Since the magnetic field is shielding the Earth from cosmic radiation, I suspect it would affect the temperature in some way. The key word here is 'suspect'. I'm not a scientist, but I really want to know if my suspicion is real or not. Does it affect the climate (thus making it convenient to leave this out of the debate for people who predict man-made climate disaster), or doesn't it?
This story is from yesterday, so my hopes of getting any answers here are slim. I can still hope...
As for the new PowerBooks and PowerBook Pros, the price really is competitive. Compare the new Sony Vaio Core Duo 13,3" to the PowerBook 13,3". No matter what you add to the Mac config, you'll never reach the Sony's astronomical price.
What about comparing Dell's new Core Duo 17" to the PowerBook Pro 17". The Dell is considerably more expensive.
This isn't saying Mac's are by any means cheap, but the competition isn't cheaper...
Now keep in mind that Parallels Desktop is not finished yet. I'm running RC2, and although there are some quirks, it runs lightening fast. The reason is that it's using Intel's VT-x technology, and VMware doesn't do that (yet).
That said, I too hope that VMware will release one or more of it's products for MacIntel. The product is far more mature. And since I've been working heavily on VMware's products for years, I feel more "in command" using them.
There is also the option of being honest with these people that you quite like personally. Tell them what you just told us.
Some times, you will find that people are really understanding. If they're not really understanding, then maybe you should reconsider if you like them. This is usually a sign that they don't really like you, and that you're just okay to have around because you fix things for them.
I know this is potentially hard to do. This always happens to people doing IT support (both hardware and software). I don't know why people are always willing to pay their car mechanics/plumber/electrician/carpenter/lawyer friends, while computer professionals are just expected to do things for free.
Anyway, my experience is: If people start taking andvantage of you, if they start taking you for granted, if they are abusing your goodwill... Then they are not your real friends, and it's time to end it off.
Yeah, I'm most certainly too late to have any hope of being modded up.
Anyway, and I'm not protesting that there is a global warming going on, the Earth's magnetic field has decreased by 10-15% the last 100 years. The magnetic field is shielding us from radiation from space. Given that this field is weakest at the poles, this might have something to do with the missing ozone layer at the north and south pole.
Further, the planet is bound to be getting warmer with less shielding. Now why won't anyone take this into consideration? Because it's not spectacular enough? This just in: The global warming may not all be man made?
If there is some global warming going on due to greenhouse gases, there is the possibility we are speeding it up without our knowledge. The last 100 years or so, the air has been polluted by smoke and particles creating what's called global dimming.
What's happened is that we're getting very good at cleaning away this pollution. Catalysators on cars and cleaning systems for the industrial smoke. Again we see that more sunlight hits the earth, making it a warmer place.
My point is that there are more factors than populary taken into consideration. Man made global warming is without a doubt a possibility. What if we're only speeding up the inevitable?
A VM sounds nice, but I can't see how it would be any easier to make a VM for OSX than it is for x86-Linux, and the existing x86-Linux emulators (or translation layers or whatever) are far from perfect. I don't want WINE for Mac, I want Windows!
Now WINE isn't virtualization...
VMWare, on the other hand, is. It has existed for Linux (on x86) since the beginning, and there is even a VMWare player for Syllable.
I expect some version of VMWare for Mac OSX, I only hope it comes soon.
Finally, a piece of software that delivers video chat to both Mac, Linux and Windows users. I'm so tired of trying out stinking Messenger clones on my Mac that barely works, since Microsoft has decided not to include video in Messenger for Mac.
I'm all for open standards, but Skype delivers to my needs. Thank you Skype. (Now all you have to do is make the new beta available for my precious PowerBook.)
The most entertaining part (IMO) of this article was a little snippet at the end, called "SPAM OF THE WEEK":
SPAM OF THE WEEK: We love spams that leave us with absolutely no idea what we're supposed to do. Like the one that came to the Real Time box last month from the sender Van Announcement. Its subject was "Drinks?" and the message body was "Happy hour @ 6:00 @ Jake's". And that was it -- no date, no embedded gif, no link, nothing. Was something missing? Was this some code we weren't cool enough to decipher? Perhaps it's just the grim possibility that we missed free booze, but we'd still like to know.
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The Earth's magnetic field is fading. It has decreased by about 10% the last 150 years or so. (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/09/0 909_040909_earthmagfield.html)
Since the magnetic field is shielding the Earth from cosmic radiation, I suspect it would affect the temperature in some way. The key word here is 'suspect'. I'm not a scientist, but I really want to know if my suspicion is real or not. Does it affect the climate (thus making it convenient to leave this out of the debate for people who predict man-made climate disaster), or doesn't it?
This story is from yesterday, so my hopes of getting any answers here are slim. I can still hope...
As for the new PowerBooks and PowerBook Pros, the price really is competitive.
Compare the new Sony Vaio Core Duo 13,3" to the PowerBook 13,3". No matter what you add to the Mac config, you'll never reach the Sony's astronomical price.
What about comparing Dell's new Core Duo 17" to the PowerBook Pro 17".
The Dell is considerably more expensive.
This isn't saying Mac's are by any means cheap, but the competition isn't cheaper...
Now keep in mind that Parallels Desktop is not finished yet.
I'm running RC2, and although there are some quirks, it runs lightening fast.
The reason is that it's using Intel's VT-x technology, and VMware doesn't do that (yet).
That said, I too hope that VMware will release one or more of it's products for MacIntel.
The product is far more mature. And since I've been working heavily on VMware's products for years, I feel more "in command" using them.
There is also the option of being honest with these people that you quite like personally.
Tell them what you just told us.
Some times, you will find that people are really understanding.
If they're not really understanding, then maybe you should reconsider if you like them. This is usually a sign that they don't really like you, and that you're just okay to have around because you fix things for them.
I know this is potentially hard to do. This always happens to people doing IT support (both hardware and software). I don't know why people are always willing to pay their car mechanics/plumber/electrician/carpenter/lawyer friends, while computer professionals are just expected to do things for free.
Anyway, my experience is: If people start taking andvantage of you, if they start taking you for granted, if they are abusing your goodwill... Then they are not your real friends, and it's time to end it off.
Since the Slashdot effect is working it's magic, here are (unfortunately only three) other screenshots: http://garret.wordpress.com/2006/01/30/kde4-screen shots/
Yeah, I'm most certainly too late to have any hope of being modded up.
Anyway, and I'm not protesting that there is a global warming going on, the Earth's magnetic field has decreased by 10-15% the last 100 years. The magnetic field is shielding us from radiation from space. Given that this field is weakest at the poles, this might have something to do with the missing ozone layer at the north and south pole.
Further, the planet is bound to be getting warmer with less shielding. Now why won't anyone take this into consideration? Because it's not spectacular enough? This just in: The global warming may not all be man made?
If there is some global warming going on due to greenhouse gases, there is the possibility we are speeding it up without our knowledge. The last 100 years or so, the air has been polluted by smoke and particles creating what's called global dimming.
What's happened is that we're getting very good at cleaning away this pollution. Catalysators on cars and cleaning systems for the industrial smoke. Again we see that more sunlight hits the earth, making it a warmer place.
My point is that there are more factors than populary taken into consideration. Man made global warming is without a doubt a possibility. What if we're only speeding up the inevitable?
A VM sounds nice, but I can't see how it would be any easier to make a VM for OSX than it is for x86-Linux, and the existing x86-Linux emulators (or translation layers or whatever) are far from perfect. I don't want WINE for Mac, I want Windows!
Now WINE isn't virtualization...
VMWare, on the other hand, is. It has existed for Linux (on x86) since the beginning, and there is even a VMWare player for Syllable.
I expect some version of VMWare for Mac OSX, I only hope it comes soon.
Yeah, laugh if you want to...
iTunes is free, it can rip CDs (yes, to mp3 as well), it organizes your library, you can search, you can make playlists.
iTunes uses Gracenote CDDB, which is quite good IMO.
Ooooh, this is bad. Swedish prices are similar too.
I'll be paying this Mastercard bill for a looooong time.
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Aaaah, I wish God was alive to see this...
Finally, a piece of software that delivers video chat to both Mac, Linux and Windows users.
I'm so tired of trying out stinking Messenger clones on my Mac that barely works, since Microsoft has decided not to include video in Messenger for Mac.
I'm all for open standards, but Skype delivers to my needs.
Thank you Skype. (Now all you have to do is make the new beta available for my precious PowerBook.)
One of the benefits of being an old hacker is that you get to know that a zombie process can't be kill -9'ed...
Well, this page lists all the URLs associated with CWS.
/etc/hosts.
Add these hosts to your webfilter/proxy blocking list:
coolwebsearch.com, webcoolsearch.com, 193.125.201.50, 1stpagehere.com, 66.250.130.194, adulthyperlinks.com, allhyperlinks.com, approvedlinks.com, bestcrawler.com, cantfind.com, carsands.com, cool-web-search.com, coolfreepage.com, coolwwwsearch.com, couldnotfind.com, defaultsearch.net, dev.ntcor.com, ewebsearch.net, findloss.com, findwhat.com, firstbookmark.net, freebookmark.net, freebookmarks.net, global-finder.com, itseasy.us, jethomepage.com, jetseeker.com, kazaa-lite.ws, martfinder.com, mommykiss.com, mywebsearch.net, noblindlinks.com, ok-search.com, pedo.ws, runsearch.com, search-2003.com, search.xrenoder.com, searchdesire.com, searchv.com, searchxp.com, sharempeg.com, slawsearch.com, slotch.com, stopxxxpics.com, super-spider.com, super-websearch.com, the-exit.com, the-huns-yellow-pages.com, topsearcher.com, unipages.cc, web-search.tk, white-pages.ws, youfindall.com, youfindall.net, yourbookmarks.info, yourbookmarks.ws
And/or add 127.0.0.1 before each host, and add those to your
The most entertaining part (IMO) of this article was a little snippet at the end, called "SPAM OF THE WEEK":
SPAM OF THE WEEK: We love spams that leave us with absolutely no idea what we're supposed to do. Like the one that came to the Real Time box last month from the sender Van Announcement. Its subject was "Drinks?" and the message body was "Happy hour @ 6:00 @ Jake's". And that was it -- no date, no embedded gif, no link, nothing. Was something missing? Was this some code we weren't cool enough to decipher? Perhaps it's just the grim possibility that we missed free booze, but we'd still like to know.
Just wanted to point out the most obvious roman numeral above ///:
MacOS X...
Yeah, yeah... Anyone can use a GPS for what they want.
What impresses me, is how this will detect that the janitor took your laptop.
I'm just waiting for our old pal Bill to release Internet Explorer as open source.
Then there will be lots of new IE exploits.
This must be Microsoft's master plan to prove that open source really is evil!
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