There's no nation - not one - attacking the USA or the UK now. US and UK soldiers are attacked daily abroad, but our borders aren't threatened.
Our borders weren't attacked after Pearl Harbor either.
As for the Goons? They keep coming after us with pauses in between. They've attacked Embasies, the World Trade Center the first time, the USS Cole and then again on 9/11. Goons kept coming after us and we did not go after them.
Afganistan has been a success. As for Iraq? I think it's not as bad as the press shows. Both in opinion and in the chaos. There are people there who are glad we attacked. The chaos is only in certain areas. The main problem I see is that the press only covers the bad. Like getting an entire nations crime report during the nightly news instead of any of the good that went on during the day.
Antartica is, among other things, getting COLDER not WARMER. As for melting in the Antartic, the northern most tip, you know that thing that sticks out south of South America? Is the only part that is melting. The rest of Antartica is getting colder and the ice is growing.
There is no doubt that volcanic eruptions add CO2 to the atmosphere, but compared to the quantity produced by human activities, their impact is virtually trivial: volcanic eruptions produce about 110 million tons of CO2 each year, whereas human activities contribute almost 10,000 times that quantity.
If the above were completely true, humans would produce about 1 TRILLION tons of C02 each year. according to http://www2.biotech.wisc.edu/jeffries/faq/carbon%2 0dioxide/CO2.html and http://www.mindfully.org/Air/CO2-US2000-DOE.htm US CO2 production is about 1.3 to 1.5 Billion tons each year. Given that the US produces about %25 of CO2, that means that Global CO2 production is at most 6 Billion tons or about 55 times as much as volcanic eruptions. Hardly anywhere near the 10,000 number you and they throw out.
Using the USGS All of humanity produces 22 Billion a year and volcanoes 130-220, that is 100-170 times the volcanoes, still much less than 10,000.
Now for large volcanic explosions such as Mt. Saint Helens and, Krakatoa? Still trying to find info on them, but has to be much more than their average.
There are hundreds of tyrannical regime. Last I checked one of them actually became an ally despite having WMDs and caught profilerating the nuke technology *and* being a dictatorial regime, which had actually toppled the previous democratic government via a military coup.
Please provide name or said regime and a link to information on the Nuke tech proliferation.
The US annual military budget is used in disaster recovery. Hence why we had an entire carrier group and more helping out the tsunami victims.
As for the US being the biggest culprit? We produce 25% of the CO2 recorded. However, the figure does not include all the forests being burned in China and the Amazon.
I was at a Uni where they throtled BT to shit. We tried changing the default port on our end, but that still didn't fix the problem. Our best guess was that they were throtling all connections to and from the default port. Seeing as how there was no way we could get anyone off campus to get off the default port, we were SOL. Fortunately for us, there was IRC, but BT was dead.:(
Relax, I usually use either BSPlayer or MV2 Player when I have the option. Unfortunately, many sites with embeded content require windows media player. Thanks for the link though. I can use it to add to my current collection of 50+ media players.
I was a big Real fan. But realized how much I was getting screwed when I saw Divx in comparison. I would have sugested Divx, but from what I know about most people they do not like downloading new codecs. "It should work without me doing any work" mantra. QT I make allowances for since it is a program, not just a codec.
As a windows user I prefer QT to WMA/WMV files. Mainly because I despise Windows Media Player so much (why should a #%$%# update to a movie player require a reboot!). With QT I can transfer and send the links anywhere and know they will work. Plus, when you blow up the pictures there aren't many artifacts compared to others. (Look at redvsblue)
Last time I checked we didn't have a draft and putting yourself in the Military (Includes coastgaurd and national gaurd) was completely voluntary. Anyone who is still in from being drafted during Vietnam either wants to be in or agreed to the clause in their contract that states they may be retained past their elistment time.
Either way they agreed to be in the military. And I do know people who have signed up for the Army in the past 2 years and fully expect to be sent to Iraq soon. And guess what, they don't care cause it's what they agreed to and they an probably find Iraq and Afganistan on a map quicker tahn you can.
Tienamen square was the Chinese Leaders ordering tanks on protesters. Big diference when those protesters didn't expect to be put in harms way.
From what I have seen, most of the people using pirated versions of windows are people who do not care about security in the first place and generally get owned at the first virus outbreak. As for those who own legitimate copies, well, the non-tech ones are generally the same way. They usually turn off auto updates as it is anoying.
Apple has given out discount coupons (I'm NOT kidding) for OS upgrades that bring the price down to around $30. The only thing is that every now and then they release an OS upgrade that you can not use the coupons on (10.3 was the last one like this, from what I understand).
Umm.. In the case of HP I know you are getting gyped. We have HP DL380s and not only do they not come with an OS, they don't come with hard drives. We don't pay for the MS Windows OS through HP since we already have a corporate license. Here's the link for you http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/platfor ms/index-dl.html
3) people who lost their original CD and need to reinstall the OS - and I think this is a HUGE one
I know that in the case of 98 this is a big problem. When I was up at college (I just graduate college, so this is recent), those of us who were tech support would have to re-install 98/XP on some of the older machines every now and then. Most of the people didn't have the original disks, so we would just get one of ours to install it with. In the case of 98, this was easy since we could use the original key our disk came with. In the case of XP, the key was not always on the machine and we had to use one of the leaked keys.
You're correct in that they're not "rechargeable", they're "refillable."
I can pretty much garuntee that fuel cells won't take off for laptops and many other items. I really don't think that consumers are going to want to have to buy refils at a recuring cost thats probably higer than what they pay for electricity from an outlet to charge their computers. I'm prety sure that unless they can recharge the cells like a battery, that this is going to be a flop for consumer electronics.
Fuel cells are neat and all. But unless the refils can get to be as cheap as alkaline or be rechargeable (I do not mean refilable) like laptop LithiumIon, then they are not a replacement for batteries. The only application I currently see for these would be ones where people already use gasoline or some similar fuel that they have to refil such as lawnmowers. But then again, it would also have to give the equivalent power of gas. And I'm not sure that lawnmowers could run effectively on fuel cells.
I thought fuel cells weren't rechargeable. As in rechargeable without pumping more Hydrogen into them. If it's not possible to recharge them as easily as you can a battery, it's not gonna succede very well. I don't think people will want to have to "Hydrogen up" their batteries like the "Gas up" their car.
To replace the QWERTY keyboard, one must offer something not only substantially better, but substantially better by an order of magnitude. Voice input might be it, once it's faster and all of the bugs are ironed out.
Two things on this. First, I can (generally) type a lot faster than I can talk. Don't ask me why, it's one of the myriad of strange things about me. Second, when I talk I generally will screw up word pronunication, repeatedly. I don't think that the software might perfect this along with some other things. For example, I really don't think that they can replace keyboards for when you are coding software as well.
I don't see the keyboard going away for many of us. General voice commands, yes. Such as "Open Quake" or "Open Word" and shortcuts like that. But not for dictation for those of us that really know how to use a keyboard.
Battery probably won't get smaller. It'll probably be kept the same or made bigger to fill in the extra space. This way the customers can talk longer on a single charge. I know I don't need to recharge more than once a week (very low use user) but I know of some who have to do it more than once each day (very heavy users).
No sure how much reliability will be affected, though. Same number of processes to print a PCB as before, I suspect. But there will be fewer wires.
Umm.. I don't remember "The Shrub" beating anyone to death nor shooting anyone. Also, for some reason I keep hearing NeoCon pretty much used as a label for anything the the US Gov does while Bush is in office, even if Democrats/Leftists/Liberals cross over and agree with it. I just heard it applied to the 6-2 supreme court decision today with the permision of using drug smelling dogs in trafic stops. (Of the two disenters, one was leftist, one was rightist, not a "party line" vote)
And to address the other one on the "War on Islam", last I heard Bush got on pretty well with the Saudis, the Kuwaitis (remember Gulf 1?) and probably does with some others as well.
Geeze, can't even get people to correctly post what is going on anymore. Supreme court ruled 6-2 in that with A conservative and liberal judge diseenting. That means that two LEFT as in LIBERAL judges ruled in favor of allowing that. You act as if Bush appointed the entire supreme court himself. Getting really tired of this BS.
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There's no nation - not one - attacking the USA or the UK now. US and UK soldiers are attacked daily abroad, but our borders aren't threatened.
Our borders weren't attacked after Pearl Harbor either.
As for the Goons? They keep coming after us with pauses in between. They've attacked Embasies, the World Trade Center the first time, the USS Cole and then again on 9/11. Goons kept coming after us and we did not go after them.
Afganistan has been a success. As for Iraq? I think it's not as bad as the press shows. Both in opinion and in the chaos. There are people there who are glad we attacked. The chaos is only in certain areas. The main problem I see is that the press only covers the bad. Like getting an entire nations crime report during the nightly news instead of any of the good that went on during the day.
It is well known, just not available for instant recall. I remember this, just didn't make the link with it when I read it from the OP.
Antartica is, among other things, getting COLDER not WARMER. As for melting in the Antartic, the northern most tip, you know that thing that sticks out south of South America? Is the only part that is melting. The rest of Antartica is getting colder and the ice is growing.
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http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/antarctic_0
http://www.globalwarming.org/article.php?uid=192
There is no doubt that volcanic eruptions add CO2 to the atmosphere, but compared to the quantity produced by human activities, their impact is virtually trivial: volcanic eruptions produce about 110 million tons of CO2 each year, whereas human activities contribute almost 10,000 times that quantity.
2 0dioxide/CO2.html and http://www.mindfully.org/Air/CO2-US2000-DOE.htm US CO2 production is about 1.3 to 1.5 Billion tons each year. Given that the US produces about %25 of CO2, that means that Global CO2 production is at most 6 Billion tons or about 55 times as much as volcanic eruptions. Hardly anywhere near the 10,000 number you and they throw out.
If the above were completely true, humans would produce about 1 TRILLION tons of C02 each year. according to http://www2.biotech.wisc.edu/jeffries/faq/carbon%
Using the USGS All of humanity produces 22 Billion a year and volcanoes 130-220, that is 100-170 times the volcanoes, still much less than 10,000.
Now for large volcanic explosions such as Mt. Saint Helens and, Krakatoa? Still trying to find info on them, but has to be much more than their average.
There are hundreds of tyrannical regime. Last I checked one of them actually became an ally despite having WMDs and caught profilerating the nuke technology *and* being a dictatorial regime, which had actually toppled the previous democratic government via a military coup.
Please provide name or said regime and a link to information on the Nuke tech proliferation.
The US annual military budget is used in disaster recovery. Hence why we had an entire carrier group and more helping out the tsunami victims.
2 0dioxide/CO2.html
It shows Russia and China as not far behind the US.
As for the US being the biggest culprit? We produce 25% of the CO2 recorded. However, the figure does not include all the forests being burned in China and the Amazon.
Here is a link to CO2 production by country: http://www2.biotech.wisc.edu/jeffries/faq/carbon%
Yup, that was the product and we even new its IP. But there was nothing we could do about it. http://www.packeteer.com/prod-sol/products/packets haper.cfm Evil product if I ever saw one.
Joshua: Would you like to play a game of Global Thermo Nuclear War
I was at a Uni where they throtled BT to shit. We tried changing the default port on our end, but that still didn't fix the problem. Our best guess was that they were throtling all connections to and from the default port. Seeing as how there was no way we could get anyone off campus to get off the default port, we were SOL. Fortunately for us, there was IRC, but BT was dead.:(
Relax, I usually use either BSPlayer or MV2 Player when I have the option. Unfortunately, many sites with embeded content require windows media player. Thanks for the link though. I can use it to add to my current collection of 50+ media players.
I was a big Real fan. But realized how much I was getting screwed when I saw Divx in comparison. I would have sugested Divx, but from what I know about most people they do not like downloading new codecs. "It should work without me doing any work" mantra. QT I make allowances for since it is a program, not just a codec.
As a windows user I prefer QT to WMA/WMV files. Mainly because I despise Windows Media Player so much (why should a #%$%# update to a movie player require a reboot!). With QT I can transfer and send the links anywhere and know they will work. Plus, when you blow up the pictures there aren't many artifacts compared to others. (Look at redvsblue)
http://www.thinkoutside.com/
Last time I checked we didn't have a draft and putting yourself in the Military (Includes coastgaurd and national gaurd) was completely voluntary. Anyone who is still in from being drafted during Vietnam either wants to be in or agreed to the clause in their contract that states they may be retained past their elistment time.
Either way they agreed to be in the military. And I do know people who have signed up for the Army in the past 2 years and fully expect to be sent to Iraq soon. And guess what, they don't care cause it's what they agreed to and they an probably find Iraq and Afganistan on a map quicker tahn you can.
Tienamen square was the Chinese Leaders ordering tanks on protesters. Big diference when those protesters didn't expect to be put in harms way.
From what I have seen, most of the people using pirated versions of windows are people who do not care about security in the first place and generally get owned at the first virus outbreak. As for those who own legitimate copies, well, the non-tech ones are generally the same way. They usually turn off auto updates as it is anoying.
Apple has given out discount coupons (I'm NOT kidding) for OS upgrades that bring the price down to around $30. The only thing is that every now and then they release an OS upgrade that you can not use the coupons on (10.3 was the last one like this, from what I understand).
Umm.. In the case of HP I know you are getting gyped. We have HP DL380s and not only do they not come with an OS, they don't come with hard drives. We don't pay for the MS Windows OS through HP since we already have a corporate license. Here's the link for you http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/platfor ms/index-dl.html
3) people who lost their original CD and need to reinstall the OS - and I think this is a HUGE one
I know that in the case of 98 this is a big problem. When I was up at college (I just graduate college, so this is recent), those of us who were tech support would have to re-install 98/XP on some of the older machines every now and then. Most of the people didn't have the original disks, so we would just get one of ours to install it with. In the case of 98, this was easy since we could use the original key our disk came with. In the case of XP, the key was not always on the machine and we had to use one of the leaked keys.
I have yet to see a convincing definition of human, and until we have one, the debate cannot be settled.
I have yet to see a convincing definition of "alive" as well. That may help with defining "human".
You're correct in that they're not "rechargeable", they're "refillable."
I can pretty much garuntee that fuel cells won't take off for laptops and many other items. I really don't think that consumers are going to want to have to buy refils at a recuring cost thats probably higer than what they pay for electricity from an outlet to charge their computers. I'm prety sure that unless they can recharge the cells like a battery, that this is going to be a flop for consumer electronics.
Fuel cells are neat and all. But unless the refils can get to be as cheap as alkaline or be rechargeable (I do not mean refilable) like laptop LithiumIon, then they are not a replacement for batteries. The only application I currently see for these would be ones where people already use gasoline or some similar fuel that they have to refil such as lawnmowers. But then again, it would also have to give the equivalent power of gas. And I'm not sure that lawnmowers could run effectively on fuel cells.
I thought fuel cells weren't rechargeable. As in rechargeable without pumping more Hydrogen into them. If it's not possible to recharge them as easily as you can a battery, it's not gonna succede very well. I don't think people will want to have to "Hydrogen up" their batteries like the "Gas up" their car.
To replace the QWERTY keyboard, one must offer something not only substantially better, but substantially better by an order of magnitude. Voice input might be it, once it's faster and all of the bugs are ironed out.
Two things on this. First, I can (generally) type a lot faster than I can talk. Don't ask me why, it's one of the myriad of strange things about me. Second, when I talk I generally will screw up word pronunication, repeatedly. I don't think that the software might perfect this along with some other things. For example, I really don't think that they can replace keyboards for when you are coding software as well.
I don't see the keyboard going away for many of us. General voice commands, yes. Such as "Open Quake" or "Open Word" and shortcuts like that. But not for dictation for those of us that really know how to use a keyboard.
Battery probably won't get smaller. It'll probably be kept the same or made bigger to fill in the extra space. This way the customers can talk longer on a single charge. I know I don't need to recharge more than once a week (very low use user) but I know of some who have to do it more than once each day (very heavy users).
No sure how much reliability will be affected, though. Same number of processes to print a PCB as before, I suspect. But there will be fewer wires.
Umm.. I don't remember "The Shrub" beating anyone to death nor shooting anyone. Also, for some reason I keep hearing NeoCon pretty much used as a label for anything the the US Gov does while Bush is in office, even if Democrats/Leftists/Liberals cross over and agree with it. I just heard it applied to the 6-2 supreme court decision today with the permision of using drug smelling dogs in trafic stops. (Of the two disenters, one was leftist, one was rightist, not a "party line" vote)
And to address the other one on the "War on Islam", last I heard Bush got on pretty well with the Saudis, the Kuwaitis (remember Gulf 1?) and probably does with some others as well.
Geeze, can't even get people to correctly post what is going on anymore. Supreme court ruled 6-2 in that with A conservative and liberal judge diseenting. That means that two LEFT as in LIBERAL judges ruled in favor of allowing that. You act as if Bush appointed the entire supreme court himself. Getting really tired of this BS.