I drive a modern (1 year old) 4 cylinder family car - BMW 320d M Sport Touring. It's got all sorts of junk in there that I just don't need. If I drive it carefully I can get between 50 and 60 mpg on a steady run regardless of weather/hills/people pushing.
However my typical driving is at 90+mph on the motorway and despite my economically poor driving and big fat tyres I still get 49mpg. I have two kids and a dog, I'm 6'4" and yet the car does everything I need, in much more comfort than I need and as higher speeds than I need.
All people need to do is think about what they really need from a car.
I used to have a Landrover Discovery, acres of space and I could see for miles in one of the biggest 4x4s on the road. I could seat 7, tow lots, put my life in the back and should I chose drive over just about any terrain out there. Did I need the space that much? For maybe one or two trips in a year it was handy, with careful packing it's not a problem. Getting rid of the 4x4 has saved me about £400-500/month off my fuel bill. If I need a big truck I can just hire one for the period and it's cheaper than running one.
I used to kid myself that I needed a 4x4 with the stuff I used to do, in reality I just needed to take more care when packing and driving on some of the rougher roads.
Was this an Andy Burnham thing? Glad to see my local MP is an idiot if so.
I can kind of understand the music thing in some ways, and it doesn't matter for music. Music doesn't matter, it's all those other interesting and useful things in the world.
Also don't forget that the traditional evolution stressors are not in place for the western world, this allows mutations in DNA to take evolution off into interesting places that have no biological advantage. Clearly this is moderated by the gene pool on the whole, but when the stress is reapplied those costly wanders will be killed off, the non-costly or advantageous developments will probably remain.
Meanwhile in the rest of the world, there are wars and hunger etc. to drive evolution.
Why can't the Chinese evolve the development? Do their brains work slower or something? There seems to be a whole nation just over the water in Japan that have proved to be rather good at the entire electronics/engineering thing so why not Leveno?
And all the money - do US sales types get nothing? Working for charity to help their inept-at-developing design cousins?
Errm, didn't the UK cotton industry outsource a lot of work to India in 17-1800s? And anyway, isn't this some kind of dirivative to the entire Adam Smith "open market" thing?
Breaking isn't necessary - what it's optional for certification? Does this suggest that some certified wings have the optional extra property of breaking during flight?
And yet a woman who went for a picnic with her children outside the Houses of Parliament (on the public grass area) was moved by the police because she had a sponge cake with the word "peace" on it. This apparently constitutes a political demonstration, god forbid this happened outside the seat of the UK democracy...
I purchased Supreme Commander last week from Amazon, the first disk didn't seem to have anything on it so I ordered a replacement thinking there was some manufacturing defect.
The next disk was the same, basically Securom stopping me from reading the disk. So the fix was to make an ISO of the disk on one of my Linux boxes and then install from this using my key, and download a no-cd crack. The game now works, but my media is useless.
The only person suffering here is the legitimate end user, if I had pirated the game in the first place I would have ended up using the same methods above, the only thing I get is a CD key for online play. Support has been next to useless, handy tips like remove nero and the like are suggested, if I don't want Nero on my PC I wouldn't have installed it in the first place!
If there is a gene which is a marker/pre-cursor to cancer or other illness and this is patented, does the patent owner have all rights, including distribution? If so does the patent logic lead to a case against the patent owner when their gene starts killing?
What exactly is wrong with the signs? If drug dealing is illegal than the signs just help the law enforcers go and get those providing illegal material, the sign itself is not illegal.
By your argument any search engine provides the signs to material that is going to infringe copyright (or other matherial) and so should be illegal.
This is already happening, the latest IBM/US Dept of Energy cluster is something like 16,000 AMD Opterons with 16,000 IBM Cells, the AMD does the donkey work and offloads the maths to the cells which are incredible at maths.
Nulity is -infinity all the way through to +infinity. By my reconing the answer to any question involving a number as it's answer is now nulity.
The price of bread = nulity my speed when driving = nulity, which may or not be in the legal limits of the road on which I am traveling, which is roughly nulity.
Hey stop that! I'm over thirty (32) and can hear the whiney noise, it's like that noise that monitors (i haev known lightbulds to do this too) sometimes make in an office, drives me mad and I always seem to be the only person that can hear it.
And it's really hard to find where it's comming from.
Hang on - I need to upgrade the entire OS to fix a file name renaming bug? Why can't this be patched in XP?
Defrag automatically scheduled? Great a simple task is scheduled, why is this a good thing? Vista is a desktop system, a large number of desktops are powered off when not in use, so the defrag runs when the user is using the hardware. Let me guess every friday afternoon when a deadlne looms?
Searching my indexed drives with google desktop is quick too.
Changes can be backed out, errm isn't that with us in XP? Yes I had to back out IE7 as it broke things for me.
It stable - to be expected with an OS it's not a nice to have.
Default admin account disabled - handy but I am guessing that you still have your users setup as admins so apps still work.
Resource monitor is excelent, so is vmstat and ps does a great job too. There's nothing in your list that seems compelling to move to Vista...
or doesn't as the entire of Europe need Russia's gas supplies. I am looking forward to how this pans out, I suspect the ex-Russian spy link will allow the UK government to keep this relatively quiet on a political front and so keep friendly relations with Russia. That way my heating bills stay low as the gas supply stays reliable. We (the UK) then spend the next few months discussing renewable energy and nuclear, nuclear gets the signoff and we all get cheap electricity to heat our houes and food.
Or the UK kicks up a huge fuss, the Russian's take exception and cut the supply/put prices up and the UK suffer a real cold war, back to the nuclear debate. Excluding the warming effects from global warming to keep us warm - incedentaly my roses are flowering - it's december for god sake, where is the snow?
IBM have not changed the power line at all, there's currently the HS blades (Intel), LS (AMD) and JS (Power) they all fit nicely into a single H chassis, it has 2 x Cisco switchs and 2 x Broacade SAN switches, if there was disk (other than on blade) I would have a datacentre in a can.
I am thinking about replacing the HS blades with LS blades though as they use less power etc for my windows apps, AIX for the JS blades for development and a p590 for the production side of things.
How about - rip/transcode whatever.... Then burn onto DVD - keeps the costs down nicely. Just how many films do you own to justify a 2TB storage solution? How often do you watch them? With the money saved you could even go an watch a film at the movies (while on holiday with the rest of the saved cash).
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How exactly will I miss something that I have never used?
I drive a modern (1 year old) 4 cylinder family car - BMW 320d M Sport Touring. It's got all sorts of junk in there that I just don't need. If I drive it carefully I can get between 50 and 60 mpg on a steady run regardless of weather/hills/people pushing. However my typical driving is at 90+mph on the motorway and despite my economically poor driving and big fat tyres I still get 49mpg. I have two kids and a dog, I'm 6'4" and yet the car does everything I need, in much more comfort than I need and as higher speeds than I need. All people need to do is think about what they really need from a car. I used to have a Landrover Discovery, acres of space and I could see for miles in one of the biggest 4x4s on the road. I could seat 7, tow lots, put my life in the back and should I chose drive over just about any terrain out there. Did I need the space that much? For maybe one or two trips in a year it was handy, with careful packing it's not a problem. Getting rid of the 4x4 has saved me about £400-500/month off my fuel bill. If I need a big truck I can just hire one for the period and it's cheaper than running one. I used to kid myself that I needed a 4x4 with the stuff I used to do, in reality I just needed to take more care when packing and driving on some of the rougher roads.
Was this an Andy Burnham thing? Glad to see my local MP is an idiot if so. I can kind of understand the music thing in some ways, and it doesn't matter for music. Music doesn't matter, it's all those other interesting and useful things in the world.
Also don't forget that the traditional evolution stressors are not in place for the western world, this allows mutations in DNA to take evolution off into interesting places that have no biological advantage. Clearly this is moderated by the gene pool on the whole, but when the stress is reapplied those costly wanders will be killed off, the non-costly or advantageous developments will probably remain. Meanwhile in the rest of the world, there are wars and hunger etc. to drive evolution.
Ah, but I had spoken to a chap from AMD who had photos and a video from 1999 who had a transistor at 1 nanometer.
Why can't the Chinese evolve the development? Do their brains work slower or something? There seems to be a whole nation just over the water in Japan that have proved to be rather good at the entire electronics/engineering thing so why not Leveno? And all the money - do US sales types get nothing? Working for charity to help their inept-at-developing design cousins?
Errm, didn't the UK cotton industry outsource a lot of work to India in 17-1800s? And anyway, isn't this some kind of dirivative to the entire Adam Smith "open market" thing?
I half expected number three to be "profit".
Breaking isn't necessary - what it's optional for certification? Does this suggest that some certified wings have the optional extra property of breaking during flight?
Depends on the country, its not a right in the UK for example.
Why would apple have been pushed to cell? Power and Cell are two very different things.
And yet a woman who went for a picnic with her children outside the Houses of Parliament (on the public grass area) was moved by the police because she had a sponge cake with the word "peace" on it. This apparently constitutes a political demonstration, god forbid this happened outside the seat of the UK democracy...
Or on a mainframe.. There's plenty of comments about AIX in this topic that make no sense.
In this wonderful post game theory age I wouldn't be surprised if a bullfight was classed as a terrorist attack.
I purchased Supreme Commander last week from Amazon, the first disk didn't seem to have anything on it so I ordered a replacement thinking there was some manufacturing defect.
The next disk was the same, basically Securom stopping me from reading the disk. So the fix was to make an ISO of the disk on one of my Linux boxes and then install from this using my key, and download a no-cd crack. The game now works, but my media is useless.
The only person suffering here is the legitimate end user, if I had pirated the game in the first place I would have ended up using the same methods above, the only thing I get is a CD key for online play. Support has been next to useless, handy tips like remove nero and the like are suggested, if I don't want Nero on my PC I wouldn't have installed it in the first place!
If there is a gene which is a marker/pre-cursor to cancer or other illness and this is patented, does the patent owner have all rights, including distribution? If so does the patent logic lead to a case against the patent owner when their gene starts killing?
What exactly is wrong with the signs? If drug dealing is illegal than the signs just help the law enforcers go and get those providing illegal material, the sign itself is not illegal.
By your argument any search engine provides the signs to material that is going to infringe copyright (or other matherial) and so should be illegal.
This is already happening, the latest IBM/US Dept of Energy cluster is something like 16,000 AMD Opterons with 16,000 IBM Cells, the AMD does the donkey work and offloads the maths to the cells which are incredible at maths.
Nulity is -infinity all the way through to +infinity. By my reconing the answer to any question involving a number as it's answer is now nulity.
The price of bread = nulity
my speed when driving = nulity, which may or not be in the legal limits of the road on which I am traveling, which is roughly nulity.
Hey stop that! I'm over thirty (32) and can hear the whiney noise, it's like that noise that monitors (i haev known lightbulds to do this too) sometimes make in an office, drives me mad and I always seem to be the only person that can hear it. And it's really hard to find where it's comming from.
Hang on - I need to upgrade the entire OS to fix a file name renaming bug? Why can't this be patched in XP? Defrag automatically scheduled? Great a simple task is scheduled, why is this a good thing? Vista is a desktop system, a large number of desktops are powered off when not in use, so the defrag runs when the user is using the hardware. Let me guess every friday afternoon when a deadlne looms? Searching my indexed drives with google desktop is quick too. Changes can be backed out, errm isn't that with us in XP? Yes I had to back out IE7 as it broke things for me. It stable - to be expected with an OS it's not a nice to have. Default admin account disabled - handy but I am guessing that you still have your users setup as admins so apps still work. Resource monitor is excelent, so is vmstat and ps does a great job too. There's nothing in your list that seems compelling to move to Vista...
or doesn't as the entire of Europe need Russia's gas supplies. I am looking forward to how this pans out, I suspect the ex-Russian spy link will allow the UK government to keep this relatively quiet on a political front and so keep friendly relations with Russia. That way my heating bills stay low as the gas supply stays reliable. We (the UK) then spend the next few months discussing renewable energy and nuclear, nuclear gets the signoff and we all get cheap electricity to heat our houes and food.
Or the UK kicks up a huge fuss, the Russian's take exception and cut the supply/put prices up and the UK suffer a real cold war, back to the nuclear debate. Excluding the warming effects from global warming to keep us warm - incedentaly my roses are flowering - it's december for god sake, where is the snow?
And to make matters worse, Clackton isn't exactly the best connected part of the UK, I would be supprised if it wasn't closer to a 2 hour drive.
I live a mere 255miles from Clackton, google maps tells me this is a 5 1/2 hour drive, to be honest I would be supprised if it was that quick!
IBM have not changed the power line at all, there's currently the HS blades (Intel), LS (AMD) and JS (Power) they all fit nicely into a single H chassis, it has 2 x Cisco switchs and 2 x Broacade SAN switches, if there was disk (other than on blade) I would have a datacentre in a can.
I am thinking about replacing the HS blades with LS blades though as they use less power etc for my windows apps, AIX for the JS blades for development and a p590 for the production side of things.
How about - rip/transcode whatever.... Then burn onto DVD - keeps the costs down nicely. Just how many films do you own to justify a 2TB storage solution? How often do you watch them? With the money saved you could even go an watch a film at the movies (while on holiday with the rest of the saved cash).