I thought everyone liked the 3rd one the best of all the Prequels. I haven't seen it myself yet, but every single time I complain about the Prequels to someone and then I mention that I haven't seen the 3rd, they say that I missed the best one.
This has been solved for a long time. Not sure why this is really an issue.
Because the poster stepped out of a way-back machine and didn't notice
:) You have to think bigger... to when computers are smarter and we no longer need to sit in from of them as often...
Like I said, we aren't there, and we won't be in 5-10 years... This is long term stuff...
Consider... The Apple Newton was really just a VERY early iPad... But it flopped because the technology and supporting infrastructure wasn't there yet. 15 years later and it was... It needed Wi-Fi, flash memory, Internet everywhere, touch screens, new batteries, low power CPUs, etc.
Let me guess.... Linux sucks for you because it won't run Microsoft Office and other Windows applications?
That is a common reply that I see...
First, yes... Microsoft Office is indeed important... for people who share documents, spreadsheets, etc. with the outside world, using the standard does matter. OpenOffice doesn't convert them perfectly and small errors creep when you try.
Second, yes... other windows applications do matter, many such as Quickbooks are important for many businesses. It is what their CPA uses, so keeping your accounting files in the same format that allows you to easily upload your data to your CPA, they can do their thing, and send them back, is more important than what OS you run.
Finally, Windows just works. XP was "good enough" and killed off most further interest in Linux on the desktop. Windows 7 took it further and torpedoed the rest of it... Windows 8 got a lot of flack, 8.1 fixed much of that mess... You install Windows 8.1 on almost anything made in the past 6 years and it runs very, very well.
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As a side note, if the reason you want Linux is because it is "not Windows", that will never be enough of a reason. You need a reason beyond that to get the bulk of the people to care.
Apple OS X has three times the Linux marketshare (if not more), and it is one of the most expensive options you can pick. That more than anything else should pour cold water on the Linux Desktop idea...
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For servers? Wonderful, totally wonderful, I get that it does have a bright future there.
Linux has been going for decades and still nobody wants it, you cant even give it away on the desktop.
This is SO the truth...
Lord, I've been waiting for Linux on the Desktop for 20 years now... installed Linux on a 486 nearly 20 years ago...
It is a great server OS, it is never going to be a widely adopted desktop OS.
I don't want my fucking computer to feel like it's on a first name basis with me. I don't want to talk to it. I don't want my computer constantly listening to and parsing everything I say. I sure as shit don't want that crap integrated with an ad platform.
While I get it, and I understand... it is the future...
Just not in the current version...
I've played around with Siri on my iPhone, it works, sort of, most of the time...
It needs to work all the time and be smarter... but it will get better...
The "vision" is the way people talk to the computer on Star Trek: TNG. It won't happen in 5 or 10 years, but I think we'll see that within our lifetimes...
With a magical lightweight power cord, perhaps?
Power it using lasers - duh.
The problem really isn't and hasn't ever been animation sites. The problem is that Flash has often been used where it doesn't belong; forms on business sites, ENTIRE web sites built using flash so you cannot bookmark a page, and stuff like that, and Flash doesn't work particularly well on touch screens. Like BLINK, Flash has been used and abused to the point where it is an abomination.
Well that's the whole problem: democracy is subject to the voters, so if the voters are blithering idiots, well you're not going to get a very good government.
This is why democracy simply doesn't work in countries with moronic, uneducated populaces such as Zimbabwe, Egypt, or the United States.
the bottom line is, even if people know Vivaldi wrote a a well known piece of music with 4 suites like the program (get it),
More generally, Vivaldi wrote more than forty operas. Which, I think is the actual reference - he founded/wrote Opera.
It is not hard to find large numbers of cheap motherboards with IDE controllers...
Heck, you can still buy addin cards new with such controllers.
This won't be an issue for awhile and the data should be moved to newer drives by then anyway.
I don't think it's an interferometer. It's a standard diffraction lens, just like the Canon one you linked, that produces a real image, not an interference pattern. You could stand at the focal point and see an image.
It would be an interferometer if you put a ring of telescopes on the rim instead of at the focus.
So long as you're not looking at something really close, the little bit of parallax you get by going around the planet isn't going to cause too many problems. And if you're looking at something where it does matter, you just take shorter exposures and stack them. As a bonus you get 3D measurements.
"Grandpa, what are those things called, again?"
Suck it youngsters!
I live in Virginia Beach and still have a copper POTS line with Verizon -- my TV and internet are via coax from Cox. Having copper has it's advantages, like (1) still working in an extended power outage, (2) not having to pay for the replacement battery in the eMTA modem and (3) being able to get phone service from third-party provider. Once you switch to FiOS or simply phone over fiber, you're stuck having to use Verizon over that media and they will *not* ever switch you back to copper.
During one of the last bad hurricanes that caused an extended power outage of a few days, copper landlines were of the few working phones (land or wireless) in my neighborhood / area. I've only been w/o phone service *once* here since 1985, when the power when out across the city for over a week after a hurricane, when the Verizon generators finally ran out of fuel.
Solutions are obvious if one only has the optical power to observe them over the horizon. -- K.A. Arsdall
