"how many of these Transitions are going to be crashed by celebrities when the one engine conks out?"
The same could be said for hundreds of thousands of light aircraft flying today. With dual magnetos and a fuel pump, catastrophic engine failure would have to occur, and even then, you would glide to a landing. The hard part is finding a good landing site. With these being so small, many places would suffice.
My question is, what is the rating that is going to be needed to fly one of these things? Should be recreational/private, just as it is now with normal aircraft. If that is the case, then you shouldn't see any more incidents than you do now.
Moller's car with two engines can be a bad thing. A very bad thing. What if one of them goes down when going vertical right off the ground? Flying with one SIDE thrusting and the other not is very difficult.
"The advantage Apple has with the*insert Apple product here* is that they control the entire platform. They've got custom built hardware running a custom operating system with their custom software. It is all built from the ground up to work as an integrated *insert Apple product here*, and thus it works pretty damn well. It also does a lot to mitigate some of the major form factor issues that make most *insert anyone elses competition here* a pain to use. But mostly it's good because it's all meant to work together.
This has been Apple's way of making EVERYthing since its inception. It's their business model, always has been. The iPhones success in this area should be a shock to noone.
He could run as an independent without issue. It was simply that the Democrat party turned him down, nothing more. They had very good reasons for turning him down as a Democrat. The organization on the whole would have been hurt by it, especially since, and remember this, he wasn't going to seriously run, or win. It was a stunt. I'm sure he would have loved to have ridden this a little longer, but oh well... it's still funny.
Yes, but hasn't Intego tried to scare Mac users into purchasing their virus protection before? In fact, they've done this quite a bit. Check out their report and pay close attention to the "Means of protection" paragraph at the end of the article.
The news is Intego attempting to scare up business, this is not a Mac virus, especially when you have to do quite a few stupid things along with giving permission to install from an admin. My goodnes...
Yes, but hasn't Intego tried to scare Mac users into purchasing their virus protection before? In fact, they've done this quite a bit. Check out their report and pay close attention to the "Means of protection" paragraph at the end of the article.
The news is Intego attempting to scare up business, this is not a Mac virus, especially when you have to do quite a few stupid things along with giving permission to install from an admin. My goodnes...
" And that's a fair move in capitalism. If a vendor I use is making a 15% markup, that may well be completely fair and just. If he's making a 75% markup, I want to know about it, and I'll certainly try to prevail upon his better nature or take my business elsewhere."
You don't understand... if something is marked up 75%, there most likely isn't business elsewhere. Is someone else selling iPhones besides Apple? Are they cheaper? Get the picture? If I told you Oil was being sold at a 100% markup, are you going to trade in the car for a bicycle as a show of "taking your business elsewhere?" No. You are either going to buy this "widget" for "this price" or you aren't. Supply and demand set the price, not it's known markup. If you are going to use markup in your purchasing decisions, know that it will have zero effect on everyone elses purchasing tends, and therefore will do nothing more than satisfy your strange needs to not give too much profit, even if demand supports it.
"So what happens if the DNC, or RNC, which are after all political corporations and have their respective party named trademarked forbid Google from displaying any advertising that critiques them."
That's not what's happening here. They didn't pull the add simply because they were "critiquing" them. They pulled the add for improper use of a trademark that someone else owned and did not give permission to use. The DNC didn't run an add bashing the RNC using their trademarked logo. All they have to do is create the ads without infringing on copyrights and Google will post them. RTFA.
"Nah, I'm no so amused about the landing site, it's the enormous "Kilroy was here" on the darkside of the moon I'm wait for..."
You mean the Far side of the moon. The "dark side" is just the side that is facing away from the Sun at that time. Every part of the moon will see darkness at some point. If "Kilroy" was on the "dark side of the moon" right now, and it wasn't in the "far side", you would see it in just a few hours.
Wiki, as with any other source of information, must be used in combination with critical thought. I use Wiki all the time but I also click all relevant links, do other searches from other trusted sources to gain corroboration, just as you should with all information. Wiki is a great starting point IMO, but using it as a sole source of information flies in the face of critical thought. Even the Encyclopedia Britannica has errors in it, for which Wiki is considered nearly as accurate.
At some point, just as with all other encyclopedia's, information will change, evolve, and even grow, but it will slow down after the initial "job" is done. Be sure, it's still growing, just at a slower pace. This seems logically normal.
Parent is wrong, please mod him down... If you don't have firewire, your not even going to be running Tiger, let alone Leopard. Leapord will run on any G4 847 MHz or higher. Besides, what G4 didn't have firewire?
Office is the bloated app of our time, for sure, however I hope you aren't suggesting that we all still use our 15 year old $2000 (at the time) computers just to "force" the dev community to keep bloat to a minimum, because that just wouldn't make any sense. Computers do much more than they used to, hold more data (HD) and require more RAM to do all of these new things. It's how everything works and it's how it will continue to work, thankfully I might add. Suggesting that my purchase of a faster, bigger machine at the same price as I paid for the old one (if not cheaper) that also coincidentally does far more than that old computer is what is causing the dev community to be "lazy" (or purposeful bloat additions) is quite silly. They most likely do it because they can, in keeping with the faster, bigger, do more computer theme, again, thankfully. Besides, what would Microsoft gain by forcing this? They do not make computers...
Now, if you wanted to, you could spend your life on top of a soap box in Redmond and bitch until they comply (not likely), or upgrade your old machine to handle to the new stuff. Office is the de facto Word Proc, and Windows is the de facto OS. There is little you can do about that unfortunately, so my point still stands. Now, I don't use Windows, but suggesting the you get the same level of productivity out of that older OS on that older Machine (slower) also makes little sense. In my world, suggesting that OS 9 is the same as OS X as far as productivity goes would get several laughs. (BTW, OS X has never been nor ever will require activation of any kind. You could literally install your OS X on a thousand machines without issue, outside of the law, and I don't think Apple would care as it's a hardware company). Not sure how it is on the Windows side I suppose...
Also keep in mind that there are several, extremely useful, powerful applications outside of Windows and Office that actually do require bigger faster machines (do any video, audio, design work? Play games? try running iLife - amazing consumer level software - on my 500 MHz OS 9 machine... you get the point). So again, my point still stands. However, if you are someone who types emails, browses the Web, and not much more (and uses Windows), then yes, this may be a "pain", but for the rest of us, it makes perfect sense. Things get faster and can do more over time. Programmers develop for this for sure. It's their job.
"They must be worried about the iPhone in order to do something as crazy as that. "
Hmmm, best selling smart phone last month, already has 1.1% of the market (above expectations). No, that certainly was not it. In fact, with so many selling, dropping the price at face value doesn't make sense. They were selling them like hot cakes at the previous price.
"So the only reason to me is that it's desperation. I'm guessing that report about how only 136k people actually signed up must have them pretty worried and they need to reach a critical level sooner."
Again, that is not it. See my last remark...
The real reason they did this was in an attempt to make the iPhone as ubiquitous as the iPod. They dropped the price just before the holiday season starts, revamped their iPod line with many of the same features, outside of email and phone (although you could gain your email via Safari on the iPod Touch I suppose). Asking you to pay $200 more for email and a phone (on top of ATT service fees) would have hurt. Those were the two reasons. Believe me, it's not because they were worried about sales. They sold just under a million of them last month. It was to kick start a buying frenzy of them, and to make it viable for iPod purchasers, nothing more, and it will undoubtedly work.
Is it just me? It just seems much easier to just buy more RAM and a bigger hard drive. Done.
I mean, I guess if you're a tech geek with time on your hands (oh wait, this is/...), and want to climb that mountain just because it's there, then fine, but sure seems like spending a hundred bucks on some more RAM, or a bigger hard drive would take far less time (=money) and aggravation.
The Book could be the Bible, Guru Granth Sahib, Bhagwad Geeta, Kuran, etc... What is interesting, is that in general, they say pretty much the same thing. While many of the Bible's stories almost mirror (and literally do in some instances) old Sumerian folklore, the general thesis of all remains the same. Live by the "golden rule" through forgiveness and love. Literal interpretations will also get a giggle from me for some very real reasons. I do, however, think the morals are in most cases sound (if you ignore the plethora of contradictions in most of these Books).
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"how many of these Transitions are going to be crashed by celebrities when the one engine conks out?"
The same could be said for hundreds of thousands of light aircraft flying today. With dual magnetos and a fuel pump, catastrophic engine failure would have to occur, and even then, you would glide to a landing. The hard part is finding a good landing site. With these being so small, many places would suffice.
My question is, what is the rating that is going to be needed to fly one of these things? Should be recreational/private, just as it is now with normal aircraft. If that is the case, then you shouldn't see any more incidents than you do now.
Moller's car with two engines can be a bad thing. A very bad thing. What if one of them goes down when going vertical right off the ground? Flying with one SIDE thrusting and the other not is very difficult.
"The advantage Apple has with the *insert Apple product here* is that they control the entire platform. They've got custom built hardware running a custom operating system with their custom software. It is all built from the ground up to work as an integrated *insert Apple product here* , and thus it works pretty damn well. It also does a lot to mitigate some of the major form factor issues that make most *insert anyone elses competition here* a pain to use. But mostly it's good because it's all meant to work together.
This has been Apple's way of making EVERYthing since its inception. It's their business model, always has been. The iPhones success in this area should be a shock to noone.
He could run as an independent without issue. It was simply that the Democrat party turned him down, nothing more. They had very good reasons for turning him down as a Democrat. The organization on the whole would have been hurt by it, especially since, and remember this, he wasn't going to seriously run, or win. It was a stunt. I'm sure he would have loved to have ridden this a little longer, but oh well... it's still funny.
Very true. I apologize for not having mod points ATM.
" It can be one of the factors that convinces a competitor to enter the market to scoop up some of that profit"
Are you serious? Do you actually think the market hasn't been trying to match Apple's appeal in Apple's core market to make vast amounts of money?
Are you absolutely serious?! Wow...
Yes, but hasn't Intego tried to scare Mac users into purchasing their virus protection before? In fact, they've done this quite a bit. Check out their report and pay close attention to the "Means of protection" paragraph at the end of the article.
The news is Intego attempting to scare up business, this is not a Mac virus, especially when you have to do quite a few stupid things along with giving permission to install from an admin. My goodnes...
Yes, but hasn't Intego tried to scare Mac users into purchasing their virus protection before? In fact, they've done this quite a bit. Check out their report and pay close attention to the "Means of protection" paragraph at the end of the article.
The news is Intego attempting to scare up business, this is not a Mac virus, especially when you have to do quite a few stupid things along with giving permission to install from an admin. My goodnes...
" And that's a fair move in capitalism. If a vendor I use is making a 15% markup, that may well be completely fair and just. If he's making a 75% markup, I want to know about it, and I'll certainly try to prevail upon his better nature or take my business elsewhere."
You don't understand... if something is marked up 75%, there most likely isn't business elsewhere. Is someone else selling iPhones besides Apple? Are they cheaper? Get the picture? If I told you Oil was being sold at a 100% markup, are you going to trade in the car for a bicycle as a show of "taking your business elsewhere?" No. You are either going to buy this "widget" for "this price" or you aren't. Supply and demand set the price, not it's known markup. If you are going to use markup in your purchasing decisions, know that it will have zero effect on everyone elses purchasing tends, and therefore will do nothing more than satisfy your strange needs to not give too much profit, even if demand supports it.
Good luck.
This is BootCamp, not Parallels, right? Vista to be slow on a Quad 2.66 would be quite odd via BootCamp...
Either use a credit card that covers damage (many do), or insure your laptop. Done. You can stop eyeing that Dell, dude.
Besides, the Magsafe® connector on Mac laptops removes a huge portion of the cause of laptop damage.
"So what happens if the DNC, or RNC, which are after all political corporations and have their respective party named trademarked forbid Google from displaying any advertising that critiques them."
That's not what's happening here. They didn't pull the add simply because they were "critiquing" them. They pulled the add for improper use of a trademark that someone else owned and did not give permission to use. The DNC didn't run an add bashing the RNC using their trademarked logo. All they have to do is create the ads without infringing on copyrights and Google will post them. RTFA.
While I'm not sure what a strick policy is, I would imagine it's a good one?
"they love america far far more."
You mean, they hate America far far less...
"Nah, I'm no so amused about the landing site, it's the enormous "Kilroy was here" on the darkside of the moon I'm wait for..."
You mean the Far side of the moon. The "dark side" is just the side that is facing away from the Sun at that time. Every part of the moon will see darkness at some point. If "Kilroy" was on the "dark side of the moon" right now, and it wasn't in the "far side", you would see it in just a few hours.
"making it easier for people to start helping out."
... is exactly what Wiki doesn't need. Those policies were developed to keep Wiki from becoming a short lived blog.
Wiki, as with any other source of information, must be used in combination with critical thought. I use Wiki all the time but I also click all relevant links, do other searches from other trusted sources to gain corroboration, just as you should with all information. Wiki is a great starting point IMO, but using it as a sole source of information flies in the face of critical thought. Even the Encyclopedia Britannica has errors in it, for which Wiki is considered nearly as accurate.
At some point, just as with all other encyclopedia's, information will change, evolve, and even grow, but it will slow down after the initial "job" is done. Be sure, it's still growing, just at a slower pace. This seems logically normal.
Parent is wrong, please mod him down... If you don't have firewire, your not even going to be running Tiger, let alone Leopard. Leapord will run on any G4 847 MHz or higher. Besides, what G4 didn't have firewire?
"Imagine how busy the talking heads would be discussing how evil the GOP is for killing students."
Yeah, it's called the Iraq war, and they talk about it all the time...
That is the smartest thing I have ever heard anybody say, ever.
Office is the bloated app of our time, for sure, however I hope you aren't suggesting that we all still use our 15 year old $2000 (at the time) computers just to "force" the dev community to keep bloat to a minimum, because that just wouldn't make any sense. Computers do much more than they used to, hold more data (HD) and require more RAM to do all of these new things. It's how everything works and it's how it will continue to work, thankfully I might add. Suggesting that my purchase of a faster, bigger machine at the same price as I paid for the old one (if not cheaper) that also coincidentally does far more than that old computer is what is causing the dev community to be "lazy" (or purposeful bloat additions) is quite silly. They most likely do it because they can, in keeping with the faster, bigger, do more computer theme, again, thankfully. Besides, what would Microsoft gain by forcing this? They do not make computers...
Now, if you wanted to, you could spend your life on top of a soap box in Redmond and bitch until they comply (not likely), or upgrade your old machine to handle to the new stuff. Office is the de facto Word Proc, and Windows is the de facto OS. There is little you can do about that unfortunately, so my point still stands. Now, I don't use Windows, but suggesting the you get the same level of productivity out of that older OS on that older Machine (slower) also makes little sense. In my world, suggesting that OS 9 is the same as OS X as far as productivity goes would get several laughs. (BTW, OS X has never been nor ever will require activation of any kind. You could literally install your OS X on a thousand machines without issue, outside of the law, and I don't think Apple would care as it's a hardware company). Not sure how it is on the Windows side I suppose...
Also keep in mind that there are several, extremely useful, powerful applications outside of Windows and Office that actually do require bigger faster machines (do any video, audio, design work? Play games? try running iLife - amazing consumer level software - on my 500 MHz OS 9 machine... you get the point). So again, my point still stands. However, if you are someone who types emails, browses the Web, and not much more (and uses Windows), then yes, this may be a "pain", but for the rest of us, it makes perfect sense. Things get faster and can do more over time. Programmers develop for this for sure. It's their job.
"What advantage does Vista give you over XP?"
That I can't answer. Sorry.
"They must be worried about the iPhone in order to do something as crazy as that. "
Hmmm, best selling smart phone last month, already has 1.1% of the market (above expectations). No, that certainly was not it. In fact, with so many selling, dropping the price at face value doesn't make sense. They were selling them like hot cakes at the previous price.
"So the only reason to me is that it's desperation. I'm guessing that report about how only 136k people actually signed up must have them pretty worried and they need to reach a critical level sooner."
Again, that is not it. See my last remark...
The real reason they did this was in an attempt to make the iPhone as ubiquitous as the iPod. They dropped the price just before the holiday season starts, revamped their iPod line with many of the same features, outside of email and phone (although you could gain your email via Safari on the iPod Touch I suppose). Asking you to pay $200 more for email and a phone (on top of ATT service fees) would have hurt. Those were the two reasons. Believe me, it's not because they were worried about sales. They sold just under a million of them last month. It was to kick start a buying frenzy of them, and to make it viable for iPod purchasers, nothing more, and it will undoubtedly work.
Is it just me? It just seems much easier to just buy more RAM and a bigger hard drive. Done.
/...), and want to climb that mountain just because it's there, then fine, but sure seems like spending a hundred bucks on some more RAM, or a bigger hard drive would take far less time (=money) and aggravation.
I mean, I guess if you're a tech geek with time on your hands (oh wait, this is
Modded Troll... now THAT is silly. His logic was sound. Gotta love /.
The Book could be the Bible, Guru Granth Sahib, Bhagwad Geeta, Kuran, etc... What is interesting, is that in general, they say pretty much the same thing. While many of the Bible's stories almost mirror (and literally do in some instances) old Sumerian folklore, the general thesis of all remains the same. Live by the "golden rule" through forgiveness and love. Literal interpretations will also get a giggle from me for some very real reasons. I do, however, think the morals are in most cases sound (if you ignore the plethora of contradictions in most of these Books).
A link from Fox"News" supporting the admin is supposed to mean something? Read the section called Iraq War. The PIPA study tells it all...