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Who are you to question what's right and wrong?

for having a train in their avatar that isn't an F40PH. edit-- uh, a mac train.

Yeah, at this point, I don't give a rat's ass about whether the company is based outta the US, I care if they're employing American workers. Workers make for a strong economy, they're what makes an economy truly rich. Corporate profits just go to Wall Street and investors, the bourgeois elite. People here moan that unions are bringing the American autoworker down, like it's a bad thing when a certain number figure (that they pull out their ass) goes towards their retirement or healthcare. I'd rather it go to that than some ---edited for language--- on the trading floor.

To address your list of points... 1) What you're referring to is called SEO, and it's part psychological, part technological, but it's not a bad thing to do, it's a smart thing to do. If you write half your site in Flash and wonder why it's not showing up on Google, it's not because there's manipulation going on. 2) Chances are, the information you're looking for is already in a wiki. 3) Technically, that's not URL redirection. But I'll agree that frames are annoying. 4) Now I know why you don't like Wikipedia. Their search engine sucks and you have to be able to prove everything you write. For your last (Fifth) point, I seriously think Microsoft will have a harder time re-branding themselves as an internet company than Google will have while making a browser OS. Thinking of Google as "just a search engine" is soooo 2006. Seriously, that ended when they bought YouTube, and Maps became more popular than MapQuest, and then when they acquired Writely and produced Docs-- which is actually very functional and useful nowadays. Google is an internet company. Microsoft, on the other hand, does not have a firm grip on the internet. Marketshare of Live services is negligible to the point where you could liken it to Linux and Windows-- but in reverse. This is not the 90s, when you installed software on a CD and ran the program from your hard drive. Heck, these days you don't even need CDs. The netbook market is growing much faster than notebooks, and as I've already said, Microsoft has put themselves at a disadvantage for a number of reasons (stated earlier).

Originally posted by: Easy Bakes As for Window 7 let me know when the 1st service pack is done.quote> For Windows 7, SP1 is RTM.

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Originally posted by: katamariguy hooray for the beatles!!!quote> ...says Johnny Carson as he introduces the Beatles some 40 years ago.

What's the point of music if you can't dance to it? Haha, cows.

Swedish hip hop is sometimes pretty good (Looptroop Rockers, Promoe), but sometimes it's not: Amazing remix, though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urXa1nie5bM Christopher Guest films are always great, but folk music is embarrassing. I bring you Old Joe's Place, from A Mighty Wind: Finally, for songs that appeal to the inner queen, I bring you... this: (Trust me, the girls are just for show. Any straight dude would tell you they're just flat-chested euro pretty-girls.)

As an American, it's sad to see my great country spread itself so thin. You're a canadian, you wouldn't understand; your country was never great.

I'd also like to add how pitiful it is that you cannot buy a computer made outside of China, and nearly all electronic products make a stop there. The only exceptions I can think of are extremely complex parts, such as CPUs, GPUs, and hard drives. So-called secondary silicon is, however, on its way there, as Intel has built a 65nm foundry there. *****, I'm running a 65nm CPU-- it's not half bad, neither--, this is ridiculous! Sure, it's a process node that's over two years old now, but still, I shudder to think of where China will be in 10 years, and where we'll be in comparison. China is already spending as much money on renewable energy as they are on national defense; they plan to have 20% of their energy produced from renewable sources, more than any major country today (***** like Iceland doesn't count, because of Bjork and their population under many American cities).

A lot of cars are made in Canada, actually. http://www.canadianmade.com/automotive.shtml Although it looks like a weird list, you can also cross-reference to see what's listed on Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_vic ...for example. "Generally, articles only change their country of origin if the work or material added to an article in the second country constitutes a substantial transformation, or, the article changes its name, tariff code, character or use (for instance from wheel to car)." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_of_origin So, basically, even though you make parts for the car in the US, the assembly is done in Canada, which means, by the Kyoto convention, that product is Made in Canada. Sorta like how every iPod and iPhone says on the back, 'Made in China, Designed by Apple in California". It's pretty sad how many vehicles are made in Canada and Mexico, to be honest; I wanted to buy an American-made car, but, for example the Ford Fusion is made in Mexico. I've heard good things about that vehicle, too. Oh well.

Originally posted by: krbe Spirulina, apparently edible waste.quote> Spirulina is a protein-rich algae; it's pretty common in healthy foods, in addition to Chlorella, another algae. When I used to work in a lab, we did a lot of work with Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (to produce hydrogen), but we'd also keep some filamentous algae around as well... probably because it looked cool. Although I doubt you'd want to eat algae as a primary food source, perhaps it could be processed and fed to animals in lieu of grain crops, as BattleshipAgincourt might suggest. It's already fed to fish such as tilapia, but perhaps there's a way it could be dried, pelleted, and used as feed for mammals as well. Hey, the green Superfood isn't bad stuff, neither.

From a resource standpoint, algae will solve everything. They're like little chemical factories that soak up CO2 and make useful things like sugars and oils, and could, in theory, make a lot of it. Fuel and plastics are just a few applications they could be used for. Of course, nobody's really made a lot of it-- at least, not fuel--, leading some to claim that it's a pipe dream. This is where I'd have to argue that the free market is wrong to let petroleum be sold as such low prices, considering the consequences.

Originally posted by: Ntq$310 The points on the Cloud, as in Cloud Computing, should be noted, just a shame google was beat to the punch, as Microsoft is set to put Windows Azure on the market this year. Thats nearly a year before google's OS. I think one of the key here is that google seems to have always been late with this. If it came out after Vista, it would have quite a good chance to win some market share, seeing as people for one reason or another "hated" Vista, and were more willing than ever to try something new. But to come out with it by late 2010, well after the Vista fiasco, is lazy on there part. But the devil is always in the details, who knows, even with the bad timing, google could still come out stronger than before.quote> The thing is, that's not Chrome OS's target market-- a $300 computer isn't going to run Vista very well, but it will run Linux and XP. This will be where Chrome OS will shine. Considering that the netbook market has doubled over the past year, Chrome might really step up to the plate here at just the right time. Especially since Microsoft is putting weird restrictions on OEMs, like killing the MSI hybrid netbook, and keeping the cheaper Windows 7 off of netbooks running Atom, but are off of a certain spec. These sort of things have turned OEMs off to MS products, as can be told by HP Mi and Dell's Ubuntu netbooks. As for Azure, it's also for a completely different market. Considering it's meant to run .NET & SharePoint services, the platform is most likely geared towards corporate thin clients, rather than netbooks.

Hey folks, long-time lurker here. I'm a web developer, and I have nothing but positive things to say about Chrome. Any browser that supports a faster JavaScript engine is a friend of mine, and I especially appreciate Chrome's ability to take advantage of multiple processes, so that the kernel can take care of memory management, something that Firefox really struggles with. I use the Chrome development trunk, along with Safari 4 & WebKit, and, of course, Firefox (and Firebug) for my experiments with web technologies, and I can say that Chrome is a very slick browser-- from a developer's standpoint. I haven't yet explored what IE 8 has to offer, to which I remain hopeful in the long-term, but have a long-held distaste towards as well. I think the best quality of Chrome is that it emphasizes the fact that this is not your Dad's internet; these are full-fledged Web Applications you're using nowadays. However, it doesn't take this to the next level, where these applications are fully integrated with the OS. This will be what will happen in Chrome OS. I fully intend to support this, and perhaps I'll buy a netbook to test this on. I've always liked Google and their adoption of open web standards. Apple and Microsoft have always been in a perpetual 'standards war', whereas Google has remained fully supportive of the open source community-- well, at least, much moreso than either Apple or Microsoft. I say, good job, Google. Cloud-based OSes will soon become more common, as children become accustomed to the cheaper netbooks that parents will buy, which are already coming with Linux as a cheaper alternative to Windows. Who knows-- although people may be wary of this system now, our next generation may indeed be using something like Chrome OS with applications based more on the 'cloud' than on the desktop.

Thanks guys. I think that the only way I'm able to post is through using Quick Reply, since the regular reply method won't let me submit my post. However, the content is great, so I guess I'll just have to get used to that.

Hello everybody. I'm Alex, from Denver, and I should probably have joined this site sooner. I love all Maxis games. I have a few macs, two of which are recent, and run OS X. Sim City runs pretty well, but I wish I had a more powerful computer to play larger cities through, and with more detail settings. At any rate, I tried your chat room, and that really just... reaffirmed my dislike of chat rooms. But I'm a big forum user, however, and I've been on the AmbrosiaSW since '99. I think this forum will be quite a help in trying to build a better city. I'll just peruse these forums now, and thanks for building such a cool resource and community! PS, this forum software is rather... unique. I've never seen it before. I'm assuming it's proprietary. It doesn't really work that well in mac Firefox 1.5.