thinkpads are now made by Lenovo... and no, I wouldn't change a thing about them. I've worked with several different brands of notebooks and the only one I'd actually pay money for is a ThinkPad.
No, if you read the guy's articles he sounds like a whiny bitch. This is all way too reminiscent of the whole Massachusetts-forcing-Walmart-to-carry-Plan-B, most slashdotters tend to oppose the government mindset and yet when it comes to linux they fall right into that mindset.
But don't try to silence the customer. It's not called "supply and demand" for nothing.
Aren't enough of you to matter. (I don't buy computers...)
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Boy, you have no idea how orbits work do you?
Yes, actually, I do. I'm an aerospace engineer.
Now Y is moving several thousand miles an hour else it would simply fall to the earth.
Try several tens of thousands, 17,500 mi/h for LEO.
It is also moving at several thousand miles an hour, but it's on a reciprocal orbit of the golf ball.
You didn't read (4). No one uses reciprocal orbits in LEO. Hardly anyone uses reciprocal orbits... ever. The velocity the earth gives you by rotation is significant; working against it is stupid and is used very rarely, and generally only in GEO when you are trying to maintain a constellation of satellites (GPS).
Now, would you like to guess at the energy transfer of a collision at those speeds?
Kinetic energy = 1/2 * m * V * V; transfer depends on the elasticity of the collision.
I'm not stuipd, I just know the assumptions better than you do.
(1) how fast can you swing IN A FREAKING SPACESUIT?
(2) the speed of the space junk will be the speed of the space station, +/- the speed of your swing (see (1))
(3) there is a very thin atmosthere at low earth orbit deteriorating the orbit of anything there, further slowing the golf ball with time
(4) due to the nature of the spin of the earth and the fact that you get a boost from it, all spacecraft are launched in the same direction.
(5) therefore any collosion with the golfball at a later time will be at a velocity SLOWER than the swing, far slower than any other piece of space junk out there, and definitely not a threat. Not to mention there is a TRANSMITTER in there. They will see it coming and wave
From the sound of it... "250 pupils... 14pc's... home village", Microsoft might just give you those upgrades for free and make you the next poster child...
On a more serious note Microsoft does have educational licensing. The thing you have to balance is (1) teaching those teachers Linux (not an easy feat... trust me) and (2) trying to get older educational software to run under WINE. Take a computer and play with it for awhile. Determine what your time is worth and start working on it. Chances are 14 XP licenses are worth more. WINE is great and all but educational game programmers can do some weird stuff to make their games do what they do...
There are plenty of rational reasons why they might not want to advertise it to the mainstream and just leave it to those (geeks) who are looking for it (IE: support is a bitch to grandma who bought the wrong scanner). But I'll give you one better: why should they have to?
They are a company. They can do the hell they want with their products. Michael Dell is making more money than you are, is making more people more money than you are, is making more people more money than any other hardware manufacturer to date, let him play his game. As mentioned in the paragraph prior I see at least 1 damn good reason to do so. Its his company, let him do what he wants with it. His right to do what he wants with his company supercedes your right to see the word "linux" on the front page of dell.com.
Delta-V is Delta-V is Delta-V, doesn't matter if I am on Earth or the Moon or freakin Phobos for that matter. All it is, is a change in velocity. It has nothing to do with ANY local parameter.
Also got units wrong, UK does 93 millon a day, whereas they say the US does 700 million a year... that means its incredibly *unpopular* in the US (unless it is a typo... from context, it probably is)
Yeah, my digital camera uses a mini-USB transfer cable. Motorola uses a universal transfer cable for all of its phones (Going back for 4+ years at least...) The cable I have is USB and the cool thing is you can recharge the battery via the USB port too. Also works as a data cable if you want to use your cell phone as a modem. (Verizon nights and weekends FTW) Best $10 I ever spent:P
Don't know about Samsung phones, but Motorola phones have transfer cables that are easy to come by... $10 or so on froogle. http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=samsung+transf er+cable&btnG=Search+Froogle (16.99 for the first result... I don't know what model you have ) thats how I moved stuff onto my v265. I'm a Verizon customer too. Good cell phone forums for this kind of thing are www.howardsforum.com (may be misspelt, google it, I don't look up this kind of thing at work).
... no university could/would spend their **entire budget** to get the thing to fly a single mission, not to mention the price to fix it up, apply for the proper licenses from the http://ast.faa.gov/ AST, etc. Better to start from scratch and get a real education in things like high speed aerodynamics and propulsion along the way.
No shit. It is Microsoft Windows. Every copy must be properly licensed. The question was about source. The asker assertained that the source was closed to all eyes. This is not the case.
On the Tools menu, click Share Workbook, and then click the Editing tab.
Select the Allow changes by more than one user at the same time check box.
Click the Advanced tab.
Under Track changes, click Keep change history for, and in the Days box, type the number of days of change history (change history: In a shared workbook, information that is maintained about changes made in past editing sessions. The information includes the name of the person who made each change, when the change was made, and what data was changed.) that you want to keep.
Be sure to enter a large-enough number of days because Microsoft Excel permanently erases any change history older than this number of days.
Click OK, and if prompted to save the file, click OK.
easy enough. Straght from TFM
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thinkpads are now made by Lenovo... and no, I wouldn't change a thing about them. I've worked with several different brands of notebooks and the only one I'd actually pay money for is a ThinkPad.
mmmk, so you are going to compete with a three year old console? that's great...
it took a few iterations to get a good one :P
XBOX has three cores ... and Apple has no game experiance. It would truly suck.
(Besides the fact that XBOX is running on PowerPC chips, and Apple just left PowerPC for Intel...)
*hails from Wisconsin* ... regardless ... my post holds :P
several starts at 2, or that is what I was taught.... 17.5 is nearly 2... you get where I am going. Much closer to 20,000 than a few thousand (2,000).
No, if you read the guy's articles he sounds like a whiny bitch. This is all way too reminiscent of the whole Massachusetts-forcing-Walmart-to-carry-Plan-B, most slashdotters tend to oppose the government mindset and yet when it comes to linux they fall right into that mindset.
But don't try to silence the customer. It's not called "supply and demand" for nothing.
Aren't enough of you to matter. (I don't buy computers...)
Boy, you have no idea how orbits work do you?
Yes, actually, I do. I'm an aerospace engineer.
Now Y is moving several thousand miles an hour else it would simply fall to the earth.
Try several tens of thousands, 17,500 mi/h for LEO.
It is also moving at several thousand miles an hour, but it's on a reciprocal orbit of the golf ball.
You didn't read (4). No one uses reciprocal orbits in LEO. Hardly anyone uses reciprocal orbits... ever. The velocity the earth gives you by rotation is significant; working against it is stupid and is used very rarely, and generally only in GEO when you are trying to maintain a constellation of satellites (GPS).
Now, would you like to guess at the energy transfer of a collision at those speeds?
Kinetic energy = 1/2 * m * V * V; transfer depends on the elasticity of the collision.
I'm not stuipd, I just know the assumptions better than you do.
(1) how fast can you swing IN A FREAKING SPACESUIT?
(2) the speed of the space junk will be the speed of the space station, +/- the speed of your swing (see (1))
(3) there is a very thin atmosthere at low earth orbit deteriorating the orbit of anything there, further slowing the golf ball with time
(4) due to the nature of the spin of the earth and the fact that you get a boost from it, all spacecraft are launched in the same direction.
(5) therefore any collosion with the golfball at a later time will be at a velocity SLOWER than the swing, far slower than any other piece of space junk out there, and definitely not a threat. Not to mention there is a TRANSMITTER in there. They will see it coming and wave
From the sound of it... "250 pupils... 14pc's... home village ", Microsoft might just give you those upgrades for free and make you the next poster child ...
On a more serious note Microsoft does have educational licensing. The thing you have to balance is (1) teaching those teachers Linux (not an easy feat... trust me) and (2) trying to get older educational software to run under WINE. Take a computer and play with it for awhile. Determine what your time is worth and start working on it. Chances are 14 XP licenses are worth more. WINE is great and all but educational game programmers can do some weird stuff to make their games do what they do...
There are plenty of rational reasons why they might not want to advertise it to the mainstream and just leave it to those (geeks) who are looking for it (IE: support is a bitch to grandma who bought the wrong scanner). But I'll give you one better: why should they have to?
They are a company. They can do the hell they want with their products. Michael Dell is making more money than you are, is making more people more money than you are, is making more people more money than any other hardware manufacturer to date, let him play his game. As mentioned in the paragraph prior I see at least 1 damn good reason to do so. Its his company, let him do what he wants with it. His right to do what he wants with his company supercedes your right to see the word "linux" on the front page of dell.com.
Nice try. The parent wanted to do this for all of the slides in the presentation...t hreshold=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=14811911 #14812153
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http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=178681&
However this is unavailable in OO.org, and is one of the deficiencies of OO.org as compared to Microsoft Office
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=178681&
It is equvalent; consider the following:
- Earth: higer gravity, shorter burn.
- Moon: lower gravity, longer burn.
Delta-V is Delta-V is Delta-V, doesn't matter if I am on Earth or the Moon or freakin Phobos for that matter. All it is, is a change in velocity. It has nothing to do with ANY local parameter.
You missed the point of this competition. The delta-V requirement for the X-Prize mission? The same delta-V reqirement for a lunar landing mission.
its not about the travel, its about the controls. It is strictly a controls problem. And on that level, it *is* a challenge.
Also got units wrong, UK does 93 millon a day, whereas they say the US does 700 million a year... that means its incredibly *unpopular* in the US (unless it is a typo... from context, it probably is)
Yeah, cause, you know, they could let you know you won, and *then* ask for your personal information!
Yeah, my digital camera uses a mini-USB transfer cable. Motorola uses a universal transfer cable for all of its phones (Going back for 4+ years at least ...) The cable I have is USB and the cool thing is you can recharge the battery via the USB port too. Also works as a data cable if you want to use your cell phone as a modem. (Verizon nights and weekends FTW) Best $10 I ever spent :P
Don't know about Samsung phones, but Motorola phones have transfer cables that are easy to come by... $10 or so on froogle. http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=samsung+transf er+cable&btnG=Search+Froogle (16.99 for the first result ... I don't know what model you have ) thats how I moved stuff onto my v265. I'm a Verizon customer too. Good cell phone forums for this kind of thing are www.howardsforum.com (may be misspelt, google it, I don't look up this kind of thing at work).
... no university could/would spend their **entire budget** to get the thing to fly a single mission, not to mention the price to fix it up, apply for the proper licenses from the http://ast.faa.gov/ AST, etc. Better to start from scratch and get a real education in things like high speed aerodynamics and propulsion along the way.
No shit. It is Microsoft Windows. Every copy must be properly licensed. The question was about source. The asker assertained that the source was closed to all eyes. This is not the case.
On the Tools menu, click Share Workbook, and then click the Editing tab.
Select the Allow changes by more than one user at the same time check box.
Click the Advanced tab.
Under Track changes, click Keep change history for, and in the Days box, type the number of days of change history (change history: In a shared workbook, information that is maintained about changes made in past editing sessions. The information includes the name of the person who made each change, when the change was made, and what data was changed.) that you want to keep.
Be sure to enter a large-enough number of days because Microsoft Excel permanently erases any change history older than this number of days.
Click OK, and if prompted to save the file, click OK.
easy enough. Straght from TFM
You should really sleep on it before making that assertation, your conscious might be misleading you...
Converted to USD, that is exactly what I paid for expanded cable and high speed (8 megabit) cable through Knology.
Sorry Cringely, http://www.blockbuster.com/homepages/LoadBlockbust erHomepage.action
Blockbuster is already picking up the Netflix model and supplanting it with free in-store rentals.