But this thing is a plane, so it's a bad choice. It's not much use in the great outdoors if it's very small, because the lightest gust of wind is going to send it 50' off course. Besides, the need to maintain forward progress to ensure lift is going to make a fixed-wing aircraft a tool of limited use, except maybe for buzzing drunk schoolmates at the annual picnic.
I completely agree. Flies move by flapping their wings at a high speed, allowing for quick changes in direction and such. Fixed wing aircraft require forward momentum along with changes to control surfaces in order to change direction. The problem with a fixed wing aircraft that is the size of a fly is that not just a gust of wind, but even the tiniest ripple in the surrounding air, will cause it to either stall or move off course. Not to mention they would have to miniaturize everything: the propeller, power source, cameras, and all other on board electronics. The article says that it could one day be used for search and rescue but I don't know how an autonomous robot is going to know to look for humans, unless it has an infared sensor which just adds that much more weight. And even then, they would have to have a computer on the airplane that would understand all of this information. And to think, it has a 14" wingspan right now and all it can do is avoid walls! I'm sure the inventor has good intentions and all but this just sounds completely unreasonable to me.
The time for diplomacy has came and went, it's now time to stop hugging trees and toasting to world peace, and kick some world ass. Hey, if you don't like it write your congressman, otherwise pick up a gun and get in line!!!
I support and uphold three things, and they all fit in my underwear
What an idiot... and to think, that you are one of the more "intelligent" marines. BTW, please explain how you are so "ballsy" by sitting back in a cushy IT position while all your fellow jarheads are getting shot at? Fucking hypocrite.
Initial funding to develop XORP is provided by Intel and the National Science Foundation. Further funding has been provided by Microsoft Corporation and Vyatta. We are extremely grateful for their support.
If they thought ahead they would have realized that it's much more efficient to put 2 robotic arms on IIS. One to catch the capsule and one to throw it back to Earth. Now IIS will have to take it's glove off before it can throw the capsule back down.
So if you did this would IIS finally become a real server?
See the problem is, you can develop 20 different types of medicine to combat different types of bacteria / germs / viruses but they will simply continue to evolve. It's life, all these things have to find some way to keep on going, just like we do.
Too bad TFA didn't mention anything about the response time or brightness of the other brands. Basically, you get what you pay for. Cheaper brands will have cheaper components and lower specifications than many name-brand companies. Being a non name brand company doesn't help with the cost of manufacturing electronics.
There is no physical way possible to boot into Win98 and use only 100KB of memory. Either you are making a lame attempt at a joke, or you are an MS troll.
If an artist makes one good song and the rest crap, you only pay.99 and get that one song.
This is the problem with music today, people know that many bands are only one hit wonders (and usually the "hits" aren't even that great) yet they continue purchasing bullshit commerical, mainstream music. Consider your $.99 wasted on nothing. If you are going to purchase music from an artist you like, make sure you like the whole album (or most of it.) Because if you don't like most of the band's music, then you shouldn't be listening to their music or supporting them financially.
Does it harden just right around the area of impact, or a larger overall surface as to actually deaden the blow? If it just hardens around the area of impact then it isn't much help.
From TFA: Heck, it took me almost five minutes to find the Run command, which used to show up right in the Start menu.
I think this illustrates the differences between the Windows and Linux worlds. With the next version of Windows, they don't want you to be running commands or going into a command prompt. With the next version of KDE (at least in the mockups) it's been shown there will be a text entry area for directly entering commands integrated into the K menu. It's already been done in SuSE (and possibly others I'm not aware of)
This just goes to show that Microsoft thinks all of their users are idiots, and Linux developers want their users (even the newbies) to be more adept at using their OS.
From TFA: Over the years, one of the key reasons to upgrade versions of Windows has been the free stuff Gates and Company toss into the new OS
While I'll agree that they like to "toss" things into their OS, I don't see what is so compelling about the free things they are "tossing" in. If Windows was a tossed salad it would probably be a boring iceberg salad with a whole ton of ranch dressing sprayed all over it.
If Microsoft has a better product, I wouldn't even know about it because I am satisfied with Google.
Ok, so if all of your friends started telling you to use MSN Search because of it's superior technology, you would just keep on trying Google without one chance of even trying the MSN search? That's like saying you would have kept using Yahoo (or whatever) even when Google came out.
One thing about Microsoft, they know business. They know every clean and dirty trick in the book. This promotion is designed to get users using the search engine for a period of time. Getting them accustomed to it. This marketing campaign will only be effective if their product has some superior aspects to the Google search engine. I don't think Microsoft would be dumb enough to pull this if they had nothing to offer.
No, this marketing campaign will be effective regardless of whether the technology is better or not. Most people are dumb, they like free things, and will try it just to get those free things. They aren't going to read up on the latest tech powering their engine. They just want free crap.
Word of mouth is not the most effective advertising method, and it is never sufficient to rapidly penetrate a market.
Word of mouth is one of the most effective advertising methods known because the people telling you to buy the product are people you know. You are more likely to trust your friend or family member's opinion over what the TV or radio (even banner ad) is shouting at you. As far as rapidly penetrating a market, hmm, let's see. What about World of Warcraft. Haven't seen any ads on TV or billboards recently. I guess their 5 million subscribers just kinda heard about it through word of mouth. Google? Word of mouth. LINUX? Word of mouth.
I'm sorry but using prizes to get people to use your search engine means you obviously don't have the technology to lure people. When something can't become popular by word of mouth it probably isn't that great. When someone has to GIVE you something to use their service, then it must be pretty bad.
... that even with the amount of new subscribers (more $$$) in WoW and the new servers they keep adding, I still see heavy lag and wait times to get into servers. Why when I'm paying $15 a month should I have to suffer like this?
Why don't they show pictures of the return department and how it functions? Surely they must have some advanced way of handling the amounts of returns they get. My friend recently bought all the parts for his computer on New Egg. They had advertised a power supply as having dual 12v rails and it only had one when he got it. The DVD burner they sent him was DOA. These are minor issues that plague all vendors of IT equipment, however New Egg claims to provide such great quality for that extra couple dollars you spend. I guess I'm just not seeing the inherent value. What I must add is that New Egg has been known to have one of the best return policies anywhere, this is why I want to see how their return system works!
You've posted 6 times in the last year. Two of them were today, both were putting down Microsoft's gaming plans....maybe you have an axe to grind.
Dude, do you have like any life at all other than to read through people's comment histories and then make stupid rebuttals to everything they say? And BTW you sound more like a dumb MS fanboi than anyone. Have fun playing all your super-fun Xbox and Xbox 360 games online. I'm sure you can continue playing Halo 2 for at least another 5 or 6 years without getting bored.
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But this thing is a plane, so it's a bad choice. It's not much use in the great outdoors if it's very small, because the lightest gust of wind is going to send it 50' off course. Besides, the need to maintain forward progress to ensure lift is going to make a fixed-wing aircraft a tool of limited use, except maybe for buzzing drunk schoolmates at the annual picnic.
I completely agree. Flies move by flapping their wings at a high speed, allowing for quick changes in direction and such. Fixed wing aircraft require forward momentum along with changes to control surfaces in order to change direction. The problem with a fixed wing aircraft that is the size of a fly is that not just a gust of wind, but even the tiniest ripple in the surrounding air, will cause it to either stall or move off course. Not to mention they would have to miniaturize everything: the propeller, power source, cameras, and all other on board electronics. The article says that it could one day be used for search and rescue but I don't know how an autonomous robot is going to know to look for humans, unless it has an infared sensor which just adds that much more weight. And even then, they would have to have a computer on the airplane that would understand all of this information. And to think, it has a 14" wingspan right now and all it can do is avoid walls! I'm sure the inventor has good intentions and all but this just sounds completely unreasonable to me.
I experience zero Gs while laying on my bed all the time... then again in my case it's probably just all the drugs.
The time for diplomacy has came and went, it's now time to stop hugging trees and toasting to world peace, and kick some world ass. Hey, if you don't like it write your congressman, otherwise pick up a gun and get in line!!! I support and uphold three things, and they all fit in my underwear
What an idiot... and to think, that you are one of the more "intelligent" marines. BTW, please explain how you are so "ballsy" by sitting back in a cushy IT position while all your fellow jarheads are getting shot at? Fucking hypocrite.
I'll call him tiddliwinks.
I think you meant Lemmiwinks.
"Lemmiwinks, you must find a passage to the small intestine!"
LOL, South Park is so twisted.
Initial funding to develop XORP is provided by Intel and the National Science Foundation. Further funding has been provided by Microsoft Corporation and Vyatta. We are extremely grateful for their support.
If they thought ahead they would have realized that it's much more efficient to put 2 robotic arms on IIS. One to catch the capsule and one to throw it back to Earth. Now IIS will have to take it's glove off before it can throw the capsule back down.
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So if you did this would IIS finally become a real server?
contains over 20 trillion US dollars worth of precious metal
MA, PA, GIT THA TRUCK! Der's gold in 'em 'ere asteroids!
See the problem is, you can develop 20 different types of medicine to combat different types of bacteria / germs / viruses but they will simply continue to evolve. It's life, all these things have to find some way to keep on going, just like we do.
Too bad TFA didn't mention anything about the response time or brightness of the other brands. Basically, you get what you pay for. Cheaper brands will have cheaper components and lower specifications than many name-brand companies. Being a non name brand company doesn't help with the cost of manufacturing electronics.
What happens when the power dies and all of those sitting in seats fall on their asses?
There is no physical way possible to boot into Win98 and use only 100KB of memory. Either you are making a lame attempt at a joke, or you are an MS troll.
If an artist makes one good song and the rest crap, you only pay .99 and get that one song.
This is the problem with music today, people know that many bands are only one hit wonders (and usually the "hits" aren't even that great) yet they continue purchasing bullshit commerical, mainstream music. Consider your $.99 wasted on nothing. If you are going to purchase music from an artist you like, make sure you like the whole album (or most of it.) Because if you don't like most of the band's music, then you shouldn't be listening to their music or supporting them financially.
Does it harden just right around the area of impact, or a larger overall surface as to actually deaden the blow? If it just hardens around the area of impact then it isn't much help.
From TFA: Heck, it took me almost five minutes to find the Run command, which used to show up right in the Start menu.
I think this illustrates the differences between the Windows and Linux worlds. With the next version of Windows, they don't want you to be running commands or going into a command prompt. With the next version of KDE (at least in the mockups) it's been shown there will be a text entry area for directly entering commands integrated into the K menu. It's already been done in SuSE (and possibly others I'm not aware of)
This just goes to show that Microsoft thinks all of their users are idiots, and Linux developers want their users (even the newbies) to be more adept at using their OS.
From TFA: Over the years, one of the key reasons to upgrade versions of Windows has been the free stuff Gates and Company toss into the new OS
While I'll agree that they like to "toss" things into their OS, I don't see what is so compelling about the free things they are "tossing" in. If Windows was a tossed salad it would probably be a boring iceberg salad with a whole ton of ranch dressing sprayed all over it.
If Microsoft has a better product, I wouldn't even know about it because I am satisfied with Google.
Ok, so if all of your friends started telling you to use MSN Search because of it's superior technology, you would just keep on trying Google without one chance of even trying the MSN search? That's like saying you would have kept using Yahoo (or whatever) even when Google came out.
One thing about Microsoft, they know business. They know every clean and dirty trick in the book. This promotion is designed to get users using the search engine for a period of time. Getting them accustomed to it. This marketing campaign will only be effective if their product has some superior aspects to the Google search engine. I don't think Microsoft would be dumb enough to pull this if they had nothing to offer.
No, this marketing campaign will be effective regardless of whether the technology is better or not. Most people are dumb, they like free things, and will try it just to get those free things. They aren't going to read up on the latest tech powering their engine. They just want free crap.
Word of mouth is not the most effective advertising method, and it is never sufficient to rapidly penetrate a market.
Word of mouth is one of the most effective advertising methods known because the people telling you to buy the product are people you know. You are more likely to trust your friend or family member's opinion over what the TV or radio (even banner ad) is shouting at you. As far as rapidly penetrating a market, hmm, let's see. What about World of Warcraft. Haven't seen any ads on TV or billboards recently. I guess their 5 million subscribers just kinda heard about it through word of mouth. Google? Word of mouth. LINUX? Word of mouth.
I was trying to calculate the answer to your question, and I got the BSOD.
I'm sorry but using prizes to get people to use your search engine means you obviously don't have the technology to lure people. When something can't become popular by word of mouth it probably isn't that great. When someone has to GIVE you something to use their service, then it must be pretty bad.
... that even with the amount of new subscribers (more $$$) in WoW and the new servers they keep adding, I still see heavy lag and wait times to get into servers. Why when I'm paying $15 a month should I have to suffer like this?
which will allow Internet users in free countries to help users in more restrictive countries (like China
Yeah, because I really want to help all those people in China I've been getting constant portscans from.
XBOX Live over the past couple years has become the standard for online console gaming
Too bad all the "online" games for Xbox suck ass.
'FIRAT' (Force sensing Integrated Readout and Active Tip)
Damn, that sounds painful.
Why don't they show pictures of the return department and how it functions? Surely they must have some advanced way of handling the amounts of returns they get. My friend recently bought all the parts for his computer on New Egg. They had advertised a power supply as having dual 12v rails and it only had one when he got it. The DVD burner they sent him was DOA. These are minor issues that plague all vendors of IT equipment, however New Egg claims to provide such great quality for that extra couple dollars you spend. I guess I'm just not seeing the inherent value. What I must add is that New Egg has been known to have one of the best return policies anywhere, this is why I want to see how their return system works!
You've posted 6 times in the last year. Two of them were today, both were putting down Microsoft's gaming plans....maybe you have an axe to grind.
Dude, do you have like any life at all other than to read through people's comment histories and then make stupid rebuttals to everything they say? And BTW you sound more like a dumb MS fanboi than anyone. Have fun playing all your super-fun Xbox and Xbox 360 games online. I'm sure you can continue playing Halo 2 for at least another 5 or 6 years without getting bored.
I love the Power Glove. It's so bad.