Tell ya what. If you care about the homeless so much, take the time you've wasted on Slashdot, get a second job. Use the money to feed and house them. Or go volunteer for Habitat for Humanity.
I tired and only had problems. Too many items that worked on the Palm did not in Outlook. Too many things that worked in Outlook did not work with the Palm. But if you are happy with the Palm, go for it. I'm happy with the Pocket PC and won't swap it for anything.
I stopped using my Palm within six months of buying it. I've been using my Pocket PC for two years. Why did I stick with the Pocket PC? I use Outlook exclusively for scheduling, task tracking and contact gathering, and the Pocket PC works really well with it.
And the fact that I can write programs for it without having to learn another programming language is a very nice bonus.
So, if you are insuating that the Pocket PC is NOT useful for organizing, you are misinformed.
1) I never said don't pursue the technology.... Just a weird thought about its potential use. Certainly you are not advocating that we don't thing of how the technology could be used by someone, are you?
2) You might be right. You might be wrong:)
3) I was just making up a scenario where anti-matter might be obtainable by the average person... not planning on pantenting anything... I was just thinking about how big we could make our SUVs if we had a cheaper power source:)
Thanks for the information and the links. Some interest. I'd figured the upper end of my scale would be good for a single bomb released from the air... concussion would wipe out life. From the Tsar Bomba link, I see I was wrong.... maybe by a couple orders of magnitude.
So, I can sleep better knowing that a terrorist couldn't destory the earth with something that could fit in his pocket... he'd need at lease a U-Haul to make that happen.... end what are the odds of that?:)
How much antimatter would it take to wipe out all human life on earth? My guess is in the 20g - 5000g range, depending on how it is "deployed". Anyone else have a better clue?
Why do I ask? Think about nuclear power. We are now worried about radioactive material falling into the wrong hands. Fortunately, we have some detection methods to make it a little harder to deploy. Now if antimatter becomes a common battery source (say SUV's have 1 millionth of a gram to make it run for the week), how hard would it be to make the ULTIMATE terrorist act?
Granted, the availability of antimatter on this scale won't happen for a few decades, if not centuries. But when it does... it will be interesting...
So, how does that translate into "google gets control of the domain"? Oughtn't it be up for grabs? Sorry, while Google is the best search engine, has a nice webmail client, etc., I think this ruling stinks.
My submission was rejected. Not complaing... but mine made note of the MikeRoweSoft.com site. Microsoft's attempt to take the domain failed. Yet Google's case is inherently the same, yet they prevailed.
And here, no one is kvetching about the Google decision, while everyone did about Microsoft's attempted domain snatching....
Kinetic energy from one blast might not work. But if you could land something on the comet that could provide a sustained small thrust, you wouldn't need the same lead time.
For example, a solar sail could do it... or some kind of rocket that could use the comet as fuel.
These experiments give us enough knowledge to at least give us options that have a chance of working.
Choose to believe what you choose to believe. But basically, you have defined the measurements to your liking so tightly that your theory cannot be disproven. This would be called 'blind faith', the very thing you make fun of.
However, I am sure you will come up with a rationalization to justify it...
So, yes, their recent 3 1/2 year period of profitability is nice. But Microsoft is the king of business, even with an inferior product. So, guess what? My comment about management having their head up their ass is accurate.
Yup. Except for their business sense. Microsoft likes to make profits, Apple only recently started following that business model.
That and using proprietary hardware.... Apple is only begining to get their head out or their ass on that one. Can you imagine what Apple could have been, if they only had business people who understood how things work? They'd be the monopoly everyone complains about...
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Tell ya what. If you care about the homeless so much, take the time you've wasted on Slashdot, get a second job. Use the money to feed and house them. Or go volunteer for Habitat for Humanity.
I tired and only had problems. Too many items that worked on the Palm did not in Outlook. Too many things that worked in Outlook did not work with the Palm. But if you are happy with the Palm, go for it. I'm happy with the Pocket PC and won't swap it for anything.
I can code for it using any .NET compliant programming language. You could also use older variants of VB.
I stopped using my Palm within six months of buying it. I've been using my Pocket PC for two years. Why did I stick with the Pocket PC? I use Outlook exclusively for scheduling, task tracking and contact gathering, and the Pocket PC works really well with it.
And the fact that I can write programs for it without having to learn another programming language is a very nice bonus.
So, if you are insuating that the Pocket PC is NOT useful for organizing, you are misinformed.
My reaction to the statement "eewweee it tasts yucky" is usually "why are you still here"?
;)
And her reaction is: "Because I live here... I am you sister after all!"
1) I never said don't pursue the technology.... Just a weird thought about its potential use. Certainly you are not advocating that we don't thing of how the technology could be used by someone, are you?
:)
:)
2) You might be right. You might be wrong
3) I was just making up a scenario where anti-matter might be obtainable by the average person... not planning on pantenting anything... I was just thinking about how big we could make our SUVs if we had a cheaper power source
Thanks for the information and the links. Some interest. I'd figured the upper end of my scale would be good for a single bomb released from the air... concussion would wipe out life. From the Tsar Bomba link, I see I was wrong.... maybe by a couple orders of magnitude.
:)
So, I can sleep better knowing that a terrorist couldn't destory the earth with something that could fit in his pocket... he'd need at lease a U-Haul to make that happen.... end what are the odds of that?
How much antimatter would it take to wipe out all human life on earth? My guess is in the 20g - 5000g range, depending on how it is "deployed". Anyone else have a better clue?
Why do I ask? Think about nuclear power. We are now worried about radioactive material falling into the wrong hands. Fortunately, we have some detection methods to make it a little harder to deploy. Now if antimatter becomes a common battery source (say SUV's have 1 millionth of a gram to make it run for the week), how hard would it be to make the ULTIMATE terrorist act?
Granted, the availability of antimatter on this scale won't happen for a few decades, if not centuries. But when it does... it will be interesting...
So, how does that translate into "google gets control of the domain"? Oughtn't it be up for grabs? Sorry, while Google is the best search engine, has a nice webmail client, etc., I think this ruling stinks.
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Seems like Mike Rowe sold his domain rather quickly after gaining notoriety. I don't think he was doing it purely because "it was a cool domain name".
My submission was rejected. Not complaing... but mine made note of the MikeRoweSoft.com site. Microsoft's attempt to take the domain failed. Yet Google's case is inherently the same, yet they prevailed.
And here, no one is kvetching about the Google decision, while everyone did about Microsoft's attempted domain snatching....
You forgot to say that it should also be compatable with Linux.
Noob.
Can you cite a source for that?
How would you inhale it to get the smell?
Kinetic energy from one blast might not work. But if you could land something on the comet that could provide a sustained small thrust, you wouldn't need the same lead time.
For example, a solar sail could do it... or some kind of rocket that could use the comet as fuel.
These experiments give us enough knowledge to at least give us options that have a chance of working.
I, for one, think they should attach a giant nose so they can smell it too.
In a vaccum, both should be equally useful.
Has China begin using rockets they have designed, or are they still using Russian technology?
Choose to believe what you choose to believe. But basically, you have defined the measurements to your liking so tightly that your theory cannot be disproven. This would be called 'blind faith', the very thing you make fun of.
However, I am sure you will come up with a rationalization to justify it...
Quit splitting hairs. You could argue that al quaida is blowing things up due to political, not religious reasons.
The biggest mass murderers in history were atheists... research the Bolshevik revolution and the Maoist "cultural revolution".
My post:
A APL
'Microsoft likes to make profits. Apple only recently started following that business model.'
Your post:
Yes, Apple has never turned a profit.
You go off on some tangent claiming I said they have NEVER turned a profit. Please learn to read.
Apple's most recent losing year was 2001. They had a couple good years before that. Before that, they were consistent dogs. For reference:
http://www.stockselector.com/earnings.asp?symbol=
So, yes, their recent 3 1/2 year period of profitability is nice. But Microsoft is the king of business, even with an inferior product. So, guess what? My comment about management having their head up their ass is accurate.
Yup. Except for their business sense. Microsoft likes to make profits, Apple only recently started following that business model.
That and using proprietary hardware.... Apple is only begining to get their head out or their ass on that one. Can you imagine what Apple could have been, if they only had business people who understood how things work? They'd be the monopoly everyone complains about...
Please read your own sig :)
"asy" isn't a word.
Works fine for me.
(Whoa cowboy! You must have more than two fingers. Please chop the extra ones off, and repost)