You have to realise that once the patent office is completely finished with the NTP patents, and all options for appeals are over with, You can bet that RIM will be knocking on NTPs door, asking for that money back, plus interest.
Is the data light on my internet connection still pegged.. Was not before this thing started...
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I too am getting tired of this journalistic retardation. Most of the deaths from ANY flu have been from the SECONDARY respratory infections that take hold once a person is sick. The flu did not kill them, the bacterial pneumonia they caught did. In 1918, we didnt have antibiotics. Now days, we'd just give someone a Z-pack and call it done. Only the most immunosensitive people would actually die from the flu virus itself.
Incorrect. I'd fanthom to think that the amount of CO2 that we put into the air as a species from mechanical sources is dwarfed by CO2 coming from the planet itself. When Mt. Pinatubo erupted, it put more than 8, probably closer to 10 times as much CO2 into the air in a day than we put into the air in a year. If one single event can turn our output as a species into a fraction, then I don't want to imagine how much the worldwide impact of all geothermal activity is having on our percentage. Documented releases of CO2 output from Mud Volcano in Yellowstone is even huge... somewhere between 12 and 24 tons of CO2 per hour, and during higher periods of seismic activity, its been measured as high as 84 tons/hour. This does not include gasses coming from other vents in the park, or what bubbles up from out of Yellowstone lake. CO2 Emmissions from the Horseshoe trail area in CA have been documented at about 50-160 tons per day depending on seismic activity, and that number does not even include the rest of the emmissions from the long valley caldera system, Mono and Mammoth lake. Mt. St. Helens is still gassing as we speak, along with gas emmissions from the other venting volcanos and active caldera systems, black smokers on the sea floor, and many other geothermal sources worldwide. Based on this alone, I think we as humans are actually very poor at putting CO2 into the air compared to the planet. But since when do enviromental crackpots ever see the thing that they claim to be attempting to protect actually being the cause of the problem?
oh, then throw http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/sun_output_0 30320.html on top of it all..
Bottom line is this: Should be be more responsible about the emmissions that we put out? Yes, because they exist in high concentrations around where they are emmitted, and thats where we live. Do our current emmissions affect global warming? Doubtful.
unless you have an actual photo machine yourself. In the day of $0.29 photos ($0.16 if you go to costco or walmart) Why the heck are you getting a printer that does photos? between paper and ink, you're going to be spending probably about $0.50 for a 3.5x5, more if its larger... When you can go to costco and get a 9x11 for 2.50, throw the price of a printer on top of that and you can see that the inkjet market is for chumps... Everything that I honestly need to print in life and death situations is black and white, no color.... sure, color is flashy, but does it get the job done when you have clogged jets that make it look trashy, or makes the paper wrinkle up from getting it wet? I'll stick to my laserjet 5 that I took off someones hands because it had a fuser roller that had gotten damaged. $20 later, I have a moderately fast laser printer that will probably live longer than me.
Actually, thats not the point of the switch.
I was listening to a business analysts radio show last week, where they were interviewing a guy that just put out a book on Steve Jobs. What he said is the whole plan for this processor switch is so that when you call up Dell, Gateway, whoever, you will be asked: "Do you want MacOS X or Windows XP?" Apple knows that their OS is pretty darn secure. What they finally figgured out is that they have been sitting on something even bigger than the IPod for the last couple of years since the whole spyware/virus thing started getting really bad. Yes, Apple will still be in the hardware business, because there are people out there that want apple hardware for the asthetics. But they know there are 20x more people out there that are just fed up with Windows. This 1 year period is for them to get their redesigns done, and for the driver manufacturers to get up to speed.
On top of that....
People, how many of you are running your PCs with NEGATIVE air pressure inside of them? Most people when they set their PCs up have their nice single intake fan but make everything else blow out, creating negative air pressure inside of the machine. Thats going to draw in dust and who knows what else through the drives themselves vs through the fan intakes. Make sure that you can feel air coming out of your computer along where the cd/dvd drive faces are located. Route hot air flow inside of the computer so that is pulled in through the intake fan of the power supply and then routed out the PS. If you case has vent holes along side of the mounting screws for your add on cards, place a fan rack to blow air between the cards and out those holes as well. All your stuff will live longer.
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You have to realise that once the patent office is completely finished with the NTP patents, and all options for appeals are over with, You can bet that RIM will be knocking on NTPs door, asking for that money back, plus interest.
Is the data light on my internet connection still pegged.. Was not before this thing started...
I too am getting tired of this journalistic retardation. Most of the deaths from ANY flu have been from the SECONDARY respratory infections that take hold once a person is sick. The flu did not kill them, the bacterial pneumonia they caught did. In 1918, we didnt have antibiotics. Now days, we'd just give someone a Z-pack and call it done. Only the most immunosensitive people would actually die from the flu virus itself.
Incorrect. I'd fanthom to think that the amount of CO2 that we put into the air as a species from mechanical sources is dwarfed by CO2 coming from the planet itself. When Mt. Pinatubo erupted, it put more than 8, probably closer to 10 times as much CO2 into the air in a day than we put into the air in a year. If one single event can turn our output as a species into a fraction, then I don't want to imagine how much the worldwide impact of all geothermal activity is having on our percentage. Documented releases of CO2 output from Mud Volcano in Yellowstone is even huge... somewhere between 12 and 24 tons of CO2 per hour, and during higher periods of seismic activity, its been measured as high as 84 tons/hour. This does not include gasses coming from other vents in the park, or what bubbles up from out of Yellowstone lake. CO2 Emmissions from the Horseshoe trail area in CA have been documented at about 50-160 tons per day depending on seismic activity, and that number does not even include the rest of the emmissions from the long valley caldera system, Mono and Mammoth lake. Mt. St. Helens is still gassing as we speak, along with gas emmissions from the other venting volcanos and active caldera systems, black smokers on the sea floor, and many other geothermal sources worldwide. Based on this alone, I think we as humans are actually very poor at putting CO2 into the air compared to the planet. But since when do enviromental crackpots ever see the thing that they claim to be attempting to protect actually being the cause of the problem? oh, then throw http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/sun_output_0 30320.html on top of it all..
Bottom line is this: Should be be more responsible about the emmissions that we put out? Yes, because they exist in high concentrations around where they are emmitted, and thats where we live. Do our current emmissions affect global warming? Doubtful.
unless you have an actual photo machine yourself. In the day of $0.29 photos ($0.16 if you go to costco or walmart) Why the heck are you getting a printer that does photos? between paper and ink, you're going to be spending probably about $0.50 for a 3.5x5, more if its larger... When you can go to costco and get a 9x11 for 2.50, throw the price of a printer on top of that and you can see that the inkjet market is for chumps... Everything that I honestly need to print in life and death situations is black and white, no color.... sure, color is flashy, but does it get the job done when you have clogged jets that make it look trashy, or makes the paper wrinkle up from getting it wet? I'll stick to my laserjet 5 that I took off someones hands because it had a fuser roller that had gotten damaged. $20 later, I have a moderately fast laser printer that will probably live longer than me.
Actually, thats not the point of the switch. I was listening to a business analysts radio show last week, where they were interviewing a guy that just put out a book on Steve Jobs. What he said is the whole plan for this processor switch is so that when you call up Dell, Gateway, whoever, you will be asked: "Do you want MacOS X or Windows XP?" Apple knows that their OS is pretty darn secure. What they finally figgured out is that they have been sitting on something even bigger than the IPod for the last couple of years since the whole spyware/virus thing started getting really bad. Yes, Apple will still be in the hardware business, because there are people out there that want apple hardware for the asthetics. But they know there are 20x more people out there that are just fed up with Windows. This 1 year period is for them to get their redesigns done, and for the driver manufacturers to get up to speed.
seems that this was mentioned quite awhile ago.. months even... Kinda shy to call dupe, but definately not new news...
On top of that.... People, how many of you are running your PCs with NEGATIVE air pressure inside of them? Most people when they set their PCs up have their nice single intake fan but make everything else blow out, creating negative air pressure inside of the machine. Thats going to draw in dust and who knows what else through the drives themselves vs through the fan intakes. Make sure that you can feel air coming out of your computer along where the cd/dvd drive faces are located. Route hot air flow inside of the computer so that is pulled in through the intake fan of the power supply and then routed out the PS. If you case has vent holes along side of the mounting screws for your add on cards, place a fan rack to blow air between the cards and out those holes as well. All your stuff will live longer.