Damn, every time I start to get over it some one has to mention ME then the nightmares come back. For years I refused to buy off the shelf equipment because ME was the only option. It's literally what got me to build all my own systems so I could avoid having it on a machine. I still remember installing it and having most of my fonts gone. Ever try to use a computer where 75% of the system fonts didn't install? It isn't pretty. ME was an early beta and should have never been on the market. Vista scares me because once they release it they'll force the venodrs to install it in new systems. If it's a mess your only option will be build it yourself but since XP is locked up you won't be able to get copies to even self install. Not happy with XP Pro so I really don't have much hope with Vista. I need a couple of new systems but I was trying to hold out until the quad cores settled in. I may have to build out the systems in the narrow window between the Quads coming out and Vista being released. I need 64 bit so Win 2000 won't work on the new systems. Life with Windows. The real pain is software and hardware vendors have been really slow to adopt 64 bit. There was some resistence with 32 bit but they are being dragged into 64 bit kicking and screaming. The advantages are pretty massive for high end users but questionable for the average person. Just drives me nuts that with dirt cheap ram we are limited to 4 gig of ram. That was one of the cool things about Amiga. I had a 3000 and it had a limit of 1 gig back when WIndows machines maxed at 32 meg. There was no way to put that much on a machine but the operating system allowed for it. Another cool thing with Amiga was you could add ram to most cards you installed. Winodws has always struck me as being very narrow minded. It's aimed at the average user and little consideration is given to professional use. I wasn't a huge Amiga, I found it a pain to use, but it had a very open approach and had some pretty massive advantages over Windows systems at the time. It was way ahead of it's time. Something no one has ever been able to say about Windows. If you are going to have a five year OS life it should be designed for five years down the road so it doesn't go out of date right after launch.
It's highly unlikely that it was faked. It's known that N Korea had enough Plutonium for two to three bombs so it's likely that not only this one was real but that they have at least one more ready to use and a third either ready or nearly ready. In five years they are likely to have a significant arsenal. The disturbing thing is not only was Japan the first country attacked with atomic weapons but they could also be the second. This is disturbing to the US but the Japanese are the ones at risk. A more likely use though would be to invade and reunite South Korea with the North. The decision is whether it's worth a nuclear war to stop them. What a bloody disaster.
Not many Presidents can boast of being asleep at the wheel while another nuclear power was born. They aren't a big threat to the US but what do we do if they invade the south? We'd have two choices, let them or risk a nuclear war. Anyone that still thinks the middle east wasn't about oil is delusional. Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction yet we knew N Korean was capible of making them. Bush threw everything we had at Iraq and ignored N Korean. Do the math and you come up with controling oil supplies and prices. The ones at risk right now are the Japanese and they may have to build a bomb out of self preservation. This just became Bush's biggest disaster and that's saying a lot. Hey at least gays can't marry so we got the important stuff done! Nice to see we have priorities in the US.
Also, for some reason many people may not feel very comfortable with jets of gas at 740 C venting at supersonic velocities mere inches from their body.
You obvious don't load up your bean burritos with hot sauce.
I don't have an iPod but iTunes does tend to group songs by the artist. It's not consistent but easily half the time there will be groupings of songs by a given artist. For some reason the last time it shuffled it grouped all the songs by artist. I'd say it was set to a mode that does that but it's not consistent. It can't be random chance either because it happens too often. If I have two songs by a given artist roughly half the time it'll group those songs together. Odd thing. I'd like it to be much more random. Love the service but it is quirky.
I realize that Slashdot is pronuke and speaking out against it is begging for a troll but you might want to do some research on the subject. There are vast areas already badly contaminated not from reactors but from fuel production and other nuclear research. Hanford is about to become one of the worst ecological disasters this country has ever seen. It didn't happen suddenly it came on over many years and the clean up was a botched disaster. I still remember hearing the term "National Sacrific Zones" for the first time. It was in the late 80s when some moron thought we should declare the badly contaminated sites National Sacrific Zones, the land gave it's life for it's country. Nuclear energy is extremely expense because we get to pay the cost of the clean up. Can we possibly consider clean safe solutions? Nuclear is percieved as clean and safe when history would beg to differ. We've been told for nearly sixty years we'll find ways of cleaning up the mess but that has yet to happen. There are still hundreds of badly contaminated sites with no ETA on a clean up. Tell you what. Lets meet halfway. Clean up the mess that is already out there before you make more then we can talk. Let's fix one problem before we make more. Conservation could make up more than nuclear has ever contributed. Focus on the cheap simple solutions before we go making more waste we have to deal with. This attitude of it won't be a problem until after I'm dead is destroying the planet. In less than two hundred years of industrialization we have made a mess of the planet. How in the hell can civilization survive another 1,000 or 10,000 years at this rate? Oh our kids will fix it? How sure are you they'll be able to? Modern humans have been around for less than two hundred thousand years. The changes we are causing are so profound that by the time the planet manages to correct our screw ups there won't be any humans. I don't mean they will all be dead they will have evolved into something else. All large animals are likely to die off in the next hundred years or so. I'm talking most animals over the size of a deer. Within a few hundred years it might be animals bigger than a dog. If it wasn't for conservation most large animals would be dead already. It will take millions of years for large animals to reevolve. Our CO2 levels are on the way to matching those 65 million years ago leading to temperatures that will create conditions that large animals can't survive, drastically less food and large animals have trouble cooling themselves due to retained heat caused by their mass. This isn't end of the world stuff, the world is going to be fine, but the planet we all grew up with is fading fast and we are the cause. We have to stop doing things that can't be undone. The soil is badly depleated, the oceans are dying out at an alarming rate. Glaciers are disappearing faster than anyone thought possible. I firmly believe nothing will be done until we start loosing the coastal cities but by them it'll be too late. Once again this isn't fantasy time it's happened before and it'll happen again. Normally it takes thousands of years to happen but we are bringing it on in a few hundred. Forget everything else, look at coastal property. There is tens of trillions in property that will be lost if we even loose just the Greenland ice pack. Isn't it worth a few hundred billion to prevent that? We're spending more on the bloody war in Iraq than it would take to reverse our course. Within our lifetimes global warming will become the most important issue in the world but it'll be too late then. It should be the most important now. Just don't compound the problem but trying to replace it with another problem. Even ice cold Plutonium is a toxic metal, it's never safe! That is a myth.
Actually it's proof that the Nephillim were doing genetic research using stem cells. We all know this is why God caused the flood to wipe out all life on earth to get ride of all the dinosaurs and other abomniations that the Nephillim made in the name of science. So it's quite obvious that global warming is being caused by stem cell research and gene splicing. Gotta go. Still working on a boat out back and it's looking cloudy.
I've found Slashdot's moderation to be very good -- the good stuff gets moderated up, and the bad stuff down.
You've obviously never posted anything representing a remotely conservative viewpoint.
Try posting something pro copyright or against downloading copyrighted material. It's an automatic Troll or at best you get modded down. There's party line and troll on Slashdot about some subjects. There's no real discussion of the subject it just turns into a bashing of copyright holders everytime. A waste of everyone's time. I just wish the discussions were more openminded no matter your stance.
Actually that's a loss. Some inside quotes. For the first week the studio gets 60% of the boxoffice. After that it generally drops to 50% with it continuing to drop with the theater owners making an increasing percentage, 60%+. The studio would have made a little less than 20 mill off the theatrical take with ten mill for advertising being conservative. If it made 13 mill on DVD sales that means they made back less than 23 mill on a 39 mill investment. That's extremely bad. I think it was badly marketed which cost it sales but it's unlikely to have ever broke even making it a very bad risk for the studio to make sequels. I liked the movie version but it didn't even come close to seeing a profit based on the numbers you provided.
Actually the advantage is more in none visible bands. A number of bands don't fair well in atmosphere so the resolution is all but lost on distant objects. Ideally a large mirror scope should be placed at the edge of the Kuiper Belt to minimize interference from the sun and other planets. Might happen in my lifetime but hard to say due to expense. It's be far easier to have a large mirror in zero gee. Gravity can affect the shape of the mirror. If it was ever done we'd finally get images of earth sized planets in other solar systems. It's completely impossible with earth based telescopes. No way to confirm life second hand, we can't confirm it on Mars and we've been there several times, but we might get evidence of likely planets. Ironically we are likely to confirm intellegent life before life itself. A radio signal is really the only hope of confirming both life and intelelgent life. The catch 22 is let's say the signal comes from a million light years away, how do we know that the life there's isn't exinct now? It'd be really ironic to get a message saying we need help our sun goes nova in a thousand years. About a million years too late and you just reached a pack of evolved cavemen that have yet to journy further than their own moon. Sorry.
Now how do I tell the difference between a Windows crash and a licensing issue? Just want to make sure I'm cursing Bill Gate's name for the right reason.
Is it me, or do the boys in the article in fatigues look like they are like 13? Made for the Army, but cool enough for teens? Hmm, interesting!
It's part of Bush's new plan to increase the number of recruits. They upped the age to 42 and dropped it to 13. If they don't make next year's quota the plan is to increase it to 65 and drop it to 10. The defense department is facing new problems. An example is dentistry. Military dentists are now faced with large numbers of new recruits needing braces and dentures.
Most writers prefer PC keyboards to Mac for that reason. I love my Mac but the snap and fell of the PC keyboards is far better so I still try to write on the PC. Also the Mac is too cramped. Okay for modelling and data entry but they do suck for writing. It really shows up after a few hours. I have to admit for all my dislike of Microsoft OSs I like their ketboards. I find them cheap and comfortable and I can usually use one until the print wears off, i have a few in the closet for back up like that.
"Sony anounced today a recall of their ultra high power laser keyboards. After several unfortunate power surges resulted in lost fingers they felt a recall was wise."
Actually they are retaining oversight while ICANN works to improve it's stability, transparency and accountability. It doesn't say the US government is trying to turn ICANN into that. Simply cutting it loose before it's ready will cause chaos. The US government has transitioned other entities to outside control. I'm the first one to say the US government is a screwed up mess but this is probably the responsible way of handling the transition. They aren't going back on the transition they are adjusting the timeline to give time to make sure that ICANN doesn't fall into chaos.
The shuttle program may have been a mess but the rovers are one of the greatest accomplishments in space exploration to date and they just keep going. I'm guessing at least one of the rovers will still be going two years from now. There may have been failures along the way but in Mars research NASA has done a stunning job. Most other countries haven't had much luck getting probes to orbit Mars but NASA has had many successes. I'd love to see the shuttle program scrapped but I'm still a massive NASA fan. I would love to see probe go to some of the more interesting sites on Mars though. The poles and such. They would need a self contained power source though. Nowhere near enough light for solar.
Actually 98.9 cents. Bill Gates was at a gas station watching his car being filled when he noticed the pump said $2.49.9. He thought it was an innovative idea that should be brought into the tech world. Now all Microsoft pricing will be based on 9/10 of a cent. This will allow Microsoft to become the low priced alternative without actually lowering prices.
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It'd take one hell of a hamster wheel to run my quad CPU server.
Time to buy some stock Puts on Google. One way or the other it's likely to drag down Google stock even if it's a positive in the long run.
Damn, every time I start to get over it some one has to mention ME then the nightmares come back. For years I refused to buy off the shelf equipment because ME was the only option. It's literally what got me to build all my own systems so I could avoid having it on a machine. I still remember installing it and having most of my fonts gone. Ever try to use a computer where 75% of the system fonts didn't install? It isn't pretty. ME was an early beta and should have never been on the market. Vista scares me because once they release it they'll force the venodrs to install it in new systems. If it's a mess your only option will be build it yourself but since XP is locked up you won't be able to get copies to even self install. Not happy with XP Pro so I really don't have much hope with Vista. I need a couple of new systems but I was trying to hold out until the quad cores settled in. I may have to build out the systems in the narrow window between the Quads coming out and Vista being released. I need 64 bit so Win 2000 won't work on the new systems. Life with Windows. The real pain is software and hardware vendors have been really slow to adopt 64 bit. There was some resistence with 32 bit but they are being dragged into 64 bit kicking and screaming. The advantages are pretty massive for high end users but questionable for the average person. Just drives me nuts that with dirt cheap ram we are limited to 4 gig of ram. That was one of the cool things about Amiga. I had a 3000 and it had a limit of 1 gig back when WIndows machines maxed at 32 meg. There was no way to put that much on a machine but the operating system allowed for it. Another cool thing with Amiga was you could add ram to most cards you installed. Winodws has always struck me as being very narrow minded. It's aimed at the average user and little consideration is given to professional use. I wasn't a huge Amiga, I found it a pain to use, but it had a very open approach and had some pretty massive advantages over Windows systems at the time. It was way ahead of it's time. Something no one has ever been able to say about Windows. If you are going to have a five year OS life it should be designed for five years down the road so it doesn't go out of date right after launch.
It's highly unlikely that it was faked. It's known that N Korea had enough Plutonium for two to three bombs so it's likely that not only this one was real but that they have at least one more ready to use and a third either ready or nearly ready. In five years they are likely to have a significant arsenal. The disturbing thing is not only was Japan the first country attacked with atomic weapons but they could also be the second. This is disturbing to the US but the Japanese are the ones at risk. A more likely use though would be to invade and reunite South Korea with the North. The decision is whether it's worth a nuclear war to stop them. What a bloody disaster.
Not many Presidents can boast of being asleep at the wheel while another nuclear power was born. They aren't a big threat to the US but what do we do if they invade the south? We'd have two choices, let them or risk a nuclear war. Anyone that still thinks the middle east wasn't about oil is delusional. Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction yet we knew N Korean was capible of making them. Bush threw everything we had at Iraq and ignored N Korean. Do the math and you come up with controling oil supplies and prices. The ones at risk right now are the Japanese and they may have to build a bomb out of self preservation. This just became Bush's biggest disaster and that's saying a lot. Hey at least gays can't marry so we got the important stuff done! Nice to see we have priorities in the US.
You obvious don't load up your bean burritos with hot sauce.
I don't have an iPod but iTunes does tend to group songs by the artist. It's not consistent but easily half the time there will be groupings of songs by a given artist. For some reason the last time it shuffled it grouped all the songs by artist. I'd say it was set to a mode that does that but it's not consistent. It can't be random chance either because it happens too often. If I have two songs by a given artist roughly half the time it'll group those songs together. Odd thing. I'd like it to be much more random. Love the service but it is quirky.
I realize that Slashdot is pronuke and speaking out against it is begging for a troll but you might want to do some research on the subject. There are vast areas already badly contaminated not from reactors but from fuel production and other nuclear research. Hanford is about to become one of the worst ecological disasters this country has ever seen. It didn't happen suddenly it came on over many years and the clean up was a botched disaster. I still remember hearing the term "National Sacrific Zones" for the first time. It was in the late 80s when some moron thought we should declare the badly contaminated sites National Sacrific Zones, the land gave it's life for it's country. Nuclear energy is extremely expense because we get to pay the cost of the clean up. Can we possibly consider clean safe solutions? Nuclear is percieved as clean and safe when history would beg to differ. We've been told for nearly sixty years we'll find ways of cleaning up the mess but that has yet to happen. There are still hundreds of badly contaminated sites with no ETA on a clean up. Tell you what. Lets meet halfway. Clean up the mess that is already out there before you make more then we can talk. Let's fix one problem before we make more. Conservation could make up more than nuclear has ever contributed. Focus on the cheap simple solutions before we go making more waste we have to deal with. This attitude of it won't be a problem until after I'm dead is destroying the planet. In less than two hundred years of industrialization we have made a mess of the planet. How in the hell can civilization survive another 1,000 or 10,000 years at this rate? Oh our kids will fix it? How sure are you they'll be able to? Modern humans have been around for less than two hundred thousand years. The changes we are causing are so profound that by the time the planet manages to correct our screw ups there won't be any humans. I don't mean they will all be dead they will have evolved into something else. All large animals are likely to die off in the next hundred years or so. I'm talking most animals over the size of a deer. Within a few hundred years it might be animals bigger than a dog. If it wasn't for conservation most large animals would be dead already. It will take millions of years for large animals to reevolve. Our CO2 levels are on the way to matching those 65 million years ago leading to temperatures that will create conditions that large animals can't survive, drastically less food and large animals have trouble cooling themselves due to retained heat caused by their mass. This isn't end of the world stuff, the world is going to be fine, but the planet we all grew up with is fading fast and we are the cause. We have to stop doing things that can't be undone. The soil is badly depleated, the oceans are dying out at an alarming rate. Glaciers are disappearing faster than anyone thought possible. I firmly believe nothing will be done until we start loosing the coastal cities but by them it'll be too late. Once again this isn't fantasy time it's happened before and it'll happen again. Normally it takes thousands of years to happen but we are bringing it on in a few hundred. Forget everything else, look at coastal property. There is tens of trillions in property that will be lost if we even loose just the Greenland ice pack. Isn't it worth a few hundred billion to prevent that? We're spending more on the bloody war in Iraq than it would take to reverse our course. Within our lifetimes global warming will become the most important issue in the world but it'll be too late then. It should be the most important now. Just don't compound the problem but trying to replace it with another problem. Even ice cold Plutonium is a toxic metal, it's never safe! That is a myth.
Cure world hunger or bid on an original Enterprise model. Decisions, decisions.
Actually it's proof that the Nephillim were doing genetic research using stem cells. We all know this is why God caused the flood to wipe out all life on earth to get ride of all the dinosaurs and other abomniations that the Nephillim made in the name of science. So it's quite obvious that global warming is being caused by stem cell research and gene splicing. Gotta go. Still working on a boat out back and it's looking cloudy.
You've obviously never posted anything representing a remotely conservative viewpoint.
Try posting something pro copyright or against downloading copyrighted material. It's an automatic Troll or at best you get modded down. There's party line and troll on Slashdot about some subjects. There's no real discussion of the subject it just turns into a bashing of copyright holders everytime. A waste of everyone's time. I just wish the discussions were more openminded no matter your stance.
Actually that's a loss. Some inside quotes. For the first week the studio gets 60% of the boxoffice. After that it generally drops to 50% with it continuing to drop with the theater owners making an increasing percentage, 60%+. The studio would have made a little less than 20 mill off the theatrical take with ten mill for advertising being conservative. If it made 13 mill on DVD sales that means they made back less than 23 mill on a 39 mill investment. That's extremely bad. I think it was badly marketed which cost it sales but it's unlikely to have ever broke even making it a very bad risk for the studio to make sequels. I liked the movie version but it didn't even come close to seeing a profit based on the numbers you provided.
Poor guy...
Don't feel too bad for him he's head of programing now.
With Foley gone that number should be cut in half.
Actually the advantage is more in none visible bands. A number of bands don't fair well in atmosphere so the resolution is all but lost on distant objects. Ideally a large mirror scope should be placed at the edge of the Kuiper Belt to minimize interference from the sun and other planets. Might happen in my lifetime but hard to say due to expense. It's be far easier to have a large mirror in zero gee. Gravity can affect the shape of the mirror. If it was ever done we'd finally get images of earth sized planets in other solar systems. It's completely impossible with earth based telescopes. No way to confirm life second hand, we can't confirm it on Mars and we've been there several times, but we might get evidence of likely planets. Ironically we are likely to confirm intellegent life before life itself. A radio signal is really the only hope of confirming both life and intelelgent life. The catch 22 is let's say the signal comes from a million light years away, how do we know that the life there's isn't exinct now? It'd be really ironic to get a message saying we need help our sun goes nova in a thousand years. About a million years too late and you just reached a pack of evolved cavemen that have yet to journy further than their own moon. Sorry.
Now how do I tell the difference between a Windows crash and a licensing issue? Just want to make sure I'm cursing Bill Gate's name for the right reason.
I guess they could have called them "Wadgets"? What about "Widgetts"?
It's part of Bush's new plan to increase the number of recruits. They upped the age to 42 and dropped it to 13. If they don't make next year's quota the plan is to increase it to 65 and drop it to 10. The defense department is facing new problems. An example is dentistry. Military dentists are now faced with large numbers of new recruits needing braces and dentures.
Most writers prefer PC keyboards to Mac for that reason. I love my Mac but the snap and fell of the PC keyboards is far better so I still try to write on the PC. Also the Mac is too cramped. Okay for modelling and data entry but they do suck for writing. It really shows up after a few hours. I have to admit for all my dislike of Microsoft OSs I like their ketboards. I find them cheap and comfortable and I can usually use one until the print wears off, i have a few in the closet for back up like that.
"Sony anounced today a recall of their ultra high power laser keyboards. After several unfortunate power surges resulted in lost fingers they felt a recall was wise."
Just wait'll he sits down on a barrel of oil. We'll nail his ass for sure then!
Actually they are retaining oversight while ICANN works to improve it's stability, transparency and accountability. It doesn't say the US government is trying to turn ICANN into that. Simply cutting it loose before it's ready will cause chaos. The US government has transitioned other entities to outside control. I'm the first one to say the US government is a screwed up mess but this is probably the responsible way of handling the transition. They aren't going back on the transition they are adjusting the timeline to give time to make sure that ICANN doesn't fall into chaos.
At least some one benefited from Chernobyl.
The shuttle program may have been a mess but the rovers are one of the greatest accomplishments in space exploration to date and they just keep going. I'm guessing at least one of the rovers will still be going two years from now. There may have been failures along the way but in Mars research NASA has done a stunning job. Most other countries haven't had much luck getting probes to orbit Mars but NASA has had many successes. I'd love to see the shuttle program scrapped but I'm still a massive NASA fan. I would love to see probe go to some of the more interesting sites on Mars though. The poles and such. They would need a self contained power source though. Nowhere near enough light for solar.
Actually 98.9 cents. Bill Gates was at a gas station watching his car being filled when he noticed the pump said $2.49.9. He thought it was an innovative idea that should be brought into the tech world. Now all Microsoft pricing will be based on 9/10 of a cent. This will allow Microsoft to become the low priced alternative without actually lowering prices.