except for the low powered machines. in fact MSFT is trying to put artificial limits on these machines in terms of speed, ram, storage, etc so that they don't eat into the vista hardware.
While still claiming that XP is done with on june 30th, there are so many exceptions it won't even been funny.
I fully expect to be able to buy a full spec machine running a new copy of XP in 6 months.
While some of the engineers and designers for the cars are brillant in a hacker kind of way, the average fan of Nascar in particular is not overtly bright. These are the kind of people who lose hands by holding onto firecrackers as they go off. The kind of people the darwin awards were designed to showcase.
While I consider anyone who watches a car drive around an oval for 6 hours to have questionable hobbies, Nascar in particular aren't so bright.
It is one thing if the race course itself is a variable, or your going for 10 seconds of raw speed, but tell me, what is so interesting about driving for 5 hours? I do it several times a year it is boring as all hell and i have to worry about cops, accidents, and idiot drivers.
It is 2008. by 2020 the majority of computers will probably still be running some form of windows, and thus dumber than the sum IQ of all NASCAR fans. i hold no hope for AI for a long time.
Actually MSFT artificially limits supply. Question on a $500 laptop or computer can you name the single most expensive part?
I can build a computer for $500 that can run Windows Vista Ultimate at $399 plus a copy of MS Office for $300. Since I am not an OEM or student, I have to purchase the full retail price of the software.
Now tell me why? Now tell me exactly what feature that Vista Ultimate has the ubuntu, Suse, Fedora, or OS X($129) doesn't. other than the ability to run windows apps there really isn't.
MSFT set the price on windows to cover development costs,and that's fine but MSFT(or any other software vendor) lower the price when they have paid off those development costs. so MSFT has built their fortune on the backs of others. In a world that starts to pinch pennies to save gas MSFT will get tossed first.
i hate to point this out but linux is almost as old as windows. and definitely older than any form of windows that was semi usable.
Open Office was star office, which was based off an older product, but in the end the spreadsheet was based off of lotus 123 older than both.
MSFT doesn't innovate, they let other people come up with good ideas and then implement it themselves poorly. or as the saying goes MSFT reinventing unix poorly for 25 years. While there are time when MSFT has been ahead in some departments. the infamous database filesystem(now winFS) was started because of the database filesystem BeFS way back in the mid 90's.
you write the software once and can sell a billion copies with no overhead costs to you. Do you think dell or apple can sell a million computers without buying a million computer cases? if everyone was a millionare how much would a loaf of bread cost?
Software by it's very nature means unlimited supply of the product thus making it worthless. Novell, IBM, Red Hat, etc are making Billions by not selling software, but by selling the service, and customization of said software for particular needs.
Software doesn't follow standard economic rules of supply and demand. Stop trying to pretend that it does.
that being said and of which i agree completely i also wouldn't be surprised if a few pieces ended up on the structure, or even directly under where the shuttle was sitting.
Once again basic physics. two particles are flying away from a point source, and collide there is a remote chance that one of the particles will bounce backwards. While actually hitting the orbiter is a far fetched. (a moving target away is tough, and with that amount of thrust will push the bounce back debris away again.)
think of a bank shot in pool, it is possible but unlikely.
that was my thought. To fling a brick that far requires a bit of force. Structural fatigue from 82 launches might have just cracked a block. The hot exhaust gases are only there during ignition//liftoff. After a couple hundred feet of altitude there is no more force on it though it still might be hot.
Blanklabel web comics and their forums are on their. While individual comics might be virtually hosted, with the big draws getting their own, your talking about millions upon millions of hits.
That's only if they ever fix it to begin with. Some companies can't actually fix their software as it is broken to begin with and the security hole is what allows the software to run at all. years of software developers dealing with MSFT has set this mindset in place.
Why fix the problem when you can gloss over it with a fresh coat of paint?
note While MSFT is guilty of doing this, Third party developers are the real guilty party.
right now CFL's aren't worth the energy they save. In order to save on costs the actual life of the lamp is considerably shorter than what you expect too. Plus you have the fact that CFL's have mercury in them that you are dumping right into a landfill.
CFl's in general aren't worth the time or money today.
LED's suck for other reasons. notably you can't predict their failure rate, especially when mass produced. Normally if it doesn't fail within the first 6 months of use your good but I have seen LED's fail at random. Since you can't replace an individual LED the total system is degraded, over the entire life of the bulb. And that's before the price of the unit to start with.
We need something like LED's but that is easier to deal with.
my office is about 15x8 with three two tube 4' florescent fixtures.
With regular bulbs it is knd of gloomy, but if we replace just two of the lamps with daylight bulbs the office becomes a light brighter and easy on the eyes. Additional costs $1.00.
I can't stand florescent lights, but i done right with the right color mix for lamps it looks good, and takes away the headaches. Doing it right and keeping it that way though is a bit harder though.
I know I am one of them. Then again I know all too well on why not to by revision A apple hardware.
Then again I just wish people would use the real numbers. While only 2 million units had been sold in the first 5 months Apple gave themselves 18 months to hit 10 million.
With the fact you haven't been able to buy an iPhone for the past month, as thy are sold out EVERYWHERE and most of Europe can't use Edge massively limiting marketshare.
I won't be surprised that the 3G iPhone sells two million units in the first month.
That's just it MSFT is trying to move beyond the vast majority of people.
touch screens are used daily by tens of thousands of people around you right now(assuming your living in a city). Every Burger king, restaurant, etc are slowly switching to touch screen inputs. Go to your local chain restaurant and look around. I bet you find 3-4 touch screens for the wait staff to input your orders onto.
Also OS X has support for gesture touch input right now. it is built into every laptop. it isn't true multi point touch but it does pick up multi point contacts for gestures. Heck my G4 powerbook running 10.4 with a software driver update(3rd paty) supports gestures multi touch. I use it to give it scroll on the touch pad.
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except for the low powered machines. in fact MSFT is trying to put artificial limits on these machines in terms of speed, ram, storage, etc so that they don't eat into the vista hardware.
While still claiming that XP is done with on june 30th, there are so many exceptions it won't even been funny.
I fully expect to be able to buy a full spec machine running a new copy of XP in 6 months.
While some of the engineers and designers for the cars are brillant in a hacker kind of way, the average fan of Nascar in particular is not overtly bright. These are the kind of people who lose hands by holding onto firecrackers as they go off. The kind of people the darwin awards were designed to showcase.
While I consider anyone who watches a car drive around an oval for 6 hours to have questionable hobbies, Nascar in particular aren't so bright.
It is one thing if the race course itself is a variable, or your going for 10 seconds of raw speed, but tell me, what is so interesting about driving for 5 hours? I do it several times a year it is boring as all hell and i have to worry about cops, accidents, and idiot drivers.
It is 2008. by 2020 the majority of computers will probably still be running some form of windows, and thus dumber than the sum IQ of all NASCAR fans.
i hold no hope for AI for a long time.
container it's flying through? have you never watched startrek? If you had you would know that antimatter explodes on contact with regular matter.
There should be no container other than the magentic fields that keep it from hitting any matter in the vacuum that it was created.
Actually MSFT artificially limits supply. Question on a $500 laptop or computer can you name the single most expensive part?
I can build a computer for $500 that can run Windows Vista Ultimate at $399 plus a copy of MS Office for $300. Since I am not an OEM or student, I have to purchase the full retail price of the software.
Now tell me why? Now tell me exactly what feature that Vista Ultimate has the ubuntu, Suse, Fedora, or OS X($129) doesn't. other than the ability to run windows apps there really isn't.
MSFT set the price on windows to cover development costs,and that's fine but MSFT(or any other software vendor) lower the price when they have paid off those development costs. so MSFT has built their fortune on the backs of others. In a world that starts to pinch pennies to save gas MSFT will get tossed first.
i hate to point this out but linux is almost as old as windows. and definitely older than any form of windows that was semi usable.
Open Office was star office, which was based off an older product, but in the end the spreadsheet was based off of lotus 123 older than both.
MSFT doesn't innovate, they let other people come up with good ideas and then implement it themselves poorly. or as the saying goes MSFT reinventing unix poorly for 25 years. While there are time when MSFT has been ahead in some departments. the infamous database filesystem(now winFS) was started because of the database filesystem BeFS way back in the mid 90's.
I think you need a lesson in supply and demand.
you write the software once and can sell a billion copies with no overhead costs to you. Do you think dell or apple can sell a million computers without buying a million computer cases? if everyone was a millionare how much would a loaf of bread cost?
Software by it's very nature means unlimited supply of the product thus making it worthless. Novell, IBM, Red Hat, etc are making Billions by not selling software, but by selling the service, and customization of said software for particular needs.
Software doesn't follow standard economic rules of supply and demand. Stop trying to pretend that it does.
So use w3m. still a console browserr but with images. though I swear i once used lynx with images, but I can't remember if it was just an alias.
yes they are
type in the number of the result you want.
to see more results type in more
try typing in help if your confused.
it's actually really clever. you don't have to remove your hands from the keyboard.
or try
images natalie portman grits
and pic a number to go to the url.
Now type in one of the numbers. The link opens up in a new tab/window
Or type
open http://slashdot.org/
that being said and of which i agree completely i also wouldn't be surprised if a few pieces ended up on the structure, or even directly under where the shuttle was sitting.
Once again basic physics. two particles are flying away from a point source, and collide there is a remote chance that one of the particles will bounce backwards. While actually hitting the orbiter is a far fetched. (a moving target away is tough, and with that amount of thrust will push the bounce back debris away again.)
think of a bank shot in pool, it is possible but unlikely.
that was my thought. To fling a brick that far requires a bit of force. Structural fatigue from 82 launches might have just cracked a block. The hot exhaust gases are only there during ignition//liftoff. After a couple hundred feet of altitude there is no more force on it though it still might be hot.
Blanklabel web comics and their forums are on their. While individual comics might be virtually hosted, with the big draws getting their own, your talking about millions upon millions of hits.
That's only if they ever fix it to begin with. Some companies can't actually fix their software as it is broken to begin with and the security hole is what allows the software to run at all. years of software developers dealing with MSFT has set this mindset in place.
Why fix the problem when you can gloss over it with a fresh coat of paint?
note While MSFT is guilty of doing this, Third party developers are the real guilty party.
American please we have several that have the brains of rats for test comparisons.
right now CFL's aren't worth the energy they save. In order to save on costs the actual life of the lamp is considerably shorter than what you expect too. Plus you have the fact that CFL's have mercury in them that you are dumping right into a landfill.
CFl's in general aren't worth the time or money today.
LED's suck for other reasons. notably you can't predict their failure rate, especially when mass produced. Normally if it doesn't fail within the first 6 months of use your good but I have seen LED's fail at random. Since you can't replace an individual LED the total system is degraded, over the entire life of the bulb. And that's before the price of the unit to start with.
We need something like LED's but that is easier to deal with.
well to find out i propose we put politicians in a vacuum and then listen to how fast they can talk.
That would be the speed of law in a vacuum. since most politicians are lawyers it is a humane way to treat them. after all they aren't rats.
my office is about 15x8 with three two tube 4' florescent fixtures.
With regular bulbs it is knd of gloomy, but if we replace just two of the lamps with daylight bulbs the office becomes a light brighter and easy on the eyes. Additional costs $1.00.
I can't stand florescent lights, but i done right with the right color mix for lamps it looks good, and takes away the headaches. Doing it right and keeping it that way though is a bit harder though.
I know I am one of them. Then again I know all too well on why not to by revision A apple hardware.
Then again I just wish people would use the real numbers. While only 2 million units had been sold in the first 5 months Apple gave themselves 18 months to hit 10 million.
With the fact you haven't been able to buy an iPhone for the past month, as thy are sold out EVERYWHERE and most of Europe can't use Edge massively limiting marketshare.
I won't be surprised that the 3G iPhone sells two million units in the first month.
nope at least not until after I re read the headline, and realized Wind meant a small information machine.
As I type this I can feel the laptop keyboard as each finger hits the bottom of the laptop. i prefer it as it doesn't jar my hands while I type.
too each their own.
um win .1 couldn't run on a 286 it specifically needed a 386 or greater.
and running win 3.1 on a 386 is like running vista on anything slower than a ghz. it doesn't work very well.
I am fairly certain that does explain ME,
what I really want to know though is what they were smoking for Vista. Now that must have been some good shite.
That's just it MSFT is trying to move beyond the vast majority of people.
touch screens are used daily by tens of thousands of people around you right now(assuming your living in a city). Every Burger king, restaurant, etc are slowly switching to touch screen inputs. Go to your local chain restaurant and look around. I bet you find 3-4 touch screens for the wait staff to input your orders onto.
Also OS X has support for gesture touch input right now. it is built into every laptop. it isn't true multi point touch but it does pick up multi point contacts for gestures. Heck my G4 powerbook running 10.4 with a software driver update(3rd paty) supports gestures multi touch. I use it to give it scroll on the touch pad.