>President Bush strongly opposes any treaty or policy that would cause the loss of a single American job...
Bush is a dumbass of the worst order. No environment = no economy at all.
How important is the notion of being employed when there's a planet-wide ice-age and no food to eat because selfish Americans collapsed the environment? (yes I said Americans: you produce on average 10x more pollution per capita than anyone else in the world).
By not taking action NOW Bush is just pushing his responsibilities onto our kids. Because of his selfishness and stupidity the environmental legacy that our kids will have to deal with will be FAR worse than just dealing with it now.
Comapred to the Ipod mini it looks like a $5 calculator.
The buttons look like they are those nasty indented clicky bubbles under sticky-back plastic that were all the rage about 10 years ago, and the display looks very basic and uninspired.
> Distributions supporting and simplifying installing software by regular users (as opposed to systemwide installation by the superuser) would be a good first step...
Ahh you mean just like Windows? Yeah that really works *NOT*
This whole notion of being able to patent something entirely for trapping the unwary should be made illegal.
I mean what the hell is a law firm doing with such a patent? Its blatant; they obviously don't have the technical expertise or desire to actually produce a product that uses this algorithm.
A law should be passed that if you patent something then don't actually market a product based on it within (say) 1 year, your patent gets revoked.
The US patent office (USPO) is killing innovation (and therefore the economy) in the US. Because of their failure to deny sweeping open-ended patents, nearly every possible new invention has already been stifled by some weaselly-worded patent by some lawyer with no intention to ever actually market a product.
Furthermore, because many existing patent-holders lock up ideas just stop other people innovating, the whole of American society is being held-back from technical advancement.
The rest of the world are not stupid enough to shoot themselves in the foot in the same way, so are gaining market share over the US by bringing more innovative products to market better/faster than US companies can.
Microsoft always lies about Linux because its the only way they can justify their bloated product and expensive business model to those with no technical savvy (i.e. the decision-makers). We all know that already. Is more of the same even newsworthy?
The only reason Microsoft are still in business is because most companies generally put narrow-minded bean-counters in charge of corporate purchasing. Those people are so technically challenged and brainwashed by Microsoft's culture that they don't even care that better alternatives exist.
>> The irony is that Americans figured out how to free everyone..
Errr WTF are you smoking?
Since I moved to the USA, I'm more chained to my job by economic pressure and see more blatant propaganda/brainwashing every day than ever I saw in Europe...
>Winglee envisions units being placed around the >solar system by missions already planned by NASA. >One could be used as an integral part of a research >mission to Jupiter, for instance, and then left >in orbit.
This ignores Newton's law that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
According to Newton if the transitter unit isn't fixed to something big and heavy (i.e. a planet) it would also propel itself backwards (and out of position) at an inversely proportional acceleration rate to the spaceship.
I've long wondered about that but with respect to mechanics...
If you tie a piece of very non-stretchable string to an indicator that detects when the other end is pulled (e.g. a hinged flag ) wouldn't the time between pulling the remote end and the inidicator detecting the pull be instantaneous no matter how long the string is? (Therefore you are defeating the c limit)?
If not, why not, and where does the extra string come from as one end has moved before the other?
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>President Bush strongly opposes any treaty or policy that would cause the loss of a single American job...
Bush is a dumbass of the worst order. No environment = no economy at all.
How important is the notion of being employed when there's a planet-wide ice-age and no food to eat because selfish Americans collapsed the environment? (yes I said Americans: you produce on average 10x more pollution per capita than anyone else in the world).
By not taking action NOW Bush is just pushing his responsibilities onto our kids. Because of his selfishness and stupidity the environmental legacy that our kids will have to deal with will be FAR worse than just dealing with it now.
evidently true... by the way your comment got mooded down too.
Their linux drivers suck.
NVidia would have been a much better choice.
That got modded to flamebait? That sucks...
Is no one allowed to post anything even slightly contrary any more?
Comapred to the Ipod mini it looks like a $5 calculator.
The buttons look like they are those nasty indented clicky bubbles under sticky-back plastic that were all the rage about 10 years ago, and the display looks very basic and uninspired.
The form-factor looks more bulky too.
sending out those free coasters, they'd save some money and not have to fire staff.
> Distributions supporting and simplifying installing software by regular users (as opposed to systemwide installation by the superuser) would be a good first step...
Ahh you mean just like Windows? Yeah that really works *NOT*
This whole notion of being able to patent something entirely for trapping the unwary should be made illegal.
I mean what the hell is a law firm doing with such a patent? Its blatant; they obviously don't have the technical expertise or desire to actually produce a product that uses this algorithm.
A law should be passed that if you patent something then don't actually market a product based on it within (say) 1 year, your patent gets revoked.
The US patent office (USPO) is killing innovation (and therefore the economy) in the US. Because of their failure to deny sweeping open-ended patents, nearly every possible new invention has already been stifled by some weaselly-worded patent by some lawyer with no intention to ever actually market a product.
Furthermore, because many existing patent-holders lock up ideas just stop other people innovating, the whole of American society is being held-back from technical advancement.
The rest of the world are not stupid enough to shoot themselves in the foot in the same way, so are gaining market share over the US by bringing more innovative products to market better/faster than US companies can.
effectuate?
Is that even a word?
It makes the patent sound like it was written by George Bush.
> infants analyse the statistical distributions of sounds that they hear in ambient language
Imagine a beowulf cluster of those...
Damn... your girlfriend must be UUUUgly
Woo hoo... laser Asteroids
Microsoft always lies about Linux because its the only way they can justify their bloated product and expensive business model to those with no technical savvy (i.e. the decision-makers). We all know that already. Is more of the same even newsworthy?
The only reason Microsoft are still in business is because most companies generally put narrow-minded bean-counters in charge of corporate purchasing. Those people are so technically challenged and brainwashed by Microsoft's culture that they don't even care that better alternatives exist.
>> The irony is that Americans figured out how to free everyone..
Errr WTF are you smoking?
Since I moved to the USA, I'm more chained to my job by economic pressure and see more blatant propaganda/brainwashing every day than ever I saw in Europe...
And if you were, would you work for a bowl of rice a day like your overseas competition?
umm Nooo...
I'm assuming you mean commercial games where you don't have the source to recompile them.
PC games are x86 binary therefore wont run on PPC irrespective of what OS you're running.
Just not slowing down when you get to Mars?
keep the ship in orbit and it still has all that energy for the return trip. Use a lander-style smaller vehicle for itra mars-orbit travel.
The only problem you have is the energy still required to slow down from and catch up again to the orbiting ship.
>> A simple, cheap reaction control system (RCS)
I prefer the Constant Velocity System (CVS).
>Winglee envisions units being placed around the
>solar system by missions already planned by NASA.
>One could be used as an integral part of a research
>mission to Jupiter, for instance, and then left
>in orbit.
This ignores Newton's law that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
According to Newton if the transitter unit isn't fixed to something big and heavy (i.e. a planet) it would also propel itself backwards (and out of position) at an inversely proportional acceleration rate to the spaceship.
what the benefit of this approach is?
I mean we have registers already....
Sure. Check this out:
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http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2004_10.php#00
Needless to say, its an outrage.
WTF is a maybach?
>> I had to get a component->VGA cable
It sounds like you're potentially going to be one of the people who's system will stop working when the turn on the broadcast flag before next June.
Has your HD supplier promised not to force you to upgrade to an HDCP-compliant projector?
means there's at least 2.9 million dumbasses in key IT decision-making roles.
>> About 2.9 million web sites run on ASP.NET
I've long wondered about that but with respect to mechanics...
If you tie a piece of very non-stretchable string to an indicator that detects when the other end is pulled (e.g. a hinged flag ) wouldn't the time between pulling the remote end and the inidicator detecting the pull be instantaneous no matter how long the string is? (Therefore you are defeating the c limit)?
If not, why not, and where does the extra string come from as one end has moved before the other?