I am no longer suprised at the depths that the US government will sink to under the guise of "fighting terror".
These Bioterrorism labs are surely a blatant cover-up for US Gov. breaking the 1925 Geneva Convention ban on Biological Warfare to do research for their own bio wepaons.
Until the US president stops Americans polluting the atmosphere so badly, these localised side-effects of global warming will only get worse for all of us.
Its not gonna happen with Bush though, as he has such strong personal ties with the oil industry.
one of my first books was an old "Boys Book of Jets" from about 1959. It said electricity would soon be free because of nuclear power, and showed artists impressions of where we'd all be living by 1975: Zero-gee space hotels being served by robots apparently designed by Emporor Ming.
Why is everyone so worried about cooling? Assuming, like the majority, you're not overclocking, as long as you GPU doesn't burn out it will give the same performance no mtter how hot it is.
The stock fans already fitted are more than sufficient to make sure it won't melt down so why waste money?
I moved from CRT as soon as LCD's came out because I'm migraine-sensitive to the refresh rates on CRTs. Even 100Hz. Please god I hope they don't put the flicker back in.
Rappers all just sound like retards to me. They can't even master basic English, so why should I believe that they have enough intelligence to develop software worthy of praise?
So what? Who cares if it takes more energy to produce than it gives out. Just like Hydrogen, Its the portability aspect that makes it useful. The net energy balance thing is IRELLEVANT. Its not like there's an energy shortage per se. The earth is continually bombarded with more energy than it knows what to do with from the sun alone.
The whole net energy positive argument was cooked up by Bush as a way to justify extacting hydrogen from petrochemicals rahter than any other process, so his major investment in the oil biz and his oil-baron friends won't go out of business overnight.
The argument 'don't buy it if you don't like it' won't stand up.
There will always be enough consumers out there who don't understand enough about the issues and will still buy PC's using this technology.
That group is always much larger than the 'informed' (e.g/.) group who won't go near it on principle, therefore 'Totally locked-down PC' will inevitably become the norm unless we can educate the masses somehow before its too late.
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I am no longer suprised at the depths that the US government will sink to under the guise of "fighting terror".
These Bioterrorism labs are surely a blatant cover-up for US Gov. breaking the 1925 Geneva Convention ban on Biological Warfare to do research for their own bio wepaons.
Until the US president stops Americans polluting the atmosphere so badly, these localised side-effects of global warming will only get worse for all of us.
Its not gonna happen with Bush though, as he has such strong personal ties with the oil industry.
Flight Sim 2006 will be released just in time for xmas.
Dude.. Linux is ALREADY prime-time. It can also be WAY better than windows for program installation.
yum install
you don't even have to find or download the program yourself (like you would with MS windoze), yum will do that part too.
Your real issue is lack of linux knowledge because you are more familiar with windows. stop blaming Linux for your shortcomings.
I guess it is 5 years away... Linux has been mainstream in our company and industry for about 5 years now.
What about those handheld barcode scanners that have been used in stores for ages?
they should use Lego.
It just simplifies any db decisions I make down to a choice between postgres or sqlite now. Both are way better than MySql anyway.
unfortunately some big manufacturer(probably HP) will lead the way then the rest will quickly follow when they realise they can get away with it.
Then there won't be anyone marketing reusable cartridges so you won't have any choice.
I live in Georgia. There are still like millions of giant chicks here.
99% of Flash's use is only for those annoying pop-up/over advertising anyway.
Hopefully most people won't bother with it now so Macromedia's own greed will make Flash (and therefore those adverts) less ubiquitous.
>> caused a 25% to 50% hike in salaries
So engineers in California are (finally) being paid a reasonable salary again after the dot com crash?...
Aww.. my heart bleeds for all those poor companies that can no longer cheap-rate engineers...
I totally agree. Not even anyone else here has figured this is just a bullshit backdoor way of forching more encrytpion on us.
one of my first books was an old "Boys Book of Jets" from about 1959. It said electricity would soon be free because of nuclear power, and showed artists impressions of where we'd all be living by 1975: Zero-gee space hotels being served by robots apparently designed by Emporor Ming.
Man I couldn't wait.
Why is everyone so worried about cooling? Assuming, like the majority, you're not overclocking, as long as you GPU doesn't burn out it will give the same performance no mtter how hot it is.
The stock fans already fitted are more than sufficient to make sure it won't melt down so why waste money?
>>> getting young people aclimated to tech... is important
I think a real problem is that you're also getting them dependant on it.
You no longer see any kids that can perform even basic math in their heads since calculators became accepted in schools.
We're breeding a generation that won't know how to survive when their laptop battery runs out.
I moved from CRT as soon as LCD's came out because I'm migraine-sensitive to the refresh rates on CRTs. Even 100Hz.
Please god I hope they don't put the flicker back in.
Parental controls?
Does anyone remember when an operating system was meant to run applications, not provide the same functionality as them all?
Rappers all just sound like retards to me. They can't even master basic English, so why should I believe that they have enough intelligence to develop software worthy of praise?
..and send him some money?
Vista. The view from the basement.
Before he was elected, Bush was actually quoted as saying that he believed the American people had too much freedom.
Terrorism is just being used as an excuse for Bush to remove everyones rights.
I beleive that OS/2 and Windows NT shared a common heritage, to the point where the API's are almost compatable.
Therefore if OS/2 did go open source, how much relevant information would become available to projects like Wine?
So what? Who cares if it takes more energy to produce than it gives out. Just like Hydrogen, Its the portability aspect that makes it useful. The net energy balance thing is IRELLEVANT.
Its not like there's an energy shortage per se. The earth is continually bombarded with more energy than it knows what to do with from the sun alone.
The whole net energy positive argument was cooked up by Bush as a way to justify extacting hydrogen from petrochemicals rahter than any other process, so his major investment in the oil biz and his oil-baron friends won't go out of business overnight.
The argument 'don't buy it if you don't like it' won't stand up.
/.) group who won't go near it on principle, therefore 'Totally locked-down PC' will inevitably become the norm unless we can educate the masses somehow before its too late.
There will always be enough consumers out there who don't understand enough about the issues and will still buy PC's using this technology.
That group is always much larger than the 'informed' (e.g