The theory is that immediately after the big bang, matter and antimatter began to annihilate. The asymmetry is explained partially through CP-Violation. There are other theories such as axions (which could be a form of dark matter) that may explain the remainder of the asymmetry.
I see that you've been reading the leaflets that the pharmaceuticals have been spreading for years. The truth is that most of the actual research is conducted in labs that receive HUGE amounts of public funding. The the drug companies greatest contribution comes in the development of manufacturing processes.
I suppose this is also a good argument against outsourcing the production of your drugs to countries that are not within your control or gover[n]ments that are not on your payroll. Sad...
What is sad is that pharmaceuticals have governments (especially the US federal govt) on their payroll.
I never said that I was unhappy with Windows, though there is definitely room for improvement. My original point was that I have issue with the idea that he would recommend Linux to anybody. It clearly is not anywhere near that stage. If everything ports with the exception of your most essential software, then what good is it really? Just deal with it is not an answer when you are running a business. I do not mind "doing some lifting" but at some point, most businesses will need software that just does not exist. What then? Develop it yourself? Fine if you are a software company, but most small to mid size businesses do not have those types of resources available. I do like the ideas of open source and the GPL and would like to learn more and support the community, but as a practical matter, it will still be a long time before Linux is able to compete for the desktop of the average user.
I looked at page you linked to and, while it is interesting and I will definitely look into it, it goes a long way toward proving my point. This, and many, many other important utilities, applications, and even families of applications, are in beta mode or worse. I have hundreds of contacts, thousands of notes, appointments, and tasks, and all are filed and cross referenced in a specific manner. I haven't even mentioned the thousands of emails dating back many years, again filed very carefully. I'm resigned to the fact that I would have to reconfigure the many dozens of rules that I have sorting my emails automatically. This, and I don't even use Exchange!
This says it supports Outlook 2000 with reports of success with unspecified bugs in Outlook XP. This means I would have to spend hours converting and then verifying data, not to mention any configuration. As a hypothetical, even if I could transfer all of my data from Outlook in a reliable manner, this is merely a prerequisite. What about accounting, or shipping, or any of the other daily tasks that most businesses deal with. What is my answer to Quickbooks? Dazzle? What about my database? What about specialty software such as Photoshop, AutoCAD, or Pro Tools? Nearly every business has an equivalent.
That said, I'll still dabble, but am nowhere near a point where I can say Linux is a viable alternative for me or the overwhelming majority of Windows users. It is not that the transition would be disruptive, or even difficult and expensive. It would be logistically impossible.
I have an HP zd7000 laptop that I can boot into MS-DOS, 2000, XP, Vista, Ubuntu, SuSE, and even OS X. Every system with the exception of OS X, for obvious reasons, installed easily and runs well. However, I still use XP as my primary desktop. For one thing, it has been so for years and it is very well configured. Also, some of my favorite applications don't yet run on Vista.
The problem with Linux, however, is that while the philosophy is attractive, it is still not a real option for most people, myself included. Aside from the fact that it took me two hours to get my wireless card to work with my WPA network, something a novice user would give up on quickly, Office is a real fact of life out in the real world. There is hardly a business out there that isn't married to Outlook, Word, or Excel, and if you want to play, you need to be able to catch the ball. More importantly, you need to toss it back.
If you can somehow tell me a practical way to convert my.pst file, there is the new and much higher hurdle of getting all of this to sync with my PDA in a simple and quick manner. Also, there are the myriad specialized applications and tools that run only on Windows. Individually, each only affects a handful of users, but it is a rare business that doesn't absolutely rely on at least one.
I am interested in Linux and want to give it a fair shake, but after I spend three hours tinkering with it to get it to perform some minor task, I need to get some real work done so I switch back over to XP. Until Linux can effectively work in a mostly Windows environment, it will not be adopted by most users. Furthermore, the only people I would recommend it to are home users with limited needs (email, internet, media, etc...), who don't plan on buying any bleeding edge equipment, and no have need to share any real information with anybody. The same is true for Apple. Everybody else still needs Windows
My apologies to the person whom I modded in this discussion, but I felt it necessary to comment on this point.
The article suggests a fourth spatial dimension would be necessary for the creation of these "Black Saturns". String theory predicts eleven dimensons; ten spatial and time.
I don't see how this qualifies as being evil. It is simply doing business. They were merely trying to get the best deal out of the legislature for the company, and nondisclosure is an accepted practice. I don't see any malice in their actions or even any ethical violations. They were not trying to "sqash" the little guy or corrupt the political process. Just business as usual for a large corporation.
Am I missing something?
This could be considered slightly offtopic, but I recently had an experience with Norton that was similar to some of these experiences.
I was attempting to uninstall Norton Internet Security and System Works for a client because it was corrupted and preventing many Office documents and applications from opening properly. After Add/Remove programs failed, I tried the Norton Removal Tool which also failed. Upon failing to find any information via their website for such a contingency, I called support where I was informed that there would be a $30 charge for them to help me. I told them that I was a skilled technician and asked if I could find this information online, to which I was told that there was not. I agreed to the charge and was guided through the process, which involved editing the registry in safe mode then running the removal tool in normal mode. (The removal tool will not run in safe mode. I tried). After hanging up, I found that the system was still infected with Norton. It took another call to disable Go Back and again run the removal tool to rid the machine of that menace. At least I didn't have to pay for the second call.
Later, the client informed me that after a dispute with Norton, he recently had his credit card company charge back Norton for these products. This made me put on my tinfoil hat for a minute to consider, what are the chances Norton sneaked some sort of poison pill into a definition update?
The cost of living here is high. I would not consider that a living wage as a single male with no children. A 1 bedroom apartment here runs about $1200 and other expenses are high as well. $62K for a family of four would be low income by US standards.
The only thing I'm wondering is what the hell took them so long.
Keep in mind this is comparing domain traffic. Yahoo is much broader than Google in terms of services.
That is a very good point. Many of my clients use yahoo mail and search because that was what was installed when they contracted their SBC (now ATT) service. Like many AOL users, it is all they have ever known.
ok, why doesnt google just notify the user of these yellow, red, (ie. government type terrorism alert colors) on top of each search result returned from a query. Based on these studies they (google) should be able to use the same algorithms the researches used to achive the same conclusion about unsafe sites.
You can get the siteadvisor extension for Firefox. It does exactly that and also notifies you if you browse there through other means.
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I like this one [ delusive sometime volatile tubelike pipeline ]
I'm with you. I read that post three times and understood it less each time. It reads like some automatically generated spam email.
That is the first time I have ever laughed at that joke
My understanding is that rising CO2 levels preceded increases in global temperatures.
I would say that defying the laws of logic is an all-too-average human power
fox.com is not news for "normals". It is a calculated misrepresentation of facts for people who don't want there opinions challenged.
That's what took me so long to get to the comments, but I can't get the damn landing gear up with my joystick.
I'm sold.
That is incorrect
The theory is that immediately after the big bang, matter and antimatter began to annihilate. The asymmetry is explained partially through CP-Violation. There are other theories such as axions (which could be a form of dark matter) that may explain the remainder of the asymmetry.
I see that you've been reading the leaflets that the pharmaceuticals have been spreading for years. The truth is that most of the actual research is conducted in labs that receive HUGE amounts of public funding. The the drug companies greatest contribution comes in the development of manufacturing processes.
What is sad is that pharmaceuticals have governments (especially the US federal govt) on their payroll.
Shouldn't your sig be 1011 1010 1101 1100 0000 1111 1111 1110 1110 0000?
I never said that I was unhappy with Windows, though there is definitely room for improvement. My original point was that I have issue with the idea that he would recommend Linux to anybody. It clearly is not anywhere near that stage. If everything ports with the exception of your most essential software, then what good is it really? Just deal with it is not an answer when you are running a business. I do not mind "doing some lifting" but at some point, most businesses will need software that just does not exist. What then? Develop it yourself? Fine if you are a software company, but most small to mid size businesses do not have those types of resources available. I do like the ideas of open source and the GPL and would like to learn more and support the community, but as a practical matter, it will still be a long time before Linux is able to compete for the desktop of the average user.
Thanks for the tip.
I looked at page you linked to and, while it is interesting and I will definitely look into it, it goes a long way toward proving my point. This, and many, many other important utilities, applications, and even families of applications, are in beta mode or worse. I have hundreds of contacts, thousands of notes, appointments, and tasks, and all are filed and cross referenced in a specific manner. I haven't even mentioned the thousands of emails dating back many years, again filed very carefully. I'm resigned to the fact that I would have to reconfigure the many dozens of rules that I have sorting my emails automatically. This, and I don't even use Exchange!
This says it supports Outlook 2000 with reports of success with unspecified bugs in Outlook XP. This means I would have to spend hours converting and then verifying data, not to mention any configuration. As a hypothetical, even if I could transfer all of my data from Outlook in a reliable manner, this is merely a prerequisite. What about accounting, or shipping, or any of the other daily tasks that most businesses deal with. What is my answer to Quickbooks? Dazzle? What about my database? What about specialty software such as Photoshop, AutoCAD, or Pro Tools? Nearly every business has an equivalent.
That said, I'll still dabble, but am nowhere near a point where I can say Linux is a viable alternative for me or the overwhelming majority of Windows users. It is not that the transition would be disruptive, or even difficult and expensive. It would be logistically impossible.
I have an HP zd7000 laptop that I can boot into MS-DOS, 2000, XP, Vista, Ubuntu, SuSE, and even OS X. Every system with the exception of OS X, for obvious reasons, installed easily and runs well. However, I still use XP as my primary desktop. For one thing, it has been so for years and it is very well configured. Also, some of my favorite applications don't yet run on Vista.
The problem with Linux, however, is that while the philosophy is attractive, it is still not a real option for most people, myself included. Aside from the fact that it took me two hours to get my wireless card to work with my WPA network, something a novice user would give up on quickly, Office is a real fact of life out in the real world. There is hardly a business out there that isn't married to Outlook, Word, or Excel, and if you want to play, you need to be able to catch the ball. More importantly, you need to toss it back.
If you can somehow tell me a practical way to convert my .pst file, there is the new and much higher hurdle of getting all of this to sync with my PDA in a simple and quick manner. Also, there are the myriad specialized applications and tools that run only on Windows. Individually, each only affects a handful of users, but it is a rare business that doesn't absolutely rely on at least one.
I am interested in Linux and want to give it a fair shake, but after I spend three hours tinkering with it to get it to perform some minor task, I need to get some real work done so I switch back over to XP. Until Linux can effectively work in a mostly Windows environment, it will not be adopted by most users. Furthermore, the only people I would recommend it to are home users with limited needs (email, internet, media, etc...), who don't plan on buying any bleeding edge equipment, and no have need to share any real information with anybody. The same is true for Apple. Everybody else still needs Windows
My apologies to the person whom I modded in this discussion, but I felt it necessary to comment on this point.
The article suggests a fourth spatial dimension would be necessary for the creation of these "Black Saturns". String theory predicts eleven dimensons; ten spatial and time.
I don't see how this qualifies as being evil. It is simply doing business. They were merely trying to get the best deal out of the legislature for the company, and nondisclosure is an accepted practice. I don't see any malice in their actions or even any ethical violations. They were not trying to "sqash" the little guy or corrupt the political process. Just business as usual for a large corporation. Am I missing something?
Vista was released on time?!? What calendar are you looking at?
Exactly, there are so many better alternatives. One of my favorites is Cobian Backup. It is free (as in beer) and, no, it does not require floppies.
If it takes you 30 seconds to delete an email, I'd recommend a new system; or at least a faster connection and more RAM.
This could be considered slightly offtopic, but I recently had an experience with Norton that was similar to some of these experiences.
I was attempting to uninstall Norton Internet Security and System Works for a client because it was corrupted and preventing many Office documents and applications from opening properly. After Add/Remove programs failed, I tried the Norton Removal Tool which also failed. Upon failing to find any information via their website for such a contingency, I called support where I was informed that there would be a $30 charge for them to help me. I told them that I was a skilled technician and asked if I could find this information online, to which I was told that there was not. I agreed to the charge and was guided through the process, which involved editing the registry in safe mode then running the removal tool in normal mode. (The removal tool will not run in safe mode. I tried). After hanging up, I found that the system was still infected with Norton. It took another call to disable Go Back and again run the removal tool to rid the machine of that menace. At least I didn't have to pay for the second call.
Later, the client informed me that after a dispute with Norton, he recently had his credit card company charge back Norton for these products. This made me put on my tinfoil hat for a minute to consider, what are the chances Norton sneaked some sort of poison pill into a definition update?
The cost of living here is high. I would not consider that a living wage as a single male with no children. A 1 bedroom apartment here runs about $1200 and other expenses are high as well. $62K for a family of four would be low income by US standards.
That is a very good point. Many of my clients use yahoo mail and search because that was what was installed when they contracted their SBC (now ATT) service. Like many AOL users, it is all they have ever known.
You can get the siteadvisor extension for Firefox. It does exactly that and also notifies you if you browse there through other means.