All office machines are overpowered nowadays, all GPU's support Aero. OOo is slower than MS office. There is no difference in desktop hardware for either OS. You don't switch that many desktops without getting rid of a pile of windows server infrastructure while you're at it. This has come up here before but I can't find the link.
Former Australian Prime minister Paul Keating said it best when giving advice to Tony Blair and Alistair Campbell. "He's a big bad bastard, and the only way you can deal with him is to make sure he thinks you can be a big bad bastard too. You can do deals with him, without ever saying a deal is done. But the only thing he cares about is his business and the only language he respects is strength."
Which is why you can't look at them while you're driving. GPS scrolling is safer (than what the NHTSA is proposing) because the car is always in the centre of the screen. You can actually look at it and then back back at the road in a safe amount of time because you don't have to find the car on the map.
Farmed salmon are a bit tasteless from eating pellet feed for most of their lives and not getting enough exercise. Even when they are fed fishmeal they don't get the variety they normally would. They're fed high doses of antibiotics to counteract the problems of keeping them in batteries.
They're bigger though, and cheaper (depending on where you live). And potentially less toxic if they're fed pellets.
There are definitely concrete and quantifiable piracy-related losses
How do we know these losses are piracy related? I tend to think a lot of it is because no-one has to buy an album they don't want just to get two or three songs. Here in Australia that means a $10-$15 song drops to to $1.50. Market correction related losses?.
I personally am spending more than ever on music but it's all from Beatport etc. I'd be surprised if the RIAA is counting much of that money.
Like it or not, this is the path we are going down. We are the species that changes ourselves. Just look what women do to themselves to improve thier appearance.
There are different types of learning styles I personally suffered in the rigid old-style learning environment I was in for my school life. IMHO making sure the right types of learners are taught together by the right teacher and processes is critical to each student student getting the maximum possible benefit.
I also think it's important to make learning environments as flexible as possible. Allowing students to broadly specialize as early as possible is good for students and for overall productivity. I'm thinking of highly specialized online components mixed in with more traditional classes.
Aren't most parts for US Navy vessels custom made regardless? I don't recall seeing a section at WalMart for warship parts.
They use standard commercial components whenever they can. For example, why would you build your own pressure transmitters when the market is commoditised? Cheap reliable products are available.at short order.
The "visual equivalent" to 192kHz sounds would be recording colours outside the human range.
No, its like having more pixels than necessary, which may not be useful for consumers but certainly can be for DJ's and remixers. Frequencies above 20 kHz are like extra colours.
But a 24/192 ? It only brings problems (distortions of inaudible sounds ending up as noises in the audible range). And doesn't bring anything useful.
It's not hard. Anyone thinking this just needs to look at the Australian economy.
Australia:
1. Has had high interest rates for a long time. As high as 17% in the 80's, currently about 6%, didn't go much lower during the GFC, plus everything is expensive here anyway. The point is that high interest combined with the below comments should create hostile conditions for families and businesses.
2. Floated the dollar, becoming one of the most traded and volatile currencies on the planet, the conservatives thought the world would end. But in the end our farmers, miners and importers have dealt with it. Sure they hedge etc but they found a way and it wasn't that hard.
3. Introduced a 10% general sales tax (the conservatives did this). The main thing about this is that it barely made a splash. Now when the conservatives argue that 3% higher electricity prices (from our carbon trading scheme, real number is probably less) will wreck our economy, we know it's just made-up bullshit (if anybodies that stretched then their fucked anyway, and shouldn't be holding the world hostage).
Stopping the burning of dead things is going to be just as easy. Sure, some smart people are going to have to do some things, and some peoples wealth might even change a bit, but nobodies going to die. I think that aesthetics and air pollution are good enough reasons to stop burning things, making the potential risks of doing nothing more than enough.
In the immortal words of Stephen Colbert: "This world is divided into people that think with their heads, and people that know with their hearts"
Marriage exists in every race, religion and culture. It's a human thing, not Christian.
There's not even a word for non-Christian marriage, except the one that got made up for gay people. No religion has any business defining marriage for people outside that religion.
IT Masters & Charles Sturt University together offer Masters Degrees with industry certification included. Everything from MSCE, to CCNE & even Novell certified Linux Administrator (or something).
It is all via correspondance and takes between 2-4 years. There are students from the USA taking part in some of my classes.
http://www.itmasters.com.au/
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they're talking desktop users
All office machines are overpowered nowadays, all GPU's support Aero. OOo is slower than MS office. There is no difference in desktop hardware for either OS. You don't switch that many desktops without getting rid of a pile of windows server infrastructure while you're at it. This has come up here before but I can't find the link.
"trendy" modern distros...actually run slower under Linux
They're talking about servers.
Murdoch's only god is money
Former Australian Prime minister Paul Keating said it best when giving advice to Tony Blair and Alistair Campbell. "He's a big bad bastard, and the only way you can deal with him is to make sure he thinks you can be a big bad bastard too. You can do deals with him, without ever saying a deal is done. But the only thing he cares about is his business and the only language he respects is strength."
Paper maps don't scroll OR indicate where you are
Which is why you can't look at them while you're driving. GPS scrolling is safer (than what the NHTSA is proposing) because the car is always in the centre of the screen. You can actually look at it and then back back at the road in a safe amount of time because you don't have to find the car on the map.
mod this up.
What's the difference between the two
Farmed salmon are a bit tasteless from eating pellet feed for most of their lives and not getting enough exercise. Even when they are fed fishmeal they don't get the variety they normally would. They're fed high doses of antibiotics to counteract the problems of keeping them in batteries.
They're bigger though, and cheaper (depending on where you live). And potentially less toxic if they're fed pellets.
There are definitely concrete and quantifiable piracy-related losses
How do we know these losses are piracy related? I tend to think a lot of it is because no-one has to buy an album they don't want just to get two or three songs. Here in Australia that means a $10-$15 song drops to to $1.50. Market correction related losses?.
I personally am spending more than ever on music but it's all from Beatport etc. I'd be surprised if the RIAA is counting much of that money.
What you've really got to worry about is a voice activated bionic hand. Be absolutely sure that you never say "Fuck me dead!"
Like it or not, this is the path we are going down. We are the species that changes ourselves. Just look what women do to themselves to improve thier appearance.
chance ... was about 3.5%, which is high enough to cause concern.
Exactly. If that cooing system couldn't run autonomously for a week while completely submerged it was built wrong.
I also think it's important to make learning environments as flexible as possible. Allowing students to broadly specialize as early as possible is good for students and for overall productivity. I'm thinking of highly specialized online components mixed in with more traditional classes.
Aren't most parts for US Navy vessels custom made regardless? I don't recall seeing a section at WalMart for warship parts.
They use standard commercial components whenever they can. For example, why would you build your own pressure transmitters when the market is commoditised? Cheap reliable products are available .at short order.
"rectangular tablet, rounded corners, bevel, screen on front".
Obviously they should just put the screen on the back.
There's no reason to be buying this format vs "archive quality"
I'm totally down with your sentiment but Google want to compress headers for a good reason.
Hence, you want a metal that is non-corrosive
That is why your cheap "digital" USB cables have gold plated connectors.
Where are you buying 192kHz audio?
AFAIK you can't, but you'll notice that 24bit/192kHz is generally the maximum resolution/rate offered by professional sound cards.
The "visual equivalent" to 192kHz sounds would be recording colours outside the human range.
No, its like having more pixels than necessary, which may not be useful for consumers but certainly can be for DJ's and remixers. Frequencies above 20 kHz are like extra colours.
But a 24/192 ? It only brings problems (distortions of inaudible sounds ending up as noises in the audible range). And doesn't bring anything useful.
People claim the opposite. See Hypersonic Effect
At the other end, you might not hear below 20 Hz but sure can feel it jiggling your guts.
that's also no big deal because you can always use a decimal point in the US standard system too
"Understanding" indeed. Here's the difference:
1000cm = 1m
1000" = 83.333'
1 litre water = 1Kg
1 gal water = 8.35lb
Metric is consistent and easy to work with, imperial is the exact opposite.
All the important countries are signatories to the UN's Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances
the dude said generate electricity, not energy
Yes, goods & services is what I mean. It replaced some taxes. The CPI still went up 3% in one quarter.
One thing you can be sure about, is that eggs existed millions of years before chickens.
Australia:
1. Has had high interest rates for a long time. As high as 17% in the 80's, currently about 6%, didn't go much lower during the GFC, plus everything is expensive here anyway. The point is that high interest combined with the below comments should create hostile conditions for families and businesses.
2. Floated the dollar, becoming one of the most traded and volatile currencies on the planet, the conservatives thought the world would end. But in the end our farmers, miners and importers have dealt with it. Sure they hedge etc but they found a way and it wasn't that hard.
3. Introduced a 10% general sales tax (the conservatives did this). The main thing about this is that it barely made a splash. Now when the conservatives argue that 3% higher electricity prices (from our carbon trading scheme, real number is probably less) will wreck our economy, we know it's just made-up bullshit (if anybodies that stretched then their fucked anyway, and shouldn't be holding the world hostage).
Stopping the burning of dead things is going to be just as easy. Sure, some smart people are going to have to do some things, and some peoples wealth might even change a bit, but nobodies going to die. I think that aesthetics and air pollution are good enough reasons to stop burning things, making the potential risks of doing nothing more than enough.
In the immortal words of Stephen Colbert: "This world is divided into people that think with their heads, and people that know with their hearts"
Marriage exists in every race, religion and culture. It's a human thing, not Christian. There's not even a word for non-Christian marriage, except the one that got made up for gay people. No religion has any business defining marriage for people outside that religion.
IT Masters & Charles Sturt University together offer Masters Degrees with industry certification included. Everything from MSCE, to CCNE & even Novell certified Linux Administrator (or something). It is all via correspondance and takes between 2-4 years. There are students from the USA taking part in some of my classes. http://www.itmasters.com.au/