California real estate prices are among the highest in the USA. Where I live (Northeastern Illinois), which is rapidly developing, you can get an undeveloped acre for about $15,000 - $25,000. In Chicago, it's anywhere from $10,000 to $1,000,000 per 1/10th+/- of an acre lot, depending on where. A friend of mine bought 20 acres in rural Wisconsin (partially developed) for about $15,000 in the 1990s.
To me, prime real estate would be accessible but undeveloped wilderness. Wilderness is what the original comment referred to, and I wouldn't expect to pay more than 1,000 to 2,000 per acre for it.
You're probably correct about the miniscule antibiotic resistance building trends of miniscule amounts of antibiotics in the water and definitely correct not to worry about addictions to pain killers.
But that logic doesn't hold for the hormones or hormone-mimicking properties of substances found in the water. Some hormones routinely affect biological processes at concentrations measured in parts per billion. This is especially true in developing organisms, where, e.g., gradients of such miniscule concentrations can determine which end of an embryo is the head and which is the tail.
The truth is we don't know the effect that these artificial chemicals will have on us or on the environment.
My point was that the advertisers aren't going to offer the price that the TV producers want until a system like Arbitron or Nielson can be set up for it and unless that can prove that the advertisements are being seen in high enough quantities. And my guess is that the advertisers aren't going to value those ads like they've been used to doing for broadcast TV.
You don't hear about how Toyota or GM should be forced to accept Daewoo or Suzuki parts in their cars for "interoperability" purposes.
Are you saying that Toyota and GM each made up their own standards on bolt diameters, thread pitch, etc. and tried to keep them secret and won't allow anyone else to them?
I would guess that they use standards compliant parts like that for wiring, screws, tires, etc. throughout the car.
More to the point on files with advertising intending to support TV production and internet: How are they going to determine what the ads are worth and who is going to decide that?
the vast majority of us are just after your body . . . We're genetically programmed that way
You are repeating a self-serving meme that doesn't consider the full reality of the situation.
Sure guys (and gals) want sex. And women (and men) consider a healthy, clean, neat appearance attractive.
But if you're going to speculate about how evolution has imposed a genetic fate on your personality, at least admit that there would be genetic pressure to give men the desire to a seek out an intelligent, loving mate with a good personality to help raise the children.
And while there could have been evolutionary pressure leading men to desire to sow their seed outside of monogamy, there could be similar evolutionary pressures for women to hedge their bets by having sex (children) with more than one man.
In my experience, I've found that people who get things done, work hard, go outside of their safety zone to pull projects straight tend to get faint praise. But people who convince other people to do the hard work, get promoted.
I didn't like Windows 3.1 at all. A lot of my dislike was that it made my old DOS programs run way too slow on my 386. Part of it was because it didn't offer real multi-tasking. And related to the above, it locked up my computer more than DOS did.
I really felt that 95 was the first MS OS that was useful, but I found 98 slightly better. XP was the first time my OS was stable. (I never used 2000) I'm not going to try Vista, at least not until I'm forced to use it at work. I'm happy with my Fedora laptop (hardly ever boot into XP anymore), my son is happy with his home-built XP gaming box, and my wife likes her Macbook.
I've got a compromise to suggest. Instead of giving the telecoms immunity, give them the right to sue the government (and the government people involved) if the telecoms acted in good faith relying on direction by the government that what they are doing is legal. This would satisfy the need for corporations to limit their liability, while allowing the real purpose of the lawsuits to survive: finding out what's really going on.
"You don't get a warrant when you want to capture all inbound and outbound (from the country) telephone traffic and put it through your NSA analyzer supercomputer thingymajig looking for suspicious activity."
Still, buying the books before the deed would indicate premeditation, so, even if found guilty, the fact of buying them after the fact is better for the defense.
About your sig, my dog is smarter than both of your cars combined. (Seriously, though, my USDA approved dogs make good money (OK, my wife the dog trainer actually makes the money) doing trick shows, educational presentations, and modeling, and can count better than some of the younger students they entertain.)
Use Windows 95, or perhaps even DOS. It runs faster and you have less problems.
Not quite.
MSDOS was a clunker, all the way.
Windows 95 (and its' Service Pack, Windows 98), while the first usable OS from MS, was rife with problems
You would not want to go back to struggle with its' drivers, miserable attempts at plug'n'play, and frequent BSODs
For example, '98 seemed to have terrible memory management. When I was using 98 at work, I would frequently have Excel, Wordperfect, e-mail, and AutoCAD open at the same time. One particular job I was working on, a zoo, had particularly large and complicated CAD drawings, including several external references to other trades' drawings, and the exhibit designer's naturalistic fake trees drawn with the detail of every branch and twig. This slowed down my computer considerably, but the real problem was that after I closed the AutoCAD drawing and went back to Excel, I would soon get an error about illegal memory access that would crash the program. It only occasionally caused a BSOD, but it would require me to close all open programs and windows, and restart them. I figure that 98 somehow allocated the same memory to more than one program, and freed it from all of them when AutoCAD closed. More physical memory may have helped, but I never had that problem with XP. In fact, I almost never have had significant problems with XP.
Porting a public domain programming language invented at Dartmouth http://math.dartmouth.edu/history/TBasic/ to personal computer platforms might not be buying cool stuff from other companies, but it isn't exactly innovating either.
True, Pentium M shares nothing with Pentium 4 except the name. At the time I got it, research seemed to indicate that a 1.6 GHz Pentium M was about as fast as a 2.4 GHz Pentium 4. The real advantage, though, is that the low power and speed stepping helps the battery to last 3.5 to 4.5 hours.
For what it's worth, I also have a 900Mz Pentium 4? machine with something like 396 megs memory. (got it free from work during an upgrade cycle) XP runs fine on it. Although it's been getting slower, I suspect a wipe and reinstall would speed it up. Not going to happen though, since my son built himself a Core 2 duo machine with 1 Gig memory and a good widescreen LCD monitor, no one at home uses the old computer with a 15" CRT monitor anymore except to access the old files on it through the network.
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Power is power, electrical or horse.
Intel core 2 duo => approx 35 watts = 0.47 HP,+/-
"see, you prefer to pay them off instead of parenting them."
How did this get rated insightful?
The parent of that never said that he paid his kids off, just complained about the marketing.
California real estate prices are among the highest in the USA. Where I live (Northeastern Illinois), which is rapidly developing, you can get an undeveloped acre for about $15,000 - $25,000. In Chicago, it's anywhere from $10,000 to $1,000,000 per 1/10th+/- of an acre lot, depending on where. A friend of mine bought 20 acres in rural Wisconsin (partially developed) for about $15,000 in the 1990s.
To me, prime real estate would be accessible but undeveloped wilderness. Wilderness is what the original comment referred to, and I wouldn't expect to pay more than 1,000 to 2,000 per acre for it.
You're probably correct about the miniscule antibiotic resistance building trends of miniscule amounts of antibiotics in the water and definitely correct not to worry about addictions to pain killers.
But that logic doesn't hold for the hormones or hormone-mimicking properties of substances found in the water. Some hormones routinely affect biological processes at concentrations measured in parts per billion. This is especially true in developing organisms, where, e.g., gradients of such miniscule concentrations can determine which end of an embryo is the head and which is the tail.
The truth is we don't know the effect that these artificial chemicals will have on us or on the environment.
My point was that the advertisers aren't going to offer the price that the TV producers want until a system like Arbitron or Nielson can be set up for it and unless that can prove that the advertisements are being seen in high enough quantities. And my guess is that the advertisers aren't going to value those ads like they've been used to doing for broadcast TV.
Are you saying that Toyota and GM each made up their own standards on bolt diameters, thread pitch, etc. and tried to keep them secret and won't allow anyone else to them? I would guess that they use standards compliant parts like that for wiring, screws, tires, etc. throughout the car.
IIRC it means "If I Recall Correctly"
More to the point on files with advertising intending to support TV production and internet:
How are they going to determine what the ads are worth and who is going to decide that?
You've never been to The Hermitage, have you?
You are repeating a self-serving meme that doesn't consider the full reality of the situation.
Sure guys (and gals) want sex. And women (and men) consider a healthy, clean, neat appearance attractive.
But if you're going to speculate about how evolution has imposed a genetic fate on your personality, at least admit that there would be genetic pressure to give men the desire to a seek out an intelligent, loving mate with a good personality to help raise the children.
And while there could have been evolutionary pressure leading men to desire to sow their seed outside of monogamy, there could be similar evolutionary pressures for women to hedge their bets by having sex (children) with more than one man.
In my experience, I've found that people who get things done, work hard, go outside of their safety zone to pull projects straight tend to get faint praise. But people who convince other people to do the hard work, get promoted.
I didn't like Windows 3.1 at all.
A lot of my dislike was that it made my old DOS programs run way too slow on my 386.
Part of it was because it didn't offer real multi-tasking.
And related to the above, it locked up my computer more than DOS did.
I really felt that 95 was the first MS OS that was useful, but I found 98 slightly better.
XP was the first time my OS was stable. (I never used 2000)
I'm not going to try Vista, at least not until I'm forced to use it at work. I'm happy with my Fedora laptop (hardly ever boot into XP anymore), my son is happy with his home-built XP gaming box, and my wife likes her Macbook.
I've got a compromise to suggest.
Instead of giving the telecoms immunity, give them the right to sue the government (and the government people involved) if the telecoms acted in good faith relying on direction by the government that what they are doing is legal. This would satisfy the need for corporations to limit their liability, while allowing the real purpose of the lawsuits to survive: finding out what's really going on.
"You don't get a warrant when you want to capture all inbound and outbound (from the country) telephone traffic and put it through your NSA analyzer supercomputer thingymajig looking for suspicious activity."
Oops, you only asked for one. Anyway,
Some more here: http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_home_pro.asp/
and here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/howtobuy/choosing2.mspx/
"Well, that was certainly a good move."
Hence the "Geek defense".
Still, buying the books before the deed would indicate premeditation, so, even if found guilty, the fact of buying them after the fact is better for the defense.
About your sig, my dog is smarter than both of your cars combined. (Seriously, though, my USDA approved dogs make good money (OK, my wife the dog trainer actually makes the money) doing trick shows, educational presentations, and modeling, and can count better than some of the younger students they entertain.)
Not quite.
MSDOS was a clunker, all the way.
Windows 95 (and its' Service Pack, Windows 98), while the first usable OS from MS, was rife with problems
You would not want to go back to struggle with its' drivers, miserable attempts at plug'n'play, and frequent BSODs
For example, '98 seemed to have terrible memory management. When I was using 98 at work, I would frequently have Excel, Wordperfect, e-mail, and AutoCAD open at the same time. One particular job I was working on, a zoo, had particularly large and complicated CAD drawings, including several external references to other trades' drawings, and the exhibit designer's naturalistic fake trees drawn with the detail of every branch and twig. This slowed down my computer considerably, but the real problem was that after I closed the AutoCAD drawing and went back to Excel, I would soon get an error about illegal memory access that would crash the program. It only occasionally caused a BSOD, but it would require me to close all open programs and windows, and restart them. I figure that 98 somehow allocated the same memory to more than one program, and freed it from all of them when AutoCAD closed. More physical memory may have helped, but I never had that problem with XP. In fact, I almost never have had significant problems with XP.
Well, for one thing, according to TFA, "Reiser was accepted at the University of California at Berkeley at age 14".
According to reports I've read, he bought those books after he was treated as a suspect by the cops, not before the crime.
By that logic, there's nothing you can do that wouldn't be called gambling, thus rendering that categorization useless.
Try the 3-month trend.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=YHOO&t=3m/
Yahoo had a sharp spike up at the takeover announcement and Microsoft went down
Porting a public domain programming language invented at Dartmouth http://math.dartmouth.edu/history/TBasic/ to personal computer platforms might not be buying cool stuff from other companies, but it isn't exactly innovating either.
True, Pentium M shares nothing with Pentium 4 except the name. At the time I got it, research seemed to indicate that a 1.6 GHz Pentium M was about as fast as a 2.4 GHz Pentium 4. The real advantage, though, is that the low power and speed stepping helps the battery to last 3.5 to 4.5 hours.
For what it's worth, I also have a 900Mz Pentium 4? machine with something like 396 megs memory. (got it free from work during an upgrade cycle)
XP runs fine on it. Although it's been getting slower, I suspect a wipe and reinstall would speed it up. Not going to happen though, since my son built himself a Core 2 duo machine with 1 Gig memory and a good widescreen LCD monitor, no one at home uses the old computer with a 15" CRT monitor anymore except to access the old files on it through the network.