and I wonder how long till these are perfected so they do not break often?
One of the biggest problems with newer cars is that one needs to hook up the computer to fix them. And the computer is not always correct. I had an intermittent problem with the car almost stalling out. I would be driving at 55 mph for a while (30 min, 2 hours+) slow down for a toll (didn't have to stop easy pass) hit the gas to go again. The engine rpms would drop to under 100. I usually took my foot off the gas then hit it again. Take it to the shop/dealer no error code == nothing wrong. I finally got an error code. The code was spark plug #4. They wanted to due a tune up. I just had a tune up ( a freaking good one with better stuff then stock). A second tune up later. It does it again. Again with spark plug number 4. Now they say the lower O rings are bad and need changing. These have been changed already (20k ago for a different issue ethanol gas killed the original ones). I asked that they make sure all the o rings are ethanol gas proof. A year later guess what the error code is, spark plug number 4. And they say it is the lower o rings again. I tell them the o rings have been changed twice now. They tried to talk me into yet another lower o ring replacement (they had started without my approval already) when I told them that they had done the repair last year they decided to check other thing besides the error code. The whole time the air mass sensor was going bad. One $200 repair cost me $3500 because the thing that was broken didn't throw a code. And the first spark plug in the firing order, number 4. Which was not getting the correct air-fuel mix and throwing the code.
So letting a computer control more of the car? Not until I have been convinced it works without failing. Which may be why we have yet to see these in regular cars.
Hollywood should cross movies. Terminator VS Aliens. I know they did that in AVP but go further. Aliens in star wars? Wait kill off all the franchises: Aliens VS Terminator vs X-Men set in LOTR with all of those characters.
Then maybe something new will come around.
Remember where was what? 15-20 years of separation between T1 and T2?
talk to trading companies. 5-10 minutes could mean millions. (So that VP kept on telling me)
We had a major failure of all systems one day. All the servers were up and running fine when we looked at them locally. The network went down, (not the database/web/file servers) the actual network blade thing. The network blades were working fine. We had communication on each blade, just not cross blades. We asked the network guys why they didn't have a backup plan. We had to have 5 sets of backups, (backup on site, backup off site local, backup off site within an hour, backup off site regional, backup off site far away). It was a pain to keep all the servers sync'd. The network guys were responsible for getting the 5 layer backup model approved by the board. Then their blade network thing went down.
I still think someone hacked into the blade and killed it. Cause all the hardware worked fine. The blade bios was cleared. (according to the network guys) And adding 5X to everything you wanted to do made getting things approved a lot harder. And to this day I do not like blade based servers/network components. The blade enclosure is the single point of failure.
"University of Texas graduate student Robert Quimby first observed the supernova on Sept. 18, 2006 in the galaxy NGC 1260, located in the constellation Perseus. Filippenko's team immediately began observing it with its dedicated supernova search and monitor telescope at Lick, the Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope."
They did, if you RTFA
Maybe cyborgs will become a reality. Human brain with a human like robotic body. (or like that general guy from star wars, mostly robotic body with a little bit of organic on the inside) If they find a way to replace joints and limbs with stronger mechanical ones it would help all those who lost a limb. As well as people with nerve disorders who lose the use of their arms, legs, etc. (I am hoping for the second one, losing the use of the left side of my body is not fun)
actually one of the reasons why NASA started sending women into space was to make sure that humans could reproduce in space.
Saw it on history channel. There were certain missions where 'tests' were performed and NASA proved humans could perform the functions to reproduce in space.
All I was thinking was they spend millions to send people up there to get laid? Sign me up!
too bad no one is promoting parents well being parents.
Shouldn't the people who are the legal guardians decide what they want their kids to watch/listen/video game to play? So Johnny down the block has Kill 'em All 2007, listens to , and has a 400 DVD porn collection all at the age of 10. That is Johnny's parents problem. Not mine, and my kids will have things that I approve of. Now does that mean that my kids will not watch/listen/play stuff over at Johnny's? I can hope so but it is unlikely. So I have to be a parent and go to Johnny's parents and let them know that I disapprove of my kids watching/playing/listening to . What they decide for their child is up to them. But these are things I do not want my kid to see/use/play. If Johnny's parents listen and stop the unwanted stuff from happening when my kid is there all is fine. Aside from the porn (10 year olds and porn bad idea. Adults act like 10 year olds when porn is involved) that is it. I would say to lock up their porn stash so kids don't get into it.
you want the ooo shiney!! setup Beryl (http://www.beryl-project.org/) Then you can have the shiney, wigglely, bendy, fill in word ending in 'e' here)
It take a little bit of editing your xorg.conf file but I got it running on ubuntu fiesty with an ati card to boot. And I am a linux noob. There are a few walk through on the beryl site for those interested.
Stalactite : are the ones that 'grow' from the ceiling. They have to hold on tight.
Stalagmite : are the ones that rise from the ground. They are mighty and rise up.
That is about the only thing I remember from 8th grade science class. The teacher was 23 super hot, wore very revealing outfits, and (when I turned 18...) a great kisser. She rocked, well still does..
It isn't just the socket. Not all motherboards work with the opterons. I know a lot of people got the 939 opteron and put them in a desktop motherboard and they worked fine. I have not seen the same for the AM2 based opterons.
Your examples have nothing to do with ms killing off xp. Your examples are not products/services that the company sells. Think of it like when ford stopped making the probe. Some people were happy, some people complained, but it was ford's decision to stop selling one of their products. Wheel chair access and your other examples have nothing to do with company abc's decision to stop offering a product or service. Should ms be forced to support xp for a while? Hell yes probably through 2010-2012 at least. A company can change what it is offering. Actually wouldn't ms action of not offering 98, 2000, and XP actually comply with the monopoly rulings? Those products were where the lock in happened. Can IE be uninstalled from vista? (asking here I don't have vista) If ms is stopping the products that got it in hot water in the first place wouldn't that be a 'good thing'? The office products are a whole other can of worms. But those one has to buy/choose to get.
What Google has on me, it has legitimately through my consent. And contrary to your fears, they don't have "complete control over most the information that flows over the net". They don't have ANY control over what flows over the net. If there were two companies that could claim that it'd be MS and AT&T.
You gave google consent to use what ever info they have on you? Really? I never emailed google and said "Here is my info, please make it available to all who use you to search" Google and other website do have too much personal info about the average joe. Is is interesting that the high end of the income scale has less info then the low end though.
I think google's motto is:: Do not evil. . . until it suits us
everyone stopped at the first period.
If your brain controls your hands how can you type faster then you can think? Your hands know what you are going to think? Your hands can tell the future? I have seen people type as fast as they can talk.
As for me I suck at typing. I stare at the keyboard not the screen. I even know when to delete a character or two since I saw my fingers hit the wrong key. When I was learning to type I had multiple broken fingers. I had a broken finger or two for 3-4 years. Between sports and accidents it was bad. I taught myself to type all be it a non-traditional way but it works.
windows lack of consistent UI is probably more due to lack of planning or following a plan through. If ms actually decided to do abc and follow it through to completion they might be able to save some face. Instead ms changes mid stroke** and has plans that seem like they were written in mud rather then stone. Which (to me anyway) points to bad people in management.
I was looking forward to vista being a new OS not XP service pack 3 with UI changes. Or at least let people decide if they wanted to try vista how it was originally planned.
**changing mid stroke can be a good thing. But everything I can think of involves two people and they are.. well.. wait this is slashdot, think porn...
Application server: Talk to the people that made the application, not all the apps installed on the server are from ms. Not all application servers are ms based. The application writer/provider decides what platforms they are supporting.
File server: Shouldn't be an issue now and hasn't been for some time. We have had linux, *nix (sun, and something else I forget), and ms servers all letting ms, apple, and linux clients read and right to them for a few years now. (We didn't have the ms file server until a few years ago.) The biggest problem is people forgetting their password. Which is not a ms, apple, or problem though. The file servers store different things. The video files are on the apple server, and the regular doc files are on the ms and *nix ones. Depending on the user role, one may have access to all of them or just a few.
Exchange server: Don't get exchange. There are other choices. If the business decides to go with one all in one system, that is a decision for that company to make. People in that company use that software. Email: there are a lot of email server choices. Address book/contacts: again lots of choices that work with email and some that are stand alone.
The biggest thing about exchange I hear is calendar. If you have to share your calendar with the world, then use something everyone in the world can use. Personally I hate the exchange calendar. If you need to have a public calendar so everyone can see where/when you are all the time, then get a stand alone public calendar.
The more one software title does the more a pain it becomes. Software should do one thing well and consistently. You have 5 different programs to do 5 different things, fine. Email and scheduling (calendar) are two different things. They should be two different pieces of software.
If you have physical access to a machine you can root it.
Booting to a CD/DVD/USB then loading stuff then loading the OS means you can override what the OS wants to do. This must be a slow news day. If you load stuff to memory then load the OS you can root it? This is true for any OS.
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They were doing a heart study. The zune affects a different organ in the body. There is a reason for the brown color...
and I wonder how long till these are perfected so they do not break often?
One of the biggest problems with newer cars is that one needs to hook up the computer to fix them. And the computer is not always correct. I had an intermittent problem with the car almost stalling out. I would be driving at 55 mph for a while (30 min, 2 hours+) slow down for a toll (didn't have to stop easy pass) hit the gas to go again. The engine rpms would drop to under 100. I usually took my foot off the gas then hit it again. Take it to the shop/dealer no error code == nothing wrong. I finally got an error code. The code was spark plug #4. They wanted to due a tune up. I just had a tune up ( a freaking good one with better stuff then stock). A second tune up later. It does it again. Again with spark plug number 4. Now they say the lower O rings are bad and need changing. These have been changed already (20k ago for a different issue ethanol gas killed the original ones). I asked that they make sure all the o rings are ethanol gas proof. A year later guess what the error code is, spark plug number 4. And they say it is the lower o rings again. I tell them the o rings have been changed twice now. They tried to talk me into yet another lower o ring replacement (they had started without my approval already) when I told them that they had done the repair last year they decided to check other thing besides the error code. The whole time the air mass sensor was going bad. One $200 repair cost me $3500 because the thing that was broken didn't throw a code. And the first spark plug in the firing order, number 4. Which was not getting the correct air-fuel mix and throwing the code.
So letting a computer control more of the car? Not until I have been convinced it works without failing. Which may be why we have yet to see these in regular cars.
you do know that in the original terminator it was the T100 model not T800 right? It was also the T100 (vs the T1000) model in the second movie.
someone made fun of hollywood's love of sequels long ago. Anyone remember "History of the World: Part II"?
no it goes:
"There can be only one"
Hollywood should cross movies. Terminator VS Aliens. I know they did that in AVP but go further. Aliens in star wars? Wait kill off all the franchises: Aliens VS Terminator vs X-Men set in LOTR with all of those characters.
Then maybe something new will come around.
Remember where was what? 15-20 years of separation between T1 and T2?
talk to trading companies. 5-10 minutes could mean millions. (So that VP kept on telling me)
We had a major failure of all systems one day. All the servers were up and running fine when we looked at them locally. The network went down, (not the database/web/file servers) the actual network blade thing. The network blades were working fine. We had communication on each blade, just not cross blades. We asked the network guys why they didn't have a backup plan. We had to have 5 sets of backups, (backup on site, backup off site local, backup off site within an hour, backup off site regional, backup off site far away). It was a pain to keep all the servers sync'd. The network guys were responsible for getting the 5 layer backup model approved by the board. Then their blade network thing went down.
I still think someone hacked into the blade and killed it. Cause all the hardware worked fine. The blade bios was cleared. (according to the network guys) And adding 5X to everything you wanted to do made getting things approved a lot harder. And to this day I do not like blade based servers/network components. The blade enclosure is the single point of failure.
"University of Texas graduate student Robert Quimby first observed the supernova on Sept. 18, 2006 in the galaxy NGC 1260, located in the constellation Perseus. Filippenko's team immediately began observing it with its dedicated supernova search and monitor telescope at Lick, the Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope." They did, if you RTFA
depends on how many people she has been with in the same night
....
1? 10? 100? 1000?
I was thinking that other countries will follow with lawsuits of their own.
Country is suing Google er YouTube for video of
Where will this end? When Google's coffers are empty? When people are killed over it?
Is there a list of what is offensive for every country around the world? Shouldn't this list be handed out to all people when they travel?
get the Penquins marching!
you have never seen Batman Returns....
we renamed that planet to put a stop to that joke once and for all. It is now called urectum
Maybe cyborgs will become a reality. Human brain with a human like robotic body. (or like that general guy from star wars, mostly robotic body with a little bit of organic on the inside) If they find a way to replace joints and limbs with stronger mechanical ones it would help all those who lost a limb. As well as people with nerve disorders who lose the use of their arms, legs, etc. (I am hoping for the second one, losing the use of the left side of my body is not fun)
actually one of the reasons why NASA started sending women into space was to make sure that humans could reproduce in space.
Saw it on history channel. There were certain missions where 'tests' were performed and NASA proved humans could perform the functions to reproduce in space.
All I was thinking was they spend millions to send people up there to get laid? Sign me up!
shouldn't be 18 years? 2007-1989 = 18 not 20.
too bad no one is promoting parents well being parents.
Shouldn't the people who are the legal guardians decide what they want their kids to watch/listen/video game to play? So Johnny down the block has Kill 'em All 2007, listens to , and has a 400 DVD porn collection all at the age of 10. That is Johnny's parents problem. Not mine, and my kids will have things that I approve of. Now does that mean that my kids will not watch/listen/play stuff over at Johnny's? I can hope so but it is unlikely. So I have to be a parent and go to Johnny's parents and let them know that I disapprove of my kids watching/playing/listening to . What they decide for their child is up to them. But these are things I do not want my kid to see/use/play. If Johnny's parents listen and stop the unwanted stuff from happening when my kid is there all is fine. Aside from the porn (10 year olds and porn bad idea. Adults act like 10 year olds when porn is involved) that is it. I would say to lock up their porn stash so kids don't get into it.
It should be a drink.
Just make sure it is green
you want the ooo shiney!! setup Beryl (http://www.beryl-project.org/)
Then you can have the shiney, wigglely, bendy, fill in word ending in 'e' here)
It take a little bit of editing your xorg.conf file but I got it running on ubuntu fiesty with an ati card to boot. And I am a linux noob. There are a few walk through on the beryl site for those interested.
Stalactite : are the ones that 'grow' from the ceiling. They have to hold on tight.
Stalagmite : are the ones that rise from the ground. They are mighty and rise up.
That is about the only thing I remember from 8th grade science class. The teacher was 23 super hot, wore very revealing outfits, and (when I turned 18...) a great kisser. She rocked, well still does..
It isn't just the socket. Not all motherboards work with the opterons. I know a lot of people got the 939 opteron and put them in a desktop motherboard and they worked fine. I have not seen the same for the AM2 based opterons.
Your examples have nothing to do with ms killing off xp. Your examples are not products/services that the company sells. Think of it like when ford stopped making the probe. Some people were happy, some people complained, but it was ford's decision to stop selling one of their products. Wheel chair access and your other examples have nothing to do with company abc's decision to stop offering a product or service. Should ms be forced to support xp for a while? Hell yes probably through 2010-2012 at least. A company can change what it is offering. Actually wouldn't ms action of not offering 98, 2000, and XP actually comply with the monopoly rulings? Those products were where the lock in happened. Can IE be uninstalled from vista? (asking here I don't have vista) If ms is stopping the products that got it in hot water in the first place wouldn't that be a 'good thing'? The office products are a whole other can of worms. But those one has to buy/choose to get.
What Google has on me, it has legitimately through my consent. And contrary to your fears, they don't have "complete control over most the information that flows over the net". They don't have ANY control over what flows over the net. If there were two companies that could claim that it'd be MS and AT&T.
You gave google consent to use what ever info they have on you? Really? I never emailed google and said "Here is my info, please make it available to all who use you to search" Google and other website do have too much personal info about the average joe. Is is interesting that the high end of the income scale has less info then the low end though.
I think google's motto is:: Do not evil. . . until it suits us
everyone stopped at the first period.
not trying to nitpick but..
If your brain controls your hands how can you type faster then you can think? Your hands know what you are going to think? Your hands can tell the future? I have seen people type as fast as they can talk.
As for me I suck at typing. I stare at the keyboard not the screen. I even know when to delete a character or two since I saw my fingers hit the wrong key. When I was learning to type I had multiple broken fingers. I had a broken finger or two for 3-4 years. Between sports and accidents it was bad. I taught myself to type all be it a non-traditional way but it works.
windows lack of consistent UI is probably more due to lack of planning or following a plan through. If ms actually decided to do abc and follow it through to completion they might be able to save some face. Instead ms changes mid stroke** and has plans that seem like they were written in mud rather then stone. Which (to me anyway) points to bad people in management.
I was looking forward to vista being a new OS not XP service pack 3 with UI changes.
Or at least let people decide if they wanted to try vista how it was originally planned.
**changing mid stroke can be a good thing. But everything I can think of involves two people and they are.. well.. wait this is slashdot, think porn...
What API's are we talking about here?
Exchange? file server? application server?
Application server: Talk to the people that made the application, not all the apps installed on the server are from ms. Not all application servers are ms based. The application writer/provider decides what platforms they are supporting.
File server: Shouldn't be an issue now and hasn't been for some time. We have had linux, *nix (sun, and something else I forget), and ms servers all letting ms, apple, and linux clients read and right to them for a few years now. (We didn't have the ms file server until a few years ago.) The biggest problem is people forgetting their password. Which is not a ms, apple, or problem though. The file servers store different things. The video files are on the apple server, and the regular doc files are on the ms and *nix ones. Depending on the user role, one may have access to all of them or just a few.
Exchange server: Don't get exchange. There are other choices. If the business decides to go with one all in one system, that is a decision for that company to make. People in that company use that software.
Email: there are a lot of email server choices.
Address book/contacts: again lots of choices that work with email and some that are stand alone.
The biggest thing about exchange I hear is calendar. If you have to share your calendar with the world, then use something everyone in the world can use. Personally I hate the exchange calendar. If you need to have a public calendar so everyone can see where/when you are all the time, then get a stand alone public calendar.
The more one software title does the more a pain it becomes. Software should do one thing well and consistently. You have 5 different programs to do 5 different things, fine. Email and scheduling (calendar) are two different things. They should be two different pieces of software.
If you have physical access to a machine you can root it.
Booting to a CD/DVD/USB then loading stuff then loading the OS means you can override what the OS wants to do. This must be a slow news day. If you load stuff to memory then load the OS you can root it? This is true for any OS.