FYI: Many people still use Telnet, and many other features removed. It isn't just hated because of a large footprint on the memory, but because useful/used tools have been removed. And not always because they are deemed "obsolete" (Video Analog support removed due to digital rights).
Bullshit. It isn't installed by default, but can easily be activated:
Use software explorer or Click Start, Control Panel, Programs, and then Turn Windows Features on or off. In the list, scroll down and select Telnet Client. Click OK to start the installation.
And if analog video support is removed then why does the S-Video port (analog) on my nVidia card still work?/boggle
Half of the items on the list you gave were BS anyways. Gopher support? Please. (and no, I'm not a raving MS fan... running Slackware on my desktop... I just don't see the point in dissing Microsoft for something that isn't real)
Add a gig of RAM ($20-$30) and you will notice a market improvement in Vista performance. I bought a $300 Vista laptop computer back in August and added a gig of RAM. Dual-booted XP and Vista for awhile and wound up getting rid of the XP partition because there was no noticeable difference in performance.
Yes, Vista loves the RAM, but the other part of the equation is the 512M of RAM you have (which is minuscule by today's standards) is also being shared by the video card. By default, at least on my machine, it would share up to 128M with the video card, that's 25% of your RAM!
Aerospace Engineering.
Financial Consulting.
Plenty of other fields...
You won't make 100k the year you walk out of college with your diploma, but you will soon thereafter (I'm an engineer; I work with guys in their 30's pulling down six figures in engineering.) if you are a good, hardworking employee. There is no turnkey solution for high pay. You have to work hard, but the rewards are proportionate.
My parents bought us Fishertechnik for Christmas when I was in seventh grade (with brothers in 5th, 4th and a sister in 2nd). At first we were a bit disappointed because they took them out of the box and packed them into plastic containers... which were sold to hold LEGOS. We knew this inspecting the Christmas gifts and KNEW for CERTAIN we were getting a load of LEGO's (screw the pendants) for Christmas. Anyways didn't take more than a week or two for them to grow on us.
Next year I won the science fair, built a computer controlled robot arm out of Fischertechnik. I kept playing with them through high school, wound up buying the pneumatics set, etc. Wonderful stuff you can do with all those sets put together.
Wound up becoming an engineer, and now I go home at Christmas and beg my parents to let me take the Fischertechnik sets home with me to play with:P I'm 25, but they keep saying no because they are trying to get my youngest sibling (14) to play with it more... maybe next year.
In the past 10 days I have not died. In fact, I will survive every day of my life except for one. That's a pretty good average, right?
10 days out of how many years is not significant, not to mention you are avoiding the enivitable (everyone dies). The market doesn't work that way.
Too bad the average has no impact whatsoever on the worst-case. Past performance only gives an indication of what the general market trends used to be, not what they will be for the rest of 2008.
You are correct, past performance is not a guarantor of future results. However, remember in those last 100 or so years were included all of the worst stock market events in history. So it is fair to say that, based on the current knowledge of the market, in years that start out shitty, and especially in presidential election years, the market takes an upwards swing till the end. It's not guaranteed, but based on all the information we have, odds are it will. You have no reason to know with absolute certainty that this is the worst case.
Motley Fool has some good stuff, but also has a tendency to spout shit every now and then. I think this is one of those times.
And go take a look at google, microsoft and apple stock prices over a 1m, 3m, 6m and 12m period. Microsoft beats both companies into submission every time, except Google slightly on the 6m view.
This past month has been hard universally, but some companies weather it better than others. Apple lost 33% of its stock value, Google lost 18%. Microsoft only lost 8%. That really shows the difference in volatility. Apple, for instance, is a trendy stock, but Microsoft is going nowhere...
No, it was full year trend data. We haven't elapsed a full year yet. Therefore...
How do they know if the month isn't over yet? Prospectuses are designed to instill confidence, not give an accurate picture. They have all sorts of "past performance does not guarantee future returns" and such, then quote past performance and imply future returns.
No shit. But past performance does tend to give an indication of general market trends. And batting 10/10 is a pretty good average.
So were they lying then or are they lying now? Oh wait, it isn't lying it's statistics and marketing.
Statistics are statistics. You can use them as you like. But you can go research it yourself if you don't believe.
But what's the difference between a recession and a collapse? Is it possible that the national debt will become so large that there will be no one left willing and able to buy more debt from us to keep the government running?
I doubt it. You got to think about it this way: while the economy is suffering, American money is cheap. So now's the time to buy. When the economy recovers, it is worth more relative to other currencies. There's this saying, "When America sneezes, the whole world catches a cold." Nations worldwide have every reason to do what they can to ensure the success of america, right/wrong or indifferent. And we saw that this week when the Japanese and Hong Kong markets took a 5-10% overnight dip, overreacting to the Fed dropping interest rates and the 400 point drop in the Dow.
The US owns things and services its people. The steel mills are gone, the auto factories are moving to Canada and Mexico (well, aside from the Germans finding our cheap labor and crappy exchange rate favorable for keeping plants here rather than there). As our economy gets worse, we will get some industry back, but with the uneven environmental regulations (not helped by our refusal to play nice with treaties on the environment) and our decline in the school system (again, I blame mostly on federal regulations for something that shouldn't be regulated by the feds at all) we are at a disadvantage.
It's not all a bad thing. Think about what most Americans pay for - their mortgage, various insurances, services (phone, internet, TV,... ), food, various supplies. By percentage, the majority (by dollar amount) of what an average american spends out of pocket goes to an American for American services. So what if there is a percentage increase on imports? On the whole, it is a relatively small fraction of things you buy, versus the services you pay for.
Some of us don't let our kids watch a lot of TV either... my son gets less than a half hour a day. He watches a few shorts of "Thomas the Tank Engine" before bedtime (15 minutes), and then on Sunday mornings "Bob the Builder" (30 minutes).
I am personally not opposed to video games, I play them myself when I have time (OT: anyone interested in buying some old Commodore 64 games? trying to clean out the closet and eBay hasn't been helpful) but not till he's older. I don't see why a young kid should be playing video games or watching tv. There's a big backyard and toys and more importantly, an imagination to exercise.
We are entering a hard recession. By next year the employees morale will be high because they have a job.
Was talking with my dad last night, who is a financial planner. He got the monthly prospectus from his parent company yesterday and shared an interesting bit of information with me:
They looked at the ten worst January's on record, where the market showed recession. All ten of those years, the market turned a respectable profit by December.
You have to remember to think in the long term. So what if the market is down for a few months? The remaining months can turn it up higher than it was before. And election years, historically, have a tendency to stabilize the market.
(If anything, a recession is a time to invest. The stocks are sold at bargain basement prices!)
Probably half or more of the posters here are from America. If you check a number of polls, many Americans believe that NASA has been a waste. Sadly, they also believe that Science is a waste. It comes down to the more that politicians declare that science projects like Genetic Engineering, Stem Cell research, Global Warming Research, etc is bad for the world (and America), then by extension, then RD efforts like NIH, CDC, and even NASA must be worthless. Out politicians are killing us. It is no wonder that we see our RD labs torn down.
90% of the "this-is-bad" posts are from Rei, and his/her point is that it's just a suborbital hop. It isn't advancing the state of the art. And s/he's completely correct. The propellant mix is unimpressive, the vehicle goes very slow relative to orbital velocity and the "feather", while useful for suborbital reentry is useless for a hypersonic orbital re-entry.
(yes, I'm an aerospace engineer... who is from America, actually thinks NASA is useful, and enjoys most of what science bring us. Thanks for another lets-bash-America post, Windbourne!)
I agree with you, suborbital joyrides don't contribute to the art of space access, they are a dead end merely for profit. And I agree with you, I am excited about SpaceX, other private orbital ventures and their possibilities, however, I must refute this statement:
Their Falcon 9, a rocket whose heavy version will carry as much payload as NASA's beleagured (and possibly dead in the water) Ares, including its own spacecraft that can dock with the ISS, will be launching this June.
1. Yes, the Falcon 9 has more payload than Ares I. But you are comparing the small Ares I to the big Falcon 9. Not to mention both are still moving targets.
2. SpaceX has yet to successfully launch Falcon 1 to orbit, much less Falcon 9.
3. The Dragon (manned capsule, dockable to ISS) module is far from finished, and will not be launched for at least another year. (And, mind you, is being launched for a NASA **contract** [COTS], not in competition with NASA)
4. Ares I/V are anything but dead in the water. If it was, I'd probably already have lost my job right now, contractors are always the first to go:).
Again, don't get me wrong, I wish I was a self-made millionaire like Elon, Jeff Bezos, John Carmack, or David Masten. I'd be building orbital rocket hardware in a heartbeat (I build small scale rockets in my garage... ). But there's no point in creating hype and saying things you know nothing about... These companies are doing a good enough job on their own to stand out without it!
Maybe (game x) is better by some specific subjective metric, but in terms of the overall 'package', I'd have to say that in this case Adam Smith's measurement is the best objective general measure of value.
No, It hits the least common denominator in gaming. Much like television, which has a way larger captive fanbase (and they generally pay more a month, as well), people can sit in front of WoW and essentially zone out. IMO.
P.S. In case you're wondering? C++ should NEVER be taught in school. Worst drain bramage you can do to a poor kid. Especially as his first language!
Have to disagree with you here. C++ was my second language, mere months after I started programming BASIC in grade school. When I discovered how hard it was to do what I wanted to do in BASIC (having real functions in a program), I ditched it and went straight for C++. No regrets, 12 years later I'm still programming in it (I'm not a CS, I'm an engineer, I write tools to support my work). Some of those late nights in grade and high school banging your head against the desk trying to figure out what was wrong (bad pointers:) ) gave me a much better coding approach and methods of just thinking about code I've used for the rest of my life.
I agree. My wife has it on her new laptop. It replaced her Windows ME laptop. She seldom uses it. She only uses it because 1 It's a laptop and portable, 2 It has a DVD writer in it... The rest of the time, she uses the desktop machine instead.
Just out of curiosity, do you know why? Because this past year I bought a el-cheapo $300 notebook with Vista on it, added a gig of RAM (total of 1.5G, shared with the nVidia video card) and it runs like a champ. I use it daily, not just for email and presentations but I actually write code on it.
If 'it is slow doing stuff' is her complaint, slap a gig of RAM in there... about $30 nowadays. You'd be surprised what a gig of RAM can do.
There are specialist book stores, and second hand bookstores who have books that haven't been in print for 50 years. You won't find those on Amazon.
You sure will. The last two books I purchased on Amazon are obscure Aerospace Engineering books that have been out of print for a great many years. Amazon does stock used books via third parties.
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FYI: Many people still use Telnet, and many other features removed. It isn't just hated because of a large footprint on the memory, but because useful/used tools have been removed. And not always because they are deemed "obsolete" (Video Analog support removed due to digital rights).
/boggle
... running Slackware on my desktop ... I just don't see the point in dissing Microsoft for something that isn't real)
Bullshit. It isn't installed by default, but can easily be activated:
Use software explorer or Click Start, Control Panel, Programs, and then Turn Windows Features on or off. In the list, scroll down and select Telnet Client. Click OK to start the installation.
And if analog video support is removed then why does the S-Video port (analog) on my nVidia card still work?
Half of the items on the list you gave were BS anyways. Gopher support? Please. (and no, I'm not a raving MS fan
Something is wrong then because I have a low-end Sempron notebook with 1.5gb RAM, vista home and deletion is almost instantaneous...
Vista isn't perfect, but it's better than most of the (uninformed or lacking in experience) critics give it credit for.
Add a gig of RAM ($20-$30) and you will notice a market improvement in Vista performance. I bought a $300 Vista laptop computer back in August and added a gig of RAM. Dual-booted XP and Vista for awhile and wound up getting rid of the XP partition because there was no noticeable difference in performance.
Yes, Vista loves the RAM, but the other part of the equation is the 512M of RAM you have (which is minuscule by today's standards) is also being shared by the video card. By default, at least on my machine, it would share up to 128M with the video card, that's 25% of your RAM!
Aerospace Engineering.
Financial Consulting.
Plenty of other fields...
You won't make 100k the year you walk out of college with your diploma, but you will soon thereafter (I'm an engineer; I work with guys in their 30's pulling down six figures in engineering.) if you are a good, hardworking employee. There is no turnkey solution for high pay. You have to work hard, but the rewards are proportionate.
Lego is a really great toy but it lacks one serious feature: SAVE.
Digital Camera. Notebook with a part count if you are truly anal.
My parents bought us Fishertechnik for Christmas when I was in seventh grade (with brothers in 5th, 4th and a sister in 2nd). At first we were a bit disappointed because they took them out of the box and packed them into plastic containers... which were sold to hold LEGOS. We knew this inspecting the Christmas gifts and KNEW for CERTAIN we were getting a load of LEGO's (screw the pendants) for Christmas. Anyways didn't take more than a week or two for them to grow on us.
:P I'm 25, but they keep saying no because they are trying to get my youngest sibling (14) to play with it more ... maybe next year.
Next year I won the science fair, built a computer controlled robot arm out of Fischertechnik. I kept playing with them through high school, wound up buying the pneumatics set, etc. Wonderful stuff you can do with all those sets put together.
Wound up becoming an engineer, and now I go home at Christmas and beg my parents to let me take the Fischertechnik sets home with me to play with
In the past 10 days I have not died. In fact, I will survive every day of my life except for one. That's a pretty good average, right?
10 days out of how many years is not significant, not to mention you are avoiding the enivitable (everyone dies). The market doesn't work that way.
Too bad the average has no impact whatsoever on the worst-case. Past performance only gives an indication of what the general market trends used to be, not what they will be for the rest of 2008.
You are correct, past performance is not a guarantor of future results. However, remember in those last 100 or so years were included all of the worst stock market events in history. So it is fair to say that, based on the current knowledge of the market, in years that start out shitty, and especially in presidential election years, the market takes an upwards swing till the end. It's not guaranteed, but based on all the information we have, odds are it will. You have no reason to know with absolute certainty that this is the worst case.
Motley Fool has some good stuff, but also has a tendency to spout shit every now and then. I think this is one of those times.
...
And go take a look at google, microsoft and apple stock prices over a 1m, 3m, 6m and 12m period. Microsoft beats both companies into submission every time, except Google slightly on the 6m view.
This past month has been hard universally, but some companies weather it better than others. Apple lost 33% of its stock value, Google lost 18%. Microsoft only lost 8%. That really shows the difference in volatility. Apple, for instance, is a trendy stock, but Microsoft is going nowhere
general != universal
Was this January in the top 10?
...
... ), food, various supplies. By percentage, the majority (by dollar amount) of what an average american spends out of pocket goes to an American for American services. So what if there is a percentage increase on imports? On the whole, it is a relatively small fraction of things you buy, versus the services you pay for.
No, it was full year trend data. We haven't elapsed a full year yet. Therefore
How do they know if the month isn't over yet? Prospectuses are designed to instill confidence, not give an accurate picture. They have all sorts of "past performance does not guarantee future returns" and such, then quote past performance and imply future returns.
No shit. But past performance does tend to give an indication of general market trends. And batting 10/10 is a pretty good average. So were they lying then or are they lying now? Oh wait, it isn't lying it's statistics and marketing.
Statistics are statistics. You can use them as you like. But you can go research it yourself if you don't believe.
But what's the difference between a recession and a collapse? Is it possible that the national debt will become so large that there will be no one left willing and able to buy more debt from us to keep the government running?
I doubt it. You got to think about it this way: while the economy is suffering, American money is cheap. So now's the time to buy. When the economy recovers, it is worth more relative to other currencies. There's this saying, "When America sneezes, the whole world catches a cold." Nations worldwide have every reason to do what they can to ensure the success of america, right/wrong or indifferent. And we saw that this week when the Japanese and Hong Kong markets took a 5-10% overnight dip, overreacting to the Fed dropping interest rates and the 400 point drop in the Dow.
The US owns things and services its people. The steel mills are gone, the auto factories are moving to Canada and Mexico (well, aside from the Germans finding our cheap labor and crappy exchange rate favorable for keeping plants here rather than there). As our economy gets worse, we will get some industry back, but with the uneven environmental regulations (not helped by our refusal to play nice with treaties on the environment) and our decline in the school system (again, I blame mostly on federal regulations for something that shouldn't be regulated by the feds at all) we are at a disadvantage.
It's not all a bad thing. Think about what most Americans pay for - their mortgage, various insurances, services (phone, internet, TV,
It does disprove the general case that games make kids illiterate.
A single case does not disprove. Besides the fact that firstborns, on average, have a higher IQ.
Why is TV OK but games aren't
... my son gets less than a half hour a day. He watches a few shorts of "Thomas the Tank Engine" before bedtime (15 minutes), and then on Sunday mornings "Bob the Builder" (30 minutes).
Some of us don't let our kids watch a lot of TV either
I am personally not opposed to video games, I play them myself when I have time (OT: anyone interested in buying some old Commodore 64 games? trying to clean out the closet and eBay hasn't been helpful) but not till he's older. I don't see why a young kid should be playing video games or watching tv. There's a big backyard and toys and more importantly, an imagination to exercise.
Yeah, my son is into Thomas bad, but the train cars can be little snots more often than not :P
We are entering a hard recession. By next year the employees morale will be high because they have a job.
Was talking with my dad last night, who is a financial planner. He got the monthly prospectus from his parent company yesterday and shared an interesting bit of information with me:
They looked at the ten worst January's on record, where the market showed recession. All ten of those years, the market turned a respectable profit by December.
You have to remember to think in the long term. So what if the market is down for a few months? The remaining months can turn it up higher than it was before. And election years, historically, have a tendency to stabilize the market.
(If anything, a recession is a time to invest. The stocks are sold at bargain basement prices!)
Read the paragraph in context. Thanks.
Imagine a ski, versus a wheel.
It's simpler and more lightweight. Less moving parts. Also probably a lot easier to package.
Probably half or more of the posters here are from America. If you check a number of polls, many Americans believe that NASA has been a waste. Sadly, they also believe that Science is a waste. It comes down to the more that politicians declare that science projects like Genetic Engineering, Stem Cell research, Global Warming Research, etc is bad for the world (and America), then by extension, then RD efforts like NIH, CDC, and even NASA must be worthless. Out politicians are killing us. It is no wonder that we see our RD labs torn down.
... who is from America, actually thinks NASA is useful, and enjoys most of what science bring us. Thanks for another lets-bash-America post, Windbourne!)
90% of the "this-is-bad" posts are from Rei, and his/her point is that it's just a suborbital hop. It isn't advancing the state of the art. And s/he's completely correct. The propellant mix is unimpressive, the vehicle goes very slow relative to orbital velocity and the "feather", while useful for suborbital reentry is useless for a hypersonic orbital re-entry.
(yes, I'm an aerospace engineer
Watch these guys:
Armadillo Aerospace
Masten Space Systems
Both are working on smaller vehicles right now, but both have their eyes on orbital space.
I agree with you, suborbital joyrides don't contribute to the art of space access, they are a dead end merely for profit. And I agree with you, I am excited about SpaceX, other private orbital ventures and their possibilities, however, I must refute this statement:
:).
... ). But there's no point in creating hype and saying things you know nothing about ... These companies are doing a good enough job on their own to stand out without it!
Their Falcon 9, a rocket whose heavy version will carry as much payload as NASA's beleagured (and possibly dead in the water) Ares, including its own spacecraft that can dock with the ISS, will be launching this June.
1. Yes, the Falcon 9 has more payload than Ares I. But you are comparing the small Ares I to the big Falcon 9. Not to mention both are still moving targets.
2. SpaceX has yet to successfully launch Falcon 1 to orbit, much less Falcon 9.
3. The Dragon (manned capsule, dockable to ISS) module is far from finished, and will not be launched for at least another year. (And, mind you, is being launched for a NASA **contract** [COTS], not in competition with NASA)
4. Ares I/V are anything but dead in the water. If it was, I'd probably already have lost my job right now, contractors are always the first to go
Again, don't get me wrong, I wish I was a self-made millionaire like Elon, Jeff Bezos, John Carmack, or David Masten. I'd be building orbital rocket hardware in a heartbeat (I build small scale rockets in my garage
Ok Clerks 2 as well, but that was a donkey....um, bad example.
Chicks with dicks that put mine to shame.
Wait, wrong Clerks.
Maybe (game x) is better by some specific subjective metric, but in terms of the overall 'package', I'd have to say that in this case Adam Smith's measurement is the best objective general measure of value.
No, It hits the least common denominator in gaming. Much like television, which has a way larger captive fanbase (and they generally pay more a month, as well), people can sit in front of WoW and essentially zone out. IMO.
Tollway through Chicago at 2am = great. It's a breeze.
Tollway through Chicago from 5am-11pm = sucks.
P.S. In case you're wondering? C++ should NEVER be taught in school. Worst drain bramage you can do to a poor kid. Especially as his first language!
:) ) gave me a much better coding approach and methods of just thinking about code I've used for the rest of my life.
Have to disagree with you here. C++ was my second language, mere months after I started programming BASIC in grade school. When I discovered how hard it was to do what I wanted to do in BASIC (having real functions in a program), I ditched it and went straight for C++. No regrets, 12 years later I'm still programming in it (I'm not a CS, I'm an engineer, I write tools to support my work). Some of those late nights in grade and high school banging your head against the desk trying to figure out what was wrong (bad pointers
I agree. My wife has it on her new laptop. It replaced her Windows ME laptop. She seldom uses it. She only uses it because 1 It's a laptop and portable, 2 It has a DVD writer in it... The rest of the time, she uses the desktop machine instead.
... about $30 nowadays. You'd be surprised what a gig of RAM can do.
Just out of curiosity, do you know why? Because this past year I bought a el-cheapo $300 notebook with Vista on it, added a gig of RAM (total of 1.5G, shared with the nVidia video card) and it runs like a champ. I use it daily, not just for email and presentations but I actually write code on it.
If 'it is slow doing stuff' is her complaint, slap a gig of RAM in there
There are specialist book stores, and second hand bookstores who have books that haven't been in print for 50 years. You won't find those on Amazon.
You sure will. The last two books I purchased on Amazon are obscure Aerospace Engineering books that have been out of print for a great many years. Amazon does stock used books via third parties.