Win7 comes with a 64bit and a 32 bit IE8. And flash doesn't really work in the 64bit version. So your 12 month prediction is probably optimistic (the low end of your guess I know). There are still a large number of significant problems with software while running a 64 bit OS. I'm sure most of them you can overcome but for people like Dell and HP?... They will be releasing things in 32bit until they run into physical limitations. (Which wont be for a bit still on office type machines). And without the big boys switching over we'll continue to see many problems in the software.
Think IPv6... Its been... 20years? And there still isn't huge adoption.
Recent months it looks like FF is holding its own while chrome steals users from IE. But likely it is mostly FF users trying chrome and FF gaining more recruits from IE.
When chrome looses it's shiny appeal unless chrome seriously holds it's own in the browser battle they will lose users quick, and almost all to FF. So the real test is to come there over the next year.
IE however will likely gain users as people get windows 7 (taking from the rest). Many people will be upgrading from xp having been longtime FF/opera users. Much of the boost to FF was due to IE 6, people having not yet tried 8. But I imagine trying IE8 on win7 will at least not feel extreme hatred like with 6. And I imagine they will gain some users that way (hold steady for a bit as win7 comes into full swing).
The nice thing about the chart is this. The browsers going up are: FF, chrome, Other. Ones dropping are: IE, Opera, Safari. This PERFECTLY coincides with which programs are OSS and which are closed. OSS taking about 39% currently, compared to a mere 25~26% 1 year ago. By this time next year OSS will have won the browser war and by the nature of OSS growth I find it unlikely that closed source will ever be able to take it back.
With OSS being in common use on many computers the oss fear will be most dispelled. What other sectors could oss take next I wonder? I don't think openoffice is ready yet. Nor are music players (winamp is too smooth). Gimp seems to be losing interest and can't top photoshop, paint.net no longer oss. Foxit seems to be doing well. VLC, MPC seem to be taking a pretty big chunk of the market as well.
First time I saw him that was my immediate thought. Since then I've been unable to remember his real name, Pope Palpatine is so freaking catchy. You can even add a 'the 3rd' or something to the end and it only makes it better.
You own your house and owe your mortgage company 80% of the value of the house. In addition, you have your house as collateral in the loan the mortgage company gave you. They certainly do NOT own the house. And hence have 0 rights over it.
Above article is extremely relevant. I'm sure most nerds would find the whole thing interesting. The one section however is specifically about how foods effect your brain function and which ones are good.
I had punch cards... and we hadn't invented the hole punch yet so we had to do it with our fingers. You people worry about carpel tunnel from typing... try ramming your pinky through a sheet of card several hundred thousand times a night. Back then, code monkeys were actual monkeys we trained to poke holes for us to spare our own fingers.
"inability to talk is not the issue" ...
"It's also similar to saying, if I'm asleep you can kill me because I can't talk right now."
Erm.... I tried to and apparently failed to explain that a fetus is NOT a being. Because it has no will nor desires. No more than basic cognitive functions. A fetus isn't even remotely comparable in intellectual capability than say... the calamari I ate tonight. If you aren't a vegetarian than you kill far more capable creatures weekly than early/mid stage fetus...
You ARE killing the chance for something to occur that would become an intelligent being. However unless you impregnate every woman you can then you are doing the same thing each day. By not impregnating as many women as possible you are denying possible intelligent life from arising.
"Taiwan and Tibet, who have made their wishes clear."
No they haven't... near 100% sure atm if you had a vote in Tibet they'd vote to stay in China. The free Tibet thing is a global media frenzy pretty much. Though I imagine they'd be very happy to have the dalai lama guy (the 2nd one w/e he's called) back.
And in Taiwan the China party won the last election with 60% of the popular vote. Feel free to argue the validity of the vote but it still says something. At least that some of the people want to be a part of China and that it isn't clear.
Really, Hawaii has less reason to be in the US than Tibet has to be in China. And certainly much more validity than a place like Israel. Ah well, I don't get people's thinking.
Feel free to reply showing the people generally have made their wishes clear.
Lol... at the point to which you are referring there is no baby. Just a high chance of a baby in future. The fetus' inability to talk is not the issue. The issue is that the cell blob does not have a brain and could not possibly know what to choose. Therefore if it could talk it would likely say nothing, since it can't comprehend anyways.
It is similar to saying, if plastic bottles could talk, they'd ask to be recycled. That statement is meaningless because plastic bottles like fetus' have no desires. Since there is no desire then it is impossible to force anything upon it.
But in that case the citizens are the little guys and the laws aren't sane. Just because china is crappy to its citizens doesn't mean we disrespect their sovereignty... just that it is outweighed by other things.
Err, didn't read past my 1st sentence? The bottom right corner of the poster is total budget, not discretionary. In fact ALL of my post minus the first sentence is referring to total budget.
Though I'd also like to point out that this conversation is mostly about discretionary budget. We are talking about things that can be cut relatively easily. So that refers to the discretionary budget.... of which the military makes over 60%.
And no matter how you slice it up, the military still gets 50x what nasa gets (minimum).
If you look at the US discretionary budget the military accounts for over 60%, over 70% in shitty years. As for total budget war makes up about 25%, non-military defense programs an additional 14%. Veteran's pay an amazing 1.6%. Comparatively, NASA gets around.5% of the total expenses. http://www.wallstats.com/deathandtaxes/ (discretionary is in the middle, total in the bottom right).
1/15th is 6.6%, parent is outright lying.
And as mcgrew says, war is easier to not have than... Old people? Sick people....?
"I doubt the government would give a billion dollars to Elon Musk to fund his private space company. If Musk wants to compete with the public sector, let him use his only money. "
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"Big news today was SpaceX winning the NASA CRS contract for an initial $1.6 billion, representing 12 flights to the International Space Station starting in 2010." - http://www.spacex.com/updates.php
The US is side pushing laws on others.../. sides with sovereign decisions. Canada is the little guy and likely to lose,/. sides with the little guys. And Canada is on the side of less copyright law/. generally sides with sane laws.
The only thing I got from that was that I should buy a bunch of bikes to hide behind your car at home, at work, grocery store, clubs... It might even be worth it to just bike in front of your car.
You can probably find a bank that will let you transfer $50k with a single button... most people don't need that. It is locked down by the bank. I can set my debit card to let me take out 10k a day... I have no such inclination mind you. (It'd probably drain an atm so I'm not sure on the technicalities.)
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What the hell man here we are all having fun and you have to say something like that. That's not funny, that's just sick.
Win7 comes with a 64bit and a 32 bit IE8. And flash doesn't really work in the 64bit version. So your 12 month prediction is probably optimistic (the low end of your guess I know). There are still a large number of significant problems with software while running a 64 bit OS. I'm sure most of them you can overcome but for people like Dell and HP? ... They will be releasing things in 32bit until they run into physical limitations. (Which wont be for a bit still on office type machines). And without the big boys switching over we'll continue to see many problems in the software.
... 20years? And there still isn't huge adoption.
Think IPv6... Its been
Recent months it looks like FF is holding its own while chrome steals users from IE. But likely it is mostly FF users trying chrome and FF gaining more recruits from IE.
When chrome looses it's shiny appeal unless chrome seriously holds it's own in the browser battle they will lose users quick, and almost all to FF. So the real test is to come there over the next year.
IE however will likely gain users as people get windows 7 (taking from the rest). Many people will be upgrading from xp having been longtime FF/opera users. Much of the boost to FF was due to IE 6, people having not yet tried 8. But I imagine trying IE8 on win7 will at least not feel extreme hatred like with 6. And I imagine they will gain some users that way (hold steady for a bit as win7 comes into full swing).
The nice thing about the chart is this. The browsers going up are: FF, chrome, Other. Ones dropping are: IE, Opera, Safari. This PERFECTLY coincides with which programs are OSS and which are closed. OSS taking about 39% currently, compared to a mere 25~26% 1 year ago. By this time next year OSS will have won the browser war and by the nature of OSS growth I find it unlikely that closed source will ever be able to take it back.
With OSS being in common use on many computers the oss fear will be most dispelled. What other sectors could oss take next I wonder? I don't think openoffice is ready yet. Nor are music players (winamp is too smooth). Gimp seems to be losing interest and can't top photoshop, paint.net no longer oss. Foxit seems to be doing well. VLC, MPC seem to be taking a pretty big chunk of the market as well.
First time I saw him that was my immediate thought. Since then I've been unable to remember his real name, Pope Palpatine is so freaking catchy. You can even add a 'the 3rd' or something to the end and it only makes it better.
You own your house and owe your mortgage company 80% of the value of the house. In addition, you have your house as collateral in the loan the mortgage company gave you. They certainly do NOT own the house. And hence have 0 rights over it.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9968-top-10-steps-to-a-better-brain.html?full=true#faq2
Above article is extremely relevant. I'm sure most nerds would find the whole thing interesting. The one section however is specifically about how foods effect your brain function and which ones are good.
I had punch cards... and we hadn't invented the hole punch yet so we had to do it with our fingers. You people worry about carpel tunnel from typing... try ramming your pinky through a sheet of card several hundred thousand times a night. Back then, code monkeys were actual monkeys we trained to poke holes for us to spare our own fingers.
"inability to talk is not the issue"
...
... the calamari I ate tonight. If you aren't a vegetarian than you kill far more capable creatures weekly than early/mid stage fetus...
"It's also similar to saying, if I'm asleep you can kill me because I can't talk right now."
Erm.... I tried to and apparently failed to explain that a fetus is NOT a being. Because it has no will nor desires. No more than basic cognitive functions. A fetus isn't even remotely comparable in intellectual capability than say
You ARE killing the chance for something to occur that would become an intelligent being. However unless you impregnate every woman you can then you are doing the same thing each day. By not impregnating as many women as possible you are denying possible intelligent life from arising.
"Taiwan and Tibet, who have made their wishes clear."
No they haven't... near 100% sure atm if you had a vote in Tibet they'd vote to stay in China. The free Tibet thing is a global media frenzy pretty much. Though I imagine they'd be very happy to have the dalai lama guy (the 2nd one w/e he's called) back.
And in Taiwan the China party won the last election with 60% of the popular vote. Feel free to argue the validity of the vote but it still says something. At least that some of the people want to be a part of China and that it isn't clear.
Really, Hawaii has less reason to be in the US than Tibet has to be in China. And certainly much more validity than a place like Israel. Ah well, I don't get people's thinking.
Feel free to reply showing the people generally have made their wishes clear.
Which is weird because if they came in first then clearly the people are ok with it.... /shrugs/ I don't get the logic.
Lol... at the point to which you are referring there is no baby. Just a high chance of a baby in future. The fetus' inability to talk is not the issue. The issue is that the cell blob does not have a brain and could not possibly know what to choose. Therefore if it could talk it would likely say nothing, since it can't comprehend anyways.
It is similar to saying, if plastic bottles could talk, they'd ask to be recycled. That statement is meaningless because plastic bottles like fetus' have no desires. Since there is no desire then it is impossible to force anything upon it.
But in that case the citizens are the little guys and the laws aren't sane. Just because china is crappy to its citizens doesn't mean we disrespect their sovereignty... just that it is outweighed by other things.
I suppose using an 'n + k' to round would be a bit strange ... point taken :P
Err, didn't read past my 1st sentence? The bottom right corner of the poster is total budget, not discretionary. In fact ALL of my post minus the first sentence is referring to total budget.
Though I'd also like to point out that this conversation is mostly about discretionary budget. We are talking about things that can be cut relatively easily. So that refers to the discretionary budget.... of which the military makes over 60%.
And no matter how you slice it up, the military still gets 50x what nasa gets (minimum).
If you look at the US discretionary budget the military accounts for over 60%, over 70% in shitty years. As for total budget war makes up about 25%, non-military defense programs an additional 14%. Veteran's pay an amazing 1.6%. Comparatively, NASA gets around .5% of the total expenses. http://www.wallstats.com/deathandtaxes/ (discretionary is in the middle, total in the bottom right).
1/15th is 6.6%, parent is outright lying.
And as mcgrew says, war is easier to not have than... Old people? Sick people....?
Hey! .... It's only half a billion most days! ... :S Ok, point taken.
"I doubt the government would give a billion dollars to Elon Musk to fund his private space company. If Musk wants to compete with the public sector, let him use his only money. "
...
"Big news today was SpaceX winning the NASA CRS contract for an initial $1.6 billion, representing 12 flights to the International Space Station starting in 2010." - http://www.spacex.com/updates.php
The US is side pushing laws on others... /. sides with sovereign decisions. Canada is the little guy and likely to lose, /. sides with the little guys. And Canada is on the side of less copyright law /. generally sides with sane laws.
That's just cruel.
All true but if they said almost 100% it would be completely invalid naturally whilst still valid by your reckoning.
You could also quarter the frame rate :D
They could probably still get a job in management at NASA...
Erm... cheques go through your bank btw... Only cash is mostly untraceable...
The only thing I got from that was that I should buy a bunch of bikes to hide behind your car at home, at work, grocery store, clubs... It might even be worth it to just bike in front of your car.
You can probably find a bank that will let you transfer $50k with a single button... most people don't need that. It is locked down by the bank. I can set my debit card to let me take out 10k a day... I have no such inclination mind you. (It'd probably drain an atm so I'm not sure on the technicalities.)