Don't forget, the Value Addition Tax (that has to be the most stupid name for a tax ever) eats a big chunk of the favourable exchange rates. But the cost difference still is pretty steep.
It does sound counterintuitive at first, but when you think about it, Microsoft doesn't make any money off IE, so working together with the other browser developers is a good way to ensure all Windows browsers get better security. Helping Linux browsers to improve doesn't really matter, because Linux already has an image of being extremely secure, so collaborating with open-source developers is a win-win situation from a PR and development perspective.
During the same time, our predators were getting faster and stronger and we were getting....smarter???
Evolution doesn't make species faster, stronger, smarter etc. Evolution is about adapting to your environment. Evolution could also make a species become slower, less intelligent and weaker; anything that helps a species thrive in it's environment. It's not even implausible to imagine a species evolving back to single-celled organisms, though this would take a insanely long time, and would need the environment to gradually shift to favoring single-celled organisms.
Domestication is not evolution. We have domesticated cattle, not caused a genetic mutation that makes them different from previous generations. Close and distant relatives of the domesticated cow continue to survive in the wild, human intervention or not. Buffalo roamed the plains of North America for millenia before humans with no problems.
Breeding is a form of evolution, but much faster, because of active evolutionary pressure instead of passive (unwanted genetic variations are destroyed instead of just having a tougher time surviving). Not sure why you think buffaloes prove that domesticated cattle hasn't evolved, they're two separate species?
For me personally though, the best evidence of evolution is my cat from a decade back. It had a very short tail, and small tufts of hair at the tips of its ears. I'm guessing it had a normally dormant gene from an ancestor cats share with the Lynx.
The Mayans just didn't think people would still be using their outdated calender in 2012. It's the Y2K bug all over again, hopefully computers running on the Mayan calendar are updated in time.
IPv6 would be useful for using phones in a p2p mesh network, thus getting rid of money leeching operators, and making phones more affordable. No point in building oldschool landlines in developing countries, when there are better technologies available.
Officials are trying their best to open the door but they suspect the door has to be rebooted.
Yeah, rebooting is a bitch in the future, ever since Microsoft started replacing the power buttons with retina scanners and started using fusion batteries as the power source.;)
I wonder if this could be used to induce fear? Maybe spray some fear in gas form in a movie theater or something to make it more scary. I think being fearless isn't something to wish for, why would people go to horror movies unless they enjoyed being scared?
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Don't forget, the Value Addition Tax (that has to be the most stupid name for a tax ever) eats a big chunk of the favourable exchange rates. But the cost difference still is pretty steep.
It does sound counterintuitive at first, but when you think about it, Microsoft doesn't make any money off IE, so working together with the other browser developers is a good way to ensure all Windows browsers get better security. Helping Linux browsers to improve doesn't really matter, because Linux already has an image of being extremely secure, so collaborating with open-source developers is a win-win situation from a PR and development perspective.
During the same time, our predators were getting faster and stronger and we were getting....smarter???
Evolution doesn't make species faster, stronger, smarter etc. Evolution is about adapting to your environment. Evolution could also make a species become slower, less intelligent and weaker; anything that helps a species thrive in it's environment. It's not even implausible to imagine a species evolving back to single-celled organisms, though this would take a insanely long time, and would need the environment to gradually shift to favoring single-celled organisms.
Domestication is not evolution. We have domesticated cattle, not caused a genetic mutation that makes them different from previous generations. Close and distant relatives of the domesticated cow continue to survive in the wild, human intervention or not. Buffalo roamed the plains of North America for millenia before humans with no problems.
Breeding is a form of evolution, but much faster, because of active evolutionary pressure instead of passive (unwanted genetic variations are destroyed instead of just having a tougher time surviving). Not sure why you think buffaloes prove that domesticated cattle hasn't evolved, they're two separate species?
For me personally though, the best evidence of evolution is my cat from a decade back. It had a very short tail, and small tufts of hair at the tips of its ears. I'm guessing it had a normally dormant gene from an ancestor cats share with the Lynx.
VILLAGER: She's a witch! She turned me into a newt!
BEDEVERE (looks at the villager): A newt?
VILLAGER: Umm.. I got better?
Hey, I hate Soviet Russia jokes you insensitive clod!
If space is curved and the light that reflects from us somehow got back, then why not? :)
And Jack Thompson.
We buy them because they're cheaper.
They used to be, but with dualcores the roles have reversed.
I think those are called rabbits.
I'm going to patent the joke about patenting ideas.
I always thought Earth is in the southern part. I guess it's hard to tell sometimes with the North Pole moving and all. :)
The Mayans just didn't think people would still be using their outdated calender in 2012. It's the Y2K bug all over again, hopefully computers running on the Mayan calendar are updated in time.
Matt Damon? Matt Damon!
IPv6 would be useful for using phones in a p2p mesh network, thus getting rid of money leeching operators, and making phones more affordable. No point in building oldschool landlines in developing countries, when there are better technologies available.
IPv5 was just IPv4 with 64-bit addresses. Wikipedia is a useful thing indeed.
Officials are trying their best to open the door but they suspect the door has to be rebooted.
;)
Yeah, rebooting is a bitch in the future, ever since Microsoft started replacing the power buttons with retina scanners and started using fusion batteries as the power source.
I wonder if this could be used to induce fear? Maybe spray some fear in gas form in a movie theater or something to make it more scary. I think being fearless isn't something to wish for, why would people go to horror movies unless they enjoyed being scared?
"A partisan is a member of a irregular military force formed to oppose control of an area by a foreign power or by an army of occupation."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partisan_(military)
Hey, I'm a member of the Pet Flesh-eating Bacteria Club, you insensitive clod!
I think this is a really good move from Microsoft, this way they will be able to
I'm running a default WinXP SP2 install with Firefox 1.5 RC2, and the page is full of questionmarks.
Hey, I have ADD you insensitive
... insensitive clog!
It could be C++.
That's what I thought it said at first. :P