1) Wow. Line-of-sight is line-of-site!
2) If all 4 of them are falling in the same direction at the same speed, than their velocity is irrelevant; their relative velocity is zero.
3) What networked games can you actually finish within the 60 seconds before you hit the ground?
According to some Europeans who were around at the time, it's more like the rise of Mussolini's brand of fascism in Italy... certainly the Republicans are lacking a charismatic leader like good ol' Adolph was.
And Nixon was a Quaker... your point is? Just because somebody attends a fairly moderate church doesn't prevent them from having extreme beleifs. Bush honestly beleives that he was chosen by God to lead the country, and probably beleives that God told him to invade Iraq. I personally find that rather frightening. It's sort of like with the Senate Republicans considering the "Nuclear Option" of barring filibusters; it doesn't seem to occur to any of them that this move will come back to bite them in the ass just as soon as there is a non-Republican majority...
Quite correct -- essentially what the Bush adminstration is telling these telecom companies is that they won't be allowed to send a representative to a conference UNTIL there is a Democratic president! Sounds like a pretty good reason to donate heavily to the Democrats in the next election to me! The only explanation I can find for the Bush administration's short-sighted behaviour is that these nut-jobs must honestly beleive that the world will end in a few years (Rapture/Armegeddon), so nothing they do matters anyway...
Sorry, Yankee, but learning how to operate a one windowing user interface is pretty easy when you are familiar with another. Microsoft estimates the retraining and lost productivity costs of upgrading from one version of Windows to a newer one at about $2000 per seat. So I'd estimate the costs of switching users to Linux is at least that. However, if you're being forced to upgrade anyway, you might as well bite the bullet and train your users to use Linux... and yes, you'd be out at least $1000 using Windows to get the same functionality you get out-of-box with Linux (e.g. compilers) but most users don't need all that functionality anyway.
Similarly, for gaming, business applications, enterprise servers or streaming media from your computer to your TV you won't go wrong with Windows. Yes and no. For gaming or business desktops, Windows XP is currently a better choice due to the number of applications available. For enterprise servers, Linux offers better performance and much better price/performance. Not sure about streaming media, but since most media formats require licenses for proprietary formats, Microsoft probably has an advantage there, to. Linux rules in the embedded, server, and scientific computing markets... unfortunately it does not currently dominate in the desktop market, and will not until a new generation of users trained to use Linux instead of Windows enters the work force.
Since almost all wireless routers and firewalls (and many other embedded devices including digital projectors and printers) out there are already running Linux, and the vendors of these devices usually don't bother to point out to the customer what OS is it using, I'd say that many small business are already using Linux and don't even know it!
The problem is not with the digital algorithms, the problem is with the resolution an color accuracy of the CCD capturing the image. I beleive you can create digital images with the same resolution as film, but then each of those images takes over 200MBytes of disk space to store... meaning for now you're still better off using film if your intention is to blow up just a small portion of the picture. My rough estimates say that humans can't perceive a resolution greater than about 16 million pixels anyway -- that is, if the entire image is within your field of view, you can't see the individual pixels unless you just focus on one small part of the picture.
You CAN use Nikon digital images with Photoshop, you just have to run Nikon's software first to convert the images into a form that Photoshop can read (possibly losing information in the process.) Obviously Adobe would prefer to read these images directly. Couldn't Nikon make a plugin for Photoshop that would handle reading their RAW format, thus making it possible to use Photoshop easily without giving away their proprietary format?
I was loaned a laptop at Intel where the owner had a 1GByte.pst file... fragmented into no less than 30,000 fragments (No, I'm NOT exagerating). Needless to say, this hard drive was dog slow... and no, you can't defrag the drive, because the Windows defrag program hangs before it ever completes.
One should be REASONABLY rewarded for something that they came up with. Right. One of the problems with existing IP law is that it assumes all ideas have equal value. If the purpose of IP protection is to promote the development of new ideas, then shouldn't the duration of the government-granted monopoly be proportional to the amount of work needed to develop the idea? Currently, a patent on "one-click purchase" lasts as long as a patent on a new cancer treatment... which idea required more time and money to develop?
Might makes right, money is power.
Until the revolution comes, get used to it. What makes you so certain the system will be any different after the revolution?
Uh, this thing is designed to run off of batteries, whereas the Mini is designed to run off a wall-wart... therefore this should have a much better battery life.
Uh, I think you mean "False arrest". They never prosecuted the guy; a malicious prosecution suit would be against the District Attorney.
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Pharmacorp executive: "Let's see now, we can sell them a one-time treatment that cures them for the rest of their lives, OR we can charge them $1000/month for drugs to maintain their current status for the rest of their lives... well, obviously we'll choose the method that is best for the patient's well being, our profits be damned! I mean, it's not like we have a board of directors that will sack us if our revenues don't increase every quarter!"
Why the Wiki entry? Perhaps for this quote: Her opposition to how Open Source software is handled shows in this remark (quoted from a phone interview from her home in Massachusetts): "The thing about Linux is, you can talk about a free, open operating system all you want, but you can't take that idea of free and open and put it into a capitalist system and maintain it as though it is some kind of hippie commune or ashram, because if you can do it like that, at that point I'm like, 'Pass the hookah please!'". And on another occasion she followed up: "I'm all for open source, and competition serves everyone's interest. But if Linux is really to take its place alongside Windows... then the vendors in this space cannot act like a bunch of hippies in a '60s commune or ashram. There really is no such thing as a free lunch." Fair and impartial she ain't. Funny how when people with firmly fixed beleifs do research, they only find evidence to support their existing beleifs...
Would there be some sort of inherent bias due to the review process? I don't know... try submitting an article about how much microsoft sucks, and see if it survives the editorial review process...
Of course! There is an inherent bias in any review process! With Wikipedia, it is slightly more democratic.
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5048 would be the build numbers. That means there are 5047 builds that, in the opinion of Microsoft developers, sucked even worse than this beta!
His last words were "Oh God... I'm coming!"
1) Wow. Line-of-sight is line-of-site!
2) If all 4 of them are falling in the same direction at the same speed, than their velocity is irrelevant; their relative velocity is zero.
3) What networked games can you actually finish within the 60 seconds before you hit the ground?
According to some Europeans who were around at the time, it's more like the rise of Mussolini's brand of fascism in Italy... certainly the Republicans are lacking a charismatic leader like good ol' Adolph was.
And Nixon was a Quaker... your point is? Just because somebody attends a fairly moderate church doesn't prevent them from having extreme beleifs. Bush honestly beleives that he was chosen by God to lead the country, and probably beleives that God told him to invade Iraq. I personally find that rather frightening.
It's sort of like with the Senate Republicans considering the "Nuclear Option" of barring filibusters; it doesn't seem to occur to any of them that this move will come back to bite them in the ass just as soon as there is a non-Republican majority...
This thread must be finished, 'cause it sure sounds like you're describing Nazi Germany to me...
Quite correct -- essentially what the Bush adminstration is telling these telecom companies is that they won't be allowed to send a representative to a conference UNTIL there is a Democratic president! Sounds like a pretty good reason to donate heavily to the Democrats in the next election to me!
The only explanation I can find for the Bush administration's short-sighted behaviour is that these nut-jobs must honestly beleive that the world will end in a few years (Rapture/Armegeddon), so nothing they do matters anyway...
Sorry, Yankee, but learning how to operate a one windowing user interface is pretty easy when you are familiar with another.
Microsoft estimates the retraining and lost productivity costs of upgrading from one version of Windows to a newer one at about $2000 per seat. So I'd estimate the costs of switching users to Linux is at least that. However, if you're being forced to upgrade anyway, you might as well bite the bullet and train your users to use Linux... and yes, you'd be out at least $1000 using Windows to get the same functionality you get out-of-box with Linux (e.g. compilers) but most users don't need all that functionality anyway.
Similarly, for gaming, business applications, enterprise servers or streaming media from your computer to your TV you won't go wrong with Windows. Yes and no. For gaming or business desktops, Windows XP is currently a better choice due to the number of applications available. For enterprise servers, Linux offers better performance and much better price/performance. Not sure about streaming media, but since most media formats require licenses for proprietary formats, Microsoft probably has an advantage there, to. Linux rules in the embedded, server, and scientific computing markets... unfortunately it does not currently dominate in the desktop market, and will not until a new generation of users trained to use Linux instead of Windows enters the work force.
Since almost all wireless routers and firewalls (and many other embedded devices including digital projectors and printers) out there are already running Linux, and the vendors of these devices usually don't bother to point out to the customer what OS is it using, I'd say that many small business are already using Linux and don't even know it!
The problem is not with the digital algorithms, the problem is with the resolution an color accuracy of the CCD capturing the image. I beleive you can create digital images with the same resolution as film, but then each of those images takes over 200MBytes of disk space to store... meaning for now you're still better off using film if your intention is to blow up just a small portion of the picture.
My rough estimates say that humans can't perceive a resolution greater than about 16 million pixels anyway -- that is, if the entire image is within your field of view, you can't see the individual pixels unless you just focus on one small part of the picture.
You CAN use Nikon digital images with Photoshop, you just have to run Nikon's software first to convert the images into a form that Photoshop can read (possibly losing information in the process.) Obviously Adobe would prefer to read these images directly. Couldn't Nikon make a plugin for Photoshop that would handle reading their RAW format, thus making it possible to use Photoshop easily without giving away their proprietary format?
The quality of kernels is of minor concern
Tell that to Linus!
I was loaned a laptop at Intel where the owner had a 1GByte .pst file... fragmented into no less than 30,000 fragments (No, I'm NOT exagerating). Needless to say, this hard drive was dog slow... and no, you can't defrag the drive, because the Windows defrag program hangs before it ever completes.
"It just works just like Unix!"
One should be REASONABLY rewarded for something that they came up with.
Right. One of the problems with existing IP law is that it assumes all ideas have equal value. If the purpose of IP protection is to promote the development of new ideas, then shouldn't the duration of the government-granted monopoly be proportional to the amount of work needed to develop the idea? Currently, a patent on "one-click purchase" lasts as long as a patent on a new cancer treatment... which idea required more time and money to develop?
Might makes right, money is power. Until the revolution comes, get used to it.
What makes you so certain the system will be any different after the revolution?
Uh, this thing is designed to run off of batteries, whereas the Mini is designed to run off a wall-wart... therefore this should have a much better battery life.
Uh, I think you mean "False arrest". They never prosecuted the guy; a malicious prosecution suit would be against the District Attorney.
Pharmacorp executive: "Let's see now, we can sell them a one-time treatment that cures them for the rest of their lives, OR we can charge them $1000/month for drugs to maintain their current status for the rest of their lives... well, obviously we'll choose the method that is best for the patient's well being, our profits be damned! I mean, it's not like we have a board of directors that will sack us if our revenues don't increase every quarter!"
Why the Wiki entry? Perhaps for this quote: Her opposition to how Open Source software is handled shows in this remark (quoted from a phone interview from her home in Massachusetts): "The thing about Linux is, you can talk about a free, open operating system all you want, but you can't take that idea of free and open and put it into a capitalist system and maintain it as though it is some kind of hippie commune or ashram, because if you can do it like that, at that point I'm like, 'Pass the hookah please!'". And on another occasion she followed up: "I'm all for open source, and competition serves everyone's interest. But if Linux is really to take its place alongside Windows... then the vendors in this space cannot act like a bunch of hippies in a '60s commune or ashram. There really is no such thing as a free lunch." Fair and impartial she ain't. Funny how when people with firmly fixed beleifs do research, they only find evidence to support their existing beleifs...
1) Write article and copyright it
2) Using a psuedonym, add portions of article to Encarta
3) Sue Microsoft for copyright infringement
4) Profit!
for a group of people who hate Microsoft, they sure do talk about it a lot. Kind of like the Republicans and Gay Marriage?
Of course! There is an inherent bias in any review process! With Wikipedia, it is slightly more democratic.
If there wasn't any demand, there would be no supply...