So, we're going to go to Mars on a timetable that completely eliminates any accountability for him, while spending tremendous amounts of money on this, but we can't give NASA the funding to keep the Hubble, which will hold the title of greatest astronomical instrument ever for at least another ten years, from burning up on reentry?
Because people actually care/cared about the Hubble Space Telescope - so obviously they can't do that.
While I am hugely dissapointed that I'm not currently living on the lunar colony that was promised to me when I was 8, I really don't see the point in this.
This whole "To the moon" thing reeks of nothing more than a plan by our good buddy Jr. Bush to: a) Distract everybody from the fact that his economy is crumbling and he's not doing so well in a very unpopular war, and b) Develop an excuse to justify the weaponization of space.
Mod me flamebait, but all political discussions are flame wars and this announcement is way more about politics than it is about science.
Sadly, you hit the nail on the head with that post.
Notice they don't even have plans to manufacture water or rocket fuel or energy in any large way - even when they talk about plans for Mars - while both China and Japan are already years ahead in plans to complete colonization and build launch vehicles.
So that brings us back to "How long do you keep using a computer anyway?"
He's 14 now. When will he be old enough to play Doom V? 16? 18? You're looking at replacing it in 2-4 years anyway unless it's running Game-OS. Whatever you buy now will still be well supported that long, and in the meantime you'll be saving the guy from premature exposure to Windows.:)
Who said he'd get Windows? I just said I wasn't going to buy a Mac - which I had planned to do this month - until later maybe in January/Feb when the new stuff should finalize and I might know what to get that would keep working.
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Yes, but now I'll be able to get subtitles for all those pirated Chinese-language movies that I've been watching on mute!
I prefer to watch movies about Chinese pirates in French myself, it's much more expressive and the translation is even more funny than the English one.
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when do you think the mac version will come out?
I LIVE for the Menus on DVDs
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oh, wait, no, sorry, if I did that I'd be an insane t001.
better change that to: you call this a feature?
seriously, noone likes the menus, noone wants to see them, we just want to play the DVD and have you get the heck out of the way.
Now if you had a menu that disappeared after 10 seconds if you did nothing, that would be fine.
The Mac's for my son, and we're talking game software [...]
Um, so why was a Mac even on the shortlist in the first place? I'm a UNIX geek, I hate Windows, but I'm not crazy enough to try and convince a gamer to run anything else.
Because just because he's 14 doesn't mean I buy what he wants in games. If he wants to play Doom V he'll have to play it at a friend's house - it's called parenting.
The games that I don't mind buying for him get released to Mac as well - the ones that don't he'll have to save and buy his own computer for - and it will be in the living room like my computer.
Besides, have you seen what some of those Flash games do... um, talk about pushing the edge...
advertising firms must be working overtime, I can't even pronounce the names of EITHER of the two firms that this post is about.
Mandriva? give me a break. It's not english, french, spanish, so far as I can tell - maybe it's a kid saying "Moon River" and some exec who wanted to justify a bonus paid himself $1 billion in "consulting fees" to change all the letterhead.
Lycoris? same thing.
You want to do well? Stop using nonsense words for companies, we'll just make fun of them and never take your company seriously.
I'll bet we see a life extension on Windows 2000. Microsoft sales reps are going to call on corporate information officers and see a Red Hat box on the desk during negotiations.
Hmmm, that would be an effective bargaining tactic...
Plus it's stable, and we all know what happens when MSFT releases new code.
So, when MSFT releases a new version of Office that actually has some real improvements that add something, then business will switch, if they haven't migrated to Linux by then.
There's less reason than ever for software vendors to drop the old hardware, with the single exception of game software, because by the time Leopard comes out they'll have had to become portable... and there's an awful lot of recently purchased Powermac G5s that...
Dude, I live in the real world. The Mac's for my son, and we're talking game software and a browser really - one that plays Flash games. The rest may be nice but that's what he cares about.
So from my viewpoint, it will be dead soon enough, so why bother? I'll just wait.
I was thinking of buying a really inexpensive laptop to get me to the Powerbook. Ubuntu seems to have decent power management (and I know this is the case with SUSE 9.3). Just something to bridge my long-suffering iBook and whatever Cupertino has in mind for 2006.
Then again, we'll see how the iBook does when I swap the Ubuntu live Cd for a full install tonight. I was quite surprised that the Gnome desktop actually feels perkier than Panther. Depends how slim I can get the install. With a sad little 3 gig drive, I need all the swap space I can get.
Good idea. I figure I'll just get a $500 laptop with at least 512 MB RAM that I can put some flash drive USB in until the do the new iBooks and iMacs. Then I can try to dual install to it for either SUSE (since I read a lot of stuff in French and surf other countries articles) or Debian - unless someone can convince me Ubuntu is better for a laptop.
Decisions have consequences, but if I can get a desktop for $300 and a laptop for $500, I can wait a while before wasting time on a Mac that's going to be out of date too quickly. A shame, as I'd originally been thinking of a flat panel Mac mini and reuse the keyboard and optical mouse.
I'd have purchased a Powerbook this year. Gets pushed off until Intel is inside.
Have to agree - I just got my $3000 refund check and was planning to buy a laptop and a Mac, but now I'm just going to buy a laptop, and it won't be Apple.
Was torn about which it would have been before, but now I'm just going to wait before I get another one. No sense rushing if I'll have to buy new software anyway.
If you send a text message to an e-mail address scrawled in paint on a subway advertisement or on a sidewalk, for example, you could get some digital pop art on your phone in return.
car chases two states away, fires half way around the world, and a lot of useless information designed only to scare the bejabbers out of me so I'll be a good sheep and live in fear.
the amount of the electricity transformed into heat (hence incandescent, which literally heats up the filament) versus flourescent which uses an anion - cation arc in a gas vapour to release lumens and converts very little electricity to heat.
your mileage may vary, but first determine where the heat comes from, make sure any cooling devices have their heat exchangers OUTSIDE the room (or else you pump the heat into the room and have to cool the heat which is not very efficient).
this will result in you using about 1/8 the electricity to get the same light, but drop the heat output from lighting - a major contributor to household heat - to virtually nil.
What bulbs are these? While the CF bulbs are great for saving energy, all of the ones I've seen still put out a significant amount of heat. Perhaps, not quite as much as an incandescent, but they're still way too hot to touch (IMO).
I said way less heat, not no heat. But your results may vary - I have eight bulbs in my kitchen, and changing them for compact flourescents dropped the heat output dramatically.
I'd like to know where you're getting your CFL bulbs. The only ones I've seen use 1/3 - 1/4 the wattage of a standard incandescent. The brighter bulbs are more efficient, but even then the CFLs may not have the same lumen rating as an "equivalent" incandescent.
And you get what you pay for. The GE CFLs I bought start quickly, have a decent color rendition, and are bright. The generics I purchased are dim, take up to two minutes to brighten fully, and the quality of light is poor.
Like I said, it seems every time I go to Costco or Home Depot they have some name brand compact flourescent bulbs in four or six packs, which light quickly and have good light.
Perhaps you've been shopping at Wal*Mart - I hear they have a lot of goods from China. You need to shop at Blue State chains if you're going to do enviro shopping, or you will indeed be given false "bargains".
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So, we're going to go to Mars on a timetable that completely eliminates any accountability for him, while spending tremendous amounts of money on this, but we can't give NASA the funding to keep the Hubble, which will hold the title of greatest astronomical instrument ever for at least another ten years, from burning up on reentry?
Because people actually care/cared about the Hubble Space Telescope - so obviously they can't do that.
While I am hugely dissapointed that I'm not currently living on the lunar colony that was promised to me when I was 8, I really don't see the point in this.
This whole "To the moon" thing reeks of nothing more than a plan by our good buddy Jr. Bush to:
a) Distract everybody from the fact that his economy is crumbling and he's not doing so well in a very unpopular war, and
b) Develop an excuse to justify the weaponization of space.
Mod me flamebait, but all political discussions are flame wars and this announcement is way more about politics than it is about science.
Sadly, you hit the nail on the head with that post.
Notice they don't even have plans to manufacture water or rocket fuel or energy in any large way - even when they talk about plans for Mars - while both China and Japan are already years ahead in plans to complete colonization and build launch vehicles.
China and Japan will have completed colonization of the Moon a decade before the US gets in gear, and five years before the EU.
So that brings us back to "How long do you keep using a computer anyway?"
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He's 14 now. When will he be old enough to play Doom V? 16? 18? You're looking at replacing it in 2-4 years anyway unless it's running Game-OS. Whatever you buy now will still be well supported that long, and in the meantime you'll be saving the guy from premature exposure to Windows.
Who said he'd get Windows? I just said I wasn't going to buy a Mac - which I had planned to do this month - until later maybe in January/Feb when the new stuff should finalize and I might know what to get that would keep working.
Yes, but now I'll be able to get subtitles for all those pirated Chinese-language movies that I've been watching on mute!
I prefer to watch movies about Chinese pirates in French myself, it's much more expressive and the translation is even more funny than the English one.
when do you think the mac version will come out?
oh, wait, no, sorry, if I did that I'd be an insane t001.
better change that to: you call this a feature?
seriously, noone likes the menus, noone wants to see them, we just want to play the DVD and have you get the heck out of the way.
Now if you had a menu that disappeared after 10 seconds if you did nothing, that would be fine.
The Mac's for my son, and we're talking game software [...]
... um, talk about pushing the edge ...
Um, so why was a Mac even on the shortlist in the first place? I'm a UNIX geek, I hate Windows, but I'm not crazy enough to try and convince a gamer to run anything else.
Because just because he's 14 doesn't mean I buy what he wants in games. If he wants to play Doom V he'll have to play it at a friend's house - it's called parenting.
The games that I don't mind buying for him get released to Mac as well - the ones that don't he'll have to save and buy his own computer for - and it will be in the living room like my computer.
Besides, have you seen what some of those Flash games do
advertising firms must be working overtime, I can't even pronounce the names of EITHER of the two firms that this post is about.
Mandriva? give me a break. It's not english, french, spanish, so far as I can tell - maybe it's a kid saying "Moon River" and some exec who wanted to justify a bonus paid himself $1 billion in "consulting fees" to change all the letterhead.
Lycoris? same thing.
You want to do well? Stop using nonsense words for companies, we'll just make fun of them and never take your company seriously.
I'll bet we see a life extension on Windows 2000. Microsoft sales reps are going to call on corporate information officers and see a Red Hat box on the desk during negotiations.
...
Hmmm, that would be an effective bargaining tactic
Plus it's stable, and we all know what happens when MSFT releases new code.
So, when MSFT releases a new version of Office that actually has some real improvements that add something, then business will switch, if they haven't migrated to Linux by then.
I tried to stick a VHS tape a friend of my brothers had brought down to show him her Native Canadian TV show and the tape stuck inside.
Since then it doesn't matter who wants to use it, I'm not using VHS ever again.
I'll just use my PS3 to tape TV shows to drive, thank you very much.
There's less reason than ever for software vendors to drop the old hardware, with the single exception of game software, because by the time Leopard comes out they'll have had to become portable ... and there's an awful lot of recently purchased Powermac G5s that ...
Dude, I live in the real world. The Mac's for my son, and we're talking game software and a browser really - one that plays Flash games. The rest may be nice but that's what he cares about.
So from my viewpoint, it will be dead soon enough, so why bother? I'll just wait.
I was thinking of buying a really inexpensive laptop to get me to the Powerbook. Ubuntu seems to have decent power management (and I know this is the case with SUSE 9.3). Just something to bridge my long-suffering iBook and whatever Cupertino has in mind for 2006.
Then again, we'll see how the iBook does when I swap the Ubuntu live Cd for a full install tonight. I was quite surprised that the Gnome desktop actually feels perkier than Panther. Depends how slim I can get the install. With a sad little 3 gig drive, I need all the swap space I can get.
Good idea. I figure I'll just get a $500 laptop with at least 512 MB RAM that I can put some flash drive USB in until the do the new iBooks and iMacs. Then I can try to dual install to it for either SUSE (since I read a lot of stuff in French and surf other countries articles) or Debian - unless someone can convince me Ubuntu is better for a laptop.
Decisions have consequences, but if I can get a desktop for $300 and a laptop for $500, I can wait a while before wasting time on a Mac that's going to be out of date too quickly. A shame, as I'd originally been thinking of a flat panel Mac mini and reuse the keyboard and optical mouse.
I'd have purchased a Powerbook this year. Gets pushed off until Intel is inside.
Have to agree - I just got my $3000 refund check and was planning to buy a laptop and a Mac, but now I'm just going to buy a laptop, and it won't be Apple.
Was torn about which it would have been before, but now I'm just going to wait before I get another one. No sense rushing if I'll have to buy new software anyway.
SBC will be offering WiMax for $19.99 a month which you can use on your $300 laptop.
Or you can pay thousands of dollars - for the same thing - now.
The market cares nothing for your desires, and tech is just another commodity. So long as Japanese girls buy it, it will be made available.
hey if it works for the local TV news ...
I've put off buying a new Apple computer for my son due to this news - if I just wait a little more, it will be a lot cheaper, after all.
Um, excuse me, but Jedi mind tricks won't keep Darth Gates away ...
Apple and Intel co-existence is as friendly as an "alliance" between the Cloud City and the Empire. Either way, you end up carbon frozen.
If you send a text message to an e-mail address scrawled in paint on a subway advertisement or on a sidewalk, for example, you could get some digital pop art on your phone in return.
And spam for the rest of your life.
car chases two states away, fires half way around the world, and a lot of useless information designed only to scare the bejabbers out of me so I'll be a good sheep and live in fear.
I'd rather read a genetics textbook.
You're supposed to be in hiding, Agent Bauer.
Dang, blew my cover again!
cause it was supposed to be funny - first one was as a rebel, reply was as the Emperor ...
...
never mind, irony is dead
heat energy is what we're looking at.
the amount of the electricity transformed into heat (hence incandescent, which literally heats up the filament) versus flourescent which uses an anion - cation arc in a gas vapour to release lumens and converts very little electricity to heat.
your mileage may vary, but first determine where the heat comes from, make sure any cooling devices have their heat exchangers OUTSIDE the room (or else you pump the heat into the room and have to cool the heat which is not very efficient).
this will result in you using about 1/8 the electricity to get the same light, but drop the heat output from lighting - a major contributor to household heat - to virtually nil.
What bulbs are these? While the CF bulbs are great for saving energy, all of the ones I've seen still put out a significant amount of heat. Perhaps, not quite as much as an incandescent, but they're still way too hot to touch (IMO).
I said way less heat, not no heat. But your results may vary - I have eight bulbs in my kitchen, and changing them for compact flourescents dropped the heat output dramatically.
I'd like to know where you're getting your CFL bulbs. The only ones I've seen use 1/3 - 1/4 the wattage of a standard incandescent. The brighter bulbs are more efficient, but even then the CFLs may not have the same lumen rating as an "equivalent" incandescent.
And you get what you pay for. The GE CFLs I bought start quickly, have a decent color rendition, and are bright. The generics I purchased are dim, take up to two minutes to brighten fully, and the quality of light is poor.
Like I said, it seems every time I go to Costco or Home Depot they have some name brand compact flourescent bulbs in four or six packs, which light quickly and have good light.
Perhaps you've been shopping at Wal*Mart - I hear they have a lot of goods from China. You need to shop at Blue State chains if you're going to do enviro shopping, or you will indeed be given false "bargains".