You forgot a couple of things. First, the University of Maryland associated polling organization did the referenced poll in 2003. I went first to the site of the polling organization, and looked for the poll. I couldn't find it. Then I went to the Article and jumped to the referenced poll. Look at the date.
Wow! no wonder the Fox viewers didn't know much about President Obama. in 2003, he was an Illinois State Senator. Not even US.
The Article is extremely biased and dishonest. It's just a bunch of Mainstream Journalists who are worried that Fox is going to take their jobs. (Fox is blasting PBS, ABC, NBC and CBS in the ratings. Remember, )
Oh well, if you can't find something nasty to say, just make it up! that's what Dan Rather did. But, he got caught. then fired. Now the NY Times is coming off of a several year long string of being exposed reporting things that never were. But, it's all Fox's fault. Just like every mistake Obama has been called for is Bush's fault. You know, like that hurricane.
No wonder Slashdot has a reputation of being a hangout for immature leftist juveniles.
There are some things I have read about on Fox News (internet site, I don't watch broadcast news. Too many opinions masquerading as news with limited sound bites.) You can not get the meaning of a half hour speach in one 15 second sound bite. I get that whenever i watch Fox, CNN, CBS, ABC, etc. I prefer to read online. Fox, CNN, some PBS. WSJ, a little Politico. also, Science News, Scientific American, Space.Com. The mainstream media can't seem to understand what science and technology reporting is. All of them seem to think that a new video game is what Science and Technology reporting is. Sad.
On the subject of Barack Obamas birth, Hawaii says that he was born there. OK, subject closed. He qualifies. Per Fox News.
On the subject of the Health Care thing, a majority of Americans oppose it. That explains the recent congressional elections. the Democrats are still smarting and lying about that one. Kind of like what the Republicans did 4 years ago. maybe the Dems would be better off if they did watch Fox.
In case you didn't know, ALL political labels are false.
Republicans call themselves "Conservatives" but want to change everything. Conservative means resistant to change.
Democrats call themselves "Liberal" but want to take all the money and don't want to allow any disagreement. Liberal means either generous and open minded, willing to listen to all views, or promoting liberty in politics.
Both labels are false.
The "Progressive" label is equally so. To have progress, you have to have a goal. No goal is mentioned. The only progress that the "Progressives" I have seen have made is towards total state control and national bankruptcy. That is not progress.
"The problem with books is that if the parent is a religious fundamentalist type, you end up donating to the local circular file."
That only indicates that you insist on picking things that will insult the child's parents. The question was phrased by someone who wants to get what is best for the child, not someone who wants to insult the family.
Yes, it is inappropriate to give a child books with sexual themes. It is inappropriate to give a child books that belittle what the parents believe. Even if you worship at the Throne of Darwin, not everyone does. When in doubt, ask the parents advice. It will help you win in the long run. The child will reach an age where they make up their own mind. If you want to still be in the kid's life, then show a little respect.
If you can't beat them get them to join you. Microsoft will find a way to make money off of this. Not least by selling a ton of Konnect units for PC's now.
I have a Motorola Droid on Verizon. I have not experienced this bloatware you speak of. Could you be more specific?
I have seen a lot of bloatware on new computers and laptops. The first several hours of the life of a new machine is spent removing unwanted sales applications. I had none of this on my Android. The Verizon rep did install one App not on the default PDA set. He put in an App Killer. All the rest I have loaded from the Google store. One or Two from Verizon's store.Now I have about 2 dozen apps, and use about 6; Some of the rest are for the wife and grand kids.
This makes me wonder if you know what you are talking about.
On the other hand, Google does know where I am. That goes with the map app. I knew it when I installed. Oh well...
Bread and milk are relatively easy. anything with sunlight and a growth medium can provide it.
Fact is that we are using enough wheat and fodder right now making ethanol to feed several hundred million people. we are also burning enough petroleum distilling the ethanol to exceed the heat value of the ethanol.
Our main problem is bad government decisions.
Milk just takes cows. Yeah, that means lots of methane (a much more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2), but well, that's life. You can get both bread and milk right now anywhere on earth, if you have the money. Personally, I prefer cheese.
That should tell you where the problems really are.
Lucky for us there is a large Moon nearby. It has a lot of resources.
As a geologist I once knew had on his bumper, "EARTH FIRST! we'll mine the rest of the planets later."
Meanwhile, a little judicious recycling will be helpful. So will more nuclear power plants. Solar, wind and Hydro all have too many environmental impacts.
If the US has problems with building Nukes, we can always buy them from the French!
A simple solution might be to send up a sounding rocket to the altitude where a typical debris cloud is and just release a cloud of nitrogen gas. the cloud will fall soon into the atmosphere, the sounding rocket will too. the debris field will have a short time in a very low density gas cloud, and drop in it's orbit. Normal decay will then reduce the overall problem.
Presumably, the AF knows where the debris is. Look for any clusters. Publish where and when it is going to be taken out. Unless someone objects, with a why, then do it. Probably find out who owns a lot of the back satellites that way.
Begin to get rid of the litter. We won't finish until after we start. Right now, there is no cleanup.
Maybe a first test run, then, when we can predict the outcome, a regular program of removal.
. . . that allowing the manufacturer to sell directly to the public (Perhaps in a different color) will drive down the cost of the unit because of larger production volumes. That is after all why the origional OLPC missed the $100 PC missed it's target price.
Sony has been in financial trouble ever since the RIAA takeover that landed this guy in the drivers seat. He won't quit the war on customers until Sony is ruined.
If I was a major shareholder, I would be asking a lot of questions about this. Sony Electronics is going down the tubes, while the music and movie arms run the show, and dictate to those who paid for building the company. Meanwhile, the company hemorrhages money.
He is only parroting the RIAA mantra that sales are being 'stolen' by people who don't buy enough of the copyrighted material. The biggest problem is that the majority of these 'thieves' appear to be people who are buying the product. The rest of us don't buy or download, because we don't see anything there we want. He has no plan to remedy the real problems his company has suffered under his leadership.
It's too bad that Sony has been hijacked by this thug. The company used to have a lot going for it. to recover, they need to give it back to the engineers.
I have the same advice for HP. Too bad I have no say in either company.
Now, SpaceX can offer the same service. They only need for one of the 'partners' on ISS to let them dock. Dragon was supposed to be able to launch by this time next year. Experimental, of course.
Speaking as a Professional Engineer, there are capacitors that are not the simple dual plate (ceramic or electrolytic) you seem to think is the norm. Most utilities use capacitors with ratings up to several hundred thousand volts. they use (mostly) similar in concept designs to what you are used to, but spacings and insulators differ. Charge/discharge times differ too. the larger capacity units are physically quite large. Speed of light, internal reactance, etc. will limit how rapidly the charge can go in or out. Utilities use these units to adjust the power factor of a line to limit losses.
The unit under discussion seems to be a mix or matrix of small spheres coated in a conductor, suspended in an insulating matrix. similar designs have been proposed and made in laboratories since the time of Tesla (Nikolai, not the car). Most didn't work. This one is claimed to work in the lab. Each small sphere is a separate charge holder. As long as the insulator is thick enough, the unit should hold. The voltage is probably the highest they could get in the lab. That's to keep the KWH up. There will need to be a high voltage power supply, with a bleed off down to the voltage used by the motor. (Two way I hope). It'll take a lot of electronics to make this thing really work. There will be some power loss in the matrix. Some leakage, as well as some internal impedances to deal with. The car engineers should take care of that. If they can't, then it will just be another unfulfilled promise. The last hundred years is littered with those.
If that voltage could be raised an order of magnitude, I could use a couple of these on a substation I'm working on. If they are suitable for 60 Hz, that is.
It never sounds that way in the later spun versions, but that's the way the world really works, just lurching from one horrible mistake to the next.
Business is like war. As General Sherman (American civil War) said, a battle is where two armies square off against each other. Each general sets his troops in order and anticipates the enemies actions. The last army to destroy itself wins.
The goal of this type of lawsuit isn't to win, it is to cause financial pain to the developer, in order to kill the competitor. The filer doesn't even care that its' lawsuit fails.
As long as the legal system provides no real dis-incentives (IE real damages beyond mere legal fees) to the filers, this is seen as just a way of increasing market share by reducing the market.
Unfortunately, it is a very common practice in the US against new or small companies. A lot of non-profits and Universities will drop all support as a way to avoid the cost of a trial. That's all the filer wants anyway. How do they lose?
Will this affect the adage that nobody ever got fired for picking Microsoft?
Really, it has been widely known for a couple of decades that no Microsoft system really has industrial grade reliability. If the trading system was down, then many millions if not billions were lost. Somebody should be fired for this.
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You forgot a couple of things. First, the University of Maryland associated polling organization did the referenced poll in 2003. I went first to the site of the polling organization, and looked for the poll. I couldn't find it. Then I went to the Article and jumped to the referenced poll. Look at the date.
Wow! no wonder the Fox viewers didn't know much about President Obama. in 2003, he was an Illinois State Senator. Not even US.
The Article is extremely biased and dishonest. It's just a bunch of Mainstream Journalists who are worried that Fox is going to take their jobs. (Fox is blasting PBS, ABC, NBC and CBS in the ratings. Remember, )
Oh well, if you can't find something nasty to say, just make it up! that's what Dan Rather did. But, he got caught. then fired. Now the NY Times is coming off of a several year long string of being exposed reporting things that never were. But, it's all Fox's fault. Just like every mistake Obama has been called for is Bush's fault. You know, like that hurricane.
No wonder Slashdot has a reputation of being a hangout for immature leftist juveniles.
There are some things I have read about on Fox News (internet site, I don't watch broadcast news. Too many opinions masquerading as news with limited sound bites.) You can not get the meaning of a half hour speach in one 15 second sound bite. I get that whenever i watch Fox, CNN, CBS, ABC, etc. I prefer to read online. Fox, CNN, some PBS. WSJ, a little Politico. also, Science News, Scientific American, Space.Com. The mainstream media can't seem to understand what science and technology reporting is. All of them seem to think that a new video game is what Science and Technology reporting is. Sad.
On the subject of Barack Obamas birth, Hawaii says that he was born there. OK, subject closed. He qualifies. Per Fox News.
On the subject of the Health Care thing, a majority of Americans oppose it. That explains the recent congressional elections. the Democrats are still smarting and lying about that one. Kind of like what the Republicans did 4 years ago. maybe the Dems would be better off if they did watch Fox.
In case you didn't know, ALL political labels are false.
Republicans call themselves "Conservatives" but want to change everything. Conservative means resistant to change.
Democrats call themselves "Liberal" but want to take all the money and don't want to allow any disagreement. Liberal means either generous and open minded, willing to listen to all views, or promoting liberty in politics.
Both labels are false.
The "Progressive" label is equally so. To have progress, you have to have a goal. No goal is mentioned. The only progress that the "Progressives" I have seen have made is towards total state control and national bankruptcy. That is not progress.
"Fair" only means that you agree with their bias.
"The problem with books is that if the parent is a religious fundamentalist type, you end up donating to the local circular file."
That only indicates that you insist on picking things that will insult the child's parents. The question was phrased by someone who wants to get what is best for the child, not someone who wants to insult the family.
Yes, it is inappropriate to give a child books with sexual themes. It is inappropriate to give a child books that belittle what the parents believe. Even if you worship at the Throne of Darwin, not everyone does. When in doubt, ask the parents advice. It will help you win in the long run. The child will reach an age where they make up their own mind. If you want to still be in the kid's life, then show a little respect.
It's the adult thing to do.
Yo yos have been around for thousands of years. They are still easily available. Still bits of plastic, but enjoyable none the less.
For the SciFi fans out there, remember that Dr. Who's tool for measuring the strength of gravity on any planet was a Yo yo.
If you can't beat them get them to join you. Microsoft will find a way to make money off of this. Not least by selling a ton of Konnect units for PC's now.
I have a Motorola Droid on Verizon. I have not experienced this bloatware you speak of. Could you be more specific?
I have seen a lot of bloatware on new computers and laptops. The first several hours of the life of a new machine is spent removing unwanted sales applications. I had none of this on my Android. The Verizon rep did install one App not on the default PDA set. He put in an App Killer. All the rest I have loaded from the Google store. One or Two from Verizon's store.Now I have about 2 dozen apps, and use about 6; Some of the rest are for the wife and grand kids.
This makes me wonder if you know what you are talking about.
On the other hand, Google does know where I am. That goes with the map app. I knew it when I installed. Oh well...
Bread and milk are relatively easy. anything with sunlight and a growth medium can provide it.
Fact is that we are using enough wheat and fodder right now making ethanol to feed several hundred million people. we are also burning enough petroleum distilling the ethanol to exceed the heat value of the ethanol.
Our main problem is bad government decisions.
Milk just takes cows. Yeah, that means lots of methane (a much more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2), but well, that's life. You can get both bread and milk right now anywhere on earth, if you have the money. Personally, I prefer cheese.
That should tell you where the problems really are.
Lucky for us there is a large Moon nearby. It has a lot of resources.
As a geologist I once knew had on his bumper, "EARTH FIRST! we'll mine the rest of the planets later."
Meanwhile, a little judicious recycling will be helpful. So will more nuclear power plants. Solar, wind and Hydro all have too many environmental impacts.
If the US has problems with building Nukes, we can always buy them from the French!
No, because it wouldn't have happened.
But, for a long document, Lyx would be better.
I am waiting for VLC on Android.
A simple solution might be to send up a sounding rocket to the altitude where a typical debris cloud is and just release a cloud of nitrogen gas. the cloud will fall soon into the atmosphere, the sounding rocket will too. the debris field will have a short time in a very low density gas cloud, and drop in it's orbit. Normal decay will then reduce the overall problem.
Presumably, the AF knows where the debris is. Look for any clusters. Publish where and when it is going to be taken out. Unless someone objects, with a why, then do it. Probably find out who owns a lot of the back satellites that way.
Begin to get rid of the litter. We won't finish until after we start. Right now, there is no cleanup.
Maybe a first test run, then, when we can predict the outcome, a regular program of removal.
. . . that allowing the manufacturer to sell directly to the public (Perhaps in a different color) will drive down the cost of the unit because of larger production volumes. That is after all why the origional OLPC missed the $100 PC missed it's target price.
Sony has been in financial trouble ever since the RIAA takeover that landed this guy in the drivers seat. He won't quit the war on customers until Sony is ruined.
If I was a major shareholder, I would be asking a lot of questions about this. Sony Electronics is going down the tubes, while the music and movie arms run the show, and dictate to those who paid for building the company. Meanwhile, the company hemorrhages money.
He is only parroting the RIAA mantra that sales are being 'stolen' by people who don't buy enough of the copyrighted material. The biggest problem is that the majority of these 'thieves' appear to be people who are buying the product. The rest of us don't buy or download, because we don't see anything there we want. He has no plan to remedy the real problems his company has suffered under his leadership.
It's too bad that Sony has been hijacked by this thug. The company used to have a lot going for it. to recover, they need to give it back to the engineers.
I have the same advice for HP. Too bad I have no say in either company.
Now, SpaceX can offer the same service. They only need for one of the 'partners' on ISS to let them dock. Dragon was supposed to be able to launch by this time next year. Experimental, of course.
Speaking as a Professional Engineer, there are capacitors that are not the simple dual plate (ceramic or electrolytic) you seem to think is the norm. Most utilities use capacitors with ratings up to several hundred thousand volts. they use (mostly) similar in concept designs to what you are used to, but spacings and insulators differ. Charge/discharge times differ too. the larger capacity units are physically quite large. Speed of light, internal reactance, etc. will limit how rapidly the charge can go in or out. Utilities use these units to adjust the power factor of a line to limit losses.
The unit under discussion seems to be a mix or matrix of small spheres coated in a conductor, suspended in an insulating matrix. similar designs have been proposed and made in laboratories since the time of Tesla (Nikolai, not the car). Most didn't work. This one is claimed to work in the lab. Each small sphere is a separate charge holder. As long as the insulator is thick enough, the unit should hold. The voltage is probably the highest they could get in the lab. That's to keep the KWH up. There will need to be a high voltage power supply, with a bleed off down to the voltage used by the motor. (Two way I hope). It'll take a lot of electronics to make this thing really work. There will be some power loss in the matrix. Some leakage, as well as some internal impedances to deal with. The car engineers should take care of that. If they can't, then it will just be another unfulfilled promise. The last hundred years is littered with those.
If that voltage could be raised an order of magnitude, I could use a couple of these on a substation I'm working on. If they are suitable for 60 Hz, that is.
This is marking. Blame ABM, Anybody But Microsoft.
Truth is that IE is not the best browser, but is better than it was.
Firefox is also better than it was, so is Opera, so is Webkit (Safari). In the future, I expect Chrome, if it survives, to be better too.
Why is any of this news? It is really just a marketing departments attemt to deflect blame away from where it belongs.
Explanation: OOPS
It never sounds that way in the later spun versions, but that's the way the world really works, just lurching from one horrible mistake to the next.
Business is like war. As General Sherman (American civil War) said, a battle is where two armies square off against each other. Each general sets his troops in order and anticipates the enemies actions. The last army to destroy itself wins.
Screen.
That's the biggest power draw. Processor is also an issue, but the power for the screen dominates.
The goal of this type of lawsuit isn't to win, it is to cause financial pain to the developer, in order to kill the competitor. The filer doesn't even care that its' lawsuit fails.
As long as the legal system provides no real dis-incentives (IE real damages beyond mere legal fees) to the filers, this is seen as just a way of increasing market share by reducing the market.
Unfortunately, it is a very common practice in the US against new or small companies. A lot of non-profits and Universities will drop all support as a way to avoid the cost of a trial. That's all the filer wants anyway. How do they lose?
Will this affect the adage that nobody ever got fired for picking Microsoft?
Really, it has been widely known for a couple of decades that no Microsoft system really has industrial grade reliability. If the trading system was down, then many millions if not billions were lost. Somebody should be fired for this.
You forgot the most important things that newspapers provide.
Ads for local stores
Funnies!!!
It sounds like what you want is a beter file manager with good metadata on the files.
Look around, I think that exists. don't change file systems, just change file managers.
I think that Dell got the ruling they wanted. This was a preemptive move. Now, they have prevented anyone else from trademarking 'cloud computing'.
A purely defensive move.
If only this worked with patents.
In 3 years, Linux will have the following penetration.
Desktop 3%
Laptop 5%
Server 40%
Embeded 30%
At least that's how I would call it