Tell me you're kidding right? The water you say you put in doesn't provide the same hydrolic pressure as proper brake fluid. If you got into an accident and it was determined that faulty brakes on your car caused it you would be litigated into the stone age. Especially if someone was killed by it.
The front molding is all one piece that comes off with a specialized tool. It said in the article that only a Volvo technician could take it off. Obvioiusly because they wouldn't sell the tools to the mass market.
Not that specialized tools is a new idea. Car companies have been doing that for years to try and get people to bring their cars back to the dealer for repairs.
If the ghosts are learning, how long would it take for a ghost near a lot of engineering students to become valuable by parroting equations or exam answers?
The AC who posted before me is a bit of a jackass him/her self considering Open Source isn't a company like Microsoft but rather a coding philosopy, but I digress.
I don't see why people see abundance of choice as a bad thing. The problem with the computer industry isn't too much choice. The problem is a lack of enforced standards. If the encoding of all documents was equal then the various products could battle it out on a level play field.
Look at the automotive industry, can you imagine if all the cars ran on gasoline but Chevy's needed one brand of gas and Ford needed another brand of gas and so on? You would have to carefully plan your trips to make sure the right gas stations were at the right locations so you could get you specific brand of gas. This would lead to a lack of competition among gas companies (what competition there is now) and more outrageous prices without any method of check to see if the cost is justified.
Kinda like software companies are now. Lets face it, if Microsoft knows it's probably going to sell X number of copied of Office, plus OEM packages and so on, why do they need to charge in excess of $400 for the professional version? You really think it's worth that much money.
That's right, haven't these people watched the Godfather trilogy? You never admit you did anything wrong, you never discuss business plans with people outside of the family, you never brag and you keep your buttonmen at an arm's length from the family.
And I'm not afraid to say it! lol. Seriously though, I'm colour blind also and had a heck of a time with games like Bubble Puzzle and the like. The way I got around it, without using a colour blind mode, was to ask my wife to help me. It made the game a social event, not always convienient mind you but more fun in the end.
It also depends on where these studies were taken and the soci-economic reality of the individuals interviewed. Were they from lower or higher income? Is there violence at home? Is it a one parent or two parent house? Do both parents work or is one home all the time? etc, etc.
That's right. I think as a society we should base all our opinions on shallow, one dimensional poles about easy to attack, hot button, misunderstood, poorly informed issues. That way we can avoid the REAL social problems caused by the harder to tackle issues like, but not limited to;
You just admitted to being an MCSE in slashdot. That's got to be worth a wedgie with a jackhammer and an immediate lose of all your karma while we all appreciate the brazeness of your post.
Then again, you don't see private-industry initiatives going on much of ANYPLACE other than the U.S.A.
You're right, of course. It's not like all those Asian companies, like Sony, ever came up with some new technological innovation. They just rip off companies from the USA.
The point of doing research in zero-g or near zero-g is to remove that variable from the equation. The moon, as you said, has gravity, which is a negative aspect.
The telescope and hotel ideas are non-starters too. The moon's not a great resort spot, lacks activities for most of the population for one. It's very cost prohibative to get there too. Lets face, normal people, even most CEO's aren't getting second morgages to finance a trip to space which now has a price tag attached to it. There are far to many interesting terrestrial spots that don't cost any where near as much and don't require as much training. If you want the best possible telescopic images you need to stick the telescope out in the middle of space with it's back to the sun (there are plans to deloy an x-ray telescope like this, somewhere between the Earth and Mars.) The further from any major light source, the better.
As for refueling a space station performs this function very well, much closer to Earth. Why travel 2-3 days to refuel? Besides, if we ever get serious about going any distance with a human crew we are going to need a different power plant. Why use fossil fuels when the sun is readily abundant and freely available?
Want proof that private industry isn't that gun-ho for doing experiments in space? I don't see a lot of private space programs going on in countries other then the USA. Nothing large scale. It's mostly government run programs. NASA may enforce a ban but they can't do that world wide.
Why would you spend the money to put a base on the moon when, as far as I know, there is no useful purpose of doing so. Think there are ores there worth mining? They are here on Earth to, and a lot cheap to aquire. Want a base for research purposes? We can already perform experiments with the shuttle and various other man made structures in space. Why put out the additional cost for, frankly, nothing more then a romantic notion of living on the moon?
How about developing a release of Windows that doesn't have extra ports open by default that the system doesn't need? How about recognizing some of the more common issues and have these default fixed?
I think that Microsoft should halt development and roll out of it's next OS's until it's fixed the base functions. They should start from the beginning, and review the code line by line with a focus for security. Stop adding more and more features until you've fixed the old ones.
I know, NO OS is 100% secure, no program in unhackable and being the biggest boy around Microsoft is also the biggest target. That doesn't excuse their continued shody behaviour.
lol, I say this, knowing of course, that it will never happen. It's not in Microsofts interests (nor the interests of their shareholders) to go back to code and rewrite and rebuild. I personally think it would be good corporate behaviour to do it though.
This is a little off topic but consider your car. What if your car manufacture refused to fix your older vehicle because they no longer support that model? The public would crucify them. But Microsoft does exactly that by terminating patches and support for older OS's. Those older machines, if they provide the base code for the exploits in the current release, are then potential holes. I don't know about you but I'm still running a copy of 98 at home for games because it works and is stable (sorta).
Anyways, back on topic, I agree. We've all bitched about Microsoft being insecure and when they try and make right we bitch some more. And it's not giving them a fair shake. Who knows, maybe this will be the tool that saves everything. I for one am getting sick of paying for bandwidth that gets absorbed by virus's and spam. Actually, I think we should hold the ISP's more responsible.
It does not make sense to have Microsoft's firewall activated by default. The thing is buggy as heck and some DSL accounts don't work properly when it is activated. Consider that their OS is NOT engineered for security (an admission they made themselves) and that they have a track record of "swiss cheese" code.
Additionally I would hate to think that computers would roll out with auto update automatically enforced on home users machines. Quite a few home users wouldn't know if they had turned it off or not for one. Can you trust Microsoft to have tested the patch against software you use? What if you've got a "pay for use" internet account? Do you want to pay for the bandwidth Microsoft uses? HINT: Think service pack. What if a patch goes wrong or the home user mistakes it for a virus and forces a shut down in the middle of a service pack?
I'm not going to suggest that Microsoft would use this to monitor individuals or covertly take over peoples machines, that's just more FUD. I do think, however, that the last thing Microsoft needs to do to their software is add another automated feature that can be comprimised and easlity manipulated because it's already built for interaction with external machines over an inherantly insecure environment.
You don't fix a hole in a dam by adding more holes.
Can't you people come up with something better? I mean, holy crap, every SCO post has half a dozen yahoos who repost the same old joke again and again.
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Unless you like hanging out with Joe Sixpack's teenage daughter.
Someone please tell me I'm feeding a troll here.
Not that specialized tools is a new idea. Car companies have been doing that for years to try and get people to bring their cars back to the dealer for repairs.
If the ghosts are learning, how long would it take for a ghost near a lot of engineering students to become valuable by parroting equations or exam answers?
I hear it makes for a real shitty connection though.
In the book of Revelations it talks about the Sun losing 33.3% of it's light in the end times. Take heed, Jesus's return is fast approaching.
I don't see why people see abundance of choice as a bad thing. The problem with the computer industry isn't too much choice. The problem is a lack of enforced standards. If the encoding of all documents was equal then the various products could battle it out on a level play field.
Look at the automotive industry, can you imagine if all the cars ran on gasoline but Chevy's needed one brand of gas and Ford needed another brand of gas and so on? You would have to carefully plan your trips to make sure the right gas stations were at the right locations so you could get you specific brand of gas. This would lead to a lack of competition among gas companies (what competition there is now) and more outrageous prices without any method of check to see if the cost is justified.
Kinda like software companies are now. Lets face it, if Microsoft knows it's probably going to sell X number of copied of Office, plus OEM packages and so on, why do they need to charge in excess of $400 for the professional version? You really think it's worth that much money.
It's just good business practice.
I thought it was fucking funny!
And I'm not afraid to say it! lol. Seriously though, I'm colour blind also and had a heck of a time with games like Bubble Puzzle and the like. The way I got around it, without using a colour blind mode, was to ask my wife to help me. It made the game a social event, not always convienient mind you but more fun in the end.
It also depends on where these studies were taken and the soci-economic reality of the individuals interviewed. Were they from lower or higher income? Is there violence at home? Is it a one parent or two parent house? Do both parents work or is one home all the time? etc, etc.
Well, there is an error margin of +-5%...
mmmm, urinal cake.
...welcome our new wierdo Overlords until the other 70% turn off their games and kick their tails.
Poverty
Childhood abuse
Human Rights violations
Moral Decay
Political and Corporate greed
The destruction of the household.
You just admitted to being an MCSE in slashdot. That's got to be worth a wedgie with a jackhammer and an immediate lose of all your karma while we all appreciate the brazeness of your post.
I was specifically thinking of that little robot thing of theirs that I can't remember the name of right now.
You're right, of course. It's not like all those Asian companies, like Sony, ever came up with some new technological innovation. They just rip off companies from the USA.
The telescope and hotel ideas are non-starters too. The moon's not a great resort spot, lacks activities for most of the population for one. It's very cost prohibative to get there too. Lets face, normal people, even most CEO's aren't getting second morgages to finance a trip to space which now has a price tag attached to it. There are far to many interesting terrestrial spots that don't cost any where near as much and don't require as much training. If you want the best possible telescopic images you need to stick the telescope out in the middle of space with it's back to the sun (there are plans to deloy an x-ray telescope like this, somewhere between the Earth and Mars.) The further from any major light source, the better.
As for refueling a space station performs this function very well, much closer to Earth. Why travel 2-3 days to refuel? Besides, if we ever get serious about going any distance with a human crew we are going to need a different power plant. Why use fossil fuels when the sun is readily abundant and freely available?
Want proof that private industry isn't that gun-ho for doing experiments in space? I don't see a lot of private space programs going on in countries other then the USA. Nothing large scale. It's mostly government run programs. NASA may enforce a ban but they can't do that world wide.
Why would you spend the money to put a base on the moon when, as far as I know, there is no useful purpose of doing so. Think there are ores there worth mining? They are here on Earth to, and a lot cheap to aquire. Want a base for research purposes? We can already perform experiments with the shuttle and various other man made structures in space. Why put out the additional cost for, frankly, nothing more then a romantic notion of living on the moon?
I think that Microsoft should halt development and roll out of it's next OS's until it's fixed the base functions. They should start from the beginning, and review the code line by line with a focus for security. Stop adding more and more features until you've fixed the old ones.
I know, NO OS is 100% secure, no program in unhackable and being the biggest boy around Microsoft is also the biggest target. That doesn't excuse their continued shody behaviour.
lol, I say this, knowing of course, that it will never happen. It's not in Microsofts interests (nor the interests of their shareholders) to go back to code and rewrite and rebuild. I personally think it would be good corporate behaviour to do it though.
This is a little off topic but consider your car. What if your car manufacture refused to fix your older vehicle because they no longer support that model? The public would crucify them. But Microsoft does exactly that by terminating patches and support for older OS's. Those older machines, if they provide the base code for the exploits in the current release, are then potential holes. I don't know about you but I'm still running a copy of 98 at home for games because it works and is stable (sorta).
Anyways, back on topic, I agree. We've all bitched about Microsoft being insecure and when they try and make right we bitch some more. And it's not giving them a fair shake. Who knows, maybe this will be the tool that saves everything. I for one am getting sick of paying for bandwidth that gets absorbed by virus's and spam. Actually, I think we should hold the ISP's more responsible.
Additionally I would hate to think that computers would roll out with auto update automatically enforced on home users machines. Quite a few home users wouldn't know if they had turned it off or not for one. Can you trust Microsoft to have tested the patch against software you use? What if you've got a "pay for use" internet account? Do you want to pay for the bandwidth Microsoft uses? HINT: Think service pack. What if a patch goes wrong or the home user mistakes it for a virus and forces a shut down in the middle of a service pack?
I'm not going to suggest that Microsoft would use this to monitor individuals or covertly take over peoples machines, that's just more FUD. I do think, however, that the last thing Microsoft needs to do to their software is add another automated feature that can be comprimised and easlity manipulated because it's already built for interaction with external machines over an inherantly insecure environment.
You don't fix a hole in a dam by adding more holes.
Ok, seriously, mod this shit down. This isn't funny, it's getting fucking old.
Oh wait, I'm sorry, that's the slashdot way.
See? Now I'm doing it.