Boats that are plowing or planing take far more fuel to power and require far greater engine power, A boat that is planning is actually travelling in the most efficient method going as it's almost skimming along the surface of the water with as much of its hull out of the water as possible (far less drag) as opposed to one that is not planning which has a lot more of its hull in the water (far more drag) thus requiring more power to push it along. Ok it can take more power to get the boat onto the plane in the first place, but once it's on the plane it is far more efficient due to far less drag.
But in the end, the US will be looked upon as the total victor of this space race as well. The reason is that because of their new long term vision, the US is the only contender that will develop a way to go to mars at the same time as they're planning the moon trip. Only if it runs out of oil rich countries to take over first..ooppss sorry I meant "liberate from oppressive regimes"
If you want to remove the "report this to microsoft". Then right click My Computer > Properties, select the Advanced tab, select the Settings button (third one down under Startup and Recovery) and un-tick the send an Admin alert. Also on the "error reporting" button at the bottom of the Advanced tab, just select the "disable error reporting, but notify when critical errors occur"
Cannot remember off the top of my head which one stops the "report to Microsoft" pop-ups, but with both you can rest easy and not get the annoying pop-ups each time. Hope this helps
"No employer currently requires (or even asks for) the use of RFID implants. Most places are happy when an employers carries theirs as a badge."
Please check your facts before stating incorrect FUD like this... I remembered reading about this a while ago and it took only a few seconds with Google to find it.
"A Cincinnati video surveillance company CityWatcher.com now requires employees to use Verichip human implantable microchips to enter a secure data centre. Until now, the employees entered the data centre with a VeriChip housed in a heart-shaped plastic casing that hangs from their keychain. The VeriChip is a glass encapsulated RFID tag that is injected into the triceps area of the arm to uniquely identify individuals. The tag can be read by radio waves from a few inches away. The news was reported by CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering), a US organisation that opposes the use of surveillance RFID cards."
Because we are not all permanently connected to the web (well this is slashdot so we are talking the rest of the world not people here) For example being able to use offline pages means I can put them on my pda and be able to use them when travelling without having to run up expensive phone bills constantly re downloading each time and you can guarantee a lack of signal when needing the pages (directions, info etc). Also I cannot remember the figure but there is a large percentage of people just in the USA without broadband who are still on dial-up, and what about people with laptops, cannot always guarantee a WI-FI spot or somewhere to plug cable into.
I agree when there is an always connected world then offline browsing will be un-necessary, but much as it might seem different in some parts of the world this is still a very long way to off.
Don't know about the states, but here in the UK the last 2 places I worked at you had to clock off and clock back on before and after each and every break.
even if I never watch ANY BBC programs I still have to pay the BBC £131.50
If you have a car but never drive on motorways, do you think you should get a rebate on your road tax? After all, you're paying for something you don't use.
There are probably more drivers who don't use motorways than TV viewers who never watch the BBC.
Hardly very accurate as if I drive a car then I am using the roads somewhere, which is what the road tax is for. What would be more accurate would be if I have a car and did not drive it on the roads then yes I would expect not to pay road tax
The BBC is the best media company on the face of the planet, the fact that it's almost impossible to paint them evil (if you live in the UK) really says something. I find it very easy to paint them evil (and yes I live in the UK) as I find the BBC is a bunch of money grabbing shites. For example it is illegal in the UK to watch any form of tv that is transmitted Quote "You need a TV Licence to use any television receiving equipment such as a TV set, set-top boxes, video or DVD recorders, computers or mobile phones to watch or record TV programmes as they are being shown on TV." From the TV licence site http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/information/index.jsp
What a lot of people fail to understand is that with this it means that even if I never watch ANY BBC programs I still have to pay the BBC £131.50 approx $257 per year. Thus if I watch even one program from say ITV, Channel 4 all of which are paid by adverts. The BBC still can arrest me for failing to pay them their money. In fact I don't even need to watch anything, just having the ability to watch something means that I have to pay them or be arrested. Is this not draconian or what. This is almost like giving speeding tickets because I have a car and the ability to speed without any proof that I have actually committed any crime
Unfortunately the throwaway email address is no use as you also have to supply a valid uk home address to allow the signing of the petition to be completed.
I agree with the other comments, why the hell was this marked flamebait
Well you "could" have heard about it on Slashdot, but the editors here decided that they was not interested in this as I submitted about the on-line petition site and the road pricing scheme on January the 18th, but it was rejected. I tried
Yep... fanboys are just amazing... and I've now been modded offtopic for agreeing with a comment pointing out the amazing bias in the apple fanboy arguments in this post.
shakestheclown Really wish I had mod points today you deserve them for that.
The only real problem is the fanboys out there will read your comments and just assume that you're a microsoft fanboy because you have the "cheek" to say anything against the "mighty" apple.
Thank you again for the breath of fresh air and reason here.
p.s. this is slashdot are you sure you're on the right site (-;
I submitted this 6 hours before this one was sumbitted.... but because scuttlemonkey is a regular submitter mine gets binned and it included the link to the BBC story as well.
Yes I know I'm going to get modded down.... but as it seems to be only the favourites here who are allowed to submit... sod it.
I live in a small village/town of Frome in Somerset and there was a front page article in both the free local papers that if I remember correctly 8 or 10 of these units have been put into full time use around the town and this was just over a month ago. Forget this "rolled out over the next few years" they are already being used in parts of the country outside of London.
I find all these "it's so much easier to install than windows" comments hard to believe. I have been using pc's since the early 80s and having to write my own software as it was not available comercially. So I recently downloaded the ubuntu 6 live cd and gave it a go dual booting with xp.
Now a standard xp install goes along the lines of insert disk, fill in various bits of info (cd key, date time etc) then install sp2 and even before sp2 I have full access to all my hard drives both read and write.The just add any other programs as required.
Now with the live cd click install usual select language time date etc and let it sort out how to partition the drives as needed and then up and running.............. NO. It admits that I have hard drives, but as to actually letting me even access them not a hope in hell..... next start searching various forums for some ideas only to run across an annoying atitude of "you're a *nic noobie.. and this OS can do wonderful things but we are going to make it really hard for you to find out how to do it..... tough we only deal with experianced users". Eventually managed to get it to admit that there was info on my drives and actually what it was... but not allowed to access it... more searching and managed to access it.. then "Sorry but you have ntfs and not writing to it so tough"
Ok I dont work in IT as a full time job, but I am reasonably pc switched on... and from past experiance Ubuntu is a right royal pain in the ass to set up. Yes peoples granny can use with no problems... once its all set up by someone else.... but trying to get joe blogs to change from his xp box to this... not a hope in hell, unless someone else is going to sort it out for him and possibly have to re-format every hard drive to suit.
Much as I hate to say this as I am not a ms fanboy in the slightest, but also been dual booting various versions of vista as well as a tri-boot Ubuntu, xp and vista... and vista has been the easiest os I have installed in many years... everything just worked after the install.. did not have to run any motherboard, graphics, sound or network drivers (ok after less than 2 weeks it slows down to a speed that makes a pig stuck in thick toffee seem fast.. even with daily de-frags etc)
"Why don't you just plug in a set of headphones? On all laptops i've come across, the internal speakers are muted, when something is plugged into the headphones plug."
Because my pc is not a laptop and it's wired into my hi-fi... thus with vista I have to remember to run across the room to my amp... drop the volume til it's booted then put the volume back and then go back to my pc... which can be a right bloody pain esp when install various software that requires a re-start. Also I have my volume on most pc apps set to run about half as std thus I can turn it up if something is rockin from the pc without having to use the amp across the room... thus the startup sound comes out at full volume... not nice at all
"Yeah, but, European gas has always been sky high. Isn't most of that $8-9/gal over there taxes?"
Whether it's taxes or not. The fuel over here (UK for example) has not always been sky high. When I first started buying fuel it was only £ 1.20 a gall and it's now around £5 per gall
So very, very true...... I was enjoying GTA San Andreas..... Untill the "kill x number of baddies with a model plane that flies like shite" !!!! After wiping out sooo many time deleted the entire game from the Pc.
I've been using Hotmail since 98 (it's now mainly used when travelling) and I have not had a single piece of spam in all that time. Also I can access it from Outlook
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Cheers for the clarification on that.. much appreciated
So much for posting AC. Still had the mod points removed and binned.. Will remember that for next time.
Well you did have a +1 informative
Looking at some of todays teenagers I think you are a bit late with "worrying about computers that are smarter than they are." It's already here
If you want to remove the "report this to microsoft". Then right click My Computer > Properties, select the Advanced tab, select the Settings button (third one down under Startup and Recovery) and un-tick the send an Admin alert. Also on the "error reporting" button at the bottom of the Advanced tab, just select the "disable error reporting, but notify when critical errors occur"
Cannot remember off the top of my head which one stops the "report to Microsoft" pop-ups, but with both you can rest easy and not get the annoying pop-ups each time. Hope this helps
Good to see some thoughts / suggestions that are not the standard "it must have flown X billions miles to be here".
Not saying that these are correct or not, but well done for some alternative views. Wish I had mod points today to give you an Interesting.
"No employer currently requires (or even asks for) the use of RFID implants. Most places are happy when an employers carries theirs as a badge."
Please check your facts before stating incorrect FUD like this... I remembered reading about this a while ago and it took only a few seconds with Google to find it.
"A Cincinnati video surveillance company CityWatcher.com now requires employees to use Verichip human implantable microchips to enter a secure data centre. Until now, the employees entered the data centre with a VeriChip housed in a heart-shaped plastic casing that hangs from their keychain.
The VeriChip is a glass encapsulated RFID tag that is injected into the triceps area of the arm to uniquely identify individuals. The tag can be read by radio waves from a few inches away.
The news was reported by CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering), a US organisation that opposes the use of surveillance RFID cards."
Because we are not all permanently connected to the web (well this is slashdot so we are talking the rest of the world not people here) For example being able to use offline pages means I can put them on my pda and be able to use them when travelling without having to run up expensive phone bills constantly re downloading each time and you can guarantee a lack of signal when needing the pages (directions, info etc). Also I cannot remember the figure but there is a large percentage of people just in the USA without broadband who are still on dial-up, and what about people with laptops, cannot always guarantee a WI-FI spot or somewhere to plug cable into.
I agree when there is an always connected world then offline browsing will be un-necessary, but much as it might seem different in some parts of the world this is still a very long way to off.
Don't know about the states, but here in the UK the last 2 places I worked at you had to clock off and clock back on before and after each and every break.
If you have a car but never drive on motorways, do you think you should get a rebate on your road tax? After all, you're paying for something you don't use.
There are probably more drivers who don't use motorways than TV viewers who never watch the BBC.
Hardly very accurate as if I drive a car then I am using the roads somewhere, which is what the road tax is for. What would be more accurate would be if I have a car and did not drive it on the roads then yes I would expect not to pay road taxFrom the TV licence site http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/information/index.js
What a lot of people fail to understand is that with this it means that even if I never watch ANY BBC programs I still have to pay the BBC £131.50 approx $257 per year. Thus if I watch even one program from say ITV, Channel 4 all of which are paid by adverts. The BBC still can arrest me for failing to pay them their money. In fact I don't even need to watch anything, just having the ability to watch something means that I have to pay them or be arrested. Is this not draconian or what. This is almost like giving speeding tickets because I have a car and the ability to speed without any proof that I have actually committed any crime
End rant I'll get off my soap box now
Unfortunately the throwaway email address is no use as you also have to supply a valid uk home address to allow the signing of the petition to be completed. I agree with the other comments, why the hell was this marked flamebait
Well you "could" have heard about it on Slashdot, but the editors here decided that they was not interested in this as I submitted about the on-line petition site and the road pricing scheme on January the 18th, but it was rejected. I tried
Yep... fanboys are just amazing... and I've now been modded offtopic for agreeing with a comment pointing out the amazing bias in the apple fanboy arguments in this post.
Just gotta laugh at it all
shakestheclown
Really wish I had mod points today you deserve them for that.
The only real problem is the fanboys out there will read your comments and just assume that you're a microsoft fanboy because you have the "cheek" to say anything against the "mighty" apple.
Thank you again for the breath of fresh air and reason here.
p.s. this is slashdot are you sure you're on the right site (-;
I submitted this 6 hours before this one was sumbitted.... but because scuttlemonkey is a regular submitter mine gets binned and it included the link to the BBC story as well.
Yes I know I'm going to get modded down.... but as it seems to be only the favourites here who are allowed to submit... sod it.
Totally off topic... But thank you for the lime project link
I live in a small village/town of Frome in Somerset and there was a front page article in both the free local papers that if I remember correctly 8 or 10 of these units have been put into full time use around the town and this was just over a month ago. Forget this "rolled out over the next few years" they are already being used in parts of the country outside of London.
I find all these "it's so much easier to install than windows" comments hard to believe. I have been using pc's since the early 80s and having to write my own software as it was not available comercially. So I recently downloaded the ubuntu 6 live cd and gave it a go dual booting with xp.
Now a standard xp install goes along the lines of insert disk, fill in various bits of info (cd key, date time etc) then install sp2 and even before sp2 I have full access to all my hard drives both read and write.The just add any other programs as required.
Now with the live cd click install usual select language time date etc and let it sort out how to partition the drives as needed and then up and running.............. NO. It admits that I have hard drives, but as to actually letting me even access them not a hope in hell..... next start searching various forums for some ideas only to run across an annoying atitude of "you're a *nic noobie.. and this OS can do wonderful things but we are going to make it really hard for you to find out how to do it..... tough we only deal with experianced users". Eventually managed to get it to admit that there was info on my drives and actually what it was... but not allowed to access it... more searching and managed to access it.. then "Sorry but you have ntfs and not writing to it so tough"
Ok I dont work in IT as a full time job, but I am reasonably pc switched on... and from past experiance Ubuntu is a right royal pain in the ass to set up. Yes peoples granny can use with no problems... once its all set up by someone else.... but trying to get joe blogs to change from his xp box to this... not a hope in hell, unless someone else is going to sort it out for him and possibly have to re-format every hard drive to suit.
Much as I hate to say this as I am not a ms fanboy in the slightest, but also been dual booting various versions of vista as well as a tri-boot Ubuntu, xp and vista... and vista has been the easiest os I have installed in many years... everything just worked after the install.. did not have to run any motherboard, graphics, sound or network drivers (ok after less than 2 weeks it slows down to a speed that makes a pig stuck in thick toffee seem fast.. even with daily de-frags etc)
"Why don't you just plug in a set of headphones? On all laptops i've come across, the internal speakers are muted, when something is plugged into the headphones plug." Because my pc is not a laptop and it's wired into my hi-fi... thus with vista I have to remember to run across the room to my amp... drop the volume til it's booted then put the volume back and then go back to my pc... which can be a right bloody pain esp when install various software that requires a re-start. Also I have my volume on most pc apps set to run about half as std thus I can turn it up if something is rockin from the pc without having to use the amp across the room... thus the startup sound comes out at full volume... not nice at all
"Yeah, but, European gas has always been sky high. Isn't most of that $8-9/gal over there taxes?"
Whether it's taxes or not. The fuel over here (UK for example) has not always been sky high. When I first started buying fuel it was only £ 1.20 a gall and it's now around £5 per gall
So very, very true...... I was enjoying GTA San Andreas..... Untill the "kill x number of baddies with a model plane that flies like shite" !!!! After wiping out sooo many time deleted the entire game from the Pc.
You're not the only one.
I've been using Hotmail since 98 (it's now mainly used when travelling) and I have not had a single piece of spam in all that time. Also I can access it from Outlook
Not too sure, but I believe you will find the out of all of them it's Tobacco that is actually the most addictive.
But then whatever survey you use to compare these, it's all just statistics.