My point was I don't want any 900lb gorillas in the room. I suppose you're right about office products. Right now they're just using their revenue from them to try and get a choke hold on other markets. All right, in retrospect I'm going to vote for Nintendo. No way they could become a 900lb gorilla (again), but they could provide some honest competition. I was gonna get a revolution anyway.
Microsoft may have announced a delay in Vista (thank god, I'd rather have it released right or not at all.), but Sony announced a delay in the launch of the PS3.
Microsoft has gotten so big, and diversified that if one division slumps a little, the others will easily be able to pick up the slack. It would take a catastrophy in several divisions to truly hurt Microsoft now. So what about a storm? We need only wait till Vista comes out, till PS3 comes out, and till the numbers on both are announced.
Personally, as I am sure most other slashdotters, I would like to see Sony prevail - see apple and linux rise, and see a market with true competition.
So, the only way these people can overcome sensationalist fear is by exposing them to another *new* sensationalist fear? What really irks me is that because of these people, *if* conditions are as they are because of fossil fuels, things will have been made far worse than they ever would have been with Nuclear.
So it took melting icecaps with an eternaly rising summer to finally scare these people away from the nuclear winter hype?
I could install a version of OSX on my Toshiba Tablet PC, and have it support the pressure sensative display.
You see, unlike just about anything else, I would PAY for that. I sincerely hope this is a step in that direction for MAC. As of right now their nothing more than a glorified Dell with their own proprietary OS.
It doesn't matter what China's policies are if they try to sell it in the US, then they will be subject to US laws. (Of course only in regards to their sales in the US)
"On the eve of its long-delayed China launch, BlackBerry is facing a sudden challenge from a cheaper Chinese rival called, unapologetically, RedBerry.
Oh, that's not nice...
China Unicom left no doubt that it is brazenly attempting to capitalize on BlackBerry's global fame.
So they admit it!
You know, maybe they're counting on Blackberry being too worn out with the courts to persue anything, and IANAL, but isn't this a pretty blatant rip-off? I wonder how long till we see Blackberry sues Redberry - Blueberry feels left out in the cold.
Seriously though, when a country has no real threats to look at on the outside, (at least no nations as a whole), it turns it's eyes inward.
The next couple of decades are going to be interesting, as technology makes it easier and easier to spy. When and where are the lines going to be drawn in the sand?
To make it stop crashing? I mean I like firefox and all, and I use it on every computer I have, but I've also seen it crash on every computer I've had... Especially when it comes time to open the dreaded PDF...
So I ask, are there any extensions or hacks to help with this?
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I am impressed, but I am left with a feeling that it just isn't mature enough yet as a mail client.
That's why it's GMail *beta*, and not just GMail
That said, this beta web client is probably the best one I've ever had, mature or not. I mean if it can be compared to Pine, an email client that has been around for *years*, and then pretty much come out on top while still in beta form...
I'm assuming never, as it seems that as things progress we're seeing less of a need to reboot. In windows 9x/me you pretty much had to restart after making *ANY* changes. If you installed a porogram, reboot. If you changed a minor network setting, reboot. If things started getting slow, reboot! The network doesn't work? REBOOT!!!
Now in XP however if the network stops working a reboot seldom fixes it. When you install programs, with the exception of Windows updates and anti-viruses, you need not reboot. The same is true for degrading performance. For the most part rebooting doesn't fix that like it used to, as XP manages memory in a much more effecient manner, and actually knows how to free and reallocate it.
So when, you ask, will we be able to fix everything with a reboot? I answer, will the next true generation of computers even need a reboot function, or will we simply let them fall asleep, only to awake them when needed. Most problems will correct themselves in the future, I'm curious as to how long we'll still be seeing error messages, even if something does go wrong.
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true that the winds would have moved it wround, but that even then there would be more water localized in that area from such an event.
Take phoenix arizona for instance. All of the suburbs there have altered the local weather patterns, mostly do to their lawns. People water their lawns day and night, and most of that water evaporates, and while some of it spreads out, most of it stays rather close and forms rain clouds. This increases humidity, rain, and local vegitation. I can't imagine a comet dropping a lakes worth of water would be too much different. sure not all of the water would stick around, but it would certainly be more than likely that the majority of it would be near the crater. Well, just a simple hypothesis again. It's just as likely that the only reason it stuck around there is that the walls of the crater are sufficiently high enough to create shade during a long enough perioud in the day/year to keep it cool. It just doesn't look so much like that, as it appears the ice protrudes from the surface quite a bit.
Perhaps that ice wasn't always there.
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Isn't it possible that whatever made the crater is also what brought the ICE? I mean, if it was a comet it could have made a very large and localized ice deposit; since they already mentioned that most of the ice had disappeared years ago. Well, that's just my little hypothesis, who knows how old that crater is!
This is only news because it happened to Journalist. The very keepers of the news.
To them this seemed like a big deal, so they thought it might to us. Well, it doesn't. I wonder how it got past our vigorous screening process here at Slashdot...
Well not right NOW, but I was thinking by the time they're close to extinction, it might. Hell, this might even help draw in support for cloning research. People would absolutely hate to see these critters die off, and we can dig deep into the pockets of that kind of sympathy for all sorts of research. It's kind of like when a celeberity gets a disease that didn't get much research or publicity before. All of a sudden organizations are founded, and funding pours in.
I'm not sure this is a good thing... In the past whenever something went direct to dvd/video, it meant that basically they had produced it on a shoestring budget, for the sole purpose of taking advantage of success from it's prequels... If disney has taught us anything, it's how to run a franchise into the ground. I'm not sure I want futurama's good name ruined in such fashion...
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My point was I don't want any 900lb gorillas in the room. I suppose you're right about office products. Right now they're just using their revenue from them to try and get a choke hold on other markets. All right, in retrospect I'm going to vote for Nintendo. No way they could become a 900lb gorilla (again), but they could provide some honest competition. I was gonna get a revolution anyway.
Microsoft may have announced a delay in Vista (thank god, I'd rather have it released right or not at all.), but Sony announced a delay in the launch of the PS3.
Microsoft has gotten so big, and diversified that if one division slumps a little, the others will easily be able to pick up the slack. It would take a catastrophy in several divisions to truly hurt Microsoft now. So what about a storm? We need only wait till Vista comes out, till PS3 comes out, and till the numbers on both are announced.
Personally, as I am sure most other slashdotters, I would like to see Sony prevail - see apple and linux rise, and see a market with true competition.
So, the only way these people can overcome sensationalist fear is by exposing them to another *new* sensationalist fear? What really irks me is that because of these people, *if* conditions are as they are because of fossil fuels, things will have been made far worse than they ever would have been with Nuclear.
So it took melting icecaps with an eternaly rising summer to finally scare these people away from the nuclear winter hype?
I could install a version of OSX on my Toshiba Tablet PC, and have it support the pressure sensative display.
You see, unlike just about anything else, I would PAY for that. I sincerely hope this is a step in that direction for MAC. As of right now their nothing more than a glorified Dell with their own proprietary OS.
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'"If we wait too long, however, it doesn't work'
So unfortunately, no. Your parents still have to live with their mistake.
It doesn't matter what China's policies are if they try to sell it in the US, then they will be subject to US laws. (Of course only in regards to their sales in the US)
"On the eve of its long-delayed China launch, BlackBerry is facing a sudden challenge from a cheaper Chinese rival called, unapologetically, RedBerry.
Oh, that's not nice... China Unicom left no doubt that it is brazenly attempting to capitalize on BlackBerry's global fame.
So they admit it!
You know, maybe they're counting on Blackberry being too worn out with the courts to persue anything, and IANAL, but isn't this a pretty blatant rip-off? I wonder how long till we see Blackberry sues Redberry - Blueberry feels left out in the cold.
And I'm about to put an Elephant on a toddler's Tricycle!
To 1984.
Seriously though, when a country has no real threats to look at on the outside, (at least no nations as a whole), it turns it's eyes inward.
The next couple of decades are going to be interesting, as technology makes it easier and easier to spy. When and where are the lines going to be drawn in the sand?
To make it stop crashing? I mean I like firefox and all, and I use it on every computer I have, but I've also seen it crash on every computer I've had... Especially when it comes time to open the dreaded PDF...
So I ask, are there any extensions or hacks to help with this?
I am impressed, but I am left with a feeling that it just isn't mature enough yet as a mail client.
That's why it's GMail *beta*, and not just GMail
That said, this beta web client is probably the best one I've ever had, mature or not. I mean if it can be compared to Pine, an email client that has been around for *years*, and then pretty much come out on top while still in beta form...
I'm assuming never, as it seems that as things progress we're seeing less of a need to reboot. In windows 9x/me you pretty much had to restart after making *ANY* changes. If you installed a porogram, reboot. If you changed a minor network setting, reboot. If things started getting slow, reboot! The network doesn't work? REBOOT!!!
Now in XP however if the network stops working a reboot seldom fixes it. When you install programs, with the exception of Windows updates and anti-viruses, you need not reboot. The same is true for degrading performance. For the most part rebooting doesn't fix that like it used to, as XP manages memory in a much more effecient manner, and actually knows how to free and reallocate it.
So when, you ask, will we be able to fix everything with a reboot? I answer, will the next true generation of computers even need a reboot function, or will we simply let them fall asleep, only to awake them when needed. Most problems will correct themselves in the future, I'm curious as to how long we'll still be seeing error messages, even if something does go wrong.
You're thinking methane, cows don't fart a notable ammount of carbon dioxide.
But then suddenly it leaps to safety!
true that the winds would have moved it wround, but that even then there would be more water localized in that area from such an event.
Take phoenix arizona for instance. All of the suburbs there have altered the local weather patterns, mostly do to their lawns. People water their lawns day and night, and most of that water evaporates, and while some of it spreads out, most of it stays rather close and forms rain clouds. This increases humidity, rain, and local vegitation. I can't imagine a comet dropping a lakes worth of water would be too much different. sure not all of the water would stick around, but it would certainly be more than likely that the majority of it would be near the crater. Well, just a simple hypothesis again. It's just as likely that the only reason it stuck around there is that the walls of the crater are sufficiently high enough to create shade during a long enough perioud in the day/year to keep it cool. It just doesn't look so much like that, as it appears the ice protrudes from the surface quite a bit.
Isn't it possible that whatever made the crater is also what brought the ICE? I mean, if it was a comet it could have made a very large and localized ice deposit; since they already mentioned that most of the ice had disappeared years ago. Well, that's just my little hypothesis, who knows how old that crater is!
I've been looking for a way to risk skin cancer indoors, and windows are so dependent on direction.
In all seriousness though, I'm sure they filter out the harmful UV rays. Maybe it would help if I RTFA.
This is only news because it happened to Journalist. The very keepers of the news.
To them this seemed like a big deal, so they thought it might to us. Well, it doesn't. I wonder how it got past our vigorous screening process here at Slashdot...
Well not right NOW, but I was thinking by the time they're close to extinction, it might. Hell, this might even help draw in support for cloning research. People would absolutely hate to see these critters die off, and we can dig deep into the pockets of that kind of sympathy for all sorts of research. It's kind of like when a celeberity gets a disease that didn't get much research or publicity before. All of a sudden organizations are founded, and funding pours in.
wish I could mod in a section I posted in, that was very informative.
*coughCLONINGcough*cough
How that poacher is going to get that gun past zoo security...
I seriously doubt they'll go extinct, but tusked elephants may go extinct in the wild.
I'm not sure this is a good thing... In the past whenever something went direct to dvd/video, it meant that basically they had produced it on a shoestring budget, for the sole purpose of taking advantage of success from it's prequels... If disney has taught us anything, it's how to run a franchise into the ground. I'm not sure I want futurama's good name ruined in such fashion...
Hmm, you have a point... 1/3 of 1/3... by that logic this has about a 1/9 chance of being BS, unless I'm forgetting yet another factor.