Ohh bad choice. Challenger had a bug in a flow valve if memory serves. Columbia suffered a small ddos attack(lots of foam) that just happened to crack the firewall enough to let another attacker in.
Still out of the hundreds that have flown only 14 have died.
replace electric car with horse and buggy and it is closer.
Electric cars have a major fatal flaw, power. you need a light weight yet high density power source to make up the fact that gasoline is a light weight high density power source. Electric cars are nice, but without a decent power source don't have a fraction of the range of Gas car of the same size.
Also flying cars are nice in concept until you realize the truth. most of the drivers on the road today can barely handle a car that only can go in two dimensions. Do you really want those idiots have the ability to go in three?
Ah but here is the trick how much interest will you get back versus how much money you have to pay out. What happens when the IRS wants a $2,000 check from you and give you only a couple of weeks to pull the money out? savings account aren't worth it so you have the money in cd's, however cd's can't be emptied that fast. So not only do you lose interest but also have to pay fines.
No I would rather pay a little more today, and once a year get a nice check from the IRS. Then i can put the entire check into a cd for the next year. I get more interest on it, don't have to worry about where to come up with money to pay the IRS. Since Interest is based on average daily balance, having a larger balance to start with is smarter, than putting the $20 a paycheck into interest and having it accumulate far more slowly. As interest is only paid on what is in the account at the time, Not the total worth of the account at the end of the year.
it makes sense for companies, and people making more than $300,000 a year, for everyone else it is far to large of a risk. I know several people earning 100k plus that have been burned hard your way. suddenly having to come up with large lump sum payments to the IRS. It is a lot more manual effort for very little reward and tons of risk.
So go find quartz desktop and set your desktop background to a Quartz composition.
When i feel like burning CPu cycles cool and randomly. i use that with the RSS screen-saver. It makes an awesome but almost useless eye candy background. My only real wish with it, is if someone took, the RSS screen-saver and instead of rss feeds fed it cpu speeds, network data, HD performance, etc. that would be really cool Rotating information.
Not really. most people I know hate their cell phone as they can't use half the features as the interface is clumsy at best. I hand them my iphone and they really start to understand how to do things.
Andriod while it is open is still not very consumer friendly. It does have the best chance. True user friendly interfaces, are more than the buttons you push, but the whole of the system. it is designed from the ground up to put the consumer before the features.
In general that is how Apple designs products, that is why apples switch from computer maker to consumer electronics is going far smoother than Dell, which merely started by repackaging some one else's design.
Custom OS's tend to do one or two things really well. BeOS, Inferno, etc as they fill gaps their creators saw a need for. While they all have good features, It isn't just features that are required but the ability to use them.
Just for the record the iPhone I am posting this with connects to exchange just fine for work.
Normally though I set it up for google's exhange for my google calendar, and IMAP for my personal email. I for personal stuff I don't need push email. However every once in a while I need exchange for work. It takes a few minutes to resetup but works great.
you pay for a landline? how much is that bill? $20-$30 a month.
My cell phone is my only phone. I save money by not having two phones, and my cell gets much better long distance rates(ie its free just burning minutes)
Well sometimes things aren't quite right like when the shit is runny. MSFT tablet, and ultra mobile PC's, fall into this category.
A good idea, done in by poor interface choices, barely tolerable battery life, high prices, etc.
In the next 18 months with the emergence of touch screen netbooks with new interfaces, and more importantly low prices. you will see just how much needs to change in slight ways.
Apple does the throw shit at the wall and see what sticks too. however that wall is normally well hidden from view. My iphone is awesome. however the number of prototypes that were built before is the really interesting question.
go to a car radio place, and ask options. Most car radios use proprietary plugs but do have an audio input jack. Crutchfield.com has a list. select your car, model and options and what you want from it. Also sticking with as close to generic audio input is best(not everyone has an ipod)
Well your not the market. If you want the data plan that is sold separately. Just like your ISP is separate from your phone, and cable, and electricity, and water. I do find it odd that I need two ISP's. it would be great if I could pay just for one connection however this way if one is down the other is available.
try using your bus network to get to every single point in your city, I bet it only covers some of the area. If your lucky it covers some what connivence for you. The city Ilive in has nearly 800,000 and there is only okay bus coverage. I keep trying to take the bus it just isn't working.
Mass transit systems fail in all but the largest of cities. There is a problem. Not enough people spread out over to great of an area. Growing up my school was 20 miles away. The nearest store was 6. When i started working I literally had to drive 50 miles a day 6 days a weekk just back and forth to work. that is no other side stops.
Now I live only 8 miles and 15 minutes from work. However if I wanted to use mass transit my travel would cover 20 miles, and take over an hour to do so. mass transits systems require the majority of people to live in a small space. That isn't the case in America. America is simply to spread out for it to work effectively. Maybe when we double our current population will it make more sense.
Until such a time cars are more efficient for the tens of thousands that travel back and forth going in thousands of different directions at different times.
Simpson Springfield is a nice example. the trolly only goes in circles. that is the case in many cities. Invent a hoverbus, that flies 50 feet off the ground and it might change.
Um aren't you arguing againist yourself. NYC has 12 million people in it. That alone is worth one mid western state in just population. NY as a state has 22 million while Canada has 32 million. The cities votes swing states as each city have populations many times the rest.
Look at wikipedias page on the 2008 election. Some one made a county by county breakdown. Every blue county in by is a city. However because cities have many more people the popular vote doesn't change things.
The electoral college only shifts the break downs differently. Personaly one should have 65% of the electoral college instead of the 51% now required. Heck even 55% would ensure ones has to have both popular and electoral.
wouldn't crashing the filters be easier? start DDOS'ing the servers with repeated requests. as the entire ISP can no longer serve it's customers this trial will then start to require even more funds. As the ISP's can't live up to their service agreements they will have no choice but to shutdown the filters until they upgrade them.
Wash, rinse, repeat. Show them that not only is service interrupted but that the filter itself is so expensive to maintain that it isn't practical.
if the rumors are true then leopard is the last of the PPC It has been 3 years since the intel transition began. making their fat binaries not quite so fat.
I do see a merge of hypervisor, and virtual machine technologies coming though. Hopefully pushed by software vendors tired of the endless OS wars.
I can second all of the above, but with a 3-1/2 year old. Kids pick up simple patterns easier than most adults do. Something about over analyzing the situation.
I don't find it amazing that someone without preconceived notions has an easier time understanding simple things.
look up the inferno OS. Basically someone created their own version of java/.NET and embedded it into the Kernel. number of cores, processor types, hell even where on the network doesn't matter.
while I don't know if Plan 9 will be the next answer. Inferno's Ideas are what is really needed. MSFT singularity is a more modern version of it.
My personal idea is that during Boot,a built in virtual machine(maybe FPGA based so it could be upgraded with new tech) starts. Apps can then be run from arm, x86, itantium, alpha, etc without compiling.
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you probably right. I only remembered the flow being screwed up in the o2 lines.
Ohh bad choice.
Challenger had a bug in a flow valve if memory serves.
Columbia suffered a small ddos attack(lots of foam) that just happened to crack the firewall enough to let another attacker in.
Still out of the hundreds that have flown only 14 have died.
replace electric car with horse and buggy and it is closer.
Electric cars have a major fatal flaw, power. you need a light weight yet high density power source to make up the fact that gasoline is a light weight high density power source. Electric cars are nice, but without a decent power source don't have a fraction of the range of Gas car of the same size.
Also flying cars are nice in concept until you realize the truth. most of the drivers on the road today can barely handle a car that only can go in two dimensions. Do you really want those idiots have the ability to go in three?
text messaging for starters, voice mail setup, add phone numbers into contacts with gasp names spelled right,
i am talking about real people not geeks like you and me. The kind of people who still who struggle to use one remote to control a tv and dvd player.
Ah but here is the trick how much interest will you get back versus how much money you have to pay out. What happens when the IRS wants a $2,000 check from you and give you only a couple of weeks to pull the money out? savings account aren't worth it so you have the money in cd's, however cd's can't be emptied that fast. So not only do you lose interest but also have to pay fines.
No I would rather pay a little more today, and once a year get a nice check from the IRS. Then i can put the entire check into a cd for the next year. I get more interest on it, don't have to worry about where to come up with money to pay the IRS. Since Interest is based on average daily balance, having a larger balance to start with is smarter, than putting the $20 a paycheck into interest and having it accumulate far more slowly. As interest is only paid on what is in the account at the time, Not the total worth of the account at the end of the year.
it makes sense for companies, and people making more than $300,000 a year, for everyone else it is far to large of a risk. I know several people earning 100k plus that have been burned hard your way. suddenly having to come up with large lump sum payments to the IRS. It is a lot more manual effort for very little reward and tons of risk.
So go find quartz desktop and set your desktop background to a Quartz composition.
When i feel like burning CPu cycles cool and randomly. i use that with the RSS screen-saver. It makes an awesome but almost useless eye candy background. My only real wish with it, is if someone took, the RSS screen-saver and instead of rss feeds fed it cpu speeds, network data, HD performance, etc. that would be really cool Rotating information.
I like New York for two reasons, lake ontario and the weather.
Taxes are what is really annoying. I claim zero dependents with only 35,000 a year salary and i still owe NY state taxes.
Not really. most people I know hate their cell phone as they can't use half the features as the interface is clumsy at best. I hand them my iphone and they really start to understand how to do things.
Andriod while it is open is still not very consumer friendly. It does have the best chance. True user friendly interfaces, are more than the buttons you push, but the whole of the system. it is designed from the ground up to put the consumer before the features.
In general that is how Apple designs products, that is why apples switch from computer maker to consumer electronics is going far smoother than Dell, which merely started by repackaging some one else's design.
Custom OS's tend to do one or two things really well. BeOS, Inferno, etc as they fill gaps their creators saw a need for. While they all have good features, It isn't just features that are required but the ability to use them.
other than calendar, reminders, and email, there isn't a whole lot.
Just for the record the iPhone I am posting this with connects to exchange just fine for work.
Normally though I set it up for google's exhange for my google calendar, and IMAP for my personal email. I for personal stuff I don't need push email. However every once in a while I need exchange for work. It takes a few minutes to resetup but works great.
paris is a good example. it is slightly smaller than my home city land area wise, with nearly 5 times the number of people.
bike paths and even walking paths are good downtown, but the majority of the city has only small sidewalks.
you pay for a landline? how much is that bill? $20-$30 a month.
My cell phone is my only phone. I save money by not having two phones, and my cell gets much better long distance rates(ie its free just burning minutes)
given the unemployement of cities it would make sense.
However that statement means I am racist.
Well sometimes things aren't quite right like when the shit is runny. MSFT tablet, and ultra mobile PC's, fall into this category.
A good idea, done in by poor interface choices, barely tolerable battery life, high prices, etc.
In the next 18 months with the emergence of touch screen netbooks with new interfaces, and more importantly low prices. you will see just how much needs to change in slight ways.
Apple does the throw shit at the wall and see what sticks too. however that wall is normally well hidden from view. My iphone is awesome. however the number of prototypes that were built before is the really interesting question.
dumb question. you leave your wife in the car while you go shopping?
also if you have a cap on your bandwidth then you choose the wrong plan, or your provider is a cheap prick.
go to a car radio place, and ask options. Most car radios use proprietary plugs but do have an audio input jack. Crutchfield.com has a list. select your car, model and options and what you want from it. Also sticking with as close to generic audio input is best(not everyone has an ipod)
Well your not the market. If you want the data plan that is sold separately. Just like your ISP is separate from your phone, and cable, and electricity, and water. I do find it odd that I need two ISP's. it would be great if I could pay just for one connection however this way if one is down the other is available.
try using your bus network to get to every single point in your city, I bet it only covers some of the area. If your lucky it covers some what connivence for you. The city Ilive in has nearly 800,000 and there is only okay bus coverage. I keep trying to take the bus it just isn't working.
Also 32,000 is a small town,
then you have never lived in an american city.
Mass transit systems fail in all but the largest of cities. There is a problem. Not enough people spread out over to great of an area. Growing up my school was 20 miles away. The nearest store was 6. When i started working I literally had to drive 50 miles a day 6 days a weekk just back and forth to work. that is no other side stops.
Now I live only 8 miles and 15 minutes from work. However if I wanted to use mass transit my travel would cover 20 miles, and take over an hour to do so. mass transits systems require the majority of people to live in a small space. That isn't the case in America. America is simply to spread out for it to work effectively. Maybe when we double our current population will it make more sense.
Until such a time cars are more efficient for the tens of thousands that travel back and forth going in thousands of different directions at different times.
Simpson Springfield is a nice example. the trolly only goes in circles. that is the case in many cities. Invent a hoverbus, that flies 50 feet off the ground and it might change.
Where do you think bearded ladies come from.
Other than slashdot basement dwellers.
Um aren't you arguing againist yourself. NYC has 12 million people in it. That alone is worth one mid western state in just population. NY as a state has 22 million while Canada has 32 million. The cities votes swing states as each city have populations many times the rest.
Look at wikipedias page on the 2008 election. Some one made a county by county breakdown. Every blue county in by is a city. However because cities have many more people the popular vote doesn't change things.
The electoral college only shifts the break downs differently. Personaly one should have 65% of the electoral college instead of the 51% now required. Heck even 55% would ensure ones has to have both popular and electoral.
wouldn't crashing the filters be easier? start DDOS'ing the servers with repeated requests. as the entire ISP can no longer serve it's customers this trial will then start to require even more funds. As the ISP's can't live up to their service agreements they will have no choice but to shutdown the filters until they upgrade them.
Wash, rinse, repeat. Show them that not only is service interrupted but that the filter itself is so expensive to maintain that it isn't practical.
if the rumors are true then leopard is the last of the PPC It has been 3 years since the intel transition began. making their fat binaries not quite so fat.
I do see a merge of hypervisor, and virtual machine technologies coming though. Hopefully pushed by software vendors tired of the endless OS wars.
I can second all of the above, but with a 3-1/2 year old. Kids pick up simple patterns easier than most adults do. Something about over analyzing the situation.
I don't find it amazing that someone without preconceived notions has an easier time understanding simple things.
look up the inferno OS. Basically someone created their own version of java/.NET and embedded it into the Kernel. number of cores, processor types, hell even where on the network doesn't matter.
while I don't know if Plan 9 will be the next answer. Inferno's Ideas are what is really needed. MSFT singularity is a more modern version of it.
My personal idea is that during Boot,a built in virtual machine(maybe FPGA based so it could be upgraded with new tech) starts. Apps can then be run from arm, x86, itantium, alpha, etc without compiling.
Those are antivirus and antispyware. But those are allowed under the starter edition as not being apps unless they are free.
How does MSFT determne which apps do and don't count?