Well, if that's true, then 20 years down the road we'll have to re-show the same ad, only this time we'll GIMP in a linPod, the finest portable virtual reality immersion device on the market.
But in order for them to be successful (and therefore useful) they would have to actually work. And since only the $699 fee troll seems to have paid for it, it's not very useful at all.
I thought so too, until I realised that the human brain has a tendency to wander. Sure, in the middle of aerial combat they'd be focused, but can you imagine what would happen in the case that some pilot is cruising along and thinks of his girlfriend back home? Yeah that's right... a very sharp climb into a stall.
I sure wouldn't marry a girl that I met in a bar then, because she might meet someone else at a bar and hook up with them! Or I won't date girls I meet at concerts/work/school/etc anymore because they might meet someone else there!
Socialization is socialization bud. If they're gonna leave you for someone, it doesn't matter how they meet them.
And I disagree with your everyone seems 10 times cooler online statement. Maybe when you're talking about gullible 14 year olds... but mature people know that the person on the other end could be a nutcase or a nerd just as well as they could be cool.
I hated the old Mac interface that he seems to love (Process Menu and Applications Menu). Too out of the way for things you need. The dock can easily be positioned where you need it, and there are labels for those pesky documents which "look all the same" (WindowShade, anyone? Anyone?). I don't like the gun metal interface so much either (though it's growing on me) but to gripe about such messy little issues and say that OS X is inferior to 9... that just shows a lack of understanding about the power of OS X. Was there the Darwin core in 9? No CLI? No OSS apps just waiting to be compiled and used? No Fink, even? GUI preference issues aside, OS X is ten times (HAR!) the operating system of any previous Mac OS incarnation.
But you're working on the assumption that Fiorina actually cares about the productivity of tech support workers in India. If Joe Technical Problem has to call tech support in India, and they do a bad job, it's no sweat off her back. He's already paid her the money by buying the hardware, and chances are, if tech support can't fix it, he's just going to call his 16 year old geek nephew to come fix it. And when he's buying his next computer in 3 years, he's not going to care that he spoke to some crappy, hard-to-understand Indian tech all those years ago. What he's going to care about is that UltimateBestCircuitSuperstore salesgoon who's saying "Yeah, this HP is the latest and greatest model! Look at how many megahertz it has!"
Face it -- when it comes to things like service, support, and even manufacturing of products that the average consumer is unfit to appraise, CEOs could care less what productivity is like because the quality of these things goes relatively unchecked, except by people like us who know better. But we represent a minority, and as long as the can keep fleecing an uneducated public, they're going to do it. Labor costs to them are nothing more than the wages and materials cost. Productivity be damned.
Around the time Saddam's captured mug was being paraded around TV like a trophy? You know -- people are used to being fleeced by illusionists in Las Vegas this way. Maybe we ought to send the Bait-and-Switch Administration out there... any place but Washington.
If this were true, then the gravastar would have to be ultra-cold, as the article said. Since the entirety of the univesre is a constant 3 Kelvin, all we'd have to do is look in the direction of the black hole/gravastar and see if there was a temperature drop in the area equivalent to what it would be for a large hunk of ultradense matter at absolute zero (hint: it's really really really goddamned cold). Failing to see that, by reductio, we can dismiss this hypothesis.
I say that 10% is a misleading figure. 10% is one tenth of the total stars. That's really small!
But hearken! There's about 1 billion stars in our galaxy, and with just about 1 billion stars, that makes the total number of stars which could possibly support complex, Earth-type life is 100,000,000!
That sounds a lot more impressive than 10 measly percent. And then let's not forget the OTHER galaxies in the Local Group, or even out in the Great Wall of galaxies. If there's and average one hundred million possible stars in each of those galaxies, our universe is ripe to be teeming with life at every turn.
I don't see why planetologists don't approach this the same way a biologist or ecologist approaches places on the earth. Conditions aren't favorable for most life in certain places on Earth, but we don't automatically use those to rule out the possiblity that life is favorable on other parts of the Earth. The same thing should hold true on a cosmic scale.
And having more than six yourself is intent to distribute. Sex shops get around this by saying they're "personal massagers" and "anatomically correct sex education models."
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You get married each year? Tough break, bro.
My UT2K4 for my G5 has already shipped. Should be in any day now.
I've never been kicked out of a LAN party for either my PB or my G5.
Funny.
Personally, I'm looking forward to assault mode the most.
I'm still trying to get Open Zaurus to compile on my SL5600... it needs work before it's as good as the Sharp ROM that came with my Z.
Or something like that.
[SuSE] Herr Mandrake, willst du mitgekommen?
[Mdk] Je ne sais pas. Peut-etre je me rendrai juste a la faillite.
[SuSE] Na ja.
Heh heh.... you said "insert." Heh heh.
I thought so too, until I realised that the human brain has a tendency to wander. Sure, in the middle of aerial combat they'd be focused, but can you imagine what would happen in the case that some pilot is cruising along and thinks of his girlfriend back home? Yeah that's right... a very sharp climb into a stall.
Socialization is socialization bud. If they're gonna leave you for someone, it doesn't matter how they meet them.
And I disagree with your everyone seems 10 times cooler online statement. Maybe when you're talking about gullible 14 year olds... but mature people know that the person on the other end could be a nutcase or a nerd just as well as they could be cool.
I hated the old Mac interface that he seems to love (Process Menu and Applications Menu). Too out of the way for things you need. The dock can easily be positioned where you need it, and there are labels for those pesky documents which "look all the same" (WindowShade, anyone? Anyone?). I don't like the gun metal interface so much either (though it's growing on me) but to gripe about such messy little issues and say that OS X is inferior to 9... that just shows a lack of understanding about the power of OS X. Was there the Darwin core in 9? No CLI? No OSS apps just waiting to be compiled and used? No Fink, even? GUI preference issues aside, OS X is ten times (HAR!) the operating system of any previous Mac OS incarnation.
Laser cut cheese. Wow. This world is going to hell, quickly.
Face it -- when it comes to things like service, support, and even manufacturing of products that the average consumer is unfit to appraise, CEOs could care less what productivity is like because the quality of these things goes relatively unchecked, except by people like us who know better. But we represent a minority, and as long as the can keep fleecing an uneducated public, they're going to do it. Labor costs to them are nothing more than the wages and materials cost. Productivity be damned.
Wouldn't the "shell" of the gravastar then be the same as its accretion disk?
But hearken! There's about 1 billion stars in our galaxy, and with just about 1 billion stars, that makes the total number of stars which could possibly support complex, Earth-type life is 100,000,000!
That sounds a lot more impressive than 10 measly percent. And then let's not forget the OTHER galaxies in the Local Group, or even out in the Great Wall of galaxies. If there's and average one hundred million possible stars in each of those galaxies, our universe is ripe to be teeming with life at every turn.
I don't see why planetologists don't approach this the same way a biologist or ecologist approaches places on the earth. Conditions aren't favorable for most life in certain places on Earth, but we don't automatically use those to rule out the possiblity that life is favorable on other parts of the Earth. The same thing should hold true on a cosmic scale.
And having more than six yourself is intent to distribute. Sex shops get around this by saying they're "personal massagers" and "anatomically correct sex education models."
It's all about trusted computing, people.
Tell him what he's won, Johnny!