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Crimeny, having had a VW Beetle I would estimate that you would have to factor in the cost of a barn to keep enough spare exhausts, wings, sills, filler, primer, welding rods etc to keep 10 of the damn things operative (at least in the UK).
How do RealNetworks stay in business? Are they secretly funded by Microsoft as a distraction? A front for CIA? What the heck is going on?
I look forward to the advertising campaign: 'Hey there, do you find the region encoding and DRM on DVD not restrictive or costly enough? Here at RealNetworks we have the answer to your prayers! Order today and we will double the price _and_ infect you with Hepatitis C!'
Heh, from first-hand experience , OS/2 on 400MHz/64MB/1GB hardware is way more responsive than win embedded on 1GHz/512MB/40GB in _the_same_Bank_ATM_ doing the same job. Also OS/2 withstands idiots unplugging it at random, where Win embedded dies with missing dlls.
Hehe, just reminded me of the level in DN3D with 4 rooms with teleporters at each end leading to the previous/next rooms (like a linked list). You could fire a rocket into the teleporter so that it would go 'round and round' the rooms forever (or until it hit you or some other shmuck in the deathmatch). Good times.
Mandate that the telcos charge an additional few cents per call, which go to the number you are dialling. This will drastically raise the costs of the marketers, make the victims feel better about their answerphone full of crud, and even out between normal people calling each other.
On the other hand, why not build a smaller lighter laptop with built-in 3G (or whatever that week) phone connectivity that connects to an _incredibly_thin_and_lightweight_ ( This is what sells to fashionistas, apparently. Go figure. ) telephone handset via bluetooth? Thus the computer replaces the iPhone.
Pfft. So 'increasing miniaturization and decreasing power requirements' mean that pc hardware is becoming so cheap that we will have an iphone as convergence device and buy a load of dumb terminals, docking stations or whatever you want to call them to plug our iphones into? Yeah, that makes sense(sarcasm-o-meter explodes). Or maybe more computing power will be built into electrical products, so the TV will have an integrated PVR and maybe web browser and other services.
If most of our data and even our applications will follow us around wherever we go, on our phone, it will be by sellotaping a bootable usb stick to our iPhone.
Hah! You Suck!! The imaginary value that _our_ stockholders, working with incomplete information, has placed on _our_ company is higher than the imaginary value that _your_ stockholders, working with incomplete information, has placed on _your_ company! Losers!!
Meh, cheaper low-tech way to reclaim the wasted time: remove the traffic lights and cram them into the orifices of the bureaucrats that waste tax money on them. I have never seen traffic queues at broken lights as long as the queues at fully-functioning lights.
Are you saying that you could install windows as a replacement for the linux operating system by using the linux tools on the disk you want to repartition? That is what you would be attempting if you typed 'format c:' into bash.
I would be booting from a good old fashioned dos image and fdisking and formatting away. While eating marathon bars.
Since it won't be possible for the user to dick around with the OS and apps in order to fix or work around its many flaws, this means that Microsoft must be going to make sure the OS and apps actually work properly before releasing it. Woo!
Or maybe they won't, and M$ will just blame all user problems on ISP QOS.
I don't think decisions are taken by 'the world's population' on what policies to institute. I am part of the world's population and nobody has ever consulted me about anything. Occasionally I get asked 'which of these people that you don't know would you like to make decisions in your name behind closed doors? P.s. you don't get to hear about the data they base the decisions on as it is not in your (the public's) interest'.
Also,how would that be perpetual motion? I never claimed that the electrolysis would be powered by the burning gases. The burning gases power the car and the recovered water can be turned into the gases. You need a power input to run the whole show, hence the quotes around the word just.
Have you seen the cost of this large hagrid colliding thing? What is the point of wasting all that tax money looking for that higgs boson that, when found, will probably have been stepped on or at least be all dirty. Wouldn't it make more sense just to write the boson off at the next inventory count and just requisition a NEW higgs boson from stores? Okay, we need to be more environmentally aware now, and less wasteful of materials but this just confirms what people have told me about these CERN guys; they just take stuff to extremes.
You can run a car on tap water. You 'just' need to electrolyse the water into its component gasses and then burn them in the combustion chambers. You can even collect the exhaust steam and condense it back into the water again.
For instance, my Virgin Media cable has upstream of about 7kbytes/second (yes, seven kilobytes) and downstream of 230kbytes/sec. Woot! Anyone want to calculate how many peers will be needed to watch real-time video? I am not really knocking Virgin Media, they are doing a real good job, for instance their email service has a whopping 30Mb limit (this is for _all_ sent and received, not 30Mb filesize). And all for the low low Virgin Media price of $36 per month. Oh, and they traffic shape, and inspect all your packets and report filesharers. As soon as a rival company digs the whole country up and lays cable, I will be tempted to switch suppliers.
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For a lifetime? Are you unwell?
Crimeny, having had a VW Beetle I would estimate that you would have to factor in the cost of a barn to keep enough spare exhausts, wings, sills, filler, primer, welding rods etc to keep 10 of the damn things operative (at least in the UK).
How do RealNetworks stay in business? Are they secretly funded by Microsoft as a distraction? A front for CIA? What the heck is going on?
I look forward to the advertising campaign:
'Hey there, do you find the region encoding and DRM on DVD not restrictive or costly enough? Here at RealNetworks we have the answer to your prayers! Order today and we will double the price _and_ infect you with Hepatitis C!'
Heh, from first-hand experience , OS/2 on 400MHz/64MB/1GB hardware is way more responsive than win embedded on 1GHz/512MB/40GB in _the_same_Bank_ATM_ doing the same job. Also OS/2 withstands idiots unplugging it at random, where Win embedded dies with missing dlls.
Not sure, but I am waiting for the rapture to take all the fricken christians away!
A super-rapture that took _all_ religious people would be even better.
Hehe, just reminded me of the level in DN3D with 4 rooms with teleporters at each end leading to the previous/next rooms (like a linked list). You could fire a rocket into the teleporter so that it would go 'round and round' the rooms forever (or until it hit you or some other shmuck in the deathmatch).
Good times.
Mandate that the telcos charge an additional few cents per call, which go to the number you are dialling. This will drastically raise the costs of the marketers, make the victims feel better about their answerphone full of crud, and even out between normal people calling each other.
On the other hand, why not build a smaller lighter laptop with built-in 3G (or whatever that week) phone connectivity that connects to an _incredibly_thin_and_lightweight_ ( This is what sells to fashionistas, apparently. Go figure. ) telephone handset via bluetooth?
Thus the computer replaces the iPhone.
Pfft. So 'increasing miniaturization and decreasing power requirements' mean that pc hardware is becoming so cheap that we will have an iphone as convergence device and buy a load of dumb terminals, docking stations or whatever you want to call them to plug our iphones into?
Yeah, that makes sense(sarcasm-o-meter explodes).
Or maybe more computing power will be built into electrical products, so the TV will have an integrated PVR and maybe web browser and other services.
If most of our data and even our applications will follow us around wherever we go, on our phone, it will be by sellotaping a bootable usb stick to our iPhone.
Hah! You Suck!! The imaginary value that _our_ stockholders, working with incomplete information, has placed on _our_ company is higher than the imaginary value that _your_ stockholders, working with incomplete information, has placed on _your_ company! Losers!!
Meh, cheaper low-tech way to reclaim the wasted time: remove the traffic lights and cram them into the orifices of the bureaucrats that waste tax money on them.
I have never seen traffic queues at broken lights as long as the queues at fully-functioning lights.
Are you saying that you could install windows as a replacement for the linux operating system by using the linux tools on the disk you want to repartition? That is what you would be attempting if you typed 'format c:' into bash.
I would be booting from a good old fashioned dos image and fdisking and formatting away. While eating marathon bars.
Oh please please please let the spammers realise that the informed aren't their target audience, and leave too.
Since it won't be possible for the user to dick around with the OS and apps in order to fix or work around its many flaws, this means that Microsoft must be going to make sure the OS and apps actually work properly before releasing it. Woo!
Or maybe they won't, and M$ will just blame all user problems on ISP QOS.
Aluminium is hard, now?
Neat, right up to the point when they use the huge pile of cash to pay for the law to be changed back again and to re-open the old cases.
The GP is talking about circularly polarised lenses. In which axis do you propose rotating the circularly polarised lenses 90 degrees?
I don't think decisions are taken by 'the world's population' on what policies to institute. I am part of the world's population and nobody has ever consulted me about anything. Occasionally I get asked 'which of these people that you don't know would you like to make decisions in your name behind closed doors? P.s. you don't get to hear about the data they base the decisions on as it is not in your (the public's) interest'.
Whoosh!
Also,how would that be perpetual motion? I never claimed that the electrolysis would be powered by the burning gases. The burning gases power the car and the recovered water can be turned into the gases. You need a power input to run the whole show, hence the quotes around the word just.
Have you seen the cost of this large hagrid colliding thing? What is the point of wasting all that tax money looking for that higgs boson that, when found, will probably have been stepped on or at least be all dirty. Wouldn't it make more sense just to write the boson off at the next inventory count and just requisition a NEW higgs boson from stores?
Okay, we need to be more environmentally aware now, and less wasteful of materials but this just confirms what people have told me about these CERN guys; they just take stuff to extremes.
Wasn't this tried at NASA? Didn't it fail because much eyemovement is involuntary?
You can run a car on tap water. You 'just' need to electrolyse the water into its component gasses and then burn them in the combustion chambers. You can even collect the exhaust steam and condense it back into the water again.
For instance, my Virgin Media cable has upstream of about 7kbytes/second (yes, seven kilobytes) and downstream of 230kbytes/sec. Woot! Anyone want to calculate how many peers will be needed to watch real-time video? I am not really knocking Virgin Media, they are doing a real good job, for instance their email service has a whopping 30Mb limit (this is for _all_ sent and received, not 30Mb filesize). And all for the low low Virgin Media price of $36 per month.
Oh, and they traffic shape, and inspect all your packets and report filesharers.
As soon as a rival company digs the whole country up and lays cable, I will be tempted to switch suppliers.
1. Sell 'unlimited broadband at super speeds'
2. Throttle downloads
3. Block usnet
4. ???
5. Increased Profit!!
Oooh, I thought of a beer analogy.
1. Sell 'as much beer as you can drink'
2. Limit to 3 pints per hour
3. Water down beer
4. ???
5. Increased Profit!!
Hey man, don't get so worked up! Remember how close you are to retiring!