I'm just waiting for Bert Rutan to come back with a new and improved Space Ship One. The guy is amazing, his original desigh, which won the X-prize originally, already fits most requirements. I hope to see more from him in this next round.
They do. One of the GM employees created the technology, GM used them in the EV1 then sold the patent to Exxon when they retracted the lease of all EV1s and crushed them. See www.dontcrush.com or saveev1
More than just firing the person events like this make me wonder what the company is trying to hide.
Does anyone have any idea what the personw as posting?
I agree completely. It seems like people have been losing track of all the bennifits of an almost completely mechanical cars. First, this push twards automatic transmitions scares me. With a manual almost anything can break down and you can still make the car run, no such luck with an automatic. Then there is always, as you mentioned, auto repair. That becomes a mess quite quickly when you run into softawre glitches.
...better than the dump go ask around major cooperations and schools.
Last year my dad (who teaches computer repair and networking) and I picked up something like $2000 worth of working sun equipment simply because the school didn't know how to run them. Plus we received about 40 touch screen tough books with a licensed version of win 2000 for free along with a few Toshiba laptops (an insurance company was upgrading their laptops and throwing out all the old ones.) None of them were blazing fast but they were all good enough for day to day use and all cost absolutely nothing.
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USB camras work fine for me, i dont have an iPod, archos works though even if it isnt as sleek. As for the rest i've just never had a problem
This really makes me wonder exactly what you were trying to do to the poor OS. I'm 16, not the most technical person on the block, and installed linux in 2 hours. The instalation was as simple as any michine I've put windows on, and has run quite well since then. There are numerous things I find much easier and some things I find harder but it shouldnt be giving you that much trouble. As for screen resolution, did you make sure your monitor supports it? if so two people already said how.
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Running linux isn't all that difficult with the tools available. With KDE or Gnome I find it as simple as running windows ever was. It is no more difficult to install than windows, the programs are easy to use, anything you could need comes with the OS (at least in the case of some one who isn't computer saavy), and on top of that is the added bennifit of good security and paying nothing. As for a program that automatically runs root, why would any one want to do that? At least for down loads and such root is a password away.
not necessarily, if anything that i'm 15 would meen that its a more widely known than simply in businesses ect. To add to that, if i can use Linux, proabibly the majority of people cant not just the programers and computer geniuses.
and clarifications by especially in the US i ment that in other countries it seems to already be well on its way to becoming a mainstream OS
I'm 15 and have been using linux for a little over a year...people in the k-12 school system are starting to get a grasp on the bennifits of open source. It really is the best option for so many people and with the newest distros of Mandrake (what i use) make it incrediabily simple to do most anything graphically. With a little bit of help even people like my grandmother (who could never even minimize windows) can do as much on linux as any other OS out there. In my openion the main problem is people, in general, don't even knwo open source exists. And those that do only vaguely recall that they've hear about it somewhere. Hopefully its only a matter of time before people (especially in the US) catch on.
as much as this might be just a random quote... it could very well be reality in a coming years. I think eventually will wind up following the path of nuclear weaponry. With no human deaths it would be more an economic case of who could support such a battle; possibility turning war into a rather large costly game of chess. Only once the robotic defenses were broken could anything be achieved.
Then again, what else is new, thats what we've been doing with people for years... who ever can send bigger better forces wins.
You would think eventually people could reason out better ways to deal with conflicts than war... that money could be going to a myriad of other things, but no we're making smart tanks (granted the technology could be useful, i just dont agree with the purpous)
just pointing out theres a slight diffrence between murdering some one to understand murder and expierementing with things like porn. Look at it this way...ok i'm sure from some people's point of view porn is bad and what not...but for a 15 or 16 year old guy is that not better than getting his girlfriend pregnant or some such?
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I'm just waiting for Bert Rutan to come back with a new and improved Space Ship One. The guy is amazing, his original desigh, which won the X-prize originally, already fits most requirements. I hope to see more from him in this next round.
They do. One of the GM employees created the technology, GM used them in the EV1 then sold the patent to Exxon when they retracted the lease of all EV1s and crushed them. See www.dontcrush.com or saveev1
Wrong. Dead wrong. AC Propulsion uses what they can and in 2003 that was lead acid. The newest tzero runs on liion as does the X1.
I own three electric cars. $.02 per mile to charge. Maybe you should only speek if you know what you're talking about.
More than just firing the person events like this make me wonder what the company is trying to hide. Does anyone have any idea what the personw as posting?
I agree completely. It seems like people have been losing track of all the bennifits of an almost completely mechanical cars. First, this push twards automatic transmitions scares me. With a manual almost anything can break down and you can still make the car run, no such luck with an automatic. Then there is always, as you mentioned, auto repair. That becomes a mess quite quickly when you run into softawre glitches.
...better than the dump go ask around major cooperations and schools. Last year my dad (who teaches computer repair and networking) and I picked up something like $2000 worth of working sun equipment simply because the school didn't know how to run them. Plus we received about 40 touch screen tough books with a licensed version of win 2000 for free along with a few Toshiba laptops (an insurance company was upgrading their laptops and throwing out all the old ones.) None of them were blazing fast but they were all good enough for day to day use and all cost absolutely nothing.
USB camras work fine for me, i dont have an iPod, archos works though even if it isnt as sleek. As for the rest i've just never had a problem
This really makes me wonder exactly what you were trying to do to the poor OS. I'm 16, not the most technical person on the block, and installed linux in 2 hours. The instalation was as simple as any michine I've put windows on, and has run quite well since then. There are numerous things I find much easier and some things I find harder but it shouldnt be giving you that much trouble. As for screen resolution, did you make sure your monitor supports it? if so two people already said how.
Running linux isn't all that difficult with the tools available. With KDE or Gnome I find it as simple as running windows ever was. It is no more difficult to install than windows, the programs are easy to use, anything you could need comes with the OS (at least in the case of some one who isn't computer saavy), and on top of that is the added bennifit of good security and paying nothing. As for a program that automatically runs root, why would any one want to do that? At least for down loads and such root is a password away.
All n' all I dont see the problem.
not necessarily, if anything that i'm 15 would meen that its a more widely known than simply in businesses ect. To add to that, if i can use Linux, proabibly the majority of people cant not just the programers and computer geniuses. and clarifications by especially in the US i ment that in other countries it seems to already be well on its way to becoming a mainstream OS
I'm 15 and have been using linux for a little over a year...people in the k-12 school system are starting to get a grasp on the bennifits of open source. It really is the best option for so many people and with the newest distros of Mandrake (what i use) make it incrediabily simple to do most anything graphically. With a little bit of help even people like my grandmother (who could never even minimize windows) can do as much on linux as any other OS out there.
In my openion the main problem is people, in general, don't even knwo open source exists. And those that do only vaguely recall that they've hear about it somewhere. Hopefully its only a matter of time before people (especially in the US) catch on.
as much as this might be just a random quote... it could very well be reality in a coming years. I think eventually will wind up following the path of nuclear weaponry. With no human deaths it would be more an economic case of who could support such a battle; possibility turning war into a rather large costly game of chess. Only once the robotic defenses were broken could anything be achieved.
Then again, what else is new, thats what we've been doing with people for years... who ever can send bigger better forces wins.
You would think eventually people could reason out better ways to deal with conflicts than war... that money could be going to a myriad of other things, but no we're making smart tanks (granted the technology could be useful, i just dont agree with the purpous)
just pointing out theres a slight diffrence between murdering some one to understand murder and expierementing with things like porn. Look at it this way...ok i'm sure from some people's point of view porn is bad and what not...but for a 15 or 16 year old guy is that not better than getting his girlfriend pregnant or some such?