I don't know what he's talking about either. He didn't show me any sites, and I don't have any trouble (other than some rendering problems). Maybe he was *trying* to install spyware.
My dad had horrible spyware gunking up his PC at home. (Which he bought against my recommendation of a Macintosh.) I used my limited knowledge of spyware to clean it up, and told him to use Firefox. Next week, the default browser was back to IE. I changed it because I thought Windows had done something. The following week he told me "I don't want to use Firefox. Nothing works in it!"
He'd rather have me wipe spyware and adware from his machine than deal with it. It's a symptom of having w3schools.com graduates making web sites in Frontpage that only work on front page.
Of course, now IE doesn't work at all, so he runs AOL through his broadband connection to surf the Internet.
And yes, I have since stopped wiping adware/spyware from his machine. I told him if he wasn't going to buy a machine that didn't get the stuff, or use a browser that was secure, he can deal with it himself.
Cowboy Bebop. It is the best show ever anywhere. Better than Good Eats. And I have a pair of welding gloves for hot pads, so that's saying something.
To a lesser extent: Blue Gender. A little forced, kinda weird, but it's got guns and bugs.
Trigun. If you can ignore the annoying faces they make sometimes. (That show could have been really bad ass if they hadn't done that stuff.)
Whatever you do, do not watch Inu Yasha. I stayed up late one night to see what was on, and gave up on anime when I saw Inu Yasha. Thankfully I got to see CB once and got hooked.
Maybe don't pollute was a poor phrase. "Don't increase the amount of atmospheric carbon" would be a better way to put it.
Even so, hydrogen is a much worse fuel than either biodiesel or ethanol. It takes a lot of energy to make biodiesel and ethanol, but that energy is heat, which can come from other biomatter (wood burning, for example, or even solar heat or PV solar electric heat). Hydrogen needs electricity (and lots of it), and the cheapest source of electricity is coal, which produces soot and releases radioactivity and mercury and lead into the air, not to mention speeds up the carbon cycle by reintroducing subterranean carbon to the atmosphere.
The Munich airport, like much of Germany and most of Europe, is probably run off of a nuclear power plant, which is a clean way to make hydrogen and doesn't contribute to excess carbon in the atmosphere side of the cycle.
So does that mean I can run SETI@Home on a bunch of computers without alteration? Cause that would rock.
I think the next step would be a freeware internet grid computing platform, a la SETI, but where people can lease time from Apple. Now that would be sweet.
My fiance's little brother has MD, a disease where the muscles degrade over time. Eventually, his heart or diaphram will be affected and he will die. Would a myostatin treatment help him by increasing muscle production? I'm not that familiar with his condition, so maybe some doctors or future doctors could help.
Acid rain is caused by coal burning power plants which release sulfur into the air, which gets in the clouds and make sulfuric acid, which then falls as acid rain. Batteries can't do this.
However, electric cars (and hydrogen fuel cells) require a lot of electricity, and the cheapest form of electricity is, you guessed it, coal-burning power plants. So electric and hydrogen cars would cause acid rain and put other nasties in the air (mercury, lead, radioactive compounds).
Instead of pushing for hydrogen or electric cars, we should push for renewable electricity sources. Then we would be able to switch to electric cars without making more pollution.
In the meantime we should look at closed-carbon-cycle fuels like ethanol, biodiesel, and plain ol' grease. This wouldn't put any more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than the plants absorb by growing to make more fuel.
But you forget that diesels can run off of vegetable oil or biodiesel, both of which are closed-carbon-cycle fuels. (Meaning they don't pollute because the amount of carbon dioxide is absorbed by the plants that make more fuel.) Ethanol is also a closed-carbon-cycle fuel. We should be looking into these instead of electric cars that require coal-burning power plants to recharge, which introduces trapped carbon (and uranium and mercury and lead and...) into the system, which is why there is too much in the air.
I squeezed 37.72mpg out of a 1990 Jetta by accelerating slowly, coasting as much as possible, and sticking to the highways (and driving the speed limit).
I would like to get a Jetta TDI wagon, buy a 55 gallon drum of biodiesel, and put a Greasel kit in it. Free fuel and lower emissions. And it's better for your fuel pump.
Pushing fiber farther out and closer to customers is a good thing, and concentrating on putting FTTH in new neighborhoods rather than having to tear up old ones is a smart thing.
It's a stupid, stupid thing. You'll give people one more reason to leave their old homes, further increasing suburban sprawl, further lengthening the distances people have to drive, and further increasing our reliance on fossil fuels to simply move our asses around.
I like where I live. I don't want to move just to get high-speed Internet. I would rather they tear up my street for a few weeks than destroy open space forever because people want 25mbps.
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Example: "Maybe we should make it automatically print when the user clicks the print button!"
No, you're dumb. Go back to marketing.
Maybe these guys could help.
He needs either Windows or Mac OS X, because he runs Quickbooks on it for my mom's business.
I don't know what he's talking about either. He didn't show me any sites, and I don't have any trouble (other than some rendering problems). Maybe he was *trying* to install spyware.
He'd rather have me wipe spyware and adware from his machine than deal with it. It's a symptom of having w3schools.com graduates making web sites in Frontpage that only work on front page.
Of course, now IE doesn't work at all, so he runs AOL through his broadband connection to surf the Internet.
And yes, I have since stopped wiping adware/spyware from his machine. I told him if he wasn't going to buy a machine that didn't get the stuff, or use a browser that was secure, he can deal with it himself.
Well, we could research fusion and get our asses up to class I easily. Then we'd have all the energy we'd need.
To a lesser extent: Blue Gender. A little forced, kinda weird, but it's got guns and bugs.
Trigun. If you can ignore the annoying faces they make sometimes. (That show could have been really bad ass if they hadn't done that stuff.)
Whatever you do, do not watch Inu Yasha. I stayed up late one night to see what was on, and gave up on anime when I saw Inu Yasha. Thankfully I got to see CB once and got hooked.
Even so, hydrogen is a much worse fuel than either biodiesel or ethanol. It takes a lot of energy to make biodiesel and ethanol, but that energy is heat, which can come from other biomatter (wood burning, for example, or even solar heat or PV solar electric heat). Hydrogen needs electricity (and lots of it), and the cheapest source of electricity is coal, which produces soot and releases radioactivity and mercury and lead into the air, not to mention speeds up the carbon cycle by reintroducing subterranean carbon to the atmosphere.
Glad you liked it. I think the fact that I linked to both MIT and Stanford for those picks should give me a +5 Ironic.
If we're beaker, who's Bunsen???
"In the future, the Internet will be twice as fast, ten thousand times larger, and so expensive only the five richest kings in Europe will own it!"
Bully for the Munich Airport!
I think the next step would be a freeware internet grid computing platform, a la SETI, but where people can lease time from Apple. Now that would be sweet.
This man has created a new word: Borged. He should get the Nobel prize or something.
But it might be a cure for muscular dystrophy.
My fiance's little brother has MD, a disease where the muscles degrade over time. Eventually, his heart or diaphram will be affected and he will die. Would a myostatin treatment help him by increasing muscle production? I'm not that familiar with his condition, so maybe some doctors or future doctors could help.
*Referencing an earlier post about paying a 20 year old coed to mow lawn, wash car, look hot so you can wank off.
And if you do get a sheep pregnant, you have free milk!
Acid rain is caused by coal burning power plants which release sulfur into the air, which gets in the clouds and make sulfuric acid, which then falls as acid rain. Batteries can't do this.
However, electric cars (and hydrogen fuel cells) require a lot of electricity, and the cheapest form of electricity is, you guessed it, coal-burning power plants. So electric and hydrogen cars would cause acid rain and put other nasties in the air (mercury, lead, radioactive compounds).
Instead of pushing for hydrogen or electric cars, we should push for renewable electricity sources. Then we would be able to switch to electric cars without making more pollution.
In the meantime we should look at closed-carbon-cycle fuels like ethanol, biodiesel, and plain ol' grease. This wouldn't put any more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than the plants absorb by growing to make more fuel.
But you forget that diesels can run off of vegetable oil or biodiesel, both of which are closed-carbon-cycle fuels. (Meaning they don't pollute because the amount of carbon dioxide is absorbed by the plants that make more fuel.) Ethanol is also a closed-carbon-cycle fuel. We should be looking into these instead of electric cars that require coal-burning power plants to recharge, which introduces trapped carbon (and uranium and mercury and lead and...) into the system, which is why there is too much in the air.
I would like to get a Jetta TDI wagon, buy a 55 gallon drum of biodiesel, and put a Greasel kit in it. Free fuel and lower emissions. And it's better for your fuel pump.
Sparrow = $14,000
And I want this why?
Marathon was way better than Doom.
I just checked and I don't have SBC (DSL Reports says so). I'm also about 17,390 feet from the CO, so any DSL I do get is less than 0.5Mbps
I'd live there. Of course, I'd also live on Mars. I imagine the two are very similar. Cold, dark, and nobody around for at least 40 million miles. :D
It's a stupid, stupid thing. You'll give people one more reason to leave their old homes, further increasing suburban sprawl, further lengthening the distances people have to drive, and further increasing our reliance on fossil fuels to simply move our asses around.
I like where I live. I don't want to move just to get high-speed Internet. I would rather they tear up my street for a few weeks than destroy open space forever because people want 25mbps.