Actually the SR-71 served damn well until we put enough DIGITAL satellites into Orbit. The reason why the SR-71 was so useful was because the film canister could be brought back down quickly to develop the images. That didn't work so well for Satellites.
The SR-71 is one of my all time favorite planes. One has to remember it was built with 1960's tech, as such digital computers and camera's weren't available yet.
funny the Media Center PC runs windows. yet another MSFT based concept running hot.
The Tivo I find odd but believe you.
There is no fan in my Mac Mini's PSU , and it can do everything your media center can do(with a separate tuner) I would even bet that it takes up less space too.
while you are 100% right the fact is PSU's shouldn't need their own cooling fans. I can see the device needing airflow but the PSU should be passive enough to not require a fan.
How many other media devices out there require a PSU with a cooling fan? anything can someone name me more than 1? it is a stupid design flaw as smart people know that the area behind the tv always has little airflow. People don't want to see that mess of cables.
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updated software has fixed the MMS issues. Very few phones have camera's with flash I disable flash most of the time now anyways,
I will take 3g and either uncrippled bluetooth for a GPS dongle, or my favorite a car adaptor dock, with a GPS receiver built in. That way GPS runs off my car battery not killing the iphones battery. Copy paste, is a software/interface issue. figure it out and release it as a patch apple.
You save all your files in what ever form and end your subscription. Now you can't open your files and you don't have an office suite.
renting software always fails. It has no purpose and MSFT is going to charge some obscene amount so that a year of renting you can buy a full version.
Personally for me it doesn't matter. My documents are in ODF, and I can use any numerous applications to open the data, from Open Office, to abi word, to google docs. I can get 100% portable versions of those to stick on a thumb drive, and OS agnostic.
It doesn't matter where I am I can get MY data. Can you do the same with MSFT rentals?
Huh? Apple machines are the only ones that can run windows, OS X, and linux on the same box. You can have all three installed easily. hardware lock-in is for the software only.
Yes OS X does have some strict software lock in then again no Apple product uses activation codes, that get lost, misused, or forgotten about by the Apple.
Would MSFt give up product activation if their software only ran on selected hardware? hardware that could run anything else anyways?
If you think China is a poor third world country then you are going to be shocked. China is mostly a second world country, isn't very poor(the USA is spending trillions there), currently is almost able to duplicate just about every technologically advanced device being built.
there was a chinese company called NEC which duplicated the Real NEC's tv's poorly but close enough to work for several years before they got caught.
While it will be another 5-10 years China is rapidly building up technology, science, and math. They have the manpower power and will, just like japan had 30 years ago. Remember 40 years ago the Japanese only made junk, 20 years later they owned the electronics market, and 10 years after that had some of the best selling cars out there.
Actually the bee problem is mostly identified with pollution. Air born pollution is limiting the range that pollen and other floral scents travel in the air thus limiting the mobility of bees.
That is precisely what is wrong with the electric car. we have regenerative braking but we don't get the real benefit of it as batteries can't absorb the charge fast enough. We need to move beyond chemical storage for electricity. Once we have ultra Capacitors Solar cells, and Wind turbines can be more wildly used. As the energy can be stored.
I retract my idiot comment, your simply misguided.
English is the bastard child of languages. The hard coded English language was abused by the English and such rules have so many exceptions that they really don't matter anymore. While I would love for English to have certain semantics every time, it just isn't going to happen with the English Language. As you don't have to adjust the mindset of the USA or Canada, but the billions of people in the English speaking world.
>>"Illegal monopoly" makes you sound like an idiot, because monopolies aren't illegal.
Wow your an idiot.
if it is an illegal monopoly doesn't stand to reason that their are legal monopolies?
MSFT has been found guilty of having an illegal monopoly in the USA, South Korea, and Europe. Therefore MSFT is an Illegal Monopoly. your local cable company is most likely a legal monopoly.
When i build my home I am going to do just this. It doesn't make sense to put cat5, phone line or even cable TV coax inside a wall without being able to pull it back out later.
Electric wiring is good for decades communication tech changes dramatically every 5-10 years.
why do you think Red Hat spun Fedora off, and have set them up as mostly self sufficient? The personal desktop market isn't profitable when you have to compete against an illegal monopoly. Even with Free software as a base.
The year of the Linux desktop isn't going to happen. the year of the Linux mobile, the Linux server, and the Linux hand-held computer, however are fast approaching.
Linux will take the desktop market through the back door. By getting in on every other device first.
Last I knew Vista drew upon the windows 2003 kernel, but the bulk of the system is based off of XP. hence why a virus for XP also affected Vista Beta's.(a now patched flaw)
>>Volcanic ash, when mixed with crushed limestone, makes some of the best concrete. At least, the Romans thought so. That's what they used. Of course, they're dead now.
Vista was still in development when UMPC's and even tablet PC's where first released. XP, Vista, and yes even OS X make poor tablet and small screen interfaces. Even Windows Mobile has a poor interface.
Apple was smart when they designed the iphone. there is no dock in sight anywhere. Nokia created a new interface for the N750/800 that is simple to use, and yet is easily adapted to older software interfaces.
MSFT has everything so bundled into each other that putting a new interface on windows becomes a pain. let alone taking out the stuff that isn't needed to improve speed and performance.
I have a dumb question. Why didn't MSFt create a special version of Windows XP for UMPC's back when UMPC's were brand new? Why did they limit the devices potential trying to run a full desktop OS on a 7" screen? Why the change of heart all of a sudden? Is it because suddenly real competition showed up?
UMPC's were a great idea running shoddy software. Nokia's n750/n800/n810 the iPhone, and a few others are showing that you can get lightweight device with decent battery life if you use lightweight software. what's even better is that people are willing to buy them if the price is right.
actually that's the problem. In order to fix the ISO now all those P countries who only joined for OOXML also get to abstain on procedureal votes. Hence the next vote to change the bylaws will get deadlocked as they can't get the majority they need.
It will take several years, and lot's of court time to get this mess straightened out. Time in which the ISO will be essentially worthless.
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Actually the SR-71 served damn well until we put enough DIGITAL satellites into Orbit. The reason why the SR-71 was so useful was because the film canister could be brought back down quickly to develop the images. That didn't work so well for Satellites.
The SR-71 is one of my all time favorite planes. One has to remember it was built with 1960's tech, as such digital computers and camera's weren't available yet.
Don't you mean China plans to export captialism to the US?
So what's that 2-3 styles of camera phones with flash? wow that is a so in demand feature. I bet it has a color screen too.
Cell phone camera's are dumb. The only good reason they have to exist would be for a video phone that no one uses.
funny the Media Center PC runs windows. yet another MSFT based concept running hot.
The Tivo I find odd but believe you.
There is no fan in my Mac Mini's PSU , and it can do everything your media center can do(with a separate tuner) I would even bet that it takes up less space too.
pressed or did you burn those discs?
Burned discs that you burned most likely are beginning to degrade. Pressed disc's will last a lot longer, especially when cared for.
while you are 100% right the fact is PSU's shouldn't need their own cooling fans. I can see the device needing airflow but the PSU should be passive enough to not require a fan.
How many other media devices out there require a PSU with a cooling fan? anything can someone name me more than 1? it is a stupid design flaw as smart people know that the area behind the tv always has little airflow. People don't want to see that mess of cables.
updated software has fixed the MMS issues.
Very few phones have camera's with flash
I disable flash most of the time now anyways,
I will take 3g and either uncrippled bluetooth for a GPS dongle, or my favorite a car adaptor dock, with a GPS receiver built in. That way GPS runs off my car battery not killing the iphones battery. Copy paste, is a software/interface issue. figure it out and release it as a patch apple.
that's just it unpopular shows don't get watched.
it becomes lose lose, as they lose both ad revenue, and viewers.
oh,oh, you forgot always over budget, never delivered on time, and makes you wonder where your money actually goes.
You save all your files in what ever form and end your subscription. Now you can't open your files and you don't have an office suite.
renting software always fails. It has no purpose and MSFT is going to charge some obscene amount so that a year of renting you can buy a full version.
Personally for me it doesn't matter. My documents are in ODF, and I can use any numerous applications to open the data, from Open Office, to abi word, to google docs. I can get 100% portable versions of those to stick on a thumb drive, and OS agnostic.
It doesn't matter where I am I can get MY data. Can you do the same with MSFT rentals?
Where the frack do you rent a dictionary? Wouldn't borrowing one at the library be easier?
Huh? Apple machines are the only ones that can run windows, OS X, and linux on the same box. You can have all three installed easily. hardware lock-in is for the software only.
Yes OS X does have some strict software lock in then again no Apple product uses activation codes, that get lost, misused, or forgotten about by the Apple.
Would MSFt give up product activation if their software only ran on selected hardware? hardware that could run anything else anyways?
If you think China is a poor third world country then you are going to be shocked.
China is mostly a second world country, isn't very poor(the USA is spending trillions there), currently is almost able to duplicate just about every technologically advanced device being built.
there was a chinese company called NEC which duplicated the Real NEC's tv's poorly but close enough to work for several years before they got caught.
While it will be another 5-10 years China is rapidly building up technology, science, and math. They have the manpower power and will, just like japan had 30 years ago. Remember 40 years ago the Japanese only made junk, 20 years later they owned the electronics market, and 10 years after that had some of the best selling cars out there.
thanks for the laugh, and yes you are right it is peregrine, but peregrine is taken in most locations on the web so for consistency I use peragrin.
The google trail for peragrin leads to numerous forums where i visit.
I do have a question though, if wind turbines start chopping off heads, will the mobs suddenly turn to green energy?
Actually the bee problem is mostly identified with pollution. Air born pollution is limiting the range that pollen and other floral scents travel in the air thus limiting the mobility of bees.
damn my lack of mod points.
That is precisely what is wrong with the electric car. we have regenerative braking but we don't get the real benefit of it as batteries can't absorb the charge fast enough. We need to move beyond chemical storage for electricity. Once we have ultra Capacitors Solar cells, and Wind turbines can be more wildly used. As the energy can be stored.
I retract my idiot comment, your simply misguided.
English is the bastard child of languages. The hard coded English language was abused by the English and such rules have so many exceptions that they really don't matter anymore. While I would love for English to have certain semantics every time, it just isn't going to happen with the English Language. As you don't have to adjust the mindset of the USA or Canada, but the billions of people in the English speaking world.
>>"Illegal monopoly" makes you sound like an idiot, because monopolies aren't illegal.
Wow your an idiot.
if it is an illegal monopoly doesn't stand to reason that their are legal monopolies?
MSFT has been found guilty of having an illegal monopoly in the USA, South Korea, and Europe. Therefore MSFT is an Illegal Monopoly. your local cable company is most likely a legal monopoly.
When i build my home I am going to do just this. It doesn't make sense to put cat5, phone line or even cable TV coax inside a wall without being able to pull it back out later.
Electric wiring is good for decades communication tech changes dramatically every 5-10 years.
why do you think Red Hat spun Fedora off, and have set them up as mostly self sufficient? The personal desktop market isn't profitable when you have to compete against an illegal monopoly. Even with Free software as a base.
The year of the Linux desktop isn't going to happen. the year of the Linux mobile, the Linux server, and the Linux hand-held computer, however are fast approaching.
Linux will take the desktop market through the back door. By getting in on every other device first.
during which rewrite?
Last I knew Vista drew upon the windows 2003 kernel, but the bulk of the system is based off of XP. hence why a virus for XP also affected Vista Beta's.(a now patched flaw)
>>Volcanic ash, when mixed with crushed limestone, makes some of the best concrete. At least, the Romans thought so. That's what they used.
Of course, they're dead now.
2,000 years does that everyone but mummy's.
Vista was still in development when UMPC's and even tablet PC's where first released. XP, Vista, and yes even OS X make poor tablet and small screen interfaces. Even Windows Mobile has a poor interface.
Apple was smart when they designed the iphone. there is no dock in sight anywhere. Nokia created a new interface for the N750/800 that is simple to use, and yet is easily adapted to older software interfaces.
MSFT has everything so bundled into each other that putting a new interface on windows becomes a pain. let alone taking out the stuff that isn't needed to improve speed and performance.
I have a dumb question. Why didn't MSFt create a special version of Windows XP for UMPC's back when UMPC's were brand new? Why did they limit the devices potential trying to run a full desktop OS on a 7" screen? Why the change of heart all of a sudden? Is it because suddenly real competition showed up?
UMPC's were a great idea running shoddy software. Nokia's n750/n800/n810 the iPhone, and a few others are showing that you can get lightweight device with decent battery life if you use lightweight software. what's even better is that people are willing to buy them if the price is right.
actually that's the problem. In order to fix the ISO now all those P countries who only joined for OOXML also get to abstain on procedureal votes. Hence the next vote to change the bylaws will get deadlocked as they can't get the majority they need.
It will take several years, and lot's of court time to get this mess straightened out. Time in which the ISO will be essentially worthless.