actually in one local jurisdiction they lower your speeding ticket to a moving violation precisely so they can keep the entire fine instead of sharing it with the county and state.
I know of many small towns where the speed limit drops from 55 to 35 in a hundred feet or so usually at the bottom of a hill. This is down to both slow down local traffic and to give the local sheriff a spot to sit and nab people who are just passing through and don't know enough to slow down before they get to close.
actually having used my iphone, half of the problem is with at&T's shitty 3G coverage. I literally traveled 3 miles in a straight line along a mostly flat plain. at each end of the line I had a full signal, in the middle of the line I couldn't get anything in 3G or edge.
I have 3G coverage at home and at work, but since I work in a metal building I have to go near the walls to get any kind of decent signal(that doesn't matter which phone I am using) So my battery life on 3G drains massively limiting me to a day with light cell use and occasional web browsing. if I switch to edge I can go 2 days, as it stops trying to reconnect every 10 minutes.
i am just i the habit if I am not using web browsing to turn off 3G. I get better battery life, and all I can do is wait to see if AT&T improves their spotty service.
are you sure? unlike msft apple actually allows other applications, and freeware. If Apple ever puts an app like on the black list just because it is competing with a pay for app then I will agree with you, but apple hasn't ever blacklisted an app that behaves before.
Now it is an easily abuse-able system especially with how it is setup. I always give the benefit of the doubt in such systems. Even to MSFT. MSFT has abused their setups in the past. apple while a control freak really haven't yet. With yet being the key word.
actually I would use two or even three turbines. Geothermal generally use a closed loop water system.
two turbines on for high pressure steam, one for low pressure steam. A third turbine like those built in damns for water. The water heading back down to the geothermal source by gravity could generate additional power.
I don't deny steve Jobs being an Asshole. He pushes for perfection. f course it is him being that asshole that pushes Apple engineers to design the best.
let me try to put this into perspective.
Jobs an Asshole who pushes Apple engineers for perfection.
Ballmer/Gates lets Windows get designed by committee, with all the bureaucratic mess that committee's bring to the table.
Both make money, both are successful. One model doesn't survive with out their leader. The other model collapses in on itself as it can't change fast enough for the market place.
On the other hand at least in the USA all other options are tried, instead of just installing camera's everywhere saying it is for the good of the nation(UK).
In the USA it takes a long time to do anything let alone do it right. The again when it is done it can be undone just as easily if it wasn't right.
damn skippy I use mine to pick up women. All the good lines right at my finger tips, plus I can stalk^H^H^H^H er get their home address to drive them home afterwards.
that's just it will it? in 1984 the Apple BOD fired Steve Jobs and the company nearly went out of business a decade later right until they brought Steve Jobs back.
While Steve doesn't design anything, he is the asshole who pushes products to be better than anything else. Johnathon Ive is the best person to replace Steve. Anyone who can spend months testing materials just so the click wheel on the ipod has the right feel is a good choice.
The iPhone isn't the first touch screen phone, or PDA. It is however the first one to get the UI right. I have handed my iPhone to computer nerds and neophytes. They all have picked up the UI in minutes.
Apple is very controlling and i don't buy DRM encumbered music. I will however buy a well designed product no matter who actually produces it.
we aren't talking about OEM deals, we are talking about retail sales price.
Apple has elected to stay out of the OEM marketplace. It is their choice, and if they die because of it so be it. I reality it is the only thing that has kept Apple afloat after nearly being killed off several times now.
As I said earlier, the reasons why Microsoft didn't bother trying to make Aero work on older video cards should be fairly obvious, when one considers the hardware that most people using Vista would have.
yep most people using Vista have older hardware that they really don't want to upgrade yet again just to gain some flashy stuff that does what their existing hardware could do. DX10 isn't all that big of a improvement over DX9. the fact the moment Vista was released a completely hardware incompatible version of DX10.1 was introduced and made standard by MSFT has nothing to do with what most customers already have.
yet my powerbook G4 from 2003 can run an OS with all the features of Aero, shadows, full screen , semi transparent menus etc just fine. You could install ubuntu with full compiz functionality on the same hardware as you have now.
Aero shouldn't require a third of the resources that it does, and should run just fine on your laptop. The fact that it doesn't is indicative of Vista's poor design.
oh and do you know what industry uses the most amount of ammonium nitrate? Hint it isn't demolitions. Heck with the right air mixture flour can be explosive. you know the stuff they make bread and cakes from.
oh and I would hardly call a field of weed gardening, farming is far more accurate.
what everyone who wants to legalise weed seem to forget in their weed induced stumblings is that it like alcohol affects everyone differently, and I don't want people driving drunk let alone so smoked out they forget which is the gas and which is the brake as they laugh and hit the car in front of them. Ever watch someone go chill man as they stumble across the floor while high on weed? now imagine someone driving that way. Alcohol should also be controlled tighter too, but controlling that is far harder than controlling weed.
Yahoo was mainly a subscription site, as most windows media sites are. once the servers stop you lose your subscriptions. They may rig the setup to keep playing for a year instead of a month, but sometime soon all that music you spent money on is gone.
Apple sells DRm, and DRM free tracks, you keep it working even if apple goes boom.
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That's just it if you bought an HP you would have the exact same problems if you spent the same amount of money.
You want a really high end notebook your going to shell out for it one way or another.
actually in one local jurisdiction they lower your speeding ticket to a moving violation precisely so they can keep the entire fine instead of sharing it with the county and state.
I know of many small towns where the speed limit drops from 55 to 35 in a hundred feet or so usually at the bottom of a hill. This is down to both slow down local traffic and to give the local sheriff a spot to sit and nab people who are just passing through and don't know enough to slow down before they get to close.
actually having used my iphone, half of the problem is with at&T's shitty 3G coverage. I literally traveled 3 miles in a straight line along a mostly flat plain. at each end of the line I had a full signal, in the middle of the line I couldn't get anything in 3G or edge.
I have 3G coverage at home and at work, but since I work in a metal building I have to go near the walls to get any kind of decent signal(that doesn't matter which phone I am using) So my battery life on 3G drains massively limiting me to a day with light cell use and occasional web browsing. if I switch to edge I can go 2 days, as it stops trying to reconnect every 10 minutes.
i am just i the habit if I am not using web browsing to turn off 3G. I get better battery life, and all I can do is wait to see if AT&T improves their spotty service.
are you sure? unlike msft apple actually allows other applications, and freeware. If Apple ever puts an app like on the black list just because it is competing with a pay for app then I will agree with you, but apple hasn't ever blacklisted an app that behaves before.
Now it is an easily abuse-able system especially with how it is setup. I always give the benefit of the doubt in such systems. Even to MSFT. MSFT has abused their setups in the past. apple while a control freak really haven't yet. With yet being the key word.
well it is no worse than most of what hollywood has put out recently.
oh I play on playing D3 and enjoying it.
As a friend of mine likes to say. The family that slays together stays together. because mom can give you a real icy stare, and dad's axe is furious.
no 2+2 =3.991698299 at least according to Intel.
And what do you call those pygmy fetish dudes?
the only reason to fear them is because they outnumber you 20 to 1
hmm but if they also go after excess fat cells I just might make a deal.
Wake me up when it starts teaching the monkeys how to use tools and kill each other. And no Republican jokes, either.
Soooooooooo, this Republican walks into a bar with a monkey under his arm....
Walks into the bathroom and taps his foot under the stall door.
actually I would use two or even three turbines. Geothermal generally use a closed loop water system.
two turbines on for high pressure steam, one for low pressure steam. A third turbine like those built in damns for water. The water heading back down to the geothermal source by gravity could generate additional power.
I don't deny steve Jobs being an Asshole. He pushes for perfection. f course it is him being that asshole that pushes Apple engineers to design the best.
let me try to put this into perspective.
Jobs an Asshole who pushes Apple engineers for perfection.
Ballmer/Gates lets Windows get designed by committee, with all the bureaucratic mess that committee's bring to the table.
Both make money, both are successful. One model doesn't survive with out their leader. The other model collapses in on itself as it can't change fast enough for the market place.
I do love that quote, as it is very true.
On the other hand at least in the USA all other options are tried, instead of just installing camera's everywhere saying it is for the good of the nation(UK).
In the USA it takes a long time to do anything let alone do it right. The again when it is done it can be undone just as easily if it wasn't right.
damn skippy
I use mine to pick up women. All the good lines right at my finger tips, plus I can stalk^H^H^H^H er get their home address to drive them home afterwards.
that's just it will it? in 1984 the Apple BOD fired Steve Jobs and the company nearly went out of business a decade later right until they brought Steve Jobs back.
While Steve doesn't design anything, he is the asshole who pushes products to be better than anything else. Johnathon Ive is the best person to replace Steve. Anyone who can spend months testing materials just so the click wheel on the ipod has the right feel is a good choice.
The iPhone isn't the first touch screen phone, or PDA. It is however the first one to get the UI right. I have handed my iPhone to computer nerds and neophytes. They all have picked up the UI in minutes.
Apple is very controlling and i don't buy DRM encumbered music. I will however buy a well designed product no matter who actually produces it.
we aren't talking about OEM deals, we are talking about retail sales price.
Apple has elected to stay out of the OEM marketplace. It is their choice, and if they die because of it so be it. I reality it is the only thing that has kept Apple afloat after nearly being killed off several times now.
As I said earlier, the reasons why Microsoft didn't bother trying to make Aero work on older video cards should be fairly obvious, when one considers the hardware that most people using Vista would have.
yep most people using Vista have older hardware that they really don't want to upgrade yet again just to gain some flashy stuff that does what their existing hardware could do. DX10 isn't all that big of a improvement over DX9. the fact the moment Vista was released a completely hardware incompatible version of DX10.1 was introduced and made standard by MSFT has nothing to do with what most customers already have.
yet my powerbook G4 from 2003 can run an OS with all the features of Aero, shadows, full screen , semi transparent menus etc just fine. You could install ubuntu with full compiz functionality on the same hardware as you have now.
Aero shouldn't require a third of the resources that it does, and should run just fine on your laptop. The fact that it doesn't is indicative of Vista's poor design.
and msft has sold hundreds of millions of copies of vista, and twice the price.
So according to MSFT developing an OS is a multi billion dollar procedure.
do you understand now or do I have to spell it out for you some more?
oh and do you know what industry uses the most amount of ammonium nitrate? Hint it isn't demolitions. Heck with the right air mixture flour can be explosive. you know the stuff they make bread and cakes from.
oh and I would hardly call a field of weed gardening, farming is far more accurate.
what everyone who wants to legalise weed seem to forget in their weed induced stumblings is that it like alcohol affects everyone differently, and I don't want people driving drunk let alone so smoked out they forget which is the gas and which is the brake as they laugh and hit the car in front of them. Ever watch someone go chill man as they stumble across the floor while high on weed? now imagine someone driving that way. Alcohol should also be controlled tighter too, but controlling that is far harder than controlling weed.
funny I always figured 4chan was the scum from when the gene pool was cleaned.
you do know you can use google to search specific websites right? So if your looking through a specific domain you can add that to your search query.
The other trick is to add search terms until you have gotten a smaller list of results.
right thought wrong reason.
Yahoo was mainly a subscription site, as most windows media sites are. once the servers stop you lose your subscriptions. They may rig the setup to keep playing for a year instead of a month, but sometime soon all that music you spent money on is gone.
Apple sells DRm, and DRM free tracks, you keep it working even if apple goes boom.
Very true. a lot of the R&D costs of the F-35 are actually tech and tenquies learned from the F-22 making the cost of the plane far far lower.
um Tokamak has produced controlled fusion. Many others have as well.
it isn't cold fusion though, and it isn't power plant fusion IE more energy that it consumes.