So we can build more things in space. What would happen if we were to build a foundry in space? Could we build new metals? Would they be stronger? Would they be applicable to more uses? What about making CPUs in space? Could we build a system that would align the materials better in space?
Yes I am dreaming here. If we could safely work with liquid materials (metals, silicon, etc.) in space, we might be able to build better things.
If you are talking about XP mode, that is a VM and the XP it installs has IE6 not 8. Granted it is free for the pro, ultimate, and enterprise version. Not available on the other versions. You need to have hardware big enough to run the VM and the host OS at the same time.
XP mode has been out for a while. It is free to download and use if you have the enterprise, ultimate, or pro version of windows 7. We have used it for a few old web based apps with no issue. The issue was the users tried dragging and dropping items from windows 7 into the XP mode app and it would not work. Other then that nothing after 14 months.
Caprica to me seemed like it had 3 major plot lines with a fourth really slow plot line. The major ones: one god terrorist thing, the teenage girls trapped in a video game thing or the thinking cylons thing, the graystone business thing. There is a huge problem with that. Unless you have enough story for each plot line to fill an episode with only that plot line, your are screwed. Switching between each plot line in a single hour gets old fast. They should have had an episode of just one plot line with a hint once in a while for the huge slow plot line (the cylons rebelling and starting a war with the 12 colonies). Think about the X-Files. They had something similar. They had the monster episodes, the evil paranormal episodes, the alien taking over the world episodes, all with a hint (once in a while) as to what happened to Mulder's sister. I know the main story arc was the government hiding the existence of aliens and/or working with aliens. Caprica should have done something like that with it's story arcs. There is some overlap with the business and the 'alive' cylons, but that helps tie the plots together.
I know I'll be flamed to no end for my take on X-Files, but that is just how I saw it. I did not watch the last two season of X-Files at all.
By defaulting to any person running you are giving an unfair advantage to that person. How many people just take the defaults with software and just click on through? They may see voting as the same thing and just click on through. The default should be no vote and you have to pick (or write in) someone to continue.
And according to ice core records, Siberia had a temp of 160 degrees for a long time. Maybe the Earth is going back to its hot phase? In human times we were coming out of an ice age. So perhaps the Earth is normally hotter then humans like it to be?
I thought the Romans burned the library of Alexandria? Accidentally by setting fire to their own ships, but it was the Romans while fighting with the Greeks.
Ada was not an OO language at first. The compiler wanted to know everything at compile time. Which is why Ada if it compiled successfully, the program often ran. You may have not gotten the result you wanted, but the program ran without error. When Ada switched to OO it screwed a lot of things up. Why do you think the air traffic control systems took so long? The OO Ada was saying yes you can land your plane in the middle of a hurricane and 5 tornados. I knew some people working on the new control tower software. That was a serious problem.
A woman will marry the guy that can provide for her and her children. But if given the chance she will bear the children of the jock or most physically fit.
If I remember right, 10% of children are not from the husband in a marriage. The husband thinks the child is his, but DNA tests prove otherwise. It was a UK study. They went into more details like how a woman often controls who may get her pregnant. She does this by having more sex when she is fertile with other people then her spouse. She also may have a lot of sex with her spouse when she is not fertile to lower his sperm count. They went into details with other methods too. I think it was in the sperm wars documentary.
I saw a girl with a tattoo that said this on her lower back (tramp stamp area). I think is was a henna tattoo. It was dark, but did not look like a regular tattoo. It still made me laugh though.
How about we unpack that story a little further to something like:
"Juan Williams fired for saying that when he sees Muslims getting on a plane with him he's afraid they're going to blow it up."
So his personal opinion in an opinion piece gets him fired? He even went on to say how much he is against outright hatred and racism based on work he has done. Sorry but NPR is showing its true colors. You must "one of us" or you are gone. Sad.
I have an old 9 inch dell mini. It runs XP ok, it runs ubuntu better, it runs win 7 enterprise just fine, it runs OSX fine as well. Not all at the same time. I switched OSs a bit when I got it. Each OS got a month of use to see how it was. The hard drive is a 32GB SSD. The half height PCIE kind of SSD so it is a pain to upgrade (not too may out there that fit without cutting into the case). Sure an I7 with 8GB of RAM beats it, but for regular day to day tasks this works fine. I have even ripped DVDs with this machine. It did it, wasn't the fastest but it did it. I think I spent about $200 for the mini + RAM upgrade + external DVD drive when I got it.
I wish 2 things were different about it. First the keyboard, missing the actual functions row of keys is a pain. Second I wish the screen was 1024X768 or something by 768. The accept buttons of some apps (adobe reader) are off the screen unless I hook it to an external monitor.
I don't use it either, but the calling of the dark side with promises of friends, fun and casual sex is powerful.
It is articles like this that are setting me straight. Thanks/. !
Maybe time to make a profile. Keep the info false and see what happens. I am sure I would not be the first to have a mostly false facebook, myspace, linkedin, etc. profile.
I wouldn't. Just at the place where I work. 47 mac desktops. 45 have bootcamp installed. 40 also have VMware fusion installed to run windows while they are running OSX. 37 never boot into OSX at all. We have to get them to boot into OSX once a month for updates for OSX. That itself is a major undertaking. The 7 who do not have bootcamp have never used anything but apple computers.
On the laptop front, 4 out of 39 apple laptops do not have bootcamp and VMware fusion installed.
Most of the people here wanted the apple hardware and not OSX. I am not sure how that is in other work places, but since this place has corporate license agreements and can install windows on many machines, they make use of it. I would say if people have access to windows, they are likely to install it on their apple machine. Even if it is a 'just in case' sort of thing.
For people starting with nothing any office product will work. If you already have files from application , it is often better to stay with that application then switch. If you can justify the cost of the switch, then do it. If you cannot, then do not.
I use open office at home, and install it for most people that ask for office. Does it work for them yes. Then again these are not people with hundreds or thousands of files from a different office application. Have I been burned by this? Yes. When docx, xlsx, and pptx arrived it caused some problems. Asking the person to have the sender resend in the 97-2003 file format was a bit harder. Tell them they need to do a save-as not just save. I set the default to 97-2003 for the office 2007 installs I did at work. That worked for most people. Why word has to use the new format for the math equations (with the Green symbols) is beyond me though. Main point is, use what works for you.
Get the windows 7 pro, ultimate, or enterprise version. With those you can download the VM to run XP in. Windows calls it XPMode, but it is just the windows VM. The big difference is the XPMode VM sees all of the host machine drives. No drive mapping needed. Which helps in a domain environment. The 20 or so people I have set it up for (for an old app that required XP) love it. I have yet to try this for old games, but for office applications we have yet to have an issue. It is like supporting two machines at the same time, so all updates and patches are the same. The host machine should be 'bigger'. Usually a dual core or quad core with 4GB (or more) of RAM. That way you can give a decent amount of resources to both the host OS and the VM. A single core CPU with 512MB of RAM I would not use as the host machine running a VM.
I think that is the way microsoft is leaning. They want people to use the new OS and run the old OS (XP) in a VM to run all the old applications. If microsoft would make a very secure OS it could be a nice setup. The secure host OS and the VM to run all your old apps. Of course a really secure host OS would not let XP have any access to the outside world.
Inside every version of "Word" is every previous version of word, so you can open that Office '97 document just as easily as your 2010 document.
Oh really? Open any previous version in Word? The rest of us must be cursed then.
Are you mixing up previous version and next version? For example I remember many people complaining that their word 2003 could not open a word 2007 file. They were saying that word is not backwards compatible. When they meant that word is not forwards compatible. Which is not a common thing in programs as far as I know. Anyway people with word files older then word 97 (word 95 and before) are out of luck. I had to build a win 3.11 machine with the old DOS word to open a few of those files recently. I was surprised the 5.25 floppies still worked.
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So we can build more things in space. What would happen if we were to build a foundry in space? Could we build new metals? Would they be stronger? Would they be applicable to more uses? What about making CPUs in space? Could we build a system that would align the materials better in space?
Yes I am dreaming here. If we could safely work with liquid materials (metals, silicon, etc.) in space, we might be able to build better things.
If you are talking about XP mode, that is a VM and the XP it installs has IE6 not 8. Granted it is free for the pro, ultimate, and enterprise version. Not available on the other versions. You need to have hardware big enough to run the VM and the host OS at the same time.
XP mode has been out for a while. It is free to download and use if you have the enterprise, ultimate, or pro version of windows 7. We have used it for a few old web based apps with no issue. The issue was the users tried dragging and dropping items from windows 7 into the XP mode app and it would not work. Other then that nothing after 14 months.
Caprica to me seemed like it had 3 major plot lines with a fourth really slow plot line. The major ones: one god terrorist thing, the teenage girls trapped in a video game thing or the thinking cylons thing, the graystone business thing. There is a huge problem with that. Unless you have enough story for each plot line to fill an episode with only that plot line, your are screwed. Switching between each plot line in a single hour gets old fast. They should have had an episode of just one plot line with a hint once in a while for the huge slow plot line (the cylons rebelling and starting a war with the 12 colonies). Think about the X-Files. They had something similar. They had the monster episodes, the evil paranormal episodes, the alien taking over the world episodes, all with a hint (once in a while) as to what happened to Mulder's sister. I know the main story arc was the government hiding the existence of aliens and/or working with aliens. Caprica should have done something like that with it's story arcs. There is some overlap with the business and the 'alive' cylons, but that helps tie the plots together.
I know I'll be flamed to no end for my take on X-Files, but that is just how I saw it. I did not watch the last two season of X-Files at all.
By defaulting to any person running you are giving an unfair advantage to that person. How many people just take the defaults with software and just click on through? They may see voting as the same thing and just click on through. The default should be no vote and you have to pick (or write in) someone to continue.
And according to ice core records, Siberia had a temp of 160 degrees for a long time. Maybe the Earth is going back to its hot phase? In human times we were coming out of an ice age. So perhaps the Earth is normally hotter then humans like it to be?
I thought the Romans burned the library of Alexandria? Accidentally by setting fire to their own ships, but it was the Romans while fighting with the Greeks.
Ada was not an OO language at first. The compiler wanted to know everything at compile time. Which is why Ada if it compiled successfully, the program often ran. You may have not gotten the result you wanted, but the program ran without error. When Ada switched to OO it screwed a lot of things up. Why do you think the air traffic control systems took so long? The OO Ada was saying yes you can land your plane in the middle of a hurricane and 5 tornados. I knew some people working on the new control tower software. That was a serious problem.
He has billions, he will just retire. Hopefully retire and go away.
A woman will marry the guy that can provide for her and her children. But if given the chance she will bear the children of the jock or most physically fit.
If I remember right, 10% of children are not from the husband in a marriage. The husband thinks the child is his, but DNA tests prove otherwise. It was a UK study. They went into more details like how a woman often controls who may get her pregnant. She does this by having more sex when she is fertile with other people then her spouse. She also may have a lot of sex with her spouse when she is not fertile to lower his sperm count. They went into details with other methods too. I think it was in the sperm wars documentary.
Now serving number ____.
I saw a girl with a tattoo that said this on her lower back (tramp stamp area). I think is was a henna tattoo. It was dark, but did not look like a regular tattoo. It still made me laugh though.
At last there is hope for those of us that have problems finding the hole in the dark!
That's the WRONG hole!
That is what she said....
(Juan Williams fired for fox appearance).
How about we unpack that story a little further to something like:
"Juan Williams fired for saying that when he sees Muslims getting on a plane with him he's afraid they're going to blow it up."
So his personal opinion in an opinion piece gets him fired? He even went on to say how much he is against outright hatred and racism based on work he has done. Sorry but NPR is showing its true colors. You must "one of us" or you are gone. Sad.
Or maybe in some places people will use a network cable because there is no wifi? Having options is good.
I have an old 9 inch dell mini. It runs XP ok, it runs ubuntu better, it runs win 7 enterprise just fine, it runs OSX fine as well. Not all at the same time. I switched OSs a bit when I got it. Each OS got a month of use to see how it was. The hard drive is a 32GB SSD. The half height PCIE kind of SSD so it is a pain to upgrade (not too may out there that fit without cutting into the case). Sure an I7 with 8GB of RAM beats it, but for regular day to day tasks this works fine. I have even ripped DVDs with this machine. It did it, wasn't the fastest but it did it. I think I spent about $200 for the mini + RAM upgrade + external DVD drive when I got it.
I wish 2 things were different about it. First the keyboard, missing the actual functions row of keys is a pain. Second I wish the screen was 1024X768 or something by 768. The accept buttons of some apps (adobe reader) are off the screen unless I hook it to an external monitor.
+5 funny. Only thing is I bet most of the /. crowd is too young to know the song.
I don't use it either, but the calling of the dark side with promises of friends, fun and casual sex is powerful.
It is articles like this that are setting me straight. Thanks /. !
Maybe time to make a profile. Keep the info false and see what happens. I am sure I would not be the first to have a mostly false facebook, myspace, linkedin, etc. profile.
Yes. Did you miss the memo?
http://xkcd.com/435/
I wouldn't. Just at the place where I work. 47 mac desktops. 45 have bootcamp installed. 40 also have VMware fusion installed to run windows while they are running OSX. 37 never boot into OSX at all. We have to get them to boot into OSX once a month for updates for OSX. That itself is a major undertaking. The 7 who do not have bootcamp have never used anything but apple computers.
On the laptop front, 4 out of 39 apple laptops do not have bootcamp and VMware fusion installed.
Most of the people here wanted the apple hardware and not OSX. I am not sure how that is in other work places, but since this place has corporate license agreements and can install windows on many machines, they make use of it. I would say if people have access to windows, they are likely to install it on their apple machine. Even if it is a 'just in case' sort of thing.
She doesn't say anything about Russia in what you linked.
For people starting with nothing any office product will work. If you already have files from application , it is often better to stay with that application then switch. If you can justify the cost of the switch, then do it. If you cannot, then do not.
I use open office at home, and install it for most people that ask for office. Does it work for them yes. Then again these are not people with hundreds or thousands of files from a different office application. Have I been burned by this? Yes. When docx, xlsx, and pptx arrived it caused some problems. Asking the person to have the sender resend in the 97-2003 file format was a bit harder. Tell them they need to do a save-as not just save. I set the default to 97-2003 for the office 2007 installs I did at work. That worked for most people. Why word has to use the new format for the math equations (with the Green symbols) is beyond me though. Main point is, use what works for you.
Get the windows 7 pro, ultimate, or enterprise version. With those you can download the VM to run XP in. Windows calls it XPMode, but it is just the windows VM. The big difference is the XPMode VM sees all of the host machine drives. No drive mapping needed. Which helps in a domain environment. The 20 or so people I have set it up for (for an old app that required XP) love it. I have yet to try this for old games, but for office applications we have yet to have an issue. It is like supporting two machines at the same time, so all updates and patches are the same. The host machine should be 'bigger'. Usually a dual core or quad core with 4GB (or more) of RAM. That way you can give a decent amount of resources to both the host OS and the VM. A single core CPU with 512MB of RAM I would not use as the host machine running a VM.
I think that is the way microsoft is leaning. They want people to use the new OS and run the old OS (XP) in a VM to run all the old applications. If microsoft would make a very secure OS it could be a nice setup. The secure host OS and the VM to run all your old apps. Of course a really secure host OS would not let XP have any access to the outside world.
Totally agree with giving Balmer the heave-ho though.
Can we have a chair throwing contest? With Balmer as the target?
Oh really? Open any previous version in Word? The rest of us must be cursed then.
Are you mixing up previous version and next version? For example I remember many people complaining that their word 2003 could not open a word 2007 file. They were saying that word is not backwards compatible. When they meant that word is not forwards compatible. Which is not a common thing in programs as far as I know. Anyway people with word files older then word 97 (word 95 and before) are out of luck. I had to build a win 3.11 machine with the old DOS word to open a few of those files recently. I was surprised the 5.25 floppies still worked.