Not sure about the specific are, but some parts of Alaska have very LOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooong Nights.
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3 - Ray Gun. Never heard that one before from any guests; though more than one caller to the show has suggested it. Also, I just started listening 3 years ago, so there's plenty of past material I've missed.
[tinfoil hat]
Some links to theories of HAARP as a weapon.
http://www.haarp.net/
Both sites are jam packed with general kookery, and stuff that makes for funny reading on alt.conspiracy.blackhelicopters. But there you have it.
The first article is a bit on the light side as far as details go, and it IS from a site known for it's kookery, scary thing is, if the HAARP's energy is directable, it's plausible, if not probable. It would be just as easy to punch a hole in the ionosphere as it would be to create a lens effect. (see article)
On a side note, if it is a weather manipulation platform, interesting that they decided to upgrade it so heavily after the year of killer hurricanes and tornados.
[/tinfoil hat]
minimum hassle
The amount of "hassle" is highly relative to the end user's abilities. A linux desktop might be fine for someone who is fairly technically savvy, but in my experience people who don't know how to CC someone in an email freak out when they have to deal with technology that is not "what they know". To them all new=bad.
Aimbots R so badass in Counter Strike! It's so l337, I can totally pwn nubs from across the map! They are all like, OMG HAX!! and I'm all RLY? they are all liek YA RLY!
monopoly ( P ) Pronunciation Key (m-np-l)
n. pl. monopolies
Exclusive control by one group of the means of producing or selling a commodity or service: "Monopoly frequently... arises from government support or from collusive agreements among individuals" (Milton Friedman).
Law. A right granted by a government giving exclusive control over a specified commercial activity to a single party.
A company or group having exclusive control over a commercial activity.
A commodity or service so controlled.
Exclusive possession or control: arrogantly claims to have a monopoly on the truth.
Something that is exclusively possessed or controlled: showed that scientific achievement is not a male monopoly.
Enjoy the stone age while you boycott the advancement of technology based on your mythical idea that all big business is bad. M$ are huge, yes, and they have been found to use antitrust practices, but they do NOT and never have had a MONOPOLY. Tiger's share of the market, to be sure, but not monopoly.
Here's an idea! How about taking technological advancements on a case by case basis, and ignoring who made them?
I'm right there with anyone who says that Microsoft has some crappy business practices, and pawns crappy operating systems and bloated software on the masses via nothing but marketing magic, and strong arm side deals with other large companies. But to take the stance that everyhting they touch turns to shit, and shun a superior product in it's category because it has their logo? Rediculous.
But it's no skin of my nose, really. Go ahead, keep watching your beta tapes of the wizard of oz, and listening to your Jethro tull 8 tracks, while connecting to your BBS via your 56k Modem, on your nextstep box. To some people, I'm sure, that kind of avoidance of monopolistic technological advancement is cool, I'm sure... somewhere.....
Now we get to have clippy bugging our scientists. I'm sure they'll love having to click "Just start predicting the weather" every time they launch Microsoft Weather 2003.
"From The Washington Post comes the news that serious security flaws have been found in the software that Sony is distributing to users who want to remove the Sony rootkit. The article says: 'Because of the way the tool is configured... it allows any Web page that the user subsequently visits to download, install and run any code that it likes."
Find a handful of Yao-Ming's great-grandfathers teeth and create a new species out of it.
Try that with any other scientific discipline, and you'd be crucified. Ask Pons and Fleichmann, the two chemists who deduced that they had discovered cold fusion when they found that they could create excess heat in a beaker filled with water at room temperature in 88 or 89.
http://partners.nytimes.com/library/national/scien ce/050399sci-cold-fusion.html
But seems from those teeth they were able to determine that it did not walk upright, that it had long apelike arms, black fur, feet with opposing thumbs, short spindly legs... etc, etc. None of which can be assumed without finding at least the base of the skull fully in tact.
*sigh*
Disgusting what passes as "science" these days. This article requires as much of a leap of faith as the Kansas school board.
No, By then M$ will be getting ready to start alpha testing for windows codename blackhole, based on singularity. It will be the fastest most stable operating system of all time, will run on anything, and be the inspiration for all of us to do better. This will usher in an era of unbridled happiness and satisfaction with technology, which will be the main reason why we lower our defenses, and be so trusting of the robot overlords in years just prior to skynet's reign.
Will it does say dependence, not dependability. Perhaps that's a typo, but since the article seemed to be about performance, I would think that's why the dependability factor is mysteriously missing.
On a side note... selling crack is all about increasing dependence as well.
I hear what you're saying, however both Dell and IBM offer services to help migrate away from solaris to Redhat and/or SuSe. I wouldn't guess they would do that unless there's a market for it.
Well since your not the one doing the installing, and getting a machine that it guaranteed to work with it. Why not? You can always select "no operating system" in the configure section before hitting the "check out" button.
Sounds like a case of I don't know it, so it must suck....
Well, assuming they did decide to offer a pre-loaded linux offering, and assuming they did decide to support it(requiring a new support devision entirely), And assuming they priced it in a range that people would actually consider it an alternative, AND assuming they were competing for Suns target demographic..... One would think that they would take the time to make their product offering competetive..
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4 gigawatts? To make make the equivalent of an auroral disco ball in the sky for the polar bears? Wow, they really know how to party.
Not sure about the specific are, but some parts of Alaska have very LOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooong Nights.
3 - Ray Gun. Never heard that one before from any guests; though more than one caller to the show has suggested it. Also, I just started listening 3 years ago, so there's plenty of past material I've missed.
[tinfoil hat]
Some links to theories of HAARP as a weapon.
http://www.viewzone.com/haarp00.html
http://www.haarp.net/
Both sites are jam packed with general kookery, and stuff that makes for funny reading on alt.conspiracy.blackhelicopters. But there you have it.
The first article is a bit on the light side as far as details go, and it IS from a site known for it's kookery, scary thing is, if the HAARP's energy is directable, it's plausible, if not probable. It would be just as easy to punch a hole in the ionosphere as it would be to create a lens effect. (see article)
On a side note, if it is a weather manipulation platform, interesting that they decided to upgrade it so heavily after the year of killer hurricanes and tornados. [/tinfoil hat]
oops.. ^ sorry about the bold. I forgot the r in my br, html > me.. :(
minimum hassle The amount of "hassle" is highly relative to the end user's abilities. A linux desktop might be fine for someone who is fairly technically savvy, but in my experience people who don't know how to CC someone in an email freak out when they have to deal with technology that is not "what they know". To them all new=bad.
Aimbots R so badass in Counter Strike! It's so l337, I can totally pwn nubs from across the map! They are all like, OMG HAX!! and I'm all RLY? they are all liek YA RLY!
monopoly ( P ) Pronunciation Key (m-np-l) n. pl. monopolies
Exclusive control by one group of the means of producing or selling a commodity or service: "Monopoly frequently... arises from government support or from collusive agreements among individuals" (Milton Friedman).
Law. A right granted by a government giving exclusive control over a specified commercial activity to a single party.
A company or group having exclusive control over a commercial activity. A commodity or service so controlled.
Exclusive possession or control: arrogantly claims to have a monopoly on the truth.
Something that is exclusively possessed or controlled: showed that scientific achievement is not a male monopoly.
Enjoy the stone age while you boycott the advancement of technology based on your mythical idea that all big business is bad. M$ are huge, yes, and they have been found to use antitrust practices, but they do NOT and never have had a MONOPOLY. Tiger's share of the market, to be sure, but not monopoly.
Here's an idea! How about taking technological advancements on a case by case basis, and ignoring who made them?
I'm right there with anyone who says that Microsoft has some crappy business practices, and pawns crappy operating systems and bloated software on the masses via nothing but marketing magic, and strong arm side deals with other large companies. But to take the stance that everyhting they touch turns to shit, and shun a superior product in it's category because it has their logo? Rediculous.
But it's no skin of my nose, really. Go ahead, keep watching your beta tapes of the wizard of oz, and listening to your Jethro tull 8 tracks, while connecting to your BBS via your 56k Modem, on your nextstep box. To some people, I'm sure, that kind of avoidance of monopolistic technological advancement is cool, I'm sure... somewhere.....
Now we get to have clippy bugging our scientists. I'm sure they'll love having to click "Just start predicting the weather" every time they launch Microsoft Weather 2003.
Because this product is going to revolutionize raves as we know them. And the hippies turned executive have been waiting for this for almost 50 years.
Magnetogravitaional Space Crafts?
"From The Washington Post comes the news that serious security flaws have been found in the software that Sony is distributing to users who want to remove the Sony rootkit. The article says: 'Because of the way the tool is configured ... it allows any Web page that the user subsequently visits to download, install and run any code that it likes."
Irony.... thy name is sony.
Alarm! Alarm! Asshat Announcement!
Find a handful of Yao-Ming's great-grandfathers teeth and create a new species out of it. Try that with any other scientific discipline, and you'd be crucified. Ask Pons and Fleichmann, the two chemists who deduced that they had discovered cold fusion when they found that they could create excess heat in a beaker filled with water at room temperature in 88 or 89. http://partners.nytimes.com/library/national/scien ce/050399sci-cold-fusion.html
But seems from those teeth they were able to determine that it did not walk upright, that it had long apelike arms, black fur, feet with opposing thumbs, short spindly legs... etc, etc. None of which can be assumed without finding at least the base of the skull fully in tact.
*sigh*
Disgusting what passes as "science" these days. This article requires as much of a leap of faith as the Kansas school board.
Twins?
No, By then M$ will be getting ready to start alpha testing for windows codename blackhole, based on singularity. It will be the fastest most stable operating system of all time, will run on anything, and be the inspiration for all of us to do better. This will usher in an era of unbridled happiness and satisfaction with technology, which will be the main reason why we lower our defenses, and be so trusting of the robot overlords in years just prior to skynet's reign.
Oh, right, load times aren't even remotely relative to content. ;P
Will it does say dependence, not dependability. Perhaps that's a typo, but since the article seemed to be about performance, I would think that's why the dependability factor is mysteriously missing. On a side note... selling crack is all about increasing dependence as well.
I hear what you're saying, however both Dell and IBM offer services to help migrate away from solaris to Redhat and/or SuSe. I wouldn't guess they would do that unless there's a market for it.
Well since your not the one doing the installing, and getting a machine that it guaranteed to work with it. Why not? You can always select "no operating system" in the configure section before hitting the "check out" button. Sounds like a case of I don't know it, so it must suck....
Well, assuming they did decide to offer a pre-loaded linux offering, and assuming they did decide to support it(requiring a new support devision entirely), And assuming they priced it in a range that people would actually consider it an alternative, AND assuming they were competing for Suns target demographic..... One would think that they would take the time to make their product offering competetive..