[quote]repulicans!!!![/quote] I'm glad I'm Republican and not repulican [e digicons]:P[/e] . Hey Stardock - get Brian Harper up here! He seems to be the one listed in the details. Yeah - this has got to be the strangest bug I've ever seen.
To answer your question: There is an Aero-like skin called "Diamond" that you can use. With the exception that the taskbar is altered, it's nearly identical to Aero.
That is an interesting layout for an OS. Sorta like a phone OS? I heard some people were trying to bring phone-like OSes to low-end PCS. Very nice design. I wonder about compatibility, though? Will it work with applications from an existing OS?
[quote]Do the math, a single kiloton bomb generates 4.184 × 10e12 J or 1.162 x 10e6 kw-h of energy.[/quote] Over a continent approximately 2500 miles wide and 1000 miles tall, for a total of 2.5x10 6 square miles - or less than 1 kw/h per square mile.
IMHO the wikipedia's article is very simplified, to the point where it may be very inaccurate. While it is true that a high altitude bomb may be able to hit a larger area due to a larger horizon, it's also true that the inverse square law would apply to anything sending radiation in a roughly spherical shape. This means that while it may hit a larger area, it would do so with exponentially decreased effectiveness. As a former Ham radio operator - I've had to study the
[quote]I'm making my own operating system, and that's why I designed this.[/quote] I'm not sure designing an OS is a good idea these days - when you count the number of man hours required to create one, you realize it's not possible within a single lifetime unless you're designing something ultra simple. Some of the things you are doing are so different I think you'd need to design your own applications to arrange them the way you want. My advice: Instea
[quote]Not really. One relatively weak nuke (Hiroshima sized) could theorectially knock out the entire US,[/quote] I question that. I'm gonna have to ask for backup of that claim.
I think the EMP destruction of a single weapon (assuming it's from a nuclear weapon) would be closer to taking out a city, not the entire USA. Only the pre-cold-war Soviet Union and the USA have, AFAIK, enough resources to create enough weapons to wipe our entire naton. Of course, if you launch that many nukes, the EMP bursts are gonna be the least of your worries. Farm equipment is unlikely to go dead. The metal in a tractor is likely to act as a Farada
[quote]I don't see a "leader" or "follower". I feel that's false logic.[/quote] Well, maybe the the line isn't so distinct - but if somebody is continuously a full OS release behind with compatibility with their product, I find that equally absurd. What's the logic behind releasing a product mere months before it becomes out of date? What's the logic of spending the entire lifecycle of an OS to develop a product for it, especially a product that is very likely to have compatibility is
[quote]Cobra, The Skins Factory puts out high quality themes (they wouldn't be in business if they didn't). One can enjoy both and Winstep as well, without bashing any of them.[/quote] I suppose I could enjoy it for a few months - until Windows 7 comes out [e digicons]:\[/e] . After seeing what Windows 7 can do, I'm hooked. It's very high on my to-buy list. One of the reasons I like Stardock and buy their products is they're very good at staying up to date :). In my
[quote]Currently available only for Windows XP. This does NOT work on Windows Vista. Now every fan of STAR TREK can own the official STAR TREK Windows XP desktop theme designed by The Skins Factory's Hyperdesk division.[/quote] Bah, these people are no Stardock. Vista has been out how long and they still don't support it? I want a WindowsBlinds (or MyColors) theme!
Agree with pretty much everybody that it's a nebulous term. [quote]Someone said, cloud computing means you need not have hard disk in the future[/quote] I'd have to disagree. Time and time again, there has always been value for local storage, no matter how good the network is.
[quote]Say it like it is, please. Piracy.[/quote] Theft. They receive a good/service without exchanging it for something of equivalent value.
[quote]Well, if you're saying that free market capitalism is flawed and makes piracy appealing, I totally agree with you.[/quote] I wouldn't say it's flawed in the "there's something wrong with it" manner, but rather there are simple facts about how the world works: The world has finite, very unevenly distributed, and always changing resources. Our power to distribute those resources is very limited. Our power to distribute those resources are effect
Make sure both WB and Comodo are up to date. Recent versions of both software work together more nicely than older versions. I'm running both on my XP system without any major troubles. It's kinda unfortunate that something as important as a firewall program thinks it's a good idea to add a lot of extra code in something like a custom skin. Just more code to have bugs in it, you know,
[quote]It doesnt matter that we have not detected other life out there.[/quote] Sure it does. If somebody presents a hypothesis, and the evidence contradicts it, then we need a new hypothesis. [quote]We know about planet formation.[/quote] We have guesses about planet formation based on various things we see in telescopes. [quote]We know what elements are available from a star by viewing its light.[/quote] We know what elements are in the star
[quote]There are more stars in the Universe than there are grains of sand on all of Earth's beaches. [/quote] That's interesting, but rather meaningless. [quote]I dont think you understand the shear amount of planets out there[/quote] sheer. Problem is, it doesn't matter - as we don't have any idea what fraction of planets have life. It could be an exceedingly small amount. It could even in fact be just us - the issue is not how many planets there
[quote]I dont understand statistically there has to be other intelligent life out there.[/quote] Did you walk up to every planet and ask, "do you have life?" So far, [i]we have no statistics.[/i] . . . except maybe from SETI. And out of the heaven knows how many stars they've looked at, we're - well we've got a big, fat zero. Problem with zero is no matter how many times you multiply it, you still get zero. [quote]How could you possible argue that there
[quote]life outside of earth exists, the chances for atleast 1 other lifeform to exist (bacterial or intelligent) is closer to infinite then one can comprehend[/quote] How do we know this? The opponents claim the opposite it true (that the chances are closer to zero than one can comprehend).
[quote]And when, if, we do find life outside Earth... [/quote] Assuming of course, you're right about both life on other planets and about religions. [quote]Maybe I'm being too optimistic here, but racism and hostility between groups of humans will cease, or atleast be greatly reduced in the event of finding intelligent alien life.[/quote] You're being too optimistic here. Very likely, we'll argue about it for a year, send out some radio signals that will take many tho
Do you have Skype installed? If so, in Skype: tools->options->"visual style of window" from "Skype" to "Classic Windows"
[quote]an angel gets it's wings (or something like that).[/quote] An angel gets it is wings? (Hint: the possessive has no apostrophe)
I'll just renew the subscription when summer comes. I should be able to get a summer job.
[quote]Why would I want to fix windows?[/quote] So you can run SoaSE. [quote]The only reason I have windows on my computer is to play Sins of a Solar Empire[/quote] So if you can't run SoaSE on it, it's time to fix it. Reinstalling should work fine. [quote]Sins of a Solar Empire runs great on Ubuntu![/quote] That's great! [quote]Does it matter that it's "unsupported"?[/quote] Yes, as you just explained: [quote]This word just mean
[quote]Because of impulse, I can't run the latest version of the game with WINE.[/quote] [quote]Regardless of any of your valid views, I CANNOT PLAY SINS OF A SOLAR EMPIRE ON MY COMPUTER, ALTHOUGH I HAVE PAID FOR IT.[/quote] . . . and I can't use my digital camera if I were to accidently buy AAA instead of AA batteries for it. I could possibly use a couple of pieces of metal to "hack" it to make the smaller battery work in the larger compartment, but there's no way the camera