAST AS ONE 10 YEARS OLDER, nor should the crap software pre-installed bug me to immediatly register it with screen-filling boxes with no X to close them, especially when said software is only a 30 day trial!!! Shit, i've been wondering for months why anyone with half a brain would want to slow down the perfectly good new computers they're selling, but it just dawned on me-- They're speeding up the "I don't understand why my computer is slow, but i guess i have to buy a new one" effect. HP may be the worst, but i can't think of a single OEM that doesn't do this.
That's funny. In my head I hear Parson's kid saying "You're a thought-criminal" over and over.
watch this Start at 1 hour 31 minutes. (or not)
Yeah... nothing like fake lesbian teens pretending to enjoy kissing and sticking their tounges out at(but not actually licking) the others vagina. Woohoo.
Lesbian sex is my favorite kind of porn, but the hardest kind to find any convincing examples of.
Thanks douchebag. I was wondering why Wikipedia was so fucking slow.
I think upgrading the kernel will be sufficient.
That doesn't work here.
works, but how many people can be hassled to use HTML tags?
c is always c. the signal will just get red-shifted.
Mod parent informative.
1. eBay.com -- didn't change the Internet so much as it saved it from the dot.com crash.
2. wikipedia.com -- delivered the information utopia that was fraudulantly advertized as existing 15 years previous.
3. napster.com -- they had a website?
4. youtube.com -- sort of like video.google.com, or a dozen other sites i can't think of right now because i don't care.
5. blogger.com -- anyone who thinks blogging is an important part of the Internet just lost all street cred.
6. friendsreunited.com (School reunion site) -- so revolutionary I've never heard of it.
7. drudgereport.com (News site) -- I'll give em that one.
8. myspace.com -- see #5
9. amazon.com -- see #1
10. slashdot.org -- another computer news recycler. no hardOCP? no tomshardware? no planetquake? no theregister?
11. salon.com (Online magazine and media company) -- i think the true significance of online news is online alternative news.
12. craigslist.org (A centralised network of online urban communities) -- sort of like Yahoo a decade ago?
13. google.com (Popular search engine) -- so popular its #13. seriously, no #1 for the big G?
14. yahoo.com -- agreed.
15. easyjet.com (Budget airline) -- see #1
Right, and that still leaves the question of where the energy comes from. The hippes don't want nuclear energy, cause nuclear waste is "like, bad for the environment, and stuff"..... they don't want to deal with the reality that tidal energy isn't feasable... they think wind power is great, but bitch when birds die.... fossil fuels, and generally anything else that burns things is evil.... and im pretty sure they don't want us clear cutting billions of acres of wildlife habitat to build the ammount of solar collection arrays that would be nessicary to fuel the world.... so where the fuck is the energy supposed to come from?
I remember reading somewhere that cold fusion was first acheived, by accident, as a result of heavy electrons (mesons) leaking out of a particle collision experiment and into a deuterium gas chamber, in the 1950's.
short of finding a way to synthesize a stable or semi-stable mu-meson (which doesn't seem likely any time soon), the idea is probably unworkable.
Right. no way that would get abused.
Because parents aren't deciding based on the labeling, they're deciding based on their child bitching and moaning and whining, and for (non-)parents who don't have the backbone to say "no" to their 8 year old, the only solution is to make sure games with themes they find objectionable (sex, violence, atheism, etc.) don't exist, because if they do exist, little Fucknugget Jr. is going to want it, and Mr and Ms Fucknugget just came home from a long day at work and don't want to be hassled.
This is the same shit we see with television censorship. The V Chip has been in all TVs 13 inches or larger since 2000, why the fuck do i still hear shit about television content??? If you don't want to see certain types of content, fucking disable it!!! Then again, this may be too much to ask of the baby-boomer generation that can barely figure out how to get the 12:00 to stop blinking on the VCR.
start naming programs that don't do alot of I/O tasks. see any games in that list? i'll take 1GB pc100 over 512 DDR2 any day of the week.
Newton was deffinately Egyptian and/or Greek.
[blockquote]Every intelligence agency in the world agreed Sadaam had WMD[/blockquote] It must be true because Bush said so on TV.
The reality is that that every intelligence agency in the world agreed that Sadaam was no threat, and that Bush's motives were suspect.
I don't think linux and user friendly belong in the same sentence. Troll mod me if you must, but the last time I tried to install Mandriva the sound was broken, the last time i tried to install Ubuntu the installer crashed due to lack of PCI express support, and the last time I tried to install Gentoo i get all sorts of wierd udev shit on boot about /dev/hdc3 not being a valid device. Maybe I'm retarded, but is it even possible to screw things up with genkernel+coldplug+ReadingTheFuckingManual while installing? I think i'll wait untill devfs becomes (more?) depricated before i try installing Gentoo again.
Go watch the "Coupon: The Movie" episode of Mr. Show. All will become clear.
I seem to recall something about Intel bribing webmasters to host multimedia content so that their MMX technology would be seen as a nessicary feature back in the Pentium® days.
Intel is innocent until proven guilty.... but c'mon. You know they did it.