There's a guy down the street from where I work that had a bullhorn talking about the end of the world. I completely hacked into his message this morning.
"The simple question is, did he have any that he could have deployed? The answer to that is a very simple "no.""
I can agree with that. Unfortunately, that was not the originally asked question. It was "Were WMDs found in Iraq?". Not "Were deployable WMDs found in Iraq?".
That is where the different views and different results come from. How people view the question and their presupposition of what the question is referring to will lead to very different answers even though they know the same facts. Neither side is wrong because the question is not clear enough on what exactly their referring to.
If you find a cannon on an old pirate ship at the bottom of the ocean, do you just call it a hunk of metal since it doesn't work anymore? Or do you call it a cannon?
Did we find Sarin Nerve Agent? Yes Did we find weapons that were meant for the dispersal of Sarin (WMD)? Yes Did we find weapons which contained Sarin? Yes Did we find fully functional WMD? Maybe, but they were old and we weren't going to test them. Did we find new WMD? No
See the clarification? Hell, some of our soldiers were even exposed to the effects of one. So to say they were useless or not considered WMD is hogwash.
I don't want to be nagged with entering a password everytime i open up Firefox. What i want is all of my passwords to be secured or completely hidden from everyone. I don't know how to look up my passwords in IE, but in Firefox it's right there in "plane" site.
What Firefox needs to do is when you click on the "Show Passwords" link, the user must be required to enter in the "Master Password" then and only then. That's the only time it's really necessary to go to an extra level of security.
Passwords are personal, and they shouldn't be visible to anyone you happen to let use your computer for a second. And I don't want to have to type in the "Master Password" anytime they want to check their email.
There are too many (open source/free) programs out there and too many users that need this information to just let it fall to the way side. Someone somewhere will come up with a service that i wouldn't be surprised is free and without the re-registration that was needed with zap2it.
I wouldn't be surprised if it were Yahoo either. They already offer stock information for parsers for free.
As far as I know Solar Panels don't heat water anyway. All they do is power the hotwater tank....granted it might be a "green" hotwater tank, but still. The energy that is in those panels has to be displaced as heat in the water somehow.
Even at $100,000 it's too expensive. My electric bill is at most $2000 for the entire year. It'd take 50 years for me to recoup the cost and that isn't including the interest I would have made on that $100K. And who do you know that actually stays in their house for 50 years? And would you even think the components would last 50 years. My guess is they would have broken around year 10 anyway.
It's not a feasible solution unless money is not an option and being green is all you care about. For this to be reasonable for the average consumer it needs to be at most $15,000. But to get a reasonable hold on the market it would need to be less than $10K. If he can get it under $5K, this guy is sitting on a gold mine.
FedEx isn't necessarily doing this for their planes. They are a leader in developing airline technologies. They are the second largest airline in the US as a matter of fact. They are trying to create this technology so that they can have it certified by the FAA and make bookoos amounts of money off it.
All it will take is one RPG/SAM fired from near an airport when planes are low to the ground to send that entire industry down the tubes. If the government can't secure the surrounding area, people won't trust planes. They know the day is coming when some psycho will try this.
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After watching these a few times, I actually tried buying one of the stocks. The best chance is if you look at the stock and it hasn't risen any yet (meaning you get the email before everyone else).
I bought about $100 of a $.20 stock and wound up selling it for $.55. I've stayed away from them though usually as I seem to only look at them after the price is moving.
You understand that once the seal is broken on software products we will not take them back and No refund will be issued, as we have no guarantee that it or they have been removed from your computer. We will however promptly exchange defective products. This is the same policy that all software vendors have in common. You cannot buy software at a retail store and then expect a refund once you have opened it and installed it on your computer. This would be considered software piracy on your part. Buysusa does not condone software piracy and has every intention of complying with the laws pertaining to the duplication of software. So please do not ask us to break the law. All sales are final with the exception of damaged or defective goods.
"....adequate documentation? Please, they're a standards body...."
I hope you were joking because if they make standards and don't document adequately, then no wonder web browsers are going in every direction imaginable.
They probably use IE to display pages/certain screens in Flight Simulator. Alot of applications use the IE plugin that uses the latest version of IE on the computer.
Personally, I had no problems with Windows Millenium. It was better than Win98 SE IMO. All you really needed to do is disable the "System Restore" feature that was in it's infancy. Plus, computers didn't really have the processing power back then to have System Restore running at all times.
Regardless, Windows 2000 and XP blow 95/98/ME out of the water with regards to reliability and error handling. I haven't had a blue screen of death in about 6 years.
So set the theme to Windows Classic. Sheesh; you make it sound like Aero Glass is the only option...
FYI, even if you set it to "classic mode" in Vista, it still uses well over 500MB of RAM. Apparently "classic" does not include "classic" system requirements.
Most of it is the licensing fees for the AGP interface. And some is the fact that the market is now into PCI-E, but AGP has always cost a little more than the PCI-E. And I think there's a little more that has to go into the processing of an AGP port that costs money.
Oh, and most modern AGP cards are actually built for PCI-E and they are converted to the AGP slot, which drives cost up more.
Well, because the local cable only has to serve out 150 or so channels from their station at any one time. If they made everything "On Demand", then that 180 figure would go out the window and be somewhere around 1,000,000 TV signals flowing through that bandwidth for all the people in the neighborhood watching different stuff at any one given time.
Couldn't they just leave it alone? Conroe has started to get a name for itself as a great technology. Why nip that in the butt?
I hate when they decide to name something like: "Stupid Name" "2" "Duo" (processor version). It should just be: "Name" (processor version)
AMD is not much better with the "X2". There should only be one number in the name and that should define the specific processor within a certain chip style (Pentium 133, Opteron 850). Though i'm not attracted to a name that I have to lookup how to spell it (Opteron?? Xeon? Duron? Athlon? Sempron? Turion? Sounds like some transformer or a weird elements on the periodic table). I think I'm going to hold out for the "Megatron X2 Duo 2 D 64 5000 Extreme" processor. It's supposedly the best!
Come up with unique names and naming system that are easy for the general public. It's not that hard, really.
Everybody has patents or licenses, even the Open Source community. How would you feel if Microsoft just started stealing code from Mozilla and Linux? I'm pretty sure they'd sue Microsoft as well.
TIVO holds the patent for "pausing live TV" and "recording to a HD". As long as this MythTV box does not pause live tv and doesn't record to a hard drive, then they're safe. Otherwise, infringement.
Where there's smoke, There's fire. Where there's fire, There's documents being burned. Where those documents are being burned, There's music executives and lawyers, Joined hand in hand, Disposing of any and all evidence.
My guess is any information that would take down the music industry AND their lawyers, is going to be burned/buried or both and we will never see anything.
There's no way they will essentially turn themselves in.
They most definitely need to start looking at: 1. Speed 2. Noise
75% of computer users haven't even gone above the 100GB realm yet, much less the 750.
As one user posted below about "hybrid" drives, I see this as an interesting way to improve speed. Put about 500MB of some type of cache on the hard drive to load up certain drivers and other OS files that are commonly used. This would improve performance dramatically while at the same time freeing the HD up to do other more useful things.
Well, I think it still IS better than the competition. The competition just has a better oportunity because they are already in bed with customers. (much like Microsoft with Internet Explorer over Firefox).
Tivo offers far more to the users (except dual tuner and HD [this will be available in the Tivo 3]) and has opened the box for users to develop applications for it.
And you may say that it's more expensive than the cable version. Well I disagree. To get it, you'll need "digital cable" plus the box. The difference in price for me over regular cable to digital cable was $12 + $6 for the DVR box + $6.95 for DVR service. That's $24! for a few extra latino and Homeshopping Network type channels and their TIVO takeoff. Sorry, but I'm not interested.
I bought the Tivo for $100 (after rebate) and $300 lifetime fee. Considering I'll be saving $24/month (with a cable bill of only $50 as opposed to $74) it will have paid for itself in just 17 months, aka 1 1/2 years.
retaliate? We can't put a tarriff on them. That would be too obvious. And the Chinese don't know what the word "invent" means, so it's not like we can delay their products so we can produce a competing device in the US.
If we continue without laptops, I'm out of here. I'm gone; I won't be able to keep up," said student Cory Winsett, who said his hand-written notes are incomplete and less organized.
Give me a freakin break. "You won't be able to keep up?" Yea, like that 10s of thousands of lawyers out there today that got through just fine without a laptop in class. All that tells me is you are an incompetent law student that couldn't hold today's lawyer's jock strap.
At some point in the future you will graduate, unfortunately, and will be required to operate without a laptop and be required to use pen and paper. Will you survive? Apparently not since you'll wind up making notes that are "incomplete and unorganized".
I guess that's the next step. They need to start creating college level classes on how to write notes with pen and paper and to keep them organized.:sigh
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There's a guy down the street from where I work that had a bullhorn talking about the end of the world. I completely hacked into his message this morning.
"The simple question is, did he have any that he could have deployed? The answer to that is a very simple "no.""
I can agree with that. Unfortunately, that was not the originally asked question. It was "Were WMDs found in Iraq?". Not "Were deployable WMDs found in Iraq?".
That is where the different views and different results come from. How people view the question and their presupposition of what the question is referring to will lead to very different answers even though they know the same facts. Neither side is wrong because the question is not clear enough on what exactly their referring to.
If you find a cannon on an old pirate ship at the bottom of the ocean, do you just call it a hunk of metal since it doesn't work anymore? Or do you call it a cannon?
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Did we find Sarin Nerve Agent? Yes
Did we find weapons that were meant for the dispersal of Sarin (WMD)? Yes
Did we find weapons which contained Sarin? Yes
Did we find fully functional WMD? Maybe, but they were old and we weren't going to test them.
Did we find new WMD? No
See the clarification? Hell, some of our soldiers were even exposed to the effects of one. So to say they were useless or not considered WMD is hogwash.
There are plenty of reports outside of Fox News that say Sarin (WMD) was found. Here are a few:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4997808/
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Natio
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/06/iraq/ma
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ART
I don't want to be nagged with entering a password everytime i open up Firefox. What i want is all of my passwords to be secured or completely hidden from everyone. I don't know how to look up my passwords in IE, but in Firefox it's right there in "plane" site.
What Firefox needs to do is when you click on the "Show Passwords" link, the user must be required to enter in the "Master Password" then and only then. That's the only time it's really necessary to go to an extra level of security.
Passwords are personal, and they shouldn't be visible to anyone you happen to let use your computer for a second. And I don't want to have to type in the "Master Password" anytime they want to check their email.
There are too many (open source/free) programs out there and too many users that need this information to just let it fall to the way side. Someone somewhere will come up with a service that i wouldn't be surprised is free and without the re-registration that was needed with zap2it.
I wouldn't be surprised if it were Yahoo either. They already offer stock information for parsers for free.
what a Dick
As far as I know Solar Panels don't heat water anyway. All they do is power the hotwater tank....granted it might be a "green" hotwater tank, but still. The energy that is in those panels has to be displaced as heat in the water somehow.
Even at $100,000 it's too expensive. My electric bill is at most $2000 for the entire year. It'd take 50 years for me to recoup the cost and that isn't including the interest I would have made on that $100K. And who do you know that actually stays in their house for 50 years? And would you even think the components would last 50 years. My guess is they would have broken around year 10 anyway.
It's not a feasible solution unless money is not an option and being green is all you care about. For this to be reasonable for the average consumer it needs to be at most $15,000. But to get a reasonable hold on the market it would need to be less than $10K. If he can get it under $5K, this guy is sitting on a gold mine.
FedEx isn't necessarily doing this for their planes. They are a leader in developing airline technologies. They are the second largest airline in the US as a matter of fact. They are trying to create this technology so that they can have it certified by the FAA and make bookoos amounts of money off it.
All it will take is one RPG/SAM fired from near an airport when planes are low to the ground to send that entire industry down the tubes. If the government can't secure the surrounding area, people won't trust planes. They know the day is coming when some psycho will try this.
After watching these a few times, I actually tried buying one of the stocks. The best chance is if you look at the stock and it hasn't risen any yet (meaning you get the email before everyone else).
I bought about $100 of a $.20 stock and wound up selling it for $.55. I've stayed away from them though usually as I seem to only look at them after the price is moving.
You understand that once the seal is broken on software products we will not take them back and No refund will be issued, as we have no guarantee that it or they have been removed from your computer. We will however promptly exchange defective products. This is the same policy that all software vendors have in common. You cannot buy software at a retail store and then expect a refund once you have opened it and installed it on your computer. This would be considered software piracy on your part. Buysusa does not condone software piracy and has every intention of complying with the laws pertaining to the duplication of software. So please do not ask us to break the law. All sales are final with the exception of damaged or defective goods.
http://web.archive.org/web/20050331090113/bannedd
"....adequate documentation? Please, they're a standards body...."
I hope you were joking because if they make standards and don't document adequately, then no wonder web browsers are going in every direction imaginable.
They probably use IE to display pages/certain screens in Flight Simulator. Alot of applications use the IE plugin that uses the latest version of IE on the computer.
Personally, I had no problems with Windows Millenium. It was better than Win98 SE IMO. All you really needed to do is disable the "System Restore" feature that was in it's infancy. Plus, computers didn't really have the processing power back then to have System Restore running at all times.
Regardless, Windows 2000 and XP blow 95/98/ME out of the water with regards to reliability and error handling. I haven't had a blue screen of death in about 6 years.
FYI, even if you set it to "classic mode" in Vista, it still uses well over 500MB of RAM. Apparently "classic" does not include "classic" system requirements.
Most of it is the licensing fees for the AGP interface. And some is the fact that the market is now into PCI-E, but AGP has always cost a little more than the PCI-E. And I think there's a little more that has to go into the processing of an AGP port that costs money.
Oh, and most modern AGP cards are actually built for PCI-E and they are converted to the AGP slot, which drives cost up more.
Well, because the local cable only has to serve out 150 or so channels from their station at any one time. If they made everything "On Demand", then that 180 figure would go out the window and be somewhere around 1,000,000 TV signals flowing through that bandwidth for all the people in the neighborhood watching different stuff at any one given time.
They don't have the bandwidth for that.
Couldn't they just leave it alone? Conroe has started to get a name for itself as a great technology. Why nip that in the butt?
I hate when they decide to name something like: "Stupid Name" "2" "Duo" (processor version). It should just be: "Name" (processor version)
AMD is not much better with the "X2". There should only be one number in the name and that should define the specific processor within a certain chip style (Pentium 133, Opteron 850). Though i'm not attracted to a name that I have to lookup how to spell it (Opteron?? Xeon? Duron? Athlon? Sempron? Turion? Sounds like some transformer or a weird elements on the periodic table). I think I'm going to hold out for the "Megatron X2 Duo 2 D 64 5000 Extreme" processor. It's supposedly the best!
Come up with unique names and naming system that are easy for the general public. It's not that hard, really.
A Digital Recorder that has built in double barrel shotgun functionality. They can't confiscate it then! MWHAHAHA!
Everybody has patents or licenses, even the Open Source community. How would you feel if Microsoft just started stealing code from Mozilla and Linux? I'm pretty sure they'd sue Microsoft as well.
TIVO holds the patent for "pausing live TV" and "recording to a HD". As long as this MythTV box does not pause live tv and doesn't record to a hard drive, then they're safe. Otherwise, infringement.
Where there's smoke,
There's fire.
Where there's fire,
There's documents being burned.
Where those documents are being burned,
There's music executives and lawyers,
Joined hand in hand,
Disposing of any and all evidence.
My guess is any information that would take down the music industry AND their lawyers, is going to be burned/buried or both and we will never see anything.
There's no way they will essentially turn themselves in.
They most definitely need to start looking at:
1. Speed
2. Noise
75% of computer users haven't even gone above the 100GB realm yet, much less the 750.
As one user posted below about "hybrid" drives, I see this as an interesting way to improve speed. Put about 500MB of some type of cache on the hard drive to load up certain drivers and other OS files that are commonly used. This would improve performance dramatically while at the same time freeing the HD up to do other more useful things.
Well, I think it still IS better than the competition. The competition just has a better oportunity because they are already in bed with customers. (much like Microsoft with Internet Explorer over Firefox).
Tivo offers far more to the users (except dual tuner and HD [this will be available in the Tivo 3]) and has opened the box for users to develop applications for it.
And you may say that it's more expensive than the cable version. Well I disagree. To get it, you'll need "digital cable" plus the box. The difference in price for me over regular cable to digital cable was $12 + $6 for the DVR box + $6.95 for DVR service. That's $24! for a few extra latino and Homeshopping Network type channels and their TIVO takeoff. Sorry, but I'm not interested.
I bought the Tivo for $100 (after rebate) and $300 lifetime fee. Considering I'll be saving $24/month (with a cable bill of only $50 as opposed to $74) it will have paid for itself in just 17 months, aka 1 1/2 years.
retaliate? We can't put a tarriff on them. That would be too obvious. And the Chinese don't know what the word "invent" means, so it's not like we can delay their products so we can produce a competing device in the US.
If we continue without laptops, I'm out of here. I'm gone; I won't be able to keep up," said student Cory Winsett, who said his hand-written notes are incomplete and less organized.
:sigh
Give me a freakin break. "You won't be able to keep up?" Yea, like that 10s of thousands of lawyers out there today that got through just fine without a laptop in class. All that tells me is you are an incompetent law student that couldn't hold today's lawyer's jock strap.
At some point in the future you will graduate, unfortunately, and will be required to operate without a laptop and be required to use pen and paper. Will you survive? Apparently not since you'll wind up making notes that are "incomplete and unorganized".
I guess that's the next step. They need to start creating college level classes on how to write notes with pen and paper and to keep them organized.