I find it sick that parents will try to cash in on their own failure as parents and the misfortune of their child. Why seek 30 million? Why not seek criminal charges if they truly feel the operators of myspace were resp for what happened to their child? 30 million is a money grab. Seeking criminal chrages is seeking justice. Two very different things.
You speak as if this is a suprise. Fisrt gen drivers are usually sub par. The gaming community is gearing up to buy the nVidia 8800 crads in anticipation of the first crop of DX10 games due out very soon. this means they will be either dual booting with Vista or diving into Vista completely. I have 2 systems so I for one will run Vista dual boot on my bleeding edge Gaming/Graphics Workstation rig and XP on my good enough gaming system. Only reason I'm dual booting the new system is for my 3D modleing applications. My 3D modeling/animation apps to not like the current crop of DX10 drivers.
LOL!!! How arrogant of you. What makes your work any more important that any of the other people in the library? If you need to get work done that badly then buy yourself a computer and get an internet connection at home. Or do like may other business folks do and run into places like Kinko's and internet cafe. Why you feel you have to slam others for how they choose to use the computer they signed out at the PUBLIC library is amazing. As for the social networking issue... It does fall under freespeech. These places are meeting places for people to keep intouch and/or hang out and shoot the shit. Why not ban user groups? Why not ban USENET? It's the same thing. These politicians know laws like thiese will never pass. They only do it to score political brownie points with the public.
Hmmm... I don't know many(anctually none) moms and pops who actually went out and bought a retail copy of XP. Most came with the prebuilt systems. I do however know lots of people who paid for over priced copies of photoediting software and other apps. Fact is businesses ARE the ones who buy the majority of the legit copies of Windows. And corps buy in volume not just one or two copies. And where can you get a copy of AutoCAD for $189? A student copy of the thing costs $359.85
I find this amusing. I guess what's good for the goose isn't good for the gander... These same scientists, with huge help from the popular media, try to muzzle the other scientists who's research contradicts the human cause theory. We humans are funny. We base our world view on the very small span of time in which we live. It's like all that has happened in the past never happened. Fact is we dont live long enough to recognise any of the Earth's long term cycles. We know even less about non-terrestrial facts which directly effect our planet. We also tend to forget that our system orbits the galactic center of our galaxy. Our system most likely enters and exits energized (radioactive) clouds off and on. How does this effect life here on earth? We forget how little we know and in our arrogance we think we know it all.
Oh really? How is myspace.com any different from any other real world place where teens gather? Oh yeah it's MUCh easier to make ignorant statements like your rather then actually deal with the real problem.
tries to upgrade from one version of an OS to another. It's one of those things you do only once then kick yourdelf for being too cheap to buy a full copy of the OS. You should ALWAYS go with a full clean install of an OS if you can. Upgrading tends to be like having a rootcanal w/o the nice drugs.
You haven't a clue do you? Most home computers are used for email, internet, and playing video games. Gamers will be moving to Vista if they want to play the coming Direct X games. The first crop of Direct X (Vista Ready) video cards were released this past November with more on the way. MANY of the game development houses are already working on Direct X games with the first few due out this qurater. Direct X is the next big thing to happen to games. It makes the stuff you see on the new consoles already obsolete. Let me enlighten you a bit more. Direct X is Vista only technology. There isn't going be an XP version of Direct X. The migration from XP to Vista will be just like the migration from 2000 to XP. Some will go willingly while others will go kicking and screaming. But in the end most people on a windows box will be running Vista. Also remember new computers will be shipping with Vista on them. And it will not be the end of the world people seem to make it sound like it will be. XP is on it's way out and Vista is on it's way in. It's called change. It's something you need to come to terms with when dealing with technology. Get used to it.
If I remember correctly during the age of the dinos the earth was MUCH warmer than today. The O2 content of the atmosphere was also MUCH higher. Also believe it or not the whole asteroid/comet thing killing the dinos off is a theory. Not all of the scientific community is convinced that theory is correct.
Your comment would be true for those who only use their PC's for word-processing and email. That would be a small percentage. One the top uses people have for PC today after email and word-processing is gaming. You failed to take into account the software developers. They are not very likely to start porting things over to a FOSS when the Windows user base is pretty much locked in. If anyone who did more than just email and word-processing did as you said I would be willing to bet that $200 price tag would become less of an obstacle. I tried moving to Linux not too long ago and while I loved the OS I couldn't do what I needed to get things done. I'm all for FOSS but until software vendors actually start supporting it they will not be a viable alternative to the MS juggernaut that is Windows. Porting their applications to another OS is costly. Keep that in mind.
Err...How were they profiting form the downloads? The people don't download files form the site. They are just shown where the stuff is. It's kinda like someone on a street corner telling you where to go to get what you are looking for. Last I checked that's not illegal. If some dude came up to me asking where can they score some weed and I tell them Joe Blow down the street is their man an I guilty of a crime? NOPE!!! Now if Joe Blow was paying me to funnel peopel his way then yes I am an accessory. The ads are not tied into downloads. If anything they are tied into the people visiting the searchengine not the torrent downlaods themselves. Probably also per click. Get your head out of your arse. I guess google should go down for pointing people to sites with underaged porn or it's owners arrested for supporting terrorists by providing would be terorists with maps via Google Earth and instructions on how to build bombs....
More famous name? YOu must be joking. He was not very well known until AFTER he did LOTR. He's demontrated his ability to make very profitable films. Not many peopel can calim to have made 3 incredibly expencive films and have the first one pay for the entire cost of filming all 3. I seriously doubt they would have made anywhere near what they did had they gone with someone else. Give credit where credit is due.
Nice quote but it does not applyhere. If they had the cameras in our homes then yes. The cameras are OUTSIDE. Outside is not private. It is PUBLIC. It's hillarious. People will hold "private" coversations on the cellphone in the public but heaven forbid if people decide to actually stop and listen to them as they blather on again in public. I see no loss of liberties here. People do stupid things in public.
Intrusive? I think not. You are in the public. How is this intrusive when they are just watching what is going on out in public? I guess the police that patrol the streets are also invading your privacy? It's the same freaking thing. Get real and grow up.
TV is less violent than back in the 80's? Are you serious? That's funny. 80's TV shows were campy. The main show I can remember that comes close to what we watch today is Miami Vice. It's pretty muck like today's cop shows like the different flavors of CSI. If anything today's TV is pretty boring with "Relaity TV's" take over of the major networks. Sorry but masturbation won't make you go blind, sitting too close to the TV won't make you go blind, and violent entertainment (games/movies) won't turn you in to the next legendary serial killer. Violent games are an outlet for agression. Have you noticed that many schools aren't even letting kids be kids? They can't play normal age old playground games for fear they will fall down and skin their knees. It's a joke. We make up things to complain about.
The question isn't wether climate change is happeneing or not. Global climate is always changing. The real question most are debating is the human cause of the change. Is any of it our fault? If so, how much? Given we don't know all the variables involved with climate change it's silly to assume either side has a real answer. You'd have to be an idiot to say climate change was not real.
Spoken like a true blind follower. I love how you ignored the rest of my post just like you ignore the body of evidence that counters your own beliefes.
You couldn't be more wrong. There are plenty of scientists who's research shows this is part of a larger natural cycle. But in the negative pro human cause of global warming climate we live in they are totally ignored or their character is assasinated. It's a joke. We need to feel like we can fix everything that is wrong with the world and the planet. In reality not everything is our fault and we can't fix everything. And who's to say there is anaything that needs fixing? I used to blindly accept the blame humanity for global warming camp. Those were in my naive days.:-) I woke up after accidentally finding the research of other professionals which tends to show the pro folks may not know what they are talking about. That their models and data sets are incomplete, flawed, and/or inadequate for the job they are trying to use them for. I'm sure I too will be labled a global warming denier.
Man... The problem I have with the phrase Global Warming is that people who use it don't go further and clarify what they mean. We all know the world is getting warmer. What they don't say is they believe WE are the cause of global warming. The media doesn't give equal time to those who's research shows the global warming we are observing is most likely part of a natural global cooling and warming cycle. Our lives are so short we forget there was a world before we were born. There is in fact very little new under the sun. We can't predict the weather a week out yet people want us to believe they can predict the weather conditions years even decades out. Come on people. Use your head for more than crushing beer cans. There is a wealth of information that tends to disprove the human cause of global warming. What no one has even mentioned is the very interesting bit of information from NASA which shows temps are rising not just here but on the other planets in our solar system as well. This lil bit of info tends to point the finger to the great fireball in the sky we call the Sun. I can understand why people would resist this kind of information. The idea that the Sun may be kicking it up a knotch and warming up our planet a little more than "normal" is disturbing. It is even more so because there is nothing we can do about this. The issue of global warming shouldn't be the only ecological issue we should be worried about. The weakening magnetic field of the Earth should be more cause for alarm. It is this field which protects us form the Solar Wind. There is good evidence that the magnetic poles are goign to flip soon. During this process the Earth's electromagneticfield will drop to almost nothing leaving us exposed to most of the sun's radiation and the normal radiation from deep space. Break out the SPF 2000 sunblock kids. And I find it very interesting that it seems to coinside with our global warming trend. You should never rely on one source for your information. Look at both sides of the issue before forming an uneducated opinion.
There is a brian attached to this wep. It's a CPU driven by an AI. You deploy these things where you knwo the only people that will be walking into it's range are the enemy. I see no problem with this. I think it's funny that some people have a fear of a wep you can't try to reason into not killing you. Stay away from the thing you and will be fine.:-)
Why not try what works for the earth? Any one know if we can generate an electromagnetic field powerful enough to deflect cosmic rays to the extent that it would make the danger no more worse than normal everyday exposer we get here on the ground due to the Earth's natural field? I was just wondering becasue it will take loads of power to drive the elevator. Why not use that large EM field to help protect the occupants? That field coupled with physical shielding should work out great. Just a thought.:)
Ya know there is talk of using diamonds to create the next generation of CPU's. Take a look at this 81 GHz!!! Diamonds may become a geek's best friend soon.:)
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I find it sick that parents will try to cash in on their own failure as parents and the misfortune of their child. Why seek 30 million? Why not seek criminal charges if they truly feel the operators of myspace were resp for what happened to their child? 30 million is a money grab. Seeking criminal chrages is seeking justice. Two very different things.
You speak as if this is a suprise. Fisrt gen drivers are usually sub par. The gaming community is gearing up to buy the nVidia 8800 crads in anticipation of the first crop of DX10 games due out very soon. this means they will be either dual booting with Vista or diving into Vista completely. I have 2 systems so I for one will run Vista dual boot on my bleeding edge Gaming/Graphics Workstation rig and XP on my good enough gaming system. Only reason I'm dual booting the new system is for my 3D modleing applications. My 3D modeling/animation apps to not like the current crop of DX10 drivers.
LOL!!! How arrogant of you. What makes your work any more important that any of the other people in the library? If you need to get work done that badly then buy yourself a computer and get an internet connection at home. Or do like may other business folks do and run into places like Kinko's and internet cafe. Why you feel you have to slam others for how they choose to use the computer they signed out at the PUBLIC library is amazing. As for the social networking issue... It does fall under freespeech. These places are meeting places for people to keep intouch and/or hang out and shoot the shit. Why not ban user groups? Why not ban USENET? It's the same thing. These politicians know laws like thiese will never pass. They only do it to score political brownie points with the public.
Hmmm... I don't know many(anctually none) moms and pops who actually went out and bought a retail copy of XP. Most came with the prebuilt systems. I do however know lots of people who paid for over priced copies of photoediting software and other apps. Fact is businesses ARE the ones who buy the majority of the legit copies of Windows. And corps buy in volume not just one or two copies. And where can you get a copy of AutoCAD for $189? A student copy of the thing costs $359.85
The next format challenger will be the Holographic Disc. 1.6 TB on a single disc....
I find this amusing. I guess what's good for the goose isn't good for the gander... These same scientists, with huge help from the popular media, try to muzzle the other scientists who's research contradicts the human cause theory. We humans are funny. We base our world view on the very small span of time in which we live. It's like all that has happened in the past never happened. Fact is we dont live long enough to recognise any of the Earth's long term cycles. We know even less about non-terrestrial facts which directly effect our planet. We also tend to forget that our system orbits the galactic center of our galaxy. Our system most likely enters and exits energized (radioactive) clouds off and on. How does this effect life here on earth? We forget how little we know and in our arrogance we think we know it all.
Oh really? How is myspace.com any different from any other real world place where teens gather? Oh yeah it's MUCh easier to make ignorant statements like your rather then actually deal with the real problem.
tries to upgrade from one version of an OS to another. It's one of those things you do only once then kick yourdelf for being too cheap to buy a full copy of the OS. You should ALWAYS go with a full clean install of an OS if you can. Upgrading tends to be like having a rootcanal w/o the nice drugs.
You haven't a clue do you? Most home computers are used for email, internet, and playing video games. Gamers will be moving to Vista if they want to play the coming Direct X games. The first crop of Direct X (Vista Ready) video cards were released this past November with more on the way. MANY of the game development houses are already working on Direct X games with the first few due out this qurater. Direct X is the next big thing to happen to games. It makes the stuff you see on the new consoles already obsolete. Let me enlighten you a bit more. Direct X is Vista only technology. There isn't going be an XP version of Direct X. The migration from XP to Vista will be just like the migration from 2000 to XP. Some will go willingly while others will go kicking and screaming. But in the end most people on a windows box will be running Vista. Also remember new computers will be shipping with Vista on them. And it will not be the end of the world people seem to make it sound like it will be. XP is on it's way out and Vista is on it's way in. It's called change. It's something you need to come to terms with when dealing with technology. Get used to it.
If I remember correctly during the age of the dinos the earth was MUCH warmer than today. The O2 content of the atmosphere was also MUCH higher. Also believe it or not the whole asteroid/comet thing killing the dinos off is a theory. Not all of the scientific community is convinced that theory is correct.
Your comment would be true for those who only use their PC's for word-processing and email. That would be a small percentage. One the top uses people have for PC today after email and word-processing is gaming. You failed to take into account the software developers. They are not very likely to start porting things over to a FOSS when the Windows user base is pretty much locked in. If anyone who did more than just email and word-processing did as you said I would be willing to bet that $200 price tag would become less of an obstacle. I tried moving to Linux not too long ago and while I loved the OS I couldn't do what I needed to get things done. I'm all for FOSS but until software vendors actually start supporting it they will not be a viable alternative to the MS juggernaut that is Windows. Porting their applications to another OS is costly. Keep that in mind.
A land vehicle version is in the works by the Army. http://www.military.com/soldiertech/0,14632,Soldie rtech_RailGuns,,00.html
Just an FYI.
Err...How were they profiting form the downloads? The people don't download files form the site. They are just shown where the stuff is. It's kinda like someone on a street corner telling you where to go to get what you are looking for. Last I checked that's not illegal. If some dude came up to me asking where can they score some weed and I tell them Joe Blow down the street is their man an I guilty of a crime? NOPE!!! Now if Joe Blow was paying me to funnel peopel his way then yes I am an accessory. The ads are not tied into downloads. If anything they are tied into the people visiting the searchengine not the torrent downlaods themselves. Probably also per click. Get your head out of your arse. I guess google should go down for pointing people to sites with underaged porn or it's owners arrested for supporting terrorists by providing would be terorists with maps via Google Earth and instructions on how to build bombs....
More famous name? YOu must be joking. He was not very well known until AFTER he did LOTR. He's demontrated his ability to make very profitable films. Not many peopel can calim to have made 3 incredibly expencive films and have the first one pay for the entire cost of filming all 3. I seriously doubt they would have made anywhere near what they did had they gone with someone else. Give credit where credit is due.
Nice quote but it does not applyhere. If they had the cameras in our homes then yes. The cameras are OUTSIDE. Outside is not private. It is PUBLIC. It's hillarious. People will hold "private" coversations on the cellphone in the public but heaven forbid if people decide to actually stop and listen to them as they blather on again in public. I see no loss of liberties here. People do stupid things in public.
Intrusive? I think not. You are in the public. How is this intrusive when they are just watching what is going on out in public? I guess the police that patrol the streets are also invading your privacy? It's the same freaking thing. Get real and grow up.
TV is less violent than back in the 80's? Are you serious? That's funny. 80's TV shows were campy. The main show I can remember that comes close to what we watch today is Miami Vice. It's pretty muck like today's cop shows like the different flavors of CSI. If anything today's TV is pretty boring with "Relaity TV's" take over of the major networks. Sorry but masturbation won't make you go blind, sitting too close to the TV won't make you go blind, and violent entertainment (games/movies) won't turn you in to the next legendary serial killer. Violent games are an outlet for agression. Have you noticed that many schools aren't even letting kids be kids? They can't play normal age old playground games for fear they will fall down and skin their knees. It's a joke. We make up things to complain about.
DUDE!!! Where were you when they splipped Bling and Phat into the dictionary? You must remain ever vigilant!!!!
The question isn't wether climate change is happeneing or not. Global climate is always changing. The real question most are debating is the human cause of the change. Is any of it our fault? If so, how much? Given we don't know all the variables involved with climate change it's silly to assume either side has a real answer. You'd have to be an idiot to say climate change was not real.
Spoken like a true blind follower. I love how you ignored the rest of my post just like you ignore the body of evidence that counters your own beliefes.
You couldn't be more wrong. There are plenty of scientists who's research shows this is part of a larger natural cycle. But in the negative pro human cause of global warming climate we live in they are totally ignored or their character is assasinated. It's a joke. We need to feel like we can fix everything that is wrong with the world and the planet. In reality not everything is our fault and we can't fix everything. And who's to say there is anaything that needs fixing? I used to blindly accept the blame humanity for global warming camp. Those were in my naive days. :-) I woke up after accidentally finding the research of other professionals which tends to show the pro folks may not know what they are talking about. That their models and data sets are incomplete, flawed, and/or inadequate for the job they are trying to use them for. I'm sure I too will be labled a global warming denier.
Man... The problem I have with the phrase Global Warming is that people who use it don't go further and clarify what they mean. We all know the world is getting warmer. What they don't say is they believe WE are the cause of global warming. The media doesn't give equal time to those who's research shows the global warming we are observing is most likely part of a natural global cooling and warming cycle. Our lives are so short we forget there was a world before we were born. There is in fact very little new under the sun. We can't predict the weather a week out yet people want us to believe they can predict the weather conditions years even decades out. Come on people. Use your head for more than crushing beer cans. There is a wealth of information that tends to disprove the human cause of global warming. What no one has even mentioned is the very interesting bit of information from NASA which shows temps are rising not just here but on the other planets in our solar system as well. This lil bit of info tends to point the finger to the great fireball in the sky we call the Sun. I can understand why people would resist this kind of information. The idea that the Sun may be kicking it up a knotch and warming up our planet a little more than "normal" is disturbing. It is even more so because there is nothing we can do about this. The issue of global warming shouldn't be the only ecological issue we should be worried about. The weakening magnetic field of the Earth should be more cause for alarm. It is this field which protects us form the Solar Wind. There is good evidence that the magnetic poles are goign to flip soon. During this process the Earth's electromagneticfield will drop to almost nothing leaving us exposed to most of the sun's radiation and the normal radiation from deep space. Break out the SPF 2000 sunblock kids. And I find it very interesting that it seems to coinside with our global warming trend. You should never rely on one source for your information. Look at both sides of the issue before forming an uneducated opinion.
There is a brian attached to this wep. It's a CPU driven by an AI. You deploy these things where you knwo the only people that will be walking into it's range are the enemy. I see no problem with this. I think it's funny that some people have a fear of a wep you can't try to reason into not killing you. Stay away from the thing you and will be fine. :-)
Why not try what works for the earth? Any one know if we can generate an electromagnetic field powerful enough to deflect cosmic rays to the extent that it would make the danger no more worse than normal everyday exposer we get here on the ground due to the Earth's natural field? I was just wondering becasue it will take loads of power to drive the elevator. Why not use that large EM field to help protect the occupants? That field coupled with physical shielding should work out great. Just a thought. :)
Ya know there is talk of using diamonds to create the next generation of CPU's. Take a look at this 81 GHz!!! Diamonds may become a geek's best friend soon. :)