How many mac users are not going to enter in their password when prompted to? The belief that "Apple/Mac is safe and cannot get virus" is totally wrong. That is what the average computer user believes. Even though the trojan/malware prompts the user for their password, the user is going to install the trojan/malware because they (falsely) believe that since they use a mac, trojas/viruses/malware is not a problem for them.
There have been touch screen displays long before 2008. How much did Apply pay to get this patent?
This patent sound like rewording of showing stuff on a touch screen display. Which would have been thrown out. Besides displays do not translate anything. They show or display things. The patent office needs to higher people who know what technology is and can read through the 'fancy words' to see what is really being described.
So Tivo is more like a computer. Why not just get a computer and add in the capture cards. Then you have all the DVR functions, computer functions, and you do not have a monthly fee to use it*.
*I am not including the cable, fios, or what ever other bill since you have that bill with any option. Depending on your choice some software wants a monthly/yearly fee to get the TV listings.
I thought DEC's deal with Intel was what screwed the Alpha CPU. And that the PENT II was a CPU that had a RISC core with a CISC interpreter. Which was why Intel needed to pull the plug on the Alpha chips.
Side note I do remember running NT 4 on Alpha chips. It ran faster on the slower Alpha CPU then the higher clocked Intel CPUs.
Maybe they can 'wire' the left eye to the working part of the visual section on the brain. Or in this case wire his left eye to the left visual center of his brain. Remember the right side of brain controls the left side of the body.
Supposedly there is a set series of moves that will solve and brand new (ie just opened Rubik's cube). I have seen videos of people solving one behind their backs, blind folded. The set series of moves has some reasoning.
I usually took it apart and put it together with the sides matching. There were a few times I used a baseball bat to 'solve' the cube. Good stress relief that way.
What video card(s) are installed? If the win 7 machine is using crappy video (which is likely with a store bought system) The XP machine will feel snappier. Does the win 7 machine have on board video or a real add on card? I say real since I have seen a few of these PCIe DVI cards that are just a converter from VGA to a DVI card. The video processor is still the on board chip using system RAM.
Prove it, run a few benchmarks. Run a few of the gamer and business ones then report back. Those numbers might surprise you. Or they may surprise us. No way to tell until they are run.
Also, the vista recommended RAM was 1GB not 512MB. 512MB was min needed to run. Also in those recommended spec was a 128MB dedicated video card. I have added a good ($70-$100 cheaper now) video cards to a number of systems. Nothing else was done. The end user said the computer was faster. Also windows 7 != vista. Win 7 runs better on a computer that ran vista ok. It has on the 45 machines that I have installed it on at work anyway. I get the feeling your comparing XP to a 2006 vista system with built in graphics. When vista came out none of the on board/built in graphics chip sets could run it snappy. That is one of the major vista sucks it is slow arguments. And they were right. The built in graphics really did not have what vista needed to run correctly.
You're assuming that the individuals from certain races are actually unqualified, as opposed to not being hired because of racism. Equal opportunity means that you check for racism first, before trying grand social experiments because of an assumption that certain races are inferior.
I always thought if one was hiring based on skill set, the race, gender, religious belief, (all other non work related things) are not taken into consideration. Then you are truly treating all equal. Hiring based on the ability to do the job required. Checking for racism should never even be done at all. If you think you can do the job, get the training/education/skills to do the job. During the interview your skill set should be tested. Your race does not matter.
Forcing companies to hire people based on race and not the ability to actually do the job is a bad thing. This often leads to 'filling quotas' in workforces. Qualified people are passed over so that someone who fills the quota can be hired.
My second and third car had both metric and imperial (standard) parts on it. It was a pain to do an oil change and a tune up at the same time. I need metric for the oil change and both to do the tune up.
I guess the car maker was phasing in metric. They would have been better off picking one.
Go to the Gulf of California. They have the Humboldt squid there. Find them, toss in your chicken, watch the carnage. of course you might have to lure them with some bait first. They usually eat fish not birds.
Myself, I would like a few Humboldt squid for bait. One of them would be bait for a few trips.
I an not so sure about the "cat people" but I could see some law being passed to stop certain conditions/illnesses from being passed on. Think of the following: AIDS and rheumatoid arthritis. Both are bad. Both are treatable but currently not curable. Now the adult with either of those decides that they want children. Then pass it on to their child. So now a child has AIDS or rheumatoid arthritis. Those (and others) are bad enough when adults have them. But a child suffering with it is worse. A 3-4 year old does not understand why they are in pain all the time. I know a 4 year old with rheumatoid arthritis. He has his good days but most days are not so good. His mother knew she could pass it on. The doctors said there was a 90+% chance (it was on the father's side as well) of the child having it. The first test for rheumatoid arthritis came back positive. The child was 2 months old.
If we could cure these things, or remove them from happening it would be a good thing. It is really cruel but some people should not have children. Their children will suffer their whole lives.
Other then they may share a belt (maybe not if really old) the alternator and the water pump have nothing to do with each other. They are two totally different part of the engine. The water pump is part of the cooling system while the alternator is part of the electrical (the battery charging) system. Water pumps are mechanical. I have not seen an electrical one yet. If you had said they replaced alternator and maybe the battery might go soon that would make a bit more sense.
1989 Chevy caviler, 1998 exporer, 1995 sunfire, 2001 bmw 3, 1996 bronco, plus 15 other cars that my family and friends have had over the years all have been able to shut the engine off while the car was trans was in 'D'. It is and has been a safety feature for years. If you could not shut the engine off in drive then those cars you had needed to be repaired. Engine off does not mean 'park'.
I have tried it on a number of the cars or was in it while someone turned the engine off while the automatic trans was in 'D'. I also have a button/switch happy friend. She pushes turns every switch and button when she gets into a car. I am really glad that the low gear 4WD does not engage at 50 MPH.
I do not remember if it was a recall but Ford also has sticking throttle cables on the grand marque I think is was a 1992 model year. Dirt was the cause of the cable sticking. The solid metal at the end of the cable would get dirt build up over time and not retract properly. The fix was to clean the solid metal part. Wd40 worked well. We added cleaning the throttle as part of the oil change and we never had the issue again. We got tired of bringing the car back to the dealer every 6 months for a replacement cable.
If this was true, then a lot more people will have accidents when their front break stop working.
For all of those cars that have front disk and read drum breaks, the front breaks do most of the stopping after a while. If you wear out the front breaks and do not get them replaced, the rear breaks are now stopping the car. If this was not the case people would be stopping by hitting something else or when kinetic energy ran out. If people actually got their breaks adjusted more often, both front and rear breaks would stop the car evenly.
Four wheel disk is better with the front and rear wearing but the front still do wear a bit faster from what I have seen.
If rear breaks do not stop the car why are they there? just to add cost to the purchase and repairs of the car? If you hit your breaks and the nose of your car dips down, you should have your breaks adjusted. The rear breaks are hitting less then your front breaks. That is why the nose of the car is dipping down.
You might want to watch the man made diamonds done on the discovery channel ("How it's made" I think was the show). They grew diamonds. Then cut them into gemstones. This was a clear gemstone diamond. not one for industrial use.
It can be done. De Beers and the like just do not want it done.
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How many mac users are not going to enter in their password when prompted to? The belief that "Apple/Mac is safe and cannot get virus" is totally wrong. That is what the average computer user believes. Even though the trojan/malware prompts the user for their password, the user is going to install the trojan/malware because they (falsely) believe that since they use a mac, trojas/viruses/malware is not a problem for them.
There have been touch screen displays long before 2008. How much did Apply pay to get this patent?
This patent sound like rewording of showing stuff on a touch screen display. Which would have been thrown out. Besides displays do not translate anything. They show or display things. The patent office needs to higher people who know what technology is and can read through the 'fancy words' to see what is really being described.
So Tivo is more like a computer. Why not just get a computer and add in the capture cards. Then you have all the DVR functions, computer functions, and you do not have a monthly fee to use it*.
*I am not including the cable, fios, or what ever other bill since you have that bill with any option. Depending on your choice some software wants a monthly/yearly fee to get the TV listings.
I thought DEC's deal with Intel was what screwed the Alpha CPU. And that the PENT II was a CPU that had a RISC core with a CISC interpreter. Which was why Intel needed to pull the plug on the Alpha chips.
Side note I do remember running NT 4 on Alpha chips. It ran faster on the slower Alpha CPU then the higher clocked Intel CPUs.
How many of those companies are in the top 10, top 50, top 100 companies worldwide?
I wonder if the people who want/use/get prescribed marijuana are affect by this?
If they were not occupied by Germany in WWII, they were totally surrounded by German controlled areas. Look at a map.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II
Scroll down and look on the left. The blue areas are controlled by German/Axis forces. Hungary was in that area.
1000 degrees Celsius! That is hot, dam hot.
OK not enough to melt steel or aluminum, but still freaking hot.
http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,160195,00.html
Rail gun are here. They are just big.
Maybe they can 'wire' the left eye to the working part of the visual section on the brain. Or in this case wire his left eye to the left visual center of his brain. Remember the right side of brain controls the left side of the body.
She already has swapped out her entire body. Well maybe part of her brain and spinal cord are still intact.
You live in the same place! wow.
Supposedly there is a set series of moves that will solve and brand new (ie just opened Rubik's cube). I have seen videos of people solving one behind their backs, blind folded. The set series of moves has some reasoning.
I usually took it apart and put it together with the sides matching. There were a few times I used a baseball bat to 'solve' the cube. Good stress relief that way.
What video card(s) are installed? If the win 7 machine is using crappy video (which is likely with a store bought system) The XP machine will feel snappier. Does the win 7 machine have on board video or a real add on card? I say real since I have seen a few of these PCIe DVI cards that are just a converter from VGA to a DVI card. The video processor is still the on board chip using system RAM.
Prove it, run a few benchmarks. Run a few of the gamer and business ones then report back. Those numbers might surprise you. Or they may surprise us. No way to tell until they are run.
Also, the vista recommended RAM was 1GB not 512MB. 512MB was min needed to run. Also in those recommended spec was a 128MB dedicated video card. I have added a good ($70-$100 cheaper now) video cards to a number of systems. Nothing else was done. The end user said the computer was faster. Also windows 7 != vista. Win 7 runs better on a computer that ran vista ok. It has on the 45 machines that I have installed it on at work anyway. I get the feeling your comparing XP to a 2006 vista system with built in graphics. When vista came out none of the on board/built in graphics chip sets could run it snappy. That is one of the major vista sucks it is slow arguments. And they were right. The built in graphics really did not have what vista needed to run correctly.
You're assuming that the individuals from certain races are actually unqualified, as opposed to not being hired because of racism. Equal opportunity means that you check for racism first, before trying grand social experiments because of an assumption that certain races are inferior.
I always thought if one was hiring based on skill set, the race, gender, religious belief, (all other non work related things) are not taken into consideration. Then you are truly treating all equal. Hiring based on the ability to do the job required. Checking for racism should never even be done at all. If you think you can do the job, get the training/education/skills to do the job. During the interview your skill set should be tested. Your race does not matter.
Forcing companies to hire people based on race and not the ability to actually do the job is a bad thing. This often leads to 'filling quotas' in workforces. Qualified people are passed over so that someone who fills the quota can be hired.
My second and third car had both metric and imperial (standard) parts on it. It was a pain to do an oil change and a tune up at the same time. I need metric for the oil change and both to do the tune up.
I guess the car maker was phasing in metric. They would have been better off picking one.
Go to the Gulf of California. They have the Humboldt squid there. Find them, toss in your chicken, watch the carnage. of course you might have to lure them with some bait first. They usually eat fish not birds.
Myself, I would like a few Humboldt squid for bait. One of them would be bait for a few trips.
I an not so sure about the "cat people" but I could see some law being passed to stop certain conditions/illnesses from being passed on. Think of the following: AIDS and rheumatoid arthritis. Both are bad. Both are treatable but currently not curable. Now the adult with either of those decides that they want children. Then pass it on to their child. So now a child has AIDS or rheumatoid arthritis. Those (and others) are bad enough when adults have them. But a child suffering with it is worse. A 3-4 year old does not understand why they are in pain all the time. I know a 4 year old with rheumatoid arthritis. He has his good days but most days are not so good. His mother knew she could pass it on. The doctors said there was a 90+% chance (it was on the father's side as well) of the child having it. The first test for rheumatoid arthritis came back positive. The child was 2 months old.
If we could cure these things, or remove them from happening it would be a good thing. It is really cruel but some people should not have children. Their children will suffer their whole lives.
I'll take the 19 year olds, thanks! : ) They can quickly learn to do all the MILF tricks and teaching is fun.
Plus the 19 year olds usually have more energy.
Off topic but...
Other then they may share a belt (maybe not if really old) the alternator and the water pump have nothing to do with each other. They are two totally different part of the engine. The water pump is part of the cooling system while the alternator is part of the electrical (the battery charging) system. Water pumps are mechanical. I have not seen an electrical one yet. If you had said they replaced alternator and maybe the battery might go soon that would make a bit more sense.
1989 Chevy caviler, 1998 exporer, 1995 sunfire, 2001 bmw 3, 1996 bronco, plus 15 other cars that my family and friends have had over the years all have been able to shut the engine off while the car was trans was in 'D'. It is and has been a safety feature for years. If you could not shut the engine off in drive then those cars you had needed to be repaired. Engine off does not mean 'park'.
I have tried it on a number of the cars or was in it while someone turned the engine off while the automatic trans was in 'D'. I also have a button/switch happy friend. She pushes turns every switch and button when she gets into a car. I am really glad that the low gear 4WD does not engage at 50 MPH.
Parking/e-break/emergency break has a different set of pads then your rear breaks. They are not part of your rear breaks at all.
I do not remember if it was a recall but Ford also has sticking throttle cables on the grand marque I think is was a 1992 model year. Dirt was the cause of the cable sticking. The solid metal at the end of the cable would get dirt build up over time and not retract properly. The fix was to clean the solid metal part. Wd40 worked well. We added cleaning the throttle as part of the oil change and we never had the issue again. We got tired of bringing the car back to the dealer every 6 months for a replacement cable.
If this was true, then a lot more people will have accidents when their front break stop working.
For all of those cars that have front disk and read drum breaks, the front breaks do most of the stopping after a while. If you wear out the front breaks and do not get them replaced, the rear breaks are now stopping the car. If this was not the case people would be stopping by hitting something else or when kinetic energy ran out. If people actually got their breaks adjusted more often, both front and rear breaks would stop the car evenly.
Four wheel disk is better with the front and rear wearing but the front still do wear a bit faster from what I have seen.
If rear breaks do not stop the car why are they there? just to add cost to the purchase and repairs of the car? If you hit your breaks and the nose of your car dips down, you should have your breaks adjusted. The rear breaks are hitting less then your front breaks. That is why the nose of the car is dipping down.
You might want to watch the man made diamonds done on the discovery channel ("How it's made" I think was the show). They grew diamonds. Then cut them into gemstones. This was a clear gemstone diamond. not one for industrial use.
It can be done. De Beers and the like just do not want it done.