Everything 'develops' gravity. I think he meant more that the piss isn't held together in the same way as shit, and therefore would have more chance of going everywhere. I don't see why it would, unless perhaps it bounced off something, or you were having serious control issues.
Nope, I've never really used bluetooth (unless you count the controller on my PS3). Whenever I have tried to get it working for transferring files between phones, or seen other people trying to get it to work, it.. doesn't:P I didn't realise they didn't have drivers for USB 2.0 on 98, but since my mobo didn't even have USB 2.0 the it wasn't a problem for me!:) I even ran that machine without anti-virus for years and it was fine (was behind a firewall, using firefox, yada yada). I did use spybot on it occasionally though.
That's like saying bicycles will be vindicated when we run out of fuel for other vehicles. They may work in their own fashion, but I'd still prefer to use a car or a plane for travelling really long distances. In this case, MS could probably quite easily implement IPv6 in XP, they just choose not to. That would be like retrofitting fuel-burning vehicles with amazingly efficient solar cells and electric motors or something along those lines*.
*Car analogies ftw >.> I use them without even realising
OSX hardware is almost exactly the same as Windows hardware these days anyway.
Downgrading to Vista.. yuck. But if it's the only thing available, what will people do? A lot of people would be too ignorant or perhaps too 'moral' to download an illegal version of XP, so Vista will slowly build its user base:( People like our MD will get it just because it's 'new' (and therefore it must be better!), even though I told everyone in the company that there is to be no Vista until SP1. SP1 is out now but I still think there is absolutely no need for Vista in the workplace:p If MS start getting aggressive about pushing it this summer, I'll start pushing the idea that our engineers use Pro/Engineer instead of Inventor, and then we can become a Linux shop:) I stopped considering that kind of thing about 5 years ago when I realised that XP Pro was actually pretty stable and workable, but as the oh-so-familiar Microsoft disappointments have started rolling out along with Vista, it's coming back into consideration. I really don't want to cause a hassle for the engineers, but if there's a way of avoiding Vista that we're all going to be happy with then I'll take it (possibly will just have to buy volume licenses for Windows for any new machines, and use the downgrade rights..)
I don't think a modular OS is exactly a 'new feature', unless you just mean new to the Windows world;) I also had thought maybe they'd got a grip of themselves, but they're just too lazy or scared to rebuild everything properly from the ground up. The best thing for them to do to improve the OS would be to forget about backwards compatibility, but that would also be one of the worst things they could do because it leaves users open to try other alternatives if they're going to need all-new software anyway. I suppose they're already trying that with.NET. At least if everything starts using.NET, then the underlying OS can be changed around without worrying too much about compatibility (though this being Microsoft, they'll probably keep changing and changing the.NET specs so that everything is incompatible anyway..)
I'd much rather go back to using Windows 98 than use anything that is based on Vista. In fact I was using Win98 up until a few years ago on a home PC. Only got XP in the end so that I could play Lego Star Wars:p Half-Life 2 and the like were running great on the 98 box. The whole MinWin thing sounded like great news to me, I was thinking I might even upgrade to Windows Seven. I thought the same thing with Vista too though when I first heard about it a few years ago. I thought they were going to re-implement Windows from scratch, but instead of slimming everything down and making it more efficient, they made everything even SLOWER with all the DRM and such. That's not how it should be.
Even worse, he then said "We're going to not introduce additional compatibilities", so there's a chance that they're planning to introduce a few incompatibilities.
If you believe in the bliblical flood, then you would also believe that the survivors all got off in the same location. Duh.. the only way you could use this to explain the biblical flood was if their analysis showed that we are all descendants of one man (Noah).
I've just walked to work in t-shirt and shorts.. in the rain! Hehe. It had actually been sunny for about 2 weeks prior to that though, and I'm hoping that will resume soon. The rain here on the east coast is usually a rather pathetic affair too, I much prefer the giant globules of water that you get in the west to the 'really crap electric shower' effect that you get here.
The whole structure is 25metres, the turbine section is about half of that:p The potential of the sun is great, wind and solar power wouldn't really work without the sun:P
Well, for one thing, presumably you want a higher signal to noise ratio?:P I've not tried ripping oggs, I'd maybe use AACs but since most of my collection is MP3s anyway I thought I'd keep it consistent. I do have 500gigglybytes of NAS storage I'm not using, I'd re-rip to FLAC but I cba spending a few weeks swapping CDs again;)
If she was doing lots of sports, chances are it was muscle. I'm 14.5 stone today, certainly not fat.. I used to be about 11.5 stone when I was at university, but since then I've gained general muscle from occasional periods of exercising:) Currently watching what I eat in an attempt to have a proper six-pack for once, but I'm actually putting on weight overall as I've been walking to work and doing situps etc:P
After I got a pair of decent headphones I got fed up of the quality of my 128kbps ripped albums and re-ripped everything to 192kbps MP3s.. definite difference in the clarity of the treble, hi-hat clicks, that type of thing. Of course some songs have actually sounded better at 128kbps but maybe that was to do with the quality of encoding, or just because they work better with a feeling of more bass because of the lack of upper frequencies.. meh.
Yep, here in Scotland it can get rather cloudy. In fact it's definitely more often cloudy than not.
Wasn't trying to slag off solar power btw, just pointing out how 1kW per square metre is pretty diffuse at least by tidal standards, and probably by wind standards too. I think all forms of renewable energy are worth considering though, and things like solar and wind power tend to complement each other quite well, as when it's dark and stormy, it will probably also be quite windy.
Do you get many tornadoes or sandstorms or anything like that in Arizona (guessing that's what AZ is:p )?
I didn't realise that the guy who did Delphi had anything to do with C#. I quite like Delphi and use it for any Windows GUIs I make. I still don't really want to start using MS' proprietary anything, even if it was designed by a genius, but thanks for the info.. if MS can clean up their act with Windows 7 then I may be able to put up with them for another while, and may even look into.NET (if Delphi doesn't already use it by default).
I think we have all the engineers we need, sorry;) I just do the IT stuff anyway (though I have been doing the controller and interface software for one of our deep water mass-flow excavators:) )
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Everything 'develops' gravity. I think he meant more that the piss isn't held together in the same way as shit, and therefore would have more chance of going everywhere. I don't see why it would, unless perhaps it bounced off something, or you were having serious control issues.
Wait, are we talking about plumbing, or sex? I also advocate not actually using lead in your pencil, to preserve your soldier's capillary action.
Plumbing and electrical work certainly wouldn't be the best combination ;)
Nope, I've never really used bluetooth (unless you count the controller on my PS3). Whenever I have tried to get it working for transferring files between phones, or seen other people trying to get it to work, it.. doesn't :P I didn't realise they didn't have drivers for USB 2.0 on 98, but since my mobo didn't even have USB 2.0 the it wasn't a problem for me! :) I even ran that machine without anti-virus for years and it was fine (was behind a firewall, using firefox, yada yada). I did use spybot on it occasionally though.
What do you mean give you a link? I just installed it via steam, no patching required. Why would it freak anyone out? :P
That's like saying bicycles will be vindicated when we run out of fuel for other vehicles. They may work in their own fashion, but I'd still prefer to use a car or a plane for travelling really long distances. In this case, MS could probably quite easily implement IPv6 in XP, they just choose not to. That would be like retrofitting fuel-burning vehicles with amazingly efficient solar cells and electric motors or something along those lines*.
*Car analogies ftw >.> I use them without even realising
OSX hardware is almost exactly the same as Windows hardware these days anyway.
:( People like our MD will get it just because it's 'new' (and therefore it must be better!), even though I told everyone in the company that there is to be no Vista until SP1. SP1 is out now but I still think there is absolutely no need for Vista in the workplace :p If MS start getting aggressive about pushing it this summer, I'll start pushing the idea that our engineers use Pro/Engineer instead of Inventor, and then we can become a Linux shop :) I stopped considering that kind of thing about 5 years ago when I realised that XP Pro was actually pretty stable and workable, but as the oh-so-familiar Microsoft disappointments have started rolling out along with Vista, it's coming back into consideration. I really don't want to cause a hassle for the engineers, but if there's a way of avoiding Vista that we're all going to be happy with then I'll take it (possibly will just have to buy volume licenses for Windows for any new machines, and use the downgrade rights..)
Downgrading to Vista.. yuck. But if it's the only thing available, what will people do? A lot of people would be too ignorant or perhaps too 'moral' to download an illegal version of XP, so Vista will slowly build its user base
I don't think a modular OS is exactly a 'new feature', unless you just mean new to the Windows world ;) I also had thought maybe they'd got a grip of themselves, but they're just too lazy or scared to rebuild everything properly from the ground up. The best thing for them to do to improve the OS would be to forget about backwards compatibility, but that would also be one of the worst things they could do because it leaves users open to try other alternatives if they're going to need all-new software anyway. I suppose they're already trying that with .NET. At least if everything starts using .NET, then the underlying OS can be changed around without worrying too much about compatibility (though this being Microsoft, they'll probably keep changing and changing the .NET specs so that everything is incompatible anyway..)
I'd much rather go back to using Windows 98 than use anything that is based on Vista. In fact I was using Win98 up until a few years ago on a home PC. Only got XP in the end so that I could play Lego Star Wars :p Half-Life 2 and the like were running great on the 98 box. The whole MinWin thing sounded like great news to me, I was thinking I might even upgrade to Windows Seven. I thought the same thing with Vista too though when I first heard about it a few years ago. I thought they were going to re-implement Windows from scratch, but instead of slimming everything down and making it more efficient, they made everything even SLOWER with all the DRM and such. That's not how it should be.
Strange how such bad news could also in hindsight be some of the best news of the decade :)
Even worse, he then said "We're going to not introduce additional compatibilities", so there's a chance that they're planning to introduce a few incompatibilities.
If you believe in the bliblical flood, then you would also believe that the survivors all got off in the same location. Duh.. the only way you could use this to explain the biblical flood was if their analysis showed that we are all descendants of one man (Noah).
I've just walked to work in t-shirt and shorts.. in the rain! Hehe. It had actually been sunny for about 2 weeks prior to that though, and I'm hoping that will resume soon. The rain here on the east coast is usually a rather pathetic affair too, I much prefer the giant globules of water that you get in the west to the 'really crap electric shower' effect that you get here.
The whole structure is 25metres, the turbine section is about half of that :p The potential of the sun is great, wind and solar power wouldn't really work without the sun :P
Well, for one thing, presumably you want a higher signal to noise ratio? :P I've not tried ripping oggs, I'd maybe use AACs but since most of my collection is MP3s anyway I thought I'd keep it consistent. I do have 500gigglybytes of NAS storage I'm not using, I'd re-rip to FLAC but I cba spending a few weeks swapping CDs again ;)
If she was doing lots of sports, chances are it was muscle. I'm 14.5 stone today, certainly not fat.. I used to be about 11.5 stone when I was at university, but since then I've gained general muscle from occasional periods of exercising :) Currently watching what I eat in an attempt to have a proper six-pack for once, but I'm actually putting on weight overall as I've been walking to work and doing situps etc :P
After I got a pair of decent headphones I got fed up of the quality of my 128kbps ripped albums and re-ripped everything to 192kbps MP3s.. definite difference in the clarity of the treble, hi-hat clicks, that type of thing. Of course some songs have actually sounded better at 128kbps but maybe that was to do with the quality of encoding, or just because they work better with a feeling of more bass because of the lack of upper frequencies.. meh.
So, depending on how good the quality is, 10 cents to 'rent' each track could be quite good value.. mwahahahahahaaaaaaa!! When will they learn?
The linefeed method comprises part of my patent, switching is futile.
I have patented the carriage return linefeed combination. Anyone implementing br tags owes me 0.000000005 dollars per violation.
Yep, here in Scotland it can get rather cloudy. In fact it's definitely more often cloudy than not.
:p )?
Wasn't trying to slag off solar power btw, just pointing out how 1kW per square metre is pretty diffuse at least by tidal standards, and probably by wind standards too. I think all forms of renewable energy are worth considering though, and things like solar and wind power tend to complement each other quite well, as when it's dark and stormy, it will probably also be quite windy.
Do you get many tornadoes or sandstorms or anything like that in Arizona (guessing that's what AZ is
Anyone care to explain why this is '+2 funny'? It seems a pretty useful idea for the initial development stages at least.
I didn't realise that the guy who did Delphi had anything to do with C#. I quite like Delphi and use it for any Windows GUIs I make. I still don't really want to start using MS' proprietary anything, even if it was designed by a genius, but thanks for the info.. if MS can clean up their act with Windows 7 then I may be able to put up with them for another while, and may even look into .NET (if Delphi doesn't already use it by default).
I think we have all the engineers we need, sorry ;) I just do the IT stuff anyway (though I have been doing the controller and interface software for one of our deep water mass-flow excavators :) )