I wish people would get this straight. NYC isn't all of NY. NYC is only a few feet off the ground, in which case you climb to the fourth or fifth floor and watch.
The waves will finally clean out the streets.
Where I live in NY I wouldn't even notice the stench was missing. As one other person said FL would be history as well. So would a part of DC, Boston, and all of Rhode island.
You can only upgrade certian processors before you upgrade the motherboard as well.
I picked a Powerbook, not a desktop machine. You really don't upgrade laptop's except for RAM.
Also note that modern PowerMac's use standard interfaces and you can upgrade hardware as easily as you can with wintel computers. AGP, Firewire, USB, etc. Sure Apple prefers DVI instead of the OLD VGA interface for monitors, but then again Apple also has dropped the old standards that don't work well anymore.
heck Floppy drives are only recently being worked out, PS2 is still used by default, even though it doesn't do plug and play. Serial and parralel ports aren't used except for in some situations.
ISA? well that's nearly gone, though apple is moving into PCI express.
Computing Technology is amazing, of course you have to have backwards compatiblity for everybody.
Also Apple isn't the first company to ship a 64 bit computer and OS, but they will be the first to ship it to everyday users. Windows XP64 sucks, and there are no apps for it. Linux has Apps, though it doesn't ship standard.
I see you got a dell as well. Congradulations on buying the cheap side of motherboards.
Actually my Dell never had a probelm. Of course i didn't spec out enoguh RAM, and can't seem to part with the $200 for RDRAM needed to run Doom 3. That and the $75 for the video card upgrade. Ah well, I heard it sucks anyway.
the trick with MHZ is that Intel reinforced that more mHZ is more speed. Look how many people laughd at Apple for years when the G4 running at 400mhz was out performing 1 ghz intel chips.
Simple fact is that you can do more things if you get out of the one op per clock routine.
I made part of the switch at the end of thanksgiving. other than the transprancy I don't notice much of the cool effects anymore.
I still have a Dull running Windows for games, but have pulled all my document, data, movie, and audio files to the Powerbook.
OS X has the most of the features of *nix yet it has very few of the down falls(drivers, okay that's all I can think of).
I bought a lightweight portable computer. It's now very common to see me next to the fire place listening to music and surfing the web for hours at a time. The 4-5 hours of battery life is great. I am getting roughly 4 hours of wireless web surfing. slightly less if I start playing videos. Of course I have also downloaded AND burned a knoppix disc wirelessly and still had two hours to go web surfing with. If Burning a CD isn't power intensive I don't know what else could drain the system.
Every Soyuz craft needs to be built. It's not really reusable. So in order to bring home people it's okay to use spaceships once, but to bring back rocks it's not??
Also note if somebody is building hundreds of space craft guidance computers, the price will begin to fall. it might be expensive today, but it will lower the costs, not only for the rocks, but for commercial space flights.
You are thinking of technology in today's pricing terms, not tomorrow's. Easy reference compare the orginial guidance computers, to ones that could be built today?
it's your business sense that limits innovation. I can work within budegts, hence why I don't work for the goverment but own my business.
How do you control the Soyuz space craft during reentry? It's not hard to remote control one of these containers into shallow(less than 100 feet or 33 meters) water. That way even if one did sink, it wouldn't be hard to get at.
of course aiming for lawyers could be a video game.
Think of the tickets you could sell for such a game. Think of the throngs of lawyers standing outside waiting for you to target them for a lawsuit. Don't forget to smile.
There is OS X software called Sailing Clicker. It allows you to use your phone to activate applescripts. With it you can control, a lot of the OS X software out there. iTunes, Keynote, etc.
note no link provided because I am lazy and google is easy.
in early Gimp version's right clicking for every menu item really sucked.
with the new menu system my only complaint is that every window is a task under "Windows" haven't installed it yet for my Mac yet as I have a copy of Photoshop of OS X.
One point about the OS X display for photoshop. If you click on the desktop the only window that stays visible is the image window all the tool bars hide. They come back when you click on the image(or the photoshop dock icon).
Whether the gimp does something similar I don't know. If I get bored I might test it out.
OO.org 1. series is dependant on either the Windows GUI or an X -server.
OO.Org 2 series is supposed to make a tranistion to Aqua easier.
NeoOffice is a quick port designed to get people up to speed.
I run OO.org 1.2 under OS X and X and it takes a long time to load up. Of course it has to start the X server, then load Open Office, then the document, and it looks ugly. But it does work.
If MSFT's Get the facts campagn came right out andsaid all studies funded by MSFT, and all computers that ran windows were supplied by MSFT would you have a bit more respect for them?
Oh so I can't travel with my dvd's then, instead every place i go I must buy the DVD's again, if they even sell them in that location.
>>Furthermore, it is also obvious that the intended use as defined by the distributor (who holds the only rights protected by any actual laws) is being circumvented by the author.
Yes he did, it was the only way he could play a video he bought, and traveled with.
Not all of us spend all of our time in Just one country.
That is something the MPAA, and RIAA don't understand. It's a global world and they want to divide it into neat little sections and nobody can leave those sections, ever.
I also asked google to add an option to the conversation feature, so you can link seperate emails together in a conversation. I sometimes carry them between multiple email accounts and then forward the material to Gmail.
Of course, English, Bad english, Ebonics, and for good measure some Dutch & german.
I would love to see a computer actually reconize my voice for once. H,A -- B, D etc I haven't found a single program that can understand the alphabet as spoken by me. Whole words are better, but not not god enough for dication that makes sense.
I just got the motorola V551 to hook up with my powerbook. Surprised that it came with a charged battery, i asked the guy if I could test it out to make sure it worked.
I learned motorola's phone menu system in about 5 minutes, and had it transfering files to my powerbook without even looking to see if there was a manual. I then spent about an hour at home searching the web to find the features I really wanted, and made the phone work the way I wanted it to, spent another half hour configurating the phone for me.
I got bored a few days later and thumbed through the manaul, I didn't learn anything that I didn't know before and I new how to Sync the phone to my laptop something that isn't covered in the manual, and something that iSync doesn't work with.
instead of the car, I was using the thrust from rockets to move the vechile for the first few seconds of flight. Then the urbines can be remote started.
Your right though a can of flour bursting at 50 feet over a town park, or outdoor shopping strip would be very effective for a little while.
The guy in new zealand got shut down. I think it was on slashdot but his goverment stopped him.
If your target was in the middle of a city then you have to workaround buildings some how. Also yo have to worry about mid air wires, etc. Though your idea does have value.
Also a car top launcher would be obvious. I was thinking more of a rocket assited takeoff for a pair of kerosene turbines. The arc angle is simple for easier targeting using gps to fine tune control for the final target. This way you can set the weapon to fire, use a remote to turn on the equipment, then launch remotely. Set up a couple of missles around town late one night, and launch them the next morning.
Terror is easy, even idiots can terrorize people, Being friendly is hard. I choose the path that very few take, But I know the other one well.
>>The actors were so understated as to be boring; the only reason I cared about Tinar is because she was cute.;) As for the main character, he was a stereotypical pretty boy; his sidekick Vetch was the traditional pudgy geek. The best character was a dragon, who figures in about three minutes of screen time.
I would put tinar first, just because she was cute, but yea that's pretty much how I saw it.
also when does two-two hour episodes create a mini series? At least the Farascape's PeaceKeeper Wars was 6 hours long, But this wasn't worth 4 hours, you could take out half of it and still keep it whole(used loosely)
I watched the whole thing, and was bored the characters weren't ennteraining, the plot was confusing, and i would rate TNT's The librarian higher, and that was a mediocore laugh.
I was going to suggest that. A simple warhead, an few rockets and a guidance system, that can be built with off the shelf componets.
It's easy to create a digitally controlled rocket (or turbine) powered plane. It's not hard to add in explosives to the nose. The trick is converting the GPS information to heading information for control.
Also note that this would require an controled bombing arc. As this setup couldn't dodge a building. A 60 degree launch angle up to 3,000 to 5,000 feet and a controlled fall, would give you a couple of miles away from the target.
What's really scary is that i sorted the basics of this out in the past 5 minutes. The exact math will take a while longer.
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I wish people would get this straight. NYC isn't all of NY. NYC is only a few feet off the ground, in which case you climb to the fourth or fifth floor and watch.
The waves will finally clean out the streets.
Where I live in NY I wouldn't even notice the stench was missing. As one other person said FL would be history as well. So would a part of DC, Boston, and all of Rhode island.
How did i pick up a hardware diversity issue?
You can only upgrade certian processors before you upgrade the motherboard as well.
I picked a Powerbook, not a desktop machine. You really don't upgrade laptop's except for RAM.
Also note that modern PowerMac's use standard interfaces and you can upgrade hardware as easily as you can with wintel computers. AGP, Firewire, USB, etc. Sure Apple prefers DVI instead of the OLD VGA interface for monitors, but then again Apple also has dropped the old standards that don't work well anymore.
heck Floppy drives are only recently being worked out, PS2 is still used by default, even though it doesn't do plug and play. Serial and parralel ports aren't used except for in some situations.
ISA? well that's nearly gone, though apple is moving into PCI express.
Computing Technology is amazing, of course you have to have backwards compatiblity for everybody.
Also Apple isn't the first company to ship a 64 bit computer and OS, but they will be the first to ship it to everyday users. Windows XP64 sucks, and there are no apps for it. Linux has Apps, though it doesn't ship standard.
I see you got a dell as well. Congradulations on buying the cheap side of motherboards.
Actually my Dell never had a probelm. Of course i didn't spec out enoguh RAM, and can't seem to part with the $200 for RDRAM needed to run Doom 3. That and the $75 for the video card upgrade. Ah well, I heard it sucks anyway.
the trick with MHZ is that Intel reinforced that more mHZ is more speed. Look how many people laughd at Apple for years when the G4 running at 400mhz was out performing 1 ghz intel chips.
Simple fact is that you can do more things if you get out of the one op per clock routine.
I made part of the switch at the end of thanksgiving. other than the transprancy I don't notice much of the cool effects anymore.
I still have a Dull running Windows for games, but have pulled all my document, data, movie, and audio files to the Powerbook.
OS X has the most of the features of *nix yet it has very few of the down falls(drivers, okay that's all I can think of).
I bought a lightweight portable computer. It's now very common to see me next to the fire place listening to music and surfing the web for hours at a time. The 4-5 hours of battery life is great. I am getting roughly 4 hours of wireless web surfing. slightly less if I start playing videos. Of course I have also downloaded AND burned a knoppix disc wirelessly and still had two hours to go web surfing with. If Burning a CD isn't power intensive I don't know what else could drain the system.
Every Soyuz craft needs to be built. It's not really reusable. So in order to bring home people it's okay to use spaceships once, but to bring back rocks it's not??
Also note if somebody is building hundreds of space craft guidance computers, the price will begin to fall. it might be expensive today, but it will lower the costs, not only for the rocks, but for commercial space flights.
You are thinking of technology in today's pricing terms, not tomorrow's. Easy reference compare the orginial guidance computers, to ones that could be built today?
it's your business sense that limits innovation. I can work within budegts, hence why I don't work for the goverment but own my business.
How do you control the Soyuz space craft during reentry? It's not hard to remote control one of these containers into shallow(less than 100 feet or 33 meters) water. That way even if one did sink, it wouldn't be hard to get at.
of course aiming for lawyers could be a video game.
Think of the tickets you could sell for such a game. Think of the throngs of lawyers standing outside waiting for you to target them for a lawsuit. Don't forget to smile.
There is OS X software called Sailing Clicker. It allows you to use your phone to activate applescripts. With it you can control, a lot of the OS X software out there. iTunes, Keynote, etc.
note no link provided because I am lazy and google is easy.
in early Gimp version's right clicking for every menu item really sucked.
with the new menu system my only complaint is that every window is a task under "Windows" haven't installed it yet for my Mac yet as I have a copy of Photoshop of OS X.
One point about the OS X display for photoshop. If you click on the desktop the only window that stays visible is the image window all the tool bars hide. They come back when you click on the image(or the photoshop dock icon).
Whether the gimp does something similar I don't know. If I get bored I might test it out.
A friend and my self used to bribe the Mac Lab tech, to let us play even though it was againist the rules.
:-)
:-)
Want to know the bribe?? he had to play as well
Those were good times. I remember being yelled at by other students who would get upset when the tech wouldn't stop us.
We were playing marathon regularlly up until 2 years ago. Then we started switching to unreal.
Were do you get your price information?
I just picked up the motorola v551 quad band GSM with built in video capture and playback, Bluetooth, etc, etc.
If I actually get the rebate I will have spent $50, if i don't I will have spent $100.
If I bought it on the street it's $150.
Where is the $300 more?? are they paying you to take the cheap phones now?
OO.org 1. series is dependant on either the Windows GUI or an X -server.
OO.Org 2 series is supposed to make a tranistion to Aqua easier.
NeoOffice is a quick port designed to get people up to speed.
I run OO.org 1.2 under OS X and X and it takes a long time to load up. Of course it has to start the X server, then load Open Office, then the document, and it looks ugly. But it does work.
So they let you know exactly were they stand.
If MSFT's Get the facts campagn came right out andsaid all studies funded by MSFT, and all computers that ran windows were supplied by MSFT would you have a bit more respect for them?
just a bit more.
Oh so I can't travel with my dvd's then, instead every place i go I must buy the DVD's again, if they even sell them in that location.
>>Furthermore, it is also obvious that the intended use as defined by the distributor (who holds the only rights protected by any actual laws) is being circumvented by the author.
Yes he did, it was the only way he could play a video he bought, and traveled with.
Not all of us spend all of our time in Just one country.
That is something the MPAA, and RIAA don't understand. It's a global world and they want to divide it into neat little sections and nobody can leave those sections, ever.
Some people didn't know.
I also asked google to add an option to the conversation feature, so you can link seperate emails together in a conversation. I sometimes carry them between multiple email accounts and then forward the material to Gmail.
>>Did the speaker mix languages
,A -- B, D etc I haven't found a single program that can understand the alphabet as spoken by me. Whole words are better, but not not god enough for dication that makes sense.
Of course, English, Bad english, Ebonics, and for good measure some Dutch & german.
I would love to see a computer actually reconize my voice for once. H
>> ...only criminals will have encryption.
Well that prove that then, Goverments are Criminals.
Want to know a secret?? Gmail does have POP3 access. configure it from your preferences. You have to manually enable it.
Why?
I just got the motorola V551 to hook up with my powerbook. Surprised that it came with a charged battery, i asked the guy if I could test it out to make sure it worked.
I learned motorola's phone menu system in about 5 minutes, and had it transfering files to my powerbook without even looking to see if there was a manual. I then spent about an hour at home searching the web to find the features I really wanted, and made the phone work the way I wanted it to, spent another half hour configurating the phone for me.
I got bored a few days later and thumbed through the manaul, I didn't learn anything that I didn't know before and I new how to Sync the phone to my laptop something that isn't covered in the manual, and something that iSync doesn't work with.
Well you have two arms, two legs, ten fingers(counting thumbs) and ten toes.
Yep you must be of your protected IP.
instead of the car, I was using the thrust from rockets to move the vechile for the first few seconds of flight. Then the urbines can be remote started.
Your right though a can of flour bursting at 50 feet over a town park, or outdoor shopping strip would be very effective for a little while.
Desensitise, and then launch the real attacks.
Hence the flight arc. You are on the ground launch to several thousand feet with standard rocket motors, and cruise back down.
The guy in new zealand got shut down. I think it was on slashdot but his goverment stopped him.
If your target was in the middle of a city then you have to workaround buildings some how. Also yo have to worry about mid air wires, etc. Though your idea does have value.
Also a car top launcher would be obvious. I was thinking more of a rocket assited takeoff for a pair of kerosene turbines. The arc angle is simple for easier targeting using gps to fine tune control for the final target. This way you can set the weapon to fire, use a remote to turn on the equipment, then launch remotely. Set up a couple of missles around town late one night, and launch them the next morning.
Terror is easy, even idiots can terrorize people, Being friendly is hard. I choose the path that very few take, But I know the other one well.
>>The actors were so understated as to be boring; the only reason I cared about Tinar is because she was cute. ;) As for the main character, he was a stereotypical pretty boy; his sidekick Vetch was the traditional pudgy geek. The best character was a dragon, who figures in about three minutes of screen time.
I would put tinar first, just because she was cute, but yea that's pretty much how I saw it.
also when does two-two hour episodes create a mini series? At least the Farascape's PeaceKeeper Wars was 6 hours long, But this wasn't worth 4 hours, you could take out half of it and still keep it whole(used loosely)
I watched the whole thing, and was bored the characters weren't ennteraining, the plot was confusing, and i would rate TNT's The librarian higher, and that was a mediocore laugh.
I was going to suggest that. A simple warhead, an few rockets and a guidance system, that can be built with off the shelf componets.
It's easy to create a digitally controlled rocket (or turbine) powered plane. It's not hard to add in explosives to the nose. The trick is converting the GPS information to heading information for control.
Also note that this would require an controled bombing arc. As this setup couldn't dodge a building. A 60 degree launch angle up to 3,000 to 5,000 feet and a controlled fall, would give you a couple of miles away from the target.
What's really scary is that i sorted the basics of this out in the past 5 minutes. The exact math will take a while longer.
So how do they shut off access to European's Galelio system??
Oh wait they have to jam the frequency, since they can't force Europeans to encrypt their system.
That's the irony. Well that and the fact that you don't see it.