I was going to mention that only species like humans that use tools and materials are able to survive in wildly different environments, but I thought that was superfluous. I've been SCUBA diving a few times myself, and have even been known to fly on occasion!
My point was that just because an organism can adapt to survive well in space does not automatically make it better able to survive once it reaches another planet. I had thought that was fairly obvious.
Ya I know, that isn't prominent enough to turn professional/boring people off from the product because of silly names though, they'd already be hooked before they become geeky enough to find out about that;)
If you'd bravely soldiered on to the third sentence of the summary (don't strain yourself now, remember to take a 5 minute break in between sentences), you would have found out!
Microsoft always use names for their unfinished products. Which probably explains Vista (which was previously "Longhorn"). Ubuntu never actually uses the codenames for the final releases anyway..
I thought I was just going crazy and my brain has started to filter out the word 'naked'. You must have changed it in the time between me opening the front page and then clicking on the article..
I don't see any reason why a lifeform that has evolved to survive in space should necessarily be better equipped to then survive elsewhere - any species that suddenly transitions from one environment to a vastly different one is going to have a hard time surviving. When a species adapts it doesn't necessarily keep all of its old abilities as well as the new ones, otherwise we'd all be able to breathe underwater!
The most obvious example would be high street video game and movie retailers. They'd probably still keep a few high street shops just for a bit of presence, but there wouldn't really be a need to have them anymore.
Storage Area Networks would also start making a lot more sense. Online backup services for both business and home use would be able to flourish.
Then there are things like making more use of thin clients, people hooking into their home machines and playing games on them etc. A lot of that will come down to latency, but bandwidth can be important too for transferring a lot of sound and colour information. There are probably plenty things that would suddenly become possible that we just never even previously considered because it would have been far too slow.
I agree that there are many businesses that don't really need more bandwidth, but it certainly wouldn't hurt. Our own business has users in other offices and out on the road that connect via VPN. Having a faster line would make transferring encrypted traffic a less painful experience (though again some connection speed issues just come down to latency).
On Earth the condensing substance is typically water vapor
I have previously quoted this and emphasised 'condensing substance', which is why I'm talking about reading comprehension. The fact that it is the condensing substance does not mean that clouds are still vapour - it means that they are made of vapour which has condensed to become a liquid (or frozen solid), and is therefor no longer a vapour. Vapour is gas. Clouds are liquid or solid suspended in gas, which is not classified as vapour. Can I be any more plain than that?
I'm trying not to be too much of an ass, but you started this whole thing by being cheeky to a guy that didn't deserve it. You are just continuing to dig yourself into a pit.
A few years ago when I was a student I could get a cinema ticket for £2.95, adult tickets were possibly in the region of £4. That was around 5-6 years ago. Now adult tickets are over £7! Thankfully at one chain of cinemas you can get an unlimited pass for £12 a month, so unless you only see one film a month there's no reason not to get the pass!
Actually come to think of it, what with all the advertising before the films, the prices should be at least staying constant rather than going up so much. Sometimes the ads are funny and worth watching, but more often they're just incredibly dull.
I get more than 1.5 hours out of my MBP pretty easily. Of course to do that I often have the screen brightness right down, or just no backlight at all if I'm only using it to listen to music.
I could probably watch a whole DVD if I tried. If I was playing a heavy 3D game then I probably wouldn't even get an hour though, as it would have the CPU and GPU at full tilt, with the fans ablazin'.
So I wouldn't see battery claims of 4-6 hours as suspect, especially on an EEE PC or a little VAIO, but 10 does seem a bit hopeful unless the laptop is in sleep mode!
Yes you do pay more per minute, but if you use less minutes then you still can be cheaper (hence why I spent maybe £10-20 a month on PAYG rather than have a £30 contract - I would have had to get a £45 contract to get a decent text/data package back then). I didn't think that was their point at all anyway..
Seems to be called "liquid droplets suspended in a gas". Perhaps these physicists don't know the real term either. One of those articles is even called "Drying of a liquid droplet suspended in its own vapour". *sigh* I don't have to be a degree level physicist to be able to find out physical terms. You should perhaps learn to use google, and concentrate more when reading definitions.
I don't see how it reflects intellectual shortcomings. I wasn't really thinking from a personal point of view since the context is business. I wouldn't have thought of light jibing as unethical, but if you meant it in such a way and I was mentally unable to cope with it then I suppose the American way would be to sue you?
Just because it's impractical to do so does not make my sentence any less true (to me). I try to behave ethically where I can. I have failed many, many times during my lifetime. I have suffered the punishment for that through my own conscience as well as just by the obvious results you get from being a jerk (losing trust or even losing friends). Often people are punished enough for this type of thing. But corporations don't really have a conscience, especially if there is a whole board of directors rather than just one guy to blame. So unfortunately they can get away with lots of unethical things, which probably should be made illega.
Alternatively, people shouldn't act like such halfwits as to send photos through mobile phone data connections! That kind of thing is expensive enough in your own area without doing it from another country. I would have waited until I'd got home and emailed them. I think the solution is giving people the option to cap their monthly phone bill, or at least get a warning of when they get over their 'free' minutes/data/text limit.
It's pretty funny seeing you guys talk about this as if it's a novelty! "Pay as you go" is very common in the UK and has been for at least 8 years. For the levels of usage that I used to have as a student, a contract wasn't worth it - especially as contracts back then only gave you about 100 free texts a month, unless you wanted to pay crazy money.
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I was going to mention that only species like humans that use tools and materials are able to survive in wildly different environments, but I thought that was superfluous. I've been SCUBA diving a few times myself, and have even been known to fly on occasion!
My point was that just because an organism can adapt to survive well in space does not automatically make it better able to survive once it reaches another planet. I had thought that was fairly obvious.
Ya I know, that isn't prominent enough to turn professional/boring people off from the product because of silly names though, they'd already be hooked before they become geeky enough to find out about that ;)
If you'd bravely soldiered on to the third sentence of the summary (don't strain yourself now, remember to take a 5 minute break in between sentences), you would have found out!
Maybe Microsoft should try using names
Microsoft always use names for their unfinished products. Which probably explains Vista (which was previously "Longhorn"). Ubuntu never actually uses the codenames for the final releases anyway..
I thought I was just going crazy and my brain has started to filter out the word 'naked'. You must have changed it in the time between me opening the front page and then clicking on the article..
I don't see any reason why a lifeform that has evolved to survive in space should necessarily be better equipped to then survive elsewhere - any species that suddenly transitions from one environment to a vastly different one is going to have a hard time surviving. When a species adapts it doesn't necessarily keep all of its old abilities as well as the new ones, otherwise we'd all be able to breathe underwater!
I thought Canadians were technically American too? ;)
Trust me to get the abnormal girlfriend..
The most obvious example would be high street video game and movie retailers. They'd probably still keep a few high street shops just for a bit of presence, but there wouldn't really be a need to have them anymore.
Storage Area Networks would also start making a lot more sense. Online backup services for both business and home use would be able to flourish.
Then there are things like making more use of thin clients, people hooking into their home machines and playing games on them etc. A lot of that will come down to latency, but bandwidth can be important too for transferring a lot of sound and colour information. There are probably plenty things that would suddenly become possible that we just never even previously considered because it would have been far too slow.
I agree that there are many businesses that don't really need more bandwidth, but it certainly wouldn't hurt. Our own business has users in other offices and out on the road that connect via VPN. Having a faster line would make transferring encrypted traffic a less painful experience (though again some connection speed issues just come down to latency).
Not a 'manifestation', it says:
On Earth the condensing substance is typically water vapor
I have previously quoted this and emphasised 'condensing substance', which is why I'm talking about reading comprehension. The fact that it is the condensing substance does not mean that clouds are still vapour - it means that they are made of vapour which has condensed to become a liquid (or frozen solid), and is therefor no longer a vapour. Vapour is gas. Clouds are liquid or solid suspended in gas, which is not classified as vapour. Can I be any more plain than that?
I'm trying not to be too much of an ass, but you started this whole thing by being cheeky to a guy that didn't deserve it. You are just continuing to dig yourself into a pit.
A few years ago when I was a student I could get a cinema ticket for £2.95, adult tickets were possibly in the region of £4. That was around 5-6 years ago. Now adult tickets are over £7! Thankfully at one chain of cinemas you can get an unlimited pass for £12 a month, so unless you only see one film a month there's no reason not to get the pass!
Actually come to think of it, what with all the advertising before the films, the prices should be at least staying constant rather than going up so much. Sometimes the ads are funny and worth watching, but more often they're just incredibly dull.
I think someone needs to make the 'cutoff point' a bit more literal.
Probably exactly the same, apart from Apple would have had to find some other counter-claim for this court case.
I get more than 1.5 hours out of my MBP pretty easily. Of course to do that I often have the screen brightness right down, or just no backlight at all if I'm only using it to listen to music.
I could probably watch a whole DVD if I tried. If I was playing a heavy 3D game then I probably wouldn't even get an hour though, as it would have the CPU and GPU at full tilt, with the fans ablazin'.
So I wouldn't see battery claims of 4-6 hours as suspect, especially on an EEE PC or a little VAIO, but 10 does seem a bit hopeful unless the laptop is in sleep mode!
TYPICAL BATTERY LIFE*: 4 hours
*before asploding
There we go, fixed that for you ;)
Being British, I have to concur :)
Black as in, lack of visible light (unless they emit light too, but I thought it was heat they emitted?).
Yes you do pay more per minute, but if you use less minutes then you still can be cheaper (hence why I spent maybe £10-20 a month on PAYG rather than have a £30 contract - I would have had to get a £45 contract to get a decent text/data package back then). I didn't think that was their point at all anyway..
Seems to be called "liquid droplets suspended in a gas". Perhaps these physicists don't know the real term either. One of those articles is even called "Drying of a liquid droplet suspended in its own vapour". *sigh* I don't have to be a degree level physicist to be able to find out physical terms. You should perhaps learn to use google, and concentrate more when reading definitions.
Eventually the meme uses up 50% of the bandwidth.
In Soviet Russia, bandwidth is 50% of memes!
I don't see how it reflects intellectual shortcomings. I wasn't really thinking from a personal point of view since the context is business. I wouldn't have thought of light jibing as unethical, but if you meant it in such a way and I was mentally unable to cope with it then I suppose the American way would be to sue you?
Just because it's impractical to do so does not make my sentence any less true (to me). I try to behave ethically where I can. I have failed many, many times during my lifetime. I have suffered the punishment for that through my own conscience as well as just by the obvious results you get from being a jerk (losing trust or even losing friends). Often people are punished enough for this type of thing. But corporations don't really have a conscience, especially if there is a whole board of directors rather than just one guy to blame. So unfortunately they can get away with lots of unethical things, which probably should be made illega.
Alternatively, people shouldn't act like such halfwits as to send photos through mobile phone data connections! That kind of thing is expensive enough in your own area without doing it from another country. I would have waited until I'd got home and emailed them. I think the solution is giving people the option to cap their monthly phone bill, or at least get a warning of when they get over their 'free' minutes/data/text limit.
Yeah I forgot about data, that is obviously becoming more of an issue too, but like you I no longer have to pay for my phone usage either :D
It's pretty funny seeing you guys talk about this as if it's a novelty! "Pay as you go" is very common in the UK and has been for at least 8 years. For the levels of usage that I used to have as a student, a contract wasn't worth it - especially as contracts back then only gave you about 100 free texts a month, unless you wanted to pay crazy money.
Unfortunately, unethical behaviour does not necessarily correspond to illegal behaviour.