Nah, it's a real person with another primary account (I forget the name at the moment). That account was made solely for that joke, as the posting history can attest to. Every time he sees a "new here" reference, he switches accounts to post that.
Apple had (and still has) plenty of "core market" to grow into. Microsoft doesn't. Microsoft already has, what, 90%+ of the desktop OS market in hand. That's not a whole lot to grow into, short of selling new versions to those existing customers, which to be successful, generally (barring really great marketing and PR spin) requires, wait for it, R&D.
Technically, any sort of saving beyond stuffing cash in a mattress is investing, as banks just turn around and loan out any money saved in their accounts, sans a small (possibly too small) reserve amount they have to keep.
Consider soft-tip versus FMJ bullets for example. The Hague convention legally allows only FMJ bullets for humanitarian reasons.
As I recall, the FMJs were specified as they give the guy getting shot a better chance at surviving. Everything else equal, SP/HP bullets cause a lot more damage (and thus kill faster), so there's less time to try to treat the victim.
I'm personally on Sasktel's wireless here (2M/256K for $60/month or 3M/640K for $300, though the latter one is their business version, which comes with an SLA). Cable and DSL are non-existent here (Tiny village of less than 100 people 15 miles from the nearest city, so anyone with basic math skills can see it's not even close to cost effective.), so there's Sasktel's wireless, 2 or 3 other wireless companies (All of which are slower, more expensive, and restricted in various ways (no servers, transfer caps, etc.), or satellite (Which really isn't even worth considering).
The system Sasktel uses is actually a neat hack of DOCSIS 2. Standard cable modem and headend equipment, just with high gain antennas (24dB dish on my end) and a transceiver assembly (I believe the system runs somewhere in the 2.5ghz band, but I'm not entirely sure).
I don't see how your link shows I'm dead wrong. I said RAID-0 was good for bandwidth (transfer rates), as opposed to access times (which for hard drives is merely a function of distance and velocity with an obvious maximum and in SSDs a constant, so RAID-0 would do practically nothing aside from maybe increase it by an irrelevant amount, due to processing overhead.) and your link shows exactly that in their HDTach benchmarks on page 3, though they also show that the real world (or at least the world according to sysmark) difference in performance is marginal.
Last time I checked, RAID-0 is useless for access times regardless of the media. The purpose is bandwidth. And it would definitely benefit most SSDs in regards to write speeds.
but why does a cell all of a sudden decide it has divided too many times and deteriorate?
IIRC, we already know that answer. The cells do not reproduce perfectly. Think of it like a photocopier. You make a copy, then make a copy of that copy, and then a copy of that copy, and so on. Eventually, you'll have an unreadable copy. The same thing applies to cellular DNA, with unreadable resulting in a cancerous cell. Telomeres help prevent this by shortening with each division. When they run out, the cell stops dividing.
As far as I understand, KDE 4 had to be a severe break from 3, as Qt 4 was a severe break from Qt 3. They needed to nearly redo everything, so they took the opportunity to fix stuff and implement new stuff, some of which (a lot, really) doesn't really work yet.
And remember, when you compare KDE 3 to KDE 4, you're comparing about 6.5 years of development work (from.0 to latest version) to barely 1 year.
The Constitution isn't that long, a couple of pages, and the language isn't even that complicated.
Given that you rarely have all nine of the supreme count justices agree on how the constitution applies to something, I think you significantly underestimate its true complexity.
I'm vehemently opposed to most any national legislation. One of the things that make the US great, is the (slipping) states rights element of our country. If you don't like how things are in your state...move to one that is more like you!! We're a diverse nation, and different areas have different feelings, needs and beliefs.
Thing being, if one state makes law allowing this, it become a de facto national law, due to the full faith and credit clause. Just take a vacation to whatever state allows it, then come back, and they have to respect that state's marriage.*
*I'm ignoring the defense of marriage act, being as I'm quite sure that it will be tossed out whenever someone fights it in court.
The maintenance fee for a patent increases as the patent ages.
There's the filing, search, and examination fees when you apply for it (fees depends on what type of patent it is), then the issue fee if/when it is approved (again, variable depending on type), and reissue fees if you're reapplying when your previous application was rejected (variable), then maintenance fees due at 3.5 years ($980), 7.5 years ($2480), and 11.5 years ($4110) after the patent is granted.
The most of the fees are halved for "small entities".
If I'm adding correctly, the total cost of filing, acquiring, and maintaining a utility patent (assuming it gets through on the first try) is about $10,170 and a design patent is about $8,890.
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Guys, do the world a favor, go play in traffic.
While listening to a book on a kindle.
Nah, it's a real person with another primary account (I forget the name at the moment). That account was made solely for that joke, as the posting history can attest to. Every time he sees a "new here" reference, he switches accounts to post that.
Apple had (and still has) plenty of "core market" to grow into. Microsoft doesn't. Microsoft already has, what, 90%+ of the desktop OS market in hand. That's not a whole lot to grow into, short of selling new versions to those existing customers, which to be successful, generally (barring really great marketing and PR spin) requires, wait for it, R&D.
Technically, any sort of saving beyond stuffing cash in a mattress is investing, as banks just turn around and loan out any money saved in their accounts, sans a small (possibly too small) reserve amount they have to keep.
I usually see a 5-speed standard as standard equipment on most cars and an automatic (usually 4-speed) as an option
was actually outlawed in the US for broadcast TV
If it is illegal, nobody pays any attention to that law.
It'll do a 700 series eeePC. It's little under 22W maximum draw.
Consider soft-tip versus FMJ bullets for example. The Hague convention legally allows only FMJ bullets for humanitarian reasons.
As I recall, the FMJs were specified as they give the guy getting shot a better chance at surviving. Everything else equal, SP/HP bullets cause a lot more damage (and thus kill faster), so there's less time to try to treat the victim.
I'm personally on Sasktel's wireless here (2M/256K for $60/month or 3M/640K for $300, though the latter one is their business version, which comes with an SLA). Cable and DSL are non-existent here (Tiny village of less than 100 people 15 miles from the nearest city, so anyone with basic math skills can see it's not even close to cost effective.), so there's Sasktel's wireless, 2 or 3 other wireless companies (All of which are slower, more expensive, and restricted in various ways (no servers, transfer caps, etc.), or satellite (Which really isn't even worth considering).
The system Sasktel uses is actually a neat hack of DOCSIS 2. Standard cable modem and headend equipment, just with high gain antennas (24dB dish on my end) and a transceiver assembly (I believe the system runs somewhere in the 2.5ghz band, but I'm not entirely sure).
I don't see how your link shows I'm dead wrong. I said RAID-0 was good for bandwidth (transfer rates), as opposed to access times (which for hard drives is merely a function of distance and velocity with an obvious maximum and in SSDs a constant, so RAID-0 would do practically nothing aside from maybe increase it by an irrelevant amount, due to processing overhead.) and your link shows exactly that in their HDTach benchmarks on page 3, though they also show that the real world (or at least the world according to sysmark) difference in performance is marginal.
You presume they will sell you a business account when you live in a residential area and that they won't cap the business accounts.
Though at least these guys are providing an unlimited tier.
Last time I checked, RAID-0 is useless for access times regardless of the media. The purpose is bandwidth. And it would definitely benefit most SSDs in regards to write speeds.
Editing genes likely won't help when you get hit by a bus.
Even if you're ageless and we can cure every disease, there's still lots of other ways to die.
AFAIK, it works if you use a US credit card with a US billing address, so it is an option for the "US citizen traveling abroad"
but why does a cell all of a sudden decide it has divided too many times and deteriorate?
IIRC, we already know that answer. The cells do not reproduce perfectly. Think of it like a photocopier. You make a copy, then make a copy of that copy, and then a copy of that copy, and so on. Eventually, you'll have an unreadable copy. The same thing applies to cellular DNA, with unreadable resulting in a cancerous cell. Telomeres help prevent this by shortening with each division. When they run out, the cell stops dividing.
As far as I understand, KDE 4 had to be a severe break from 3, as Qt 4 was a severe break from Qt 3. They needed to nearly redo everything, so they took the opportunity to fix stuff and implement new stuff, some of which (a lot, really) doesn't really work yet.
And remember, when you compare KDE 3 to KDE 4, you're comparing about 6.5 years of development work (from .0 to latest version) to barely 1 year.
IIRC, the Cray-2's word is 64-bits, so 2GB.
The Constitution isn't that long, a couple of pages, and the language isn't even that complicated.
Given that you rarely have all nine of the supreme count justices agree on how the constitution applies to something, I think you significantly underestimate its true complexity.
Require every law to explicitly cite the part of the constitution that permits the government to do that.
Unless I'm mistaken, they already have to do that.
Of course it does. What other kind of pornography would children want to look at?
My Plymouth acclaim (4 door mid-sized sedan built in Detroit) from 16 years ago also gets better than 30MPG.
I'm vehemently opposed to most any national legislation. One of the things that make the US great, is the (slipping) states rights element of our country. If you don't like how things are in your state...move to one that is more like you!! We're a diverse nation, and different areas have different feelings, needs and beliefs.
Thing being, if one state makes law allowing this, it become a de facto national law, due to the full faith and credit clause. Just take a vacation to whatever state allows it, then come back, and they have to respect that state's marriage.*
*I'm ignoring the defense of marriage act, being as I'm quite sure that it will be tossed out whenever someone fights it in court.
I would presume with the amount of patents said companies deal with, they'd just have their own patent attorneys in house on salary.
The maintenance fee for a patent increases as the patent ages.
There's the filing, search, and examination fees when you apply for it (fees depends on what type of patent it is), then the issue fee if/when it is approved (again, variable depending on type), and reissue fees if you're reapplying when your previous application was rejected (variable), then maintenance fees due at 3.5 years ($980), 7.5 years ($2480), and 11.5 years ($4110) after the patent is granted.
The most of the fees are halved for "small entities".
If I'm adding correctly, the total cost of filing, acquiring, and maintaining a utility patent (assuming it gets through on the first try) is about $10,170 and a design patent is about $8,890.
I was under the impression that it's a nuisance as the access time for a mechanical hard drive is six or seven orders of magnitude slower than RAM.