I have another good one for you. Why was it in nearly every single OS X Tiger review, Windows Longhorn (now Vista) was mentioned as though it was a shipping product? Do you think when Windows Vista gets reviewed in late 2006, reviewers will be comparing it to a distant OS X release two years away? Of course they won't. It was like the press needed to reassure Windows-using readers with the vaporous promise of Longhorn.
That's easy. The first reviews of OSX Tiger came out way before Tiger actually shipped, so it was only natural to compare the upcoming releases from Microsoft and Apple. Then Apple releases their version first. Since people have already equated Tiger and Longhorn as competitors for some time already, inertia takes over and people keep on doing it.
Just like if Sony releases their PS3 before Microsoft releases the XBox 360, you can bet that people will still compare the PS3 to the upcoming Xbox 360 and not the original Xbox as it has been established that the PS3 and Xbox 360 are the "same generation" of console. Even if Microsoft pushes the XBox 360 release date back a few times, it will still continue.
Because a lot of users will be at libraries trying to file their claim on public computers which are probably not running IE6 and will probably be running Win98
Actually, for someone who is somewhat computer savvy, this wouldn't be that bad of a situation. Windows 98 can run IE6, and since everyone is an admin on Windows 98 that means you should be able to run Windows update. The only problems would be bandwidth and those pesky librarians.
However, something still needs to be done for those people stuck in a library that's running a bunch of crappy old iMacs or something.
There are some wireless mice that require no batteries. Check out some of the Wacom tablets. The mouse (as well as the tablet's pen) is powered by induction, so no batteries needed. Of course they don't work off of the USB powered tablet/mousepad - but from what I have seen from 99% of wireless mice users, that won't matter one bit.
Myself, I prefer mice that draw their power directly from a USB port.
In seriousness, and having read the enchange, only one of them is an utter bitch. The other offered a helpful suggestion, to be responded with an insult. Do the same to me, and I'll begin to tear you apart, but it's not as though I'd go looking for the fight. She simply gave back what she got; good for her!!
Well, one of the best quotes is from the one who initially offered the helpful suggestion: "...I have 5 guys at the moment! haha." A woman like that I would usually call a slut. But apparently she's proud of this.
I wouldn't want anything to do with either one of them.
Okay, that was pretty imformative. I thought that the typical asteroid out there is made more or less of the same stuff that the Earth is made out of, so they wouldn't really be any more platinum rich than our own planet. Or is all that platinum hiding down in the core or something?
Or until we maneuver a nickel-iron Near Earth Asteroid into Earth-orbit and mine the metals, bringing the price of platinum down to a couple of dollars a pound.
And then we can just transmute the nickel and iron into platinum and we'll be set! Or am I missing something here?
Electrolysis of water releases no CO2, just hydrogen and oxygen gases. The source of electricity may release CO2 if it's coal/oil/natural gas. But if it's hydro, solar, wind, tidal, or fission then it will release no CO2. The thing about storing energy with hydrogen is that it makes solar and wind energy more useful, as you don't need a constant supply of electricity - you can just generate the hydrogen when you can and use your stockpiles when you can't (hence the need for easy storage, which these pellets may provide).
Natural gas is mostly methane, which is CH4 (plus things like propane). Seperating methane, you'll get 2 hydrogen and 1 carbon left over. I don't know if this carbon is released as CO2 in the process or not. But I suspect that even if it is, it'll mean less CO2 than burning propane, aka C3H8 (3 CO2 released per molecule burned) or gasoline which is an even longer hydrocarbon.
You are wrong. The items mentioned are assets, that's why you can borrow against them.
You have to be careful though. For example, if you take out a loan on a new car, the instant you drive it off the lot the loan amount is going to exceed the amount of money you could get from selling the car - and this will likely be the situation for atleast a year. If I was to find myself unemployed, I would rather have a leased car than to owe $20000 on a $15000 car.
Real estate is a somewhat better bet, but with inflated home values I suspect that some people are going to find themselves underwater in the near future. Especially those that were dumb enough to do things like interest only mortgages.
Sometimes it is simply better to rent. Though I do still think that leasing a new car is a poor choice (chances are you'll be better off with a loan on a 2-4 year old car).
The most convincing AIs I've seen are the bots in FPS games. And they're already programmed to hunt down and kill humans...
Actually, the most convincing bots I have come accross are the posters at slashdot. Sometimes I find it really hard to believe that I'm the only human here.
Besides which, who says I'll even have a machine capable of running it in 15 years? Hardware and OSes move on just as much as games.
The problem is the online activation. If the machine that I'm typing on exists in 15 years, and is still fully functional (which is entirely possible) and I still own my retail copy of Halflife 2 along with the CD Keys, I still won't be able to legally play Halflife 2 unless Steam is still running and allowing copies of Halflife 2 to validate. Whether that will be the case is anyone's guess.
It's funny that most PC gamers wouldn't put up with 640x480 resolution, but at the same time that kind of resolution is beyond what most TVs and consoles do. If I was content to run today's PC games at console resolutions, I could probably do it with any old PC that has been built in the past 4 years.
The obvious solution to this would be no internet connection equals no play. However, if I was to mod a DVD player, modding it to play without having to call home first would be the top priority.
This one will not blow over so easily for Bush. Americans will put up with a lot, but not with extreme incompetence from public officials, especially when the people harmed are 'just like me'.
You seriously underestimate the power of the Republican smear and spin machine. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
Umm.. If I'd had no water for 3 days and another day would likely kill half my family I'm damned sure I *would* murder, hijack an ambulance, etc. Probably shoot at a few helicopters too to see if I could hijack one of those.
You're an idiot. This isn't GTA3. Do that, and don't be surprised if the ambulances and helicopters stop coming and leave you to rot. Or start shooting back. Chances are, by acting like a uncivilized barbarian, you're just going to put yourself and your family into a worse situation.
And I'm sure the pictures of police and soldiers dragging poor people from their homes and throwing them on buses in the forced evacuation would have gone over so well, especially if the hurricane had missed.
I don't think a forced evacuation would be nessecary. A lot of people say that they had no place to go, and no way to get there. So give them a place to go (a real place, not like the Superdome turned out), and run the buses to pick up anyone who wants to go there. If they did that, I don't think many people would be feeling very sorry for the few that would stay behind anyway.
The point is, the current administration can do nothing right, and will always be painted with evil motives, no matter what. Most Americans are sick of hearing it, but until the ClintonII administration takes office, that's all we will hear. That's why I've turned the news off.
What ever happened to "The buck stops here"? The current administration does nothing but point fingers and shifts blame. Katrina was a huge fuck up - both in preperation and dealing with the aftermath. So is the war in Iraq. And the economy. And the war on terror. All that the Bush administration does is either pretend the problem doesn't exist ("Stay the course") or simply point fingers at others. Where's the accountability? The American people are sick of it, and Bush's popularity is plummeting because of it.
I don't see why Apple couldn't use Intel for mobile and AMD for desktops. Plenty of PC manufacturers get by just fine making computers using both Intel and AMD processors.
The point is, the levy isn't just "so damn important to people in New Orleans"... it's really damn important to the entire country. Witness the gas hikes, because a great deal of our nation's gasoline enters through the Port of New Orleans.
Anyone with somr foresight would realize the best solution would be to not have all of our eggs in a (very fragile) basket.
what magical land do you live in that has no natural disasters?
I don't get this attitude. I live in the upper part of tornado alley (Minnesota), so having my home destroyed by a storm is a real possibility. However, I still think building a city on a sinking, below sea level swamp that's surrounded on 3 sides by water is just plain stupid. I'm willing to help pay to clean up the mess, I'm even willing to help people rebuild elsewhere. But I don't feel I should have to pay to have New Orleans rebuilt just so it can be destroyed again (and it will happen).
I think it would be easiest to just boot off of a bootable CD. Or a even a bootable USB/Firewire harddrive. You wouldn't even need to run Linux to do the latter. It should leave no traces on the computer at all, but if you're really paranoid, disconnect the internal harddrive anyway. Though I don't see anyway to hide the network traffic (you could certainly encrypt it, but if they log network traffic when the OS on the computer's internal harddrive says it wasn't booted, you could be in some trouble).
I shared out a folder I had with OLD device drivers and out of date software...files that nobody should want.
As someone who has had to rebuild old Windows 95 era machines, I have hopped onto P2P services in search of old device drivers for long obsolete hardware as kind of a last resort. Didn't have much luck though.
But yeah, if someone started just downloading them enmass then they are probably just a bot.
Seriously I figure in 10-20 more years the desktops and laptops will be replaced with cellphones.
I hope not. It wouldn't really surprise me if in 10-20 years that there will be cell phones that can match the speed and storage capacity of my desktop PC. But I don't think they are going to have full size keyboards and 20" screens.
The big draw of OS X, and one of the big reasons why it rocks and Windows sucks, is compatibility.
I thought that was the other way around. The big appeal of Windows, and especially Linux is that you can run it on a wide variety of hardware. With OSX you're stuck running it on a limited selection of somewhat pricy hardware.
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I have another good one for you. Why was it in nearly every single OS X Tiger review, Windows Longhorn (now Vista) was mentioned as though it was a shipping product? Do you think when Windows Vista gets reviewed in late 2006, reviewers will be comparing it to a distant OS X release two years away? Of course they won't. It was like the press needed to reassure Windows-using readers with the vaporous promise of Longhorn.
That's easy. The first reviews of OSX Tiger came out way before Tiger actually shipped, so it was only natural to compare the upcoming releases from Microsoft and Apple. Then Apple releases their version first. Since people have already equated Tiger and Longhorn as competitors for some time already, inertia takes over and people keep on doing it.
Just like if Sony releases their PS3 before Microsoft releases the XBox 360, you can bet that people will still compare the PS3 to the upcoming Xbox 360 and not the original Xbox as it has been established that the PS3 and Xbox 360 are the "same generation" of console. Even if Microsoft pushes the XBox 360 release date back a few times, it will still continue.
Because a lot of users will be at libraries trying to file their claim on public computers which are probably not running IE6 and will probably be running Win98
Actually, for someone who is somewhat computer savvy, this wouldn't be that bad of a situation. Windows 98 can run IE6, and since everyone is an admin on Windows 98 that means you should be able to run Windows update. The only problems would be bandwidth and those pesky librarians.
However, something still needs to be done for those people stuck in a library that's running a bunch of crappy old iMacs or something.
There are some wireless mice that require no batteries. Check out some of the Wacom tablets. The mouse (as well as the tablet's pen) is powered by induction, so no batteries needed. Of course they don't work off of the USB powered tablet/mousepad - but from what I have seen from 99% of wireless mice users, that won't matter one bit.
Myself, I prefer mice that draw their power directly from a USB port.
This is particularly pointless. Who looks at their mouse while using it?
They probably put one of those blue LEDs in the scroll wheel so it lights up the entire room. That would do the trick nicely.
In seriousness, and having read the enchange, only one of them is an utter bitch. The other offered a helpful suggestion, to be responded with an insult. Do the same to me, and I'll begin to tear you apart, but it's not as though I'd go looking for the fight. She simply gave back what she got; good for her!!
Well, one of the best quotes is from the one who initially offered the helpful suggestion: "...I have 5 guys at the moment! haha." A woman like that I would usually call a slut. But apparently she's proud of this.
I wouldn't want anything to do with either one of them.
Okay, that was pretty imformative. I thought that the typical asteroid out there is made more or less of the same stuff that the Earth is made out of, so they wouldn't really be any more platinum rich than our own planet. Or is all that platinum hiding down in the core or something?
Or until we maneuver a nickel-iron Near Earth Asteroid into Earth-orbit and mine the metals, bringing the price of platinum down to a couple of dollars a pound.
And then we can just transmute the nickel and iron into platinum and we'll be set! Or am I missing something here?
You're joking, right?
Electrolysis of water releases no CO2, just hydrogen and oxygen gases. The source of electricity may release CO2 if it's coal/oil/natural gas. But if it's hydro, solar, wind, tidal, or fission then it will release no CO2. The thing about storing energy with hydrogen is that it makes solar and wind energy more useful, as you don't need a constant supply of electricity - you can just generate the hydrogen when you can and use your stockpiles when you can't (hence the need for easy storage, which these pellets may provide).
Natural gas is mostly methane, which is CH4 (plus things like propane). Seperating methane, you'll get 2 hydrogen and 1 carbon left over. I don't know if this carbon is released as CO2 in the process or not. But I suspect that even if it is, it'll mean less CO2 than burning propane, aka C3H8 (3 CO2 released per molecule burned) or gasoline which is an even longer hydrocarbon.
You are wrong. The items mentioned are assets, that's why you can borrow against them.
You have to be careful though. For example, if you take out a loan on a new car, the instant you drive it off the lot the loan amount is going to exceed the amount of money you could get from selling the car - and this will likely be the situation for atleast a year. If I was to find myself unemployed, I would rather have a leased car than to owe $20000 on a $15000 car.
Real estate is a somewhat better bet, but with inflated home values I suspect that some people are going to find themselves underwater in the near future. Especially those that were dumb enough to do things like interest only mortgages.
Sometimes it is simply better to rent. Though I do still think that leasing a new car is a poor choice (chances are you'll be better off with a loan on a 2-4 year old car).
The most convincing AIs I've seen are the bots in FPS games. And they're already programmed to hunt down and kill humans...
Actually, the most convincing bots I have come accross are the posters at slashdot. Sometimes I find it really hard to believe that I'm the only human here.
Besides which, who says I'll even have a machine capable of running it in 15 years? Hardware and OSes move on just as much as games.
The problem is the online activation. If the machine that I'm typing on exists in 15 years, and is still fully functional (which is entirely possible) and I still own my retail copy of Halflife 2 along with the CD Keys, I still won't be able to legally play Halflife 2 unless Steam is still running and allowing copies of Halflife 2 to validate. Whether that will be the case is anyone's guess.
Yeah, it the only place where a large population lives below sea level.
Yeah, and Denmark is really known for its hurricanes, moron.
It's funny that most PC gamers wouldn't put up with 640x480 resolution, but at the same time that kind of resolution is beyond what most TVs and consoles do. If I was content to run today's PC games at console resolutions, I could probably do it with any old PC that has been built in the past 4 years.
The obvious solution to this would be no internet connection equals no play. However, if I was to mod a DVD player, modding it to play without having to call home first would be the top priority.
First question: How do I put the wind power into my fuel tank?
Use the wind power to generate hydrogen, and then have your car run on fuel cells. That's what the whole hydrogen thing is about.
This one will not blow over so easily for Bush. Americans will put up with a lot, but not with extreme incompetence from public officials, especially when the people harmed are 'just like me'.
You seriously underestimate the power of the Republican smear and spin machine. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
Umm.. If I'd had no water for 3 days and another day would likely kill half my family I'm damned sure I *would* murder, hijack an ambulance, etc. Probably shoot at a few helicopters too to see if I could hijack one of those.
You're an idiot. This isn't GTA3. Do that, and don't be surprised if the ambulances and helicopters stop coming and leave you to rot. Or start shooting back. Chances are, by acting like a uncivilized barbarian, you're just going to put yourself and your family into a worse situation.
And I'm sure the pictures of police and soldiers dragging poor people from their homes and throwing them on buses in the forced evacuation would have gone over so well, especially if the hurricane had missed.
I don't think a forced evacuation would be nessecary. A lot of people say that they had no place to go, and no way to get there. So give them a place to go (a real place, not like the Superdome turned out), and run the buses to pick up anyone who wants to go there. If they did that, I don't think many people would be feeling very sorry for the few that would stay behind anyway.
The point is, the current administration can do nothing right, and will always be painted with evil motives, no matter what. Most Americans are sick of hearing it, but until the ClintonII administration takes office, that's all we will hear. That's why I've turned the news off.
What ever happened to "The buck stops here"? The current administration does nothing but point fingers and shifts blame. Katrina was a huge fuck up - both in preperation and dealing with the aftermath. So is the war in Iraq. And the economy. And the war on terror. All that the Bush administration does is either pretend the problem doesn't exist ("Stay the course") or simply point fingers at others. Where's the accountability? The American people are sick of it, and Bush's popularity is plummeting because of it.
I don't see why Apple couldn't use Intel for mobile and AMD for desktops. Plenty of PC manufacturers get by just fine making computers using both Intel and AMD processors.
The point is, the levy isn't just "so damn important to people in New Orleans"... it's really damn important to the entire country. Witness the gas hikes, because a great deal of our nation's gasoline enters through the Port of New Orleans.
Anyone with somr foresight would realize the best solution would be to not have all of our eggs in a (very fragile) basket.
what magical land do you live in that has no natural disasters?
I don't get this attitude. I live in the upper part of tornado alley (Minnesota), so having my home destroyed by a storm is a real possibility. However, I still think building a city on a sinking, below sea level swamp that's surrounded on 3 sides by water is just plain stupid. I'm willing to help pay to clean up the mess, I'm even willing to help people rebuild elsewhere. But I don't feel I should have to pay to have New Orleans rebuilt just so it can be destroyed again (and it will happen).
I think it would be easiest to just boot off of a bootable CD. Or a even a bootable USB/Firewire harddrive. You wouldn't even need to run Linux to do the latter. It should leave no traces on the computer at all, but if you're really paranoid, disconnect the internal harddrive anyway. Though I don't see anyway to hide the network traffic (you could certainly encrypt it, but if they log network traffic when the OS on the computer's internal harddrive says it wasn't booted, you could be in some trouble).
I shared out a folder I had with OLD device drivers and out of date software...files that nobody should want.
As someone who has had to rebuild old Windows 95 era machines, I have hopped onto P2P services in search of old device drivers for long obsolete hardware as kind of a last resort. Didn't have much luck though.
But yeah, if someone started just downloading them enmass then they are probably just a bot.
Seriously I figure in 10-20 more years the desktops and laptops will be replaced with cellphones.
I hope not. It wouldn't really surprise me if in 10-20 years that there will be cell phones that can match the speed and storage capacity of my desktop PC. But I don't think they are going to have full size keyboards and 20" screens.
The big draw of OS X, and one of the big reasons why it rocks and Windows sucks, is compatibility.
I thought that was the other way around. The big appeal of Windows, and especially Linux is that you can run it on a wide variety of hardware. With OSX you're stuck running it on a limited selection of somewhat pricy hardware.