If you do a google on his name you will find that he actually can't arrest anyone. He has yet to take the test in Texas to allow him to be a police officer. He was from Arizona, he has been on the job a while but really has no power as a police officer in the state of Texas. Also the last anyone knows.....at least on the internet anyway, the city of Houston has been paying for his hotel room where he has been staying for some time......at $775.00 a day.
Maybe Chief Harold Hurtt should be a trendsetter and install cameras in his own home and make them available for watching over the internet by anyone who wishes....after all if he is not doing anything wrong what does he have to worry about?
We have a local station the broadcasts both over the airwaves and on the internet. When I am in the car I will listen to them and if I really want to I can listen at home. The problem is that the stream is only 35k, which sounds like crap. The small town in which I live is like a radio dead zone. We are between two radio heavy cities about the same distance away, 40 miles or so. A few miles away the signal is great but here it sucks. So at home I can choose between a crappy FM signal or crappy internet audio.
I can always tune into Sirius on the dish if I want to listen to music but I often want to catch the morning show and despite being mostly spoken word at 35k it still bites. That is the problem with most audio streams. They need to be at least 128k and even some of those sound really bad....like the people know a lot about computers but very little about audio. Would I pay for better audio quality? No, there is too much out there for free and I can always turn the dial or click on another link. Much like their real life brick and mortar counterparts if a radio station cannot bring in the ad dollars it goes out of business. This is also why we get crappy formula radio stations but then again it is work so someone must be listening to all that crap.
The big bang is a theory but not for the reasons the PR guy mentions. There are a few problems coming to light with the big bang theory that scientists are running into such as galactic clumping and the early moments of the big bang. Also what they are seeing at the far ends of the universe are not what they expected with a big bang theory. Until they figure out the unified field theory...see the word theory in there, they will not have an answer for the big bang theory. It may turn out to be a snapped cosmic string theory.
Since this guy singled out Apple rather than all earbud makers or all media players shipped with earbuds Apple should counter sue claiming what this lawsuit is, a nuisance lawsuit.
If Apple needs a witness I have been using my iPod for years and at full volume and I have not lost my hearing at all.
I think that is the jist of the problem. The guy wants to use his position at NASA to give his argument clout but he feels pressured by NASA not to talk about it as a NASA position. If you read the story it is very convoluted and it shows little proof that he was censored by any administration outside of his work.
I am sure that NASA wants its employees to talk about NASA projects and not what he does in his free time.
"Besides what is coming in Vista will make China look like a bunch of free speech liberals. I was really inspired by the bond film tomorrow never dies, that's me all over baby! The MPAA, RIAA and me will know every song or film you play"
There is no doubt that increased water temperatures were the cause of the hurricanes since they are giant heat machines but are the ocean temps the result of global warming or some other cause? If global warming then there should be the same number of hurricanes next year or even more. What if we have a slow year? A normal year? Is that global warming as well?
I saved your reply off as a PDF and I will keep it to see if you are correct. I say there are less than 10 +5 cat storms for the Atlantic next year.
There is no doubt that CO2 is a bad thing but is it causing all the weather that it is claimed to. I say no. The problem is that the environmentalists are in a panic mode and are not thinking ahead in the future far enough. I am all for alternative power but none has even come close yet. Here in California out last Governor, Gray Davis, mandated that 10 percent of all cars here should be electric by 2005. The problem with that was that there were no previsions for generating that power to charge those cars. Our electric grid here is far behind many states. We have turned down Nuclear power, we have environmentalists who don't want dams built, we don't want fossil fuel plants. We had environmentalists shut down our wind generation plants because a bird or two were flying into the blades. We need to get the power from someplace. Davis had to retract his 10 percent mandate. All this and it did not cover the fact of the pollution caused by all those batteries and or the making of solar cells.
It was like Julia Butterfly, the woman who was camped in a tree not to far from where I live. She want to save a tree and she did. However the tree house she lived in for the time she lived in the tree was made from lumber from other trees that were cut down. We value or tree out here in the west and that is a good thing. I despise clear cutting of forests but I am for managed tree cutting. We have protesters out here who want no tree cutting but they live in wood houses and play acoustic guitars made of wood while they are protesting that no wood be cut.
I hope your prediction does not come true as it would not be good and most cities, like New Orleans has shown, are not prepared. If the global warming camp wants to make their point they will need accurate predictions of the weather trends to come. Blanket statements that any change in weather....or no change, is not doing the cause any good.
You are correct the 1930 to 1934 had more hurricanes than 1921.
I still like to know how you equate that Global Warming was the cause. If what you say is true then we should have the same amount or more next season, correct? What if we have only 3 to 5 next year?
It is not that I do not believe global warming I just don't attribute everything the weather does to global warming. I predicted that here in Northern California we would be 150 percent of normal this year for rainfall. Right now we are at 200 percent which is what we usually have for a el-Nino year. Of course that precipitation year goes from till the end of June 2005 to end of June 2006 so it could be more or closer to 150 percent.
It was like the recent finding that lightning strikes could be related to cosmic rays. There may be a lot more going on with weather than we presently know.
My prediction had nothing to do with global warming. I take my cues from the solar minimum and maximum. There are tons of cycles on this planet we have yet to discover and thinking we know it all with 200 years of weather records is just plain stupid. Those that study long term weather trends know one thing, there is no normal weather. It has been much hotter and drier in the past and wetter and colder as well and that is just in the last 100,000 years which in this history of the earth, is nothing.
I believe there could be global warning but the people on the current bandwagon will use anything as proof. If it is hotter this or colder or the same as last year....global warming. More rain, less rain, the same rain.....global warming. More storms, less storms, the same storms.....global warming. While it was a record year for heat and by any logic it would follow that there would be more hurricanes, since they are heat machines, many people were so misinformed.
I was talking to a woman in the store and she was saying global warming, there has never been so many hurricanes, which at that point in the season was not true. I told her that in 1921 they nearly ran out of names for storms and if the global warming people are right it should have been much cooler back then.
If the global warming people want to make their point and I think they should, they should give an area by area forecast of the next summer and winter. This should not be to hard if they claim to have all the proof they need. Give me the jist of the next summer and winter here in Northern California for the next year.
Here is my prediction for Sacramento north to the Oregon border. Not as hot as this year but with 7 days in a row over 100 during late July and early august. At least 15 fewer days over 100 for 2006 than 2005. A drier, colder winter. About 80 percent of normal for the 2006-2007 wet season and a rare valley snow. A couple of days with some very hard freezes as well.
I doubt that Microsoft will ever release a Flash Killer. Microsoft tends to shy away, okay it likes to shit on anything that is standards based. Much like the vaunted ActiveX, Microsoft in its glee to keep it to themselves pretty much made sure that it is a niche product. A large niche to be sure but it was not cross platform as it was supposed to be and support from third party browsers was spotty.
Much like media player for the Macintosh, Microsoft, either on purpose or by neglect made sure that the feature set between platforms was great and if you want to be sure to view content created for media player you had to have Windows. Macromedia on the other hand wanted the both platforms to be equal and made their player software and most important their content creation software in parody on both platforms.
Of course Microsoft would like nothing better than to have websites that can only be viewed on Windows running internet explorer. It would be the one way they could control something they could not buy, the internet. It would be doubtful that Microsoft would create content creation tools for other platforms nor would they allow third party developers to do so. Some companies are beginning to see that always putting their money on Microsoft will not always pay off. Apples iPod is a great example of this. Despite Microsoft and its partner companies telling consumers what they want with subscription services and invasive DRM, Apple has provided want customers do want, to own what they buy and to use it as they wish for the most part.
Of course the RIAA/MPAA would consider EVERY device in their domain. That means no news MP3 player, CD player, DVD player, CD/DVD computer drive, Television, Television card, TiVo or TiVo like device, radio damn near everything, under their control. Yes, you can release your new CD/DVD but it cannot record any audio or video.
Maybe one day the RIAA/MPAA will figure out that the reason their sales are going down is that they are releasing a bunch of crap. In a world where Ashlee Simpson, J-Lo and.50 cent are top sellers you know something is very wrong.
It is happening in High School as well. I have heard from several students that said their teachers we out an out trying to get them to vote democratic as soon as they were old enough to vote. If they even brought up the other side of the argument they were threatened by this teachers with extra work, detention, etc.
Penn and Teller did an excellent show about this on their series Bullshit.
But your heart is not stopped and your brain is getting air. They are fooling your body into thinking it is freezing to death. If you are not dead, you are not dead.
This is much like the victims of war in WWII. They were often miles from medical care and because of dehydration their wounds stopped bleeding or at least slowed a great deal. Once helicopters, IV's and plasma were introduced to the medics the death rate went up until the learned that they were making the person worse be giving him what he needed. The body was taking care of itself, in order to prevent death.
As far as those dirty pigs are concerned, they are mighty good eating. They gave their life so I could live.
That is what I have been saying. Of course some people think I am a hack for one party or another if I think both parties are on the take. A good example of what you are saying is when a company wanted to build a new plant in environmentally protected land. One hundred grand campaign contribution to clinton/gore and the AL Gore himself fought for the waver, and won, for the company. The Indian money and the Abramoff case is just business as usual in Washington. I don't see how anyone can think that the money given did not buy favors.
I still say Abramoff will be the only one who gets punished by this. Shining to much of a bright light on political gifts is going to make a lof of people in both parties too nervous. Politicians who think they got a free pass by re-registering their gifts as something other than gifts will no doubt be the most nervous and with a large amount of them on both sides look for this issue to die rather quickly, just like the outrage of Enron did.
I think it is no witchunt. If you think all that money went to either side and did not buy anything, well I feel sorry for you. The sad fact is money buys votes. I would like to see that change. Pretty much everyone in Congress and the House got a free pass when they could re-register their gifts from lobbyists as much as 8 years after the fact as something other than a bribe. That was the biggest ass covering in the last 50 years of government and they all got away with it.
Maxine Waters still refuses to relist hers and no one is making a fuss over that. I would like to see both republicans and democrats or whatever called to the mat for all of this. We had both democrats and republicans that got gifts from lobbyists and listed them as such on their papers, then they got to change them to something that was not against the law. These same people are now going after Abramoff and his bribees. Are they pissed because they did not relist them?
Here is my prediction on what will happen. Not much. I said this before when everyone was outraged about Enron. Both parties had their hands in the cookie jar and if too much noise was made by one party in would draw attention to the other. Abramoff will pay, no one else will. It is sad but that is the way it will happen.
Hey I said both parties should drop out. Abramoff was responsible for that money going to both sides. If you think that money came without strings then you live in a naive world.
Those that Abramoff give directly to should be ran out of office, those that benefited otherwise should do the right thing and not run next election. Everyone in government pretty much got a get out of jail free card when they were allowed to re-register their payoffs as something other than what they were. Maxine Waters still refuses to do this, she wants to keep the money. Strangely neither side brings her up? Why? Boxer and Pelosi both did pretty much the same thing. Where is the outrage from the left?
Both sides have been dipping into the well and that is wrong. They should be punished, plain and simple. If you want to believe the party line and think it is only the other party then there is no use trying to explain it to you.
Hardly a republican only scandal, which is what the democrat hate mongers want you to think. While Abramoff did not personally give money to democrats his clients did and plenty. The Indian casinos were big contributors to both parties including large donations to some very high ranking democrats. Of course the democrats want to split hairs about what is a bribe and what is not. If no democrats took the Indian money they would claim that was a bribe as well but since they did they must make sure they impress to the public the double standard they want them to believe.
If you think that the money paid did not buy influence on both sides then you are a pretty stupid person. As far as I am concerned anyone who got money from this slimeball and his clients should do the right thing and step down.
Often when I am searching for certain information such as store hours or a phone number or address then this may save me a trip to the web site where the information resides. That would save bandwidth for that company while still providing customer service. That depends of course if the information I am getting is in context with what I am searching for. Often I will have to visit the site to make sure the search engine got the results that I wanted.
That kind of search was for mostly static information, stuff that rarely, if ever, changes. Most other searches for less tangible subjects almost always requires a visit to the site to make sure the information is in the context that I want. The search engine at best will wade through the site and help me zero in on that information. If a site has its own search engine I will use that as it cuts down on pages I need to view to find the information I need. At least for me and most people I know the search engine is a gateway to a site and not a replacement for one.
Maybe Microsoft should do this as well. They already buy fake reports from Gartnet, Veritest and long time lacky IDC and they own the reviews of ZDNet. It seems that they could do better advertising in house with movie maker than with their current company.
MLB has ruined the game, might as well ruin the fantasy games as well. I used to watch baseball in the 70's and very early 80's but since about 1982 I have not watched a game since. I did not even watch the Bay Bridge world series between the Giants and the A's and that has been the only games I have been interested in for decades.
Hiding the mini store window stops all transmission of info to the apple music store. Too bad Microsoft does not take this tack with windows activation.
I had an old Pentium II machine I decided to put Win2000 server on as a learning machine for my MCSE class. While well above microsofts minimum requirements the OS ran like a dog on it. It was not too bad once booted but that boot time could take as long as 15mins to get to a usable level.
I never ran linux on this old machine but I know it would be much fast as I could get the same level of service without a GUI. Once setup, I controlled the server from several computers so the need for a GUI in linux would not be needed.
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If you do a google on his name you will find that he actually can't arrest anyone. He has yet to take the test in Texas to allow him to be a police officer. He was from Arizona, he has been on the job a while but really has no power as a police officer in the state of Texas. Also the last anyone knows.....at least on the internet anyway, the city of Houston has been paying for his hotel room where he has been staying for some time......at $775.00 a day.
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Maybe Chief Harold Hurtt should be a trendsetter and install cameras in his own home and make them available for watching over the internet by anyone who wishes....after all if he is not doing anything wrong what does he have to worry about?
My bet his answer would be no.
We have a local station the broadcasts both over the airwaves and on the internet. When I am in the car I will listen to them and if I really want to I can listen at home. The problem is that the stream is only 35k, which sounds like crap. The small town in which I live is like a radio dead zone. We are between two radio heavy cities about the same distance away, 40 miles or so. A few miles away the signal is great but here it sucks. So at home I can choose between a crappy FM signal or crappy internet audio.
I can always tune into Sirius on the dish if I want to listen to music but I often want to catch the morning show and despite being mostly spoken word at 35k it still bites. That is the problem with most audio streams. They need to be at least 128k and even some of those sound really bad....like the people know a lot about computers but very little about audio. Would I pay for better audio quality? No, there is too much out there for free and I can always turn the dial or click on another link. Much like their real life brick and mortar counterparts if a radio station cannot bring in the ad dollars it goes out of business. This is also why we get crappy formula radio stations but then again it is work so someone must be listening to all that crap.
The big bang is a theory but not for the reasons the PR guy mentions. There are a few problems coming to light with the big bang theory that scientists are running into such as galactic clumping and the early moments of the big bang. Also what they are seeing at the far ends of the universe are not what they expected with a big bang theory. Until they figure out the unified field theory...see the word theory in there, they will not have an answer for the big bang theory. It may turn out to be a snapped cosmic string theory.
Brittany Spears, Ashlee Simpson, Mariah Carey and J-Lo pretty much prove this exists in the dominate species as well.
Since this guy singled out Apple rather than all earbud makers or all media players shipped with earbuds Apple should counter sue claiming what this lawsuit is, a nuisance lawsuit.
If Apple needs a witness I have been using my iPod for years and at full volume and I have not lost my hearing at all.
I think that is the jist of the problem. The guy wants to use his position at NASA to give his argument clout but he feels pressured by NASA not to talk about it as a NASA position. If you read the story it is very convoluted and it shows little proof that he was censored by any administration outside of his work.
I am sure that NASA wants its employees to talk about NASA projects and not what he does in his free time.
"Besides what is coming in Vista will make China look like a bunch of free speech liberals. I was really inspired by the bond film tomorrow never dies, that's me all over baby! The MPAA, RIAA and me will know every song or film you play"
There is no doubt that increased water temperatures were the cause of the hurricanes since they are giant heat machines but are the ocean temps the result of global warming or some other cause? If global warming then there should be the same number of hurricanes next year or even more. What if we have a slow year? A normal year? Is that global warming as well?
I saved your reply off as a PDF and I will keep it to see if you are correct. I say there are less than 10 +5 cat storms for the Atlantic next year.
There is no doubt that CO2 is a bad thing but is it causing all the weather that it is claimed to. I say no. The problem is that the environmentalists are in a panic mode and are not thinking ahead in the future far enough. I am all for alternative power but none has even come close yet. Here in California out last Governor, Gray Davis, mandated that 10 percent of all cars here should be electric by 2005. The problem with that was that there were no previsions for generating that power to charge those cars. Our electric grid here is far behind many states. We have turned down Nuclear power, we have environmentalists who don't want dams built, we don't want fossil fuel plants. We had environmentalists shut down our wind generation plants because a bird or two were flying into the blades. We need to get the power from someplace. Davis had to retract his 10 percent mandate. All this and it did not cover the fact of the pollution caused by all those batteries and or the making of solar cells.
It was like Julia Butterfly, the woman who was camped in a tree not to far from where I live. She want to save a tree and she did. However the tree house she lived in for the time she lived in the tree was made from lumber from other trees that were cut down. We value or tree out here in the west and that is a good thing. I despise clear cutting of forests but I am for managed tree cutting. We have protesters out here who want no tree cutting but they live in wood houses and play acoustic guitars made of wood while they are protesting that no wood be cut.
I hope your prediction does not come true as it would not be good and most cities, like New Orleans has shown, are not prepared. If the global warming camp wants to make their point they will need accurate predictions of the weather trends to come. Blanket statements that any change in weather....or no change, is not doing the cause any good.
You are correct the 1930 to 1934 had more hurricanes than 1921.
I still like to know how you equate that Global Warming was the cause. If what you say is true then we should have the same amount or more next season, correct? What if we have only 3 to 5 next year?
It is not that I do not believe global warming I just don't attribute everything the weather does to global warming. I predicted that here in Northern California we would be 150 percent of normal this year for rainfall. Right now we are at 200 percent which is what we usually have for a el-Nino year. Of course that precipitation year goes from till the end of June 2005 to end of June 2006 so it could be more or closer to 150 percent.
It was like the recent finding that lightning strikes could be related to cosmic rays. There may be a lot more going on with weather than we presently know.
My prediction had nothing to do with global warming. I take my cues from the solar minimum and maximum. There are tons of cycles on this planet we have yet to discover and thinking we know it all with 200 years of weather records is just plain stupid. Those that study long term weather trends know one thing, there is no normal weather. It has been much hotter and drier in the past and wetter and colder as well and that is just in the last 100,000 years which in this history of the earth, is nothing.
I believe there could be global warning but the people on the current bandwagon will use anything as proof. If it is hotter this or colder or the same as last year....global warming. More rain, less rain, the same rain.....global warming. More storms, less storms, the same storms.....global warming. While it was a record year for heat and by any logic it would follow that there would be more hurricanes, since they are heat machines, many people were so misinformed.
I was talking to a woman in the store and she was saying global warming, there has never been so many hurricanes, which at that point in the season was not true. I told her that in 1921 they nearly ran out of names for storms and if the global warming people are right it should have been much cooler back then.
If the global warming people want to make their point and I think they should, they should give an area by area forecast of the next summer and winter. This should not be to hard if they claim to have all the proof they need. Give me the jist of the next summer and winter here in Northern California for the next year.
Here is my prediction for Sacramento north to the Oregon border. Not as hot as this year but with 7 days in a row over 100 during late July and early august. At least 15 fewer days over 100 for 2006 than 2005. A drier, colder winter. About 80 percent of normal for the 2006-2007 wet season and a rare valley snow. A couple of days with some very hard freezes as well.
I doubt that Microsoft will ever release a Flash Killer. Microsoft tends to shy away, okay it likes to shit on anything that is standards based. Much like the vaunted ActiveX, Microsoft in its glee to keep it to themselves pretty much made sure that it is a niche product. A large niche to be sure but it was not cross platform as it was supposed to be and support from third party browsers was spotty.
Much like media player for the Macintosh, Microsoft, either on purpose or by neglect made sure that the feature set between platforms was great and if you want to be sure to view content created for media player you had to have Windows. Macromedia on the other hand wanted the both platforms to be equal and made their player software and most important their content creation software in parody on both platforms.
Of course Microsoft would like nothing better than to have websites that can only be viewed on Windows running internet explorer. It would be the one way they could control something they could not buy, the internet. It would be doubtful that Microsoft would create content creation tools for other platforms nor would they allow third party developers to do so. Some companies are beginning to see that always putting their money on Microsoft will not always pay off. Apples iPod is a great example of this. Despite Microsoft and its partner companies telling consumers what they want with subscription services and invasive DRM, Apple has provided want customers do want, to own what they buy and to use it as they wish for the most part.
Of course the RIAA/MPAA would consider EVERY device in their domain. That means no news MP3 player, CD player, DVD player, CD/DVD computer drive, Television, Television card, TiVo or TiVo like device, radio damn near everything, under their control. Yes, you can release your new CD/DVD but it cannot record any audio or video.
.50 cent are top sellers you know something is very wrong.
Maybe one day the RIAA/MPAA will figure out that the reason their sales are going down is that they are releasing a bunch of crap. In a world where Ashlee Simpson, J-Lo and
It is happening in High School as well. I have heard from several students that said their teachers we out an out trying to get them to vote democratic as soon as they were old enough to vote. If they even brought up the other side of the argument they were threatened by this teachers with extra work, detention, etc.
Penn and Teller did an excellent show about this on their series Bullshit.
But your heart is not stopped and your brain is getting air. They are fooling your body into thinking it is freezing to death. If you are not dead, you are not dead.
This is much like the victims of war in WWII. They were often miles from medical care and because of dehydration their wounds stopped bleeding or at least slowed a great deal. Once helicopters, IV's and plasma were introduced to the medics the death rate went up until the learned that they were making the person worse be giving him what he needed. The body was taking care of itself, in order to prevent death.
As far as those dirty pigs are concerned, they are mighty good eating. They gave their life so I could live.
That is what I have been saying. Of course some people think I am a hack for one party or another if I think both parties are on the take. A good example of what you are saying is when a company wanted to build a new plant in environmentally protected land. One hundred grand campaign contribution to clinton/gore and the AL Gore himself fought for the waver, and won, for the company. The Indian money and the Abramoff case is just business as usual in Washington. I don't see how anyone can think that the money given did not buy favors.
I still say Abramoff will be the only one who gets punished by this. Shining to much of a bright light on political gifts is going to make a lof of people in both parties too nervous. Politicians who think they got a free pass by re-registering their gifts as something other than gifts will no doubt be the most nervous and with a large amount of them on both sides look for this issue to die rather quickly, just like the outrage of Enron did.
I think it is no witchunt. If you think all that money went to either side and did not buy anything, well I feel sorry for you. The sad fact is money buys votes. I would like to see that change. Pretty much everyone in Congress and the House got a free pass when they could re-register their gifts from lobbyists as much as 8 years after the fact as something other than a bribe. That was the biggest ass covering in the last 50 years of government and they all got away with it.
Maxine Waters still refuses to relist hers and no one is making a fuss over that. I would like to see both republicans and democrats or whatever called to the mat for all of this. We had both democrats and republicans that got gifts from lobbyists and listed them as such on their papers, then they got to change them to something that was not against the law. These same people are now going after Abramoff and his bribees. Are they pissed because they did not relist them?
Here is my prediction on what will happen. Not much. I said this before when everyone was outraged about Enron. Both parties had their hands in the cookie jar and if too much noise was made by one party in would draw attention to the other. Abramoff will pay, no one else will. It is sad but that is the way it will happen.
Hey I said both parties should drop out. Abramoff was responsible for that money going to both sides. If you think that money came without strings then you live in a naive world.
Those that Abramoff give directly to should be ran out of office, those that benefited otherwise should do the right thing and not run next election. Everyone in government pretty much got a get out of jail free card when they were allowed to re-register their payoffs as something other than what they were. Maxine Waters still refuses to do this, she wants to keep the money. Strangely neither side brings her up? Why? Boxer and Pelosi both did pretty much the same thing. Where is the outrage from the left?
Both sides have been dipping into the well and that is wrong. They should be punished, plain and simple. If you want to believe the party line and think it is only the other party then there is no use trying to explain it to you.
Hardly a republican only scandal, which is what the democrat hate mongers want you to think. While Abramoff did not personally give money to democrats his clients did and plenty. The Indian casinos were big contributors to both parties including large donations to some very high ranking democrats. Of course the democrats want to split hairs about what is a bribe and what is not. If no democrats took the Indian money they would claim that was a bribe as well but since they did they must make sure they impress to the public the double standard they want them to believe.
If you think that the money paid did not buy influence on both sides then you are a pretty stupid person. As far as I am concerned anyone who got money from this slimeball and his clients should do the right thing and step down.
Often when I am searching for certain information such as store hours or a phone number or address then this may save me a trip to the web site where the information resides. That would save bandwidth for that company while still providing customer service. That depends of course if the information I am getting is in context with what I am searching for. Often I will have to visit the site to make sure the search engine got the results that I wanted.
That kind of search was for mostly static information, stuff that rarely, if ever, changes. Most other searches for less tangible subjects almost always requires a visit to the site to make sure the information is in the context that I want. The search engine at best will wade through the site and help me zero in on that information. If a site has its own search engine I will use that as it cuts down on pages I need to view to find the information I need. At least for me and most people I know the search engine is a gateway to a site and not a replacement for one.
Maybe Microsoft should do this as well. They already buy fake reports from Gartnet, Veritest and long time lacky IDC and they own the reviews of ZDNet. It seems that they could do better advertising in house with movie maker than with their current company.
MLB has ruined the game, might as well ruin the fantasy games as well. I used to watch baseball in the 70's and very early 80's but since about 1982 I have not watched a game since. I did not even watch the Bay Bridge world series between the Giants and the A's and that has been the only games I have been interested in for decades.
Hiding the mini store window stops all transmission of info to the apple music store. Too bad Microsoft does not take this tack with windows activation.
I had an old Pentium II machine I decided to put Win2000 server on as a learning machine for my MCSE class. While well above microsofts minimum requirements the OS ran like a dog on it. It was not too bad once booted but that boot time could take as long as 15mins to get to a usable level.
I never ran linux on this old machine but I know it would be much fast as I could get the same level of service without a GUI. Once setup, I controlled the server from several computers so the need for a GUI in linux would not be needed.