Internet Explorer. Microsoft bought Spyglass, I believe, for a percentage of sales and turned it into IE. Then, in a panic when Netscape looked like it might become a platform for net app development, MS started giving IE away for free. A percent of nothing is nothing and that's what they tried to pay. Though MS was sued, they got off cheap.
The war in Iraq was over long ago ("Mission Accomplished" was true if you were just talking about the overthrow of the Baathists). Now we're just trying to be the police.
The war on terror is a metaphor - it's not a real war.
My daughter got whooping cough when she was about 2. She was sick for a while and had a miserable cough for a few months. We were pretty concerned, but after the first few days she was active and alert didn't really seem that sick - except for the cough.
Her oldest brother had gotten the standard DPT (Diptheria/Pertussis/Tetanus) shot, which scared the crap out of us because it made him sick for a week and he had a 106F fever for 2 days. So my wife refused to let my other kids get the Pertussis (whoopping cough) part of the vaccine and they only got a DT shot.
Funny thing, my middle kid never got the shot or the disease symptoms, despite living in close quarters with the disease (2 parents & 3 kids, 1 bathroom & 2 bedrooms).
So I'm wondering whether the natural disease will give better immunity in the future than the vaccine did for the author of the parent comment.
Your kids are at more risk from the diseases themselves than they are a reaction to the MMR vaccine - unless everyone else is vaccinated, then they aren't going to catch it anyway, and whatever small risk the vaccine poses, they're better off without it. This is the sort of thing that shows that enlightened self-interest won't always serve society's interest.
Anyway, I agree, it does grab a lot of memory on my Fedora laptop. Still it's not anyway near the memory / CPU hog that, for example, Adobe Acrobat Reader is for me.
No, the need for standardization is not for the user's benefit, it's for the developer's convenience in not having to tweak and compile dozens of versions.
My guess, and it's just a pure guess, is that, as the nano particles are suspended in water and ethanol, the aerosal makes a fine mist of liquid micro particles containing the suspended nano particles, which gets into the lungs easier than the macro particles from the spray pump.
Yes, on preinstalled systems. I've never bought a boxed version of MS windows, so I don't know if it is permitted or not to reinstall a retail copy onto another computer. My preinstalled XP on my Dell laptop did not even come with a full install disk. The XP system rescue disk relies on a small hidden partition on the hard drive (FAT 16, but not labeled as such). I only found out about that when repartitioning my drive so I could dual boot to Linux. (OK, so I actually found out after I messed up the MBR and had to restore it)
The reason laptops don't typically come with high end graphics cards is that that would severely limit battery life. As a frequent commuter and infrequent gamer, I appreciate my 4-5 hours of battery life. I do need a modestly good graphics card to do CAD on my laptop, but I would regret being forced to get the latest and greatest graphics card just to see eye-candy, and I wonder how that would compete with resources I actually need.
That's exactly what I was thinking. Automatically activated items is one of the main vectors for exploits. Another poster said that requiring manually clicking will just get people into the habit of moindlessly clicking (They don't already do that?). But how in the heck could automatic activation be better? Hopefully, this leads to less use of Active X in web sites. Use of Active X just means I'll skip that site, since I'm not using MS Windows (except at work). There's enough other choices that it doesn't really bother me, personally anyway.
"secrecy of its patented . .." should be an oxymoron. Of course, it may just be a moron reporter ignorant of the difference between trade secrets and patents.
"When gas quickly depressurizes, it cools down. Ever wonder why? It's because as the gas escapes, the particles which are near each other tend to all move in the same direction (outward) and thus their random motions with respect to each other are decreased. Thus, the temperature drops. "Yes, the temperature drops." "
No, the temperature only drops if the exdpanding gas does work. Consider equal sized containers, connected with a closed valve, one with a complete vacuum and one filled with an ideal gas at room temperature and pressure. Open the valve. The gas fills both volumes, but doesn't push against anything in moving to the empty container, so does no work. The volume doubles, the pressure drops in half, the "average" kinetic energy of the molecules does not change, so the temperature of the gas stays the same.
A CD or a book is _not_ the property of the author. Technically, legally, the property involved in copyright is a monopoly grant given by the government to make copies. It was originally created a few hundred years ago in England not for the incentive of authors, but for the incentive of publishers. Despite the wording in the US Constitution, in practice it still protects the publishers much more than the creators. Just ask anyone who has signed a record deal and didn't become a big enough success to negotiate better terms later. Unfortunately the word copy_right_ has confused people and they tend to believe it is an inalienable right like those in the Declaration of Independence. It Is NOT a natural right, it is a government grant.
Question for the day: when you "buy" a movie on DVD, what important item is not included (in the US) in the purchase?? -- The right to play the movie. MPEG decompression is covered by patents that you don't have a license to use unless you buy a licensed playback device or program.
It's not that dark matter hasn't been found. It's that the best (crude) estimates of it so far only explain about a 1/3rd of the observed discrepancies from standard gravitational theory. So some are searching for more dark matter, others are searching for a different model of gravity. Meanwhile, here on earth, Newton's theories are good enough for high school physics and most engineering problems, while Einstein's work OK for GPS and a few other of the more demanding applications.
I believe Congress could mandate licensing, after all, they are the ones that make the patent laws. More likely, they would just use their lawmaking powers as a bluff to force voluntary licensing, and even then would not be expected to take such action except in dire emergencies, such as an pandemic with a patented cure.
Read the article. They're not saving energy. They're saving peak demand charges from the utility - a negative incentive from the electric company to try to avoid constructing electric capacity that goes unused most of the day.
HVAC design is the business I'm in, and I can almost guarantee that letting the temperature swing that much would generate complaints from lots of occupants in any office building. As far as storing heat(or cold), air can't hold very much, it's more common to store it in water, or even better, a phase change such as melting ice during the day and freezing at night when the utility rates are lower. I've been involved in the design of some big systems that use ice storage, but I doubt the first costs would be viable for smaller installations.
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Internet Explorer. Microsoft bought Spyglass, I believe, for a percentage of sales and turned it into IE. Then, in a panic when Netscape looked like it might become a platform for net app development, MS started giving IE away for free. A percent of nothing is nothing and that's what they tried to pay. Though MS was sued, they got off cheap.
The war in Iraq was over long ago ("Mission Accomplished" was true if you were just talking about the overthrow of the Baathists). Now we're just trying to be the police.
The war on terror is a metaphor - it's not a real war.
My daughter got whooping cough when she was about 2. She was sick for a while and had a miserable cough for a few months. We were pretty concerned, but after the first few days she was active and alert didn't really seem that sick - except for the cough.
Her oldest brother had gotten the standard DPT (Diptheria/Pertussis/Tetanus) shot, which scared the crap out of us because it made him sick for a week and he had a 106F fever for 2 days. So my wife refused to let my other kids get the Pertussis (whoopping cough) part of the vaccine and they only got a DT shot.
Funny thing, my middle kid never got the shot or the disease symptoms, despite living in close quarters with the disease (2 parents & 3 kids, 1 bathroom & 2 bedrooms).
So I'm wondering whether the natural disease will give better immunity in the future than the vaccine did for the author of the parent comment.
Your kids are at more risk from the diseases themselves than they are a reaction to the MMR vaccine - unless everyone else is vaccinated, then they aren't going to catch it anyway, and whatever small risk the vaccine poses, they're better off without it. This is the sort of thing that shows that enlightened self-interest won't always serve society's interest.
Anyway, I agree, it does grab a lot of memory on my Fedora laptop. Still it's not anyway near the memory / CPU hog that, for example, Adobe Acrobat Reader is for me.
You read way too much into a couple of double quote marks.
What, no comments about FireFox "memory leaks"?
No, the need for standardization is not for the user's benefit, it's for the developer's convenience in not having to tweak and compile dozens of versions.
My guess, and it's just a pure guess, is that, as the nano particles are suspended in water and ethanol, the aerosal makes a fine mist of liquid micro particles containing the suspended nano particles, which gets into the lungs easier than the macro particles from the spray pump.
Yes, on preinstalled systems.
I've never bought a boxed version of MS windows, so I don't know if it is permitted or not to reinstall a retail copy onto another computer. My preinstalled XP on my Dell laptop did not even come with a full install disk. The XP system rescue disk relies on a small hidden partition on the hard drive (FAT 16, but not labeled as such). I only found out about that when repartitioning my drive so I could dual boot to Linux. (OK, so I actually found out after I messed up the MBR and had to restore it)
Read the EULA. It is not always allowed for you to move the OS to another box.
The reason laptops don't typically come with high end graphics cards is that that would severely limit battery life. As a frequent commuter and infrequent gamer, I appreciate my 4-5 hours of battery life. I do need a modestly good graphics card to do CAD on my laptop, but I would regret being forced to get the latest and greatest graphics card just to see eye-candy, and I wonder how that would compete with resources I actually need.
"jump the shark" ?
That's exactly what I was thinking. Automatically activated items is one of the main vectors for exploits.
Another poster said that requiring manually clicking will just get people into the habit of moindlessly clicking (They don't already do that?). But how in the heck could automatic activation be better?
Hopefully, this leads to less use of Active X in web sites. Use of Active X just means I'll skip that site, since I'm not using MS Windows (except at work). There's enough other choices that it doesn't really bother me, personally anyway.
My thought exactly!
." should be an oxymoron. Of course, it may just be a moron reporter ignorant of the difference between trade secrets and patents.
"secrecy of its patented . .
but the XP Home edition does not have the granularity of access control that XP Pro has
IANAL, but I believe patents now last 20 years from time of application, rather than 17 years from time of issuance, at least in the US.
Patenting trade secrets without requiring them to be published is a patently bad idea.
"When gas quickly depressurizes, it cools down. Ever wonder why? It's because as the gas escapes, the particles which are near each other tend to all move in the same direction (outward) and thus their random motions with respect to each other are decreased. Thus, the temperature drops.
"Yes, the temperature drops." "
No, the temperature only drops if the exdpanding gas does work. Consider equal sized containers, connected with a closed valve, one with a complete vacuum and one filled with an ideal gas at room temperature and pressure. Open the valve. The gas fills both volumes, but doesn't push against anything in moving to the empty container, so does no work. The volume doubles, the pressure drops in half, the "average" kinetic energy of the molecules does not change, so the temperature of the gas stays the same.
Joule did this experiment in 1843.
A CD or a book is _not_ the property of the author. Technically, legally, the property involved in copyright is a monopoly grant given by the government to make copies. It was originally created a few hundred years ago in England not for the incentive of authors, but for the incentive of publishers. Despite the wording in the US Constitution, in practice it still protects the publishers much more than the creators. Just ask anyone who has signed a record deal and didn't become a big enough success to negotiate better terms later. Unfortunately the word copy_right_ has confused people and they tend to believe it is an inalienable right like those in the Declaration of Independence. It Is NOT a natural right, it is a government grant.
Question for the day: when you "buy" a movie on DVD, what important item is not included (in the US) in the purchase?? -- The right to play the movie. MPEG decompression is covered by patents that you don't have a license to use unless you buy a licensed playback device or program.
It's not that dark matter hasn't been found. It's that the best (crude) estimates of it so far only explain about a 1/3rd of the observed discrepancies from standard gravitational theory. So some are searching for more dark matter, others are searching for a different model of gravity. Meanwhile, here on earth, Newton's theories are good enough for high school physics and most engineering problems, while Einstein's work OK for GPS and a few other of the more demanding applications.
Chaos is more a matter of non-linear interactions, you can get chaotic behaviour with just a couple of variables.
Strange case, this. RIM already settled out of court once. The patents have been ruled no good. Still, the lwayers arrgue on and on.
I believe Congress could mandate licensing, after all, they are the ones that make the patent laws. More likely, they would just use their lawmaking powers as a bluff to force voluntary licensing, and even then would not be expected to take such action except in dire emergencies, such as an pandemic with a patented cure.
Read the article.
They're not saving energy.
They're saving peak demand charges from the utility - a negative incentive from the electric company to try to avoid constructing electric capacity that goes unused most of the day.
HVAC design is the business I'm in, and I can almost guarantee that letting the temperature swing that much would generate complaints from lots of occupants in any office building.
As far as storing heat(or cold), air can't hold very much, it's more common to store it in water, or even better, a phase change such as melting ice during the day and freezing at night when the utility rates are lower. I've been involved in the design of some big systems that use ice storage, but I doubt the first costs would be viable for smaller installations.