Even if they won't be successful, there is a chance that this will give Yahoo! some of its fame back. If Yahoo increases its market share, Google's market share will decrease
Google Picasa
I still have issues with the way pictures are ordered (not fully alphabetically, not fully by date). Yet, cropping pictures is a breeze (more so than in any other image editor I've ever seen), you can only make a few adjustments BUT for pictures this is all you need. I like the interface, and I think everyone should like it.
On the downside, 15" LCD screens are somewhat resolution-challenged.
AIDS is destroying the immune system - as such, you might easily die from a different kind of virus that everyone's else immune system is shrugging off. One of those viruses might be tuberculosis.
Now, tuberculosis (the Koch bacile usually) attacks only the lungs, and in good conditions a healthy person can fight it off. However, lung disease specialists (doctors) that live in that environment develop tuberculosis on other organs as well
The cost to develop is only one facet of the equation - for human use, the drugs must go a very important testing phase (that could take years). This is also costly, and slows down the introduction of the drugs.
"Are you saying that the oldest legal code in the western tradition is irrational?"
I think this comes from the Bible (The Old Testament). Its point of origin is known as the Middle East.
I don't know about western traditions - the Gauls or others
A slug moving at mach 5 can't be engaged by defense air missiles (shoulder fired or static) - other missiles can be engaged with some hope of success. Even a battleships' shells can't be engaged by defense air missiles.
If you can spot/detect a descending railgun slug at 20 km, the time for engagement is less than 20 seconds.
Guided shells from railguns can hit the backside (hidden side) of hills/mountains.
If your destroyer gets a hit in the magazine, nothing happens. By contrast, a hit in the magazine of a conventional guns bearing destroyer will pulverize it (more or less) due to the explosion of its own ordnance.
You can pump fuel easier and faster than filling the magazines with shells or missiles, and nobody cares if a thousands gallons of fuel are dumped to sea during refueling.
If all your power is electric, with the capacity for sudden changes, all that a railgun needs are some capacitors. While the capacitors are loaded, a hit against them would probably be important (if not fatal). Yet, while discharged, they shouldn't pose much of a risk if hit.
Electricity might be used for some things like laser close range defense systems - they might work better than the Phalanx, or at least could engage from a longer range - depending on visibility
In the end, if you launch lots of $1000 railgun shells, it's cheaper than cruise missiles. It might even be comparable per shot (energy delivered against the target) with the big guns, but with 5 times or more the range.
Interestingly, battleships (real armored WW2 vintage battleships) are more vulnerable to close underwater nuclear explosions than to airburst nuclear explosions (the vital spaces were armored against half a ton projectiles coming at about 1 kilometer a second. An air burst must be pretty close to rival that). Yet, torpedoes were the nightmare of the WW2 era battleships.
There was no battle between "modern" battleships in Pacific - Yamato and Musashi were sunk by air bombs and air launched torpedoes.
Planes touch down on an aircraft carrier and put their engines at full throttle - the idea is, if you've lost the third and fourth arresting cables (the third is normally engaged), you have enough speed to fly off (instead of swimming off)
And destroyers have short legs when going full throttle (like in defending a battle group that is steaming at full speed). The Arleigh Burke has a range of 4,400 miles at 20 knots, that would be about 2,000 miles at 30 knots. 70 hours of operation (or three days at top speed) is not much (especially considering they would want to fill as often as possible).
Windows 2000 was NOT and answer to Windows Me. They were directed to completely different markets: Me was to replace Win98SE, Win98 and Win95, while Windows 2000 was to replace Windows NT 4.0.
Windows XP Home Edition replaces Windows Me
For DOS-based CRM I'm not sure you could use NT4 or OpenBSD.
I have all the respect for OpenBSD, but there are places where it isn't a good choice, not to mention the best choice.
Anyway, for that Windows 2000 probably would have been enough, if not overkill
Because oil market is not elastic - most of the countries that produce oil do so near their max capacity and significant increases in capacity (>5%) can't be made quickly.
This means - as observed again and again - that a small dip in production capacity, or a small increase of demand, will drive prices much higher than that increase would suggest (twice the price for a demand 10% greater, short term).
So, you and 10 million people reducing their fuel consumption in half would allow either a decrease in total price, or an increase in consumption without the resulting price jump.
(if I can heat my home either electrically, or with woods, or with gas, added demand for one resource won't do to a big price increase, as I will move to another heating system.
When the price of gasoline goes up, I will buy more expensive gasoline - as I have no other transportation choice. And between paying twice as much for gasoline, and NOT HAVING IT, I'll choose to pay twice as much, and some people that can't pay that much will reduce the demand to something the producers can (or want) to supply.
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Or at least come with a fix for that situation (and that only). The other customers will probably wait weeks or months for that fix
Escape from the Windows/Office lock in is difficult, and, as the Munich city proved, time consuming, delayed and over budget.
One step at the time - and if Microsoft can document fully their OOXML format, it's still a win for OpenOffice and the rest of the office suites out there - compatibility with Microsoft Office will be easier to obtain.
Depends on the service pack level. I've seen Windows XP installing in 64MB (or maybe 128) RAM - with one of the first Pentium II processors. It ran with 32MB of RAM - not that you could call that running.
Now, XP kits with SP2 will probably ask for more memory than that.
The RAM requirements for NT4 changed also between Service Pack levels - 16MB for the original version, I think
Slashdot Mirror
Even if they won't be successful, there is a chance that this will give Yahoo! some of its fame back. If Yahoo increases its market share, Google's market share will decrease
Google Picasa
I still have issues with the way pictures are ordered (not fully alphabetically, not fully by date). Yet, cropping pictures is a breeze (more so than in any other image editor I've ever seen), you can only make a few adjustments BUT for pictures this is all you need. I like the interface, and I think everyone should like it.
On the downside, 15" LCD screens are somewhat resolution-challenged.
They were editing with MS Paint
Even if it is three weeks, or 21 working days (about a month), in the end after those 21 days and another 5, no domains would be registered for free
It is by orders of magnitude more expensive than not paying anything
AIDS is destroying the immune system - as such, you might easily die from a different kind of virus that everyone's else immune system is shrugging off. One of those viruses might be tuberculosis.
Now, tuberculosis (the Koch bacile usually) attacks only the lungs, and in good conditions a healthy person can fight it off. However, lung disease specialists (doctors) that live in that environment develop tuberculosis on other organs as well
Smoking related diseases might get a much higher place. Also, car accidents are a big cause of mortality (no, I don't have numbers)
The cost to develop is only one facet of the equation - for human use, the drugs must go a very important testing phase (that could take years). This is also costly, and slows down the introduction of the drugs.
"Are you saying that the oldest legal code in the western tradition is irrational?"
I think this comes from the Bible (The Old Testament). Its point of origin is known as the Middle East.
I don't know about western traditions - the Gauls or others
A slug moving at mach 5 can't be engaged by defense air missiles (shoulder fired or static) - other missiles can be engaged with some hope of success. Even a battleships' shells can't be engaged by defense air missiles.
If you can spot/detect a descending railgun slug at 20 km, the time for engagement is less than 20 seconds.
Guided shells from railguns can hit the backside (hidden side) of hills/mountains.
If your destroyer gets a hit in the magazine, nothing happens. By contrast, a hit in the magazine of a conventional guns bearing destroyer will pulverize it (more or less) due to the explosion of its own ordnance.
You can pump fuel easier and faster than filling the magazines with shells or missiles, and nobody cares if a thousands gallons of fuel are dumped to sea during refueling.
If all your power is electric, with the capacity for sudden changes, all that a railgun needs are some capacitors. While the capacitors are loaded, a hit against them would probably be important (if not fatal). Yet, while discharged, they shouldn't pose much of a risk if hit.
Electricity might be used for some things like laser close range defense systems - they might work better than the Phalanx, or at least could engage from a longer range - depending on visibility
In the end, if you launch lots of $1000 railgun shells, it's cheaper than cruise missiles. It might even be comparable per shot (energy delivered against the target) with the big guns, but with 5 times or more the range.
Interestingly, battleships (real armored WW2 vintage battleships) are more vulnerable to close underwater nuclear explosions than to airburst nuclear explosions (the vital spaces were armored against half a ton projectiles coming at about 1 kilometer a second. An air burst must be pretty close to rival that). Yet, torpedoes were the nightmare of the WW2 era battleships.
There was no battle between "modern" battleships in Pacific - Yamato and Musashi were sunk by air bombs and air launched torpedoes.
The explosives had blown a hole about 12 by 10 meters (12 by 10 yards).
Planes touch down on an aircraft carrier and put their engines at full throttle - the idea is, if you've lost the third and fourth arresting cables (the third is normally engaged), you have enough speed to fly off (instead of swimming off)
And destroyers have short legs when going full throttle (like in defending a battle group that is steaming at full speed). The Arleigh Burke has a range of 4,400 miles at 20 knots, that would be about 2,000 miles at 30 knots. 70 hours of operation (or three days at top speed) is not much (especially considering they would want to fill as often as possible).
I thought the parent's parent poster was funny too - yet, it is insightful also
Windows 2000 was NOT and answer to Windows Me. They were directed to completely different markets: Me was to replace Win98SE, Win98 and Win95, while Windows 2000 was to replace Windows NT 4.0.
Windows XP Home Edition replaces Windows Me
For DOS-based CRM I'm not sure you could use NT4 or OpenBSD.
I have all the respect for OpenBSD, but there are places where it isn't a good choice, not to mention the best choice.
Anyway, for that Windows 2000 probably would have been enough, if not overkill
The only problem is - if you must change your applications in order to use a newer version of operating system, then why should you stay on Windows?
And even etc/hosts works (but it's set in \windows\system32\drivers )
Undoing a bad moderation
Because oil market is not elastic - most of the countries that produce oil do so near their max capacity and significant increases in capacity (>5%) can't be made quickly.
This means - as observed again and again - that a small dip in production capacity, or a small increase of demand, will drive prices much higher than that increase would suggest (twice the price for a demand 10% greater, short term).
So, you and 10 million people reducing their fuel consumption in half would allow either a decrease in total price, or an increase in consumption without the resulting price jump.
(if I can heat my home either electrically, or with woods, or with gas, added demand for one resource won't do to a big price increase, as I will move to another heating system.
When the price of gasoline goes up, I will buy more expensive gasoline - as I have no other transportation choice. And between paying twice as much for gasoline, and NOT HAVING IT, I'll choose to pay twice as much, and some people that can't pay that much will reduce the demand to something the producers can (or want) to supply.
Or at least come with a fix for that situation (and that only). The other customers will probably wait weeks or months for that fix
But it installs on 28MB? It boots (and works) on much less memory than the installer requires
Escape from the Windows/Office lock in is difficult, and, as the Munich city proved, time consuming, delayed and over budget.
One step at the time - and if Microsoft can document fully their OOXML format, it's still a win for OpenOffice and the rest of the office suites out there - compatibility with Microsoft Office will be easier to obtain.
Depends on the service pack level. I've seen Windows XP installing in 64MB (or maybe 128) RAM - with one of the first Pentium II processors. It ran with 32MB of RAM - not that you could call that running.
Now, XP kits with SP2 will probably ask for more memory than that.
The RAM requirements for NT4 changed also between Service Pack levels - 16MB for the original version, I think