well, we are orbiting the sun, so just kind of "letting go" of something lighter than ourselves would cause it to shoot off into interstellar space.. kind of like if you sat on the edge of a fast-spinning carousel and dropped a pebble, it would go flying away. Of course there's nothing attracting things toward the center of the carousel in the example, but the same principal probably applies to an extent*.
*And if anyone is thinking that all things in the galaxy would accelerate towards the sun at the same pace, consider that if you placed Jupiter and Earth at the same distance from the sun such that they would get sucked in, Jupiter would reach the sun first. Both the Earth and Jupiter have their own significant gravity wells. In fact everything has a gravity well, but anytime I try to give this example using small objects, idiots keep objecting with their basic high school science class memories. So basically if we had something smaller than the earth moving around the sun at the same velocity as the Earth (which isn't that hard to do considering we're already moving at the same velocity as the Earth), it would be going fast enough to escape the Sun's gravity, though it would have to avoid a few planets on the way out!
Ah that's great, thanks! I tried it on WINE last year and wasn't too happy with the results. If the Linux beta works okay then I will probably subscribe at last:)
Then they'd better sue Microsoft for its Live storage thingy too then, and Dropbox, and Ubuntu One, and every other online storage/backup site out there. People are getting fed up of the bullshit. Even guys like me who actually still buy music are going to stop paying if they keep this up.
Having looked at Amazon's pricing model (and considering they haven't released the service in the UK yet) I think I'd be better off just subscribing to Spotify though.. it costs about the same as it would cost to store my current collection online, but I wouldn't actually have to buy any new albums.
Since it's only accessible to the person who bought the music, I don't get the point in even trying to fight against it. You'd have to be a monumental idiot to believe that you can stop the embrace of technology in this way. It's not even encouraging piracy. Good luck, Sony - have fun wasting your money!
we already have a grenade like device that will snuff out a fully engulfed house for 12 minutes the only side effect is a fine white powder on everything.
Yep I am using a cheap netbook, and it's pretty decent. Ubuntu, 1GB RAM, 32GB SSD, it suits me fine. Having an ION GPU would make it pretty much perfect, since right now even my phone is better at HD video playback, but other than that it can drive my 1920x1080 display at work fine for coding, web browsing, etc.
You need a cheap netbook with an SSD my friend. You can bang that thing as hard as you want without fear of any damage resulting from your manly ways. I sometimes use mine for entertainment while having a shower, and the warm moist atmosphere hasn't caused any problems so far.
Hah. Actually, I would consider Caithness "nasty"/poor, and I'd even agree with ugly when compared to the scenery in the rest of Scotland. On the west coast you get a few nice mountains with snow, rocky outcrops and such, but here on the the east coast it's relatively flat and boring.
Caithness is definitely as far from civilisation as you can get in the UK while still being on the mainland.
Well, real birds are also pretty damn lightning fast and have a lot more processing power than this thing to figure out how to catch them, so I'm not sure that would work just yet. Barefaced stealing food from people like most British seagulls do would be a better plan:P And they should also try to shit on your head or car to make sure that they blend in properly.
The basic Logitech optical mice (of the sort that you get with Dells for example) always suited me fine for gaming. I tend to play FPSes though rather than stuff like WoW where the extra buttons could make some sense.
And still the industries out there cannot manage to resist Microsoft's call. When Microsoft partners up with you, watch out. If the partnership goes bad, you are the loser. If the partnership goes good, Microsoft will buy you in short order. This has been going on for a very long time. No one seems to notice.
Nokia stupidly brought onboard an ex-Microsoft/Adobe/Macromedia guy as CEO. Sure these companies have all been successful in some regards, but they generally write awful bloated and insecure software, which is not something I'd want on a lightweight mobile device.. or indeed any device.
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well, we are orbiting the sun, so just kind of "letting go" of something lighter than ourselves would cause it to shoot off into interstellar space.. kind of like if you sat on the edge of a fast-spinning carousel and dropped a pebble, it would go flying away. Of course there's nothing attracting things toward the center of the carousel in the example, but the same principal probably applies to an extent*.
*And if anyone is thinking that all things in the galaxy would accelerate towards the sun at the same pace, consider that if you placed Jupiter and Earth at the same distance from the sun such that they would get sucked in, Jupiter would reach the sun first. Both the Earth and Jupiter have their own significant gravity wells. In fact everything has a gravity well, but anytime I try to give this example using small objects, idiots keep objecting with their basic high school science class memories. So basically if we had something smaller than the earth moving around the sun at the same velocity as the Earth (which isn't that hard to do considering we're already moving at the same velocity as the Earth), it would be going fast enough to escape the Sun's gravity, though it would have to avoid a few planets on the way out!
At least Amazon have decent funds and presumably well experienced lawyers. Doubt Jeff would have done this if he weren't ready for such a fight!
Backing up your music in an online drive sounds like "personal use" to me.
Ah that's great, thanks! I tried it on WINE last year and wasn't too happy with the results. If the Linux beta works okay then I will probably subscribe at last :)
Then they'd better sue Microsoft for its Live storage thingy too then, and Dropbox, and Ubuntu One, and every other online storage/backup site out there. People are getting fed up of the bullshit. Even guys like me who actually still buy music are going to stop paying if they keep this up.
Having looked at Amazon's pricing model (and considering they haven't released the service in the UK yet) I think I'd be better off just subscribing to Spotify though.. it costs about the same as it would cost to store my current collection online, but I wouldn't actually have to buy any new albums.
Since it's only accessible to the person who bought the music, I don't get the point in even trying to fight against it. You'd have to be a monumental idiot to believe that you can stop the embrace of technology in this way. It's not even encouraging piracy. Good luck, Sony - have fun wasting your money!
Why not also link to Spotify instead of just shilling? Spotify works on Windows/OSX/iPhone/Android/WP7.
We already do tax petrol very heavily.
There is no call for such foul language.
we already have a grenade like device that will snuff out a fully engulfed house for 12 minutes the only side effect is a fine white powder on everything.
Is the device called Charlie Sheen?
Quid == £1
TV License == £145.50 :p
Weirdly I didn't even notice the puns.. then again I spent most of yesterday high on caffeine, and decided to lay off it today..
You have to admit, it is kind of offensive how some people get so easily offended.
Mountain Dew or Crab juice?
Ewwwww, jeez! 0_0 I'll take the crab juice!
It's still the east side of the island, and I was talking about Caithness in general.
Yep I am using a cheap netbook, and it's pretty decent. Ubuntu, 1GB RAM, 32GB SSD, it suits me fine. Having an ION GPU would make it pretty much perfect, since right now even my phone is better at HD video playback, but other than that it can drive my 1920x1080 display at work fine for coding, web browsing, etc.
You need a cheap netbook with an SSD my friend. You can bang that thing as hard as you want without fear of any damage resulting from your manly ways. I sometimes use mine for entertainment while having a shower, and the warm moist atmosphere hasn't caused any problems so far.
I agree. Floppy clyinders are no fun. Sliding rigid things into cases satisfies my manly urges.
Hah. Actually, I would consider Caithness "nasty"/poor, and I'd even agree with ugly when compared to the scenery in the rest of Scotland. On the west coast you get a few nice mountains with snow, rocky outcrops and such, but here on the the east coast it's relatively flat and boring.
Caithness is definitely as far from civilisation as you can get in the UK while still being on the mainland.
Well, real birds are also pretty damn lightning fast and have a lot more processing power than this thing to figure out how to catch them, so I'm not sure that would work just yet. Barefaced stealing food from people like most British seagulls do would be a better plan :P And they should also try to shit on your head or car to make sure that they blend in properly.
The basic Logitech optical mice (of the sort that you get with Dells for example) always suited me fine for gaming. I tend to play FPSes though rather than stuff like WoW where the extra buttons could make some sense.
And still the industries out there cannot manage to resist Microsoft's call. When Microsoft partners up with you, watch out. If the partnership goes bad, you are the loser. If the partnership goes good, Microsoft will buy you in short order. This has been going on for a very long time. No one seems to notice.
Nokia stupidly brought onboard an ex-Microsoft/Adobe/Macromedia guy as CEO. Sure these companies have all been successful in some regards, but they generally write awful bloated and insecure software, which is not something I'd want on a lightweight mobile device.. or indeed any device.
A few lightweight solar panels could do the business. It could just land every so often and mingle with other birds while recharging :P
I vote for little fat birds and catapults. Put all those millions of hours of Angry Birds practice to good use.
Sitting safely behind a computer on the ground with a joystick in their hand.
I have a lot of experience with this, uh.. flight model. Sign me up!