We need to stop wasting valuable resources sending humans into space. Too expensive to house a human in space. We are killing terrorist with drones why not travel space with them.
We would accomplish twice as much twice as fast and just think of the spin-offs for earth? New, more powerful androids. We need to move quickly before Japan kicks our assess again. We could have complex androids on Mars in 5 years at a fraction of the cost.
Drop them onto any number of planets that have no hope of supporting human life, but could yield great scientific data.
Put on your thinking cap NASA and give up trying to send a fragile vessel into a hostile environment. It makes no sense scientifically and economically.
Could this be the first shot fired by the new Russian government letting the US know that it can and will take out satellites if need be?
We know that there are detailed battle plans and equipment in place for such a war by the 3 super powers, US, China and Russia.
Government planners need to think twice before shutting down all of the terrestrial navigation systems and instead renew their efforts to maintain a dual system. Even if a satellite war was not a credible threat then certainly solar flare activity could cause widespread satellite shutdowns and mass panic in the airline industry which is quickly switching to satellite systems from inertial navigation systems.
This move again highlights the lack of intelligence of the commercial media concerns. Greed, not brains lead this group. They will now introduce a whole new group to the Torrent technology. Smooth move!
iTunes is easy, fast and legal. But then again, why let logic get in the way.
It is amazing that the author is surprised that another MS OS is running hot. That is how all bloat code works. Poorly written and un-optimized code will always overtax the CPU and its support chips. Why do you think VISTA requires practically a supercomputer to run properly? The new MAC OS runs on many of the older machines and the newer OS coming out soon should also be supported by many of the older machines.
The UNIX based MAC OS has been continually optimized over the 30+ years of development. VISTA is ver 1.0 Microsoft Committee Code that will be 3 releases before it works properly and/or is even slightly optimized.
This whole issue begs the question of why anyone would want to run VISTA on a MAC anyway. The whole idea behind MAC/WIN compatibility was to help those, like myself, to more quickly transition from one OS to the other with applications that had not been ported yet.
Bottom line. Get a MAC and run Crossover long enough to get out of the burning MS building.
Very few argue that the globe is getting warmer. It is the cause. The wackos ( or Big Corporations) would like us to believe that our puny little asses can make more than a 1 degree difference. PLEEZE. Our nearest star has only to sneeze to raise the temperature 5-10 degrees. We can only pray that the Sun will limit its increase as it did around 10,000 years ago and we slowly, within 10 years begin to enter into the next "Ice Age". Wait, a new panic.
Sit back and relax. If you want to worry about something then let's make it asteroids or Bird Flu. We can do something tangible about those. Or maybe we should just spend some of this money to feed the poor. That would be novel.
Just remember to follow the money trail. Who makes big money of they get us to "BUY" into Global Warming?
Ok but then neither is the religion of "billions and billions of years". What does it matter if you invoke the God of the Bible or the God of Improbability, neither is real science. Give it a break. The "intelligentsia" has won this battle, but fortunately real science may eventually win.
Let us pray (you pick which God to pray to.)
High Tech solution, PLEASE. We can't get Windows XP right for God's sake. Let's just all take a deep breath and let our arrogant attitude about our importance in this grand universe set in. If the Evolutionists really believe that this earth is millions of years old, then she has been taking care of business just fine.
What, are we going to replace the war spending with a new "war." What we will end up with is a Globalist tax that funds this new magical technology to save us from what is the most natural cycle of all. People complain we are wasting money in Iraq. Get that baby started and you ain't seen nothing!
Intelligent Design is not just religion. Read below. This is not religion and Crick is not a crack pot scientist, but a very smart guy who realizes that there MIGHT be other explanations for the complexity of life. Wake up and don't be afraid to challenge your beliefs or you are as bad as the most fanatic religous nutcase. Don't drink the Kool Aid! Only those who fear the unknown desperately hold on to the "old truths" and never dare to question. Maybe because if you question the real Church of "modern science" you will never receive a PhD from their Churches.
From Wikipedia "A second prominent proponent of panspermia is Nobel prize winner Francis Crick, who along with Leslie Orgel proposed the theory of directed panspermia in 1973. This suggests that the seeds of life may have been purposely spread by an advanced extraterrestrial civilization. Crick argues that small grains containing DNA, or the building blocks of life, fired randomly in all directions is the best, most cost effective strategy for seeding life on a compatible planet at some time in the future. The strategy might have been pursued by a civilization facing catastrophic annihilation, or hoping to terraform planets for later colonization."
In order to sue you would have to prove that THEY caused the damage. Very hard to do.
Regarding them "physically watching everything you do", I never said that. But, for your information it is very possible for a group of computers to listen to conversations and key on certain words for storage. This is not scifi and in fact I knew of a company that sold the processor to do just this. Biggest customers?
AT&T Directory Assistance and an intelligence agency! This agency was using the chips in parallel to listen and monitor all of the international phone conversations for key words and recording them. This was over 15 years ago and was described in Patriot games in great detail. Wake up.
The fact that I am not doing anything illegal is irrelevant. There are many things I say that are not illegal but are nobodies business to know or could be used against me at a later date (credit card info, personal info, etc.. The fact that GM is a private corporation makes it even more egregious. The opportunity for abuse is too great to let anyone have this power.
Sorry....
On-Star can and does listen to conversations in your car without your knowledge! This is a somewhat little known fact that came out in a recent court case where the FBI used conversations from OnStar against a group to incriminate them.
Evidently you cannot turn it off very easily.
If anyone knows, please pass it on.
Absolutlely they were crocodile tears. It is so ironic that Billy Bob Gates will be hiring the Chinese engineers that will likely rob, steal and pilfer any Microsoft code that is worth anything and a new Chinasoft will emerge to compete. Gates will be losing now not only to Google, but now China Inc.
We will see just how "cheap" Chinese really is.
As long as it is not a Microsoft product it will probably be ok. It will be the last day that I drive if Gates & Co. get into this arena. Look what they did to screw up BMW with their "iDrive", an unusable interface to say the least!
If this isn't a wake up call, then give up. Airlines wonder why they are going bankrupt? Their product has not changed since the 60's and guess what? When a product dosen't change it becomes a commodity (Marketing 101 for those MBA's that skipped that day)
The airline industry has done a great job with safety, but NOTHING to innovate, sounds a lot like Detroit....Wake up Seattle!
Hollywood makes almost zero movies for children and the ones that they do are usually rated PG or PG13 and full of inappropriate language and content. Our kids are left watching DVD's of the Beverly Hillbilly's, and other old TV shows and movies. WAKE UP Hollywood. All of the parents aren't as "Progressive" as you might believe.
The best way to beat the terroist threat yet, without a shot fired. No money, no guns.
Need to start a grassroots letter writing campaign to Detroit and let them know that the next car you buy will be a plug-in hybrid and you hope it will be American. If they receive enough e-mails they will not be able to ignore.
The real impact of the PS3 will be the announcement by Apple of a partership using OS X on the PS3 to function as a complete home information/entertainment system. Will this happen? Only Steve knows. It completes Job's vision of 2005 being the year of HD video and spells the quick end to the XBOX 360.
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We need to stop wasting valuable resources sending humans into space. Too expensive to house a human in space. We are killing terrorist with drones why not travel space with them. We would accomplish twice as much twice as fast and just think of the spin-offs for earth? New, more powerful androids. We need to move quickly before Japan kicks our assess again. We could have complex androids on Mars in 5 years at a fraction of the cost. Drop them onto any number of planets that have no hope of supporting human life, but could yield great scientific data. Put on your thinking cap NASA and give up trying to send a fragile vessel into a hostile environment. It makes no sense scientifically and economically.
Could this be the first shot fired by the new Russian government letting the US know that it can and will take out satellites if need be? We know that there are detailed battle plans and equipment in place for such a war by the 3 super powers, US, China and Russia. Government planners need to think twice before shutting down all of the terrestrial navigation systems and instead renew their efforts to maintain a dual system. Even if a satellite war was not a credible threat then certainly solar flare activity could cause widespread satellite shutdowns and mass panic in the airline industry which is quickly switching to satellite systems from inertial navigation systems.
This move again highlights the lack of intelligence of the commercial media concerns. Greed, not brains lead this group. They will now introduce a whole new group to the Torrent technology. Smooth move! iTunes is easy, fast and legal. But then again, why let logic get in the way.
It is amazing that the author is surprised that another MS OS is running hot. That is how all bloat code works. Poorly written and un-optimized code will always overtax the CPU and its support chips. Why do you think VISTA requires practically a supercomputer to run properly? The new MAC OS runs on many of the older machines and the newer OS coming out soon should also be supported by many of the older machines.
The UNIX based MAC OS has been continually optimized over the 30+ years of development. VISTA is ver 1.0 Microsoft Committee Code that will be 3 releases before it works properly and/or is even slightly optimized.
This whole issue begs the question of why anyone would want to run VISTA on a MAC anyway. The whole idea behind MAC/WIN compatibility was to help those, like myself, to more quickly transition from one OS to the other with applications that had not been ported yet.
Bottom line. Get a MAC and run Crossover long enough to get out of the burning MS building.
Very few argue that the globe is getting warmer. It is the cause. The wackos ( or Big Corporations) would like us to believe that our puny little asses can make more than a 1 degree difference. PLEEZE. Our nearest star has only to sneeze to raise the temperature 5-10 degrees. We can only pray that the Sun will limit its increase as it did around 10,000 years ago and we slowly, within 10 years begin to enter into the next "Ice Age". Wait, a new panic.
Sit back and relax. If you want to worry about something then let's make it asteroids or Bird Flu. We can do something tangible about those. Or maybe we should just spend some of this money to feed the poor. That would be novel.
Just remember to follow the money trail. Who makes big money of they get us to "BUY" into Global Warming?
Ok but then neither is the religion of "billions and billions of years". What does it matter if you invoke the God of the Bible or the God of Improbability, neither is real science. Give it a break. The "intelligentsia" has won this battle, but fortunately real science may eventually win. Let us pray (you pick which God to pray to.)
High Tech solution, PLEASE. We can't get Windows XP right for God's sake. Let's just all take a deep breath and let our arrogant attitude about our importance in this grand universe set in. If the Evolutionists really believe that this earth is millions of years old, then she has been taking care of business just fine.
What, are we going to replace the war spending with a new "war." What we will end up with is a Globalist tax that funds this new magical technology to save us from what is the most natural cycle of all. People complain we are wasting money in Iraq. Get that baby started and you ain't seen nothing!
Intelligent Design is not just religion. Read below. This is not religion and Crick is not a crack pot scientist, but a very smart guy who realizes that there MIGHT be other explanations for the complexity of life. Wake up and don't be afraid to challenge your beliefs or you are as bad as the most fanatic religous nutcase. Don't drink the Kool Aid! Only those who fear the unknown desperately hold on to the "old truths" and never dare to question. Maybe because if you question the real Church of "modern science" you will never receive a PhD from their Churches.
From Wikipedia
"A second prominent proponent of panspermia is Nobel prize winner Francis Crick, who along with Leslie Orgel proposed the theory of directed panspermia in 1973. This suggests that the seeds of life may have been purposely spread by an advanced extraterrestrial civilization. Crick argues that small grains containing DNA, or the building blocks of life, fired randomly in all directions is the best, most cost effective strategy for seeding life on a compatible planet at some time in the future. The strategy might have been pursued by a civilization facing catastrophic annihilation, or hoping to terraform planets for later colonization."
Go ahead close your eyes and drink the Koolaid! The Sheeple will follow.....
In order to sue you would have to prove that THEY caused the damage. Very hard to do. Regarding them "physically watching everything you do", I never said that. But, for your information it is very possible for a group of computers to listen to conversations and key on certain words for storage. This is not scifi and in fact I knew of a company that sold the processor to do just this. Biggest customers? AT&T Directory Assistance and an intelligence agency! This agency was using the chips in parallel to listen and monitor all of the international phone conversations for key words and recording them. This was over 15 years ago and was described in Patriot games in great detail. Wake up.
The fact that I am not doing anything illegal is irrelevant. There are many things I say that are not illegal but are nobodies business to know or could be used against me at a later date (credit card info, personal info, etc.. The fact that GM is a private corporation makes it even more egregious. The opportunity for abuse is too great to let anyone have this power. Sorry....
On-Star can and does listen to conversations in your car without your knowledge! This is a somewhat little known fact that came out in a recent court case where the FBI used conversations from OnStar against a group to incriminate them. Evidently you cannot turn it off very easily. If anyone knows, please pass it on.
Absolutlely they were crocodile tears. It is so ironic that Billy Bob Gates will be hiring the Chinese engineers that will likely rob, steal and pilfer any Microsoft code that is worth anything and a new Chinasoft will emerge to compete. Gates will be losing now not only to Google, but now China Inc. We will see just how "cheap" Chinese really is.
As long as it is not a Microsoft product it will probably be ok. It will be the last day that I drive if Gates & Co. get into this arena. Look what they did to screw up BMW with their "iDrive", an unusable interface to say the least!
If this isn't a wake up call, then give up. Airlines wonder why they are going bankrupt? Their product has not changed since the 60's and guess what? When a product dosen't change it becomes a commodity (Marketing 101 for those MBA's that skipped that day) The airline industry has done a great job with safety, but NOTHING to innovate, sounds a lot like Detroit....Wake up Seattle!
Hollywood makes almost zero movies for children and the ones that they do are usually rated PG or PG13 and full of inappropriate language and content. Our kids are left watching DVD's of the Beverly Hillbilly's, and other old TV shows and movies. WAKE UP Hollywood. All of the parents aren't as "Progressive" as you might believe.
The best way to beat the terroist threat yet, without a shot fired. No money, no guns. Need to start a grassroots letter writing campaign to Detroit and let them know that the next car you buy will be a plug-in hybrid and you hope it will be American. If they receive enough e-mails they will not be able to ignore.
The real impact of the PS3 will be the announcement by Apple of a partership using OS X on the PS3 to function as a complete home information/entertainment system. Will this happen? Only Steve knows. It completes Job's vision of 2005 being the year of HD video and spells the quick end to the XBOX 360.