You seem to forget that a large fraction of Americans believes that evolution is a filthy lie. Those people necessarily have an entirely different world-view in which their hypotheses make sense.
I think the noise that busy hard drive heads make is very useful rather than annoying. It tells me the computer is busy with lots of files, which can mean that I just need expect slow performance while it lasts, or that something is wrong.
Microsoft releases new version of Windows. Public is underwhelmed. Microsoft starts talking a lot about the next version of Windows in the hope that people will believe that this next version will be good, for real this time. Lots of people fall for it.
That better? I only fell for it once, with the Windows 95 to 98 transition. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice... I won't get fooled again, but lots of people are all too eager to get fooled yet again.
Well, they said that Vista would be based on an entirely new codebase, and it turned out to be just the next generation of the NT family tree.
The fact that they don't say that Windows 7 is based on an entirely new codebase just means it is a Vista descendant, negating the point of skipping Vista and waiting for the vapor of Windows 7.
If we see an object A (which is by definition inside our light cone) being influenced by another object B that we cannot observe, B is in our lightcone, but just occluded, because if it were outside our lightcone, it could not possibly have been observed, directly or indirectly.
Your analogy is flawed, since speed of light does not play a role in it, while it does with this observable-object-influenced-by-object-outside-our-lightcone situation. For the information about the unobservable object to be able to travel to us, it must be within our lightcone, otherwise it would entail information travelling faster than light.
It's smaller than a netbook, and runs on 3xAA batteries (lasts 2-3 weeks on them!), and it boots in a second.
It runs a DOS 2.11 clone, and comes complete with a simple and easy to use editor and a spreadsheet and some other stuff.
It doesn't come with USB, but can do nullmodem transfers with a serial port attachment. For added ease of use, buy one with a CompactFlash reader built in (there is someone who modifies them for this purpose).
Seriously, if all you want to do is quick notetaking, this is your ideal tool.
(For added geek value, it comes with a 8088 CPU made by OKI and can run most DOS programs that use proper BIOS and DOS calls instead of the faster tricks from that era. This is because the hardware isn't actually IBM compatible, but the BIOS provides the compatibility layer, so programs which circumvent the BIOS and attempt to address the hardware directly will not run.)
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(1) Lots of islands means lots of shores (2) have you been paying attention to the large public projects undertaken by the government lately?
I think you mean /\s+$//e
You seem to forget that a large fraction of Americans believes that evolution is a filthy lie. Those people necessarily have an entirely different world-view in which their hypotheses make sense.
I think the noise that busy hard drive heads make is very useful rather than annoying. It tells me the computer is busy with lots of files, which can mean that I just need expect slow performance while it lasts, or that something is wrong.
Yeah, fire up your reefersleep casket, we're goin' .9999c for a while!
People weren't very impressed by the first telephone either. Now, when they built the second telephone, however... ;-]
Weird, I kept reading here on Slashdot how people were getting higher framerates using wine. What gives?
But then you'd actually see less of the map!
Yeah, there was this huge bridge, really huge, with buildings on it, but my phone and tv were on the fritz most of the time.
How would you do that on the Dell? ;-)
this *kills* USB powered hard drives when the batteries fail.
Could you please explain? Does the battery failure actually break the drive?
Okay then, try this:
Microsoft releases new version of Windows. Public is underwhelmed. Microsoft starts talking a lot about the next version of Windows in the hope that people will believe that this next version will be good, for real this time. Lots of people fall for it.
That better? I only fell for it once, with the Windows 95 to 98 transition. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice... I won't get fooled again, but lots of people are all too eager to get fooled yet again.
I doubt Windows 7 will be vapour, it will be released, the quality of the release remains to be seen, but calling it "vapor" is ridiculous.
It's an unreleased Microsoft product, and people are waiting for it. Pretty much the definition of vaporware.
Well, they said that Vista would be based on an entirely new codebase, and it turned out to be just the next generation of the NT family tree.
The fact that they don't say that Windows 7 is based on an entirely new codebase just means it is a Vista descendant, negating the point of skipping Vista and waiting for the vapor of Windows 7.
Little do they know that Windows 7 will be based on Windows Vista, in contradiction to all the nice ("completely new codebase") promises made...
I think it has to do with the fact that disagree rhymes with e (disagr-e-mail).
OT: this episode was much more entertaining than the others, which were kind of poor.
Looks like things are indeed getting worse. I search in the 2001 index, and find relevant results, uncontaminated by spam!
The Google index of today is full of the results of seven and a half years of gaming the algorithms, making it harder and harder to use :-(
Hub? Hub?
If we see an object A (which is by definition inside our light cone) being influenced by another object B that we cannot observe, B is in our lightcone, but just occluded, because if it were outside our lightcone, it could not possibly have been observed, directly or indirectly.
See the other branch of this thread.
Your analogy is flawed, since speed of light does not play a role in it, while it does with this observable-object-influenced-by-object-outside-our-lightcone situation. For the information about the unobservable object to be able to travel to us, it must be within our lightcone, otherwise it would entail information travelling faster than light.
I like the black helicopters at the end :-]
Would that object influencing the observed object not need to be inside your light cone for you to even observe the influencing that it is doing?
I didn't know that. How many hours are we talking about here?
It still takes a few seconds for a harddisk to spin up, and for the PC to run through the BIOS startup routine.
To get around these issues, you'd need flash memory and sleep mode => Asus EEE pc for example.
Seriously, get it on eBay for a few bucks.
It's smaller than a netbook, and runs on 3xAA batteries (lasts 2-3 weeks on them!), and it boots in a second.
It runs a DOS 2.11 clone, and comes complete with a simple and easy to use editor and a spreadsheet and some other stuff.
It doesn't come with USB, but can do nullmodem transfers with a serial port attachment. For added ease of use, buy one with a CompactFlash reader built in (there is someone who modifies them for this purpose).
Seriously, if all you want to do is quick notetaking, this is your ideal tool.
(For added geek value, it comes with a 8088 CPU made by OKI and can run most DOS programs that use proper BIOS and DOS calls instead of the faster tricks from that era. This is because the hardware isn't actually IBM compatible, but the BIOS provides the compatibility layer, so programs which circumvent the BIOS and attempt to address the hardware directly will not run.)