I believe that Vista downloads to \Downloads. Its true path is still c:\Documents and Settings\\Documents\Download, but it is now only one click. Hallelujah!...cept I run linux which is just dumps it to the user directory.
Mining alone would be worth trillions --- but much harder to regulate. Of course most of the environmental problems would be moved to an effectively inert environment. If we were to move virtually all major metal mining off planet the rewards would be 'out of this world'. Just takes a substantial initial investment... We are probably at a minimum of 100 years from that unless a revolutionary change to rocketry occurs.
No, I was confusing free thinking with the ability to consider alternatives in spite of the common prejudices of those around them. My understanding of free thinking originally didn't rely on disagreement just had the ability to. I apologise.
Most of that wireless is paid for by the very same customer who is using the kindle... I have wireless, I am my own provider... it just doesnt go much further than my house. Suits me fine.
Entertainment does benefit from ebooks... if you dont have space to keep all the books youd like to obtain.
As for longevity, history shows ubiquity is more important than permanence to a large degree. Ancients built many long lasting records, but those that we understand the best were translated regularly to a far less durable medium -- papyrus. While considerable amount of data can be lost due to file formats changing, storage failure etc, because it is also far easier to reproduce and has a habit of being carried along to the new medium. I have data that has survived numerous formats, file system changes, hdd failure and active deletions... because I could (and did) copy it to numerous places without even thinking about it.
Your point about the cross-architecture was more a problem of dominance and immaturity of computing than problems with longevity. I believe a lot of those punch cards would have had their patterns recorded as a backup when the architecture was changing. Now we have a problem of the most common architecture (x86) surviving (possibly) better designs... a new and better design has to at least be able to extract the data from the previous generation, all the better if it is also able to use the meta data. Yes, we will lose some data in the future --- but the more people that have copies of it, the more likely it is to survive.
Come on, the major point of ebooks is that they are simply files. They can be copied ad nauseam at incredibly low cost --- almost unmeasurable.
Sure, the current legal practice claims this is not right, and economics say this would lead to a deficit in writing. Economics however doesnt take into account human character, which would lead to altruistic authors (fictional and non-fictional alike) doing it for love and for prestige. This in turn would lead to an improvement of written texts as people clamour for the title of great writer, classic (not the marketing phrase instant classic they have always been an out-right lie), and other literary titles of note.
The legal argument is a little harder and depends whether the morals called upon are absolute or relative, whether the laws created stem from society or corporations. For what it is worth.
Hogwash, people dont know Windows. Ive been a linux bloke for 4 years, a windows98 (hey, Is poor and spent all my dosh on the win98 pc) bloke previously. Ive been working as a tech with a managed corporate implementation of winxp for the past 3 months.
Im constantly telling people how to do little things like move a window around to where you want it! These are people who have been using Windows since its inception.
They dont want to move to other systems because it might not be compatible then proceed to tell me of the time they had compatibility problems between office versions. It is fear that keeps people on windows, not knowledge.
Ive never had customer service problems. They have always called me back, and respond timely to issues. My biggest gripe with them is every so often the speed drops down to bytes for days... just as soon as Ive had jack of it, it comes back up to reasonable speeds. They arent speed demons but they are okay. More realistic costing than anything else ive seen out there.
Yknow, I have been getting better efficiency around town than I do on the highway. Yep Dead Set True. I get 8.06l/100km around town and 9.6l/100km on the highway.
Why?
1. I only use enough energy to get me to the next point of change. 2. I turn off the car as it rolls up to the lights and wait till the perpendicular lights turn red before starting. 3. I let hills maintain my speed and dont try prove Im the fastest driver around. As much as is possible without altering the common driving practices I let other drivers take precedence. I get out the way of those behind me.
I have not lost any perceivable time getting from A to B. I drive a Holden Rodeo diesel ute* that until my wife and I worked out how we might be more efficient drivers was getting 10~11l/100km.
1. was the biggest fuel saving; 2 and 3 have proven to be only just registrable. If they/I worked better, Id be well into the 7l/100km.
* Ute is an Australian Slang for Utility. I didnt know this until an American expressed confusion at the word. (Hey, I was young at the time.)
Okay, what do you call a national communications system of a material in a cable format installed over/instead of/in addition to/ the current network to ensure the majority of Australian residents have first class connections to the internet?
That was what was 'promised'. It was implied (Kevin Rudd is good at doing --- and I voted for him) that it would be a package to encourage the construction of FTTH.
Huh? While the filter was mentioned, the story is about the communications infrastructure upgrade. Telstra is reputed to have been very begrudging with its upgrades. It is also supposed to be the most profitable company in the western economies while maintaining a monopoly to make Microsoft jealous. Telstra is central to any national communications network upgrade.
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OpenSolaris, BSD etc? but you are probably right anyway --- a free unix is unlikely to have been used.
If it were me Id at least change to another animal breed... but you go right ahead.
I believe that Vista downloads to \Downloads. Its true path is still c:\Documents and Settings\\Documents\Download, but it is now only one click. Hallelujah! ...cept I run linux which is just dumps it to the user directory.
on point 4, shouldn't we(err NASA) try to grab Apophis when it does come close in 2029? Make it the next ISS?
Mining alone would be worth trillions --- but much harder to regulate. Of course most of the environmental problems would be moved to an effectively inert environment. If we were to move virtually all major metal mining off planet the rewards would be 'out of this world'. Just takes a substantial initial investment... We are probably at a minimum of 100 years from that unless a revolutionary change to rocketry occurs.
and radiation -- people (mostly using mobiles types) are irrational about radiation
Pigeons in space... I need to say no more.
Wrong story? http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/18/0110209/
No, I was confusing free thinking with the ability to consider alternatives in spite of the common prejudices of those around them. My understanding of free thinking originally didn't rely on disagreement just had the ability to. I apologise.
so in a group of free thinkers someone that doesnt think like the rest is not a free thinker? That is rather limited thinking.
Truly? heck that shows a great amount of forethought! on both Amazon and my part (for commenting on that which I had not researched :s ...)
Maybe we just arent angry anymore...
Most of that wireless is paid for by the very same customer who is using the kindle... I have wireless, I am my own provider... it just doesnt go much further than my house. Suits me fine.
heh, I wondered the same thing... why the hell is /. distributing in xls?
Entertainment does benefit from ebooks... if you dont have space to keep all the books youd like to obtain.
As for longevity, history shows ubiquity is more important than permanence to a large degree. Ancients built many long lasting records, but those that we understand the best were translated regularly to a far less durable medium -- papyrus.
While considerable amount of data can be lost due to file formats changing, storage failure etc, because it is also far easier to reproduce and has a habit of being carried along to the new medium. I have data that has survived numerous formats, file system changes, hdd failure and active deletions... because I could (and did) copy it to numerous places without even thinking about it.
Your point about the cross-architecture was more a problem of dominance and immaturity of computing than problems with longevity. I believe a lot of those punch cards would have had their patterns recorded as a backup when the architecture was changing. Now we have a problem of the most common architecture (x86) surviving (possibly) better designs... a new and better design has to at least be able to extract the data from the previous generation, all the better if it is also able to use the meta data. Yes, we will lose some data in the future --- but the more people that have copies of it, the more likely it is to survive.
Come on, the major point of ebooks is that they are simply files. They can be copied ad nauseam at incredibly low cost --- almost unmeasurable.
Sure, the current legal practice claims this is not right, and economics say this would lead to a deficit in writing. Economics however doesnt take into account human character, which would lead to altruistic authors (fictional and non-fictional alike) doing it for love and for prestige. This in turn would lead to an improvement of written texts as people clamour for the title of great writer, classic (not the marketing phrase instant classic they have always been an out-right lie), and other literary titles of note.
The legal argument is a little harder and depends whether the morals called upon are absolute or relative, whether the laws created stem from society or corporations. For what it is worth.
The tower of Babel. Moved when the continents split up during the days of Peleg.
Hogwash, people dont know Windows. Ive been a linux bloke for 4 years, a windows98 (hey, Is poor and spent all my dosh on the win98 pc) bloke previously. Ive been working as a tech with a managed corporate implementation of winxp for the past 3 months.
Im constantly telling people how to do little things like move a window around to where you want it! These are people who have been using Windows since its inception.
They dont want to move to other systems because it might not be compatible then proceed to tell me of the time they had compatibility problems between office versions. It is fear that keeps people on windows, not knowledge.
Ive never had customer service problems. They have always called me back, and respond timely to issues. My biggest gripe with them is every so often the speed drops down to bytes for days... just as soon as Ive had jack of it, it comes back up to reasonable speeds. They arent speed demons but they are okay. More realistic costing than anything else ive seen out there.
But the global standard is like microsoft bob...
www.supernerd.com.au Id be superised if iiNet was significantly better than them. If they are, Im sure to be changing soon.
Yknow, I have been getting better efficiency around town than I do on the highway. Yep Dead Set True. I get 8.06l/100km around town and 9.6l/100km on the highway.
Why?
1. I only use enough energy to get me to the next point of change.
2. I turn off the car as it rolls up to the lights and wait till the perpendicular lights turn red before starting.
3. I let hills maintain my speed and dont try prove Im the fastest driver around. As much as is possible without altering the common driving practices I let other drivers take precedence. I get out the way of those behind me.
I have not lost any perceivable time getting from A to B. I drive a Holden Rodeo diesel ute* that until my wife and I worked out how we might be more efficient drivers was getting 10~11l/100km.
1. was the biggest fuel saving; 2 and 3 have proven to be only just registrable. If they/I worked better, Id be well into the 7l/100km.
* Ute is an Australian Slang for Utility. I didnt know this until an American expressed confusion at the word. (Hey, I was young at the time.)
Okay, what do you call a national communications system of a material in a cable format installed over/instead of/in addition to/ the current network to ensure the majority of Australian residents have first class connections to the internet?
That was what was 'promised'. It was implied (Kevin Rudd is good at doing --- and I voted for him) that it would be a package to encourage the construction of FTTH.
err... We are really Spanish?
Huh? While the filter was mentioned, the story is about the communications infrastructure upgrade. Telstra is reputed to have been very begrudging with its upgrades. It is also supposed to be the most profitable company in the western economies while maintaining a monopoly to make Microsoft jealous. Telstra is central to any national communications network upgrade.